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2,911 responses to “Talk Amongst Yourselves”
I’m all alone.
Alllllll byyyyy myyyyyyyyyyyy-self …
Sorry to hear, man. Is there no chance of patching things up with the wife? 🙁
I think I missed something.
…
I’m just gonna go over here …
Haha! HE’S KIDDING! XD
Fuck, well that’s good to hear. I’m still gonna go over there though.
Just stand outside the widow singing “I’m on the outside, I’m looking in, looking right through you”
Morning all! Hope we all had a good weekend!
Yesssss
Well I resurrected a netbook by repairing an SSD I thought was dead, installed Linux mint on it and am fine tuning it into an ad hoc mic preamp but the best thing of all was the fucking relatives left!!!!! Never again! I’m thinking of suggesting we sell the house and move without telling anyone
DARK SOULS 2. The countdown continues.
YOU HAVE DIED in 52 days.
In related, @freezespreston, how’s the Dark Souls book? Is it pretty? Mine is on its way, but Amazon thinks it might take another month to get from there to here :\
So pretty. And full of fun facts too.
Like
Priscilla was originally intended to be the heroine and Logan was supposed to be completely naked.SomethingSomethingOffColourBigHatJokeSomething
If we die when it comes out I guess you could say it’s …
*puts on sunglasses*
The Final Countdown
Mrs Shane and I saw Frozen yesterday. Excellent film.
Really love that Disney is starting to examine, break down and undermine the ‘true love’ discourse that they’ve been pushing for the last seventy years. It’s really kind of courageous to do that kind of thing, because even though it’ll ensure Disney’s relevance to kids going forward, they are actively undermining their classics (which are still insanely popular today), and it’s something they don’t have to do, because kids’ movies are generally successful regardless of quality.Not even one play on the word “frozen” in your post. Very disappointed. >=(
Also, I really need to see Frozen, everyone seems to say it’s really …
*@SerNobulus stops and looks at @shane as if to make sure he is paying attention*
… cool.
FROZEN WAS AN ICE MOVIE OKAY.
This is why we can’t have ice things.
No need to yell man, chill
I really…appreciated (Right term? Not sure…) the fact that they took the bullshit romance out of it. Far more compelling ending, though still very Disney 😛For my part, I’ve always really liked that love-at-first-sight stuff. There are a bunch of really pervasive fantasies that the idea taps into. And they haven’t taken it out of their films (both Enchanted and Frozen, which set out to interrogate the idea, begin with the cheesy “instant true love” stuff) – but they’re discussing it a little more maturely, appreciating the layered complexities of love. I think they’ve hit upon a truly great balance now.Oh, I don’t mean that it wasn’t there, I mean that it was downplayed after Hans went jerkface. The story got wrapped up and then it kinda went “oh, and these two over here probably did it”.Great weekend \o/
Lunch meat with @scree, @tigerion, mrs. Tigs , @tech_knight and @coldcamv + 1
Good food and excellent cake was had…
Feelings of guilt also arose when we were consuming the Beemo cake, and a kid with a Beemo shirt walked in /o\
When to the T20 at Etihad stadium saturday night as well because YAAAY SPORTSBALL \o/
Sunday we finished up puppy school with the little one, he’s now a graduate (they grow up so quick :’))
And then had some Grid 2 shenanigans with @rize and Aleph (whose handle i can’t frakking remember)
That was excellent fun as well, though Demo Derby turned very chaotic very quick 😛
Upvote for Frak. Battlestar Galactica remake reference. 😀
I believe his handle is: @ampiohmygodhowdoesitgoitswaytolongandicompletelyforgothowitgoesohwellherearerandomlettersjalfuenslsjcusoaksbc.
-1 for not screaming out “YOU’RE NEXT!”
I was going to offer him my condolences but i don’t think his dad would have appreciated that 😛
Why do I picture the “Land of Chocolate” episode Germans from The Simpsons yelling that?
Y u no Grid 2 with us?
Reasons.
you hat us?
Just you.
Kidding <3As long as you enjoyed yourself. Sorry the food was a little more expensive then I had anticipated.
Meh all good, good fun and excellent company turned out to be a awesome day \o/
thanks for persistently inviting me to things 😛
No problem. Hope you will try to come to more.
Maybe next time a dog meat at my house =P
Might not be a half bad idea!
My doggies can always use another friend!
I will do my best to come out of my hidey hole more 😛
Not sure who else has dogs. I know Tech_knight will want to be in on it because he loves dogs.
He’s more then welcome… everyone is welcome, even if they don’t have dogs because DOGS \o/
Glad you enjoyed yourself, dear friend.
You really need to come to more of them 🙂
That is the overall plan 😛
New Pixel is Social Pixel
Social Pixel sounds like some awful 90s punk band.
90s? 80s Brah…
leather, rivets and purple mohawk \o/
80s would be Anti-Social Pixel.
That poor poor kid, atleast it was already cut up so he didn’t have to watch @tech_knight cut the head off. Plus we now know what a cartoon game station tastes like..Peppermint.
Also YAY for sportsball
I’m alliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive.
You know you’ve been sick when you actually feel glad to be back at work. Phew.
Saw “Her” yesterday – been looking forward for that one to come out for quite a while, it was worth the wait. Excellent film, really well put together (although I’d expect nothing less from Spike Jonze) and extremely well acted. 5 / 5 on my (very harsh) rating scale of movies.
I thought this was going to be a @mrtaco style TAYs of our lives story until I realised that Her was a movie
Haha, sorry to disappoint. I could make something up if it’ll make you feel better?
Last night I got offered the opportunity to speak at a small comic-writing panel later this year. I immediately panicked, came up with a half dozen really good reasons why I wouldn’t be a good choice, and sent my apologies.
I think it was the right choice, but I still feel pretty lousy about it.
Wrong choice. >:(
I no write?
Ugh
I agree with Strange on this one.
Whenever you go to a con or the like you are always posting “omg these peers of mine think I’m talented” and not believing it yourself. Every time.
There are people that like what you do and how you go about doing it. It’s things like this that will help build your profile and allow you to be a full time writer/artist. So unless one of those excuses was I want to be a full time government employee and just a writer on the side, you made the wrong choice
Ordinarily, I would agree with you. But this is a panel on the mechanics of comic script writing, and although I have a bunch of books out, I haven’t yet written a proper script for any of them.
I do my own artwork, and had already written the stories as full-length prose novels first, so I don’t really need to script them in detail.
For those reasons, I figured that I would have very little of interest to say regarding script writing, and would probably end up disappointing folks who turned up hoping I would be able to teach them how to prepare a script for an artist.
TL;DR: If I’d genuinely thought it might be something I could do, I would probably have pushed myself beyond my comfort zone, as I have for cons in the past.
Edit: This is detail I maybe should have included in my original post.
I’ll let you get away with it this time. But I’ve got my eye on you
Without going into specific details, I had a an opportunity to speak publicly at an event late last year, but did my reaction seems similar to yours – kinda panicked about the speaking in front of a crowd aspect and was super good at supplying reasons why I couldn’t do it. In retrospect, I kinda regret my decision.
In the end , you gotta do what’s right for you, but I really hope you don’t feel like I did after the event.
Good morning TAY. This morning’s highlights have included one of my cats falling off the bed as he tried to get closer to me as well as the other cat making a bag fall out of the closet and scaring the missus as she literally woke up at that point from a nightmare and then proceeded to scream quite loudly. Looking back I’m finding it funny. For some reason she isn’t. I don’t understand women 😀
how’s everyone today anyway?
We recently (as in like 4 months ago) adopted a second cat and she’s integrated well with the household except our first cat is way more territorial than we thought she would be and they still fight a fair amount. Something that cat 1 started doing, because she’s a total bitch, was run and ambush cat 2 whenever she heard her digging in her litter tray. Now we have a second litter tray in the master bedroom and sometimes cat 2 sleeps in there with the door shut at night – though not every night – so she’s mostly safe but this mentality of “digging in litter = we are in a fight” seems to have stuck, and cat 2 is starting to fight back.
So this morning I was woken by cat 1 persistently clawing my arm. She had plenty of food and water and wasn’t interested in cuddles. I couldn’t figure out what she wanted until I finally got out of bed half an hour later and got in the shower, at which point she followed me in to use her litter tray.
Apparently the cats now require adult supervision while pooping so we can help defend them from ambush.
Sigh.
Hopefully over time they will calm down.
My housemate got a cat once and it didn’t get along with our cat at all. It would constantly attack our cat, even though our cat was bigger and much faster. Eventually we realised that we were the only ones clipping our cats nails. So we stopped doing that and started clipping their cats nails. Oh boy, the tables turned quickly, lol. Their cat stopped attacking our cat (and our cat is pretty chill) but instead would just spend all it’s energy just trying to get out of the house, ripping up the flyscreens. Eventually I just told them their cat had to go, god it was annoying.
aye, we moved in with a friend a couple of years ago and we both had 2 cats. The two male cats didn’t get on though. Her cat would basically stalk our cat around the house which led to various stress related problems (urine can be a bitch to clean out) as well as several vet trips from scratches and bites. She’s moved out though last weekend and the change in our cat is amazing.
also @kermitron, it’s recommended to have one litter tray per cat plus an extra one. It might seem like overkill and stink out the house a little, but cats can be particular about sharing a litter tray, especially with a new cat. Also, get a laser pointer to try and tire the dominating cat out a bit. Sometimes they attack other cats because they’re bored. A laser pointer’s the easiest way to play with a cat I’ve found
oh, and our cats do the whole ‘I won’t poop unless you’re in the bathroom too’ thing as well :S
First day back at work today. I think I left my brain at home.
Had such a good weekend. Got to hang out with you folks on Friday, got to hang out with @sughly and go to Big Day Out yesterday! So, so fun!
So did Arcade Fire meet expectations? What was the crowd like?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeWO65QCIAMDIHF.jpg:large
Arcade Fire were incredible every bit as good as the hype and all kinds of amazing live. They even mocked Blur for pulling out of Big Day Out. An amazing setlist too with all their best from across the albums. Full, awesome 90 mins. Win Butler, the front man came down and leaned over the rail into the audience. He was a metre from my face. D: Really good crowd of like minded folks. Everyone singing along and happy. Was fucking amaaaaazing.
Crowds through the entire day were pretty good too. No where near as many shirtless bogans as I had been led to believe.
90 minute set isn’t too bad. That’s only about half an hour less than you would’ve gotten if they’d done their own show.
Used the time really well too. Literally the second they finished Pearl Jam on the next stage started. No break at all.
Triple J has an interview of Win on their website somewhere, in case you haven’t heard it.
What happened to “Live bands aren’t for me” DC? 😛
Arcaaaade Fire.
Wasn’t really feeling Pearl Jam, though. Arcade Fire just finished and I was a bit overwhelmed and felt like I needed to process it, so I left Sughly there and sat down by myself for a little while thinking about it. XD
Shirtless bogans live at Stereosonic and Future music not so much BDO but good to hear you had fun my friend
So you’ll be coming to the next Soundwave with me then?
@dc was totally bopping his head to Deftones. I can only assume from this that it was his favourite band of the day.
Maybe my legs were loosing structural integrity and the bopping was my legs buckling. DIDN’T THINK ABOUT THAT, SMART GUY!
Totally have footage of you from Young Blood bopping your head the entire song too.
Youtuuuuube
I found out only like Saturday or yesterday that Big Day Out got moved from the Parklands at Southport to Metric on Stadium at Robina, god that must be a better place haha.
Hola Tay
I had a recovery weekend following our awful, awful hot week.
Went to a friend’s birthday out near Gawler, which was nice, then to a board games day yesterday, where I played:
Suburbia (fantastic)
Smash up! (PIRATE WIZARDS)
Zombicide (Ned ftw!)
Star fluxx (fluxx hasn’t yet really won me over)
Room 25 (think I need another bash at this one)
7 wonders
Euphoria (really interesting)
I somehow got stuck playing half of these with an obnoxious child, but other than that it was good fun.
A Monday Morning Question: which board game has the most interesting lore around it?
I’m voting for chess, because the intricate backstory I have in my mind is pretty amazing.
I wouldn’t say it has the most “interesting” lore, but i really love Shadows over Camelot…
very easy game for the most parts, right up until you do one slip up then it becomes brutally hard 😛
Very nice Co Op game especially once you introduce the traitor (first few games it’s recommended to leave it out so you get familiar with the mechanics)
because you constantly distrust each other 😛
Shadows over Camelot is interesting, in that it’s about 4 mini board games welded together then bolted to a game of The Resistance.
That’s actually an excellent summary of the game 😛
Arkham Horror or I could cheat and say one of the D&D based board games.
Although everyone knows Cluedo is the only right answer.
I really, really enjoy Arkham Horror but that’s kinda based on my enjoyment of most things Lovecraft. Anything based on an existing IP generally has a good backstory.
Taking the freeze method I would say relic. However I find the dungeon games seem to have a bit, when I finally buy one I’ll find out. Anybody played any of them, thinking that dungeon petz as a first purchase.
Monopoly.
EDIT: Specifically this version.
I was hoping for Edna Krabopoly
Galaxy Trucker.
Corporation Incorporated needs to ship goods from one end of the galaxy to the other. They discovered that the most cost effective way to do this is by hiring a bunch of loons and letting them loose in the warehouse. If they happen to make a viable ship that can make it across the galaxy with those parts, huzzah! If they don’t… well, loons don’t cost much and neither did the parts.
I really want to play that game
You should chat to @alexpants about his fantastically streamlined ship design.
Ninja Burger.
Loopin’ Louie
You know who’s a pretty cool guy? Bayonetta. A lot of fun, that game! I’m all mash smash bash on my controller and Bayonetta is all yarh char barh on the bad guys. It’s cool. I like how stylish the combat is, all the ooooh yaaaa weeee flourishes that she does that would be entirely useless in a real life fight make the fights rad looking.
Anyway enough bad onomatopoeia.
It was my third week of Pow’s Learning To Cook Adventures last night. I attempted to make Pumpkin and Lentil Curry. It was nice, though I couldn’t taste the pumpkin over the curry and I used about 10x the amount of lentils that I should have (nobody told me they would expand so much!)… But still, I can say I’ve made a curry from scratch now 😛
Hope you’re all well!
Dude.
Curry.
Do Aloo Gobi, so simple
http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/potato-and-cauliflower-curry-aloo-gobi
Plus one for Platinum love!
Really looking forward to Bayonetta 2. Even if I felt like I mostly had no idea what I was doing with the first.
@dc, we’re now up to date with The Newsroom. Commence discussion in three, two, one… actually, just whenever you want.
Pretty good. *nod*
Can see how next season will be about building credibility again maybe. Felt very much like a series finale too.I wonder if the Dantana story is done. I’d be okay if we don’t really hear about the lawsuit again and the show focuses on other things, but on the other hand, I’d be fine if it was a central story next season as well.Woke up with both my arms asleep. Asked the cat for help, he was useless. Time to spend a day in Canberra till I’m told I can leave.
QUESTACON
That’s how it starts. You’re told you’ll be out of here in a day, or a couple or days, or a week, and the whole time you slowly become more and more paralysed. Then one day you wake up and discover you voted for Tony Abbot.
Disappointed neither you or @shane replied with just:
Get out.
Because we know that’s impossible.
I’m going to Woden for coffee and then the galleries to get some gold.
PS4 peeps, what games do you have and what games do you plan to get soon?
The PS4 was on sale a while ago and my pre-order shipped out last week so I’ll get it soonish but I can’t really think of anything to play. I’ll be buying Infamous and MGS in late March and I’ve got a couple of PS+ games already (Resogun should be fun) but I can’t really think of anything else to play until then 😛
All the multiplatform stuff I’m either not really interested in (COD, BF4) or I already have on other platforms (ACIV on PC). Knack and Killzone initially looked alright but they got some pretty average reviews. I didn’t read too much into them though but if they’re worth playing then I may investigate further.
Since I never really considered the PS4 I just don’t know what games are worth playing on it so I’m just looking for suggestions. Tenkyew!
I’m pretty keen on a PS4, too. Like you, I don’t really know what games I want other than Ground Zeroes. I think I just have a craving for the hardware at the present time.
Play a different console until some games you do want come out 😛
I would’ve said AC IV but that’s out the window. Killzone was ok. The campaign is like any other COD/MOH/Battlefield campaign these days but I like the multiplayer. Other than that, Injustice would’ve been another game I would’ve picked up if I’d’ve had the cash for it plus another controller.
You could probably tide yourself over with Killzone and Resogun though until Thief and inFAMOUS come out next month and then hopefully it won’t be long until Watchdogs comes out
It pains me to say this as a Sony fanboy but nothing really. Resogun is probably it. Have not turned in the PS4 for a month now. Content to just keep playing the PS3.
I pre ordered Watch Dogs yesterday, so err that. Probably get NFS & ACIV this week though. Edit: will also get Lego Marvel too.
I had a few people return/trade in Killzone in the first few weeks simply because they thought it was shit and got BF4 or CoD to replace it haha.
One of the guys I work with said Knack is alright, but you have to like fighting platformers heh.
I’ve got BF4 and Killzone. BF is BF and Killzone is as average as the reviews make them out to be.
MGS will be nice. Infamous too. I plan to play a fair amount of Driveclub when that goes out. Otherwise, the game I’ll be playing most is the waiting game.
I have the PS+ games. Resogun, Don’t Starve and Contact. Have only played Resogun. Nothing else appeals. System is being used as a netflix box about 6-7 hours a day on average though.
Nothing in the pipeline is a must-buy for me until Destiny, but I will probably grab Infamous in March.
Good morning all. Chalk up my first TAY meat ever on Friday for @dc’s birthday/not-so birthday dinner. Good venue, good food (aside from a few things), good folk. Everyone was super chilled and easygoing and it was nice meeting everyone in person. Looking forward to the next one 😀
Apologies go to Mrs @freezespreston for incorrectly guessing her age. My bad D:
Hey man, I’m, uh, sorry for the drunkenness. (Part of the program, you see… making amends with the people I might’ve wronged? :P) Was great seeing you too!
Like I’ve said before, butterflies in stomachs need to be drowned! 😀
Naaaaah, this was a little excessive. I might’ve fist bumped the same eight people fifty times in the course of twenty minutes.
I don’t see what’s wrong with this
You and drunk guy D.C. will get along juuuuust fine.
*fist bumps*
Stop it. Don’t make me have to fistbump your face next time I see you. If excessive fist bumping is the worst thing you do when you’re drunk, then you’re lucky!
“don’t make me fistbump your face”
This needs to be a thing.
Yeah some of us actually do actual things that we should apologize for.
You weren’t even that drunk DC. 😛 It’s all good. You didn’t try and do anything too outrageous aside from numerous fist bumps and that’s pretty tame. Considering the @shane meeting, I was expecting at least one fist-meets-face moment but you restrained yourself. Nice job 🙂
Don’t forget all the hugs you gave. =P
I can only remember two of those hugs. XD
One was mine?
I remembered Sughly and Mrs. Freeze and then remembered yours after you reminded me. XD
You don’t remember hugging me?! 🙁 It was awkward but it was spontaneous affection and that makes it awesome.
I don’t remember at all and kind of wish you didn’t remind me if it was awkward. D: Arrrgh! I’m sorry!
What if I’m messing with you? 😛
I feel bad like I won’t be able to ever make eye contact with you again! D: D: D:
@dc I’m just a monster. 😛
Also, when I get back we’re having a “Give DC his Birthday Present” lunch. You can’t refuse it because it has your name sewn into it. 😀
Man, there was drunk guy DC? I haven’t even met sober guy DC!
I guess what we had at Supanova doesn’t count. *holds back manly tears*
Well this was the first big organised thing. Considering I missed every other TAYbie at Supanova aside from you and DC and then I bailed while you guys went to a tavern kinda discredits me from really meating properly.
I will always remember that the first TAYbie I met was from interstate so you will always have that honour. 🙂
I didn’t get to yell-talk at you much but I enjoyed our fleeting eye contact and playful banter.
Also when we all did wees together.
I was following you guys cause I thought you were finding a table. Then I saw urinals and I turned out. TRUE STORY.
You turned out? O_o
DC does weird and horrible things when he’s drunk.
Turned around. 😛
oh god, please tell me you went low. Always go low
I committed the cardinal sin of going slightly higher. It made it even worse that she picked my age perfectly and I got her’s wrong. I’m a monster.
Transientmind’s rule of female age-guessing: Guess what you actually think the age is, but add or remove a couple years, depending which brings your guess closer to 24-25. Allow a greater margin for error the older they get.
Eg: A 19yr old girl? Guess at about 20-21. She’ll love that. Looks about 24-25? Say that – she’s right where she wants to be. If she’s older or younger, she won’t be offended. Looks about mid-30s? She’s older, so you’ve got more room, go 27 (28-29 is when women start worrying about hitting 30). Looks to be in her 40s? Guess early 30s. 50s? Guess late 30s; still believable, but still flattering.
Shane’s rule of thumb: say “I’m terrible at this” and just guess mid-twenties for everyone. This pisses my daughter off no end 😛
I reckon you should say 15. Then when they call you on what looked like an obvious attempt to under-age them as a form of flattery, say “oh no, I was assuming you were born on February 29th”.
After that, one of 3 things will happen.
1) A toally blank look or correction on birthdate. They’ll be no fun.
2) A brief bit of calculation followed by storming off insulted. Also no fun.
3) A brief bit of calculation followed by roars of laughter when she realises you’ve subtly said she looks 60. She can do maths and has a sense of humour, worth talking to.
This is an excellent filtering mechanism.
On the weekend I finished 2 games! They were pretty great!
First up was Enslaved:
I really enjoyed it, absolutely loved the character growth between Monkey and Trip. The combat was pretty good too. Nice and simple, no need to over complicate things. The two biggest problems I had were frame rate issues at some points and the goddamn last boss fight.In regards to the frame rate issues I’m hoping that it’s just from a terrible job at porting / optimising and not an actual problem with the original game. Also the last boss was just, UGHFollowing up was: The Banner Saga
wow, what a game. So good, every decision has you wondering “what would have happened if I chose option 2 or 3. So good! The story is just amazing and the art is fan-flipping-tastic. The combat is kinda average but you aren’t really in the game for the combat you are there for the story/choices/fan-flipping-tastic art. I would highly recommend everyone buy it. (Although probably switch the difficulty down to easy because I got absolutely smashed in normal.)How long did it take you to finish banner saga?
I’m just up to the first god stone. It’s a very pretty game and plays well so far. Kickstarter games delivering what I want, this could be dangerous for my wallet.
9 hours according to steam. Although I did die a couple of times and left it on so it’s probably closer to say 7-8 hours.
Cool. I’m around 2 hours in at the moment
Haven’t lost a battle yet but think that might be because the game is still in tutorial mode
I really enjoyed The Banner Saga, but it was way too short in my mind. Things really, really accelerated at the end.
I’m not sure if that was intentional (I mean, theme and pacing were great before that, conveying a manageable but tough journey for the Varl, and later an utterly punishing and grueling trudge for the human refugees – if only from the total scarcity of supplies) or the result of their very public money/deadline troubles. And y’know… dat ending. SO MANY threads left untied, so many questions and plot points not addressed, and so… abrupt.Oh man, the human sections were so hard, I remember in one trek I just got to a camp with 0 food left. SO DAMN CLOSE!In the last cinematic thing thinking “nah, it’s not gonna end, still so much has to happen. So many loose threads” but then the credits came up and I kinda wish I had a camera so I could of got a shot of my face when that happened. Sooooo looking forward to Banner Saga 2! \o/Very vague spoilery:
Oh, I actually lost a shit-tonne of clansmen and fighters to starvation. I was at 0 food for several days at a time. This was the consequence of letting too many people into the caravan, trusting too many people, and spending too much renown on levelling up my dudes instead of buying food. Also, at one point I stupidly bought a level 5 trinket on the off-chance I’d never find something that cool again, then took bloody forever to actually get anyone to level five, by which point they’d already been awarded something cooler. And you can’t sell them, soo… sorry ladies. Your babies starved and died in your arms for a pretty trinket I’m not using.Oh and in just very specific spoilery goodness:
Also daaaaaamn, how was the impact on discovering the REAL story behind Iver abandoning his name as Yngvar? “Quickly, get them away! No-one should see this!” Intense.In regards to the second point. When was that? Perhaps it’s something I missed.
wait, was that when you found the Dredge child?Yup.
I basically didn’t level anyone I got a few level 3’s early but eventually the need for food became to great and just started spending all of my renown on food.I think the most intense part was the final stand in the city. Bad things after bad things kept happening. When I had no food or anything left Harkon showed up to save the day. Oh god so intense!Yeah, that was where everything fell apart for me, too. Nothing I did was good enough, and eventually…
a spokesman for some of the families left from the caravan came up and told me they were all going to go their separate ways, go to ground and try to survive on their own. Next time I’ll try and find them a home straight away, instead I wasted like… THREE DAYS on some stupid wild goose chase for a food supply.I actually started off well. I traded the leader of the Raven’s for a lot of food. He was pretty pissed because I traded him some barrels of mead that was technically his. However I got a group if bandits steal like 1/2 of it along with killing like 100 clansman and 20 fighters. Then about 1/2 of my clansman and some fighters decided they didn’t want to stick around.Also another tense moment
When you get betrayed by Onef. I honestly thought that Rook was gonna die.ACTUAL SPOILER:
God, I know, right? I actually thought Oddleif and Alette were going to die (or ‘other’) out of it as well. Thank God for having a mender handy. Man… That asshole. I shudder to think if I’d sent the former insane captain away. Next time, totally not taking that douchebag with me. Or finding an opportunity to slit his throat.NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
What will the party give to the Cantharx, given he’s looking for “a memory of light?” Has Scrappa’s new boots stopped his unfortunate foot odour?
Wednesday night, 7:30 SA Time!
@popdart5 @mythamphetamine @novacascade @tigerion @mawt @blaghman @tech_knight
PS: Last time we tried the game in the Google + interface, which we all seemed to like, do we want to give that another bash?
Hopefully we don’t encounter any more technical difficulties *cough* @mythamphetamine *cough*
😛In my words “Finally, a use for Google+”
Leaving on Friday. So excited! And I only have to baste and ditch a quilt, finish making two shirts, unjunkify the spare room and my bedroom, and clean the bathroom before I go. *goes back to playing Kingdoms Of Amalur* 😛
Soak it in it’s own juices and throw it away? Harsh.
So wasteful. Throwing away perfectly edible quilts.
I think I mentioned this, but a friend of mine’s sister is going on the same cruise (I think she still is).
If you run into an annoying Australian girl named Brooke, I’m so sorry for you.
Amalur buddies! *fistbump*
After even only your briefest mention of it on Friday, I realized I still had SO MUCH left to do in it and fired it back up again. Realized I was completely lost in the plot, didn’t recognize half the quests I was doing, and started a new character.
ONLY EVER DOING ONE QUEST AT A TIME. I don’t care if it means backtracking. That’s what fast-travel is for.
I started playing this recently! I think I’m something like 20hours in. There’s certainly a heap of content in there… kind of sad that the game never seemed to get much recognition 🙁
I think I’ve only just got to the second major area.
So timesink.
Apparently it was meant to be getting people ready for the MMO which continues the story where the single-player game left off. A lot of the art for the MMO looked frickin’ amazing, too. And it was basically finished. Shame about that.
Rocket reviews
Super 8
Was pretty okay, i would of liked the movie a lot more if there was no alien shit just about some kids making movies. Reminded me of my childhood a little. My group of friends were a bit like theirs and it reeked of nostalgia. Overall good not great
6/10
The Princess Bride
Was good, not as good as the book, i feel like if i didn’t read the book i would of enjoyed it more since they do skim over a lot of the novel. On the plus side, it was very funny. The comedic timing of the whole cast was quite good. I particularly liked Andre the giant playing Fezzi.
7/10
MANDY PATINKIN!
MY mum watched it with me and she enjoyed point out that.
Each of your scores should be 2 points higher. So disappointed in you, son.
TRAIN ME BETTER MOTHER DEAREST
Should I just leave this here then?
http://www.palacecinemas.com.au/movies/flashbacktheprincessbride/
Watch the Kevin Spacey House of Cards, too.
THATS A TV SERIES
Man, nah seriously, dawg, just, man, so good.
How does it compare to the BBC version? Have you seen the BBC version?
I heard they were doing one and didn’t look any further just assuming that the US would screw it up. However Kevin Spacey could play the chief whip extremely well, this may require reconsideration.
I haven’t seen the BBC version but there was a conversation about this last night on Twitter.
The takeaway from it is that the US version is quite good, almost solely on the back of Kevin Spacey. If you want to see him as an amoral slimeball with good publicity and an knack for spruiking Sony products, you should watch the US version.
I haven’t seen the BBC one but Kevin Spacey is amazing in the US one.
And I love the production design of the whole show. It’s very Fincher and each episode feels like a movie. Kinda like Breaking Bad.
Definitely give it a go.
hmmmm might have to look into it.
You should try the BBC version, very well done. As a bonus you can then watch to play the king which is the follow up.
6/10 for Super 8?
Are you dead inside?
YEs
Ok.
So Pornhub has released some statistics on the game console’s access to porn and the most searched terms for Xbox was Teen, Playstation was MILF and Nintendo was Hentai.
Take from that what you will.
It all makes sense now.
Surely they have to be fixed results. It’s far, far too brilliant 😀
people search pornhub on their consoles? Shouldn’t they be using Chrome Incognito mode?
Not everyone has a wife/girlfriend/mother living with them to hide it from.
Yes, but everyone on an Xbox one has a Kinetic.
“Kinetic, open browser. Kinetic, open incognito tab.”
…
“Kinetic, look away for a few minutes, please?”
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/05/24
I don’t see any surprises.
Reply fail to @freezespreston
Sadly no. The stereotypes are true.
Oh @dc, I watched the next Helix episode. It’s getting better but I still hate Billy Campbell. The sound of his voice makes me violent, and his face even more so. I have no idea why.
Also, hurry up and watch Sleepy Hollow. 😛
And speaking of TV watching, I’m loving Almost Human so much. The relationship between the two main characters is awesome.
Funny you should say that, Strange. I thought the third ep of Helix was the worst. XD
oooo I wanted to watch this as it’s Ronald Moore. Is it any good so far? I see mixed reviews of it so far but hopefully it gets a chance unlike Caprica
Anybody watched Hell on Wheels btw? I have it downloaded as Colm Meaney. Also, trains. I’m yet to find a suitable time to sit down and watch a couple of episodes though. If only I had a long commute and I could watch stuff on the train/bus
I knew you would. 😛
I actually didn’t think much of it as an episode, but as a test to see whether I’d keep watching, it worked.
@DC ARCADE FIRE
i wish i was there i was sick as a dog this weekend from food poisoning.
WE SHALL CATCH UP IN 2 WEEKS AND YOU CAN DESCRIBE IT TOO ME IN DETAIL
Request a vivid re-enactment.
we are going to karoke and we are singing a duet, probably “i will always love you” but after that we can chuck on some arcade fire.
Wake Up was amazing. Everyone in the crowd sang every word. Such a good feeling. Also Here Comes the Night the crowd was doused in this reflective (reflektive?) confetti stuff. Rained down on everyone. So cool.
(Hope you feel better too, btw. Food poisoning ain’t good.)
Way to make someone feel excluded
Not like we still have a festival to go to together or anything :'(
This guy’s a true believer! He was singing and dancing and swooning!
your name has 6 letters his has 2 its a matter of time management sughless.
also of course i want to here what you thought. You dont need no invitation krams.
pffft, not even telling
He liked them before they were cool.
Hey all. Not nearly enough gaming happened this weekend, since parents were in town. Maybe 2 hrs max? Played some NFS Rivals and raged when I lost all my points due to B.S.
Went ice skating again though, it was great.
Despite the general acceptance of a quality drop of Red Dwarf beyond series six, I must say that I really enjoyed the episode Fathers and Suns of the latest series X.
Anyone else love any episodes in later seasons?
DOUBLE PAGE GET!
*Elvis voice* Thank you very much.
I really quite dig Ouroboros. It’s pretty funny, and the ideas are pretty good. It’s the highlight of the post-1993 Dwarf for me.
Also, Series X had a few decent moments – Fathers and Suns was my favourite episode, but sadly I don’t think the ending quite lived up to its potential.
I can’t actually remember the ending. All I remember is Lister watching the videos of his dad (or himself) punishing him (again himself) and then eventually tricking him with the cardboard guitar. Classic.
I haven’t even made it through X because the first few didn’t grab me. Will get around to them at some point.
I’m the same. I started watching them but I think I got maybe 3 episodes in (the one where they think they meet Jesus?) and I was just like… I loved the old episodes. Watching these old men struggling to remember their characters is kind of ruining my fond memories.
cant remember what series it was, but the last episode I thought was any good was the one with JFK.
then they brought back the Red Dwarf crew & it became really, really shit.
whole show should’ve ended with that episode where they meet their horrible future selves.
The JFK episode is Tikka to Ride, and is generally agreed to be the pinnacle of the series.
Though I personally like all of it, even season 8.
Most of my weekend was dominated by Parks and Recreation – Season 2 and Deus Ex: HR DC.
P and R is awesome. What a hilarious show. If any of you haven’t watched it, I highly recommend you do. Sort of like The Office but a bit more cute.
Deus Ex: HR DC, I am about 2/3rds of the way through (I think) and still having a blast. Pretty much have ever single upgrade I want now, so I’ve started changing up and going more run’n’gun than non-lethal stealth. Due to the prologue, I wasn’t going to get the non-lethal achievement anyway and it’s a lot of fun running around with this laser rifle I just picked up.
I don’t like playing totally black-and-white in these types of games anyway. If you’re largely pacifist for most of the game, it really lends an extra weight to the few moments you do choose to willingly take a life. And makes certain accidents a bit more surprising and upsetting.
The ‘total pacifist’ type achievements – or even the lack of acknowledgement of your choice not to kill, EXCEPT THOSE ASSHOLES – really shit me because sometimes there are dudes who just need to die.
ACTUAL SPOILERS:
I remember the first time I broke my self-imposed ‘no killing’ rule was during/after the massacre in that hotel slum in Hong Kong – pretty much that entire merc/PMC outfit got a KOS order from my conscience from that point. And, I’m preeeeeeetty sure it’s damn near the only way to save Malik’s life on the helipad. Hell, I had trouble enough keeping her bird safe going fully lethal on the crew pounding it with fire.Wow, that’s actually the same with me. When I got up to that point I originally went through with non-lethal and then she died really quickly. I had to google to make sure that it was possible to save her and when it was, I didn’t hold back. I had 3 or 4 praxis points left over that I hadn’t used yet, so I quickly used them up in buying typhoon and increased my aim. I actually started to feel angry about these bad guys and even during take-downs I made sure I killed them. This game is actually pretty great to play when you’re playing aggressive.Since then I’ve kept mixing it up. It’s a bit more relaxing (and a hell of a lot faster).
P&R: And Season 2 is only just the beginning. After a lackluster season 1 they really turn things around with Season 2 and things just keep getting better from there. Absolutely love some of the later season stuff, fantastic show with a lot going for it. Highly recommended.
Who else here has Grid 2 on PC?
Played some multi with @pixel_the_ferret_viking and @mythamphetamine last night and it was a hell of a lot of fun. I’m keen to see if we can’t get more people involved, but no idea who actually has it (other than @cakesmith).
16-player DEMO DERBY \o/
*shudders*
If you bought me a copy of the game then I would have a copy of the game.
Best price I’ve seen is $28 from OGS, which is pretty steep considering I got it for $7 in the Steam sale…
Hah, “play” games. Good one.
Cool kids know that buying games is the real game.
Bargains are the deadliest game. Hiding out in the wilds of retail.
I have grid but not grid 2
I prefer Racers like Mariokart and Blur. That style of game has always appealed more to me 🙂
Sticking with knocking smaller games off the pile, I played enough of The Stanley Parable yesterday. Fantastic, awesome non-game. Really enjoyed this one.
Also knocked over Broken Age part 1 during the week, since I’ll be downloading and watching all the documentary episodes and want to avoid spoilers. Part 2 can’t come soon enough though.
The problem with the Stanley Parable is you can’t talk about it with anyone because spoilers.
Yup. We do have spoiler tags at least.
My (probably very predictably) favourite part was the
blue doorThat’s actually the bit I wanted to talk about!
Did you get to the point where
there’s a leaderboard, and then you get to kill a baby!
Also:
Portal was a lot harder without a cursor, and the Minecraft scene was especially funny.
Yeah. Loved that part. Totally unexpected.
Nothing to see here.
What if non-Brisbane folks want to see the photos too, huh!?
@dc is a monster like that.
Please don’t share the ones with me in them. They were fine on Twitter but that’s about as far as my vanity will let you push it. 🙁
Ooooh, sorry. Only saw this now. Will delete them ASAP. If you’d personally like a copy of them just e-mail me, Strange. Won’t post them publicly at all.
Oh gods, please don’t send me a copy. I don’t need to see them again. They kind of sent me spiralling into a dark place. I’m used to the version of me that’s in my head, the version that to me is the real me, not the stranger I see in recent photos of myself. I’m just thankful that I finally know what’s wrong with me health-wise and can now fix it and return my body to the way it’s supposed to be.
As much as I like to think I’ve overcome tying my self-worth to my appearance, every now and then that old enemy returns.
*hugs* Sorry again, my pal. Only posted them in the first place because I thought they were great with nothing to worry about. I stand by that, but I know how that ‘ol anxiety thing works. Should’ve asked and for that, I’m sorry. There’s seriously no real pictures of me for entire stretches of years because I was too ashamed about what I look like and all that.
Hope things are okay on the health front.
Don’t apologise, it’s just my own insecurities.
Things are okay healthwise because now I know what’s going on it can be fixed. I’m actually taking the first steps this week, but the real fixing won’t start until I get back from my holiday. And with my son starting school I can finally take the time I need to take care of myself so I’ll start looking and more importantly feeling like myself again. 🙂
Hope only the best comes your way, my friend!
http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-shia-labeouf-hollywoods-new-king-jerks/
A few thousand words on why Shia is an asshole.
Highlight: A man who pushed the limits of assholing harder than Goatse.
I’ve only seen him in Indian Jones 4 and Transformers. He was awful in both and made both actually even less bearable than they were going to be. I don’t know why he has been so successful.
I thought he was quite impressive in Lawless. His best film IMO.
I’ve always thought he was a talented guy who chose terrible roles. (Similar to Angelina Jolie.)
OMG let’s not talk about Salt. Changeling, on the other hand..
Salt was cool, until she disguised herself as a very unconvincing man.
That was ridiculous.
Talented? I don’t think you read the article or it’s links.
Talented in the same way Lindsey Lohan is legit talented.
Talented in the same way Curtis stone is an actor
I actually sorta kinda didn’t mind him in Disturbia 😡
EDIT: Ah! Meant to reply to Benny, not DC! >:( @benny @benny @benny
I liked him in Holes. (Not a porno, I swear)
Goddamn. I knew he was a dick, but… wow. Just, wow. This guy’s lost touch with reality.
That article linked to this for further insanity.
About the only thing he says that isn’t a direct lift from another source is “The word law is against my principles.” O_o
My highlight of the Cracked article was the cockhole line.
It was you that popped into my mind when I saw the “authorship is censorship” line.
My eyeballs nearly fell right out of my head when I read it.
Just went to Officeworks to get moving boxes.
They had a “total moving kit” which includes 15 boxes. So that’s the board games sorted, now for the rest of the apartment.
BOARD GAMES!
How many copies of HANABI does that make then?
Three.
The board game is the moving kit
Stuff :
– Flat hunting sucks.
– Civ V is scary. So is Endless Space. just coz how how much time I see myself spending on them.
– Enslaved is rad.
– I have too many games on the go at the moment. need to focus a bit. Get through the new Splinter Cell to start with.
– The Returned is a pretty rad show. only watched one episode so far, but its a good twist on the zombie / undead genre (dead people coming back to life in a small town, but not as zombies, just as regular people with no memory of dying & they try to re-intergrate back into their lives, but everyone else is understandably freaking out.)
– This puppy needs recognition.
– hows stuff with you lot?
/stuff
In order:
-yep
– CIV!
-Haven’t played it
– Spat it big time at a stealth mission in Splinter Cell on Friday, will try again tonight
– Yeah, that looked interesting
– PUPPY!
– I’m well thanks!
out of order:
– derp pyppu
– really digging the side missions where you’ve gotta clear out an area. Fits my play style well. Not a huge fan of the ones where you’ve gotta survive against waves of enemies. really not my thing in a stealth game. Still… I should be getting on with the campaign rather than dicking around.
– not gonna get into it for a while. don’t have the time to spend on that ‘one more turn’ addiction
– excellent. good to hear.
– friend of mine stayed up watching it until 4am. apparently it gets pretty sinister.
– its good. nothing super special, but its very pretty & the writing / acting is very well done.
Which mission in blacklist was it? As I recall, I stealthed the whole thing relatively easily though with heavy use of the taser
It was more that I’d perfect stealthed an entire mission only to trip a laser.
Decided it was too hot for me to try again. Will go back to it tonight.
Finding places to live is the blurst.
at least I don’t have to go to dubbo to do it, I guess.
The Returned is awesome.
I only recently discovered it!
Mainly because Mogwai did the score.
I was a little disappointed to learn that a US remake is already in the works. WHAT HAS AMERICA GOT AGAINST SUBTITLES?!?!
I was raving about it on TAY last year and nobody listened to me except @sughly. 🙁
I totally have that pilot ep sitting there on my PC… unwatched though :'(
So… nobody listened to @strange, then? 😛
Almost as much as the actual moving
Civ V is great, still trying to get the hang of BNW expansion
Another game I want to get but need to finish. The reimagining style looks really cool
As far as games that need to finish I played some more bioshock on the weekend. Think I’m getting close to the end. This is the 6th calendar year I’ve played bioshock without completing. I will finish it this time
Never heard of it
Stuff is good, meat on the weekend which is always nice to catch up with people. Trivia tonight
Morning all,
Saw 47 Ronin on the weekend. If your considering seeing it I recommend seeing something else. Boring action scenes, painful cheesy lines and it drags on a bit. Granted Keanu does kick some ass in it, but its also the Same Keanu you’ve seen in the past 5 movies. Also, the bloke with the tattooed face on all the posters makes an appearance of about 30seconds and has a few lines of dialogue, silly. We walked out with about 10 mins left of the movie.
Completed my second dungeon in A Link to the Past this morning 🙂 I now have strength gauntlets (phwoar) and can lift boulders! /flex.
Started playing the first Fire Emblem too, enjoyed the 45 mins I spent on it but it made me want to play Advance Wars.
whats everrrybody doing?
Supposedly 47 Ronin, yet in the trailer all I see is Keanu.
You learn the name of one other Ronin who is essential to the plot, 4 other Ronin make regular appearances but they’re only there to show their reactions to stuff and things.
The other 41 are just there for yelling and battles.
See the Book Thief instead.
I figured that would be the case. I’m assuming the premise is 47 highly skilled samurai doing something to save the world or something and in the end you find out that the majority of them are useless and it’s up to Keanu to save the day?
If I want a samurai movie I’ll watch The Last Samurai, now that’s a good samurai movie…samurai
More or less yeah.
Just switch save the world with avenge their master and bravo.
I have proof DC likes crowds! At first he didn’t… http://www.kramsdesign.com/misc/bdo2014/20140119_114144.jpg
Then he pondered it from a closer distance… http://www.kramsdesign.com/misc/bdo2014/20140119_170833.jpg
Then he totally joined a crowd http://www.kramsdesign.com/misc/bdo2014/20140119_141853.jpg
p.s. – @dc, here’s the folder all my bdo photos are in. Some are outright rubbish, I just included them all http://www.kramsdesign.com/misc/bdo2014/
Thanks man! Mine are on their way! The Naked and Famous video is making it go slooooowly, though! Arrrrgh! Such a good day, Sughly. Thanks for hanging out!
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=503841B0E1A76D2!594&authkey=!AH5rlTMf7FcFwZ0&ithint=folder%2c
I question the age of those girls in the first picture, but still dat ass!
Edit: No moshing seriously? So everyone just stands still? I’m not sure how this works…
Every one linked hands and sang We Are the World instead. It was kind of beautiful, but a little bit gay. 😛
They were all entranced by the large manly chest on screen
Booooooooo. That’s not the Big Day Out I recall. I recall fucktards off their face on ecstasy & ice looking to pick fights.
@dc was going for a more relaxed day this year, getting too old for that
Old man @DC!
Honestly it wasn’t fun and I fucking hated the type of people I kept encountering by sheer “luck”. All I wanted to do was watch The Living End & Tony Hawk in peace but nope. These drug addled wankers made sure I couldn’t 🙁
Actually, this year was surprisingly tame compared to past years where I would wholeheartedly agree. Only one set ruined by idiots!
That’s good to hear, hope Soundwave isn’t plagued this year by such. Has been fine the last few years though!
Anyone else read this like 3 Procratoonation panels?
Just me? Ok.
Creepy Postman : Origins.
Starring @dc
http://www.kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/dclunch.jpg
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Then there’s the missing panel of me dancing like a maniac at Arcade Fire! XD
That was this one. Dancing so much its all a blur! http://www.kramsdesign.com/misc/bdo2014/20140119_185920.jpg
Was this waiting for Arcade Fire? You had all that time to score yourself some prime barrier real estate and you just hung back?! D:
Nah, Arcade Fire we were right up the front. Staked out our spots for over an hour before hand.
Yeah this was the relaxing part of the day. Ankles were starting to die a slow painful death at this point
Weekend gaming clean-up report:
Volgarr the Viking: This is the platformer I love to hate. I get a little further each time then rage quit when the game presents a new challenge. This game infuriates me because you’re basically supposed to get through it without being hit and the game assumes you will… but it takes a lot of practice to get to the point. However, I did not rage-uninstall, which puts it a step above…
Shank: I must have gotten this in a humble bundle or something because I sure didn’t buy it outright. It’s alright at first, but the boss fights are broken. There are set things you do to make the bosses vulnerable except it hardly ever works so the bosses just wander back and forth using unavoidable attacks (because it’s a side scrolling platformer and you’re boxed in) until you die. It’s broken by design and not fun enough to justify continuing until I get lucky or the game decides to follow it’s own goddamn rules. I deleted this from my hard drive and put it and the sequel in my junk folder out of principle.
Sleeping Dogs: Year of the Snake DLC: Technically I went and finished this before the weekend, but I thought I’d remention/review it here. It was a fun little side story, I enjoyed jumping back into the world of Sleeping Dogs, and it reminded me why I am hanging out for a followup/sequel. I am tempted to restart the campaign over but that’s hard to justify when I have so much other stuff to play.
My wife is today playing through Walking Dead 400 days and episode 1 of season 2, which means I will probably be doing that when I get home so we can discuss those episodes – it drives my wife crazy when she’s ahead of me in something because she loves discussing interesting stuff in gamest and can’t until I catch up. Alternatively, I might start on Tomb Raider.
Tomb Raider is an awesome game. You won’t be disappointed.
I didn’t like it that much. I found the fight scenes repetitive and frustrating, and they just dragged on and on and on. At one point O was woeried that I was going to run out of ammo in the middle of a fight!
(I haven’t finished it yet)
BOOOOOORED at work.
I just accidentally got high spray painting now there is nothing to do except wait until lunch.
Also Radio Free Rocketman is a bust, the station wanted to put me on a Monday morning shift but I’m working and that was the only time slot the needed filled.Sigh. I also miss my best friend i havent seen him for like 2 weeks after like 2 months of seeing him every other day. Stupid friend being a productive member of the community.
I think those two quotes are counter to each other.
You can be bored and high. My high feels like a bad headache.
Any TAYbies want some headphones? They are free!
(Trying to get rid of extra stuff I don’t need – I have three sets of headsets that I’ve found so far. The ones I’m giving away are http://www.mwave.com.au/product/thermaltake-tt-esports-shock-spin-gaming-headset-black-aa23717 but in red. I have lost the microphone part of it, if I find it I will also give it to you. The only catch is you somehow need to get it off me.)
Will probably post more stuff that is cheap/free as we go through this process!
I HOPE YOU SELL YOUR CORSET COLLECTION I THINK THEY WILL ALL FIT ME.
I wore a corset for a thing once.
And you just finish the story there. DAMN IT RED
Unless he elaborates, I’m going to assume the ‘thing’ he wore the corset for was a fussy goat that he was attempting to woo.
Was hunting for the video, which involved digging through my ex’s photos on fb, of which she’s taken too many more since for me to bother.
I was a residential tutor at Flinders University Hall- half sheriff, half older sibling. Each year the Hall had a “theatre restaurant,” a sketch/performance/cabaret night, of which the tutors were always expected to do a skit, and usually as awful as possible (makes it easier for other people to get up and perform if they have already seen the semi-authority figures embarass themselves). One year we did the Thriller dance.
This year, we sang a song based on “Keep it gay,” from The Producers. As one of the people who knew about musical theatre, I had one of the bigger parts, in the introduction. So we came out on stage bundled up in coats, buttoned up to the neck, and went through the intro, and then on the first big “keep it gay” I whip off the coat revealing a corset, one of the other (male) tutors is in a dress and the rest of the tutors rush the stage in various forms of drag.
We won worst performance by a knockout mile.
It’s a pity I couldn’t find the video, as I’d been going out with the girl for about a month at this point, and we’d kept the details of our performance super secret, so on the reveal in the video all you hear is this giant OOHHHHH MYYYY GODDDDD from behind the camera
$1000
They look pretty cool. If no one else wants them, I’ll probably take them off your hands. Thanks! Though that might not work out given the distance between our domiciles.
I am not sure where you live at the moment…
In disturbing proximity to Parliament House.
Edit: but awesome proximity to Questacon.
The amount of times you’ve bought up Questacon today is beyond counting. Two, I think.
Also makes me think I need to go there again. I don’t think my wife has ever been, and science is rad.
There’s a lot of Canberra-bashing (sorry about that everyone), and I decided to balance it out with some positivity… and that’s all I can come up with! 😛
PADDLE BOATS!
Nah, the water’s too toxic to really enjoy that. It reminds me of that swamp in LOTR with all the ghouls under the surface 😛
@SHANE
ADVENTURE, HUNT SOME ORC, PADDLE BOATS \o/
Yeah, I had my counterpoint to Adelaide bashing last week.
If I don’t find someone else to take them, I’ll give them to you next time I’m in Canberra. Probably in about a month.
There’s other stuff we’re unloading, including a handful of NERF guns that I never got around to using.
All you need to do to claim them is rock up to our apartment and shove some amount of money in my hand.
…what sort of Nerf guns?
Three Mavericks, a Stampede and a box of darts (mostly the whistling ones).
I think I attempted to mod one of the Mavericks so that it shoots further but it’s a bit trickier to reload because of it.
@sughly: Here’s the BDO photos! Enjoy! There’s a few videos there too. Also lots of repetition in some of them, but I wanted to make sure I had some good shots.
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=503841B0E1A76D2!594&authkey=!AH5rlTMf7FcFwZ0&ithint=folder%2c
Oh, you can probably figure this out but you can download them all by right clicking on the folder instead of manually doing it one-by-one. Also make sure to turn the videos up to 1080p if you’re streaming them. Over compensated with how many photos you wanted at Deftones after your phone died. XD Wanted to make sure you got some decent ones.
Yussss!
About to get all John Waters on these bad boys.
The stress.
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=0503841b0e1a76d2&id=503841B0E1A76D2%21594&ithint=folder,&authkey=!AH5rlTMf7FcFwZ0#cid=0503841B0E1A76D2&id=503841B0E1A76D2%21439&v=3&authkey=%21AH5rlTMf7FcFwZ0
Its a stressful place to be
Sydney trip planning for me and the missus is still going on, at the moment it looks like the details are as follows.
February 8th we leave Melbourne for sydney
February 16th we return to Melbourne from Sydney.
Now as for the other details I don’t know yet, I know we will be staying in Five Dock and seeing family but as to whether we fly up or drive up and stop in Canberra for a day or two is undecided
QUESTACON!
(cc @rize)
(That’s three)
What the heck is a questacon?
Spinoff of the Metal Gear games where Otacon goes on a quest.
I would buy that.
That sounds glorious
QUESTACON!
/o\
Bugger.
WOOO! More delays! All those months of voodoo and pagan prayer on your behalf have paid off!
That’s what we were going for, right?
Pathfinder set in the Warhammer Fantasy world Saturday session recap:
We were able to successfully navigate through the haphazard archipelago of the Lost Isles to find the lost Dwarven hold of Barak Fadrin where we hope to find a bunch of treasure hunters who have some information on the Necromancer we are looking for. We were about to pilot our ironclad straight into the docks but we decided against that when we saw the wrecks of about half a dozen ships and signs of a large number of Naga that had become encamped in the Dwarven ruin. We anchored our ironclad a little further up the coast where our runepriest said there might be a second entrance into the hold.We quickly found the stairs leading up the side of the mountain where we ran into a small group of frost trolls. Thankfully they weren’t going to kill us on sight and we arranged to pay the trolls for safe passage by offering them a few barrels of Dwarven 20X ale. They let us pass by without incident but they did tell us that a group of treasure hunters who sounded remarkably like the group we were looking for had come up this pass less than a week before. They also warned us that there was some beast further up the mountain that we had to get past. We continued ascending up the side of the mountain where we had to engage in some rock climbing. I had to take off my full plate for that but none of us slipped and fell to our deaths.
We finally found the secret entrance into the Dwarven hold and we got inside. Turns out the inside of an abandoned Dwarven hold is absolutely freezing and we had come through the secret passage which had been abandoned for even longer. It also turned out that this path was trapped. Yay. Everyone made it through without any trouble except for me as I failed to jump across a gap. Fortunately I was able to scramble out of the non-death pit and get to the end of the passage just as a huge chunk of ice crashed down behind me. Yay for being a fighter who was back in his full plate because of danger but can’t jump for shit.
The next room was also delightfully trapped with some form of pools of foul water with convenient patches of moss obscuring the safe route across the water. Our runepriest was able to figure out that the ceiling showed a number of different paths across the water that corresponded with different Dwarven deities. He suggested that we all take the path of the Dwarven goddess of nature and life. While they all did that, I opted for the stupid path of the Dwarven god of slayers and battle. Turns out jumping from slippering stone to slippery stone in full plate is not the best idea. I slipped and fell into the water which turned out to not only be slightly poisonous but also highly corrosive. There went half of my health while the cleric hosed me off with create water. Everyone scolded me for taking the wrong path so we all took the nature goddess path and the path ended in a small chute which we had to ride head first.
The rogue went down the chute first and ended up in a room where the ceiling had partially collapsed and there was a huge amount of snow and ice. This room was even colder than when we were outside and climbing the mountain. The rogue began approaching a bridge that led across a chasm filled with snow but the snow began shifting and stirring as something began moving. The rogue carefully started backtracking away from whatever lay dormant just as I tumbled down the chute in my full plate and crashed onto the ground due to my inflexibility. The beast stirred from its slumber and it was a white dragon that had become trapped in this room when the ceiling had collapsed. It was not happy that it had been woken.
Our rogue and wizard sought out some cover immediately just before the dragon breathed icy death onto me, my cohort/companion (also a fighter in full plate but he is more agile than me), and our Dwarven runepriest. My cohort turned into an instant popsicle as he was frozen solid while the Dwarf and I became quite frosty. I tried to charge up to the dragon and smack it on the mouth to stop it doing that again but I underestimated the distance that a dragon could bite. The dragon had trapped me in its mouth and I was now on negative health but fortunately the runepriest healed me enough to make me conscious. Due to the initiative order, the runepriest and I rolled the same value so as the heal technically happened during my turn as well as his, I was able to continue with my charge attack and hit the dragon so had that I may have partially fractured its jaw and it dropped me on the ground.
Our rogue sniped the dragon with magic arrows while our wizard fire bolted the crap out of it (it’s super effective). The dragon took flight to strike at the rogue but not before giving me a parting ground pound with its claw. Our runepriest was busy healing everyone so I went over to try and break my cohort out of the ice. I may have hurt him a little bit with my lucerne hammer but at least he was no longer frozen. The dragon kept getting hit by arrows and fire so it made itself invisible and flew to the opposite end of the room. Blind-firing by everyone else was rather ineffective and I could do nothing against something that a) I couldn’t see, b) something that was flying.
The dragon came out of invisibility as it breathed more icy death, this time at the runepriest and the wizard. The wizard was mostly unaffected due to his magical resistance and elemental protection but now our runepriest was encased in ice. I was able to bust him out as our rogue fired the kill shot against the dragon. It had some pretty nice loot, including a +4 longbow that adjusted its composite power relative to the user and fired brilliant arrows (essentially laser arrows). Needless to say our rogue was very, very happy.
Now that the dragon was slain, we were able to get into the Dwarven hold proper and we camped out inside an abandoned Dwarven tavern as we rested up. Finding the trail of the treasure hunters was pretty easy as they had marked out the paths that they had taken to find spoils and loot and we could track their most recent venture. Every so often we heard a resounding boom echo throughout the hold and we couldn’t determine what it was. Thankfully we did not encounter any Naga as we were too far away from the water for them to bother us.
The wizard, my cohort, and I were completely useless in tracking the treasure hunters as we were all humans however the Dwarven runepriest and the Drow rogue were perfectly fine with their darkvision (the Drow is actually a Shadow Hunter from the Shadow Lands so that’s why she’s a Drow). We came across the lord’s hall and found it completely stripped bare of any riches but we were getting closer to the booming sounds. The rogue scouted ahead while the rest of us stayed behind.
The rogue was able to get close enough to observe a large group of people who matched the descriptions of the treasure hunters we were seeking. She also saw that they were rigging up what looked to be dynamite and other explosives and they were trying to blow a hole in the wall of the cavern they were in. She sent a magical message back to the group (Arcane Archer ability) and the Dwarf was infuriated that they were defaming the hold of his kin. The party started moving closer to the cavern while the rogue took aim at what appeared to be the captain who was holding the detonator box. The rogue decided the best way to announce our presence was a laser arrow fired at the hand that carrying the detonator, which hit home. Thankfully the detonator didn’t fail and cause the explosives to detonate prematurely but they were well aware of our presence now.
Everyone took cover as the treasure hunters fired back with muskets and the captain scrambled to get into a trench nearby with the detonator. Our rogue fired again and with her BS Drow accuracy was able to sever the connecting wire between the detonator and the explosives. Our mage also fired with bolts of lightning while my cohort began to advance towards their trench with his tower shield providing cover to the runepriest and me. Fortunately the enemy were terrible shots so they all missed again and some of them discarded their guns and started advancing towards us. They had a caster who fired magic missiles at my cohort and their apparent cleric/healer attempted to heal some of the damage that had been caused. The captain tried the detonator for the explosives and found it completely non-cooperative so he tossed a flask of alchemist’s fire at the explosives and took cover. All of the enemies dropped to the ground to avoid the blast and our runepriest created a neat little protective cover by stone-shaping a wall in front of us. The treasure hunters had succeeded in blowing open a passage into a cave network that our runepriest told us may lead to some of the untouched treasure holds.
Fast-forward a little bit and all of the gunners were dead as a result of the runepriest’s cone of cold. I was getting the crap beaten out of me as I thought I’d take on seven enemies at once. My cohort was trying to hit the captain but he kept getting shot point blank by pistols which went straight through his full plate. The rogue had killed the enemy mage with a few well-placed arrows and our wizard had caused the enemy cleric to die when he believed that he was being buried alive as a result of the spell phantasmal killer. The captain signalled the rest of his crew to retreat and they fled through the hole that they had blown open. We now had to pursue them deeper into the ruined hold and get the information we needed on the Necromancer.
TL DR: Not a good day to be running around in full plate with only a melee weapon.
Hmm, I just received an email from my aunt. The last time I received an email from her, her email had been hacked and my email became compromised because of it. Someone accessed my email from Argentina, so I had to change my password. The email was received at 1:30. My aunt lives in Melbourne, so she would have had to send it at 3:30 AM. Definitely not opening it. Deleted.
“And to top it all off, my Mum doesn’t even have a sister!”
-Rod Serling enters from the right of frame-
So I re-watched all of the Prank War videos from Collegehumor. They still hold up today as some of the cruelest pranks ever. It’s surprising how popular those videos are. 5-10 million views on every one. Episode 1 is extremely NSFW though. I recommend headphones. Mine are broken at the moment, so I had to skip the episode. I couldn’t risk my mum hearing.
