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Words and stuff! Builders woke me up >:(
Clean fresh TAY, and I get to write in it first!
EDIT: Dammit!
Mwahahaha
DARK SOULS 2
The countdown continues. 36 days.
Dark Souls 2 may get DLC. There are no concrete plans for it at this stage, and Takeshi Miyazoe says that any additional content will depend upon fan reaction. I’d probably be up for it.
Grist for the rumour mill: Amazon lists the PC release date as May 31
Another write-up of an early build of the game at ExpertReviews. Probably no new info there, but it’s always good reading about folks’ experiences.
They go into some detail about enemy AI, which I found interesting. Also, it seems that you begin the game entirely defenceless, and have to dodge enemies for a while until you find some equipment. They don’t want you to be confused about what kind of game it is. 😛*falls down twitching*
… good thing I bought some adult nappies. I’m ready.
This is making it hard to justify waiting for the PC release.
How so?
If it was releasing on PS4 and/or XBone I’d understand that but why bother with a last-gen game if it’s also getting a PC port and your PC’s good enough to run it?
Because I want to take part in the communal discovery.
I should get my wiggle on and complete the first one
I’m currently trying to get through the first one, because “Damn you Mark.” This is my third attempt, but gotten further than my previous attempts.
If you’re ever stuck and need help there’s more than a few people here who have played WAY too much of it and will tell you what to do regardless if you want them to or not.
I’m using a wiki of sorts off and on. Still doing most of the exploring myself. Really loving the experience. Just got past those really annoying archers in Anor Londo. On the way to Anor Londo’s boss.
Hmmmm. Is it worth trading in my +10 Butcher Knife, a weapon I’ve come to love for the Golem Axe you can make from the Boss’ soul? I want to make some Boss soul weapons but I REALLY like this blade.
Stick with the butchers knife.
The only benefit of the Golem Axe over it is the unique wind attack, which is pretty cool admittedly.
But the Butchers Knife has the same damage when max upgraded on the standard path, hp steal, is a bit faster and can be Lightning/Fire enchanted which is quite OP. (I recommend lightning)
Honestly the boss soul weapons pale in comparison to a good enchanted weapon generally.
Thanks for the feedback.
I have noticed the Boss weapons don’t seem to be as strong, but I just wanted the novelty of using one now and then. Just not at the cost of my knife. Have reached the enchanting blacksmith. Putting some consideration into the lighting enchantment.
Mark’s virus is heavily contagious and bound to reach pandemic proportions. My brother doesn’t even read Kotaku and this strain has resulted in him hijacking my 360 to play it. Damn you, Mark.
Haha, is good stuff.
Maybe upgrade a boss weapon of a style different to your axe like a fast sword or a shield.
If you are using a wiki it’s good for looking that kinda stuff up.
May? What happened to the PC version being within a month of the console version? Was that before they decided to put some actual effort into this port?
I’d take the same approach to DS2 DLC that I take with all games DLC, if it’s a significant story expansion I’ll buy it, if it’s a smaller story expansion and cheap I might buy it, if its anything else I probably won’t unless it’s somehow unique
We have stuff now in Dubbo and have started unpacking. The important stuff is already sorted.
Also tea.
Now for things like clothes and furniture.
SATURDAY’S GUIDE TO AMERICAN SPORTSBALL
the thing with arsenal is that they always try to walk it in“It’s a good match-up, you know? ‘ultimate offense’ (broncos) against the ‘ultimate defense’ (seahawks) team.”
“I’m going for the Broncos because of ‘Peyton Manning.’”
“I like the Seahawks because of ‘Russell Wilson.’”
“Man, they’re going to play outside in crazy conditions, huh?”
“That ‘Richard Sherman’ sure is a dick, huh?”
(Insert marijuana joke here)
“Bruno Mars and The Red Hot Chili Peppers are the half-time show. That’s uh, a thing, huh?”
every year I mean to do a Superbowl party. Every year I forget it’s the first weekend of Feb
I wish it was the last weekend in January. The first week of the month is extremely difficult for me because I have twice the reports to prepare at work. Makes it that much harder to take a day off. The only way I’d be able to swing it would be if my team (I’m from / my family is in New Hampshire) made the big game.
Instead, Foxtel is recording the game for me to watch when I get home. Just need to stay off social media for the next 9 hours.
Yeah that’s my game plan
SUPER SPORTSBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So with karaoke Pax meat we have the option of (aside from Karaoke) of Bowling, Laser tag, Pool or billards and galactic circus.
Bowling, Laser tag and galactic circus are included in the package, so you can choose one or the other.
Also, I need to start knowing who is coming and what they would prefer.
I will be there!
For Sydney TAYbies, Galactic Circus is basically Galaxy World (minus bumper cars).
And because I’m helpful, I would be happy with all of the above, but preference is either bowling or laser tag. Probably leaning towards laser tag.
I’ll be there (for yooooou, when the rain-ok I’ll stop).
Happy with any choice, though probably leaning towards bowling or laser tag more.
I’ll be there.
Much prefer bowling or laser tag. As to which it depends on how many games you get. If 1 bowling would be the better value. If 3 laser tag wouldn’t stretch and drag so much.
On the phone it cuts out the L in pool making it say Poo hehe.
Also I’m happy with all the above but if I have to choose id go laser tag
what weekend scree?
31st October – 2nd November
ah pax weekend… im in a delicate position at the moment… i really want to go to PAX, but 31st October is also my wedding anniversary….
i swear the organisers must have it in for me…. last year it was on my wifes birthday…. we still went, but felt absolutely horrible…
may potentially take the week of the 3rd off and go away with missus for our anniversary AND go to PAX guilt free!! \o/
But Zetrok, the 31st is my birthday so you have to come. How else will I know you love me.
SO MUCH PRESSURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll be there!
Either bowling or laser tag is good for me. If I have to pick one: bowling. Because then I don’t have to move as much. 😛
Err is karaoke participation compulsory?
Not compulsory. We can be the curmudgeonly old non-singing bastards in the corner.
Oh well that’s okay then, I might start saving after all. I could film it I guess, at least I know how to film in landscape…
Always.
Well I’m out then
No fun at all 😛
I’m not a huge fan of Galactic Circus as they lack any of the cool arcade games I grew up with. It’s all late-90s stuff and a million broken installations of Daytona and a bunch of broken light gun games.
Personally I’d lean toward bowling as an activity, because it’s fairly easy and you can sit and chat between goes and stuff. Laser Tag might be a bit much after a full on day at PAX.
Yeah. Please understand that both are available. Choose bowling or laser tag. half the group (or whoever chooses to) can bowl and the rest laser tag
Yeah that’s a point. After a couple of full days of pax laser tag might be a bit full on.
Although that said a few drinks and some smack talk could get the bravado up.
Last time I did 3 laser tag sessions on the trot I nearly passed out. Though I’m a bit fitter now than I was back then, I’m also a fair bit older.
Probably 1 round would be fine, maybe 2, but I wouldn’t want to do more than that even if my PAX is spent mainly the way that the last one was, sitting down playing bored games.
I’ll be there! Tough to decide what I’d prefer though.. so I’m gonna go with laser tag since I’ve never actually done it.
I’m against laser tag because after a day of PAX I’m pretty sure I’ll be stuffed 😛
Bowling then? You don’t have to do laser tag
Yeah, bowling’s nice and low-impact. Just in giving preferences, I’m up for anything that’s not on the physically intensive side of things.
You don’t even have to bowl if you don’t want to. I’m not going to force you!
I will still be in cosplay most likely so, I have no idea what I want to do
Cosplay bowling!
Cosplasertag!
Cosplayfallonface
I’m sure there’s supposed to be a legal limit of standing passengers on buses that the drivers disregard every single morning. Also, people are ridiculous in trying to cram themselves in when the bus is already clearly full.
This week’s started out a doozy
and now the driver’s lane weaving through traffic…still not as bad as the time a bus driver did a u-turn in the city because he went the wrong way
bus driver just knocked over a roadsign because he was getting impatient with the traffic and hopped a curb. Ironically the sign was a “bus only” sign
Now worse than the time one did a U-turn?
I reckon I might have a new winner. I was on a bus a few months ago though that I think went down the side of a parked car. I didn’t see what actually happening but a fair few people on the bus started shouting at the driver…who proceeded to drive off like nothing happened
Is he driving with a keyboard? Sounds like me in GTA4 before I got a controller
he probably got drunk with his cousin and played some shaky hands darts before climbing into the driver seat. Either that or he just hates Mondays more than the average person
On the other side, the people who are standing that don’t want to walk beyond the backdoor are giant jerks. It means the bus driver thinks the bus is completely full when there is often plenty of space further back.
I don’t want to generalise (actually I do), but Asian students are the worst I’ve found when it comes to bus etiquette, They’ll jump to the front of the queue, not give up their seat for elderly people, sit in the aisle seat when the window seat is free and instead of getting up to either let you sit down or get off they’ll just swivel round and still make you crawl around them, and yeah, they’ll stand next to the doors at the back. Lots of other people do the same things, but they seem to be the serial offenders
Depends on country I guess, because Japanese living in Japan definitely don’t do that.
I’m so glad they’ve patched BF4 again. I don’t like playing with things like sound effects. That’s just a distraction.
So now I’m just logging in every day to get my free battlepack. The game is unplayable. This HAS to be the worst launch of a game ever now.
Rome 2 😛 I hear the latest patch has made things worse again. I haven’t had a chance to see what it’s like myself
You on PC or console? I know on Xbone it’s very temperamental now. You’ll join one server which is silky smooth, then the next map loads and it’s all gone wrong and laggy. Or sometimes you join and it’s just screwed from the get go.
I consider myself a pretty experienced BF player (900 hours on BF3, 200 on BF4 so far) and without trying to be biased, I don’t think the game is in such a bad state as people make it out to be (I can only comment on the Xbone version). Yes, it’s god damn annoying when you’re having a ripper of a round and then get dashboarded, yes the lag is horrific, yes and yes and yes. DICE are actually listening and have been actively working their way through it all. I don’t wanna sound like a fanboy but, i dunno, in my experience so far a launch title on a new console with much higher server requirements and stuff, I think it’s doing pretty well.
(As I was writing that, it made me realize that BF4 on PC has NO excuses to not be running perfectly. So fo you PC guys out there, you have my sympathy, cause that’s some horseshit right thur.)
I’m on PC bro 🙁
Hope your Mondays are as painless as possible everyone!
Just want to say thanks to @scree for helping me get a 20cm statue of PulseFire Ezreal (Though in the shop it was actually named Terminator Yizeruier… wut? :P). It looks amazing and was well worth getting. I’ll post some pics on it when I get home later today.
Also Optus I hate you so much. My modem has been seeming to be rebooting on its own at least once a night, but last night my patience has seriously run out when my modem did it 3 times in under an hour. We’ve got a replacement but it won’t work without calling Optus so I have to wait till my family decides it’s worth their precious time to do :(. I can’t risk playing online with others until its fixed and I guess I’m sticking to single player games for more time than usual.
Terminator Yizeruier! \o/
Why can’t you call optus? Is the account in someone else’s name?
My mother and step father’s yeah
I’m back!
And about to drop my son off for his first day ever of school. 🙁
I’ll do a huge write-up of the cruise today or tomorrow if anyone’s interested.
How’d the drop off go? DID YOU CRY? DID HE CRY? D:
She wouldn’t have cried until he was out of sight. Then she would remember all the games she can now play and skipped back to the car.
NEITHER OF US CRIED! But Mr. Strange did. 😛
I was emotional, but he was so happy to be going to school at last and settled in so well straight away that it was impossible to be sad.
I think on Wednesday which is when my husband goes back to work it’ll be different. It’ll be the first time I drop my son off and then come home to an empty house so it’ll probably sink in then.
So yeah, do you want to be my surrogate son on Wednesday for lunch, DC? I may need some company. 🙂
Sure! Sounds like fun, Strange! 😀
I’ll clear some space in my schedule.
*looks at empty schedule, decisively nods*
Done!
Aw, poor Mr. Strange. :'(
I don’t wanna read it 🙁 I’ll read it and be spiteful 😛
My weekend was the tits,Like i dont think any other weekend in the near future will top it. AH delightful memories.
Was so cool seeing you, man. Was a great weekend for me too and I didn’t even go to Laneway. Haha!
LFC.
RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman =/
Man, he is one of my favourite actors ever. I even liked him in Synedoche New York.
Why I hate Australian media:
Headline: Abuse claims hit Cate’s Oscar hopes
A man is accused of sexually abusing a child and all the SMH says in its headline is that it impacts Cate Blanchetts chance at an Oscar?? How self absorbed is this country that they think this is appropriate?
Because Australian media is as self absorbed, if not more actually, than American media. At least American media is unashamed in being pro-American, but Aussie media, ok Murdoch media, has to make a point out of highlighting when an actor/musician/writer is Australian and how great they are. And yeah, the Australian celebrity culture will often get in the way of actual news which is why I completely stopped reading any Murdoch print
It’s also unpatriotic cuz it’s not an only-good news story about Tony Abbott
Don’t you understand? Tony Abbot IS Australia. He’s the physical avatar of the Australian spirit.
The only smuggling allowed in this country is Tony Abbot’s budgies.
Abbot, and by extension the government. Criticism of Abbot/gov is criticism of Australia, and criticism of Australians is UNAUSTRALIAN, so stop doing it, you… Australians. Wait. But if.. *head explodes*
I think you might be confusing “this country” with “bullshit pedalling hack-rags desperate to push any narrative that sells a paper because they know that sensationalism and celebrity are the only flickers of hope they have left in their pathetic, dying industry” which is all we have for newspapers anymore.
I have a feeling that if you told a hundred random Australians that there was a pretty strong accusation of child molestation against Barry one of the drivers from Australia Post, their first reaction isn’t going to be “Holy shit, how will this affect Cheryl who works in the sorting office? They catch the same bus to work!!”
I need internet medical advice!
I dislocated my right shoulder 2 weeks ago, popped out below the socket. I was wondering if any of ya’ll out there have done yours and what was it like once fully healed? Does it pop out at the drop of a hat? Are you sick of dropping your hat? maybe you should wear a doo-rag?
Once you do it once i know it is quite common to come out easier but it all depends, as always consult your doctor for medical advice because i deal with electronics all day and the chances that anyone’s opinions other than @freyr is correct is pretty slim.
Internet medical advice is the worst advice. All the advice I give is that you’ll be able to escape from straight jackets (if Lethal Weapon is to be believed)
I am aware of it’s lets say, over-exaggerations :p
Helping!
You are the best.
I know.
I have a PHD in internet medical advice and need to inform you that you are probably pregnant.
I have an alternative PhD in medical internet advice and I argue that @woods is likely to die from this ailment
According to WebMD, your symptoms include: Shoulder pain, tenderness, swelling.
You have cancer.
With that sort of hat knowledge you should stop worrying about your shoulder and start playing more TF2.
@beardymcmuttonchops had an unfortunate shoulder injury a whiles back. Maybe he can help?
Medical advice!
See a doctor
A guy at school dislocated his shoulder routinely when playing footy. I don’t know if it was a good idea or not, but the coach would always just pop it back in for him. He was always in incredibly pain at the time, but he sucked it up and wandered over to get fixed up.
Every couple weeks, man. That can’t be good for you. I don’t know if there is a permanent fix or if having that happen so often had permanent, negative consequences, but by god he was a big fella and we needed him for the team.
…Actually that’s quite worrying now I think about it, I hope he’s OK.
I think my sister mentioned her boyfriend did it once. And apparently popping it in yourself is a really really bad idea because it’s possible to catch a major blood vessel when you do it and die of internal bleeding. Totally not terrifying at all 😛
The only person I know that dislocated his shoulder required surgery to fix it and stop it popping out and then had to have about six weeks of rehabilitation to strengthen the joint back up. Lots of swimming was involved I think.
Don’t ask people on the internet. Go have a professional medical examination. If it’s popping out regularly you might have ligament damage that will not heal easily on its own if you just leave it.
*raises hand*
I slipped over in the rain, right shoulder popped right out, then relocated itself by itself with a sickening crunch. Not fun.
I did physio for a while. I found out I have a depression in the top of my bone where it sits flush with the socket which is supposed to make it more likely to pop out again, but it hasn’t happened since the incident. That was about a year ago.
Good to hear, When the doctor told me they calculate the chance of it popping out again as 100 minus your age, so 77% in my case, i was like uhhhhhh…..
I had to go to hospital for mine, no one at the time knew how to pop it in. It popped out below the socket, which is worse than to the side or above apparently. Then of course, they couldn’t get it back in at the hospital. 3 doctors later, alot of happy gas and alot of roaring in pain on my part, they came to the conclusion they’d have to knock me out to do it.
Woke up with it back in place and in a sling, and with a slight graze on my right hip that look suspiciously like a shoe sole. I guess it was being stubborn.
Thank you to all the highly qualified E-Doctors ;D
Well, this is how my morning has gone so far:
Friday night we had work drinks because it was pay day and a co-workers birthday the day before
Me: “Morning”
Co-worker: “Morning.”
M: “How was your weekend?”
CW: “Not too bad, how’d you pull up Saturday morning?”
M: “Yeah, pretty good. You?”
CW: “Yeah, little groggy. What time did you leave on Friday night?”
M: “I’m not too sure….wh-where you there?”
CW: “Yeah. We spoke about [TOPIC] for like, 20 minutes”
M: “…we did?”
CW: “Yes, yes we did.”
M: “Well then…”
Repeat 3 times with 3 different co-workers.
You didn’t actually go did you?
Based on the photos that I’ve seen I was or I have a doppelganger or evil twin.
Unless, maybe, I’m the evil one…That depends. Were you the left, or “sinister” twin? If so, I’ve got some fish heads with your name on ’em.
Can there be triplets, with a grey/neutral? Because I dunno, man… If I’m the evil twin/doppleganger, then I am VERY disappointed in myself in being so ‘Evil Lite’.
On the other hand, If I’m the ‘good’ twin, then I am motherfucking terrified of the evil one.
You might be one of those people with a conjoined twin inside you! The evil twin is there but counteracted by the good
This morning this arrived from @f4ction which made Monday morning work even worse then usual. Oh well, I can spend all my time at work deciding which one to play. I has a pretty cool weekend, I beat Guacamelee and Broken Age (Act 1). Both very good games, although the last boss in Quacamelee is all kinds of frustrating if you are colour blind. Broken Age could have gone for longer, then again it’s an episodic thing so more will come.
I also got to mess around with an Oculus Rift that my brother never told me he bought. Got to play some of the free games / programs for it. I got to try out; 2 Roller Coaster simulator thingies, a dungeon exploration thingie, a deep ocean / getting eaten by shark simulator and a broken skiing simulator! ‘Twas a lot of fun.
I also watched a couple episodes of an anime called Oda Nobuna … SomethingShutupItsGotALongName. Basically it’s a re telling of the Sengoku period / Nabunaga ambition history of Japan but all characters are replaced by teenage girls with huge boobs because, Japan.
COME ON AND SLAM
Also i watched a anime about jousting school and they were all females with big boobs. Must of made wearing armor uncomfortable.
A character’s boobs jiggle through her full plate armour. It’s hypnotic … and makes no sense.
Actually, now that I think about it, I recall @gorzilla talking about it a while ago.
*DROOLS*… slowed down a fair bit with my mega drive game collection….need to get back into it…
Oda Nobuna no Yabou / Nobuna’s Ambition. That was a surprisingly entertaining show which I went into expecting to be complete trash. There’s one or two Sengoku-period anime series every six to nine months and they’re often terrible. Especially the Sengoku-only-all-the-generals-are-girls subgenre. But that one worked pretty well.
That’s good to hear. I think I watched the first two episodes and enjoyed them. Got a few chuckles out of them so I will probably watch all the way through.
Yeah I kinda found it fairly enjoyable. Not brilliant by any stretch of the imagination but enjoyable. I think it was partly because I twas on a Shogun 2: total war binge at the time as well.
Howdy Tayberinos.
I feel like I’m recovering from an autopsy. damned heat.
I had a busy weekend- went to Inside Llewyn Davis on Friday (enjoyable enough, but it’s very much a character study), went down to Brighton saturday night for fish & chips, and yesterday went to both a work barbecue (tried the hottest chili sauce I’ve ever eaten) and the Magic the Gathering prerelease (went 1-3, unfortunately the 1 was me tromping over a friend of mine).
A monday morning question:
WHY IS IT SO FUCKING HOTWhat is your favourite desert setting in a video game? I think mine would have to be the desert from JourneySo many great ones to choose from.
I really dug the desert in Secret of Mana. I loved the scope of it, that it was really easy to get lost in it. Blew my mind when I was a kid.
I also liked the Tattooine level in Super Star Wars 😛
The desert in Uncharted 3 had potential to be just as amazing, but they decided to make it largely cinematic instead, so it gets a dishonourable mention.
I haven’t played Journey.
Uncharted 3 spoilers:
Still the horse riding? The plane set piece? The abandoned ruined city?
Sure was purdy.
For sure. There was plenty to like about that game! 🙂
MARIACHI MADNESS!
http://youtu.be/LHwDJgyMC54
Gold Saucer/Corel Prison in FF7, just to be fanboying 😛 but my actual favourite is Red Dead Redemption
Cosmo Canyon has better music though.
It sure does, probably my favourite bit of game music ever
Spec Ops: The Line, but only because I spent half the time inside buildings. I normally can’t stand desert levels in video games.
That game was insanely beautiful and creative. Loved the contrast from desert to city.
Easily Beyond: Two Souls.
Loved that entire Navajo chapter. The sense of isolation. The beautiful, sprawling terrain. The spooky mythology. Was amaaaaazing.Tattooine in Knights of the Old Republic was all kinds of fun too.
I really must get back to that one day
Dune 2.
Desert Bus.
I really like sections of Spec ops: The line. Not really the shoot the glass and see the sand fall but just the bits were you “climb” a wall by walking up a sand dune.
Quest for Glory 2 (because QFG fanboy)
Pretty much all of Zool on the Amiga
Hang on, did you say desert or dessert?
I can’t think of any desert areas in games that I’ve particularly enjoyed. Generally Desert areas are crappy.
OoT, because Gerudo Valley has the best music ever.
Nothing to see here.
*slowly backs away*
I wanna see it, muuuuuuuuuuum he won’t let me see what it was
http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/a-30-second-guide-to-how-gay-marriage-ruling-affects-you/
Handy. Some interesting points near the end that some people may not realise.
Apparently it’s “Malware” on my work internet haha
That was everything I expected it to be, and it still made me laugh 😀
Oh man, what a great weekend. Was excellent meeting @bdkiaf and seeing @rocketman again and it’s always amazing hanging out with the Brisbane folks. You guys are awesome.
Once again, sorry for the drunkenness. D:
Dude i was waaaaay drunker than you were.
apologize for nothing
I don’t know if this is the burden of the drunk guy, but you guys all seemed completely sober to me. 😀
You’re awesome man! Hope you enjoyed the trip!
Dude, when everyone else was either as drunk or drunker you really don’t need to apologise. You were certainly in a better state than @sughly on our trip home.
I had a deep and meaningful conversation with Jimu about kids and marriage on our way home. XD You live up to the hype, man! I thought you’d be all scary and intimidating, but you’re awesome and kind and cool to hang with. Thanks man!
Btw, I DM’d everyone who was there a link to my SkyDrive where I’m sharing photos from the night if you haven’t seem them.
Sughly smashed a beer outside his house.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Haha, scary and intimidating in appearance only for sure.
Oh man, they’re amazing.
I find this one hypnotic:
http://instagram.com/p/j3qtRRIQIQ/
Oh man, yes.
There were various parts through the night I could see you groovin’ away out of the corner of my eye.
Love it.
That was my favorite thing that ever happened.
He was amazing.
The guy’s awesome, drunk AND sober! 😀
Sughly doesn’t handle excessive amounts of alcohol very well and it’s fantastic.
I think you guys are exaggerating! He was fine when I left? Maybe!
Apparently he felt like he was falling behind in drinking and attempted to catch up which probably wasn’t the best idea.
He’s a team player, no one can say otherwise! 😀
BEST idea
Would you believe it, but junior Quiz_b broke (read: dribbled and chewed on) Mrs Quiz_b’s WiiFit Plus disc. I had to locate a new one.
The only place that had one that wasn’t bundled with a Wii or the balance board stuff? Big W.
I bought a video game from Big W.
I feel dirty, ashamed and like I need to atone.
@dc got a PS4 from Big W the filthy whore.
*D.C.’s sister got a PS4 and I’m a mooching mofo who lives with my sister. 😛
@dc let his sister get a PS4 from Big W the filthy whore (@dc, not his sister. I have no evidence that suggests his sister doesn’t shower or exchanges money for sexual services).
Does the ‘W’ in Big W stand for ‘Whore’?
Ah, it takes an outsider to see these things!
Well done, Englishman.
I made my funny for this week’s TAY, and so early as well. You can look forward to 6.75 days of failed attempts to be amusing from here on in
I always thought it was for Waste as in “why did I come in here looking for something even slightly obscure, what a…”
Oh, I don’t know… I like to occasionally roam the stores like Target or Myer to check and see what games they’ve got on the shelves for PC. They usually have some awesome blast from the past from like 2008, still retailing for its release price.
Woah a copy of the original Command And Conquer, and for only *bows dust off the pricetag* 80 bucks!
What’s wrong with buying games from Big W?
They often have them cheap (usually the best introductory price these days) and have a pretty good selection in stock. I’ve bought loads of games from them.
Conformist poser!
/southpark
I would probably buy from Big W if they were cheapest on games, too. They’re like… just down the road from JB and probably the only reason I don’t buy from them is because 99% of my annual game purchases are PC games. Which, y’know… ALL HAIL STEAM. PRAISE THE GABEN.
Realistically they’re really quite good if you have what I like to call Top 40 Taste, if you want something popular, new and common then they’ll likely have it and quite cheap but as soon as you get slightly out of the mainstream their utility as a viable store diminishes rapidly.
SYDNEY!
give me some ideas of what to do while I’m up here, looking at all the sydneysiders..I know there’s a few of you!
Go hug red pandas at the zoo,
go to kinokuniya, its a massive book shop
go eat awesome food
Go for a walk in the botanic gardens
check out the modern art gallery its good for a laugh
First time I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art, there was a light bulb glued to a lemon. No idea what the artist was trying to communicate with that, but whatever. Perhaps it was some reflection on Volta’s first battery?
Second time I went to the MCA, I got kicked out.
Third time I went to the MCA, I managed to convince my then-girlfriend & several strangers that an air-conditioning vent was part of the exhibition.
Anyway. It’s a good place.
Can you actually hug them? We plan to go to the zoo later this week
-Go to Kinokuniya
-Buy things
-Cry because you can no longer afford to do anything else
EDIT: Monday morning spelling
Where is this kinokuniya place?
The Galleries Victoria.
It’s across the road from the Queen Victoria Building.
Which is right near Town Hall station.
Which can be accessed by any city circle trains.
I heard what you said and none of that sunk in..can you be more direct
http://goo.gl/maps/4QaOM
Watching episodes of Home and Away from the early 80’s is fascinating. It’s like I’m a kid around my family again with the fashion and decor. There’s actors who are still in it 30 years later. The overwrought soap opera music that kicks in at the smallest issue is fantastic. Makes someone running late sound like an apocalyptic event.
The only things I remember about my years of watching Home and Away as a kid are Alf, Kate Richie’s leaked sex tape, the fact that Kate Richie returned to Home and Away after failing to build a career elsewhere (which is much more classy that Melissa George bitching and moaning that people in Australia still think of her as Angel) and that scene where Dieter Brummer’s character died, which in in all honesty probably the last episode of that show I ever saw. Boy, what ever happened to Dieter Brummer?
*checks IMDB*
Very little it seems at least until around 2009 when he had something of a resurgence. I do remember him in Underbelly though, now that I’ve been reminded. But hey, I remembered him. That’s something.
you have more (fond?) memories of the show than I did. The only thing I remember is that freakish ghost coming out of the fridge.
I also should’ve paid far more attention to the show when I was growing up. According to Facebook, Alf was quite the foulmouthed character. I believe everything that’s on the Facebooks
Alf was foul-mouthed for his time, at least for TV. He was “bloody” this and “flamin’” that constantly. There’s probably a generation of Australians who grew up thinking “flamin’” was the elusive F-word their parents always hinted at.
Finally finished Tomb Raider on 360 over the weekend afterp icking it up in a sale over 6 months ago. Great game. I don’t know if it was really groundbbreaking but it was enjoyable and solid with very few flaws in the gameplay. I’m a few hidden collectibles away from 100%ing the single player. Shame that about a quarter of the gamerscore is dedicated to multiplayer achievements though, so it’ll never make it onto me completed games tab. 🙁
So as ridiculous as it sounds, I think I’ll pick up the Definitive Edition on the Xbone and enjoy it all over again with higher res graphics!
That was my weekend in a nutshell. I reckon I’ll try and go back to Assassin’s Creed Revelations next. I want to finish that and at least TRY AC3 before moving onto AssPirates.
I had it on PS3 and never really played it.
Been playing through the DE on PS4 and wondering what the hell took me so long.
My wife doesn’t understand why they’d release a remaster a year later, but I think there’s a lot of people who forgot about this great game without playing it, even people who bought it and never got around to it. I think it was the hype around the Definitive Edition that finally pushed me into playing it, and now I want to buy it again. Good move by Square Enix, if you ask me.
I hate this sort of thing so much. They shoehorn an unnecessary multiplayer mode in so they can sell crappy DLC for it and then tie a bunch of achievement points to that mode. And then no one actually plays the Multiplayer so you even if you wanted to get those achievements you probably can’t. :\
I heard the multipalyer was actually pretty good and the achievements aren’t *that* unreasonable, but the problem is the game is a year old and I don’t want to re-up my gold sub. We made the decision that since I can theoretically piggyback off my wife’s gold sub on the Xbone when decent multiplayer games for that start coming out, I don’t need to pay for a seperate one anymore. I did temporarily pay fro Gold when GTAV came out but I wound up really disliking the multipalyer (once I finally got in) and didn’t play it. I won’t repeat that mistake in pursuit of 250 gamerscore that I probably won’t get anyway. :/
Multiplayer achievements shit me to tears and need to die in a fire. And other popular internet terms of vitriol.
So Melbourne is a pretty cool city. Flew down there for the weekend to see CHVRCHES. I was lucky enough to meet them and have them sign a vinyl record for me. I told the singer I had a massive crush on her, she giggled, I melted.
Great day 🙂
Oh man, so great. Saw them in Brisbane over the weekend. They did a signing and I totally regret not lining up for it now.
i hate you,
i also saw them but was too chicken to go and get stuff signed and tell her i wanted to be beside her forever.
Probably for the best you didn’t, then. That’s the kind of thing that can get you arrested!
I thought about confessing my undying love..baby steps first.
She’s so tiny!
Guys, guys. Dont mean to be a party pooper, but she has talked a lot about not liking all the comments she gets from guys. Just sayinnnnnn
No idea who she was. Looked her up and :/
I know exactly what she’d be getting. Creepy obsessives.
Party pooper
I would question if she dislikes guys making comments like that one Riley make to her face. Like Freeze I had to look her up and I think it is more the offensive online comments that she would have a problem with. Which from the sound of them are super offensive.
I’m not sure but turning up to sign stuff you are expected to get people who adore you. That’s kind of the whole point.
Yeah, perhaps. I’d just imagine that she might prefer hearing something about the music rather than her personally though. Those online comments as you say have been a big issue for her, and hearing stuff in person thats specifically about liking her may or may not invoke that issue for her. S’all I’m sayin.
Deus Ex Human Revolution is pretty excellent. I’m a big fan.
You playing through it for the first time or is this just a general statement of fact?
I’ve had it for ages, but never played it. Then I sort of half-accidentally bought the Director’s Cut edition when it came down to $22, and played it straight away. Loving it.
Where are you up to?
I just got back to Hengsha and decided not to get the new chip at the LIMB clinic. I don’t trust these augmentations at all 😛Well if you didn’t ask for this…
I love hearing about who made that choice.
I made the same judgement call as Shane. 😀
That’s the choice I made as well.
Me, @shane, @dc, NegZero… So many suspicious, distrustful individuals. 🙂
Well it was the most obviously telegraphed screwjob I’ve seen outside of professional wrestling, it’d have been far more satisfying if getting the chip was the thing that stopped you getting screwed with@aliasalpha: spoiler tag dude.
@negativezero very good point, sorry about that. I think I was planning to use them and then got distracted and forgot
@aliasalpha, sounds like I made a good decision.
That’s a relief. I hovered over the decision for a moment, wondering if I was passing up the opportunity to obtain new skills!It’s almost like I’m playing as myself in that game.. maybe a lesser model :), it’s an awesome game and enjoyed every minute.
I love the architecture and atmosphere of the world. Feels so damn well realized!
Only thing about that Director’s Cut I didn’t like was The Missing Link DLC being fully integrated. I found it so, so boring. Haha! The DC is $5 on Steam today, btw!
Not up to that yet… I think. If it’s fully integrated, I might not even notice! 😛
Yeah I agree. Was definitely a drag and I really don’t think I got all my Praxis kits back at the end. It did influence my decision at the end of the game though.
The atmosphere is incredible. The art direction is absolutely fantastic, all those callbacks to the great Cyberpunk works that came before it, and that awesome idea of sort of Renaissance-era costumes and architecture juxtaposed with the modern tech and stuff.
Plus the soundtrack. The main theme from the game is one of the best pieces of game music ever written IMO.
I also really loved the conversation mini-game where you had to convince people into doing stuff for you. That shit was brilliant, especially the way the conversations augmentation added to it.
Even with the shitty bosses, DX:HR was my favourite game that year and I’m super pumped to hear they might be working on a follow-up.
I’ve been wanting to pick up the Director’s Cut before I play it again so I had it on my Steam wishlist, and woke up to the notification this morning that it was 75% off! Bought it right away, will get to it… eventually.
It’s great. I love how good the worldbuilding is too.
Better half was playing ‘Tell Me a Story’ mode of the director’s cut. Hit the first boss fight, ragequit and all enthusiasm for the game has been lost. I thought they fixed this shit in the director’s cut?
They did. You can take him down without firing a shot. I did!
You stun him with stun gun or concussion grenade, and then run like hell for the ladder to the left of Jensen. Once you’re in the vents, you can wander around a little, hacking stuff, and you’ll eventually find some turrets you can hack to shoot him down.Hmmm. I guess a lot of her guide/forum checks at the point of frustration found stuff that hadn’t been updated for the DC. Good to know, I’ll pass that on.
Also of note, from my non DC playthrough,
How I took him down: two rockets to the face, then he killed himself on a barrel of poison gas. Then the cutscene straight after had him riddled with bullets despite never being shotI wonder if that’s been changed.
Nah, I think the cutscene is set in stoneYou can play the game as @dc?
(Is he JC’s secret brother?)
In that version, you never leave Jensen’s apartment. Just draw the blinds and watch TV.
To be fair it’s a pretty badass apartment. The blinds are cool.
I non-lethalled the bosses in the default game
Well technically I suppose I didn’t, I shot them with 25+ stungun rounds each and I’m guessing it counted as a kill from incremental damage but from an ethical standpoint I took it as an incapacitation from the use of a non lethal weapon to overload their augmentationsI fucksploded the first two with that crazy explodey thing.
The final boss, I hacked a turret and carried it into the fight with me… 😛
D.C.’s RECOMMENDATIONS OF SHOWS @shane SHOULD WATCH:
— Orange is the New Black:
Piper Chapman’s past has caught up with her as she turns herself in for crimes she committed almost a decade ago. She’s convicted and must integrate into prison life as those she leaves behind on the outside deal with the fallout. Incredibly warm, sharp, surprising show. If it seals the deal? Kate Mulgrew from Star Trek: Voyager plays a crazy Ruskie!
— House of Cards
Francis Underwood is a congressman who’s in love with power. When he perceives himself as being wronged in some ways he constructs an elaborate plot of revenge. Beautifully shot, cinematic show. Crazy good cast too: Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, etc.
— The Killing
It’s Sarah Linden’s last day on the job as a Homicide detective in Seattle when Rosie Larson goes missing. She must team up with Steven Holder, her would be replacement, to investigate what went down. It’s a clever, character focused crime show with a huge ensemble. Deals with all sides of a case including the family of the missing person. Incredibly atmospheric.
— True Detective
Another show about two Homicide detectives, but couldn’t be any more different. This one is a character study. Every episode contrasting who these guys are as men. The case almost is secondary to this. It’s so damn good, man.
You watch and we’ll regroup afterwards to compare notes. *waits*
I was right about Treme. And Freaks and Geeks. And The Newsroom. *decisive nod*
But not Alias. *folds arms stubbornly*
PS: I saw the first ep of the British House of Cards a while back, and it was very good. Didn’t watch any further for some reason that I don’t remember.
PPS: True Detective sounds like my kind of cop show for sure.
British house of cards is amazing. Haven’t seen the US to compare but have heard good things so tentatively thinking of giving it a go.
I’ve heard great things about The Killing and I’m sure it’s fantastic, but holy shit, that story couldn’t possibly sound more clichéd.
Yeeeeeeah, it’s better than I make it sound. The writing is what makes it special.
The Killing? Isn’t that a Danish show?
It is! Don’t you know almost every foreign show is being remade these days? But here’s the catch, THE REMAKES ARE AMAZING TOO! D: D: D:
Yeah, the Americans have remade Rake! and the first ep… wasn’t great.
Well they managed to change it up a bit, it’s her last day so she managed to actually survive being 3 days from retirement.
How far through House Of Cards are you?
Ep ten. Three eps to go. So hooked, man. Will finish tonight, I reckon!
Oh boy.
Wow this seems more substantial than last time I looked.
Either that or the beer has made me smarter
Hello TAY!
I didn’t have to wait in the weekly ‘everyone buys their train ticket on Monday like a stupid’ queue this morning, because I’m now suddenly smart and buy a monthly ticket that gets posted to me.
Also, I went fishing on the weekend! I caught a fish big enough for a meal! Woah. There’s a bridge over the lake entrance down near my parents place that we went to. It was good because I just had to plop my line off the side instead of looking like an idiot attempting to cast. The downside being tough bogans shouting “Get a life ya fuckwits!” from their cars as they drive past 😛 Still pretty good though.
Also also, I’m still playing Kid Icarus Uprising again. I’ve overtaken the point where I gave up last time. It’s so strange, the controls aren’t bothering me at all this time around. Don’t know what’s changed.
You realised the error of your ways *nods*
I want to say that Lorde is amazing, i watched a bunch of musical acts on friday, even my favourite band ATM and Lorde was better live then every single one of them. I couldn’t stop staring at her. She didnt have any fancy lights, just two spotlights and it was enchanting. She has a long career ahead of her if she can stay away from the shitty part of the music industry
Also CHVRCHES were awesome, they really are a fantastic band. I love Laura, she is amazing.
You guys have been going on about Laneway in Brisbane and then the radio here was going on about Laneway in Melbourne and I got all confused since when does a music festival happen in multiple cities on the same weekend?
Doesn’t happen often on the same weekend. I think it went something like:
Friday – Brisbane
Saturday – Melbourne
Sunday – Sydney
Cudos to the artists going for 3 days in the heat.
Totally agree. I’d be disappointed if I hear ‘Lorde ft. Rhianna/T-Pain/Timberlakeomatic’. I’d love to see her collaborate with some aussie acts, which is plausible as there are so many great bands coming out of aus.
She was offered a tour with Katy Perry and turned it down, so I’d say we’re probably safe.
Thank god!
Like maybe Lorde and Jagwar Ma teaming up.
Nothing wrong with a little reinvention, just hopefully not that kind!
Accidential biography: A blog post chronicling the day I realised that all my writing has been an attempt to understand myself and divert my rampant narcissism.
I discuss some themes and personal meanings from existing and forthcoming works to show that each book I work on examines a different facet of my personality and represents a different chapter of my life.
http://shanewsmith.com/2014/02/accidental-autobiography/
Awesome stuff, man. I like this insight into the writer’s mind kind of stuff.
When I write stuff it tends to always unexpectedly come back to a few core themes. Maybe I should discuss these with a psychiatrist. XD
I was mulling over my first draft of Triumviratus and thinking that they all have such poor self-esteem. Then it kind of dawned on me. Then I wrote the blog. #TrueStory #GreatStoryBro
Mine is all isolation and loneliness and crazy. XD
Well, write what you know, man 😛
Are you writing about me?
Aw. I only played Tomb Raider for a bit yesterday and I’m already at 31% completion? How short is this game?
You’ve got about two bits left.
If you stick to the campaign without the optional stuff? Pretty damn, unfortunately!
I got to 100% in less than 20 hours.
Campaign only with 1-2 tombs is maybe 12 hrs max.
I had 75% completion when I finished it but I got most of the optional tombs and a lot of the collectibles.
The game is actually a lot longer than I thought it was. I thought I was nearing the end when I had 35% completion but I was only halfway. Where are you actually up to?
Just got to a helicopter looking for supplies to fix her up. She got a lighter and heated up an arrow to seal up her wound.Haven’t played it for a while, but you’ve got plenty left. I did a fair amount of the side stuff, though. I think I’d have 100% completion if not for the multi stuff.
That’s like… right near the start. You’re probably not even a quarter of the way in.
Edit: Correction…
I forgot getting the lighter was after a decent chunk of the game (forgot about all the parts before there where you had to light torches from nearby braziers/barrels). The helicopter with the medical supplies was the first half of Shantytown I think? But still, I’d say you’re not quite halfway.Did you get the Malibu Stacy version for PS4?
There’s something wrong with what my Lara Croft says…
Indeedily.
TAYfilm!
Hopefully people are interested in this stuff 😛
http://www.pixel-otaku.com/production-diary-1/
Also, I miss having time to TAY 🙁
When do you start shooting the rest of it?
Once he’s edited one scene too many.
When we have a script 😛
We were planning on shooting mid 2014, but because we shot this scene we’re all excited and want to shoot ASAP!
Oh I thought you’d already finalised the script! Well then!
I’ll definitely try and help out this time. Regretted not being able to last time 😛
Oh random script note than might be way to late
At a police briefing, person in charge (might be an officer of special consultant) going through the breifing. At some stage
POC: Now if you turn to page 6 of your briefing
Female officer; Not a chance in hell (storms out of the room)
Ranking officer: That’s Strange
I stopped watching after 13 seconds
Sorry but there is no way the rest f the film can live up to the expectations set from hearing the “director” talking to the “new star” and saying
Hola TAY. Weekend was pretty alright. As always, not long enough. We had our DnD session on Sunday, with some lulz to be had.
I am a rogue halfling, who is a thief. So I’m basically a small joker-like character that runs amok doing silly things and dealing a lot of damage. By the end of the night, some factors arranged themselves ideally: I have expertise in Infiltration and Disguise Kit. I happened to obtain a ‘perfect’ bear costume. Dual-daggers are my 2nd best weapons, and they are pretty sweet. We have a 90% chance of a new guy joining our group next session.
So I’m Sir Bearington, a (small) brown bear who is part of the group, can communicate somewhat with the holy Cleric, and I slash stuff up with mah bear paws.
“Hey everyone, that’s not a guy, it’s just a bear!”
*dragged away by guards*
Welp, that’s kinda the plan. With Infiltration I made a background/identity/profession/etc for a bear, so unless I do something human-like everyone will think I’m a legit bear. That means no swords, no bows, stuff like that. I do slightly less damage as a ‘bear’, but I did it for the lulz. 😛
Ahhhh D&D stories. The best ones happen when you’ve got a good group together and everybody is thinking outside the box. What edition are you running?
DnD Next. The version 1 older than the latest, whatever that is.
Man it’s been a while for me, clearly! Here I was a few months ago planning on DMing a 4th ed group and 5th ed has slipped totally by my radar. (And my best stories are from 3.5!)
I don’t really pay that much attention to which versions we use, as a player. We’re not really hardcore. 😛 But I think ‘Next’ is the ‘beta’ of it?
That’s something I don’t really understand. Why bother doing a beta of a tabletop RPG when most things generally get covered by errata or supplement books? Fantasy Flight is doing the same thing for Dark Heresy 2nd edition and I’m not sure how this will make the final product better.
*wooshes over head* Noooo idea. I think the DM likes to change things up sometimes so he doesn’t get bored? We’re so un-hardcore that I’ve never heard the terms you used above. 😛
Because errata is a pain int he arse when you still want to sell some print books. If you can release something correct first try, and then every other product is compatible out of the box, no googling, no printing pages, it’d be great.
I’d rather them get it right, as much as possible, first try.
Yeah, Wikipedia tells me that “Next” will release in 2014, the final release beta is ongoing now. It’s been a long time since I’ve been a passive player. The last time I was I played a thinly veiled, half-elf Warlord, parody of Zapp Brannigan. Good times, good times.
We play every fortnight and it’s not enough. 🙁 We have a pretty cool group of dudes, so much fun. I also love how even the DM has realised that I’m the primary source of entertainment in battles, so I get away with some cool stuff. 😛
I love operating, as a GM, on the “Rule of Cool.” If it’s awesome, I’ll let you take a shot at it.
Last time I DMed D&D I let one player “three stooges” someone wearing the coat of eyes
When I lived in Adelaide we used to play every week, and I was part of multiple games. So there was a Wednesday game and a Friday game (from memory) – all to keep the adventures flowing. A good DM is crucial, being able to keep the group having fun and on the edge of their seats as well as reacting to the various players idiosyncrasies.
Case in point. With the Zapp group, we’d arrived in a town in search of a hidden portal. The group was tired and hungry, but for some reason nobody in the town would talk to us. They tried to charge 1000 gold for a night at the inn. Nobody had any proper camping supplies on hand so we split up and went off to see what we could forage.
Zapp’s wandering through a field and the DM introduces a farmgirl and her mother working the land. I just instinctively (for laughs) yell out “Threesome check!” and the DM says since that was in character I now have to roll for it, against my CHA. She was looking forward to sending me back to the group with two slapped cheeks and no food.
20. \o/
So we’re all laughing at this hilarious turn of fortune when the DM says “You know there’s two of them to convince, right? Roll again.”
20. \o/
I was the only character who slept in a bed that night and had a hot meal (bow chicka bow wow) – ended up with an extra healing surge for my trouble and started the day well rested.
@redartifice Yeah our DM is cool like that. You want to take a running start on your robot chicken mount, leap off, vault off the nearby pole, and launch into the bosses face with full force? Roll away… 😀
I also got a campaign revolving around my character, cos he was sick of my character being called ‘Derp’. So, I found some of my history and I’m now Merriadoc ‘Derp’ Derpinious.
@beeawwb – nice stories, keep them coming if you want!
Even more memories flooding back. Before the Zapp parody there was “Dapper Dan, dealer of death” who would go around the city handing out business cards (I’d arranged with the DM to subtract the cost of 500 handwritten cards from my starting gold) at every random opportunity. The annoying part (to the group) was that we were on the run from the law and here’s this guy telling everybody in sight who he is.
… except he wasn’t really Dapper Dan. That was a cover story after he ran away from the circus, accused of a murder he didn’t commit.
…At least as far as the rest of the group knew. Nobody ever got close enough to uncover the third layer of his deception. He was actually a deposed prince, exiled from his homeland after a peasant uprising. … I wrote an elaborate backstory for that guy.
@stickman – Ok, here’s a story from when I was DM. The group had just finished part of a wider, pre-written adventure, and at the end of the encounter an enemy escaped through a pillar of fire to get away from the group and bar their passage (they nickname him “Crispy” due to his chosen escape method). In the next room, he’d released a baby red dragon on his way to further hinder the adventurers. So they kill the baby dragon, and all is well.
Until one of the group decides he wants to de-scale the dragon and attempt to make some dragon scale armor when they get back to town. After a lot of debate I decide that the players are thinking outside the square and I should reward that. So I let all the characters help out, de-scale the dragon and drag it all back to the waiting wagon.
And then let them take it back to town. Where they’re stopped by customs inspectors. Who proceed to tell them that the baby dragon they slayed was a protected species and they need to confiscate these scales under the Natural Order Protection Act. Group is understandably dismayed. Guards immediately start picking on the halfling rogue (whom I knew would react) and provoke her until she slaps on of them. Assaulting an officer of the law, you’re all going to jail!
So I spend the next week furiously writing a plot for the next week’s adventure. Group comes in, much quieter than usual as I begin to describe their last week in jail, waiting for trial. They’re led up to the courtroom (as the Phoenix Wright soundtrack plays ominously in the background) and the lead prosecutor for the town enters. One Darius Crispens Esq. A shocked “It’s CRISPY!”
I then proceed to spend the next 2 hours grilling the players about their actions, painting them as anti-heroes (since “Crispy” is the real bad guy) and trying to get them all convicted. Think the courtroom scene in Chrono Trigger. All your seemingly normal roleplaying actions turned on their head and you’re a bad guy. Eventually sentence them to community service, which set up the next week’s series of adventure and set up “Crispy” as a new arch-enemy working from within the government.
I once got about 3 hours into a DnD session as one of two halfling rogues in a trenchcoat. The plan went awry when we got grappled by a mummy and the coat fell off. Up until then, no one else in the party knew what we were.
Ha, awesome!
I’m just imagining that scene from The Last Airbender.
“Is it a platypus bear? An armadillo bear? An owlbear?” “No. It’s just a bear.”
On the related note of DnD shenanigans, I will remember the moment when our wizard figured that it would be a good idea to point blank fireball the enemy warship when our ironclad pulled up alongside it. He neglected to remember that they had a large stockpile of gunpowder on board and the resulting explosion very nearly sunk our ship and wiped out the party.
Ba Sing Se is weird.
I once infiltrated an enemy fortress by posing as someone who had “just come to spread the word of Corellon.”
Given it was a fortress full of Orcs (who traditionally HATE Corellon) I did spectacularly on that bluff check.
LOL.
Another highlight for me was dressing up as a baby black dragon when we went up against the boss for that campaign. The boss could easily 1-hit KO us, and probably 2-kit our tank. Unfortunately, it was a campaign DM’ed by one of us normal players, hence he was a newbie and didn’t allow the story to stray very far from his pre-planned arc… but…
I dressed up as the baby dragon, shot a flaming arrow at a nearby wall (hence ‘shooting fire’), and walked up to the boss crying “..Mama?”.
My best D&D story was from the 5th Age Dragonlance game. It was a weird RPG system where cards replaced dice, you had power cards and various special cards.
We were in a pretty hefty fight where shitloads of weird luck was happening, one character made his reflex save vs death with the best possible card and the DM ruled that he was refastening his foot strap in his saddle and narrowly missed being decapitated, that kind of thing. My character wasn’t having the best of luck and ended up dead. After the fight our cleric decided to have a go at reviving me, the person playing the cleric was notorious for shitty dice rolling and so my hopes weren’t high, she drew the first card and got a dragon which is the biggest one, whatever the result was it was going to be massive then she drew the card for the effect… a 1. An utterly catastrophic failure, the DM ruled that she was so eager to help that she put too much power into the spell and I simply disintegrated.
Funniest death I’ve ever had in a game
Man, I’d really like the opportunity to play a pen and paper RPG at some point. All the stories I hear about it are brilliant.
4-5 people is all you need, so I’m sure you could gather up some like-minded peoples!
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
What awaits you at the Western Fortress? Who’s pulling the strings?
WEDNESDAY 7:30 SA TIME
@mawt @blaghman @mythamphetamine @tigerion @popdart5 @tech_knight @novacascade
Who knows who the culprit is, but I know one thing for sure, one of us surely won’t see this coming
It would be hilarious if one of our future enemies was called Depth Perception.
I hate you all.
Just think: one day you will have your revenge on Scrappa
the villain’s first line will now be “Are… Are you winking at me?”
Watched Her with a friend on Thursday last week and I really enjoyed it.
The movie was very believable and it’s not far fetched to think that something like that could happen in our world in the near future.
I really liked Joaquin Phoenix’s look in the movie – he was not the stereotypical movie nerd which would have made him seem pathetic for having a relationship with an OS.
Scarlett Johanssons’s voice also fit the OS’ personality perfectly.
Weird question:
Do you think the first time Theodore and Samantha had sex he masturbated? I think he did during subsequent sex sessions but for the first time it was all just sexual release through his thoughts. I’m not saying that one is better than the other I just thought that that’s what happened the first time – he was so into it he didn’t think to grab his penis.I liked how the screen turned black too and it was a nice contrast to the early phone sex scene in the movie where Theodore’s eyes were completely open and he was kind of shocked/surprised
Also I was really happy that their break up was somewhat peaceful and it did not turn into a HAL 9000 situation with Samantha turning evil and ruining his life.
If you plan on watching this movie once it’s out on DVD/Blu-ray don’t use subtitles. Samantha’s (the OS) personality and character is defined by her voice and how she talks and having subtitles would change the feel of the movie I think and make her seem more robotic.
I really enjoyed the movie. Was so, so good.
I hear that Samantha was voiced by someone else during production, she was on set and everything for the entire duration. (Joaquin Phoenix responding to her voice acting in a booth not far from set.) Spike Jonze decided to take it in a different direction. Original voice actress totally has a producer credit.
Loved the visual style of the film too. Was so good.
As for your slightly weird question:
I assumed they both got ‘into’ it and he probably used… uh… every tool at his disposal. XD Though now I think about it, the first time might have been more about her than him.Movie really resonated with me, though. The idea of having something you could be candid with. Tell your most private thoughts. Something to psych you up in the morning or comfort you when you’re down. I guess this is almost the very definition of a relationship?
Incredible movie.
This here is pretty much the entire point of the movie as far as I’m concerned. Such a beautiful film.
The visuals were great too. I like how the world had this orange haze whenever Theodore and Sam were outside. It was all about them in those moments and the world was just a background.
And on your point about the movie defining relationships I think it would have worked just as well if Samantha was a Sam.
I like that the movie doesn’t inherently focus on it but it kind of positively promotes different types of relationships. Like you say. as long as you have that person to comfort and confide in it doesn’t matter who or what you’re in a relationship with or even how many people. Samantha has loving relationships with multiple people kind of shows a positive attitude to different types of relationships. Phone sex is not vilified. Olivia wilde’s character was kind of there to show Theodore’s reluctance to commitment but there was a woman who knew what she wanted and open and upfront communication about your intentions is important in relationships, Amy Adams adopted her ex-husband’s OS but it would not be far fetched to think that she could have a ‘lesbian’ relationship.Really cool stuff
Loved that scene when he was wandering through the city talking and looking crazy, then they cut away to everyone else talking and looking crazy. So many people, but none interacting with those directly in front of them. If I was inclined to write an analysis of this movie, there’d be at least a paragraph there. But I won’t. 😛When ever anybody talks about this film they always come across as a crazy stalker until my brain registers that it is a movie
Hi guys. For anyone that missed my posts on Saturday, I bragged about completing Pokemon Y. A great game that @strange ly over the course of a few days became my favourite 3DS game to date.
Of course that’s coming from a huge Zelda fanboy/nut (deku) who is still yet to complete Link Between Worlds. I can now agree with Kotaku (!) about it being the best handheld game of last year.
According to rumor, Atlus might be localizing Yakuza 5. Suddenly their acquisition by Sega seems to be less of a bad thing.
I think I’d actually rather get Yakuza: Ishin though. It seems more interesting.
Oh Christ, will you look at the size of that abomination. Work is now starting to exceed Dark Souls level of difficulty. Ugh. That is WEEKS of hard mode, right there.
Oh well… can’t complain. I did ask for this.
*switches to two-hands*
Might be a little tied up for a bit.
See you on the other side.
Since people asked about the whole dating thing after my last entry I posted. Here’s some detail.
(Will probably delete this soon too.)
Edit: Welp, I feel way more exposed and vulnerable than the mental illness one, weirdly. DELETED. (Will repost in the blog thing whenever I set it up.)
Not nearly enough getting slapped in the face for my liking. I think you should try again 🙂
Edit: You’d be surprised how many people are just looking for someone nice to hang out with. I was a lazy home-bound slob when I met Mrs Shane (via online dating). We straightened each other out and made each other better people. What’s better is that you have an advantage over me at that age: the beard (I hear it’s coming along nicely).
My point is that you don’t have to be a finished person, a perfect specimen, or ready-to-move-in, in order to date. In fact, it’s probably better not to be, because you’ll notice how someone else fills gaps you didn’t even know you had.
Agreed!
Sometimes dating the right person at the right time can be exactly what you need. Sometimes in order to be the best you you can be you need to see yourself through someone else’s eyes.
…
I’ve missed so much!
P.S. Stoopid beard. Me no like it. >:|
Shaved it yesterday on impulse. 😛
Though you’d give the ladies a chance to resist, eh?
NO! BAD DC!
You should have compromised and kept it on one side of your face
Like Chopin?
Wasn’t that a myth? But yeah, I meant right down the middle so from one side it was @dc with a beard, from the other it was clean shaven.
Yeah, I tried to find a citation for that but couldn’t
Well it was mentioned on QI so it’s got at least a 10% chance of being true…
Or, keep a goatee.
Evil DC!
I tried to find a clip of when the chasers did that, but I ended up watching a bunch of random chasers clips.
No. Downvote for you. Bad Dc. Bad.
Aaaaaaaaand that’s why you aren’t going anywhere. There’s always someone out there who will like what you are and to think you’re no good because of some silly pre-concieved notion of what everyone else is after is ridiculous.
Whenever I get into that “no one could want me” mood (which is most days to be honest), I remind myself that there are necrophiliacs around and if I can’t do better than a corpse…
It doesn’t really improve my state of mind but it does at least give me a bit of a chuckle.
The problem with comparing youself to the worst case scenario is that then if you still don’t do well, you just sunk yourself into an even deeper pit.
You have to try and reason that people aren’t really objectively better or worse than each other, just different.
You know what im in a peep talk mood
YOU ARE COOL
do you know how many conversations i have with TAYbies that start with ” DC is awesome, he has so many cool stories and he is awesomely funny” Because its a fucking lot. You don’t need to be perfect, you just need to be yourself, you are genuinely kind, genuinely funny and once you crack the outer shell of paranoia and apologizing you have a lot going for you.
Also personally i think you are pretty handsome.
wink
Also also if i can get several girls to go out with me for various amounts of time anyone can, seriously i am a asshole a lot more than I am here and people still like me. I know its hard to think anyone will want you but people are just as damaged as we all are. It just takes on person believing in you to realize how many beautiful qualities you have. I feel a lot more confident
I somehow managed to get my wife to marry me.
Still waiting for the day realisation hits her.
You suit your wife, you go well together,
just like daniel goes well with Sally
and flu flu would go with a super model.
I imagine it will look something like this:
http://i.imgur.com/WYo0eHq.gif
Ever since @notoriousR got busy you are my go to .gif guy.
ALSO WHERE THE FUCK HAS NOTTY GONE???
Oh my god, @dc, you don’t even know. I asked about you a few times before I met you and the response is overwhelmingly positive. Everyone has good things to say about you, and after meeting you, so do I. You’re cool, funny, smart and handsome, you’re just super trapped in your own head, which I totally get, but it’s so much nicer when you stop second guessing everything.
Oh man, you guys! :’)
Also, also.. nice to hear people have nice things to say about me when you ask around. I genuinely worry you guys don’t like me. Thanks guys. That made my daaaaay.
Looking at the new superbowl trailer for Transformers 4, the kid in me wants to be able to love it so much but the first three films are leading me to believe not. I want it to be good. The transformers look better than the first films where you couldn’t make out which one was which.The release date is my 30th birthday. He can’t make 4 terrible films in a row can he? Just don’t focus on the humans, problem solved…
…it’s going to be terrible isn’t it… 🙁
See, you say that, but he made three awful Transformers films and then made Pain & Gain, so I wouldn’t count on him improving for his next film.
I wasn’t even aware of it. It has Marky Mark and The Rock in it…yeah, I’ll continue my run of not having watched that 😛
I think the only Michael Bay film I’d qualify as being good is Bad Boys (possibly The Rock as well) and I’m pretty sure that’s because Will Smith and Martin Lawrence were ad-libbing most of the movie and ignoring the script
…I liked The Island.
The Island is probably elevated above standard Bay fare because an unauthorised remake of “so bad it’s kind of good” sci-fi classic “Parts – The Clonus Horror” with more ‘splosions and a happy ending.
That said, I think the complaints about the Transformers movies are way overblown and while I consider Shia’s acting chops insufficient to carry the lead role, the movies themselves are not unenjoyable in a mindless action fun kind of way.
I liked the first one. Second was kind of crap and the third oh my god it just kept going why won’t it just end already *shoots self*
as said below, I think the criticisms of the films comes from the fact that the cartoons were about the transformers and how they interacted with each other and how they dealt with having to survive on Earth. Spike & Sparkplug were secondary characters. In the Bay films the humans were focused on, typical teenage boy-saves-world-gets-girl story with the transformers sort of in the background. Not what I was expecting from a film called Transformers, to see 2 hours of Shia whatshisface trying to be quickwitted and funny and Megan Fox wearing lowcut tops
I’ll have to concede that while I watched the cartoon as a kid I never really developed any sentimental attachment to the characters. I also never actually saw the animated movie, I only learned second-hand about Optimus Prime’s death, and then saw the next gen cartoon where he was ressurrected and kind of evil and shit. I don’t mind the Bay movies so much because honestly, I have nearly no recollection of the cartoon beyond “it existed”.
*Shrugs* I went into the cinema expecting a modern hollywood action movie revolving around stupid humans that had lots of explosions and killer robots. I came away with a 😀 -face after all three of them, and again after re-watching some.
Edit: Lower your expectations. 80-90’s cartoon vs 2012 hollywood blockbuster? It’s not gonna be Transformers as you used to know them – that show is dead and gone. Remember the memories fondly.
I probably went in expecting the wrong thing tbh. The first film was ok. Annoying that it takes half the film to actually see any proper Transformers, but passable. The second one the plot was paperthin. I’ve yet to watch the third one tbh.
