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MORNING ALL!
If your local EB has a copy of (edit: sexbox360) Catherine in stock (currently on sale for $8), I would dearly love a copy. Happy to pay all costs and/or trade for games in my POS.
Also, seeking feedback on this image, please. Currently tentatively planned as the logo for my Kickstarter campaign. I need something that’ll pop in thumbnail form as well as being engaging enough at full-size.
Finally, @dc, have you read Under The Dome? I’m getting through it now. Currently only about halfway through it (which is absolutely the wrong point to be reviewing a Stephen King book), but so far, it’s what The Stand should have been. It must have been really goddamned hard to adapt it for TV, though. Five hundred pages in, and only four days have passed. I haven’t seen the show, but I can see why it didn’t come out so good. Also, Brian K Vaughan totally got mentioned in the book – guess Stephen King is actually a fan of his.
Which console for Catherine?
Oh, right. SEXBOX please
I will inspect today and let you know.
the image looks great, dunno how it’d translate to a thumbnail, still great though
I have read Under the Dome! I was a fan!
I like the picture too!
Thought you probably would have. It took a little bit of getting into, but right now, I’m having big trouble putting it down.
Whatever you do, don’t watch the show afterwards. 😀
did you not like it or because it doesn’t follow the book exactly?
I just thought it was terribly written in general. I wouldn’t mind the changes if they weren’t so damn terrible too. Easily the worst show I’ve watched in a long, long time and seriously makes me apprehensive to read any thing else from Brian K. Vaughan.
He’s the best comics writer in the business. And that’s just a fact. He’s at his best when he’s working on his own creations. Another fact. (His DC work and Buffy work were pretty average at best)
Doesn’t sound like his skills translate well to TV, though. I haven’t seen any of his Lost eps or Under The Dome, but no one seems to be raving about either one the way they do his comics.
Yep, like his original comics.
Only superhero one I dug was Logan.
It ain’t really a superhero thing.
I’ve not really heard of Brian K. Vaughan and looking up his imdb, I’m not a fan of Lost and haven’t picked up a comic in however many years but it looks like I won’t be going out of my way to follow his work.
The first few episodes were good, although I thought people seemed to panic and over-react too quickly but that’s the downside to tv as a medium for telling a story, you need to rush into the action or you end up the same way as Caprica. Seeing how different people reacted was good and finding out people’s different secrets was fun, although sometimes a tad predictable. I thought Junior was a terrible character with really shitty motives from the word go and my annoyance and eventual hatred for the female cop (forget her name) just grew throughout the series. The second half of the season just got silly as do most King adaptations when they get round to the ‘weird’ supernatural stuff that never translates well from book to tv/film and so I started to lose interest.If it was more about people interacting with each other and showing them coping with being stuck instead of jumping straight into everyone’s secrets coming out from day one and everyone having an agenda against each other it would’ve been better imo, but as above I’m guessing the pacing of the show is very different to the book judging by what Shane said about it being day 4 500 pages in. Saying that I still enjoyed it. Probably won’t be rushing back to watch it like I do with shows like TNG or the X Files thoughYou’re missing out. Runaways, Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina and the amazing, amazing SAGA are all brill.
Read SAGA and you’ll realise where he was putting all of his awesome.
I’ll add it to the list of things to check out and do so when I have money 😀
we just finished watching the tv series (I haven’t read the book, she has) and it was enjoyable. It started to get a bit silly and a couple of the characters are annoying beyond belief, but one of the better King adaptations for sure. Keep in mind though that they probably make more changes from the book than Peter Jackson has with LOTR and The Hobbit
Good to know. King adaptations include the very, very best and the very, very worst movies ever made.
well, me and @dc have conflicting views 😀
This is how the greatest of rivalries start! 😀
Frank Darabont’s the only guy that consistently adapts King’s stuff well.
I usually just stay away from King adaptations. They just don’t translate well onto the screen because everyone has their own idea of what everything looks like and what’s actually going on. It’s not like LOTR where everyone has a similar vision in their head when reading the books with minor details changing which is why Jackson’s versions work for the majority of people but also why the best King films are the ones that aren’t completely out there with supernatural stuff like The Green Mile & Shawshank
The only upcoming King film/series I’m looking forward to with any anticipation is The Dark Tower but that’s because King described the world and characters so vividly that I think any adaptation would be similar to what I have in my mind. Plus Ron Howard
You seen The Mist? WATCH THE MIST! So good!
I have and it was fairly decent. The ending can be seen coming a mile off though 😛 Apparently a tv series based on the film is being talked about
I called EB at the Galeries (since I work upstairs from there) and they only have it pre-owned for $32. The guy said he hadn’t seen it “new” for a long time and is pretty sure they only slapped an $8 price tag because they know there’s none in stock anywhere.
I’m sure he meant that as a joke, but it doesn’t seem unlikely that they’d bait you in with an $8 price they can’t honour to try and upsell you to a used copy at a 400% markup.
No, it’s true. The new copies are $8, and the used copies are $32, according to the website. I can’t run the search for store availability, though, because these work computers are stuck with IE8, but I imagine that at this point, there wouldn’t be many new copies left in the world.
Thanks for investigating, though.
Haha, I couldn’t run the search a store function on the EB website either. I had to just google the store location and get the phone number from the Galeries’ internal directory.
According to the website, it’s only available in Queensland
https://www.ebgames.com.au/stores/find-stock/154140
Thanks Scree, for checking that!
Thanks also to @powalen for http://tinyurl.com/taytags/
QUEENSLANDERS!
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @rocketman @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
I live almost directly between those two stores at the halfway mark. XD
^^ what he said 😛
Thanks for volunteering, man. Appreciated! 🙂
😛You should know, if I found a copy I’d probably buy it for myself. 😛
So… you’re going to both stores, then? Thanks, man.