But Amir’s face after he found out the half-court shot was fake was priceless. The smile just dropped like a tonne of bricks. Although I think Amir took it way too far in episode 6.It’s weird to see how much things have changed in the last 6 years. After episode 3, Amir was begging to Streeter “Don’t put this on Vimeo, please don’t.” Very few people actually know what Vimeo is these days.
What do you think was crueler?
Episode 4- Where Amir ruins his open-mic performance, orEpisode 5- Where Streeter flies Amir to LA for the fake TV opportunity?
There was a lot of arguing in the comments section. I think we can all agree that episode 6 was the worst offender.
Do you listen to If I Were You? @dkzeitgeist turned me onto it.
Relevant because Amir.
Is episode 6 the proposal or the parachute?
The stand up performance is pretty hard to watch, man. Especially when he leaves and Amir’s trying to talk to him outside.
Good stuff.
The proposal, poor girl.
Hey @dc – who are those handsome men at 38 seconds? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcprQvqivcI
HAHA! Oh man, that wasn’t too bad. I braced myself for some embarrassment right there. We’re bobbing our heads like pros, my friend. PROS. I did wonder what that looked like yesterday to the musicians from the stage. XD
Also, I screwed up encoding this thingy but that Naked and Famous — Young Bloods (ft. Sughly Dancing) will be here once it’s done uploading and converting again. *shakes fist* Guess you’ve probably seen it already in the SkyDrive files, but whatever. 😛
Oh! Oh! Is it @shane?
I think you’ve got me confused with a handsome man.
He’s probably confused it with Alphonse.
I hear he’s like a handsomer version of you?
Much, much handsomer.
Haha, my son just came up to me saying “I see it under there, Mummy” over and over and getting obviously frustrated when my responses weren’t what he expected. Finally I took pity on him and asked him “You see what under where?” and he actually fell over from laughing.
Nothing beats a good underwear joke.
I should have saved it for a rare Page 6 contribution. 😛
#EveryPageIsPageSixInStrangeHearts
Dad jokes start young with this one
I see England, I see France, I can see your underpants.
Damn it @freezespreston, did you tip off Serrels
I hold you personally responsible for the porn site now in the history of my work PC
The Haitaku today has me thinking about ‘media stuff that makes me cry and recalling how
the “Jurassic Bark”episode of Futurama was on the other day. Every. Fricking. Time. Without fail, boom goes the waterworks.So it got me thinking: What are some of TAYs Saddy Dumpington shows/movies?
Red Dog.
I have a Red Kelpie, so yeah it hits close to home.
I hear that. Dogs / pet stuff in general can get me going. Rambling anecdote follows.
The final track on Gotye’s “Making Mirrors” is called Bronte, and was written about… I forget the exact details – it was either the passing of his dog, or about a friends’ dog. Anyway, a beloved pet to somebody passed away. And this song hits me so hard that I’ve had to delete the mp3 from the album lest it come on shuffle and start me sobbing. It reminds me too much of my old dog, who is still alive, but doesn’t have many years left in him. He lives with my ex (we’re still good friends) and he had a scare about 6 months ago that had me flattened. The song just reminds me of the unconditional love these creatures give us, and that in a way the pain of their passing is the price we pay for the joys they give us without thought.I Cant remember about shows/movies but Caught in the Crowd by Kate Miller-Heidke always does it to me.
If Up was a 10 minute short film: Up.
Else: Clannad. Or Grave of the Fireflies.
(ps. You should put the name of the thing you’re spoilerising outside of the spoiler tags so people know what’s in there :P)
Well, yeah, but then they know that the thing inside the spoiler tag is sad. That could be a spoiler in itself. 😛
But yeah, wow. That first 10 minutes of Up. That’s a film in of itself. (Fun fact: My girlfriend doesn’t like Up, except for the first 10 minutes. Won’t watch any more of it these days.)
Reply Fail, so, uh… end of ET?
Homeward Bound.
Every time Shadow falls in the hole at the end and Chance jumps down after him something gets caught in my eye.
The Elephant Man, Schindler’s List, Million Dollar Baby, Philadelphia, The Pianist, Hearts in Atlantis. All great films that pull on the ol’ heart strings.
Oh shit how could I forget Life is Beautiful. Put that one at number two, behind Elephant Man.
Seeing Life is Beautiful reminds me of the ending to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, but that felt a little forced to me. Protip: Holocaust dramas do not make for good first date material. 😛
Yeah, duh. It should have been a porno. 😀
That describes an entirely different first date experience.
Haha. Best first-dates evar.
Oh man, the Pianist is heartbreaking
Agreed. Three of my seven films are about the effects of war. Not exactly first-date material (see comments with @beeawwb above.)
Apparently even my father blubbed at The Book Thief
Really? I’ve looked at the trailers for that one and thought nothing but “meh”
Might give it a go on DVD.
The Life of Pi made me cry at a couple of moments, luckily I was by myself so there was no one around to see me crying! Jurassic Bark made me tear up a bit, same with the seven leaf clover episode. The Unfinished Swan (game) even made me tear up a couple of times 🙁
I’m just so full of emotions!!! :'(
Hey, thanks for reminding me I have a PS3 now and can play The Unfinished Swan!
You’re welcome! 😀
Also try Journey
Also try Flower
…Also try WipeOut
It’s weird, it is almost impossible for me to cry from sadness. I bawl immediately if I am the slightest bit injured, and I typically somehow end up crying if I get angry enough. (Don’t ask how that works, it just does) However, the finale of Arby n the Chief comes to mind.
What a dark ending to what once was a comedy webseries. I didn’t cry the first time I watched it, but I was extremely depressed by it. It took about three hours for me to cave and re-watch it. Only then did I cry.
I realised that I had watched this show for years, and right in front of me, the characters that had once brought me such laughter created a suicide pact. The line;“If we do make it into heaven, wait for me at the gates. We’ll go in together, fuck shit up.”
really got to me. It’s like if in the last episode of Friends, Rachel doesn’t get off the plane and Ross puts a gun to his mouth.
When it comes to video games, everybody knows what I am going to say, since I namedrop them at every opportunity; Katawa Shoujo and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness.
Mystery Dungeon Ending: I don’t want to say goodbye indeed. Did you save the world? Or did you just kill billions of people? Are you Hitler reincarnated as a Cyndaquil? Probably.Either way, you are dying in front of your friend, all the while, this music is being blasted in your ears. You look upon your friend as you die in front of him. You know he is not emotionally stable enough to live without you. You try to talk to him. You try to tell him that this how it must be. You are forced to tell him that you kept your inevitable death a secret from him. You watch him break down into tears. You die, thinking of your friend.
Also, GRROOOOOOOVYLLLLE!
Katawa Shoujo doesn’t even need an explanation. It’s Katawa Shoujo. I will say no more.
I can’t really say much for movies. I don’t watch movies as much as I play games or watch machinima about talking toys that play Halo. I am sitting here, trying to think of a movie that emotionally resonated with me. I can’t think of any.
Wow, it took me seven edits for the link to work. I had to rewrite the last paragraph talking about the ending to PMD since it got deleted somehow. Sigh.
True story: Just yesterday I was thinking “you can tell a lot about a person by their reaction to Katawa Shoujo.”
I don’t really do movies & tv but games that have done it include the end of Grim Fandango, the last chat with Garrus in ME3 (as well as the bit with Mordin, the funeral in the Citadel DLC & a few others) and getting to the end of an extreme track in Trials Evolution with no faults only to fuck up at the last checkpoint
I remember the end of the recent King Kong had me starting to choke up a bit towards the end.
Canberra Taybies!
I need suggestions on nice places to go to dinner this coming weekend.
(depending on whether my parents say they are going, I may turn this into an impromptu meat)
HAlps!?
Why is everyone in Canberra!? Is something finally happening there!?
CanCon – Canberra Board game Convention.
Free entry – LOTS OF BOARD GAMES!
Oh wow! I just thought it was a big coincidence! Didn’t think there actually was something on! haha
Have fun then!
I’m tempted to go to CanCon, just cause why not?
Because Canberra?
Anton and I are probably going on Saturday, its gonna be fun!
There’s some nice places in Manuka (just south of Capital Hill) for dinner. Average to expensive prices, depending on where you go.
@dc man, those Arcade Fire types are a violent lot.
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s3928737.htm
Win told that story on stage last night. It got a laugh! XD
@weresmurf – we had to move away from the airfield last night. we went looking for 2 more m4’s and two of my friends got shot on sight. (damn i hate people that just shoot on sight). anyways, they spawned near berenzino, my friend and i grabbed as much of their gear as we could carry, more importantly a couple of pistols, and met up with them in Guda. so 3 of us are there, and our other friend with an m4 is at presenthalfway between the NW airfield and Guda. will be taking everyone from guda back towards our other friend so we can raid that airfield near Guda.
We play on the Day-Z 2-4 server (hosted by gameservers.com) let me know if you are jumping on.
Also anyone else is quite welcome to join us… believe me though you will not run into anyother bunch fitting the n00b category quite like we do.,..
running a seperate TS server for DayZ, just mainly because the other 3 guys are non-tay so didnt think anyone would appreciate me giving deets to a bunch of people no one knows.
if anyone was playing on the Potaku MC server, you would have bumped into them (Connoremf, UnLoyaL, and hazy_m)
if you need TS deets, DM me on twitter or send me an email (@ hotmails dot com)
I don’t think there’s any problem with having randoms on, as long as they’re not jerks. If you’re paranoid about it just double-check with @cakesmith.
@zetrox2k Rize is on the money. They’re more than welcome to make use of the TS server. There’s a few other TAY friends on there occasionally who aren’t TAY folk either.
Cool, I’m at Elektro at the moment. My mate Poida80 and I were cleaning out the town of trolls and morons. People were spawn-killing fresh guys so we were taking them out. Killed a sniper around the corner from Elektro camped up on a rock overlooking a town, called out to him over the voice chat just before I shot lol, he managed to turn around and look at me just before I shot him right through the face with my Mosint from 200m. He’d killed probably 20+ fresh spawns before we got there. We were running down from the NE airfield and people were telling us about him. What a tool.
Had no idea you were talking about Day Z at first. I was this close to offering my condolences.
Is that server first person locked? Not sure about playing a game like DZ with people exploiting 3rd person view to cheat
not locked. we are quite new at this, and only beginning to realise how annoying the 3rd person exploits are. may switch server soon.
The worst part is I can see the legitimacy of the argument for 3rd person, 1st does restrict your view to an unrealistic level and you always have more awareness of your surroundings than it can deliver. 3rd person does counter that but adds the cheating option of looking over the wall you’re standing next to by moving the camera.
If I was a decent coder, I’d make a mod to enable realistic fog of war in 3rd person view, say 2-3m of proper awareness all around and then falling off as it encounters objects
realistically all you need to do is set the camera to lower automatically and lock its vertical orientation when you are within x proximity to a wall. Done.
That’d solve the problem of people looking over a wall to gain an advantage but it’d take camera control away from the player which is always a dick move when it happens in a game, far better to just not have the graphics update when the character can’t actually see what’s going on
perhaps move the camera closer to the player so even if they do shift the camera they wont be able to see beyond the top of the wall.
Feeling a bit sad. That special brand of sad you feel after having a particularly awesome weekend.
The post-festival blues my friend, been there.
If only there were a festival for blues. A “Blues-Fest” as it were.
Haaaaaaa, I see what you did there 😉
I considered Blues-Fest this year but couldn’t afford it, spent too much money on music festivities already this year 🙁
Same. Priority is going to be a trip to Thailand mid-year instead.
As much as I’m a fan of John Mayer’s guitar work and his more recent folk-Americana style which he’ll be sure to bust out for the festival (although would love some -Trio work as well) it’s not enough of a singular draw to get there (though there’s plenty of sideliners that make me say “yep, I like them too”). Next year, perhaps.
He might announce some late side shows (If he hasn’t already). I’ve heard John Butler are great to watch. Looks like it would be a pretty laid back gig, chilled out.
I’ve already bought tickets to Laneway in Melbourne ( I live in Sydney ), Arctic Monkeys and I’ll go to Splendour again this year. Plus moving to Canada at the end of the year. I actually attempted to buy a ticket to Coachella in California in April but it sold out too quick…haveno idea how I would’ve afforded that. Its actually a blessing I didn’t get that ticket.
Yeah, keeping an eye on the mailing list for some side-shows. Nothing has been announced as yet though.
Coachella though… that’s so the opposite end of my spectrum. Power to anybody who does enjoy that sort of thing though. Just not my cup of Earl Grey. Hot.
I just wanted to see Outkast really haha. Good news is I heard they’re touring Aus this year.
The majority of the bands/artists at Coachella I wanted to see I already did last year at Splendour – MS MR, Flume, Flight Facilites and such. Either spacey/chilled electronic music or something that’s fun to sing along to.
Skrillex, Calvin Harris and a lot of the other bands I wouldn’t have bothered with. In retrospect it mightn’t have been the atmosphere I wanted when spending 3 days at a festival. At splendour everybody loved everybody, it was like a community of happy people. Coachella seemed like it would draw the crowds from those who attend the Future Music and Sterosonic festivals. Roided muscles heads walking around trying to be somebody, ugh. I attended a few of those years ago, but that phase is over, not my cup of earl grey either now 🙂
Quick, invent a specific medical term describing that! You could be in all the doctor books!
Post Meat Blues is already a patented thing.
And post-meat D.C. doofusness?
According to Section 5.3 of the TAY community policy, it’s not a true Meat unless there are greater than 4 people in attendance! The best you can claim is Post Get-together Blues.
Educate yourself.
I’ll educate your face with my fists!
Such anger.
It’s one of the symptoms of “Post Get-Together Blues”
Greater than or equal to? Otherwise we’ve never done a qualifying SA Meat.
As a wise man in a rock band once sung, There aint no cure for the summertime blues
@dc we can meet up in Guda, if you want and i can shout you a bottle of alcohol… medical grade, but alcohol is alcohol! if you are up for it, we can wash it down with disinfectant… i may just need to bag some of your blood for your own safety… cant have too much of that, could make you sick!
dinner is on me…. will it be baked beans or half a tin of sardines?
Gives Hugs
Oh man, I’m going to be crashing so hard when I get back from 70K. Especially coupled with the fact my son will be starting school,I’ll be so sad I’ll probably spend a few days just curled up on the couch watching Vampire Diaries and eating ice cream.
Though there’s something pretty great about some alone time. Not too much, but some. Haha!
Jeez louise, Ninty is really getting a lot of flack among gamers these days, Rightly so, considering their decisions with the Wii U, but the old trend of Ninty being the internet’s favourite whipping boy isn’t comforting when Ninty is in actual trouble nowadays.
On the other hand, Metal Gear Rising is as amazing as I expected it to be. Mouse controls aren’t hot, but that’s to be expected. I haven’t bothered plugging in my DS4 yet, considering how picky games are with it.
http://isnintendodoomed.com/
Does Powalen cheat at Mario Kart?
That website wiihaveaproblem.com used to be good for a few laughs, with seeing peoples’ wiimotes stuck in expensive televisions and what not. But alas, no more!
I wish the website had been more concise. Such a wordy answer!
They just got to get more awesome games out there. That’s the WiiU’s problem. 3DS is going strong though
Their whole gen is screwed and there’s nothing to stop it. Until they release the next one, they will continue to fail with Wii U.
There are loss of things they can do to stop it. The WiiU is a cool console, with far more great games on it than either competitor. That said, it needs a price drop, and Ninty need to continue working with Indie devs, because they just can’t produce enough games themselves. Entice people onto the console, and devs will follow.
Here’s my thoughts:
– Parents won’t buy it for their kids: “you already have 48345 games on Wii, it’s the same thing! Mario again!”
– Casual gamers won’t buy it: “it’s an expansion pack or something? I still have fun with my Wii every couple of months for parties”
– Teenagers won’t buy it: “No one is playing CoD on it11!!”
– Gamers won’t buy it, since there’s a small 3rd party catalogue.
– Nintendo fans are finding it hard to justify the cost too, for a few games.
– It’s currently not feasible to only own a Wii U only (if youre a proper gamer) due to: small 3rd party catalogue; price; price as compared to last-gen; price compared to PS4/Xbone.
It needs to drop to $199 for premium pack with Pro controller. Touchscreen optional at this point. It also needs to get a mass of 3rd party games, and a small handful of 1st party games (which are coming). It will fly at supersonic speeds off the shelves – I know, because the $214 WiiU’s sold out in DSE’s Australia-wide.
If Nintendo doesn’t do the above, they’re just treading water, waiting for the WiiU gen to run out. IMO even at half price they still won’t be worse-off, as I expect sales to increase two-fold. It also needs to have the price drop + 3rd party + 1st party games all burst onto the scene in one magnificent marketing campaign.
Step 1- Drive truck of money to Retro Studios
Step 2 – Get Retro Studio to make new Metroid game
Step 3 – Dive into vault of money filled with profits from said Metroid game, Scrooge McDuck style..
they should make all the games?
It’s looking like Wii U will be the next Dreamcast. Nice hardware, but will suffer the same fate unless something drastically changes.
The Dreamcast had a lot more interesting and unique games by this point though.
*twiddles thumbs*
XENOBLADE?
XENOBLADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
XenUblade!
Nintendo better not refuse to release it in English in the end because the Wii U’s bombing.
Hi Colourbro!
hay hay hayyyyy
Ugh, Twiddlius
You should draw something!
You should!
I’m in Japan, it’s kind of hard!
All I’m hearing (reading) are excuses!
You are right, all I have are perfectly valid excuses.
Na-uh! No one said anything about a tablet and computer. Do a quick doodle on a napkin. Surely Japan has materials for that.
(Also buy ALL the Gundams at Akihabara!)
WOLF CREEK THE MUSICAL
ADELAIDE 14-22 FEB : http://www.adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/wolf-creek-the-musical/e23170ac-80ed-4b5e-9cf4-f7ffe200f402
MELBOURNE 27 MAR – 6 APR: http://www.ticketmaster.com.au/Wolf-Creek-the-Musical-tickets/artist/1951061?tm_link=edp_Artist_Name
Encore Seasons! Go see it!
Explanation:
My Brother’s in it. He still owes me money! Also, it’s pretty funny.Wow, Fringe season crept up fast!
Yeah, 3 weeks. I have to start booking tickets for things
I just arrived home to a letter from the govt. Pretty much dreading what was contained within, I hesitantly opened the envelope.
Letterhead shows it’s from Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services.
Hmmm…. Did centrelink fuck up and now I owe them money? Has my Blue Card expired and I need to renew? Am I in trouble for something I don’t know about?!
“Your application for assistance under the Home Energy Emergency Assistance Scheme has now been assessed and you have been granted the amount of $720.00 which will be credited directly to your energy account.”
HOLY FUCK!!! It’s like I’ve won the fucking lotto!!! Hopefully this is an omen of things to come in 2014! Year of the horse! (I was born in the year of the horse.)
Please let the year continue on in this fashion! K thx bye!
Sounds like something from a Monopoly card 😛
That’s nothing, I won second prize in a beauty contest once.
The sad thing about it was that I was the only entrant
What was it for? The name isn’t familiar to me.
It was because I went through a period of unemployment last year. My electricity provider put me on a “stay connected” plan, and I’ve kind of been on it ever since. It wasn’t until Nov or Dec 2013 that I was told about being able to apply for this grant by my electricity provider, and I didn’t think I was even going to get it as I’ve been employed full time hours since Nov sometime. Figured I’d be lucky to get $20 if anything at all. The paperwork I had to fill in allowed me to explain the history of my situation though, so I guess some level headed nice person in the govt read my application instead of the usual brain-dead “I hate work and wanna go home” person that usually assesses everything I put forth to the govt! 😉
I took some photos while driving around today. This is the community within which I work.
Post apocalyptic urban decay, @dc!
Battles[cars]
It may have been my imagination but I thought I heard the whispering ghosts of banjos on the wind.
Hey @redartifice, looks like I’ll be getting the physical copies of The Strange (hi @strange) and Numenera hopefully in the next two weeks. I haven’t used US Post much before so I don’t know how long it will take.
Also, for any of the Numenera people, I have a coupon code for a PDF version of the full book if anyone is curious. I already have the PDF so I’m set. The only requirement is that you can only use the coupon at DriveThruRPG.com but they’re pretty good for this sort of stuff.
The Strange physical copies shouldn’t be coming yet, but the Numenera book is so so pretty
Ah k, must be getting the Numenera stuff then. Still good then. 😀
Also Also, if I might impose, can you keep from reading the pre-gen adventures in the back (other than the 1st)? there’s stuff in there I might pillage
Sure thing.
The long weekend being the last weekend that we’re in Sydney makes organising the last BOARD GAMES a little tricky.
Monday is the best day for us but I assume most people have plans for the long weekend. People tell me what you want to do!
@mawt @alexpants @cj @gingerchris86 and whoever else feels like attending.
I found a channel on Youtube that is almost exclusively dedicated to remixes of songs from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. All of my yes.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGuitahHeroe?feature=watch
Hi TAY!
First day back at work today after my December-January holidays. Monday was a bad day to pick to start back, maybe next time I’ll start on a Tuesday or Wednesday.
Boy did I ever play some videogames; Dishonored. La Mulana. Broken Age. Assassin’s Creed IV.
Watched some movies; The Hobbit. Anchorman 2. Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
and some TV shows; finally picked up the Fringe box set , and catching the newest season of Community.
Good times were had.
Was Dishonored good? I picked it up during the PSN christmas sales and hopefully I’ll play it sometime this year. 🙂
It’s great
Well it was okay I guess, if you’re into games that are fucking fantastic…
In my opinion Dishonored was a really solid 8/10. Its story was a bit crap, but its gameplay was fantastic. The DLC is also very good.
I thought it was fantastic.
The story is fairly straight forward, and good enough to move you from chapter to chapter. The world and its characters are wonderfully realised.
Beautiful visuals. Characters and faces are a little stylised, but look great.
Nothing sticks out in my memory for its sound and music, neither good nor bad.
Gameplay is where its at. The game’s selling point is very much that each mission can be completed in a number of ways. If you want to go in gun blazing and sword swinging, you can do that. If you want to be sneaky and quiet, you can do that. There are lethal and non-lethal means for each boss. Reminiscent of Deus Ex or Thief games.
IMO, this is the game BioShock Infinite wanted to be.
That last line nails it.
Woah. Moving it to the top of my pile.
Watched the first episode of Black Sails.
It was interesting. Very piratey. Much nakedness, though.
Apparently its theme has a hurdy-gurdy, so I think I need to watch it.
The hell is a hurdy-gurdy, aside from a thing in the Swedish Chef’s vocabulary?
It’s a string instrument. I’m not really sure how to describe it, but it’s totally rad.
And I’ve now spent 20 min looking at Hurdy Gurdy stuff.
They are weird
That’s awesome!
It sounds like there’s bellows or something inside, too? Getting a bagpipe vibe there.
EDIT: I’m an idiot and it’s explained further in the video
Hurdy gurdys are awesome. Anna Murphy plays one in Eluveitie.
The theme was pretty cool. Bear McCreary.
Love Bear McCreary. Seeing his names on the credits of any thing ensures there’ll be atleast one amazing thing about it!
haven’t seen it yet, but I’m sort of expecting it to be similar to that recent Sparticus series. lots of tits & stylised violence. oh, and possibly a C-grade New Zealand cast.
Edit : just found out that its by the same production company as Spatacus. so then. I might not be too far off.
I saw the trailers and figured I’d wait for reviews.
Give it a go?
I don’t think I could recommend it yet. The best thing about it so far is pirates.
I’ve been listening to a hell of a lot random music lately and at various time thematic links have made me want to mix the two songs together just to see what happens. So far here are my favourites
1 pumped up kicks/I don’t like Mondays
It’s like a literal yin and yang of school shootings. Grim subject dealt with two completely different ways
2 a thousand miles/500 miles/ the distance
I really like the chord progression of a thousand miles but Vanessa Carlton’s voice is boring. Now if we mix some cake and creepy twins in their we have a amazing song
3. What goes around/around the world just in timberlake and daft punk. It’s like gods kissing
4 young and beautiful/young blood
Amazing lyrics plus a riff to knock your socks off. YES PLEASE
ANYONE ELSE GOT ANY THEMATICALLY LINKED AONGS THAT MIGHT SOUND OKAY MIXED?
Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants/Ring of Fire – The Johnny Cash Escape Plan.
I’ve NO idea how that’d work, but if you can pull it off, I’ll be amazedI Think We Are Both Suffering From The Same Crushing Metaphysical Crisis/Midlife Crisis – HORSE No More.
This one… I can kinda see this one working.This.
I had my digital peace interrupted during a youtube session by an ad which was just a music video. But I kinda liked it, so was like… ‘Alright. I put on a separate tab to listen to later.’ Then I listened to it and was pretty OK with this. (Rohan – Slave Us All.) Woo for randomness.
I’m very out of touch because I don’t listen to radio or follow any bands in particular, so every now and then I like to poke around at tunes after something has intruded on my musical hermitude.
There was a gizmodo article spoiling (probably) the Triple J hottest 100, I was thinking that’d be worth scoping out too. If only to pooh-pooh what the kids are listening to these days.
(Not as good as my Perfect Circle, Disturbed, or Five Finger Death Punch, etc, none of which I’ve heard anything new from in the last eternity… Nyaah.)
Ugh, CoinOps will be the death of me, I swear.
I can’t get the damn thing onto the xbox via ftp, which is the only way to get it over. 🙁
And I have no idea how to format the hard drive. D:
What are you even doing? I must have missed the post explaining it all, cos all I’m getting now is “I’m gonna mine virtual currency on a Xbox 1st gen”.
Trying to use my Xbox as a MAME machine.
I think a laptop will be easier.
Where are you up to with it? Is the xbox modded at all yet? All I distinctly remember from when I did mine back in the day was having to pull the IDE cable out at EXACTLY the right time during boot so the drive is unlocked and can be plugged into a PC to be accessed
It’s modded, but I don’t know if there’s enough free space on the HDD.
How big is the drive? I seem to recall the modded one I had having something like 4 partitions for boot data, profile info, game saves & downloadable stuff, could you be accessing the wrong partition?
I can’t remember how many partitions are on there, but I know there’s at least three.
There may be six.
I’ll have to have another look.
Geez there’s a lot of internet to catch up on from over the weekend.
Going away is the worst.
The short summary is:
-Pictures of cute animals had captions added
-Porn was created, uploaded and pirated
-Vitriol was spewed over things that don’t matter by people who don’t know anything
-38 seconds of Steve winwood’s higher love at a barely audible volume was enough for umg to make a copyright claim against one of my gta online videos. But that’s fair enough I suppose, I mean why would anyone from my average 3 viewers per video buy the song when they can skim through half an hour of unrelated video to get that sweet sweet 38 seconds of free groove if they can hear it over the rotor noise and idle chatter? I’m practically destroying their business which is being kept afloat by sales of a 28 year old song… The worst part is I really do get why they do it and it really is fair enough but fuck if this doesn’t feel like a rich fucker coming around to your house and kicking you in the face because he can.
Weekend was good. Went to my friend’s place and hung out there, met another friend of his who reminded me a whole lot of @rocketman. Watched them do four player Splosion Man for ages, then when everyone went to bed he started trying to play all four players by himself. I ended up jumping on and we switched to a two player game, before long it had somehow become 6:30 in the morning. Finished the second world and decided it was time to call it quits 😛 Got pretty in sync with each other though, for the most part we weren’t even using the countdown to time our jumps. The next day we also played a tonne of Soul Calibur II against each other, that was fun. My Raphael wasn’t toooo rusty, and also somehow managed to do fairly decently with Astaroth which I completely wasn’t expecting at all.
Also got introduced to Dominion, which seemed pretty good I guess. I managed to win a round, so that’s an easy way for something to score a few extra points in my book apparently. Otherwise the rest of the time just involved eating or sleeping or not doing things. We were supposed to go to the beach today, but ended up not because… I don’t even know. Maybe because all but two of us are allergic-to-the-sun white or something. Was kind of looking forward to it, I haven’t been to the beach in years.
Then since I was coming home via the north I went straight to climbing, and it went really well tonight too. Nailed one I was stuck on last week on the first go, then eventually got through the next one that I’d written off as impossible from the start, then got halfway through the one after that too. One of the regulars was convinced that I’d been doing extra work or something, and didn’t believe that I actually do as little as I do. So that was cool 😛
Sad to get back to the house and find the birdcage no longer in its place though 🙁
And love wise your weekend was…?
Yeah @mrtaco, you left out the important bits!
You’re assuming domination wasn’t the love life part…
Dominion is an awesome game, If you are ever aching for a game, let me know, Anton has the entire set 🙂
Why do I have “Let it go” stuck in my head?
Hey man.. let it go.. it’ll all be over soon!
Because its an awesome song. Obviously
Bored games!
Monopolatte, a bored games cafe in Ottawa.
Introduced to Super Slapshot. A somewhat hockey game where Optimus Prime is a Defender, Superman is OP, Yoda is a goalie, and Sonic has a power score of 3… out of 11. Sounds about right given is recent outings.
Suprisingly fun.
Looked pretty crappy and home made, more or less like you could print out your own cards and doodle on them.
I think you misspelled board ga…ooooohhhhhh. I see what you did there. *wink*
I don’t get it …
Well you see…
*Uses graphs, diagrams, projector slides and flow charts to explain the joke*
..and that’s how you can tell Bruce Willis was dead the whole movie.
Wait wait, so it was the dog all along?
Yep, you could tell cause he had shifty eyes.
A classic motive if ever there was one.
Neither do I but it’s safest to just play along.
H-huh? Ohhhh right, yeah, *cough*. Yeah I totally see it now, I love it when that persons says that. HA-HA!
I just realised I have no idea what I’m doing this weekend, other than listening to the Hottest 100.
whoo?
I would say come to Sydney but I saw my bank account last night. TIME TO DO NOTHING UNTIL PAYDAY!
Ah, the joys of having your pay get screwed up and having to wait until the next cycle for it to be corrected. WHEEEEEE!
There’s a tonne of free stuff on in the city for Australia Day. We could do that! http://www.australiaday.com.au/
I like it because free.
Per-chance. I guess it depends what @masha48716570650561616 wants to do.
Masha’s Farewell!
That’s this weekend??
*looks at bank account* Uhhh…
What are the details?
Nothings been decided yet as far as I know! Everyone seems to be tight on cash this month (this is all 2014’s fault) so probably nothing pricey. I suggested the Australia day stuff up there ^!
What do you want to do, @masha2932 ?
No idea actually /o\
It’s unfortunate that most people are strapped for cash but I understand. If people just want to stay home I’m fine with that. The positive goodbye messages the last 2 weeks have been great.
I was just thinking of people meeting up and having lunch somewhere anyway.
Can most likely crash at mine if needed. Depends on what is happening I guess.
Anton and I are in Canberra, You’re welcome to come play boardgames with us at cancon 😀 @blaghman and the other Canberra Taybies are welcome too 🙂
According to this* site these are the current top ten sexiest actresses.
1. Emma Stone
2. Amy Adams
3. Anna Kendrick
4. Hayley Atwell
5. Camilla Belle
6. Aishwarya Rai
7. Christie Abbott
8. Christina Hendricks
9. Daniela Ruah
10. Famke Janssen
I must admit to some surprises there at both inclusions and exclusions.
*Goddamn Kotaku hates my links with a burning passion. http://www.crowdrank.net/Actresses/Rankings?utm_source=tbl&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=tbl-12-1-Actress-English-speaking
Eliza Dushku is and always will be the hottest woman in my eyes. I’d also put Kat Dennings on there as my number two and possibly Jennifer Lawrence third.
I’ve only seen four of those names before today and off those four I only really recognise Emma Stone (from her voice cameo in Sleeping Dogs more than anything else, though she was alright in Zombieland, I guess – I haven’t seen any of her other work), and Christina Hendricks because her large boobs are a recurring topic of conversation on reddit. I think she’s in Mad Men? I haven’t seen it.
Clearly, I am out of touch. Time to visit gossip websites so I know which celebrities I should be obsessing over.
I know Emma Stone, Amy Adams and Christina Hendricks. I’ve heard the name Anna Kendrick but I don’t know where.
Famke Janssen I know but damn if it isn’t a surprise that she’s there. She’s about 50 I think? I mostly know her from Goldeneye (Xenia Onatopp) and a bunch of terrible horror movies. She’s doing well to be voted above all her younger more current competition.
See I know the names Amy Adams and Anna Kendrick but I don’t know from what. I remember Famke from Goldeneye now that you mention it but off the top of my head I had no idea.
Amy Adams was Lois Lane in the new Superman movie. Also in American Hustle.
I have seen neither of those things.
Doesn’t mean you don’t know about them though.
She’s also a main character in The Muppets, Enchanted and The Fighter.
Yeah, there’s some level of cultural penetration where you just hear names a lot and know someone is famous/popular even if you’re not familiar with why. Probably because of linkdump sites like reddit I guess.
@kermitron
Also their name tends to come up in the pop sugar banner at the bottom of the page
She is remembered from her classic role of Amelia Earheart in Night at the Museum 2.
Is Night at the Museum the Ben Stiller one? I don’t think I’ve seen him in anything since Mystery Men.
Yes. I actually enjoyed those movies for what they were, but I don’t think critics liked them. I listed Night at the Museum 2 because that’s probably the only Amy Adams movie I’ve seen.
Yep, I know Emma Stone, Amy Adams, Christina Hendricks, Anna Kendric, Hayley Atwell and Famke Janssen.
Anna Kendrick is in Scott Pilgrim as Scotts sister. She is also the main character in Pitch Perfect (a movie I enjoyed waaaay too much). She is also in Up In The Air (which is also awesome) and the Twilight movies (shudder).
Hayley Atwell I know from Captain America where she plays whats her name (to the Google machine!), Peggy Carter (and according to Google has just been given her own TV show. Huh.)
The other ones I don’t know.
Kendrick is in Scott Pilgrim, she’s Scott’s sister.
BRB, restarting my laptop. ScarJo doesn’t seem to be appearing.
Their ranking is totally broken
Apparently the 15th sexiest actress in the world is the sexiest woman in the world
So my gf has been in the US for about a week and she already has an American accent. It’s like I don’t even know her anymore.
You should ask her to commentate your daily life when she gets back, like a true ESPN commentator 😛
This is a great idea.
🙁
Are you sure she didn’t have an American accent all along and you’ve only just noticed?
That is a far more likely scenario, why didn’t I think of that?
What up, TAY? Hope this day finds you well?
I think I’ve got Big Day Out Pox (Is that a thing like PAX pox?) Either way, feeling a little dodgy.
LAST PLAYED SONG GAAAAAME:
You’ve Got Time – Regina Spektor
Also was singing Wake Up by Arcade Fire very loudly as I walked home from the gym. XD
Metal Gear Rising Revengeance Soundtrack, which I’m so going to buy next chance I get
Octavarium – Dream Theater
Specifically this version with a full live orchestra.
Damn I need to rewatch that and try not to buy the awesome instrument he uses at the start of that song.
One of these? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_Fingerboard
Thats the one 🙂 *Droools*
I always thought it would be a good idea to buy one. Then I saw this:
Price –
Full size: $5290
Half size: $3390
Yes I remember them being awfully expensive
Johnny B. Goode – Marty McFly and the Starlighters
Your kids are gonna love it!
All right. This is an oldie, but, uh… well, it’s an oldie where I come from.
Dammit @dc! Now I’ve got You’ve Got Time stuck in my head. Can’t remember what my last played song is.
Stardrops – James Flamestar
Also, I’m pretty sure that if not for music events, the plague in The Stand could never have taken hold.
*cue (Don’t Fear) The Reaper montage*
True story: I was reading Flash tutorials last night and In The Bed of The Blue Eyed Girl came on and I started silently crying.
lol homo.
Like You Could Have It All.. in my arse
The Grates.
TDF Meet DCS- The Dhol Foundation
London based Indian drum collective. Couldn’t find a clip of this one, but they’re in this bit from live earth (front left) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gWFKCkbO7g
1996 – The Wombats
Fear Factory – Edgecrusher
Soooo much bass…
Does anyone here have any useful opinions of Lord of the Rings – War in the North? I really want to play a co op RPG that isn’t Diablo-esque, and it looks promising.
I have it!
Please refer to last nights text message.I’ve never played it, but I’ve read lots of reviews for it…
…oh, you said useful. Disregard.
It’s ok great but not ok good just great ok bad… based on what i can read about the internet because i’ve never played it nor watched any videos because it never really interested…
AM I HELPING? \o/
I’ve seen a playthrough of it and a friend of mine smashed it out in a day. It seems pretty basic in terms of customisation and the RPG elements but the combat is solid and the story was enjoyable (LotR nerd disclaimer).
Single was pretty average but buds makes most things bearable.
I’ve got it in PS3?
Looking at PC 😛
I was expecting it to follow the usual terrible in solo/good in co op that so many co op games seem to do these days.
Oh man, I love waking up to the news that Project Zomboid multiplayer is coming sooner rather than later.
http://projectzomboid.com/blog/2014/01/the-third-act-twist/
I remember vaguely hearing about it ages ago. Just refreshed my memory and it looks potentially amazing (as many Early Access games do). There’s a good chance I’ll be picking it up late in its life.
I’ve been a backer since their first PayPal issues and the amount this game has changed and improved in that time (2+ years?) is just incredible. The map is just so huge now, and death is around every corner.
Well worth picking up now (or if it ever goes on sale) for a very challenging game with lots to do. Of course you don’t want it languishing on your pile of shame, so wait til you’ve got time to properly get in to it.
I’ve had too many experiences where I jump on an Early Access game and get sick of it before the full release actually happens, so I’m trying to make myself wait before jumping on any now. I think ultimately once multi gets big on TAY (and I reckon it will) I’ll end up on there 😛
That’s fair, and I actually burned myself out of Project Zomboid (though I did do some mod-scripting in one of it’s earliest incarnations) right around when “The Theft” happened and development slowed for a few months. It was only them debuting on Steam that got me back in to things.
Similar happened with FTL, after getting in on the Kickstarter Beta I just burned out playing / bugfinding and it wasn’t until after the commercial release that I picked it up again and started playing.
But I reckon you’re right. Multi on TAY will be the way to go. 😀
I’ve started playing Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth Investigates! (or whatever order those words are supposed to be in)
It’s pretty great, but (so far) the humour isn’t quite as sharp as the main series.
I don’t think I’ve played Ace Attorney since the second one. I had such a good time, but they kept delaying releases and doing a few weird things with the series that I sort of lost momentum. Do you think it’s worth my time playing this one, or just jumping to the newest one?
Also, did you watch the movie? Any good? I’m a little sceptical because the localised humour is a major strength of the game.
Play them all! \o/
If the weird things don’t appeal to you, though, maybe it’s not for you. Because they live in weird. They own weird. And if they can keep things weird or make things weirder, that’s usually the direction they choose! 🙂
I haven’t seen the movie, but I really want to.
Deep deep down, I knew this was the correct answer.
There are story threads that continue through all the games. It definitely will benefit you to play them in order. Sorry!
Though not really sorry, because I thought they were great games!The only “Ace Attorney” that I’ve never finished 😛
Does NFS Rivals get better later on? I’m racer level 5/6 with a level 2 car that kicks everything else and stuck in the typically shitty “lul cops chas u” scenarios. I’m starting to hate the game due to the insurmountable amount of flaws, but willing to give it a chance since Most Wanted 2012 took 4 hours to get okay.
Oooh, you might be able to answer my question about Rivals! Is there any car customisation? Like re-colouring, detailing, vinyls, bodykits, etc? I keep looking around but can’t find anything!
Re-colouring is free, so is colouring wheels. Then you can purchase vinyls and full body wraps for points. That’s pretty much the extent of visual customisation.
Performance upgrades have about 5-6 classes: durability, strength, acceleration, top speed, handling. No visual upgrade here.
Then you have ‘pursuit tech’. Two slots, allows stuff like EMPs, shockwaves, turbo (to escape/ram) etc.
Also happy to give you my thoughts on the game, unbiased from my current “I’m not liking it much” opinion.
It’s more customisation than I was expecting, but still less than I was hoping 🙁 Thanks man! Do you think it’s worth picking up, or wait for a price drop do you reckon?
It’s a NFS title with cops. If you’ve played the previous entries, you’d know if you like it. It’s pretty much the same game as the 5 versions before it.
But, I think I saw it for $54-59 on special on Xbox 360 or PS3! Which is decent, since this was 1-2 weeks ago.
Short answer: no.
A friend and I played through racer mode for something to do. Pretty samey throughout. The cop modes were pretty boring, too.
Will I get hassled less by cops if I have a faster car? Or will they just launch the faster cop cars at me?
Hmm, apparently last year the guys behind the Warmest 100 got an astounding level of accuracy in their prediction for JJJ’s Hottest 100.
They’ve done it again this year – by finding votes through social media (particularly Istagram).
I’m not linking the site because if you want to spoil your Hottest 100, you can go and search for the warmest100
Still, it’s interesting that through mathematics and a large enough sample size they believe they will be getting about 70-80 songs correct.
Me thinks top 3 will be Arcade Fire, Lorde, Daft Punk (not particularly in that order).
Finished and Platinumed Tearaway over the weekend, was enjoyable if not a little too simple. Started Gravity Rush (finally) and bought Muramasa Rebirth for $16 on the January sales. Has anyone played Soul Sacrifice? Got it on PS+ but haven’t tried it yet. The Vita has so many games 😛
Edit: Really liking Gravity Rush but I’m already about a third through the game after about 2 hours
OlliOlli this weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!
Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!
oh yeah, do you know how much they’ll charge for that?
Not yet, @bluemaxima will though.
IMO don’t bother with Soul Sacrifice unless you really need a new game. Toukiden isn’t very far off and that looks to be a much better monster hunter clone than SS was.
thanks, I’m swamped with games at the moment, so if it’s nothing special I’ll probably give it a miss for now.
DARK SOULS TWOOOOOOO
Countdown: 49 days.
Five new/tweaked mechanics that we might not know about.
I learned things.
I watched it but can’t have sound on so i just saw fighting 😛
Was the commentary on the video?
Yeah. Here are the things that have changed. Memory… engage!
1. Each death takes 10% of your maximum health away (edit: forgot to mention a maximum reduction of 50%. Whoops), until you re-humanise using this game’s version of humanity.2. Spells can be aimed in first-person if you hold the catalyst two-handed. There are also consumables that restore spell charges. Sorcerer is now a viable play option.
3. Animations (like pulling levers, opening doors, backstabs, going through fog gates) no longer give you invulnerability, and can be interrupted. They can also be cancelled by the player.
4. NPCs that are killed can be temporarily revived for an exorbitant fee (so merchants can be accessed, etc)
5. A lot of equipment now has stat requirements. I’m not sure how this differs from Dark Souls, but okay!
OH CRAP… 😛 insentive not to die… i’ll be bad at that…
Sooo the pc version instead if being called “Prepare to Die” edition is now called “Prepare to Cry” edition?
From what I’ve read, I think that’s the unofficial catch-cry of this game 🙂
Only up to 50% maximum. So like Demons Souls just not as immediately harsh.
Ah fair enough… still, with my skill level that can be pretty harsh XD
Curious as to wether the lack of invulnerability frames extends to rolling? Would make a tank build the most viable if it did.
According to videos I’ve seen, there is no invulnerability when rolling. You either successfully dodge or not.
What games have you guys played this year? I realized I’ve only played one, Beyond: Two Souls. (Which I had already played before.) For some reason, I’m not in a gaming mood at all. I suspect the next thing will be Broken Age when it’s released for non-backers next week. (Thanks @greenius!) After that, it’ll probably be The Last of Us: Left Behind DLC which I’ll get with the birthday present @gutsoup gave me. (THAAAAANKS, MAN!)
What about you guys? I think Greenius has already finished five games! D:
Played ten minutes of GT6 last night – more of the same bore really. Rocksmith 2014, Ni no Kuni and Battlefield 4 make up my year so far.
No No Kuni? That’s pretty damn impressive, right there. I think I played that for 80 hours or so last year!
Oh wait. Your wording there. I’ve only played those four, not finished them.
Haha, aw man, nah the way you read it was correct. I just changed my meaning after posting for some reason. Carry on, Buble!
Finished The last of us,Pokemon, Started Lego Marvel, AssPirates, Dishonored,3dMario Land.
I played some Civ and Bravely Default.
i finished Guacamelee?
Other than that, it’s been too hot and too busy to really play a bunch of games. I’ve started Splinter Cell
What’d you think of Guacamelee?
It’s really good, got up to the final boss in a single sitting so it definitely kept my attention!
Great aesthetic too
Ummmmm, I finished Resistance 3?
It was pretty good. If only they’d made that game instead of 2 and then improved upon it. It sucks that it was so overlooked.
Apart from that, though, nothin’ really. ACIV was last year, I think, and nothing’s really taken my fancy.
I’m not gaming much. I am writing!
But that’s all gonna change with Dark Souls 2. I’m starting to feel that crazy excited hype.
ACIV, Dark Souls and Guacamelee.
Really haven’t played many games at all this year. Barely turned a console on.
I’m in a TV mood at the moment. There’s too much to watch!
The only game I’ve been playing regularly are the Streetpass games 😛 And I certainly haven’t finished any games! Playing Bayonetta on the weekend. Occasional Smash Bros Brawl as well, building hype for SSB WiiU (Pit is my character! No one can play him except for me! :P). I really need to get back into Bravely Default too, before it gets too late and I lose all interest.
EDIT: And don’t forget Wolf Among Us episode 2 next month!
Now TV, I’ve watched plenty.
Watched two whole seasons of Girls, one season of Louie and started a whole bunch of new shows like True Detective and Helix. TV? I loooove you!
Why don’t you marry it thenI’m on season four of Mad Men. Not as good as the first season was, but I’m still enjoying it (also the special edition covers look super cool – I haven’t been able to find a SE Season 1 yet though!). All the shows are starting up again in the US too so there’s heaps to watch. Not enough time! Gotta watch Helix ep 3!
You know I feel like Mad Man’s a show that only gets better. There’s a good chunk of fans who have the opposite reaction who feel it gets worse. Really cool in a way that a show can be ‘read’ in different ways… or something… *cough* film student *cough*…
I’ll get back to you on that once I’ve seen everything!
Eh, I’m bored.
Mad Men Season 1-3 spoilers (I’m only up to ep 3 in season 4)
The main reason I feel like these later (middle? :P) seasons aren’t as good as Season 1 was because I got really invested in Peggy’s rise-to-fame story. She’s getting a bit background charactery in season 4, so I’m a little disappointed. Hopefully that changes! Season 1 sorta gave me the false impression that she was the real main character 😛 But like I said, I’m still enjoying it!Smash Bros Wii U Hype!
Oh, and i finished 3 books and started two more.
I’ve played a coupla hours of Bravely Default. Uh… Hmmm… Yup.
Edit: I think I played the To the Moon minisode thing this year. That was a good use of twenty minutes.
Have finished: AssCreed 4 PIRATES!, Super Mario 3D World, Freedom Fall, Enslaved and The Banner Saga
Started/Have yet to finish from last year: Final Fantasy 8 (already finished), Castlevania something shadow something (terrible), Dark Souls (already finished).
Started a modded New Vegas. Just passed Nipton. Other games, I’ve touched a bit of my save on Football Manager 14, a little bit of Rocksmith 2014, Sid Meier’s Railroads and Batman Arkham Origins, Final Fantasy VII on my PSP, lots of Bloons 5 on my phone
Is Bloons 5 better than 4? I used to play a lot of Bloons Tower Defense 3, but Bloons TD4 was loaded with microtransactions and annoyingly nerfed super monkeys. I suspect they kept the microtransactions?
Bloons 5 is on phones? I always thought of the Bloons games as a series of flash games.
microtransactions aren’t that in your face as far as I’ve noticed. I can’t remember playing 4 but the super monkeys can get a bit overpowered but you still need a lot of them for higher levels. I picked it up on my phone because it was 99c I think otherwise I would’ve just played on browsers. The only problem is it lags a bit when there’s lots on screen. 1gb ram probably not enough on a phone
Haven’t finished anything,
But are currently hammering through Bioshock Infinite,
Far Cry 3
Grid 2
DiRT 3
Spelunky (FRAK YOU SPELUNKY!)
Terraria
and a metric shit tonne of other indies.
I have found this year i’m more compelled to put hours into indie games then i am into AAA titles… there’s just something about simple mechanics done well that i find more compelling at the moment then over elaborate huge stories, explosions etc 😛
Finished The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, Batman: Arkham City – Harley Quinn’s Revenge DLC and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Played more Shuggy, puzzle quest 2, bioshock and civ V
Stared Banner Saga, long live the queen and castle storm
I think I’ve finished 4 games so far. I’ve actually started writing them down at home so I can keep track of how I do, mostly as a curiosity.
I did this last year with a txt file on my Dropbox! But at some point during the year, it mysteriously vanished. Who knows what games I completed and then forgot about!
I do mine on Google Docs so I can access the list from my phone and just edit it when I need to.
So far I’ve finished The Walking Dead and Tearaway, started Gravity Rush last night. Also played Lone Survivor and Muramasa Rebirth for a small amount each, All Vita so far for me.
Very good start this year for me. Especially compared to last year when I was in a constant state of malaise. I barely played any games last year – I finished 13 games at the end of 2013. So far in January I’ve finished 5 games.
Tornado Outbreak*
VVVVVV – I like that the game’s website is just http://thelettervsixtim.es/ . Always useful when I want to remember the game’s spelling.
Limbo – really great game
Starhawk*
Sideway New York*
*I had started these games some time in 2013 and abandoned them. I just ended up finishing them this year.
I also have a Google doc where I write my thoughts on a game as I play it. It feels good doing it and I’m able to remember certain features I liked and didn’t like in various games. It might also be useful in December when I’m thinking about my favourite experiences of 2014.
I was going to also write my thoughts on each of the games above on TAY but I just haven’t found the time.
My pace might slow in the next few weeks though, as I pack my things, but I hope I can continue playing games again once I’ve settled in Kenya. I remember getting through puzzles in VVVVVV and Limbo and remembering why I love games – that feeling of satisfaction. Or just the uniqueness of transforming into a jet in Starhawk or merging with the wall in Sideway.
Other media is also keeping me busy. I’m always watching TV shows which seem to be getting better every week (I have constant arguments with myself about whether I like TV or games more*) I have a bunch of movies to watch too but I think I’m waiting for some of the award winning films of last year to release on blu-ray in the next few weeks.
*There was no clear winner the last time this happened 🙂
I finished the Injustice story and Batman Arkham Origins.
I started Brothers the other day, really need to finish it (perhaps tonight?). I hear it’s only about 3 hours long and I’ve put about 1.5 into it.
Don’t think I’ve started much else. I am actually going to try and change my ways though and not buy games unless I intend to actually play them. (My moneys on lasting until the first Steam sale…)
Played? I’m not too sure!
As for finished I have
• BIT.TRIP Presents Runner 2
• Broken Age Act 1
• FEZ
• Rogue Legacy
• Tomb Raider
(Well I guess is all of them + Bravely Default, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Spelunky, Rocksmith 2014, ACIV, Resogun, Don’t Starve)
– Finished ACIV.
– Played about 1/8th of Bravely Default and then have utterly lost interest (Sorry @jimu, I like everything about the game in theory but the plot & characters aren’t engaging me at all)
– Finished first ending of the first DLC episode for Muramasa Rebirth, probably won’t get the second ending as it will take too much time.
– Finished Part 1 of Broken Age (which exceeded my expectations)
– Played enough of Far Cry 3 to know I won’t finish Far Cry 3.
– Played enough of Dark Souls to realize i am awful at video games and will never be able to enjoy Dark Souls
EDIT: I feel like I’ve missed something else in here too.
Well that wouldn’t have been hard, did you like it?
I thought it was reasonable. Way too short though. And I got stuck a couple of times.
Figuring out I needed to fall through a specific hole in the clouds to get behind the dude hooked on the branch to get to the egg, for example, was utterly non-obvious to me as I assumed I needed to help the guy or knock him off somehow. And also I couldn’t figure out how to solve the riddle because I gave the peach to Curtis since I was done with the cloudy area and assumed it wasn’t useful any more. Had to consult a FAQ on that one.I started Beyond Two Souls, still prefer Heavy Rain. Though. Played & finished Need for Speed Most Wanted, Heavy Rain. Started Infamous 2 last night, seems alright so far.
Also finished Saints Row IV on PC last night. Had it since it came out, but never aspired to finish it.
How have people played so many games already this year? Its only been three weeks
I’ve been doing a bit more breeding and training in Pokémon Y. Have almost completed a fully IV/EV trained team that I’m going to take online and see how badly I can get thrashed.
I’ve also completed Gone Home and got most of the way through Mark
serrelsOf The Ninja. Might finish that up tonight.Actually I need to get my laptop serviced. Its been overheating something shocking, probably clogged full of dust, and I don’t feel confident enough to do it myself. May as well pay the professionals to do it
Sod all for me, really only played gta online. Normally when I’m hiding from relatives I game far more especially since they put me in the killing mood but the heat & humidity was so oppressive over the last 3 weeks it was all I could do to just breathe.
Serious Sam and Katawa Shoujo. What a combo! Heart-pounding action combined with an introspection about what it is like to have a crippling heart condition! They go together like jelly and ice! I have surprised myself by getting back into Super Smash Brothers Brawl.
I have been pondering the idea doing a replay of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Time. Considering how often I state that this is the best game ever of all time, I really should go back and see if it’s actually as good as I remember. It probably isn’t.
So many feels in that game, you have to stockpile willpower. I will probably have built enough willpower to attempt a playthrough by mid-March.
This year I have finished:
XCOM: Enemy Within expansion
The Banner Saga
Broken Age: Act 1
All three were very good and deeply satisfying, though Banner Saga could’ve been longer, and Broken Age SHOULD have been longer.
Next up: I don’t know! My brothers keep getting me to play Warframe and The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot with them!
I have played… Super Metroid.
Another interview this morning. I’m terrible at judging how interviews have gone. Back at my desk now drowning out the rest of the world with Anaal Nathrakh. Bliss
Who’d you interview? Joss Whedon? I bet it was Joss Whedon!
How’d you know? 😛 I’d bitch to him about not finishing Angel properly
He wanted to, dammit, the network just canned it
Haha! I heard that was his own fault! He didn’t like not knowing if they were going to get cancelled every year. The show was getting strong ratings so Joss lobbied for an early renewal. This gave the network execs too much time to think and they ended up cancelling. There’s a good chance that it would’ve gotten a late renewal if Whedon didn’t put them on the spot like that. XD
I thought it was a good ending. Not perfect, but at least fitting.
The battle that cannot be won goes on, forever. Angel will always be fighting.It’s a better place to end than the Season 6 comic series. My god that a was disappointing continuation.
Yeah, I liked how it summed up the show’s mission statement in a similar way to how Buffy finished. Just this one was a little more open ended. (Deliberately.)
I don’t like the Buffy ending that much tbh. Too cheesy although
Sunnydale disappearing was coolAngel was getting good towards the last couple of seasons. Because he was in that ‘don’t give a fuck anymore’ mood he did what he wanted to which made for some brilliant stories. Plus it chucked out my favourite episode of anything ever: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhn2cnwfr01qcgw4y.png
Also, Wesley’s transformation into utter badass later in the series was delicious.
The highlight of his entire character development for me was when
he was trawling the oceans for ‘buried at sea’ Angel every day and interrogating/torturing/keeping his former-hate-sex lover in a cage. With his eventual descent into alcoholism and maintaining a relationship (albeit resentful/detached) with the demonic creature inhabiting the shell of his possed/dead lover? The man is the definition ofdemented obsessionpurpose and drive. A true role model for everyone.Heh, Anaal. XD
The one and only band I’ve ever stage dived (a shitload of times too) to. Strange considering the variety of bands I’ve seen over the years, the only one I’ve stage dived to is a black-death metal band
If you interview me, I’ll give you feedback! 😛
soooooo Shane…how you doin?
10/10! \o/
You’re a great interview guy.
hooray XD
DARK. SOULS. TWO.
Countdown: 49 days. STILL.
HNNNNNNNGH
Dark Souls Two Achievements List!
http://www.exophase.com/game/dark-souls-2-xbox/achievements/
epicnamebro (one of the most famous Dark Souls fans/experts) is apparently writing the Dark Souls 2 Guide for Futurepress.
http://www.amazon.com/Souls-Collectors-Edition-Strategy-Guide/dp/0744015472
The guide for Dark Souls is out of print, but I don’t want to miss out on this one!
PATTY HEARST
That last cheev is pretty great.
Be a good indicator of how many people own the game compared to who has actually played it.
Was always interesting to see like 70 something percent of players of Dark Souls had the light the first bonfire achievement.
It’ll sort the very best from the merely good if you can get everything but the one for dying…
Achievements:
I can’t say for sure, because Dark Souls is Dark Souls, and acquiring a certain spell might mean forgoing one of the other achievements, but there’s nothing in the achievement list that seems to obviously indicate multiple playthroughs will be needed to platinum.Guide:
I think I’m gonna have to get this. Yep. I don’t think I’ve got a choice in the matter.Maxing out devotion. Acquiring all spells needed two playthroughs in DaS1. Who’s to say you can inherit all sets from the characters in one game?I said obviously. Like Dark Souls needing both endings. I’m sure you’re right. I hope it does take at least two playthroughs, preferably three.With all the rabid fandom happening around DS2 and subsequent resurgence in DS1 popularity, I’m getting tempted to give DS1 another shot and see if I actually end up liking the game.
I’m considering another playthrough as well. Or continuing my NG++ playthrough as far as I can.
I’m about to start a playthrough again, this time i might actually finish it 😛
Wait, Dark Souls 2 is for 360/PS3? 😮 I thought it was an Xbone/PS4 thing!
Perhaps I could be persuaded into actually trying it now 😛
Don’t be fooled.
No, it’s current/previous gen, not next/current gen! 😛
#Clarification
Yet. They’re being coy again about future possibilities.
I for one would be happy to buy it twice.
Me too! I got Demon’s Souls twice and Dark Souls twice. I’d be okay with upgrading to next-gen when the time comes.
I bought Demon’s Souls once and Dark Souls 3 times.
Guess I better start saving up for purchasing Dark Souls 2 nine times.
So it’s just been announced that Rune Factory 4 isn’t getting a PAL release…
words can not express the rage i’m feeling….
i think i’m gonna have to buy an american 3DS for it and SMTIV…
Sent home sick. Yay? May as well use the time I have to finally give Rocksmith a crack.
2 of the strings are broken.
Fuck.
As an aside @rize regarding LotR: I have nothing good to say about it. Nothing bad either. It’s just really bland. Solid, but nothing you’ll remember or care about.
Just replace the real guitar with a Guitar Hero one. They’re basically full guitars!
Did you play WitN solo or multi? Mostly looking at it as a multi-only thing.
Bit of both. Solo is just multi with AI. Played with some randoms online which didn’t really change the game much.
As for the guitar thing I got Rocksmith to see if I could actually learn to play the damned thing. Had it for years and only ever mucked around with it.
I saw a presentation of Rocksmith at (I think it was) PAX last year, and was really impressed by how it all works. It’ll still take some focus and effort to learn the guitar, but it looks like Rocksmith’ll help a tonne.
Feel better, Freeze!
Having never properly picked up a guitar before I probably shouldn’t’ve gone for lead guitar straight away. Oh well. Also, bass guitar is simpler to learn much to my girlfriend’s annoyance (it’s her bass which I picked up really quickly). I’m having troubles tremoloing though 🙁
I snapped a string on her bass once actually (quite an achievement). I was tuning it and didn’t realise I was tightening the wrong string…whoops
oh, and get better 😛
You uh snapped a string on a bass fair enough.. Please tell me you snapped the G or D string, not the E string.
I snapped a G-string once. I got slapped.
#PageSixYet?
I don’t know. Ask @strange. She’ll know what to do.
erm, can’t quite remember but it might be one of those things where I shouldn’t speak up about it 😀 hahaha sneaking suspicion it might’ve been the E string though, possibly A string… I really don’t know how I didn’t notice that the string wasn’t actually changing in pitch while I was tightening the other string. Not one of my better moments to say the least
Bass is the only guitar worth playing. Bassists are so much cooler than anyone else in a band.