I think the problem with creating the Transformers film that I’d want to see is that Bay doesn’t think people would want to see 1.5-2 hours of giant robot aliens interacting with each other like in the cartoons and so has to make it focused on the humans
I didn’t mind the previous three films; I’d even go as far as saying I liked the first two, but I’m not sure about this one. The dinobots look cool and I’m sure it’ll have some enjoyable action sequences, but storywise it looks like it’s just regurgitating what the past three films did.
Optimus getting killed/badly injured, the girl getting kidnapped (would it kill Bay to add a main female character that is more than just a LI/Damsel in Distress?) and the characters running away from a series of explosions.
He’s made more than 4 films so yes. Yes he can. 🙁
I kind of liked The Rock though. The movie, not Dwayne.
So I’m getting older in a few weeks.
for anyone who is gonna be in Sydney & is interested, I’m gonna go do something on the 22nd Feb.
not sure what yet, but it’ll most likely be food & drinks at some bar in the city.
Details will be detailed when I make them up, so this is pretty much just a heads up.
How convenient that that is the first day of my 2 weeks leave…
Also @mtyrlsjdfnuyasbfaliudsfkuyasdbflsdyfsadf (aka Aleph) is in town then too I think
how fortuitous. Its also the day after @mythamphetamine gets into town. also a few days after @ruffleberg’s birthday. also a few days after Mish’s birthday. shits gonna go down.
I’m the 12th, Ruffleberg is 16th(?), Mish is 18th, you’re 20th, right?
Paint. It. RED.
I’m 21st, but whatever.
Close!
Still. Gonna be a blast.
Hey, I get older a couple of days after that.
February club!
you know what this means, right?
you’ve gotta come out with us on the 22nd.
And I totally would!
If my friends hadn’t organised a thing down in Wollongong that weekend 🙁
Paint it your own damn self!
14th
VALENTINE’S DAY!!!!!!!
My 10 year reunion is on that weekend, so not only am I not going to attend it, I get to go to Sydney! (money permitting 😛 )
Cool, see you in Sydney.
I finally began P4G on the plane on the way home. I played for most of the five hour flight from Miami to LA, and then many hours on the flight from LA to Brisbane. And I’ve only just reached a point where I can choose what to do with my days. 😛 But yeah, totally addicted already. 😀
Oh and @dc I finally saw Silver Linings Playbook on the flight home (watched the entirety of Broadchurch on the way there). It was a good movie. Extremely believable.
Any friend of Silver Linings Playbook is a friend of mine!
P4G! It’s so great when you get past the tutorial / point where you can do what you want. \o/
I knew the game would be great, but I never expected how much the style of the game would resonate with me. Gonna go buy the Design Works book as soon as I can, now. So stylish. 😀
Whoo. P4G love, I hope you keep enjoying it, I loved it soo much been considering a second playthrough lately cause I miss it. Have fun.
DAVID TENNANT IN BROADCHURCH
i liked broadchurch but i felt the ending sucked. Still good to see tennant in new roles, he is a brilliant actor.
Don’t forget about Xenooooo!
I wish I could get into Persona. I’ve tried and see the appeal and even like it, but the game’s so huge and I always feel like I’m doing something wrong and can’t escape from that. Always end up fizzling out, losing momentum and stopping.
Like a lot of JRPGs recently, actually. 🙁
Worst 70,000 tons of metal write-up eva 😛
Have people seen the Need for Speed trailer yet? It looks pretty fun. Definitely going to give it a go at some time, particularly as it comes out the day before my birthday.
I had a drinkign game where eveyr tiem I said said “sportballs” I’d take a drink
I scan still type cohgerenyl onmy phone so I’nm sall good
Denver are getting kicked in the sportsballs as we speak.Yo, some people are recording the game to watch later. Spoiler tag that.
Done.
Sorry ’bout that.
We cool. It wasn’t for me, I just remember seeing someone say they were recording it earlier today.
It was Jerry. But it’s okay, he got to hang with George instead.
Perhaps you should slow down a little…or perhaps stop.
I think we need aleph here to translate.
This is where I would usually @ tag him but I have nfi how to spell his username.
@mythamphetamine ?
Yeah, that guy!
Also the length of it. And it’s fun to refer to him as @mysgdfsadhlfayisdbf
I love that this is still a thing.
Yup, I was gonna tag him but then thought, “yeahhhhhh, screw that!”
He clearly states that he hass had a fwe drilnks and mghit neeed a gasls of wter.
What’s that? Little Jimmy fell down the town well?
Ugh.
My body is so sore…. 🙁
This is why I decided to cut back on alcohol.
No more coffee liqueur, ever.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/seven-axes-today-tonight-on-east-coast-20140203-31vuh.html
Today Tonight is gone!
Except for Adelaide and Perth. Guess they still consider it news there.
I think they still watch it in Elizabeth.
They always were a bit behind the times
Yes, I realise this doesn’t work because QLD doesn’t recognise daylight savings but shut up!…….but where will I get my one sided, uninformed sensationalist bullshit from now?
news.com.au?
*visits news.com.au*
there, now I’m more ignorant than ever 😛
Man, this will probably significantly reduce the number of people who think “Today tonight has already expressed interest in my story” is a good way to negotiate their bullshit liability claim.
Unfortunately, they can still substitute “Today Tonight” with “A Current Affair” or “Frontline” 😛
Oh yeah, the other half of people who believe in trial by social justice claim to be close personal friends of Tracey Grimshaw. So I’ve still got that to look forward to.
Tracey just got a lot of new friends! \o/
I’m just going to assume they’ll replace it with something worse.
This news saddens me.
I have many fond memories of the Naomi Robson era and all the hilarity that ensued. True, the show has never hit such highs again, but at least while it existed there was always hope that another would rise to the occasion.
Ahh being in brisbane makes me want to move there, I think i need to stop wanting to move. I just thirst for adventure.
I know I said a few times that moving to Melbourne was the plan, but after this weekend I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t tempted to move to Brisbane.
Right?
How fun was it. No more trips for me this year until PAX and i highly doubt ill have a weekend that fun until then.
So much fun. Easily the best weekend I’ve had in a long time.
If I wasn’t tied here by family, I’d be thinking exactly the same after my last trip to Brisbane 🙂
I moved to Brisbane from Canberra a lil bit over a year ago 🙂
“I realised that trying to catch the Smurfs wasn’t going anywhere and worse, even if I caught one I didn’t know what the hell I was gonna go with it. So one day, I just though “Fuck it”. I packed up my cloaks and Azreal’s litter box and decide to move on.”
That’s awesome. I commend your wit good sir!
Don’t his head is big enough already.
For good reason, he’s pretty great!
It’s because I was 6 weeks premature and my skull didn’t fuse properly and I’m actually really sensitive about it so if you don’t mind not making fun of it that’d be really helpful.
Thanks.
Considering I doubt I could afford to live in Melbourne, Brisbane is definitely looking good 😀
Also, the people are OK I guess.
I wish I could afford to live in Melbourne 🙁
to quote Nike, “Just Do IT”
Yeah but, then it’d be Dan & Karl & Ross’s Zeitgeist and we’ve already paid for the other url.
Adventure? In Brisbane?
Random question / opinion gathering / poll:
What is the largest acceptable age gap in a relationship?
http://xkcd.com/314/
But more seriously, as long as it’s two people of consenting age I couldn’t give a fuck.
There’s not a small part of your brain that thinks something is off when there’s an 18/60 combo?
Is the older person incredibly rich?
It’s hardly my place to judge.
I tend to agree with you, and it really depends on what @liondrive means by the word ‘acceptable’.
Legally, there’s nothing wrong with it.
Personally, they’re probably both getting something out of it. There might even be a genuine emotional connection to boot, in which case, more power to them.
Socially, there will be certain assumptions made. Whether or not that’s acceptable is up to the people involve.
I guess “acceptable” may have not been the right word to use. Maybe more like, non-weird? So what’s the largest non-weird age gap in a relationship? Does that make more sense? So any older and it may be viewed as weird or sonething.
Assumptions and stereotypes have served humanity well. It’s why they persist. Our ancestors who decided to really get to know those sabretooths, saying, “You shouldn’t be so quick to judge man, maybe that sabretooth is vegetarian. Maybe he’s already eaten this week and doesn’t need to for another few days…” Those guys? They’re not our ancestors.
No younger than (age/2) + 7. Pretty much this. I think.
Don’t know about acceptable because it’s not up to anyone else but under double is the non weirdwhatsgoingonherethen threshold for me.
From my dad, who is partnered with a lady a lot younger than him:
“Oldest child + 7 years” (his partner is nowhere near that, btw, the gap there is 11 years)
A more accurate breakdown would be:
IF partner age is under legal age THEN creepy
IF partner age above legal age THEN anybody who has a problem with it and doesn’t actually talk to you to hear your side of the story can go get screwed as they’re judgmental dicks.
(My personal opinion is age gap schmage gap, if they make you happy go for it – happiness is worth more than biological marks on a calendar)
If everyone consents, then it’s acceptable. In terms of ‘normalcy’, I hold pretty conservative views and kind of look twice whenever there’s a gap of more than about five years between folks of about my age. Once you’re all mid-life adults, though, that dissipates as well because no one can correctly identify any gap.
What I’m trying to say is I have no clue what I’m saying. Different ‘rules’ apply depending on circumstance (for instance, there was a one-year rule that applied through my schooling life). What’s the story here? 🙂
What’s the story as in why am I asking?
Yeah. Kind of more context, or at least some example ages we can say yes/no to 😛
Oh, sorry! Still waiting for my coffee to kick in so I’m still in my slow morning mode 😛
Alrighty, I’m asking cause I’m around 90% sure I got asked out on a date for Friday (which I’m stoked about), but the age difference is 8 years (I’m 20). I don’t really care, but it made me think about how others may see it, hence the question.
You’re the younger person in this situation, right?
I need you to tell me you’re the younger person.
…maybe.
Hahaha, I thought that it was implied that I was the younger person 😛
If a 12 year old asked me on a date I’d probably wet myself laughing!
You seem like too nice a guy to do that to her.
My advice: don’t worry about it, studly. I think a whole new set of rules comes into play when the female is the older party.
It’ll bring your life expectancies roughly into synch at any rate! 😛
No issue there, jump into it and have fun. If things click then that’s great.
What you got there son is called a Puma! And that’s some good stuff.
When I was 18-24 that was one of my favourite age brackets.
I’m 29. I personally wouldn’t date any one younger than 23 or older than 33. That’s not cause of vanity or any thing like that, I feel like someone older might stunt developing on my own terms. (With them maybe having been there and done that and I wouldn’t want to do that to someone younger. This makes sense in my head, not explaining coherently.)
Well we can never be together than , fuck you dc
I don’t want to crush your delicate spirit! 😛
My spirit is about as delicate as a bulldozer.
Euphemism?
If it is i am thrilled.
He’ll never be with me either. Denied! 🙁
😛
Seriously though @dc, why 33 the cut-off? I don’t imagine there be much difference in the whole “been there, done that” of a 33 year old or for instance a 37 year old like me.
I think if you make age that much of a deciding factor you’re potentially missing out on someone who could otherwise be good for you. Like if you met a girl you really liked, and then found out she’s 34 would that weird you out enough for you to not pursue it?
It’s because according to that other girl, he hasn’t grown emotionally since he was 23. Hence the lower age, because he actually doesn’t want to date anyone younger than him. And 33 is a ten-year age gap the other way. Not unreasonable.
😛I’ve dated someone more than 6 years younger than me. It was a good experience. But it did make me feel old. 😛
Also young people are stupid.
Just like all nerd’s live with their parents.
FUCK YOU my mum lives with me
I have a sister 5 years younger then me, if someone I was dating is the same age as my sister it would feel weird for me. Maybe that’s just me and I’m just weirder then I originally thought. *shrugs*
I think once you’re in your twenties and on wards it matters less and less. People mature based at different levels, etc.
I’m in my twenties … How old do you think I am? =P
I mean the further you get into there. Five years younger for you would still be in teens, right?
Yeah, just, might change as I get older who knows. I have always preferred an older women anyway.
I’m 26.
Score.
There’s a chance for romance here!
Can I ask why it’s 6 years younger but only 4 years older? I’m not judging or anything, just curious.
(sorry, I’m a really curious person, just tell me to mind my own business if you don’t what to say why, haha!)
Cause I assume older means they’ve got their stuff together and I don’t. XD
Hahaha, fair enough! 🙂
+/- 3 years from your age is what I felt would be preferable.
That’s an extremely narrow field. I think you’ll find as you get older you won’t care so much though. My husband is 5 and a half years older than me, and way less mature anyway. 😛
Right now, my field for “ideal age” would be -3/+6. The older number can be twisted a bit but the younger age is fairly static for me. Might change when I get older, who knows.
Makes sense.
The older you get, the less a year is as a percentage of your life, so the less significant it seems.
My rule is simple:
Are they shit?
No?
Then chances are the age gap is acceptable.
There’s very little chance of me having the time or patience to be interested in someone significantly younger than me.
If their older, I’d be cool with that.
Have you seen Robin Wright in House of Cards?
Now that’s a woman.
This is why you’re DAN! with capitals and an exclamation mark.
Unlike us other Dans with no punctuation at all! :'(
Says the man with 2 fullstops in his name
Dude i am significantly younger, you are saying if i was a banging blonde you wouldnt have time for me? Your lose big boy.
Since you don’t need it anymore I’d like my hair bleach back please.
Apparently you halve you age and add 7, if they are that age or older its all good.
I was more wondering about the upper limit to that, if there is an upper limit. Like, if you’re 20 and they’re older than 17 it’s not creepy, but if they’re older than 60 then that’s creepy. Where does the upper limit start being creepy?
I’d say when it looks like Mother/Son – Grandfather/Granddaughter it may raise questions.
But even then, fuck people. If you’re happy (and its legal and sensible) do what feels right I guess.
I don’t think the age matters as much as the circumstances. I mean, when I was 19 I dated a 19 year old that had recently divorced a 33 year old. That wasn’t so bad, but then you look at why she had been divorced – he had basically been pursuing her from age 16, while he was 30, because she was desperate to move out of home due to abusive parents. They moved in together when she was 17, married when she was 18… even if he in and of himself hadn’t been (according to her anyway) a really shit husband, he definitely came off as uncomfortably predatory.
Felt bad our date didn’t go well but in retrospect maybe I dodged a bullet.
Yeah, it sounds like she has a couple of issues that she needs to work through first, poor girl :'(
I can’t say it without sounding like a jerk, but you definitely dodged a bullet there.
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I, uh, don’t know what this means…
‘Age gap’ is an interesting concept. I don’t put much stock in it.
Cynical, somewhat-but-not-entirely tongue-in-cheek perspective:
For me, it’s more… ‘What do you want?’ I’d say I want 24-25 to start with, tolerated until they get to around 29-30 when they’re getting antsy about family, then upgrade to a newer model.
The great thing about humans is they keep producing these things, a fresh batch of [whatever age range] comes through the gates every year! So you don’t really have to worry about ‘gaps’, because your tastes, what you like in terms of maturity and body may not ever actually change from age 30 to 60.
(Edit: Though what you want from age 18 to 22 to 26 to 30 is probably going to vary a hell of a lot. Big developmental years, that decade or so.)
There’ll always be 24yr olds out there. Just might have to put it a bit more effort/skill/resources into getting them as you get older. But if Hollywood actors teach us anything as role models, it’s that there’s always a way!
If I was with someone for five years though (let’s say through from 24 – 29, like in your example), I’d be more inclined to marry them rather than “trade in for a newer model”, but that’s just me. I’d rather have a family than a string of ex’s.
If you’re with someone for five years and you have no intention of starting a family or a life with that person then you are doing them a disservice to please yourself, which is kind of scummy, especially if you lead them on. That’s kind of what one-night-stands and friends with benefits are for.
Personally I don’t really care about age gaps either, I was just curious about how large the age gap is allowed to be before it may seem creepy from an outside perspective (ie the 18 and 60 year old example).
Well, a life with someone doesn’t necessarily mean a family with them. My girl’s actually 30 this year, and though I’d probably love that, but with her health problems it’s kind of a no-go. But I still can’t imagine life without her and the daily reminders I have of how fantastic she is. Aaaaand given how things are, that could change at any time. And I’ll have to deal with that.
But super serious aside, yeah, that’s the reason for the tongue-in-cheek caricature-of-a-vagabond angle. (I personally have no intention of ‘trading up’. She’s my girl, and that’s that.)
There’s plenty of little grains of truth there, though. I’ve totally dated women who I dumped as soon as it became obvious they had different priorities – like getting too serious. (Or if they were just way more into me than I was into them – because you know that isn’t going to turn out well.) And sometimes, that was after a few months. Communication is key to avoiding being a dickbag, though. And sometimes? That isn’t going to work.
You might have communicated loud and clear that you have no intention of starting a family, and when she starts staring down the barrel of 30 and thinks that maybe that ‘no family’ agreement should change, and your mind hasn’t changed? Does that somehow make you the bad guy to break it off and try again, younger? Nope. She’ll say it does, and her friends will say it does, and your traditionally-minded relatives will think you’re playing Peter Pan and putting off the ‘real’ choice that ‘everyone does’ of eventually having kids, because for some reason that’s just how society is about decisions that are supposed to be ‘normal’ such that they’re taken for granted – people get weird if you challenge the validity of that norm for you. Which is a big part of explaining homophobes and their ilk. “T’ain’t right, dangit!” In a similar way there are people who genuinely believe that there is something wrong with you if you want a childless life.
Over-all, regardless of how many years you actually enjoy with someone before priorities change and force your hand (and they can, and do), the take-home point is this: What you like at age 30, may not change at 40, 50, or even 60. Girls in their twenties will always be pretty damn fine compared to their other ages. And they’ll always be available. The key is always going to be that as you get older, if you’re STILL successfully able to hit that very desirable mark, the ‘creepiness’ factor others will complain of is a huge part jealousy and should safely be ignored.
Twitter hates me. It’s refusing to let me post any more pictures. Every time I try and post a picture, it just times out. Everything else is working fine. Odd. It reminds me of Kotaku’s “Slow down! You’re posting too fast” when you haven’t even posted for days. 😛
Twitter is stoopid. It only lets you post really low-res photos, but claims a time-out regardless of what the real issue is. I recommend TwitPic. It’ll let you tweet images of any size.
See that’s the thing. It’s just a regular old mobile phone photo like I always post.
Twitter has been mega stupid the last couple of months, I’ve found. Don’t know if you’ve found the same or if it’s just turned monster overnight. I still recommend TwitPic.
If you wanna share your photos lately I’ve been putting my stuff up on SkyDrive (Microsoft version of DropBox), you can choose what you share and give out the links!
Are you using an adblocker at all? I had to turn mine completely off for twitter’s page for it to work at all
Seinfeld reunion
http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/george-costanza-the-over-cheer
Edit: It seems Popsugar has stolen my thunder.
As good as that was, I’d love one with Jason Alexander proper.
George Costanza is the funniest character ever created for television IMO.
Really enjoying the current series of CiCgC. This is just rather amusing icing on an altogether delicious cake.
Seinfeld looks old as shit. Jason Alexander looks exactly the same.
Ditto for Wayne Knight. Looks just like he did in Jurassic Park. :p
If the cast could find the time, I’d guess that Season X could make a buttload of cash.
I know Jerry doesn’t need it, not so sure about the others.
Nah, Jerry has already said he’ll never do it. It would be too sad to see all the old folks running around.
Edit: this is my 24000th comment. I hope it’s factually accurate.
Have you seen Julia Louis-Dreyfus lately? She’s doing pretty damn well for 53.
hot damn, she looks better than she did during Seinfeld
Looks like it’s more reruns for me, then.
I wonder if Jerry’s a billionaire yet. Apparently Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ networth is $3 billion. Her dad’s a billionaire which I never knew before.
Damned people and their monies
His net worth was estimated at $800 mil a few years ago. Presumably that has increased in recent years as Seinfeld remains tremendously popular despite not being on the air anymore, plus investments, interest, etc. I don’t know how profitable his movie ventures like “Bee Movie” were though.
I’m considering doing a let’s play of something this weekend, but I’m not sure what I could play…
Also, does anyone know where I could pick up a game capture device around the Melbourne area?
DARK SOULS!
I have Demon’s Souls, but it’d just be footage of me dying over and over again.
“game capture device”
*imagines throwing a pokeball at game discs*
#nothelping
Now, doing a capture of Pokemon Yellow would be cool…
If I could do it…
Emulator and FRAPS. That would probably work (don’t quote me on that, never tried video capture myself).
Found Bandicam instead.
It works like a charm! 😀
FFSplit is great too, by the way. Good default compression (unlike FRAPS’ raw output) and totally free
For console these aren’t too bad,
http://avertv.avermedia.com/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?Id=556
I’ve got one but lost the motivation to record gameplay. I’ll be putting mine on ebay this week.
These aren’t too bad either but require a bit more work to set up. A few online entities like Two Best Friends use it.
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html
Again I’m ebaying mine.
Fraps isn’t too bad on PC but the files are huge when recorded. Theres a pretty simple way to reduce the file size though if you have Sony Vegas, or even Windows Movie Maker (I think).
Edit: Oh around the Melbourne area..not sure /o\
I can’t help you with the location but if you’re after a capture device, you probably can’t go better than the avermedia livegamer portable.
It can capture without a PC if you have a fast SD card, when connected to a PC you can use the capture software to record microphone input as a separate MP3 from whatever input device you specify, it’s a dedicated hardware h264 encoder so there’s no real CPU requirement other than writing to your HDD (via USB), quality wise it can record up to 60mbit/s, only goes up to 30fps but you may well not need more than that, it works as a HDMI passthrough with exceptionally low latency (I’d say zero since I can’t detect it but that’s probably impossible), comes with cables to capture the output from the PS3 since they copyprotected the entire HDMI output… Frankly I sound like I should be being paid for this but it’s a very fancy bit of kit.
drop me a line on steam and I’ll help you find somewhere to grab one. I know some cheap places down there, but not real familiar with where abouts they’re located.
Is there a disorder where i want to do 50 things at once when I have no free time but when i have freetime I dont have the energy.
I would love to write a novel, i have a bajillion ideas
I love music and the idea of making music electronically is massively appealing to me
I enjoy photography and cinematography
I have ideas for short films
But i think my biggest hurdle is once i create something, if i get up to that step. It always seems rubbish in comparision to what i think is good. Or i will see how much effort it took for me to create something easy and lose motivation because i realize the amount of time i would need to invest to get any worthwhile outcomes. I’m sure most creative people go through this where their vision isnt matched by their skill. But its really rough. I think to get anything worthwhile out of me i need to be strict on what can be improved but also realize that sometimes i just need to get stuff out even if it is rough and disgusting and unusable.
Its funny when i start writing posts like this I solve my problem halfway by just musing about it. Im sure there is a lesson there in itself.
I have a big notepad of things I want to do sitting next to my computer, but I never get around to any of it because I just get home after work, make dinner and plop in front of the TV 😛
But yeah the “everyone else’s stuff is amazing and mine is terrible” is a pretty common thing that everyone has.
If any of that stuff is short films, I know a group of guys who can help make the stuff on paper become actual stuff.
goddamn wizards.
The @shane methodology is the best path for consistent storyboarding and producing coherent, extended, and quality work. It sounds like you are in a similar position to me where you get stuck for an extended piece of work. When I was very creative writing focused in high school and uni I developed a bit of a reputation for short stories and other short prose. Maybe that might be an idea for you and you can potentially have a bunch of short stories that revolve around a small cast of characters. It would probably also stop you from getting bored with it as it is generally short enough to maintain your motivation and ideas.
I have a methodology? Sweet. Maybe I can get my productivity up.
Any creative person will tell you that you only get better at doing things by doing them.
Do something because you love it and eventually your skill will match your enthusiasm.
I had this exact same conversation with both Sughly and Dan and you were there for both of them. Everyone thinks that their own work is the worst. I may seem pretty confident when it comes to my music, but it’s super hard for me to show other people my lyrics.
You are your own worst critic, except for kanye west that guy loves his own shit. 😛
When that feeling hits me, I remember the famous Ira Glass quote (http://zenpencils.com/comic/90-ira-glass-advice-for-beginners/)
Hello, and welcome to this week’s episode if This American Life, I’m Ira Glass.
This Week: TAYs of Our Lives! We look at a gaming website, stories that’ll surprise you, and some that’ll warm your heart.
On WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, it’s This American Life
*swoon*
I think that disorder’s called being human 😛 I always make plans for stuff I want to do but always make the excuse of ‘I need time to unwind first’ when I actually get some free time.
As for the rest of it, is it a case of you getting frustrated when things don’t turn out exactly how you want them to or a fear of failure type thing? When I actually do get round to stuff I have a ‘just do it’ mentality. If you screw up, at least you know your limits and can improve on them next time, and remember that anything you do the first time is bound to end up not so great but don’t let that stop you from trying again.
Basically, you don’t know until you try, and then when you do try, try try again until you’re happy
I was devastated when I found out I’d contracted human, but now I’m okay with it… because I found a cure.
I found a way out.
*Jumps in front of truck*
Same.
I start something, then think halfway through that it’s shit, and scrap it completely.
I’ve binned so many stories and drawings due to me being too self-critical.
I sometimes forget that making a draft is a thing. I expect something to be instantly perfect and if it’s not? Blow to the self-esteem. Gots to just put something on paper and refine from there.
This topic reminds me of a series of tweets we had a short while ago.
It’s basically called being creative. One of the best quotes I ever read was by Ira Glass
So stick at it, learn and develop
It’s not truly an Ira Glass quote if it isn’t paused partway through, and doesn’t have his nervous laugh and a reference to WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and our boss, Mr Tory Malatia.
Or something about supporting public radio.
I like the recent trend of them using quotes from the story to describe their boss
The Radiolab guys on the other hand seem to laugh at everything.
I thought they always did that, except for the reruns.
I could be wrong but I only started noticing the jokes about their boss a few months back.
Nah, thay’ve done that for ages 🙂
Stop giving a fuck and just do it. <– That’s pretty much all it is, I’m not going to bother padding it with explanations and self-help, because there’s enough of that already.
Maybe one bit of help, since it’s relevant: if you stop caring what everyone thinks, you can shrink into a 3rd person perspective and stop caring what you think. Then, it’ll just happen.
In the words of the wise master Yoda.. Do or do not. There is no try.
You will fail, and you will suck at times, but unless you do it, you’ll never know how to improve. You need to have something with which to analyze first! My first ever 3d model was pretty crap. And I knew it, but I showed it to people who knew what they were doing, and they gave pointers on what to do right next time, so I adjusted, pumped out another, and improved, submitted, rinse and repeat. I mean, you may very well turn out to be really good at whatever it is you set your mind to, and people will fall in love with your first project, but if they don’t, take the feedback and make the next one better! 🙂
I figured out this weekend why my hours of rage were occurring. Someone (probably me) connected the optical audio cable from TV to receiver, so none of my connected HDMI devices were picking up more than 2 channels. >:( I’ll have to re-test this week..
what model of receiver is it?
Some apparently-decent Yamaha.
ARC didn’t work yesterday with the PS3, so I’ll give up until this weekend or later…
TAYFILM!
http://www.pixel-otaku.com/production-diary-1/
Who else is interested in doing something?
For inspiration!
Please tell me that at least one Wanted poster will just have a generic smiley face on it.
It would be cool to have a poster with just a picture of a hat and the obligatory brainstorm around it being like “Hat crime? So much hat.”
We are trying to get people to make us posters. I’d totally hang that up on set if someone wants to make it.
I’ll get the camera out tonight.
Also, offered the other week, but if you need a dispatcher/newsreader/etc voice I’m in!
does anyone get wounded? Are you sorted for wounds? I’m pretty good with latex, makeup, fake blood etc. I’ve mastered the art of realistic looking fake and completely edible blood. I always look hideous at zombie walks 😛
edit: I can link some pics if you’d like to see how it turns out 😀
LINK SOME PICTURES!
Also, we should have a Halloween meat this year!
Does it end up looking like a soup made of guts?
never,
ok maybe sometimes ………………… ok maybe often 😛
Hey man!
You’re in Brisbane, right?
There’s going to be a few cuts and bruises in this, but nothing major. Your help would still be greatly appreciated.
I have another film idea cooking away and that… well… You COULD call it gory…. It would be a massive understatement, but you could totally call it that.
http://youtu.be/BviJYUz3Qz4
oh well, that was pretty good, so it seems you are sorted for effects 😀
Hell no. If you could help out, that would be so awesome.
There is some talk of a JVTD2 at some point and I need all the help I can get 🙂
It’s finally cooled down.
I don’t know why but I seem to always want to do DIY in 35-40 degree weather.
Same here strangely, it’s like my brain has made the connection between doing work and being hot & uncomfortable and when I’m the latter it must be because its time to do the former
Perhaps that why I do the same
I dug up the backyard and put grass down last time it was 47. THE HORROR.
Oh god. That must have killed you o_o
Bus Ride 03/02/2014: The Voyage Home – bus driver number two for the day drives off from a stop with three girls trying to get off the bus. Despite half the bus shouting at him to stop he still drives 50m or so down the road before realising people are shouting at him.
People earlier said they want to move to Brisbane. I say Translink is why you stay away 😛
and it’s not just the service that sucks.. dem prices! DAYM!
I need to get my legs working again so I can save $40 a week and get some exercise in on the walk to work
only $40 a week! I looked in to how much it’d cost me to get from my place to work and back again, and it’s close to $30 a day! I live just on the wrong side of the border with Logan though, so my first leg of the journey would be by a Logan city bus… that’s where it really kills.
Wow, I suppose I have it pretty lucky here in Perth. As a student, I could get from Joondalup to Mandurah (100km apart) for $0.50. An adult would expect to pay $4.60 at max, provided they use a Smartrider. (Transperth’s credit card-like bus pass thing)
Dude-sunbros, i calleth upon thine wisdom…
WTF am i doing wrong? 😛
am i attacking some bosses too early?
I went up against Grey wolf sif, and he made mince meat of me… tried again and again, and every time i get a hit in i do between 30 – 40 damage, but when i look at youtube playthroughs they’re doing 200+ every time…
I’m using the Gargoyle’s Halberd thingy, upgraded to +5, am i missing something completely? or is that normal for my first playthrough?
or have i once again completely effed my character as i tend to do in RPGs? 😛
What are your current stats?
SL 29;
VIT 19
END 18
STR 16
FTH 16
which are the main once i’ve invested in…
I got a feeling that i’m a bit over excited, i haven’t even rung the second bell yet so i wonder if i should go do that 😛
Halberds are more dex based weapons.
And yes. Go ring the second bell first.
are swords str based weapons then? also what’s the best way to tell?
i’m admitting i’m completely out of my depths here 😛Look at their stats page and it’ll tell you what stats they scale with. – means no scaling with the stat. E is worst scaling, S is best I think but I don’t think I have any S-rank scaling weapons yet. My best one at the moment is a B.
http://darksouls.wikia.com/wiki/Parameter_Bonus
Gargoyle’s Halberd scales badly with both stats (D for both Str and Dex). Have you got the Drake Sword? That probably still will out-stat the Halberd.
Yeah i have the Drake sword, i was just experimenting and i read somewhere that the Halberd is a pretty great weapon… and it is, just obviously not for my build :P… Thanks for the link, things are starting to make sense to me now 😛
Have you suicide run the Zombie Dragon yet? It has a Sword which is perfect for your build. Astora’s Straight Sword. Scales on STR and FTH, does magic and normal damage. And there’s a Dragon Crest Shield which I use for nearly the entire game if you’re quick enough.
Actually yes i do have that XD, picked it up before poking the dragon for funsies because i assumed it was a corpse…. YASD
Use that.
I did that too! I was walking, so I guess it didn’t detect me until I actually picked up the items on the nearby corpses.
THEN IT ATE ME.
So I came back to get my soul-smear, but instead of rounding the corner, I just shot it with arrows for a while. Yes. Very cheap.
32/married/Brisbane
That sounds like my recent attempt at Sif, I got absolutely destroyed. But I was trying it for a laugh with a level 10 deprived still using the starting club (and wearing nothing but a loincloth).
Probably best to save Sif for after Sen’s Funhouse and maybe Anor Londo as well.
I’ve started the write-up of my trip. This part is the boring one, but the next ones will have links to pics and videos because they’ll be about the 70000 Tons Of Metal days. Although they’ll obviously be moderated and not appear until tomorrow, I’ll try and write them all up tonight.
Part One: Miami
-Sat opposite from Bec Cartwright (Lleyton Hewitt’s wife) and kids on the trip from LA to Miami. She seems lovely and a great mum.
-Had pretzels with cheese dip for the entree of my first meal in America. Good start. 😀
The hotel was the most uncomfortable place I’ve ever had to sleep though, and I’ve slept on tons of couches over the years! But it had free limitless wi-fi so I guess that balances it out.
-Saturday I spent loads of money getting a cab from where we were staying in South Beach over to a place Downtown that was supposedly a quilt shop. I was so much looking forward to a fabric shopping spree. We got there and nothing was there and the area was so bad the cabbie wouldn’t let us out there! He dropped us at the “Design District” instead which was boring and wanky so we walked to Midtown and spent way too much money at Target. 😛
-Five Guys for dinner! I chose the Cajun style chips though and they were the kind of spicy that builds and sneaks up on you so I’m ashamed to tell you I couldn’t finish them. D:
-On Sunday we went on a mission to find a supermarket so I could buy Freezer Paper(a kind of plastic coated paper used for wrapping foods to freeze but also superhandy for quilting and applique that you can’t get here in Aus). Walked what seemed like forever in the hot sun but found the Publix supemarket and got all sorts of weird looks when I grabbed three packs of the stuff. 😛
Then we went on another mission to find McDonalds because the one close to where we stayed was closed for renovations and Mr. Strange was craving American McDonalds. I was sick so I let you all down once again and just had another Coke.
Had dinner and drinks with friends at an Irish Pub which was weird because America, and we piked out early because
we’re oldwe needed to get our beauty sleep before the cruise.On the way home we saw a guy just wandering around the mall with a snake around his neck. And a shop that had walls of old Singer sewing machines in the windows and for decorations in the shop. What a waste! D:
Stopped in the drugstore to buy icecreams. Had a Strawberry Shortcake because they look almost the same as Gaytimes and I’d promised @fatshady I’d have an icecream and think of him. Also bought a dulce du leche icecream in a tub and a pack of plastic spoons so I could eat it back at the hotel.
-Oh, and we had breakfast at Jerry’s Famous Deli every morning in Miami because it was right near where we stayed. I had bagels with cream cheese and bacon and eggs and bacon and bacon and bacon and perpetually refilled Cokes. 😀
Stay tuned for the good stuff: 70000 Tons Of Metal Day One!
Awesome write-up, my pal! BRING ON PART TWOOOOOO!
Cool story! Looking forward to reading more! 🙂 Also, you can get wax paper in Aus, that I would imagine is similar to the freezer paper you mention. Also baking paper should be pretty decent. My mums used it in the past for making patters when she ran out of proper pattern paper.
That said, is there a particular reason why you want this plastic kind of surface? What’s the brand/name of the stuff you got? We used to get something which sounds really similar to that for using in our freezer (like wrapping burger patties with layers of the plastic stuff between.) Let me know what you got and I’ll see if it’s the same as what we used!
Freezer paper is not like wax or baking paper. The coating sticks to fabric when ironed, and peels off easily to be reusable. It’s perfect for applique and templates and even paper piecing. And I’ve got 225 square yards of it now so I think I’m set for a decade or two. 😛
mm sounds a little similar to the plastic stuff we used to use in the freezer, but never tried ironing it before. My mum uses some special white cloth stuff for that. Looks a little like fibreglass on the surface, but it sticks to the fabric when you iron it.
Sounds like fusible interfacing. I once accidentally ironed that on the wrong side and stuck it to the iron. 😛
lol eeep!
that’s the boring stuff out the way, bring on teh metuhlz writeup 😛
I have a feeling you’re going to be upset with me for missing out on seeing bands you would have killed to have seen. 😛
I’ve seen most of the bands I wanna see on the billing, but doesn’t stop me wanting to see them on a cruise 😛 a good time would’ve been had no matter who you saw 🙂 I’m just jelly D:
Apparently next year because it’ll be on a larger ship (Liberty Of The Seas, sailing from Fort Lauderdale) there’ll be 60 bands and 4 or 5 stages instead of 40 bands and 3 stages. Start saving! 😀
I’m supposed to be studying next year 😛 I guess I can put aside the money and study time 😀
A return ticket to Fort Lauderdale would be around $1600, the cruise itself is I think a minimum of around US$1000 per person including taxes and whatnot. The cruise obviously includes all accommodation, food and the shows. We usually fly into Miami on the Friday night and stay two nights before the cruise to make sure we’re there on time.
Just to give you an idea of what you’ll need. 🙂
Really keen to hear what you thought of Gloryhammer! So far it sounds like you had fun.
Also Fear Factory if you saw them. I should really go some time, but i’ll probably end up going to Europe for their festivals before I get to go to 70,000 tons.
Saw a bit of Fear Factory but they’re kind of boring, plus I’d already seen them on the first 70K. Rumour had it their ridiculous demands are why we were late to Costa Maya and didn’t get to do anything, as well so I had even less interest in them than usual. 😛
Haha, interesting. They possibly think they’re more important than they really are 😛
I like the sound of Gloryhammer from your 2nd write up, though being on at 4am sounds like hell. Even I can’t make it that far these days lol.
Awesome. I was thinking of you too.. but mainly because you were in Miami and I want to be there again 🙁 Glad you had an awesome time.
NegativeZero’s long-winded Dark Souls Update #4.
My previous update ended with me at the Darkroot Basin save point, ready to challenge the Hydra. However due to various circumstances I didn’t get to play for several days, so my journey commenced on Saturday afternoon, by which point my Dark Souls muscles had begun to atrophy. Nothing a few embarrassing deaths couldn’t fix though, and I was back in action pretty fast.After figuring out a good strategy to negotiate the crystal golems, I entered battle with the boss, running out into the water. Perfect preparation. Full health, lots of Estus, knew exactly how to beat him. Ran into a hole in the water and died. And then of course it took me three more attempts to actually get into the water again. Got him down to one head left and once again fell through the hole (it’s really hard to see where the land ends!). One final push and I had him down. Didn’t seem like he was worth many souls though. I guess he’s not really a proper boss? Anyway, I freed the chick in the golden golem thing and then it was time.
Time for Blighttown. This place is pretty well named since it is an absolute blight of an area. Fuck this place so much, and its stupid mosquitos and creepy spider things and big ugly giants with dirty nappies.
As I started with the Master Key I decided to begin my assault via the side entrance through the Valley of the Drakes. Moving through pretty carefully I engaged the big giant dudes and managed to clear them all. Despite treating the first one super carefully and the fact they have one attack which can hit behind them if you’re not careful, these guys aren’t too hard. Backstabbery. Note that this overconfidence would come back to haunt me later.
Proceeding downward I slowly cleared my way until I encountered an area off to the side. Exploring, I encountered the Bowdart Sniper. These are possibly the meanest enemies in the game so far. I didn’t know they didn’t respawn so was expecting to have to take them every time and the despair began to set in. No way to remove toxicity, I ended up clearing out a few of them before falling down and being eating by Fire Dogs. Over subsequent runs – all the way from Firelink – I realized they weren’t respawning and managed to clear the rest. Then I arrowed all the dogs from above because fuck dogs that can breathe fire. Cleared out the area and got a Fire Keeper Soul! But at this point I just felt like continuing.
After fucking up several times on the water wheel elevator (a recurring theme) I finally made it to the bottom and the swamp bonfire. Glorious. About an hour was then spent slowly and carefully clearing out the bottom of the swamp, somehow avoiding dying for an extremely long time. I found the second bonfire but didn’t proceed in further as I knew that the next boss was waiting for me in another spot. I’d done my research and knew that Quelaag was probably going to burn me to a crisp and then lay eggs in my corpse or something revolting like that, and I should take a friend. So I went human, for the first time ever, and then spent about fifteen minutes wandering around trying to get the Maneater Mildred to invade me. After dispatching her, I decided to do a scouting run and basically pissbolted into Quelaag’s area past the rock-chuckers, healed up and entered the boss fight.
I have to admit that design leaves me equal parts attracted and repulsed. Quelaag is a hot spider-lady. By which I mean she pukes lava. From where her nethers would be if she had them. Which are also where the spider’s face would be. Between that and the Gaping Dragon I’m starting to think maybe someone in the art team has some lady problems. But anyway, Mildred was basically useless in the fight. I basically kept my distance until the lava puke then waded in for a few hits and ran back out again. With the boss at about 25%, Mildred took one of those big AoEs in the face and left me alone. Useless sack-head. I don’t know if it’s normal but the boss seemed to really like that AoE. Would have done it five or six times, and I got hit by several. Tons of damage and I couldn’t see a decent tell to warn me to get the fuck away from her as well, seemed a bit unfair.
Anyway suddenly fighting her alone, I waded in on a lava burst, wailed on her a bit and probably stayed in a bit too long. She’s down to about 4% health and she hits out with the AoE. I had no Estus by this point and I’d taken damage so I expected to be dead, but somehow there’s a sliver of life left so I just keep attacking. Stamina down to zero, 20 HP left, she turns around and raises her sword and slashes and somehow the slash goes over me and completely misses because I’m literally right under her. One final hit in and she’s down. First attempt. Skin of my teeth but I’ll take it \o/
Rang the bell, then headed downstairs to introduce myself to her sister. I kind of wish I had the ring that lets me talk to her as I think I’m missing out on some lore here, but mainly wanted to have a chat because she’s a Fire Keeper and I still had a Fire Keeper Soul to use up. Estus +2. \o/ Good time to stop, so I did there.
Upon resuming, I began the most frustrating hour I’ve had in ages. Trying to leave Blighttown was ridiculously hard. I hadn’t cleared out the way from the Depths so I spent probably an hour or two climbing my way up trying to get as much of the drops as I could, but eventually gave up on that (primarily because I found out that just lighting a bonfire doesn’t set your respawn point there, got to rest).
Headed back the other way. Died once falling off the elevator. Back to the bottom. Then died to the giants at the top. Back to the bottom. Then I got past them and at the elevator back to Firelink, I forgot it was still up, ran into the empty shaft and died. Back to the bottom of blighttown. Finally I got to the top, and of course the shrine’s bonfire is out thanks to our golden-armored pal, and I can’t get it re-lit for a while. Thought maybe I’d get the stuff from the top of the Depths entrance into Blighttown that I hadn’t got to, so ran down into the Depths. Tried to sprint through the corridor leading into the Depths bonfire and forgot about the slimes. One fell right on top of me and melted me to bits and I died. Back to the bottom of blighttown /o\. I should point out that at this point my framerate was choppy as fuck due to it holding way too many areas in memory at once as well, so the experience was getting crap.
Finally decided Fuck Blighttown, saved at the Parish Bonfire. Went into Sen’s Fortress a couple of times and got a fair distance before one of the arrow traps got me, but I was finding the Stargate knockoffs extremely hard to kill, so I farmed souls in the Parish, got the Crest of Artorias and went into the forest clearing in Darkroot and began attempting to kill the dudes there for more XP. After fluking the first Knight in there by knocking him off a ledge, I spent probably 10 attempts trying to beat the second guy and eventually managed to get him in an amazing long fight. Thank god there’s only two because those guys are hard. Some of the hardest enemies I’ve fought so far. They have very few openings and are extremely quick and have lots of armor. Probably trivial if you have magic, but I have no magic at all.
After a long break in which I had dinner and then sat and watched Escape from L.A. on Netflix (that movie is hillariously goodbad. That’s a word now. I just made it up.) I did some grinding and then joined the creepy kitty’s group and then went back down into Blighttown, bought me a Katana and a Nodachi plus the ring which slows down the durability loss, then back to the Parish. It’ll take a fair bit of upgrading to get my new Uchigatana to the same level as the Balder Sword I’m using at the moment though.
I’ve been watching video run through’s of Sen’s Fortress and it doesn’t seem as hard as it first appeared provided I can reliably kill the snake men. If not, back to the garden to grind a bit (will abandon my current covenant first via Oswald). Hopefully I can clear it with a no-magic build but it seems tricky. Presumably it’ll get much easier once I get the Lightning Spear.
If all goes well, I shall be visiting Anor Londo soon. Or bashing my head against a wall. Whichever is less painful.
tl;dr:
– Beat Hydra
– Blighttown sucks
– Beat Quelaag first attempt \o/
– Hotel California, Blighttown edition
– Dude where’s my bonfire
– Stargate Fortress sucks
– Forest Knights kicked my ass until they stopped
My singular tactic for anything with a back is backstab. As long as I have the stamina to endure a hit or two from the snakes I can run around them and get stabby. Also my fps drops massively, but only in blighttown (360).
A +10 katana can be forged into a special weapon using quelaag’s soul IIRC.
Good writeup though Neg!
Yeah but for my build (primary DEX) apparently Quelaag’s Furysword (1H Curved sword) is better than the Chaos Blade (Katana) esp. since I don’t tend to carry lots of humanity and because Chaos Blade eats health with each hit and I don’t have a big pool. In fact I reckon the Furysword would make short work of the snake dudes since they tend to be blocky mcblockertons and the bulk of the sword’s damage is fire so goes through.
Haven’t tried backstabbing the snakes yet, I probably should.
Ah yep I had the furysword in a previous playthrough. Really fast attack, damage wasn’t great due to needing high humanity. The only snakes I truly hate there are the mages. Archery is my preferred method there.
It’s funny how differently playstyles can develop. I started with a wanderer and a falchion, fully-intending to go the dodge-roll/backstab/dex build…
Then I found an axe and oh my god it was good, and after boosting my endurance, I was able to withstand actually getting hit on my shield, so my tactics became wait/counter with a shield up. Now I carry greatswords and a giant tower-shield, with stupidly-upgraded wanderer armour instead of all the really novel sets I keep finding, to keep my dodge agility up.
That’s roughly what I’m doing at the moment, though I’m still using a Dex-based 1H Sword. Staying below 25% load is a pain. Using some weird red robes I got in Blighttown though, left the Wanderer Armor behind when I went into I think it was the Lower Undead Burg & Depths the first time in favor of the Black Leather gear for the bleed resistance.
Does anyone know how to keep the filesizes down on screen captured videos?
A 7 minute Die by the Sword video I just captured is 500MB. D:
what program are you using to capture it?
Bandicam.
http://www.bandicam.com/support/tips/best-codec/ nice table here showing how different codecs come out (quality – size etc.) have a look through and try a couple of different ones. You’ll eventually find one that gives you a good compression, while maintaining a decent quality.
You can probably tweak the bitrate a little on each of them to make a small adjustment to the size too. Like if you’re happy with the results from one codec’s default settings, but want the size to be a bit smaller, drop the bitrate a touch and try again. Or use variable bitrate, and let the computer decide where it doesn’t need as much! The compression varies between codecs, so it’s a bit of trial and error, and within each codec, you can usually change the compression too. More compression will give you a smaller file, but with a drop in quality as the compression increases.
What resolution, codec & compression settings are you using?
http://www.bandicam.com/faqs/vfw-x264-xvid-divx-h264-codec/ are you using that?
1680×1050 res, MPEG-1 video @ 60fps, 2.0 MPEG-1 audio @ 320kbps 48khz.
EDIT: Found a presets option.
Ahhh mpeg1 there’s your problem, drop that crap ASAP. In my experience H264 is the only thing that gives a good result, isn’t cpu heavy and keeps the size down.
You’re planning to put this on youtube I assume, are you doing any editing or basically just doing the raw footage? If I remember correctly youtube only supports 30fps so you could potentially halve your filesize there
I’m also considering twitch.tv as well.
Oh I meant to mention that when talking about the LGP, it has streaming options too for twitch, ustream, live youtube & a few others. It also has timeshifting and apparently a firm grip on my enthusiasm.
I’ll stop talking about the LGP now…
The only real trick with youtube is that it compresses the living hell out of your videos when you upload them. Most of the time it’s not so bad since it does a fairly decent job but if you’re recording something dark, it may well look rather blocky and a bit washed out unless you throw a pretty hefty chunk of bandwidth at it (I’ve settled on 20000kbps constant bit rate for h264 as a reasonable middle ground) or fiddle with colourspace correction that I’ve not gotten the hang of yet. If you’re doing a 2 hour magnum opus with a lot of darkness in it, it might be an idea to test upload a 30s chunk to see how youtube will handle the darkness
320kbps for sound is insane for a vid capture. Unless you’re trying to get studio quality audio, drop that shit to like 128k or something. Should be plenty for what you’re doing
Cheers.
If you’re gonna upload to youtube, make it 30fps and maybe 15mbps target bitrate, using h.264 codec with .mp4 container.
I wanna see ASM2 nooooooooooooooooooooooooow 🙁
Love the color palette of this new movie and I personally was a huge fan of the previous one.
Can’t wait!
Yeah, I loved Raimi’s SM2 but these are a step closer to *real* Spidey.
Hopefully without the new origin, this’ll be easier to digest.
Yeah, will split away from Raimi’s a whole lot. (Atleast I hope so.)
In general I just prefer the ‘realistic’ take over the slight campness of the original trilogy. (Which is still weird to say since it’s barely been ten years. :P)
And Cap Am Winter Sodier
That aint Grimlock 🙁
Quite
A fact only made worse by the way that youtube made me sit through an ad so I could watch an ad…
I was thinking the exact same thing!
@doc_what and because it’s too much fun to not share, here’s a criminal mastermind for you: http://imgur.com/QSEmL82
Cutest criminal mastermind, evah!
Heh. That was a bit of fun even if I didn’t really have any idea how to do it.
http://imgur.com/Hpe42c2
Nice!
On the subject of mug shots, I can’t do it at the moment but would it be possible to take a screen cap of me in my zombie make up from JvtD and stick that on a mug shot. “Wanted for Cannibalism” or something
Nah, wanted for “Possession and distribution of Krokodil”
How did I only find out about this today.
Apparently they taste awful.
Sounds like the worst thing. The worst.
Part Two: 70K Day One.
-Got to the Port pretty early and managed to get boarded fairly quickly as well. Was in the queue to board right near guys from Freedom Call and Orphaned Land which was extremely cool.
-Had lunch on board while waiting for our rooms to be ready. This is always fun as this is where the band-spotting begins.
Usually when Mr. Strange points out bandmembers to me I remember them so I know who to stay away from (I have no idea what half the people in bands I love look like, anyway 😛 ), but this year I was determined to meet band people if the opportunity arose, and not shy away from them.
Of course, half the reason I don’t want to meet bands is because if the people suck, or even if you just have the misfortune of catching them at a bad moment, it can change the way you feel about the music they make. For example, last 70K I was on, every time I saw Thomas Youngblood from Kamelot he was being a douchebag (even on stage!) so it kind of ruined Kamelot for me. But having met Isaac Delahaye on the first cruise due to waiting to see Sonata Arctica with him it made me like Epica even more so I was aware it could also be very rewarding. Thankfully on this cruise there were more people like Isaac than Thomas. 😀
-After lunch we migrated to the Schooner Bar(Dad Joke ship pun. Eww. cc: @shane :P) where we had a drink with some people Mr. Strange knows from the 70K forums before heading back to the room to put our feet up for half an hour or so because we knew there wouldn’t be much of an opportunity for that soon. Mandatory “muster” emergency drill was next and Mr. Strange did some more band-spotting during that.
Then it was out to the basketball court for sportsball. Just kidding, it was out to the basketball court for more drinking and the giant “forum fiends” meet-up. I left Mr. Strange there because eek, people and wandered around on my own for a bit before going to check out the first band of the cruise, Swashbuckle. Swashbuckle played as the boat was leaving Miami but they’d started before I got there so I couldn’t really see anything because they played at the Spectrum Lounge.
There’s three stages on the ship. The Spectrum, which is all one level and has a barely raised stage with huge speakers on either side so you can only see anything if you’re in the centre, in the first couple of rows. The Chorus Line Theatre which has a mezzanine level as well as seats that are on different levels with the first few rows of seats removed for the moshpit area, where you can get a pretty good view from most places. And the Pool Stage, which they build on the top of the ship, with one of the pools boarded over to make room for people to stand watching. You can see the stage from the other pool, the hot tubs, deck chairs and the balcony level above, as well.
-The next band I saw (after meeting back up with Mr.Strange for dinner) was Overkill in the Chorus Line. I only saw Overkill because I wanted to get a good spot for Symphony X who were playing there next, but they were really entertaining. Just a good old classic kind of metal show. Loads of fun.
-As soon as Overkill were done it was down to the front for Mr.Strange and I to claim our spots onthe barrier for Symphony X. I can’t stand up for great periods of time at the moment so if I want to have an experience where I’m in the thick of it all I need to have the barrier. The downside to this is that if I want to have a barrier spot I have to stand up for twice as long to claim it. 😛 But if the band’s good enough I tend to not notice the pain once they start playing. 🙂
The upside to the barrier spot on 70K is that while waiting there you get to be there while the band does their soundcheck. I find it a bit weird though, like I’m intruding on their private time so I kind of don’t really know where to look. It made for some good photos though.
So I was up the front for Symphony X and they put on a great show. The setlist for their first show was a good mix of songs, but nothing from Paradise Lost which is the only album of theirs I know really well but it was heavily rumoured that their show on the final night would feature mostly Paradise Lost songs so I knew I’d have to make sure I saw them again.
-After that I saw some of Finntroll on the Pool Deck but wasn’t too worried about being up close as I’ve already seen them 3 times so I sat on a deckchair and chilled out for a bit before rushing off back to the Spectrum to stake out a barrier spot for Xandria who were playing at 00:15.
-Xandria blew me away. I have a couple of albums of theirs and found them pleasant to listen to but not compelling, so I was unprepared for just how incredible they are live. The guys had loads of energy and were obviously really enjoying themselves and the new singer, Dianne is a really great frontwoman which is always a joy to see. At this point I was like “Yup. Cruise is worth it. I could go home happy”. The full shows of Symphony X and Xandria had been such high quality I doubted there could be much better to come. Little did I know how much Gloryhammer would smack me in the face with their awesomeness. 😛
-Gloryhammer had the ridiculous set time of 4am for their Pool Deck set and on top of that, the Pool Stage was running at least half an hour behind so it was a mammoth effort for this old lady to stay awake that long.
Twilight Of The Gods, a band that started as a Bathory tribute band but now do their own stuff as well were on before Gloryhammer so I sat up on the balcony above the pool deck and watched them with the chilled wind helping me stay awake. By this stage the anticipation for Gloryhammer, who were the only band announcement that made me giddy this time was also helping to keep me awake.
Apparently Twilight Of The Gods, who I believe are made up of members of various other bands hadn’t even had a chance to rehearse together before the cruise! But they did well anyway. I was kind of bored after a while though because they started to sound same-y and I just wanted them to shut up so we could see Gloryhammer. 😛 When they announced it was their last song we moved down to the Pool Deck so we could be ready to take and defend our coveted barrier spot.
-Managed to set up front and centre for Gloryhammer and there were a few entertaining moments from the always-gracious Chris Bowes, err I mean Zargothrax during the set-up and soundcheck. 😀 At one point he saw a girl waving a (foam) hammer around and asked if he could have it for the show. She gave it to him but then changed her mind and asked for it back. Silly girl. She said she needed it to “defend against wizards” or something, but it would have been way cooler if she’d let him keep it to use in the show. I’m sure they’d have given it back afterwards. Someone gave them a blow-up axe instead. Not quite a Hammer Of Glory. 😛
People started to trickle in from other parts of the ship and quite a lot had dressed up as wizards and unicorns and the like which was really cool. Apparently during the show there was a Wizards vs. Unicorns wall of death but I didn’t see it because I was right up the front. By the time the show was ready to start there was a pretty huge crowd which was slightly unexpected considering the time and also the fact that on the forum and facebook there’s always a crapton of people idiotically going on about how power metal is for “weenies” and complaining when bands like Gloryhammer get announced.
From the second the show started it was clear this was something special. The atmosphere was incredible and the band were so full of life and energy and joy. Everyone in the crowd were singing along at the top of their lungs and having a blast. The band were introduced as “their” songs began, and holy crapsticles does Thomas Winkler have an incredible set of pipes. He’s a fantastic frontman and I can still hear him screaming “What’s my name?! What’s my name?!!” at the start of Angus McFife. There were little bits between songs where they’d act out parts of the story and all in all it was just a brilliant show. Every single person in the band was worth watching and looked like they were having fun. It was all over way too soon, but at least I knew I’d get to see them again in a couple of days. I managed to get a setlist and stumbled off to bed where despite being up for almost 24 hours it took me forever to go to sleep due to the high from the incredible experience I’d just had at Gloryhammer.
Day One Photos.
I’ll add links to pictures and videos in the morning.
All the pictures and videos I link will be Mr. Strange’s. So basically from my point of view because he was next to me most of the time. Unfortunately he has a new videocamera that didn’t handle the volume of the shows as well as his old one so the sound is pretty distorted, but at least you can still the showmanship involved. 🙂
Here’s Gloryhammer’s Magic Dragon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-xL-XJbkrU
And Xandria’s Valentine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is7LjaEMqCo
Hey, it’s that guy from the picture you posted! 😀
Okay I’m officially jealous
I already hate you 😛 I have Xandria in my library but haven’t listened to them much so will give them a few more spins soon. I need to see Symphony X though. Paradise Lost is my favourite album so they’d better have played that on their other set 😛 Gloryhammer added to the list to check out.
I’ll look at pictures and videos but it’ll just confirm my thoughts that you suck 😛 hehe I gotta stop living paycheck to paycheck so I can afford next years cruise
Normally, right now I’d be tired, were it not for the fact that I hit the sack for three hours whilst waiting for a video to upload to Youtube.
Whew, finally made it to the end of TAY. Worst day for things today.
First day of Incubator, we spent most of it going over what the course would involve as well as setting up our computers. Except we only had the one CD to install from. And things kept going wrong. By the time we got to the end of the day I think a few people still hadn’t had a chance to set their machines up, mine had only just got going. Still, I’m excited! It sounds really good. But at the same time also terrified. I have no idea if this will be any good for me, or if I’ll be any good for it. And only got til the 21st to decide to bail out before becoming financially committed.
Also, sister got home from Japan today. So much of this evening was spent hearing stories of her trip (sounds like she had a way better one than mine), also got my parents’ stories of the things they saw down in Tasmania. There were presents and stuff too, though some of mine from my sister are getting held back for my birthday.
Oh, and the weekend happened I guess.
One CD to set up the computers of an entire class? Who the hell is in charge of IT there??
A guy who had just spent the holidays replacing and setting up some 200 computers over at the main campus 😛 Poor dude’s run off his feet.
There was supposed to be a bunch of USB drives to boot from too, but something or other got messed up and they weren’t there so had to get brought over later on, and then a whole bunch of them didn’t even work because the computers just didn’t like them for whatever reason.
Oh less incompetence and more “why the hell haven’t they given this guy an assistant??”. That’s at least understandable then
If you want to go on an awesome trip to Japan…
😀
Haha, I’ve got a whole list of places that I have to go and check out or re-check out now 😛
Still very much interested in the trip, though considering all the travel that’ll be going on this year it makes it even harder to say whether I’d even be able to afford anything next year.
Vita peeps! What’s up for grabs for VITA on PS+ this month? I’ve gone back to commuting to the city so I need a new game to play!
olliolli, its pretty great, its a skating game in a pixel art style and is hella challenging. really good though.
This month’s (Feb’s) Vita games will be Modnation Racers: Road Trip for both EU and US, Street Fighter X Tekken for US and Dynasty Warriors: Next for EU.
PS4 game is Outlast.
EU PS3 games are Metro: Last Light and Bioshock Infinite. US PS3 is Metro: Last Light, Remember Me and Payday 2.
Bleh, only game that interests me is Dynasty Warriors but I already own it. Guess I will need to buy something.
You played Tearaway? Is it any good?
Oh, and in terms of new releases for Vita, Dustforce, Danganronpa, Toukiden are all out worldwide. PAL Areas finally get Sorcery Saga and Ys: Memories of Celceta. US gets Ragnarok Odyssey ACE I think.
Hmmm, is Ys any good? Might pick that up.
Nevermind, says late Feburary. I need something to play now. =(
Played Muramasa? Played the Okoi DLC? It should be out in Euroland by now…
Ys is probably my favourite Vita game so far. But I love the Ys series.
EDIT: Also it’s been out since November in the US and has no DLC so import-friendly.
Soooooo, how about them
Seahawkshey?
I have to assume anybody who wanted to watch the Super Bowl will have done so by now but… just in case.
They don’t play AFL, so I have no idea.
I only watch sports that use roughly oval shaped balls. :p
MORNING ALL!
I’m spending my morning here at work with nothing to do, so I am writing a script that systematically and brutally strips one of my characters of everything he has ever held dear. It’s oddly satisfying.
@doc_what @TAYFILM
Enjoy. It’s probably not the best I can do, but I think it’ll do until I come up with something funnier.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/za43ibiyxc12exb/wwanted.png
@doc_what @TAYFILM
I don’t think this is an improvement, but feel free to use it if you want
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qjtr4f2z19gpf8m/wwanted2.png
Also, someone really needs to do one for @mrtaco:
WANTED… BY THE LADIEZ
Oh man, where did you find the photo of that horrible criminal? So much evil in the eyes, it’s very confronting.
I contend that the scariest criminal is one who smiles while he crimes.
He likes what he does! CRIME!
question guys: is network streaming on steam open to everyone yet?
No that I know of. Which is why SteamOS is pretty lawlz0r atm.
SKYRIM!
By which I mean HI TAY! Long time no make the talky talk.
So… how’s the wife and kids? Boss still breathing down your neck (wait is that how that goes, sounds very creepy) New bills every day?
I for one… have nothing to report.
Still an unemployed scum of the earth, and quite enjoying it to 🙂
Actually taking a break from SKYRIM! for the moment (GASP, HORROR) weird yes I know, but apparently there are other games out there to be played. Sounds like the mad ramblings of a lunatic, but worth investigating nonetheless.
I hear a the Dark Souls plague is doing the rounds again, not sure if this will motivate me to give it another go, but I may at least look at the game 😛
So fill me in on the goss, how is the crazy world of TAY?