I’m sensing I should probably create some kind of battle royale style tournament, where the
survivorwinner gets my own used 360 copy of Catherine. Muahahaha, dance puppets, dance!as do most of us 😉 I think that’s a job for @freezespreston or @virus__
They’re closeish to one of the stores. Hell of a long drive for most of us 😉
Not to close to me sadly.
Sorry for not being more of a help =(
You helped! I knew who to tag, then.
Unless you’re blaming yourself for the game not being in stock. In which case, I cannot forgive you.
yeah that aint near Brisbane. But if anyone can get that, ohmygosh, worth way way more than $8. Get onto that, such a great great game
Batguy loaned me his copy about a year and a half ago, and I loved it. Unfortunately, times are tough at the moment financially-speaking, and as much as I want to play the game again, I can’t justify a big outlay for it (couldn’t even swing $19.95 to get it on XBLA last week when it was on special).
Sell a little ass then? Surely thats worth another $12. This Catherine were talking about here
Dang, they’re really far away.
Sorry, gent. Not this time.
And not even like “proper metro” Queensland either. I’d pick one up but getting to Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast just isn’t feasible for me. Sorry @shane ! 🙁
Some friend you are 😛
If @dc is halfway, I’m equal to or less than halfway, living just outside of the Brisbane CBD. And don’t have a car as a result.
Yeah this thing is never accurate, I swear.
Oooh, I want Catherine too!
EDIT: Oh, buckets. Queensland only? D:
Just a thought, but does the ‘Edited by’ line maybe muddy the waters a bit? Maybe if the image is the first thing seen, a line like that could be left off until after the viewer is familiar with the pitch? (Raises a flag in my mind but I’m also currently in super paranoid paperwork mindset, so it could just be me being silly)
Good feedback – thanks! I was unsure about it, too, to be honest, and will definitely think about removing it.
Because my name isn’t a big enough drawcard to attract backers, I did consider leaving it off. In the end, I included it because I thought it might make it look like I was willing to take responsibility for the project. But I agree with you as well, so now I’m not sure what to do.
Any more opinions, TAY?
Oh, and super dooper nitpicky feedback for your thumbnaily thingo:
– The first thing I noticed was how thin your apostrophe in “King’s” looks 😛 I feel like it should be the same width as the font. Or maybe it is and I’m going crazy?
– And I’m pretty sure I said this ages and ages ago when you asked for similar feedback, but I don’t like the aliasing on your font. Only really noticeable on round letters like G and S, but yeah.
As you can see, I like my fonts 😛 Nice, otherwise! 😀
Thanks, man! Appreciated. I only used that font because that’s the one that my publisher used in all my other books to date. Happy to accept recommendations, if you’ve got some favourites. I might do some experimenting of my own later on, as well.
I actually like the font! It’s just those jagged corners that get me 😛 Is it due to your image editing program? (I know in Photoshop at least you can choose to smooth fonts) Or is that just what the font is meant to look like?
Nah, pretty sure I jaggied it up inadvertantly. I’ll have a play with it.
EB Next to my house (300m away) has a copy of Catherine for the Sexbox, guy will not hold till Thursday, so hoping missus finishes early and can pick it up. Will let you know!
Hey man, thanks for that! Is it a new copy, or pre-owned? Just be aware that the pre-owned copies are still in excess of $30, and I’m not so keen at that price. Thanks again! 🙂
didnt ask, im assuming he would of told me if it was pre owned?
I have no idea, sorry. From my experience, the quality of service at EB is as varied as the staff themselves – sometimes amazing, sometimes not. I just don’t want you or your wife to waste your time, is all. :\
Eh if it’s a good store they’d drop it to the price of the cheaper version if the pre owned costs more.
Really? That has literally never happened to me, and I’ve asked at plenty of stores.
Maybe I just worked for a really good store :/ Then again I can see why they wouldn’t do it on pre owned stuff since it’s where they make their real profit heh.
I expect a prequel featuring horses.
I like the picture. Show us a thumbnail somewhere. 🙂
This is probably much smaller than it’ll never need to be, but here it is: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xkeql9zdvum8gmn/KICKSTARTERLOGO%28thumb%29.jpg
Am I correct in thinking its a layered photoshop image you can still edit? It might work better when thumbnailificated (that’s totally a word, shut up!) if the character was in front of the light building instead of the dark one. It’s a bit indistinct in the thumb. Maybe swap the buildings around if you can rather than shifting & mirroring the character.
Ahh I’ve just looked at the big image again and it’s obviously an effect rather than a lighter building, Would it be viable to lighten the building she’s in front of to give her a bit more distinction?
If you had a PS3 I’d give you my copy. I don’t like the game.
Would I be able to borrow it? I wanna try it.
Sure, will bring it next meat.
Dammit I keep forgetting to pick up Catherine. Pretty sure it was like $12 in some previous sale, but it slipped my mind. Boo for obscure Queensland stores.
Pic looks cool though.
Make moral decisions in the morning, as on Lifehacker
*Bowser sits in his castle during dinner time*
“God I’m so bored. I gotta go out and have some fun. Should I go play tennis or golf or go karting or kidnap Peach?”
*Bowser cuts off a piece of his steak, dips it in mushroom sauce and eats it*
“… *still chewing* kidnap, yeah, that’ll be good.”
Good times are had when you capture a princess, in the end he gets to go into a large rock spa! That’s a good way to end the day and relax
Elder Scrolls Online Review
[redacted]I see what you did there!