You got Rocksmith? Coolio!
Lemme know how it goes.
I buy these cheap and free postage. Ernie Ball usually run at about 2-3 times that price heh.
I think I may go play Rocksmith later. Been a few weeks.
Damnit, my speakers don’t have much life left in them. My headphones crapped out on me a while ago, so I am all alone if these speakers die.
I know that feeling. My speakers got broken during a halloween party last year, but headphones snapped and all I’m left with is some crappy little USB speaker for $10 from bilo. I do have my Logitech Z5450s from back home but my mum didn’t ship the subwoofer along with the speakers so I can’t do anything with them atm 🙁
There’s an article on the front page about Dead Rising 3 having a 13GB mandatory (for online) patch. The first thought that went through my head was “Welcome to PC gaming!” 😀
Seriously though it’s going to be interesting, if this trend continues, to see how content delivery and Internet outside of Australia adjusts. I think that with a large portion of big ISPs in Australia already having things like Steam unmetered we’ve potentially got an advantage above places like the US.
They will just have to get bigger and better content delivery networks. Perhaps one for each of their major ISPs. And we don’t really have an advantage, because the CDN of our ISPs pales in comparison to Xbox Live servers.
It’s not just a case of current and potential server-side infrastructure though. One thing I see as a key factor will be how companies (particularly ISPs) respond to user expectations. Right now, a few big US ISPs are implementing limitations like data caps that affect access to (for example) the Xbox CDN, which ultimately means their content access will potentially be worse off than ours, despite their server access being better.
Yeah, it’s happened before. ISPs limit bandwidth to FB, Netflix, Hulu etc to save on total bandwidth. Or something something.
In the end, we know exactly who will get shafted. 🙂
I don’t think I have Steam unmetered on Optus. Looks like it’s time to investigate *puts on sleuthing hat*.
I don’t think Optus does, but that might have changed since I last looked.
I can say that companies under iiNet (Internode, for example) unmeter Australian content servers, and Telstra unmeters their own content servers (not sure if they do other Australian ones these days).
Telstra will find every possible way to charge you for extra bandwidth. Don’t think they run a steam mirror that’s unmetered at all 🙁
They definitely did in the past with GameArena content servers. No idea if this is still the case though.
I didn’t actually know that Steam is unmetered, you learn something new everyday. Thanks!
Some parts of steam can be. You’re best off looking for a program called steam limiter which blocks downloading off non-isp hosted servers so you SHOULD get unmetred content if its offered and if the content you want is actually on the isp server
Yeah, setting your Steam download preference is just that: a preference. You may still download somewhere other then that, based on content availability and load balancing.
Keep in mind that, unless properly configured, apps that control where Steam can download from can sometimes stop you from downloading entirely if they can’t find somewhere with the content you need.
“Welcome to PC gaming” was my first thought as well.
In a somewhat(?) related note, apparently the game has the same problem that The Witcher 2 on PC had when it was first released.
The game code doesn’t exactly allow the game to be “patched”. You are essentially downloading the entire game again with the update already applied.
Eventually though, patches will undoubtedly get to this size though. Then it will be interesting to see how that 500GB hard drive that can’t be replaced holds up. Averaging out the install size of a game at 40GB, that’s only 12 games. And that excludes the space required for OS/System updates, DLC, game saves…
I really like the idea that keeps popping up of having kiosks at EB etc that you can get any updates you need onto a USB stick for like $1 or so.
If they did that and priced it well, that shit’d take off.
Couldn’t agree more. If EB could figure a happy medium where they still get a profit without ripping people off I think they’d do it. It’s another way of getting people into their stores.
Off the top of my head, they could offer it to their customers only? Like, EB World level 2+ members can get them for $5 inc. a USB and $2 once you have the USB?
That sound’s super fair.
The big hurdle would be one person getting the update and then giving it to all of his friends. I guess you could make it like Vita games downloaded on PS3, once their copied across to a Vita they’re deleted.
Yeah, I think you’d have to.
I still remember when…a friend bought the retail DLC for Oblivion years ago (all on one disc) and discovered it was just a single exe file for each DLC. Some sharing may have occurred. Point being, give someone the chance and they’ll happily pass around paid digital content for free.
If Sony/Microsoft/Steam actually decided to work in conjunction with retailers, they could create account-linked store-based kiosks to sell digital content in pre-downloaded form like this. If the future doesn’t include some version of this, I will be genuinely surprised.
I also heard that apparently the DLC will be included in that update… isn’t that one level worse than on-disk DLC, except they have the audacity to use your monthly cap, THEN block you from using those extra gigs until you pay up?
If that’s the case, that’s… not good at all.
If you’ve ever had the
pleasure….pleasure?experience of going to both Canada and the US, you’ll probably notice one thing- everything is a hell of a lot more expensive in Canada, despite, you know, being geographically right next to the US. Crazy, I know. I’m not sure that’s how economics work, but yeah.Anyway, price of the canadian dollar dropped (it’s sitting at 90 cents) which means new games are going to be $70 because hooray. And steam is going to implement support for the Canadian dollar.. which means that canadian steam will be more expensive due to taxes. Sigh.
Not that bad, I guess. I’m not a huge console gamer (and there’s always the PS store) and PC games will still be on the whole cheaper than all hell, so I’ll probably only get hit when it comes to 3ds games (and even then, Bravely Default is the only game in the foreseeable future I’ll get for it.)
And I guess I really shouldn’t be complaining about this on a Australian forum, considering.. Australia. But hey, we can hate the US together now! I mean, who am I kidding, that’s a pastime almost every country can share, but I’m slightly more bitter towards them now!
Hahahaha!
Oh, wait, this affects me.
I made myself sad.
Why are we hating on US, how exactly are they making sure that Australians get screwed?
No clue, the original disparity in price here is pretty much Canada’s own fault as well, so specifically we’d just be mad spiteful. Spite’s great, sounds snappy, brings people together, etc.
Sounds like a plan!
I’ve said since the 90s, that if my generation ever achieves anything, it’ll be out of spite.
I just bought a tuxedo onesie and I don’t know why.
#YOLO
#SWAG
#YOLOSWAG
Animal onesie or GTFO
This is my first one lol. I need to get a pikachu one, because friends found a photo of asian dudes playing games (one in pikachu onesie) while chicks play-fight in the background. It very much looked like me.
see, I feel that due to me being asian, wearing a pokemon onesie would seem almost normal, which takes away some of the impact I’d like to see when I wear one. So I stick with my penguin onesie.
I was walking past a motel yesterday when I saw a grown adult in a leopard/cheetah onesie (complete with hood and ears) walk down the steps from their room, go to the vending machine, then walk back up.
We all struggle to fight self-destructive tendencies at one point or another. I’m sure you’ll do better next time!
I have a Batman onesie and it’s awesome. It gets me through all sorts of themes. Superheroes, onesie parties, “B” themed parties (yes this has happened twice).
Feeling super burned out on video games and pretty bummed in general right now. I forgot my golden rule and got excited for some upcoming stuff. Always a mistake. 🙁 Can’t get excited about anything any more, always ends up being shit in some way. Have to assume everything’s going to be crappy so that the times when it’s not are a surprise.
I like switching to to books when my current lot of games stop being fun!
I can see a binge on movies/TV/anime being a good alternative too.
Play something really shit for two hours, then change to something half-decent or better.
I’m pretty sure after 2 hours of Superman 64 anything else would be amazing by comparison 😛
Or you’d have lost the will to live.
I played a few hours of Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD on the weekend so already ahead of you there.
🙁
Out of curiosity, what did you get excited for?
It’s a bunch of stuff:
– Got excited for Ys Celceta, bought the silver anniversary CE. Loved the game but the CE was such a waste of money. The main draw was a 3-disc music collection that was billed as basically being a ‘best of’ collection from the whole franchise. Trouble is that the tracks were selected by someone that was deaf or something, they picked a bunch of unmemorable stuff or when they picked a memorable track, they picked the worst possible arrangement of it.
– Got excited for Bravey Default. Bought the CE and everything. Got burned out on the game pretty quickly because it’s just not very engaging, and the CE content was completely not worth it. Even the artbook, while nice, is surplus to my requirements as I have a copy of the actual JP artbook.
– Got excited for Disgaea D2, but then my CE copy never arrived in the mail and it took a whole ton of email tag and fucking around for NISA to get around to replacing it. 3 months later I finally have the game but all my interest in it was sucked out because of that experience.
– Was kind of getting excited for Conception II’s release but Atlus revealed that they’re doing it dub-only. I don’t want to play a super-niche JRPG with an american dub. I can barely stand their Persona dub and that’s one where the game was going to be big enough for them to actually have a budget for it.
– Very briefly got excited to see that Monster Monpiece is getting a localization because apparently it’s a pretty fun card game, stupid rubbing mechanic aside. But it’s digital-only and the game has been censored by wholesale removing a bunch of the characters. They say it ‘doesn’t affect the gameplay’ but I can’t see how completely removing a bunch of cards from presumably a balanced card game couldn’t affect it. Plus I refuse to buy games that are censored if I can avoid it.
Basically everything I ever get excited for in the games space turns out to underwhelm or disappoint. But apparently I can’t learn my lesson from this. I can’t think of any recent example where something I was really anticipating turned out to be exactly what I was hoping it would be. Maybe Shadow of the Colossus? I think I’d definitely need to go back into the PS2/Xbox generation. Kind of demoralizing.
Also doesn’t help that I can’t devote long periods to games a lot of the time, and the sort of games I really like require huge time investments.
Play dem VNs.
I need people to talk with ’bout VNs.
One time I was sitting on the bus to uni next to a man playing a hentai VN on his laptop.
Bald, middle aged, sweating, seemed really nervous that people would see what he was playing, but continued anyway.
Discuss.
I sat near some youngish guy on the train ages ago who was watching a video on his iPad of a woman with no clothes on, sitting on a stool under a spotlight in a dark room, and talking to someone behind the camera. The video must have been at least an hour long and I have no idea what it was.
It was so odd.
My bad- Oh, middle aged. Right.
Well, he was asian, so I suppose he could have been anywhere from the ages of 30 to 75.
Asian men actually age, I believe you’re thinking of Asian women who appear to never age until menopause delivers a dempsy roll to their fair complexion.
I used to work at a noodle shop for a Chinese dude (named ‘Frank’) who I honestly could not pick the age of. I swear he looked to be in his late twenties, but he eventually told me late forties, after having a good laugh.
Maybe I’m just really bad at guessing Asian age. (Mind you, I’m not too bad with guessing the ladies. Possibly because I pay women a lot more attention than I pay men. Like… a lot. My ‘slut’ reputation is not… entirely undeserved.)
So you’re saying it was you? 😛
To be fair I am willing to publically admit that Sengoku Rance was one of the best strategy games I’ve played.
I am willing to admit that I enjoyed it as well, though I found it a bit broken. Specifically the massive difficulty spike that seems to pop up once you’ve taken out the easier provinces and you end up in battle against Uesugi. I even found consistently beating the Tokugawa pretty hard. Especially given the turn limit you have to worry about as well. Plus during that you’re trying to get Rance’s satisfaction rating up high enough to get the 3rd command fan ASAP.
But yeah, it’s a really solid strategy game. Oddly enough the framework it has would probably make a really good free to play browser game as well, though it hurts to say that.
Did you see that one of Alicesoft’s other old games (Toushin Toshi, one of their old RPGs) is getting a remake & re-release on 3DS?
I should see if I still have the save game I had about halfway into Muv-Luv Unlimited so I can knock that one out and proceed to Alternative.
Except the problem I have is that my laptop is dying on me.
That’s a good idea, Alternative is pretty damn good. I didn’t get into Unlimited, although I still found it worth a thorough playthrough.
I was really liking Unlimited but got sidetracked and didn’t get back to it. IIRC was sidetracked by a different VN, I was playing Aiyoku no Eustia with a text hooker and automated translations, but that’s immensely slow going. It’s a slow-paced game to begin with and the translation approach makes it even harder as you need to figure out what each line is *actually* saying. Fully voiced so that helped but either way, kind of killed it for me.
Dedication. The only non-translated game I went through the trouble of sludging through was a SRW game. Had a gamefaqs open every time I’d play, heh.
I played through most of Sakura Taisen with a translation guide… Using a text hooker & machine transaltion + Mecab was paradise in comparison.
I presumed I had turned people away from VN talk entirely with my incessant, thousand-words-apiece essays on Katawa Shoujo.
Hell, I started a reply chain of Kenji quotes, where I was the only one who wrote anything.
While I haven’t played Katawa Shoujo I have played a fair number of VNs so it’s not like you’re talking another language or anything. I’m sure there are other people here who like them as well.
I think the best one I played in terms of overall game quality and how much I enjoyed it was Aoishiro back a few years ago. That one’s amazingly high-budget. Characters have animated mouth movements in sync with the voice acting. And the game’s fully voiced.
Depending on whether you class it as a VN or not (I’d argue it is, though with an adventure game element and obviously not a galge so different to what most people think of VNs being) I also thought Corpse Party was fantastic.
For me the main issue is they tend to be a bit of a passive thing. Sit and read. So they eat into time I would spend doing passive things i.e. not gaming. So I’ve accumulated a big list of them that I want to play at some point. Top of my list aside from the Muv-Luv games IIRC was Saya no Uta but I hear that’s creepy as fuck so have been holding off.
The fact that it’s a passive thing is why I think it works so well as a VN. If Katawa Shoujo were a book, I’d say it would be a good read. But the fact that it was a VN helped it so much. As a book, it would lose the awesome soundtrack- that repeats constantly and yet is somehow never annoying and incredibly catchy – just to name one thing. The fact that you can see the characters and their reactions to the world around them just strengthened the narrative as a whole. There are a few scenes which are perfect for a visual novel. Mild spoilers follow. Not really a spoiler, but it might not be as incredibly hilarious if I tell you rather than you experiencing it yourself. I suppose a bit of the humour comes from it being so unexpected.
Of the top of my head, I can think of the Lilly vs Shizune argument.Basically, Lilly is blind and Shizune is deaf. They can only communicate through Misha, the translator. It’s basically an argument between the two. The perfect thing about it is that it is stated that Misha has a very upbeat and cheer tone throughout. You are presented with a ridiculous splash art of Lilly and Shizune glaring at each other, with lightning strikes in the background. I’d link an image to you, but the Google image search places higher priority on rule 34 that cannot be unseen over the actual image I want. All the while, this music is blasting in your ears. It’s a sight to behold.
I think it works as well as it does because it’s a visual novel rather than a book. I like books to begin with, so win win for me.
tl:dr I consider visual novels to be extensions of books, something to enhance the same experience. When it comes down to it, the main reason I prefer books over movies for the most part is the writing and the inner monologue of the main character. Both things are done really well in Katawa Shoujo.
oh OH OH @rize,
forgot to mention i now (finally) have Garry’s mod… We should probably give that slender mod a try
“Garry’s Mod has been available on Valve’s content delivery service, Steam, since November 29, 2006”
Just making sure you understand how horribly slow you are 😛
Also, yes, yes we should, among other modes.
cc @f4ction, @mythamphetamine, uuhh…crap, who else played it?
Horribly slow? HORRIBLY SLOW?
yeah… you’re right 😛
http://simpsonsscreenshots.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/somethingwassaid.png
Alright, I vote for a play date in say… … late February. Who’s with me?
Let me check my calendar
*flips through calendar very elaborately*
yep, yeeeep, i think i may have a free slot there sometime late feb
I’m in Sydney then!
I’m sure there’ll be other playdates though.
For some reason I want to throw myself back into the ME3 multiplayer after I’ve finished my Soldier ME3 playthrough last night, making a start on my Sentinel one now.
Anyone else feel up to ME3 PC multi at some point?
That game is seriously like crack to me, especially if playing with friends cause it also means little to no lag. If we can get 2 more I’m keen!
Yeah I want to play all the classes and characters now, not just the non-humans just so I can say I’ve used them all, why the hell do I feel like this?! 😛
Let January 21st 2014 be known as the day Techy followed in the footsteps of Pinocchio and became a real boy!
I was and always will be a real machine! 🙂
I’ve promoted at least 10 characters to the galaxy at war on the 360 and still have never unlocked a krogan much less any of the newer characters
Well I have the pc version but haven’t played mp so I’d still be at level 1 on it. Played a good chunk of it on 360 though so I’d at least have half an idea what I’d be doing
Doesn’t matter much, as long as you’re a decent shot with the mouse and keyboard, everything else is just hilarious shenanigans when you tag up with us. Like @rize’s biotic chaos, pulling and throwing everything around the map which ends in everyone trying to concentrate while laughing so hard.
Sometimes I feel like a jerk when doing that. Then I cast Lash and everything is hilarious all over again 😀
I’ll never forget when I was walking towards an ammo crate and I see a husk wizz past my screen right in front of me at 200km/h
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been playing as a vanguard, done a biotic charge all ready to blow someone’s head off with a shotgun only to have someone shockwave my target away just before I get there and leave me standing there feeling foolish
Not gaming related, sure, but my son is turning 1 this March and my wife and I need some ideas for his first birthday party. What are some things people here have done for their child’s first birthday?
For my first birthday, my mum made me a cake with so much food colouring in the icing that I threw up blue everywhere.
Do that.
Sure, that can be done. What about venue? I was more after venue.
The zoo! They’ve got Colobus Monkeys!
Oh I didn’t realise people went places for first birthdays 😛 Always been a casual home thing in my experience.
Release seventeen Colobus Monkeys in your back yard! Fun for everyone!
Encarta 95 tells me these are native to Africa. Import charges might be high.
Just go buy some wicker baskets from the market. There’s sure to be some smuggled away in there. What could go wrong? (Probably shouldn’t watch that movie Outbreak, btw.)
A friend of mine threw a 1st birthday for his son, just invited over a ton of people and put out a big pile of spiced meat, beans, sauces, fillings etc. and did make-your-own burritos. Worked pretty well.
Mexican feast. I like it.
you’ve given me ideas for Australia Day 😀 hahaha pulled pork and mexican chicken 🙂
isn’t the first birthday more for the parents? Anyway, park bbq? Scary clown ‘entertainer’? Colobus monkeys?
Also, congrats on making it through one year. Now imagine it when he starts to talk back at you 😛
Haha thanks. Yeah I heard that it’s make or break within the first six months.
I never bothered with a party for my kids when they were that young. Both times I took them to a zoo which seemed to work out nicely.
I guess if you were having a party at your place you could hire a jumping castle though.
My son really enjoyed the Jolly Jumper for a time and would likely love a jumpy castle.
As would I.
This is what we did for my kids:
Small gathering of family and a couple of kids at our place. Assortment of food, more for the adults: sausage rolls, sandwiches, etc.
Sit the kid in the middle of the party when it’s cake time, and give them a go at blowing out the candle (most kids will probably try to touch the fire though, so be careful :P). If they spit all over the cake, people won’t eat it, which means more food for you.
My wife used cake moulds and spent hours constructing a duck-shaped cake with coconut feathers in the icing, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it if you’re time poor (also it’s upsetting chopping up ducks in front of children)
It doesn’t have to go for long, especially if it’s mostly adults. 90 minutes is plenty. Anything over two hours is pushing it.
My daughter doesn’t remember her first birthday party at all, but she loves looking at photos of it. We’re very pleased we went to a bit of effort.
Thanks for the tip about the candles. 😀 I laughed.
Videos of this sort of thing are pretty fun to watch years down the track.
The best bit about watching my first birthday video was every time the video camera panned to my great grandmother, she would pause as if posing for a photo. I don’t think she knew what a video camera was haha
Our video has our daughter reaching for the candle and my wife blowing it out just in time, to a chorus of relieved laughter. Then we have her getting distracted by the phone and a tiny hand taking advantage of that, and starting to pluck the feathers one by one out of the duck cake. I didn’t intervene because I had the camera, and memories are precious. 😛
I now have a haircut where my fringe is not covering my eyes and blinding me again. I also have US dollars for spending on pretzels and things on the weekend. \o/
PRETZELS! \o/
Fringe! I miss that show! 😛
Save it for Page 6! 😛
Yay Fringe!
Actually, if you like Fringe, I’ll let you know when my copy of The Strange (@strange!) arrives, and if we’re going to do another online campaign. Fringe is explicitly one of their inspirations for the Earth faction.
Looks way too complicated. I struggle with board games/card games/etc. I’m too stupid to understand them. (Just ask @freezespreston or @sughly, whenever we have a boardgame meat I stop almost immediately.) Can’t even do the basic math in my head required for D&D. Too stressed out about having to socialize at the same time. XD
Numenera is dead simple, and The Strange is built on the same system- as long as you can count to three you’ll be fine.
Actually, I’m considering livestreaming a Numenera session we do at some point (with the group’s permission)
1… 2… uh… 7?
Close enough.
YOU ARE MY FAVOURITE THING, PETER!
Sad face.
Man, I really need to buy S4&5 of that.
These pretzels are making me thirsty
Ha ha, I wonder how the egg (your TAY avatar) would look with a fringe?
http://tinyurl.com/7ub85ey
that’s all kinds of Wut?
FINALLY, a moustache i can grow
$10 if you do.
Make that $20 and we are onto something
You’re signing up for the next Shave for a Cure, and this is going to happen.
…
…
*runs away, hides in the bushes*
but my manly mane!
It’s taken me months of doing nothing to achieve this
*flicks hair*
An egg with a moustache?
http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111128055249/marvel_dc/images/9/9d/Egg_Fu_Earth-One_001.jpg
AKA Wonder Woman’s most racist villain ever.
Got a place lined up, applied for a job at Dubbo zoo, told the removalists that we want them to take our stuff, got the ball rolling with TPG to transfer the internet to the new place and shoved more possessions into boxes.
Oh and Gurpgork killed Quelaag and rang the second bell.
Today have been somewhat productive and it’s only 4pm. This is very unlike me.
Zoo!
Also, once you get your webonets, I will hold you to that “teach me Netrunner online” thingo
That may be some time and Aleph can tell you that the UI for that program is super unfriendly.
Sooooo anybody vote in Triple J’s hottest 100?
My top ten are below. Purely voted for what was stuck in my head the longest last year.
Pyramid – Wolf
Touch Sensitive – Pizza Guy
Chvrches – Recover
Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know?
Disclosure – Defeated No More {Ft. Ed Macfarlane}
Owl Eyes – Nightswim
A$AP Rocky – Wild For The Night (voted for this because it makes me laugh)
Daft Punk – Giorgio By Moroder
Empire Of The Sun – Alive
Gesaffelstein – Pursuit
From what i remember, i voted for:
Kanye West – Black Skinhead
Arctic monkeys – Do i wanna know?
Childish Gambino – 3005
Spiderbait – It’s Beautiful
Stonefield – Love you deserve
i cant remember the rest
edit: of course, i also voted for Get Lucky!
I know Daft Punk.
I’ve heard people on here talk about Chvrches.
The rest I’ve never heard of.
Arctic Monkeys had one of the four new albums I listened to last year.
And Empire of the Sun used to play at the sort of gigs I went to many years ago, so I vaguely know them.
Haven’t listened to Arctic Monkeys since Favourite Worst Nightmare.
They have a different sound compared to Favourite Worst Nightmare. I still think its a pretty solid album.
Heh, I was probably been one of those people talking about chvrches.
…I’ll remove myself from your lawn then 🙁
I’d heard of daft punk and arctic monkeys. And they both suck
What’s wrong with Daft Punk? i like their new album :\
I think I remember Arctic Monkeys was being listened to by some hipster chicks I was seeing like… five or six years ago, and I remember a couple years after that every time I woke up drunk on someone’s floor Empire of the Sun was always playing on whatever music TV channel was on, and I’m honestly surprised Daft Punk didn’t leave Earth for the Mothership, having completed their mission in the 90s/00s, but instead stuck around making more music. Who’da thunk it?
[Edit for good taste and decorum.]
I feel like you need a good ‘ol fashion slut shaming.
*insert slut shaming here*
Carry on. 😛
Hm, good point… Behaviour (and comment) modified. The system of social pressure works!
I don’t get it. First you were banging her and now you were just looking at her. Which was it?
Well. Colloquial looking is a bit more lewd.
…But that aside, Both! Doing it in the dark can sometimes be a terrible waste.
Was mostly joking, man. You a good guy and any one who knows you can see that!Sorry man. Didn’t mean to insult you. Wasn’t supposed to be one.
All good! I thought it was good-natured teasing enough.
I’ve been the amiable butt of that particular joke among my brother’s circle of friends for years. 🙂
Reap what you sow, and all that.
Now now, just because you’re jealous doesn’t mean you have to resort to insults.
Aw, only used that word cause he did earlier up the page. Thought it’d be a funny running joke.
Note to self: Stop trying to be funny. XD
Aw man. Note to self: Also stop trying to be funny. I am a monster. 🙁
I thought @dc was making a gag, based on the general trend of ‘slut-shaming’ to target women, thus ‘flipping it’.
Although despite being in a committed relationship for a couple years now, my middle brother and his circle of friends are still fond of calling me a he-slut. I think they kind of miss having someone to label like that. Which, y’know… I feel for them; it’s gotta be like losing a sitcom character. But it’s not a role I can step into anymore, so. They’ll adjust eventually.
Ironically Daft Punk have a song called Mothership on their latest album.
I don’t think I could name 10 songs that came out this year
What about those instant classics like ‘what does the fox say’ and Miley Cyrus” wrecking ball’….ugh I feel dirty just typing those..
Oh that fox thing is a song.. I thought the internet had been doing crack again and was going nuts.
So did I until I heard it on the radio.
The face palm nearly snapped my neck.
Hey I’ve heard of both of those. But seriously I don’t think I could name 10.
Was Katy Perry’s – Roar this year. My 3 year old niece sings that one
ok brb, I’ll check out warmest 100 and see
Wow, I don’t think I know any songs on there other than
Get LuckyWell it is triple j’s hottest 100, nearly all the songs get decent air time on there so if you don’t listen to the station it’s understandable.
As for Katie Perry… I’m not sure. Last I heard she was kissing girls and was quite find of it.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/tis/tpsr/41956-top-ten-worst-hit-songs-of-2013
Wow, Triple J’s Hottest 100 has changed. I have Volume 4 from waaay back in 1996.
I know nearly all those except #8! \o/
Haha yeah, same. I knew most of the songs on Volume 5 (1997) also.
*know
Ballad of the skeletons is an odd son but I enjoy it
Said the Presidential Skeleton, I won’t sign the bill
Said the Speaker skeleton, Yes you will
From around the early/mid 2000s it became a victim of it’s own success. That was when it become popular and people who never listened to JJJ started voting. So it became a huge mishmash of pop and indie songs. Was always there but eventually it overbalanced the station listeners.
Ugh, super sleep-in. And everything hurts.
Is this why I get TAY notifications from you at 2:50am!? Sleep better!
I will, just let me finish reading these things first 😛
That’s usually when I head back from gym and whip up a protein shake to have while watching web-toons or reading TAY or whatever, too! Is a good time of morning.
The gym a ghost town at that time of day? I go around 7am-ish. Always the before work crowd using the cardio stuff mostly. Weight sections are empty. (I imagine that’s a post-work thing for most people. No one wants to go into work broken and busted. XD)
Pretty much, I have the run of the place from 2am on. There’s one guy who I think gets there at 1am and goes an hour or so, usually see him on his way out.
I never sleep in anymore, it does more harm than good for me…
My problem is that I don’t usually have much of a choice in sleeping in. I wake for a brief moment, but it’s only long enough to see what time it is (if that) and then the next thing I know it’s an hour or two later and I’m waking up again. Then it might chain and keep going.
Put your phone/alarm out of reach so you’re forced to stand up!
That was always my tactic, musical alarm on my media PC on the other side of the room. In order to stop it blaring Diablo’s The Preacher at rather high volume, I’d have to turn the TV on, get up, cross the room and click stop.
Of course I only did that after the song stopped because it’s fucking awesome. Scares the shit out of you when it starts and then converts that fear into headbanging energy.
Back in uni, I got to the point where I was able to sleep through my alarm (the clock radio), it just wouldn’t wake me at all. Then I discovered the alarm on the DS is actually really good at waking me up, the sound it makes is great at penetrating through the barrier of sleep. Except then I started to just reach over and turn it off the moment it went off. So naturally, I took that old advice of placing it across the room so I’d have to get up to turn it off.
Without word of a lie, before long I had learnt how to slide out of bed, crawl across the floor, turn off the alarm, slither back into bed and go back to sleep. All the while hardly even waking up at all, must’ve been running on absolute bare essentials to the point where I think I might have even done it a couple of times in my sleep.
Holy damn, how I envy you. I got home from Big Day Out yesterday at 2am. Decided to skip the gym on Monday morning cause I figured standing around BDO all day was as good as any leg day. I leave my phone in the kitchen. The alarm wakes me up from across the house after I forget to turn it off. I’m an incredibly light sleeper. Usually can’t return to sleep after waking up too.
It’s the best thing I learnt from uni. How to sleep anywhere 😛 Especially how to nap on a train, dozing off enough to recharge the batteries but still remain vaguely aware of what’s going on around me and be able to get off at the right stop.
Randomly toss 3 thumbtacks between you and the alarm right before you sleep, you’ll know they’re there but not where, the paranoia might wake you up
After a while, your body adjusts. You learn to get up, pick it up, turn it off, and go back to bed without truly waking up.
Starting Dark Souls again.
Send help.
I’ve dispatched some Taurus Demon to make you turn back until you come to your senses!
Pfft. They’re easy.
You are!
Only for you.
I think the traditional plea is “I’m in trouble, please recommend this message”
So it’s @gorzilla’s birthday today.
He’s sleeping through it.
Happy birthday, man! Hope the year treats you good and proper!
Happy birthday Gorzy!
Happy birthday Godzilla! 😀
Bappy Hirthday @gorzilla
I hope somebody builds a lego or block city for you to destroy
Think you all! (I’m awake now!)
@aliasalpha
Daft Punk sucks? Huh, that’s your opinion, I guess, and you’re entitled to it
YOU TAKE THAT BACK OR I’LL CUT YOU. I’LL DO IT, I WILL CUT YOUAt least there’ll be some sort of metal then! A blessed relief from all that tedious electronic shite
man, it’s like people have different tastes in music or something
I know, when will they learn that they’re wrong to disagree with me?
DON’T MAKE ME COME OVER TO… TO… WHEREVER THE FUCK YOU ARE WITH MY STEREO
It’s wagga and I reckon my stereo would have a fair chance of overpowering anything portable you’d bring.
The worst part is I could imagine this escalating until it comes to a contest of volume, it’d turn into one of those “you got chocolate in my peanut butter/well you got peanut butter in my chocolate” situations and we’d accidently invent something bizarrely awesome.
Act one of this: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/279/auto-show is the ultimate end point.
I’ve written up a thing about the Dark Souls café. http://wp.me/p4dfx7-O
Insert tags for Freeze, Strange, Nob, Shane, Pixel, Crackalackins, I dunno Serrels maybe, uhh whoever else I’ve forgotten…
That avocado steak looks DELICIOUS!
God I hope it’s still open when I get there.
Did you steal me a menu?
From memory it’s only staying open until April or so, at which point it goes back to bring the Oz Café. And I’m afraid not, it would have been a bit hard to smuggle out. If anything I got from there is still in decent knick when I get home I’ll try and give it out to you lot though.
Wow, awesome 😀
Pre ordered Watch Dogs on the PS4 the other day, not sure if I am going to regret this decision or not..
I think it’ll be pretty great.
All these open world games, though. I’m looking forward to a nice, focused story game like Uncharted or The Last of Us. Maybe The Order will fill that void?
it’s my fault dc I love open world games and gave them all my money so they keep making them 😛
Haha! It’s mostly okay, just make sure you tell ’em to make a Red Dead Redemption 2 and we’ll be all good in the hood. Can’t wait for inFamous: Second Son too!
I hope so, I really like open world games.
I think the interesting early trend with ‘next-gen’ games is the asynchronous multiplayer stuff they’re adding. The seamless drop-in, drop-out, matchmaking behind the scenes stuff that we saw prototyped in Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls and Journey seems to be coming in in a big way this year.
Hopefully all the delays mean it’ll be nicely polished by the time we get our hands on it.
Edit: I used to be incredibly impatient with games but now I don’t mind how long they take if it means we get a better product in the end. *glares at Battlefield 4*
I try to avoid preordering now. It gives publishers the wrong idea. 😛
(Edit: Especially when the exclusive preorder bonuses are available as DLC six months later.)
Was just the normal edition. Not really wanting to spend 130 or 150 bucks on the game tbh.
This is currently top on Reddit.
Wow.
Well that was certainly something
I also made the connection that this was the video linked here http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-260/comment-page-4/#comment-2364067
“Tru”TV. Lovely. Don’t you love it when reality shows have a script?
I just realised I wore my tights inside out the whole day.
Ah, we’ve all been there!
…
Well, I haven’t. But solidarity! WOOOO!
AREN’T YOU SPECIAL
DC is just trying to cover up the fact he likes to wear tights & yoga pants.
That’s what the doctors told me.
How unseemly.
Oh wait, this is page 5. Nevermind, carry on.
hahah a couple of weeks ago, I got home and realized I had my boxers on backwards.
Wore my shirt inside out last week for the whole day. There’s photographic evidence, since I’m doing the photo a day for a year thingy. January 16. XD
You seem to smile more when you don’t have a beard. #UnrelatedNote #HashTagsForHarli
The smile is hiding the pain of not having a beard.
Lots to smile about this week, though. Birthday. Dinner with pals. BDO. Post-BDO highs.I think I’ve shaved my beard completely off maybe 4 times in the last 12-13 years. The first time was for a girl (I was young, it didn’t help me get her 🙁 ) and the others times recently to look kind of respectable for job interviews. No idea why beards are suddenly in fashion again though
Judging by the photos on Facebook of my teenage cousins you should be taking photos of yourself with your eyes wide open and your tongue poking out.
Am I doing it right?
Also, holy crap at the URL. So very close to ‘Kotaku’, dammit.Unrelated: that blue streak is pretty kickass.
You’ve brought this upon yourself.
Did you get the idea from Rae Johnston, or is this a thing lots of people are doing this year?
Inside out shirts aren’t so bad though. My old best friend’s brother used to wear his shirts inside out every day deliberately. He was a bit of a wanker though
I don’t know who Rae Johnston is, but definitely have seen it done in the past before and thought it’d be cool. Lots of videos on YouTube and the like. Also thinking of growing my hair longer and my beard longer and wanted to track progress. 😀
I did something similar to that last year, took a picture that represented something of that day. Friend of mine did the same thing for about 3 years, she stopped this year though 🙁
It’s kind of scary in a way. Seeing aging in action and all that. I can’t blame people for not wanting to do it long haul.
Did you do any thing special with the pictures?
I used Instagram, stored them chronological and all that jazz. Don’t think I have any on my phone still though lol.
heh I should probably do something like that to see how much more I can grow my hair this year!
Does wearing tights inside out really matter though? It’s not the most obvious thing ever.
Jeez. What is this, amateur hour? Ugh.
Any Melbourne TAYbies miss out on the Bravely Default CE and want the figure from it? I have no space for it and even if I did, I have too many others which are better quality so I don’t want to keep it. Thought I’d offer it to anyone that wants it before I just turf the thing.
EDIT: I actually have a whole pile of other anime figures I may be attempting to divest myself of in the near future. Many opened, some still in boxes. Want to cut down a bit on the collection.
I might take it for gorzy?
Sure, if he wants it and you can get it to him. I can pass it over the next time we have a meat. It’s kind of heavy though FYI since it’s made of polystone or something instead of PVC.
I can hold onto it until pax
Selling your some of your collections D:
Any scales? You has Alter K-On Yui?
I have the entire K-On band from Alter and an extra Mio from Max Factory that dials the cute up to 11. The Alter ones are okay (the most impressive element is the quality of the instruments esp. Ritsu’s drum kit) but that Mio is incredible.
My collection is here btw:
http://myfigurecollection.net/collection/Negs
Haven’t decided what to keep and what not to keep overall but there’s some that I definitely wouldn’t get rid of. GSC Ultimate Madoka, Momohime, Fate/Zero Saber with the bike, GSC Ryougi Shiki, GSC’s Nanoha Excelion and Fate Sonic Form and the Alter Nanoha A’s Fate as well. Probably the Alvis and Lavie Last Exile ones would be keepers as well, since I love Range Murata and they capture his style so nicely, but those arrived just before I moved house last year and I barely had a chance to look at them before boxing them up and into storage. The resin Ryofu Hosen from I think Orchid Seed is another one I’d definitely keep as it was the first figure I ever imported and the second I ever purchased (the first was the Kotobukiya Asuka from Evangelion which I picked up randomly in an EB Games branch that had just opened in about 2003). There’s probably a few others in the collection I’d not want to part with but the bulk of them I’d get rid of for the right offer. Even some of the Nendoroids.
Something I know I want to get rid of is the set of five Madoka Magica figures from GSC. Ultimate Madoka is a keeper but the rest of them I never even got out of their boxes and so they’re basically all mint and in box and I don’t really want them. Also have the Figma set and the same applies. I got lured in by the proposition of a whole set and in retrospect they weren’t amazing figures, though passable. The Ultimate Madoka is another thing entirely though, that figure is incredible.
Ah yeah, I’ve got you on my friends on mfc 😀
Godoka is awesome, I’ve still got her in the box awaiting for a time when I have space to display her. I shouldn’t really be buying more figures but I would be interested in GSC Mami, Alter Yui and maybe GSC Mayoi. Besides Persona, I don’t really collect all characters from each series, just my favourites, but maybe when I move I might get all the Madoka Magica scales.
Just hit me up when you’re ready to sell any of them and I shall gather some funds 🙂
@dkzeitgeist Ok. Well. So I went into it thinking that we weren’t going to end up talking at all. As in, talking. And I was completely right in thinking that.
But now there is probably even greater need of it.
*grabs popcorn, settles into seat’s ass groove*
Man, just give her a ring.
I MEAN CALL HER!
CALL HER!!!
NOT AN ENGAGEMENT RING! I REPEAT!
CALL HER ON THE TELEPHONE!!!
That sounds like an even worse idea!
Man, this weeks episode of TAYs of Our Lives took a slow turn, after the masterful Mooky episode last week. To regain ratings, I recommend you bring him back as a supporting character.
In regards to your actual problem, there is nothing I can do to help you. You know what they say:
“When you have dug yourself into a hole, dig up, stupid.”
I don’t know who says that. Somebody probably does. Probably crazy people.
Well it wasn’t supposed to be all that slow. There was just pressure from the network, saying we couldn’t put that kind of stuff in such a timeslot so all the nitty-gritty had to get cut 😛
Sydney based TAY peoples!
I need to get rid of some things before I move.
This fine selection of Nerf guns is available to the first person that wants to drop by and shove any amount of money they deem fair in my hand.
I’m also getting rid of DVD copes of Wall-E, Cars, Back to the Future 1, 2 & 3, The Green Mile, The Incredibles, The Lion King, Monsters Inc, Ratatouille, This is Spinal Tap, Toy Story 1 & 2 and Up.
Why am I getting rid of them? Because I’ve replaced all of them with the BluRay version (except Green Mile, which I bought twice by accident). They’re free to whoever wants to pick them up or will take them off of me at whatever goodbye meat happens to happen this weekend.
Arrrrgh! Can’t wait to see Boyhood! Was shot over 12 years and is about a family over the school life of their child. Actors age in real time, with scenes shot once a year. Looks amazing!
http://collider.com/boyhood-review/
@dkzeitgeist, @sughly: We should totally see it when it opens here. Invitation is also open to any one who promises not to call it a hipster movie. 😛
Also, if you two want to see Her any time this week, I’m keeeeen!
Of course, that’s easy
…
*starts fidgeting*
uhhh, ahhh, so how about that weather
*starts sweating heavily*
OH GOD I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!
HIPSTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVIE!!!!!!!!
…
totally worth it.
To be brutally honest, “Hipster Movie” were the first two words that went through my mind. Don’t think it’s my kind of movie. XD
I hear there’s a new Expendables movie coming out!
😛
Gonna be swoit.
Although it’s pretty cool Harrison Ford is in the cast, even if he seems like a jerk behind-the-scenes. XD
Although the first one was a trainwreck I really enjoyed the second. It knew what it was and didn’t try to be anything else. Self aware without being smug.
I’d say second was a train wreck too, but in a self-aware kind of way. Especially when Bruce Willis and Arnold swapped catch phrases. Cringe worthy, but I couldn’t look away.
Hay, I liked the first one, too!
Which one?
Check out the “Up” series. It’s not a movie but a series of documentaries that catches up with a bunch of people every so often throughout their lives. The most recent part of it was released in 2012 when they were 56.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series
I read about it yesterday, it sounds amazing.
Also, keen for Her. I can do anytime Sunday or Monday.
@sughly will probably be Hottest 100ing on Sunday so if you guys were keen for during the day on Monday, I’d be down.
Works for me, man! Even if it just ends up being the two of us!
Mondays session times at Palace Barracks:
HER (MA15+) 126′
(no free tickets)
9.40am, 12.15pm, 6.15pm, 9.00pm
Monday would be pretty good for me! Sunday I expect I’ll be quite hungover. Not going out of my way to listen to H100, because its being overrun by the youngins votes and I DONT LIKE THEM.
But will probs still listen to it and complain the whole time.
I look forward to reading your twitter feed on Sunday then! That’s always the best parts of these things!
Oh hey, in other Triple J related news, I got a call to be on their show tonight as a guest host for some recommendations I sent through. It’s only a shortlist of guests, but still, got a phone call and everything! But I think I screwed up the phone call T_T
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?
This has got to happen! Let us know if it does! You’d be a natural! 😀
Yeah, she was all impressed when she first called, commending my suggestions. But then she was like ‘whyd you pick this song?’, and I was like ‘Synths! I like synths!’. And then she was like err… we’ll get back to you
Back to Her, does 12:15 suit youse fuhllahs?
Yeah, that works for me! Palace Barracks seems to be the only place playing it too, so hope that’s alright with you guys? (Always Saving Mr. Banks or 12 Years a Slave if it doesn’t, for whatever reason.)
Yup, sounds good
@gutsoup new rick and morty uploaded on YouTube brother.
:O, i checked on monday and forgot yesterday, that’ll be my first stop when i get home.
I had it ready to go but fell asleep before I hit play /o\ I’ll have another attempt tonight.
sweet, I’m looking forward to it,
On the weekend I went and spent $130 on underwear. Threw away all my old underpants and socks (so many mismatched socks) and now everything is uniform age and quality. Feels so awesome. New socks are rad.
I’ve been meaning to do exactly that for months.
I highly encourage you to do it. Since you’re moving it is perfect timing for a New You.
I’ll be honest…not sure I should be…I’ve bought maybe 2-3 pairs of new undies since 2008. Still use the ones I brought over from England. Almost time to retire them
I’ve been meaning to buy new underpants but I can never remember what size I am and its worn off the labels of my current pairs. I don’t think the store would be happy with me if I tried various pairs on.
One day I might be motivated enough to measure myself.
Praise the Sun.
\o/
Hell no. It’s cloudy in Canberra and I love it!
Nah.
If only I could be so grossly incandescent?
There’s some really good articles on Cracked today. One about depression, one about being in Scientology. I recommend reading both of them, because they’re pretty insightful.
I’ve never much liked their “things everyone gets wrong about x” articles because it always feels like the author’s taking their own experiences and then generalising it to everyone.
“Everyone is wrong about x. This is what x is actually like. I know because I’ve experienced x.” And then I’m left shaking my head because I’ve also experienced x and my experience had been completely different.
Over time I stopped paying attention to cracked articles apart from maybe historical ones. Other than that I just look up the picture ones because I like looking at pictures rather than stoopid words 😀
But yeah, sometimes the writers are really derogatory with what they write because they’ll be damned if their opinion’s wrong
Hey all. Feels like I haven’t been on in ages, but it’s only been a week.
I went to see that King Kong musical last night. It was pretty good. The music was okay, not exactly Les Mis quality though. The King Kong puppet was really cool though.
King Kong musical?! Why is it the first time I’ve heard about this? SOMEBODIES GOT SOME EXPLAINING TO DO.
I saw adds for that, the puppet did look pretty rad, did it actually move around much or was it stationary with articulated limbs?
It moved around a bit. Was mainly just him hitting the ground, pounding his chest, roaring at the audience type stuff though.
A few weeks ago I remembered how when we had Foxtel my daughter watched a show called The Upside Down Show (kids show by The Umbilical Brothers) and thought it might be something my son would like so I showed him the first episode.
Fast forward to now and he is completely obsessed with the show. He quotes it, and uses their imaginary remote control concept constantly. And you should have seen his face when I grabbed the YouTube app for the WiiU and showed him he could watch it on the Gamepad.
The WiiU has been our greatest family purchase ever. Thanks again, @bdkiaf!
I LOVE the Upside Down show. SO MANY PUNS <3
Hearthstone is now in open beta! \o/
It says “live in North America” but “Good news everyone!” Blizzard considers Australia part of North America.
Hearthstone™ Open Beta is Here!
EDIT: Why does formatting hate me?
Might give it a try out of pure curiosity, but dunno whether I’ll like it or not.
It’s my go-to casual game at the moment.
Which turns into “just one more game” very rapidly as evident last night haha.
It’s a very polarizing game from what I’ve seen. I thought it was the most unfun hunk of shit I’ve wasted my time with in a while, basically M:TG with the soul sucked out, but other people seem to love it.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/606312-dark-souls/68376240
Er, wat.
I’m clearly playing Dark Souls wrong
I … Uh … Errm … O-Okay
*slowly backs away*
O_o
That’s all kinds of disturbing. But the answer is obviously the Undead Female Merchant. 😛
It’s payday 😀 so naturally half my pay goes on rent & loan repayments and the other half goes on what the missus wants to do this week which is go to a wedding so I have to pay for hairdressers, makeup, a dress, shoes apparently. After that I need to find somewhere that sells/hires suits for a bag of peanuts and a photo of me in a mankini.
Still, in that brief moment when I woke up, I had money
I read that as “sells hi-res suits” /o\
Also, are you expecting to find a place that sells photos of you in a mankini, or is that just wishful thinking?
I’m hoping that someone will take it as payment 😀 personally, I think they’re priceless 😛
I’d like a hi-res suit though if I could afford one. An 1080p suit might be out of my price range though 🙁
It’s all about the textures
I actually read that as hi-vis suit, which would be all sorts of something, I haven’t decided what
Oh wow. I get doing that stuff for your own wedding, but someone else’s? D:
(Edited because sounded unintentionally harsh. Maybe I should just stay off the internet for a while 😛 )
On a side note: is this the kind of stuff I’m supposed to be requesting from my husband? I feel like I’m missing opportunities, somehow. 😛
This is just for stuff for the two of us. She’s already been to the hairdressers last night and has to go back on Saturday. $500 on hair 😐 I shave my hair off so I’ve spent approximately $70 on hair clippers over the past 5 years. Women…
also, yes, I thought that was why women like to get married, so they can fleece their hubby for all they’re worth and make it up to him by not being grumpy every now and then 😛
WTF?!
I feel bad when I get my hair cut and it costs $115. :S I will never understand this.
I know. It’s making her happy though so at the end of the day it’s just money, I can always earn more of it. One day I’ll get my chance to ask her to buy something for me 😀
I’m trying to remember the last time I had a haircut, it must have been well over a decade ago. It may have even been that time when I snapped in a depressive fit and chopped most of it off because I couldn’t work a knot out. That was a far more economical haircut
hehe I haven’t had a hair cut professionally in over 15 years 😛
I know how to save them $$$s
ON HAIR!?
YOU GUYS KNOW IT GROWS OUT, RIGHT!?
I could live off the money she is spending on Hair for well over a month. XD
Since 1998 I have spent a total of $0 on haircuts 😛
Yeah. This. If it’s as a guest than it’s usually not that important and if bridal party don’t they usually pay for that? I know we did and a few other friends did.
Apparently we have to ‘make an effort’ even though I’ll be skulking in the back somewhere because I don’t know anyone. On the plus side though, free booze all night so I’ll be gaining my money back somehow
Hey @scree !
Remember how I wanted to make a Caterpie shirt for PAX? What do you think of me using fabric paint to paint a green shirt? (instead of screen printing) Do you think that would work? I figured it might give me a bit more control over the markings I need to make.
Haven’t bought anything yet, just thought I’d see if you have any insight! Thanks!
Dude i can ask my gran about it she used to fabric paint stuff all the time she was really really good.
Get her to paint you a Team Rocket shirt for PAX!
Jesse’s version. Not James’.
Fabric paint is great. I use a brand called so soft. It’s acrylic based so you can mix them, dilute them and it’s very easy to use.
Wash the shirt first, You may need several layers to get the brightness that you want.
hope this helps!
Okay, great! I’ll give it a shot then. Thanks Scree.
http://www.decoart.com/cgi-bin/Products.cgi?So-Soft_Fabric_Acrylics
These are available in Lincraft (it’s where I get mine). They’re about $4 a bottle. There is a different brand that spotlight uses but it’s about $10 a bottle as it’s imported from France. It requires less layers, but it’s really expensive. I only used it for Nova’s cosplay as the So soft wasn’t opaque enough.
Are you planning to stencil it or free hand it?
Thanks for the tip! It’s all very helpful!
I’m thinking I might try a cardboard cutout stencil. Would like to get the edges as clean as possible.
I’ll be having a test run before I do the real thing. I’ll let you know how I go!
how complex is it? I had issues with the triforce in that the paint managed to leak underneath and it was the same with Nova’s cosplay. I ended up having to go over it again with my hand.
I was going to suggest if you’re going to draw onto the shirt itself don’t draw with grey lead pencil. It doesn’t wash out very well, rather use a colour pencil. I find they’re less likely to stain and use a contrasting colour. So if it’s a light green shirt, use a dark red pencil. But test it first to make sure it comes off.
Will do! I’ve got some chalk laying around, that might work for my outlines.
Thanks for all your help Scree.
@powalen
I find chalk can be awkward to draw on. I wish you luck!
Not entirely sure what your concept is but in case it helps if you go into an arts and crafts shop you can usually find some crayon looking things (Pentel Fabric Fun dye sticks) that you can use to draw on fabric and once you iron it, it’s set.
I got my son to use some of them to draw on fabric and incorporated that fabric into a quilt I made for him and the pictures have so far survived numerous washings without even fading.
Good to know! I’ll keep an eye out.
Thanks!
EDIT: the concept is just painting the markings of a Caterpie (tan/yellow segmented front, light green circles on back) on a green shirt. Hopefully won’t be too difficult 😛
Sounds like an awesome idea. Can’t wait to see how it turns out. 😀
Spent the weekend fishing and catching spiders. Back to work again, whilst finishing games in my ps3 backlog!
If you’re using a fishing rod to capture Spiders, i salute you.
I never want to go swimming in Spider Lake.
I’m always in favour of people being punished for their crimes and my general response to people who complain about being busted for speeding etc. is “don’t speed” and so forth, but in the face of a $169 fine we received last night from the Office of State Revenue I find it hard to remain stalwart. For starters, they’ve issued a final notice with a threat that they can rescind my wife’s licence, seize her possessions etc. in relation to an infringement that allegedly occurred in mid-December and this is the first we’ve heard of it. Looking up parking fines on the OSR website we should have received at least two notifications/reminders before getting to the final notice death threat stage, and I’m a little bit pissed off about that.
Secondly, you’re supposed to be able to look up a photo of the infringement on the OSR website and when we do it says there’s no photo available. I guess this is a technicality more than anything else, but my wife asserts that the signage in the area she parked is unclear and while she concedes it is possible she may have parked in a loading zone but also that the signage in the area is poorly positioned and misleading, so she can’t be sure. If they had provided some photographic evidence that she parked in a loading zone, we would be in a better position to concede/dispute.
So, anyone had experience investigating/disputing parking tickets in NSW?
If the police are supposed to provide photographic evidence as part of the normal procedure for issuing a fine and they haven’t, I think that’s the kind of thing you can appeal against. I’m not too sure though so ask someone else (ideally with legal background) before you do such a thing, but I’ve read that a fine can be dropped if the right procedure hasn’t been followed
Well the infringement notice told us we could view the photos, then when we went to the website and looked up the details it said there was no photo available, which I think is kind of crap. I don’t think it’s something worth her going to court over, so I guess I’m hoping we can make it go away with some angry phone calls.
Don’t you know, you’re guilty until proven innocent! Die, scum!
I’ve disputed many, many parking tickets.
If they don’t have a photo they usually let you off if you send them a letter explaining the situation. The amount of time they’d waste if they investigated every claim would be insane. Plus it being your first offence, if I’m remembering you got your first car recently?, you should be able to get it withdrawn.
Best of luck!
Thanks for the advice. My wife is going to call today and try and chew them out for not sending the initial infringement notice and ask them to provide a photo. She has terrible anxiety about talking to unknowns on the phone and can get overwhelmed easily so I don’t know how well it will go down, but hopefully she can get something from them. I guess if it’s too much for her she can give me authority to speak on her behalf, or we can even go back to the place she parked and get our own pictures of the signage.
I’m not sure if NSW is the same but in QLD they need all correspondence in writing.
Usually it’ll have a date that letters need to post marked by to avoid more fees, so as long as you email or get it in the post today, you’ll be fine.
I tried calling them when the tickets first started and the people you end up talking to can’t really do anything about them.
+1 to having everything in writing.
One of my wife’s friends got a parking ticket a few years ago for parking over the top of a pedestrian crossing. The fun part was that there never was and still isn’t a crossing on the street she was on. Not sure of the specifics but she contested it and it disappeared pretty quickly.
All I can say is, if you’re both confident you’re not in the wrong, you should definitely contest it. The whole system is in no way infallible.
Well I wouldn’t say confident, but my wife remembers the occasion because she only parks on that particular street when she goes to have a piercing done or checked, which recently has been once every month or so – it’s not like she wouldn’t be able to distinguish it in her memory because she’s constantly running the risk of parking in loading zones, etc.
Certainly not in the vicinity of “parked on a pedestrian crossing that doesn’t exist” level of confidence, though.
Best of luck man.
I just got a red light infringement notice. As far as I know, I’ve never run a red light in my life and I’m a pretty careful driver. Maybe when I ran through a yellow light I might have been slightly slow or something. $405. Boom. Four hundred and five god damn dollars.
I am so damn frugal it’s ridiculous. I can’t even think of the last time I’ve spent more than a hundred dollars on myself. I’ve basically stopped drinking, I don’t go out for meals, my suit was looking a bit worn and instead of buying a new one I took it to a tailor to patch it up. I remember waking up thinking that morning that I was pretty happy with myself, and that I was actually starting to get ahead. Urgh.
Pics or it didn’t happen? Red light cameras only activate after 1sec or more, after the red light goes on. Cops can however book you for going through an orange light if you had time to stop.
I always found it hilarious that tickets get sent to your mailing address, non-registered. There is simply no guarantee that you ever received any notice, which holds up in court AFAIK.
Dark Souls is $4.99 on Xbox Live today if you haven’t got it yet for some insane reason.
That would be tempting if I thought I would ever play it for more than 5 minutes.
Then get it, you will spend longer than that trying to work out the character generation 😀
Touche.
My new place is more than 5km away from the exchange.
Fuck.
No adsl2 for you then?
give it half an hour or so for his connection to catch up to his typing and we’ll find out
No cable, possibly ADSL2+ but according to TPG, incredibly slow. This is not ideal.
I don’t understand why so much value is put on the distance to the exchange in regards to ADSL2+. I mean, it’s relevant, but 5km doesn’t mean you’ll be single-digit sync.
I was 4km+ from the exchange in Wagga (according to two ISPs) and was syncing at 20/1.5. This was on old copper, before they replaced a heap of the cabling there.
Yeah, 5km isn’t exactly much.
You say copper, what you mean is string and tin cans, its just that the string has gone rusty brown with age
It’s also less about geographical distance and more about cable run, not so much distance to the exchange as distance down the cable. If the run is good then you can get good speed far in excess of 5km, if its crap then you might be shit out of luck even within 5km
That’s better than my connection here.
I think I’m just going to have to go on an off-net plan and see what happens. The problem is that I need a Telstra phone line put in before I can do that.
It will suck though. I’ve already decided.
You must have had the best line in the country. Generally every km of cable loses about 13dB of signal strength over an average copper line, so a 4km line should have about 52db attenuation. At 52db attenuation you’d expect to be around 4.5mbit +/- 10%.
Just because the ISP estimates you’re a certain distance doesn’t mean you actually are. Sometimes the line run to your place will be direct from an exchange and really short, sometimes it’ll snake its way to you through a million side streets. Attenuation matters more than distance.
Wait, back up, they have the Internet in Dubbo? Hmmm, I always thought they would have burnt down the exchange because of it being a “house of witchcraft”.
That would explain why my new place is more than 5km from it.
Blergh. My body is incapable of sleeping in. Feeling a bit run down after Big Day Out and my body refuses to let me recuperate. What a c-word.
cunt you mean cuntDidn’t want to offend Scree. I do like that word though. I said it numerous times while drunk last Friday. That’s one of the clearest memories of the night. XD (Sorry if I offended people!)
If you have heard scree’s mum you wouldn’t be worried about offending her, that woman swears like a pirate and im from north qld. 😛
swearing AND fistbumping everyone? Someone get that man another drink sharpish
Don’t think that’ll be happening again for a little while. Atleast not to that extent.
I have a box full of broken monocles thanks to your “obscene language” on Friday night.
At some point I apparently convinced myself that you didn’t drink, so I’m still coming to terms with that 😛
Well, he never has while I’ve been there, and I think on Friday he said it was the first time in five years. So. You probably wouldn’t be far off. 🙂
*gasp*
*Monocle falls off*
Im in a crazy good mood today.
I found my watch that my nunno gave me before he past away, Getting a new battery for it today. It always made him happy when i wore it and it looks quite spiffy.
I don’t know i just woke up loving life today, I just feel like i can take on the world. Life is literally like a tampon commercial.
You feel like you can TAKE ON THE WORLD, eh?
You haven’t been drinking the water outside the ‘ol Edison place, right?
#DayoftheTentacle4lyf
Mate…
Feelin’s…
Mate…
Cut yourself and see if inoffensive blue liquid spills out of the wound.
Be careful – when Dak claimed he felt he could ‘take on the whole Empire’, an AT-AT killed him.
Summary of yesterday:
I have now been in this job for 5 years.
Ex-housemate asked me to buy him a pretty dress.
I failed to buy the pretty dress when it sold out in about 30 seconds.
That is all.
Ohhhh, nice, 5 years! I got to 7 years before they booted me aaaaaaand this is the point where I say, “shit, I’ve been out of school for 7 years and achieved nothing”.
I fear the 7 year mark since that’s the point long service starts kicking in, making it a good time to be jettisoned and save the company’s bottom line a bit.
I want to say something encouraging like “nahhhh, that doesn’t happen” but … yeahhhhh it totally does.
Join the club! o/
\o Woooooooo!
You had a job for seven years, made a shitload of new friends, and you’re pretty rad. I think that at least qualifies as a start.
Hey rize, screw you and your logic!
<3
such a asshole beavwa 😛
When I’ve been in my job 5 years the company buys me lunch. Only 3 years to go and it’ll aaaaall be worthwhile.
So lucky!
I read a tonne of lore about Warhammer last night and I ended up looking at the rules for the Warhammer Fantasy RPG. Now I want to play a game in that system…
Crap. Not again.
WFRPG uses d10s, right?
Yep. Basically it was the original game that lead into Dark Heresy so it seems decidedly rough around the edges.
On the flip side though, where Dark Heresy only has eight or so careers, WFRPG has about 50-100.
Some people are real assholes on the internet (duh.) I try and let people know about a good deal and suddenly everyone comments condescendingly just for the sake of it. ‘Price matching is not a deal, is this really a bargain’ blah blah.
Why do I even bother?
Cause that’s just the guy you are, Buble! Helpful. Now sing one of your hits!
Starry, starry night..
Felt appropriate. Plus I love that song.
Why let being an arsehole stop you from bathing in the glory and the adoration of women that being technically correct brings?
After all, technically correct is the best kind of correct.
Ozbargain? lol
Haha, yup.
You’re not lplau are you?
Ha, no, some form of ‘StickMan’. 🙂
What was the bargain? I like bargains!