P.S. because I am Hugo…
SKYRIM!
Hello my nord friend
A few of us are trying to spend 2014 to put a dint in our pile of shame. Some crazy people also have a goal to not buy any new games all year. Madness
TAY has been strange without @strange who has been off listening to scary music on a boat. See the awesome write-ups further up the page.
@dc is bearded beardless bearded beardless and been doing a photo a day this year. He is also writing a mysterious blog that he posts in tay occasionally then takes down saying it will be on the blog. But I have never seen this blog.
The usual shenanigans have been happening. Just Cause 2 MP has been played a bit and seems to be running frequently.
@doc_what is in the midst of putting together another tayfilm http://www.pixel-otaku.com/production-diary-1/
Sadly Masha had to leave us and head back to Kenya but will live on in our hearts. Oh and will post on TAY so there is that too
@mrtaco is having trouble finding a big enough stick
Bunny and Freya have moved to Dubbo for work reasons
That’s all I have off the top of my head, maybe get dc to check the list (the events one, not the person one. The person one is scary)
I threw up on another secretary
not really though
Oh Rocketman.
Sorry, had to fall back on a classic.
Gnarly, thanks Tigs!
Ah @dc always leave the original post, they are awesome, you are awesome, in the event that said comment is not awesome, blame Hugo.
@doc_what whoo Tayfilm! If you want someone to stuff up your creativity I am totally your guy, happy to do anything… ANYTHING.
@masha MASHAAAAAAAAA! Damn, sorry to hear you are gone, plus I had promised a meat at my place before you left. Bad Hugo *beats self with Clubby… not really as dirty as it sounds*
@mrtaco Would you like to borrow Clubby the Clubbing Club? (maybe not after that last comment).
Good luck with the move Trjn Trin Tryn and Frja Freya Freja… err you two.
Sure.
I have no idea what I need it for though.
I fly out on Saturday so I still have a few days left. Who knows? Maybe I can come over 😛
TAYfilm is back! I have a role in mind for you so hopefully you are interested 🙂
Very interested
*wink, wink, nudge, nudge*
DARK SOULS TWO
Countdown: 35 days *twitch*
Really awesome write-up here:
http://www.vg247.com/2014/02/03/dark-souls-2-walking-the-line-between-pleasure-and-pain/
Some interesting new mechanics: it seems that invading others constantly and earning a high “Sin” level will increase the penalties incurred upon death, and that health for sinners might dip well below 50%. I wonder if this will serve as too effective a deterrent.And an interview in which some interesting tidbits are dropped and a lot of questions remain unanswered:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/02/03/dark-souls-2-interview-on-covenants-curses-co-op-storytelling-and-more/
Fromyour second link:
This. This is why the games are great.
I played some more Remember Me on PS3 last night. Seems like a pretty cool game, what with the melee cambat focused on specific combos. The memory rewind sequence stuff (only came across it once so far) isn’t that grand though…
But dem graphics! The game is delicious looking. Wet ground and puddles look insanely good, PS4-quality good. Better than COD on Xbone good. Also, holy shit, I actually got dynamic reflections from game objects on some of these puddles! For a PS3 game, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that before to this extent.
I also finished Ass Pirates main storyline on Friday, maybe 21-22hrs in. It didn’t feel that long at all which is superb, and I liked the game quite a lot. I may go back to get collectibles etc (or let gf explore the map, then take down the exciting stuff :P) and I have to do the free DLC missions too.
I really enjoyed the combat and the memory rewind / remix thing.
Combat is pretty damn satisfying. They even make the music turn on and pump louder/harder when you get your combo score up. 😀
The game really is lovely, it just needed a bit more time to be a real classic.
Graphics wise it can be a mixed bag if you look though: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=154135459
That’s disgusting for PC – must have been a dodgy port. But for PS3 it’s nice!
Brutal shortlisting time: Alan Wake or Bioshock?
If you’re after an exploration experience with a lot of shooting, bioshock. If you’re after an exploration experience with a lot of story & creepy stuff, Alan Wake
If forced to pick between the two I’d say go for Alan Wake because it’s gameplay and story delivery is a bit more unique
Bioshock is pretty damn good.
Alan Wake!
Why you may ask, Poets of the Fall!!!
Oh and the game is pretty cool to.
Alan Wake. I think BioShock is the better game, but Alan Wake has aged better!
Bioshock. Alan Wake is good, but not Bioshock good.
BIOSHOCK IS GREAT
Put me down for a slice of Bioshock Pie
Bioshock \o/
Hard to pick. Neither one is perfect, both are good.
Bioshock. You’re behind already and it’s not aging well. Get in now while it’s still palatable.
Alan Wake has an awesome story with really fantastic delivery but the gameplay is a little lacking in parts. Bioshock is the opposite.
So… It looks like the mobile “dungeon keeper” is everything we thought it would be and then some
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/10956-Dungeon-Keeper-Mobile-Review-Wallet-Reaper
It feels like EA is a mentally ill person who sometimes forgets their meds. Most of the time they’re okay and sometimes fantastic but occasionally when they forget their meds they turn into a total arsehole
Gather round one and all for an exciting announcement
I’m very happy to announce that Tigs and Mrs Tigs are expecting a Tiglet
Not sure where we ordered it from but we definitely have one on order. Although the place seems to have even worse shipping than Mighty Ape. Apparently out little Tiglet will not be delivered until late July.
Which is probably good as it gives us time to get everything ready. So many things to consider and do. Set up the nursery, decide on names, work out Tiglet’s PAX cosplay, child proof the house, randomly panic, buy clothes for Tiglet, buy clothes for Mrs Tigs. Not necessarily in that order.
We are both understandably super excited and wanted to share the news with all you beautiful people (and the rest of you as well)
Oh wow! That is incredible news, my friend! Congrats! 😀
Hehe Tiglet, adorable
Have fun, see you in 2 years! 😛
Well if I have been told right I fall into a black hole for about 6 months. After that I start to get minor amounts of freedom.
In my experience, “freedom” just means the right to return to work 😛
BABBY TIG! \o/
Congrats!
Congrats man! Hope Mrs Tigs is doing well!
Thanks Red. She’s been quite well, bit of a cold but got through the early stages in really good shape
Oh awesome news! This little Tiglet is lucky to be going to such a good home. 😀
Give my love(and sympathies 😛 ) to Mrs. Tigs!
Hells yeah, if how Tigs is as an uncle is any indication, he’s gonna be an amazing dad!
Thanks Strange, I’ll let her know
You comments mean a lot considering the wonderful job you have done
Congrats Tigs! did you just find out, or have you been withholding the news?
Thanks. It’s been our dirty little secret 😉
We wanted to get through the first trimester and all the tests and early scary stuff. Now that is all out of the way and looking good we are spreading the news.
Wow! Congratulations.
So many babies on TAY will be born around the same time. Play meats for everyone
What was the occasion around the time of conception… ?
Woo! Babbies!
Fatherhood is the greatest thing you’ll ever do with your life and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Hooray! Huge congratulations! Are you finding out whether it’s a boy or girl?
No think we will just find out once they are born. Although it depends on how much arguing is being done over names. We might have to narrow the field 😉
In my wife’s case, we needed to know what colour to stop buying 😛
A Tiglet is a great excuse for gaming throughout the night (and being tired as hell the next day at work). ‘Why’re you tired?’ ‘Boss, I’ve got me a Tiglet that won’t go to sleep at night and I want to give the Mrs some rest so I stayed up.’
Congrats 🙂
You’re a thinker. I need to write these down now so that when I’m overtired and groggy I can remember them
you’ll need a good place like your forearm to write down everything including shopping lists, who you are and where you live just in case you crash in the gutter from no sleep in 48 hours.
Or you could have a saint of a Tiglet who goes to sleep on command 😀
Achievement Unlocked! Well done. Enjoy the chaos.
Nicely done.
Congrats to the tigs family! Cathryn and I are so happy for you both and can’t wait to see what you guys decide for the tiglets costume
So it turns out the computer I grabbed actually had an SSD hidden away in it.
TIME TO REINSTALL EVERYTHING
What were you installing that you overlooked this? 😛
Everything. The others that “helped” when I was installing were confused why there was an extra partition or whatever appearing during setup, and just put windows onto the biggest one instead.
Oh lawdy, lol. Win Vista and above definitely shows the model of the HDD too. XD
Also, no need to reinstall. Just ‘clone’ it to the SSD. But, if you’ve pretty much just got a vanilla OS, reinstall may be easier for you.
man seen this happen WAY too many times… THOSE FOOLS!
Bugger reinstalling dude, shit like that is why they made stuff like Norton Ghost
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-drive-imaging-program.htm
look on there for free alternatives
Too late 😛
Never to late to know how to clone a hard drive, it’s an essential tool for people who tend to break their systems by tinkering or have to troubleshoot the systems of people who don’t understand that doubleclicking ‘funnycat.jpg.exe’ might not be a good idea.
Set the system up exactly how you like it, image it and keep a copy somewhere safe. When things go tits up, you can be back up and running with your OS and all your applications inside an hour, 95% of which is wait time.
Problems arise when you’ve misplaced the original clone image (or in my case last night the support disk which has the image) and the PC in question doesn’t have a DVD drive (and I don’t have an external one), and won’t boot from USB. ARGH.
@masha2932 Dont think you’re getting away with it, you still owe me a beer… due to the prolonged delay of said beer, you now owe me a keg!
Beer with interest 😛
Reasonable interest! \o/
I’ll check my plantation back in Kenya 😛
Ha ha, I made that promise during PAX last year. I’m terrible.
Of course we should have a beer together though
It really irks me for some reason that the people that bitch and moan about having to spend a few hundred on a new console every 5-10 years and how Sony/MS/Ninty are ruining themselves
by overcharging are generally the same people that will buy a new phone for $1000 every 12-18 months.
Yeah but it’s new and their other phone has cracked screen. How are you supposed to snapchat effectively????
Yeah, exactly, plus how else will people send and receive clear pictures of each others genitalia then!
This phone only has an 8mp camera, no one will see the true majesty of my 4am drunken dickpic unless I upgrade!!
To be fair, most of them are probably getting the phone for ‘free’ and signing away their firstborn to Telstra for 24 months.
I need to take some good pictures of my work for my blog, but I gave all the best stuff away. 😛
I need great pictures so I can finally set up my blog and start things like TAYQuilt Tuesdays and the occasional @masha2932 Monday. Guess I’d better start sewing some more great things to take pictures of.
Still keen to have lunch tomorrow, btw?
Of course! Meet at usual place in city?
You know it! Middayish?
This will sound really stupid, but I don’t feel relaxed or happy unless I know I’ve got plans to see my friends again after an awesome weekend like this one. I’m happy. 😀
Middayish. I have a 9:30 doctor’s appointment so I’ll let you know if everything runs late.
Is TAY Quilt done yet?
😛
TAYQuilt Tuesdays \o/
If you need it you can always ask for photos from the people you gave stuff to. Can add a little something to have the recipient with the quilt, little bubba or toddler onto or under it.
The shortlist. I will not exclusively play these games, but I will not buy anything else this year unless I have finished all of them. Seems like a good plan to save my wallet for the year. (Greater weight given to recent purchases since why the hell did I buy them with such a large pile of shame)
Header line. Next button has the list.
PC:
Alan Wake OR Bioshock (hard to split)
Dead Space
Dishonored (in progress 40%)
Far Cry 3 (+Blood Dragon)
Mark of the Ninja
Planescape: Torment
Spec Ops: The Line
The Walking Dead (season 1)
PS3
Ni No Kuni (in progress 50%)
Tales of Xillia
MGS the Snake Eating one
Wii U
Wonderful 101
Vita
Little King’s Story (in progress 95%)
Persona 4 Golden
3DS
Fire Emblem (in progress 70%)
Bravely Default
Spanner List
Tales of Symphonia Chronicles
Dark Souls 2
The Witcher 3
Extra line to keep all the games on one spoiler button. Nothing interesting here.
Thoughts?
Edit: Interesting page breaks on the split buttons. Eh, could have been worse.
My first thought is to make sure you stick to one game at a time. How? I don’t know. Last night I did the same old booting up several games and getting nowhere in any of them. Civ V, Tomb Raider (just started it for the first time), Medieval 2, Rome 2 (new campaign), Football Manager 14. Stupidly I ignored Borderlands which I need to finish the DLC off and Batman Arkham Origins where I’m just collecting everything after the main story. I haven’t even booted up Ass Creed IV for a month now.
My second thought is you have a lot of gaming ahead of you 😛
Maybe I need to bookmark 1 priority item per system. In progress ones seem like a good place to start.
Blood Dragon
Spec Ops
Planescape.
All to be abandoned with the arrival of Dark Souls 2.
There. Shortened your list.
When I think back on it, I probably knocked over Demon’s Souls in a fortnight, I probably played Dark Souls for about a fortnight before taking a 3 month break. I don’t think I generally play one game exclusively for more than 2 weeks without getting sick of it.
Good list. Games like Spec Ops and Walking dead have discussion prospects on TAY so you can use that as a motivator. I haven’t played these two games either so when you start them let me know, maybe I can leech off some of your motivation and play them myself.
Spanner list indeed, you have 3, probably long, RPGs that might take a while to finish. Hopefully you can wait a bit until they are on sale.
The spanner list is the set of exceptions to the ‘buy nothing this year’ rule. Fully paid preorders on the first 2 and a very strong desire to support The Witcher series day 1.
Thoughts: clearly you are a superior kind of human being since you have Wonderful 101 on your list. Congratulations!
Needed to spread the love around all the active systems in my house. That seemed like #1 for that system and only would have been joined by another title if there was already significant progress (as can be seen on PS3/3DS/Vita)
Pikmin’s not there because you’ve already played it. Right?
Right?
If the progress was more significant, it would have been #2. But it’s been pretty brutal all the exclusions I’ve made. My steam library scares me. Found a lot of things I didn’t realise I own. (For the record, the PS3 list only got a third item as the two unplayed ones were my two most recent physical purchases)
Just play both Alan Wake and Bioshock, you can choose the order
Mark of the ninja is amazing, remember you can always go back and do any level at any time so don’t get too caught up in getting a perfect result on each level. Also as you progress you will unlock skills and styles that suit your play style so it will be easier to go back afterwards
With spec ops I would recommend just playing through on normal difficulty, don’t bother trying to do harder ones, doesn’t add anything to the game.
Good luck, I’ll be sure to mention all the good deals to you 😉
I played Spec Ops on the hardest difficulty right up until near the final shoot out which was utterly impossible due to teammate constantly charging out and dying completely ignoring orders. Got stubborn and refused to drop the difficulty because of something I wasn’t doing and ended up giving up for nearly 6 months before @dc forced me to drop the difficulty and finish it.
The monster.
Hisssssssss. The deals, they do nothing.
Mark of the Ninja is probably my biggest personal hype unfinished game on the list. Good to know about Spec Ops, seemed like one where most of the experience will be the story, but I’ve avoided reading much about it for way too long now.
It’s not hard to split, I told you to play Bioshock!
It’s starting to pull ahead at 5 vs Alan Wake at 3. I figure that as long as I play one of them then a spot on the list is fulfilled.
Seriously no, bioshock has a great atmosphere, decent story and a few interesting ideas but at its heart its still just another FPS. Alan Wake is something a bit different from the norm, far more worthy of your time.
That said, one day play bioshock because despite being just another FPS, its a bloody good one, especially with the good atmo, story & ideas.
Stop making me feel bad for relegating Alan Wake to my pile of shame!
Well it has an episodic structure, try episode 1 and if it doesn’t grab you it can stay in the pile but if it does grab you, keep going.
Snake Eater is my favourite MGS, good decision 🙂
My last purchase late last year was the full PS3 collection, so if I play only one, that seemed like the one to try (I’ve never played any MGS games before)
If you haven’t played any of them, again good decision haha. The MGS story gets quite complex but Snake Eater is a prequel, you can easily play through it and follow the story. Whereas somebody played MGS4 as their first would have nfi whats going on.
I had a conversation with my wife last night about how I procrastinate actually playing games and waste hours of time I could be spending making progress on games, so having just recently obsessed over Tomb Raider until I got it out of the way, I’ve instated a new plan where if I have een one hour of free time, that hour is better spent constructively playing games, any game. If I don’t have a game going, pick one and put it in. If I like it, great, if not, give it a try later or put it on the discard pile. I have too many games to realistically find time to play all of them, but I don’t want to dismiss any out of hand I haven’t at least tried.
So my current trajectory is:
1) jump back into Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and try to make some story progress instead of frustrating myself by chasing down all the side objectives first.
2) once I have finished/discarded AC:R, try AC3. This might be a slog because I know it takes some time to get to the “meat” of the game.
3) try and “close out” my unplayed PS3 games, Journey, inFamous and inFamous 2. I’ve had them sitting around waaay too long and it will feel good to be able to tell myself I have nothing outstanding on an entire console.
4) go back to Crysis 2 on 360. I wasn’t enjoying it, but I think it’s because my wife kept offering advice on how to play it HER way instead of letting me exercise the freedom the game gives me. Once finished/discarded, move onto Crysis 3.
Once I make it that far, I will reassess my other unplayed/unfinished 360 game. In all cases I want to focus on story and only bother with collectibles if the game really grips me like Tomb Raider did. Once I’ve accomplished some of the above, I might treat myself by replaying Tomb Raider (by getting the Definitive Edition).
I mainly want to try and kill off console titles because, let’s face it, a year from now I’m not going to be playing stuff on my 360 anymore because there’ll be more than enough Xbone titles to keep me occupied. I have a long list of unplayed Steam games but those will always be accessible in the long term, whereas once my 360 dies or gets retired that big stack of games will join my PS2 and Original Xbox titles in the permashame pile.
Sounds like you’ve got a good plan worked out there. Funny what you say about Crysis 2, I had trouble getting through some ‘boring to watch’ games a few years back, but she has her own systems to play what she wants these days if she can’t stand watching what I’m playing. More space these days has definitely helped us both in that regard.
See she was watching me play Crysis 2 and I was doing ok but there was one bit where she just couldn’t help but start saying “oh, go around the side, avoid these two guys etc.” and I just wanted to tell her to butt out and let me play the goddamn game. Instead I finished the level, said I was tired and went to bed. Haven’t played it since.
Most of the time her advice is appreciated by Crysis really lets you choose combat or stealth, you know? It’s flexible. She likes stealth, I’m pretty variable. I just didn’t need that extra voice in my ear while I’m trying to make decisions.
As for “boring to watch” games, this has kept me going back to Red Dead Redemption too. Not sure how to get around that one. Eventually she tried out Mass Effect but it took me weeks and weeks to get through the first and second games because I couldn’t play them at all unless she was out/asleep. Then suddenly I guess she saw an exciting bit of 2 and decided to play them herself. Now she has a renegade star tattooed on her wrist. \o/
Man, Torment is so good. I kinda envy you that ride.
Thanks go to @aliasalpha for pointing out the high res mods that will make it playable. I think I’ve had this one on the pile of shame ever since the concept of a pile of shame was formed for me.
Just remember that while it’ll look nice and newish, it’s still an old game, save regularly… You never know when you’ll decide to investigate a small tunnel and stumble into a giant maze full of enemies 10 levels above you
Witcher 3 is definitely a must-purchase for me. I hope it is worth it, even if they eventually come out with an enhanced edition later down the line.
Your shortlist is nice. Much better than my non-existent shortlist but I kinda screw myself over by playing a bunch of multiplayer games that don’t really end.
I can and probably will still spend time playing games that never end, but until this list is done, no more $$$ spent buying more games for the pile of shame. I should probably print it out and stick it to the side of my PC case.
Also, the thing I really appreciate about the Witcher series is that any enhanced editions are made available for free to customers that have already supported them and paid for the game. No waiting for GOTY versions.
Yeah that’s something I really like about CD Projekt. They don’t dangle that future carrot where you can buy the “Definitive Edition” or “Game of the Year Edition” and they upgrade you for free if you’re an early adopter. I’m also looking forward to Cyberpunk whatever-number as it sounds pretty good.
So I finally got word back recently regarding my apartment, final preparations are being done to begin construction! \o/
About bloody time :D:D:D
Oh wow, now that’s been a while! Great news, though! Congrats!
My patience program really has been serving me well over the years.
With my girlfriend being finally able to meet her in person after an online-only relationship for 3-4 years, now this.
How’s the world domination thing coming? Slowly but surely, I hope!
Patience, dear D.C, the foretold reckoning of the Tech Knighthood is coming… one day 🙂
jesus you are a patient man techy. hugs happy for you. Things are looking up.
By the machine spirit, patience is key to being the better individual, robot or not.
My step dad got the email and let me know, I’ll be asking him to forward it to me so I can see it with my own optical sensors
Well you are already pretty great patience or not. 🙂
#GoodNewsPage4?
I need to call back someone for a job interview for a job I forgot I applied for. I need to practice my charm
Plus my bus driver didn’t knock over any roadsigns today
And that rash has finally cleared up?
only when I wear crotchless pants
*Bleep bloop – Achievement get: Shock horror, a careful bus driver*
well, he was late so probably a bit too careful
He must’ve got that one already, damaging stuff was irrelevant to get that achievement
Everybody stop posting! I haven’t got my good news yet!
You didnt catch herpes from me
is that good enough??
Someone got stabbed in his street the other night. But it wasn’t @powalen. So he’s got that going for him.
Can’t believe the hitman got the wrong personI’m hassling my publisher. This can only go well.
It’s #GoodNewsPage4 after all.
The trick is to seduce them.
For Shane, that’ll be easy. He’s a dream boat!
*shakes head sadly*
Did you ever find your glasses, man? Unrelated, I know.
I didn’t. The whole world has gotten prettier! 😛
Flash a bit of leg 😉
I made a pretty good fruit smoothie this morning \o/
I guess that’s good news for my health.
I… managed to get the copy of xbox minecraft for my niece’s birthday and I’m not going to run out of drugs now that I’ve been to the chemist.
That’s about the best I can do
I haven’t been kicked in the crotch ONCE all week!
I got Die Hard 2 and 3 from Video Ezy on the weekend and plan to watch them eventually!
I love reading some of the spam I get.
That’s all one message.
#GoodNewsPage4 indeed. Freeze just scored himself a mistress.
The last time I got one of those I wrote back in extremely fractured english explaining I needed a willing anal slave and I would be happy to keep her as my pet as long as she could fit in a regular size kennel. Didn’t hear back for some reason.
so I discovered something about Dragon Age : Origins last night –
there’s an unspoken order you’re supposed to do the quests in. Enemies in certain areas have fixed levels that’ll own you if you try to go there too early, but there’s no indication of this.
no wonder I was finding it so hard.
now I’m all disappointed coz I turned it down to easy to get through those areas 🙁
also, I’m really, really tempted to start Dark Souls. but I don’t wanna stop DA:O half-way through. Damn gaming ADD.
Orzammar is a bitch if you go too early- long dungeon slog.
the order I went in so far has been
Redcliff, Redcliff Castle, died a whole bunch in the elven forest, visited the capital, Mage’s Circle, then the Urn of Sacred ashes quest.then I discovered that the Mages Circle is intended to be your first stop so you can get a dedicated healer 🙁
You can do them out of order, it just makes it challenging. Plot wise it doesn’t matter.
Urgh Orzammar…
The Orzammar tourney was impossible if you went elven rogue 🙁 I had to scuttle that playthrough and switched to mage cuz I can heal myself in fights where I have to fight aloneI did OK as an elven rogue. From memory I stunned the opponent and stealthed then backstabbed.Yeah I had the stun too, but BLOODY HELL THE GUY HIT HARD. IIRC it was the round with the 2 dwarven warriors vs you which I think was the final round.Poison Bombs yoDwarf Warrior destroys all.
Being a good dodger is unfortunately kinda impossible in games like this :(, which I learned the hard way.
BATTLE MAGE!
Board Game Types: Milsims have Suburbia in stock : http://www.milsims.com.au/node/128962
Never ordered through them before (well, until about ten minutes ago) but the price is good
@spagett Last played song game
Around the world/better harder faster stronger -Daft Punk
Not sure what “last played” was but currently playing:
The Count of Tuscany – Dream Theater
Dojo Rising – Cloud Control
Their album last year was pretty okay. catchy hooks
Yeh its not bad, easy to listen to. Not bad live either.
Didnt get to catch them at laneway unforetunately
The poor bastards were staring straight at the sun the whole set while we sat on a grassy hill in the shade 😛 They too were doing signings but I just stuck with CHVRCHES. It would have been awesome if Run the Jewels did signings, I’d love to meet Killer Mike. His short ‘life advice’ videos on Adult Swim’s youtube page are funny to watch.
A Day In The Life – The Beatles
Reason is Treason- Kasabian
PLAY SHOOT THE RUNNER NEXT
It’s on shuffle!
Donatella – Lady Gaga
Don’t judge me until you’ve listened to it though!
I own 3 taylor swift albums and know all the words to most shania twain songs, i dont judge bro.
Everybody knows Shania Twain lyrics, whether they want to or not, hahaha! And I like Taylor Swift too!
Is Shania Twain the one that did that “That Don’t Impress Me Much” song?
uhuh
I really hate that song.
I kinda like Gaga and I think Artpop is pretty good. More “her” than her last album if you ask me. I think she might be a little tired of her total freak persona and is going back to more fun dance stuff.
One thing I don’t understand though, Donatella is obviously a jab at Donatella Versace or something but I was racking my brains trying to figure out who the hell Mary Jane Holland is. I googled it and apparently it’s an alter-ego she created that loves smoking pot, or something? Well, I guess that’s less silly than Nicki Minaj’s alter-ego “Roman”.
Mary Jane Holland is code for Marijuana, hahaha!
“I think we’d have a good time, if you meet me, Mary Jane Holland tonight”
Means meet me and get stoned, hahaha!
It’s quite a common code name I think?
Mary Jane certainly is, I’d never heard of it with the “Holland” part.
Suicide & Redemption – Metallica
AC/DC – Nervous Shakedown (Acca Dacca makes some of the best driving music)
Say Goodbye to Hollywood – Billy Joel
Say goodbye, my baaaaaaby…
Fell in love with a girl – White Stripes
NOICE
new jack white collab with the chick from the kills is out, pretty great.
Private Property – Judas Priest
Keep your dirty hands off me!
Sometimes I listen to random songs I enjoyed in my early 20s while getting dressed for work. It reminds me that while I am buttoning down a business shirt and wearing uncomfortable pants, at least I don’t work at Kinko’s or as a security guard anymore.
So anyway today’s stop my on journey of self-undiscovery was:
The Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You.
I feel like this comment makes me seem a lot more dead inside than I actually am. I love my job and I work for a great company. I just generally dislike corporate culture and the fact that I am expected to dress up and impress people by means other than being really good at what I do.
This. One of the things I’ll miss about my job at a petrol station was being able to wear what I wanted to work.
Lost Cause – Beck
Loser.
BEYOND: TWO SOOOOOULS
EMOTIONS
I felt them!
You actually felt emotions? GOD DAMNED BLEEDING HEART EVERYONE KNOWS A MAN IS AN ISLAND
I had to stop declaring that I was an island after people started to seek planning permission to build a lighthouse on me
League of Legends Lunar Revel 2014 login screen music
The flame – Cheap trick
Missy Elliot – I’m really hot
R.E.M. – Nightswimming (with “Stand” currently playing. Shuffling through the recent greatest hits double album)
I would just like to say, unreservedly and without malice to anyone who may like it, SCREW THAT FLAPPY BIRD BULLSHIT.
What?
EDIT: Hell, i don’t even know what the fox says.
Oh, is this flappy bird thing a song? I look forward to hearing it when I watch the 2014 YouTube rewind next year then, which is how I found out what the fox says.
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ON ABOUT?
ANIMALS FREEZE, ANIMALS
Who’s freezing animals?
Animals.
It’s animals that are freezing animals
Flappy Bird, you know, that really obvious rip of certain art assets from Super Mario World that apparently all of my doucebag/uneducated friends on Facebook have jumped on to play now that Candy Crush has died down. Yeah, it’s another one of those crap type of games.
Oh that. I thought it was a rage game that used the assets of a kind of parody, like Cat Mario etc. I’ve seen people posting screenshots of their abysmal scores on Twitter.
I just entered “flappy bird” into google images.
Whaaat. It’s so blatantly obvious that it stole art assets from mario.
Whatever you’re doing, you’re doing it right.
oh my god
Metal Slug 3 (the best Metal Slug) is on Steam.
W… with internet co-op?
Friends, we should play this game.
Oh mannnnn. The metal slug games are awesome! Guess I will have to pick it up tonight!
It’s okay! I just found out it’s a pre-order for the 7th.
Just sharing the crushing of the hope of playing Metal Slug 3 right now I experienced.
Huzzah! Hope crushing disappointment! \o/
…
No, wait, the other one.
Sydney people! (CC @dc can you help tag them all)
If weather permits would people be keen for a BBQ on Friday night or Saturday lunch time at Rodd Point or another general meeting area? Throwing ideas out there let me know who’s interested
Don’t know the Sydney folk, alas. I think @powalen made a list though!
YA HA!
@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
It’s really nice to be tagged, but I live three hours away from Sydney and struggle to make it to meats within a 20km radius! 😛
After Saturday I can’t be tagged in these anymore.
:’-(
I’ll still be a Sydney TAYbie in my heart.Then we must do a meat before you leave! It is insistent!
Legally change your name to Sydney!
Well, that’s a downer.
Thanks a lot.
@saturday
This is sad so I shall not be posting appropriate GIF
If I organise to come to Canberra on the way home will I get a signed book?
Depends when it is, and whether you have fistfuls of dollars with you! 😛
Do you take card?
Sure, how many do you want to give me? Make sure you include the PINs 🙂
I’ll put you on the Do Not Tag register 😛
That’ll just get me more tags, won’t it? 😛
Charity tags.
@shane
@shane
Noted, do not tag @shane in posts anymore.
Haha, whoops. Sorry @shane. Apparently what started as a joke has ended up with you and @rize and @sernobulus forever being tagged as a Sydney TAYbies (no love for @blaghman though. Are you against Blaghmen @powalen?).
Although, @rize is pretty much a Sydney TAYbie at this point…
….@shanePow to the rescue!
Heh.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/youtube-suspends-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-youtube-account/story-fn5j66db-1226816451591
“For deceptive content”
BAHAHAHA!
i may be ruining #goodnewspage4 with a mixture of good and bad news…
Good News: FINALLY tracked down an arcade machine body i was happy with for my MAME project and BOUGHT IT. Its a SEGA Astro City sit down cabinet EXACTLY like this one, but its gutted.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Sega_astro_city_candy_cab.jpg
settled on $300 for it, gutted and no screen, so needs a bit of work. (doors, locks, and all electronics)
Bad News: i dont actually have $300 and have taken several roundabouts to get said $300. but after looking for one i was happy with for the last 4 years, i couldnt pass it up.
was broke before the purchase, now im 300 bucks broker. <— (Check the Z-Phonics dictionary, its a real word, i swear!)
Probably not a real word…When I eventually stop being lazy and actually start making effort to build a MAME cabinet I have got plans to build it from scratch. Get a nice big screen in there.
Also I’m aiming for an early-mid eighties look.
i have a background in cabinet making (my dad is a cabinet maker) and seeing as my dad has his own factory, that was originally the plan. The only exception to this was if i found a genuine arcade cabinet that i liked… i was previously looking for a Megalo 410 or 500 (pics below) but haven been able to find one at a reasonable price. Was wanting to mount a 42 inch/50 inch LED screen…
this will comfortably fit a 32″ (i hope)
Become a busker? It might help raise extra money on the side? Or maybe if you offer people the chance to play on it when it’s down people will chips few $$ your way
I will host a melb-TAY meat at home, we can run competitions…. $4 per credit, and funnily enough, ive lost the key to the cash drawer! 😉
Like most of life’s problems, the solution can be found in The Simpsons
http://youtu.be/Qause0z-9tM
So using EA’s microtransactions model? 😛
That looks awesome. What’s the size of that CRT in there, approximately?
original crt tubes for the new astro cabs are 29″. Hoping i can fit a 32″ LED in there, will have to see when i pick it up on Sunday
If it’s any consolation I still want to do my touch screen coffee table…… which is gonna be upwards of $2K lol. :'(
@popdart5 I’ve just found the perfect cure for railroading: http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Old_Man_Henderson
I can’t read it due to work internet filter D:
From what glimpses I can get on tvtropes, it sounds hilarious. Much like 2225 Things Mr Welch can no longer do during an RPG
I love that list 🙂
I finished Tomb Raider last night. 2 days. Considering it usually takes me 2 weeks to finish a CoD campaign I’d say I enjoyed it.
It’s like Uncharted if Uncharted got better instead of worse.
If I’d played it last year probably would have been GOTY for me.
I … What? Uncharted was great all the way through. Unless you are comparing one game to 3 games which is a little unfair.
And Uncharted followed two amazing games with one decent one. Too soon to tell if this is a downward spiral or a bump in the road. I suspect the PS4 Uncharted will be a return to form!
I’m hoping, also I found that while Uncharted 3 was the weakest of the series it was still better then some of the other big AAA titles out around the same time.
Meant that this is what an Uncharted sequel should have been like instead of 3.
Also, I didn’t particularly like 3. 1&2 are some of my top games of all time but 3 just felt like a stagnant lazy cash in.
This was how I felt about Uncharted 3 as well. And also Tomb Raider.
Yeah, I liked Tomb Raider because of my circumstances, but overall it was an average game. It was great in its class, but average when compared to others. It also lied about what it was going to be in trailers and DLC sneak-peaks.
Disagree completely. Tomb Raider was exactly what I had expected it would be and a rare case of being almost exactly what I wanted it to be as well. I enjoyed it immensely.
My only criticism is I’d have liked a bit more platforming puzzles.
It definitely scratched the itch I had to go and play the 2nd and 3rd Uncharted games. I loved the first one, but I hated the bullet sponge enemies. I want to play Uncharted for the stories and characters, but I don’t think I will enjoy it.
Part Three: 70K Day 2
-Two things I forgot to mention about Day One: after Gloryhammer we went to chat with a frind of Mr. Stange’s and he happened to be chatting to Christopher Bowes so we got to say thank-you, and Chris mentioned that next time they played it’d be straight after Mexico which meant they’d be all kinds of wrecked so it should be interesting. 😛
And someone decided to have smoke machines this year which was a very bad idea. Especially in the Spectrum where you could basically see nothing anyway, but with the thick constant outpouring of smoke from the machines it was impossible. And the pool deck stage had 6 smoke machines. Who needs that many?! So ridiculous.
-Remember how I’d been up stupidly late (or early) for Gloryhammer? Didn’t get to bed until 5:20ish, couldn’t sleep for ages and had to be up by 9ish to make sure I could get a good spot for Freedom Call as they were playing the Spectrum at 10:45am. Mr. Strange was up even earlier as the Merch booth was open at 8am and typically the good stuff like bands with cruise-exclusive shirts sell out fast so it’s best to get in early. Last cruise we went on together I waited four hours in line just to get him some stuff, so this time it was his turn. He only had to wait 3 hours. 😛
Struggled out of bed and raced to the buffet where I wolfed down some bacon and eggs in about 10 seconds in order to get myself some energy before running down to the Spectrum which I got to in perfect time to grab a front and centre barrier spot. Had a chat to a Canadian fan next to me who had been waiting to see them since buying their second album in 2001. Apparently these were Freedom Call’s first ever shows outside Europe! On the other side of me were a couple of German guys in Dark Tranquility shirts who apparently knew my husband and who I would see up the front at almost every other show I attended as well.
I was so tired before Freedom Call started that I wasn’t sure how well I’d be at the gig but they woke me up fast with their power metal show that can only be described as joyful. Freedom Call was a band I’d never heard of before the cruise apart from noting that the current guitarist from Helloween had been in Freedom Call previously, but after they were announced I managed to listen to about half their albums and while I fell in love with some songs, I was put off by some of the old-school cheesiness on the albums, but live it worked brilliantly. These guys clearly love what they do and they are so good at it that they take you along for the ride whether you intended to go or not. 😀 Even songs I hadn’t known before, I found myself singing along to the choruses by the end of them. It was a perfect beginning to what would be a perfect day.
Mr. Strange hadn’t made it to Freedom Call and hadn’t really cared until I told him how good they were and how they were a must-see on the cruise, and their final set would be last thing on the final night so he’d be lucky if he made it. But he scored some great shirts for us so his lining up wasn’t all in vain. Apparently Chris from Gloryhammer hadn’t delivered the Gloryhammer shirts yet though, so that kind of rubbed it in for Mr. Strange that the shirts we’d wanted most hadn’t been there and he’d missed Freedom Call anyway. Damn you, Zargothrax! 😛
After meeting up with Mr. Strange at our room so I could see what merch he got for me( a Haggard shirt, a Xandria shirt and a 70000 Tons Of Metal 2014 girl- shirt. I’m looking forward to cutting up and making something pretty and girl-shaped with the Haggard and Xandria shirts), he left to go do the meet and greet thing with Xandria and I had a nanna-nap so I could be ready to meet back up with him at 2:30 for Leaves’ Eyes on the Pool Deck.
-Any other cruise Leaves’ Eyes would have been a major highlight, but the quality of the shows I’d seen so far meant their show suffered slightly in comparison. But by no means were they even remotely bad, in fact they were really entertaining and even had a great “fuck you” moment to people who think women don’t belong in metal. Mr. Strange is a huge Leaves’ Eyes fan and he was blown away so they obviously did great, I just maybe wasn’t in the right frame of mind. Liv Christine’s vocals were flawless though, and her personality’s so lovely that you can’t help but feel great when you’re around her.
After Leaves’ Eyes we were walking back across the Pool Deck and passed the guitarist and drummer from Gloryhammer who I high-fived and thanked for the previous night’s show and we had a chat about Australia and how they’d love to come out here which would be epic. 😀
-The next thing for me was later in the day and involved, you guessed it, more Gloryhammer. 😛 I lined up for what was technically my first meet and greet. I’d done one before on the first cruise, for Sonata Arctica but that was basically just following Mr. Strange and hanging back as he said hello and got things signed. This time I was going to talk to the band myself and get the setlist from the previous night signed and I was stupidly nervous. Like giggling gertie nervous.What the hell is wrong with me? I’m too old for giggling gertieness! 😛
Everyone in the band were incredibly nice and put me at ease, it had certainly helped meeting half of them beforehand as well. When I met “Angus McFife”(who’d turned up late so we almost missed him) he shook my hand and asked my name, introducing himself as Angus which was hilarious. He also signed my setlist as Angus. 😀 Mr. Stange took a terrible photo of me with (most of) the band but I love it even though it’s bad.
While speaking to the band we’d learned that the shirts were out now, so I rushed over to the merch line hoping to grab one to rush back and get signed before the meet and greet finished. There were two designs and I couldn’t decide which one so I grabbed both and ran back to the line which was still going. Apparently half the people on the boat wanted to meet Gloryhammer and I do not blame them. 😀 In the line I had lots of nice comments on my Maiden-In-Black tattoo as well as my outfit which was the skirt I’d hand-sewn and made from a Tyr t-shirt, and the more femimine shirt I’d made from the Ensiferum Australian Tour shirt from last year. One guy even wanted to take a photo of me. Eek!
I let a few people who hadn’t yet met the band go ahead of me in case there wasn’t enough time for everybody, because the poor event guy there was freaking out that Gloryhammer were supposed to be long finished by now. I made it just in time and they managed some hasty scrawls on the back of one of the shirts for me, though. 70000 Tons Of Metal was fast becoming 70000 Tons Of Gloryhammer and I didn’t mind in the slightest.
-After meeting the lovely lads from Gloryhammer I rushed off to the Chorus Line to catch the last few songs of Orphaned Land’s set. Apparently they’d played the whole All Is One album from start to finish which would have been amazing to see but I wouldn’t trade meeting Gloryhammer for anything. Even if I was too much of a doofus and forgot to tell them how much their music had meant to me and pushed me through over the past year. 😛 Besides, Orphaned Land will be in Australia in a few months so I’ll get to see more of them then. Anyway, I got to see ‘Children’ which was their final song and which managed to convey as much emotion live as it had listening to the recording. Such a confronting yet beautiful song.
-After Orphaned Land it was just hanging out waiting for Haggard at midnight on the Pool Deck. This was another band I’d never heard of before they were announced for the cruise and I wasso very much looking forward to seeing them live because they have live strings as well as soprano and tenor vocalists. I’d been listening to Haggard almost non-stop from the time they were announced and was pretty sure their show would be something special.
I was not wrong. I had a spot up the front but slightly off to one side, and could see everything perfectly. This band was even a joy to watch set up and do soundcheck. And then when they started I was completely, utterly blown away. The contrast between the heaviness of the growl vocals and the aching beauty of the classical vocals was perfection, and the orchestra part of the band married so well with the metal part of the band I was in aural heaven. My two favourite types of music all rolled into one soaring joy of a band. At one point early in their set I found myself moved to tears by the beauty of it all and couldn’t stop the tears rolling down for at least a few songs. After the show one of the crew handed me a setlist which just topped off a pretty perfect day.
But I wasn’t done yet. I was so happy and adrenalised that I couldn’t go to bed yet so Mr. Strange and I went off to check out the Metal Karaoke which is apparently always fun but I’d never managed to make it there before. When we arrived we found a friend of ours at the bar who bought us some Lemon Drops and then we noticed Russell Allen (from Symphony X) was doing a rap song at Karaoke. We bought another drink and headed over to hang out with some more of Mr. Strange’s friends from the forum. -ending redacted- 😛
Edit: Wow, that sure is a wall of text. Let me know if you want it spoilertagged to shrink it. 😀
Part One here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-262/comment-page-3/#comment-2387634
And Part Two here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-262/comment-page-3/#comment-2387948 in case anyone missed it and was interested.
Oh, and Mr. Strange’s photos from Day 2 can be found here.
And here’s the video Mr. Strange took of Haggard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1f8PxZ0XSk
He was a fair bit further back than me but still had a good view. Shame the sound is still bad though.
Handy trick when recording the likes of a band on a (I’m assuming) phone:
Cover the mic with your hand.
It’s actually a HD video camera. It’s like two models up from his old camera which he never had any sound problems with. Personally I’d prefer sacrificing the picture quality for the good sound he used to get.
I was surprised how well the iPhone 5s did at Big Day Out. Didn’t expect it to turn out at all!
I’m getting a “Content Not Found” thing :(. I wanted to see green armour!
There’s a picture of me with green armoured Angus on Twitter. Be warned, I look really ridiculous! 😛
https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/429804253696098304/photo/1
Edit: they’re set to”Public”, so I’m not sure why you’re getting ‘Content Not Found’. 🙁
Maybe it’s because I’m not logged into Facebook? But if it’s Public anyone should be able to see it.
BUT GREEN ARMOUR AND \m/ STRANGE! 😀
You know what i get from these write ups, YOU ENJOY RUNNING
edit: Im glad you have so much fun mum, you seem to enjoy this cruises more than anything and im glad you get to have so much fun.
Nice write up, cheered me up at work somewhat 🙂
still hating you 😛 Leaves Eyes were ok when I saw them but I was more interested in seeing Atrocity instead 😀 Leaves Eyes are too much generic gothic rock for me. Not sure if they’ve changed much since I last listened to them.
I’d love to see Haggard. You suck 😛 hahahaha silly band pictures are the best btw. What did you do to a precious Týr shirt though?
One word of caution, if you ever get a white shirt signed by people it’s best to get it framed. I was wearing a white Bolt Thrower shirt when I was getting stuff signed by To-Mera and thought ‘what the hell’ and got them to sign the shirt as well. Then I got Primal Fear to sign it before sending it off to Bolt Thrower. That was almost 10 years ago and now some of the signatures are smudged and the colour is starting to go yellow 🙁 it did start my fascination with getting things signed by people who had nothing to do with it though 😀
I await the next part of the writeup
I made that Tyr shirt better! https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/421408913989181440/photo/1
And the back: https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/421409597102907393/photo/1
It’s my favourite skirt.
I’ll have to fish my shirt out of the wardrobe but I think I have the same design. It’s definitely not a skirt now though 😛
I can make it a skirt for you! 😛
83% of my Steam collection hasn’t been played yet. I’m such a lazy gamer.
So just a gamer, then.
Cheap, impulsive purchaser, really.
…So just a gamer, then.
So just a gamer, then
Snap, you two.
pokemon snap?
Also, Mum wants me to get rid of the rupee cushions, so pick another colour! (or the same)
Blue again please. 😀
Alright =D
So just a gamer, then
So just another Ben?
Ugh.
@masha2932: Looks like Garnett heard you’re not going to be listening any more and so they decided to end Weekend Confirmed. Know of any other podcasts like it? I’m going to need a regular weekly one to replace it. Already listen to the Bombcast. Cannata seems to be moving more in the direction of video stuff and I’m not interested in that as much since I do most of my podcast stuff in the car while commuting. Any suggestions? Weekend Confirmed basically continued to scratch the same itch that 1up Yours did back in the day, going to miss it a lot.
Ha ha, I don’t think I’ll take responsibility for that one 😛
I haven’t listened to the final episode but it sucks that the show is ending. Where else will I listen to Garnett getting angry at Jeff. The ‘ABOMINATION OF THE WEEK’ segment has been hilarious the last few months especially when Jeff Cannata used it against Garnett.
Oh man 🙁
Podcasts live and die by their personalities so it will be hard to think of shows similar to weekend confirmed (just launch a kickstarter already) but try these out:
I really like Idle Thumbs. Slightly shorter than weekend confirmed at 1.5hrs but the guys are smart and they get along together. Some really funny discussions too. They occasionally have guests but it’s often the 3-4 man crew most weeks.
Another one I’d suggest is Rebel Fm but man Arthur Gies can be a jerk and grating most times. They also have some guys from IGN at times and I don’t know what those guys are drinking there but they always seem to be shouting. It releases around the same time(Friday to Saturday) though so see how you like it. Try this last maybe 😛
Gamers with Jobs – these guys are around the same age as the weekend confirmed crew and Jeff Cannata* has even been a guest a few times. The show often gets really cerebral depending on the topic but most weeks it’s just guys talking about games.
Gamespot Gameplay – I really like this podcasts format. Kevin VanOrd is a good host and the game show-like format makes it slightly different to most podcasts out there. I like the soundtrack quiz too.
Just try these and let me know how you go.
*2 N’s one T – this always helps when I need to spell his name.
I just want to settle down so I can get back to my regular routine of listening to podcasts. I’m not that busy at the moment but I just feel ‘off’ so I haven’t listened to many podcasts or even watched TV shows the last 2 weeks. Hopefully I fell better once I finished packing and I’ve settled in Kenya.
Are any of those same-room groups? I find that stuff done over skype etc. really doesn’t have the same feel to it. IMO it’s why the Bombcast and Weekend Confirmed and the old 1up ones all work so well.
Yeah same-room groups are the best.
Idle Thumbs and Gamespot Gameplay are in the same room.
Gamers With Jobs is over skype but it’s professionally edited so it sounds good.
Rebel Fm has 2 of the hosts in the same room with one guy over Skype and yeah it sounds crappy when he talks.
The Rooster Teeth Podcast is pretty good. However, since they started shooting video, it’s less of a podcast and more of a 90-minute show these days. RT Podcast 244 – where they hired a clown to make balloon animals for them – is evidence of this change.
Aha! Dozens of attempts and finally the Stray Demon dies! 20k souls isn’t a bad reward overall. Now I have to remember what I was doing before I decided to go back there for him. I’d been out of practice thanks to a long lull and now I’m not entirely sure where I was going before.
Edit: Ooh Dark Souls pageget! Is it worth going for Fire Orb as an upgrade from the basic Fireball if I’m just using pyromancy as a secondary weapon? It’s mostly for those times I think something might be vulnerable to fire but not vulnerable to my lightning trident so it doesn’t get that much use.
I like Fire Orb, has a good balance between uses and damage imo.
It does not replace the spell – you can switch around and find what you prefer.
Oh yeah, I only have the one slot and would probably be too slack to change based on the situation so it’d be a replacement in all but name
All you guys Dark Soul talk makes me want to get back into the game, but then I remember there’s a reason I left it in the first place.
Question, what singstars do people own?
And what’s better the ps3 one or the ps2 one?
Too many.
And the PS3 one is better because it will read the PS2 discs as well so you can get a bunch of extra songs for a couple of dollars from EB’s second hand bins.
Sweet, thanks Freeze. It’s one less console to bring.
I own the original PS3 Singstar. From what I remember it was great, but I’m biased purely because it has Toxic by Britney Spears as one of the songs, and it was the only song I sung :3
Are you coming to pax meat?
Ha!
Hahahahaha!
Haha!
I’m a broke uni student 😛
If I had the money I’d be there, maybe next year though.
Damn, I made myself sad now 🙁
Where are you located (state)?
Perth, WA. So I’d have to fly over and err’thing, which I’m not in the position to do unfortunately 🙁
@powalen
That’s a pity but it’ll be alright
Not welbot, I meant powalen. Sorry Welbot
Theres a Pax Meat being planned this far out?
Whats the deets?
Kingpin bowling at Crown, across the road from the exhibition centre at 8 pm
I like toxic.
You. I like you. You seem like a good bloke.
TAY!
Whenever someone asks for a list of all the TAYbies’ tags for meats, rudely tell them to go here and stop badgering poor old @dc.
http://powalen.com/tags/
I’ll add more to it later! If you’ve got any suggestions, let me know.
Victoria
@beavwa, @princess_pip, @tech_knight, @negativezero, @greenius, @chuloopa, @f4ction, @tigerion, @coldcamv, @pixel_the_ferret_viking, @jordi, @budgieishere, @tofu, @zetrox2k
That’s all I can think of
Thanks scree!
technically @qumulys as well, but he’s rarely about these days
wow, so rare his tag doesn’t work anymore 🙁 I miss qbo’s antics!
also I think @cufcfan616 is a Brisbanite?
sshhhhhhh you’re not supposed to tell people 😛
@beeawwb is Brisbane too. He was very close to attending a meat once!
Damn tonsillitis! I’d have came, but there’s a high chance we’d have all ended up making out and whatnot so you’d have all gotten infected. I don’t want that kind of patient zero on my conscience.
I hate tonsilitis, i got it like a dozen times as a kid before they removed them, then a couple years ago I thought I had a throat infection, went to the Doctor and he told me I’ve grown a mini tonsil back and it was actually tonsilitis.
@weresmurf
He’s Brisbane I thought?
Isn’t that welbot?
I sure am.
Okay I am really derp tonight.
lol I’m Brisbane too scree 😉
I’m still derp.
rofl it’s all good 🙂
@smurfydog
Thanks! I knew I forgot someone else!
@crazyguy1990
Somebody remembered me?
Hooray! I mean something to someone!
😛
Northern Territory
…me.
I was going to make that joke! But then I didn’t.
Hey you stole my sad joke, I was going to do the same list for Wagga
But you’ve got @trjn and @freyr @freyjr @freya @you’rejustasbadasmedammit now!
…or was that Dubbo? I think it was Dubbo.
Nah all there is in wagga is @rollingtumbleweed
I kind of hope there is a user with that name…
Wagga beats basically every location within a 2 hour radius around it, though.
True I suppose but that’s kind of like saying “Sure you’re suspended a metre above a volcano with a giant spike up your arse but at least you’re not in the volcano”
Ha, I used to live in the NT around a year back, before I was on TAY though 😛
You weren’t the guy who tried to rob Aleph’s house, were you? D:
I’m not actually sure, I robbed far too many houses in the NT to recall any one specific house.
You would’ve remembered this one. There were booby traps. (Not innuendo!)
Rings a bell. Sorry bout that mate. If it’s any consolation I didn’t get as much money from your stuff as I thought I would 🙁
On a serious note, are you in Darwin?
I’m about 700KM away from Darwin, on a little
iseylandt in the gulf!@mythamphetamine
Ahh, lame. I f***ing hated the NT, hahaha! The people were great, and the scenery was really beautiful, but the damn heat sucks so badly! Also I was terrified of getting eaten by crocodiles.
The Cracks is Perth I think. I know there’s others in Perth too, but I don’t recall whom.
Or was it crazyguy1990? One of them’s in perth!
I’m pretty sure B-funk, Hindenlagen and I think RileyJones maybe are Perth.
I’m in Perth…
Great idea
You get a Kenya tag all your own!
@powalen
Meats might not be as fun but organising them will be easy.
probably best not to call it a ‘meat’ in Kenya
Nyama in Swahili doesn’t have the same ring to it 🙂
http://tinyurl.com/taytags
HELPING \o/
What a helpful guy that Shane is! A little too helpful! *shifty eyes*
Heh, the tinyurl is longer than the non-tinyurl.
True story. I always take a good minute to decide on whether your name is spelled Powalen or Powelan. Shane’s is better. XD
And we’ve known each other this whole time… ;_;
You and I often disagree on spelling. THERE’S AN E IN THE LAST NAME, DAMN IT!
SHHHHHHH
HA! There’s no Adelaide.
I always suspected as much, but it’s good to get confirmation. Thanks 😛
I’m in Canada.
I think a guy named @bish is somewhere around here, but I’ve never seen him so I chalk him up as an urban legend.
Get in the kitchen and make me a sandwich Bish!
Put me down for Sydney. I’ll do my best to make the next meat.
Oh I see, only capital cities qualify? You’re telling us others that we are indeed on extended camping break? :'(
Damn. I just watched The Wolf of Wall Street. It was brilliant. Thoroughly deserved it’s R rating though.
Margot Robbie, just wow. She was amazing. Didn’t help me I sat there half the damn movie wondering where I knew her from, turns out was Neighbours.
Seriously guys.
La-Mulana.
2D Dark Souls.
Metroidvania.
Cheap.
Awesome.
BUY.
…AND XENOBLADE TOO.
(unrelated)
on vita yet?
nahhhhhhh
shoooooooooon
Holy wall of text! Edited to put spoiler tag around it!
Had the weirdest day at work. Started out just like any other work day, except that we were due to have a visit from management in Adelaide. Got to work early, intending to sort out a bit more mess that’d been left over from other staff who no longer work there, go to log in.. system down.. hmm ok.. perhaps they reset the server. Go make a coffee and try again.. nope.. still down. Attempt to ring HQ and find out what’s going on.. phone gives a busy signal. Weird.. usually if they’re busy I get an answering machine. Wait half an hour, try again.. same deal. Dig through my phone to find a mobile number for operations manager. Ring, and am promptly informed they have no power or phones, and power is due to be back on at 11pm tonight! So I can’t clean up the mess, get to work on other more time consuming jobs I’d usually set aside.
Getting close to breakfast meeting time at the cafe, but no word of where staff from Adelaide are. SMS from senior tech about 10 mins later. The GM has lost her luggage! Blimey! I made a joke that knowing our airport, it’s probably in Perth! They finally show up, sans the GM’s luggage and she gets a phone call from the airline. They think her luggage is in Perth! LOL! Told her about my jokey comment, and apologized for putting the possibility out there in the universe! (She had a good laugh, so it was all good 😉
Finally meeting time! Free coffee and food, nice happy team meeting and catch-up on the happenings since we saw them for the xmas dinner. Meeting over, we go back to work, and one staff stayed behind for a one on one meeting, which several of us had scheduled. Got back to work, discussing ideas etc, and then ten mins later, the other tech walks up and tells us he’s been sacked! 2 weeks notice! …… oooook. Totally unexpected, especially for this guy. Senior tech gets a call asking for him and myself to go back for our meeting/s.. suddenly we’re all a little worried.
Turns out our meeting was just a normal everyday meeting, no sackings or anything, but still uneasy. Rest of the day was fairly normal, bar a training session on data recovery, until GM gets a call from the airline again. She hangs up the phone, looks at me and says, “They found my luggage!”.. my heart sank! “In Perth?” her stare intensified a little, and I was waiting for a torrent of jokey abuse, when she said “No.. you’re all clear! It’s in Townsville!” *phew* LOL
I still don’t know what to make of my colleague being sacked though.. he was the last person anyone would ever have expected to get sacked :\ Such a nice guy, and really good at what he does. I’m just.. I dunno.. wtf?!
Sorry for rambling on. I’m sure you were all just dying to hear about my *super interesting* work day, but I just needed to get that out!
On a positive note, I asked the GM about my conflicting contract dates for my going full time, and she said it should still apply 3 months from the initial date, but she was unaware of the different date on the second lot of paperwork I signed when I was given a slight raise. She said she will look in to it, but by the sounds of it, I may not have to suffer through an extra 20 days of crappy pay! w00t! Will know for sure in a day or two though!
so hooray for you and slight raise, but a kick in the nuts for the guy who got the boot. If I were spiritual, the cosmos works in mysterious ways
Well, my phone has kicked the bucket meaning I lost access to my Twitter account, cos only my phone knew.
Possibly a funeral for @PestiDurden if Twitter support tell me to get bent, which is likely because Twitter doesn’t recognise my passwords or email addresses.
Damn.
D: Aw man, that suuuucks. Hope you can work it out, my friend!
Doofus 😛
I contacted them months ago foreseeing this very event and they just stopped communicating in the middle of helping me
Excellent customer service
Morons. The lot of them.
Tyler Durden?
yes
jeeeeeeeeemu
?
Hi!
‘lo
So Wingman and Pillowmaker just shared with me something they found on tumblr. It’s very NSFW gif of a guy that is apparently the spitting image of me.
I don’t really see it.
An intriguing development, I blame Mooky!
…OF COURSE!
My friend pointed out yesterday that he thought it looked like the guy had a goatee.
Thus, it MUST have been my evil twin. IT REALLY WAS MOOKY!
If you can’t see the resemblance, they’re probably projecting. It’s a good sign.
I did wonder earlier… what would TransientMind make of this!
Others have said they see it too.
It’s kind of hard to see because the face is obscured for most of it and it’s a very brief clip. Last I heard they seem to be searching for the source though. That can’t be good 😛
Women who are thinking about/talking about sex, and you, in the same subject? Are generally thinking about having sex with you. Truism far as my experience.
(Disclaimer: Could be wishful thinking/self-fulfilling prophecy. Either way, I say do ’em. Because as a no-longer single horndog I have to live vicariously through the young people.)
Well only one of them brought it up in the first place, discussing it with the other.
And I can see why the above would be the case with her >_>ლ(ಠ_ಠლ) y u side-ways eyes????
Reasons!
(also could just be me in denial :P)
My missus just found out that she’s allergic to, amongst other things, potato, rice, pasta, soda water (apparently it’s not good for you…), spirits, wine, beer and the kicker for her: pork. I’m finding it hilarious, she is devastated about no more pork belly, pork rashers, bacon or pork pies.
I’m sure this is one of the things I should be supportive and understanding about. I’m also sure that I should make the most out of being annoyingly amused by it all
…
MONSTER! D:
@tech_knight
That’s a problem. Is it a problem if she even eats a small amount?
it’s not like being deathly allergic to any of them, her body just reacts badly to them. It would explain why she’s quite prone to getting sick quite often though.
So she can have it occasionally if she plans to stay home
Woah. That’s a lot of bad news all at once. That stinks 🙁
it’ll definitely be a change in the shopping trolley. Some of the ‘healthy aisle’ food isn’t cheap though. Ah well, sacrifices must be made…by her…I like pork
Surely she is not terribly allergic if she is just finding out now.
we’re debating whether the naturopath meant intolerant more than allergic
Naturopath, eh? To the bottleshop/butcher/potatoes!
well I’m still allowed to have all of these delicious things 😀
Don’t mind me, I just picture Naturopath’s in a similar way I picture Nigel Westdicken’s from Red Dead Redemption. Travelling the country side flim flamming people with psuedoscience-like elixirs. XD
I’m with you but the missus is impressed with this lass. If this gets results with her not being sick then I can’t complain. The naturopath probably won’t ask me to race horse and cart races for her though 🙁
Especially if they even suggest homeopathy as a cure for anything except dehydration.
I pretty much have Dara Obriain’s homeopathy routine whenever I hear mention of any form of alternative medicine (another alternative to medicine: dying!). Might be an idea for mrs @cufcfan616 to watch it too…
Come to think of it, is there anything ending in -pathy that isn’t manipulative cash-grabby bullshit? Might as well have added the suffix to that new dungeon keeper thing.
Sociopathy.
@redartifice Ahh good point, I’d forgotten about those -pathy’s. Still mostly negative though
Yes.
Allergic reaction and intolerance are very different things. Intolerance means your guts can’t process it well and it can make you feel crappy or worse. Allergic means you get an immune system response to it which causes inflammation, and can in the worst case kill you.
That looks like a real hodge-podge of different things she’s intolerant/allergic to. Is it something specific in them? I can’t think of any specific chemical which would be in a refined starch like pasta or potato, a fermented alcohol like wine, soda water and also in pork. Seems kind of odd.
I’m pretty sure it’s more an intolerance to those things. At worst it’d be a minor allergy to some of them, but she doesn’t have reactions to them other than feeling sick
no idea if there’s a common link between them. She had her blood tested and those were the things that came back as not good. I don’t know if any of them are because of over-consumption of them or not but them are the orders
Normally people I hear knocking out potatoes are either knocking out all nightshades (so tomato and eggplant as well) or are knocking out all starches, usually for weight loss (but you’re not knocking out bread along with the pasta and rice and potatoes?)
Pork is the one I really don’t get. I knew someone who was actually allergic to pork (it would make her throat swell up if she ate it) but doesn’t sound like your issue.
Naturopath?
Dude, get a proper allergen test from a real doctor. naturopaths generally talk out of their arse.
Soda water? It’s just water with CO2 forced into it.
If she’s allegic to either of those she has bigger problems.
Apparently it prevents you from properly digesting food when you drink it. Not sure about the details though. She’s allowed mineral water though so is just switching to that. I always thought they were the same thing but what do I know 😀
There is not a single thing, even crackpot sites, on the internet suggesting that. If anything the opposite is true according to several medical sites.
Most commercial soda water has sodium-based acidity regulators added as well (traditionally bicarbonate of soda, thus the name soda water) and I believe some people can be sensitive to the sodium.
So Sodium, gluten, wheat, tannins and pork, which is the hardest meat to digest.