No you don’t…… 😛
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DARK SOULS 2 \o/
Countdown: 33 days
A new preview write-up: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/video-game-previews/10624967/Dark-Souls-2-Hands-On-Preview.html
Yes, yes, I know it’s the Telegraph, but it’s not a bad write-up. Confirms and solidifies some of the previously hinted-at new mechanics in Dark Souls 2, including
the inclusion of voice-chat in multiplayer. Don’t know how I feel about that one. I have no microphone, and have no intention of getting one. I wonder if the game will make it clear which players have opted-in to voice chat, to prevent co-op buddies from screaming impotently at their screens…Also, apparently players can reset their stats. Unless there’s a major penalty or cost for doing this, I don’t like this one, because it allows players to tailor their approach to each area differently instead of living with the choices you’ve made and building skill. Don’t need magic here? Respec as a tank. Getting swarmed here? Forget strength and pump AOE magic abilities. Hard-hitting enemies need to be staggered? Pump it all into strength so you can swing that huge fuck-off sword you found before. Really need to know more about how this works before I actually make a judgement, but this one has me a little concerned.NOW I know who you remind me of!
This guy!
If FROM sent me a badge, I would totally be that guy.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6212068
A good run-down of the changes believed to be included in DARK SOULS TWO \o/
Summoned co-op buddies stay for an amount of time, rather than being there until they die or the area boss is cleared. Does this mean that they can be summoned in areas where the boss has already died? I don’t know. But it seems that this timer goes down faster if they’re doing all the killing…I don’t like the idea of voice chat for DS2. One thing I’m (apparently) consistently a fan of is limited communication in games. Specifically, I mean as a design choice and not just a lack of text/voice chat. It can lead to some amazingly surreal and wonderful situations. Think Portal 2, where you can emote and context-sensitive ping, Darks Souls and it’s emotes, and Journey where PINGPINGPINGPINGPINGPING.I really, really dislike the idea of voice chat. Some of the players you meet are nice (I got invaded by a guy last night who gave me a bunch of titanite then let me kill him) but a lot of the others aren’t. Also the benefit of the game’s systems previously was that all the communications were language-agnostic. You could play against anyone anywhere in the world and not be worse or better off.I hope there’s an option to simply disable all voice chat because I refuse to play it with that enabled. Especially now that you can’t avoid other players by staying Hollow. Those two factors together are a game-breaker for me.
I don’t mind the respec thing though. If it were me I’d make it scale with level, maybe 1000 souls per. Early on I didn’t know what I was doing and put points into stats that are useless for me, I’d love to be able to re-allocate those a bit.
Yeah according to the article, it’s opt-in. If accurate, that suggests that it won’t even be enabled by default.Oh thank god.
I play on ps3 so I wouldn’t even be able to avoid it by starting a party chat like on 360.
If you really want to avoid other players, can’t you just play offline.And miss out on everything else? 😐
Hope everyone had a good weekend.
I decided to restart playing SPAZ again from the beginning, wow I’m so bad at this game now lol xD
After you mentioned it last week I picked up where I left off about 2 years ago and sunk about 3 hours into it. I am terrible at it. There’s a level 12 blockade between me and the next step on my journey so most of my playtime was me grinding out some Rez and Goons after having to rebuild my ships multiple times and retreating from the battle. /o\
Hahah you too? I got smashed during a quest and lost all my Rez :P. I’ll get better at it again eventually.
DARK SOULS
Okay, so on Friday I made a pretty bold claim about completing Dark Souls within an hour and a half, having seen someone else on Youtube do it. Firstly, I did not complete it. Secondly, I didn’t even make it out of the Undead Asylum within that time.But you tried, that’s what matters
Good morning all, I’ve missed you all.
How was everyones weekends?
Mine was Spent introducing the significant other to Civ V, looking at New places and Fairday (HAPPY MARDI GRAS EVERYONE)
Anton seams like the kind who’d enjoy Civ.
He really did, I thought he might have a problem with the length, but he was really into it.
I was the one who cracked due to time.
Phrasing!
Has Anton been a bit clingy lately? Do you need some time to yourself
I just assume that is why you introduce somebody to civMulitplayer game 🙂
Hola Tay
Hope you’re all well and safely away from fires.
I had a quiet weekend- went into the city to bleed on Saturday, and decided that I’d go to an air-conditioned game shop and play Magic rather than sit in my 40 degree flat. Deck failed to go off and I didn’t pilot it well, so I got slaughtered.
Yesterday I didn’t do much other than watch TV shows, then went to the pub with friends.
A Monday Morning Question: which show needs a game? I’d love an Arrow game, or a Fringe investigation (LA Noire style) game.
FRINGE. YES.
The Killing point-and-click adventure game or The Americans point-and-click adventure game.
HOORAY FOR POINT AND CLICK ADVENTURE GAAAAAMES.
I’d really like them to take another crack at a Farscape game. It could have been something pretty goddamned amazing.
I would love a BioWare-esque Star Trek or Firefly RPG. (Though we’ve discussed this before!)
Hey… you’re right. We have discussed this before. @redartifice, what’s the big idea? 😛
All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again.
I’m sorry my weekends aren’t always exciting enough to inspire thought provoking and original questions!
You provoked many a thought! Mainly sadness that I’m not getting my Firefly RPG! :'(
There’s a new firefly tabletop RPG coming out this month
I’m too stupid for those kind of things, Red. WAY TO MAKE ME EVEN SADDER! :'(
@dc poor excuse!
AND NOW HE CALLS ME POOR TOO? *checks wallet* That’s fair.
NPC alert.
A Avatar or Legend of korra game that doesnt suck ass.
That would be pretty sweet.
I would love a Space: above and beyond game. Dog fighting and fps sections. As much as I would want the continuation of the series it might be a bit late. So potentially the game as season two of the TV series if you know what I mean
Man, I thought I was the only person who ever watched that show.
Best show \o/
Still probably my favourite sci-fi show of all time.