I’ll admit, it’s still a bit pricey. I actually bought a different model, the ASUS Vivotab Smart for $299 just yesterday.
Okay, but is that really a bargain? I mean, you can just get a price-match, etc.
Edit: 😛
Edit 2: Please don’t hurt me.
Edit 3: NO! Put down the knife! NOOOOO!
Edit 4: *gore splash*
Haha! This guy. Truth is, I missed out on the one day Myer deal when it was $449. A few people even managed to price beat that at Officeworks by ten percent for a total of $404.
I initially posted this deal as $449 with price beat at OW! Go and read my first comment.
You just can’t win.
Must be plenty in the world of news today. Front page of the paper is Joel Parkinson got dumped by a wave while surfing recreationally and Brad Pitt got a haircut and went for a helicopter ride with Mick Doohan.
Important stuff.
Pretty sure Mick Doohan has been next door to us a few times, he’s married to our neighbours daughter, they’ve been telling us how Mick is renting his property to Brad and family for ridiculous amounts of money for a holiday, they’ve been there before and liked it so they came back.
BRAD PITT GOT A WHAT. I HAVE TO GO.
I love the whole ‘I have to go’ thing. Where are they going? What is it they’re doing? How do you ACT on the things which inspire that urge? …Yeah. I like that as a device.
#comedy
Who’s Joel Parkinson?
Freeze, how dare you mock the newspapers. This is only the most important stuff they report on, how can you be so ignorant!?
=PI’ve just checked up on news.com.au and you left out Sunrise apologising for offending strippers
I’m off to hibernate on a lonely desert island somewhere. The world’s simply to scary for me
@sernobulus
Sid decided he wanted to be fussed over while I was trying to work on your cosplay.
Sorry, there is now dog hairs on it.
PRAISE THE … dog!?
Sorry. I have to wash it anyway
That’s not acceptable at all!
Start over!
😛
Don’t even joke about it.
can’t help but think of the Simpsons “needs more dog”
I think it’s his revenge because I haven’t taken him out yet
Been watching Louie. Not sure I like the guy, especially during his stand up scenes. I do like the scripted stuff for the most part though. Just watched the Joan Rivers episode last night! AMAZING!
I’ve seen some of his stand up routines and he’s funny but I get tired of him quickly. I have no interest in his TV shows, though I have been amused by the occasional skit I occasionally get linked to on youtube.
I find him mean and cynical. (Like most comedians, really. XD)
…we’ve had this argument before.
…and he is definitely a replicant
OH MY GOD THE JOAN RIVERS EPISODE!!!
It’s so amazing.
I expect like 3 potential people to be interested in this but:
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are reteaming with David Fincher to score Gone Girl.
This movie has rapidly shot to one of my most anticipated movies of the year.
They’re crazy good at the OST thing. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Social Network had excellent music.
Funnily enough, Hand Covers Bruise from The Social Network soundtrack played not long before I read this.
Social Network OST is so good
Like Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I’ll probably buy the soundtrack without seeing the movie.
It’s a great, great movie though. Lit incredibly well. Well constructed mystery. One of those movies that feels a lot shorter than it really is.
Honestly, I’ve just never been in the right mood to watch it.
There are so many top-quality movies which are on my ‘must see’ list, but which I’m never in the mood to watch.
Mostly because I am afraid of feelings.
It’s very good, though I think I preferred the swedish ver (though I haven’t read the book)
It’s a great movie. And yeah, it doesn’t feel like 2.5hrs.
Gone Girl is being done by the exact same team (Director, DOP, Editors, Composers). Should be rad.
This is the Swedish version, right? I haven’t seen the American version, don’t really want to for fear of it ruining the original.
American one. It’s incredibly good!
Have you seen the original, though? If not you should. Actually the trilogy is awesome.
whoo, only a couple months till NIN live …. again 😀
HMMMM. I have a first-gen Android tablet in the name of Motorola Xoom. This thing is a beast, and with the custom ROM-age etc there’s been no real reason to upgrade it so far. But recently, I’ve noticed that the screen is lacking (compared to my phone), the wifi works maybe 40% of the time (current bad situation, eh), and it’s starting to lag a lot which is irritating.
Now, Sony Xperia Z Tablet pops up for $399 (I have voucher, so $340), which is $100 less than elsewhere. >fullHD screen, dust/water-proof, newest OS, tons faster…..
DO I GET IT?! Peer pressure, rescue me!
It looks pretty good, larger than I like in a tablet but then I prefer to be able to use them one handed (feel free to make up your own joke as to why), has expandable storage and unusually for sony it’s not some obscure memory device that only they make that costs $5/mb… if its within budget I’d say go for it.
Ah yeah, expandable storage is great too, Xoom has it and not many newer ones too. The sony is also insanely thin and light!!
I bought one of those for my wife for Christmas. I can’t say whether it’d be the right choice or not for you, but she loves it. From what I have seen it’s pretty nice, and it beats the other tablets that were around when I bought it.
Oh, and it’s really, really thin and light. Still amazes me.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/get-frozen-again-as-elsa-sings-let-it-go-in-25-languages
The Disney nerd in me finds this incredibly awesome. Let It Go from Frozen cycling through 25 languages.
I remember ages ago looking at a whole bunch of Disney songs done in the language that most suits the setting of the story. So a lot of the older Disney songs (Snow White, etc) were sung in German and the newer songs done in their respective languages. Whole New World from Aladdin done in Arabic was pretty awesome but my favourite bunch of songs were the soul numbers from Hercules in sung in Greek.
Frozen I’m thinking the Scandinavian languages like Norwegian and the like?
Snow big deal. Frozen was an ice movie.
You. Me. Parking lot. NOW. Fisticuffs will ensue! (That or maybe we’ll just go get Strawberry milkshakes, whatevers good for you!)
Hey man, just chill.
cool down, DC.
I thought it was pretty cool.
I think that there snowman disagreeing with that sentiment.
Needs more gifs.
It took ten minutes to load because of all the gifs. Still, I was damn awesome to listen to. You can tell that all the singers put a lot of effort into it. I expected at least one of the singers to do it half-assedly.
I am surprised by the number of people in the comments section complaining about the lack of Brazillian Portuguese language in there.
However, I am somewhat put off by the fact that “7 Sexy Things Guys Do Without Realizing It” is a related article.
PS4 most-definitely does not have the same audio sync while playing bluray films as PS3. The video is lagging behind slightly it seems. This is at least four movies now that have had the issue, the latest being Fast & Furious 6.
Here’s a thread: http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=231845
Tag @markserrels, possible news story….?
are you using the HDMI cable for the audio? I noticed with Rocksmith on the PS3 that it recommends you use external speakers otherwise the audio might start to lag so I’d assume the same would be with blu-rays.
HDMI to receiver, then HDMI again to TV. Bluray is running at 1080p 24fps. Same setup as PS3, which has no issues (the link says an old PS3 firmware may have had the issue though).
And speakers hooked into the receiver?
You should be able to adjust the audio delay per-source inside the receiver. PS4 probably has some new-fangled HDMI version that somehow introduces some minor audio lag.
Yeah, speakers hooked to receiver. I’m betting it’s a firstware problem. In any case I’m not going to adjust the lip sync of the receiver, because that will probably affect all PS4 sounds (best case) or all inputs (worst case).
Oh, it’s just a delay in BD playback? I have to admit I haven’t played any BDs on my PS4 yet, only netflix stuff, so haven’t encountered any issues yet. I imagine if it’s just BDs then it’s a software glitch that should be fixable. The current PS4 OS has a number of issues and that’s just another one for the list.
Yah, just bluray it seems…. seems.
I’ve never had this issue :S Only issue I ever had was Pulp Fiction had really laggy subtitles..
Sometimes I think watching people taking eye tests would be quite the spectacle.
#dadjokepagesix #hashtagsforharliIt’s a must-see, certainly!
I just like to see visionary entertainment.
Quite the eye-opening experience.
Eye like it.
Iris pect that.
This is getting so corny…eh?
I see what you mean.
When did you become a pupil of @shane?
If this was ever the case, I think it’s fair to say that the pupil is now the master.
Looks like.
I give your jokes 20/20
Heh, pupil.
The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.
The bar was walked into by the passive voice.
#GRAMMAR
Your pretty funny.
looking.
*shoots and leaves*
Like a tree. Yeah, I’m phoning it in.
Q: What has 2 grey legs and 2 brown legs?
A: An elephant with diarrhea
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I miss living near a Burger Urge 🙁 I still haven’t tried Mos Burger in Brisbane yet even though a lot of people rave on about it. A lot of people keep on going on about Chilliwow as well and I thought it was just ‘ok’ so I’m not in a rush to try out Mos . Has anyone in Brisbane been to Miel Container or Mighty Mighty? I’m looking for a decent burger/American place to go to. The Smoke in New Farm’s good, but I like trying new places 😀
O_O
Mos Burger is massively overrated. Tiny, expensive burgers that don’t taste particularly great.
Grill’d shits all over it.
There’s a place that serves grilled shits? I can’t see how that got approved
could I get pineapple and extra onion on that
I figured that’d be the case. The menus they have stuck on the windows don’t seem that appealing tbh
If you ever attend a Brisbane meat, we should go to MOS Burger. FOR YOOOOOU!
As long as I have funding available, even if I don’t, I’m happy for my TAY meat cherry to be popped. Doesn’t have to be Mos Burger though. @freezespreston said they serve poo 😛
Shouldn’t the Clive Palmer be filled with 1/3 literal shit and 2/3 fat?
Probably needs a large balloon filled with hot air as well.
Do you like Aussie burgers, big fat patties with everything you can think of on them, or American burgers, thin all beef patties with seasoning and simple accompaniments like pickles, onion & cheese?
Because if you like the latter you’re shit out of luck. I dislike Grill’d style “gourmet” burgers so much due to their price, insistence on jamming everything they can think of onto a burger, crusty rolls and the fact that they’re basically fish n chip shop burgers from when I was growing up.
The memories of the taste of watery mince being passed off as a burger from my childhood keep me awake at night.
If you can get to the south side check out Carolina Kitchen at Coorparaoo, chili dogs, wings, ribs etc. It’s all very American and very, very good.
I’m a massive fan of American style burgers and have found the best I can do is try to make them myself at home. I’ve got great recipes for In-n-Out and Maccas style burgers that do really well to come close.
The biggest hurdle is securing American cheese, though. But @strange tells me there’s a Costco opening soon and they’re gonna stock it and I’m gonna get sooooooo fat.
I’ve seen the costco, it is real! But it’s also out in the middle of god damn nowhere, where no-one lives.
I’ll live there soon.
In my fort built of cheese boxes.
You’ll live at Costco? Living the dream
I live in the middle of no where where no one lives! *peers out window*
Do you see it? Is it there? Look harder damn you
*lives further than dc*
peers out hole in cave into a vast barren wasteland.
*retreats back into cave*
Pretty sure we have a few taybies out that way who were totally the targets of my teasing barb. 🙂
You’ve just made the list!
They’re finally hiring for the Adelaide Costco. I can commute home past it.
This will not end well.
I like a big pattie with anything and everything. Burger Urge was my burger joint for a couple of years so that’s the style I like. But saying that, if the burger’s good it doesn’t matter about the size. As long as I’m getting value for money. I miss the American diner that was briefly next to the Alibi Room a couple of years ago as that was right next door to where I used to live. It wasn’t the greatest, but convenience lured me in
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Carolina Kitchen though including from my American friend who’s a bit of a food junkie (damned bastard doesn’t put weight on either).
I’m not so much a fan of cheese on burgers tbh. If I do I usually get some jarlsberg slices and throw them on. I can’t deal with ‘plastic’ fake cheese and cheddar just doesn’t work
Out of curiousity, now that i’ve restarted my playthrough of Dark Souls (for the god-knows-how-many’th time)
What is peoples favourite starting class?
I for some reason always gravitate towards the Knight, the heavy feel of the armor and elaborate movements i just love…He can be hard to play as though due to having to rely on blocks, parrys and good timing to get hits in as he is slow as all buggery and dodging is not very useful at all
I started as the Thief, because bonus starting gift. It was hard mode though, because he hasn’t got much armour or defence, or particularly good offence, until you can get to a merchant.
Do you tend to go Melee, ranged or Magic more then anything?
As always i go sword and board 😛
I just tend to find anything else, less interesting
I went magic in Demon’s Souls, but full melee in Dark Souls, with pyromancy as an emergency back-up option in NG.
coolies… i was thinking of messing around with faith, mainly for buffs to weapons… sort of a paladin type build i guess… also so i can use the word smite more often, because that’s a cool word… smite… I SMITE THEE
I don’t think that starting class particularly matters.
My latest character is a Bandit purely so I could have the axe they start with. It’s pretty nifty and as good as the Drake Sword when upgraded to +5 (which can be done once you get to the Undead Parish, not far past where you get the Drake Sword).
Armour isn’t much of a concern to me because I strip away everything until I can fast roll. Dodge rolling is just too damned useful.
That being said, I am relying heavily on backstabs, parries and ripostes at the moment. Mainly because it’s fun to smash people with an axe.
I can for the life of me work out the backstab… i try and try but only pull it off maybe 1 in 10 😛
Is there a particular trick? or just something you learn through failure? 😛
You have a 30 degree window centered on their back that you just have to R1. It’s really just a matter of working out where the sweetspot is and then you can do it pretty consistently.
Don’t forget you have to let go of the shield before attacking.
Can you do it when 2-handing any weapon?
That might be the mistake i’ve been making… hmmm, will have to make a note of that,
THANKS GUYS \o/
Yup, you can two hand backstab.
Try doing it with a Dragon’s Tooth (Havel’s weapon, you can find it in Anor Londo). It’s fantastic.
Ah, so yeah really just trial and error…
I tried to take out Havel last night, but couldn’t get bloody backstabs working for me… One slip up after a 10 minutes fight saw me dodging into a wall and that was the end 😛Tried a few other times after that but couldn’t get back into the groove….
I beat Havel the first time I faced him on my PS3 playthrough. True story. It took nearly 45 minutes, but he didn’t lay a finger on me. It must have been beginner’s luck, because when I tried him again on the 360 version, I died about twenty times.
i think i might try luring him to the second level because there seems to be less obstacles i can get blocked by when blindly dodging in wild panic 😛
If you actually lure him all the way back outside and down the stairs that had the flaming boulder, and let him take a swing at you, he’ll then turn around and walk slowly back inside, and you can do whatever you want to him in that time.Are you locked on to the enemy? I find that dramatically improved the chances of my getting a backstab since I could dodge an attack, roll around them till I’m at their rear flank and shiv them good and proper
Depends what I’m building towards, my personal fav would probably be the wanderer. Pretty decent stats, not bad starting weapon.
Wanderer bro!
Hm, I’m gonna have to play this game. I’ve got the PTD edition on PC, but I gave up after shitty controls and visuals put me off.
I shall try again with xbox controller and dsfix. 😀
DSFix changes EVERYTHING… and yeah, don’t try to mouse and keyboard it… it’ll be more fun falling down a flight of stairs while cutting yourself and listening to Miley Cyrus then trying to mouse and keyboard that game…
A good controller (if you don’t have a 360 controller handy, download X360ce, a 360 controller emulator)… and then be prepared to go through the emotions of excitement, humiliation, self-hatred, depression, elation and eventual ZOMG I ROCK that this game brings with it 😛
wtf reply fail
Fuck. Just cracked the screen of a customers iPad.
Fuck.
Fuck.
🙁 Aw man, sorry to hear.
Eek. What’s the procedure from here…?
Flee to a small Caribbean island and live out your days in relative comfort.
Burn down the store and when the person comes back to pick it up claim that “there was never a store here” and call them crazy.
How? Also, I’m sure you know, but it’s not your responsibility as an employee to pay for it.
Had it on the engraving pedestal when another customer came in and started being demanding and impatient. I reached around to grab something for her and the iPad slid down and hit the corner of the pedestal. It only moved a few inches and not very quick and the wood it hit was very soft but it was enough to chip the edge and of course it snaked a crack diagonally across the entire thing.
I don’t have to pay for it monetarily but there’s still the guilty awful feeling in your gut and the hit to my reputation.
Indeed (about the rep). Also ffs the screens Apple puts in are piss-weak.
Well glass in such a rigid and inflexible body it’s likely to happen.
there is repair places…but…it voids their warranty
You work in a centre yeah? Call up the customer and tell them you’re going to be later than expected (to buy you some time) then try and find a screen repair place in the centre somewhere that can fix it, explain that it’s urgent as well so they do it first.
… It was already like that…
“What iPad? I’ve never seen you before in my life!”
A legit tactic. Most places don’t give the customer any proof that they hold the customers’ possessions.
So my sister is going to Bali today for the week. My mother’s friend and her family wanted to go and she thought it would be nice if my sister went with them. I should be jealous, but I am too happy that I don’t have to interact with her for a week. I am probably a horrible person.
Depends on how old you are, i am finding that as i am getting older my older sister who i despised for being a arrogant, always right bitch has evolved into a generous, kind hearted well meaning person. Im pretty sure she didnt change and i did. She is one of my best friends now. Sisters can be hard to deal with, they can be horrible and so mean. But i love mine.
Similar thing happened with me and my brother.
I actually… dare I say it… like him now that we don’t have to live together 😛
It’s surprising how much not-living-with-someone can do for a relationship. 🙂
The inverse usually true, too. Living with someone is a great way to ruin a friendship. With certain uncommon exceptions (@benj).
Is that Oliver and I? 😛 Yeah, I hate not being around him!
It’s finally happened. After starting in 2009 I have finally completed Bioshock. Amazing game and I thought it ended well.
However I now have a dilemma. I need a new Shooty McFace game and I’m not sure which game I should play. I could go with another series and start at the older games or I could just skip ones in the pile and play the most recent game.
Games series
Farcry 2, Farcry 3, Farcry 3: Blood dragon
Hitman blood money, Hitman 2, Hitman Absolution
Sequels to play
BioShock 2
Crysis Warhead
Call of Juarez Gunslinger
Metro last light (or replay 2033 again before hand)
Single games
Bulletstorm
Medal of honor
I also have Deus Ex and dishonored but think they are a different style of game to Shooty McFace kind of games.
What does the tay hivemind think I should play and why?
I jumped straight into Far Cry 3 without issue.
Medal of Honor is enjoyable enough, you can knock it over in a couple of sessions
You said sShooty mcface. Bulletstorm is excellent in that regard. I beat it in about 4 sessions while postponing final-year university assessment – it’s that good.
Bulletstorm is good fun (some of the humour gets tired late-game) but it’s worth a play and doesn’t take long to finish.
Far Cry 3 is great fun, but by the end of it I hated the plot.
you liked the plot in the beginning? I thought the plot was a steaming pile of turd from the getgo, especially with all those dudebro gimps at the start. Luckily the gameplay made up for it, it was one of my favourites when it came out.
Wingsuit FTW!!!!!
– The Far Cry games are self-contained, don’t have any continuity at all. Blood Dragon is okay but FC3 is a better game overall plus a lot more meaty.
– Hitman isn’t a shooty mcfaceshoot game, it’s a stealth game with occaisional shootage
– Bioshock 2 is crappy
– Crysis Warhead is just an xpac and I don’t think you need to play it to continue to the rest
– I have heard that Call of Juarez Gunslinger is okay but haven’t played
– General consensus seems to be that Metro Last Light isn’t as good as Metro 2033 (haven’t played)
– Bulletstorm is pretty fun but degenerates toward the end when you start mainly facing boring enemies that just rush you and melee you to death in a few hits. Also the swears get old. But it’s a really solid game overall.
– Which Medal of Honor? The reboot set in Afghanistan? Apparently that game was hot garbage…
– Which Deus Ex are you sitting on? If it’s Human Revolution or the original game you haven’t played then you are doing games wrong. DXHR is amazing. It’s not a faceshooter though, you’re right. They’re more like first-person RPGs.
Bioshock 2 has better gameplay than Bioshock 1 and the only reason the story is deemed “lesser” is because it retreads a lot of the themes that made the first so surprising.
It is definitely not crappy.
The gameplay is ‘better’ except all the bits where it’s categorically worse because you have to defend a stupid fucking little sister while she asses around doing whatever for several minutes while you’re mobbed by a respawning sequence of annoying enemies that all will rush straight into the one place from multiple angles at once because every corpse that she wants to harvest is in the most exposed and undefendable position possible.
And ‘better’ except that it’s exactly the same as the original game except with most of the exploration elements cut out in order to turn it into more of a corridor shooter.
Crappy is probably too strong a word though, you’re right. It’s slightly worse than Infinite and it was better than I expected it to be given that it was 2K shitting out a sequel to capitalize on a game they hadn’t expected to do well.
I found Infinite to be MUCH better than 2, but that was probably because I spent an utterly ridiculous amount of time examining textures and flyers and listening to conversations and stuff, whereas 2 had all those criticisms you levelled at it, AND I’d already explored Rapture, so it was very ‘been there, done that’ in terms of lore exposure.
FWIW I thought Infinite was a steaming turd aside from the opening hour or so and the final 15-20 minutes.
Pretty much. Great game, but Rapture just isn’t as fun to visit the second time around.
Good point on hitman, I’ll have to add that to the Deus Ex/Dishonored list. and it is DXHR that is on the list. That’s going to be another interesting choice of what to start.
No idea on medal of honor, but think int might be that one. Released by DICE in 2010. Was just listing off the FPS in my steam account that I haven’t played.
People trashed MoH, but I really enjoyed it. Solid shooty without escalating into CoD levels of set-piece-spectacular madness.
(I honestly think the people who trashed it were comparing it to CoD, and were mostly comparing multiplayer. Because apparently ‘no-one plays single-player’ in modern military shooters.)
The last MoH game I played was Airborne and it was terrible. Didn’t bother once they went modern warfare.
DXHR is by far the best thing on your list btw. Amazing atmosphere, great world-building, excellent gameplay, solid plot and one of the best game soundtracks ever recorded.
🙁 I really enjoyed Airborne! I played it like 2.5 times! I liked that you could drop whereever and do the objectives in a random order.
Man, they’re all pretty good.
If you wanna just blast through something quickly, go for Medal of Honour. If you want to play something that tries a lot of really different things go for Far Cry 2. If you want some insanely satisfying gameplay, Far Cry 3 or Bulletstorm.
I’d put the Hitman series in with Dishonoured & Deus Ex. They’re not really shooty games to my mind.
But man, all those games have something rad about them.
Bulletstorm is a great shooty mcface game, shit for pretty much everything else, the plots awful, the characters suck, the dialogue is terrible but the shooting is grand.
Far Cry 2 is pretty forgettable, its fun but has too much grind and feels annoying after a while, skip right to FC3 which is awesome. Then play Blood Dragon after finishing 3, they’re not connected in any way except engine but BD feels like blowing off steam after the tension of FC3
Metro LL is a far slower game than the usual shooty mcface fare but if you’ve played 2033 you probably have a good expectation of what its like, there’s a bit more exploration & town stuff in LL though.
Hitman isn’t even vaguely shooty mcface, it’s sneaky o’stab which is a totally different genre
Call Of Juarez Gunslinger is a surprisingly tight shooter with a good story, might be a good one to jump into.
I really liked playing BD before FC3 because BD served as kind of ‘training wheels’ for FC3, and its bite-sized digestibility really whet my appetite for the much larger and meatier main event.
Yeah but with my way you won’t be going through FC3 wishing you could just use the Killstar all the time.
Or riding that bitchin’ mount. 🙂 Nah, I think they’re pretty obviously understood to be final mission gimmicks.
I recommend playing Blood Dragon first, then moving on to Far Cry 3. FC2 is by now kinda dated, and just generally inferior, so maybe you should play it FIRST so it doesn’t stack up even more poorly against its sequels. I’d only play it as a curiosity piece and for its very awesome African merc/scavenger theme.
Medal of Honor and Bulletstorm are both very good man-shooty mcfaceblaster games. I actually really enjoyed MoH. (But then, I only ever play CoD and Battlefield single-player – unlike SOME people, I remember when SP was the best thing about those games, when CoD1-3 were new and competing with MoH the original.) And despite how awesome Bioshock 1 was, Bioshock 2 kinda suffers from more shooty, less storygoodness. Maybe that’s what you’re after? It’s no Infinite.
I hear gunslinger is good, but haven’t played it myself. And I dunno that I’d play 2033 again just to get primed for Last Light, I think it’ll all come back to you pretty quickly.
Hitman 2 is probably the only one I’d play as a straight-up shooty-shoot, though they all allow you to get away with that to various degrees. Absolution’s a lot more like a cover shooter than the others.
Deus Ex can actually be a servicable shootyface game, but you will miss out on a LOT, and the game will be MUCH shorter. (I am about to embark on one of those runs myself, actually. I haven’t played the Director’s Cut or Missing Link yet, so that’s about due.) Same goes for Dishonored. There’s actually some really nice touches to all-out-assault gameplay in Dishonored, but if you’re playing it the ‘right’ way, it means you fucked up. Doing it as par for the course will end the game very quickly.
aww man, the day I get really busy people talk about Blood Dragon. *punches desk*
I love Blood Dragon and Power Glove are f$#%ing legends
*head explodes from over fanboying*
I think before the Winter sale, Blood Dragon was discounted by something stupid percent, and I bought a few copies to send out to people who didn’t have it but I knew would enjoy it because WHY THE HELL DO YOU NOT HAVE BLOOD DRAGON ALREADY?!
I was getting messages for days afterwards with, “OH MY GOD, THE ONE-LINERS,” and various classic quotes, like, “That’s DOCTOR Darling.”
I’ve been tempted to replay it lately, I keep listening to the soundtrack and it gets me all pumped over it again. It was really one of my favourite things last year.
*swoons*
Edit: I also read the other day that Michael Biehn is really keen to make a sequel. He reckons he had awesome feedback from fans of the game and was approached by hundreds of people about it, he then said that he was surprised that he got next to no attention from doing Aliens: Colonial Marines and couldn’t understand why since Aliens is the established franchise, clearly he did not play either.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
For those who came in late: http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
What will the party give to the Cantharx, given he’s looking for “a memory of light?” Can it lead you to Raller Cay? Has Scrappa’s new boots stopped his unfortunate foot odour?
TONIGHT, 7:30 SA Time!
@popdart5 @mythamphetamine @novacascade @tigerion @mawt @blaghman @tech_knight
PS: Last time we tried the game in the Google + interface, which we all seemed to like, do we want to give that another bash?
Scrappa cares not for feeble human odours, as long as he’s FAAABULOUS! 😛
Then at least show some concern for the voltage overload on Phetys’ olfactory sensor.
Ah so that’s why he lost power last time.
I’m sick of missing out on games I want to play because they never get localized, the localization takes forever and a day or when those games finally come out it turns out they’ve had content cut or changed so as not to become a Kotaku clickbait article or similar.
To wit, time to start learning Japanese again formally. Not making any huge progress studying on my own as I keep starting stuff and then losing steam because of the lack of accountability or anything. Plus probably the lack of structure and the fact that learning through self-study and osmosis results in me having stupidly warped knowledge.
Anyone in the Melbourne area studying or previously studied the language that could give some recommendations for good language schools etc.? I’m thinking I should start with some private lessons to even out my knowledge before jumping into group lessons.
I did a certificate one in Japanese at RMIT. It was night courses twice a week, part time study.
I learnt a lot more in that course then I ever did on my own.
The text book is Genki 1 and you use that for all of cert 1 and half of cert 2.
I forgot to mention, the prices are abhorrent, but at least your teachers are actually people from Japan.
I think I’d probably consider something like that once I’ve evened out. I’ve looked at Genki 1 before and found it was too basic in a lot of cases, though to be fair I was probably looking at the very start of it. Maybe I should grab a copy and see if I can blast my way through the worksheets.
I’m sure you can ‘find’ the workbook online
Good luck!
Osmosis via anime is all I know, and wow is it ineffective. 🙂
On the plus side, doing that for YEARS does give you a rough idea of some of the cultural differences that get in the way of proper translation. PC or not, various cultures do have entirely different attitudes which impact greatly on how they actually think.
Reckon you’d have more of a head-start on most else here in that respect, so there’s that at least!
I actually did a year and a half in high school before I got into anime, and I’ve had about 15 years of anime now, usually 1+ hours a day on average. So I’ve learned a lot by osmosis, enough that I can turn my head away during a lot of dialogue and still follow what’s being said, only need to look at the subs for more complex sentences. I can pick out some common dialects as well (Kansai-ben most commonly. Can tell I’m hearing it because it’s a bit more nasal and has a lot of ‘a’ endings and I have NFI what people are saying)
Can read a bit but there’s a lot of rules and gotchas in the readings and grammar which require learning (and most textbook-based learning teaches you specific sentences, rather than explaining the grammar rules that apply – I’m 30 and already fluent in one language, I’m capable of learning a new one like an adult and not a 5-year-old). One issue I run into is in a lot of cases I will know what a character or combination of characters *means* but not how to read it in Japanese, which means that when I encounter one of those characters somewhere else I don’t know how to read it (but if I did know the reading I’d probably know the word!). That’s quite frustrating.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2014/01/22/aaron-paul-to-star-in-the-dark-tower-adaptation
oooo I could actually see him playing Eddie. Roland needs to be absolutely spot on though. Russell Crowe rumours, yeah he’s a good actor but he needs to portray him as he is in the books. I’m worried he’ll try to put his own spin on things or refuse to do a tv series
Roland’s gotta be an unknown. There’s already enough intertext in the story that they don’t need to saddle the character with some other actor’s history as well.
I’d prefer an unknown as well but if they’ll be casting Aaron Paul as a supporting character you’d think Roland would be a biggish name as well. I really just want someone who knows the books inside out
Aaron Paul: “From what I hear, Eddie is an epic, iconic character.”
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he’s half way through the books, give him a chance. All that meth’s probably put his reading skills a bit off
Idle thought-spew:
So I was reading some stuff a friend sent me about a teenage girl who was out there trying to find her biological sperm-donor father.
Which, y’know… I knew mine so can’t really relate to how it must feel, but I’m dubious about how that’ll go. Guys making sperm donations aren’t usually signing on for the baggage of having a kid turn up on their doorstep twenty years later. And what kind of guy are they expecting to find, who hasn’t had that catalyst of having a child? Or, who has… and actually served as a loving father for a bunch of their half-siblings? Jealousy much? “Sorry kid, I’m not a spy or anything, there wasn’t any reason for me to not be in your life other than that I didn’t want to be.”
But the thing that vaguely amused me to think about would be as the father on the receiving end of that, confronting the kid.
“Alright, kid. So, you found me. If we’re gonna talk, I need to know one thing: What do you play?”
Wonderfully vague. Answers could range as far as:
* Specific sport / position in a type of sport (point-scorer/centre forward)
* Musical instrument (bass guitar/sax/piano) / music genre (punk/grunge/metal/concert band)
* Poker (other gambling/card game)
* Theatrical roles (opera, stage)
* Games (incl Chess) – either specific titles being played right now (DOTA, Madden, BLOPS2), or genres (RPGs/adventure games/MMOs)
* Smart-ass remarks: ‘What do you play?’ ‘Heartstrings.’ / ‘The fool.’
That’d tell you a LOT about a kid, what they chose to answer. Anyone who responds, “I prefer Texas hold-em,” is one to watch your wallet around. Also, advance warning on whether they should be dead to you or not, such as, “Lacrosse, brah. Oh, and I guess some CoD and madden.”
…Or you could, y’know… not be an insensitive dick to an emotional child who’s gone to great lengths in an emotional/misguided search for a part of their identity. But where’s the fun in that?
This guy’s pretty great! Well done on the whole greatness thing, Transient!
I totally didn’t realize that the path to greatness was idly pondering how to traumatize your estranged children… But now that I know, I can really focus my energies on that. Thanks DC! 🙂
*fist bump, explosion thingy*
How about: “Sperm donor? Is that what she told you? No, no, no, she kicked me out when I refused to lie to the cops about her selling the organs of your twin brother/sister to pay off the debts she built up in her failed bid to become a drug lord. I’ve got no idea how she talked her way out of that one but I hear she and several of the local police are on good terms if you know what I mean…”
Normally I think they can only get your information by contacting the donor agency as an intermediary, who in turn confidentially seek your approval to provide your details, in order to allow you to remain anonymous, but I like the direction you’re taking this. Hm. This could be workable.
“Agency? Oh she probably means those pair of Nicaraguans who owed her a favour after she brought in that brick of heroin for them with one of her shipments so they didn’t end up with a Colombian necktie courtesy of Jorge Ramirez”…
‘What do you play?’
‘The skin flute every night’
At this point, if you have a girl, time to grab your shotgun and protect your daughter’s innocence. If you have a boy, follow up with:
‘Yours or someone else’s?’
Interesting thoughts. Also interesting in relation to how I would answer that if positions were reversed.
Computer games and board games? Would I mention board games, I do play them a bit but no where near the same level and PC games.
I just got reminded that simple.wikipedia.org is a thing, and now I’m struggling to do anything else.
Wow that makes reading about quantum mechanics soooo much easier.
What did you want to know about Quantum Mechanics?
does it blend?
Edit :
if you answer anything but ‘yes, and then again, no’ I’m gonna be disappointed.Only in some universes and interpretations.
uncyclopedia is better 😛 shit, I just reminded myself about it. Time to start pressing the ‘random page’ button. Unproductive afternoon ahoy
Aw, that website is kind of sweet, in a way 😛
Hellscream McBeardy (I may have forgotten his name on Kotaku) mentioned that he’s going to try to start hosting BOARD GAMEs and I told him I’d give a few pointers/game recommendations. Twitter isn’t very forgiving with the character limit, so here it is. Board game people, feel free to expand on this or tell me how I’m completely wrong.
First and foremost, filler games are a pretty key component of having things run smoothly. People don’t all arrive at once. Having some small games to play while people trickle in are super useful. They’re also good for when people start to leave and when you want something to do between some heavier games.
Ideal filler games: HANABI!, Love Letter and Qwirkle. The trick here is to pick games that are easy to set up, easy to explain and quick.
Secondly, having a variety of games is nifty. Ideally you want a range of “heaviness” so you could have longer, more involved games like Battlestar Galactica or Agricola but also simpler things like Ticket to Ride or Carcassone for when the mood strikes for that. You don’t need a huge collection to do this, I’d say four or five games will give you a good spread if they’re the right games.
Light/short games: Ticket to Ride (or TTR: Europe), Carcassone, Escape, Takenoko, Pandemic/Forbidden Island/Forbidden Desert, King of Tokyo, Tokaido.
Medium games: 7 Wonders, Ghost Stories, Galaxy Trucker, Shadows Over Camelot, Power Grid, Dominion, K2.
Heavy/long games: Battlestar Galactica, Archipelago, Village, Game of Thrones, Agricola.
Resistance: Avalon is great for larger groups (5-10 players) and we bust that out pretty much every week. A good icebreaker type game to get things going but it needs at least five people and really shines when you have around seven or eight.
Most of this is working on the assumption that you’ll have 3-5 people. A lot of games don’t really allow for six players which mean that you either need a selection of stuff that caters to that many people or you need to split into two groups.
Shut Up and Sit Down is a great resource for entertaining reviews and Wil Wheaton’s Tabletop is a good way to see how Light/Medium games play out.
That should just about cover things. I could do a real write up about this but feel like it would have to be a part of a “BOARD GAMES ARE RAD” series where this falls somewhere in the middle as a “so you’ve realised that BOARD GAMES ARE RAD and want to evangelise, here’s how” type thing.
EDIT: A minor but important detail, there will be someone who will be responsible for teaching people the rules of the games. Odds are, it will be you. As long as you’re not playing something published by Fantasy Flight, it’s pretty easy to just wing it with the rulebook alongside you. You’ll make mistakes, other people will too. It happens, just roll with it. Don’t be a rule nazi but do your best to understand things and if someone contests the rules, reason it out/refer to the rule book.
@beardymcmuttonchops
Knew you’d come through.
I’m known for my co-
You’re welcome.
-lobus monkey love.
I’m assuming Battlestar is well worth the money? Me and the missus love it so just need to get another housemate into it to play.
On the subject of light games to bide the time, card games could be handy. The one off the top of my head is Monopoly Deal. Great fun at a fraction of the time (about 10-15 minutes) of a proper Monopoly game but includes the usual hatred for people screwing you over
I like Battlestar but the rulebook is a complete clusterfuck. It took a few goes for us to finally get a proper game going and that included referring to the rule book constantly until near the end of the game (where it was handed off to the cylon players who were then using it to try and screw us out of victory).
I can contribute to the medium/long games category with Zombies! and Lord of the Rings Risk. I know it’s Risk but some of the changes to the base formula are pretty neat.
Haven’t played either but more suggestions are more good.
Shut Up and Sit Down is a must watch, and it is hilarious to boot. I want Economic Hex Based Tile Laying Game Fest to be a national holiday.
YAY FOR HEXMAS!
My Meagre Contribution:
My favourite boardgame at the moment is probably “Betrayal at House on the Hill”. It can deal with up to 2-6 (I think? but you probably want at least 3) players, and there’s a pair of Tabletop episodes about it.
+1 for Resistance (or Resistance: Avalon, or the equiv with a deck of standard playing cards) as a filler game.
I haven’t played that on but there’s apparently a bit of a shortage. Might be hard to track down.
Also, the Shut Up and Sit Down review mentioned that the first phase feels like a lengthy, dull set up period for the second phase, where the real game actually begins. I’m still keen to try it but something for people to keep in mind, mayhap?
And a minor additional tip I’ve found: Provide plenty of serviettes, and if you have side tables put them near the main table, because spills and greasy cards are awful. And with board games, everyone will be reaching all over the table.
Yup. More space is more good. I’m a fan of paper towels and regular table wipe downs.
Also Also: BOARD GAMES ARE RAD should be a pixel-otaku thing
It’s a thing I’ve written patches of over the last few months. Maybe if I finish the first two or three pieces of it, I’ll shop the articles around and see if anyone wants to publish them.
Not something I’m in a huge rush to do right now. Moving is kind of balls.
This is awesome thank you 🙂
I’ve been thinking about this too and started playing with it myself.
Playing with what now? :p
Anton’s 😛
Organise what you are doing for meals before hand so people can make plans.
If dinner is provided say so or if people need money for pizza or whatever let them know, it makes planning a lot easier.
Also depending on the group having some more party oriented games for people who are scared by strategy games can help. Or filler games like Tsuro where the rules are impossible not to understand.
Know the people you are playing with and don’t play traitor mechanic games with people who take it too seriously and hold a grudge. Some co-op friendly games are also good as some people don’t like ‘fighting’ other people. I found dominion good for this as you play your deck and you compete but you don’t target people. Where something like citadels has you aggressively attacking others people specifically.
Thanks man!
Thanks man! It’s a tentative thing we just mentioned in passing over the weekend. But yeah, anyone keen for Brisbane-based-boardgames?
Thanks for the tag @dc!
No worries. I kind of wanted to write this anyhow just because.
If you are thinking of going ahead with this, I really do suggest having more than just Game of Thrones. It’s a fairly heavy game and Fantasy Flight games can be a bit wearisome for people who aren’t ready for them.
Seriously, ask anyone who has played Battlestar Galactica or Arkham Horror with me. I lost count of how many times Freya asked for a divorce the last time we played BSG.
Grabbing a filler game as a warm up act is definitely worthwhile.
Things is a great any-player filler game. We actually play that quite a lot when we have people over.
What I’m trying to do is get you to buy Hanabi.
You should buy Hanabi.
I just discovered that you can see who up-voted and who down-voted comments. I have been going through random comments just to see who liked what. I have gone down the rabbit hole, and I won’t ever come back.
EDIT: Had to kill the joke. Sorry guys.
The rabbit didn’t chew?
#PageSix
He obviously likes bunnies.
Wait what?
He went down the rabbit. Whole. PAGE SIX GODDAMMIT! 😀
And now you know that when you downvote, we can seeeeeee youuuuu. With great power comes great responsibility.
Which is probably why TAYbies don’t usually downvote each other unless they’re spouting some console-loving garbage which defies the grand and holy order of the Master Race. Boooooo, hisssssss! Or any other of those
woefully misguided opinionscrimes against sense and reason, which will cause me to FIGHT YOU. In a purely exaggerated way for dramatic effect only.Or for a joke.
CURSE YOU RED
I was just making sure the button works
I meant to hit upvote but my finger slipped.
sorry. I’m just a bastard.
Dammit, I’d ALMOST broke even, too!
Wait, Resident Evil 4 is coming to Steam? Wasn’t the original PC version an absolute joke? I theorise a Final-Fantasy situation, where the Steam version is just as bad as the original PC port, yet it gets patched later.
Snacktaku: I had Dried Apricots covered in Dark Chocolate. Sweet and very tasty. 11 bishes out of 13 shiggys or something like that.
http://couriermail.com.au/sport/boxing-mma/boxer-anthony-mundine-reveals-aspirations-to-run-for-prime-minister-of-australia/story-fnii0bqi-1226806424117
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
O_o
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
O_o
Oh god please do it, be good for a laugh
He’ll get in, and who will be laughing then.
People laughed at Arnie too.
Yeah, but I’ve heard both of them speak in interviews. Well. I’ve heard Arnie speak, I dunno what the hell Mundine was doing.
There’s a poll on that link and the overwhelming majority are saying ‘no’ to whether he should run. To which I say, not enough people have a sense of humour.
BRO DO YOU EVEN WESTMINSTER
Why not, we got an ex-ironman athlete currently don’t we? 😛
What worries me is according to the poll 2,500 people think he should. Though I am hoping that is only so they can vote against him, right? RIGHT!?!?
If I were registered on that site, I would be voting ‘yes’, yes. Because everyone should run if they think they can make a difference. And because I’m very curious to see who (or how many people) he blames for his crushing defeat.
Yes.
Gutsoup’s “People are dumb” story number 1856
So we have stickers at work with employee’s addresses on them to save hand writing them out to mail stuff to them, we ran out of a bunch of them and a dude asked me what to do, I said hand write the address cause the machine we used to print them broke.
I meant hand write onto the envelope that we usually put the stickers onto. I just found him sticking blank labels onto the blank envelopes then writing onto the blank label. I asked “why are you doing it like that, seems a bit redundant” the response “I need to stick the address labels on or where would I write the addresses”. I tilted my head and wondered off giggling to myself.
Edit: dumb page get. whoot
Bloody Gen Y! With their iComputers and their cellphone telephones.
Something something entitled something something Miley Cyrus.
Miley Cyrus is snapchatting on my lawn!
Everyone at work is talking about this infernal snap-chatting thing. I don’t know what it is, but it can’t be anything wholesome.
I don’t do it, but I think it’s some sort of sex act
My understanding of it from an ex-work colleagues description, is that you take a picture or create a message of some description, and then it appears on your “friends” list for about 2 seconds, and then disappears foreverJesus, what’s the point of that? I can’t even keep up with Twitter…
hehe fucked if I know.. I said the same thing to him when he explained it, but he just said “it’s just good quick fun”
It sounds an aweful lot like twitter to me, but I guess to stop being accused of ripping them off, they thought they would distinguish themselves by making the messages disappear instead of staying around. You’d have to watch it 24/7 to see anything though, so absolutely pointless for someone like me.
Preeeetty sure many use it for discrete sexting…
As the occasional snap-chatter I feel obliged to explain. It’s simply a picture/video sending app where the picture lasts between 1-10 seconds (user defined) or the video plays once (video is =< 10 seconds long) before being deleted. Pictures can be screen captured however, although it tells you when this happens. I just use it for messaging occasionally, or for randomness. Pictures largely consist of selfies however. It’s more amusing then it sounds, I swear!
@liondrive That was a very brave thing for you to admit! And I promise no-one is judging you. …Out loud. 😉
Seriously though, I don’t ‘get’ twitter, so this definitely sounds like a technology which will be utterly lost on me. It sounds like to get the best use out of it you’d have to either be plugged in to a truly massive number of people or glued to your phone constantly, or scrambling to fire it up after something notifies you. (I assume it does that.)
Hahaha, I’m used to being judged, so I’m fine with that 😛
I don’t get the whole twitter thing either, or tumblr to be honest. I mainly just use snapchat to harass my best friend and my sisters! 😀 I am usually glued to my phone though, haha!
LOOK AT THESE NAMES. Look at them.
http://imgur.com/qAN14bm
Context: Newspaper article about parents with three adult children living with them. Two of those children are females, who each have a baby living in the house too. Hilarious.
Yeah, i mean who would name their kid “Craig”
People these days.
That’s the father. I don’t know if that scares me more, or less.
Poor Craig must feel so alone.
(I’m assuming what looks like Al is actually A.I., like the Spielberg movie!)
Or like Ai Weiwei. Maybe this family is just really sensitive to Chinese political activists?
Could just be Aladdin!
The child Al is holding is going to have a really shit life.
This
bastardization abuse violation crime against decency sign of the end timesmutation of language is probably why future sci-fi folks have such weird names.God, Superman’s name is probably an advanced version of of Karl.
I’m just waiting for when alpha characters are no longer required.
Today I discovered that yes, it is actually possible to put too much brie into a turkey brie and cranberry roll.
It’s a mistake worth making, though!
He’s a Steggler for sandwich filling ratios!
Ugh, too cheesy.
That’s what @NegativeZero saidSteggler?
Is that some kind of paltry (or poultry) pun?
@popdart5: FYI Today’s KanColle maintenance adds new voice lines to Mutsu and Hoshou and adds hourly notification lines to Kaga. Next week’s should be adding new lines to Verny, and it sounds like Jintsuu (or possibly Akatsuki or Kirishima) will be getting a 2nd remodel.
Also apparently the KanColle guys have registered a trademark for Oshiro Collection. I can’t see how this would work though since it’s pretty hard to attack a castle with another castle no matter how anthropomorphic it is.
So now we have upgraded from discussing their tonnage to their battlements. Could be interesting.
I haven’t played KanColle at all for the last week and a bit so I am completely out of touch with how things are going. It’s looking like I’ll end up dropping it for a bit and maybe checking it out again if KanColle Kai ends up releasing this year.
Yeah, I’ve actually started to lose steam a bit as well. Which kind of sucks since I had that dream run where I got Yamato and Nagato back to back. It’s mainly the grind to get ships up to a useable level that’s killing me I think. I’m up to 3-4 and 4-3 but to clear 3-4 you need a 2 CV & 4 BB fleet and a lot of luck, and then 4-3 requires you to have a fleet with exactly 1 DD and 2 CAs. DD is no problem since I have Yuudachi at 58 and Shigure at 61, but my two best CAs are Atago and Choukai at 27. Even worse, getting to the boss for 4-4 apparently requires you to have a pair of CA(v)s and that means getting my Mogami up a fair bit and my Suzuya to 35+. CAs are kind of garbage so once I got my Kongous I stopped bothering with them. Especially once I got the torpedo sisters. I’m always running 1 carrier and 1 battleship plus Ooi and Kitakami, so that really only leaves me two slots.
If I’d known about the ship requirements I’d have been leveling up Mogami ages ago, and had kept trying to run my other CAs into higher levels, but I only just got Suzuya during the Christmas event.
Discovered there’s a reasonably good way of grinding levels in World 4 for DDs and CLs. Back to back sub nodes where you make the ship you’re leveling up the flagship and then load her with anti-sub gear and she’ll usually get MVP and flagship XP bonus, around 1300 XP per node. Trouble is it’s amazingly risky because there’s a chance that instead of a sub node, the first one might direct you to a fight against 3 Wo-class carriers and a Ta-class BB. Also you can only use the technique with a CL or a DD (or maybe I guess a CA(v) loaded with seaplanes since they can target subs now?!)
Unrelatedly I imagine Oshiro Collection will have a lot of jokes about crashing a battering ram through the front gate and unguarded rear entrances and so on. Also probably puns on oshiri (butt) collection.
…Unless you pick up the castles and put them on boats and smash them against each other! Eh? Eh?
Well a battleship basically is a castle on the water. And technically some of the IJN warships in KanColle have castle-related names (eg Akagi, “red castle” and Yamashiro, “mountain castle”)
…That was the joke. 🙂
Okay people, on Monday we’re hoping to do our absolute final BOARD GAMES thing until we get back to Sydney some time next year.
Let’s say Monday at 2pm. All welcome although I’ve already packed two boxes full, so our selection is slightly more limited than normal. Don’t worry, I’ve left most of the more commonly played games out.
Interesting!
So I almost never engrave iPads. Done maybe three in 2 years. I break that one this morning and have a panic attack.
Of course I get 7 more come in today.
Wtf?
they sense your weakness
Like dogs and children. …I mean, dogs and children can sense fear, not that dogs and children are his weaknesses. Because those would be pretty easy-to-exploit weaknesses. TERRIBLE supervillain/hero.
*scribbles notes for future story*
A beat.
*crosses out notes with emphatic bold strokes*
one day mr. freeze was made to engrave too many iPads until he finally snapped?
And – living up to his name – he ended up encasing Queensland in ice?
And that’s how Freeze became a national hero.
The cold never bothered me any way!
oh god yes! he would totally be my hero forever if he could make it cold here!!
Oh that reminds me:
can you engrave my iPad?I agree with your “wtf”. They are engraved for free, with free delivery, from apple.com.au
Everything all right with the first one, man? You get it worked out with customer?
Hope you’re feeling a bit better about it.
Yeah, apologised profusely and promised to get it repaired ASAP. Customer was alright as I didn’t try to fob her off or lie and am fixing the problem.
Still feel terrible about it though.
the best feeling in the world when you do any sort of customer service role is when you finally get an understanding customer who’s happy to just let you do your thing
So much this.
I was shocked and so happy when I had clients come in trying to plan a holiday just before Christmas (and I was about to take a week off) and they said “No rush, don’t worry if its in the new year, just send through a quote when you can”. Love people like that
Oh man. This morning I farted a little and my gf was like “LOL, trumpets they go toot toot bada bada toot toot!”. Now I have that stupid Derulo song stuck in my head..
Trumpetz dey goe.. derp herp bada nada murp shurp.
*makes a note in StickMan’s file*
Not the most unreasonable effect for a human fart, this goes against my parameters on the rules of farting in relationships… hmmmm interesting…
don’t hold it in, I saw South Park 😛
You need to be loud and confident about it. Look her in the eye with your shoulders thrown back and stand up straight as you do it. Don’t say anything about it though.
And in her own way has punished you for your breach of etiquette
in TAY news today, @freezespreston became Apple’s engraving bitch and @stickman farted. I’m proud to be part of this community now
A new State of TAY scribe emerges!
You may have to link him to an earlier example for reference.
Every storyteller has a different way of passing the cautionary tales on.
Does this pay well, especially if I’m crooked? 😛 this could be my chance to make lifelong connections to the world of organised crime
I could seriously benefit from this. I think we all could 😀
lol I farted at work today, and my new staff member said “Oh thank god! I’m sick of holding these in! IT’S ON!!!!”
Just today I was lamenting the fact that my spot in the office is in the main thoroughfare…
Unfortunately this means that I can’t fart and revel in my own repugnance in peace.
Aww yeah in one months time i’ll be seeing; Megadeth, Testament, Alter Bridge, Newsted, Green Day, Richie Sambora, Rob Zombie, SOiL & Bowling For Soup!
*nods knowingly, sips coffee*
Yep, those are things alright.
I wish I could go to Soundwave. I have seen part of Alter Bridge perform though. (Myles, with Slash).
I haven’t been able to see Slash with Myles & The Conspirators yet, hope to next tour/album cycle which I am hoping is late next year, by what Slash is saying the new album is probably going to be out next year. I have however seen Alter Bridge and they’re great. I’m hoping for a head lining tour either later this year or early next year with hopefully the likes of Halestorm or Black Stone Cherry as support.
I think Myles does Sweet Child and Paradise City better than Axl ever did. I saw them in Melbourne August 2012. Rose Tattoo was the support act, not that great. However, Slash’s set went for 2 hours and covered Appetite, Slash’s first solo album and Apocalyptic Love, with Slither and a Slash’s Snakepit song as well. Awesome set.
I have that concert bookmarked! Since it was professionally filmed. Was a good set, ah wish I could’ve seen it. Andrew Stockdale joined Slash at the Brisbane gig, though I think that was in 2010 in support of his self titled album not Apocalyptic Love.
Todd does a pretty good version of Welcome To The Jungle & Doctor Alibi as well I reckon!
Off topic: Myles is such a top bloke, seriously one of the nicest guys in rock likewise Slash.
Todd did You’re Crazy at the Melbourne gig as well as Dr Alibi. He is pretty good. Slash also did his Godfather Theme solo which was awesome.
I’m pretty sure Andrew Stockdale did do By The Sword in Brisbane on that tour, I remember reading a review.
Myles does seem like a top bloke, he spoke to the crowd and seemed genuinely excited to be there. Also Slash’s set started early which is almost unheard of.
Now I want to listen to Apocalyptic Love.
Yeah, Todd has some pretty awesome vocals, wasn’t really expecting it honestly! Have you heard his band City Sinners that is Vegas based? They’re pretty cool hilarious as well.
Yeah, I have this feeling he appeared both times on tour with Slash.
He really is, I remember before Alter Bridge & the thing with Slash got him mega known he used to chat to his fans on Twitter, now he just gets swamped when he tweets stuff 🙁 There was even a period where Slash used to DM people back as well, that was cool!
If you can find it (that’s if you don’t have it already, Slash’s iTunes sessions he did back in 2010 are awesome! I would love a raw album from the band like that. Like they sounded amazing with such little post production done to stuff.
Yeah I agree about Myles > Axl, i’ve gotten so used to Nightrain, Sweet Child, Rocket Queen etc being sung by Myles it’s just odd to hear Axl sing them now, saying that AFD will always be one of my favourite debut albums though.
bowling for Soup?
*runs flailing arms wildly*
“They’re coming for me again!!!”
Hahaha.
Apparently it’s their last time touring to Australia, funny thing is they said that on their last tour of the UK and were going to stick with only touring North America and now they’re on Download or Sonisphere for this year, I mean wut.
You must have wronged virus at the meat last weekend.
Haha Bowling for Soup!
Also, I see the Boss next month. Should be awesome.
That’d be pretty awesome. Enjoy!
I still don’t know. Megadeth, Testament, Newsted and Down are who I really wanna see, maybe Satyricon, but I’m just fed up with Soundwave in general. Megadeth and Down are both playing Bloodstock this year which I’m (hopefully) going to so although I hate missing Megadeth I’ll see them again. I’m a bit miffed all the sidewaves so far are Melbourne and Sydney though. There’s about 5 gigs so far in those two cities spread over the same days. Great planning AJ
Well I am guessing most bands fly in 1 or 2 days before the Brisbane date and get time for some rehearsal & to recover from their 24+ hour flights in time for the first date. After that it’s on to Sydney then they get 5 days between Sydney & Melbourne Soundwave so it makes sense to do dates in both of those cities, the only band I know to ever ditch Melbourne/Sydney and do a gig in Brisbane was Slash when he played back in 2011.
It probably is going to cost too much to fly from Sydney to Brisbane with gear then fly it all down to Melbourne from Brisbane 2 days later. It sucks we miss out up here, but from a money point of view it makes perfect sense. After all everyone involved also wants to make as much money as they can for it and not make a loss or just enough to barely call it a worthwhile endeavour.
What about
A Day to Remember
Placebo
AFI and KORN
I love me some AFI, I rocked out to Miss Murder on guitar hero 3
I am not a fan of them! I’m interested in seeing KoRn since I once liked them back when it was cool to like Limp Bizkit 😛
it was never “cool” to like Limp Bizkit 😛
Dude, it sure was. I remember EVERYONE I knew in school owning Chocolate Starfish & The Hot Dog Flavoured Water.. Also when it was cool to like Eminem cause of The Eminem Show..
Anyone got a good source for Micro SD cards on the webonets? Want a 64 gig one and the Aus prices are awful.
MSY or Kogan are probably your best bet for price.
Yeah, I got some from pccasegear and all of the tech stores are cheaper than anywhere local. The only other cheaper method is straight from the supplier…
shoppingsquare often have good sales on them, no idea if there’s one on now or not though. They’re sort of an internet junk shop that grew out of ebay but have some really good bargains from time to time.
Have to agree with Benny on this one. Kogan always seem to have good deals on SD cards at sale times. Which is seemingly always…
Mentioned this on twitter, but I guess worth mentioning for other people playing along at home who don’t use it…
For any tech gear, I always do a quick search via http://www.staticice.com.au – you can use fancy pants features like filtering by state, too…
but only if you’re wearing fancy pants.Top result seems to be shopping square like @aliasalpha mentioned above.
Edit: Typo’d URL. DO YOU EVEN PROOFREAD?
So the new movie The Hateful Eight by Tarantino is now not happening due to someone leaking his draft script, what a shame. Saying that it could all just be hype for the movie, who knows!
Damn. Tarantino and Western just go hand in hand. Shame you can’t trust anyone in the industry to keep their mouth shut, or should that be anyone on the internet?
Yeah, and he hasn’t made a bad movie, either. Never got why people said Jackie Brown was an awful movie I thought it was quite good.
Ah well, shit happens I guess.
Dammit, you just reminded me that I saw Jackie Brown was going to be on the other week but then totally forgot about it.
I caught some of it! I love it when Louis is sick and tired of Melanie’s shit and just shoots her and fucks off haha.
Spoilers 😛
It’s a 16 year old movie, come on! 😛
A 16 year old movie I haven’t had a chance to see yet!
Save for that chance that popped up the other week but then I missed it. Although on the other hand Go seems to like repeating itself within a few weeks so the chance’ll probably come around soon enough anyway. Though I’ll likely miss it again because I’m not very good at TV any more.
Sorry! I picked it up on Blu-Ray for like 10 bucks from JB, worth it.
I’m on the internet
*glares at self in mirror* “I’m onto you buddy”
*mental note that gutsoup’s on the internet*
I’m confused. Why would you not produce a movie because the script is out?
It’s kind of like refusing to bake a cake if people know what’s in it.
It would seem he’s pissed because he can’t trust those he has given the draft script to, which he thought he could trust. It’s understandable, it’s his IP here, and it being a draft script obviously there’s going to be a fair few changes between it and what would’ve been the final version.
I remember that happening with Mass Effect 3. Ending leaked, Bioware made a new one, totally messed it up.
I think this was the original ending.
http://adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/david-penberthy-a-new-generation-of-gutless-thugs/story-fni6unxq-1226805167994
Interesting read even if I don’t entirely agree with him. Thoughts?
I think dudebro “buff” culture is insidious and troubling.
Sounds like he’s describing roid rage mixed with drugs like coke or speed along with the alcohol.. I’ve known a fair few people over the years like this, I haven’t seen the other side of them, only told about it and it’s ugly. One of these types I know, mixed into it all he’s also ex-army, so on top of the gym & football junkie physique with drugs & alcohol he’s a trained sniper who did 3 tours of the middle east. He was telling me & a few others last time he got in shit in Brisbane with the cops it took 7 of them to restrain him, fuck sake… They’re a scary type of person.
Edit: I have a lot more to say on this topic since I know someone who was the perpetrator of king hitting someone here 4 or so years ago now, and how he was wrongly portrayed by the media here, yes, he hit the kid and the other kid now has brain damage which he is making a recovery from, but there was still a lot that was not correct in the papers or even reported which was just wrong.
But saying that I know several other people that have been the recipient of the violence that goes on around here and it’s just disgusting what the little gang bangers and roid munchers think they can get away with.. Hell one group of about a dozen 12-15 year olds bashed a off duty cop & his fiancée here a few years back, similar aged kids boxing day 2011 (I think) bashed someone I know who was out with a few girls, they left him in a horrible mess. It was so bad here at one point Hungry Beast even did a story on it all where I saw more people I knew who were subject to being bashed or whatever.
All this happened in Queensland just over the border from me in a town called Coolangatta. Nothing was done to clean it up, no extra police, hell the police station if left unmanned at a stupidly early hour in the evening and you have to rely on their phone out the front which sometimes doesn’t work. If only they’d do something to fix it, rather than ignore it and pursue an issue that really isn’t the issue that it is made out to be. UGH.
What part of it don’t you agree with.
The bit I disagree with is there have always been the type of person who would head out with the intent to get a fight or a fuck. That’s always been around.
The difference now I guess is that they are willing to hit somebody who isn’t going to hit back. If you wanted to get into a fight you would find somebody who wanted to fight you and you had it out. Not just king hitting somebody to make yourself seem tough.