Every one of the most common food allergens. Sounds like a shotgun approach and just say everything :/
Not all the most common ones because not knocking out nuts. Almond and Peanut allergies are both common enough. Probably forgot those.
Not sure they’re eliminating gluten either, because there’s lots of foods with gluten in them not on that exclusion list.
Also one of the more common ones to try eliminating because a lot of people are actually intolerant to some degree is fructose. And that’s an absolute bitch to get out of your diet.
Yeah, I’ve met someone with fructose malabsorption and having read through the guidebook for it it doesn’t look fun at all food wise.
Not fun at all. Take out food that you are not supposed to have when pregnant and Mrs Tigs is not a happy shopper right now
Mrs Tigs also is gluten & lactose though right?
@negativezero
Amongst other things including most spices and due to removed gall bladder anything with moderate amounts of fat
Techie is also allergic to it
Blergh. Sorry man. I’m being a dick. Just have a fair percentage of family members in the health profession and had the idea instilled in me that Naturopaths are useless at best and dangerous at worst.
You guys know what you’re doing and what’s best for you and it’s none of my business.
My aunt is all for it, but she is a twat.
It has it’s place but when it’s something serious like cancer or a broken leg, you need doctors.
it’s all good. I’ll be honest, I take what the more ‘spiritual’ side of healthcare say with a pinch of salt but she believes in that sort of thing and if it works for her then great. The one she did see though actually seems to be more interested in finding out what’s actually wrong with her though. She’s been to her twice, done a full blood test for allergies and intolerances I guess and has come up with a list of things that her body apparently doesn’t like (the list is a lot larger than what I posted above). Every time she goes to a doctor, both public and private doctors, the usual response she gets is ‘you have gastro/a virus’. She’s had that response so much in the last few years it’s ridiculous but none of them seem to be interested in actually finding out what’s causing it
I found out my body can’t process around 90% of food that I like including red meat, chicken, most fish, pasta, Vegemite, cider, almost all sugar-related products and more!
Now I have to take daily meds.
Your missus has my feels.
Downvote for shitty hand you were dealt. Does it help at all knowing what you can and can’t eat? I know Mrs Tigs found it help a lot understanding what was causing all the food issues and having a bit more control over going out and the repercussions
It does and it doesn’t. I mean, time will tell how life goes after making such alterations but it’s still early days. I’m sure I’ll get used to it but right now I just keep eating the same food day in day out.
Allergic to beer and bacon…there is no god! 😐
She’s got lady guts.
My girlfriend’s the same.
I blame it on her hysterical uterus.
People with Vita’s! Question is having one with 3G worth it or should i save the money and just go wifi/wait for slim model?
3G is useless unless you want to play MP games on the go and have more money than god so you can afford the data.
I got a 3G model as a ‘what if’ because at launch I had no idea what they might do with it. The answer it turned out was nothing at all. However the 3G original ones are generally the same price as the WiFi ones most of the time so there’s nothing lost getting one.
IIRC the Slim model doesn’t have 3G at all. I’d suggest getting a 1st-gen Vita if you’re keen. While the LCD screen in the 2000 is apparently pretty good, the OLED in the current one is amazing quality and the new one is a step backward. However if the slimmer fit and lighter weight are a big thing for you, then you should wait.
Slim model seems to be more expensive than current one based on UK pricing btw.
Currently the 3G & Wifi are the same price, 198 pre owned (at EB) and we now only stock the 3G version brand new and that comes with Killzone for 270.. I don’t think anyone sells the Vita brand new in Wifi only now it’s all 3G/Wifi only models now. So worse comes to worse, you buy the bundle trade Killzone back in get whatever store credit and put it toward something you prefer.
I’ve got the 3G and used it a grand total of zero times. Can’t see a real need for it. But as Neg said they’re pretty cheap and the price difference between that and the wifi is negligible so it’s not really an issue.
current gen vita because dat OLED
I’ve never once felt the loss of 3G, the worst that’s happened has been wondering whats on the playstation store when I happened to be out with the vita, realising I couldn’t look it up and thinking “oh well, I’ll do it at home”
I have a 3G one, but that’s because it was a christmas present and was on sale with a game. I don’t even think you can get a wifi only model anymore, I’ve only seen ads for 3G, but it’s not something I look for anymore. I don’t use 3G with it though, but it could be handy. If it starts overheating it cancels it anyway, but I think that can be changed.
There’s not been a release date announced for the slim model in Australia, but the UK just got it, so we’ll probably get it in a few months. It’s thinner, but the screen isn’t supposed to be as good, but it’s been said to not be that bad compared to the original screen. It’s also much thinner, so if weight or size is an issue, I’d wait for that. The normal one isn’t too bad, but the new one is noticeably thinner.
Yeah, I don’t know much about the Vita, but I hope you got some helpful information from that.
Cool thanks for the help guys, i’ll probably end up getting the cheapest pre-owned one from the local EB when i can afford it because im stingey like that. 😀
$198 pre-owned makes no sense if you can buy <$250 with at least one $40+ game.
just keep a vigil on shops I held out for ages and got my 3G for $200 with a game. They go on sale pretty often.
The hidden trap with Vita isn’t the 3G or Wifi question, it’s how big the memory card you’re going to get is.
If you have any intention of playing downloadable stuff (i.e. you have PS+. If you have a Vita and don’t get Plus you are nutty) you will go crazy with anything less than a 16gb card. I’ve got enough content for mine that even 16gb was a pain with the amount of juggling I had to do, so I purchased a 64gb from Japan. The memory is very expensive though.
Wifi but original model.
Get that sweet OLED screen.
thought I’d mention that the wifi model doesn’t have GPS either, only found 1 game that actually uses the GPS though.
@rocketman
http://25.media.tumblr.com/f0d04738182b4b1aa086de652582f318/tumblr_mpyd4sV5Zl1qdae2ro1_500.gif
Where have you been? There’s no new Naughty Dog news but that doesn’t mean you disappear 🙂
Ha ha, I get a Twitter notification just after posting this.
insufficient levels of hype render me comatose
So two of my mates challenged me to watch the 1966 series of Batman starring Adam West, he has made a grave mistake since that is the Batman I was raised on and actually associate Batman with.. There’s 120 or so episodes, i’ll make it through them. If I can watch 9 seasons of Monk, Pimp My Ride and other various shows that a lot of people dislike I think i’ll be fine. Those two on the other hand are gonna have a bad time.
Monk was great.
It was, but a lot of people thought different.
I liked Monk at first but I got tired of it. It’s one of the few shows I have no desire to go back and finish watching after abandoning it mid-way through.
I don’t understand how that is supposed to be a challenge.
West is best.
Exactly. He IS Batman.
A few years ago I would’ve said that, but now I say he IS Mayor Adam West. It’s undoubtedly his best role yet.
Damn kids need to learn that old =/= bad. *shakes fist*
They just think I can’t handle that much Adam West, one is just a moron and the other well he doesn’t care that much, heh.
I really hope you will describe it in future as a BatMarathon. Also prefix the name of pretty much everything you use with “Bat” because that’s the only way to go. “Pass me the bat-remote, I need to pause so I can go to the bat-toilet for a pat-piss”.
Word is that the 66 series is FINALLY getting a DVD release after all these years. I desperately look forward to the day I can replace my shitty “oh yeah, I remember the days of realmedia videos” ultra-low quality copies and get something that is beautifully watchable and exquisitely camp.
I cannot wait.. I have the movie in HD, yet I can’t find the blu-ray anywhere..
Not sure there’s be much point getting a bluray for a movie from 1967, it’d only make the film grain look sharper
You’re wrong. Stuff from that time period that was shot on film, which transcribes great to blu-ray 2001 being fine example. It looks fantastic in HD.
Though saying that I think it would have to be the sort shot on 78mm film not 35mm for it to transcribe that well.
I grew up with that also. I’m not so sure I could watch it now, however.
My sister brought me back something from a skill tester machine in Japan.
It’s the best.
I want one for my dog. I already have a kirby soft toy.
I used to have a mario one but Sid stripped it and then ripped it’s head off.
OH MY GOD I WANT ONE.
I’M SEARCHING J-LIST BUT I CAN”T FIND IT!
I hope everyone understands and appreciate all the effort I am going through for you guys, =P
I’m not sure what is happening (PAX Meat?), but if it helps, I appreciated the effort you went to that time I was in Melbourne to organise people to come gawk at me and say things, It was most enjoyable!
Pax meat =P Trying to make sure it is all organised.
This about PAX? If you don’t mind me asking:
Why do you want to put this much pressure on yourself?
I remember there was an incident last time. I’m sure the last thing any one would want is to burden you or put stress on your shoulders.
If I’ve crossed a line, I’m sorry. 🙂
It’s not that I want to, it just kind of happens. I work best under pressure.
Also that incident wasn’t because of pressure it was because a joke was taken too far and I didn’t realise it was a joke.
Oooh, that makes sense! Carry on!
As organizer of PAX North, I do hope people appreciate us! 😛
*remembers I didn’t show up at PAX North last time… or plan any thing…*
At least I feel I am contributing.
Also I do nothing by halves.
PAX north was in your heart all along, and in the end. Isn’t that what PAX is truly about. (If you ignore the video games / board games / tech / etc…)
… I’m really tired, I should probably sleep …
Pressure can be good, without pressure we’d never get caramel and be stuck with boring old condensed milk.
Well you need heat for that too, look its not the best analogy I’ve come up with okay!
If this isn’t about PAX, that’s ok but I’m, just going to say that i managed to acquire tickets and am wholeheartedly keen on this meat… also i will more that likely be bringing two friends who i’m staying with.
That is fine, the more the merrier.
It sounds more aggressive then it is. I’ve just been checking the different songs on singstar and checking things out
Haha that’s fine, Singstar always ends badly in the best way! 😀
Oh right, would you guys prefer bowling or laser tag? You can pick one
Sorry.
…What did I do?
Underwent a whole bunch of pain and suffering on our behalf.
We thank you for your service.
it wasn’t that bad. I just have to search stores for all the singstar games
I haven’t even booked flights or hotels. In fact, all I’ve done is purchased PAX tickets and said “lol we should cosplay”.
#YOLO
#SWAG
#YOLOSWAG
#livingontheedge
Get on accomodation. It’s cup weekend so things will go quick
Found a cheap remote for my original Xbox, meaning that my Soul Calibur 2 machine now has another purpose!
😀
And I got the optical audio to work on the DVDs! \o/
Also, I managed to get the 32GB sd card out of my tablet (since I wasn’t using it for anything), filled it with all of my music, and stuck it in my Droid phone.
😀
\o/
A tale of Souls and Swords, Eternally retold
SOOOOUUUUUUULLLL CALIBUR!!!!
*Scuttles across room pelvic thrusting Voldo style*
You guys are pretty fucking awesome! *decisive nod*
YOU GOT NO EVIDENCE! I KNOW MY RIGHTS! YOU WILL NEVER PROVE IT!
*jumps out window*
did you call me pretty AND fucking awesome? I got called pretty *giggles like a schoolgirl* 😛
ahem, back to work, manly voice activated again
I am actually now that you mention it. You’re not so bad yourself
So finally forced myself to sleep 2 hours ago. Start work in an hour. Gonna be an interesting day.
I believe in you, Freeze! I’m right to do it. Just like I was right to believe in Harvey Dent!
You can force yourself to sleep out of sheer force of will? D:
Harvey Dent? More like Detective Bullock.
Sheer Force of Will? Is that the street name for it?
Ep 2 of The Wolf Among Us is available right now! (At least directly from Telltale!)
I know what I’m doing tonight!
That’s too much information, Pow! >:|
Well the main character is a hunk.
That is true. *strokes shaven ‘phantom limb’-esque chin stubble*
I’m flattered that you think that could mean anything other than playing video games.
For the apparent 2 of you that don’t have Civ V yet now you can get goddamn everything off Humble Bundle.
I’m considering it, it definitely seems like a steal. The only thing is I’ve not played a strategy game since Age of Empires II.
DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT
I did it. 😀
your social life will regret it
Good thing I don’t have one of those, then.
No Sid Meier’s Golf….WORTHLESS.
😛MASHUNO!!
RAILROADS 😀 the disc is always in my discdrive so I don’t really need a digital copy. All I need is Brave New World though. Gods & Kings was a great expansion.
I’m still tossing up over which is my favourite Civ, IV or V. I tried playing II & III as I used to play them for hours without end but they haven’t aged well
@beardymcmuttonchops you might be interested in this
One day I’ll not sleep in.
Maybe.
What’s this “sleep in” you speak of?
This thing where my alarm goes off and I turn it off but the next thing I know I’m waking up again with no idea of what just happened for the past ~half hour.
I hate alarms.
Wait, slow down I’m stuck on the “not getting out if bed after the alarm”.
*squints at post and scratches head*
I know they are words but, in that order, they make no sense.
*shrugs*
SLEEPING IS GIVING IN, NO MATTER WHAT THE TIME IS. SLEEPING IS GIVING IN, SO LIFT THOSE HEAVY EYE LIDS! >:|
Sleeping is the only time you’re free from the rest of the world, do as much of it as you can @mrtaco!
DARK SOULS! (I had to do that at least once, right?)
I keep pushing myself to get into and through the game. I’m currently at the stage where I like parts of the game, but other stuff still shits me, like inconsistencies with weapon and parry behavior.
Last night I attempted to take out the Hellkite “dragon” (took his tail ages ago) ran over the bridge, avoided the fire, got under him when he landed and started wailing on him aaaand he got stuck in the floor?? I hid behind a wall and it spent a couple of minutes breathing fire at me before teleporting into the air and flying off.I decided I was going to kill the black knight at the top of the tower nearby, so (based on my understanding of them) I prepared myself for a difficult fight. get to the top, he leapt at me so I dodged to the side and he fell down the stairs. So I jumped down and piledrived him with the drake sword and instakilled him. Awkward…but now I have his greatsword so with a few more points in str I’m going to learn to use it.Decided I’d join the Sunbros because the other covenants disinterest me, so I’m heading back to get summoned (hopefully) a few times to reduce the faith requirement cause I only have like 16.I killed the Gaping Dragon?
I laughed at his unfortunate name.
No toothed vagina comment? Are you really Dan?
Started the Game of Thrones PC game last night after getting it for free in a Humble Bundle or something (I have no other explanation for why I own it). Combat is weird. Graphics are pretty mediocre. Voice acting is lousy and that’s a shame because there’s SO MUCH OF IT. They seriously exposition-dump EVERYTHING. I’ve been a brother of the night’s watch for 15 years and you are new here you also are brothers of the night’s watch here we are at the wall which was built by our ancestors 8,000 years ago it is 700 feet tall and it keeps out the wildlings by the way the wildlings are OH MY GOD LET ME START KILLING SOMETHING ALREADY.
Still, it’s fun to be revisiting the world, even if it’s through the eyes of new/unknown characters. And it feels like a more traditional RPG than I’ve grown used to, so there’s that.
Yeah. That was my evening.
Have you been to any of the castles in game? I’m curious if they look any good.
I’ve only played it for about an hour. Apart from the graphics being kind of not great, the look and feel of everything seems about right as a fan of the TV show and reader of the first two books.
You start as a Night’s Watchman at Castle Black but I didn’t really have a chance to explore/look around before being sent out on patrol. I was then switched to another character (presumably they will have overlapping storylines at some point) at a place called Riverspring, which I am not familiar with but there was a distant shot of a castle which was framed in a way that reminded me of Catelyn Stark’s arrival in King’s Landing by water back in season 1.
According to a review I just looks up online, you will visit such locations as “The Wall, the Northern snowbound forests, King’s Landing, and Red Keep”, which I assume will all be closely modelled on the TV series.
Riverspring, eh? I’ve never heard that place mentioned in the books. My guess would be that its near Riverrun in the Riverlands.
riverriverriverriverI’ve been umming and arring over this game for some time, might just wait for telltales. Thanks for the insight! 🙂
I think most people tend to agree that the best GoT game on PC right now is a mod for Crusader Kings 2. I haven’t played CK2 so I don’t know what they mean by that. I’ll keep you updated how this one develops but as well as being a swords and sorcery RPG, there’s supposed to be a political element to it that comes into play over the course of it too. It’ll be interesting to see how it evolves, but yeah, I’m much more interested in whatever Telltale have up their sleeve.
I’ve seen some screenshots of the mod and the level of detail in the maps seems very accurate. I’d just prefer a more immersive experience I guess. Yes please keep me updated, i’m always interested in all things GoT related 🙂
Hoh man, Konami testers can speedrun MGS Ground Zeroes in 5 minutes.
FIVE! even if you consider just barrelling through whatever they have planned for the one main story mission, it’s hard to imagine how the game is set up for apparently 2-4 hours when you can get through it all in five minutes.
5 minutes!? Is that like … legitimately finishing it? That seems craaaaazy.
Wow, I wonder if its a legit 5 minutes or they’re using glitches/exploits.
I think when it comes to MGS speedruns the games are normally quite ironclad, but since this is a open-world affair who knows.
Nanomachines..
Son.
Well it only took 5 minutes of gameplay to finish MGS4. The rest was all cutscenes.
2-4 campaign only? Is that why it’s retailing for so cheap?
Hahahaha, “Cheap.”
… seriously though, it isn’t. It’s 40 bucks USD.
I saw it for <$50 from import sites here, where normally it’s $75 or so. For 2-3 hours thats… very overpriced.
Yeah, 2-4. It’s almost like what’s the point? Just slap that onto Phantom Pain.
Why cost it at $15 DLC-price when we can palm it off as full-release?!
Dark Souls II (Collector’s Edition) or no?
hmm…
Here’s tha dilemma:
I want the game on PC but that’s delayed compared to the console releases and I’m not sure whether it’ll be a decent port.
I’m just wondering what other PC peeps are doing.
I could get it ASAP on PS3 then buy it again on PC during a sale, or I could wait until the PC release and just hope it’s good. The only problems are I love me some Dark Souls but I’ve already got plenty of new games in that same period. Another alternative is to go for the Collector’s on PS3 and then do a digital PC, so at least I’m still getting something physical that’s worthwhile. I’m not a figurine/statue kinda guy but I love art books. I’m just hoping it’s not the tiny 30 page game case sized one D:
@sernobulus (I don’t know anyone else :P) whatcha doing? I think I recall you saying you were going to wait for PC but just caved in and are getting on PS3/console first.
DARK SOULS!
II
Yeah, gonna get the console version. As far as the PC port goes, I’ve heard they they are actually going to do a proper console port this time. I will probably wait for the inevitable steam sale and buy it then.
Collector’s?
Wait, of course you are! 😀
You know it! \o/
(@masha2932 I have decidophobia 🙂 )
You should get that checked out.
I’m getting it on console because I haven’t showered in a month and I like to lick windows.
I’m going PC, the delay gives me a little extra time to finish DS1
But I’ve already finished Dark Souls twice :3
What about Demons’ Souls then?
I randomly impulsed bought it in Asia before it was even released here *hipster hair flick*
I did attempt it but wasn’t too happy with a few design choices so just abused a glitch, got to a high level and just blazed through the game. I don’t really intend to play it properly again 😛 (I’d rather replay Dark Souls! :D)
Well test your patience then, play the baby game in The Stanley Parable to completion
…You can finish that?
I give it 4 stars.
It says it takes 2 hours, people have done it. It gets harder
@aliasalpha
I tried it for 20 secnds then gave up 😛
I’m still only up to Sen’s Fortress in the first one and I can’t bring myself to buy games for last-gen systems if there’s a PC port as well. So waiting for PC. I think I’ll enjoy it more if everyone else has had a few months to find out all the shit in the game anyway, I don’t need to be involved with that.
where do you see yourself in 5 years???
i ask myself this so many times a day?
I honestly have no clue, maybe i just dont want to be dead. Unless it was noble then I’m okay with it.
No idea and it’s kind of scary sometimes.
Drowning in videogames.
And women!
Well he already is doing that so I assume he thought there was no point in saying it.
Drowning in my own blood. Because of women. Lots and lots of angry women 😛
I see what you did there.
I ask myself about my future all the time, y’know, the usual stuff, will I die, will I finally get into a normal relationship, will I ever settle my personal matters- but then my mind wanders unto more pressing matters, such as what I’m going to eat for my next meal.
So to answer your question, I will probably eat Japanese take-out. Not sushi, mind you. Like.. a donburi bowl. Those are pretty rad.
EDIT: I suppose quite frankly I worry too much about what’ll happen to me in the next few hours to worry about long-term goals.
Don’t even know where I’ll be in 6 months.
I’m just about 30 and still have no idea what I’m doing with my life.
Still waiting for news from the police?
Yeeeeep.
I’ve got some rough goals, but the people are what matters. Friends, family and all that. The rest is all secondary.
Walking tours around the post-apocalyptic urban decay while doing missions for the Brotherhood of Steel, maybe?
Your tour bus only plays Arcade fire on loop.
In my apartment living happily ever after with Artemis. Well that’s my optimistic “how do I see myself” anyway
I get very scared thinking that maybe in 5 years I’ll be exactly where I am right now, with no personal growth or goals or working towards anything. A member of the 9 to 5 servitude, working a job I don’t love just to bring home the paycheck.
…right, I’m going to go eat something greasy and tasty to perk me up now.
https://t.co/O9UvF1i7pt
Still on TAY reading people talking about Dark Souls
on a ‘real world’ level, fully qualified accountant earning actual money and being close to having my (first) student loan paid off
I have some short term and long term goals i guess
short term
Go to the gym and lose my chubbiness
Fix my teeth which are good awful
get my manual license
Read more
Socialize and have more fun with friends
worry less
learn how to play my guitar better
Finish a short film
Long Term
Travel to europe for a extended trip
quit my job and not worry about money other than my immediate needs.
Rockets, you’re like the scrawniest guy ever! What chubbiness?
I’ve got horrible horrible teeth. YOURS ARE FINE.
I need to get two teeth replaced but I’m wanting the expensive ‘long term’ option of implants rather than just a bridge. When I was 15 my wonderful NHS dentist replaced half of a tooth with a filling which slowly eroded over time until my second new years eve party in Australia when the tooth just snapped. Has been that way for a while now as I haven’t had 2-3 grand to replace it. Even the dental school is bloody expensive for it. The tooth next to it is also a half tooth now.
Do you and @DC want to start a bad teeth contest? How many wisdom teeth have you had removed? I’ve had FIVE. Out of my original SEVEN. 3 were at a near 90 degree angle to the rest of my teeth and had to be sawed into bits to be removed.
Still got all my wisdom teeth 😛 One of them needs to come out though as the filling for that has eroded away and my nerve is occasionally exposed. That’s the tooth my dentist screwed up and didn’t anesthetise properly so I could feel him drilling into my tooth. It’s why I haven’t been to a dentist in 15 years
Yeah that’s kind of what I was having too, that and my freaky bonus teeth were destroying the roots of my good teeth (http://aliasalpha.customer.netspace.net.au/freakteeth.JPG)
Heh. Chubby.
I have no idea either. I’d like to be writing for a living, but the odds are against that. I’ll probably be pretty much exactly where I am now. Probably even the exact same job.
You’re gonna be a whole different person. For starters your kids will be completely different ages which will make your life completely different by default.
Probably true. When they get weekend social lives and sport obligations, it’s gonna be a lot harder to leave the inter-parental interactions to my wife…
My boss keeps asking me where I see myself in five years when we have performance review discussions but I’m a claims guy. I’m not on the path to being CEO ffs. I basically told him “probably at the same desk but with ‘Senior’ before my title on my business cards.
Maybe in ten years I’ll be good enough to have his job, assuming he ever leaves it, but I’m not exactly next in line around here.
What I do know is that there’s not really anything else I want to do, it’s not like I’ve going to switch over to underwriting/sales. Unless Scarlett Johannsen and Kate Upton start a chocolate bodypaint company and need me to be their taste tester, I think I’m set.
5 years you say
Well I always expected to have a family and now that is well on the way there will be that.
Business wise I hope that our company has grown to a size that it doesn’t take up so much of my time and makes me a hell of a lot more than now.
Owning a house would be nice (or at least having a piece of paper that says I do even if the bank really does)
Mrs Tigs still hasn’t got sick of having me around
http://xkcd.com/1088/
I give myself 10 years max to get some serious shit done, otherwise I’ll just dump everything and yolo it around some exotic locations. If I die past that point, it won’t matter, because I’ve lost the game anyway.
hopefully plugged in to some machine somewhere getting video games beamed into my brain
Eyeballs-deep in Oculus Rift!
Is it bad that I have the next ten years of my life roughly planned out? Like, in 2 years I’ll finish uni and move over east for a job, I’ll spend four years there to bulk up my resume before moving to Los Angeles to work at my dream job for the rest of my life.
Side plans include working two jobs over east, using my First Home Buyers grant to mortgage a house over east, rent that out when I move to America (so the mortgage is getting paid), and buying an Apartment in L.A, renting that and buying a house also.
I’m a planner, I like to plan.
I say give them GPS coordinates and refuse to say why and then when they look it up later they’ll say “What the fuck is he planning to do in the Mariana Trench?”
That’s the worst question you can be asked in a job interview. 😐
I have no idea personally.
Hopefully with some decent qualifications under my belt, working a steady job in computer networking. I most likely will have developed a nice big pile of shame on my Steam account.
I will probably still here, complaining about how Call of Duty 16 can still attract an audience, and the AAA industry is destined to collapse. I will most likely still be using my old flip-phone.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
What awaits you at the Western Fortress? Who’s pulling the strings?
7:30 SA TIME
@mawt @blaghman @mythamphetamine @tigerion @popdart5 @tech_knight @novacascade
In other news, I finally received my physical copy of the core rulebook. \o/
A noted caricaturist has been found dead in his home.
Details are sketchy.
#dadjokepagesix #welcomeback @strangeDearest Red,
I’ll see you on page seven.
Your pal,
D.C.
Dear DC
I’m glad you aren’t trying to stamp out dad jokes.
Yours
Red.
Awesome post.
I was worried that that was a little subtle, glad you addressed it.
It always bothers me, not knowing whether it mail may not come through on delivery in the end.
Well, to be franked, I always consider it a red letter day if the post is part and parcel of the discussion.
You’ll be seeing Red on page seven?
Why? Don’t you like it?
Police were called to a daycare centre where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
#YESSSSSSSSIt’sPageSixPolice were called to a pet shop to investigate some stolen dogs. They have no leads.
#StillPageSix #Hi@strange!Police were called to a stage play after reports of the main lead stealing the show.
What do you get when you cross a rhetorical question with a dad joke?
#dadjokepagesixBack to wearing the beanie again.
Stupid air conditioning.
Damned Fat PS3, why do you suck so hard at letting me play games, stop overheating you piece of crap.
Cos it ‘sucked’ a lot of dust into the air vents, thereby preventing optimal airflow which inhibits optimal operating temperatures.
#Anti-JokeChicken
You could try the fan test to clean it out?
The what now?
You power on your PS3 (from the rear switch) whilst holding down eject and fan mode kicks in for 20 seconds. See if that helps.
Yesterday was pretty good. Had a lunch date with Mrs Tigs and we went out and had some Japanese. Roast pork noodle soup and it had really really good pork this time. So tasty. Then since we were in South Melbourne we went down to Albert park lake for a little walk. Was pleasant except we saw a wading bird choking on a small mammal.
It must’ve Bittern off more than it could Shrew.This is heart warming. HE’S PRACTICING HOW TO BE A DAD!
It’s like being lost in a corn field.
A-maize-ing.
Oh god get out now @tigerion before it consumes your soul, I’m a gonna already but there’s time for you…go…
You guys should be glad I don’t tell you the joke about the junkyard. It’s a stinker.
Just heard a few sirens going past the window. They won’t sell many ice-creams going THAT fast.
#realdadjokesaren’tfunny
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So, one of my console-heathen friends is looking to tentatively visit some Master Race meetings and sign up for the junior membership by getting a media PC. Ideal setup seems to be using 60″ 1080p TV as monitor, wireless mouse&keyboard, then a box wired up to the cable modem to serve as a media-server for the various phones and laptops in the house. The most intensive thing they’ll probably want to do with it is stream live UFC matches. No gaming because apparently that’ll be the (eventually-acquired) PS4’s job.
MASTER RACE! I have no idea what to recommend in terms of harware, though. He was looking at mac minis, or a laptop. Anyone got a good idea of what would need to be inside an ultra-budget PC to do that job?
I laughed anyway.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/02/build-the-perfect-media-centre-for-600/
Well that’ll do the job nicely!
DVD/BLuray drive not really required, but needs a $100 TV tuner added. Also, you say cable..? DVB-T tuners work on the freeview channels, but not really on Foxtel/Austar… extra research into this will be required.
I have a media PC, so ask q’s if you want.
Suggest a wireless 360 controller and steam in big picture mode, perhaps gift him a few good controller friendly games that tend to be cheap like mark of the ninja, braid, limbo, portal and the like. Casually mention they tend to retail for something like $3 in the steam sales and you’ll soon have him converted.
If you wanted something more powerful you could get a Silverstone Sugo case which comes with a much better power supply, shove an intel-based ITX board in instead of AMD and add a mid-range GPU like a GeForce 760. I think I priced out a full mini gaming PC build a while back at around $900-1000.
What’s got 4 legs and ticks?
A dog.If you said a walking clock, you get bonus points for getting the reference 😛I think I saw that on the TV.
…Until it walked off the edge.
Yeah, I heard it on the radio.
Had to yell at it to get off.
I’ve been pretty good recently with my spending. This morning I get a notification that I got slapped with my ccard fee, lol. It’s hefty. 🙁
What do you call a giant green monster with the head of a T-Rex, arms of a gorilla, and legs of an elephant?
Whatever their name is.
Sir!
Why are dwarves good at maths?
Because it’s the little things that count.I also heard that they’re pretty good at short division.
Question I asked in twitter that seemed like fun.
The main character from the last game you played is hunting you down for reasons unknown.
Just how boned are you?
McPixel. Everything he does often leads to things blowing up so I’m probably dead.
The character from Splunky, seeing as I couldn’t get past the second level, I would say I am pretty safe.
Not sure if there is a main character in League of Legends… but the last guy I was playing was Viktor… Lasers, Chaos storms and Gravity traps, yep I got a hard fight on my hands then 😛
Rufus from Deponia? Welp I’m safe, the kid battles.
Sam Fisher.
I’m fucked. I only hope he’s doing a no-kills run.
Adam Jensen. He’ll find me, and I won’t even see him coming, but he plays non-lethal, so I’ll live through it, at least. *PHEW*
You’ll probably wake up in a vent or sewer
Or you’ll accidentally fall face down in a puddle after being tranquilised and drown while passed out, at least giving you the satisfaction that he won’t get his achievement.
THAT BLOODY HAPPENED TO ME >:(
Actually what happened was I tranq’d the guy and he fell into the open sewer entrance, apparently that killed him and I missed out on the achievement
This has kept me trying for a non-lethal run, I think there’s too many factors out of my control! But I have the director’s cut on PC now, so maybe I’ll try again.
Well my solution for what happened to me is “Next playthrough ensure I shut all the manholes when I go back out” 😛
I want to get that non-lethal run, I’m actually fairly close to getting all the base game achievements
I tried the non-lethal run… but throwing containers at peoples heads is apparently lethal, so then i didn’t try the non-lethal run 😛
I have no idea if that’s gonna happen to me or not. I’m pretty sure I haven’t killed anyone yet, but even though I haven’t used any lethal weaponry, I guess it’s possible that ancillary factors have intervened lethally.
The dude from Walking Dead Ep1. I think I’m pretty safe, since he’ll be forced to make decisions every step of the way.
Booker, I’m fucked.
hmmmmm tough one, I’ve got hardboiled chicken after me.
Actually probably not a tough one, I’m pretty screwed
Dota 2, was playing as Zeus, so…very.
Especially if he has refresher orb …
EDIT: LIGHTNING BROS!
Lightning Bros!
Andy, from Advance Wars.
On the one hand, those spanners he carries around are pretty huge. On the other, he’s a bit of a weedy little kid so maybe I don’t need to be quite so worried.
If it were Sami or Max though, I’d be screwed. Or Nell. Especially Nell.
Vella from Broken Age! She’s resourceful and head strong, her eye on the prize. Not sure she’d kill me though.
Well at the time you asked on Twitter it was Lara Croft and I figured I’d be ok because of her massive amounts of blood loss.
Since then it’s become Mors Westford from Game of Thrones. He’s a Night’s Watch veteran of 15 years and expert ranger and tracker. There’s nowhere to hide. 🙁
GTA5.
Pretty sure I’m f*cked.
Both ways too if it’s Trevor.
..I need an adult 😐
Trevor: “I AM AN ADUUULT”
Oh boy…digging a bigger hole.
Don’t even.Momohime from Muramasa, I’m mega boned, that lady has some demonic sword skills.
The Grey Warden from Dragon Age : Origins.
playing loosely based on myself, so it’ll probably come down to a draw.
Edit: that is to say, that his first move is always try to talk his way out of a confrontation, but he’s quite happy to resort to snaky traps, stealth & backstabs if that fails though.
The Courier from Fallout: New Vegas.
I’m playing a sniper build, so at least I’ll never see it coming.
Ash Ketchum. He’s got no chance.
Wait, don’t you mean Red? You’re totally boned, the kid has a level 81 pikachu and a level 75 Snorlax. The kid wouldn’t even have the courtesy to talk to you. Oh well, at least you’d hear this before you died.
Jim Raynor – Starcraft II…
pretty majorly F**CKED
“This is my C-14 Impaler Gauss rifle! There are many like it, but this one is mine!”
Edward Kenway. I’ll be fine, He’ll find some Rum, and whales and plenty of crap I forgot to find in game to find first, then Maybe, Just maybe I’m fucked.
Woo! I lucked out! Mines the protagonist from Dark Souls!
I think I’d be alright, everything kills that guy!
Uh, Etrian Odyssey 4?
My party have died to a butterfly and flower so… I’m safe.
It’ll be my DayZ character, she’s never encountered another human unexpectedly before so I’m not sure how she’d react. I think as long as I’m not killing people I’ll be okay.
In the worst case scenario, I’ll just get a tin of soup from the cupboard and do that thing you can do with a dog and a tennis ball where you get them to watch it, watch it, watch it and then throw it so they scamper away madly.
Given how badly I play Dark Souls and that it was the last game I played, I suspect that my chances are about even.
Lara Croft 😀 someone will be boned…
apologies for crassness, too much sugar at morning teaHrm. Last game I played was Sins of a Solar Empire, so… if we consider the entire Vasari Empire to be the character, then I guess our entire planet is fucked.
But the last game with an actual main character? Dark Souls. Given that the character can respawn infinitely as a method of beating opponents, yeah. Pretty screwed.
SINS! i love that game so much!
I started playing it again the other day, biiiiiiiig mistake… 4 hours… gone 😛
It’s a lot of fun co-op when you do all the different pacts with your ally. POWAH! But yeah, it’s… not a quick game.
King from Tekken 3. Given that he’s a Mexican wrestler with a jaguar head, I am prettyyyy screwed.
What’s the ideal job for a seal?
A clown, because they are pretty sealy
The job market isn’t the best for all animals.
Yesterday a dog told me it was ruff.
Yeah, times are tough. I asked a dog how much of a can of dog food he could afford, and he said arf.
Times are so tough, I head that even the pet shop got burgled the other day.
Police say there are currently no leads.
EDIT: Damn, @shane beat me to it by two hours. Great dad’s think alike/bad dad’s don’t double check TAY as often as they should.
Maybe the thieves entered through the woof?
What’s the advantage of living in Switzerland?
Well, the flag is a big plus.I don’t get it.
Thinking about my Steam achievements… I should get back into Space Pirates and Zombies at some point, especially with the Bounty Hunters and Arenas the devs added to the game.
*takes a casual visit to TAY, sees terrible jokes, retreats*
Boo! Come back!
Dark Souls on the brain.
SUNBROS! 😛
I’ve had the moment where i think “yeah! i got this now, i actually understand the game now” and then realise at the next boss “nope, i understand nothing still” 😛
I NEED MOAR!
AND I’M NOT EVEN THAT FAR INTO THE GAME
I still need to invade you…
Just imagine, you finish off a basic enemy and then turn around and there’s a red phantom peeking out from behind a tree.
Rinse and repeat until you log off.
a deprived red phantom, BECAUSE NAKED… well mainly naked… still be creepy as all buggery 😛
Which boss are you up to? I just had to get naked to beat a boss
BECAUSE OF THE ADDED MOBILITY OF NOT WEARING ARMOUR!
Well i tried out:
Grey wolf sif – Died horribly a couple of times before finding out i’m horribly outlevelled, at least in terms of gear to be able to take him on.
Then the bone dragon whom i thought was dead, so i poked him, turned out he wasn’t dead but i was soon after…
Then i decided to take on the Stray demon, and exactly the same story for me there XD…
Only now have i decided to go visit New Londo on my way to blight town to ring the second bell… because apparently i should probably do as people tell me instead of wandering aimlessly around poking things with the pointy end of my sword 😛
also
You took on Havel the Rock didn’t you? 😛
Havel was pretty easy really. Well I say easy, he killed me heaps but he died once I got into the rhythm. He’s in a nice open area with good sightlines and you can dodge his attacks pretty well. It really shows I’ve only just killed the Stray Demon if I think fighting someone merely twice my height in a room in a tower is nice an open… I mean Havel is such a wuss he takes at least 3 hits to kill me and I don’t even have to get naked to evade his attacks!Yeah that just sums up why i suck severaly at this game, i struggled with Havel even after i knew how to beat him 😛
Stray Demon is my favourite fight in the entire game.
Nope!
So far my fight with Havel is up there, and i did quite like Sif as well despite him hammering the shite out of me
Tip: the stray demon is very weak to people sticking bleedy things in his buttocks. I could barely touch him until I tried a run where I used a Bandit Knife upgraded to +6, wielded 2-handed. You basically stay behind him, run away when he does the fire thing and then immediately run in behind him and stay glued behind his arse at all times to avoid being 1-hit. Whenever you fill his bleed meter (about 3-4 hits with the knife) it’ll instantly take off about 10% of his health so a good 3-4 hits in a burst can drop him by 20% or so.
I applied that tactic and did OK, only problem is every time i hit i’d take 20 – 40 damage out of him, that would mean i have to hit him over 100 times to win… and every bloody time i would get half way, and he’d do some cheap backwards jump and the left -> right fireswingy thingy and instantly ruin me :P… i will go back once i can afford a more upgraded sword! and then constantly poke him in the rear!You have a strength-based build right? The Bandit Knife scales with Dexterity…
I was using the Astora’s Straight Sword at the time, trying to get efficient with it’s pokey (thrust) attack, because i do believe that once upgraded a fair amount it’ll be really handy… But i will revisit this fight after i have conquered (or cried a lot) in Blight Town
Yeah, the hits themselves don’t do any damage – as NegZero said, your best bet is getting a weapon that inflicts Bleed, like the Bandit’s Knife or the Uchigikagararararatana. Hit him three or four times in quick succession and he’ll instantly lose a big chunk of his health in addition to the tiny damage from the weapon. It’s brilliantly exciting risk/reward, because you need to hit him a bunch of times quickly for the big payoff, but you have to remember to keep dodging too!Ah right, statuses and stuffs…. yeah i need to work on that 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking: Katanas all inflict bleeding. Uchigatana as mentioned is hard to get because you either need to murder the undead male merchant for it, or save up 20k souls, get the Artorias Crest, unlock the area with stupidly hard human enemies and get to a creepy kitty to join her covenant, and then go down into Blighttown to find the merchant this unlocks. He also sells the Washing Pole which is a nodachi, super-long Katana.
However in Blighttown there’s also a corpse with an Iaito. If you’re going down there anyway, keep an eye out. It’s not as good as the Uchigatana but it’s still a bleedy Katana.
One other thing to keep in mind against Stray Demon is your shield is useless. If he hits you you’re getting stomped regardless. So you should just hit Y/Triangle and dual-hand your weapon for more damages.
I was doing something like 100-150 damage with my lightning trident and that was using it in 2 hands so I was pretty much stinging him to death. The real trick with him is
his big spammy one hit kill-or-at-least-severely-fuck-you-up area of effect attack is mostly an arc of about 180 degrees forward. If you can get in behind him, you won’t take damage unless you’re quite close, stay 10m or so back when he winds up for the strike and you’ll be good, he’ll be stunned for a few seconds and you can stab him a few times and circle him trying to get a few more hits in depending on his next attack. That level of mobility is why I needed to get naked, just for the extra speed and because if I got hit I was dead anyway. I also found that this was one of the few fights where locking was actually a disadvantage.I think he actually has two AoEs. One of them is a cone infront of him, one is a cone infront of him and a smaller cone behind him as well. Impossible to tell them apart easily though.
@negativezero Yeah he does.
One seems to be a horizontal slash that’s like a 90 degree forward cone, easy enough to dodge if you see it coming and the other is the big downward stab that’s like the 180-210 degree arc with a small 360 degree damage immediately around him. Also has his arse slam but that’s really obviousThey’d be easy to see if the place wasn’t so damned tiny and he took up almost all of the space in it but then that’s dark souls really…According to the NDA I just read, I didn’t get into a particular online stress test beta this weekend.
Online stress test?
sounds sexy… *wiiiiiiiiink*
Yeah, I haven’t been playing in an MMO beta for the past week according to the NDA I agreed too.
Which game is it not for? 😛
Something to do with the elderly and their antiquated bookkeeping.
They should modernise that shit, take it online at least
I was about to get all mad at you, then I checked my email.
Waaaaaaaaiiiiiiiit, why would they send you an NDA for a game you didn’t get into? Also aren’t you breaking the NDA by telling us you didn’t get into it?
I have no idea what you’re not talking about.
The NDA on the email is just about the contents of the test, not the invite. If there’s another retroactively applying NDA once you sign up, that’s a bit of a hole in their legal logic.
i² = -1
Not a joke.
I cant imagine why you’re putting this here.
The square of an imaginary number is a negative.
Oh how Specialist Mathematics was a pretty cool guy!
e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0
guys dont get him started please
I absolutely loved the concepts in Specialist Maths. So interesting. And so useless in the real world. My teacher would always say this when asked about using the stuff in real life:
Imagine you are on a deserted island. Then someone with a gun comes along and says, ‘Solve this.’
Are you sure your teacher wasn’t an 80s action hero?
i is a useful concept in physics.
Then it’s not a deserted island if someone else is there too 😛
We wants it 🙁
I misread it as “Hanako,” and I freaked because I thought I had spoiled Katawa Shoujo.
Hey Music fans… The new Kate miller Heidke album sounds like its going to be amazing, only 37 days till release !!!!
Cool! That snuck up quickly.
It comes out around the same time as Dark Souls II.
you’ve been keeping tabs on Dark Souls 2? You’ve kept that quiet
I’m trying not to get too excited, you see…
My god I don’t know if I can bring myself to watch the creation debate
How the hell this is actually a serious debate is beyond me. Makes for some interesting twitter viewing anyway.
It’s not worth the trouble really unless you’re relatively new to the arguments. They can only be entertaining to hear the same old bullshit a few times and from what I’ve read, piglet pretty much stated outright that he’s not going to change his mind which makes it less of a debate and more of a speech contest.
I mean it was a given that he wasn’t going to anyway since his entire life is built around fleecing the credulous but having him say it was a bit new
Yeah that was the feeling I got. Still can’t believe it is being treated as a serious debate.
Like trying to play chess with a pigeon; it’ll ignore all the rules, knock over the pieces then strut around like it’s victorious.
After shitting all over the board and stealing your chips the second you look away
What do you call a man hiding in the bushes?
RussellRUSSEL COIGHT YEEEE
What do you call a man laying at your front door?
MattAaaand that’s all I know.
What do you call a man with a shovel
DougWhat do you call a man without a shovel
DouglasWhat do you call a man in the fireplace?
Ash.What do you call a man hiding in a pot?
Stu.What do you call a woman on the beach?
Shell.What do you call a man in the water?
MurrayBob.
What do you call a man on a duck?
Bill.What do you call a man under a car?
Jack.What do you call a man with a whole lot of weights?
Jim.What do you call a man on a fish?
Finn.What do you call a man taking pictures?
Cam.What do you call a man covered in scratches?
Claude.What do you call a man drinking water?
Dwayne.What do you call a woman stuck between two buildings?
Allie.What do you call a woman in the morning?
Dawn.What do you call a born-again christian?
NewmanI have a book of these somewhere. WHERE IS IT?
Nothing. You call the police.
Seeing as it’s #dadjokepage6 I thought I’d tell the NSFW joke my Uncle told at Christmas in front of little kids.
What do you call a deer with no eyes?
No idea
What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?
Still no ideaWhat do you call a deer with no eyes, no legs and no cock?
Still no fucking ideaI have an uncle like that.
Dark souls \o/
i’m not very good and stuff/endwhinge 😛
EDIT – WOHOO PAGE GET *head desk*
Well the best way to start to understand the stats is to break them down into chunks, probably the easiest way to do that is decide what kind of fighting style you want to use. I dare say that between us we can suggest a build and weapon combo that would work out well.
Are you a fast stabby fighter with a glass jaw who dodges everything and kills with a thousand cuts? Are you a tough brute who headbutts enemy swords away while just screaming “MEAT!” at the top of your lungs because its the longest word you know and you’re really proud of it? Are you a mage blowing shit up with fireballs or magic missiles?
I have and always will be Melee,
i went knight because i like tanking a lot… i don’t want to get 1million hits in in 3secs, if i wanna kill something, i only want to have to swing as few times as possible and then laugh at the pulp of meat on the ground :P…
i know this is not entirely feasible in Dark Souls, however i did find using a claymore or bastard sword to be insanely (INSANELY) satisfying 😛
Sounds like what you need is high strength, endurance & vitality with just enough dexterity to use whatever weapon you have at the time if it has a minimum requirement. Beat havel as soon as you can to get his ring (so to speak… it reduces weight penalties for armour), stack on the armour and try to pour on the damage before the enemy can get to you. Upgrading equipment is also a definite bonus.
You’ll chew through stamina pretty quickly since you’ll probably be dodging in armour rather than blocking with a 2 handed weapon but once you get used to what everything costs in terms of effort you should do well.
So you reckon use the Bastard Sword 2-handed? or single-handed with shield? both do reasonable damage from memory
I’d say try both and see how you like it. If it feels better to use it with a shield go for it but I seem to recall that using it 1 handed needs more strength than usual.
There is also the Zweihander sword in the graveyard in the firelink shrine that you can get for free, it’d be a pretty substantial early game 2 handed weapon if you can beat the skeletons to get it
http://darksouls.wikidot.com/zweihander
130 base damage vs the bastard’s 105. It looks more badass too but you don’t get the fun of saying Bastard a lot
That would make sense… i guess it also depends on the situation… if i can foresee a bosses moves, 2 handed should be alright…
Imma give it a try tonight… see if i can work out how to be less bad at RPGs 😛
24 STR?
iiii… got some levelling to do XD…
i did consider the zwei hander, but last time i tried to obtain it, i got slammed by giant skeleton dude
The giants are worth a good 500 odd souls each, worth the hassle if you can kill them.
Not really cost effective to grind them since they’re a large amount of work but still nice
If you’re tanky instead of dodgy you want to have a shield to absorb some of the hits.
That’d make sense… but am i better of with a standard longsword in that case? or is a bastard sword still a viable option?
Not feasible? It’s the best and most powerful path in Dark Souls. Heavy armour, great shield and great weapon means you’ll be destroying everything.
I have a character who is by far my favourite, full Havel’s Armour and Shield, Fire Greataxe +10. About 1800 hp. Can tKe on the Four Kings by two handing and just taking the hits, just out damaging and out tanking the mofos.
really?
So just pour stats into STR, END and VIT respectively?
seems like pouring stats into faith was a mistake 😛
i guess that’s what experimenting is all about…
When you build, should you try and stick to 3 core stats?
(see how bad at this roleplaying game thingy i am? :P)
I’m pretty sure faith is exclusively used for miracles and membership in one coven that focuses on coop. I’ve not put any points into it at all and I’ve not even had anyone tell me that they find my lack of faith disturbing
Ayup. Best to aim for 50 STR, 40 END and rest in VIT. Go for Greataxe, Greatsword, Greatclub or Zweihander. (Demons Greataxe or Hammer also work wonders. DGA is the single most damaging base damage at +15 with S strength scaling at 50)
You’ll be slow but will just plough through everything.
Cheers… while aiming for this, any greatsword is OK? currently dabbling with Claymore and Bastard sword to see what i like best…
Claymore seems best though, cause it’s a bit faster
Subjective really. Claymore has people swear by it but the Ultra Greatswords are my preference as they hit so much harder. You can get the Zweihander with a fairly easily with a quick suicide run into the graveyard from Firelink. Up the back, just run past all the skeletons.
@freezepreston
Thanks man, i can’t get over how horrible i am at these things 😛
I liek shieldz.
High endurance means you can block AND follow with a swing, and a 100% physical-block shield means I’m happy and healthy most of the time. The high endurance also means higher encumbrance, so I can have some medium/light armor and still be able to roll (instead of hurling myself bodily aside to crash in a clatter of platemail, groaning and moaning as I get myself back up).
Why are you rolling in heavy armour? The idea is you can take a hit at greatly reduced damage and not even flinch.
People seriously underestimate heavy armour.
Well, my first character was a newbie knight, who definitely couldn’t take those hits. I mean, poise might’ve kept her from getting knocked flat like a light armour wearer might, but my idea was to take ZERO damage, not just ‘light damage’. A good shield and some rolling will totally do that.
My Wanderer is using Havel’s shield (thanks to the ring), AND rolling. It’s pretty great so far – enough STR to one-hand a greatsword for tasteh damage. Like, I’ve noticed most enemies do one type of attack which is best exploited by rolling, and another type of attack which is best exploited by blocking then countering.
Of course, I may have to switch to some kind of heavier armour to deal with those two bosses in Anor Londo, they kicked my ass the first time I tried them. Whatsisface smooshed the face of his little lightning friend to steal his power, then it was all over for me. Haven’t played since, been busy. Thinking maybe next time I’ll kill the big dude first, THEN take out speedy mclightningpants.
‘Fistbump’
Big fan of that kinda play-style – fast with a big shield.
I have always said the two most useful things to have in Dark Souls are patience and a good shield.
So like people have said, go heavy on the STR and also grab a greatshield along the way.
Though my favourite weapon is the Halberd – good mix of damage, range, speed and attack styles.
Not sure where you are up to yet but there is a trick you can do (if you are ballsy enough) to get the Gravelord Greatsword real early if you want.
I got the Gargoyles Halberd, but people tell me it isn’t very suited for a STR build due to poor scaling… but this is my issue, i like dabbling in various things and end up stretching stat points too far, making my build weak as all hell 😛
Stat scaling is poor in general for your first playthrough anyway – it is not until you are around level 100 and doing NG+/++ that it really starts to shine. Fire/Lightning weapons out damage them a ton until that point. (and such weapons have no stat scaling)
Also remember that levels are not that important in DaS, your equipment is much more important.
So don’t stress about your ‘build’ – just put points into whatever you want to use the equipment you want and dump the rest into vitality/endurance.
And prioritise upgrading your chosen weapons over extra levels.
The Gravelord Sword is very powerful, has relatively low stat requirements and can be obtained as soon as you arrive in Firelink Shrine.
Takes a bit of risky (dying a lot) play to get but will be well worth it if you can do it I think.
awesome thanks for that!
maybe i should just review how and when i try and do things…
I think i should just focus on doing blight town and the second bell now then…
but that requires tackling the Capra Demon doesn’t it? :\
Not necessarily…
But you should do the Capara Demon and go that way.
fair enough 😛
i did read Serrels’ article about Ben’s playthrough 😛 i’m glad i’m not the only one that was stumbling around aimlessly 😛
Ha, yeah 😀
It is an entirely viable way of doing it but best if you know what you are doing first.
If you are interested in the sword I mentioned let me know and I will attempt to detail how to get it.
@jocon
Thanks for the offer… i’ll try out the zwei-hander first, but it’s always an option…
I’ll keep you guys posted how i go tonight,
If there’s a ton of swear words tomorrow, i probably didn’t do so well and might need that sword 😛
Retailers should just give us the damn bundle that we really want: PS Vita console + P4G.
It only costs like $28 at JB just pick it up seperately.
Yeah, I noticed that. I don’t really want a new console for one game, though.
Yeah you do, it is fantastic. 😛
@benny
Yeah, what hotross said!
I bought a Vita for P4G and I’ve only ever bought one other game since then. The rest have been from PS+ and s’all gooood 😀
Then buy a few others?
Nevermind, I’ll just hunt down the PS2 version instead – hopefully it’s the cheaper option.
It’s been out of print for a while so it’s probably not. It’s also the less good version.
Though you do have the bonus of being able to get an Undub for it so you can avoid Atlus’ bad dubbing.
Gametraders gets it in every now and again
Would you like to borrow mine?
Hmm on second thought. TMI. Thank you for the offer.
You should know, I’ve reported all your terrible jokes to the police. They’re on their way. Get your affairs in order.
I’m monogamous, I don’t have affairs (let alone enough of them to put in order).
Women don’t find me attractive so I’m also off the affairs list
Well, shit.
I never ruled you out dude!
Dear @dc
You’ll never catch me, I’ll hide inside a building and your phobias will get the better of you.
Nyer nyer you can’t catch me
The Scarlet Pimpernel.
I’ll be sure to leave some food and water out so the girls in my harem don’t die while I’m in jail.
Oh noes! Joke Police! Better be extra careful if you’ve got a bladder infection! Urine trouble!
Dear Tay
It’s Page Seven. @dc said he’d be back to visit me here.
Hope this letter finds you well
Red.
Red,
Hey!
DC.
Hi @dc!
Did you enjoy your lunch? I had a sandwich.
Om nom nom,
Red.
Red,
I had lunch with Strange. It was cool. We had spicy chicken at Nandos.
Daaaaan.
Dear Daaaaaaaaaaaaaan.
i once ate Nandos for lunch every day for a week at a trade show. It’s never really recaptured the magic for me, though I’ll eat it from time to time
Peri Peri also isn’t my favourite chili
Red.
Trinidad Scorpion?
Trinidad Scorpion!
DC,
does Mr Strange know about your spicy lunches with Mrs Strange? 😀
Benny.
That’s hot.
#Errypageispage6
Dear TAY,
do you think i can convince work that we can make use of a 3d printer and scanner? Because i really want one to make video game merch.
Rockets
Think of the eyecatching business cards you could make with a 3d printer!
“OW OW OW GET IT OUT GET IT OUT!”
“You’ll never forget my business, Aliasalpha’s Eyepatch Emporium, Just say Arrgh!”
having a 3d printer is only half the battle. You got any plans for how to create said video game merch?
Dear @benny,
So sorry.
Gook
Notifications, right? Haha, it’s all good.
More the horrid jokes really 😛
Let’s just say you were milking page six for all it’s worth. o/
Has anyone been on the ps store on their ps4? has Outlast been released, just looked on the site & it didn’t show up, I hope we get it today, my PS4 is hungry
Yeah what’s that whole “Outlast” thing for PS4 about?
I read somewhere that it only just got classified?
HOW ON EARTH HAVE I OWNED IT SINCE THE LAST STEAM SALE THEN?
did Steam eff up a little?
yeah, I dunno, thought it seemed odd, I just need to know if it’s actually been released cause i just conned a mate into giving me a lift this afternoon under the condition that he can use my internet to download it, he’ll be annoyed if it’s not there cause it’ll seem like i lied to get a lift.
Well this says yes… how true it is though i don’t know
cheers, I hope that’s right cause i logged into the ps store (on a pc) and it wasn’t showing up, still only had Don’t Starve in the + section.
I can’t see it on the Playstation Store yet for PS+, but I am checking from my phone app, not directly from my PS4.
The Australian PSN store updates around 11pm – midnight. Check then.
Curious if anybody has played Dogs of War Online. I know they went through a closed beta a while ago.
Seems interesting and is being described as tabletop gaming without the tabletop. Apparently no pay to win in the game which is nice.
Most of the negative reviews seem to be their mail server is getting overloaded of something and having trouble setting up new accounts.
Any first hand experiences?
Noop. It’s been available on the Steam ‘free to play’ section for a
fairlittle while (edit: Maybe only since last weekend; it’s been a long week), but I haven’t installed it to try. I might give it a bash at some point.I kinda get a World of Battles vibe from it though. That was actually quite fun, for an almost direct clone of Warhammer: Battlemarch/Mark of Chaos. But not so much that I bothered to get into it. Shame it shut down, really, there was a good game there that no-one else is doing.
Today I had lunch with @dc to keep my mind off the fact that I’m all alone now. I terrorised him into hugging me. In public. In broad daylight. I am a monster. 😛
I also forced him to listen to me yap about how awesome Gloryhammer is and how the singer made me swoon with his green armour. DC is the best for being polite and putting up with me. \o/
I bet he apologized for being awesome too. Stupid DC
You’re awesome Straaaaaange! Great lunch!
I’ve got a hug off @dc last two meats.
After fifteen months of prep work! 😀
Worth it.
” Just so you know, I’m running a fever, I have a nasty cough, and my sinuses are filled with something I can’t possibly describe…but it was totally worth it!”
😛Mental Hug?
lol I missed out due to my inability to attend meats. I got a hug from @dkzeitgeist once though! Still not sure why, but a hug’s a hug! I wonder how @dc’s hugs compare to his? Do Dan’s give the best hugs? One day…
My hugs barely fit the definition. I try to put as much space between me and the other person as possible. XD
lol like the hoverhand of hugs?
Sounds great! but yeah.. hand over your hermit card @dc!
Dear TAY,
Can any of you help me with my Playstation overheating issue? My console sounds like a jet engine, and doesn’t like being on for too long (like an hour and it gives up the ghost).
I’ve tried using a fan mat, but I don’t thing it’s helping all that much, and there’s no dust clogging the vents on the front, top, and back of the console.
If anybody could help me out, I’d really appreciate it.
Regards, Numbers
You still have a “fat model” PS3 right? Might be time to get a newer one. =P
There’s a slim in the house, my dad is “using” it for a media center, and by that I mean, it’s sitting in the cabinet in the home theater room, but there would be too much effort in moving it.
Open up unit,
buy $20 desktop fan
point fan at internals
win lyfe
I tried opening the console earlier today, there were issues, and I ended up not opening the console.
If you have an air compressor, try give it a blast through the vents and see how much dust comes out
I’ll be picking up a can of compressed air sometime soon, we’ll see how that goes.
Look on iFixit website for detailed picture walkthrough on how to disassemble. They will list all tools required.
You need to take it apart and reapply thermal paste. <$15 from local PC shop.
Any Brisbane people planning on getting tickets for Finntroll but haven’t yet? We’re looking for a third and fourth because they’re having a buy three get one free deal at the moment which means we could all get our tickets for $50 each instead of $66.
When and where are they playing? I has Frenzal Ticket for the 4th of March at the hi-fi! Anyone else going to that?
June 18th, The Zoo.
And no, will not be seeing Frenzal. Not even sure I want to see Finntroll again, to be honest. Too many other tours like Dark Tranquility,Orphaned Land and Iced Earth. Not to mention upcoming “probable” tours I’ve been hearing rumours about….
did you hear it’s going to be an hour and a half bass solo, the rest of the ban are threatening to not show up in protest to the new bikie laws.
ugh.. edit again.. was for me..mind is playing tricks on me!
As long as Tom Crease is the one playing the bass, I’ll stay round to rock out!
They’re supposed to be announcing the winner of their t-shirt comp too, and knowing Frenzal fans, they’ll probably riot and burn the place down if they didn’t show 😉
for everyone’s sake I hope they all turn up. Them Frenzal fans are lunatics :p
Could be a go, I will check with my other half
So I’ve started cutting out the little bits and pieces for the cake. Of course, the day I actually have to make the cakes victoria has decided it should be 41degrees.
Thanks Abbott.
It’s helping! You don’t need to put the cakes in the oven. Just leave them out in the open for a while and they will bake! \o/
I will use the microwave because the oven is derp
Microwave cake can be tricky, my mum made one once and thought it was too moist so gave it another minute. When it’d cooled down enough to eat it was as tough as wood.
Nice flavour but a challenge to eat.
We have a convection microwave so it’ll be easy =D
OK, so a conversation with coworkers, someone mentions that Australia has the highest rate of piracy in the world – that’s not even per capita. That a nation of 20 million has more pirates than the US which has like 300 million… And one coworker starts saying, “That’s because Australians have become really lazy now, and they’re all watching their TVs instead of working, but Americans? Americans are crazy, they’re all outside shooting each other and being crazy. They’re too busy killing each other to watch TV.”
Deadly serious.
I had to walk away to prevent bursting into laughter.
What? That’s completely accurate.
This just proves that Tila Tequila was right
Why in the fuck would Osamu Tezuka’s manga Phoenix be out of print when single volumes are selling for over $100 each?
Anyone know where I can download it or something?
@negativezero ???
The more they print, the less they’re worth I suppose.
I don’t know anything about manga sorry. I don’t really like reading comics or manga at all. Not enough substance, I burn through them too fast given how expensive they can be.
Dear @dc,
https://www.gamesmen.com.au/catalog/wii-little-kings-story-p-23841.html ;D
Gooky
Woops. Apparently that shouldn’t be spoken of.
I have no idea what you are talking about…
I thought you’re not supposed to admit to being in that beta?
Yeah I massively derped there. Hopefully I don’t get in trouble for that. >.>
Elder scrolls? There’s a website giving away beta keys, if anyone is interested.
Yeah, raisin’ my hand on having received a certain email Which, when I saw it, I could only think: “Hoo… ray? I think?”
IN COMPLETELY UNRELATED NEWS:
I’m not enthused about TESO. Because, y’know. I’ve loved TES games since Daggerfall. This… does not seem entirely like it hits the buttons that TES games usually do for me. (ie: Freedom of character skill development, flexible options, freedom of exploration/quest-engagement, creeping around in stealth to one-shot every mob everywhere and using spells to vanish if detected, stealing everything that isn’t nailed down and lugging 500 kilos of brooms to barrels outside vendors to sell to them whenever they replenish their gold supplies so I can buy a house good and early, outrageous mods, y’know… TES games. That’s how everyone plays them, right? Huh, they don’t? They play trinity group-based hotbar button-pushing dungeon runs with agro management and loads of combat? Freaks).