SAAB was a cool show. Totally shit way to run a unit, trying to run a democracy under fire but it was great fun. I always wanted a Hammerhead sim, possibly made in Freespace2
I don’t think I’ve even thought about that show in ten years or so.
Maybe they could reboot it and do a game tie-in?
I liked the Idea of a Breaking Bad Tycoon style game
Spooks
Bobby’s World
Samurai Pizza Cats
Game started
Started Skyrim (again) yesterday. I used the Thomas The Tank Engine mod but was disappointed when I killed a dragon that I didn’t see the skeleton of a train so it’s uninstalled again. Also the music is of some kids singing (I’m guessing the new themetune?) and not of the old Ringo Starr TTTE series.Game finished(?)
Also, I believe I’ve done the last heist in GTA V and now am finishing the last few missions. I have to say, I’m a bit disappointed that there aren’t more heists and that in the end they’re basically like a normal GTA mission with a little prep work thrown in. The interchangeable characters is a neat idea but I found myself not really switching between them during a mission unless one of them was flashing red from losing health.I feel the same about GTAV. I think the story heists were more a precursor to the stuff you’d be able to plan out yourself in multiplayer but it’s taken them so long that I don’t think anyone cares anymore. Overall an enjoyable game, and they did a fantastic job creating the world and giving us three varied protagonists, but let down somewhat by the ambition they had for the online which I think most people would agree is a bit of a flop.
So my weekend was dull, which is how I like it. My wife played Dead Rising 3 (grinding out that 100k kills achievement before starting Nightmare Mode) so I spent some more times with the Game of Thrones RPG on PC, which I’m actually liking – combat and graphics are still a bit dodgy but the plot has gotten my attention. We’ll see how it goes, but I’m only on the 5th of 13 chapters.
I also went back to FTL to try and unlock that damn Crystal ship before the new content drops. After 3 arduous and rage-inducing playthroughs I accomplished nothing. Well, I beat the rebel flagship once, but only by sacrificing my Mantis crew members, masters of hand to hand combat who fought an endless turnover of enemy crew to keep them from repairing the drone control room during the second phase of the battle.
And that was basically my whole weekend. Rough week last week so I napped a lot.
Ah FTL, another game I need to get back into and unlock more ships 🙂
I have all of them but for the Crystal. I looked up the steps to getting it and even used a mod to turn off the rebel fleet so I could spend more time exploring, but it relies on you getting the Rock Homeworlds (it has to be the Homeworlds) after finding the damaged stasis capsule and then coming across the Zoltan lab and getting them to fix it so you receive the Crystal crew member. Also you pretty much have to use the Rock vessel to get the capsule in the first place.
IF you make it to the Rock Homeworlds with the Crystal crew member they take you to the secret sector and you get the Crystal ship in your hangar.
Twice out of my three attempts I got the capsule, found the Zoltan lab, and obtained the Crystal crew member, but the Rock Homeworlds didn’t appear. I am THIS |-| far from just downloading a save with everything unlocked or just editing my savefile, but I want the satisfaction of “earning it”, even though I am already cheating like a mofo.
Earn it, man. Games like FTL are only “fun” when the pain brings great rewards. Just like life? (Except life isn’t randomly repeatable)
Surem I just hate when it relies so much on randomness. If the game just decides there’s no Rock Homeworlds sector in the game whatsoever at the beginning but you don’t get to know that until you’ve sunk two hours into the game, you just want to tear your hair out.
I think that’s the part they call “Fun” 😛
You got more than I do. From memory I’ve only got got the advanced human (From finishing the game), Stealth ship, Zoltan ship and Engi Ship A and B. I was trying to finish playthroughs on every ship and make ship logs with Taybies as the crewmen and I still want to get that done one day.
Well aside from missing the Crystal ship I have all the alternate loadouts except for the Rock ship (when I finally DO reach the secret sector and unlock the Crystal ship I will also unlock the second layout), Slug Ship and the Stealth ship. I am terrible at playing the Stealth and Slug ships.
So you’re missing Mantis, Rock and Slug? I think Mantis is pretty easy but you need to have a Mantis crew member and a teleporter. You’ll get a random encounter where a Mantis captain hails you – he’s got a long name starting with K. You need to board his ship and kill all the crew (alternatively if you have a Bio-Beam you can use that to kill the crew instead, but that might be tougher). He’ll then join you and give you access to the Mantis cruiser in your hangar.
Can’t remember how you get Rock and Slug and I don’t want to go looking at game wikis at work.
Rock I think it’s just outlasting a fight without killing the enemy while getting bombarded with solar flares which sounds horrifying, which I’m guessing ion cannons are a must while the crew focus on putting out the fires. In that case I’ll have my best chance with the Engi ship. Mantis also sounds really hard cuz I hate fighting mantis in hand to hand combat cuz they usually just zerg rush you and I’m forced to defend at the med bay.
It can be tough to get what you need but I think I nailed it first time once I actually knew the trick to it.
…reading all the above’s got me wanting to get back into some FTL now.
Still got that damn Crystal ship to get too. Can’t remember how many of the others I had, most of them I think, if not all. Only got one or two alternate layouts though. Can’t even remember which ship I preferred now 😛
I think I managed to get the crystal guy once. And then maybe he died? Or maybe I didn’t get to the Rock Homeworld. Part of me has a feeling that I did get to the Rock Homeworld with him once, but then maybe died in the secret sector.
Hey everyone, good morning.
If anyone has a Gametraders or cash converters nearby, could people check for singstar games?
I’m trying to grab a whole bunch of them for the karaoke meat. I will reimburse costs.