Not sure about how much impact drugs have on it either but could very well be a factor, I don’t know enough about it
Mostly about how the drinking culture of Australia isn’t to blame, when I believe it’s part of what drives these idiots and what helps them get off lightly.
Truth is that alcohol consumption in Australia has fallen over the last 20 years. If I was to point to something it’d be things like vodka & red bull, that make people party on later rather than go home
Is there a reduced sentence for crimes committed when drunk? If so, fuck that shit right off.
Not specifically but a lot of the times the courts will consider it a mitigating factor. They shouldn’t as it was the persons choice to get drunk and they should shoulder any responsibility for their actions while drunk.
Well I can understand that point. I went out and got drunk many times but I never had the slightest urge to get into a fight when I did.
However there is a part where being drunk in public (that was me) makes that acceptable so that people who do get violent feel more comfortable doing so. Part of the normalising of it.
Personally I don’t think it should be a mitigating factor, but I am also a bit wary about treating it like drink driving and having harsher sentences.
If you hit somebody when you are drunk it should be treated the same as if you hit them sober.
I do agree with the alcohol fuelled violence coming across as a bit of a cop out. You hear it far too much, and while alcohol probably does have a bit to do with them getting all ragey, it’s not the cause, otherwise everyone who got a little too drunk would be punching everyone like a fuckwit.
The new ‘king hit’ alternative “coward punch” is just all kinds of retarded though. The person doing the punching isn’t a coward. I mean, they could be, and just get in a lucky hit which knocks them flat, but generally it’s done by some roid raging fucktard who thinks they’re king of the world. Quit trying to make an acceptable media terminology to explain it, and grow some balls and call them a fuckwit. Cos that’s what they are.
Presumably calling it a coward punch is a frankly lame attempt to shame people into not doing it by implying they’re cowards. Of course they’re likely too fucked off their box and/or stupid to care
Phlanispo’s Random Opinion Poll of the Unspecified Timeframe:
What is everyone’s opinion on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic? It’s probably been asked before, but not by me.
Personally, I don’t mind it. I’ve watched the first season of the show, and I neither love it nor hate it. The writing is pretty good, the characters are hit or miss. (I really like half the characters and really hate the other half) I don’t think I like it enough to continue watching, however.
The Brony fanbase strikes me like every other fanbase; a loosely assembled pack of idiots complaining about the most inane crap. I think it’s funny that the fanbase was spawned by some girl complaining about it on 4Chan.
This has been your opinion poll for the day/week/month.
@scree watches it regularly.
I do. At first I hated Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow dash. But over time I ended up liking them all. I like that Lauren Faust tries to make something that both the kids and parents can look forward to. Not only that but she believe children can understand complex stories, unlike other people who treat them like morons.
The fan base. Vocal minority on both sides. Haters and lovers. Then there are people who like the series but aren’t going to stab someone if they don’t.
My 6 year old daughter adores it. I’ve tried to watch it but it I really don’t get why it’s got such a rabid adult fan base.
It’s similar to a pixar movie in that there is something for children and adults.
I try not to be judgmental about these things, cause people can like whatever the hell they want to like. I’m gonna watch what I wanna watch, I respect others will do the same. There’s something weird about this one though. Maybe cause I associate the IP with the stuff my sister used to play with as a kid. *shrugs*
Whole heartedly agree with you on this one. My Little Pony is not my cup of tea by any means, but if people wanna watch it, good on them! Enjoy!
Like you, I don’t really dig it as it’s always been a little too girly for my liking, and was always marketed at people like my sister when she was younger. Much like Barbie, or the Care Bears.
Fixed that for you
I’ve watched a couple episodes because I heard it was glitter-sprinkled puppies soaked in distilled unicorn farts.
It wasn’t, but it was still pretty amusing. I’d let my hypothetical sperm-donor kids watch it. But it didn’t grip me enough to get super-involved or devour it all like I did with that other ‘kids’ show, Adventure Time.
I don’t know from the whole ‘brony’ thing, but my understanding is that there are folks out there who feel the need to self-identify with the show to validate what they watch or prove a point as this generation’s version of the ‘SNAG’, and a bunch of guys who want to fuck a cartoon horse taking shelter amongst their ranks.
Aaaaand that’s nearly $2k down the gurgler. my bank account am cry.
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Must’ve bought that ring @dkzeitgeist suggested!
What could you have possibly bought me that cost you $2000? :O
That’s the worst bit, I didn’t even buy anything!
Excess for car insurance. Finally getting that stuff sorted. Oops 😛
Why couldn’t it be a pinball machine…
A pinball machine is gonna run you like 5 times more sadly D= well at least the one I want will 🙁
Heh. Thankfully my one and the other I’d like at some point are both less than 1.5 times that 😛
Which one do you want?
This one Found one at Southport (only like half an hour away) for $9,200 It’s 1 of 500 produced world wide. Otherwise there’s this version which I found for sale here for about the same price.
They’re so beautiful in the flesh, I found the arcade version at Timezone last week!
As cool as it is that Stern is still around and making machines… from all the “recent” ones I’ve seen, I really don’t like them. I think it’s mainly down to the print quality of all the art and how terrible it looks once you’re up at the machine, but it really makes them feel a whole lot cheaper and horrible than they really are.
@shane Oooh. They’re releasing Ace Attorney 1-3 in a collection for 3DS! They’re not full remakes but they’ve been re-done to have a 3D effect!
For Japan only 😛…GOD DAMMIT POW! You troll.
🙂
You never know, though, they might bring it here eventually! All the translations/voices are already done. Who knows!
On the one hand, I still haven’t gotten around to importing Trials and Tribulations yet, so woo.
On the other, I have the other two games sitting there on my shelf (the second still unopened :P).
OBJECTION!
🙁
Was just playing Dark Souls.
Went around doing the various things that can be done before doing Sen’s Fortress. Killed Havel pretty easily just by circling him and backstabbing. Killed the Black Knight that drops the Halberd in the Darkroot Basin. He did not drop a halberd. The jerk. Went and fought the Moonlight Butterfly and got a phone call from my mum halfway through. It’s okay. I still killed the butterfly pretty easily. I also fell to my death after collection the ember pretty easily. Oops.I think that about covers everything I want to do before Sen’s Funhouse. Time for Gurpgork to chop snakemen.
Heh, similar thing happened to me last night, was helping someone get the Dragon Greataxe from the Gaping Demon then my dad called me half way through. To make it worse, my dad was calling from an place that had bad reception so I was trying to dodge attacks and decipher what my dad was saying at the same time. =P
That sounds much worse.
Moonlight Butterfly is just super easy to time the dodges for and if you screw up, the damage is pretty easily spaced out to heal back up. Maybe I should go kill Gaping Dragon for the axe. I like axes.GURPGORK CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY AXES!
GURPGORK AM WANT MANY AXES!
Reading your posts about how easily you defeat stuff is proving to me how much i suck 😛
I’ve already beaten the game and know the movesets of most of the things that you deal with early on.
Against human sized enemies, you can literally just circle them until they attack, walk behind and backstab. That’s no fun though, so I’ve been learning to parry.The game is all about practice and patience.
I remember when you could just spam your way through with the Crystal Ring Shield and 1-3 shot every boss in the game. Good times.
For those who don’t know
The Crystal Ring Shield’s secondary attack damage used to be about triple plus extra for additional reinforcement of whatever you had in the other hand. A CRS+5 and a Lightning Zweihander +5 meant you could fire off attacks doing over 3000 unblockable and defence ignoring damage.Heh. Sen’s Funhouse. Love that place.
Just watched the Tomb raider video. Looks great, pity their isn’t extra tombs and stuff. Would’ve loved more of that, but I find everything looks amazing, except for her hair. For some reason, it appears to have gone from brown to brown-black
Just when I thought I had everything under control and had worked out how to get everything done that I wanted to before I go away,I got a text from my Mum asking me to pack the kids swimwear as they had plans to visit the beach on the long weekend. The kids had grown out of their swimmers.
So instead of my carefully scheduled activities for this afternoon I had to go shopping. So now I’m exhausted, haven’t been able to do what was originally planned for today, and have considerably less spending money while on holidays. I hate today. 🙁
On the plus side, at least the shops were air conditioned. 😀
Thanks to the sale on Xbox Live, I am now the proud owner of the license to play Dark Souls!
I look forward to it remaining in my library, untouched.
Tagging @shane, @pixel_the_ferret_viking and @freezespreston.
OR, look forward to have all self-believe shattered and reborn anew, LIKE A PHOENIX FROM THE ASHES IT WILL RISE AGAIN!!!
Seriously though, don’t let it sit untouched! too good a game!
Bought Bioshock Infinite from OGS today, it was only $33 and I had a prepaid visa I got for christmas i wanted to spend, so I though why not that game I said I wanted for all of last year.
Just had a big bowl of Beef (well veal) and Black Bean Sauce with Hokkien Noodles. I love having my electric wok. So easy to use and clean. I wish I got one years ago.
Needs vegetables!
There was vegetables in the sauce. Black Beans (duh), Capsicum, Green Beans and Chilli.
So, since everyone else is doing it, here’s a list of games I finished this year:
Mass Effect 3
It’s a good one!
Last year though:
P4G
Muramasa rebirth
Mass Effect 1&2
Ico
(did) Silent Hill Downpour (come out last year?)
Rayman Origins
Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate
Guacamelee
Chaos Rings
Bravely Default
Pokemon Y
Link Between Worlds
Dead Space (maybe?)
Final Fantasy VIII (umpteenth time)
The Walking Dead
Sonic Racing Transformed
Warriors Orochi 2
Dino Crisis (umpteenth time)
Resident Evil 2 (umpteenth time)
Resident Evil 3 (Umpteenth time)
Castlevania Symphony of the Night (Umpteenth time)
My finished games so far are:
– Knack– Killzone: Shadowfall
– Resogun (Technically I finished single player)
Working on:
– Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch– Valkyria Chronicles
– Dark Souls (Gonna be honest, I don’t plan on finishing it)
Unfinishable but playing:
– Warframe– Black Light: Retribution
I dare not attempt a working On list.
Just bought Valkyria Chronicles, had a check if it worked, seems fun. Playing Skyrim atm though 🙂
Valkyria Chronicles is such a good game! I’m still holding onto the hope that they’ll release 2 and 3 in an English dubbed bundle for PS3! It’s never gonna happen, but a man can dream 🙁
I only made a Working On list because I can’t have many games on the go at one time. 4 is probably my max.
Get a Vita and get V2!
3 is getting a fanslation, so a hacked PSP?
@negativezero knows more about the fanslation I think.
The English dub for 2 is horrible. I mean I can’t stand most english dubs with shitty animu voice ‘actors’ in the first place, but VC2 is horrendous. It’s not even that good a game, but that dub…
VC3 does indeed have a fan translation patch now. Trouble is that the game is fucking out of print in Japan now so there’s no legit way to actually get the game 🙁
Oh that’s lame 🙁
I guess I’ll just have to stick with VC 1 and pretend 2 and 3 don’t exist 🙁
Or keep holding out for an official dub and bundle, even though it’s never gonna happen 😀
OPTIMISM!!! 😀
GAH!
$280 to replace the iPad screen. Of course it had to be a new Air.
Not that I’m paying for it but that’s $280 I’ve fucked up. *hides face*
In the year I’ve been employed by the guvmint, I’ve broken/damaged 3x shredders, 5x printers, 1x window, 2x kettles, 1x stereo and 2x cars.
OK so most of them were broken by others and I tried to fix them, thus being the last one to touch them I’m responsible for the damage.I did actually back one of the new Prados into a pole at the airport though. My bad…Hahahaha, oh man, you’re about to get promoted!
He’ll be president of the Eyelandt in no time!
I am back to reading Dead Space Martyr. 76% in. It is getting damn interesting.
It’s dark, cloudy, and a chilly 21º.
BRING BACK MY SUMMER 🙁
There’s a storm on the horizon here. Nice, cool breeze. Ominous rumbling of thunder. ATMOSPHERE!
I just found the coolest iPhone case thanks to Gizmodo. It’s a mini roadcase! Would totally spray paint stencilled words on it.
Grunt. People really do make their lives harder sometimes.
So I’m on the bus and see this tiny woman – a bit older than me – dealing with some oversized bags. Looks like returning from a hospital visit. So I ask where she’s getting off and can I help her get those bags down to the steps. Turns out she’s going to the valley train station, so I offer to help her carry them to the platform, because that’s pretty much next to where I live.
She’s surprised, but happy, and we chat a little on the way – it’s a decent trip, 20-30min’ish. She’s asking questions about what it’s like to live in such a big city, and why I wear headphones. Aren’t I worried about it impairing my awareness? (“Heh. There’s not much to worry about on the street, I can handle myself.”) Doesn’t it get boring listening to the same music over and over? (“Sure, I imagine it would, if you did that.”) Doesn’t it insulate you from all these other human beings, turning you into a number? (“That’s kind of a benefit for some people. Using the earphones as ‘armour’ which allows them to plausibly deny that they’ve seen any of those hecklers-for-charity waiting in ambush for them to make them feel uncomfortable.”)
I can tell at this point she’s definitely taken the hippie kool-aid, and point out that in this modern era, a lengthy commute with no stimulus outside of some noise-cancelling music allows us time to daydream and enjoy our imaginations, which is probably the closest most folks will ever get to meditation.
And sure enough she covers the basics of our wasteful society and sweatshops in bangladesh and starts getting to the relationship type questions angle of human contact, the star-crossed individuals meeting by chance encounter, the tragedy of the ‘ant moment’ in such high population density, never really getting to know people… and when I point out I’ve got my girlfriend and friends with mutual interests to cover all those long-term socialization needs, she beats a hasty retreat, indicating she’s sorry for having taken up enough of my time.
Of course, I feel guilty about this because she’s still going to have to carry those huge-ass bags, so on disembarking, I’m still offering to carry her bags – embarrassment or no. She says she needs to stop out of my way to get to a bathroom and I note that’s fine, I’m in no hurry, I’ll happily watch the bags for her, and these look heavy. To which she replies that she’s a ‘strong, independent woman’. (Yeah, so’s my Mum and I wouldn’t let her carry two bags she can barely handle while I walk the same way. …Or for that matter, that tiny elderly-lookin’ Asian dude around christmas time with a ‘borrowed’ coles trolley full of christmas hams which he was struggling to get up a hill with. But that’s another story. Actually no, that’s just the story. I helped. The end.) But takes me up on the offer. Because when you gotta go, you gotta go.
At any rate, on returning from the bathroom and obviously psyching herself up, she tells me she’ll let me go along my way now, unless I’m going to hang around at this bar and let her buy me a drink. Sooooo yeah, I’m going on my way now.
But man. I think the more aggressive hippie granola brand of feminism has really started to do some people a disservice. I mean the cliched, “I don’t trust men,” line even came out (yeah, verbatim). (She said, leaving her bags with a stranger and then offering to buy him a drink.)
‘Feminism is all about equality’ eh? Fair enough. Although, we do already have a word for equality. It’s called ‘equality’. Equality doesn’t really need the ‘fem’ part tacked on to it, that kinda skews things. Let’s drop that part and just dig some just general equality, huh? Interaction between genders doesn’t need to be only about fucking and fighting, let’s all just appreciate and share a measure of human kindness once in a while without tying an agenda to it. 😛
Still. I always feel bad about shooting people down. 🙁 So. Grump. I just wanted to help someone out who looked like they needed it, dammit. Bah.
Don’t feel bad, society is full of people like that. You were trying to do the right thing and be helpful, if they don’t want that, then that’s their problem. Never got why people get so upset when you offer to help them with heavy or awkward items.
She sounds a little odd honestly, but don’t think much of it man. As I said you were trying to be helpful, nothing to feel bad about.
Sounds like someone should’ve kept those headphones on! #AntiSocialDC
Yyyyyyyyyyup.
That’s really sweet of you man. Nah I think it’s perfect that you helped her and didn’t take the drink. She will remember this, it will change a small part of her. You provided help and got an interesting/funny experience out of it.
You are the blurst
I lol’d. Thanks for the morning laugh, sir.
PS+ subscriptions on a budget. How does it work.
I paid late last year when it was buy 12 months and get a few more for free, so I guess that’s a question for sometime next year me.
I think you can buy them on ozgameshop relatively cheap, not sure what there is in the way of options though, i don’t really do multiplayer for the most part and never on ps so I’ve not investigated it deeply.
You buy the subscription then get games for 12 months so you don’t have to buy anything else, thus saving money?
You download the games and never play them because you’re playing the brand new shit you just bought insteadit is basically a race each month to finish each new free game which for me trying to do that whilst also spending more of my time PC gaming means a lot of PS Plus games will go unplayed for now. I only signed up in November because I got a PS4 but already I have Dragons Dogma, Uncharted 3 and Borderlands 2 waiting to be played now
I’ve had it for over a year and thus far the only game I’ve played I got from PS+ was Okami.
To be fair I finished it (again, completed on PS2 as well) and it’s still one of the best games ever \o/
Actually my AU one is about to expire and I’m considering not renewing because basically the only thing I get from it aside from periodically a few different games to the US one is that I get some cloud storage space so when my PS3 finally shits the bed I don’t lose the saved games from all the stuff I haven’t finished and probably never will get around to finishing.
Well I realised I play games so slowly they’re given away on psn before I even start them. Also my brother said it was a good investmemt
Retailers sometimes have a sale on PSN credit, but rarely. I picked up 20-25% off cards as DSE a bit ago.
Then I paired it with the typical “buy 12 months get 3 mnths free” or equivalent offer from PSN, and I got a double discount!
I’m not understanding why my local paper has to keep throwing fear about Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs when the last time I recall any violent behaviour by a biker here was over 2 years ago now closer to 3 and it was against another biker.
I also love how they tried to claim the other week that Mongol Nation was new to the area, no they just patched over The Finks who were already well established here already, like Odin’s Warriors, Comancheros & The Rebels are. Really the bikers are so quiet here you forget they exist, hell The Nomad’s run a tattoo parlour in town which doesn’t cause any trouble, you don’t know they exist. But being a border town with Queensland we get all this anti-bikie crap that’s putting fear into everyone for no reason.
I really wish they’d focus on the real threat to the public around here and it’s the kids who are just thugs and wanna be gang bangers who are only tough in groups of 5+ on individuals. This is going to sound stereotypical but this behaviour is mostly prominent in the lower class areas of my town, where the Department of Housing has a strong presence.
So, uh, the numerous brawls and problems in Coolangatta don’t count?
Or the illegal prostitution operations run by them in South Tweed and Chinderah?
Oh the ones started by those footballers who associate themselves with whichever club is flavour of the week? Or are we talking about the kids who go around bashing whoever they like? Coolangatta is full of wanna be thug kids of a night, the numerous amount of times i’ve been out there of an evening it was just that, I never see bikers out and about, it’s all these jacked up morons not much older than me wanting to pick fights with anyone they like.
Last I checked Coolangatta is in Queensland, nothing to do with New South Wales, other than being on the border. Seriously last time I ever heard of any real issues with bikers here in Tweed was at The Dolphin 2 and a half years ago.
In the last 3 weeks alone here in Tweed, 2 businesses have been ram raided, some morons tried to jack an ATM at a local bank (happened to be my bank( with a oxy torch and the former manager of Menetti’s seafood was arrested for allegedly plotting the murder of his landlord. Then over the border the Kirra sports club was robbed by a couple of islanders, countless smash & grabs involving cars in Coolangatta happened, there were suspicious devices (allegedly car bombs) found at 2 local tweed businesses, there was an attempted abduction of 2 young boys as well.. Yet there’s nothing about these out of control raping and pillaging bikers everyone is going on about..
But everyone is determined to eb running around like headless chickens because an old club was rebranded and put some new signage up with a different. I find it pathetic that I am told I am meant to be scared of such a tiny minority remember they’re One Percenters, they make up 1% of the motorbike riding community. Plus why should I be scared of them who i’ve never even encountered, when there’s shit like the psycho bogans who live in my area that deal drugs all day and threaten anyone they see fit cause they’re paranoid from sampling their own product and see everyone as a threat, then there’s the amount of anti social aggressive drunks that are easy to encounter.
Also those Anti-Bikie laws, they were tried in NSW a few years back and the supreme court of NSW had them thrown out after finding them unfit and discriminatory. Not that many remember them for some reason.
I’ve just thought the entire thing was bullshit from the get go.
I read an article today on Brisbane Times about two guys who got into a fight and one of them nearly had his hand cut off. Both arrested, the article made a point of saying that neither of them are bikies or bikie gang affiliated. Basically every crime now everyone will be looking to see whether they’re bikies so they can moral-high-horse their way on how they’ve ruined society despite a very small minority of them being responsible for a very small portion of crime in QLD.
The thing that really sickens me though is the people who think that these are ok laws and that if a few people get thrown into solitary because they were having a beer with their mates, then that’s a reasonable price to pay for these heathens to get off our streets. I’m all for clamping down on crime and criminals, but this isn’t about that, it’s about Newman for some reason having a personal crusade against bikies and wanting them off the streets
Jeez, where in Brisbane did that happen? Yep, it’s sad how they’re now doing this. I don’t see what is so special about Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, but the gov’t see’s something. There’s other gangs and trouble makers out there who are doing more damage than these bikers.
Yeah, criminals are one thing but when it’s affecting innocent bystanders who happen to know these people or are related it’s going too far. But eh, what can you expect from Newman and his like. My dad was saying the other week some of the stuff he’s doing reminds me of the days of when Joh Bjelke-Petersen governed Queensland.
There’s a bloke I work with, who’s related to some bikies, he was telling me the other week his and his mums places had been raided 3+ times in 6 months because they’re associated to bikers. Every time the cops found nothing and made no arrests. If you ask me that’s borderline harassment.
Lot of crazy shit goes down in the city and surrounding areas that no-one ever reads about purely dependent on how busy a news cycle it is.
When I was doing my journalism course at uni, we were pretty much glued to the ‘police blotter’ media-release feed and it includes all sorts of things like vehicle fatalities that never make it to the papers because it didn’t involve kids or a family (or double-whammy bonus: a pregnant woman!) , people getting shot or stabbed in public spaces, servo hold-ups, etc.
Stuff which never turns up unless someone’s failing to meet a quota.
Yep sounds about right sadly :/ I wish more stuff was reported but eh hits are important apparently. Ugh. Damn media!
Also they have to have their like 70% of celeb crap. Like apparently it was important to report about Brad Pitt being at Coolangatta Airport yesterday or something, yeah okay. He’s a person nothing special all sorts of people use airports lol.
Oh hey, people who like cool things – Hitman Contracts is on Steam now. Cheepcheepcheep. That was a pretty cool game when it came out. It was basically a remake of all the best missions from Codename 47 with some coherency (sorta) strung through them.
Easily my least favourite Hitman game. (Only cause of the recycled levels! :P)
Well, Codename 47 never made it to xbox, and it was basically an improved version of 47 with all the bugginess and the more nonsensical parts stripped out, so if you’re on PC, you might as well just replace 47 with Contracts and call it even, then move on from there to Silent Assassin, then Blood Money (my personal favourite), then Absolution.
I feel like the series peaked early at Silent Assassin and it has been all down hill from there. I remember the first time playing that it totally blew my mind the variety of carrying out missions. The longer the series went, the more on a leash 47 seems to be on…
I was going to get a copy of Absolution. Hey @alexpants, what happened to that?
You know, now that I have an income I should probably do something about sending those off…
I started on Silent Assassin, then Contracts was good as a more content kinda expansion. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Loved Blood Money, but yeah, Silent Assassin is probably my favourite.
I’ve only played Silent Assassin and thought it kicked arse!
None of the others seemed to ever make it to a Nintendo though so it’s still the only one I’ve played 😛
Does the pc version run without fucking about with slowdown cheats so you can at least see whats going on?
No idea! Haven’t picked it up. Not even sure if I will.
Three eps behind Sleepy Hollow now. I was really enjoying that show, but feel like Fox ruined the momentum with that schedule. (Going on a minor break, returning for one ep, going on a proper break, etc.)
Dammit, DC. I wanted to know what you thought of the previous episode! I can’t even say whether I liked it or not, because that’s potentially spoilery for you these days. 😛
Thinking I might not watch it until the rest of the season has aired and then marathon!
But the rest of the season did air. The last two episodes of the first season aired today.
Oh, this changes things!
@popdart5 @mythamphetamine @novacascade @mawt @tech_knight also cc @blaghman @tigerion
As usual. a fun session guys!
What awaits you in the western citadel? Who’s playing who- Nerada Trome or Raller Cay? Will Phetys find a replacement eye? What is an Abykos anyway?
Tune in next time (the 5th of Feb) for more TALES FROM THE NINTH WORLD
Damn it, the one time I decide to watch TV, the ad breaks are bomb barded with that moron Tom Waterhouse and his gambling website.
I’ll just say this:
If Tom Waterhouse allegedly knows what punters want, then why the fuck is he still having ads on tv?
Hahaha, yes! Though apparently he sold that website/business, my question is why is it still called tomwaterhouse.com.au then?!
Apparently, amazon is having a sale on cat plushies. They know the internet too well.
Thought that said cat punishers.
Was into it.
I think that daddy longlegs is kind of my pet now. Today a fly got onto the house and was buzzing around my room, I ended up catching that and now he’s feeding on it. Although he was pretty fat now from having chowed down on a silverfish or something the other night, after this he’ll probably explode.
we’re getting a few more huntsmen in the house than normal atm. I’m hoping they go after the roaches that have taken refuge behind my dishwasher
F***ing heat, driving all the roaches inside! I’m killing at least one roach every 2-3 days in this damn weather! >:(
The last huntsman that came into the house ate all the daddy long legs that were everywhere and I was kind of happy about that so I put him outside rather than making him feel the crushing weight of a shoe.
I’m pretty sure if my wife saw more than one Huntsman a year, she would scream herself into a coma.
Sleep tight.
That’s cool, but no Hurdy Gurdy
Latest episode of Supernatural:
Hilarious(in a good way). I have no idea why we need Sam. The Dean and Crowley show is just as awesome as the Cas and Dean show. Some of Crowley’s lines were spectacular. 😀Crowley the demon from the first season that died a long while back? Moffat!!!Nope. Crowley the Crossroads Demon from Season 5 onwards. Although pretty much everyone else in the show has died and come back.That reminds me I still have to figure out where I am with that and how to catch up on it.
TV without TV is hard.
Who has 2 thumbs and just made Havel the Rock his bitch?
THAT’S RIGHT, THIS GUY \o/
…
that’s all i got to say, GOODNIGHT TAY 😛
\o/ Praise the ferret!
Hooray!
I celebrated killing Havel by equipping a Fang Boar Helm and dying three times in the same spot right at the end of Sen’s Funhouse.
So I am thinking of hitting up Melbourne for Soundwave Feb 27th – March 3rd. My mate said I am welcome to stay with him for Soundwave. I came up with the idea since I just know I won’t get to see everyone I want to see and there’s still tickets for Melbourne Soundwave going and flights are cheap… My mate also said I can stay with him for Soundwave if I want and he’s about 200 metres from Flemington racecourse.
If this does happen this could also mean a meat with me, if I have the time. Since I will have to see Daniel & Christine (that one is a given) and two other Melbourne friends. But otherwise who’d wanna meet up for something?
Me! But I don’t live in Melb!
😀
Well where do you live?! Haha.
QLD. 😛
Where in QLD, proximity to Brisbane or a little too far from there? Cause I sometimes make appearances at Brisbane meets.
1000km to Bris. 🙁
I’m guessing up around Townsville?
@virus__ yeah, close. Mackay, 400km below Townsville.
It’s that late already?
Goodnight.
Asshole Taurus Demon defeated \o/
And got the Drake Sword but it seems incredibly slow plus two-handed only so I don’t see the point of it. Then I got poisoned by rats and went up a staircase and the dude at the top one-hit me so I think I don’t go that way. 😐
You might need to grind some stats, but you can use the Drake Sword one-handed. It’s worth it for the early stages – it’ll help quite a bit.
The dude at the top of the stairs is indeed optional.
PS: Congrats on beating the Taurus Demon. This is where the game really starts! \o/
How much strength do you need to get to use it one-handed? I think I have around 15.
16 STR 10 DEX.
Oh so not much grinding necessary for me at all then. Cool.
Drake Sword two handed? Maybe increase your strength a bit so you can one hand it.
Also, some tips for the Black Knight at the top of the stairs:
If you have fireball (pyromancy) use that while you back away from him down the stairs, otherwise lure him into the open. His pretty slow and offers up lots of free backstabs. Also, in the open there is a ledge bit you can stand on. Don’t do that, his greatsword is large enough to still hit you, and you basically corner yourself.Goodluck! What system are you playing on?
Woo, congrats!
I think you need a strength of something like 35 to one hand wield the drake sword and when you can, it’ll be a weapon you may well keep long beyond its ideal effectiveness just because you’ve grown so attached to it. At least its what I did, I actually resisted a moderate damage upgrade because of the attachment I formed to a sword.
It really does show the psychological torture effects of the game when you emotionally bond with an inanimate object because it’s been with you through all the other torture.
Fire is a good thing to have, keeping a stock of firebombs on hand for heavily armoured enemies is pretty helpful. There’s another large enemy near that knight who one shotted you who’s quite vulnerable to fire (and if you go there & need to take cover to use an estus flask, you can run up some stairs to the right to get a breather)
The only things I got attached to were my Black Knight great axe and Black Iron armour. My dude was so over levelled that he could one hand the dragon greatsword, Havels great shield and wear full Havel armour while still moving relatively quickly, but I refused to have such an ugly looking character so kept my good-looking lowered levelled gear instead :3
35? That’s Ultra Greatsword and Greataxe territory…
Really? Oh well shows how shit my memory is. I just remember having to wait seemingly forever to use it.
I’m pretty sure you are thinking of the Dragon Ultra-Greatsword. Which, like the other ultra-greatswords require a shit-tonne of strength to wield in one hand.
I’ve never really understood the Dragon weapons. Usually by the time you have the stats to use them there’s much stronger weapons available.
Basically the same thing can be said for most boss weapons/ unique weapons. Most normal weapons out-damage them when fully upgraded.
True. That said I still regularly use the Fury Sword and Moonlight Greatsword.
@Freeze, I can understand the Moonlight Greatsword. It has the highest int scaling of any weapon. Big problem though is that it only deals magic damage.
Chances are I’m just getting game systems mixed up in my head, thinking of something where 30 strength is only a moderate amount
You guys should all watch In A World…, good movie! I’ve been waiting months to watch it! Oliver and I had a whiskey and movie date on my bed (…) watching it. What’s kinda concerning is that he seems to like all the movies we watch together more than me. Even the Tim and Eric movie.
But yeah, been an odd week between us. Turns out time apart made us a lot closer, which is kinda weird to the point I’m not sure what to make of it, but also kinda nice, somehow…
So I finally enrolled for Uni this year, and one of my units goes for a whole 3 days with no exam or anything. Turns out entrepreneurship doesn’t take much effort. I know it seems like a bludge but it does genuinely look interesting, plus let’s me spend more time focusing on my degree than just random electives.
Housemate! So we officially have her off the lease as of yesterday. Her dad came and tried to intimidate us and told us that entering her room is legally trespassing which I thought was hilarious and adorable. Told that to our landlord (who is awesome) and he thought the same. She still has some shit in her room she purposely left there till Friday for some reason and I already know exactly what I’m calling both her and her dad as soon as they leave. Behind a deadlocked door. For my safety : P at least I know where she gets it from now.
So yeah, quick catch up on events lately. Been kinda busy, haven’t had much internet since housemate managed to get the wireless dongle in her name somehow and took it. Telstra won’t credit me for a third one 🙁 Also going back up to Burnie again next week for a few days! Was fun last time, am looking forward to it.
PS am a little drunk right now.
G’night, @powalen.
Morning!
It sure is.I won a Samurai Pizza Cats DVD on Facebook about a week ago, am waiting for delivery. NOSTALGIA BLAST OFF. Anyone else watch that show on Agro’s Cartoon Connection way back when?
Ahhh, what a great show.
The one instance of an anime series where they cut it to pieces, reassembled everything, dubbed it with no real regard to the what was going on in the Japanese version and as a result actually produced something far better than it was originally.
Out of curiosity once, I thought I’d see if I could find some subbed copy in the original Japanese. I had a devil of a time, and after watching it, I found myself really appreciating what the guys adapting it had brought to the table by way of cultural references and puns.
It’s always fun reading translator notes about how to get a joke across.
See that’s the thing. Samurai Pizza Cats isn’t a translation at all. Far from it. When I think it was Saban licensed Cat Ninden Teyandee from Japan and the masters finally arrived, all they got was the video. They had no scripts and certainly no translations. There were various other issues as well, but basically they’d picked up the show on the cheap, no one involved spoke a word of Japanese and they didn’t even have a script to get translated.
So a bunch of writers got together in a boardroom for a week or so and watched the show in Japanese without any context and basically had a long MST3K-style bullshit session where they made shit up. They then recut the show to match what they were making up. That’s why so many of the jokes in the show are brilliant. All the characters with naming puns, the innuendo in some of it and everything.
And the end result is that SPC is actually vastly better in its recut irreverent English language form than it was as a mediocre kids anime.
Samurai Pizza Cats!
One of the earliest shows I watched as a wee lad. I think it was on in the mornings on Cartoon Connection…?
Pack my bag, my kids’ bags, fix the waist of my favourite skirt, stabilise(stitch-in-the-ditch) a quilt, and clean up the house a bit so I don’t come home to a @sughly experience(maggots!). That’s all I have to do today. Piece of cake. 😛
With enough time left to finish Dark Souls. Can’t leave any loose ends behind.
Not sure I really want to “Prepare To Die” while I’m preparing to board a plane. 😛
as far as I know, that’s not one of the ways you can die in Dark Souls…unless someone’s released a mod for it. Maybe look that up 😀
It’d be a hell of a weapon to use against a Taurus Daemon. “Oh no, you’ve got a great big hammer?? Oh wait, what’s that? IT’S MY AIRSTRIKE SUCKER!!!!”
🙁
Good morning TAY.
I stumbled across this article this morning…
http://www.techspot.com/news/55418-researchers-demonstrate-14-tbps-broadband-connection-using-commercial-grade-hardware.html
Certainly puts the Libs vision of the NBN in a new light, a light tinted a beautiful colour of BS, considering their primary argument for laying fibre is that “we dont know if it will be the best technology in the years to come”
I’M ON THE NBN. According to Turnbullshit anyway. Telstra HFC is brilliant. It drops to under 1Mbps during peak hour times. What a time to be alive
The whole NBN was a joke from the beginning. What’s faster than light?
As long as they laid enough high-quality cable, you can always upgrade the endpoints for better speed.
Pretty fancy, I wonder if its actually compressing the bands like ADSL does or if its just massively more efficient at organising transmissions so there’s almost no dead air.
So, does anyone care about the Michael Bay Ninja Turtles movie anymore? It popped up in my Facebook feed today (photo of child’s costume for Michaelangelo is simply awful, and includes such ‘genius’ design elements as boardshorts and a tattoo on his shoulder), and I decided to find out where things were at.
It doesn’t look all that promising. But to be fair, this is (apparently) the concept they were working from before Michael Bay even entered the picture:
I’m not sure this film ever really had a chance.
By the machine spirit… I’m glad it got leaked, and hopefully it was burned to ashes afterwards
2 sentences on from that:
“In response to The Blue Door, Bay stated that the draft had been written before he and Platinum Dunes joined the project and was promptly rejected some time before.”
From my post:
I’m just saying that with the bar starting so low, anything would be an improvement. 😛
It’s more the “promptly rejected some time before” part I was referring to.
They said the same thing about the second transformers movie and … yeahhhhhh.
However it turns out I’ll be going to see it. I didn’t mind the first Transformers movie, as dumb as it was it was still fun enough. Most of his movies are watchable.
I’ll probably see it too. After all, it can’t possibly be worse than the Star Wars prequels or Indy IV, and I shelled out for those. (Not that I necessarily blame Michael Bay for the overall crumminess of those movies.)
Heh. Shelled out.
The first one was ok the first time you see it but repeated viewings just maje me hate how much it’s a teenage love story that has giant robots as a background. Every now and then I’ll watch it and think I was wrong. I still haven’t brought myself round to watching the third one yet. Shockwave’s my favourite transformer after Omega Supreme so I don’t need my childhood ruined that much
The thing that really showed how fucking awful the first film was, I saw Jazz get killed and I didn’t even know who it was until I got home and looked it up on the net.
I’ll just pretend I didn’t read any of this
I forgot this film was being made, and now I remember. Thanks, jerk.
Raphael is the comic relief. Are you fucking kidding me?
Updated script since Michael Bay became involved
Teenage Alien Invader New Turtles
I was looking over some stuff for it and saw that it had Wil Arnett in it, I thought “hey he’d make a pretty good Vernon” and then it turns out he actually is Vernon and I kinda got a little excited. Then they also have Baxter Stockman in it (and he’s black??) and Shredder is being played by the guy from Prison Break/Dark Knight and… I think I will probably end up seeing his movie (despite Mega Fox *vomits*) if only out of morbid curiosity 😛
DARK SOULS TWO. The countdown.
47 days to go. HgngngngsdfgdfsgjhdfghfjkghdffdkgDSJFKHDSAGJKAHGDFGHFLKGHFDG
So. I just pre-ordered this by accident.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0744015472
I’m kind of worried about this escalation of spending. If this continues, I’m probably going to end up buying a full set of these by release date, and my family will be living on the streets because we defaulted on our mortgage payments.
Hey, if girls can apparently spend $500 on hair, then surely you can spend similar amounts on something prettier and more permanent? 😛
And this is why I buy board games 😛
I don’t let my girls spend $500 on their hair 😛
Don’t remind me of this 😛
That Garruk statue is also very cool.
CANBERRA TAYBIES (forgive me I cant think of your tags right now)
Anton and I are up in your city this weekend and my parents have pulled out. SO THAT MEANS PARTY TIME!!!!!
First up if anyone is thinking of going to CANCON – we are aiming to be there on saturday about 11am – about 4? After that we have no plans, but were thinking maybe dinner and drinks in the city if anyone was interested 🙂
Would be great to see those of you I have met and Meat those that I havent 🙂
Let me know if you would like to catch up 🙂
Cheers,
Chris
@bdkiaf @rize @blaghman @shane
I won’t be CanConning. I’m not sure if anything is happening this weekend in terms of family things, but if I can do something, I’d like to!
@shane @rize @blaghman
Also @BDKAIF. I didn’t forget him, shut up!
Fuck it, that’s why I didn’t want to tag his name because I would screw it up.
*hands nob a shovel*
Thanks Nob, You are awesome 🙂
Hey, let us know if you see a copy of Suburbia there for a decent price
Will do, Whats the easiest way to let you know?
Hit me up on the twitters! If it’s a good price, are you able to grab it and mail it? happy to paypal you cash on the spot
Shouldn’t be a problem at all
Cheers Man!
But if there’s only one, I call dibs :p
SYDNEY TAY! It’s Masha’s Farewell!
We were planning to do something this Sunday (Australia Day) before Masha goes away.
Except we have no plans yet… 😛 Anybody have any ideas? Trying to be a bit more economical this time because lots of us are cash-strapped. I thought maybe we could just hang around the CBD because there’s a lot of stuff on for Australia Day.
Otherwise if people prefer, we could just hang out at my place and play games? I don’t know how well that will work out if we get a big turn-out though. I have like… 4 seats + a floor 😛
Anyway if anybody has some better ideas, post them!
@35, @alexpants, @anonymous_pessimist, @batgirl, @batguy, @cakesmith, @cj, @doc_what, @effluvium-boy, @fatshadylive, @gingerchris86, @gorzilla, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @masha2932, @shiggyninty, @powalen, @ruffleberg, @markserrels, @mrtaco, @sernobulus, @shane, @rize
ps. I’m totally going to save these tags somewhere this weekend for everyone to use. So much hassle to dig them up each time 😛 If someone wants to send me the Melbourne/Brisbane/etc tags (preferably replacing the @’s with #’s something so they don’t get tagged :P) as well I’ll put them up too!
MASHAAAAAAAA
Did you forget @blaghman and @BDKIAF or have they previously un-RSVP’d?
I just copy/pasted from a previous Meat post 😛 This is why we need a standard place to copy/paste from! I’ll get on it this weekend! 😀
Added them to the new post!
I love that whoever put the list together last time alphabetised the tags, and then you just came and ruined it 😛
Edit: From memory, I think the TAYNAMES doc has a “state” section…?
Only eight people actually volunteered to put their state on TAYnames.
Benny, colcamv, D.C, f4ction, myself, redartifice, saturday, and TheCracks actually put down their state on TAYnames.
Is that Sunday set in stone? We could meet up outside Galaxy World on the Saturday like we did back in the day?
We’d planned for Sunday at some point last week, but if people are happy with Saturday then I don’t mind either way.
I’m busy Saturday. I kept Sunday free cause that was the day Cake mentioned.
You should all get together and buy me presents for my birthday <3
No?
Aww, well then I just want you all to have a good time for Bumasha <3
grrr, why doesn’t google play accept paypal? I don’t want to put in my credit card number in a tablet.
Google Play has been really strange for my Galaxy S4 lately, wasting a LOT of my battery making it go from lasting 5-6 days each charge, to less than one and a half. I had to disable it via applications manager to put it back to normal.
Also: YES! Why no fricken Paypal option?! I would actually buy games on my mobile if they had that option, I never trust using my card number straight up…
Google Wallet functions much the same as paypal though, and you can get it to remember your numbers.
Can i get more information on it?
Google Wallet is the native payment processor for google services (and is now in a bunch of other stuff). While you can’t do the direct cash transfer Paypal stuff, you can certainly do all of the Google play stuff with it. it ties to your google account
If you’re trying to buy something from google play, it should give you the wallet option and the option to remember your details. When i buy something on my tablet (both apps and in-app stuff like comics) it only asks for a password.
Man, get someone to record speaking this chain and you’ve got yourself a radio ad.
oh, so I already have it and didn’t know. Thanks Red.
And a little easy listening jingle background music.
http://www.fiverr.com
This is an ad for Google, I’m sure they can afford more than five bucks
Nah.
yeah apple store is the same. pain in the ass
This is what bugs me about itunes, too. They take paypal in the US, just not Australia. Fuckers.
Translink, you’re so wonderful. 3 carriage train turns up for peak hour to the CBD, naturally it’s crammed full. Announcement comes over: ‘we’re monitoring the comfort on this train. If you find it not comfortable you are reminded that there is a train 8 minutes before and 8 minutes after this one’. Now I’m all for the fact that there’s a shitload of trains in the morning, but not even an apology? Mind you, it is Translink…
Any Man Utd fans here btw? Just gotta laugh at what a joke that team is now 😀
never liked Man Utd. More than almost any other team, they bought premierships. they let a run of good years get to their head & they’re the most arrogant team in the Premier League.
Give me an underdog any day. Blackburn 5 eva.
Wolverhampton!
are you actually a Wolves fan? 😛 We had a trip there in the FA Cup third round in 2007 I think it was. Almost took Wolves back to the Abbey for a replay in which we would’ve won 😛
The reminder that people can take the train that left 8 minutes ago is just to whittle out the time traveler’s amongst us!
DAMMIT THEY’RE ON TO US
Great Scott Marty
This is heavy.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
Potato salad for breakfast. It’s okay because it has bacon and eggs in it.
you, I envy you. Even with my cookies for breakfast
Fry it up. That’ll make it sorta breakfasty, like bacon eggs and hash browns all mixed up.
I already ate it.
*Lies down on hot plate*
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/sainsburys-price-comparison/fresh_ready_meals/sainsburys_bacon_brunch_with_onion_400g.html
This used to be my go to easy fry up option back in England. Add a couple of fried eggs and toast and you’re done
OM NOM NOM
Of course that would be the last post on the page 😛 This is all Masha’s fault.
REPOST:
SYDNEY TAY! It’s Masha’s Farewell!
We were planning to do something this Sunday (Australia Day) before Masha goes away.
Except we have no plans yet… 😛 Anybody have any ideas? Trying to be a bit more economical this time because lots of us are cash-strapped. I thought maybe we could just hang around the CBD because there’s a lot of stuff on for Australia Day.
Otherwise if people prefer, we could just hang out at my place and play games? I don’t know how well that will work out if we get a big turn-out though. I have like… 4 seats + a floor 😛
Anyway if anybody has some better ideas, post them!
@35, @alexpants, @anonymous_pessimist, @batgirl, @batguy, @cakesmith, @cj, @doc_what, @effluvium-boy, @fatshadylive, @gingerchris86, @gorzilla, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @masha2932, @shiggyninty, @powalen, @ruffleberg, @markserrels, @mrtaco, @sernobulus, @shane, @rize, @blaghman, @bdkiaf
ps. I’m totally going to save these tags somewhere this weekend for everyone to use. So much hassle to dig them up each time 😛 If someone wants to send me the Melbourne/Brisbane/etc tags (preferably replacing the @’s with #’s something so they don’t get tagged :P) as well I’ll put them up too!
Thanks for organising this Pow.
I’m up for anything 🙂
Yeah, alright.
Somewhere where Cards Against Humanity can be played…
I don’t have a deck! You’ll have to ask @cakesmith nicely 😛
Or @doc_what. I don’t even have to ask nicely!
But I will.
I will be there!
Just name a time and place and Ill show my face.
I totally can’t remember what I had on this weekend!
I feel like it was something but I’m not sure if it was just a load of bullshit that happened in my dream this morning and now I am highly confused.
Good morning, @mrtaco.
You have this on this weekend
I feel excluded 🙁
Blame whoever I copied that list from! 😛
@freya @trjn There!
Watched basically two seasons of Louie yesterday!
Man, you can really main line this show. So easy to marathon.
oh man, talk about a sincere moment of guilt…
so was playing DayZ last night with 3 friends… We are all very well equiped, with assault vest, tactical helmets, guns etc… amazingly we have been alive for a week, ( we have only been playing this game for 2 weeks so we are still n00bs).
anyway we have an iPad app called izurvive, and ive mapped out a pathway that everyone can see, leading the group to specific routes, with different objectives. our end point will be reaching cherno and clearing all the bandits, then helping out other n00bs on the coast.
long story short. last night we returned to the NW airfield. we always keep our eyes peeled and run through stealthily as there’s always people there (its a military base).
Anyway, i saw someone running through the top floor of a building. we took caution and waited to see if he was alone. he had an M4 on his back. i ran out, gun pointed and asked him to put his hands up,
this was our first time in this kind of scenario. i didn’t want to rob the guy or kill him. so after thinking about this for a while, i decided to take his blood. didn’t want to kill the guy so i asked him if he still had colour on his screen. (that indicates his blood levels are OK and he isn’t sick). he said yes, so i took a bag of blood.
i gave him some food and a can opener and realised he had no ammo for his guns so i directed him towards the ammo.
then came the guilt…
stage 1: he explained to me that he just swapped backpacks. correct way of doing this is to empty your backpack into the one on the floor then drag the new one across equipping it. he dumped his backpack loaded on the floor. whilst we had him cuffed, it appears it fell through the ground and he lost all his stuff.
felt terrible so i gave him a bunch more stuff.
stage 2:
after sending him off on his merry way, he was stoked. when i first told him to get down, he said in voice chat “great, i finally make it to the airfield and i get jacked!”. he thought we were going to kill him… after leaving the airfield i realised i didn’t know his blood type. which makes me taking his blood pointless. immediately felt bad and wanted to go back and give it back to him 🙁
hopefully i can still take a sample from the bag and test it so it wasn’t all in vain….
The most annoying thing about Day Z is that the stories for it are always brilliant. I was hoping to wait till the game is more matured but I can feel my resolve slipping.
Here’s my experience with the game.
Went into house, house is empty, went into house, house is empty, went into house, house is empty, went into house, house is empty, went into house, house is empty, went into house, house is empty, quit because the item spawn rules are probably the stupidest I have ever played in a game.GOTY \o/
man, every town we stop in is almost always unlooted. you can always expect the coastal towns to get ransacked. ill give you a good tip? Guda. its a bit far out, north east coast, but i find its the best place to gear up. there is no one ever there, you can find backpacks, food, water, as well as guns. theres a small airfield and military base not far. as well as a water fountain.
I foresee a time when people will start to pick up on who feels guilty about things and then trying to work that angle. As it is, I need friends before I’m buying this. No way I’m playing on my own
hahaha, you are welcome to join us man!
you too @rize !
its actually quite fun playing it in alpha. every time they release a patch, its an awesome feeling seeing all the new changes and additions.
Question: I’m looking at iZurvive out of curiosity. How does it get information on your position? Or does it just go via manual flags?Once again, I learned the importance of reading the whole description and not just skimming it 😛
if you want to check out our map, use these details:
Name: DeviousAUSecret: DVSClan
case sensitive
Well I’ve got it but haven’t started yet beyond loading it up once to test out how TrackIR feels with it so I’m in for adding to the noob pool
Just a reminder to Brisbane folks, there’s tentative plans for Sat, Feb 1st! There’s talk of (drunken) karaoke! Dinner too, maybe? (Also this early reminder here is so Pow can copy the Brisbane tags. :P)
@sughly, @freezespreston, @dkzeitgeist, @strange, @transientmind, @beardymcmuttonchops, @welbot, @sernobulus, @virus__, @popdart5, @jimu, @gutsoup, @lambomann007
@bdkiaf and @rocketman will be in town for Laneway!
@powalen
Too slow!
@powalen
@powalen?
@powalen
@powalen
@powalen! \o/
@powalen
why are we all @powalen
“Boy, I’m popular today!”
“…Oh”
@powalen
@powalen!
I’m a Brisbane folk 😛 it’s my housemate’s birthday anyway on the 1st
Thought about tagging you, but I’ll wait until you express interest in going to a meat. Otherwise it’d be peer pressure and we don’t want that. Only a monster would pressure someone to go to a meat for ten months before they were ready. (cc. @strange. :P)
I’m up for it after this one. Beer pressure? I don’t drink beer but that’s the best kind of pressure (apart from Under Pressure)
I’m a cookie monster. Cookies from Mrs Fields in the Myer Centre are awesome.
Cookie meat? That’s a meat I could get behind!
Already have babysitter organised.
Is everyone cool with Music City for karaoke? It was the place we went to last time and they seem to have the best song selection and it’s BYO so boozin’ is easy for those interested.
Let me know estimates on numbers and I’ll book.
That was a cool place. Nice and private.
Oh dammit, why do I always miss the karaoke? I’ve never done it and want to try it(and obviously get very drunk in order to do so 😛 ).
Wait… I recall my very first shindig in Sydney in 2005 involved karaoke.
And you were there… and you were there… and you w…
I was there, but I didn’t Karaoke.
Edit: I didn’t have enough money to drink that night,which is probably why I didn’t join in.
Wow, that is forever ago. I didn’t even know Kotaku was around back then!
It wasn’t. @strange and I have internetty pals history that precedes Kotaku.
Well that makes sense then!
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I miss my pre-07 internet friends.
We’ll organise a special one when you’re back.
I am interested
+1
@gutsoup ???
you gonna get drunk and have a sing?
I can guarntee the first request.
I was so bad last time, @sughly took the mic away!
Im not even close to being acceptable.
I won’t be here!
You’ll be fighting curses in ancient ruins! Remember to pack the rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle!
I doubt I’ll be there either. It’s just too soon for me. Sometime after either the 8th or 28th I’ll probably be able to attend meats again, so we should organize one for then. Perhaps March sometime. Just not on the night I go see Frenzal Rhomb, or I’ll fuckin spew!
Guess I should add to that, that depending on the plan, I may be able to do a dinner or something if it’s in west end or some other place with free parking, but I doubt I’ll be able to do karaoke and all that.
I’m a maybe at the moment! I’ve been invited to a gig that Saturday!
HRNG sounds awesome. Yes please, karaoke!
Man dat feeling… that Dark Souls I KICKED YO ASS feeling…
As i said i killed Havel The Rock last night,
FINALLY nailed the backstabs (THANKS @trjn, @shane and @freezespreston)
Took the Taurus demon down with me while i was at it because why the hell not…
But prior to that YASD happened… the epitomy of YASD (Yet Another Stupid Death)… completely forgot about the 2 archers on top of the tower near where the Taurus demon comes out…
And silly me, on a high from killing Havel just barreled out onto the bridge, realised i was still without armor, so decided to equip it…
yeeeeaaaah 😛
Fwip Fwip dead \o/
i couldn’t stop laughing
Those are the best deaths. You can’t even get mad.
Exactly, i reckon it was the game’s way of saying “Well done… BUT!”
\o/
Last night I was making my way down to the depths after helping people with the Capra Demon. Got to the bonfire but just before I was about to light it I got invaded by a low level ganker (low level character with high level armour, usually spewing Dark Beads at you). Had no chance with the newborn character I had. Sent all the way back to the Undead Parish. \o/. Wait…Man i hate that :P, i tend to not go Human very often, just so that doesn’t happen to me 😛
You’re welcome. I helped not at all, but got credit. That’s not the Dark Souls feeling at all. Unless other people jolly co-operate on your behalf.
Other people scare me 😛
I don’t want other people to witness how useless i am
Mine usually involve killing a boss, then rolling off a cliff. BEST DEATH! \o/
@virus_
Happy birthday mate!
Urgh, can someone @ him for me
@virus__
(double underscore)
Happy birthday! Get drunk… at work!
HAPPEE BIRDDAY @virus__ \o/
Hurber Birthdy @virus__ !
THANKS RED GUY.
Thanks Ferret buddy!
Birthday happy.
THANKS!
I was at EB today though D=
I fail to see what the problem is…? 😛
There was no alcohol at EB? Jeez Shane 😛
Ah, so lack of forward planning. That was the problem. I understand now! 😛
Well, now you mention it I do own a hip flask…
Woooo! Happy birthday! I had no idea you were a January birthday as well!
Hope the year treats you awesome!
Thanks DC, i’m pretty quiet about my birthday, never saw it as a big deal lol.
Happy birthday Virusy!
THAAAAAAAAANKS POW.
Happy Birthday @Virus__! If I knew your birthday was this week I would have happy birthday’d you at the last meat!
NO KOTAKU, YOU ARE POSTING TOO QUICLY, YOU SLOW DOWN. >=(Yeah, I get that all the time – even if I haven’t posted for half an hour. 😛
THAAAAAAAANKS NOB! No one knew so all good, I never fuss over my birthday 😛
Happy birthday virus guy
Cheers dude!
Thank you Scree!
Hope you didn’t mind me making it a big deal =P
It’s cool 😛 I’ll let it slide this once haha. I joke. Thanks!
TAYlist request time, what music should I play?
Baba O’Riley- The Who
The Seeker is my favourite Who track.
Baba is mine, but the seeker is pretty good. Hell, most of The Who’s output was great
Yeah you’re right. Just thought I’d mention because Seeker never seems to be on any greatest hits compilations.
The best collection is “Thirty Years of Maximum R&B,” The third disc alone has Baba, The Seeker, Behind Blue Eyes, Love Reign O’er me and Won’t Get Fooled Again!
My favourite’s A Quick One (While He’s Away). That live recording of the last part that’s on the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus video is amazing.
“Don’t cry…” The part that starts with that gives me chills every time. <3
And when the Violin kicks in!
Obscure hipster request :
Darlings of New Midnight – These Arms are Snakes.
Serious request :
Politik – Coldplay
Ducks Don’t Need Satellites – Kate Miller Heidke
Which reminds me… Have you pledged for the new album? Theres a free live album download with it.. 🙂
I… have not.
Nightswimming — REM
or
When You Believe (From the Prince of Egypt) — Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston
or
Heal the World — Michael Jackson (Or Man in the Mirror… Or They Don’t Care About Us…)
Stand Up For Rock N Roll – Airbourne
Give a Little – Hanson
Got to admire his persistence! XD
Balrog Boogie – Diablo Swing Orchestra
Bien Bien – Control Machete
David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes.
A Perfect Circle – Ashes to Ashes
(you reminded me they covered it and it’s pretty good)
Oh cool I haven’t heard it! I’d like to hear Maynards vocals having a go at it.
RHCP – No Chump Love Sucker
Song you won’t have:
Future’s Bright Man – He Is Legend
Song you might have:
My God Is The Sun – Queens of the Stone Age
Song you will have (and if you don’t I will be disappointed):
Rock the Casbah – The Clash
I love those requests, I know we have some QotSA
Hipster Choice – LCD Soundsystem Get Innoccuous
Nicer Choice – New Order – 1963
One you’ll definitely have – Pink Floyd – Wish you were here
You have to be joking, we actually don’t have Wish You Were Here
What???? How ????
No Clue, we have other Pink Floyd, but not that one.
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wut
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Requests are closed, thanks for your requests.
So is this just singles or tracks off full CDs? Usually singles are my least favourite songs on an album
Umm, can you clarify, I don’t quite catch your drift, if you catch my drift.
If you’re asking as to which songs I want, I want any song, things that you would want to hear on the radio.
Well I was going to suggest Depeche Mode’s Clean but as far as I know they never released that as a single. If it was singles only, the only ones you might have off that album would be Personal Jesus or Enjoy The Silence but if you could just chuck the last track of the CD on then it’d open your options up more.
Shine on you crazy diamond – Pink Floyd
I don’t care what people my age are listening to! I will cherish the classics whether they like it or not!
EDIT: Too late
I personally prefer Comfortably Numb.
I’m all about the classics that my parents would listen to, I personally really like PF’s Another Brick In The Wall Pt.2
Dealing with Telstra is annoying………… *head desk*
I’m sure you all already knew this already, just letting you know nothing has changed 😛
Mr Soup! Did you watch rick and morty?
Oh yes 😀
that Mr Jelly Bean is going to give me nightmares, that was really creepy, I’m glad Rick got himHaha poor Morty, he goes through some intense shit. I’m glad he kicked his arse though. I was in hysterics over was transpired with those blue helper things. Such a funny show.yeah those blue dudes were hilarious, look at me I’m me-seeks, the original was the funniest he was losing it so bad by the endHaha yeah, they progressively got more and more shitty and aggressive.As a professional Telstra-dealer-wither and former Telstra wage-slave, I don’t usually have any problems… they do speak a very strange language though. What problems are you running into? Maybe I can help?
it’s sorted now, my problem was no one knew which department was supposed to handle my problem so they bounced me around for ages.
It’s time once again for TAY’s single sentence sci-fi! Post one line sf premises!
When i invented the teleporter, I didn’t expect it to receive a transmission straight away.
Always on the move, only one step ahead of the law and the decay of everything that you ever cared about, desperately seeking help treating a disease that no one can even identify…
Coming soon from ShaneWSmith. Hopefully.Star Trek Into Darkness and then Pitch Black. 😀
The next time I turned off the light, I resolved to find out where the light went.
Everything changed when the fire nation attacked …
Who could have predicted earth’s most valuable resource was cocoa beans?
Twelve serious crimes reported every minute, seventeen thousand per day, we can respond to around six percent.
That’s 3 sentences.
I missed out on the previous runs, so i’m exempt… plus something something something foreign can’t count something
Now you just have random capital letters so it’s worse.
happy now? MUUUUM 😛
If you want to live here you could at least learn how to write our language.
Why? most people can’t 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
I love the fact that comment is edited.
you been watching Dredd haven’t you 😛
…noooo
*nods*
I think they actually worked out that the city in Dredd, based on that narration, has a lower crime rate than New York.
lol really? that’s insane!
also i am a big fan of the new movie, what can i say? 😛
NEEEEEEEEERD!
\o/
the irony is that it was filmed in South Africa, the crime rate is probably higher than in the movie.
#andthatswhygutsoupgotthehellouttathere
Edit: here are some horrifying statistics
According to Interpol, South Africa has the highest recorded per capita murder rate of the countries covered in their report for 1998, second only to Columbia. In that year, Interpol recorded the per capita murder rate in the USA as 6 per 100 000, while in South Africa it was 59 per 100 000Honduras is 91.6 per 100,000
those are 15 year old stats, it has gotten worse, I just lazily found that 😛
I know some guys who were stationed over there in the service. One of the RAAF guys said when he was over there maybe 20yrs ago they had frequent briefings about driving speeds in the streets – because there were almost daily occurrences of locals hurling themselves under military vehicle wheels in order to get compensation payouts for their families.