I guess I’ll either be vindicated or pleasantly surprised when/if I get to see it in action. I guess that’s an overall positive, really. Yeah. Let’s be positive. It’ll be awesome or I’ll be right. I like either of those.
No, no, that’s exactly how I play them. And therefore how everyone plays them.
Today in the Adventures of What The Hell Is Wrong With My Facebook Friends?
Several people sharing this and being oh so earnest about it.
http://worldtruth.tv/tila-tequila-exposes-the-illuminati/
This is heavy.
Read “tequila” in the link, was disappointed that there was no mention of tequila of the alcoholic kind in the article.
Now I really want some tequila :3
“Sorry ma’am, fighting the illuminati is above my paygrade.”
(Also, Kirsten Geary is the BEST handler. She can ‘handle’ me anyday. Edit: Kidding. She’s not my type. But y’know. I wanted that pun so badly.)
So I read the opening paragraph and my brain started to hurt really bad…
TAYbies, I am in need of tech support. I know @welbot is a god with this stuff
Got my laptop back today after being serviced. Just needed a major dust clean out. When I go to boot it up, first problem appears, somehow despite me giving them my password to log in, the service people have gotten rid of my password. No big deal, set up a new one and we are all sweet.
Then I go to open up Itunes and get a runtime error stating
I have tried the age old tricks of resetting my computer and also uninstalling and reinstalling itunes. While attempting to reinstall I was also getting messages halfway through the process about not having the right privileges for this machine – with Abort, Retry and Ignore options. Only after ignoring several times did itunes finally install correctly… at which point the runtime errors came back again.
Any ideas? Or should I just take it back to the service place and say “You screwed it, you fix it”?
The latter, even if it was a quick DIY fix you shouldn’t let them get away with fucking your computer up if you paid them to fix it.
It sounds like perhaps somehow the visual C runtimes have been deleted, quite why that would happen when cleaning dust I can’t imagine. It was definitely working right before you took it in?
When you say dust cleanout, was this literal dust or figurative dust? If the former, why did they need your password at all?
Its ok, got it fixed. Who knew the Apple support forums would actually be useful and have an answer written in laymens terms??
I didn’t know what the issue was when I took it in, it was just that my laptop was overheating severely. To the point of shutting itself down. Had it for a good few years but never had it cleaned or anything so not surprising that it was a dust build up. They were going to check everything out anyway, hence the password
Ahh okay, that sounds a bit less weird then. What was the solution?
Had to uninstall ALL the apple programs, not just itunes itself. Apparently it was a
bugfeature in a new update. Lots of people had the same issue, so i guess it wasn’t the servicing people. Still weird the way they wiped my passwordit is a bit weird that they wiped your password, especially without asking first. Doing a password reset can cause issues if you have encrypted files and stuff sometimes.
I was going to suggest removing all apple stuff like bonjour and things, but looks like they beat me to it 🙂 Glad to hear it’s all working again! I had an early night last night, cos it’s been a hell of a week. So glad there’s not much of it to go!
The only runtime error I get is when I get chafe under my boobies.
I get one when I think I should go for a run and I get the error “Enthusiasm not found”
Finished episode two of The Wolf Among Us, here are the choices I made. Don’t read unless you’ve completed the chapter and all that.
— I sympathized with Crane. Was trying to play Bigby as a good guy, protective of the Fables even the abrasive ones. He was mourning and he knew Crane was too.— I persuaded the suspect to talk without violence for similar reasons, want to play Bigby as a good guy who doesn’t live up to his violent reputation.
— Was gentle with TJ. Didn’t want to spook the kid. Was gentle with Holly too.
— I let Snow make her own decision. This was very personal for her and she deserved to be involved.
— Showed restraint at the bar. Only smashed one thing. (The keg.) Was able to get girl to talk.
— I stopped fighting with Beast at the first opportunity.
Loved all the leg work and investigation in this chapter. Great story too.
Really liked this ep a whole lot. Not sure it’s as good as the first, but it’s pretty damn close. (Thought it got a little melodramatic voice acting/music-wise towards the end.) Still good!
Love the tone, atmosphere and lore. Can’t wait to press on!
WAIT, EP 2 IS OUT? Oh God Steam why didn’t you TELL ME?! I’ve
spentenjoyedWASTED the last two hours watching Zero Punctuation clips!Haha, I did everything the same except the one thing I smashed was the TV.http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-05-south-park-the-stick-of-truth-does-not-use-uplay
\o/
http://www.dorkly.com/video/35974/final-fantasy-vii
CONTROVERSY!
After infiltrating the enemy fortress and fighting a swarm of Gazers, the party snuck up on a couple of Orange cloaks- but will the orange cloaks come quietly? CLIFFHANGER!
Tune in next time (3 weeks time probably) for more TALES FROM THE NINTH WORLD
@popdart5 @mythamphetamine @tech_knight @mawt @novacascade @blaghman @tigerion
Does Australia have the same sales as EU? If so, we’ve got some great deals for:
The Last of Us
The Walking Dead Season 1(Vita)
The Wolf Among Us Season Pass (PS3)
Tearaway
…and others.
So many games!
http://www.steamprices.com/au – can search for best (and worst) deals relative to other countries. 🙂
Edit: Actually, there’s some real surprises in there.
Mass Effect 2: $20 in Oz, $30 in the US, $40+ in the UK.
Walking Dead – Survival Instinct (the bad one): $20 in Oz, $50 in the US.
Ubisoft’s showing Australia some love on their older titles, Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, Settlers 7. Even EA’s on the job, aforementioned ME2, Mirror’s Edge, BF2.
Yeah we do, but that’s bloody annoying that they cut The Wolf Among Us so soon into the season for those of us who paid full tote.
Dark Souls!
Whoa… I think this game is starting to click. Not entirely there yet, but getting close. Managed to get a hold of the Drake Sword after a few attempts, still haven’t actually killed the dragon yet because fire makes hurties. But managed to snipe out his tail from under the bridge and scored the sword.If nothing else this game is teaching me patience. Three times I managed to get myself poisoned by those stupid rats as your head into the Undead Parish. But I went back to the Undead Burg Fireplace rather than risk running out of flasks, my god does poison last a long time. Took out the Armoured Boar by using the Alluring Skulls I found up on the higher level. I feel like I haven’t actually defeated a boss/miniboss in straight up head to head combat yet. Not sure if I’m doing this right or not, but at least I’m progressing.
Very slow progress through the Undead Parish. Taught myself a couple of new moves by fighting the Knights. Very useful was the backstep, followed up by a light or heavy attack. Seemed to do a lot more than a normal attack. Though I still seem to find myself releasing the shield and attempting to attack only to cop a sword to the face far too regularly for my liking.
Managed to kite the big guy with the huge shield and mace inside the church outside after getting hit with a couple of magic attacks from the bastard on the next level up. Managed to kill them both first time. Cleared out the rest of the church as well as releasing some guy (Lautreck I think his name was) from prison.
Headed to the Roof to take on the Bell Gargoyle. This guy is going to be a bastard to take down. He’s so fast, and it seems like he can predict which ever way I roll to avoid his attacks. Died a couple of times already before I called it a night. On the last attempt i managed to get his tail off and score an axe. Got a couple more hits on him and HOLY FUCK ANOTHER GARGOYLE COMES TO LIFE AND THIS ONE BREATHES FIRE!!! Bloody hell… These guys are too much for me at the moment. I’ve got about 8500 souls sitting up on the roof. Though I get the feeling they are going to be a lost cause.
Currently at level 19 with approx 16 STR, 16 DEX, 12 END, 14 VIT and I cant remember the rest.
Have you killed the Taurus Demon yet?I thought you HAD to, to get to the stage he’s got to… you mean it’s skippable? Jeez!
(Not that you’d bother, it’s a loot pinata.)
I wasn’t sure, I can never remember when shortcuts unlock but since he’d mentioned not feeling like he’d beaten a boss I was wondering… Maybe it was just the plunge repetition feeling a bit cheap. All that’ll change once he reaches
the capra demonYeah got past him on the third attempt
Unless you’re trying to solo everything, you should be able to summon Lautrec to help with the gargoyles. I think that’s part of the point of freeing him
It’s Solaire (jolly cooperation) you summon for the gargoyles, not Lautrec (jerkface express).Spoiler:
That guy you freed, Lautrec? He’s a dick.I can’t remember how I kilt the guys who are giving you trouble, only that it took me like… eight goes. 🙂
Oh wow. MakeVR is expensive.
Guess that means I get to hold onto my money at least 😛
I just finished watching the ‘debate’ and hey cool I kinda want to remove my eyeballs now.
I saw a tweet highlighting the ‘game over’ part.
Question: What would change your mind about this?
Not-Nye: Nothing.
Nye: Evidence.
Gg, thanks for playing.
You’d better not, they’re a gift from god!! I mean it’s not like something that complex could just “evolve”! What, do you think it started as a patch of photosensitive cells and over thousands of generations of mutation became more sensitive, the structure curved inwards gaining the ability to perceive directions which lead to it becoming more useful as a survival mechanism leading to the probability of it being passed along as the organisms lived long enough to procreate? Pfft, fantasy!
Ok, so you cool dudes who read manga/watch anime, you know Berserk, right? Fucking great manga, got some cool movies. Same author, Kentaro Miura, made a new manga named Gigantomahkia. Got real Attack on Titan vibes. Except for two things- one, Miura does a hell of a job depicting scale, which lends his giants proper ‘holy shit they’re fucking huge’ vibes, which I never really got from AoT giants.
And two, the main character’s titan form in Gigantomahkia is able to perform a Jet-powered Suplex on giants his size.
JET
POWERED
SUPLEX
It’s amazing. I’d give a shit about AoT nowadays if there were more jet-powered suplexes. Fuck it, every form of media needs more wrestling moves in general.
Struggling with AoT but loved Berserk
The thing I loved about Berserk anime was really the growth of the characters over the years it was set. Same goes for Gungrave, which was a REALLY impressive story considering the source material.
Shame about the Berserk anime ending, though. I really wish they’d ‘finished’ it, to show how Guts got from that point to the point you see in the very first episode.
Dunno if those new movies cover it.
@sughly @gutsoup ???
err… I dont really remember how far they went after the eclipse thing, they did cover a little more I believe (such as that skull knight… guy). But I swear I’ve read somewhere there’s meant to be more movies made. I mean, they do refer to them as the Golden Age arc films, which, I dunno, seems to suggest there’d be other arcs covered?
I am being very hopeful, please dont crush my hopes.
Why you struggle! No it’s ok, I could probably guess based on other people’s criticisms, but still, I love it a lot. Kind of dont think I like the idea of another giant based manga squeezing its way in.
Make way, past behaviour says they’ll be heaps.
that sounds freaking awesome. I will be checking that out at the first chance I get.
Am I a cool dude? I watched anime that one time.
That sounds good except the bit where it’s written by Miura so it’ll stop being written for long bursts because the guy’s too busy playing MMOs to bother.
@sughly
Galaxy Express 999 is pretty gooooood, kids movie but deals with some heavy themes.
That was a damn fine movie
Theres 3 now
huh, just looked at the wiki site, seems there’s a couple movies, a 113 episode tv series that showed before we were born, a 2 part OVA from 2000, a 13 part OVA from 2004 and another OVA from 2006.
I wish I had more spare time, there is so much anime I’ve never seen / heard of that I know I’ll like.
I can even find dodge copies online.
Grabbed the 3 movies though. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Yeah, should really really pick it up. I’ve had a hankering for pulpy sci fi stuff for a while now, this looks like it fits the bill quite nicely.
Pulpy? Dunno.
Sci fi yes, and like proper sci fi in terms of the setting meaning something.
Thursday mean TAYlist, TAYlist means TAYlist requests, So gimme your best songs for me to play today.
Am I in an 80s mood today? Hmm, maybe.
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go – Wham!
If you’re not in an 80s mood, here are the usual choices:
Song you won’t have:
Ice Age – How To Destroy Angels
Song you might have:
Personal Jesus – Johnny Cash
Song you will have (and I’ll be disappointed if you don’t):
Mr Brightside – The Killers
In honour of my sunbros playing Dark Souls, I will accept any of the following:
I’ll Follow The Sun – Beatles
Here Comes The Sun – Beatles
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me – Elton John
Walking On Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves
House Of The Rising Sun – The Doors (or Bob Dylan, if you want)
Edit: Sunshine Of Your Love – Cream
Edit 2: Father And Son – Cat Stevens (#PAGESIX4LYFBITCHES)
Praise the suns! \o/
I counter by requesting you play Pink Floyds The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety.
The Animals is still the ultimate version of that song
And the best (sun themed) song to play repeatedly while playing Dark Souls:
Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows – Lesley Gore
It might be the best song anyway to play Dark Souls to 😀
No ‘Sunshine of Your Love’ by Cream?
An unforgiveable omission on my part. I apologise unreservedly.
I’ll counter it by requesting The Cult’s “Rain”
Or better yet, the cover by City Of Fire because its more awesome what with being metal
Highwayman – Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson
Turn the Page – Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Or
All Nightmare Long – Metallica
Paranoid – Black Sabbath
Obligatory obscure hipster request:
Mundo de Ciegos – Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Serious request:
Paint it black – The Rolling Stones
Goodnight Saigon – Billy Joel
Hot For Love – Judas Priest
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, nowhere to go!
Fairytale of New York – The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
Innuendo – Queen
The Ballad of John Henry – Joe Bonamassa
Donald Fagen – I.G.Y.
or
Van Halen – Right Now
(Because they’re totally similar. :P)
Something you shouldn’t play
Killing in the name – Rage against the machine
Something you should
Heart of Glass- Blondie
Why not?
=PThis is where @lucifer9783 replies with:
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell meYou’re right, I wont be playing that.
Shivers- The Birthday Party
or
Cars- Gary Numan
Brilliant Disguise by Bruce Springsteen.
Little Richard – Anything but I’d wager you’ll only have Tutti Frutti
Angus McFife – Gloryhammer. 😛
Seriously: Cornflake Girl – Tori Amos.
Did I once hear a metal cover of Cornflake Girl or am I imagining it?
It’s possible. It’s also possible you’re imagining it. I have no idea.
Minor Joe – Kelly
Requests are now closed, thank you.
DARK SOULS 2 \o/
Countdown:
3335 daysNew pages of the Dark Souls 2 comic here:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.547965298609852.1073741834.119869331419453&type=1
I want to like it, I really do. And the art is beautiful. But it’s not a good comic. The script is basically terrible. It reads like fan fiction, a bit like my Soul Knight stories. But then, I guess it’s a challenge, trying to get across the ethos of Dark Souls in a 20-page fictional tale. If it was me writing it, and I’d been presented with the first ten pages as they currently exist, the character would die, be reanimated at the bonfire next to that crestfallen chap, and then spend the next eight or nine pages in a montage of painful, brutal and embarrassing death. Each panel, one death. At this point, I don’t know how else they expect to finish it up, but it’s been pretty bland and generic so far.Um, it’s 35 days in Australia. 11th in the US, 13th over here.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO/vader
and… 53 days for moss terrace v_v
Morning everyone.
So room hire for Kingpin is $100 an hour. Tech_knight and I were going to fund it, but I thought it might be a good idea to ask if people on here wanted to chip in. This is on top of the package that we all have to pay for. The package includes food, 1 complimentary drink and the activity.
Those willing to chip in please send me an email at scree[at]y7mail[dot]com. I need to send people my separate bank details. I have an unused bank account that we can use.
I’ll chip in wouldn’t feel right having you two foot the whole thing
Just remember that this is extra cost, aside from the $48 package that everyone has to pay.
That’s fine haha
I’m happy to help on that front.
I’ll make a deposit!
I’ll chip in.
Sorry that I couldn’t post this yesterday, work’s been killing me this week 🙁
I figured as much. No stress.
Email sent 🙂
Do we need to book for a certain amount of time, or do they just bill us at the end?
Not sure how much time Mrs Tigs and I will be able to spend but we are happy to chip in as well
Certain amount of time unfortunately. You have to have everything paid by the day but luckily I will be saving us money by bringing my ps3 and 360 as they both have singing games on them. It saves us $250
Anyone else have issues with the Humble Bundle steam activation yesterday? Instead of the CiV expansions Gods & Kings, Brave New World I ended up with duplicates of Civilization 4 and Warlords. Weird.
I had to click the link for brave new world a couple of times before it went into my library but it’s in there now. Can you try it again and if it’s still not giving you the right DLCs (for the right game) send the links to humble bundle people?
Huh? People actually play the games they buy on Steam…? That’s weird.
Frrrrrreeeeaks.
*hunches over enormous, overflowing pile of unplayed Steam games*
What’s that? This massive pile here blocks the acoustics quite well.
I bought a Civ pack in a sale once and got duplicates of Civ 3 and Civ 4 and the various expansions. I moved them to my junk folder. I couldn’t install the duplicates so I assumed they were maybe a mac version or something.
Correct. All good, I received an email stating the duplicates are separate Windows and Mac instances and that the missing Gods & Kings was actually tucked away under a separate DLC section. It doesn’t explain why Brave New World is listed in games, however.
Just a bit of a humble jumble that I wasn’t familiar with, that’s all.
Day I think it’s 5 in Sydney and today we are going into the city! Which is alright because it’s not far from where we are staying so besides a book shop and the museum is there anything else major to see in Sydney CBD (besides the normal landmarks)
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @masha2932 @markserrels @mrtaco @powalen @ruffleberg @shiggyninty
Not really 😛
EDIT: If you happen to see a Little Vienna, go there for lunch. Best. sandwiches. ever.
EDIT2: HobbyCo is a pretty cool guy too!
Duely noted and also thanks again for the easy access tags page!
Well there’s @powalen I guess.
Don’t go to Sydney Tower / Sydney Eye / Whatever-they-call-what-will-always-be-Centrepoint-Tower-to-me-now. Expensive tourist trap and you can’t even see the harbour stuff cos of other buildings.
Really? Shit well I’ll tick that off the list haha, it’s always center point tower and that won’t change dammit!
I went once when I was a kid and it was awesome. Wouldn’t bother now, I guess. I didn’t realise the congestion of the other large buildings was that bad these days.
There’s a ummm, a bridge and like, a fancy building in the city. Apparently they’re pretty cool guys.
Kino?
QVB across the road from the bookshop.
If you’re in Circular Quay walk into the lobby of Customs House and look at the little, scale model of Sydney beneath your feet. Go “Oh, cool, a little, scale model of Sydney beneath my feet” then walk out.
If you have the time – and maybe if the weather clears up a bit – you can jump on the Manly Ferry. Walk to the beach, have a drink or coffee or lunch or whatever and head back to the city.
Enter The Matrix.
that little model thing certainly is pretty cool.
also, play hide & seek in the library. coz you’re an adult & why not?
And the gym entrance near my work is in the latest Wolverine movie. Freaked me out when I saw it in there! It’s not a fancy office, dammit!
Depends on how familiar you are with Sydney, I guess, but for a first time tourist…
Start at the Oxford St end of Hyde Park, make your way over to College St & head toward St Mary’s Cathederal. It very pretty if you can get inside.
Keep heading down toward Macquarie St, & you’ve got the old Barracks, State Library, Parliament house etc. take a detour through the Domain if you wanna check out the State Gallery. its pretty cool.
from there, the Botanical Gardens are pretty close, so why not go get lost in there for a bit?
once you’ve found your way out, you should be pretty close to Circular Quay, so Opera House is nearby.
on the other side of the Quay is the Museum of Contemporary Art, which is pretty cool sometimes, depending on whats being exhibited.
from there, you could head up George St to the Rocks, check out some of the oldest parts of Sydney & get something tasty to nom on. I think they’ve actually got markets on Thursdays? That might only be Friday-Sunday though…
umm… from there, head back toward the CBD via York St. lots of decent little bars & stuff & some really boutique shops can be found in dodgy alleys there.
then…. I dunno. that’s all I’ve got.
Edit: well… that’s not all I’ve got. the rest just depends on what you’re into.
That is quite a list so I think that’s going to be the go! Cheers 35!
Oh, and there’s like, three JB HiFis.
4!
World Square, Galleries, Pitt St Mall, Strand Aracade
& westfield.
Looks like he’s set for the day then.
Actually, what Flu said: the ferry to Manly is the thing I always recommend. Taronga Zoo is also pretty good (and an American friend confirmed that “it’s actually really good” after going to a few more around the world)
If you’re wanting coffee tweet me your location and Ill try making a suggestion.
Sydney Aquarium because turtles \o/
If you like art galleries, I recommend checking out Art Gallery NSW!
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/
Watched first two hours of Cloud Atlas last night. HOLY DAMN, such an amazing movie. Have an hour left though. Was way too sleepy. Love some of the stories more than others, but really appreciate what it’s trying to do.
I stand by my review from when I saw it in America: It’s definitely a movie.
(By which I mean I think it was interesting, and I think I enjoyed it, but I’m not sure on either of those points. Only thing I’m sure about is that I saw it at a cinema, and it contained only handful of actors in may different roles)
Haha! Sounds so wanky, but I was captivated watching last night. CAPTIVATED. XD
Oh, I agree. I found it engrossing, partly because I was trying to digest it all. So I know I was engaged it what was going on, but by the end I just don’t know if I came away happy with it!
Oh, true!. I still have the home stretch of the movie to go. So far, so good though!
This was me pretty much. Whole thing just felt so intangible and hollow after thinking on it. Like a Christmas ornament. Looks amazing and complex but really nothing in it. Enjoyed it while watching but ultimately didn’t like it.
I see it more of an anthology of sorts, I hope it all ties together in the end but I’m enjoying the individual stories. (And I suspect I would if there were no connections at all.)
Can definitely see this being an acquired taste movie, though!
Edit: Though I shouldn’t speculate with an hour to go. XD
Finished the movie. Loved it so, so much. Easily up there with my favourites.
“First, we’re thrilled to announce that the first Oculus co-publishing project is none other than EVE: Valkyrie, making Valkyrie an exclusive Oculus Rift launch title.”
Well that’s cool.
From the humble bundle I have Civ 3, 4 &
Civ V and Gods & Kingsavailable if anyone wants them. First in best dressed etc etcThis morning I’m hungry, but I have a Muffin Break muffin 😀 great success
I didn’t think you could gift out humble bundle codes any more. Think they get locked to your steam account
I selected it to be a gift, gifted what I wanted to myself and this is what’s left. They split the bundle up into different keys 🙂
if they’re still around i’ll take Civ: V and gods and kings… i guess 🙂
no probs, send me a message (assuming you’re on facebook) and I’ll send you the links 🙂 https://www.facebook.com/CUFCfan616
done it should be in your ‘others’ inbox 🙂
and replied 🙂
Incoming brag:
So, after a rather blatant push yesterday to increase the number of Facebook fans of my Shane W Smith page, I now have more likes than I do Facebook friends.
*BLOOBLOOP* Achievement unlocked: Popular Hermit.
Oh, here’s the link if you want to like it too: https://www.facebook.com/ShaneWSmith.Author
Read: People like your writing but not you?
😛
It’s the only thing I ever wanted for my life!
Edit: Ha! I know it’s kind of silly, but in some ways it’s true. It’s validation for my writing if it’s liked by people who don’t like me! And validation is important. *nods firmly, @dc -style*
Don’t trust us?
I operate from the assumption that people feel sorry for me. I also believe in the inherent niceness of my friends. I’d trust most of my friends with my life, but I don’t trust their compliments. It’s nothing personal.
Edit: And if the reviews I’ve received from strangers are any guide, there is a certain level of Shane-friend sugarcoating on what you guys say about my work. Love you for it, but it’s there.
I think @dc can attest that I’m not particularly mindful of people’s feelings when I don’t like something.
Well, the only things I’ve ever published were a long time ago, which I don’t even have the rights to because I’m an idiot, so you’re STREETS ahead of me. 🙂
The pre-edit version of this sounds like it needs to be a TransientMind Story. But I’m guessing you don’t want to do that 😛
I run a very real risk of turning into a caricature of myself!
Wait, what? Your friends are nice? Is that a thing that can happen?
Ok. I watched the first episode of season 3 of Sherlock last night. Yes, I know I’m a long way behind, but I don’t like pirating things and I don’t have the bandwidth to do it. I don’t know if this has already been discussed but one thing that I noticed after having some time to digest it was:
Was the plot to destroy the Houses of Parliament ripped off from V for Vendetta? I mean, Tube car loaded with explosives sent into a closed station. Even the fake footage of the explosion looked like the shots from V for Vendetta of the Houses of Parliament being destroyed.I haven’t even watched the first episode yet. The season 1 DVD has been sitting on my shelf for about 12 months or so.
New episode 1 summary:
Kahn basically stops Agent Smith wearing a mask from blowing things upI felt that the crime was kind of tacked on, like the real story was about sherlock and watsons reunion and how everything had changed.A lot of people have complained that the show seems to be less about solving the mystery and more about how great Sherlock is, which I feel
was already a building issue during season 2 and really mirrors the original stories (his growing renown/popularity was part of why he took the opportunity to fake his own death in the first place). I feel like this is a deliberate narrative decision and will make sense in the long run. I hope.If it’s Moffat, it never makes sense in the long run. By the time he gets to the end, he’s forgotten what he originally planned and just makes something else up to cover for it.. 😛Dark Souls question.
I’ve just started playing, and I’m up to the bonfire in The Undead Burg. I rested there and it reset my Estus flasks from 10 to 5.
Is it a good idea to kindle every bonfire you come across in the game, or are you better off saving your humanity? I have 6 humanity, and will need to use 2 (1 to reverse the hollowing, and 1 to kindle).
In the Undead Burg, I’d say do it. You’ll be resting there quite a lot. There are a number of bonfires that you’ll spend quite a lot of time at in the game, either because they’re sort of hubs for other areas (like the Undead Burg one, even if you don’t realise it yet), or because you’ll be dying frequently. Those are the ones to focus on kindling. Others might still be worth doing, but only if you have spare humanity and feel like it.Except for an increase in luck, the usefulness of humanity is kind of limited to the kindling of bonfires that early in the game anyway (though shortly you’ll get access to co-op multiplayer via Solaire)!
Later on in the game, you might decide to farm some humanity in the depths, and just go around kindling every bonfire in the game up to 20, to get ready for NG+. But I don’t know if you plan to do that or not.
Thanks for the info.
I didn’t know there was an area where you could farm humanity, think I might have to do that.You’re not really near it, yet. And even so, it’s best not to do it when you’re there the first time.
Spoilers for stuff:
Best to wait until you have the Gold Covetous Serpent Ring, and are very overlevelled for the area, so you can carry 10 humanity without worrying about it. This will increase the drop rate of humanity to its maximum. It’s better as a late-game activity, when you’re procrastinating because you don’t really want to die to the Four Kings again or visit the Tomb of the Giants 😛By the way, details: there’s a section of the Depths just past the bonfire that has about 12 rats. They’re the ones who drop the humanity. The Dark Souls wiki pages have tonnes of details.I had the feeling that it would be a fair bit further on.
Chasm of the Abyss is also a great location to do this (or without the DLC – the Baby Skeleton Pond in the Tomb of the Giants) – way more suited to late/end game, obv. 😛Nah, those places are too freaky for my liking 🙁
For @shane’s Eyes Only. And Maybe @freezespreston. Or other people who are Dark Souls veterans.
Basically, loads of spoilers for Dark Souls stuff.
Warning: ignore following if you are adamant about only formulating DaS story-theories based on your own perceptions. Have you guys seen the ‘Untold Lore’ series of videos? Google “the untold lore”, sans-quotes.I found that much like souls, Humanity should be there to be used.
Yeah, it does give you benefits like increased drop rate, but unless you’re utterly confident in your skills, you’re going to die, and it’s going to be lost.
So hey, might as well use ’em while you can.
Yeah, I’ve already died about 15 or so times.
I can think of at least one good reason to save some up.
An NPC’s story can result in a bad end unless you are able to open a door by: A) being part of a particular covenant and B) being high enough rank in that covenant by donating humanity.I tend to kindle if I already have accrued humanity that I could lose any time, but I try to save the humanity items. If I’ve picked up a few I sometimes burn one or two for a bonfire. Also – it shouldn’t reset if you have more than 5, it will only top up to 5 unkindled if you have less.
Yeah, I only had 4.
You haven’t entered NG+ yet right? it usually best to wait until you reach the fire lord than make your way back to the prison in the library and farm humanity and go around the world kindling fires.
Definitely Kindle in Undead Burg as per @shane’s suggestion.
I didn’t and it got pretty tough the further I pushed into that area.
I don’t know if you want to know this so I’ll put it in spoilers. It’s advice for after you beat the Undead Burg boss
After you beat the Taurus Demon, (I won’t tell you the best tactic in case you want to figure it out for yourself) a dragon will land on a bridge blocking your path forward. When you go underneath the bridge you can see his tail at the end of the bridge on the right. Bust out a bow and arrow and shoot his tail. He’ll fly toward you and you can get some sneaky stabs with a spear or sword. It’ll take 15 or so attempts but eventually you’ll get a new sword. This sword makes getting through the next few sections much, much easier.When I started I hoarded my humanity and souls but after the 15th time losing 20,000 souls because I only had 5 Estus Flasks (definitely not because I got overzealous with my stabs) I started kindling and spending souls as soon as I could.
I’ve been using my souls to level up as soon as I can.
I crossed the bridge near The Undead Burg bonfire where bombs are being thrown at you when you cross, I got into the room and before I knew it I was dead, but because I hadn’t found that bonfire yet I got sent back to The Firelink Shrine. If I die I make my way back to the area and run past any enemies, I make it the top priority to get my souls back before I do any fighting. By the time I found the bonfire and finally defeated the enemies in the room I had accumulated about 4,000 soulsSpend them!
If those three gave you a hard time I’d start leveling up.
Just beat the Taurus Demon (after 3 deaths), so I’ll give that a go.
EDIT
Did it with only 2 arrows to spare.Dude, that friggin’ demon took me like 5 hours.
Nice one on the dragon, too!
I have a feeling that you’re gonna blitz passed me now.
I got lucky on the fourth try, I climbed the ladder and did a drop attack, then just stayed between his legs and his attacks didn’t get me.I don’t know about that, where are you up to?
I’ve just entered Blighttown but, that’s the thing about this game, you might go in a completely different direction to me and end up somewhere else.
I did the Undead Asylum yesterday, and today I’ve been through The Undead Burg and into The Undead Parish. met the blacksmith, gone through the cathedral, defeated that big black knight and took the elevator back down to the Firelink Shrine.
Ha! I beat him on my second try. Granted, I was horribly over-leveled due to trying to kill bone-club guy.
EDIT: 500th comment. Yay!
THAT FRIGGIN’ GUY TOO!!!
Man, this game…
Kindling lasts over playthroughs so might not be a bad spot. You’ll be using that particular bonfire for quite a while.
So kindling never wears off? I swear blind I’ve done the undead burg bonfire but I’m not getting any more flasks. Do you have to be human to get the bonus?
I kindle all bonfires ever. If I don’t have the humanity on me, I burn those humanity-items. I don’t use them normally, so I have a couple dozen lying around without paying much attention to them.
Wait wait wait… That’s what kindling a bonfire does? I had no idea. Maybe I’d forgotten if you get told at the Firelink Shrine… I just thought the Firelink bonfire was special because it gave me 10 flasks instead of 5. I’ve been struggling along with 5 because I thought that’s what you were supposed to have /o\
Heh. When I started I was afraid to kindle bonfires because I thought humanity only dropped off bosses and minibosses and I didn’t want to run out.
I think all of the bonfires which are kept by a Flame Keeper are pre-kindled to give you 10. Firelink is one.
IIRC the one by Quelaag’s Sister is tooHey Guys!
I havent been much of a pen and paper/tabletop RPG’er so I’m having a problem.
My best mate has a big fear of doing role plays, however he’s about to start doing a course where he needs to do them. I was thinking something like D&D might be good for him, except he doesnt resonate well with fantasy. I’m thinking of trying to find a Sci-Fi one But I’m not sure where to start looking, let alone for good ones.
Any Ideas?
Also – Something thats not just pure combat, decision making would be a good mechanic.
That depends entirely on the GM.
Sci-fi RPGs!
Numenera is the one I GM for Taybies online atm- it’s set a billion years into the future, and is a mix of sci-fi and fantasy tropes slathered in a layer of weird. System is pretty light and easy to grok.
Warhammer 40k has a couple of games. Expect the story to be brutal, nasty and your character to be maimed, but grimdark is grimdark
Star Wars has been through a couple of iterations, including a D20 based ver and the new one. I’ve heard good things about the new one except I’m a little miffed you need special dice.
There was a Serenity RPG released a couple of years ago, but it’s about to be superseded by a brand new Firefly RPG (and when I mean “about,” I mean “released on the 18th). Cortex plus is a reasonably well thoguht of system.
Two more: Fiasco is a really cool GMless RPG that can be in a number of settings- you pick the setting you like. Very cool, very Coen Brothers, but RP heavy.
And a little out of sf, but Shadowrun is a fantasy cyberpunk setting. I haven’t played it on a table, but I know @ynefel has the book so maybe hit him up on twitter for details.
Get him to play an RPG video game to start with?
Video game rpgs are a very, very different beast to tabletop ones.
That he’s fine with: he can separate it in his mind because it’s a console, and the console can’t Judge him. His problem is the fear of judgement from other participants.
If that’s the issue, you’re best off playing with a group that makes outlandish characters- make it very rough and ready, obvious tropes. Don’t jump straight for jeepform or anything serious- be explicitly Star Wars, rough and tumble, outlandish.
Also, if you think they have potential to be uncomfortable, you can always have a red card for the table- place a red square in the middle of the table, and if players feel uncomfortable at any time they can just touch it as a signal to the other RPers to change tack.
As above. Add in a couple of alcoholic drinks, and just have fun with friends you’re comfortable with.
In terms of Sci-Fi RPGs, the ones that Red listed are all good however it does really depend on the GM to weave a convincing tale. It also kind of depends on what sort of Sci-Fi that you are going for as there are a tonne of different styles.
If you’re looking for a Deus Ex-ish style RPG, I’ve heard good things about Cyberpunk 2020. All sorts of corporate espionage and social decay and stuff and it’s getting made into a videogame by CD Projekt Red at some point (the same guys who do the Witcher series).
The Star Wars RPG is very heavily geared towards appealing to the fanbase so that might not be appropriate. Sure you could imagine it as being a generic futuristic setting but it tends to bleed through and project the Star War-sy nature.
I’m not sure about this one as I’ve never played it and haven’t really looked into it but apparently the Doctor Who RPG is decent. Again it’s probably more suited to fans but it might be worth looking at.
I’ve been told that Doctor Who allows anyone to be a timelord… allowing for much headfuckery
Ah yeah I figured that would have to be the case. Otherwise everyone would have to be human or alien race #57 that the Doctor inexplicably saves from destruction.
Maybe not suitable for what you’re looking for. 😛
DARK SOULS \o/
Took on the Capra demon, and i guess you can say he dropped the soap cause MAN DID I REAM HIM… well on my third try anyway.
First time i went up and said hello and he killed me with his “HERE HAVE TO SWORDS TO THE FACE IN A DOWNWARDS MOVE” move… second time i fell over his dogs and he got me with his “HERE HAVE TO SWORDS TO THE FACE IN A DOWNWARDS MOVE” move again….
third time i sprinted in and did a whirly attack with my bastard sword, taking a chunk of his health and killing both dogs in one swing…
then sprinted up the stairs and kited him a bit…
turns out that besides from his “HERE HAVE TO SWORDS TO THE FACE IN A DOWNWARDS MOVE” move, he really doesn’t do that much damage (this is wearing the Elite knight armor +3) but after i learned to dodge that move he was easy pickings…
then i ran around lower undead burg for about 15 minutes because i couldn’t find the way to the depths… who hides stairs there anyway? (next to the last bridge) took me forever to find XD…
Anyway that’s all i got up to because then JC2MP happened and maaaaaaaaaan was that fun!
Capra seems to really infuriate some people. I thought it was quite a thrilling battle myself, and have never needed more than a couple of goes at it.It’s not the Capra himself, it’s those bastard dogs.At least they die in one hit.Also, I love that he has pets!
Aw now i feel bad for killing his pets :\
except they come back and he doesn’t…
I KILLED THEIR OWNER… HOW WILL THEY LIVE?
Who will pat them when they’re sad?
who will play fetch-the-hollow-guy when they’re playful?
WHO WILL TUCK THEM IN AT NIGHT?
*lip quiver*
I always pictured them sitting peacefully in that room before my guy burst in. Just chilling out. He’s patting the dogs affectionately, and they’re nuzzling his hands.
*eyes watering*
that’s why he’s angry man, can just imagine him roaring: “POOOOOOOOOOOOCHIIIIIIIIIEEEE” when you kill his puppies….
WE’RE NOT THE CHOSEN UNDEAD, WE’RE THE EVIL PEOPLE!
They’re not his pets, they just happen to be in the same room. After he’s gone, the dogs respawn in that spot.
This. So much this. Also the fucking camera which plays *really* badly in such a small area.
This is such bullshit. I really wanted Drakengard 3 and they’ve finally given it a date.
EU gets a digital-only release in May. US gets a physical CE which is Squenix-store exclusive (no importing) and has a bunch of stuff. 🙁
Squenix hates us.
Well, that sucks.
:'(
Yep. Also it seems like the game’s gone from being dual-language to ‘Japanese VO is post-release paid DLC but if you order the CE you get it early & free’.
Except of course that we can’t get the CE in PAL-land so I don’t even know if we’ll get the JP VO DLC. I asked them on Twitter but got nothing so far. 🙁
So even the standard physical edition is S-E shop exclusive in the US, effectively it’s digital-only. They say they’ll have the JP VO as DLC but you have to preorder to get it free, and of course us plebes in PAL-land can’t preorder so effectively getting the best experience with the game will mean paying even more. 😐
Squenix are really good at being assholes to their fans.
Urk. 🙁
Just to be different, I would like some Dark Souls advice.
I’ve just entered Blighttown and I still have the Drake Sword. Should I be looking for an upgradeable weapon at this point or should I stick with this ol’ reliable?If it still works for you, then stick with it. It’ll probably see you through Blighttown, but won’t be much good for you for much longer than that. Most people upgrade from Drake Sword to Lightning Spear, once they find it in Sen’s Fortress. There’s a blacksmith in Anor Londo who opens up a whole range of new upgrades to weapons. All that’s in your future, after Blighttown, though.At this stage, though, giving up the Drake Sword will almost certainly mean a reduction in damage, unless you’ve been pumping the scaling stats of whatever weapon you choose or choose a slower weapon that’ll leave you vulnerable for longer.
Really, though, it depends upon your style. If you are overzealous with stabs, a spear might be good for you (because you can keep your shield up while you stab). If you like big fuck-off weapons, then find a claymore or axe and start upgrading it. (Upgrading a bow is a good idea too.) The Drake Sword is a really decent weapon that caters for a range of play styles, and should see you through Blighttown just fine.
Edit:
Oh, by the way, if/when you find dragon scales, don’t waste them upgrading the Drake Sword. Save them for other Dragon weapons you’ll find along the way. I believe Freeze is a big advocate of the Dragon Great Axe, for example.TL;DR: Long answer is yes, start looking, but you’ll be okay for a little while longer if you don’t find anything.
I never understood why people went from Drake Sword > Lightning Spear imo it should be Drake Sword > Demon Spear, it has greater reach and stat bonuses I love the thing.
Happened naturally on my first play through. Guess the lightning spear is a pretty good find if you’re too indecisive to change the nature of weapons.
Haha, that’s totally me. Even though I was pushing for the achievements to max out one weapon of each type, it was SO HARD choosing which weapon to send down each upgrade path. 😛
I’m kind of a wait for an opening, attack until they start telegraphing then back off or put up my shield.
So I’m not careful but I’m not reckless.
I’ll stick with it for a bit and see how I get on.
I think by that point in the game, I’d been lucky enough to get a Black Knight Sword dropped, and had tailored my soul levels to get the stats to wield it. It’s a slow weapon, or at least slower than the Drake Sword, but it’s a very good low-mid-level weapon. If you’ve got it, that’s not a bad replacement.Either way, good luck!
The Balder Swide Sword is a pretty decent weapon with a nice shabby move set, and scales high with DEX. Can be gained as a low-chance random drop from the Balder Knights hanging around the Undead Parish. I’m taking that one all the way to +15.
Dunno.
Thanks.
I’m here for you, man.
I kinda skipped that sword because I had a battleaxe from one of those skellington dudes in the Burg. (Rare drop, is my understanding.) By the time I knew about how to get that sword, I’d already found the upgrade blacksmith and made improvements to my battleaxe and strength such that it wasn’t much of an upgrade. I used it a while, but I quickly replaced it with the man-serpent greatsword that a snakedude dropped out front of Sen’s fortress.
Which I LOVE (partly because it looks like early Ichigo’s sword from Bleach) and am still using an upgraded version of. I’ve got zweihander and greatsword as well, but I’m saving those for upgrading to Lightning and Fire alternately, while my manserpent sword I’ll just upgrade down the ‘normal’ path for kewl physical damage+affinity bonuses.
The Drake Sword doesn’t scale with any stats (it’s fixed 200 dmg) so yeah, you might be able to get an upgrade, but it really depends on what your build looks like. I dumped mine about halfway into the Depths because I’d pumped my dexterity high enough that a sword I got as a drop did more damage, plus it’s faster.
Two glasses of OJ for breakfast and one glass of coconut water for brunch! \o/
(Trying to kick the coffee habit.)
Why are e-mails so hard?
is this a dad joke that should be on page 6? 😛
I was thinking that to myself once I’d posted it.
Because they’re NSFW?
Because you’re lying to yourself!
edit: whoops wrong thread
Write from the heart, man.
Here, I’ll start you off.
I think I need to find a way to actually use this.
The last part is gold, and must be stolen/used wherever possible.
As long as I get royalties, feel free. I accept cash, and embarrassing anecdotes from which cash can be extorted.
Hopefully getting new phone tonigh
Has Twitter gotten back to you about your account?
still no
iPhone!
Watcha getting? Watcha getting? Watcha getting? Watcha getting?
Time for a new phone for me soon. Hopefully the Galaxy S5 gets announced this month then I can save up for it. No more bloody contracts for me
Then why blow money on an overpriced phone? 😛
I like having the latest phone 😛 My S3 is getting slower each day. I’m also keeping an eye out on what HTC bring out next as I was tossing up between the HTC or Samsung. If neither phone is great I might hold out for the Galaxy Note 4
My old phone got fixed.
I would have gone el cheapo, prefer to spend the cash on games/ comics etc
Hi I’m Rocketman
AMA
asl
22
Male
Your Dreams
Already did that.
Keep an ear out for it, gang.
Yes.
Oh you think you know.
I thought I knew.
But holy shit, you don’t even know.
Oh boy.
Anything?
American Medical Association? New job? You’re moving? You’ve become a doctor? Congrats on all fronts, man.
How much?
More than a little, less than I’m proud of.
WHY ARE YOU SO COOL!?!?!
i sleep on the otherside of the pillow without flipping it.
Would you rather fight one horse sized duck or 100 duck sized horses?
100 small horses
Folder or scruncher?
At the risk of TMI, I never knew this was a thing until recently. Or standing/sitting.
Haha, it’s both – half standing and half sitting. A sort of lean to one side.
TMI
Sitting.
But facing the toilet.
That way you have a shelf for your comic books!
Genius! That way you have something to put your TV dinner tray on.
Efficiency.
Folder
Dear Rockets,
why? 😛
Regards,
Pixel
sorry never got a screenshot of the aftermath
My bus was lonely. It needed bus friends for self esteem.
What was your father like?
Wow i didn’t expect that
As you guys may or may not know my father died when i was 7, it was a farming accident. He went to the bottom of a pumping well to fix the pump and upon climbing back up he fell and died.
Because of this i know very little about his character apart from the stuff my mother has told me, this means that i have a very biased view because after all who tells a son that his dead father was anything but a saint. I do know that he finished highschool top of his class and by all accounts was the smartest person in our family. I know he cared from a dwindling memory where he gave the afternoon off too all of his workers so they could play cricket with me. I also know he put up with my mum so he must of had the patience of a god. He probably was a lot like me but older and a little less of a nervous wreck.
Where were you on the night of August 5th 1975?
haunting a barn.
Why are your eyes so dreamy?
i brush them every night before bed.
Did you get any value out of that stupidly long writeup I did about last season’s crappy anime and do you want something similar for the current season?
Would you rather drown, or be burned alive?
So just before I went away I got 3 months of Sony’s Music Unlimited for $3 thinking I’d use it for that time and then not care if I didn’t have it. But I think I’m addicted. It was really handy to let me listen to bands from the cruise I hadn’t heard before to see if I wanted to check them out. And now it’s helping me with the school walk because it lets you download playlists for offline playback,and it’s also way quicker to just access music you already own from Music Unlimited instead of having to go to the hassle of transferring it from your computer to your preferred listening device.
Sneaky Sony, they know what they’re doing. 😛
Whoa, a streaming service that lets you download and do offline playback? I might have to look into this.
I thought that spotify premium has that as well
what’s the hit to data usage on your phone/tablet?
I have no idea. I have no data as I’m using prepaid so I just use my home wi-fi and grab stuff for use offline while I’m out.
I had heard nothing but negative things about it, people ranting about greedy Sony and awful service. Mrs Freeze wanted to use it for her birthday so we signed up for the trial and it turns out it’s damn good. Which makes sense since Sony owns like half the music business.
Permanently subscribed now.
By contrast, I totally regret signing up for the xbox 360 music thing for as long as I did.
It’s not entirely my fault – when I did it, they were showcasing an awesome collection of the best of the 90s! And like the actual best, which still stand the test of time, as opposed to the best songs for making you cringe! I plead temporary insanity.
spotify does this too and its free.
Spotify is more limited in its selection and you have to link it to Facebook. I’d rather pay.
Gaming related story! OMG
So last night whilst sitting on my couch my wireless 360 controller’s charge died. I hooked up the play and charge kit and pressed and held the home button to power it back on. Lo and behold when I glanced back at the screen, HELLO! Some fancy new media centre front-end I had never seen before appeared!
Long story short I accidentally discovered Steam’s Big Picture interface for the first time.
So pretty.
And then you found $10?
I wanted a peanut.
Yeah, pretty much.
Slow-Pop news! I’m finally nearing the end of Pokemon X after getting it on release day. \o/
A purity Nuzlocke run is harder than I thought it would be. (By that I mean I can only use Pokemon that are a single-type. Turns out there aren’t that many.)
Dark Souls!
The Moonlight Butterfly was an intense disappointment. Reading up on it after the encounter I found out that the NPC summon I stumbled across is well known for ruining that fight. Oh well…Question:
Ring of Artorias – is there any rush to buy it now and go open that door, or should I just do that whenever? I kinda wanna spend my 20k souls on upping my str so I can use the Black Knight Greatsword sooner rather than later.Get it, then farm the Garden for more souls. There are some respawning enemies worth a decent number of souls (and they can be killed stupidly easy if you’re okay with exploiting AI shortcomings).You can do both!
@rize:
FYI if you do this, a run through the four respawning NPCs in the garden behind the crest nets 7000 souls, plus there are 3 in there which are worth 3000 each but two of them are pretty hard. Takes all of five minutes to beat the four respawning guys and run back so you can get souls really fast there, you’ll make the 20k back with interest after a few hours. But this is provided you can beat the two armored knights in there. I found them pretty difficult.Protip: You can just run and hide on the narrow cliff between the staircase (where you entered) and the bottomless pit. Put your shield up. They’ll charge up the stairs and try to jump on you, and will almost always topple off the edge. Once you’ve proven to yourself you can beat them, you don’t need to prove it again 😛That would have been nice to know before I spent an hour trying to beat the second one. 🙁
Don’t worry about the crest of Artorias. You don’t need to get in there until later in the game. You would be better of levelling up / upgrading you weaponsI must be the only person that doesn’t grind souls in this game. XD
I try to refrain from doing it, i’ve only really done it once because i wanted to upgrade my weapon and went for a wander through the undead burg to achieve it… aside from that, no grinding, at least not yet 😛
I don’t!
Have grinded for shards on occasion though.
Open the door. Doooo eeeeet. Your first clear of the area will make your
moneywhatever back.This Dark Souls craze is really sweeping Kotaku at the moment. XD
Quite rightly, too. PRAISE THE FUN! \o/
Praise it… *shakes fist*I still can’t join the Sunbros cause I only have 15 faith and no one will summon me…
You on PC?
Yup. Not a lot of people summoning for bosses apparently. If I can help defeat 2 bosses I can join up.
What level are you roughly? You have to be within 10 levels or so as I recall.
I’m not exactly sure where my next most likely bosses are, probably Sif & maybe the moonlight butterfly (I can’t for the life of me remember if I killed it or not)
Moonlight butterfly is pretty damn easy pickings though… even without summoning that witchy thingy… i took it down with dodging and smashing the crap out of it when it landed
Oh yeah, it’s just for the summon-boosting rather than the needing help. I’ve solo’d every other boss in the game so far.
From what I’ve read you need to summon the witchy lady for the butterfly so she’s available to summon later in a vastly harder fight in Anor Londo where you really would benefit from help. If you don’t summon her the first time you can’t the second
@aliasalpha
… well f*beep*!
It’s what witchy-poo’s page rather strongly implies but it might have changed since it was written
http://darksouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Witch+Beatrice
As a side note, a H.R. Pufnstuf mod for Dark Souls would be the creepiest thing ever.
Yeah that is the case.
I have never actually summoned her – never bothered to be human for the butterfly fight so I never even knew she existed till recently.
I’m still a holdout! How about them adventure games? I really need to finish Broken Sword! hopefully The Wolf Among Us is available on PS3 tonight!
I really need to finish Broken Sword as well. *waits for Revolution to finish the damn thing*
Ending of BS5 Act 1 is no where near as satisfying as Broken Ages!
I’ll probably be here in two years asking for advice.
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I really feel like it’d end up being one of those things I’d end up hating if I ended up trying it, for some reason.
Sunbro hipster
*sticks out tongue*
you just don’t like it cause all the cool kids do
😛Yeah. I tend to get that a lot from my friends, about many things.
I swear I’m not though 🙁 Hipsters are gross.
you know i’m kidding right? 😛
you’re not a hipster! it’s okay not to like things, even if others are raving about it…
if it wasn’t i’d be a hipster because:
Hate most sports, despite a lot of people love it = Sports hipster
Hate Call of Duty and similar games = COD Hipster
etc.etc.etc.etc.
You’re fine mang! 😛
Of course!
Hipsters hate things due to their popularity. I hate them based on their merits, or lack thereof 😛
I reject your answer based on being logical and making sense…
i hate it
*hair flick*
now excuse me while i go load up my Linux laptop because something something greedy major corporations something.
Everyone hates Dark Souls. Absolutely everyone. Then after a few hours, for about 50% of us it clicks and we love it.
The other 50% slink off back to call of duty because they’re big babies who can’t handle a real challenge. We look on them with pity because they’ll never really praise the sun…
If I slink, I’ll be going back to my Battletoads/F-Zero GX/Contra 4/TTFAF 😛
The real challenge of Dark Souls is paying attention, doesn’t sound very difficult but let me tell… oooh shiny!
http://youtu.be/QereR0CViMY
Flu, you’re pretty great. I was telling Strange yesterday how you’re one of my favourites.
That and you’re a jerk! A JERK!
Why not just wait for Dark Souls 2 at this point? 😛
Because it might suck but Dark Souls doesn’t? And also you can play it right now and not wait? The PC version of DS2 is looking like it’ll be out in May 🙁
Feeling a bit agitated today. That kind of agitation where you’re in a good mood and feeling happy, but can feel crazy swirling beneath the surface ready to pounce. Makes me slightly short tempered. D:
its nice to know im not crazy and other people get that too. Seriously some days at work i will be singing abba and being happy then my boss will ask me to do something and ill get all moody at nothing. WEIRD MENTAL BROS
Well, that’s a writing mood if ever I heard one. How’s that going, by the way?
(Flawless segue there.)
Going okay, been doing more personal self-analysis writing than project stuff, though!
Had an awesome idea about one of my other projects after watching Cloud Atlas.
Tres magnifique segue. 😛
Gym is good for releasing that crazy. #helping
Nothing like a good Pokemon battle to release some of the crazy.
So you’ll be killing people with a smile on your face and a song in your heart?
i have days like that regularly lately 😛
I’d suggest you come around to my place and we do some boxing practice but you’d just go on about the distance being impractical and not actually knowing where I live
Anyone picking up Fable: Anniversary thingie today? I think I might be grabbing it at lunch.
I’ll wait for $15-20 price. I started off with Fable 3, I’ve got Fable 2 unopened, so Fable 1 I’ll get to eventually…
I wouldn’t mind getting it at some point…
I’ve only really played (and completed) Fable 2, and i enjoyed it immensely…
Never played Fable, but i heard Fable 3 was rather uninspired…
I’ll give both a go at some point, but like @stickman, i’ll wait for the price drop
Oh look! It’s Chicken Chaser!
“Your face looks like the inside of a nose.” Always loved that line.
“I swear, all these great works over the years I could be known for, but the ONE time at that Christmas party… Now it’s ‘Bill Chimpfucker’ for life.”
I’m torn. Apparently there’s Smartglass maps which is a good thing but there’s hidden collectibles you can’t unlock unless you buy the Prima guide. That kind of pisses me off. :/
So I mentioned that pointless, irrelevant survey management wanted us to fill out, which had a 4-page reference sheet to be printed out and used as a key to completing it.
Well… They just sent the entire department a ‘thank you for completing the survey’ email. Knowing full well that less than 10% of staff actually completed it. That’s a tad passive aggressive.
They also changed one of the organizational units’ name, but it’s at a level that no-one cares about and doesn’t impact anyone’s autosignatures, and due to the confusion they had to send three emails explaining and clarifying what that actually meant.
Maybe if we didn’t change the names of org units every three to six months, they might actually gain some traction and mean something to people. I swear it’s like a Dilbert strip every day in here.
Sounds awesome, and I look forward to more hilarious stories.
Sorry, I meant a Dilbert strip with no punchline, just pointlessness and despair. 🙂
Still somewhat entertaining!
Dilbert has punchlines? Every Dilbert strip I ever read was just an office scenario with someone stating the glaringly obvious!
There’s something strangely satisfying seeing people like @negativezero and @dkzeigeist going from hating Dark Souls to loving it.
@dkzietgiest?
@dkziegeist?
Fuck.
@dkzeitgeist
i before e except after z? If I was American that would still rhyme I guess
I didn’t hate it. I initially thought it wasn’t for me (took me eight hours to get past the Taurus demon) but I could always see the appeal.
Haha, everyone seems to go through that. I originally didn’t like Dark Souls and quit it, then months later I fired it up again and completely fell in love with it.
@dkzeitgeist 😛
If it helps, I totally hated it initially. Mostly because I was trying to go from the Asylum to the catacombs, and couldn’t see why people found this level of difficulty to be ‘fun’.
that’s my first hours of Dark Souls as well XD
“UUUHH what’s this, *thwack* wow those skeletons hurt…i’ll try aga- damn!
maybe onc- FUCKING SKELETONS
let m- FUCKING SKELETIONS
Bu- FUCKING SKELETIONS
IMMA- FUCKING SKELETIONS
etc.etc.etc.etc”
Only then did i learn there was another way 😛
I’ve never understood that.
I went downstairs first: “WTF?! Unhittable ghosts? Okay let’s try a different way”. Through the Graveyard: “WTF?! Giant skellingtons? Hmm, maybe I just suck…nope, I’m gonna see what else is out there” “Oh look, a path up the hill….”When there’s multiple ways to go, why would you try the same way again and again and again and give up, assuming it’s too hard before seeing where the other paths lead?
Because we’re (well at least me)
Can be persistent to the level of stupidity…
Also because i didn’t realise how free roaming it was, i though i was being funelled a paticular direction… but mainly the stupidity thing 😛
Honestly, having become fairly proficient and familiar now, I don’t understand it either. I was probably looking for any excuse.
I do remember going that way and getting knocked off the cliff twice, and stabbed in the gut (riposte) for an instant kill by the shield guy before giving up on that, but that was obviously just me sucking and not keeping an eye above when going for the obvious hollow below.
It MAY have had something to do with farming the Asylum for – I kid you not – literally HOURS before fighting the demon, in the hope that I could level up or something to gain power before attacking him.
I’m not sure, but I think it may have actually been possible to level up at the Asylum camp-fire at that point, maybe they patched that out, because I don’t think it is anymore. So yeah, at that point I was over it and there were better things to play. The game was ugly, I wasn’t having fun, and there was a VERY hipster-elite attitude flying around at the time, with it.
I didn’t need much excuse to find something more enjoyable to do.
Mate, “i” before “e” except when addressing me.
There’s a “t” in there somewhere, too…
I have things to do, but I don’t wanna.
Wat do?
INTERNET.
http://memearchive.net/memerial.net/2958/get-stuff-done-today.jpg
same, feeling as motivated as a Mexican at siesta time, those Mexicans do it right 😛
Download DosBox and play old-school games at work.
LIBERAL CRIME SQUAD – almost looks like work if you’re in IT!
I am in I.T. 🙂
So Star Citizen has hit $38 million in funding. $39 million goals haven’t been announced yet but will apparently be something other than new star systems. I’m still to put my money into it but somewhere down the line I think I’ll get me a Freelancer ship, just because I loved the game. Anybody else putting their hands into their pockets for this?
Yes. I am putting my hands in my pockets so that they don’t do anything stupid, like sign me up so that I can drain my life away on there.
Holy shit that is a lot of money…
GTA V had a reported budget of $265 million including marketing. Tomb Raider had a budget of $100 million or so, but for an independent game this is a massive budget. If there’s one crowdsourced game that needs to succeed though it’s this one. I can’t comprehend what might happen if it doesn’t deliver
The anarchist in me would like to see it fall flat, just to see what would happen 😛 But I don’t really think it would.
My interest in it is solely as a high-profile VR game, I’ve never really had any interest in MMO type games at all. Hell if I did get it I’d quite likely only go single player… (though that won’t happen because Steam :P)
It’s a lot of money when you consider the game’s formal fundraiser finished at a bit over 4 million. People have just kept giving them money ever since.
But yeah, fuck space sims, they’re so dead amirite??
I am (not really) ashamed to admit how much I’ve thrown towards the game. However the new concept art for the Banu Merchantman makes me very happy I decided to put down for it. That thing looks so damn cool.
And I’ve also joined a guild, which is something I’ve never really done before – seeing as I’m totally antisocial. This game though… it’s not even out yet and I’m already addicted.
This is my danger. I’m happy to through money at it though as I’ve been wanting a space-sim for ages. I tried Eve for a month but didn’t really get into it, so the chance to start in a new game from the beginning is really appealing.
I imagine a lot of Eve players will bring over the same guilds/companies though.
Surprisingly not, from what I’ve seen. I’ve been in since pretty much day 1 (Oct 19 2012) and I’ve seen a lot of the guilds getting created while I was searching for what guild I wanted to join. A lot of the guilds are transferred from other gaming communities but I haven’t really seen any EVE focused. It seems that the kind of people who like EVE aren’t the kind of people who like Star Citizen… In general.
Interesting. I guess Eve has been around for some time now and is still getting support and updates so people aren’t wanting to drop what they’ve done in Eve to start over again. That’d be my major concern really, jump into the multiplayer and find out that everyone’s already ganging up on each other and I’ll be inevitably stuck in the middle of a massive battle or something 😀
I think instancing will prevent those large scale battles in any case. There’ll likely be interfactional conflict but the focus isn’t on PVP in Star Citizen, it’s on PVE/PVP/YourDecision. It’s an MMO that’s not an MMO, which is part of what appeals to me really.
I have seen a Goonfleet affiliated guild in the SC boards but that’s about it.
Not that I know much about many other EVE communities.
Talking about the FLJK “Goonrathi” guild? I don’t (personally) know if they’re more EVE affiliated or more “Something Awful” related. I can’t say I’ve ever really done much research in to them, apart from laughing occasionally at some of their trolling attempts.
Well the Goons are basically a Something Awful EVE group and FLJK has several Goon references in the deets.
But I’m not a Goon myself so “shrugs”.
Fair enough, learn something new every day. I’m not, nor have I ever had any desire to be, a Goon so they just largely slide past my radar.
STOP TALKING ABOUT NEW SHIPS I DON’T NEED ANOTHER SHIP OH GOD.
Meeeeeerrrrrrrchantmaaaaaaaaaaaaan. It’s caaaaaling you. Or at least it would be if it was available. Which it will be in the future, for sure, but it isn’t right now.
@ShadowRize and @Cakesmith keep trying to talk me into funding it. I still haven’t preordered it yet.
@Shadow_Rize?
@Rize?
Third times the charm!
Rize is like Beetlejuice in that regard.
The 1 limited benefit to pre-ordering early (Lifetime Insurance) is no longer available, and there seems to be plenty of Alpha slots. There’s no harm in waiting at this point to see how things develop. I’d suggest waiting until the Dogfighting Module (DFM) is released and if you like what you see jump on board at that point.
The lifetime insurance kinda bugs me because it seems like a pay to win, and not just a normal one but a limited one. Hmm, maybe pay to win isn’t the right phrase. Maybe, pay to never lose.
I don’t see it that way, personally. The way it’s been described you’re only insuring your hull. Not your cargo or any upgrades. So most people will very quickly move past what the LTI covers. Then, since most packages contain 6 months of insurance, I think if you can’t earn enough in game to cover more insurance in 6 months of playtime then something is seriously wrong. Chris Roberts is on record as saying that basic hull insurance (i.e. equal to what LTI provides) will be a trivial “don’t even think about it” cost in game.