I have: (all ps2)
Singstar
Singstar rocks
Abba
Queen
Pop
Pop hits
Party hits
Rock ballads
Sing with disney
Have you checked here yet? https://webshop.cashconverters.com.au/items/?searchFor=singstar&categoryID=®ionID=&storeID=
Also, oh man, I still have your games! I am literally the worst. I think I remember you saying you wanted me to send them on to someone else… is that the case, or do you want them back? So sorry.
Send them back to me for now. Gorzy won’t play them.
Also, yeah I checked the web store
Will do! They’ll be in the post tomorrow. Sorry again.
it’s fine. As long as you enjoyed them
Do you want to edit in the ones you have into the main post. That way we don’t get multiple double ups
Alright
I’ve got about eight of them.
Freeze loves to bust out a ballad
Let it go, Let it go?
I watched that movie two nights ago..do you want to build a snowman?
I only saw it yesterday. =P
Hey TAY been awhile, not much has changed. Still waiting to go to China, still playing vidya games and still cheating on vidya games with coffee.
Also MGS Rising Revengence is best game.
RULES OF NATTTUUUREE
AND THEY RUN WHEN THE SUN COMES UP
WITH THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE
I love the final boss and Mistral’s themes.
@bish and I came up with the term “Revengence” first. We should have done a King dot com.
Yeah sue that auteur mofo
Morning all. Still haven’t completed the Numenera write up because I’ve been busy/distracted (I am the wurst and for that I apologise).
In other news, I played other RPGs on the weekend. They were fun.
Short summary of Star Wars d20 RPG (playing as a fringer Trandoshan):
Girder beats blaster. Also we got yelled at by our employer as our ship was damaged by pirates while shipping freight and we had to get a loan to pay off the damage.Short summary of Pathfinder fantasy Rome setting (with me as GM). Let this also be a lesson in what can happen when players can do anything they want:
The party achieved/caused the following:– achieved their freedom from slavery
– proceeded to then buy more slaves and then free them
– the cleric made magical items including a summon feast item and basically sold it to a man who was the personification of Hedonism-bot (for a tidy profit)
– they captured the man who sold them into slavery, cut off his tongue, forced him into hard labour, crushed his windpipe and then healed him, and then challeged him into single combat between a 5th level character and a NPC muppet (he died horribly)
– cast the dead man’s body off the side of a boat (they were on a boat at the time) and proceeded to piss off Neptune, god of the sea
– calmed Neptune by making a sacrifice of fish and a small amount of valuables
I would have thought sacrificing fish to Neptune would just piss him off further.
FIRST YOU STEAL FROM MY OCEAN THEN YOU HAVE THE GALL TO KILL THEM IN FRONT OF ME
Well aside from human sacrifice, they kinda had to make do with what they had. I also penalised them some gold for the trouble as well considering Neptune was major pissed.
It was funny then explaining to the cleric that even though he’s a cleric of Mars, it doesn’t mean the other gods can’t interfere/mess around with his life.
The longer you wait on this, the longer Scrappa keeps his dignity 😛
Welp, Outlast sure was scary. Due to circumstances, I gave up after about 15 minutes. D:
That game was full of NOPE moments for me. Reasonably decent horror game.
One person called in sick today. One. Somehow that means with the way the roster has been moved about I’m suddenly working on my day off today and working a seven day week for some reason.
Yet they’re claiming we’re overstaffed…
Claim some BS religious holiday is happening for all of March and your god demands 1 month paid leave.
You can claim all you want, but unless your enterprise agreement (or ‘award’ if you don’t have one) has a provision for it, you won’t get squat.
For reference, we only have 5 days I think due to ‘religious reasons’.
@freezespreston: lol @ understaffed. You’re within your right to say “nah I’m busy” and not go to work, yeah?
I may have already taken half of March off from the 13th.
What? The 13th is my eldest’s birthday and I’ve taken some time to recover. There’s no other reason.
Wow it’s almost like you have a 33 day count down to your eldest’s birthday
Come to Sydney and hang out for my birthday the weekend after.
Maaaayyybeee.
I’ll look into it.
No come for my birthday it’ll be cooler cause…
Genius!
The comments on this Youtube clip are a great mix of people in on the joke and genuine idiocy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwr6_015ROo
That hurts my brain. Although trying to explain to somebody who confuses weight and wait who is trying to be clever might not be the best use of time
Hey guys! so finally picked up my Arcade machine Cabinet.
The end game is to have it run old school retro to modern arcade games will be coin operated only, (there will be a free play button but that will be locked inside the cabinet).
Will be building a heavily modified os on a Windows 7 bare bones setup, which will boot to a splash screen which will set the machine into Arcade mode, or Jukebox mode. (Yes juke box will also be coin operated).
Essentially this machine is going to replace my moneybox… \o/
Got a lot of work ahead of me, will be ordering some new sanwa pushbuttons and joysticks tomorrow, and microswitches. That will get me started. also need to do some sanding/painting but should come up good! the tricky part is going to be mounting the LED screen in there… wanted to use a genuine arcade tube, but really want to crank up the resolutions on some of the non retro stuff, plus the GPU’s that handle these weird arcade resolutions dont really have much grunt at all.
http://i.imgur.com/MknOIzD.jpg
Cabinet is a genuine Sega New Astro City cabinet.
All the metal slugs games.
ALL OF THEM. and the street fighter games… and the Killer instinct games… and the mortal kombat games… and bubble bobble, snow bros, and… im just going to stop here, otherwise this is going to be one long post.
Will actually get a chance to put my complete rom collections to good use! i downloaded complete rom sets for every piece of cartridge based gaming hardware known to man some time ago… Preserving history throughout the rise and eventual fall of the communications era!
Snow Bros! \o/
So many coins pumped into that machine as a kid.