Additionally, people would shove a gun in an Army officer’s face and demand their belongings – servicemen were advised to immediately and politely comply because life is so cheap over there that most of these robbers wouldn’t think twice about pulling the trigger if given any resistance, but would rather save the cost of the bullet if cooperated with.
Scary shit.
yeah man it’s a crazy place, saw some messed up stuff growing up over there. glad to be in a country where you don’t have to watch your back constantly.
@gutsoup Not against humans generally but (assuming you’re in Australia) what about all the monstrously venomous animals that are the size of a baby’s fingernail and have enough venom to kill 20 elephants?
@aliasalpha I’m totally fine with all the venomous critters, they’re not consciously out to get me like people :P. Plus we had our fair share of venomous critters over there,
I really should buy that movie
i found it for $9 on bluray at Sanity around christmas time 😀
Holodeckin’ with: Jenna.
Or should that be Holodickin’?
That’ll be a top seller for the occulus rift & remote controlled sex toy combo
Watching the clouds slowly roll back into place I couldn’t help but think, why couldn’t they take me too?
Whoa…
Such a Gattaca thing to say. 😀
The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day and they lived only to face a new nightmare, the war against the Machines…
Wait. Crap. I think this one may have been done before. 😀
“This Earth is not big enough for the both of us.”
We should have known that the AI was going to ask for voting rights
The AI Is Out Of Control!: Right Click, Uninstall.
An extremely short story by Freeze S. Preston.
The criminal trial for the man who formatted a sentient AI was an international first.
Batman murdered innocent AI.
Batman broke his no-kill rule.
We assumed that the martians would be subdued after six months of constant bombardment, but they only became more resourceful.
Space: The final frontierA long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…To infinity and beyondin space no one can hear you scream?If sleeping with an Actroid wasn’t immoral enough, I now had to figure out a way to get it to leave my home without overpowering its emotion chip all before my wife returned with our two adopted droid sons, Hal and David.
David: Gimme that capacitor! I was playing with it.
Hal: I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.
Haha! Classic.
The post-Xenomorph family court was certainly an interesting place.
Everyone has autism.
Wow. Mind blown. This could make a pretty amazing story.
Full disclosure: Not my idea. I was in a car with some friends and someone else posed the question.
I think I’ve actually already read something very similar when I was a kid. Some kind of biological weapon was released which damaged certain parts of peoples’ brains, but which gave different people different symptoms – some folks became mute, others lost the ability to read, others lost their hearing… and the world descended into an apocalypse as it couldn’t communicate beyond the language of action.
Maybe it’s called Spectrum! D:
I invent a time machine, go back to the 70s, save the destroyed episodes of Dr Who, slap the BBC upside the head about it (and tell them that jimmy savile is a proper wrong ‘un that they should sort out right quick), come forward in time again, sell the episodes back to the BBC, make a mint, take that money back in time a year or 3 and use it to finance the construction of my time machine in the first place.
After watching Labyrinth, they trawled the galaxy trying to find something, anything, to get the image of Bowie’s crotch out of their minds
But in the end, they realised that it was in fact the beginning and the end of all reality
Wanted to do a movie bout a kidnapped girl but that idea was Taken. So was gonna do one bout a CIA agent taken hostage but that was Taken 2
“Did it ever occur to you idiots that constantly being interrogated to detect psychopathy-inducing brain-parasites might actually CAUSE symptoms of psychopathy?”
Who expected biologically inserting allosaurus DNA into the common cat would backfire?
Everybody.
When I looked up I realised what had been troubling me this morning – the entire sky, for no fathomable reason, had turned green.
They told me a Magician had no place in combat, I sure showed them.
They told me that Gutsoup was just having no luck with his replies on page 9 😛
hmm, no one blames the reply button anymore… Have we made amends with that guy?
The Reply button is Jake the Muss and we’re Beth.
*sobs*
I’m not good at anything 😛
When you say magician, is this the fireball throwing badass kind or the “pick a card, any card” kind? Because frankly I think they have a case for option 2
I meant the slight of hand kind,
Fun Fact the Allies had a group of magicians working for them in WWII, Jasper Maskelyne is the most well known.
I just talked to Leigh Alexander on Twitter about board games. Today was starting to look pretty good, then I stubbed my toe while doing laundry.
Fuck you, universe.
I’m posting this here and on Gizmodo whitenoise interested to hear your thoughts on this:
I was wondering the other day if there would be any interest in building custom made wall hanging objects that that are based off board games.
I saw this Catan clock the other day and I thought it was a really clever idea:
http://img0.etsystatic.com/008/1/5991939/il_570xN.367255678_eysl.jpg
the problem was it was nearly $70 to buy from the US, I was thinking would there be a market in Aus for this sort of stuff?
I was thinking if I did do it, i’d go to the local markets and board game shops as well as have an online store with cheap delivery in Australia
I found some similar ones too:
http://img0.etsystatic.com/007/3/5991939/il_570xN.377006906_7e0w.jpg
http://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5203701/il_570xN.208304824.jpg
I was thinking of say a completed game of ticket to ride wall mounted and framed. It would look great in any gaming room.
What do you think?
That Catan clock is pretty awesome.
I love that carcassonne clock, and I do know people who would buy meeple merch
You could easily make several of them from one copy of the base game. Seems like the most practical one to make.
Also the raddest.
You could do a few with Catan as well, not as many though obviously
If you’re using the desert as the central tile, you could make one clock using the 5-6 player expansion. If you’re just going to use anything, then you can make maybe two with the base set if you make it look the same, more if you use roads/settlements to mark the hours.
I was thinking of doing that as I wasn’t 100% sold on the idea of using the number tokens, mainly because having the “7” and “1” blank looks out of place.
I was going to let Dark Souls rot in my library, but stuff it. I’m playing it today. However, I think I will do a little more research on the wiki for starting classes to begin with.
Starting class does not matter for very long. It only determines starting stats and gear. You will eventually find all of the starting classes’ gear in the world and the stats progression system is remarkably flexible.
If you want to do certain builds, like pyromancy or miracles, you do need to pick the relevant starting class but otherwise you could almost choose randomly.
It is a horrible evil game that will take over your life. You’ll swear and hate yourself repeatedly because of how shit you are at the game then suddenly you won’t be shit at whatever you were stuck on any more and then you’ll think you like it but it’s just stockholm syndrome.
I hope they fix up some of the really clunky shit in the sequel. It’s one thing for the game to refuse to hold your hand and tell you where to go and how to beat stuff and so on, but the obtuse way that it refuses to reveal any of its systems to you is retarded. Stuff like being able to dodge-roll better if your gear’s weight is below 25% of your carrying capacity, or the way that the stats actually affect your ability to do damage, or what the blue fuck Poise is and why you’d want it. The charm of the game would be in no way diminished by having it actually explain to you basic stuff like that.
If I ever get around to finally playing this thing, I’m going to be joined at the hip to the wiki.
I have the approach of giving something a bash first… if i fail repeatedly, i will then hit up forums/wikis/here for help…
To me half of the satisfaction is working something out for yourself
Ain’t no-one got tiem for dat shit! I just calculated that if I play every game in my pile of shame for only 10hrs before moving on, and double my current gaming allowance to 4hrs per day, every day, I won’t complete my backlog for damn near three and a half years.
And that’s only if I don’t buy any new games. /o\
When I attempted Dark Souls I didn’t have a clue what was going on. Even the stats screens don’t make any sense at all and as far as I know, never explained. Wiki is definitely your friend.
Poise is just a measure of how stylish you look doing everything. If you have high poise, every so often enemies will just stop and say “Woah, I’ve got to admit, that was cool”.
At least that’s what I arbitrarily decided because I never got around to looking it up
It’s a measure of whether you flinch or your attacks are interrupted when you are hit. Higher it is the more you can just power through attacks.
I prefer my version to be honest
It’s resistance to being staggered / knocked off balance by an enemy attack.
@effluvium-boy is pretty awesome! LET IT BE KNOWN!
he’s ok, I guess.
The kid knows of/likes Yankie bars,
HE’S A FRAKING LEGEND!
I’ll sue you for libel.
You’re number 1 in the queue (on the phone). Your wait time is 3 minutes.
You’re number 1 in the queue (on the phone). Your wait time is 3 minutes 43 seconds
You’re number 1 in the queue (on the phone). Your wait time is 8 minutes 12 seconds
Today is being fun
Edit, now it’s 10 minutes and I’m still number 1 in the queue
silver lining
naw, is that all for me? 😀
OR
it’s telling you you’re Number 1, as in your awesome and great…
and that you’re still in the queue…
I don’t need Harvey Norman telling me that I’m awesome and great though, I already know this 😛
Nothing to do with number one, but ‘you are GOLD’
and the death metal version. I love Ten Masked Men
Oh, it’s a Harvey Norman system. I wouldn’t trust it to be able to measure things like counting. It’s probably mistakenly telling a thousand people simultaneously that they are number one. I wouldn’t trust their clock, either.
haha, I had the same thought.
you’re all right Pixel, you’re all right 😛
I will play Dark Souls…
after I’ve read TAY.
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Kotaku is all Dark Souls today anyway so you won’t get away from it. Let’s petition the Government to change Australia Day to Dark Souls Day
No! Don’t replace Australia Day. Create an extra day adjacent to it. Extended holiday! …To play Dark Souls with.
Why are we so attached to using a day for Dark Souls? Surely a Dark Souls week would be more suitable.
Festival of Gross Incandescence can be followed by Sunbro Saturday and The Jolly Co-operation long weekend. We don’t hold no truck with Gravelord covenants though.
Has to be on the summer solstice so we have the maximum amount of time for praising the sun
Unreasonably annoyed by the Candy Crush ‘saga’ trademark bullshit. Considering making up email addresses to spam http://about.king.com/about/contact with questions. Questions about exactly when they lost all sense of human decency, or how they sleep at night, and do their children/parents/loved ones know the extent of the douchebaggery they’re involved with.
Like Zynga before them, they’ll buckle under their own evil eventually.
I hope so dc, I’m not a fan of mobile gaming in general, portable gaming is fine but mobile gaming *shudders*
I just find those games tend to be a bit soulless and resent how popular they are despite the fact they’ve stolen other peoples work and put new graphics over it.
haha, yep I resent them for being so popular too, I still can’t believe Zynga was the highest grossing game company a few years back, that made me feel physically unwell.
Nah spam them with concerns that you’ve accidently violated their trademark. Say you’ve recently used the phrase “Can die” but are concerned you didn’t enunciate it properly and may have run the words together to the point where people might have misunderstood and thought you were referring to a cheap shitty mobile bubblebreaker knockoff game
There’s a plant in my office labelled Zig written on it. No idea why it’s labelled that, but every so often I relocate it to another part of the office and get a laugh from at least one other person.
…today is a slow day.
My day is very slow as well. I’m currently listening to horror stories by my co-worker about her recent bout of gastro.
Apparently having a buday (spelling?) within vomit reach of the toilet is a good thing.
Being told about this while eating lunch, on the other hand, is not.
Bidet?
I feel like you wouldn’t want to accidentally throw up in one of those…
Nah, when you’re firing out both ends, it’s probably a relief not to have to use the same receptacle for both, turning around and putting your face where your ass was just doing terrible things.
In the thankfully rare times I’ve had it coming out both ends simultaneously like someone has just curbstomped a burrito, it was pretty much water on both ends, I think if it happened now I’d just get in the shower and turn it on full to get it all out of the way as fast as possible
Bonus of being able to curl up in a corner with water pouring onto you as you pray for death. Maybe the falling water could help curb dehydration. When I had gastro, that was a major problem – I couldn’t actually keep water down, so I had to go to the hospital to get fluids intravenously.
“…like someone has just curbstomped a burrito…”
Incredible.
In the good way or the bad way?
The best way.
When I was in India I was using my anus as a fire hose.
She mentioned that she hasn’t cleaned it out yet. She has just kept pouring water down it in the hopes that everything will drain away.
She’s been sick for three days and it’s her first day back at work and she still hasn’t cleaned it out.
And I thought I was an unhygienic mess for not washing my coffee mug more than once every three or so days.
When you’ve been that sick, seeing more of it can trigger a relapse though. Not exactly hygienic as you say but I can sort of understand leaving it for a bit
Bidet.
And, ewww.
Bidet
you know what you doing! >:(
Take off every zig?
BUT WHERE WERE THE SPIDERS?!
This week I watched The Wolf of Wall Street with my wife. It was average. Goodfellas, or The Departed it is not. Jonah Hill is easily the standout, DiCaprio: okay, if over the top at times and yes, the crawling/ Lemmon 714/ cerebral palsy scene is the highlight of the film. Apart from that, way too long and ultimately forgettable.
GTA V People! PC version rumor, hype or no hype?
If it turns out to be legit, I’ll be getting it on PC and I think a TAY PC crew would not go amiss.
Very hype. I’ve played about two-thirds on X360 already but would happily add this one to my Steam collection and playthrough again.
Yeah if its on PC I may well get it too since I’d know a few others who might get it as well so I could get a couple more people on larger missions in online.
I’m tempted to try and work out some way to stream custom soundtracks since the ingame ones get old fast (moreso than previous ones). Maybe using an MP3 in a host’s car that insted of being music actually points to an online streaming music service playlist or something
double plus hype.
I’ll probably get it on PC, but I can’t see myself getting it day 1. I’ll wait and see if it’s actually put together properly etc first.
Pretty much this. I don’t want performance problems like GTA 3 & IV had, especially if I’ll be mostly using it for multiplayer. If it does come out and greenmangaming does a decent deal on it then I might, but I won’t pay over $60 for something I already have on console.
That said, a decent crew would be good to have. I joined a Brisbane one and no-one’s ever online which is disappointing, moreso when the multiplayer’s just people trying to kill you rather than doing something decent together
Yeah if GMG have a preorder discount and 25% off coupon going at once & I can get it for $37.50, that’d be a pretty much sure thing right away.
I surprised myself by not being the least bit hyped by the game. Maybe in about two years after it’s released and in a steam sale for eight dollars I’ll consider it.
Meanwhile, I have Saint’s Row.
It’s only an Amazon listing AFAIK?
In any case, I’ll continue playing Online on xbox, and eventually pick it up for PC at <$20 so I can play the campaign on max graphics.
Guys! Hey, guys! You guys!
It’s time for SNACKTAKU (Shane’s Not Actually Considering Kicking Together Acronyms …anymore because they stopped being funny a long time ago)
Step 1. Copy @negativezero
Step 2. Use sensible amount of brie
Step 3. Ponder whether you’d rather have a turkey, brie and cranberry sandwich or a sex sandwich
Step 4. Conclude the former, and chow down, happy.
Step 5. Eat three of them in quick succession.
Step 6. [REDACTED]
Step 7. Profit
dammit, I made the big mistake of getting a Brumby’s wrap for lunch. Never had one before, never will after this. If you want some chicken in your salad wrap then go to them, but not if you want anything resembling taste.
I’m keen to try a brie and salmon sandwich though, maybe with kewpie mayo in it. Also, which part of brie to use? The rindy goodness or the melty cheesy bit? 😛
I’m not one to waste food. I used all of it. I didn’t even take the plastic off.
If it’s a good Brie you should be able to use all of it. I used a nice one from Udder Delights from South Australia which honestly was probably too high quality to use in a roll. But pretty awesome.
Next time try hard pepperoni, jatz & camembert, best snacky combo ever invented (by me). Work with brie as well but camembert is a little better and sounds nicer when you say it.
Dude. Dude. Guess what I was eating exactly when you posted this?
The store was out of turkey so I used chicken instead thoughContinuing on from my reading of the Warhammer Fantasy RP rules, I’ve discovered the mutation dice charts with about 250 separate different possibilities. I hope I can convince my friends to play this at some point as I really want to play it.
In other news, Numenera recap is being written. Will hopefully be done by the end of the day. Spoiler for those who can’t wait.
We have our first running joke of the campaign.I thought “flexing our way out of trouble was number one.
I suppose second but as Blaghs is currently on holidays, our first joke has been put on hold. Thankfully @tech_knight and @mythamphetamine have adequately provided us a substitute. 🙂
DARK SOULS
Name: Skailorus (Because it sounds stupid)
Class: Wanderer
Gift: Master Key
Face: Eerie Great Swamp
Red ponytail
Physique: Average (I wanted to go for a small head but I am convinced it will cause a stat reduction)
Wish me luck. I hope this build doesn’t rely too heavily on back-stabs, I know I’d be terrible at them.
I’m curious if I want to play Dark Souls. I might just wait for number two as I’ve already got Skyrim going and I don’t feel like being a masochist in the next few weeks.
Wanderer with the Master Key and a red ponytail bro \o/
OH MY GLOB GUYS, ARE WE TRIPLETS OR SOMETHING?!
I also rolled Wanderer with Master Key and red ponytail. Might have gone dark red. Can’t remember. Definitely some kind of red.
We’re the cool people club. The rest of these guys wish they were as awesome as us.
No pause feature whatsoever? I get that it doesn’t pause when I open the inventory, but what if I need to piss?
Find a safe spot.
Bathrooms are usually safe. Unless they’re public ones of course, those things are deathtraps, I’d feel safer in dark souls
Or just go behind a tree…
I understand why they didn’t include pause, but I still find it really, really annoying.
Nothing respawns unless you go to a bonfire. Nothing tends to patrol around and if they do it’s in a very tight area. Nothing will attack you unless you get into aggro range. So yes, you can’t pause, but if you need to take a pee break just move to an area where nothing is nearby (i.e. back a few paces from where you came from) and you’re safe from everything except other players. And even with other players apparently the etiquette is you have to bow to each other in greeting before they ram pointed metal through your body and make a mockery of your ability to play the game.
P.S. 8 hours clocked according to Steam, never invaded.
I’ve been invaded 3 times on PC, 1 was a fight that I very nearly won despite the other guy being clearly better equipped and the other 2 were people who showed up to give me cool stuff and then bugger off. Think I’m still using the lightning trident I got given by my first invasion in fact, just modded all to hell now.
re: never invaded – are you pretty much always hollowed?
I haven’t got a clue.
Hollowed/undead – you’ll become this if you ever die. Generally you won’t be invaded by players while hollowed. You can use Humanity to regain human form if you’re hollowed and at a bonfire.
Some things (e.g. NPC invasions) pretty much only happen while human, too. If you ever die, you will be hollowed again unless you did something like use a special ring to prevent that happening.
Does your face look human or kind of like yoda’s scrotum?
What about your character’s face?
Well I’ve never un-hollowed myself since I couldn’t see any real value in doing it so presumably my character’s face looks like yoda’s scrotum. I’m clearly not as well-versed in star wars pornography as you so I can’t say for sure.
Well… The porn is strong in this one…
From what I understand, walking around as human gives you bonus damage with certain weapon and spell types as well as better resistance to stuff like curses. I also find it more motivating to stay alive, I feel like I’ll lose more if I die when I’m human even though humanity itself is relatively easy to regain.
TAYlist for the 23rd of January 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by mild days at lastNYCC – Fight For Your Right
David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes (Requested by @vonsack)
INXS – Never Tear Us Apart (I told @scree I’d play this, so there you go)
Toto – Hold The Line
The Who – Baba O’Riley (Requested by @redartifice)
Adam And The Ants – Stand And Deliver
Sick Puppies – Maybe
Queens Of The Stone Age – My God Is The Sun (Requested by @cakesmith)
Shannon Noll – Living In Stereo
The Clash – Rock The Casbah (Requested by @cakesmith)
The Eagles – Lyin’ Eyes
REM – Nightswimming (Requested by @dc)
HOLD THE LINE!
LOVE ISN’T ALWAYS ON TIME!
If it’s more than 30 minutes late is it free?
Also, Nightswimming is an amazing song.
Oh man, Nightswimming! Such an atmospheric way to end the show! Nicely done!
My mother says to get things done, you better not mess with Major Tom.
Aww yiss The Eagles. Glen Frey & Don Henley are two of musics greatest lyricists. Some of the songs those two wrote together for The Eagles, just amazing at the stories they told in their lyrics.
2 songs \o/
A winner is me!
There’s a disappointing lack of Britney Spears on this list…
And a very disappointing lack of Hanson.
Nobody requested any Britney Spears, but I probably wouldn’t play it if you did.
That’s why I never request anything, hahaha!
I’ve been tempted to a couple of times, but then I see what everyone else is requesting and decide to just hold on to my last scraps of dignity.
Nah. Every now and then I request some horrible 80s song.
No such thing.
80s songs are by definition the best songs of ever and stuff.
Don’t Cry…
Don’t raise your eye…
It’s only TEENAGE WASTELAND
badum badum badum badum dum
SALLY TAKE MY HAND
WE’LL TRAVEL SOUTH CROSS LAND
PUT OUT THE FIRE
BEFORE WE GET MUCH OLDER
Specifically in response to @dc’s recent Twitter storm about writing.
Follow-through
Writing is a discipline at least as much as it is an art. You folks have only really known me during prolific periods in my life, but I’ve had droughts of writing that lasted for years. And it wasn’t because I was short on ideas, or even really motivation. I just didn’t have the discipline to sit down and write. Teaching myself that was one of the most rewarding things I’ve done for myself, but it was also one of the hardest. It took years of writing nightly before I found a rhythm in the routine, and starting producing decent work.
Different things work for different people (setting daily productivity targets, or minimum time limits, or a looser set of rules), but in the end, it all comes down to the same thing: commitment. If you can commit, you’ll get it done. And if you really want to do it, you’ll find it easier to commit (in the long-term, anyway).
Feedback
It’s true that artists are often able to receive more immediate feedback from more people, because art is immediately aesthetically engaging, whereas writing engages the brain over a much longer period of time. That shouldn’t be a reason to stop yourself from seeking feedback on a work-in-progress. If you don’t want to seek it directly, regularly put up some pieces onto a blog. Switch them in and out each week, just to prevent your entire catalogue from being freely available at one time (if that’s a concern for you). Even if you don’t get too much direct feedback, or even many readers, there’s some positive feeling (I guess relief is a big part of it) that comes from having work out there. Way back in 2008, I put up more than 450 pages of a graphic novel I was working on, and even though nobody read it, it felt good just having it there.
If you find someone who’s willing to read some of your work and provide feedback, don’t let that person go easily. I was way too light on @alexpants, and he seems to have abandoned me for the rat race. (For now, I liked what I read of yours, and I’m keen to read more, @dc. Also, as I’ve offered in the past, let me know if you ever want to take that graphic novel project anywhere!)
Revising writing is a lot easier to do than redoing artwork. So seeking feedback is, I think, more important in writing than it is in art. And when you think about it, most feedback of art is positive, even if the piece itself has issues. Writing feedback tends to be more honest, more critical… and that might be why people are more reluctant to offer it (not me, though!)
Incomplete projects
I have dozens. Literally dozens. The casualties of a lifetime of writing. In the end, they might not have been worth working on.
I was the blurst reader. \o/
My problem is that I’m simply not disciplined enough to sit down, churn something out and then go back and revise it without just hitting delete. Hopefully, when I’m in Dubbo, my more limited internet will mean that I have to learn how to do that in order to keep entertained.
Discipline is a muscle that gets stronger with exercise.
Expecting to successfully churn out a massive project on the first attempt is not entirely unlike being a ninety-pound weakling expecting to be able to lift a minivan with one finger on the first attempt.
My discipline might well be the only good thing about my writing 😛
That’s kind of the problem.
My first real writing attempt was Nanowrimo. I did the 50,000 words in 15 days.
Most of my other writing attempts have been over a thousand words in my first session.
Getting words out is the easy part for me. Going back and making sure they’re the right ones, that’s where I fall down. That then demotivates me so that I don’t go and write the stuff in the first place.
That thing I wrote yesterday about board games took no time at all to churn out. If I wanted to submit that as an article, I’d probably take another three or four passes at it before I was satisfied with it being more than a comment on TAY and it probably wouldn’t survive the second pass.
Is it wrong that I giggled when I read ‘follow-through’?
I’m an adult!
Thank you. As someone who has picked back up a novel he started writing in 2008 and is making a good crack at it this year (part of a New Year’s Resolution), your words of wisdom are very appreciated.
Haha! Thanks Shane, kind of got carried away on there today, huh? I kept meaning to stop with every post but couldn’t.
No worries, man. It was good to see. And really pleased you’re digging up these WIPs for another look! 🙂
To be fair, I AM a horrible person.
It is mine! It is so pretty!
\o/
/o\ about the choice of games though!
It’s grainier looking than I expected
I didn’t realise how horrible my phones camera was in low light lol.
Good birthday present anyway
Haha, kinda, birthday present to myself, I guess! Well more so work got stock in and I was #1 on the list for this shipment of PS4’s so I thought may as well get it haha.
Yay! Welcome to the club!
Already beaten a few of your times and stuff in NFS Rivals 😛
Oh damn. 😛 I’ll have to stop my raging and start playing it for real.
When I logged on before I saw this and thought I done something wrong.. How it feels when I have a lot of notifications on Imgur D=
Bappy hirthday 😀
THANKS TIGS!
Swear I replied earlier, but apparently not D=
Happy birthday computer virus!
THANKS GUY! 😀
Lesson Learned: Don’t have birth dates.
Lesson learned hide birthday from Facebook friends 😛
Happy Day of Birthing!
THANKS TIME TRAVELER! 😀
DARK SOULS – The
DiaryJournal of SkailorusReached Lordran. Since I knew the battle with the Asylum Demon was imminent, I kept fighting the same enemies multiple times, then going back to the bonfire so that they would respawn. I battled the guy in the armour several times so that I could learn to parry and riposte. I think I understand the basics.
I beat the Asylum Demon first time. He was surprisingly easy.
I am currently at the Lordran bonfire, deciding how best to spend my points. Do I go for more dexterity, or go for increased endurance? Although my endurance funds have been sufficient thus far, I must look towards the future. I have 3604 souls to spend due to my grinding, so I have enough to put two points in each. At some point, I will have to learn what “kindle bonfire” and “reverse hollowing” do. TO THE WIKI!
I don’t even play Dark Souls and even I know that “He was surprisingly easy” are very common famous last words for this game.
I live vicariously through everyone else who plays it.
Dex and End are really incompatible paths. Sure you need a little End but Dex builds are based around light armour and fast dodging. Best thing to do is decide what sort of character you want to build first.
So what are you aiming for?
The easy way to determine the Dex vs End solution is with a quick quiz:
An enemy swings an axe the size of your entire body at you, what do you do
A) Block with my shield
B) Dodge
C) Attack furiously assuming I’ll knock him off balance because I’m the hero. Die. Say “Fuck this game sucks” and go back to call of duty like the baby I am
I choose B. I have have considered dabbling in C. It could be an intersting tactic. What do you find to be the superior choice? A is obviously out of the question. It’s crazy talk.
Definitely B, get round to his flank and put some damage into him before he can recover from the swing. I’ve gone for a mostly dodgy character with a moderate amount of blocking so I’m not entirely useless when backed into a corner but blocking does eat a lot of my stamina so I only use it when I really need it. It’s probably a bad build all things considered, trying to be a bit of everything and ending up good at nothing, but it’s working reasonably well so far.
Oh man, I am such a C.
Just the biggest C around.
Ask anyone.
Such a gent.
You’re the best C I know biatch!
Not exactly, a good tank build is Spear and heavy armour. Most spears scale off DEX.
True, but you’re not exactly going to be rolling and dodging without an ungodly amount of End.
you need END for increased equip rating.
Wanderer with a red ponytail and scimitar. Fast attacks with a lot of dodging. I thought Endurance allowed me to dodge more often, so I invested in both. I guess I have been building wrong. Damn.
I guess I need a little bit of time to learn the VAESDRFH system.
When you get one as a drop, try the battle axe instead of the scimitar. It hits harder and is quicker.
Andre (the smith in Undead Parish) should sell one for 1000 souls.
It am Gurpgork’s weapon of choice.
The merchant in the Undead Burg sells one too I think, and you really need one for getting past the Taurus Demon. I tried with scimitar for a while and it would have taken ~5 plunges to get him vs 3 and a little bit more with the axe.
If you have the Master Key, it’s possible to get some Gold Pine Resin and then you can take down the Taurus Demon with pretty much anything. Just need to stay at his feet and be prepared to dodge.
You don’t need the Gold Pine Resin for that tactic, it’s just a lot faster, which makes it a lot less dangerous.
That’s only really an option if you are at the point you can already beat him. If I’d used it I would have just fucked up and wasted it.
Hell, I haven’t fully worked that out on my current build so I went for 20 END, 20 VIT and dumped the rest of my souls into upgrading my gear.
Upgrading gear is the best use of souls early on. And probably later on too come to think of it.
Gear > stats.
Brief summary around reverse hollowing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio
DARK SOULS – The
DiaryJournal of SkailorusWent to down from Lordran to New Londo Ruins. There were a bunch of passive undead that I killed for quite a few souls. I reached a bridge. The bridge looked scary, so I turned back. I went back to the Lordran bonfire, and spent the souls on an extra point in endurance. Now I have 13 Endurance and 16 Dexterity.
However, in New Londo Ruins, I experienced some worrying slowdown. I guess I should turn down the graphics optio- Oh wait, I am playing on console. I have been PC’ing for so long, experiences like these are somewhat jarring.
You got slowdown in New Londo?
Oh man, I look forward to hearing about your experience in Blighttown.
Man, fuck Blighttown.
I need to head there soon. Rang the first bell, so intend to truck down through the Depths and into that horrid hellhole called Blighttown.
Might try and gank Havel first and swipe his ring…
I went the back way in Blighttown.
The back way is so much easier.
Always get this weird snap in the back of my brain when people start ranting about how shit Dark Soul’s controls are and therefore the game is shit then you find out they’re using a keyboard.
Says so right on the steam store page, there’s a good reason for it…
The game was really designed with a Dual Shock 3 in mind though, the X360 controller feels pretty crap for some of the stuff you’re hitting a lot (eg the shoulder button to attack & the d-pad for inventory)
Really? I didn’t find it much of a problem although I suppose the 360 controller has been my standard for quite a while now so I’m probably used to it
Keyboard and mouse aren’t the superior control method?
The Master Race have been lying to us this whole time!
The game was designed to work with the Dual Shock. It’s a great example of getting the most use out of a controller. It’s the exception, not the rule :p
If KMB worked well in Dark Souls I’d be using it. I just prefer it so much more over controllers.
RAGEFROTHSPEWGRAARYOU’LLALLSEEGRAHRAGEFROTH
I wish it did work properly with KMB. You can mod it so it works better, but it’s still terrible compared to a controller.
Hey @redartifice, how open are you to me doing a bit of world-building in the Numenera recap? I figured I might try and reintroduce some of the more sci-fi elements to the story and make it obvious that it’s set at some point in the future but it could easily be a few million years or more.
No prob, I realise some of the more sf elements can be lost when you’re in the city. FWIW after the current adventure we’ll do something a bit more SF
I’ll post it in spoilers so you can get an idea. NO ONE ELSE LOOK OKAY!
I figured that if the length of a day has extended out to 28 hours, then other elements of the Earth would have changed as well. Like the rotation so the sun would set in the east instead of the west. I just had the idea that in a setting as far in the future as it is, some pretty crazy stuff may have happened.Well, a point to note there is that a billion years in the future the sun is supposed to have been burnt out.Potential future story arc? 😛Thankfully sci-fi allows for a bunch of different stuff so we can always say some hyper-advanced civilisation re-ignited/re-energised the sun and also did some large-scale terraforming or other outlandish stuff. You’re the GM so let me know where to draw the line and I’ll stay within the acceptable canon.
My official line at this time is that those in the ninth world would generally be aware that the sun should have burnt out, but no-one knows why it hasn’t. And yes, the Earth has been terraformed at least once. As a consequence, the sun now sets in the other directionHave you looked at/read any of the Numenera short stories? There are some pretty cool things that people have come up with. I’ve always liked sci-fi because there’s the potential for pretty much anything and Numenera take full advantage of that.
That’s no sun, it’s a space stationEDIT: Also to be fair, the Numenera setting is such that it’s fairly plausible that at some point in time people got so technologically advanced that manufacturing stars or transporting them from a nearby star cluster is plausible.
But its so tempting to look…..
That’s safe. In fact they’re all safe
I figured I’d cover my bases and not potentially ruin any of the setting in case I was too outlandish with my ideas. Nothing hurts more than someone else trying to rewrite your story as you’re telling it.
It’s not ‘my‘ story, it’s our story
And you’re the driver on our tour bus of adventure and story. Hail to the bus driver, bus driver man!
DARK SOULS – The
DiaryJournal of SkailorusOh shite, someone offered me a place in the Covenant of the White. I think I’ll pass, see what other offers I get first.
Sounds like a drug smuggling operation, nuns running cocaine or something
You can abandon covenants pretty freely.
This one is the newbie one that makes it easier to co-op with people and lets you buy miracles from the dude that lets you into the covenant. Not the worst idea to join up.
DARK SOULS – The
DiaryJournal of SkailorusFell of a cliff with 2000 souls. I wasn’t too annoyed, as I was going back to the bonfire anyway. However, I couldn’t find my souls again. 2000 souls gone. I am more disappointed than angry, I guess.
EDIT: Just when I’d given up, I found it. It was further from my deathplace than I expected.
DARK SOULS – The
DiaryJournal of SkailorusTHE VALLEY OF DRAKES HAS A DRAGON!
DARK SOULS – The
DiaryJournal of SkailorusRight. I’m done for now. I don’t think I’ve actually accomplished anything since I killed the Asylum Demon. I am too scared to traverse the white light near firelink shrine, so I’ve been content to grind enemies for a few hours.
The white light near the firelink shrine? Heh you’re going to be so disappointed when you work up the courage to go through that, I reckon you’ll be tough enough to deal with whats on the other side by now…
Are there any negatives to grinding enemies? I have mostly been grinding to kill the skeletons outside the firelink shrine.
Only boredom, the skeletons aren’t the best value for money when it comes to soul grinding though, they’re a bit too tough and not that rewarding. You’re better off advancing to the next bonfire and then you’ll be in a great place to do some grinding, train against a few different enemy types and have the shit kicked out of you by a selection of 3 nearby bosses and occasional not-a-boss-but-bloody-hell-he-might-as-well-be enemies. There’s also the first merchant of the game in the area near the next bonfire and it’s not much further along where you get the option to summon other players. There’s a fair argument to be made for the assertion that the game really only starts when you get to the Undead Parish
Those skeletons are what made me write the game off, the first time I played. Don’t bother with them, their hardness is a ‘wrong way’ sign. Go the other way! Much easier and more rewarding. 🙂
What system are you playing on?
Sadly, I am playing it on the Xbox 360 like some kind of animal.
Where are the graphics options? What happened to the framerate? I need my sliders, goddammit!
Damn, I was gonna say if you were on PS3 you should keep your eye open for my summon sign, but don’t even worry about it, I didn’t even want to play co-op or anything!!!
I walk in to hearing one of my coworkers saying to the other:
“If you go down, I’ll give you money.”
I grimace. “Jesus. Come on guys. There are people. Do that shit after everyone’s gone home.”
“Shit! We meant go down to 7-11!”
“Uh-huh.”
A minute later:
“Dammit, it’s getting harder again!”
“Oh for God’s sake, guys.”
“Shit! We meant the rain! It’s raining harder again!”
lol sounds similar to my work today. From across the room I hear “Fuck that’s tight! Get in the bloody hole! DAMN! Tight as a nun’s cunt!”
Yeah, but that could mean anything… O_o
Repost!
So I am thinking of hitting up Melbourne for Soundwave Feb 27th – March 3rd. My mate said I am welcome to stay with him for Soundwave. I came up with the idea since I just know I won’t get to see everyone I want to see and there’s still tickets for Melbourne Soundwave going and flights are cheap… If this does happen this could also mean a meat with me, if I have the time, of course! So who would be interested?
Everyone I guess?
Haha, maybe! Maybe some do not like me and would not want to come :O lol. But hopefully i’ll know if I can afford it around the week before Soundwave here that being about the 15th!
Worst timing ever. I might be able to do something o the 2nd or 3rd. Will need to see what time I get back from ms
Iron Maiden beer “Trooper” got a bottle of it for my birthday from my friend in England, it’s awesome. Wish it was readily available here. It’s an Ale, I originally thought it was a Pale Ale, but it’s pretty good especially since i’m not a huge beer fan. It has a good taste, not over powering, and doesn’t leave a horrible after taste like some beers do, XXXX Gold being a good example there. It sort of reminds me of Cooper Pale Ale, but then again it doesn’t, but it’s quite acceptable and is something I would recommend.
Best Iron Maiden song!
pfrt, Hallowed Be Thy Name
There’s too many Maiden songs to just have one good song!
Correct.
Agreed. When I still had my PS3 and Rock Band 3/Rock Band Blitz, I downloaded all the available Maiden songs and played them pretty much every day. The Trooper was just my favourite to ‘play’. Maiden are like Queen in that they could have multiple greatest hits albums and still not get all their best songs on them.
I think this is why every tour Maiden put out a live album hahaha.
I need to get the Maiden pack for Rocksmith. Even learning the bass, Steve Harris is a beast (obviously). That and the Megadeth song pack should tide me over nicely for learning lead guitar
Pass on trying to master Steve’s galloping technique, it’s not something I feel like trying again anytime soon lol. Much rather master Juniors epic picking style. The Megadeth pack really needed Peace Sells cause that opening bass line is orgasmic.
I’ve only got it in a custom version of GHIII on Wii, loaded with GHII’s songs. And Trooper is basically unplayable because it sits in one of the boss song slots, and with the spread of the notes it’s impossible to beat them 🙁
Really cool while it lasts though. Still think I like Number of the Beast better though 😛
I am so envious right now.
Oh man I wish work was going to sell them cause I would make it a regular drink. So annoys that even First Choice have no plans on importing it ugh. So lame.
Ok, I just got a mention from a Twitter account I don’t follow telling me I’d won a prize, with a bit.ly url shortener. I looked up the url in a lengthener and it led me to a blogspot account. I reported the tweet as spam and blocked the account. Have I done the right thing, or am I an idiot for blocking a genuine prize?
Report away!
Anyone that looks slightly suspect gets reported. I’ve probably accidentally tattled on a few TAYbies because I wasn’t paying attention.
Thanks. The main reason I reported it is that I very rarely win anything and I hadn’t entered a competition anyway.
You ‘won’ an unsolicited prize. Regardless of legitimacy, you didn’t request it in the first place.
FWIW, they’re likely spam. I can’t recall who it was, though a TAYbie Twitter account was compromised recently, and DM’d a bunch of us with a bit.ly link leading to a blogspot account.
Chances are it’s not a link you want to be clicking 😛
GingerChris.
He then left his phone unattended and someone posted something about One Direction. Not his best day.
Hahaha ohhh dear.
Would I be able to stream stuff from my desktop top my laptop via VLC?
I know VLC used to be able to act as a streaming source, I’ve not done it personally but I’ve seen it working so the answer should be yes
never tried it with VLC, but failing that, if you don’t have media centre, Vuze can stream stuff.
La-Mulana is cheap on Steam and not enough people have it!
It’s kinda like Dark Souls as a 2D Metroidvania.
I just randomly purchased it earlier today and almost quit within the first couple of minutes because it has the case of “I’m not going to tell you anything”. After some quick Googlings and finally figuring out HOW TO SAVE THE GAME (:P), I’m liking it!
I figured it was worth the mention since there’s all this Dark Souls talk recently. Speaking of which, I was going to wait for the PC release of Dark Souls 2 but I guess I might as well join the rest of youse and replay it soon before buying 2 at launch (and re-buying it on PC later) 😛
@mawt has played a fair amount of La-Mulana so he can probably hype it up better than I, but I’ve played it for just over an hour and great – not bad for $1.50 🙂
Impulse purchase awayyyyy~~~~
COMPLETELY UNBIASED & OBJECTIVE FACTS INCOMING:
I had heard a lot about La Mulana, and picked it up over Smissmas and I don’t know why I didn’t get it sooner. “Dark Souls as a 2D metroidvania” is a pretty good description, and probably sets about the right level of expectation you should have going into the game. I honestly think it’s far superior to Dark Souls in any way – partially because I don’t think Dark Souls is actually a good game to begin with, but partially because La Mulana is so finely crafted.
It’s got very “tight” controls – it compares nicely with Castlevania thanks to your main weapon being a whip. You learn the limits or reach of your jump and weapon through sheer repetition. The game keeps up a fairly consistent difficulty curve – a lot of surviving comes down to recognising patterns and learning how to overcome them.
Part of that constant difficulty curve comes from that “I’m not going to explain anything” nature. It took me a while to work out how to save the game too, even longer to realise that I could break urns. The game offers little guide as to what order things should be completed in, but it is possible to beat bosses in a few different orders.
I’ll offer only one piece of advice – landing onto spikes will hurt (as many videogames have taught you by now), but if you are standing on the same horizontal plane, you can walk through them.
Edit: I just worked out how to beat the 2nd boss. If people are interested, I could conceivably start a new file and stream a few levels on the weekend sometime.
Oh man, I literally pressed every button in front of those “weird things” (which I now know are save points) except the one that actually saves the game :P. Totally had that same feeling with the urns too “I CAN BREAK THESE?!”. Spelunky taught me about horizontal spike walking (you should play that too if you haven’t!)
I’m almost disappointed in myself for giving up on La-Mulana and wanting to uninstall it, but I’m glad I stuck around. I WILL finish it…
So this version is the “remake”. The original version was made to look a lot more like an MSX game (roughly NES equivalent). Apparently that version only has the single save point in the village. It had a teleport spell that would teleport you back to the village if you wanted to save; of course, the spell didn’t work two ways, you’d have to trek back to where you were up to.
Hey, @dc watch Sleepy Hollow already. I just watched the finale and by the time I get back from my holiday I’ll have forgotten what happened! 😛
But I don’t wanna. 😛
While you’re at it; play Xenoblade!
(And also correct my probably incorrect use of the semicolon)
@dc is writing. He doesn’t have to do anything else.
Oh man, looks like I missed out on some mega twitter stuffs today. 🙁
Phlanispo’s Random Opinion Poll of the Unspecified Timeframe:
When was the last time you saw a YouTube video where PressFartToContinue wasn’t the top comment? He’s everywhere. Soon, he will consume the internet.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6949282/furry-superheroes-are-super-gross
I don’t think I’ve laughed at an Internet video this much in a long time. They just perfectly nailed it.
Oh jeez….
Dark Souls Progress:
Continuing from where I was last night, immediately got killed by the first enemy under the bridge and lost the 4k or so souls that are still sitting under the Black Knight at the top of the tower just inside the Undead Parish :(. Then I remembered how to play. After an abortive attempt at the next bit where I got arrowed to pieces by the crossbow guys, figured out a decent approach. Killed the armored boar thing first go, by hanging out above him and shooting at the rear of his back with my bow. Success! Didn’t drop anything though.Continued on and encountered my first Balder Knight. Who had his back to me. Fatal mistake. Cleared everything on the path – that one ambush spot where there’s a spear knight on one side and a balder on the other is a bit mean, but I coped – then swung around the front and opened up the gate. Not that I needed it as I immediately continued back around, cleared some dudes and got to the next bonfire. Leveled up and got the 1 point of strength I needed to use the Drake Sword one-handed. Trouble is that the combined gear weight put me over the 25% mark and I’d kind of gotten used to moving around well. Didn’t want to take off my boots because the gangly little hollowed-out undead legs look dumb when you’re wearing decent armor on top. So thought I’d give it a go with the lowered dodging.
Went out and entered the church and was immediately rumbled by an enormous angryman with a big shield. Not nearly nimble enough to beat him, so I went back to my then +2 Battle Axe. Second attempt went better, and then third attempt I started just waiting for him to attack, darting in for one hit, then rolling back out. He ended up estusing twice, but still managed to whittle him down. Reward was enough to go get the 1 extra endurance point that would allow me to use the Drake Sword two-handed without looking like a pantsless moron.
Of course I then went into the church again and got magiced from miles away by some dick on the second floor. Took me a couple of goes to get him. Realized you need to pull the hollows all back and take them out first. On my third attempt I did that, then entered the room where the mage guy was and he’d disappeared. Completely gone. So I went and freed the guy in @puppylicks cosplay from the cells, assuming I’d beaten him by killing his gaunt friends. Then as I’m standing in the room he strides in from the other entrance muttering to himself and I proceed to murder him. Magic this, asshole.
Went back and rested up, then found that the hollows in that room all respawn. :\ They’re not that hard but there’s so many of them it’s hard to clear them all safely. But I made it and challenged the Gargoyles. First go came agonizingly close, opening by immediately lopping off the first one’s tail and getting an axe, then beating both down to about 20% just by attacking whichever was closest. Died realizing I should focus one down then do the other. Individually they seemed easier to dodge.
Of course, made a mockery of that by dying to the first guy after three failed dodges in a row on second attempt without even getting a hit in. Third attempt also went poorly, mainly due to trying to do things too quickly. But the third attempt went really well, managed to get the first to 50%, then got him to about 20% before being hit with what I thought was fatal damage but somehow left me with a sliver. Backed off and managed to get enough time to estus flask a couple of times to get back to 100%, then finished the two off.
Then while coming down from the adrenaline surge while climbing the ladders up to the first bell, my brain completely froze up and was like PRESS B MOTHERFUCKER and I rolled off the side of the belfry. 😐
After talking to Oswald the creepy vendor I consulted the internets which suggested fighting the Titanite demon. I felt like I was barely scratching this guy in melee and his jump attack seems stupidly hard to dodge. Actually all of his attacks are. Then on the fifth attempt I thought I might try just arrowing him from range (just using lock-on targeting since it’s quicker) since his lightning is trivial to dodge. And in the process I found a spot where I could stand and hit him while his lightning would bang into some of the debris on the ground. So I beat him using about 80 of the cheapo arrows. This is probably cheating but fuck it, I don’t care.
Travelled into the Dark Gardeny place (playing on PC this place is foggy and blurred to all fuck, I might need to scale back some of the effects since I can barely see about 10 paces. Or is that normal?) and immediately fell into the loving embrace of a 7 foot walking thorny tree. Instantly killed. Seems fair. Pushed through that to a weird glowy thing then there was a useful note on the ground. Knocked down the wall and found a hidden bonfire \o/. Decided to end my journey there.
I looked at a guide and this game is absolutely massive. 🙁 I must not even be 5% through it yet.
Most enemies respawn when you rest at a bonfire. There are few exceptions and most are, quite annoyingly, near the start of the game. Also you should learn the gesture that Oswald teaches, it’s super rad.And yes, you’ve barely scratched the surface.
You’re going well. And I know it seems like you’ve just started, and in some ways that’s true, but it’ll start to get faster.
It’s the sort of thing where you pick up momentum and can start moving through new areas faster simply because you’re more competent at handling how the game tries to murder you.
And then you met the next new enemy type who hands you your arse…
I’d suggest leaving the darkroot garden for a while, I’m getting massacred there with a character who’s a way higher level than yours (She’s done both bells, killed queelag, the gaping dragon and I think the moonlight butterfly and I’ve gone through the demon ruins), mostly troubled by the non-arboreal enemies there. It might just be a technique thing but I’m seriously having trouble with the foggy bastards.
Are you talking about the section that’s behind the door that needs the Crest of Artorias to open?
Because the bit with Moonlight Butterfly is also in Darkroot Gardens and that’s a fairly good place to head to after the Gargoyles.
Nah I think I was looking for the crest the last time I played (it was where I stopped last and I’ve not been back in a month or 3). I was going through the garden and the humans were the things that were just destroying me. The plants were annoying and dangerous yet manageable but the humans just felt like I was being ganked by a quartet of real players.
Probably just a case of not being careful enough, I’ll have another go sometime soon and probably wonder why I found them difficult. It’ll be handy because one has a bow I want…
Those humans are on the other side of the door that needs the crest. They’re manageable but I was suggesting the other bit with the stone giants that leads to Moonlight Butterfly.
I think I got into the garden the back way after killing the hydra, I have a fairly distinct memory of a lot of climbing, an embarrassing footing fuckup, a falling death, a bit more climbing, soul recovery and more climbing and then ending up right next to another boss rather rapidly without going through the garden.
That’s the problem with a prolonged break, I’m not entirely sure what I’ve done and not, I may have gotten the crest after all, I know I’ve encountered the butterfly but I can’t remember if I killed it or not. I know I’ve fought crystal & stone golems but I thought that was near the hydra, I distinctly remember fighting at least 4 foggy humans in a gardeny area that seemed relatively average aside from them. By the look of the wiki, I’m up against the clan of forest protectors, I’ll just have to control the area, whittle the enemy down bit by bit and kill that damned archer so she can’t lead me into bucketloads of bush monsters.
Patience, thoroughness and caution. It’s my fault, not the game’s. No, no, I walked into a door!
@aliasalpha yeah I’m only intending to beat the Moonlight Butterfly (someone at From Software is obviously a Turn-A Gundam fan…) and then go elsewhere.
So, rather than clamber back aboard the Dark Souls corpse wagon, my copy of Deus Ex: HR Director’s Cut arrived by mail today. I am playing it. I think I’m gonna go stealth as much as possible, want to try to get the non-lethal achievement. Have made it to the opening credits without alerting anyone! 😀
Bah, where’s the fun in that? The game is set at night pretty much all the way through, there’s no sun to praise!
I tried to join the DS train, but i open my copy of Dark Souls and inside it is a Naruto game…
meaning my copy of dark souls is probably in storage….
damn my Brother to heck….
Hells yeah! Really an amazing game! The beauty of it is don’t feel bad if you screw up stealth too. There’s always a way to salvage the mission.
Yep:
Start/Load
o/
Someone reminded me I was partway through playing Advance Wars again, so I got it back out to see where I was up to. First battle against Sturm! Proceeded to smash his face in with Max, yeah!
…now I’m on the final mission, same place I got stuck back when I first got the game. And I’m getting slaughtered all over the place ;_;
HAHAHAHA I WON
Sure it’s taken me the last four hours or so and took me 36 days… BUT I DID IT AND I DID IT BY SMASHING UP ALL HIS STUPID UNITS TOO!
*rubs eyes* Yeah, OK, so I decided to try this Dark Souls thing out again. I think I know what I was doing wrong, last time, when I hated it. Pretty sure I was going the wrong way. Down to pain town. Which, y’know, murdered me brutally and unfairly and I’m like, “THIS is what people enjoy? Man, these people are fucking weirdos, this isn’t fun, it’s boring.”
I know this because this time I went a different way and found an undead city that was full of loot pinatas. (Except for this ONE dude in black armor. Screw that guy!)
Started a new game this time because god only knows if I screwed my last character somehow… and I kinda wanted to do the tutorial parts again, because something was seriously handing my ass to me last time I tried. (Skellingtons when the raven drops you off and you head through the shrine and down to the cemetary.)
THIS time I decided to take the high road, and move up to the ghoulish things instead of the skeletons – something that still has some flesh on it to cut. MUUUUUUUCH easier. Still a little bit grindy, but eventually one of those axe guys dropped his axe, and that was a game-changer – using that, and a shield.
Also, I think I’ve been taking the incredibly cheap way out on pretty much every fight.
Like, seriously…
Taurus demon… it couldn’t truly be as simple as drop on his head, roll out of the way, run back to the ladder, repeat three times for win? And, y’know… hallo bridge-cleaning dragon of insta-loot. And when it came to that charging boar thing, I don’t think the idea was for me to hide in a little alcove shouting, “COME AT ME BRO, WHERE YOU GOING? YEAH, YOU BETTER WALK AWAY,” then running up to slap him on the rump with an axe as he got bored with me.Either way, I haven’t died much anymore, which is pretty great because I’m paranoid about losing my human state and not being able to kindle fires anymore. And those charging knight dudes are a lot scarier than they are difficult. (And I discovered to my delight that if you walk around quietly, you can actually get the drop on people to stab them in the back. Which is good because I’m terrible at doing that in combat. Parries and ripostes, though? I’m da baws.) So I figured a good place to log out would be that churchy place.
The one which had the two guys in it who don’t seem to be respawning anymore. Mister shooty-laser and mister giant shield. (Sadface. They were good exp.)There’s some ‘wall of light’ there I’ll have to go through, which USUALLY means an opportunity for another point of humanity, but also that I’ll probably die, and need to spend it.I’ll probably look up some wiki stuff later to see if I’m ‘doing it wrong’ with regards to trying to find humanity points. I mean… you lose it every time you die, it’s gotta be renewable, right? But anyways. Yeah, this thing is pretty OK.
Humanity:
Use it to turn human at a bonfire. When in human form, you can spend another point to kindle the fire and get 10 estus flasks instead of 5.In human form you can also summon other players to help (look for summon signs on the ground. White block of writing – player. Yellowish block – NPC friend.
As it is a double edged gift, being human also means you can be invaded by other players (who will regain their humanity if they kill you).
You have chosen wisely, going up. Every other direction is nothing but pain and death initially. A tip, if I may. Once you’re done in the current area (it’ll be as clear as a bell when you are)
The ‘down’ to the second bell is actually the other door before the dragon bridge, not down from the firelink shrineAlso,
Yellow summoning signs can refer to people in a specific covenant. The best covenant in the game, The Sun Bros. Basically, it’s a covenant built completely around helping other players. They get a bonus item from helping others which allows them to get stronger spells.Ohohoho. Punny.
Humanity:
You get it from those giant rats. There’s one on the way to Undead Burg from Firelink Shrine, and lots once you get to the Depths. Also, if I remember correctly you get your stored humanity points back when you find your souls after you’ve died. I hardly ever stored mine because I didn’t want to lose it all. 😛Humanity comes in two forms:
Stored humanity is the stuff stored in that number in the corner of your screen. It drops with souls when you die, and you can recover it in the same way if you find your way back to your bloodstain. It can be spent kindling bonfires, and restoring human status. Some weapons have a damage boost if you have soft humanity built up, and you also have higher curse resistance. It builds up slowly by killing humanoid enemies in an area where the boss hasn’t yet been defeated, up until a maximum amount has been accrued.Consumable humanity is an item that drops randomly from enemies such as the rats in the depths and humanity phantoms in the DLC content. It is stored in your inventory like anything else, and isn’t affected by your death. When used, it will add to the stored humanity number in the corner of the screen. It can also be used to heal.
Theoretically, humanity is infinite in the world, but in true Dark Souls fashion, it’s worth trying to keep hold of, because it becomes increasingly grindy to get it (unless you farm the rats in the Depths, with the right items in hand).
http://darksouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Humanity
There’s no cheap way to fight in Dark Souls, only smart ways. If someone is dumb enough to stand under you several times so you can jump on their face with an axe then its their own damned fault.
Started my new Dark Souls character last night. In honour of my terrible loincloth and club Demon’s Souls character that died a few hundred times more than the average first area player, I chose Deprived class – looney with a loincloth and club. I have named him HOWLING AL.
At the end of play last night, he had cleared
Taurus Demon, Gargoyles, Capra Demon and first 2 black knightsstill clad in nothing bar that dirty loincloth, and still wielding the starting club.Edit: Also matching the gibbering, useless character theme, I picked the Tiny Being’s Ring as the starting gift. Ahhhhh, how useless.
@transientmind Check your twitter account, it might be compromised
Indeed, @cakesmith I got a DM too. Link to a Twitter post from a new account, which is a URL that Google flags as unsafe. 😛
@transientmind Hey man, you might want to change your Twitter password. Getting some weird direct messages.
Damnit @transientmind!
Just kidding. But you should change your password 😛Yup, it’s going to be a wonderful morning.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/01/killer-interview-question-would-you-want-this-job-if-it-was-in-dubbo/
@trjn
No, the correct answer is no.
I think the correct answer is “You’re going to actually employ people in regional Australia? Whats the catch?”
Well, unless it’s at the zoo.
SYDNEY TAY! It’s Masha’s Farewell!
Seems like people would prefer a house meat instead of hanging around the City, so that’s what we’re doing! Here’s the plan:
Who: You!
What: Masha’s Farewell / Pow’s Belated Housewarming, I guess (I will endeavour to steal as much of Masha’s spotlight as possible)
Why: Because I said so
When: This Sunday the 26th, starting at 1:00pm until whenever (if you want to stay the night, let me know ahead of time)
Where: Pow’s Place! (if you don’t have my address, which is probably all of you, tell me and I’ll Twitter DM you it)
Notes:
– Bring money for some pizza or something for dinner. I ain’t cooking! (there’s a Commonwealth ATM on my street if you need it)
– Please bring some PS3 controllers (I have two) and Wiimotes (I only have one). Also any multiplayer games you might want to play for those systems! There is nothing else to do in my area unless you like stabbing people. (I kid)
– Also, Pants wants to play Cards Against Humanity, so someone bring that! The only other boardgame I own is Monopoly: Bunnings Warehouse Edition, and nobody wants to play that.
– Lower your expectations.
– Fair warning: The Men’s Tennis final will be on the TV after 7:30 😛
See you there!
@35, @alexpants, @anonymous_pessimist, @batgirl, @batguy, @bdkiaf, @blaghman, @cakesmith, @cj, @doc_what, @effluvium-boy, @fatshadylive, @freya, @gingerchris86, @gorzilla, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @masha2932, @powalen, @shiggyninty, @trjn, @ruffleberg, @markserrels, @mrtaco, @sernobulus, @shane, @rize
MASHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Even though I didn’t get tagged (*sniff*) I will be there. For some reason my girlfriend wants to meet you guys as well, clearly I haven’t been telling the right stories 😛
Will need your address thanks Pow
Argh! Lucky you saw this then 😛 See you two then!
(ps. OoooOOOOooooOOooh)
Probably won’t get there until 5 or 6
No worries
I can show up and bring some board games.
Well, probably just The Resistance/Hanabi because many people and whatnot.
Sorry I’m going to be in Canberra for that time 🙁
Will need address and/or phone number for maximum stalker potential.
But it’s fine I’m a guy from the internet what’s the worst that could happen.
If you were a real stalker you wouldn’t need to ask for that info.
Oh I don’t do any of that myself. My trusty assistant Mr Taco does all the work.
Hmm. I remember there was something about Lidcombe station. So I guess you could hang around there until some other TAYbies show up and then follow them to figure it out. Maybe.
Bunnings Monopoly?! That sounds glorious!
It’s exactly the same as regular monopoly, except you buy and sell Bunnings Warehouses 😛
Oh 🙁
But you can play as a Paint Can? Or a Hammer?
#nothelping
Unless you show up late in which case you’ll probably be stuck playing as the 1 square metre bit of slightly warped MDF
Wheelbarrow.
I have neither the address nor the twitter DM thing. WHAT NOW, SMARTGUY? 😛
Then you can’t come.
Ooh, that makes things easier.
(send me an email 😛 ben-at-powalen-dot-com)
WHAT THE HELL DO I EVEN PAY YOU FOR THEN?!
My silence.
Ooh what about?
I ain’t sayin’ nothin’.
AAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWW!
Also because of your use of the double negative, you technically have to tell me.
I say a lotta things.
I really want to try to make 2014 the year that I knuckle down and get through as many games in my pile of shame as I can. I initially wanted to grab a PS4 console however I began questioning why and I have decided I don’t really know why. All the games I want to play and finish are not on PS4.
So, just a short list of the games I have started and intend to finish:
Crisis CorePeace Walker
A Link Between Worlds
Luigi’s Mansion 2
Bravely Default
Pokemon Y (almost done)
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Max Payne 3
GTA V
Halo 4
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Ni no Kuni
Final Fantasy X (almost done)
Final Fantasy XII
Vagrant Story
Super Metroid
Batman Arkham trilogy
Dark Souls
Crysis 2
This is my belated New Years resolution. Wish me luck.
I had a similar resolution.
Solidarity o/
\o
I posted my full pile of shame here – http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-258/comment-page-3/#comment-2337460
So far… I have not made much more progress :/
Mark of the ninja progress \o/
That’s the only one I’ve progressed on. I think I’m almost done with it
If I remember right, I’m up to the part
when Azai has gone evil, and I’ve just retrieved all the tattoing equipment and lost my sword. Escaping enemy ninjas is hard :-/Yeah so you are probably into the last act. A few hard sections through there but it is interesting. Did you get the directors cut?
It’s quite interesting in that they have comments from the developers about areas. So it might be the game designer talking about what they were trying to achieve in this level or the sound designer talking about the different atmosphere they were creating. Quite interesting if you like game design talk
You should see the developer commentary for Portal. That stuff is amazing. They tell these cool stories about the psychological manipulation they were going for and the things they had to alter because of what they noticed playtesters doing.