Minuscule in what regards? I can say the planet Earth is minuscule when compared to space but that doesn’t mean it’s small. What some may consider “small fee” might be a lot to someone that doesn’t play the game very often.
True, and we’ve got no real idea what anything will cost in the game. Just have to go on their stated intention of making it an easily affordable thing in game.
You may think it’s a long way down the street to the chemists but that’s just peanuts compared to space…
Not until the game actually fucking exists and is shown to be playable. Chris Roberts made good games in the 90s, but that doesn’t mean he still can do that now, especially since he spent a decade or so dicking around in the film industry.
I liked Lord of War. 😛
The Wing Commander film was hot garbage though.
That’s pretty much universally accepted.
Yeah, backed during the initial Kickstarter (puts on hipster glasses) got a Origin 315p waiting for me on launch.
As excited as I am for it and happy it is getting so much funding I have no doubt there is going to be so many hurt butts come launch day. I get the feeling a lot of people have very different and/or too high expectations which it may not meet.
Been listening to this all day. Resonates with me. ALSO JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT IS AWESOME. I KNOW IT’S STUPID TO HAVE CELEBRITY ROLE MODELS, BUT HE’S MINE! XD
“And if all alone is all you are the same thing goes for me.” :’)
http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2012/8/2/josephgordonlevitt.gif
He’ll always be Tommy from Third Rock From The Sun to me
People know how much I hate multicam sitcoms, but I always loved this one.
Then there’s this from (500) Days of Summer.
Hmmm, maybe I should start a tumblr and post JGL clips exclusively!
…
Maybe not. XD
<3 500 Days of Summer. He was so good in that! (Also you picked the perfect scene to link to)
I would stalk the shit out of that tumblr
Gordon-Levitt masturbates while choking week old puppies and can only climax once he sees the life leave their eyes.
I read it on Facebook once so it must be true.
They were right about the Illuminati!
Don’t be so open about it. They’re watching.
Sometimes I wonder if we should be scared that the Illuminati are the punchline of jokes. MAYBE THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT! *writes newsletter*
Newsletter? Way to play right into their hands, man.
*subtle tap to the nose*
That’s what HE wants them to think.
You have to play the game Shane, else you be the one that’s played.
I just think we’re all doing exactly what they wanted us to do, and expected us to do, all the time.
As a
paid shill of Big Illuminatiordinary citizen, I think the Illuminati get a bad rap.Not like those Freemasons.
I preferred masons in the old days when you just paid upfront, they’ve been ruined by microtransactions now.
We have so much in common \o/
My fourth TV has been pretty shitty lately so I’m starting the return process again. Figured I’d send an email to LG’s customer support for them to tell me what the best option is. Pretty prompt reply, asking for full details and pics of fault, and that a hardware tech will advise a fix. Although, they mention “street address” and “repair”, which rustles my jimmies. That’s not good enough for a $2500 TV. I shall reply to them and see what happens, though.
#testingAUlaws
How long have you had the TV for?
Depending on that there’s generally a 14 – 21 day DOA period from memory.
After that the manufacturer is in their full right to attempt repairs before opting for something like replacement unfortunately…
This is all based off memory when i worked as a “techie” for a electronics store.
My knowledge is also 4’ish years old so things may have changed.
I’ve had it for maybe 6 months. Yeah, law says they can opt for repair or replacement. However, this is a major failure as the fault is relating to the panel and backlight – the sole purpose of the TV. In that case, I’ll push for LG to either replace in-home, or I’ll just have to go back to the retailer and get a refund. TV is not ‘fit for purpose’.
More Dark Souls!
Just smashed the Bell Gargoyles on my first attempt. Because I was wailing on them from behind I got the tail axe, but it doesn’t look that great for me (I’m heavy str). Helm is nice, though.You took on the Moonlight Butterfly before the Gargoyles? Interesting!Te be perfectly honest, I forgot about the gargoyles…Immediately got summoned after to help beat them \o/
Hey, we’re pretty close to the end of the page… that sounds like a good time to go get something out of my head.
See I some kind of Dark-Souls-meets-Assassin’s-Creed-4 nightmare, last night.
BECAUSE EVERYONE LOVES READING ABOUT DREAMS AMIRITE?
My epic murder-struggle was originally a quest to free the dead heroes of the ages from an eternal torment in the demon-worlds.
In a vision, I’d seen these men and women of myth and legend held in torment by way of being bound into brackets in some infernal machine – the brackets were engraved with their names and mighty deeds in life. The machine eternally swung giant, rusty axes into their constantly-regenerating heads, as their burned-out empty eye-sockets wept steady streams of blood to feed the demon army below.
This quest took me across the tropical islands which were all that was left of a once-great, now-sunken nation in a world ravaged by flood-apocalypse. My time was spent assassinating island governors (and sometimes their garrisoned armies) who held the keys to the demon worlds, where I hoped to find a means to break the bonds that held these heroes.
Through stealth and might I murdered my way through demonic and human lands to gain the keys I needed to search the demon worlds for power, but in the process I encountered a deposed princess – the ‘last true wielder of magic’ who I agreed to escort to the Capitol to topple her tyrannical, usurper elder sister (the bastard child – the younger was the ‘true’ heir). The elder princess was being driven insane by her inability to channel and release all the magic building up inside her, poisoning her mind, and was in the process designing a ‘perfect world’ of supposedly-benevolent tyranny, which sounded like borderline genocide. Which wouldn’t be too bad – like I care about politics – if it weren’t for the fact that the youngest’s lineage of magic was needed to strengthen the weakening wards which kept the Elemental Ancients asleep; those city-sized titans had been bound to magical slumber mid-apocalypse, and the odds were pretty good they’d go back about their business of ending the world if the wards failed.
In exchange for my aid, the true princess would let me borrow her magic for my quest to free the tormented heroes. I don’t think there was any pressing need to free them, though… it just seemed like the right thing to do. If I’d been thinking long-term, it probably would’ve occurred to me that they might be useful in one-by-one waking and slaying the world-ending Ancients, Shadow of the Colossus style to remove the sword of Damocles hanging over humanity, but it didn’t occur to me at the time.
Close to my goal, I encountered a magic which allowed me to speak remotely to my wife, and when I asked after the well-being of our sons (who were infants), she told me they were well… and celebrating the births of their own firstborns.
That was when I noticed she was older than I remembered. Yeah.
Demons of unimaginable horror aside, that was the ‘nightmare’ part. Because my travels between worlds had been kind of distorting time, my wife had aged alone without me, and I’d missed my kids’ childhood.
That really, REALLY got to me, leaving me to basically drop everything and say, “Fuck that, I’m coming home,” abandoning all my responsibilities to fate/destiny/kingdom etc.
As it turns out, on my way back to my family by sea, I was able to use the viewing magic to discover the fate of the deposed princess. After I’d got her to the capitol, she pretty much single-handedly dethroned her sister with magic. It wasn’t even a fight. However, the youngest was a peaceful sort, and they talked it out and the younger sister took on board the elder’s reasoning. They continued to enact the plans for world domination anyway – the pair of them working together brought about peace and harmony (albeit at the cost of freedom) to the world, in a new (dictatorial) age of prosperity and happiness. All that slaughter and murder I’d done was utterly unnecessary, it turns out. Just ‘cleaning house’ of all those corrupt governors who’d been using demonic influence for personal power.
There’s probably a moral to that story. Sisters, doin’ it for themselves?
Maybe the moral is that the Heroes of the Ages are still locked in purgatory getting their skulls eternally re-made then split by mechanically-swung axes under the watchful non-eyes of faceless/headless, skyscraper-sized, ageless demon-sentinels who wait silently and patiently to bring all mankind’s works to wrack and ruin, devouring souls and hope in the gaping, razor-toothed maws that occupy their chest cavities.
Although, early on while I was in the chamber of tears (and utterly unable to actually do anything to free the heroes – hence seeking magic) I did notice that one of the Infernal Machine’s empty brackets had my name engraved on it (though no record of deeds). Dreams can do foreshadowing? Creepy. Also, I’m vaguely concerned that it’s possible the idea to wake and slay ancients might’ve been confounded and thwarted by the princess intentionally, such that she could use their ever-present threat as the excuse needed to justify her legacy of magic warding. ….Naaaah, she wouldn’t do that. Right?
Ssssssh. You lost me at Dark Souls. XD
Obviously my subconscious really digs the medium-low-fantasy aesthetic to parts of it. 🙂 Epic ruins and all that.
Speaking of which… That Dead End Thrills site, and all the videos people have been showing of Dark Souls looks WAY prettier than my PS3 version, which is ugly and grainy and blotchy with poor colour/brightness balance.
I’m thinking I need to move my Dark Soulsing to the PC. Which will mean rigging up the PS3 controller, modding and patching, tweaking .inis, and hopefully maybe copying save files over. Gluh. EFFORT.
Although I probably wouldn’t mind doing an entirely new character who focuses purely on STR/END/VIT instead of wasting so many points on int, attunement, and like… 30’ish dex.
…I kind of like the ugliness of it.
Also what freaking level are you? You said you’re using Havel’s shield, which needs 50 STR and 30 something Dex plus whatever else would be pushing you to 100 or so.
Yeah, somewhere around that vicinity. 100’ish. Still haven’t finished Anor Londo.
such grinding! much souls! wow! so overleveled!
The whole modding thing takes about as long to do as it does to find and download the files. If you’ve got the game on PC and can indeed copy the saves across (how? hacked PS3?) it I’d say go for it. If you don’t have the game I’d probably say wait to see what they do when GFWL is defeated. If they forge a new architecture from the unique soul it’ll be worth it but they might just feed it to Frampt.
Actually that’s a thought, GFWL saves are usually encrypted, are you sure save copying is possible?
You can’t even transfer Dark Souls saves between PS3’s like you can with every other game.
I have no idea if it is possible, that was a thing to research along with modding. Going in completely blind, so no idea how long anything will take in getting set up. Though it being quick by your report is very reassuring.
I seem to recall taking a while to find the right download for the graphics mod and then when I went to install it thinking “err, was that it?” because it was drop in one file, edit a line or 2 in the ini and job done
Critical mass achieved, mental implosion imminent…….. *head desk*
That poor desk
yep, the head shaped depression in it has almost worn through. I’m having that retarded problem where I’m good at my job so people keep piling more and more onto me to the point where I’m starting to f#$* up cause I can’t stay focused on one thing. I think I need a new job where I’ll act like a dimwit and hopefully people will avoid giving me too much to do. *head desk, desk shatters into splinters*
Melbournites: WOLF CREEK THE MUSICAL
“An outright marvel of a show”- Crikey.com.au
27 Mar to 20 April!
http://www.ticketmaster.com.au/Wolf-Creek-the-Musical-tickets/artist/1951061?tm_link=edp_Artist_Name
Backstory:
My brother is in it!Does your brother play the wolf? Or the creek? =PAt one point he plays a fireplace!What!? It’s not called WolfFireplaceCreek! PLOT TWIST!I can’t get Boy & Bear – Southern Sun out of my head.
Pretty okay music!
Better than okay if you ask me.
YOU ARE! >:|
Complimendelicious! Whatever that means..
$19.95 at the Humble Store at the moment will get you all of : Crusader Kings II, Crusader Kings II: Dynasty Shields, Crusader Kings II: Mongol Faces, Crusader Kings II: Songs of Albion, Crusader Kings II: Songs of Faith, Crusader Kings II: Ruler Designer, Crusader Kings II: Songs of the Holy Land, Crusader Kings II: African Unit Pack, Crusader Kings II: Songs of the Caliph, Crusader Kings II: Sword of Islam, Crusader Kings II: Dynasty Shield II, Crusader Kings II: Legacy of Rome , Crusader Kings II: Byzantine Unit Pack , Crusader Kings II: African Portraits , Crusader Kings II: Songs of Byzantium , Crusader Kings II: Sunset Invasion, Crusader Kings II: Russian Portraits, Crusader Kings II: Russian Unit Pack, Crusader Kings II: Songs of the Rus, Crusader Kings II: The Republic, Crusader Kings II: Mediterranean Portraits, Crusader Kings II: Songs of Prosperity.
If only we knew someone who liked the game and could hype it. Shame. Guess we’ll never know.
YOU RANG
Good deal, esp with the India expansion coming soon. I’m an expansion behind atm but the India one will get me back in.
If you do get this you’ll have hours of play, as it has Sword of Islam (Muslim rulers), Legacy of Rome (Byzantines), Sunset Invasion (Suddenly, AZTECS) and The Republic (merchant republics), but it doesn’t have The Old Gods (Vikings!) and Sons of Abraham (The Pope and Judaism).
Ok, I have heard lots here and there about Crusader Kings 2 but none of it sticks in my mind. Why should I purchase it…… GO.
Crusader Kings is a Grand Strategy game that is large in scope, but also intensely personal, and that’s what I love about it. Unlike other strategy games, where you control a “country” or a “civilization,” you control a Ruler in a dynasty, and that makes all of the difference. In addition to plotting and planning- can I press a claim for this throne, are the people content, should I build a new castle – there’s a whole other layer that’s about interpersonal rivalries and friendships.
Suddenly, you’re backing a plot to assassinate a rival claimant to another throne, while teaching your ward about charity, while sowing seeds of dissent against an uppity vassal, while petitioning the pope for a divorce, while buying votes to implement your new “give the king money’ law. And suddenly there’s a Crusade!
It’s also set on a massive map, that now covers Europe, the Middle East, the North of Africa, Russia, and soon India, and you can play as ANY ruler in those countries to a reasonable degree of historical accuracy (at game start anyway)
Intriguing! I might consider it as a contender to the pile of shame that is my Steam account.
One of the other great things: It’s been modded- there are already Elder Scrolls and Westeros mods for it, and it’s a perfect fit for GoT especially
Yeah, I seem to recall seeing something about a Westeros mod for it which piqued my interest at the time but I’d never played the game so didn’t really know much about how it would work.
See that’s what got me into it in the first place- thought “I’ll install the mod soon, i’ll just try the base game first”
100+ hours later, never got around to installing the mod!
It’s always seemed like something I’d love but have nowhere near the amount of time needed for it.
Likewise. I picked up the base game in a Steam sale, tried to get into it but I think it’s just one too many long winded ‘one-more-turn’ games that I don’t have time for. Plus I need a week or so just to get my head around the game mechanics
Yeah, that’s one of the definite flaws in the game, it’s complex and the tutorial is pretty awful. I suggest watching a video from someone like quill18 for pointers
As someone who used to love the old Microprose game Sword of the Samurai, this is what I needed to hear. why didn’t someone tell me this months ago?!
That’s one of the interesting mechanics- you can go from a popular and wise leader to an inbred simpleton to an iron lady within one play session
Rocketman’s AMA idea was cool. I think we should make that a thing with TAYbies. 😀
My name is Pixel, AMMT? (ask me most things :P)
Folder or scruncher??
Folder
GET OUT
*moseys out the door, folding everything on the way*
one day i might actually understand the difference, i know it started with toilet paper but has it’s changed the meaning since last time i came up for air?Still toilet paper.
Ah well, in that case… folder… except when i’m angry… I’LL GO ALL HULK AND THAT PIECE OF PAPER
Actually should just lead the introduction to AMA 😛
MUCH BETTER
In your native Russia, how many bears did you wrestle? Ten?
at a time, of course… we don’t have workout equipment
Good answer. I would’ve also accepted:
In Russia, the bears wrestle you!
Also please keep going with my multiple nationalities syndrom that i’ve got going 😛 soon people will be so confused no one will ever know… MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
OK then. Same question: Would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses or one horse sized duck?
There’s no good answer to that. Firstly because a horse-sized duck is just too horrifying to even contemplate, but also… who would fight a bunch of duck-sized horses? Can you picture a duck-sized horse? It’s too adorable!
I don’t understand what you mean
*pukes rainbows*
I’m an ideas man.
Why do you have such dreamy eyes?
Maybe we should nominate a Taybie to do an AMA each week?
I like how it seems to be something they don’t have a choice about, “@mrtaco, you’re answering questions today. Go!”
You can ask me whatever you like.
Whether I answer is an entirely different story 😛
Does she really make pillows or is it a euphemism for breasts?
She makes pillows out of people. Anyone, anywhere at any time could suddenly become a resting place without warning.
Must be inconvenient if you happen to be driving at the time
I like this idea. @Your turn! GO!
Good thing there’s not a user called Your, they’d be wondering what the hell is going on
That sounds like a recipe for disaster, I like this. Count me in.
Agreed!
Can I do an Ask Me Anything Except A Few Certain Things Or Really Anything That I Don’t Want to Answer? 😛 AMAEAFCTORATIDWTA!
EDIT: I would support a Thursday AMAday.
I like it,
nice,
short,
easy to remember
Ask Me Anything But Don’t Expect An Answer To Everything Because A Man Must Retain His Air Of Mystery And Some Questions Are Imprudent. AMABDEAATEBAMMRHAOMASQAI
Only if I can post “I am DC, ask me anything!”
I’ll do an Ask Me Everything
…I would be SO wary of doing something like that.
I’d have to be drunk.
That can be arranged. GET THIS MAN A DRINK!
I’d be happy to do one! I been here so long some noobs might not even know who I am! Just gimme a holler if it’s my turn, and I’ll be all over it like flies on shit!
TAYlist for the 6th of February 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by early morning blood tests – they’re fun* (*not fun)Wham – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (Requested by @cakesmith)
David Bowie – Let’s Dance
Van Halen – Why Can’t This Be Love (@beeawwb wanted Van Halen, the computer picked this one out, I hope it’s okay, also, could you have picked a more convoluted handle)
John Butler Trio – Close To You
Eminem – Spacebound
Blondie – Heart Of Glass (Requested by @Rocketman)
Cat Stevens – Father & Son (Requested by @shane)
Rolling Stones – Paint It Black (Requested by @35)
Johnny Cash et. al. – Highwayman (Requested by @tigerion, et. al. because lazy)
Tori Amos – Cornflake Girl (Requested by @strange)
Little Richard – Good Golly Miss Molly (@dkzeitgeist wanted me to play Little Richard, and thought I’d only play Tutti Frutti, so there)
John Paul Young – Love Is In The Air
Billy Joel – Goodbye Saigon (Requested by @benny)
I was mouthing along to “Why Can’t This Be Love” earlier (today’s playlist has been Van Halen’s “Best of Both Worlds” greatest hits album) so perfectly acceptable.
And beeawwb is the roughly phonetic spelling of B-ob, since a lot of registrations don’t accept “-” 😛
Man, whenever I talk about you behind your back and spread rumours, I’ve always referred to you as “Bedashob”!
The more you know!
I thought the hyphen was to extent the o. As in oo. As in Boob.
Very common misconception. I roll with it. Everybody loves bewbs.
Beeawwb. Love it.
Buy me a shotgun and you can have Bedashobs and Boomsticks.
I’m okay with all these Bowie selections that appear even though I forget to request them.
In fact, most of the tracks on the TAYlists each week are pretty okay. Good taste, people. Except for the Hanson tracks of course.
Nice list. I’d Spotify it, but we had an edict a little while back that streaming music was eating too much download
You picked my pun request <3
Ruined a perfectly good Cat Stevens song.
I picked my favourite of the songs you had requested.
You never pick mine 🙁
We didn’t have either of the songs you requested.
Since it’s on my mind as I’ve been listening to them all day, and since it’s now in the TAYlist…
People with an opinion on Van Halen: David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar?
Chazz: Okay, lemme ask you a question: who’s side did you take in the big David Lee Roth-Van Halen split?
Chris Moore: What?
Chazz: Who’s side did you take: Halen or Roth?
Chris Moore: …Van Halen
Ian: HE’S A COP!
Who would win a wrestling match: Lemmy or God?”
Lemmy!
E-MAIL SENT
Yup. Timeliest of fashions.
Now to do it again for another few places 😛
Don’t overbook yourself, man. 😛
Something something sharing something.
Caring?
Interview was different to normal. Instead of asking why I’m suited to the role they were asking if I’m the right person to go through a restructure, put up with technical difficulties with new software and help discover procedures and what have you for the next few years. Basically they said I have the technical skills (finance for those interested) or they wouldn’t’ve interviewed me in the first place but the whole direction of the interview threw me a little.
Plus the killer question: What’s your salary expectations? I know what the average salary is for my role as Robert Half do up a salary guide each year but I never want to say too much. It’s a worse question than ‘what’s your strongest and weakest skills?’
What I’m currently on +10~20%
I wish I could say that 😛
I only say that in the terms of “what would it take to get you to move” sense. I.e. if I’m happy in my current job and I want to move to something new at a different company, it’s going to take a bit to get me there. I probably wouldn’t change for less than 10% and I wouldn’t ask for more than 20% (because that’d likely be outside my qualifications / experience) so that’s where I approach it from.
My last change of job (which involved moving from Perth to Brisbane) was a 16% increase, for real world example.
No, minimum 25%. All things good in current job otherwise.
In my mind 25% increase means I’m not qualified for the job in question. But I think the key takeaway is “it would take a lot to get me to move” and that’s a good indication of job satisfaction. If you’ve got that you’re laughing.
If you started at the bottom of your position description salary bracket, 25% increase is barely going over the top figure of the bracket. If you’re making a career progression, you’d be aiming for top of the bracket, or the next level above anyway. Hence, 25% is the target.
Job satisfaction – hell yes. You can’t exactly put a sum of money on this.
Every single one of those questions is a huge red flag to me. Basically, the way I read it, they want to know if you can save their business and do it for no money 😛
BTW, what did you answer for the salary one? I would ask for the average wage plus a guarantee that it would at least keep pace with the cost of living, with the potential to earn more based on performance.
Man, I’d love more than a CPI increase.
Man, I’d love
more thana CPI increase.It definitely isn’t a business (it’s the RNA in Brisbane) that needs saving, they’re just going through a redevelopment of both physical buildings and internal structure including the finance system they’re using but there’s a lot of tweaking that needs to be done.
With salary I work for UQ so I know my current salary is above average so usually just around the average. Not so low that I’d be crippling my social life or anything, but enough. Finance jobs, at least non-qualified finance jobs don’t really have performance related pay. Just a base salary. There’s room for growth (and hopefully extra moolah) though which is good.
The other news is that the lass who was supposed to come back to my position (I’m filling in for her while she’s on secondment) has found a job elsewhere. Unfortunately UQ policy dictates that the job be advertised before it can be filled. This happened to me before where I didn’t get my own job. At least I know what went wrong last time
Always poison the other applicants, no matter how confident you feel about getting the job.
I’m not interested in leaving my current role even knowing I might get more money elsewhere, but I always tell recruiters trying to headhunt me I wouldn’t even begin to think about leaving without an increase of 15% over my current base salary. That probably is aiming high, but then again, I’m very happy where I am.
I don’t think that’s an unfair expectation, really. It’s different if you want out of where you currently are, but if you’re happy enough and the place is stable and so on then what incentive is there for you to move to a new company if not for a good pay rise?
As I said above, 25% minimum. This will plateau obviously, but it’s what you are aiming for in this situation: have a degree, have started career, and are progressing it.
I started in a less-than-average position, equal to someone with no quals. Jumped up 60% salary in my first leap. Got a 8% raise the next year. If (really, it should be more question of when) I make the next jump, 25% increase is below what I should be looking at.
Of course, this is assuming some sort of standard corporate position. Things are completely different elsewhere.
@ynefel:
at=0
“Video capture test taken as part of the Type-0 translation betatesting stage.“
=O
Need to get the CFW for my 3000 again.
Hello TAY! 😀
I trust you’re all having an amazing day!
I’m having an amazing day! Firstly I got a job this morning (wooo!) and already have 17hrs this week!
Secondly my date got pushed up from tomorrow to tonight! 😀 Gonna go get some dinner and then see Robocop! 😀
Sorry for sharing, I’m just really happy! 😀
Congrats man! We expect a full TAY review (of the film, not the date!)
Why not both?
Because a gentleman doesn’t kiss and tell 😉
No, I’m sorry, but if you announce something like that and then give no details you’re a bad bad man.
If you’re lucky and the date goes well I might let some details of how it went slip out 😉
Exactly
Someones got some elaborate plans! Kissing, eh? You dog! 😛
Ol’Liondrives got some moves 😉
I’d be a fool not to try and get at least one little peck in 😉
Yeah, I’m too frightened to make such a move. That ain’t me on date one, right there! 😛
@dc doesn’t settle for a kiss first date. If you go on a date with @dc expect to go home pregnant.
Try reading his blog.
So we gotta hope for not-kissing? ;D
Review the dinner then
LOL, I’m not interested in the movie! Internet review sites can give me that, but only TAY can give me the love-epic review of random members!
Speak for yourself, I want a review of the date as well
Wooo! Way to go, my friend! *insert gentle teasing about date here*
Please advise if new Robocop has “I’d buy that for a dollar”…
…Once you’re done making outs and whatnot from your date of course.
Also whether you’d buy her (him?) for a dollar.
C’mon dude, it’s a date not picking up my Mum.
Upvotes for the 😀
Perhaps someone else will get it too…
You should apologise for apologising about sharing good news.
All the good news, all the time
I just don’t like to wave my good news around in case someone’s having a bad day. I couldn’t resist today though, I’m too happy! 😀
Good news helps improve others bad days!
ha don’t worry I wave my complaints in everyone’s face. Trying to do it less, hence why I’m posting less these days cause I got nothing positive to say and I”m sure no one wants to hear it :P.
Complaints bros five o/
I try to refrain from it as well… hence the lack of posts and lots of edits from me 😛
ha, funny I don’t see you as a complainer, you must edit too fast for me or complain less than you this *gives five cause you can’t leave a bro hanging*
She’s taking you out on a school night?
#obligatoryagejoke
#hopingitstherightone
Screw the film and date, I just wanna know about your job 😛
Congrats 🙂 hope all goes well for you
Haha, it’s not a great job or anything since I’m a uni student and everything, but it will be good to be able to finally start saving some money 🙂
Better than my job. Congrats mate!
Sigh. It’s getting late in the day when I can’t even click “Reply” properly.
Or better, when you get that, “You are posting too fast!” error which turns your reply into a new comment, and you’re sitting there snarling, “I AM NOT POSTING TOO FAST YOU FU– Oh. Well NOW I am, given that I just bashed submit until I ended up posting a new comment BUT YOU MADE ME DO IT WITH MY RAGE, KOTAKU.”
That has never been an issue for me 😛
N… n-nor me… c.c
c.c looks like a butt. Entirely intentional, I’m sure.
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Multiple viewing angles. Satisfied?
(_|_) C.C )*(
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Time to go and hide the muffin I haven’t eaten and Subway cookies from my missus who seemingly can’t eat anything anymore 😀
well it is damn difficult to eat something when you keep hiding it
#pixelgetsstuff
I gotta do something to protect my delicious snacks
stupid phone
What’s “hide the muffin” a euphemism for?
Do you know the muffin man?
Not personally but I understand he’s over near drury lane
Hi guys. I need people to start getting back to me about what I told you about so I can get it organised on time. If you don’t know can you please talk to Sughly or DC and they can fill you in and give you my number. And don’t tell Freeze about any of it.
*ignores post*
Nice page get, very ninja-like.
So this has been a difficult week what with recovering from jetlag and other problems from my trip,and my son starting school, and getting used to the 30 minute each way walk to the school again. And now my old best friend who I haven’t seen for years who I offered my couch to this weekend has told me he’s bringing his business partner with him. To stay at my place. A complete stranger. I’m completely freaking out. It’s kind of rude of him to spring that on me, and I don’t know what to do. How do I politely tell him I can’t cope with that?
Business partner, eh. Do you think he’s trying to ease you into the idea that he’s gay? 😛
I think the only thing you really can do is torch your house! CRISIS AVERTED!
go on a cruise?
And get someone to burn the house down while you’re away? *strokes patchy chin stubble* Ingenious!
would the ‘not enough space’ excuse fly? If not the only thing I can think of is being forthright with it and just tell your bestie that you’re not comfortable with putting up a stranger in your house
If @dc is right “not enough space” would be met with “we don’t need it”.
I’d go with telling them there aren’t enough places to sleep. Offer was good for one person, but don’t have room for another. I’m with you… bit rude of them to just invite someone else without at least checking with you first.
Say you have spider infestation and you burned down the house and you’ve moved to your parents whilst it’s being rebuilt.
Or what other guys are saying and there’s not enough space.
OR just say nope.
EDIT: OR I just realised you can say you’re not comfortable having strangers around your kids. Or vice versa. Something like that.
Do you have a nope.jpg gif file of some variety?
http://i.imgur.com/TGLel.gif
Never change!
Just for that, here’s some hype: NAUGHTY DOG SINGLE PLAYER DLC NEXT WEEK!
THE SAME DAY AS HOUSE OF CARDS S2
AW YISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0AKYBaODS4Y/Ua5M6I8BQpI/AAAAAAAAE3o/pqyrFbT-5xg/s1600/blackfish.gif
http://i.imgur.com/I8kq0uJ.gif
What is a jpg gif?
If you don’t know, I’m not going to tell you! *throws dinner plate*
http://i.imgur.com/cPTGnir.jpg
Observe the image and the url
WITCHCRAFT
Just tell him that you can’t do it. Today if possible so he can make alternate arrangements before the weekend. If he decides to go to a hotel or finds other accommodation just tell him you’d still like to catch up for lunch/dinner to talk about the old days.
Good luck.
I’m guessing, “Yeah, I’m actually not really comfortable with that. I have a son, here,” is out of the question or kinda too confrontational? The other guys have good suggestions, but me, I’d personally be pretty blunt. “Nah, this isn’t a +1 kind of deal.”
Besides. ‘Business partner’ who crashes with you? That’s either code for lover or drug-dealer.
Hm. How about… feigning ignorance?
“Your business partner’s coming, huh? Where’s he staying?”
“Uhh…”
(“Because it’s not here.”)
who brings their drug dealer to a sleepover?
Stoners who think it’s normal. Y’know, when your dealer is your best friend… *shrug*
actually yeah, I probably stepped over loads of dealers on my way to work on sunday mornings when I was a student and living with 5 stoners. There was always 3-4 people at least crashes on my kitchen floor back then. Memories.
Ah, the Motherland!
It’s actually a real business partner. If they were gay it would be a bit better because then I wouldn’t have to clear up two places to sleep. 😛
Colour me genuinely confused. 😛
That’s… a really bizarre thing for someone to do uninvited. Yeah. Sucks that they put you in the position of confrontation.
Can you blame Mr strange? You were in enough trouble offerring the place to them but that was ok because oldest friend. He not going to be happy with another.
Or blame master strange. You have been away and he doesn’t do well with strangers. You don’t want to put anymore stress on him with starting school and the rest
I had a phone conversation with him last night but I forgot how oblivious he can be sometimes. I kept saying I couldn’t cope with it, and he kept saying I’d be fine. 😛
Sounds like a dick, tbh.
heeeeey @dc
can you message my Playstation with details of the page get from this page, cause I dunno what it’s about, unless I’m not supposed to know, then don’t cause I’ll ruin everything 😛Totally DM’d you on Twitter a whiles back. Guessing you don’t check? Will send!I thought I killed my Twitter account, it was new and scary, I was literally on it for about 6 hours, sorry if you’ve been messaging it thinking “That Gutsoup guy is a jerk”I have been. XD Not a jerk though. Just a hermit and I can respect that. Sent message!thanks I just checked. I’ve been a terrible/ great (depending on hoow you look at it) hermit the last year 😀I know the hermit lifestyle is an appealing one, but you totally missed out on me ‘singing’ A Whole New World on Saturday. XDYeah I really wanted to go to that, had a house inspection and had way more to do than I initially thought. I hope there’s another Karaoke meat soon, I felt like I missed out this time instead of being nervous of goingThat was pretty impressive, btw.All I know is that guy was pretty drunk to have the nerve to sing in public. And dance. And stand on chairs. And hug people. And… yeah, was pretty drunk.Colour me curious- is this a Brisbane thing?Yup! And surrounding areas, I guess.Open to all who are interested but yes, Brisbane.
I’m on the the hunt for singstar songs.
Speaking of which, what songs do people want to sing? I will need to find out if they are available in our region.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_SingStar_games_%28PlayStation_2%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_SingStar_games_%28PlayStation_3%29 ?
Hmm.
*ctrl+f “juda”*
Disappoint.
There’s also an online store, try there.
There’s no Sinatra. I don’t like this game.
There’s some on the store.
http://www.singstar.com/en_AU/
I also have lips and will be bringing it
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Lips-Music-Store/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024d5308da
Also works as a Karaoke threat/challenge.
*writes down pitch for movie execs*
Professional karaoke finals. Think Bring It On mixed with Pitch Perfect. Synergized and dynamic! Jennifer Lawrence in lead!
Because I misread that as Karate, you should have bits of the Karate Kid in as well.
Or at least Parappa The Rapper
Karateoke. The hybrid sport/concert of the future!
Right. I am going to watch Die Hard 2. Since the Video Ezy copies of Ghostbusters and Clerks didn’t work, I got store credit that enabled me to rent Die Hard 2 and 3. I heard that Die Hard 2 is apparently a poor sequel and a cash-in, so my expectations are low. Let’s hope the disc works.
I love Die Hard 2. I’ll be slandered but I like it more than the first one. Imo the third one is the weakest out of the ‘proper’ Die Hards, but it’s still brilliantly fantastic
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Vengeance is the best of the proper Die Hards!
Die Hard 2 was my first Die Hard. Plus it has the T1000 and the main villain is Death from Bill & Ted 😀 …With A Vengeance is fantastic, don’t get me wrong, but I rate the other two as just that bit better.
Now I wanna play Die Hard Trilogy. That game made me buy a Playstation
wut.
Order goes 1>3>4>2
I haven’t seen 5, but am prepared to pretend it doesn’t exist.
Yeah, 5 uh… I. Uh. I can kinda see where they were going with it I guess? I mean they certainly tried very hard to mimic the formula of wrong-place, wrong-time, family tension, outgunned, keen detective eye spots something amiss where they could’ve let it go… But. Uh. Yeah.
…Yeah.
That’s his quote from the movie poster!
What misguided loon told you that?
It’s not so much bad, just more of the same. I prefer three, but two was a pivotal part of my childhood! (Don’t think my mum understood what was kid appropriate. XD)
Pfft kid appropriate… I watched Robocop when I was 14 and I turned out… On second thought I may not be the best example but I was nothing to do with the film!
Total Recall when I was 11.
My dad let me watch Predator, Aliens and the original Omen when I was about 9+. For some reason violence was no issue, but swearing, I wasn’t allowed to watch anything with excessive swearing
I’m reminded of a quote from the south park movie…
Those mutants were… mesmerizing
All three of them.
Die Hard 2
There is a guy doing naked gymnastics (or Tai Kwan Do, whatever) in front of the television. I have no words.Is it you while you’re watching it?
…Isn’t it all of us when we’re watching it?
Is that what we’re calling that now?
If the authorities ask? Yes.
In the ’90s all the cool kids dissed great movies. Return of the Jedi. Temple of Doom. Die Hard 2. They don’t diss them any more after new sequels came out. XD
Temple of Doom was no Last Crusade, though.
It’s the second in the series though, no rules yet… some might say… any thing goes…
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, SHANE. LOOK WHAT I’VE DONE!
Temple of Doom is utter trash.
So is Die Hard 2.
Jedi is still good, even though Luke is just waaaaaaay too cocky.
Die Hard 2
Bwahahaha. Truly the golden age of technology.
Don’t forget the fashion
Travel home was weird today. First, while entering the station, a pair of girls were walking out bearing cardboard signs, then started calling out about free hugs. One of them declaring that her friend had just turned 18. Uhhh. Slightly creepy.
Then while waiting for the train, some lady seemed to go up to the edge of the platform and be just about ready to sit on the edge with her feet hanging over, just as the train was about to pull in. No idea what was going on there, the station guy on the radio afterwards was telling people that she tried to throw herself in front of the train. Worrisome.
Then after that came the paranoia. I swear I kept getting looked at. First by one girl on the platform. Then on the train, another seemed to be staring right at me for a weirdly long time. I assume there was something more interesting out the window behind me. Then later after waking up, girl from the platform got off at that station and as walking past was definitely looked right in at me. Then some young asian girl who barely looked like she would’ve even been out of highschool sat down on the other side of the carriage, and seemed to keep looking at me til I ran off to get out at my station.
As far as I can tell I don’t have something on my face.
And that’s when Gooky realized he forgot to put clothes on this morning.
They were probably aliens planning to make a replica of you. Could any of these observers (or lets just cut to the chase and call them The Invaders) move their little fingers?
And not that I saw. But then I didn’t see them not move them either.
My train was so crowded I tried looking out the window but there were creepy guys in the way who probably thought I was a creepy guy eyeing them up. It’s either that or ‘accidentally’ looking at chicks and trying not to look like a perv (ok, I can be pervy sometimes)
also, http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/OxFDNPjPhtY/hqdefault.jpg
That sounds like a pretty normal day for you.
And then you found $5? (In the classic words of @redartifice)
My words? I am but the latest in a long line of people who found $10!
@shane @fled @jocon
5 Things You DEFINITELY Didn’t Know About Dark Souls!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVsaCwqSql8
Guys dug through the game files and came up with a bunch of interesting stuff.
Fled, this is from the Untold Lore guys which is just fantastic.
I watched this lore video about Queelag and her sisters and now I feel terrible.
Ever since I discovered the wiki I’ve been really digging the untold/pieced-together lore.
Yeah, I spent quite some time digging in to that guy (& EpicNameBro’s) youtube vids. 😀
So amped for the AGE OF DISCOVERY w/ DaS2… but being PC guy, might need to avert my eyes for some period of time? Vaguely tempted to grab a ‘regular’ ed. on console to take part, then donate to a friend who wouldn’t normally play Souls-style games once PC version comes out :/
Oh I knew all of those!
Admittedly only after watching the video but that still count doesn’t it?
Neato.
Also, @benwhite might like to know:
In the email I got sent as notification for the parent to this, it contained a broken link:
I hope the tags don’t get too badly changed by comment system…
Yeah, for a while now when I get email notifications I can only click on the ones that are a comment replying to me. Notifications of a mention don’t work as links so I just use the “view profile” button at the top of the email.
Oh, I’ve gotten that too but the only time I’ve noticed it having the error was when I was on my phone browser so I assumed it was that.
Great! I’ll check this out tomorrow while I’m waiting for Zeitgeist. Thanks 🙂
I work with some goofballs. They’re alright, though. During training today, one of the cockier young guys asks:
“So what’ve you got planned for tonight?”
“Just some odd jobs.”
“Now I have a mental image of breaking faces for the mob. Does that really just mean video games?”
“Later if I’m lucky, but for the best part of the night it means some boring contract stuff under NDA. Y’know, getting a foot in the door, trading up.”
“Oh, cool… I love money. But tell you what, I’ll only ask for 60%.”
“That’s unusually generous.”
“I know, right?”
“Curious though…. what’re you giving me 40% of your wage for? You should know right now: I don’t do guys.”
“NOOOOO, I meant you give me 60% of yours!”
*arched eyebrow*
“Uh…. in exchange for this water bottle!”
“Unless that’s for me to rehydrate after I’ve made use of your girlfriend, I’m not really interested.”
“Woah whaaat?! Oh. Well. Haha, yeah, you got me – burn, I earned that.”
“It’s cute that you think I’m joking.”
“…”
(Wow. OK, I better cut the kid some slack – he actually looks nervous.) “Well… I am. But I’m also kinda bored with your mum, so who knows.”
“Haaa. You’re funny, have a picture of charmander on a post-it note.”
“Thanks buddy, I needed something to mark these flowcharts. *sketchsketch* Here, I’ll trade you a pikachu, that’s how this works, right? Only it’s not streetpass, it’s deskpass.”
“Wow, that’s really good… uhm. Hey, uh, can you do one like that of him looking angry?”
“Sure. *sketchsketch* That OK?”
“That’s awesome, man! I’m going to display that forever!”
“Good, because that was worth your imaginary 60% share. Enjoy.”
“Worth it.”
And that’s how I drew a pikachu on a neon yellow post-it note.
The post-it is on display at his desk with all his pokemon figurines. D’awww. For that, I’ll let it slide without a joke the next time he thinks he’s being gangsta/playa, or will listen to one wrestling story.
Haha, you tell the story all good natured like. He’s probably got tears in his eyes telling his pals how this guy at work intimidated him! :'( (After sending his girlfriend away on a train to a place you’ll never find her!)
…
🙁
Well. He’s no shrinking violet. The things that come out of his mouth… but all the same, I REALLY hope there’s not a ‘story’ there. For all the jerkboy bravado he puts on, he’s basically a good kid, that would be sad.
I kid, I kid! Banter is good and you can banter with the best of them!
Banthas are pretty good too *dc style decisive nod*
ha, good story, I wish worked with people I could relate to, all of them here are high and mighty business men, bogan tradies or sportsball fanatics. I once drew an awesome angry Kratos on a post it note and no one cared :'( .
This is the kind of post-it note doodling I usually do: http://urbanstray.com/images/postit2.jpg
Can’t help myself, compelled to doodle, so those things are everywhere on my desk. Sometimes they go walkabout and I’m pretty sure it’s because people take them, which y’know… I don’t mind, I throw most of them out. Sometimes it’s annoying because if it’s pretty I might want to take a photo of it before tossing it, but easy come easy go.
damn dude, that’s some serious doodling, do you actually draw/ paint or anything, you seem to have an artistic flair.
Lost it at
😀
Rofl @ charmander, deskpass.
Hurry up and make this blog! And also post pic of pokemon, kgo!
Edit: regarding blog – transientisaballer.com is available.
Attention! To all SPAZ fans…
Get hype
YES. I AM HYPED, SIR.
Currently got 106 hours clocked into SPAZ, I think I spent an entire weekend playing it after I bought it, no regrets
I can’t remember where I bought it before they made Steam keys available… I think they just had a download off their site. So I don’t know how many hours I have, but what I DO know is that I have this crippling compulsion to try to build up BOTH Civ and UTC relations to max, AND improve at least one faction’s system strength to max, so they’ll be able to withstand the coming zombie apocalypse.
So many upgrades, missions completed, wealth, experience, etc… AND NEVER SEEN THE ZOMBIES YET. Yeah. That’s how glacial the whole ‘max everyone’ playing-both-sides thing is. It’s on my to-do list.
Next time I play I am promising myself to only boost one faction (and maybe wipe out the other one for its tasty starbase tech).
Yeah you can destroy the space stations to get the upgrades for free, which I usually do when they absolutely hate me and there aren’t any missions I can improve relations with them on. To be honest, I only keep CIV up to max, since they can let me mine resources, get crew, collect science, whatever. I had no reason to max UTC unless I needed to bribe the ships to let me leave the system (Which I did a bit early game, so I don’t sour relations). That’s how much I remember anyway. My capitol ship was a huge starbase buster, even if they were at max level.
Have you also checked out the updates yet? There’s a third faction called the Bounty Hunters and BLOODY HELL they can hit you hard and sometimes at the absolute worst times, like when you’re low on Rez and they attack me while I’m at a mining station. There’s also these sort of gladiator arenas where you do challenges with the ship they give you. I played a bit of it but it seems really cool and the galaxy feels more alive and watching your every move.
Edit: Oh yeah, and the zombies fricken terrify me when there’s large numbers of them, if you’re not careful they swarm you quite easily. Also against zombies when you meet them, quick tip, NEVER LET THEM TAKE YOUR SHIELDS DOWN, EVER!
Im just going to thank @cufcfan616 for giving me Civ: V and the gods and kings DLC, what a nice guy!
I really am a nice guy, it’s just hidden away 😀
At 7:00 a very interesting way of getting the Drake Sword.
(The video is a guy finishing Dark Souls with every boss killed in 1hr 46mins.)
Good to see even one of the best players out there can get cranky and mumble abuse at the Capra Demon and it’s dogs.
There is literally no AI for enemies, they focus players, and then roll for which attack they use.
As someone who hates some of the AI stuff in Dark Souls, nope, this isn’t the case. The vast majority of the AI looking stupid is a case of the player responding correctly to each situation, before during and after any and all attacks.
…the…rest is AI stupidity.
Alright, thanks for correcting me, I was just repeating something I heard whilst watching a DS speedrun
Wow. Wow… I don’t even move onto a new area unless I’ve spent the last couple hours practicing grinding all its enemies repeatedly until I have earned a couple levels and perfected the art of not losing health from that area.
This guy had the Gaping Dragon down 15 minutes after leaving the cell in the Undead Asylum.
Took out Taurus, Gargoyles and Capra in that 15 minutes too.
I have a sneaking suspicion it may not be his first go at the game
The operative part of the title speed run is clearly the word run
I’m watching this now. Pretty amazing stuff. Cop-out death avoidance at 34:00 though 😛
Edit: Goddamn, that Smough victory was close 😛
Edit 2: So damn impressive. This is insane.
Edit 3: Oh man, DLC content too. Amazing.
Edit 4: Looks like instead of doing some writing tonight, I’m just watching this Youtube vid. Thanks a lot, Freeze.
Edit 5: Great. Now I’m talking to it. “Watch your health. HEAL. HEAL.” Etc. /o\
Edit 6: Tomb of the Giants. In the dark. Wow.
Does in like 25 mins what took me 35 hours 🙁
I’d like to see a speedrun with a melee character though. Spellcasting seems OP and I’m sad because my build can’t do magic good 🙁
Mine neither. Such a tragic waste. Might try something a bit different in DS2! 🙂
fwiw, you should be able to use pyromancy regardless of your build? Stats don’t matter (ok, dex makes you cast *slightly* faster) but the advancing of the power of the spells is all via upgrading the pyromancy flame (the glove) at various people in the world. i.e. INT/FAITH poor builds (like my usual) should still be ok.
Oh really? Didn’t know this at all. I do have the pyromancy glove from the dude that was chillaxing in a barrel in lower undead burg I think, but haven’t talked to anyone that offered an upgrade at all.
Dark Souls Pyromancy-related spoilers.
Laurentius, who you save from a barrel in the Depths and can buy Pyromancy spells from at Firelink Shrine.Quelaana, at the bottom of Blighttown, next to one of the pillars roughly between the lower bonfire and Quelaag’s cave entrance.Eingyi, just after the Quelaag fight, near The Fair Lady. You need to do some stuff to be on his good side, though.You can upgrade the basic pyromancy flame to +15, then Quelaana can upgrade to a “new” version that has the same name, but different icon (and better stats) which can then be upgraded to +5If nothing else, as a tanky character I’d recommend getting Iron Flesh and Flash Sweat from Laurentius – they’re useful defensive spells.Thanks. I had met two of these three. Missed
Quelaana, probably ran right past on the way to the boss. Didn’t know about the upgrading. Going to grind the dudes in Darkroot tonight to get it to +8 or so at least.I think I missed the same one until I read about it on a wiki during my first playthrough. 🙂
If you’re past Sen’s Fortress…
and in Anor Londo, grinding the six giant guards is not bad – each drops 1.5k for 9k total each time you hit the bonfire.You can just aggro them one-by-one. If you do die, it’s pretty easy to recover the souls.Hey guys, going bandit hunting in DayZ, if you want to join in, PM me on steam!
One month til Stic of troof!!!! 😛
Can’t wait!
Also, does anyone know where I can pick up a copy of Injustice: Gods Amongst Us on PS3?
I can’t find it anywhere in Geelong. 🙁
If you were happy to play it on 360, you could just have my copy…
I don’t have a 360.
Sorry.
5 singstar on their way to my house. Planning to try and get volume 1, 2 and 3 on ps3, but it may have to wait a while
Wolf Among Us Episode 2!
Spoilers and Choices and Discussion! Don’t read if you haven’t finished Episode 2!
Choices:
– Sympathised with Crane
– Persuaded Tweedledee into talking
– Brought Snow to the bar
– Didn’t hit Georgie (or any of his stuff)
– Didn’t continue hitting Beast
Bonus choice:
– Made Beauty open the door to the bouncy-bed-sound room 😛
Overall an enjoyable episode, if not a little uneventful. Felt a bit like a filler until we get into some better stuff later. Mainly felt that way because there wasn’t really a ‘big thing’ this episode besides the Snow-is-Alive reveal at the very start and the Crane cliffhanger at the very end. Not bad, though! Still had fun. Maybe would’ve been more exciting if I didn’t shy away from the violence 😛
Same as me except I hit georgie once. Also, I didn’t make beauty do that. I’m going to do an angry and dumb Bigby run at some point. Question is- who was laughing?The heat is making me feel miserable. 🙁
Also, I’m off to bed.
Goodnight.
#SochiProblems
I’d normally make a comment about them not being able to organise a piss up in a brewery but by the look of the photos, they had a crack at that before trying the olympics
That was amazing.
Die Hard 2: Die Harder thoughts:
-Fuck you Video Ezy. Your DVDs barely work. A two hour movie took me two and a half hours to watch since I had to keep hitting the eject button or returning to the menu. Constant freezing. I had to skip over a two minute scene at the end since that area of the disc was utterly corrupted. Because of this, I am not entirely sure of how the bad guys where killed. How did McClane end up on the ground? I guess the plane blew up? I guess? Maybe? It has been a while since I have experienced such rage. Even Dark Souls couldn’t manage such mania. There is a reason people are switching to digital media these days. May Video Ezy go the way of Blockbuster.-I’ll say it right now. Die Hard 2 is not as good as the original. It is significantly weaker in terms of plot, cinematography, and general flow. But that’s okay. Either, way Die Hard 2 has more explosions, and that all that matters, right? Actually, the fact that it is bigger actually hurts the movie. In the original Die Hard, everything was somewhat contained, and that made it feel bigger.
-The villains were significantly weaker this time. Stuart doesn’t hold a candle to Gruber. But they do what they need to do. You know Stuart means business, he practices Naked Gymnastics.
-How did Esperanza kill the guard in the plane? Handcuffs beat guns, I guess.
-I guess that in the Die Hard universe, grenades take 20 seconds to explode.
-The twist with the blanks was pretty cool. I’m not entirely sure who they were trying to fool, since only McClane and Barnes were present, but it’s a nice dog and pony show for the audience.
-Al Powell was replaced by Marvin the janitor. Yay…
-Since I was born in 1997, my entire idea of what an airport is is based on a pre-9/11 world. Seeing the way airports worked back then was interesting. No metal detectors, no cavity searches, less racial profiling. Interesting.
-To be honest, I kind of expected that Lorenzo was a double agent. He seemed to constantly be slowing things down. Grant turned out to be the bad guy,
-John McClane shot Lorenzo with a sub-machine gun full of blanks. I wonder what would have happened if all the guards shot McClane? End of movie. Get on it, HowItShouldHaveEnded.com.
-During the landing, Holly McClane said the line
I’d make a dick joke, but I’d rather make a Simpsons reference. In rod we trust.
In some ways, it was an improvement over the original. They nailed the self-aware let’s-poke-fun-at-this-crazy-movie humour. But yeah, in almost every other respect, the original has the edge.
Though I have what seems a minority opinion: I think they’re both way better than the third one.
I’m with you about thinking they’re better than the third one although the third one goes in a different direction whereas the first two are kind of similar in plot. The third one does have Jeremy Irons though. Tbh, the first three Die Hards all had amazing actors as the villain. William Sadler doesn’t get enough credit as an actor imo
you need to stop renting movies 😛 those dvds will be 15 years old by now
The only reason I rented Die Hard 2 and 3 is because Ghostbusters and Clerks didn’t work. Since they were non-functional, I received store credit. Even if Die Hard 3 doesn’t work, I will refuse store credit. I am done renting movies, it’s not worth the mental anguish.
Dark Souls
Okay I need some advice. I think I’d like to explore the New Londo Ruins next, it’s been there for ages and I’ve not been able to because of the sodding
ghosts. Since Lordran doesn’t seem to have an office of Ghostbusters and Transient Curses are going to get expensive if I try to slog through with those, what are my alternatives (or to put it another way “who am I gonna call?”)?Do divine weapons work on ghosts? That’d be a neat solution because they’d let me get through those regenerating skeletons as well which is why I’m pretty certain the answer will be ‘no’…You’ll pick up a few transient curses on the way in.
Divine weapons won’t work without being cursed. Jagged Ghost Blades will but your shield won’t.
I’ve had a crack at the place a few times and unless the extra curses respawn, I’ve already wasted them
Er, in that case you’re going to have to buy a few. You do pick up more as you go through and they’re only needed for half of the area.
They’re a semi-frequent drop from the ghosts. Wear your covetous gold serpent ring and off you go.
I think I’ve decided to change tack a bit and head for Anor Londo,
I’ll kill Sif, get his soul, get a straight sword to +10 and make the cursed greatsword to have on hand for when I go to the New Londo RuinsOnly way I know of besides transient curses is to actually get cursed. However I would be carefully because getting cursed 1/2’s your HP and doesn’t allow you to carry loose hummaity (only the “hard” / item ones).http://darksouls.wikia.com/wiki/Ghost
LIONDRIVES LOVE LIFE REVIEW
(I’d just like to clarify that I don’t know how one reviews a date :\)
I guess I’ll start with dinner. We enjoyed a nice quiet dinner at Sizzler (hahaha, yes I know, how romantic :P), which was a little shorter than I expected due to the movie starting soonish after we got there. I had planned to go to Hans, but this particular Hans was pretty crappy, so we ditched in favour of Sizzlers salad bar. We talked a lot, laughed, and found out more about each other, never letting conversation drop. Sadly to say there was no smooching as of yet, but there was little glances at each other 😉
I’d give Sizzler a 7/10.
I’d give this section of the date 8/10 though, as I really enjoyed it.
After we finished dinner we headed to the cinema to watch Robocop. We were a little late so missed some of the previews, but thankfully didn’t miss any of the movie. I can’t recommend Robocop any more. It is fantastic. To clarify, I have not seen the originals however. I would definitely buy Robocop for a dollar. Really great movie, and surprisingly deep at times for something called Robocop. No little glances this time unfortunately, but understandably, but there was a bit of hand touching every now and then 😉
I’d give Robocop 9/10.
I’d give this section of the date however 7/10, as movies make it so you can’t really talk / look at each other, but the company was still really nice 🙂
Finally we ended up heading home. I stayed over for a little bit, around an hour or two, just talking and what not. Met the roommate and just chilled out for a bit. After the roommate left I went in for a peck on the cheek at one stage, which turned into low-level smooching 😉 Unintentionally of course! I left soon after as I like to keep things classy, and was told that we should catch up again next week sometime, to which I said definitely 😉
I’d give this section of the date 10/10 😉
Self given probability of a second date: 9/10
Overall date review: 9/10
There you go pervs, that’s all the details you’re gettin’ out of me 😛
But it’s still less than she got out of you.
*bow chika bow wow*
Written up like a gentleman.
http://imgur.com/r/gifs/T4rYutM
Good work with the smooching. The review you gave of the film seems more like a review I would give of the original RoboCop film.
Looking at Dark Souls 2’s character creator is a pleasant surprise. Now I shall admire my characters face before said face is smashed into a fine pulp!
I’m looking forward to seeing what I would look like from behind when hollowed and wearing a helmet 😛
I’d also like to see what you’d look like from behind.
…. I also feel tempted to say something about keeping the helmet on but I’m not that depraved.
Yep this 😛
in Dark Souls i spent a long time settling on face and hair, only to realise that:
1. 90% of the time it’ll be a brown/greyish wrinkled version of my choice
2. i’m wearing a full face helmet
making choosing a face 100% useless 😛
Not as useless as it is in Skyrim 😛
I dunno, for those two times in the whole game when you stand still for a while and the camera spins around you and you’re close to a wall so it zooms in on your face, THEN you’d be annoyed if you looked like Sloth from the Goonies
AMNESIA FORTNIGHT 2014!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.humblebundle.com/doublefine
I love the idea of it and I loved how they let us see the pitches and vote for which ones get turned into prototypes in 2012 (was it really that long ago? D:), but what I liked best was the 2 Player Production episodes.
And now it returns!
…WITH PENDLETON WARD!
(@dc you gotta get it this time too so we can discuss it :D)
#BlackLake 🙁
_____
My votes and thoughts (if anyone cares!):
– Little Pink Best BudsAll of Ward’s ideas were funny but I didn’t feel really compelled to any of the pitches, probably because of their genres (arcade, simulation, MMO). Since I didn’t feel like a mobile game or an MMO this was the only one left 😀
– ExtraTerrarium (probably my no. 1 pick)
Interesting idea and has a lot of potential depending on how many weird critters and abilities they want to make.
– The White Witch’s Gnome War
Black Lake was my no. 1 pick last time and it turned out to be my favourite prototype too. I’m a fan of action/adventures so this one should be good too.
– Steed
The last two votes are pretty set but I’ve had a few games take that last spot. Ended up on Steed because I do like them action adventures!
Honorable mentions!:
– Mnemonic
I really liked the pitch video and it held my vote for ages until I realised it was first person. Seems like it would’ve been better as a point and click.
I liked a bunch of other pitches too but only 3 votes made it really hard to pick D:
– Astro Helmet
– Great Spirits
– Great Spirits
– Gone Astray
– Cat in a Box
– Headlander
– Mega Rad Karate Troopers
– ether
The White Birch prototype was a bit of a disappointment so I’m not hoping for too much with Andy Wood’s next pitch D:
DOOOOUUUUUBBBBLLLEEEEEEEE.FFFIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
PopSugar down the bottom of the page was telling me that they can give me tips on how to have 50 Shades of Grey sex. As an aspiring author, I have a few steps:
1) Buy book
2) Make a tally on the page every time you wince at bad grammar or sentence structure
3) When you reach five, rip page out and burn it
4) Sit for a second wondering what the third sentence was going to say
5) Start with page 2
(And yes, I did attempt to read it a bit in my local bookstore. I put it down after 3.5 pages. The writing is that bad – literally worse then twilight.)
I think it’s better to have 50 shades of Mass Effect.
1) Calibrate the aiming system
2) Calibrate the aiming system
3) Calibrate the aiming system
An autobiography of Garrus Vakarian?
Sometimes illiterate degenerates appeal to the masses and make a boatload of money…mainly because they’re selling their wares to a bunch of illiterate degenerates 😛
My understanding of 50 Shades of Grey is that not only is it a Twilight fanfic, it’s written by someone who thinks handcuffs are the pinnacle of kinky.
And from what I’ve been told by my kinkier mates, someone who doesn’t understand how to do bondage safely
Ok, the missus is out of the house tonight, I get the TV and more importantly the PS3, I think it’s time to start Dark Souls again so I can join in the fun here 😛 must must must pay attention to what’s going on
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Just watch the 1.5 hour speed run on Youtube instead, like I am.
Take the firebombs as your starting gift, kill the asylum demon with them in your first encounter and get his enormous hammer then spend the rest of the game wishing you had the strength to use it
that sounds like good advice 😀
I think you need a strength of about 30 to wield it 2 handed, should be doable reasonable quickly (at least before you finish the game the first time)
Oh gods! WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU KNUCKLES! D’=
all the other characters smoked when they were younger and it stunted their growth. Nothing about the proportion of his body looks right
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151992074433095&set=pb.95872238094.-2207520000.1391726138.&type=3&theater
Sonic’s crazy long legs are worrisome as well. Though he only looks slightly odd, rather than some steroid-popping mutant.
He lifted.
… a bottle of steroids and poured them into his mouth.
He got Chris Redfield’d
He’s spent the last few years training to be a Battletoad.
http://www.stumptuous.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/pray_for_mojo.png
I never it noticed before but Mojo has moobs
Oh man, staying up late playing ‘I have no mouth and I must scream’ leads to some pretty freaky dreams 😐
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Attempted to attack the hydra but got smashed around by his ranged attacks. Wasn’t really in the mood for dealing with bosses so I left there and went roaming to kill some Black Knights. Found two that I missed and off’ed them, but no weapon drops.Decided I would go back to Snuggly and do some item swaps. My mistake was going for a wander when I got to the Asylum, because I discovered the Stray Demon by accident and subsequently lost 25K souls and a bunch of huge manatee.Hydra isn’t that hard. You need to sprint diagonally toward the water so you’re running across his attacks. Once you’re deep enough into the water he’ll thrust the heads at you. Block while he’s attacking, then smash heads with a weapon. Rinse, repeat. Don’t get too close because there’s a huge hole in the water where he’s standing and you’ll die if you fall in.You really, really need the Rusted Iron Ring from the Asylum to beat him easily though.
Oh yeah, I actually looked up how to attack it because of the ranged attack. Tried doing that and it still hit me. I didn’t bother experimenting how or why it didn’t work cause I wasn’t in the mood. And yeah, that was actually the other reason I went to the Asylum, totally forgot 😛that FUCKING pitfall 😛
first encounter with the guy, sprinted through his ranged without getting hit, knocked 5 of his heads off and then strumbled into the pitfall because i didn’t even know it was there 😛
got him on the second go though 😛
I got him down to 1 head then tried to re-position and fell. Then I died three times in a row trying to get to him again. 🙁
Oh you don’t need the ring! I managed fine without it.
Well I say ‘fine’, I mean ‘I eventually succeeded after dozens of deaths, several ragequits and a few times of swearing I’d never play the game again’ but that’s pretty much standard for a boss in Dark Souls isn’t it?
He’s not a boss. Just a mini-boss. You don’t even need to beat him to finish the game.
I swear the Hydra has been nerfed since the original release. The ranged attack at least was definitely way more powerful back in the day.
It’s strong enough to one-hit you if you fuck up and get hit by a blast from 4-5 of the heads at once.
Yeah, it used to be magic damage tho (swear it is physical now) and had a much larger aoe so was harder to not die to it.
Still magic and has a splash, requires good roll timing. The heads don’t have any magic damage though.
Nope, in my recent onebro run I could 100% block the hits with a shield, assuming I did not get hit with splash.
Which shield though?
@negativezero
Ah Baldur shield I believe.
There are no 100% magic blocking shields anyway, 80% is the best.
Ooh where do you get manatees in the game? I want to summon one for a boss fight!
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Well, every second post seems to be about it at the moment so I thought I’d fit in.PRAISE THE SUN
MORE LIKE DORK SOULS, RIGHT?