Lightning Bros is so much better! (cc:@rize)
We should do that again some time. We could call it “Lightning Returns”!
hahahaha! same! also darkstalkers, and street fighter!
Snow Bros rocked. It was like a weird alien world to someone living in rural Australia, water and frozen water at that…
The main thing I came away with following on from the Senior Parchment weekend:
Good not great. Kinda like how TOR was in a lot of respects.IS that one of those reading to the residents of the old people homes kinda dealies
Not quite. Also nothing like that completed unrelated Junior Paper either. 😛
Apologies for being deliberately obtuse. I’m referring to TESO and trying to side-step their NDA.That was clear, sorry I should have colon peed
Guys.
Here’s the thing.
Firefly: The Board game of the Joss Whedon created FOX series from the early 2000’s, is really fun.
Like, I had a Firefly staffed with Companions and we just flew around being all sexy and pullin’ heists (and other things if the price was right, nahmsayin?).
Anyway, Mathew J Hellscream is thinking about organizing board games in Brissy every month or so. It’d be wicked fun, as long as you guys let me win or I’ll throw a tantrum.
The first time I played it I didn”t really enjoy it that much as I had no idea what I was doing and all of the references were lost on me (didn’t watch the series). Since then, I’ve really liked it every time I’ve played.
Don’t worry, we’ll let you win if you manage to assemble the entire cast on a single ship. Instant victory. 😛
O_O
Yeah! How dare he not watch that show!
*nervous cough*
O_O
You’d think he was joking but he did this last time I played with him.
Let the wookie win.
That’s Star Wars, not Firefly.
It’s more about the best descriptor for Dan in any given game than Firefly itself.
Besides, Firefly must have been pretty bad. It got cancelled after only one season.
*Sookie
BEELSOOKEH.BEEEEEL.OH YAY ANOTHER FIREFLY PLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ONE OF US… ONE OF US… ONE OF US!!!!
Have you tried the card game version as well as the boardgame?
I havent tried the card game, though it is on my list 🙂
Finished ACIV Blackflag over the weekend! Final mission was not difficult at all. I think they’ve made this significantly easier than the last AC I played (Brotherhood, even though that wasn’t that hard anyway). It annoyed me a bit with how the
final bad guy was a guy you could have killed earlier and had plenty of reason to do so and I didn’t understand why I hadn’t already.Ending Spoiler Question:
So when you see your son, you get an achievement “Saw that one coming”. I’m guessing it was a hint at who the mother was? I know it wasn’t the redhead because the son wasn’t redheaded and turned Edward down already.
Not sure, could be that you know Edward was going to move back and start a family because Haytham (the son) is in AC3?Oh right, I am not a big follower of the AC story so that’s a definite possibility.
The ‘saw that coming’ I thought was because it popped up right as Edward said something about “okay lets go see your mother at her work at the bar”, or something. And that other girl he was sitting with earlier worked behind a bar, so they must have got together.I could be wrong but I thought they were going to meet at “Whites” to get chocolate. No idea who sold chocolate back then, could be a bar or a chemist or some sort of sweet shop.Oh, okay. *Shrugs* I kinda lost track of wtf was going on. 😀
Please take that with a grain of salt though. I really don’t know whats going on in that game, lol.
Just came across the best name ever for someone at a Catholic school:
Max Christian
I would have thought Jesus Christ would be best name.
Nah, they’d crucify you.
Easy way around it, just call him Jesse, Jesse Christ 😛
Or do what the Spaniards do and call him Hey-Zeus. 😛
I worked with a Spanish Jesus. His supervisor, a Mormon, didn’t realise his name was Jesus and always wrote it down as “Heyzeus” or “Hayzeus” or whatever.
It was pretty funny when he finally coined on and came up to me and excitedly said “Hey! Did you know Jesus’s name is actually Jesus!?”
And Megadeth pull out of Soundwave. That was the main reason I’d get a ticket so it looks like I’m definitely not going now. I think the bookies should take odds on which bands will AJ piss off each year and cause them to pull out
Don’t worry! The living end will fill their position!
They pulled out? Mr. Strange mentioned last night that Megadeth and Avenged Sevenfold were scheduled to play at exactly the same time which was a stupid idea, maybe Megadeth didn’t like it either?
When it comes to bands pulling out of Soundwave and AJ saying it’s all the band’s fault, who knows? He’s peddled that excuse for 2/3/4 bands (and quite large bands at that) each year when they pull out but I guess it’s just all coincidence and he’s the innocent party everytime and doesn’t piss anyone off
AJ blamed Mustaine for wanting Newsted off his sideshow which I don’t believe as he personally invited them onto Gigantour last year and is good friends with Jason.
Ah. See, I never delve into all this stuff so I had no idea any of that was going on. Even with my limited awareness though, I’ve been aware for quite some time that AJ is an asshat. 😛
Repost of AF2014 thoughts. Just realised I need to get this down to 3 votes by today.
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
The main pitch that grabbed me was Steed. I think I picked the other two for the people that would be in charge = more value for the documentary.
FINAL WEEK IN SYDNEY
So basically we have done all the touristy things we could think of and now we are in the final week here, leaving on the Thursday or Friday uncertain yet.
Went to bondi yesterday, it’s definitely a beach alright, we also got slurpees \o/ however the machine lied saying I was getting Lemon, Lime and Bitters instead it was some tropical flavour 🙁
Anyway what’s everyone upto today? And how was your weekend?
Final week in Sydney? Plenty of time to visit Kino 8 more times.
That’s the plan! Going there tomorrow to see if there’s anything else I want to splurge buy!