@transientmind – I remember playing through the dev commentary for HL2:Ep2 and I always remember one part where they talked about making the explosive barrels green. Every Single Playtester completely ignored them. Didn’t even use the gravity gun to see if they could be picked up.
Ahh, good ol’ exploding barrels. A video game classic. The ‘exploding barrels’ gag in Blood Dragon is hilarious. Also, voice-activation of grenades.
Really? My resolution is set to 1920×1080
And I thought we were past Page 6
*hangs head*
PAGE SIX: NEVER FORGET
Every page is page six… you just have to believe.
Hey I did that joke 24 days ago. Possibly on page 6 of the year
A noble goal. Good luck!
Good Luck!
A few similar games to me and a very similar resolution 🙂 I’m about a third-half way through Batman Origins, only really started Ni no Kuni and haven’t touched GTA V in about a month. Seeing as the best response to a list is another list though, here I go 😛
Batman Arkham Origins & Asylum
GTA V
Ni no Kuni
Xenoblade Chronicles
Skyward Sword
Final Fantasy VII
Dark Souls
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Devil May Cry
Dragons Dogma
New Vegas
Skyrim
Rome 2 campaign
Assassins Creed IV
Good luck to us both
I believe there is something in here that @greenius would like
Xenobladder?
Xenomorph.
Xenophobe.
Senator Nick Xenophon.
Xylophone.
Secret of the magic crystals?
Me too! Told myself there’s still way too much stuff I want to play on PS3/Wii/WiiU/3DS/PC before I even think of getting a PS4 or Xbone. So much stuff, so little time.
Playing Bayonetta at the moment, still haven’t finished Bravely Default, just started up Kid Icarus Uprising again. Need to get back into Pokemon when the Bank app rolls around. Still haven’t even bought Last of Us or Catherine or Tomb Raider or a tonne of other PS3 games. Still want to get Last Story and Punch Out for Wii, haven’t touched Pikmin 3’s mission mode and STILL haven’t finished ZombiU (last chapter and everything, too :P)
I think I’ve still got a generations worth of games to play. I’ll wait for the PS4 Slim.
PUNCH-OUT!! \o/
MAX PAYNE!
Halo!
Revengeanancing!
Hint: if you get a PS4 right now then you won’t have any issues with competition against your Pile of Shame because it has no games.
Haha, good point. I kinda still want one.
I just wanted to thank TAY because part of my progress with my anxiety and stuff has been because of this amazing community. So, thank you.
In return i would like to thank you for sharing your knowledge in how to deal with anxiety!
You’ve been a great help
No problem. It’s a horrible condition that no one should have to suffer from.
😀
\o\ \o/ /o/
I’m sure I haven’t been a part of this yet, but you’re welcome. Always good to be thanked 😛 hehe
No, everyone is. Unfortunately, I have a…supportive extended family.
As @sernobulus, @lucifer9783 and @gorzilla can attest to, I will be working on something and want to scrap it.
I can’t imagine I’ve helped but I’ll happily accept credit!
Well done getting through some of the anxiety
You’re awesome, scree! Keep on keeping on!
We are pretty damn awesome. Also pretty
Oh you’ve seen how pretty I am have you?
Sorry.
MEANWHILE, halfway through my first year on TAY I ended up going to therapy. Because of, well, family issues.
COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT
You were brave enough to see you had a problem and that you needed to fix it. It’s a good thing.
oh @transientmind, I never knew you felt that way
*bats eyelashes*
Good god, what did that hacker DO?!
What didn’t they do?
Who didnt they do?
Bioshock Infinite on PS+ in January!
nice.
I got excited before realising I already have it. I demand a refund XD Metro Last Light will be worth picking up though. I got Metro 2033 but the guns didn’t feel like they had any weight behind them. Keen to give Last Light a go though.
Last chance to get Resogun for free as well.
Play it again!
On an actual note, before Steam was working again, I considered buying 1 & 2 for $20 at JB, before realising that I’d bought all 3 for $15 from Amazon (I’m not really a PC gamer).
I’ll be keen to give Metro a go
Niiiiiice.
@cufcfan616, you saying Metro Last Light will also be there?
Yes I am 🙂
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/01/22/playstation-plus-in-february-bioshock-infinite-metro-last-light-outlast-more/
Outlast on PS4 too
February?
Well, end of Jan but yeah, they’re the feb games.
Fuck, I just bought that, oh well, I didn’t have Plus anyway.
It’s def worth it.
I finally got the companion app for Pirates, since it seems that’s the only way to get detailed progress reports. 14 hours in, 51% main quests done, 32% or so total. Wow, it definitely doesn’t feel like 14hrs, which is a good thing.
The ethical quandary of super foods, the ethical quandary of murdering an endangered species, the ethical quandary of selling bad food to fat kids and the ethical quandary of technically never graduating university.
Guys, there’s something for everyone on this week’s Zeitgeist.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2014/01/24/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s04e13-seasons/?token=c7fa48e4274fb086b8ea417131261bf1
LISTEN, SUB, TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!!
Hey Daaaaaan. I enjoy Zeitgeist. Nicely played, player!
Danke maaaaaaate!
Best way to finish off a work week. Sit on the train and listen to some Zeitgeist
Stop it, you’ll make me blush.
<3 Fridays.
Yo, @shane. I think your twitter account might be compromised. I kept getting all these awesome and supportive DMs last night! 😛
Fuck.
I’ll get it sorted, man. No more of that rubbish, I promise.
JB Hifi has this cool 2 for 20 Blu Ray deal on at the moment! Last night I got Pan’s Labyrinth/The Mist/Rosemary’s Baby/Cloud Atlas. (Mostly with the gift card my pal Shane gave me last week. You so awesome!) Lots of great movies, though…
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/dvd/dvds-on-sale/bluray-2-4-20.htm
Welcome to the last 6 months of my life the 2 for 20 or 2 for 30 deal at JB, it’s so awesome. I should pick up Pan’s Labyrinth tbh.
Loved the movie. Never seen it on Blu-Ray, though — so I’m psyched!
(Less psyched that I lost my glasses and probably won’t be able to read the subtitles. XD)
Solution: sit closer!
Solution: learn Spanish!
If King of the Hill has taught me anything you have to call it Espanol!
Dammit DC.
3 Coen Brothers movies and Cloud Atlas.
Should’ve waited until tomorrow. Would’ve got an extra 20% off.
EDIT: True story, JB once had a “3 for $30” promo. I walked in to buy something (can’t remember what) and walked out with over $300 worth of blu-rays.
They only charged me 8 bucks a movie, so I think they did!
Oh nice! I read the email I got about it as only starting this weekend.
EDIT: Accidentally a word.
I think it’s already kicked in, I got them all for $8 each.
Score!
Speaking of movies @trjn I’m interested in Lion King and Toy story 1+2 if nobody else grabs them and you want to get rid of them. Of course happy to pay delivery costs etc.
Or if anybody is attending boardgames and is happy to grab to send to me that would be appreciated. I’m sure bunny has enough to worry about right now.
Sure thing. I’ll pester someone at Board Games to take them.
How much is JB delivery?
$4 for those four movies for me!
Holy crap, they’ve been dispatched already! That was quick! D:
Oh man, I hope they’re being dispatched from your nearest store rather than their warehouse in Victoria, i’ve waited upto 2 weeks to get stuff from their Victorian warehouse after it was sent :S
Also a 2 for $30 deal. SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK I FOUND YOU AT LAAAAAST
Crusader Kings 2 is adding India to its map.
I’ll apologise in advance, I’m going to be talking about Swedish War Elephants for weeks.
I’ve been called many things, but i will take that one as a compliment
😛I still haven’t built up the courage to try and get into Crusadar Kings. It’s on my list. That’s it, no more games until I’ve played the ones I have. My foot is down, the foot has spoken, I want to get inFamous when it’s out
Did your resolve not to get any new games fail before the end of the paragraph?
For shame
It’s more like crack than Civ for me.
Ha, wasn’t expecting that one of my favourite drummers (Angel from Dope & Team Cybergeist) wishing me a happy birthday on Facebook. The dude is a legend!
You know time ghosts are better than cyber ghosts right?
Here’s the proof:
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com
Just called TPG to arrange transferring my internet.
One of the first things I did was ask them to call me back because I was calling from a mobile that charged for calling 13 numbers. They decided to put me on hold to confirm everything with the consultant calling me back. The call was 14 minutes long.
After they called me back, the actual call, with everything being sorted took about 4 minutes.
Service.
Dwayne Johnson is starting in an earthquake disaster movie?
So did he cause it by punching or will he stop it by punching? Or both?
*Volcano exploding in the background*
Female love interest scientist/reporter: “The lava is going to rush through this tunnel at *sciencey words* and destroy the town and everybody in it”
Dwayne “I guess we need to block it, perhaps with a rock” *FLEX*
*Ground splitting, cars falling into gaping maw*
Dwayne to female love interest scientist/reporter: “Maybe we need to fill that hole with a rock.”
#Innuendo
Disney: “We’re never hiring you again.” *dial tone*
*Dwayne punches volcano*
*World is saved*
Starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Chris Redfield!
Ha! Video games!
Hey TAY, challenge for all you retro-heads.
Trying to remember the name of a game I played when I was younger. Don’t have many details although it would have been on Atari ST (and likely other computers of the era) – I recall that you would form gangs of vehicles and try to take over (what I seem to remember as a post apocalyptic) Europe. I say Europe because I remember one of the cities you could take over as Stuttgart. Was shown from a top-down, CIV like map, and I think some of the battles would take place side on but I may be mistaken.
Not many details, I know. 🙁
Aaaaaaaaaaaand just like that I remember it.
Roadwar 2000 / Roadwar Europa.
Glad we could help.
Damnit, that’s the one I was going to guess as well!!
Theatre Europe?
That sounds freakin’ awesome and now I want to play it.
For some reason while I was trying to think about that game, I was reminded of the Sega Master System version of Ghost Busters, where you drive around the city doing ghostbusting jobs for cash which you use to buy traps and upgrade your gear and car to be able to respond faster. Man, that game was awesome.
I remember that one. Wasn’t as good as the TMNT game but was pretty damn good
Oh, are you talking about the NES game which let you switch at will between the four turtles each of whom had their own different attacks, and a cool little overworld (with foot-trooper steam-rollers) that let you choose which building you were going to enter, in which you could grind up pizza and rescue your dead (captured) brothers?
If so, fuck that underwater dam bomb-defusing level. Fuck it so hard. Also, the pointlessness of Raph’s shitty sais. Donatello should have just taught him to use the staff which could KILL THROUGH WALLS AND CEILINGS.
That’s the one, and once you got on the world map you got access to the Turtle Van.
So damn hard, I don’t think I ever finished it. Raph was the go to guy for electro beams and stuff when you had to time correctly or take damage
Tempted to hit that one up with an emulator and whack in some game genie codes just to see the end.
…Not that NES games are known for their comprehensive or satisfying endings.
[Dodgy pixel art screen showing all characters involved cheering] YOU WIN. THE END.
I never finished that, I remember reaching the Technodrome several times but just couldn’t manage it
The first nightmare I ever remember having was being crushed by one of those steam-roller things. That game traumatised me big-time.
I used to play the shit out of that on our computer back in the day!
…and never even saw the underwater level >_>
I still own that cartridge, and about 3 or 4 other turtle games, I love TMNT 😀
Think “Mad Max” for Apple, Amiga, Atari, etc. That’s pretty much how I remember it playing out and the screenshots confirm it in my mind. SSI made some great games.
I think they did the vastly underrated ‘War Wind’. Which I really wish had taken off the way C&C did. A much more personal approach to your units, cultivating their skills, abilities and experience.
There’s a mobile version, but it is plagued with mobileitis, inluding energy bars (being free to play). I never played the sega version, but the mobile one sounds like the one you’re describing.
The sega version was awesome and the gameplay honestly kicks the crap out of some the games available today. 🙁
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJNQxgKZPw kind of like that?
I had a Ghostbusters game on my Spectrum that I loved. Pretty sure it won’t be the same one though 😛 I’m so emulating this when I get home
I believe that there are only a handful of people in the world who are genuinely good at gratuitous swearing. By that, I mean that they can deliver an F-bomb with such a perfect blend of casual confidence and cadence/rhythm that you just can’t imagine their sentence without it.
One of those people is Randall in the Clerks movies.
The only other one who springs to mind is @dkzeitgeist.
Sure, yeah, most people can swear casually, but this is next-level.
Like going from Bush League to the World Series.
I don’t know if it’s a marketable skill, or even a skill at all, but I can’t help but feel a little jealous anyway. mmkay, I’ve… thought waaay too much about this.
Stop being a gent, Shane!
I’ll go back in my nerd hole.
Keen for some nerd hole, nahmsayin?
It’s not a gift, it’s just not giving a shit.
I don’t recommend it.
Samuel L Jackson drops a pretty good F-bomb too imo.
They’re delivered with force and panache to be sure (in those arenas, he’s almost unmatched), but I’ve never felt he delivered them casually, like the words themselves didn’t even matter. Loses cool points for that.
I request a 30 sec clipping of what exactly you’re referring to with @dkzeitgeist 😛
I can link you to about 40 hours of it.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
tl;dl !
Dark souls continue to break and rebuild me stronger then ever
Backstabs is now my go to attack, even as a tank with heavy armor… i can’t believe i had that much issues nailing that mechanic and now it’s just clicked.
Took out the Hellkite Drake last night, twas a good fight…
I did the whole “shoot the tail” thing to obtain the drake sword… i know i know, it’ll be useless later on, but for now it’s pretty kick arse and it was relatively easy to obtain…
The actual fight with the Drake was a different matter though… so much fire, so many death 😛
Was a entertaining fight though…
Tonight, Bell Gargoyles will die a horrible horrible death… i hope… potentially after i’ve had many many horrible deaths
Dude, if you can take down that drake, you’re ready for almost anything the game can throw at you. I still haven’t beaten him! 😛lucky break more then anything…
Similar to the first time i took out the taurus demon…
He kinda spassed out and took major damage (almost looks like he was trying to glitch through the bridge but took damage instead of clipping through)… Flame attacks, look for queues and run down the stairs, and then plenty of stabby stabby… job done
I’m planning on killing him later by buying like… 1000x heavy arrows and upgrading the shit out of my bow. Because I am a very patient man.
Don’t do that!
If he gets below 50% health while you’re shooting him, he’ll fold his wings in and heal himself at a much faster rate than you can shoot.Upgrade the bow though, because that’s a damn useful piece of equipment.
Oh good! Thanks for the heads-up. That would’ve been a pretty massive waste. 🙂
But yeah, it’s useful alright… that’s how I killed that dude in the church. Shooty McLaserface. Thing damn near one-hits the knight dudes, too, forcing them to use their estus. Haaandy.
Yeah that came as a rude shock to me the first time, I managed to get my damage output to the point where I was nearly countering his health regeneration, if I’d had a second person we could have taken him I think
Wait. Plunge attack on Hellkite?
News to me…
I double-taked as well, but I think he was talking about Taurus then.
Yeah sorry poor wording because Pixel talk english good
Oh, so that’s
what that black knight is guarding. Dragon access. Huh. The things you learn. I’ve only taken him out previously by baiting with arrows and stabbing the feet.Nah. He guards the top of an empty tower. You used to be able to shoot the dragon with an arrow from the tower, apparently, and he would fly off and spontaneously die, but they patched that out, and you can’t even see him from there now.Wait, what?
Hellkite before Bell Gargoyles?!
insane amounts of luck and persistance 😛
I do not for one second believe i can replicate the result
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!”
Unless it cuts your legs off. Then it just makes you shorter.
But your arms would be stronger then.
Lowers your centre of gravity, makes it harder to be knocked over!
Melburnians: My Brother (Angus Hodge) is telling jokes at the Butterfly Club on Carson Street tonight. $5: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1455461178015407&set=a.1421655821395943.1073741828.1421598291401696&type=1&theater
I’ll tell a joke for freeeee!
KNOCK KNOCKWho’s there?Interrupting cow.Interrupting cow w…?Moo.
I’ll tell him that you’ll perform in his stead then
How much does it cost to get you to stop?
Colon pee.Very nearly almost more than you can afford.
Thankfully, long term unemployment has made that a fairly small sum of money.
Anyone willing to pay it for me?
PS: It’s a weekly subscription, indexed to household income levels.
What are you, a mobile app developer?
I’ll sue people if they try to include the words “Evil”, “Lesser”, or “The” in their titles!
@shane Damn, that means my game The Evil Candy Lesser Crush Saga has no chance.
Especially if the game is delivered on the Edge of a Scroll…
Comedians. >:|
In buildings, to boot.
So much mean cynicism. So much brick work.
i still think you’ve only seen a limited number of comedians if you think they all run on cynicism.
Tell your brother that I hate him and everything he stands for! 😛
“All Writers write pulp novels designed only to appeal to dudebros”
>:(
@shane See, ridiculous statement.
It’s not ridiculous, it just makes me >:(
😛PS: I don’t usually think much of stand-up comedy either (though there are occasional exceptions), though I acknowledge that cynicism only forms part of therichtapestry of stand-up.I do like brickwork, though, so I guess I’m redeemed.I saw a comedian once who kept making fart noises.
He was hilarious.
Oh man, I wish this flatulence would clear up so I can get on with my comedy routine.
Was actually more a case of a woman in the audience loudly blew her nose while he was talking, so he started joking about how she didn’t care what other people thought of her and it snowballed over the night into exaggerated stories of her farting at weddings and such 😛
BUT, that really doesn’t help DC’s view on comedians being mean haha
The key to seeing a comedian and not being picked on is to sit near someone who looks ridiculous. Last time I went I sat near a white woman with an afro. Didn’t even get looked at! 😛
When my Brother did his farewell show in Adelaide, at one point one of the other comedians started picking on my mother (she brought it on herself). So then my Father got involved. So then my Brother came back out and got involved.
My Aunt and I ducked out of the firing line and just laughed.
Funniest part is, the comedian had previously been picking on a guy in the front row… who it turns out was a critic for a comedy website
Actually, here’s that review: http://www.heckler.com.au/2013/09/10/review-rear-admiral-september/
Does he happen to have anything on tomorrow? Catching up with some friends and were thinking comedy could be a go?
I’ve asked him, will let you know
He’s not on tomorrow, alas.
So mean and cynical of him not to perform for Tigs. 😛
Well, he was on, then I told him someone was thinking of paying money to come to a performance of which he’d get paid, and he said “I can’t be having with that” and pulled out.
Has anyone played the Game of Thrones PC game? It’s reviews seem to suggest it’s shit to middling. I think I got it in a Humble Bundle or something and I’ve got it installed, but I haven’t gotten around to playing it yet. Wondered what I’m getting myself into.
I think I actually have… TWO game of thrones games? They appear to have materialized in my library without my intervention. I’m not sure how this keeps happening. Time used to be years ago that when I’d sleepwalk, I’d wake up with bloodied knuckles and cuts and bruises on my face (I assume I was getting into ‘fights’ with my furniture), but nowadays I guess I just shamble out to the PC in the dead of night and buy games on steam sales.
…That would explain a lot.
Also, apparently – according to the GF – I talk in my sleep. Mumbles and murmurs mostly, but with some coaxing and repetition can sometimes answer questions. Apparently truthfully. God I’m glad I have nothing to hide.
I think this probably disqualifies me from secret agent duty.
I talk when I’m half asleep, usually to make excuses about why I shouldn’t have to be awake. Sometimes I claim to be in the shower, and prove it by kicking one foot out from under the covers and waggling it around in a circle.
Whenever I’ve been ‘half’ asleep – heading to sleep, not from – folks tell me what I’ve said, and I realize it’s what I’ve had in the forefront of my mind right before I went to sleep, but didn’t actually say.
I remember as a child one time, I’d called out in my bed for Mum to come and tuck me in and give a goodnight hug, but drifted off before she got around to it. When she did, she told me I’d complained, “Awh, Mum. :(” Which was actually my final pre-sleep thought of disappointment, unvoiced.
And not long ago the GF was telling me I’d sighed to her, “I love you,” when she was checking to see if I was awake, which was something I had been thinking before sleeping but not actually said. Because I use that phrase very sparingly. (To make sure it retains its impact and isn’t dulled into triviality with overuse.) So yeah, I heard about that after.
When I was younger (like 4 or 5), apparently I slept-played an entire game of Go Fish. My parents never told me if I won or not.
I often wake up with scars I can’t explain, I always assumed it was aliens but now I’m wondering if it was just you.
Sleep-walking Fight Club. Distinct possibility. How do you feel about insurance companies?
I’ve heard about them but have no strong feelings one way or the other.
I must fight a lot worse when I’m asleep
From what I have heard it has a great story with rubbish/repetitive gameplay
Advice I got was to go in at low difficulty for the story
Cheers, I think I’ll do that. I heard the combat/gameplay is similar to Dragon Age, which I haven’t played yet despite Shane sending me his PS3 copy, so I have no real frame of reference. I know I WAS exicted for Dragon Age originally (because Bioware) but when I saw some gameplay videos the combat seemed a bit messy/clunky so I just stuck with Mass Effect.
Dragon Age is a bit clunky but its well worth it
I’ve heard that the best GoT game out at the moment is a mod for another game (Crusader Kings 2 I think), at least until Telltale get their GoT game out.
From what I’ve read the games out now are pretty lousy.
I’ve heard that too, but I don’t really want CK2. I’m just itching for some kind of GoT fix and I had this game sitting there, so… yeah.
I think I still have a spare Steam code for CK2 if you want it
Well I don’t want to say no because I kind of want to try it, but I also don’t want to say yes because maybe a copy of the game should go to someone who has more than a passing interest in it.
Alas, I checked, looks like I’ve given it out.
No problem, thanks anyway!
Don’t tell @redartifice that.
GREETEST QUEEN OF SWEDEN
I know how you feel. When I have that itch I just generally hop on to a wiki of ice and fire and hit the random page button until I see something new. Or read an old chapter that was great.
Heavily anticipating a trailer from telltale.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World Eighth Session Recap 22nd January 2014 starring:
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places,
– Phetys aka @mythamphetamine the mechanical Nano who fuses flesh and steel,
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness,
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders,
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
And unfortunately absent:
– Beltigron aka @tigerion the mystical Nano who crafts illusions.
The meeting with the Canthark cultists continued deep in the Undercity of Charmonde as Russef, Scrappa, and Nova pondered their next move. After a short while, Ranger and Phetys caught up with the rest of the party and joined the discussion. Scrappa had the idea of constructing a device that would copy memories from another person’s brain while Nova was considering using Boregal’s brain as the gift. The party could not decide on what was a suitable gift to give to the Canthark. It had to be something that represented a memory of light and all of the mundane and simple ideas had already been given to the Canthark.Nova had a sudden epiphany and rummaged around in his pack before pulling out a small device. He explained that this was a remote viewer that would show any footage from a connected camera for up to one hour. Nova suggested that he could set it up in a nice vantage point to capture a spectacular sunrise or sunset while the rest of the party could present the remote viewer to the Canthark at the right time. The Canthark would experience a very vivid representation of light through the remote viewer.
The party agreed that this was a good idea and it could be achieved relatively quickly. There were some concerns about whether the Canthark would accept such a temporary gift but when this concern was raised with the cultists, the leader explained that the Canthark had accepted many strange curios, including live animals, and it was wont to move on to its newest obsession and most forget the gifts it had previously received. The cult leader also mentioned that the Canthark had been requesting gifts that represent the memory of light for the last two weeks and they were generally obsessed with a certain topic for a few weeks at a time.
The party agreed that the remote viewer of today’s sunset would be an excellent gift and they thanked the cultists for their assistance. The cultists bowed respectfully and bid them good fortune. The cult leader provided a warning to the party: though the temptation may be great, do not, under any circumstances, steal from the Canthark. He explained that the last person who tried that was given to the next visitor one limb at a time. The party thanked the cult leader for that information and they began making their way out of the sewers of the Undercity.
After emerging from the fetid sewers, the party resolved to acquire blue clothing to be able to travel through the portal to where the Canthark resides. They made their way to the markets which had died down after the hustle and bustle of the early morning and there were only a few of the more permanent stalls still plying their trade. Thankfully there was a vendor who was able to sell the party a bolt of shimmering blue cloth that the party was able to immediately take to a nearby tailoring shop and have it fashioned into a variety of robes, cloaks, and ponchos for the party. Now that Ranger, Russef, Scrappa, and Phetys were clad in the appropriate colours, they began making their way to an outlying area of Charmonde where they had been told they could find the portal to the Canthark. Meanwhile, Nova began travelling throughout the city to find an appropriate vantage point to position the camera. While he was unable to reach the tallest tower in Charmonde, Nova was certain that the angle and positioning of the camera would capture a spectacular sunset. Satisfied with his work, he decided to return to the small motel that they were staying at in the docks district.
The rest of the party ventured into the outskirts of Charmonde where they came across a small building that was appeared to be abandoned. It was a white-coloured building just like everything else in Charmonde but this one seemed to be carved from some sort of white stone. There was no door to this building and when the party entered, there were large parts of the ceiling missing and rays of sunlight illuminated the interior. The building was completely empty except for a very ornately carved archway with several blue jewels embedded in what appeared to be a sculpture of some sort of creature that overlooked the archway. Each of the blue jewels seemed to correspond to an eye of some sort but there were far more than in any other beast that the party had encountered. After readjusting their blue clothing, Ranger, Russef, Scrappa, and Phetys walked through the archway and passed through the portal.
The party walked out into what seemed to be an area with blue light permeating everything. There was no sun and every seemed to be showered in rays of blue light. Phetys and Scrappa, being the more mechanically attuned of the group, were able to discern that while everything looked like it was coloured blue, it was actually the result of ultraviolet light that had shifted into the blue spectrum. The light did not heavily distort the party’s vision as there was a path away from the portal to what looked like a number of pillars scattered about. As the party approached, they were able to identify that the pillars were actually carefully sculpted chunks of coral that had been adorned with the various gifts that people had given to the Canthark. There was everything from simple wood carvings and pieces of food to more elaborate artwork and more than a few strange-looking devices that no one in the party could identify what it was. After looking at the positions of the coral spires, Ranger realised that their placement and the shape of the sculpting followed some sort of pattern, similar to how termites built their mounds in that there appeared to be a different sort of effect or shadow due to the ultraviolet light.
There was a scuttling sound and a voice rang out across this strange place. The voice seemed interested that visitors had come along so soon after the last and it asked what gift had the party brought. The party could not tell where the voice was coming from as it seemed to reverberate around this strange space and the ultraviolet light certainly did not help. Phetys attempted to use his optical sensors to find where exactly the voice was coming from and unfortunately the strain from ultraviolet light was too much for him. His cybernetic eye shorted out and caused a sharp intense pain before failing entirely. There was a strange clicking noise as the voice chided him for trying to use his human technology here. The voice again asked for the present that had been brought and demanded that the gift be placed on a small dais ahead of the group.
Scrappa cautiously approached the dais and laid the remote viewer before backing away a little bit. There was a flurry of scuttling before the Canthark revealed itself as it appeared from behind one of the coral structures. The Canthark seemed to be somewhat similar a scarab but it had other features that were more like a crustacean. The most notable feature that was noticed by the party was what they assumed was its face and its many, many eyes. There were eyes of all different shapes, sizes, and colours and there were a few eyes that seemed like they were looking at the party through a lens or through some other filter.
The Canthark’s proboscis gingerly picked up the remote viewer and turned it over, clearly curious as to what it was. The Canthark asked what it did and Scrappa told it that it would show a clear and memorable image of light once it was activated. Scrappa offered to turn it on however the Canthark easily located the appropriate button and was treated to a stunning vista of the sun setting over Charmonde and the gradual descent of the sun beyond the eastern horizon. It seemed enraptured by the camera feed and it kept bringing the remote viewer closer to a few of its many eyes. Finally the sun faded from the sky as the last rays of sunshine disappeared and the Canthark was silent.
“That was indeed a valuable gift,” it said. “Perhaps you will bring me another one like it. Now, what can I offer you in return?”
Scrappa explained the situation and how they were seeking the location of Raller Kay and the current base of the rest of the Orange-Cloak movement. The Canthark seemed to nod at this and it said it was well aware of this man. It said that Raller Kay was no friend of the woman called Nerada Trome and her anti-papacy movement and that he was a man that threatened the safety of Charmonde. The Canthark then explained that it had seen cities, kingdoms, cultures, and even species rise and fall so it was not concerned about the fate of Charmonde or even of Navarene.
The Canthark said that Raller Kay and a number of Orange-Cloaks were located in an abandoned fortress a few hours travel to the west of Charmonde. It said that there were only two ways inside the citadel: through the front door or through a secret door that was a part of the vast Doorway Network. The Canthark scuttled off and returned shortly with a small, glowing cube that was very similar to the gemstones that the party had seen the thugs and other Orange-Cloaks use with the phasing doors. The Canthark gave the cube to Scrappa and told him that the doorway was on one of the walls of the citadel and it would allow the party to enter into the citadel without going through the front and find Raller Kay.
Scrappa thanked the Canthark on behalf for the group and the Canthark skittered away, still fascinated by the remote viewer. The party left the coral pillars of curios and exited through the portal that they had entered. As they entered back into Charmonde and started leaving the decrepit building, it seemed as though the sculpture of the creature above the portal archway was observing the party through its many blue gemstone eyes. The party quickly decided to get back to Nova and give him the good news and congratulate him on his brilliant photography.
As night fell over Charmonde, the party decided to rest after their trying day of exploring the sewers and meeting a strange, omniscient creature. Before everyone retired to their room, Phetys mentioned that his optical sensor was still not functioning correctly since leaving the Canthark’s domain. Scrappa offered his service in repairing this fault and Phetys detached his cybernetic eye to allow Scrappa full access to its circuitry. Despite Scrappa’s technical skill, the custom modifications that Phetys had made to his implant made it too difficult for him to fix it and he ended up accidentally severing a few wires, rendering the sensor broken and unusable. Scrappa apologised profusely for his mistake but Phetys waved it off, mentioning that Scrappa will need to find him a replacement at some point. Phetys also said that if Scrappa find a replacement eye, that he could always invoke the “eye for an eye” tradition. Scrappa felt a bit uneasy around Phetys now but everyone in the party decided it was best that they all get some sleep.
After a good night’s rest, the party decided that they should inform Akabe of the knowledge they had gained from the Canthark. They made their way over to the wealthy quarter of Charmonde and were ushered into Akabe’s study by the maid who was disappointed by the absent Blagh’s and his rippling muscles. Akabe was shocked by Phetys’s missing eye and he explained that it was merely a small technical fault. Phetys managed to preserve the respectability of his appearance as he tore off a small trip of blue cloth from Scrappa’s cloak and fashioned a makeshift bandage that covered his empty cavity.
Nova informed Akabe of what the Canthark had told us and how Raller Kay and the Orange-Cloaks had a small base in a citadel to the west. Akabe was surprised at this information as she said that the citadel was formerly a bandit stronghold before being cleared out by the city guard a few years ago. Ranger asked if it was possible to perhaps get some support from the city guard when they go after Raller Kay but Akabe shook her head saying that a guard force could not be sent outside of the city on hearsay, despite it coming from the Canthark itself. Akabe did mention that the city guard found the citadel to be quite formidably defended when they assaulted the bandits a few years ago and she was concerned for the party’s wellbeing.
Scrappa assured her that the party had secret entrance into the heart of the citadel and he showed her the blue cube that the Canthark had given him. Akabe relaxed at seeing this and she said she was pleased that the party had a plan for getting to Raller Kay but unfortunately she could offer no further support at this time. Russef piped up and said that the blue cube enabled access to a secret door that was part of a much larger Doorway Network that was being used by the Orange-Cloaks and other ne’er-do-wells. Akabe thanked the party for this information and she said that she will inform the city guard as they had assumed that the Orange-Cloaks were using the sewer system to move around discreetly.
Nova mentioned to Akabe that the Canthark had said that Raller Kay and Nerada Trome had conflicting ambitions and that it might be possible to separate the two and get Nerada Trome onside. Akabe dismissed that thought outright and said that Raller Kay was Nerada Trome’s right hand man for a reason and anything he did was sanctioned by her. She said that if Raller Kay was stealing components for the shield defence array then Nerada Trome was guilty of the crime as well. Akabe advised that if the party had the potential to capture both Raller Kay and Nerada Trome and find out how and why they were compromising the shield defence array, then they should take the opportunity and cripple the Orange-Cloaks’ leadership.
The party thanked Akabe for her insight and they exited her manor. It was estimated that the citadel was approximately half a day’s travel away and the secret door could only be accessed on the outside wall of the fortress. A few of the party members expressed a desire to not run into the citadel blindly so they opted to try one of Ranger’s contacts in the city watch and perhaps get some information about their raid from a few years ago. Russef said that he will leave the rest of the group to do that as he has issues with local enforcement so he buggered off to get another hit of Aoloae at Glass Hands’ bar. The rest of the party followed Ranger to the main guard station just off from the main square of Charmonde.
The party entered into the guard station and it wasn’t long before one of the guard captains recognised Ranger as the leader of Special Squad. Unfortunately this captain was not very good at maintaining any degree of secrecy and loudly asked what he could do for the commander of Special Squad. Ranger motioned for the captain to quieten down and pulled the captain closer to him. Ranger asked the captain for any documents and records pertaining to the raid on the bandit stronghold in the citadel to the west of Charmonde. The captain nodded along and said that it’d be tricky but he believed that there were some files buried in the archives somewhere. He said that once he found them he would send one of the troopers to give them to Ranger discreetly. Ranger thanked the captain for his assistance and told him that the trooper would be able to find them at the tavern called the Abykos’ Head just across the square. The captain pulled back from Ranger and gave him a wink and very obviously tapped his nose before returning to his duties. Ranger sighed and advised the party that they would wait at the nearby tavern.
The tavern was fairly quiet when the party entered and the Varjellan bartender scowled at them as they sat down at a table. They ordered a few drinks and waited for the guard trooper to arrive with the information. About half an hour after they arrived, a man walked in dressed in some sort of hideous combination of robes, scarfs, and furs. The man was carrying a large bundle of papers and Ranger realised that the captain had a little difficulty understanding the concept of discretion. The obvious trooper moved towards the bar but he suddenly tripped and his bundle of papers scattered everywhere. As he bent down to collect them, he not-so subtly pushed a few of them in the direction of the party. Ranger picked them up from the floor as the trooper collected himself and ordered a drink from the bartender. It appeared to the party that the captain had done well and there were a few crude maps and information on some of the defences of the citadel. Rather than view these documents in a public tavern, the party decided to retire to their motel room for some privacy.
The party made their way back to the motel while Nova veered off and fetched Russef from his Aoloae haze. His babbling about conspiracy theories and other nonsense started to grate on Nova’s nerves and he hurried back to the rest of the group with his uncooperative friend. What secrets do the guard documents contain about the citadel? Are Nerada Trome and Raller Kay truly in league or is there something more sinister afoot? Will Phetys be forced to take his pound of flesh from Scrappa? Tune in next time for more Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World.
A great write-up, as always
I just did a quick tally and apparently I’ve written 20,000 words in these recaps so far. O_O
Also, I’m glad everyone is enjoying these. I’m tempted to refine them a little and make them less “Did this. Did that. Person spoke this. Etc” but I need more free time to make that happen. Thankfully I can get away with writing these at work so it’s all gravy.
Man, that’s like novella length!
I love reading these, especially with the parts with Scrappa in them, though he has a reputation to repair now 😛
As a second note: Maybe you can do a more detailed rewrite at some stage, once every several months or something, in a pdf format so TAYbies can read it on the move or something like that. Depends on who would be interested in that.
If that happens I’d be happy to do a commentary. Even if it’s just highlighting the bits where you guys blindsided me and I had to improvise.
Yeah I would love to know what decisions we made caused you to improvise off the beaten path 🙂
When we visited the shop and you bought your shoes springs to mind. 😛
Yeah, I’m going to build another one for him, one that’s better than ever before, that fires lasers! Though if I fail the roll again it might be put on back to front and the laser fires through his skull 😛
I’m not sure he’ll trust you going anywhere near his synthetic parts again
His fault for doing DIY and not using the sacred oils and tools 😉 (That’s if it was Dark Heresy haha)
@doc_what:
Regarding latest Podcast talk about JRPG burnout, I can totally relate. On paper I still love JRPGs and I get stupidly excited for new ones, but end up really struggling with them as well. There’s a lot of reasons why but I think that the ‘valuing your time’ element is the biggest thing.
My situation is maybe not quite as dire as yours but I find I quickly lose interest in most JRPGs I play as well. The endless grind you have to put up with is a big element of that. But also you’re right in assuming that a lot of recent JRPGs just suck. However that’s not all I think. There are still great new games being made in the genre, but often the problem is that the story is juvenile or the characters are completely bland, basically just character archetypes rather than actually being fleshed out, and that really sucks away a lot of the appeal. This, along with the grind-heavy structure is I think Bravely Default’s Achilles heel for me.
There’s other issues too. I think gameplay-wise that everything has tried to get faster and faster and more frantic but still keep things inside the menus. I found FFXIII really hard to enjoy (aside from the awful characters, shit plot and boring long grind areas) because the battle system felt like it wanted to be an action game but was hampered by the menus. The really AAA stuff in the genre hasn’t been firing on all cylinders for a long time now, and the previously A or AAA-level franchises from the PS1 and PS2 eras have all dropped away, which has left the genre to become more and more niche and the B and C-tier teams to pick up the slack. The result is we’ve got a lot of really niche developers developing what is increasingly a niche genre, and so they’re doing it cheaply and relying on fanservice to sell copies (i.e. Agarest, Neptunia), carving out a specific gameplay niche (SRPGs i.e. Disgaea, Fire Emblem) or otherwise having limited appeal outside specific demographics (Tales appeals specifically to anime fans, Atelier is quite popular with women in Japan).
When I’m playing games now I tend to want to feel like I’m achieving something when I spend my time with it. That ‘achieving something’ is nebulous though. I’m happy for that to be some kind of micro-goal (finished sidequest X) or just to have advanced the plot a bit further. I feel though like I get a huge amount more out of my experience if the game itself was more active. Old-fashioned traditional turn-based JRPGs have so much wasted time in them. Hit a random encounter. Stop. Load battle system. Battle intro cutscene. Put your attacks in. Watch them connect. Victory screen. That can be 2-3 minutes per fight, even if you kill the enemy first round, so your actual gameplay is selecting a couple of menus, taking up maybe 20 seconds. Getting through a whole area might involve 20-30 fights which means you’re pushing an hour, of which maybe 20% is actually you playing the game. Just not dense enough. If I’m going to spend an hour or two playing a game, I’d want to spend that as much of time actually doing something in the game as possible.
I feel like this is where western developers have thrived. Used to be that the WRPG involved interesting settings but bland, cardboard cutout characters (the protagonist or even the whole party could be player-customized) with poor interactions and everything. The JRPG’s strength was the focus on characters and their interactions. But companies like CD Project, Obsidian and Bioware have turned that on its head. Rich, character-driven narratives with complex, interesting characters. Mass Effect especially distills a lot of what makes a JRPG interesting and adds it to a western RPG context and then grafts that to a shooter. The torch has basically been passed. Critically, Bioware has streamlined their games. The way that ME was broken up into easily understood bite-sized chunks is brilliant. You know when you start a mission that you’re going to do a 1-2 hour piece, it’ll have lots of interaction and development and critically that you will constantly be actually be constantly doing something. Perhaps one of the issues that JRPGs are facing is like the issue that Adventure games faced in the late 90s. The Adventure game’s biggest strength was being able to tell a complex narrative. Now everything can do that. In the same way, every reasonably large game now has RPG-style progression elements, even the shooters. Games can easily have fleshed-out characters and party interactions and everything. The strong elements of the JRPG have been plucked out from the poor gameplay they were encased inside like shucking an oyster.
I started mentally listing off the JRPGs from the last generation I actually finished and it was a pretty dire list. The only console ones I remember are Disgaea 4, Tales of Graces, Valkyria Chronicles and Xenoblade. Not a great track record. There’s a few more handheld installments and possibly a couple of other console games I’m forgetting but in 3 of those 4 cases, you rarely spend an idle moment. Disgaea and Valkyria are both tactical games, which means you’re constantly doing something. You’re thinking about your next move, positioning your forces, moving your units around and so on. It’s a lot more involved than your traditional RPG, especially Valkyria, where you’re moving and everything in real-time. Xenoblade has no transition between combat and exploration, it’s a true open world. The combat is fast and it has a lot of MMO-style mechanics which require you to maintain situational awareness to avoid drawing too many monsters and so on. Graces is probably the most traditional of them, but the combat system was so involved and fun (and active as well!) that I wasn’t so worried about the loss of time involved.
The assertions about the lack of exploration in JRPGs I’m not sure I agree with. Certainly in some cases it’s gone away, I felt like Tales of Xillia was very disappointing in that regard since it has enormous areas filled with nothing and extremely linear dungeons. FFXIII is obviously the worst example. But as a counter-example I’d point out Xenoblade. That game is almost entirely exploration-focused, with a massive world to explore, tons and tons of sidequests to do and a combat system that makes the whole thing enormously fun to play. I’m pretty time-poor but over a period of about four months I sank 80 hours into that game and regretted very little of that.
I should mention that to combat the time-poor issue I actually end up playing most JRPGs with a guide or a walkthrough. There is absolutely nothing worse than getting 30+ hours into a huge game and finding out you missed some really important sidequest or opened a box that stops you getting the best weapon in the game or something. I’ll generally make sure I’ve gotten all the important stuff from an area via a guide before moving on, check that I’m not accidentally screwing myself out of stuff and so on. So that already takes the exploration element out the window a little. Didn’t find myself doing it with Xenoblade as much though, mainly only to figure out where some of the NPCs were so I could return their quests. I also tend to play on easier difficulties to try and avoid the need to grind excessively or waste lots of time getting stuck on hard fights.
One other thing I notice is that if I’m invested enough in the plot, I will put up with slightly less tight gameplay. I find it hard to get invested in most JRPG plots though (because they’re bad) but if the characters are strong and interesting enough then that will sometimes manage to draw me in as well. But it needs to happen really quickly. So many games have a terribly slow burn before everything really begins to click. I think this is one reason why FF7 was such a sticky game for so many people. There’s no easing you into stuff, no fucking around in a village somewhere establishing everyone before some call to adventure happens or what have you. Nope. A train pulls up to a station, Cloud jumps out and kills some guards, and you immediately are in the thick of it, bombing a reactor as a mercenary hired to help a group fighting against an oppressive corporation / government. It’s not until about 10-15 hours in that you find out the real plot, see the backstory and get an idea of the true scope of what you’re doing. It’s not so much a mid-game twist as it is an extended in medias res opening. Most JRPGs now would have started with Cloud & Sephiroth in Nibelheim in the backstory and would be much poorer for it.
I actually found one of the best traditional JRPG experiences I’ve had recently (and incidentally the only turn-based JRPG I finished in 2013, I think) was the first Trails in the Sky. It’s a long game and has a fuckload of dialogue, almost too verbose. But the characters are incredibly nuanced and fleshed out. The combat is simple turn-based stuff and your ability progression is entirely via items set up in a limited grid (i.e. you might have 7 sockets you can put gems into, and combining specific gem types unlocks more powerful magic) and the bulk of the time you get gear upgrades in dungeons so there’s less need to grind for gear. Additionally Falcom’s game design tunes itself such that the amount of XP you get from mobs drops off once you’ve leveled up a bit, so if you’re low-level relative to the enemies you get a ton, but by the time you’re 4-5 levels up you’d have to kill hundreds to level up and you’re generally ready to fight the area boss at this point as well. Finally, the game is set up in a more exploration-heavy style, with the duo of Estelle and Joshua travelling to various hub towns where there’s a core plot you can advance but otherwise you’re going to take a series of sidequests via a job board in the local guild and go out into the surrounding fields and tackle each quest separately. There’s also a fair bit of stuff you can only find by exploring carefully. However what really undermines it all is the slow burn it has. It really takes ages for the plot and characters to get established, and that’s a shame because once it does get you, it really hooks hard.
Anyway, to finish up, in 2013 I really got deeply into the Ys series, playing through I, II, Oath in Felghana (III), Memories of Celceta (IV), and Seven and also getting halfway into Ark of Napishtim (VI). You say you want a JRPG series that respects your time, that isn’t overly long, doesn’t require endless grind, allows & rewards exploration. They’re 15-20 hour games maximum, and on lower difficulties I & II can easily be pushed through in a weekend (I did). While they’re action RPGs, and the older games probably cleave closer to stuff like Zelda, the most recent two games (Seven and Celceta) have a full party system with multiple characters and everything. Very much a JRPG with the fat cut away. You should give them a go if you haven’t already, maybe they’re more of what you’re looking for?
I thought I might chip in a bit here. Discounting Fire Emblem, the last JRPGs I finished and completed to a satisfactory level were FFXII and Rogue Galaxy for the PS2. The weird thing is that these two scratched two different things I like about JRPGs: Rogue Galaxy had some really nice cell-shading and the story was really touching despite the fact it was basically corridor after corridor; and FFXII had the standard FF save the world storyline but I got really into completionist mode for that game. I didn’t end up 100% completing FFXII but I think I came close (only needed a few more espers and a few of the bounties).
But yeah, I haven’t touched a JRPG in ages because I haven’t owned a console to play them on. I’ll be curious when “X” gets released for WiiU as that looks like it might get me back into the genre.
Don’t wait for X. It might be terrible and it might never come out in English. Go get Xenoblade and play that. It’s awesome.
@greenius will let you join the club and everything.
Also FFXII was the last FF I finished too. But I played a fair whack of the good PS2-era JRPGs, I think the last one I finished was Ar Tonelico II. Loved that game so much even though it was objectively shit and had one of the worst localizations in history.
Whoa, whoa, X has a damn good chance of going to the west. It was announced at E3, after all, and I daresay it’s one the only (and I do mean only) reasons people are considering picking up a WiiU in the distant future. Announcing something like that just to have it become vapourware (or at least japan-only) would cause a hell of a lashback (The Last Guardian, we hardly knew ye.)
EDIT: Changed a part because I remembered that ridiculous Wii peripheral that sensed your heartbeat or whatever.
the part ’bout X possibly being a shit game still stands, though. I’d find that hilarious if that happened.
Huh? The Last Guardian vapourware? What have you heard? Last i saw was in November and they said it was still coming for PS4 and XBone.
edit: sorry Gutsoup gone crazy *falls over*
Double Edit: after scouring where I thought I read stuff I’ve come to the conclusion that I am in fact mad and there is nothing but rumours regarding this title.
Xbone? That doesn’t sound likely!
Speaking of Ico related stuff? Rime looks amazing!
derp, i reread the article, he spoke about developing games for the Xbone and I misinterpreted, having a shocker of a day, actually been avoiding posting today because I’m mentally insane and will probably word things all wrong like. *head desk*
Get down with the sickness, my friend! POST MORE! 😀
It wasn’t announced at E3. Nintendo don’t do E3 any more. It was announced in a Nintendo Direct.
A nintendo direct meant to replace their E3 showing, which for all means and purposes is still their largest batch of announcements geared toward westerners.
Woah, Doc has a podcast?
When did this happen?
What’s a podcast?
Dark Souls – The
DiaryJouranl of SkailorusJust opened up the game. Realised I have 3000 souls to spend. Still have no idea how to build my dodge-centric wanderer. Will probably pop a few points into dexterity, but I can’t decide what secondary skill to put points into. Endurance is not correct apparently… so, Faith…?
I might join the covenant of the White, research what faith does.
[RESEARCHING]
So… healing? Dunno. Seems to clash with my build. I need to spend these souls, since I will lose them at some point to a boss.
You can’t really go wrong at this stage of the game. You’ll eventually come to realise just how few 3000 souls really is 😛
Endurance is handy for dodge, if only because it increases your equipment burden so that you don’t get weighed down by equipment quite so easily. It also increases stamina, which is never bad. Endurance is an awesome dump stat, and should probably be the first stat you bring to 40.
DWGR makes END that high a waste.
Sure, but that item was pretty heavily nerfed in patches, though, wasn’t it?
I never ended up using it
Only nerfed as far as making it so you couldn’t ninja flip around in Stone Giant or Havel’s armour. Will still let you have quick rolling and flip at about 50-60% burden which is more than enough for some decent armour at 25-30 END especially when paired with something like RoFaP.
If pumping Endurance is wrong, my fatrolling knight has problems.
I usually pump endurance at least a little bit… i block a lot so i need high endurance not to stagger easily, but also dodging… really endurance is just handy all around so you can’t really do it wrong, except if it’s all you pump points into…
the way i understand it (and i could be entirely wrong because, hey, it’s me we’re talking about) VIT and END is handy as buggery early on… later on you can start worrying about other things as well…
Have you got a bow yet? That might be a worthwhile purchase. If you decide to go for any magical thing, it might be an idea to pump up intelligence, it’s needed for sorceries and I THINK its something that boosts pyromancy but isn’t required for it.
The Warrior Of Sunlight covenant seems to be the best one as far as rewards go but does require a lot of faith (or coop boss stomping), the lightning spear miracle you get looks pretty impressive
I kindled the bonfire. It didn’t do anything except waste humanity. According to the wiki, it should increase my estus flasks, but that didn’t happen. However, I think I ended up with 10 estus flasks at the beginning due to a possible glitch, so it all evens out.
FUN FACT*
If you lose connection to the internet, you get booted from the game. No timers or anything. Lovely. At least I was standing near the bonfire whilst it happened.
*Fun facts are not required to be fun or factual.
I think it’s 10 flasks for every bonfire you kindle. I know in the ‘burg I was only getting five per rest up until I kindled it.
I think you get 10 every time you rest at the fireshrine bonfire because it’s been pre-kindled.
I’ve got up to the uhm… the part where you find a blacksmith. At first I was pumping up dexterity into the 20s to do more damage with my scimitar (wanderers for lyfe! *fistbump*) and dodge-rolling and stuff, but I found that getting behind people was too hard and I really got a lot of great mileage out of increasing my swing speed to get the first hit in, so strength got increased to the 20s. Which was just as well because then I found an axe and could one-hand it. And I think the strength means I don’t take damage so much when I shield-block. And man, that axe really needed me to boost my endurance to be able to both roll AND swing the fucker because man does it use a lot per swing. So that’s up around 15 now and will probably continue to rise. And I like sprinting everywhere.
And I put a few points into vitality because damn it’s handy when you get into a super-bad situation of multiple guys chaining their attacks into you. You don’t need to survive, just survive long enough to get OUT of that death-trap corner so that the same thing doesn’t happen to you again when you come back to retrieve your souls.
Kinda at the point where I don’t have any pressing need to spend anything but will because I know at some point I’m going to lose all those souls.
Don’t accidentally bump your attack button when talking to the blacksmith…
He gets pissed…
Very pissed…
And doesn’t stop being pissed at you…
i may have done this…
i had to restart the game 😛
I did that in Demon’s once and had the same problem. Also accidently killed a tavern keeper in a game on the C64 that sort of destroyed the economy of the entire town (stupid same button for talk and attack)
Honestly leveling up so much early in the game is a waste. The game is so gear dependent. A level 1 character with a +5 Chaos Club will always beat a level 100 character with a +5 Scimitar (assuming equal skill level).
Best way to plan a build is to more play a bit until you find a weapon you like and build around that. My DEX character has 20 END 20 STR 50 DEX and 50 VIT wielding a +15 Bandit’s Knife in one hand and a +5 Chaos Whip in the other.
Oh! Dual-wielding! How does that work? I only tried it out of curiosity with two longswords. Do both weapons strike at once? The animations and key presses seemed a little vague – I mean he swung both, but it didn’t matter if I L2’d or R2’d. L1 only raised the weapon for I assume some kind of block, and R1 swung as well, but it looked like leading with the main and the second just… came along for the ride?
Text message from an unknown number:
“Address plz”
Okay, person I don’t know!
well they didn’t ask for your address. 742 Evergreen Terrace
123 Fake Street.
P Sherman 42 Wallaby Way
It’s funny, I got asked by a bunch of mates where that was as a joke when I was traveling, but I never got the reference. Thought there was some sorta famous art museum there or some shit.
22 Acacia Avenue.
Making friends is fun! Getting robbed isn’t! Maybe there’s some sort of middle ground here that I’m not thinking of?
At least they’re a polite murderer, saying please.
“Sorry, I only do pants.”
Well, I’m flattered.
No.
Thai good. You like shirt?
as a high school lad I once had the (mis?)fortune to pick up a random phone on the ground which had one text displayed
“I’m pregnant”
Unfortunately me and my friend, who was with me at the time, were both giant assholes-so our response?
“I’d like fries with that”
…. Sorry, bit of a non-sequitur?
babies are hard work. You gotta make sure you’re always working on a full stomach when you got a kid
Man, Saturday’s such a responsible baby daddy.
1 Candy Crush Saga avenue
Nah, might infringe the trademark.
1 King Dot Com Street
It was @cj apparently.
Sent him a Twitter DM instead of replying to the message, because “CJ” is just a little too common a name, just in case it’s coincidence haha
CJ Cregg from The West Wing! HOLY FUCK! How’d you manage that?
oh god, I dont remember wirting it as plz. Yeah I think I was stopped at some lights and got distracted by the bright green one.
I’m Spartacus.
I’m Spartacus.
I am Spartacus
Stop infringing my trademark!
Coming soon: Spartacus Saga: something something something Candy.
Look if it was up to me I’d believe you but I’m still going to need a copy of your photo ID and a current bill with your name and address on it.
I just bought a Lonely Planet Korea guide from The Book Depository. I’m planning to visit my mate Alex and his wife Seung Hwa in Daegu either this year or next year. I’m looking forward to going there.
EDIT: Pageget!!!!! First time I’ve had one in a while.
Well, it is the world’s happiest place.
“I think you like that story very much!”
Fascinating article, but not the Korea I’m planning on going to. I’ve had plenty of similar jokes from my family …
I keep getting disconnected from Xbox Live. I am pretty sure this is Microsoft’s fault, not mine. This keep interfering with Dark Souls, so I refuse to play until Microsoft get their shit together.
So never? That’s okay, you had a good run! May I suggest Fable 3, it’s just like Dark Souls in the tough gameplay department. 😛
heeeeeey @dkzeitgeist , did you get OlliOlli? is it all you’d hoped it would be? Should I spend moneyz on it?
Edit: sorry @dc I was thinking of replying to your comment but changed my mind and deleted the post but forgot to cancel reply, what’s the opposite of a replyfail? 😛
see, I’ve lost it and have no business posting here today
Did look pretty great. Got a good review on Polygon.
http://www.polygon.com/game/olliolli/13270
Edit: Sssssh, I was just going to go with it! Haven’t you learned any thing from North Korea deludedly ignoring their mistakes?
I did.
It is.
You should get it.
Tidy. Ollie my boy
Xbox.com says the service is working, have you run a network test? Have you got the ports manually opened in your router (http://support.xbox.com/en-AU/xbox-360/networking/network-ports-used-xbox-live)? I found that helped a lot with my stability.
…I think it’s working now. I’ll go back to Dark Souls then.
Due to a series of unfortunate events, I get to re-set up 2x videoconference rooms and 3x computers, all ready for Tuesday! It’s always fun dealing with $10K cameras that stopped working.
DARK SOULS – The
DiaryJournal of SkailorusThere is a thing on the ground which says “touch summon stone.” Any idea what this is?
Go on… touch it.
That’s what she said.
If you are human you can bring an ally into the game. Can be useful for getting past some bosses if you are stuck.
…what the hell is wrong with replying lately?
I thought I was loved, but it was all a mistake
*runs away crying*
YOU DIED (Inside)!
It can be a human or an AI ally you summon in to help you with tough sections of the game. Or you can ignore them like a badass and solo everything and then get annoyed and discouraged when everything is just that bit too hard alone.
DARK SOULS – The
DiaryJournal of SkailorusI think I just got invaded by a player. I got a message akin to “KillerSkull87 has invaded!” Then a scary-ass dude in red robes turned up. I tried to run for the bonfire in Undead Burg but it was blocked. I stood with my back to the bonfire entrance, staring at this invader. I tried swapping emoticons to impede his assault. When it was clear he had malicious intentions, I slowly started strafing away, trying to get to the merchant entrance, since I hoped I would have better chance in a more open area. He just stared. Eventually, he was out of sight and he was gone. Scariest experience I’ve had in a game for a long time.
/3spooky5me
Haha. He knew you were a terrified newbie and left you alone.
The online community really is great like that. Very few trolls and summoned help will very often drop some sweet gear for you to use. If someone summons you and dies quickly often they’ll re summon you and refund the humanity you used back to you as well as apologetic items like titanite.
@rize was that you?
you spoke of plans of sinister intent last night 😛
well for my game anyway@transientmind
Dual wielding is only really useful with certain combinations. Dual swords is pretty useless. A heavy sweeping weapon in one hand and a spear in the other is surprisingly effective. Two Ceastus’ works very well as a boxer build. I use the whip as it’s very deceptive, has a very fast and much longer range than it seems, good for surprising people and getting a quick backstab in with the Bandit’s knife. Dual Demon’s Great Machetes is very powerful but requires an ungodly amount of STR and END.
I got absolutely destroyed by a guy once dual wielding Bone Wheel Shields.
So quite liking the PS4, but the interface isn’t exactly something I like. I quite like the Cross Media Bar on the PS3 and it was simple, this new interface is a little messy honestly. But either way quite like Rivals, it looks pretty and plays nicely.
I love the new interface. I find it much more aesthetically appealing than the PS3s and I like the fact you can seamlessly switch between game and interface. Don’t like how you can’t customize it, though. I miss the lime green backdrop I had on PS3.
The blue is pretty! I like that part of it, just I find it a bit annoying to navigate sometimes lol.
I like the whole Miiverse-like thing on the main page where you can see what your friends are up to. Like the seamless recording too. So cool to go into the recorded footage folder and see HD gameplay of something you did last month.
I like that part too, but why did they remove from the friends list when someone last signed in? That was a handy feature lol.
Also I thought the PS4’s came with a 2 week trial of PS+ I got a 2 day trial with mine wtf… Either way gotta buy a subscription at some point I guess!
I don’t even remember getting a trial at all? *shrugs*
Another cool thing? Seeing the rarity of the achievements! I like seeing the occasional Ultra Rare one I have. 😀 Like that it does that for PS3 achievements too.
Really? All consoles were meant to come with a 2 week trial, that’s what Sony told us and that’s what flyers at work said eh who knows!
Yeah that’s cool, though I am guessing some are only like that cause it’s early on with the console and such and I guess not that many people have the games, even if there’s like a dozen currently.
Did however pre order Infamous Second Son today! I need to get to finishing Infamous 2 first though!!
You got a trial?
Yeah, it was all “HERE HAVE 2 FREE DAYS OF PS+” last night when I was playing NFS Rivals, but our propaganda at work said every PS4 sold gets 2 weeks of it free. One of the guys I work with was able to redeem it, how, I have no idea. Gotta ask him about it.
Ooooh, I think I got that two day thing. They wanted credit card details. Wasn’t prepared to do that.
It’s 2 weeks, but only for people who havent had PS+ before, or at least don’t have it currently. Not exactly sure, but it’s sketchy like that.
It’s also not a coupon – just redeem it via the PSN store.
Quite.
Quiet 😛
I’m looking forward to getting mine. I’ve paid $200 off it so far and I think mine will come in the February shipment. Preordered it through EB as the only other options are Target and Hardly Normal.
Yeah support EB, good choice 😀 those other buggers don’t deserve your hard earned money!
It’s a great console and I <3 that Sony now let me charge controllers from USB wall adapters! Though a little annoyed they went from mini USB to micro USB meaning I need to go and buy longish micro USB cable now 🙁
Speaking of EB, I went into one last night to redeem the gift card Freeze got me (thanks maaaan) and the sales guy was really nice. Totally different from usual EB experiences. Was impressed.
DC you’re going to the wrong EB’s if that’s a different experience for you! I say you travel to my store and experience top shelf customer support! My boss always says the customer comes first and you give them 100% of your focus during a sale or anything.
Hmm, I am used to EB salespeople being nice. I suppose it depends on which shop you go to.