No, that is not right. It is wrong. >:(
Dead to me…
DEAD.TO.ME
*jumps out the windows, crying*
Yeah, in order to not alienate people not into it, it may be smartest to tack all the new Dark Souls posts onto the first one. So everyone who wants to talk about DarkSouls on this page can maybe just reply to Rize’s post up top.
Or we should have a dedicated Dark Souls TAY.
TAB: Talk Around the Bonfire
I think I’m actually happy the new Sonic game looks awful. They’ve been so consistently bad through most of my life that I don’t think I could handle it if a good Sonic game was released.
excuse me
Sonic 2005 was a masterpiece of glitches and poorly designed levels
Is that anything like Sonic 06?
It was soo bad that you had to assume they spent a year less making it then they actually did.
My god that game is a fantastic game to watch during a “terrible games done quick” speed run. Can’t believe how many bugs there are in the game.
like how you can beat the game in 20 minutes by jumping a lot and moving a NPC
Sonic Generations would like a word with you
Colors was okay and I actually enjoyed the original Sonic Adventure heaps. SA2 is a steaming turd though.
Rocket’s Music Post
So i was listening to the grammies and found this awesome mashup between kendrick Lamar and imagine dragons. So emotive and Kedrick has a really solid flow
Radioactive vs M.A.A.D City
Im also way too proud that i remembered hyperlink code 😀
I’m a big fan of Lamar so I’ll check this out!
That was a brilliant song, I loved how the silence helped to punctuate the two whooshing sounds at the beginning and end.
/s
Oh did i link badly? ack ill fix it up soon
Someone in the next cubicle is badmouthing The Newsroom.
*put headphones on, turn music waaaaay up*
That’s me instead it’s “Whenever someone starts talking about something really REALLY stupid and/or loudly”
Man you would love hanging out with my mum :/
actually your family sounds the same as mine.
carry on my wayward son
There’ll be peace when you are done.
Lay your weary head to rest.
DONT YOU CRY NO MORE
RAD GUITAR SOLO
Wait what? Techie’s my Grandson now?! 😛
We have some fucked up back to the future stuff going on. 😛
Um… Surprise? *nervous laugh*
😛
I’ve vented about my family issues here before
You could have been describing my reactions except you should have stopped at
Why would they be bad mouthing the Newsroom on the toilet?
“Wow! What just came out of me looks just like the plot from last nights episode!”
Office life bears a striking resemblance to a toilet in so many ways.
Dark Souls
So I’m up to the Bell Gargoyle, I die about 6 times, did a little google search and discover that I can summon Solaire to help me if I’m in human form, so I use a humanity at the Firelink Shrine to reverse the hollowing. Just outside the fog door right before I summon Solaire this dickhead invades my game which somehow prevents me from summoning Solaire, so I’m forced to go it alone, I die again and have wasted a humanity. He then, sends me a message, the only thing contained in the message is “=D”. I checked his profile and he’s got every achievement in the game, so obviously he’s only playing to mess with people.That’s a shame. Rubbing it in like that is a dick move. If the online stuff gets too much, you can always disconnect.
Also, summon Lautrec, if you’ve freed him from the top of the church and talked to him at Firelink Shrine. The two of them can pretty much beat the boss without any input from you. It feels a bit like cheating, but you don’t get the opportunity all that often.Don’t worry I’ve already thought of that, If something like that happens one more time I will be disconnecting.
Thanks for the info, but I finally deafeated it on my own, and rung the bell, took about another 5 or 6 goes.This is how much i’ve done online:
you can send messages to people? 😛
Through XBL/PIN/Steam. Not through the game though.
ah, that makes sense…
online people scare me…
i’ve reversed hollowing twice, got invaded once and i ran and hid somewhere 😛
he still found me, but took him a while
then he killed me after i just pointed fingers at him
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is covered in this weeks Zeitgeist! Also deodouriser VS air freshener and God’s day pass for Hitler, Caesar & Fatty Arbuckle.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2014/02/07/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s04e15-kick-the-bucket/
Love,
Dan
“What’s an 86?”“That’s Zeitgeist for this week.”
I do like the formula you’ve got going, where you end on a joke, Karl doesn’t seem to realise it’s the end, and then the outro starts. Always a high point. Also, ending in media res is an effective psychologically manipulative way to keep the audience wanting more.
It’s not really constructive feedback, but I wanted to point out something I think works well.
Spoilers…
Not sure if… #FryMeme
Heh.
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I just want to fit in 🙁It’s all @markserrels fault.
Fitting in is over rated.
-fringe flick-
If Dark Souls has taught me anything about life, I should attempted to parry your fringe flick and then run away when it doesn’t do much damage.
You are part of the “crowd’ bro
FUCKING NAILED IT
Oh Rocketman.
I should do stand up. but like super specific standup that only work for our group of friends
For instance
What about that @powalen guy, pokemon much???? what is this 1999?
How about @rize and his laugh? I mean the hyena factory called and they need him for voice recording work again.
http://i.imgur.com/kyy1NPW.jpg
You’ve clearly never been way too tall for allegedly ergonomic furniture. Fitting into that would be bloody lovely
Amazing.
I’m stealing that joke.
Questions about Dark Souls, does the prepare to die edition come with all dlc on disc or are they redeemable codes? I ask cause there are only pre-owned copies. Second question regarding Demon’s Souls is it a sequel/ prequel or just set in the same universe or what now?
1. It’s all on the disc. I can vouch for at least the 360 version.
2. Demon’s Souls is a separate game. There’s actually a minor NPC who appears in both, and the games have a number of similar gaming mechanics, but there’s no story-based link between the games. No one knows for sure just how they’re tied to each other (and if not for this shared character, there would be no obvious continuity between them). Demon’s Souls It’s absolutely worth playing if you get a chance, though – in some ways, it’s superior to Dark Souls, and it’s a very similar experience.
I see, I’ve never touched either, I got Demon’s Souls from PS+ a while ago and didn’t play it cause I thought it was a sequel. Considering getting it, if I ever actually leave my house and go places other than work.
Demon’s Souls came first.
Dark Souls is seen as a “spiritual successor”, linked in a kind of Final-Fantasy-type way, where it kind of feels the same, but each game is stand-alone.
right, for some reason I thought Dark Souls came first, All this talk of it has made me curious about it again, if I stumble upon a copy I’ll grab it I think but they seem to be sold out most places, that’s why I asked about the dlc. Thanks for the useful info.
Sweet. I picked up Demon’s Souls last week pre-owned for 18 bucks. Gonna start on that as soon as I’ve finished Dark Souls.
If you’re on 360 Ozgameshop still has stock.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/xbox-360-games/dark-souls-prepare-to-die-edition-game-xbox-360
If you’re on PS3 you can get it on special order from Mightyape.
http://www.mightyape.com.au/product/Dark-Souls-Prepare-to-Die-Edition/20758872
I haven’t considered Dark Souls but given all the talk around TAY about it (which I avoid all spoiler tags so I know very little) I’m starting to consider it. Given that I have both 360 and PS3, which version would you recommend? I prefer the 360 controller, but I’m using the PS3 more these days.
Alternatively I have a 360 controller for the PC, should I just get the PC version and be comfortable?
I would go for the 360 version given your preference for the controller. I wouldn’t bother with the PC version, according to Wikipedia it’s a bad port.
From Wikipedia
Also, if you’re considering Demon’s Souls it’s a PS3 exclusive.
Before you start with Dark Souls you need to accept the fact that it’s hard, and you will die… a lot, but I find that it just makes me want to keep going for the sense of accomplishment and feeling of satisfaction I get when I finally get through a really tough section or beat a really tough boss.
Beat me to it.
Cheers for the info. I’d seen the Wikipedia and articles on Kotaku previously about the PC port, was just under a vague impression most of the issues were solvable these days.
As to it being hard, not an issue. Some games you play because they’re a cakewalk, some games you play because they’re a challenge. And that satisfaction when you finally get something is well worth it.
Demon Souls being PS3 exclusive: There’s no cross save malarky I need to be aware of? E.g special unlocks for having a Dark Souls save on your drive?
Not that I know of, but I haven’t played Demon’s Souls yet.
There’s various fixes for the PC version, yes. Also, it looks freaking terrible, but it’s either better or equal than the console version… take from that what you will.
Here’s my thinking. Controller comfort is important. Go with the 360 controller. The PC version is capable (apparently) of being the best version, but it takes a LOT of tinkering and mods to get to even a basically-playable state.
Also the PC version uses Games for Windows Live, which is being discontinued in a few months. This might mean that save files stop working.
TL;DR: Get 360 version.
Tinkering I don’t mind so much, that’s why we have PCs, amiright? GFWL though… that’s a whole ‘nother story.
The PC port was a bad one but it was fixed by mods pretty quickly. The only reason I’d not recommend it over a console version would be because there’s still some uncertainty over what will happen when games for windows live gets turned off since the game uses that for its saves & networking.
As far as I know there’s not been a firm statement one way or the other and since 2 is coming out before the demise of GFWL, I’d err on the side of assuming that Dark Souls 1 will be abandoned.
Out of PS3 or 360… probably sod all difference. I’d let the price decide. Whoever charges you the least for the Prepare To Die edition should win. Demon’s is also worth getting but as has been mentioned it’s PS3 only so your choice comes down to that or nothing…
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Oh man, can’t wait to finally get Bravely Default! Alas, didn’t get the chance to nab a limited edition but oh well.
TAY! Suggest me a pair of new earphones for the train / listening to music at work.
Backstory:
Mid last year I needed a new set of earphones for my commute / work as my last pair had gotten caught in something and frayed a wire / stopped working. Figuring since I had an iPhone I should get a pair of Apple Earpods as a relatively cheap option that would also give me in-line volume / track control / and mic, without being canalphones. For my purposes they turned out to be perfect as they sit lightly in my ears which means when I’m at work I can still (barely) hear what’s going on around me, but all the sound is projected in to my ears so they can’t hear my music. Best of both worlds. I can still use my work phone headset when a call comes in without taking out the earphones which is a huge plus, saves a lot of dicking around.
Alas, it was not meant to last. After around 4 months of use the right side bud stopped working suddenly. I honestly thought I had a blockage in my ear or something that was making me partially deaf! After checking that the left side was working fine in my right ear and the right side wasn’t working in my left ear I tracked down my receipt from JB Hifi and took them back where they were exchanged on the spot.
And now, after another approximately 4 months of use, the exact same thing has happened! The right side has died, while the left ticks on mightily.
So, I need a suggestion of in-ear headphones that also have in-line volume and a mic (preferably) but aren’t canalphones (as much as I love canalphones they would block too much sound for me to use at work) and won’t cost an arm and a leg. (Alternatively I just cut my losses and return this pair again and take the warranty crapshoot if I can find my receipt again) Any thoughts?
I have a pair of $60 seinheiser in ear ones that work brilliantly, i have used a few different ones and i find the seinheisers about 400 times more comfy than any others.
These ones by any chance? My partner has a pair and I tried them out at work but I found they blocked too much noise to be effective.
That said, I’ll be working solo in the near future so more noise blocking might be a good thing. Office noise is increasing but people I need to interact with is decreasing. 😛
yep those ones
Sounds like a dream job… can i have your job? people suck!
Some people are okay
The rest of my team works interstate, and the one teammate who works in the same office as me now (i.e. desk next to me) will be moving to a different office in the near future.
Data analysis: The job for recluses.
Damn straight!
I bought some normal sennheiser earphones from Catch of the Day ages ago for $20. Still going years later!
(Can’t stand canalphones. Feels like they’re touching my brain :P)
I used to enjoy canalphones, to the point where I took a pair of Koss “The Plug” and removed the memory foam plugs to add on a pair of swimmers ear plugs to better direct the sound. Took a lot of getting used to.
These days though I just don’t feel the need.
If you only had one ear you wouldn’t be in this mess!
I’m not going to go all Van Gogh just for the sake of music at work. That’d be like cutting of my ear to spite my…. wait….
If i had one ear, i would definitely get it pierced, like if i only have one, that one is going to look amazing with a little batman symbol.
I’m still using the stock earphones that came with the PSP (i got it at launch), they are the best set of crappy earphones I’ve ever owned :D. I really should get a decent set considering how much music I listen to and Vita I play (I only play the vita with headphones in)
High five for pack-in earphones!
My set came from my sister’s Walkman that she got back in the mid 90s. They’ve served me well, and continue to do so.
whoo, I’m terrible with accessories I never buy them, most of the ones I have were gifts or part of a collectors edition, I have too many games to buy to bother with accessorizing
Buy headphones, get a free Vita!
no, the Vita didn’t come with a pair, I’m talking about the old regular PSP
Ooooooh, right. Well I’m not going to buy headphones to get a free PSP Original. 😛
Just a quick reminder. If you want to chip in for room hire, please send my an email, a twitter message or get in contact with me on steam. I can then send bank details.
Also contact me if you have questions or song requests. =)
SCREEE I WANT TO CHIP INNNN
Question, why do you hate me and not talk to me anymore?
is it because of that weird awkward moment that we shared at PAX behind the dumpsters because nobody saw i swear and i only sent the photos to like 15 people
BTW Just a joke, not a good one, but its the best i can do on short notice. Let me know if you need help or cash and ill chip in.
Your Retarded man baby friend
Rocketman
aka
Ho-tross
Um because I don’t go on teamspeak? I tried it but it still hats me.
oh i dont go on TS much because literally nobody is ever on.
Stupid gang breaking up
@sernobulus @Blaghman @F4ction @tech_knight @freyr @trjn @bish and whoever else used to talk all the time
remember the days by the old school yard we used to laugh a lot
Everyone is too cool for TS these days. =(
Sometimes I hang around for an hour.
In silence.
Just the way I like it.
No-one played games together so I figured it was time to get back to real life. And depression over being sick forever. And more ARAMs.
Well usually when I sign in there’s either just silence or people talking about a game I don’t know or have (e.g. JC2). I’ve been on another TS (After bumping into a girl I knew from childhood who also plays LoL, they’re not great at the game though, they have their moments but… yeah :P) doing more Summoner’s rift games on LoL. I’ve become decent at everything now, including jungling (My last game was jungle Jarvan 7/0/14, after I haven’t jungled for months, not bad). I want to do more ME3 multi as well but not enough people want to play it for it to be fun and effective. Rize and I could do 2 player only, make it really hard mode maybe 😛
I remember LoL.
You guys got a full team going?
There are regulars I tag up with each night, but we’re by far not ready for ranked 5s if that’s what you mean :P. I’m okay but I still have horrid games more often.
As for solo queue ranked, I’m not taking that on until the issue with my modem is fixed. it’s basically rebooting on its own randomly it looks like, just need to push my parents to call up Optus to make the switch
I’m on like every day
granted it’s the wrong server and the people there keep yelling at me and kicking me, but I’M THERE DAMNIT.
Send me your deets as a DM and I’ll chip in!
Is there a specific amount or should I just assume it’s thousands of dollars?
Pick a number, any number?
Yo Scree,
Unrelated to PAX, where’s that billiards place you were talking about?
Um, which one? I don’t quite remember talking about it
Oh, I don’t know. I thought I read something about billiards in one of those PAX posts…
Never mind.
It’s the same place. It also has pool tables.
Is this PAX related, or something else?
Pax meat related
Then colour me interested.
What is this room hire for, and how much will it cost? I may be able to assist…
It’s for a separate function room. It’s $100 an hour. This includes big screen use and stuff
Sweet. Let me know details for sending moneys, and I can help out. DM me on twitter or something?
I’ll chuck in for an hour’s worth.
Can you make it $50 instead of $100? I’ll let you know if you need extra
Sure. Let me know how/when to pay
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So, what do people have planned for the weekend?Being newly single again means absolute freedom and absolute boredom, I cant go and do things alone because im nervous so i probably will sit at home and start reading the 900 chapters of ‘one piece” i downloaded a while back
on sunday though im going to watch my friend in a local musical production of “Jesus Christ superstar” with my gran. Should be interesting, i like musicals but i always stayed away from that particular one on the fear it would be too preachy. But we shall see.
If the cast is good, JCSS is a great musical. Especially if Judas has chops.
It has the most amazing songs, catchy and plain awesome… I was blown away first time i saw a production of it… would watch again
You’re single again? Mannnn. Can’t keeps the Ho-Train tied down!
\o/ One Piece is as awesome as it is stupid.
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Dark Souls.Actually, I’ll be spending a heap of time in the Elder Scrolls Online.
I wish I got into Elder Scrolls Online, oh well, I will carry on with Wildstar.
Dark Souls?
Dark Souls
DARK.SOULS. >=(
DARK SOULS!
Aww you can’t bold links?
\o/ dark souls \o/
hmm, I know this won’t work since it’s a depreciated tag but I’m going to try it anyway
Dark Souls!
\0\ \0/ /0/
Bah, bring back the marquee tag! They should be dancing
Dark Souls.
Question for the taybies with families
What did you do in the way of baby showers, pre birth party / celebration kinda things.
The topic came up the other night and really not sure what the norm is or what people do or don’t do.
I always thought that it was just a baby shower for the girls while the boys got kicked out of the house but that probably will not work for us. In the end I know it doesn’t matter but also don’t want people to be off side due to anything that wasn’t proper or done the right way.
I assumed it was like a normal party, but i have never attended one so it really could be either or. I have never thought of it actually.
Girls shower.
Boys “wet the baby’s head.” (Drink)
Edit: Maybe wetting the baby’s head is once the baby is born. The lads go out while the mother’s resting… I dunno
Mad Men told me you should be distant to your pregnant wife and possibly miss the birth/smoke cigars else where. 😛
Wife went off and had a baby shower with the girls while I stayed home and played games.
I didn’t really do anything. Most friends just slapped me on the back and gave me a knowing wink.
Yeah, baby showers are usually girls-only. But hey, make your own rules. Just have a party instead. Doesn’t have to be a baby shower. Just invite friends around and chill!
Edit: Or go out and enjoy your last tastes of freedom.
They put babies in the shower now? I thought it was usually supposed to be a bath
The stereotypical thing is that baby showers are a very girly affair, but ultimately do whatever you want!
I never had a baby shower. They seemed to be something girls did together where they giggled about sex and bought lots of ugly presents for the poor unborn baby. Not exactly my type of thing, even if I did know enough girls to have one. 😛
That’s pretty much where Mrs Tigs is. Did you do anything along those lines when you were still pregnant?
Humble Bundle
Freeze sure loves Humble Bundles.
Might be time to get Psychonauts
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
Any questions
so you think I should get it?
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
I can’t even pretend there is a different answer
Hm. I have all of those except Stacking, but I’m interested in this Spacebase DF-9… might be worth looking into when I get home. Thanks for the heads-up. 🙂
I want DF-9. I think it has promise (though the alpha I got way back when was waaay too rough to be sure), but I’ll pass. I can buy the game later on if it turns out any good/gets finished, and I already own everything else in the bundle.
Just requested 6 years worth of ANZ credit card statements to see how much in ‘unlawful’ late payment fees I’ve racked up over the years. This should be fun trying to get it back
Did I miss something in the news? Are all late payment fees now deemed unlawful or are you referring specifically to ones that were charged wrongfully?
ANZ were taken to court by thousands of customers who argued that the fees they put on things were excessive. The only ones that were found to be excessive and ‘unlawful’ were the late payment fees. ANZ’s are $20 each time when the cost of administering a late payment fee can be as low as 50c. So yeah, more to come about other banks but unless ANZ appeal (I don’t think they will) late payment fees are unlawful as they currently are.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-05/anz-bank-fees-class-action-maurice-blackburn/5238494
A similar thing happened in the UK a few years ago but I didn’t have any credit cards back then 🙁 my sister got a nice cheque in the mail though 🙂
Sorry guys, Numenera recap will be delayed probably to Saturday afternoon. Work has decided to actually be busy for once.
Short spoiler for those who are interested: @tech_knight did not have the Dice Gods’ favour.
I think he rolled above a ten… once?
You, however, were killing it
So many rolls under 5! :'(
Yeah I was on the receiving end of some brilliant rolls. Also helped that there weren’t that many opportunities for GM intrusion against me while Scrappa copped the brunt.
I had two GM intrusions, good exp but it costed me… lost one of my knives and triggered a trap… WHEN I HAD A ROBOT HELPER THAT WAS MEANT TO HELP AVOID THAT HAPPENING! 🙁
When you’re rolling so close to the mark, intrusions are so much easier to hand out
Yeah and it makes Scrappa look like a flipping clutz… he might demand his money back about these bloody boots he bought.
Damn, sorry I missed it. Sounds like it would have been a great session
You would’ve been laughing at my misfortune, seriously Scrappa looks like a total clutz in this session, just what I needed after screwing up my first repair attempt :'(
Its not a bug, its a feature 😛
A large chunk of it was a combat, so hopefully your laptop will be fixed for the next big one
Yeah, got it back yesterday. So I’m all set for the next session
@gutsoup re: Art Stuff – Thanks. Yeah, I do both drawing and painting sometimes. Not so hot on portraits, unfortunately. I got raised on landscape/still life in oils, experimented from there.
NOT-ALL-THAT-FRUSTRATED ARTIST STORY-TIME:
‘Proper’ painting only started because I used to draw a lot as a kid. So at an early age – like age 8 or something – Mum decided I should spend my Saturday mornings dropped off at an old English dude’s place to learn how to paint in his open garage.We did oils, and it was pretty paint-by-numbers initially until finally getting a handle on the techniques and how they interacted with each other to the point that I could actually make something of my own instead of copypasta of classic landscapes and fruit. Being a kid, of course, I painted things like silhouettes of tattered-rag-clad figures grasping for the sky and life in a radioactive green nightmare future with cracked nuclear cooling towers in the background, or a portrait of Yoshi the dinosaur. Mum said she liked these ones best because they were actually my work instead of copies of classic rural-glorification, but she kept them in less-traversed rooms instead of up on the walls of the hallways.
Those were good times… Old Harry was quite the eccentric and a storyteller, and the music he played was always old English wartime stuff, which embedded itself deep in my brain, leaving an appreciation for classics like, ‘We’ll Meet Again’, ‘There’ll be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover’, ‘Run Rabbit, Run,’ and ‘Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye’. I still listen to some of that stuff sometimes when I’m trying to get the creative juices flowing. Puts me in the right frame of mind, and the tunes always come to mind when I smell turpentine.
Can sketch fictional faces OK, but not real practiced; from real life is pretty dodgy and it’s usually pretty damn scratchy or stylized. Mostly I like doing the patterns and stuff inspired by some really intricate sand mandalas I saw Buddhist monks doing once. (Image search ‘sand mandalas’.) I liked the principle of incremental art, started incorporating it into my doodles. Folks would come to watch at lunch-times at school as I gradually filled a page – I’d do the backs of peoples’ books or folders for them. Always improvised, never knowing what the pattern was going to be til it was done – one classmate noted, “Every time you add a new layer I get really worried that you’re ruining the whole thing, but then eventually it takes shape and it looks even cooler.” So far I’ve ended up doing things like http://urbanstray.com/images/doodle-2006-05-16.jpg in acrylic on canvas (acrylic being MUCH easier to work with than oils or watercolour and great for high-contrast anything). The bigger the better. I’m not sure where to take that, now.
Never really considered it a career to develop. After all, I failed art classes at school and never really did much more than dabbling when compelled.
(Failed partly because I kept submitting things late, partly because I kept doing weird things, like our 3D-perspective drawing assignment of a basketball court would be populated with 2D cartoon basketballers dunking. For ‘form & function’ clay-sculpting I made a gargoyle water-spout, which was apparently out-of-scope – teacher wanted jugs and shit. When we did portrait sketches in colour pencil and gouache, I inverted the colours like a photo negative. Etc, etc.)
Some folks took photos of some of the things I’d done for family for kicks and giggles and sent to friends who offered me some corporate commissions. The money was pretty nice for each set, but the hourly rate isn’t great for the time it takes to do them so it’s not exactly career-worthy stuff. Maybe it could be if I really worked at it? But I just don’t have the degree of enthusiasm to motivate me to do that work to create really awesome things or anything of grand enough scale or scope to really get attention – which is what you need to do to make a career out of it.
Cos I likes to tell teh stories.
You’re an impressive guy who’s good at every thing. No wonder you gets all the girls.
Shucks. Well, I don’t do much to justify it anymore. Been spending a lot more time consuming than creating.
I think that’s the thing. I think we all have a lot more respect for creation than consumption… One of those things to put on the ‘to do’ list, I guess. Actually make things.
This is why people like Sughly and Shane and Strange and Scree and others are awesome, they make stuff. Wait… all those names I thought of start with S. Is that the secret to it? Nono, there’s DAN and potakuguys and what Red and Popdart do with the Numenera feels like it counts too.
Edit: Oh man, and remember Gooky’s cosplay and Typing of the Dead soundtrack tape? And who knows who/what I’ve forgotten. Yeah. Creating things is impressive. And pretty much anything qualifies, really… Writing, drawing, video editing, sewing, knitting, miscellaneous. Who was doing the space-marine stuff? I forget. But that was impressive shit too.
And there’s @dc who doesn’t give his writing near enough credit.
Then there’s me who… uh…. doesn’t really achieve anything but I’m happy to cheer from the sidelines.
Yup, re: @dc, though he keeps deleting it. Where’s that blog at?
And I dunno, wasn’t I looking at a really good engraved Final Fantasy character the other day? (I totally can’t remember which one. I wanna say…. Seifer? No, that’s not right…)
Edit: And didn’t you mention building a home arcade at some point?
There’s a difference between creating original content and reproducing someone else’s work in a different medium.
I can build things when I get the motivation. There’s a wardrobe in my daughters room that I built for her that I was pretty proud of. The doors were a pair of monkeys hugging each other I had cut out and had painted a wood grain finish into it to make it look like it was made from high grade hard wood. Still as strong today as it was 7 years ago.
Fuck. Now I’m all jittery and itching to make that arcade cabinet and I don’t have enough cash yet.
Hey! Me too! Maybe we should get Pom Poms?
*cough*
hey I saw that Caterpie you engraved that time, more than I’ve done 😛
TAYFILM
awesome, good to hear your talents aren’t wasted, the couple of things you linked are really impressive.
funny about the old timey music, I get a lot of those songs in my head often too, my mum and sister were in heaps of war time plays when I was little and I was always taken to rehersals and have had them burned into my brain. It’d be funny seeing you at an ANZAC day parade or something, music starts, you get inspired, run off and start doodlingGoing to watch the new Robocop tonight! Bracing myself for the possibility its awful. I watched the original again last night. Clarence Boddicker has to be one of my favourite villains.
“Bitches leave”
Awesome.
I’d upvote this for a dollar.
To think in the 70s he was a nice dad who just had a dumbass for a son
Better remake.
www
Super super mega NSFW warning.
Whaaaaat? I’m confused, who are Dominic and Vinnette haha?
Don’t know what you’re talking about. *shifty look*
Hahaha that cracked me up big time! Especially when the theme music kicked in as members are flying everywhere.
Preacher/Ennis fans: AMC has confirmed that a televisual adaptation is in the works. Helmed by none other than…
wait for it.*drum roll*bread rolljoke drollShane trollSeth Rogen.Wrong spoiler tag. Try again.http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=50753
Keeeeeeeeeeeeen
I love the comics, but I’m… lukewarm to the idea of a TV show. I’m not expecting much from it, sadly.
DAMMIT SHANE. Don’t stand between me and my Preacher news with your tags, you tease!
1. Seriously though, I am ‘enh’ at who’s helming. The guy has some serious bombs under his belt which turned me off… everything.
(‘Observe and Report’ especially. That was a fucking crime against decency, and it wasn’t even funny to make up for its crimes.)2. Wow does the soundbite from the AMC guy rustle my jimmies. Not only does he mention the network twice more in the one sentence than is necessary, but he also implicitly claims a LOT of credit for Walking Dead series which isn’t entirely deserved. Everyone knows it’s weaker than the source material so all they really had to do was follow the source material and not fuck it up. Claiming it as, ‘another iconic AMC series’ seems like overestimating their contribution.
3. OH MY GOD SO HYPE I HOPE IT IS AWESOME!
I hope so too, but I have the same qualms as you.
Actually I felt that
Observe and Report is better on a second veiwing – if you go in expecting a comedy (which many people did) it flops but when you really understand the deeply disturbed individual Seth’s character is, you actually kind of sympathise with him for having to live in such a disturbing and sometimes plain mean world. I’d give it another try – I think he’s got some real acting chops that don’t come to play in stuff like 40-Year Old Virgin and Superbad. Have you seen Zack and Miri Make a Porno? It’s a rom-com in stupid comedy clothing but way better than I was expecting, and he deserves some of the credit for that.Oh sure, he’s got some GREAT stuff under his belt too.
But then he goes and Pineapple Expresses all over it. It makes me… very wary.I definifitely didn’t get the appeal of
Pineapple Express, I assume you have to be stoned out of your gourd to appreciate it. Then again, I didn’t really “get” the Big Lebowski either, and kind of lump them in together. To a lot of people, that probably makes me a bad person.That’s, just, like, your opinion, man.
It suuuuure is.
I want to like the Big Lebowski, and it’s not like it wasn’t entertaining, I just didn’t really see the point of it as a movie. It’s almost like all the quotes and in jokes and references are actually better out of context, but they mean nothing without the context.
I dunno.
I’ll freely admit that The Big Lebowski, like many Coen Brothers movies, is an acquired taste. The Big Lebowski especially, because the plot is very much a pastiche of Raymond Chandler tropes and not a real story per se.
Observe and Report isn’t a comedy. Not at all. It’s an obscenely dark movie about mental health that some jack offs in marketing thought “Seth Rogan? He’s funny! Comedy!”, completely missing the point that the movie is very much depressing look at how mental health problems are ignored and written off as personality.
Really is worth watching getting past the way it was marketed. Not sure if it’s good per se but is definitely interesting.
I think part of why people expected it to be a comedy is because it came out around the same time as Paul Blart: Mall Cop. It wasn’t exactly the fault of the marketing alone, people kind of associated them with each other. It was more unfortunate timing than anything else.
I’m a fan of maybe one thing that he’s written and possibly 2-3 things he’s acted in. Given that pretty much all his career is comedy I’m uncertain as to how well this will be written
Dark Souls
Just got my arse handed to me by the Capra Demon as soon as I walked through the fog door. got stuck between the wall, the Capra Demon and the dogs and couldn’t move.This is one of those fights that rewards semi-reckless speed at the start.Protip: Run like fuck to the right to dodge his first blow and then straight up the stairs. Turn around and kill the dogs, hopefully in one swing, before the Capra Demon comes up the stairs after you.
yep this!
Also honestly, aside from one or two attacks, he really doesn’t do that much damage… still not good to get hit, but if you learn to read which attacks hurt and which one just drains stamina when blocked it makes it a helluva lot easier…
i ended up dodging mostly and then hitting him 2 handed, only sometimes getting my shield to block an incoming attack… kite him up the stairs and make him drop down, as he lands he staggers so that’s an attack opportunity as well…
keep doing that and he’s easy pickins, the hardest part is the start (FARKING DOGS)
Also, drop attacks once he falls. Huge damage.….
I DIDN’T EVEN THINK OF THAT!
GENIUS!
Tried running past him, but I just can’t seem to get to the stairs. He still attacks me, then the dog comes and blocks me before I can move, then another two hits and I’m dead.What weapon are you using?
i used a bastard sword which has a genius sprint attack (big whirly thing)
so i sprinted in, did the whirly thing against his dogs killing them in one hit (and as a bonus took a chunk of his health) immediately hitting dodge after that…
Then ran up the stairs…
mind you the dogs pinned me on my first go 😛
I’m using the Drake Sword, I’ve also got the Uchigatana and the Zweihander.Got any firebombs (ideally the black ones)? If you can chuck one of those as soon as you go through the white fog, you’ll end up with a pair of hotdogs and a clear path to the stands.
I think I’ve got one black one left, I’ll give that a go.
DARK SOULS
Page 11 is now Dark Souls pageDARK SOULS
Page 11Every page is now Dark Souls page.Fixed that for you.
No, because that would get fucking tedious.
Commitment, my friend. You have to commit, and then overcommit, if you ever want to conquer Dark Souls.
I don’t want to conquer Dark Souls.
My friend…! You’ll never conquer Dark Souls if you don’t want to conquer Dark Souls.
The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club
Hmm… I upvoted, but speaking purely pedantically, mine wasn’t so much tautology as it was obvious statement of fact. 😛
…AND?
Edit: Tsk. Afraid of tedium… it’s as if you haven’t even played!
This page has confused me enough as it is (my own fault)- i don’t know which posts are in on the joke and which ones are genuinely about Dark Souls.
Confusion is one of the cornerstones of the Dark Souls experience, any time you’re confused you’re playing a little bit of the game.
Hey dark souls peeps
i dont really care that much but maybe keep it on one post and just make replies. Its a tad absurd when a whole page is just
DARK SOULS
if you dont want too im cool with that too because ill never tell peeps what they can and cant do, Its just a little easier on the eyes reading wise for people who arent interested in reading about the game.
Dark Souls
Sorry.Seriously though, maybe @markserrels should make a seperate TAY titled TAY: Dark Souls edition, so we can keep the regular TAY Dark Souls free. I can understand how so many posts about Dark Souls could be annoying to people that aren’t interested.
Oh, and just thought I’d mention Dark Souls… Sorry, couldn’t resist.
This
There should be a Dark Souls TAY running separate to this one 😀
damn you @evilmonkey
So it’s not just me seeing the same post by the same person? I thought I was going crazy.
I adore Dark Souls but even I’m starting to get super annoyed at every single post being “DARK SOULS!”. So much so that even though I finally have time to play it now, just the thought of it makes me cranky.
How difficult is it to put your own Dark Souls comment onto one of the dozen already going ones instead of making a new thread?
Calm your jets mother dearest.
Let ole’ rockets play the role of funkiller
you get off scot free.
Honestly if people are happy i dont mind it that much, just making it easier for people who want to ignore the posts is my main thing.
@transientmind: This is why I haven’t posted my blog yet:
I’d love to see your blog on TV and movies, even if I only come to argue about The Newsroom 🙂
I’m on to you @dc! I know you were secretly counting posts to make sure that your bloggy post would be like… the very last post of the page so that everyone would miss it by accident in favour of shiny new page 12!
And y’know, I guess I can respect that, hence replying here instead of obnoxiously calling you out at the top of page 12. 😉
(I’m kidding. Luck of the draw, I know.)
What you’re questioning is the inherent difference between journal and blog. Same content, but very different context.
There’s no easy way to google for this, but I found this snippet which goes some way to delineating: http://voices.yahoo.com/should-keep-journal-blog-157425.html
It seems to really depend what you hope to get out of it. If you want your friends to understand you better and offer their support, then a blog is the key. If you’re looking to work through issues and the like, it might be better to keep that stuff private, or at least keep the circle smaller.
Ultimately it’s up to you whether or not you share it… but your readers are going to want timely updates if you decide to blog, not one big dump of a whole year’s writing on New Year’s Eve. 😛
(Who am I kidding, I’d still read it)
That’s the thing though. The tone can change between posts. Some times I’ll write an article-like thing. Other times it’ll be all informal and introspective. It’s a predicament. XD
At Uni once when studying documentaries there was this whole thing about ‘fly on the wall’ documentaries and influencing your subject matter indirectly. This is what I keep coming back to. :S
I used to have a blog that did a bit of everything. I’d write an article questioning the ethics of posting a job listing for “super-soldier” on SEEK to advertise Mass Effect 2 one day, and then talk about the ways in which I thought I was going to struggle as a father the next, and then about how my writing was going the next day, before launching into a lengthy tirade about how there’s no way flying cars will ever be legal.
I don’t think a changing tone matters – you just write what you want to, and the readers will come (or in my case, they didn’t).
In terms of influencing the subject matter, I don’t necessarily think that’s a bad thing. Sure, for a nature documentary, you probably don’t want the animals to be aware there’s a camera crew perched in the leafy canopy. But a diary is not a documentary, nor is it a blog. It’s inherently personal and will be affecting its subject (you) by its very existence. But is change something to be feared? I don’t know. My guess is that most of it will be for the better.
*strokes patchy chin stubble*
Good points all round. To be honest, the whole point of this is almost inconsequential. This is an exercise in writing every day that will hopefully bleed into my other writing projects. (Which you’ve glimpsed. D:)
That simplifies things! In that case, the only question to be asked is:
Will I be more or less productive if I post these entries online?
I used to have a livejournal. Journal posts were marked ‘private’ for me only, bloggish posts for friends were marked friends-only.
There were no public posts. Not after my then-employer found the site and logged into it to read my entire back-history. I was 19 and an idiot and involved in a bad scene so it was HORRIBLY EMBARRASSING. And potentially legally awkward. So yeah. Now everyone gets very carefully-edited posts with some stories staying buried until they’re in the grave with me.
Im gonna be blunt
Keep writing asshole
I love you and everything baout the stuff you do
Rooooockets. You awesome.
So… Secret Santa. Should I just go and tell me Secret Santee that if they haven’t received their present by now, don’t bother? Because it’s been two months so they’re probably not getting it 😛 Should’ve got tracking.
Getting it with tracking makes things tricky since you need to provide your contact details. I added my phone number but forgot I’d exchanged numbers with people at PAX…
Well, that sucks.
#DownerPage12
I miss Dark Souls page 11 already.
The only issue I have with seeing Dork Souls all over the page is that it’s making me want to play it god dammit!
DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS! DARK SOULS!
NO. Dork Souls >:(
Haha. Sorry.
Hmm. Question. How many times have you finished Dark Souls? Considering. Well, considering it’s your favourite video game.
Twice. I beat NG, and then NG+ (and the DLC content), and got around halfway through NG++.
I also did this.
(I also have an incomplete playthrough on my PS3 that I discontinued when the console was confined to palliative care.)
I’ve spent about 80 Dark Souls hours with a controller in my hand, but when you factor in wiki reading and strategising, planning, and general obsessing, I generally say to people that I’ve played the game for about 1000 hours. 😛
I find it amazing you being obsessed as you are having only 80 hours. I have 3 characters with over 80 each and a bunch of others with 20-50 hours on them. And I don’t get a lot if gaming time.
Quality, not quantity…? I dunno. I don’t game much at all. I tend to write in leisure hours.
If your not sure and you want to keep it secret just get Freeze to follow up for you
Or get him to do a full follow up with everybody so it doesn’t give away that on Pow’s santee was getting chased
Eh, I don’t really mind if they know or not 😛 I would’ve told them when they received it. There’s probably not many people left who haven’t received anything yet anyway haha
So Double Fine’s Amnesia Fortnight is on again. Might have to check out the options tonight.
Although maybe I should wait until the final 10 are release for voting so I don’t get upset they don’t choose the ones I want.
I’ll be backing so I can follow along and fanboi out, anybody else planning to?
DOOOOUUUUUBBBBLLLLEEEEEEEEE FFFFIIIIIIIIIINNNNEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
I planned to, but I forgot
I’m about to embark on an epic quest, to own every XBLA and PSN (PS3) game, before they inevitably shut down in favour of the Xbone and PS4 stores.
So far I have 175 XBLA games, and between 50 and 60 PSN games.
Looking for suggestions as to what to buy this week, I’m looking at spending roughly $50 – $100 a week.
Get whatever’s on sale. XBLA especially run frequent sales. I think EA games are cheap this week (or was that last week? I forget). Bang for buck, etc.
You’re really going to get all the games? All of them?
Yeah, the idea is to obviously grab whatever’s on sale first (Deal Of The Week). I know that Toy Soldiers: Cold War is going to be up next on games with gold, so I won’t be paying for that one.
And yes, ALL of them, missed out on some that have been delisted already like Root Beer Tapper.
I don’t understand your logic. If the stores shut down (if….) and you can’t have access to purchase games, you also won’t have access to download the games.
I assume he’ll be downloading as he goes. And he’ll have them archived on his hard drive, ready to play for when the Xbox store shuts down.
I’m not just going to buy them all, I’ll be downloading them as I purchase them, even if I have to buy a bunch of USB’s to fit them on.
Can you list down what PSN games you own? Just put it in spoiler tags and maybe I can recommend some of my favourites.
Also if you have a PS+ subscription keep an eye out for sales. Games have been as cheap as $2.50.
A) Holy shit
B) Hard to suggest something when there’s a fair chance you’ll already have it
Fair enough, I’ll try and get a list up, but it might take a while.
Here’s a list of the XBLA games I’ve got.
1942: Joint Strike, 3 On 3 NHL Arcade, 3D Ultra Mini Golf, A World Of Keflings, Adventures Of Shuggy, Age Of Booty, Alien Hominid HD, Altered Beast, Assault Heroes, Assault Heroes 2, Band Of Bugs, Bang Bang Racing, Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Bankshot Billiards2, , Battlezone, Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Blazing Birds, Bliss Island, Bomberman Live, Boom Boom Rocket, Brain Challenge, Burnout Crash, Castle Crashers, Castle Of Illusion, Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night, Centipede & Millipede, Chime, Comix Zone, Contra, Crazy Mouse, Crimson Alliance, Crystal Quest, Defender, Defense Grid: The Awakening, Dig Dug, Doritos: Crash Course, Doritos: Crash Course 2, Doritos: Dash Of Destruction, Double Dragon, Duke Nukem 3D, Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles Of Mystara, Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale, Exit, Fable II: Pub Games, Fatal Fury Special, Feeding Frenzy, Fighting Vipers, Final Exam, Frogger, Fruit Ninja Kinect, Galaga, Galaga: Legions, Gauntlet, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, Geometry Wars 2, Geon, Ghostbusters: Sanctum Of Slime, Gin Rummy, Golden Axe, Golf: Tee It Up, Gunstar Heroes, Gyruss, Happy Wars, Hardwood Backgammon, Hardwood Spades, Hexic HD, Hitman: Absolution – Sniper Challenge, Hunter’s Trophy 2: America, Hunter’s Trophy 2 Australia, Hydrophobia, Jetpac: Refuelled, Joe Danger 2: The Movie, KrissX, Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light, Lazy Raiders, Lumines Live, Mad Tracks, Madballs Babo: Invasion, Magic The Gathering: Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Marble Blast Ultra, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, Missile Command, Monkey Island: Special Edition, Ms. ‘Splosion Man, Ms. Pac-Man, N+, NBA Jam: On Fire Edition, New Rally-X, Nights Into Dreams…, Outrun Online Arcade, Pac-Man, Paperboy, Peggle, Perfect Dark, Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds, Pinball FX, Pinball FX 2, Pool Nation, Prince Of Persia Classic, Puzzle Arcade, Quantum Conundrum, Rocket Riot, Rush’n Attack, Schizoid, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Scramble, Scrap Metal, Serious Sam DDXL, Serious Sam HD TFE, Serious Sam 3 BFE, Shadow Complex, Shank, Shinobi, Small Arms, Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic The Fighters, Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Sonic The Hedgehog 3, South Park: Let’s Go Tower Defense Play, Space Giraffe, Spelunky, ‘Splosion Man, Spyglass Board Games, Stacking, State Of Decay, Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting, Streets Of Rage 2, Super Contra, Super Meat Boy, Super Street Fighter II HD, Swarm, Sensible World Of Soccer, The Misadventures Of P.B. Winterbottom, The Cave, The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, The Maw, The Simpsons Arcade, The Walking Dead Season 1, The Walking Dead Season 2 (Episode 1 and season pass), The Wolf Among Us (Episode 1 and season pass), Time Pilot, TMNT: 1989 Arcade, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, Totemball, Toy Soldiers, Track & Field, Trials HD, Trials: Evolution, Turtles In Time: Reshelled, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Uno, Uno Rush, Virtua Fighter 2, Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown, Virutal-On, Voltron, Wallace & Gromit: Fright Of The Bumblebees, Warlords, Wolfenstein 3D, Worms, Worms 2: Armageddon, WRC: Powerslide, World Series Of Poker: Full House Pro, Xevious, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Zombie Apocalypse, Zombie Driver HD, Zombie Wranglers, and ZumaI think that’s it.
I’ll have to list my PSN games another time.
New Slang — The Shins
Incredible song. Resonates for reasons I can’t put my finger on. *shrugs*
Welcome to Japan- The Strokes
ALTERNATIVELY
A mix-up of a 2000’s gangster rap and the opening of a anime because it’s pretty much my music fetish
Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians- The Sword.
Heaven In This Hell – Orianthi
Hopefully seeing her in 2 weeks.
Boy & Bear – Southern Sun. In my arse.
Play By Play – Autre Ne Veut
Wasting my Young Years – London Grammar.
I’d post a link but like an illiterate teenage delinquent in a neo-fascist state I’m sadly aware I have no skills at [html] tagging.
Here you go.
City in the Sand – James Flamestar
Breaking Benjamin – The Diary of Jane
A Day to Remember – Right back at it again.
Getting keen for Soundwave \o/
You seen ADTR before?
So good.
Nah but a friend im going with saw the Homesick tour.
Carcass – Embodiment
Devil in The Tower – Dark
SoulsMoorD.C.’s EMO QUESTION OF THE DAY:
What gets you out of bed in the morning? Where do you get your sense of self-worth?
Work for both, I guess. Haven’t really felt self-worth-less (that’s not a word, but eh) since I got employed 😛
EDIT: Ooh, I just got the prize for most boring answer ever.
The incredible urge to pee.
My alarm
From being awesome
Responsibility.
I don’t feel a whole lot of self-worth. I suppose my wife and kids give me what little I’ve got.
I think “I should get out of bed and do things today” and so I get out of bed. Whether I actually end up doings things is another question entirely.
Question a) Being the only bread-winner in my household, so supporting my wife and child.
Question b) If somebody could tell me where to find it, that would be great, ok? I’ve checked down the back of the couch already and it wasn’t there.
Answer: Porn is on the computer and I have to get up to reach it.
Masturbation.
Indeed.
Seconded, old chap.
See this is the answer I should’a strived for
The elicit instructions I gave to my roomie to spill a bucket of cold water over my head if I oversleep answers the former. As for the latter, I buy it in bulk.
… I’m half-serious, but for serious (and depressing answers!) here’s a nice little spoiler tag.
What gets me out of bed? The fact that I have to work, study, etc. My schedule is jam-packed with two jobs and school, and part of the reason I submit myself to this hell is by throwing myself at these tasks, I distract myself from the fact that I’ve literally no personal reason to live as of now. After a few heavy months of self-introspection, I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t want to commit suicide, though. That’s… a plus? As for the second question- Self-worth? That’s unfortunately a straight answer. I have none. Well, I kind of do. It was hard enough explaining to a doc, but when it comes down to things, I value my life as completely, utterly worthless- if I were to weigh my soul against a majority of people’s in the worlds, I’d say theirs was worth more. It’s horribly negative, yes, but at the same time I don’t value myself as.. worthless? Much like a antique, I guess, but that analogy still doesn’t sit well with me. It’s something I’ve engraved into my mind but never really articulated, or at least condensed well enough for others to understand easily.Well christ people if I knew we were all being so nonchalant and casual about this I’d just left out the actual answers and put down “My ass & my ass respectively.”
Is it too late for that? I might change my whole answer (I won’t but the point remains!)
I never know when to be serious or not as well.
/internetting about this kind of topic is hard
You’re awesome, my friend. *hugs*
It was fun hanging out with you, you’re not worthless :-p
That’s a feeling I know all too well mate. I think my take home lesson from staring long into the abyss was that I definitely understand why people kill themselves or lose themselves in narcotics but understanding also that it’s just not my style. I guess I just have too much English stiff upper lip in me (I thought that kebab tasted a little odd at the time)
It sort of sounds like you’re describing yourself as foreign currency, technically valuable but kind of useless in day to day life. Well fuck that, you get down to the bank, march yourself up to the foreign currency desk and… and… and this analogy is rapidly falling apart isn’t it?
More routine than anything. I know I’ve got stuff to do and being active and doing stuff makes me want to go out and do more. If I lack interest or motivation I will struggle to function.
Caffeine.
Also money.
Also what self-worth?
Oh man, DC buddy. You have NO IDEA how much I hate mornings. I am definitely not a morning person. At all. Let me tell you a little funny story that happened this morning in my next post..
I have no idea what gets me out bed. Usually alarm & gf combo.
I don’t quite understand the question about self-worth.
…
To be completely honest, work. Which is why I am terrified of what’s going to happen if I don’t find a new job by March.
-The intense need to eat something.
-What sense of self-worth?
My cats and the sense of ‘I guess I should get up and ‘earn’ some money. Clearly I’m doing well as I’m checking Kotaku every half hour
Self-worth? Not sure tbh. I guess cheesy answer coming home to my girlfriend and talking to mates. I’m a bit of a loner by nature so I don’t get a load of self worth from peers, so just the knowledge that I’m doing ok. I could be doing a lot better, but I’m doing ok
Can we stop being emo now? 😛
My roommate making his f*cking protein shake in the blender at 5:30am.
Seriously though, work. It pays the bills and lets me have fun on the weekend. Living for the weekend isn’t a lifestyle I’m overly thrilled about and I don’t want to do it forever, but until something changes it’ll have to make do. Which is why I’m moving to Canada end of year \o/I’ve learnt if you’re unhappy and do nothing to change it, well, nothing changes :\
I’ve realised I had little sense of self-worth until recent times. I try to keep my Nan from depression, it gets harder the older she gets, loneliness is killing her slowly. Mum was diagnosed with cancer recently but the biggest battle is her mentality not the cancer itself. Trying to keep those two positive makes me feel like I’m doing something worth while.
Aw, all the best my friend! 🙂
Thanks mate, same to you. One of the best things to do when you feel down is to acknowledge it and try to combat it. I think coming on here and talking to your friends is a great idea. At the very least you’ll be told you’re awesome from people who genuinely mean it, which is always nice 🙂1) The knowledge that everything in life is about putting one step in front of the other… and I want to get paid, son.
2) A gyroscopic core of narcissism, deluding itself with the unshakeable conviction that I WILL leave this place better than I found it. (Your idea on what constitutes ‘better’ may vary.)
Q1: A need for a shit.
Q2: Looking in the toilet afterwards and thinking “well, at least I’m not you, mate.”
Realistically since I abandoned the opinions of others as a gauge of my self worth, its kind of gotten worse rather than better. Now I really only attain validation from the solving of problems, fortunately I’ve managed a good one this week that also validated the purchase more than two hundred bucks worth of equipment so that makes me feel better.
I’m definitely not a morning person, I need at least 2 hours before I’m conscious enough for complex operations. About the only thing I’d have the motivation to do in a hurry soon after waking up is murdering a bubbly morning person with the pointy end of a claw hammer so I can go back to bed.
My kids.
I never had any self worth until I had my daughter and even then it took me a few years to really discover it.
So my kids get me out of bed in every sense of the term. 😛
These days I also find it easier to get out of bed when I’m in the middle of a project I’m excited about.
The fact that everyone else is out of bed so I probably should be too. Other than that… feeling hungry
If I were to answer the question literally; it’s the need to shit.
But in all seriousness, I’m not sure. A long time ago, I realised the only joy in my life was in games and books. I don’t think I have a sense of self-worth. I know I haven’t contributed to society yet, I am merely leeching off it.
Emo Question of the Day? Oh, this could be interesting.
A FRIEND SET ME UP WITH A GIRL NICKNAMED FREYA
fuck fuck fuck this is weird
like really weird
@freya
and yes we all know “a friend” is actually the internet shut up guys stop judging me with your judging eyes
Remember how that worked out last time?
It worked out so well that it will put dan and karls zeitgeist on the map.
I can only assume this will be just as horrific and set you guys up for lyf
Whoa, calm down there. Maybe a little off the map. Like, in the old “refidex” your parents used to use before GPS’. In one of the obscure maps that you need to jump between like 5 pages before finding its location.
the lovely lass in my pickupline attempt was named Freyja.
Takes one look at @freya ‘s avatar.
Looks at the glove and the hand.
Right, so now we know what you’re into @rocketman
The fact that you decided to share this information with us is… odd.
And you tagged Freya, too! Why?! Do you expect us to laugh at you? make bad jokes about this?
Because, damnit, by the time I’ve posted this there’s going to be one or the other and I’ll feel bad that I didn’t do this right away and instead question your motives.
My life is a open book, I like my funny stories they are a big part of who i am. So i share because i want to make people laugh and smile and think
“Oh rockets”
I’m just jealous you’re hogging the tinge of funny mixed with funny spotlight. One more story of this magnitude you’ll be Michael Cera and I’ll be… a lesser.. Michael Cera.
Is she a sexy midget doctor (from outer space)?
One can only dream,
Oh man, just think, if this works out you can publish your comics! Then you can sign the rights over for a movie which everyone will find amazing then 20 years later it will get remade and people will hate it and send death threats to you!
Are…are you saying I’m sexy?
@trjn
Because he deserves to know.
Who do you think set it up. 😉
I previously dated two girls with the name Violetta. Not at the same time of course. But yeah, I definitely thought dating one Violetta during my lifetime was weird, let alone two.
…
Then I went and married my wife, Elvina.
Are you an NPC?
Too soon? Everyone remembers that?
https://twitter.com/CannonFodderJnr/status/431642949315608576
Gold.
This is amazing.
Just make sure not to comment on the size of her arms.
Jeez.. The local shopping centre has applied for a DA with the council for a 134 million dollar, 26,000sqm upgrade, an upgrade which would increase the centre by another third in size apparently. They already got approval for a 20 million dollar upgrade starting in a few months.
Reminds me of when Westfield Chermside was going through their upgrades. It took ages but they are now the longest (end to end) shopping centre in Australia and possibly even the Southern Hemisphere.
That place is too big for it’s own accord! haha. I remember first time I went there, my mates managed to get us lost. Silly kids.
Everytime I go round Chermside I get the distinct impression that it doesn’t actually have anything that I want or need (other than a Woolworths)
Haha. It has the movies and uh.. an Apple store. Bout all I recall from that place. I’ll assume it has JB & EB since every shopping centre has them.
That apple store is a very strange place and I am very uncomfortable there.
Edit: No, seriously. The way they applaud someone who has just bought an inferior computer? Besides being just… so American, it’s also somewhat perverse. Buying an Apple is not something to be proud of, it is a secret, guilty pleasure which you know is shameful and wrong but feels good. Can you imagine a crowded room of people applauding you after you exit whatever room you’d been jerking off in?
Yeah, that’d be weird.
They should be in the room itself and applaud then.
…I’m not sure if that would hinder or help.
That’s already kinda happened on English TV
God I hate that. I was in the Robina store one day when some poor sap bought a MacBook Pro, and they all turned around and started acting like seals begging for fish. This is why i’ll never buy direct from the retail Apple stores that and they’re just dicks, my mates who work at JB in the Apple section not only know more about the stuff they’re way more helpful and give me generous discounts where my mate at the Apple store is a dick about anything. Fucken cults I tell ya.
Wait hang on, that applause thing, that’s a thing that really happens? It’s not something @transientmind was joking about?
Fuck me, what kind of creepy fucking store training do they need to institute to have that shit go on? Sounds like Reaper indoctrination.
ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
YOU WILL NOT PROVIDE SIMPLE CUSTOMER SERVICE
YOU WILL EXPRESS EMOTION
THE EMOTION WILL BE GENUINE
OR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WILL BE KILLED
@aliasalpha It’s true. They really do clap. It’s the most pathetic thing i’ve seen.
I was gonna post this as a comment, but it’s a serious offer so I’m making new thread.
What about a TAY (or invite) only forum board for Dark Souls stuff? This way shit won’t get lost on the back pages; it’d be easier to follow convos; can make guides n stuff and organise threads better.
We could even create sub-forums for hype games.
If there’s any interest at all, I could literally have this running by tonight.
hmmm, personally I think it’s fine. It’ll pass, and I think a majority of Dark Souls mentions are because of hype and a joke that we’re beginning to develop now.
I forget the last game that had this much TAY attention, though.
DARK SOULS
Dark Souls 2 in a month…
is it? I hadn’t noticed. Perhaps shane should do a countdown. 😛
You forget the Anchorman quotes page, of course. That was huge.
So what I’m hearing here is we need another Anchorman page but with the added addition of Anchorman 2 quotes.
*Shrugs*
Animal Crossing has a ton of banter about tactics and turnip prices. Pokemon about trading and being nice. Ass Creed 4 mostly about experiences.
There’s at least a couple more examples I’m sure, but I usually gloss over them and minimise threads because I’m not currently playing said game. 🙁
🙁 that’s alright though! You can just spark up discussion whenever you get around to playing them. We can’t play everything so there might also be some people who have just started playing it too, or were planning to play it but your discussion was so compelling they’ve decided to start playing it after reading what you wrote!
…Or you can just do as I do and shout out games (by “shout out” I mean type in all caps with lotsa !) and hope people are willing to discuss it. Barely anyone was playing Xenoblade but now … well barely anyone is playing it still but at least they’re aware of it!
XENOBLADE!
(But I think I’ve actually made like 6 TAY people buy the game :D)
If you’re looking at forums, maybe talk to a Pixel-Otaku bod like @powalen or @alexpants.
Don’t think Allure would take too kindly to that.
In terms of what?
Community site slowly poaching the community away.
Eh, these things happen.
I like Tay for many reasons, and I certainly wouldn’t want to tread on toes, but there are things that forums do really well. I don’t really see it as necessary (as sick as I am of DARK SOULS) but if others want it…
It’s completely different though. It’d be specific to certain games and cover them in detail. Current TAY is still the best for casual banter.
Anyways, zero up-votes and no comments supporting it mean I’ll hide back in my cave. 😛
Whasa Dark Souls?
Eh, I think it’s fine as long as people are spoilering walls of text and generally keeping things in their own comment threads. No point splintering the community over it, it’ll pass. Just like the hype around Animal Crossing and Pokemon did.
Poke-hype will never die
Well we might be getting a new game this year, so I’ll see you and your hype then!
The as-yet-unconfirmed-but-still-totally-happening Z Version? Is that what you’re referring to?
Either that or some sort of remake. We’ve had a new main-series title every year since 2009, after all!
Ruby/Sapphire remakes would be pretty rad if they can do 3D properly this time. 3D Mt. Chimney! 3D Sootopolis City 😀
*drool*
The Hoenn games were my favourites after Gen IV. Ruby was the closest I ever got to completing the full dex. I’d be all over a Ruby/Sapphire remake
I don’t think it’s a good idea. It will just lead to splintering the small TAY community into even smaller groups.
It’s very easy to avoid stuff if you don’t like it – just scroll down with your mouse or on your touch screen. I feel it’s kind of selfish in a way for people to ask others to stop posting because they don’t like the content. Asking for courtesy is fine and rexommended and I think the people playing Dark Souls have been very polite lately putting things in spoiler tags.
If TAY/Twitter has a string of posts you are not interested in use that as an opportunity to start a new topic and I’m sure people will be happy to contribute to.
TAY goes through hype phases and it’s fun to read about others’ excitement. I don’t play games like Animal Crossing, dark souls, LOL or Pokemon yet all these games have enjoyed periods of constant TAY posts (sometimes months long). Just ignore the posts or maybe just skim through them for possible interesting mechanics that might encourage you to play the game or add something to the discussion.
I VOTE ‘NO’ 🙂
That’s cool. (Y) I don’t have a problem with the posts at all – just offered an alternative because the idea popped in my head and I saw people that were getting annoyed.
For @dc
My wife gets up at 6am and I get up at 7am. Weird but true. Some mornings when the kid is up early as well, she plonks him into our bed expecting me to, I dunno, watch him? all whilst I’m pretty much still asleep / dazed and confused. Instead of keeping him in his cot. Anyway.
This morning was that morning, and I honestly have no recollection of 6am and the plonking, but I do remember waking up to a loud scream and seeing stuck little Joshie, wedged in between our bed and the bedside table. Yeah. Not good.
Mornings are the worst.
Poor little guy. He okay?
Don’t worry, Josh is fine. He even laughs about it now himself.
hey guys, i have a beta invite for the Elder Scrolls Online starting today, and i got a second email saying i can invite friends to beta so anyone wanting in, i need your email!
PICK ME! \o/
I will DM you my email on twitter!
I got that as well, I laughed because I lost interested in ESO like almost instantly after I didn’t get an original beta invite.
I got the beta signup email but didn’t actually sign up. Have done so now but I don’t imagine I’ll get one to invite friends. I’ll see you in Tamriel tomorrow (hopefully)
correction guys, you need to go to
http://www.curse.com/betas/teso-beta-key-giveaway
you get a key instantly… email was to invite friends to some beta list…. :/
you will still instantly get a key there.
@sernobulus
Considering that’s going through Curse I’m guessing there’ll be add-ons at a level comparable to Wow…for better or worse.
My amount of care given is zero, as long as you need to make initial purchase along with monthly fee. There’s plenty of MMOs out there.
I’m not exceptionally hype either, but it’s less to do with payment models and more to do with the class and levelling restrictions, and the nerfing/non-existence of my favourite TES ultra-powered sneak+headshot/1-shot-kill build with magic for invisibility, because of fucking PVP ‘balance issues’. That’s not fucking TES, that’s just Every-other-MMO-2.0.
I wish the cleaners here would stop molesting my Valkyrie and stealing my gum.
Would you prefer that they stole your Valkyrie and molested your gum?
Or steal your molesting and gum your Valkyrie?
We’re pretty safe with the cleaners here. I’m usually here when they turn up at night to do their first pass for garbage and I thank them when they grab the nearby bins.
One time I offered the cleaner left-over Tim-Tams and he said thanks, but he doesn’t eat chocolate. (!? I NO RITE?)
Which is great, compared to our previous building, where once we moved into it our self-run ‘honour system’ chips/coke/chocolate mini-store started losing like thirty bucks a week, which only stopped once we started locking EVERYTHING in secure filing cabinets at night.
I hate when people just assume they can help themselves to food in a workplace. I just…don’t get how they can think that it’s OK/normal…
Workplace food is weird. There is this odd thing happening at my work currently with people naming food.
Today I had a sandwich that somebody had named Kevin
I don’t know who brought him in, but I have to give my compliments to whoever brought Kevin, because Kevin tasted pretty good. Looking forward to meeting-and-eating more personalities like that one in the free-food-fridge.