I’m actually worried about my son this morning. He climbed into bed with me early this morning and when the alarm went off he said he was tired, but I thought it was just because he wasn’t looking forward to the walk to the school. Then he said he was going to throw up but “it might take a while”, so I was still thinking he was stalling about school. But then his temperature started to rise and he ended up just laying on the couch groaning, and when the alarm went off for being time to leave for school he got really upset because he’d wanted to go. So obviously he wasn’t just exaggerating as I’d first suspected. 🙁 He said he couldn’t keep his eyes open even though he wasn’t tired and that his arms and legs hurt. He immediately threw up the first lot of Panadol I gave him, but managed to keep a second dose down by sipping it slowly and is now asleep. His temperature doesn’t appear to be coming down, though so I think I’m going to need to take him to a doctor. I hate parents who rush their kids to the hospital if they so much as even sneeze so I don’t want to be one of those annoying over-stressing parents, but I’m genuinely worried. I also don’t quite know how I’m going to get him to a Doctor. Not sure the bus driver would appreciate us taking the vomit bucket onboard. 😛
Anyway, not really asking for advice or anything, just more wanted to vent and see if it still looked and felt serious all typed up like this. I’ll let you all know how he goes though. 🙂
Oh man, hope he feels better soon.
What’s the temperature like there? Big weekend? It kind of reads to me like heat exhaustion/heat stroke (though on reflection, those symptoms might mean anything or nothing, and you should probably get someone more qualified than me to make that call).
The weather’s actually been quite pleasant. Not hot at all.
Aw man, hope the little guy is alright. If I drove and lived any where near you I’d totally help you out… but I’m useless, alas. 🙁
He’s just woken up and says he feels “a lot better”, so at least the panadol is doing its job. Feeling slightly less worried, now. 🙂
Reminds me of this.
But I’m sure your son’s not a ghost.
I’ve had all those symptoms before and I wasn’t entirely sure what the cause was. I ate perfectly good pasta from a packet, and 15 minutes later I’m a zombie throwing up all over the place.
It passed after a couple hours.
Its not a crime to worry mum. You are a good mum thats why you worry. I remember how many times my mum called me on my bullshit cause i didnt want to go to school. I was good too, like i was a A grade liar and she saw through it. I made up a field trip the day before as a cover and she still saw through it. Because of it, i very rarely chuck sickies at work. Once in 5 years and it was for a good reason.
Better to take him to the doctor and be told that it’s a common cold or something than to not take him and find out it’s something really serious.
Calling your son “The vomit bucket” can’t be good for his self esteem.
Dear aliasalpha,
Why are you so awesome?
Kind regards, Phlanispo
Its the only way I cope with the world being awful
I got nicknamed “Chuckie” by my family because I would through up alot
wanting to start a blog to document my progress on this arcade cabinet,…. any suggestions where to host it?
is blogspot still the g-o?
Blogspot is very easy to get up and running, and has quite a few features. WordPress is another major contender. Its biggest advantage is that it’s much more customisable than Blogspot. I don’t know how much you value the design-side of the blog itself, but if you think it’s important, then I’d recommend WordPress.
WordPress is dead simple to get going.
Depends on content type. WordPress is pretty full-features, but perhaps Tumblr could be neat.
Yeah, this. WordPress is overall the best, but if you want something more focused on images, Tumblr might be better for you.
EDIT: In other words, nobody uses Blogspot anymore 😛
This week gonna have some good news from my publisher. I can feel it in my waters.
So Schapelle Corby is going to need a new job when she gets back.
Hear the casino are looking for dealers.
God I am so over any news related to her. The sad thing is, the media is going to keep going on with it. “What is Corby doing now?”
*headdesk*
…
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
^
This. This. This. Oh so much this.
The worst thing? With all the exclusive deals and rights payments she’s going to be a multimillionaire.
That makes me really fucking angry too. I Say treat her like David Hicks and seize any money she makes as a proceed of crime.
From what I’ve read (but which I don’t really trust), the rights to the story were sold by family members, rather than her. Her family is getting rich (and will presumably cut her in). Still madness-inducing, though.
I didn’t really give a shit about her in the first place.
We don’t really watch TV (we got rid of Foxtel ages ago and the only channel we get reception on is 9 which is terrible – hence we mainly just watch stuff online or play video games) so we had no idea that there was a Schappelle movie and an INXS mini-series. My wife’s aunt called up late last night to bug my wife because she urgently wanted to chat about both of them. My wife just played dumb til she gave up.
The thing that really pissed me off about it, mum had the “news” on while I was doing a bit of cleaning up outside and I was hearing them crapping on through the window, the majority of the talk seemed to be disapproving tutting about how much of a media circus there was. Achievement Unlocked: Staggering lack of self awareness…
Pulling months of fluff and hair out of casters was vastly more intellectually stimulating than listening to that shit
Yeah I’m basically done with Australian media after this, just completely done with it. Can’t believe some producer is already making a Telemovie about this already…
can australian tv get any worse
You could be channel ten and cut out parts of the olympic opening ceremony, change the order, and just generally skip sections?
Yes. Abbot could go through with his posturing and dismantle the ABC.
Fingers crossed he’ll run out of time before he can ruin it completely. #onetermtony
hey guys
i want to know who else is happy that developers are now finally making some single player only games like infamous, the order and alien isolation instead of a;ways on generic multiplayer games
Eh, I don’t think single player ever went away.
publishers have been trying though
Not true.
Like, at all.
There’s quite a few high-profile examples of it, but I feel like they’ve realized it doesn’t work and started to back away from the concept again. After all it was basically the way they justified their ‘season pass’ stuff
I don’t think Battlefield has ever tried to have a coherent campaign from about Bad Company 2 onwards. I tried the BF3 campaign and was unimpressed. Haven’t tried BF4’s yet, though the multipalyer is pretty fun. I honestly think you could get rid of the campaign for Battlefield 5 and not lose a single sale.