I don’t like the new interface either. Once we get a few games and stuff installed it’s going to be a pain, even more than XMB was. And it feels very messy as well, so many different-sized boxes all offset from each other.
As it is I have four or five games installed and can already see how the inability to organize the list, pin stuff or better yet have two rows of icons is going to get old very fast. Reminds me of the old Xbox dashboard where every friend got their own full-page entry in a horizontally-scrolling list which made everything an enormous pain once you had more than about 10 friends.
EDIT: Also effectively all they did is took the XMB, split it in half and put all the admin-level stuff on the top row and the other stuff on the bottom row, then made everything spew out sideways.
This one photo a day thing I’m doing makes me feel like a terrible person when I wear the same shirt for two days in a row. :\
Just buy all the 4 dollar plain white tshirts from kmart and wear a new one each day!
Haha! Actually on day four of the thing I freaked out that I’d be wearing the same shirt over and over so I already bought some colourful ones. 😀 Already had like six plain white Bonds shirts and two grey ones and one Ghostbusters shirt before hand.
99% of my shirts are black 😛 I know your pain haha.
Honestly, I just need to get back to Malaysia so I can hunt down that place where I found that one type of shirt I really like and order a few hundred of them so I can take a Jobsian approach to wardrobe uniformity. Never have to worry about what I’m wearing, because I’m wearing the one thing.
You like plain white tees?
http://uscheckout.apc.fr/browse.cfm/4,3379.html?nav=kanye
10/10 would burn.
“Item is sold out”
WHY
Why not, it’s Kanye West, the man is one of more popular and extremely successful, err rappers? It makes sense honestly, people who are devout fans of something do spend crazy amounts of money to have shit these artists put out.
KISS is a great example due to the shit they merchandise and how the KISS fanbase just lap it up, hell they supposedly made Gene Simmons the first billionaire musician in rock and that was a fair few years ago now I remember hearing that.
Because he’s terrible!
(Actually, I’ve heard one or two of his tracks which I didn’t mind. OK, let’s go with, “He’s an asshole.” Yeah. That one stands up.)
I caught some of his set at Big Day Out 2 years ago, he was quite up himself came out late due to rain and bitched about not being allowed on earlier or something. He was a bit of a drama queen, never listened to him before didn’t find him all that exciting. Much preferred Soundgarden that was on before 😛
Because it’s a white t-shirt. And it costs $120. American.
A plain white t-shirt is not worth two overpriced new-release videogames.
Just remember; A fool and his money are soon parted ways.
At least KISS put stuff on their merchandise
LOL, this is actually a very good point.
Wearing the same shirt for two days in a row?! I usually change my shirt twice to three times a day! 😀
And no doubt you look fabulous in all of them.
You bet I do 😉
I don’t go anywhere without making sure I am the definition of perfection.
If you don’t have a lot of whites, it’s great to buy a bunch of them all at once and not wash them until you’ve worn them all, that way you’re not tempted to slip a white in with the rest of the colours in the wash.
Oh, am I not supposed to be doing that? Cause I totally do! Every week! For months! 😛
Unless you’re going to hand-wash your only couple white items, then yeah. Mixing whites and colours is… uh. Bad. In laundry only. JESUS that sounds racist.
But why? My shirts still appear the same as they did?
I have no laundry skill though. Usually my clothes come out dirtier than they went in. (Soap stains and the like.) *shakes fist at washing machine*
Use less than the recommended volume of detergent. It’s like those tooth-paste ads which show people squeezing on an entire thumb size worm of the stuff when you only need a pea-sized amount. Same goes for detergent. They want you to over-use it so you have to buy more.
Overuse results in soap stains and chalky streaks! Also, build-up from the mineral deposits in hard water will mess with your machine over time, too, leaving other chalky deposits – the kind that gets embedded in your clothes such that they only appear after you scratch them or press anything against them.
It doesn’t hurt to do an empty load to flush it out every now and then, with a generous wash of vinegar.
(Edit: Same thing with your iron – unless you’re only using bottled mineral water to fill it up, you’re going to get mineral deposits that you’ll want to flush out. Run a vinegar/water solution into it and force it to steam.)
Is there any thing he can’t do? 😀
Thanks man!
Even machines are now saying after x amount of washes you should run it empty to flush it out and pro long its life.
Hm. A quick check to back up my old housewife knowledge with some supporting evidence says you should probably use a bit of bi-carb soda, too. I thought that might’ve frothed up too much, but I guess it’s a washing machine, that’s what soap does… God knows bi-carb works wonders for actual cleaning.
If you ever have stains or mold that won’t shift in the shower-tiles/bath-tub rings/toilet bowl, bi-carb and bleach work better than any domestos-type product, that’s for sure.
Bi-carb, vinegar & bleach must haves in any household!
Buy one white shirt, wear it every day and document as it slowly turns grey then brown then black.
Or things could escalate. It could be like Die Hard where the shirt is all torn and bloodied. I do vaguely resemble Hans Gruber with the beard too. XD
Mrs Tigs has been watching the tennis
I don’t care for tennis at all (Sorry powalen)
The guy playing last night had a t-shirt that reminded my of german national colours
I decided the his name was Hans Gruber
Long story short, Hans Gruber is playing in the final of the Australian open Sunday
D.C. loves the selfies!
(I’ve been wearing the same shirt for work for 3 days in a row D:)
*munches on Mars bar, reads packet* A Mars a day helps you work, rest, and play.
OK, I don’t get the ‘rest’ part. How does sugar help you rest? From the inevitable crash? Oh Mars. Why can’t you be more like your brother Snickers? His slogan makes sense. Man… a Snickers really DOES satisfy. Mmm, peanutty.
Eat too many and you’ll be sleeping, my friend. (From the heart attack.)
You can rest easy knowing you’ve got work and play sorted.
This guy! This guy’s awesome!
That it does, that it does…
GET SOME NUTS…
Diabetic coma.
So this arrived at work for me today.. I ordered it about 6 weeks ago and I don’t have any shifts for the next little while so that’s not very helpful *shakes fist* saying that, these are WAY better than the shirts Dan Murphy’s make us wear.
So in case I don’t post again today, I have surgery on my knee tomorrow, so if no one hears from me on Monday you should all assume I died on the operating table cursing Zoidberg.
Take it easy, my friend! Hope the recovery is smooth sailing! I wish you Frozen-related dreams while you’re knocked out cold. (And hope the doctor films you singing Let It Go while you’re still drugged out. :D)
Good luck, buddy. Nowait, that’s bad luck… I mean, break a leg.
…Wait.
Hmmm knee surgery is not something that was part of Surgeon Simulator 2013, but i’m still willing to give it a bash?
#trustmeimadoctor
Good luck man, hope the recovery period is not too long :\I’ve got a dremel you can borrow, I don’t have a cutting disc for bone or cartilage but I reckon the metal cutting ones would do the job
I can’t help but feel that the people upvoting a post about you dying on the operating table are monsters. Monsters the lot of them
I hear that the anesthetic they give you can knock you out mid sentence and that when you wake up you will complete that sentence. So if you go out cursing Zoidberg you will wake up cursing Zoidberg.
Although if you can work the timing right and they say count backwards from ten and you will be asleep by 5 rather than counting backwards just say
“Are you sure that I’ll be asleep by the oh god I was awake the entire time”
Time that right and you will freak them out no end
In case any one doesn’t check, Mark’s asking ’bout the future of Community Kudos today. Just thought I’d give you a heads up in case you want input. (ALSO, CONGRATS THE CRACKS. WOOOOOO!)
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/01/community-kudos-152/
Yay for Cracks indeed! Always feels so good when someone you nom wins!
My work colleague gave me a Hungry Jacks voucher today for 2 burgers for $5! Since I just got my biggest pay since I gave up my school work, I thought I’d indulge and grab myself some mega junk lunch!
Walked in to Hungry Jacks, and before I know it, everyone’s running out screaming and gasping for air, cos I dropped a whopper!
#tributetopagesixsinceimisseditthisweek
Y’all didn’t get La-Mulana! >:(
Lameeeeeeeeeeee!
___
PC peeps, I’m having problems with ACIV and I’m wondering if you could please help!
Did anyone else frequently get “AC4BFSP.exe has stopped working” crash errors? I got it every now and then but now I’m getting it at the exact same point in the game after a cutscene in Sequence 11 meaning I’m unable to progress forward… I also get it every time I click “Play” for the Aveline DLC content.
:/
It seems to be a common issue but I can’t seem to find a consistent solution.
Thanks anyway!
uhhh, have you tried the steam option thingie “check local cache”?
I have it through Uplay alone (so no Steam) but if anyone’s interested, running Uplay in admin mode and verifying files seemed to work as well as downloading PunkBuster updates and manually updating and installing it.
The problem is, verifying the files doesn’t actually default to doing anything to fix it and you have to click install for Uplay to fix any files.
I didn’t have any issues with Uplay before but I’ve had a bunch of problems when I started playing ACIV >_>
I better not have issues with Watch_Dogs or the new Trials game! :O
Tried updating your graphics card drivers?
Oh man. On the newer PC too 🙁
You should’ve bought La-Mulana!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I own it 🙂
No you don’t, lieasha! (at least not on Steam)
I did.
Unlameeeeeeeeeeee!
You haven’t played it th…
Oh you totally have.
You’re cool as, bro!
I’m keen for K meat!
did K-Mart open a butchery?
He means Ketamine meat. We have them occasionally.
You wouldn’t remember…
Aww harsh man.. just cos I’m too poor to attend meats.. no need to rub it in!! :p
Didn’t say you didn’t attend them. Just you wouldn’t remember them.
colon p man!! COLON P!!!!
But that would imply I was joking? *confused look*
Here’s Spaghett!
I just had steak and eggs, I’m full
Numenera tumblr updated with a really gorgeous picture. Excellent find on that one @redartifice.
http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Man, 8 sessions already!
Looks like the giant man just took a really satisfying crap.
And it glows blue.
No romance in your soul.
Actually, I have a couple of places I rip art from (when I can’t find it on Deviantart or CGhub). Takes a little googling
@jimu
Xenobladeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Hey, it’s Greenius! HEY GREENIUS!
Still on the shelf.
Skyrim is really, really good.
(HI @dc)
It’s pretty good!
Xeno needs some lovin though
Can’t pry myself away.
Best of it’s type so far. I really loved New Vegas, bu whooooooa
The combat is a good improvement over Oblivion!
I reckon everything is, even the setting.
So this is pretty great
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/01/the-best-australian-isp-for-bittorrent-users-is/#comment-2210623
I have a question for people who have used dolphin.
I don’t really want to set up my wiimote with it. Can I use PC controls instead?
i recall using keyboard and mouse when I tried it many aeons ago. Usually they have defaults for keyboard/mouse combo, but I haven’t looked at dolphin in such a long time I couldn’t tell you where to look.
That’s all I wanted to know, thanks.
Works fine, but trying to emulate movement controls was difficult at best.
Yeah, it might be easier using an Xbox or PS3 controller instead, because then you could use it somewhat like a Pro controller.
(@scree)
i prefer keyboard and mouse for some games, and control pads for others. just depends on your preference and game type
I have one of those, so thanks. I mainly want it for Fatal frame 4 and trauma team
I don’t really want to have to buy all that extra stuff
Very tempted to get a hold of Ride to Hell: Retribution. Just to see how bad it really is.
That’s a quote for the tombstone.
Windows 8.1 is the worst update to an existing OS. 8 was fine, I had no problem with it (lack of start button was weird, but I could have got used to it).
8.1? It makes all desktop apps blurry, making you manually go and change a setting so you can read the setting text, and even File Explorer was blurry, so you have to chang a acua seting on the computer. How did it even get past the testing stage???
There’s something wrong with your installation. I’ve got 8.1 on multiple devices and haven’t encountered this issue at all.
I just downloaded it from the store. It shouldn’t be an issue mostly, it’s rather easy to change, but it’s just an annoyance.
…
I just realised I hadn’t updated since i downloaded it (just got it the other day).
Downloading one right now,
sounds like you’ve just got the wrong resolution set
This Shadows of Mordor game looks kind of cool but those sure are some significant liberties they’re taking with the setting. Some dude on a revenge quest because he’s possessed by some kind of ghost or something? Tolkien must be spinning in his grave.
So, people always tell me it’s best to have a picture much bigger then you want to print it, as it makes details easier to add. The only issue is that, now photoshop is chugging terribly.
I have 8gigs of ram and apparently that is still not enough. -_-
I might have a few spare ram chips if you have slots
I always have slots B)
Fuck, you have ruined me, Tay.*wipes tear*
i’m… i’m so proud!
I may have descended into the immaturity that is innuendo,
but Pixel, Shane and Numbers upvoted my post, so I have that going for me, which is nice.
sometimes it’s okay to descend to this level… it’s more fun down here 😀
In the filth? I agree.
One recent meat with @pixel_the_ferret_viking and look what happens.
We really need to make sure he keeps coming to meats
\o/
positive influence
On a serious note, if you don’t need them for any reason, Yeah, they should help. I think I have 2 slots left.
I’m currently trying to improve myself with some pony fanart, but I’m experimenting with light, colours and trying not to be scared to make weird decisions. =D
I strongly suspect that there’s an upper limit to how much RAM will really help photoshop, I’ve not seen any difference in lagginess since upgrading from 6 to 12GB. I’d not be surprised if you gave a machine 2TB of RAM and photoshop would still chug with anything over 1920×1080.
incidentally, I just misread “I’m currently trying to improve myself with some pony fanart” as “I’m currently trying to improve myself with some ponyfart” and began trying to work out how that’d help. I’d say I think I need sleep but I have a bad feeling my brain would have done that no matter how awake I was…
Dammit, is there anyway to stop it chugging? There’s generally a 30 second delay whenever I make a stroke. It’d be alright, except when I’m blending, it’ll be very hard
what version of photoshop are you using?
CS6 64 bit version
have you got hardware accelleration enabled?
maybe?
In all honesty, I have absolutely no ideahave a look in preferences. There’s a setting to enable you to use your gpu, and it makes a HUGE difference!
I don’t. Now i have to look at getting a new graphics card maybe. =/
ahh do you know what sort of card you have atm?
Does it not have the option for you or does it not make much of a difference?
@aliasalpha Doesn’t have the option at all.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-260/comment-page-13/#comment-2373818
hmm you should have the option there somewhere. that card is capable of doing CUDA. (Everything from 8800 up should be able to do it)..
This is from the Adobe website. On the same page, they confirm Nvidia 9000 series cards are supported.
GPU/OpenGL preferences in Photoshop CS6The advantages of using a compatible video card (GPU) with Photoshop are that you can experience better performance and more features. Problems can occur if you have an older video card with limited VRAM. They can also occur if you use other programs that use the GPU at the same time as Photoshop.
Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences (Mac OS).
In the Performance panel, make sure that Use Graphics Processor is selected in GPU Settings.
Click Advanced Settings and specify the following options:
Mode > Basic
Uses the least amount of GPU memory and enables basic OpenGL features.
Mode > Normal
Uses more GPU memory and enables GPU-based color matching, tone mapping, and checkerboard blending.
Mode > Advanced
Provides the benefits of Normal mode as well as newer OpenGL advances that can result in improved performance.
Use Graphics Processor
to Accelerate Computation
Use OpenCL
Uses the GPU to accelerate the new blur filters (Field Blur, Iris Blur, and Tilt-Shift). OpenCL is only available on newer GPUs that support OpenCL v1.1 or later.
Anti-Alias Guides And Paths
Allows the GPU hardware to smooth the edges of drawn guides and paths.
30-bit Display (Windows only) Allows Photoshop to display 30-bit data directly to screen on video cards that support it
Hopefully this will help.
edit to add spoiler tab cos it’s big!
@welbot
I’ve just edited some of my preferences and Video card acceleration is on. It’s also on advanced.
cool cool. you might not have much memory on the vid card being a 9600. getting a better card may help. hard to know without checking out your system to know if more ram or better card will help more. Have you looked in task manager when you’re working in cs6 to see how much memory is being used?
@welbot
Not as yet, but I will check
CPU: 2.6-3.2 Mem: 5036MB Disk: 58.6%
well it doesn’t look like your system memory is reaching its limit, so I wouldn’t worry too much about that. I’d say go for a better graphics card. the 9600 is getting to be quite old now, so you’ll see huge benefits in things like games too.
@welbot
What would you suggest?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-260/comment-page-13/#comment-2374061 see here! Dunno what you’re aiming for price wise, but I assume less is best. Good bang for your buck in the one I posted, but there are other choices if that’s still too much
Another one of Pixel’s Patented Dark Souls Laugh out Loud YASD moments
Decided to take on the Bell Gargoyles, killed them on my first try, was super proud, didn’t even summon help or anything,
Got to the top of tower and rang the bell
Started my descend back down the tower and of course didn’t watch my footing on the second set of ladders did i?
Promptly fell 3 floors ending in a very loud crunching sound… apparently falling that distance in heavy armor hurts…
I for some reason found it infinitely amusing and couldn’t stop laughing…
Now excuse me while i retrieve the souls i left there, then ONWARD TO BLIGHT TOWN
An NPC appears in that tower after you ring the bell. LEARN HIS GESTURE IT’S RAD!yep got it :P,
the ‘ÿou talking to me’ gesture 😛I had one earlier today myself. I don’t know if you know if it but there’s a way back to the undead asylum where you start the game. There’s a merchant of sorts where you have to just drop particular types of items near her and she’ll replace them with a trade the next time you load the area. Thing is she’s on a really thin ledge up near where the crow takes you away after the asylum demon, lots of empty space underneath this ledge.
Because you drop the item rather than trade through a dialogue box, you have to open the start menu, then the inventory and then drop the stuff, pressing B on the controller quits back a level in the menu so normally I just hammer it a bit to get through the slow and clunky process and normally I’m not in a position where accidently pressing B a 4th time and doing the backwards hop is a problem. Here? Not so good…
I also did that, crossing back over the roof. 😛
Watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with the wife. She enjoyed it, I couldn’t remember how it ended going in to it, was pleasantly surprised. A great film with some really great scenes throughout. I just cannot believe it’s ten years old already.
Such a good movie. I loved it more the second time, when the structure clicked with me.
Yeah, I’d have to agree. This was my second viewing I think and knowing it’s good I was pretty excited to introduce it to the wife tonight. The fact that I had forgotten the ending was a nice touch as well – maybe I’ve had someone previously erased too. 😀
We seem to like similar movies Benny, my friend! 😀
I was talking with @sughly about this ages back about how the structure isn’t hard to follow in hindsight, but we both had a little trouble the first time. I think in a way, for me atleast — it was trying to over think what was happening cause I wanted to be in the know. When you just sit back and let it unfold, it’s much better…
Oh man, this post can totally be read the wrong way. XD
DC, I’ve always said you’re a man of multiple meanings!
It’s the humanities, DC! Interesting relationships of characters in film – it trumps action, bullet time and all that jazz – every time. It’s what I tried to keep in mind when choosing my top 25 films. It’s all about the feels and this one has it in spades.
Most def. Okay, if you stumble across a Gattaca-esque movie you think I’d like tell me and I”ll do the same. (Until we both forget to do this. :D)
Will do. In the meantime, have a once-over of my top ten films list again and make sure you’ve seen the first five – at least.
1. Gattaca2. Leon the Professional
3. Casablanca
4. Seven Samurai
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
6. Blade Runner (@sughly)
7. Dances with Wolves
8. The Elephant Man
9. Raging Bull
10. Goodfellas
I’m not going to lie. I’ve only seen two of those movies. (Gattaca/Blade Runner.) :S
Haha, not a good start but okay – I’ll give a quick rundown and then you can choose. @dc
@dc You should at least watch Casablanca, if nothing else just for all the references it gets in practically everything else ever made.
It’s A Wonderful Life isn’t a bad little film even if it does end too happily for my taste.
You’d have seen the classic sci-fi b-movies wouldn’t you? Stuff from the 50s & 60s that are kinda shit but also pretty damned cool
This is a pretty amazing list
Also, page thirteen is:
Nope.
Ft. Freeze? You can be like those guys in the balcony on The Muppet Show!
I always thought I was…
#LeavingFreezeBehindExtravaganza
If Freeze is Statler, can I be Waldorf?
Dohohohohhoho
@dc Gattaca need not be explained. Well, to you anyway.
Leon is about a hitman who learns a bit about life when he befriends a very young girl. Even teaches her how to kill, due to the circumstances surrounding their first meeting. Some people find this one a little kooky due to the relationship of the two, in one scene it borderlines pedophilia but that can be argued. The the first two thirds are really something different however final act is an absolute classic, that I’ve seen imitated elsewhere since.
Casablanca is THE classic love story, forget Gone with the Wind, but don’t let that dissuade you, it’s not sappy, it’s nostalgic. It reminds you of that first love you had and she just happens to walk back into your life. Rick, a bar owner in northern Africa has that exact dilemma. Uber-cool, Humphrey Bogart is the man, Peter Lorre is just fucking creepy. Some great, memorable lines in this one too. Won Best Picture, deservedly. Black and white, it may be way too old for some.
Seven Samurai is the only three hour film that I can watch without feeling the actual three hours drag. A group of bandits terrorise poor villagers, who in turn hire seven samurai to protect them and fight back, in short. So much more happens that I can’t remember off the top of my head. Suffice to say – Toshiro Mifune became a Japanese legend because of this one and he is simply unforgettable. Black and white, foreign language with English subtitles only.
Okay, so The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the other three hour film that I can watch without feeling the actual three hours drag. A western, with three characters’ stories entwining over a hunt for buried treasure. Arguably the best Western, with a classic soundtrack from Ennio Morricone and one of the first films to use extreme facial close ups to great effect thanks to the director, Sergio Leone. The track, The Ecstacy of Gold is used by Metallica to open their concerts – trust me it’s fucking epic. Stars Clint Eastwood.
Now the choice is yours!
I have Captain Planet in my mind as I read the last line back to myself..
Leon the Professional is goddamn brilliant. Love love love Gary Oldman too.
Seven Samurai is great as well. Also love it’s American remake The Magnificent Seven.
EVVVVVERRRRRRYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNEEEEEEEE.
That is all.
Also you have Good Bad and Ugly there. The whole Dollars trilogy is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s (Seven Samurai) Yojimbo.
Man Hollywood loved his movies.
Ah, yes. I forgot about the connections. Thanks, Freeze.
I first watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly when I was about four years old and it’s one of the only dialogue-heavy films where I sat through the whole thing enjoying it. Great film.
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is the only one of those I’ve seen. My dad was a huge Clint Eastwood fan and had me watching his westerns and Dirty Harry movies when I was inappropriately young for them, but I didn’t care. That movie is fantastic.
Happy Birthday @powalen !
STAHP
Happy level up day! =D
mwooohahaha! happy b’day!
Quick, press B!
Happy Birthday. Congratulations on surviving this long.
Happy Bday Pow!
Happy birthday, Pow! Hope the year treats you awesome!
@powalen
@shane
Playstation Now isn’t going to be available in Canada
BRB gonna go choke a bitch
Your internet probably wasn’t good enough anyway.
I’m helping!
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Went to Karaoke last with the lot I work with at EB, oh god the lot I work with are just the best when you get alcohol into them and give them songs to sing.
Also I saw Never Gonna Give You Up in the song selection and just had to.
So, my graphics card is apparently shite.
This is it here
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-9600-gt
What should I upgrade to?
Depends on your price range.
that depends on the graphics card
It depends on what kind of power you are shooting for. I am currently using a gtx 650. I can run all games at medium settings, and will be able to for a long time. If you want something cheap, it’s a good way to go, selling for $130-$150. However, I don’t think it’s powerful enough to use Nvidia Shield streaming, – or at least do it well – so take that into consideration. If you want something a little more powerful, you can just get something a little higher-up in the 600 line or you could splurge on a gtx 700 series graphics card. Sadly, I am not able to give advice on AMD cards.
Before you do all this however, you have to check to see whether it’s compatible with your motherboard, and that your power supply is sufficient. 400W should be plenty.
However, don’t just take my advice. When you do something like this, it is important to get advice from as many people as possible. There are many PC users on TAY, so ask.
Here is GPUboss. They’ll help you compare graphics cards.
I hope I could be of help.
I’m on 400 watts if I remember right.
I want to use it for photoshop. Sounds strange I know, but it’s kind of frustrating, being unable to draw at big resolutions.
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=193_1486
This is what Welbot gave me and it hasn’t blinked once at anything I’ve thrown at it with every setting at Max.
Oh god, I knew they were expensive, but not that expensive. I wonder if there’s any photoshop specialist ones.
A 760 would be a decent blend of features and keeping the price low (and by low, I mean still fairly high but low by video card standards): http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=193_1511&products_id=26534
Gah I just re-read it and it needs 500w power as a minimum and the 660s seem to need 450w minimum
I have to double check, but I think it’s 400 Watts. I don’t mind at looking at upgrading my PSU at the same time and keeping this one as a spare
Well, PCCG have 550w ones for something in the region of $60
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=15_535&products_id=22976
there are somewhat more developer cards that may run photoshop on the gpu a little nicer, but they cost way too much. The gpu’s that are available for gamers and home users tend to have enough grunt to get the job done.
Something like this could be good.
http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=247&bid=5&sid=99254
I can’t guarantee 100% that it will work given you only have a 400W power supply, but it doesn’t require extra power connectors like a lot of others, and according to the specs, only draws 75W. It has 2gb of memory though, which will help a lot.
I’ve got a Nvidia Quadro 600 sitting here if you want it?
Do you think it would help?
In all honesty I’ve no idea ;P
It’s got lower power draw and is designed for CAD stuff. Certainly not a ‘gaming’ GPU.
Free to good home.
I am terrible at understand the difference. /o\ So much choice D=
Quadro cards are great for CAD and 3d modeling, and the higher end ones do GPU accelleration really well, but that one is quite slow compared to some of the cheaper standard gaming cards.
Thanks man! I dontl fdsiancitaulyl nknwo takn withat all about to be honest, just jknow that i donhave one spare.
The 630 that I posted a link to will outperform the quadro 600 by quite a good margin. It’s got twice as much vram, and will crunch data much more efficiently.
See here for a chart of cards and their direct computational output.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/directCompute.html
The 6xx series by Nvidia are still around you could look at a GTX 650Ti or a GTX 660
They’re well priced ( from about 170 to 260), but provide enough power to do the things you’ll need to do.
Hell my GTX 560 still runs games at high settings on a stable frame rate.
have to be careful when choosing cards in that range. most will require an extra pci-e power cable, which I very much doubt she’ll have on a 400W psu. They likely need more power than it could handle too
Crisis averted!
Turns out you need to adjust settings in photoshop. Thanks for not teaching me that digital art class. -_-
You got it sorted? AWESOME! \o/
so no lag anymore?
As far as I can tell. Means I’ll be able to start blending soon ^^
You could start a website called ‘will it blend’!
Oh wait…
🙂 glad to hear you’re running smoother now! still probably worth looking at upgrading your GPU at some point when you can afford it though
I will definitely consider it
Just so everyone knows: It’s not my birthday until June! @greenius just thinks he’s funny 😛
Really? That makes me sad.
Happy Birthday Pow!
He’s just reminding you to bring your everstone.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 😀
I will, however, be accepting presents regardless.
Happy Borthday! \o/
@powalen
https://twitter.com/powalenau/status/426840476394606592
Someone wished they had two birthdays and I was merely granting their wish!
Genie-us? 😀
This is scary. Greenius has realized the extent of his influence! 😀
;D
Hope everyone remembers it’s Greenius’ birthday tomorrow!
But tomorrow is the anniversary of when this country was raped, pillaged & stolen!
But that was back in 2011, the last time we lost the ashes at home
Prepare your presents!
😀
Anyone else having Xbox One problems? Mine is currently having problems recognising discs
I’ve got an Xbone problem.
I don’t have an Xbone.
There’s been a few reported cases about ODD’s having issues, best to contact Microsoft about when you get the chance cause it’ll have to be sent away for repair.
Fixed it with one of their online tip help guide things
Ah good to hear. If it does happen again though, you should call Microsoft, cause it doesn’t sound fun tbh.
Nah, you need to log offline, power cycle the xbox, then install the game while it is offline, Assassins Creed is now installing but Battlefield 4 didn’t want to work, I will keep you posted bud
Ah right, hope it doesn’t happen again man.
We have already had a few Xbox One’s & PS4’s returned due to fault optical drives & hard drives..
Ok, so Ryse worked, then I did the same thing to Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, then I put Battlefield 4 in….and it did nothing, I took Battlefield out, put Dead Rising 3 back in and it did what the others did straight away….
I think (and am assuming until I can inspect it closer) that my copy of Battlefield must be scratched, and in the right place
Almost time to suit up for a wedding. Free booze 😀 rushing round the shops trying to find a cheapish suit the day before is never a good idea. Let this be a lesson to you all. Especially you, person reading this right now
Atleast you’ll be set for the Brisbane Dapper Meat. (Not a thing!)
It is now.
You’ve seen as dapper as I get, Freeze. 😛
whatever it is you wore, add a top hat and monocle
This is the first dress shirt I’ve worn in over 15 years that hasn’t been white, black or grey. I feel like I’m breaking some convention somewhere
Torn tracky dacks and a stained blue singlet but with a top hat & monocle, that’s style right there!
people won’t know what hit them
Top hat and lumberjack shirt, eh. This could work!
Free?
How much was that haircut again?
it worked out cheaper than expected in total 😀 still expensive though
@mrtaco Are you coming tomorrow? You haven’t sent me an email for my address 😛
He wants to know how many girls are coming first and what they look like.
Oh is he coming? Maybe its not safe for Ash to come with me
😛*pulls head out of Advance Wars*
Uh… oops >_>
I finished ACIV yesterday and it was alright. Not super amazing but not bad and definitely better than III (ugh!). Sailing is fun and pretty but a lot of it just kinda felt empty and too open, I think I’d prefer horses and a giant landmass with towns/cities next time!
No idea where they’ll go next and I don’t really care either. The obvious thing would be NINJAS but we’ll see 🙂
What I do want though is another Prince of Persia and Beyond Good & Evil 2. Make it happen Ubisoft!
I also just finished the Sony/PC exclusive Aveline DLC for it and it’s kinda meh. I got it for free so I didn’t mind but I definitely wouldn’t pay $7 for it 😛
Beyond Good & Evil, I’d play that so. damn. much.
I know ACIII left a bitter taste in yo mouth but did you ever try ACIV?
I did. I liked it, but it felt a bit disposable. Not a fan of the game every year strategy they’ve got there. I’d prefer a strong creative vision. This series just feels like stalling for me. I didn’t mind back in the day cause I thought there’d be pay off, now I don’t think there ever will be…
Yeah, I know what you mean. Tons of $$$ for them but the quality of yearly games are bleh, but I’ll keep buying dem ACs if it means more Rayman and BG&E!
Yeah, that’s true. And even if B&GE2 is a crazy huge success, I would never want it to go yearly installments though.
Really D.C? I had no idea you liked that game.
I want a western assassins creed. Chinese immigrants in the gold rush era being brutally exploited, still plenty of conflict with native americans what with that whole enslavement business they got dragged into, loads of ancient things to be discovered in digs using gold mines as cover, cowboys… seems a good setting to use. Assassin’s Creed (Red Dead) Redemption
But…
BEARS!!!
Assassins Creed Ninjas set in feudal Japan? Hell yes!
La-Mulana club assemble!
@mawt @fled @mythamphetamine @mcgarnical
WOO!
…I still haven’t played it 😛
But at least you have it!
Yay @fled !
@mawt – I killed a boss but I’m pretty sure I skipped way ahead so I used a guide to find the right first boss :P. I am weak!
Did you end up in the Mausoleum of Giants? I did actually check a guide there, as the game does kind of convolute the main puzzle rather than explain it.
I went to about six areas before I killed the boss in The Temple of the Sun and realised I’d jumped too far ahead and checked a guide to clear up a few things in the first area.
Oh my. I thought I’d love that. Spelunky crossed with Dark Souls?
Instead it felt like a crudely made and ugly controlling platformer made with C64 tech 🙁
I don’t mind pixel art and simple old school art styles. I’m talking about advances in useability. Spelunky has the tightest most amazing platforming controls. Risk of Rain also. But this? Aaaargh….
I’ve given it only 20 minutes but I really didn’t enjoy it at all. If you guys like it I’ll give it another chance.
I hated my first few minutes with it too! I literally had my mouse over the uninstall button before I figured I’ll give it another go. Once I got those first few beginner things underway it clicked and now I’m enjoying it (except for a few things here and there).
I’d say it’s more of a 2D Metroidvania Dark Souls, rather than Spelunky. Sure, it’s got your “Indy” main character with a whip but Spelunky feels more like a platformer with tighter controls whereas this plays more like a classic NES Castlevania. Its controls are still fairly tight but the platforming is not as precise, floaty or jumpy as something like Spelunky or modern Metroidvanias.
Some of the puzzle solutions are really obscure but I figured I’d just use a guide if I get stuck.
Been playing Trials a lot recently, and just unlocked the Trials Trophy.
Apparently the Platinum Medals are locked until the Trials Trophy is attained, which means that I was just awarded with 8 Plats, too!
Woo! Congrats. What ones have you got platinums for?
Man, where is everyone?
Barely anyone posts on the weekends these days, it seems.
I post! Dc usually posts
I lurk around >:3
Elsewhere.
Shhhh, we are all hiding.
I’m trying to solve an audio engineering problem that has got me running around in circles to the point where now I’m like that bit with sideshow bob surrounded by rakes
I went to see The Wolf of Wall Street. So good. I just got home…
So at work, it was very hot at work today.
Understandable, given the time of year.
The air conditioner doesn’t reach the majority of the workplace, so a bunch of fans were set up. Understandable. You can’t expect the air conditioner to cool both the shopfront and the inventory room.
Half of the fans did not have covers, meaning that you couldn’t get too close to them.
Vaguely understandable. The covers were probably taken off a some point, and not returned.
Then when my boss got bored, he started poking his pen in the open blades [of the fan]. He was remarking about how it sent plastic chips everywhere. This seemed to be his sole reason for doing it.
Unfathomable. How… just how?
Now, this is just wild speculation, but I have reasons to believe my boss is somewhat irresponsible.
Or an idiot?
Hot, hot?! You don’t know what hot is till you’ve worked in a busy kitchen in the wet season in Darwin. That’s hot!
You don’t know what hot is until you’ve diced habaneros and then gone for a wee without first washing your hands 500 times!
After work, I went to a Chinese takeaway to get some dinner. There was a quiet little tune playing. It was some piano melody of some description. The music seemed vaguely familiar. However, I couldn’t quite place it. After I had left, it hit me.
I’m not certain of this, but the Chinese takeaway place was playing what sounded like a piano remix of the end credits theme from Pokemon gen 2. I hope I am correct, but that would be awesome if it were true.
Since I started typing, I have tracked down a piano version of the iconic credits theme. Now I am less sure.
Goddammit, I want that to be a reality!
hey guys jumping on some dayz with a friend, if anyone wants to join in, pm me on steam!
Do you have a dog?
DogZ! I sense a mod!
I was thinking Melbourne TAY dog meat.
Starving to death hiding from zombies and psychotic lunatics with guns, meeting up with friends and their dogs… its mostly the same isn’t it?
They should add dogs. Everything is better with dogs.
Well they are adding animals and Arma 2 & 3 have dogs so I suspect they’re a sure thing. Personally I prefer parrots
http://25.media.tumblr.com/af38394884a4ce3c3fa666236ac75dd4/tumblr_mhwqqxrZli1r8x5tno1_500.jpg
YOU GUYS ARE CLOWNS!!!! (AND I LOVE YOU ALL)
Ooooh and a DayZ mod where you have to hide from clowns!! All of Chernarus has been turned into a nightmarish fairground stalked by clowns and you have to ward off starvation by pecking at the remains of rotting dagwood dogs and bug encrusted fairy floss, your only hope for healthy food is a discarded toffee apple that you can break out of its shell, sucking the juices out and gently weeping under the twitching remains of a rollercoaster, being slowly driven mad by endless fairground music and the distant honking of the maniacal clowns and the squeaking of their balloon animals.
I should have put in a trigger warning for coulrophobics at the start I guess…
o_0
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…………… i love it!
Sorry
Sigh… the chicken I got from the Chinese takeaway was undercooked. I had to chuck it in a frying pan for about 5 minutes to get rid of the pinkish hue. And I found a bone. Lovely. I’d complain if I wasn’t lazy.
Wait a minute… I heard what sounded like the end credits theme for Pokemon in the restaurant… and my food was could have potentially contained salmonella…
That’s it! The owners were trying to kill me, and the sound was a message from god (Arceus?) telling me that this is how I die!
OH MYY GOOOOOD!
PS: I heard what sounded suspiciously like the end credits theme from Pokemon Gold/Silver in the Chinese takeaway, but the comment might still be in moderation.
well that was a fun wedding 🙂 sit at a table with two no shows so I got their food. Wearing trousers a tad too small because I’ll fit into the once I’ve shed a few pounds wasn’t the brightest idea when combined with two dinner servings and a lot of cider.
also, salsa dancers = hot as hot fudge can get
Dark Souls – The
DiaryJournal of SkailorusSeveral failed attempts at killing the kinght in Undead Burg or the guy with the bone club. I decided to face the Taurus Demon instead. I knew the Taurus Demon was near for a long time, but I avoided it, since I expected him to be harder than the other two. Boy was I wrong.
I beat him on the second try. Kind of a disappointment, but that’s what happens when you are way over-leveled due to trying to kill bone club guy.
Foribge my intocincatied state an f loack of sobrtiety.ciherence, but heyt,,,
pretty drtunk,]
anywayh, I rhink I jist camt aout to my parents… those who I lieve with., Not just as :not straitthey: (more :I dont car”)m byt more “your personalyt ty means far more than yor genitals” tp my [aremsnt.
Kind of f odd both admittinf ot my parents and accepting to myself.
So yeah. I don;t considfer myself male asy suck. I’d mych prefer gender-mneiratral pronouns sucj as “they./their”etc. But hey, I’m so used to masculine pronouncs I sodmn’t care.
I;m sureiosylr drtunk at the moment and I apologise for that fbut I don’r know how else to address this and I’m sturgg.ling to come to ctesmrs with it mislefly .
All i know is the reception ive gotten forom twitter tonight is fucking beyond anything i couldnve t imaginved , and i don’t relalyly know how to thnk you for it.
…put simply ,i love the commiunitigy, ive been partt of, amd I have that I’
m runinnig it with fdrunkg rambling s but seriously, yo ubucnk hgave hgeclped me so mucjh,. More than I can ever credit you for.
I love you all, from tyh e bottom of my intocicatied hear,. <4
:et’s leave this as a remidner to tralsnsieate tmorroar w mmkay>
,,alylay
When you translate, can you leave the original post in spoilers? It is my most favourite post I’ve ever seen on TAY, and would be a shame if it got deleted :’)
Alylay to you too!
If my year 9 linguistics courses in Drunken To English haven’t steered me astray, something good has happened so I’m going to upvote.
I think I get the gist overall but I’ll wait for the formal translation for any more detailed comments
You’re awesome man!
STRUTH! It’s the Dan And Karl’s Zeitgeist Australia Day Special! Listen as your favourite Larrikins discuss the colonisation of New Zealand and the treaty of Waitangi, what it is to be true blue and vie for Alan Jones job as uninformed political commentators.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2014/01/26/dan-karls-zeitgeist-australia-day-special/
LISTEN, SUB, TELL YOU FRIENDS!!!
AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE! ZEITGEIST CUNT!
JUST WOKE UP!!!! \o/
Man i love weekends!!!
Happy ‘Straya Day TAYbies!
You too, Benny! Did you save any thing for the swim back?
I never saved anything for the swim back!
Plans for today, DC? I’m just havin’ a beer, watchin’ Sons of A.
No plans! Looking forward to seeing Her with some pals tomorrow, though!
Man of multiple meanings! Haha I know you’re referring to the film.
…
Am I?
Dirty bastard! And you’re bringing your pals?! XD
It looks like the ‘new project’ that Falcom teased a little while ago is a new Ys game. They had a livestream last night where they talked a bit about the next Trails game (we’re getting further and further behind 🙁 ) and revealed some character designs for the new mystery project they’re working on, and one of them mentions they’re from Altago, which was the country you visit in Ys Seven.
So we’re looking at either a Ys V remake or Ys Eight. And this is a PS4 game. Hype.
No one else cares 🙁I’ve been meaning to play the Ys games in forever brah but I got more titles in my backlog than there are people in Canada.*
*all 3 people!
But hell, any JRPG for the PS4 gets my attention.
They’re not long games. Maybe 15-20 hours for the most recent ones. Ys I & II are both even shorter.
EDIT: I burned through I & II over a weekend when they came out on steam and still had time to go back and do some sidequest achievements eg backing Feena into a corner with the mask on so I could ‘measure’ her and creep her out.
PS4 JRPG. Very interested.
Drunk Leph’s rambling revision:
Forgive my intoxicated state and lack of sobriety/coherence, but hey… pretty drunk.
Anyway, I think I just came out to my parents… those who I live with, not just as “not straight” (more: I don’t care) but more “your personality means far more than your genitals” to my parents.
Kind of odd both admitting to my parents and accepting to myself.
So yeah. I don’t consider myself as male as such. I’d much prefer gender-neutral pronouns such as “they/their” etc. but hey, I’m so used to masculine pronouns I don’t care.
I’m seriously drunk at the moment and I apologise for that but I don’t know how else to address this and I’m struggling to come to terms with it myself.
All I know is the reception I’ve gotten from twitter tonight is fucking beyond anything I could’ve imagined, and I don’t really know how to thank you for it.
…put simply, I love the community I’ve been part of and I have that I’m ruining it with drunk ramblings but seriously, you bunch have helped me so much, more than I can ever credit you for.
I love you all, from the bottom of my intoxicated heart <3
Let’s leave this as a reminder to translate tomorrow mmkay?
,,,alylay
WTF is alylay??Claim that alylay is a welsh farewell that doesn’t exactly translate. Something like “We had fun, I hope I wasn’t too drunk and I’m sure that lamp will fix up a treat with a spot of glue”
Done and done!
Hope there’s no regrets or any thing today, man. Whatever fallout there may be, you’ll probably be much, much happier having this out in the open. Congrats!
Congratulations mate, that is a very big and brave thing to do! 🙂
You’ll probably feel a bit awkward around them for a couple of days, but you’ll soon realise that the world keeps turning and that nobody is going to judge you for who you are (and yes, I know I don’t know you, but everybody needs a bit of support) 🙂
PS. “<4” was the highlight of my night last night. Hopefully your hangover isn’t too bad 😉
Bloody hell, I did get the gist!
Glad to see people are supporting you, I’ve heard way too many unhappy endings to that kind of story and its nice to hear a good one! You’re clearly pretty cool and anyone who says otherwise is just wrong
CAN’T BREATHE SEND HALP
Ha!
That worked rather well.
What’s Steam like with downloading stuff? If I download something on a different computer can I transfer the files to another computer or do I have to redownload it completely?
you can transfer. just google changing your steam library folder, and you’ll do pretty much the same thing on the second computer.. install steam, find where the library is stored, paste your content in there, then sign in
Cool, thanks. I was hoping it’s be something like that, but I thought DRM or something would have something to say.
you’ll probably have to authorize the computer with a code or something when you login first time, but it’s really designed to be portable like that. Though usually when you move to a different computer, you’d download the data rather than copying
Yeah, just the code (had to do that several times).
The only reason I want to copy it is for bandwidth, we only have 100 GB, so a couple of games and that’s half of it gone.
Most of the time its good, if you have the files in your steamapps folder and tell it to install the game, it should check for files first and only really have to verify their integrity. I’ve had a few instances where it didn’t but I never managed to figure out why, they were the exception rather than the rule.
Does your ISP have free steam servers? You might be well served downloading steam-limiter, it’ll force steam to only connect to your ISP server and not initiate downloads from elsewhere. It’s effectiveness varies a lot depending on what content your ISP steam server mirrors but it’s generally good for newer stuff.
Nah, I don’t think so (Telstra).
You can also do a ‘backup’ copy which allows compression and which Steam treats a little more officially than cutting and pasting some windows folders. Basically, it tags it with a little installer which tells Steam where to go looking for the files and decompress them, instead of the copy-paste folder method which Steam doesn’t know is installed until you try to download it for the first time and it does a file-check and sees that everything is already there. That method can sometimes glitch out, resulting in unnecessary files being downloaded. If you’re concerned about data limits, go with the in-steam ‘backup’ method.
Knitting, why you so boring? D=
Make an explosion noise every time you pearl one
Not purling D=
You may have to set off real explosions and then claim you were but that it was destroyed in the explosion
I tried reading manga…ending up forgetting to knit and just reading manga.
Thanks to Trials, my controller is somewhat worse for wear (I can now hear the spring in the right trigger every time I depress it), and my thumb is kinda raw. I think that’s enough Trials for now…
Have you worn the rubber grip off the sticks yet? That’s how you really know you’ve had enough Trials
The little nobbly bits are worn down, but the rubber itself is intact.
It took me a few years to get to that stage with my original dualshock controllers 😛
It’s a little known fact that the rubber coating on controller sticks is also broken down by vehement swearing, that’s why it seems to decay so often for players of Trials
I probably stripped half of the rubber off one of mine when I was robbed of my Gigatrack platinum by a uplay save fuckup
Trials is the only game that can still get me moving the controller like a child in the hopes of pushing the rider just that little bit further.
Of course, it never works, but I can’t seem to help it.
Yeah, I wore all the rubber off the end of one of my 360 analogue sticks, and the other has a groove where I’ve dug my fingernail into it. I must’ve been doing some intense shit. 😛
I finished Dead Space: Martyr today. It was pretty good. Although there were a few slip-ups, I am glad I read it. It didn’t end the way I thought it would at all. I think I might post a small review of it tomorrow, in the new TAY.
Hi, everybody!
I’m now typing on a Logitech G510s!
Also, I picked up ef: a tale of melodies on blu-ray.
How’s everyone’s `Straya Day goin?
I’m typing on some shitty acer keyboard I “borrowed” from work, cos the ‘a’ key on my G15 wont stay on anymore :\
As for my Straya day.. bit of hottest 100, bit of antichamber, and a lot of rogue legacy!
Also, my sisters b’day today, but she’s not having such a good day. She shut one of her 2yr old twins fingers in the security door at home, and broke his finger and tore the tendon. He’s going for surgery tomorrow. Poor little fella!
But I’ll bet no one has stolen his finger! Security works!
Started ArmA: Cold War Crisis (originally Operation Flashpoint). First Mission: Start racing towards the people, shoot once, twice, kill him, but just as he kills me. Restarted, and quite the game (I’d already spent way too long in the tutorial because I didn’t realise how to lie down, so I had to do that bit of the tutorial 3 times).
I think it’s just the shooting that put me off, it’s a non-automatic weapon. Think I’ll be better next time round.
And those faces in the cutscenes: eugh!
Is ArmA like this in general (army pun right there!) or is it more Battlefield-esque (and COD, I guess)?
OFP/Arma is to battlefield/cod what gran turismo is to Mario kart. They’re both letting you drive around and race but one is an attempt at an authentic simulation and the other is a lightweight game. Amongst the things they didn’t simulate well were indeed faces and voices…
The standard rifle in OFP was the M16a2 which was only single shot or 3 round burst, they went back to the option of fully automatic with the A3. One of the advantages to killing a Russian soldier is that if you’re after full auto you can grab his AK74 and it has all 3 fire modes. You’re best off sticking to single shot anyway and double firing, the burst has way too much climb to be useful for anything but suppression and while shot 1 might hit, 2 and 3 will almost certainly miss until you get really good and can manually compensate for the recoil. That said, recoil is massively diminished when prone and a bit less when kneeling, you should only ever fire when standing if you’re surprised and need to discourage the enemy so you can get to cover.
It’s a hell of a hard game to master but once you do you feel like a badass (Like Trials Evolution or Dark Souls). I was lucky in that the demo for OFP grabbed my interest and just as it was waning people discovered how to mod it and create a bunch of new stuff so I was playing it in one form or another quite a bit before it was even released. You have to go into it with the mindset that you’re fragile, you’re able to kill or be killed in one hit and that you’re absolutely not the hero (if you get more than 10 kills in an infantry mission you’ve done a bloody good job). There’s a squad there for a reason, if you don’t move and coordinate with them you’re a hell of a lot more likely to die. If you’re on the first mission where you’re dropped in by Blackhawk, take it slow, advance with your team and only fire when prone or at most kneeling.
http://youtu.be/BMtQPuz6Jgw That should give you an idea of how Arma 3 plays (the combat section starts around 9 minutes in, the earlier stuff is situation setup so you can skip it if you just want to see the combat). Its the first mission so it’s a bit gentle but the concept of the game is basically identical, a dedicated infantry & combined arms simulator rather than generic FPS.
Cool, thanks.
I think I’ve gotten used to Killzone Mercenary where I just run around meleeing everyone 😛
Those faceswere the funniest thing ever. When I choe th voicefomy character I just chose this really funny generic military voice and when he spoke in game was laughing. So funny.
You know the weirdest thing of all? The radio & commands are relatively realistic so they don’t take effect until your character finishes speaking them so the AI don’t move 100m north by the time your character has finished telling them to move 200m north. The thing with that is that they let you change the pitch and speed of your character’s voice so you had a distinct advantage in unit responsiveness if you sounded like a chipmunk
La-Mulana Club!
@mawt @fled @mythamphetamine @mcgarnical
…well I’ve kinda given up on it now :P. I just found out I permanently locked myself out of something because I messed up a puzzle (by walking on a platform?!). Ugh, not cool game, not cool…
It was fun while it lasted.
Oh, what bit is that? I don’t think I’ve done that.
So far I’ve done the Gate of Guidance and Mausoleum of the Giants.
The hardest part of Mausoleum was understanding the sky disk. Simply jumping on the platforms is enough to make it work, you don’t need to land “from a great height” as the instructions tell you. After that it’s just a case of reading all the stones and doing a bit of deduction.
There’s one entrance to the Twin Labyrinths connected to Mausoleum which leads the shop that sells the Helmet. You need that to progress in Spring in the Sky.
I’ve cleared almost all of Spring now; I can access the boss, but it’s a very different boss fight to the rest of the game, so I decided to leave it. I went and opened the way to drain the water from Spring into Temple of the Sun.
I think I’ve done about half the puzzles in Temple so far, including cleared the sub-boss and opened the way to the Inferno Cavern.
I’ve done all I can in Inferno Cavern at the moment, I think, and ended up in the other Twin Labyrinth. I’ve encountered two sub-bosses here, and they are both quite strong, so I think I’ll try and make my way back to Temple of the Sun and finish there.
It’s in the Temple of Moonlight. I’ve visited a fair few places but I’ve only really completed the Gate of Guidance, Mausoleum of the Giants and Temple of the Sun.
Basically you place a weight and a block falls on a platform below which allows you to reach a ladder. The first time I did this I didn’t realise it was a trap/puzzle and was crushed by the rock (which is fair enough). But the second time I stood on the platform before placing the weight which caused the platform to break so the block doesn’t have a platform to land on and falls even further, making you permanently unable to reach the ladder above.
I’ve read that this just leads to a shortcut to another place and it’s not that important but I just don’t like the idea that I’ve permanently missed out on something just because I was experimenting and exploring. I figured it would reset if I left the place (like some other traps/puzzles do) but it didn’t and there’s no indication that it doesn’t.
I also read that there’s a few other similar permanently missable situations like this that can make you miss out on some pretty powerful items. It’s nothing necessary but I still like being able to get 100%.
Ah. I just did that last night. Did the same thing, actually.
It leads to the second Twin Labyrinth, and I had entered from the top of that screen before. I actually thought it was supposed to be only a one-way ladder in order to make you enter TL via the Inferno Cavern.
I have decided to un-quit La-Mulana :P. I’ll get back to it one day…
A few of you may remember “Phlanispo’s List of Movies He Has Not Seen Because He Is a Young Bastard,” which was a list of movies I had not seen due to my young age.
I went to my nearest Video Ezy, with the intention of whittling down the list. They did not have most of the movies I was looking for*, but I managed to find 6. They are:
-Schindler’s List
-The Terminator
-Ghostbusters
-Clerks (Wasn’t on the list, but I got it anyway. @shane recommended it)
-Predator
-Die Hard
Throughout the oncoming week, I will give my thoughts on each movie. Hopefully I will find time for all of them.
*The cashier gave me a weird look when I asked if they had a copy of Die Hard and The Shawshank Redemption in the same sentence.
I have chosen. Watching Die Hard tonight.
Die Hard is a brilliant movie, I hope you enjoy it.
Well, it certainly lived up to the hype.
One of the best lines ever in movies: “Now I have a machinegun. Ho ho ho.”
I told you to watch Kill Bill asap. I am very disappointed with you, tisk tisk. 😛
Wait, is it alright to recommend an R18+ movie to a 16 year old?
Which is the one where
the chick gets her eye pulled out and stepped on by the bride?That’s the second one! So good! The first is better, but they’re both amazing!!!
Well someone let him have Die Hard
That is a reference to erections isn’t it?
I don’t even know. I’ll be honest, I hate Die Hard sooo much >:(
Yeah, now that I think about it, the cashier should have asked for identification, at least to see if I was over 15. I suppose not shaving since Boxing Day* has advantages, huh?
No wait, Die Hard is M. How was that movie M? It’s at least MA15+. I guess they were a lot laxer (is that a word?) back in 1988. It seems that Predator is also M. Times have changed.
Wait, Clerks was the only MA movie I rented. Why didn’t the cashier ask for identification? I know I shouldn’t complain since I legally can rent them anyway, but I still feel like that guy should have done his job and at least asked.
*I am totally serious.
OMG, this keybpard…
I can’t…
It has media keys, and an endless scroller for the volume as well as the lcd screen and the macro keys…
:drool:
Drool makes keyboards not work as well, unless its waterproofed in which case go for it
Good evening folks. Been a pretty good weekend, Just finished Gravity Rush and got my 20th platinum, it was pretty fun and rather brief, starting the year off well, beaten 4 games and platinumed all of them. Almost finished fixing the floor that my dog Kratos and our other dog decided to eat. Flying out to Sydney tomorrow to see Primus play (*waves at Sydney TAYbies*). Finally started playing Muramasa on my Vita, for some reason when I was looking at screenshots I thought the art style seemed a bit weird and i wasn’t a fan but they didn’t do it justice at all, the game is gorgeous and I keep gazing off into the horizon in amazement, gameplay is also really solid and fast paced, really digging it so far. How goes the dlc stuff @negativezero ?. Hope the weekend treated you all kindly.
Help. I am full of pizza. Shouldn’t have had that last piece.
With my last breath, I curse @powalen.
Have you considered having a cup of salt? That’d solve the ‘too full’ issue pretty rapidly
Not the method, but I have been thinking about the result.
So I played some more of this Dark Souls malarkey.
I think the last time I played – during the week – I was up to ringing a bell. Well, that panned out pretty well. Fought a thingey, kilt it, fell off the church roof, swearing at myself…
Then – thanks to the great advice of a TAYbie, who I can’t remember which one gave it – I went back to the lower ‘burg where a demon with two swords and two dogs did terrible things to me a couple times.
On a roll, descended into the creepiest kitchen ever, then down into its rat-and-ohgodwhatthehellisthatwiththeeyes-infested pit, kilt things there. Plunged on ahead recklessly into a disappointingly easy fight with just… *gags* the grossest dragon I’ve ever seen.
Then from there, down some more sewers into Blighttown. So… yeah. FUCK Blighttown. Fuck it and all its toxic-blowdart pygmies and graphics slow-down. Fuck its poison swamp, fuck its fire-breathing nightmare bugs, fuck its dog-sized mosquitos.
And then, y’know… SPIDERS. So yeah, fuck all’a that, too. At some point I think I descended a little TOO far into what I’m pretty sure is as close as this thing gets to Hell. Complete with the waving lava tendrils/tentacles/legs of something mostly unseen in the distance. Sooooo… yeah, I headed out the other way to see about them thar bells instead of going to places I probably shouldn’t be.
Oh, and speaking of… I totally was looking at the wiki and people were talking about this garden place as being a good place to go… so I checked that out. Killed some forest protectors and the beautiful/majestic creatures they were guarding. And didn’t really get anything out of it pertaining to my destiny as far as I could tell… just delicious souls to consume for power.
Yeah. Don’t really feel good about that one.
But on the plus side, I was able to immediately soothe my conscience by the slaying on the snake people! And their fucking traps. I was able to murder some of those giant freakin’ obsidian/god-stone demons tromping around in that tar pit I kept falling into, but eventually I came across a pair who were more trouble than they were worth and I decided to put a pin in that fight for later. Besides, was getting bored. Onward and upward! And yay, much easier to fight undead knights! And some deceptively-easy-to-kill giants. I’m guessing the laws of physics and gravity in particular were being unkind to them and their joints.
The giant iron badass fared a little better, until he took a knee to whine about the little undeader hacking up his ankles. Then some demons scared the shit out of me and dropped me in the magical marble city of the gods (who have since moved out, apparently), where I slew more giant golem thingies, a couple gargoyles, and some robed acolyte dudes before deciding that my eyes are burning and and it’s time for bed.
So yeah, this Dark Souls guy is pretty cool.
Honestly, it reminds me of Infinity Blade. A VERY similar aesthetic – epic grandeur in its settings, picking your way through the poorly-explained ruins of something unfathomably great and huge and unsettlingly deserted, bar evil scavengers and immortal knight/monsters in ornate armour, with practically no explanation of lore, and very ‘deliberate’ (almost ponderous) movement.
The lore is there, but you find little bits of it over the course of many playthroughs (if you go looking for it). Otherwise those more interested in just the gameplay can continue of their merry way without being hampered by a whole lot of cutscenes and walls of text dialogue.
Oh, I think the lore thing is a good thing, well done. You don’t have Mr and Mrs Exposition talking at you most of the time like you’re an idiot – it leaves a little something to the imagination.
Probably the best example of ruining the mystique is Infinity Blade. In 1, you had nothing. Just markers and clues and guesswork at why everything is in ruins, who this guy is, the passage of time, the rule of the god-king…
It was tantalizing in its unknown.
Then in the sequel, everyone started talking and explaining everything and it was ruined. 😛
BRISBANE MEAT:
WHEN: SATURDAY, 1 FEBRUARY.
WHERE: YET TO BE DETERMINED. THERE WILL BE KARAOKE THOUGH.
WHY: @rocketman and @bdkiaf are in town!
Hey, just a reminder that we’re having dinner/drinks/karaoke thing on Saturday. I think DAN! was looking for exact numbers to make this karaoke booking too. It’ll be fuuuuun.
@sughly, @freezespreston, @strange, @beardymcmuttonchops, @jimu, @gutsoup, @lambomann007, @dkzeitgeist, @transientmind, @sernobulus, @virus__, @popdart5, @welbot
Posting in old TAY?!
On purpose. Never like to plan meats on page one of a new TAY
Put me and Ber down for a ‘fuck yes’.
Dammit @dc! Why you mention me?! I don’t have time for this, there’s bacons to be eaten! 😛
Easier to include everyone, then leave someone out and hurt feelings.
Who knows? You may want to fly back from Miami just to see your ‘ol pal D.C.? 😛
Yeah, bit difficult considering I’m already beginning the homeward journey pretty much as soon as I get off the boat. 😛
Melbourne Taybies! (I seriously need to make a list)
Do you have a dog? Do you not have a dog, but love them? I want you for the first Melbourne Dog TAY meat!
When: I haven’t decided
Where: My house! It’s…a bit small and old but I have a massive backyard for the four legged friends.
Why: Because dogs?
Let me know if interested
Here’s a tip: You could always steal a dog if you wanted to go! Maybe Scree’s dog, that way it’d be easier to return the critter once the meat is over. HELPING!
Sid is surrogate dog for anyone who doesn’t have one. Just cause he’ll want you to scratch his lower back
Aww, Wish I was in Melbourne, that sounds fun, my dog likes socialising
So does my dog. He gets along with everyone.
@dc
Are you trying to piss off king?
I considered doing something similar but instead satisfied myself with rating their apps as one star in iTunes.
Everyone on the internet puts saga in their name
Dark Souls
Indeed.
I touch myself at night
Good to know.