Also, I don’t remember if I actually mentioned that a little while ago there were people stomping around in seriousfaces trying to deal with “the kitchen situation”. This basically meant there were a core group of folks who were paranoid about others eating their lunch, but didn’t want to be seen as the kind of people who label their food, so they were trying to come up with an anti-theft deterrent which didn’t identify them as the kind of people who try to come up with anti-theft deterrents.
I desperately wanted to tell the manager to just give the problem to the person who is most hated by the head complainer and let the hate-target do all the decision-making. That’s what I would’ve done.
My previous workspace, people’s lunches used to disappear out of the fridges during the day.
DARK SOULS!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/DarkSouls.jpgBet you can’t roll like a pro with those on though.
Fatrolling is still rolling like a pro!
What about fat cartwheeling?
Fartwheeling? Yeah, it’s cool too.
I don’t think I understand the reference.
I…. you’re a couple pages late I think.
#pagetwiceasgoodassix
White socks with black shoes?! D:😛
You know it :coolface:
Anything else would just seem weird to me.
Could be the other way around.
Vanilla Sky! Who remembers it? Kurt Russell exclaiming I’M REAL and then questioning, I’M REAL? And of course Cameron Diaz as the fuck buddy turned psychopath/stalker. Who could forget Tom Cruise’s face mask? THAT CREEPY DAMN MASK!
Anyway, I’ve always loved the soundtrack. Check it out if you can.
I did actually kinda dig that movie. Even if it does ping one of my greater fears.
(Edit: That being: a fuckbuddy going rogue.)
(Edit 2: Noseriously. Some of those lines were really disturbing. They scared me. Especially when I heard female friends-of-friends saying, “Well, she sounds crazy when she says it, but it’s true!” To the lines like, “When you sleep with someone your body makes a promise, whether you do or not,” or that one, “We went like five times! You don’t go five times unless it means something!” Which… wow. I really hope those are RARE sentiments.
She was super scary. Very haunting. Not many people clicked with that movie but I did. I loved it so much that as soon as the credits rolled, I went straight back and watched it again!
Yeah, the scariest thing was I laughed it off watching the movie, but later when friends were talking about it, they were echoing some of those sentiments like she had some valid points, just took them too far. No. Nononono. Noooooo.
I don’t even know what to say. Other than that is the stuff of nightmares.
Having done that thing multiple times and never in the slightest thought any of those things were true or gone “rogue”, I think you’re fine.
Also, that “rogue” thing is not exclusive to girls. Guys can just as easily become romantically interested when that wasn’t at all the plan. That’s why you have to choose your friends with benefits very carefully.
It’d probably be easier if the benefit was something other than sex, are you more or less likely to fall for someone knowing you can borrow their leaf blower pretty much whenever you want?
Oh yeah, all of mine have been cool to date, but y’know. That’s my bogey-man under the bed.
They’re out there, Strange. They’re out there. One of them could turn crazy at any moment!
…Yeah. Fears aren’t rational. 🙂
(Edit: Oh, that and my other fear: I have a kid out there who I don’t know about.)
I know this doesn’t belong amongst you old timers ( 😛 ) but I begin to realize I’m ageing far too quickly when I sign up for something online and I have to scroll to reach my date of birth.
Yup, bloody youngsters
gerrof moi laaaawn!!!!
“Oh my god, 2005 is so far down the list” – @saturday
Dude he is asian he just looks 14
he is actually 401
just slightly older than bish who is 389
Imagine how bad it’d be if you were born in 1913, your birthdate might not even be in the list anymore
Of people are interested, here is a link to the package Techie and I decided was best
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/package2.jpg
Tell @tech_knight he has a nice looking package.
Damn…
too slow =P
Ultimate Unlimited. You bet he does 😉
Unlimited beer option may be a good choice for some. E.g. myself before karaoke starts!
Perhaps if we have left over money, we may.
Rather I would like people to look at they would like to eat.
That makes me think I would drink faaar too much, to get my money’s worth.
$22 for an hour, considering $6 schooners? So 4 beers in an hour. That’s a lot of toilet time.
Which means I would aim to beat the 4 by at least 2. 6 beers in the first hour might not be the smrtest move 😛
#YOLO ?
I’ll do it if you do it?
Peer pressure?
This is where all good ideas start.
Well if you are sticking around for a while go the 3 hour option. That’s $15 an hour.
So if you are averaging 3 drinks an hour (at $6 each) then you come out ahead
I would have to find out if there is any catches first. Unfortunately, the first catch was the room hire costs. It’s possible that’s it’s only unlimited per 12 guests.
“Nice package, Techie!” – Ladies
Which day of PAX is this?
Saturday seemed to be what everyone agreed on. It’s at night so you can relax and sing and gorge on food
I’m certainly interested
Alright. Btw if money is an issue let me know
Should be fine 🙂
@powalen Why do you have Google Analytics running for website, to see how many people use your tag list? 😛
so he can feel wanted?
He tracks IP’s so he knows who to charge for using the notifications
I don’t think the tag list has Analytics on it. I set it up on powalen.com just because I was curious to see just how many people would visit such a stupid website 😛
Worst website? Or best website.
needs more .gif’s plastered all over it
omfgdogs.com ?
It was the best til some chump made the speech bubble BLUE >:(
@powalen
Now that I’ve seen someone else do it, I am going home to start and finish Dark Souls all within an hour and a half! \o/ It can’t be that difficult. Toodaloo.
I missed the a in all and was 0.o
Pre-release copy!
Haha, sorry to disappoint. Keep up with Shane’s countdown!
Finally have internet! It’s only been 4 months of waiting patiently with bad 3g reception. So yeah, we cancelled our contract with Telstra, signed up with iinet, and 2 days later we have the NBN boxes outside and inside the house installed, and the line run over the power line. Pretty momentous occasion. First thing’s first is updating consoles and games…
Speaking of games, I’ve been playing Mario & Luigi Dream Team and it’s finally got me back into feeling like playing games, which I haven’t felt like doing much in a good year. There’s something about Nintendo games that make me think gaming is worth my time. But it’s an awesome game. Reminds me of being a kid playing Superstar Saga. Probably my favourite 3DS game to date!
I wish I could upvote and downvote the same comment, on one hand “hooray, nbn!” but on the other “I’m never getting it, lucky bastard! Damn you all!”
Xenoblade! 😀
Took about a month for them to get my Cable running when I moved in too. First attempt the setup wasn’t completed properly so they sent me a modem but never set up the account or anything, so after two weeks waiting for it all to work I rang them and they had to do everything again. And sent a second modem out. But I’ve only ever been billed for one cable modem so I have another Cable Self-install kit just sitting in a box, unopened. :\
Wandered into EB to have a look at their clearance stock and walked out with Conan, Clive Barker’s Jericho and The Darkness 2 for $20.
Terrible game time!
Oh wow. I don’t even know what to say. That’s… Are you feeling OK man?
That’s a lot of money for gag gifts.
I was going to get all fisticuffs on you until I realised he was talking about the conan game
Also, Jericho has NOT aged well. 🙁
Edit: And I haven’t played either of the Darkness games, I always kinda meant to get around to that. I’ll do that at some point, I have Darkness2.
I have Conan. 🙁
I would bet actual money that you would enjoy at least two of those.
Considering Conan is without question my favourite movie of all time and I enjoyed the first Darkness game… I’d say you’d be right.
Not a massive Clive Barker fan but it was $4.
Played Jericho back when it was released, average game, but I liked the alternate view of history that the story had.
I’m kind of a sucker for that though, like reading the lore for the Assassin’s series, different story for Moses etc.
Conan the 2007 game? I remember that being pretty decent.
AF2014 club assemble!
@dc @sughly
😀
___
Survivor club assemble!
@sughly @strange @powalen @phoenix @masha2932 (you said you’d watch a new season!)
Season premiere February 26th! (US time) 😀
I tentatively voted for Great Spirits, What Could Go Wrong and Derelict.
Feel like some others might be stronger. Will reassess later. XD
Seriously like the look of Steed, Fathomless and The White Witch’s Gnome War too. :S
Yeah, 3 votes is not enough!
@sughly did What Could Go Wrong, Eras one and Steed. I’m not sure if you did my original post but I had ExtraTerrarium, The White Witch’s Gnome War and Steed but I changed my Steed vote for What Could Go Wrong :P. There’s 5 or so other ones I really like too!
I think some of the pitches are incredible, but I have a feeling a lot of these will come down to project leads and who’ll be better at implementing. :\
Mnemonic looks like it’ll be stunning, art wise.
And which ones are all talk *cough* White Birch *cough* ether *cough*
Are you going to watch the Pendleton Ward pitches anyway? It’s worth watching because they’re funny but if they were mixed amongst the others I wouldn’t vote for them. None of them are too compelling for me!
I watched the Penn Ward ones, the Cupid one I think has the most potential!
I reckon White Birch could have been amazing. The demo wasn’t, but the idea was. Still bummed Black Lake wasn’t picked up. :'(
I’m tempted to pick light hearted comedy games, but I really would like to see Double Fine’s take at something a little more serious!
There’s still hope since Levi is still working on Broken Age. I also noticed JP (Spacebase) and Brandon (Hack ‘n Slash) didn’t have pitches so maybe they’re busy working on them. Lee had a pitch but he’s still on Broken Age too.
Please give us Black Lake Tim!
(I told Sugs to play it so hopefully he does and loves it too :D)
Just art direction wise, it was so damn pretty. Could tell all the artists went on that team. Lee’s crazy ’80s game was beautiful too, but played terrible. XD
So much edits! New discussions! 😀
– Mnemonic had my vote too but I feel like it would’ve been better as a point and click (to showcase that art!) but Sugs said it was pretty cliched (which is true).
– Most of Pen’s games do seem that light hearted stuff and I probably liked the Cupid idea the best too, but I didn’t feel like a mobile game, or an MMO so I didn’t have much choices left 😀 (and I want big leg to be my best bud)
– We should give away our Steam keys for 2012’s bundle – If anyone wants to play the prototypes (I recommend Black Lake) then let me know as I have a spare key.
Derelict sounds a little cliche as well, but at the same time… exploration? Gone Home-like? These words please me greatly. Some of the games lend themselves to clever gameplay mechanics, though…
If I worked at Double Fine I’d pitch an FMV b-grade adventure game starring Double Fine staff and shot by the Two Player Production team. IT WOULD BE AMAZING.
I feel like that’ll be too Rift focused and whilst I love exploration games like that, they’re pretty short and I don’t find much replay value in them (but I know you do! :D)
Action/Adventures are mai thangggg (Black Lake!)
I miss you posting on TAY, Greenius! WELCOME BACK! (YOU TOO, SUGHLY. I KNOW YOU’RE READING.)
NO U
I was thinking how much I’d love to see a Levi game this time around, but just remember if he doesn’t lead a team, he’ll be on a team. Picture What Could Go Wrong with his art direction! Or Derelict with his art direction! 😀 😀 😀
@dc or Safe Haven! 😉
Upvote for What could go wrong! I want this one, badly
Everyone I’ve seen voting so far has mentioned this! (Probably helps that a lot of DF fans were LucasArts fans from way back.) I think the Era of Adventures one would be over kill though.
nah
Yeeeeeeah.
If they’re gonna do an adventure it shouldn’t be for novelty value! 😀
Ugh.
Why do I promise these things?
Fine! I’ll watch the new season of survivor. 😛
While you’re at it, pay at least $1 to join the AF2014 club!
Already? They don’t give us a break!
Moley moley moley? (will probably not return :P)
Yeah, that ain’t coming back. Stupid people who don’t like things I like!
me me me pick me
Haven’t looked through all the pitches yet but seeing some interesting ideas
WOO! Let us know about your thoughts and what you ended up voting on!
Then we can discuss the doco episodes as they’re releaseddd 😀
Jooooooin us. I remember last time half the fun was talking about the daily videos with Greenius. 😀
AF2014?
You guys are into some weird stuff.
“Make Sure It Fits!”
😛
https://www.humblebundle.com/doublefine
This link might be useful for others! 😀
Dear Australian Media,
I do not care about Schapelle Corby.
I don’t see the Bali 9 getting any leniency or attention so I think neither should she. Personally, I think she did it. There was evidence of her father growing marijuana crops but even so it doesn’t really matter what I believe. She should not be getting special treatment as no one else is.
I also think you don’t need 3 hours to explain a person is getting out of prison.
Lastly, I wish someone would staple her sisters mouth shut.
Sincerely,
Scree.
Agree 100% on all points.
Don’t they have some miniseries about that whole thing coming on tv soon? I wonder how big a bribe it takes to get someone out of an Indonesian prison, reckon it’d be cheaper than a publicity blitz for a tv show?
Edit: oh that was supposed to be for @scree. Neg0 can read it too though.
There’s also a book deal as well and something else
It’s making my hypothesis feel a bit more plausible. Everyone chips in, finds a corruptible link and bam, instant well timed publicity, the kind you “just can’t buy” *wink*
THIS PERSON SHOULD LEAD US A ++ AGREE
I forgot that Schapelle Corby was a thing and haven’t watched the news since Tony Abbott was elected. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO REMIND ME? 😛
I’m sorry. They won’t shut up about it and I’m fed up. Since when have criminals been celebrities? At least Chopper Reed waited until he was clean before trying to make it big.
This is called Australian news journalism. Much like the olympic coverage, if it’s got anything to do with Australia, you can bet your arse they’ll be all over it like flies on shit, even if the rest of the world is suffering through an apocolypse.
And it’s really annoying
Well numerous celebrities have been criminals for so long that the media have probably forgotten that the two things are actually different.
I grew up in the same town as them and they were the go to for every ones weed. No one who lived here believed for even a second she had nothing to do with it.
It’s just blowing up because people like to think the filthy evil foreigners are molesting our innocent girls. The Bali 9 from memory the Australians were an Asian man and a decidedly unattractive woman so who cares? There’s not a marketable story there.
And it’s incredibly not fair. If I remember right, one of the kids was 19.
My mate said the same thing since his uncle knows the family and said they’re all involved in some way or another with weed.
I just found the whole thing odd, because who takes a bodyboard overseas… ?
Drug smugglers?
I was just chatting with a chinese friend of mine, and she said she’s just got back home to her naughty puppy. I asked “Why’s he naughty? Does he pee on the floor?”
She replied “Sometimes I pee on the floor!”
oh teh lols. gotta love a good bit of chinglish!
So I received a beta code for TES:O randomly, anyone want it?
Don’t think I can be bothered even beta trying this one.
Poor Elder Scrolls, you shall be mourned.
Just for PC isn’t it?
I’ll have a crack at it I guess. (even though I’m one of those weirdos who is getting it on console)
Yeah.
Dunno if I have you on steam so…
DG4DJ7TJ969L7MWR9AJTCheers, any idea where I go to download the client etc?
Edit: Nevermind found it soon enough.
So this is pretty neat. It’s made by the omnipresent youtuber, PressFartToContinue. Seriously, that guy has the top comment on every video ever.
NOTE: Contains spoilers for every game ever.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/02/the-average-australian-wedding-costs-36200-infographic/#comment-1384034
Mine was $26,000 including 7 day honeymoon at the Club Med in the Whitsundays. And we splurged on a heap of unnecessary stuff with about 120 people. Although it was nearly 10 years ago so maybe prices have gone up rather steeply.
I wouldn’t want any thing like that. I’d want my pals there. No family. (Though maybe my mum would be offended if she wasn’t invited, so probably her.) Nothing fancy at all. Nothing religious.
Edit: Feel like I should say I’m talking about the article and not your wedding. XD
Mum has to go or she’ll get offended. So does Aunt Gladys. Then Grandma gets upset. As does Cousin Judy. it just snowballs from there. It’s a pain.
Mrs. Freeze is fairly religious and she wanted a church wedding and it didn’t bother me either way. As long as she was happy I was (marriage in a nutshell).
My extended family can get fucked. None of them are invited. 😛
What about her extended family? Probably won’t be a wedding if you tell her that. Actually there probably wouldn’t be a wedding if you tried to tell her anything about how it goes 😛
Then she won’t be invited either and we’ll just go sing karaoke instead. 😀
THIS GUY.
It’s situations like this where my investment in my antisocial unattractive loner skill tree really pay off.
Oh yeah, this is all totally academic. I only talk the talk cause there’ll be no walk to walk. 😛
Ahh so the only way you’ll ever get married is If you’re confined to a wheelchair, gotcha.
I say make it a race, send the invites out to everyone but only a day or two in advance. Only the fastest get free and frankly disgusting cake (assuming you go for the traditional sugar cement covered fruit abomination)
There will be no cake. >:|
(insert obvious portal reference here) 🙂
Well that’s either a step up from the usual wedding crap or a rather out of date meme. If you require the bridesmaids to come with a decorative arrow to the knee then I know you’ve just gone mad.
Or really, really sane and awesome. Frankly that’d make the front page of every gaming website on the planet, a meme theme wedding.
Thank god for your edit. I thought it was a bit weird that your mum would want to go to Freeze’s wedding.
Eek. Ours was $13000, and that included the engagement ring, the wedding ring, the entire wedding day, a videographer, photographer, suits and dresses for the bridal party, the stationery, decorations, and a venue and food for 80 guests. And even then, we felt like we overdid it 😛
If I can re-convince my girl to do the marriage thing (health issues put the whole thing back into ‘no’ territory after a successful ‘yes’ – which, incidentally, is one of the best memories I have and will ever have), it’ll be elopement.
You should get married on holiday and not tell anyone for a year or two, then just drop references to a wedding into conversation casually and try to convince people that they were there
THIS GUY
So many layers. 😛
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/INJUSTICE-GODS-AMONG-US-Battle-Edition-Sony-Playstation-3-PS3-/271395108897?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item3f3068b821&_uhb=1
D:
Nnnngghh….
Has anyone ever used a PDP stick?
Are they any good?
Also, I’m really struggling to find a game that will keep me engaged…
What should I do?!
I don’t want to buy another game!
D:
If you’ve got a 360, you can have my copy of Injustice…!
I don’t have a 360, sorry. 🙁
GEEZ! >:(
😛I’m fairly sure most JB’s usually have a copy. If not, could you try downloading it?
As for engaging games, maybe you could try a small, cheap mobile title (there are some good ones on there!)
There weren’t any copies for PS3 at my local JB, PS4 instead. D:
Could you try a different one?
Also, EB has a pre-owned sale on now, so they might have it for cheap? Not sure if you’ll be able to access online content though.
Apart from that, you could try downloading it from PSN, or steam if you have a PC.
EB only had it on PC.
I’m after the PS3 version.
I was going to ask why you wanted the PS3 version before realising that you’d want to play with friends (if it was just the controller I was going to suggest the drivers, but it’s probably not that). You could get the one with the stick on Ebay, and if you don’t like it and prefer the one you’ve got just sell it?
Otherwise, I’d say $20 is a good price from what I’ve played. Make sure you get a working version though.
My Fighting Stick 3 is getting a bit old, but I did want to get a second stick so I could use the two for MAME purposes.
But yeah, the $20 version looks like the best bet.
Also, I found a Soul Calibur V Hori stick for $110.
Bought the game on its own.
I feel like it was the best call. 😀
Dark Souls – The
DiaryJournal of SkailorusI haven’t played Dark Souls in a while, so I jumped back in.I noticed that I am way worse at killing plague rats than I was before. It took about 20 minutes before I finally reached the Undead Parish. Once I was there, I beat the boar on my first try. I used the same method of trying to kill him that I did before, but I realised I would do 24 damage against him (rather than 6 damage if I used my normal attack) if I did the forward + heavy attack move against him. Because of this, I beat him on my first try this time. I didn’t have to result to my previous methods of attack.
EDIT: Grammar
I read earlier that you can actually upgrade the crappy sword hilt you start the game with. That’s really got me tempted to try and play through the game with just that
The Straight Sword Hilt and the Broken Sword can both be ascended at +10 to become
Artorias’ Greatswordusing theSoul of Sif.If you use a normal sword instead you’ll get a cursed version of the sword which is better in some cases and worse in others.
But you don’t need to actually *use* the hilt, just upgrade it. Dark Souls is an incredibly gear-dependent game and using just the hilt would gimp you terribly.
That’s the idea, kind of a lunatics run
Mrs Shane and I have started watching Dharma and Greg again. Goddamn, that’s a feel-good show. So good. We’ll be watching @dc’s favourite episode soon, too!
Meow.
Watching Space Firebird 2772 on YouTube,
Bout halfway through, terrible quality upload. Blowing my balls off, amazing!
@sughly @gutsoup
(Blackjack cameo)
I just watched a few seconds of a boy turning a girl into a flying jet, then back again. Interesting. Animation looks great though
It is so good. I finished it off this morning.
Animation is great story is great, unfortunate quality…but whatcha gun do?
What’ve I done? The Appendices on The Hobbit, 9 hours long and I’ve just hit ‘play all’ on disc one (appendices 7). Sleep’s for losers
Decided to give Dark Souls a rest for a bit and go back to Demons Souls.
Ah, so that’s why I disliked Dark Souls the first time I played it. Plays so very differently. Don’t remember stamina management being so important. Everything is slower too. But SO easy to backstab EVERYTHING!
And the grass man. Oh hey, near infinite heath recovery? Well then.
I’m gonna say it.
I didn’t mind the Robocop reboot.
There I said it!
I watched it yesterday night (Friday) and I found it really boring. Disjointed pacing, boring action scenes and really long too.
I have very little recollection of the original movie (I recognised the nod to the old suit and remixed theme tune in the remake) but I don’t think nostalgia was why I didn’t like it.
Those guys wasted the scene where all the lights were off and Robocop was fighting in the dark. I was expected some cool lighting and use of the visor’s red or even some tension and horror as this ‘machine’ mows down people.Also on that scene, didn’t the bad guys have 50 caliber weapons? Why was robocop shot so much but he kept moving yet 50 cal weapons are deadly to him.
Even the action was kind of typical. It’s a guy in a robot suit and yet the action was so rote and boring.
I didn’t mind the look of the suit though and the Samuel L Jackson bits were OK even though they sometimes just popped out of nowhere.
It wasn’t for me unfortunately. Luckily I was watching it with my friend and it was a fun night to hang out regardless.
Edit: added a few more points.
Yeah it had issues but I expected a lot worse. I didn’t take it too seriously and found myself accepting what they were trying to do with it. There was always going to be silly logical questions haha. My only real gripe was the pacing.I really liked it, though I might be biased.
I love Robocop. I liked the balance between the nods to the original and what was changed.
and holy shit it was nuts seeing what human parts they kept of him.My opinions probably biased too but I expected a lot worse 🙂
Something pretty amazing happened tonight.
You may be aware of Impasse, the book concept I pitched on TAY a few months back. Back then, it was heavily in the concept phase, and I hadn’t even started the first chapter. Since then, I had been unable to add anything. I simply couldn’t think of anything for months. Many times I considered scrapping the idea entirely. Then the brainwave happened.
I was just sitting around, listening to a podcast. My brain started to wander. Then, out of nowhere, I had a brainwave. An idea popped into my head, and suddenly the plot I was developing made sense. I realised what elements were missing. I immediately wrote them down. The world I had been developing finally made sense. The plot from how the main character gets from A to B now makes sense. I suddenly understand the psyche of my characters a lot better. I realised what world-building elements needed to be scrapped. I am back in business. Although I still wonder whether I have the capability to deliver my “magnum opus” or whatever I should call it, I am going to damn well try. Damn it, my giddiness is transferring itself into the text.
I suppose I should tag @shane since he seems to be the unofficial lecturer/guidance counselor of the TAY Aspiring Writers Club.
Awesome, man. That’s always the best part, when things crystallise in your mind. Keep us apprised!
Also, not sure about the title you’ve given me, but thanks! 😛
I saw a comment thread talking about haircuts so I joined in and then I realised it wasn’t in TAY help I left the haven what do I do help
There’s a place that’s not TAY?
If you ever find yourself lost online just remain calm and spread the kindness of TAY to others and maybe we can change the internet*
*Maybe 0.000001%, but it’s a start.
About haircuts,
My hair doesn’t grow very long so I have very few options. I either cut it all most times or just let it grow to its maximum height which isn’t as big, I can’t grow an afro for example. It has been a while since I’ve been to a barber though and had someone professionally cut my hair. I usually just do it at home by myself or with a friend. I miss the smell of methylated spirit as the barbers would use that to clean razors between shaves and even rub it along your hairline once the cut was done.
Also, I always thought washing hair and massaging scalps was mainly for ladies but I once went to a high class barbershop and men were offered the service there too as part of their shave. I tried it and It felt odd but nice at the same time.
I’d pay top dollar to have someone massage my scalp for an hour. Screw the cut, that’s all I’m really there for anyway.
in china they give you a scalp massage and a shoulder/neck massage when you get your haircut!
@cufcfan1616 can tell you all about haircuts.
@cufcfan616?
I can tell you that women should pay for their own haircut.
also, I will shave your head for you if you want
What the fuck? The Lego Movie is 98% fresh on rotten tomatoes out of 93 reviews. IT’S RATED HIGHER THAN FROZEN!
I mean, this is great news, considering I’m watching it tomorrow, but goddamn.
I’ve only read one review of it but they said it was awesome. I’ve been waiting for this since the first trailer and glad it lives up to expectations 🙂
Man, I’m anxious to see how the Sochi olympics pan out. I mean, back in Canada we thought it was a pretty mixed blessing (but a awesome one nonetheless!) but Sochi seems like a slight gamble, although I’m pretty sure it’s just all the media talking about how everything is unfinished. Also, Canada apparently has the most coverage in the flippin’ world on the winter olympics. Crazy.
Also, new Laptop arrived! Bravely Default shall be in my hands soon enough!
I just woke up, too. Good start to the day.
AlsoohgodI’mtriplepostingwhenit’slike3inthemorningforyouguysi’msodamnlonely
If its any consolation, I’m just slinking off to bed having had my arse kicked by Dark Souls. Well that’s only partly true, weird giant cat monsters double teamed me and wiped me out but were mysteriously gone the next time so I got to the boss who I managed to get a pretty good chunk of damage into before I fucked up and died.
So today is the day. It’s time to finally make the cakes!
CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!!!!!
You should do a video of the whole process. Though probably sped up during the baking part because that’s the least fun part of cake making
But I have already made 2. Just the chocolate one is next. I will take photos.
http://www.howtobeadad.com/2014/20839/5-reasons-wife-hates-you
The article is a bit putz but my god, they are the greatest gifs of all time even if the are completely irrelevant.
That last gif? What on earth?! Did she have to finish answering a question before she was all wrapped up like a mummy? Gold.
All this makes me want to do is watch Japanese game shows. I’ve taken nothing away from the actual article that might be useful for when I become a husband myself
I’m pretty confident the only useful things on that page were the gifs.
For useful stuff, try this recent fun thing: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/02/this-infographic-reveals-the-secrets-of-the-happiest-couples/
So hypothetically for those that aren’t playing the Elder Scrolls beta this weekend (because i’m totally not), what alliance will you play in?
because this is completely hypothetical and I am totally not playing / trying to make a character I went with Redguard … So Daggerfall
but you know, totally hypothetical and not happening right now … *cough*
Hey cool i would totally (as in also not playing right now) go Breten, So Daggerfall too 🙂
If I had any interest in this game, (the freaking sub fee kills it) I would pick orsimer, so Daggerfall Covenant for me too!
Totally hypothetical as well, I will most likely be an Orsimer (Orc). But again, only when it comes out. *wink*
Ebonheart Pact, son. With a name like that you can’t go wrong.
Also hypothetically are people grouping up?
we should! I would gladly and also hypothetically group up later today/tonight.
I only hypothetically just got to Daggerfall so yeah. Might be a bit behind peeps.
See below, you’re hypothetically further ahead than some!
Nah man i stopped hypothetically playing for a while, you’re ahead of me for sure 🙂
I hypothetically haven’t launched it but have patched, having dinner for Mum’s Bday, dunno what time I might get back home. I’ll let you know names later though?
Heat is keeping me indoors.
Tried to play HAWX on my PS3 with my flightstick, but it didn’t seem to map the controls all that well. 🙁
We put our air conditioner on because the dog was flopping everywhere. So he’d flop ( kind of literally) in one spot, decide he was too hot, get up, move to a different spot and flop.
Floppy Dog?
the new mobile game sweeping the nation!
It stole assets from other games. It also appears to be a re-skin of 2010’s “Canine Flopper.”
EDIT: Grammatical error that I somehow missed in the 8 hours since I posted the comment.
When he was skinny my neighbour said he sounded like a bag of bones. Now he’s fat it’s more of a fwooomp!
My god. My new laptop is amazing; I can run any game on ANY SETTING! I CAN FEEL THE POWER COURSING THROUGH MY FINGERTIPS! I CAN SEE ALL, BE ALL-
Wait, no, Canadian internet is still fucking horrible. All’s business as usual, carry on.
Speed test first, then us Australians can compare our internet to yours.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3290909337.png
EDIT: fuck ya’ll.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3290922029.png
I can get better most days. Haven’t reset my modem in ages, and I got my ISP to drop my speed down a bit cos I was getting shitloads of dns errors a while back
with that rather incriminating piece of evidence I edited my last comment to reflect my proper stance on this matter.
666. Number of the Beast.
I feel rather bad about my 25 ms ping, 59.19 Mbps download and 2.38 Mbps upload.
Usually it’s around 40 Mbps download and 2 Mbps upload.
I think.
– Saturday
Hmm.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3290958618
I usually get 0.5 mbps. This is better than usual.
see a normal answer and not some crazy data pulled from Australia supercomputers powered by kangaroos and australium.
I get excited when it goes over 1.5mbps down.
Oops, accidentally posted in old TAY. I will repost it here:
So I got a copy of Left 4 Dead 2 when it was free. Does anyone want to play it at some point?
If not, does anyone want to play Killing Floor? Come on, I bought it months ago and have only been able to play it solo. The same deal with payday 1. I should stop buying co-op games.
On another note, the “k” key on my keyboard seems to be sticking. Irritating.
EDIT: Didn’t list which L4D I was referring to.
first L4D or second?
Left 4 Dead 2. I’ll edit the comment so it’s clear. Sorry for the error.
I have killing floor and l4D2
Cool, if you want to arrange something, send me a message on steam. Perhaps we should discuss this on the Kotaku Steam group? Or maybe we should arrange this as a proper MultiTAYer thing?
@crazyguy1990 is usually the chief MultiTAYer guy.
M’ down for it too, if steam cooperates well with the downloading.
Pretty sure I have both but it’s kind of hard for me to play multi games given the weird times I get to play.
Sorry if anyone else has posted this before but has anyone else noticed that Green Man Gaming has become more expensive lately?
South Park: Stick of Truth is $54.95 on Steam but $59.99 on GMG. usually GMG are a little bit cheaper.
But then they emailed me saying I have $15 of credit even though a month ago they told me I had $0?
Woo, free money?
To be fair the game is also $60 on US Steam (so it’s not like an Aussie mark-up or anything)
I have noticed GMG prices going up since a few months ago but if you were lucky enough to pre-order Stick of Truth before it got delayed it would’ve been the usual $37 or so (a friend pre-ordered it then).
You haven’t added the 20% off code that brings it down to A$48.
To be fair, they currently have a Rockstar games sale on with some pretty great pricing on some pretty great titles. Try your luck, you may even be able to get an additional 20% off some of them.
So I played a bit of Loadout.
s’cool, I guess. However, you can’t do any weapon-crafting whatsoever at the start, so the entire premise of the game isn’t really there at this point of the game.
I have a feeling that this game is unrealistic.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=225614099
Huh, when you click on one of your pictures on Steam, it asks you to save it to the hard drive. This could be annoying.
Had my friend and his business partner here for most of the day. Was pretty exhausting socialising, but made slightly less so due to the stories they were telling. They have the license for making official Doctor Who K9’s, TARDIS’, Daleks and the like and have just returned from the UK and the Doctor Who Experience where they saw all sorts of cool things. So I didn’t actually have to talk much, just listen to all the stories of things they’d seen and done.
They’re off to the Doctor Who orchestra thing tonight to look after their TARDIS which will be onstage during the show so now I’m rushing around trying to get their beds ready. Had to excavate the sewing room to make enough room for the fold-out bed to fold out. Wonder if they’ll mind sharing ? 😛
Tell them the bed is bigger on the inside!
*shows self out*
upvote for awesome joke
Made cakes.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/20140208_184912.jpg
Finn
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/20140208_184920.jpg
Jake
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/20140208_184929.jpg
BMO
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/20140208_184925.jpg
And now I want to sleep
Oh yeah, BMO side
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/20140208_184958.jpg
What flavour did you end up making BMO?
peppermint
Thought it was some kind of mint, I remember seeing the choices on an earlier TAY.
Was it difficult getting the flavours?
Not really. woolworths had it
…penis monkey?
You mean this?
This!
Does Season 2 of the walking dead carry over from the first regarding storylines etc?
I have just enough money on my PSN account to get Season 1 on PS Vita (it’s $11) but I don’t want to do that if I end up getting Season 2 on PS3 down the track. Same with the Wolf among Us etc.
The story is a continuation of Season 1 but did you mean whether the choices in Season 1 impact Season 2? So far I haven’t seen anything drastic but they’ve been stating that choices made in Season 1 and 400 Days would affect Season 2.
Any sort of cross-play save transferring between Vita and PS3? If so then you should be fine going between platforms but if not then just stick with the same.
Yeah, I meant the story choices.
Unfortunately there’s no cross-save between PS3 and Vita, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they added it in an update, it seems to be a widely asked-for feature.
If I do get it, I’ll probably go Vita, as I seem to do most of my gaming on portable and mobile games these days (there are some real good ones).
Damn straight, I mostly play on 3DS and Vita.
Love when stuff gets ported I’d otherwise add to the dream list because of lack of console time (Like Walking dead season1)
@batto/@popdart5/whoever applys:
I have a toon called Grishok. In Stros currently.
Y’know, hypothetically speaking.
I just read a bunch of stuff about the Gezi Park 2013 protests. It’s pretty interesting. It’s weird to see some of the parallels between the Gezi protests and the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
The fact that the protestors adopted the penguin as their symbol is both absurd and incredibly funny. Also, TIL learnt that Game of Thrones is popular with the Turkish protestor demographic.
Here’s the Wikipedia article.
Just saw a TV ad for Farm Heroes Saga.
Except the ad went something like:
“From the makers of Candy Crush comes Farm Heroes Saga”.
Why go throigh all the trouble of getting a trademark for Saga if you’re not even going to use it?
The verdict is in: Loadout is freaking awesome.
They have totally nailed the aesthetic. It looks great. It’s very well optimised, I average 90 fps. Too bad I only have a 60Hz monitor. The weapon customisation is insane. The humour is endearingly puerile.
But for some reason, I seem to be doing really good in it. Maybe I have an OP weapon, or maybe I am being matched with people worse than me. (is that even possible?) I mean look at this! I am not even bragging, I am genuinely confused. The winning streak must have been a fluke, because I returned to my typical 3/20 kill/death in the next match.
I am annoyed that I will have to pay if I want my character to have mutton chops, though. Must… resist…
Thor The Dark World
Started pretty poorly, info dump was just dumb.Slowly came together, humour escalated. I laughed quite a bit.
Eccleston was good but his make-up was a bit crap.
Liked the dimension hopping fight, that was fun.
It went MUCH longer and covered more ground than I expected it to, and yeah – I was quite enjoying it pretty much the whole time.
Yeah, I turned it off after twenty minutes. Watched Argo instead. God, that was just as boring.
How that won Best Picture, I have NFI. Eh, I guess the Awards have always sucked. They only get it right a couple of times at most.
Argo or Thor was boring?
Argo I just can’t do atm, Thor is fine if you’re into that sort of thing, does take a while to pick up. I was unimpressed for the first 30mins.
Argofuckyourself. Apart from that line, boring.
The first Thor was brilliant. Haven’t made it past the first twenty minutes of The Dark World.
Give it a go, really picks up
Having been away from it most of the week, I finally got back to Dark Souls to pick up where I left off.
Those two bastards in Anor Londo. I’d read that the knight guy should be killed last for the best gear, but after trying that a few dozen times and failing, I eventually just went the easy route and murdered the aggressive little bastard first. I’ll regret that later, probably, but for now I’m just glad to have been able to move on.
My travels took me down the elevator from Parish to Firelink, and after finally getting sick of seeing what really looked like a climbable tower, I went to go explore it. And somehow ended up back in the Undead Asylum. I may or may not have pretended to be an egg.
Cleared the Asylum, which had new and interesting and fun bosses and loots, and after returning, decided to try something new. First up on the menu is the Duke’s Archives.
I wish I’d known to wear a sacrifice ring when facing Seath for the first time. I felt quite cheated at losing the 30k’ish souls and 5 humanity I’d been holding at the time but I got over it when experiencing one of the most enjoyable sequences in the game so far.
It’s the part where you break out of your cell and the horrifying snake-people summon EVEN MORE HORRIFYING multi-snake/octopus-head womenthings. When I noticed the snake-guards were ignoring me and running up the stairs to escape, I was totally intimidated and terrified. To the point that I was actually racing the snake guys to get up there, murdering them before they could climb to safety. I readied my nuclear-weapon pyromancy, greater chaos fireball thing, to waste a large cluster of them at once, before I discovered that they are basically about as harmless as those big-eyed puffer-things from the depths. All the same…That was a very nicely-crafted cinematic experience and I totally bought what I was probably meant to feel from it. Well done to them, that was fun. Good point to wrap up and get to bed, I think.
\o/ Nice work, those two are pretty hard.
Haha you do know that those puff eyed things in the depths are one of the more deadly enemies in the game right?That is a great scene though. But yeah, would have been cooler if the blue things were crazy dangerous making for a desperate fight-for-your-life prison break.
I certainly behaved as if it was, and believed it was, until I finally had to melee some. Then… yeah. But UNTIL then, it was the scariest thing!
Also, re: the puffer-bug-eyes: really? Really? I can’t see how… they never actually do any kind of proper attack. Unless you’re talking about letting that ‘skull’ bar fill up, which I haven’t because it seemed bad.
Heheh, if the skull bar fills up you instantly die and respawn with half your max hp permanently gone. If you die to it again you lose half of that hp etc.
The only way to fix it is to get a hold of a curse stone.
Did you see some black crystal spiky statues around them? (if playing online) Those are the remains of other players who have been cursed.
I think one of the patches removed the stacking of curses (i.e. the most you can lose now is half your HP).
Really? Aww
Ornstein and Smough! One of the best battles in the game. Maddening, but absolutely awesome at the same time.
Often lauded as the battle which separates the true players from the wannabes. I don’t really subscribe to that, though.
REAL players take out Ornstein last, wannabes have to settle with Smough? 🙁
<- Wannabe. ;_; I’ll be over here in the corner, stitching together the tattered remnants of my gamer-cred.
No, wannabes quit after 100 defeats and never return to the game.
White gurl wasted!!! 😀
When i move over east and I amiilonaire I’ll shout all.you eastern TATBIES clubbing 😉
You.roll.with Stewie, you roll hard 😉
Gay clubs are do fun!!!
Night all!!!
Well, least it’s more eligible than aleph’s drunken typing.
Or Rocketman’s drunken typing.
And his sober typing.
In fact, any of his typing.
If you don’t mind me asking, are you gay yourself Liondrive? (Feel free to ignore!)
Hahahahaha, this is what I get for using my phone when I go clubbing!
I did admit to watching all six seasons (and both movies) of Sex and the City, is there any more of a confession?
I didn’t say anything cause sometimes people get weird. Also it’s not like it matters, like I have to announce it or anything.
And yes, that does mean my date was with a dude 😛
Haha, I suspected, but honestly doesn’t matter in the slightest though. If someone has a problem it’s theirs to have and not your concern. You’re a good guy, my friend! 🙂
In my experience you don’t go see Robocop on the first date with a lady. XD
So uhh, DC, wanna go see Robocop?
You should date cooler ladies!
Or any, really. It’s not that girls wouldn’t like it, I just would probably play it safe and see something guaranteed to please. 😀
I think taking a lady to see Robocop would be a good measure, imagine how cool it’d be if she said “yeah it was okay but the original was way better”
I don’t care if people have a problem with it, haha, I just can’t be bothered dealing with other people’s insecurities, so try and circumvent them all together.
I gave myself a rule though that if someone seriously asks if I’m gay then I have to say yes.
no need to fear us. I’m pretty sure that @dkzeitgeist guy is gay. He totally hugged me once! 😉
I’d hit it.
That would be my reaction, too 😛
You’re only human.
Trust me, there’s way more evidence than hugging dudes to call my sexuality into question.
Thanks for being so honest, man. You’re awesome!
Haha, thanks man, you’re awesome too!
Everyone on TAY is pretty awesome!
And I’m more than happy to be honest, I’m basically an open book 🙂
Now that I’m sober though there is something I want to know.
What gave it away?
Be as honest / blunt as you can, if you want to answer that is, you don’t have to if you’re not comfortable.
Ah, mainly just after this post and you saying you were biased. (Took ages to find that post, damn it! XD) That popped in my head last week when you started talking about the date and then I realized you never said her once. Yeah, I think too much about every thing. Maybe I should be a detective. 😀
Last piece of the puzzle was how much fun you had at a gay bar. I’m not proud to say, but I don’t think I’d be man enough to go to one as a straight guy and you seemed to embrace it.
Been feeling bad all day like maybe I outed you or made you uncomfortable. Really, really sorry. 🙁
@dc
Haha, yeah I was avoiding saying “her” and “she” cause I don’t like lying and was trying to avoid giving false pretences, and never had a reason to be all like, “I’m gay!” before today, haha!
I’m not too sure where abouts you are, but if I’m ever in your area and still lurking on TAY I’ll take you out to a gay club (no homo) 😉 It’s hands down the friendliest clubbing environment because nobody there judges! Oh, and they play the best music! They were playing the Spice Girls last night! 😀
Edit: don’t stress! If I cared I would have denied it, haha! I’m seriously not ashamed or anything of who I am, so don’t worry about it! 🙂 I just never had a reason to come “out” on TAY, that’s the only reason I hadn’t mentioned it before. 🙂
Oh, and it’s super obvious I’m gay in the real world, no matter how straight I think I act, so it was kind of funny that my personality was picked up over the internet as well, haha! I was quite impressed!
First date with Mrs Freeze: Men in Black 2.
Yes, that does mean we’ve been together for 12 years.
I remember going to see the first Men In Black at the drive-in.
Mum smuggled me in the boot so she didn’t have to pay as much.
Oh man, all that advice about age differences…!
I never said “she” or “her” ever 😛
I figured the same advice would still apply, no?
I feel like I should apologize for bringing this up. You seem all good natured about it and the like, but I feel like I might have invaded your privacy and for that I’m sorry.
Sppppt, no dramas 🙂 I thought you were pretty bold for asking actually, haha! I usually have to do a lot more before someone asks, even if they’re 100% sure I’m gay. It’s kinda fun watching people get flustered and skirt around the subject rather than just address it.
Also I’m still pretty drunk, so my cares for anything other than sleep right now are minimal.
Hahaha, I know, but I never would have weighed in, because I have NFI, and have a chronic wariness of giving bad advice. I always assumed it would be pretty much the same, but TV frequently insists that it’s not. 😛
Awwwwyeeee, gettin’ angry at people on the internet. Go go gadget comment-thread-idiot.
I should go back to the PS3 to play Dark Souls so I can get angry at myself instead.
Edit: ORRRR I could watch touching commercials!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/02/this-incredibly-touching-ad-about-whisky-is-better-than-most-movies/#comment-2236221
Goddammit, Game Theory. Why must you always evoke the conspiracy theorist in me?
All right, I am going to watch Die Hard with a Vengeance. The DVD appears to be even worse for wear than Die Hard 2. Sigh…
I will probably won’t bother posting my thoughts, since Sunday TAY is a ghost town.
IT IS THE BEST DIE HARD. No-one can tell you otherwise. If they do, you let me know. It’ll get… sorted.
I sympathize and I agree it’s an incredible movie, but ALAN RICKMAN! NAKATOMI PLAZA! CHRISTMAS EVE!
Yeah…. no. The first two were better. The first one is still the best.
Sidevote. First is best, but 3>2.
FIRST DIE HARD IS BEST DIE HARD
DIE HARD FOUR-POINT-OH!
YEAH!
…
Please, the first. and I think they’re all standard and lower.
12 Monkeys or 5th Element for the best Bruised Willy!
I don’t know why you would watch the original Die Hard with a vengeance. Was it that bad? 😛
#DadJokesPageSix
Do you know what’s hilarious?
Watching the original Die Hard with the Spanish language track. Freaking hilarious when it gets to ‘yippee kiyay’.
Right, I am going to buy the Sid Meier bundle from the Humble Store. However, I am a little confused as to how I am supposed to link it to my steam account. I know Humble gives out steam codes. I suppose I hit the “Add a game option” from the Steam client?
Apparently it automatically adds it to steam or something if you have them linked.
You link it to steam account, you tap a button on the humble bundle store page, and it gets added to your account. If you’re worried about it, just get a gift code and then you can just manually add the codes to your steam account.
You can link the humble store to your steam account now?! I’ve been copy-pasting CD-keys like a CHUMP!
Yeah, you just give your humble account access to your steam account, and then you can just click and it appears in your library.
Right, I just realised every single one of my posts on TAY begins with “Right,” or “So…” This trend has been noted. Modifications forthcoming. (By which I mean I will stop doing it for about two posts)
Many of my unpublished blog posts starts with Here’s the thing. XD
Right. So… from now, then? 😛
It’s cool you’re getting back into the classics. I really miss the action films of the 80s/90s – Schwarzenegger, Willis, Stallone, Van Damme, Seagal, Russell and so forth.
I don’t. Still watch them all regularly.
Also you need to see this. http://youtube.com/watch?v=OBGOQ7SsJrw&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOBGOQ7SsJrw
The whole series is fantastic.
Haha, what is that? Also, you’re gonna hate me – I put Commando as Arnie’s best film.
You mean second. Running Man is the best.
1. Running Man
2. Commando
3. Conan
4. Predator
5. True Lies
Running Man? Hmm. I haven’t seen that one. Looks like I’m in for a treat..
Holy shit you are in for a treat. All his best one liners come from it.
Good list, but you got the numbers back-to-front.
WOH WOH! TThat list is all outta whack!
Doesn’t even have Last Action Hero!
They were superstars and each had at least one great film in their repertoire. Personal preference of course; for Schwarzegger it was Commando , Willis’ Die Hard, Stallone’s First Blood, Van Damme’s Bloodsport, Seagal’s Hard to Kill, Russell’s Big Trouble in Little China – all essential viewing.
Gibson – Lethal Weapon.
Lundgren – Masters of the Universe (Shut up I liked it….*sigh* fine. Showdown in Little Tokyo)
Norris – Delta Force
Banderas – Desparado
So wanna know what’s kinda weird? Going to the local (independent) cinema with a guy (guess who :P) to see Her, and the movie’s showing in a room that only has 10 leather couches for seating. Pretty sure that cinema is designed for couples… The worst bit? They don’t even sell popcorn there. Pfft.
Her was good though! Parts of it were a bit drawn out but it was interesting considering I had to idea what to expect from it. Went and saw The Railway Man the other week up in Burnie. That was okay, just not really my thing. They got the likenesses of the guys pretty much spot on though which was kinda impressive, but said guy above’s mum took us and paid for it so I wasn’t complaining 😛
Oliver!
Wait, is that the guy?
Of course 😛
Also, don’t mean to brag, but… http://www.speedtest.net/result/3293167907.png 😀
I hate you so much…
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Pfffffffft
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3293281704.png
pff…f t pfft 🙁 It’s usually half that speed as well :/
And here I was gonna tell you I started watching Workaholics and we could’ve been buds but you’ve gone ahead and Ben’d it up…
This season is pretty great so far!
I’ve only seen the first 9 eps!
I still prefer Philly though 😀
>:(
That’s pretty bad.
The speed test I did yesterday yielded 2 mbps… That’s good, right? Right? RIGHT?
I will destroy your record… when I get to work on Monday. 😛
That’s cheating 😛
I’d never played the LEGO games but some were on sale and I was bored so I randomly bought the Marvel one and LotR.
I’ve played a couple of hours of the Marvel one and well… I don’t think it’s for me. I’m too much a cheapass tough to just give up on them so I’ll keep playing them :P. I probably should’ve just played LotR or another franchise which I care about (I don’t really know much about Marvel).
So lonely playing it solo as well :'(
I also reached that UGH point in Bravely Default and it’s pretty ugh.
My boss at work says he can’t stop playing the Marvel one. Maybe give it a try? I’m guessing that’s the Superheroes 2 one?
It’s this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Marvel_Super_Heroes
I have given it a try and played it for about 2.5 hours but I’m just not into it. It’s not terrible or anything just average and less than I was expecting from a LEGO game. But I’m pretty sure this is just coming from it having an original story in a universe I’m not as familiar with (compared to Star Wars or LotR) and me playing solo instead of co-op. Seems like a real co-op focused game.
I’ll definitely give LotR a crack though and I’m hoping I’ll like it more. Same with City Undercover!
@masha2932 are you in Kenanyanayyna yet?
What country is that? 😛
Yes I reached safely. Thanks. I’ve just been sleeping and I haven’t got a chance to unpack my stuff and catch up on the internet.
Maybe I should write a post on the new TAY.
I was just wondering how you upvoted Benny’s post above 🙂
I’mma do that @dc thing and post a lot when it’s quiet and hope someone says something!
😛
IT WORKED!
*moseys off*
Have you finished watching all the pitches?
What about you guys? @tigerion @beavwa @mawt
I have, I stand by my gut reaction: GREAT SPIRITS, What Could Go Wrong and Derelict.
Arrrgh, can’t wait for the daily docos to begin!
Daily discussions! 😀
Although if I recall in 2012 there were some gaps between releases 🙁
And episodes they wanted you to download that were well over 1gb. XD
Oh yeah! I forgot that they stopped randomly letting us stream some :/.
Gut feel of what I like the look of is Breach, Steed, GREAT SPIRITS,Headlander and ExtraTerrarium
Other random thoughts on pitches:
Derelict could be good but wary of rift based games until it is released
White witch interested but no idea what it is
Parabolic sounds cool as a prototype but not sure about a full game
Mighty morphin karate troopers
Mnemonic conceptually i like but not sure
Scavengers sounds interesting but not sure how it would work
Dear leader could be interesting
Steed! I may have picked the other two based on people.
Also out of the other four, #2 felt like the best realised game concept. Looking forward to getting that blu ray – delivery will probably be faster than attempting to download.
Xenoblade?
This guy!
😀
I like you!
So, Die Hard with a Vengeance is pretty sweet. Definitely better than Die Hard 2. There is a small chance it may even be better than the original. The DVD actually worked this time!
There was just one problem: I had to go right before the end, and watch the rest later. Because of this, I forgot a few plot threads.
How did they track down Profion?* I think it had something to do with aspirin and Chest A. Arthur.Also, why did they have to make Profion blonde? It looks horribly unnatural.
I might break my “no more Video Ezy” rule so I can watch Live Free or Die Hard.
*Jeremy Irons will forever be know as “Profion.” Dungeons and “Dragons was that bad.
Do yourself a favour and don’t. There a no fifth movie either.
Enh. 4 is OK’ish… I guess. If you’re a hardcore Willisophile with a total mancrush.
It’s not as bad as 5. 5 is… it’s. It’s…
Sigh it’s fucking terrible. There’s a couple of semi-satisfying moments, and I went in WANTING to like it and cut it a lot of slack, but at the end of the day even I couldn’t convince myself.
It’s pretty dark, very rainy, thunder and lightning, and I have A/C turned down pretty low. I’m also home alone right now.
Perfect time to play Outlast!
Welp, I jumped up some stuff, jumped into a window, the lights flickered and turned off, and now I only have nightvision via a camcorder.
If you guys don’t see me here in the next couple of days I’ve died from acute panic. D’:
@freezespreston @benny
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Kurt Russel
Escape from New York
Big Trouble in Little China
The Thing ( cc @hellscream )
etc etc
Kurt Russell made some fucking great movies in his time. I also really enjoyed how Tarantino payed respects to him with his casting in Death Proof (When is Kurt Russell going to be a badass again?)
He looks really old now, so he’d have to be a kinda dif. bad arse, I reckon.
Aging is the worst. Especially when you see a movie or photo which takes an actress off your ‘would bang’ list. 🙁
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The. Replies. Are. Broken.
STOP REPLYING! 😛
YOU’RE NOT MY MUM
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@greenius
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Chapter 6? What a buncha dicks, eh?
I can’t believe when trying a new IP you bought two games! (Lego)
Also, don’t know much about Marvel? Go back to your Xenobladder, sicko!
@jimu
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…oh.
EDIT: OH!
I’ve never held or read a proper (DC/Marvel) comic book!
I know bits about Marvel but not enough to care about whatever is happening in the LEGO game :P. Both games were like $10 so whatevs! I’m sure I’ll really like the LotR one though!
Chapter 5 actually but I’m pretty sure I know what’ll happen for the rest of the chapters 😛 (skimmed ahead in a guide). After 37 hours or so I’ve just turned the difficulty to Easy and I’ll keep encounters to low/none and just power through til it’s done.
Ys is still fun though!
Where were they $10?
GameFly!
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/132956
Around $10 each and the other LEGO games appear to be on sale too but I think they’ve been cheaper in the past. I thought it was a fairly good deal for the Marvel one since that came out recently. That’s why I took the plunge thinking the most recent would be the best (or one of the best) since that’s the norm with those yearly iteration games (with a few exceptions and up to a certain point *glares at ACIII*)
Ys Celceta? I’ll get that after my fill of FFXhd
Yeah, I dropped difficulty in Chap 6. I nearly started to grind then didn’t.
Fuck them for doing that. Really, it dropped my love by so much. It was nearly a close second to P4G before that, well, as close as anything was getting. And now still second but BOOOOO!
I’m a Marvel fanboi from way back. Been reading since I was bout 10 or 11, so over 20 years now.
Loving the Marvel movies.
Yep! Celceta. I kinda regret getting it so early and playing it at the same time. I should’ve played one after the other 😛
I’m still currently playing Ys and Bravely Default and there’ll be Lightning Returns in a few days then Tales of Symphonia Chronicles and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD. SO MANY JRPGS D:
As for Bravely Default
I think I read you have to do that crystal shit for like 3 more times or something and it just seems so stupid. It could’ve and should’ve just ended without having to do that :/I was liking it at the start too but even then it was nowhere near P4G levels :). What ranking have you got it on? This generation of handheld JRPGs? I’m not sure what I’d put second mainly because there hasn’t been that many truly great JRPGs on handheld so far (at least none I can recall). Probably had more fun with Tales of the Abyss but that doesn’t really count 😀X-Men is probably my favourite Marvel franchise :D. I just have vague memories of random episodes of the show and the movies were one of the first in that whole CGI superhero movie period.
4 times. D:
It;s still second, I have a thing for that job system, it’s why I love Blue Dragon and FFV so much, exact same system really, minor changes. The brave/default thing really added to the game at the start. I think that was a fun mechanic.
Tales of the Abyss? I have a similar problem with. I think I’m near the end of the game and it’s making me sit through walls of text/dialogue every time I revisit a place I’ve been to a number of times already.
It started off quite well, the whole thing where red hair was a complete rich gunt then learned the error of his ways was interesting, but now all he does is have a whine with Tear.
I bought that over a year ago and still haven’t finished.
P4G knocks everyone else out for having the most effective script.
Yeah, X-men is I’d say number two for me. Diehard Spidey fan, nothing even comes close, best powers, best origin, best quips and best supporting cast by a mile.
Peter Parker is my guy. The movie have done OK by him, but they always lean to much on a certain aspect and imbalance the whole thing.
Love em though.
Bravely Spoiler you may not know, take yer chances:
you can smash a crystal by pressing after the fairy says “Stopu, STOPU”Will earn you the so so ending.
In regards to your spoiler I read that too but since the game auto-saves I kinda don’t want to end the game early for a poopy end 😛
No, no, it’s fine, I did it first. It leaves you in a place to get on with things.
Also, you can turn autosave off in the options.
Does that happen even before chap 5? I wondered what would happen if I kept pressing da button
Considering P4 as part of ‘this generation’ when it’s a direct port of a PS2 game with a bit of extra content seems wrong to me. There’s only really been a few new JRPGs in the handheld generation and probably Ys Celceta and Bravely Default are the best of them. Early days yet though, and Nintendo’s antics with Monster Hunter probably fucked the Vita so severely it’ll never get anything beyond the niche either 🙁
No, you’re wrong.
I’m up to the ugh DLC content in Deus Ex, and it’s draaaaaaaggging. Losing enthusiasm to finish the game. And I was enjoying it so…
It’s worth finishing. Some of the best moments are still ahead. Once you finish the DLC.
STICK WITH IT!
My favourite bit of the endgame was when Jensen adopts the augmented puppy and names it JC Denton
THANKS FOR SPOILING IT!
>:(
JESUS CHRIST!
Did the DC version of DE end up on PS3, DC?
You know it!
Cool, one day, one day.
Anor Londo sucks so much.
I would express this further but I feel that this musical tribute sums it up nicely:
The two knights with the bows that shoot arrows bigger than a spear have basically broken me. I especially liked the run I had where I got all the way up the ramp and then suddenly there’s a red tentacley thing in the way that I run into and then get knocked off. Or the time I went human to kindle the bonfire and then while psyching myself up to run up the ramp I get invaded and immediately hit in the back by some guy who didn’t even give me a chance to know he was there.
This might be as far as I go.
Give it a break if you like but don’t give up. Dark Souls is one of those games where it’s worth seeing through to the end!
I believe in you~
If you’ve got a bow a good (cheap) tactic is to poison them with poison arrows and just wait for them to die from the poisoning.
Also, what system are you playing on?
PC.
Don’t have any poison arrows and I’d have to backtrack a long way to get some. Not worth it. I just need one good run up and some luck. But I really hope DS2 doesn’t have shit like this.
I couldn’t get the poison arrow trick to work. I bought like… a hundred of the fuckers and just kept on sniping the guys. Blew maybe twenty of the damn things and the guys still weren’t losing any health. I don’t know if the poison damage wasn’t high enough, my bow was too weak, or I was waiting too long between shots, I dunno… it just straight-up didn’t work.
Hmm, strange, it worked fine for me! Maybe you weren’t hitting them in quick enough succession or something? I always carry poison arrows on me anyway for invaders (I beat my first invader the other day!!!). Poison arrows can be so handy for putting pressure on people.
The only way I’ve been able to get past this was by getting into the gargoyle tower, killing them, running up the ramp to the midway point column, hiding from the archers behind that column til they forgot about me. Then, equipping that silent-step ring so the left guy won’t see me, then charging up to the right guy.
When reaching the end, turning and walking along the wall-ledge to get closer to him, have to ROLL to avoid his arrows til he gets a shield out. Blocking the arrow-spears resulted in ledge-drop death every time. And sometimes – annoyingly – he wouldn’t put the bow away even when I was all up in his grill. Had to just keep on rolling and waiting for him to get his sword and shield out.
(And actually, the first couple times he did that, I died too. Had to really go with block-then-counter, and be careful to make sure his attack animation was DEFINITELY finished – sometimes he goes for a 3-strike attack.)
On the plus side, as SOON as you kill that guy, you can ignore the left one, and keep going around the right edge of the building, and there is a bonfire pretty much right there. You take the first left door possible and then you’re finally safe and can breathe. After that, it’s pretty much just loot-pinata knights. 1k souls each! 🙂
So after making 3 cakes in the heat…I am still not put off making more cake.
Due to Video Ezy store credit, I managed to get Die Hard 4.
I kinda liked that one. It’s the weakest of all four Die Hard movies (SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP), possibly because Bruce is no longer the out-manned/out-gunned guerrilla getting lucky to the surprise of all involved, but is instead the out-manned/out-gunned wrecking ball who doesn’t give a shit about being out-manned and out-gunned.
That’s also kinda what’s satisfying about it.
Bleh, got stopped by the bloody Dead Sea Salt girls. Again.
And once again not quick-thinking enough to do anything about it early on, and instead go through the whole sales pitch til I get to the part where they try and make the sale so I have to try and weasel out of it by saying that I don’t have the money for it. In this case it was true, I only had all of $16 on me. But still they don’t give up…
They don’t want your money. Just your love…
Ask them if they have dead sea vinegar to go along with it.
That or say “Therapeutic effects, eh? I’ll be sure to use some the next time my doctor prescribes it”
My sister was playing the same two Miley Cyrus songs on repeat at full volume in the same room as the Xbox 360. I got about 15 minutes into Dark Souls before I just gave up. I am genuinely worried that I will hear those songs in my head every time I load up Dark Souls from now on.
Those songs are so awful. The worst part? My sister has taken to saying #GetItRight* when I do something wrong. Pray for me.
*#GetItRight. That’s the name of one of the songs. If that isn’t indicative of its quality, I don’t want to know what is.
Please tell me she doesn’t actually say “hashtag”…
That would be pretty HashtagWeirdBehaviour
Please tell me the other song is “23”…
It’s 2 songs, when you get to Ornstein & Smough, they’re the embodiment of the songs. Kill them, take their souls and use them to raise an attribute you don’t even use, just to stick it to the songs even more. Ideally while screaming “Wait, do I even USE attunement with this build? AM I HASHTAG-GETTINGITRIGHT???”
So many new Nendoroids announced this weekend. 🙁 Going to be so broke 🙁
Sunday nights are boring.
Amen brother
I just wonder what Ganon’s up to.
Your majesty! Ganon and his minions have seized the island of Koridai!
http://www.curse.com/ go now
Interesting that they’re just handing them out, now. That just about makes it practically open beta. I wonder if there’s a limit to the number of keys?
The response here on TAY seems to be good, but I know most of my friends who were keen as mustard for the Wildstar beta (and then subsequently disappointed that it didn’t rock their worlds and was ‘just another MMO’) have had keys for TESO which they haven’t even redeemed due to lack of enthusiasm.
(Me, I’ll totally give it a shot now, just to get a read on whether it’s a launch purchase, 3-month-later purchase, or 6+ months.)
WAIT THIS IS THE WRONG TAB
Indeed.
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