Then there’s stuff like Titanfall which is probably going to DLC us out the wazoo. There’s a few high profile indie titles that are online multiplayer only like Loadout (which looks like heaps of fun), and Hawken (which was great in theory but boring in practice).
Disagree.
In the last twelve months, the only MP game I’ve played has been Borderlands 2 (well, and a little GTA V). I’ve in that time played Dishonored, The Last of Us, The Walking Dead, Tomb Raider, GTA V, Arkham Origins, Civ, EU IV, and CK2, all of which are very, very strongly single player games.
Many of the games you list have multiplayer modes. GTA V has a stupidly extensive MP system. Tomb Raider is one of the canonical examples of games with tacked-on, unnecessary MP. Civ is an extremely strong MP game as much as it is SP.
But it’s definitely a trend that’s going away again.
My point is they were all strong single player games- not that they didn’t have a MP mode. All of the games I listed I would have been perfectly happy either way to have a MP mode, I didn’t feel like anything was taken away from the single player- in fact other than GTA, I’ve not dipped into the MP on any of those. The idea that publishers were trying to “take away” single player games really doesn’t ring true to me.
I think a significant part of the annoyance with MP in ostensibly SP games is when development resources are wasted on them, resulting in either a later game, or a less-polished SP.
I’ve never played a multiplayer match of Civ going back to Civ 2. Strange how that’s panned out
We tried a TAY one of Civ V over summer. It didn’t go real well.
Aw man. It’s not nearly as fun making “your mum” jokes to NPCs. 🙁
I remember Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 used to have AI bots that would insult you and respond to your insults. 🙂
Haha that always made me laugh.
remember when multiplayer games were only about your skill and not about who can afford a premium package or how high your ranking is?
Or how long you’ve been playing and how many power upgrades you’ve unlocked.
your mum is so glitchy she …..
i got nothing
Your mum is so glitchy she rolled a 8 in a D6 roll.
What do you mean “finally”? There have always been single-player only games.
its just over the past few months publishers such as ea activision and ubisoft have been pushing for always on games,
Have they, you sure its just not the games you have been noticing?
Yeah, seems a little bit confirmation biased.
nothing against multiplayer, but when the devs are forced to throw it in just so that the publisher can say its got multiplayer on the box… that’s when it sucks. like Tomb Raider. that was rubbish.
so yeah. if a game is gonna be single player focussed, stick to the single player stuff.
Yeah, and if the Spec Ops: The Line guys had had their way, it would’ve been SP-only… but the Publishers had back-of-the-box bullet-point list demands to be met.
I don’t mind multiplayer in a Singleplayer focused game IF:
1. The game doesn’t force you to play multi to unlock items that enhance single player.
2. The multiplayer is developed outside the studio working on the Singleplayer game.
So basically if the “tacked on” multi doesn’t influence my Singleplayer experience (including release date). I am completely fine with it.
i completely agree good sir
Tacked on MP will always have an impact on your SP game.
Lower polish due to time taken away from the main game, as well as impacting things like weapon power and the like. It isn’t always obvious but the time and money spent on MP could have been spent on making SP better or lowering the price of development
I’m fine with added multiplayer in games as long as they don’t wall off half the achievements behind them in a desperate attempt to force me to play it.
Looking at you Tomb Raider.
That’s the same of every game with a tacked on multiplayer though. I go through my trophies/acheivements and realise there’s a ton of games I’ll never be able to ‘100%’ because no-one would be playing the multiplayer anymore. They should seperate the single player achievements from the multiplayer
Or because they’ve turned off the servers.
If you could still get multiplayer achievements/trophies by playing locally (split screen/system link) after they turned off the servers I would be cool with that.
The GF situation is hitting hard at the moment. I’m pretty bummed. Had a bit of back and forth last night… she’s not doing great.
I tried and failed to engineer any interesting Valentine’s Day plans, which, after hearing from her, sounds like she probably wouldn’t have been up for it anyway.
Crass origins aside, I actually like Valentine’s Day.
She’s always been pretty against the thing, considering it a manufactured celebration of commercialism… I’ve always taken the non-contraditory stance: “And? Your point?” Regardless of its origins, humans are creatures of ritual, and there’s a benefit to having a known, anticipated day you can reserve in advance, for displays of extravagant affection whose meaning is clear and can be regarded without suspicion.
Think about it. Flowers on a random day for relationship maintenance might be regarded with suspicion (“What do you want? WHAT DID YOU DO? What… or who?”), but on V-day, it’s part of the ritual. (Not that proper maintenance should ever be done with flowers, anyway. It should be done with random, unexpected stopping her in whatever she’s doing with nothing more than a, “Hey.” Then you look her in the damn eyes and give her a long, long kiss, completely present in the moment, completely focused on her – one of those intense ones which has her weak at the knees and up against a wall, losing her train of thought. You might never/rarely say “I love you,” but your kiss should say it for you, loud and clear. Then when she’s good and dazed, you can go back about your business. No qualification, no explanation needed. Better than fucking flowers.)
Anyway, she can appreciate the whole ‘ritual’ thing, so she calls it ‘Steak and Blowjob Day’ by way of compromise.
She’s a pretty funny girl. I miss her.
I guess I’ll take the night off to wallow and drink. It’s good to do that every once in a while.
I hope you coupled-up people have nice things planned for V-day. Take Friday off, buy a dozen bottles of water, spend the day in bed.
:'( Hope you feel better, my friend. Thinking of you guys!
I’ll be spending V-day with The Last of Us: Left Behind and House of Cards season two!
Isn’t House of Cards out on Saturday? I don’t even know.
Ooooh, you’re right. Timezones and all that. Oh well, I’ll spend V-day here instead. XD
Same here mate, that or in Lordran taking my loneliness out on the hollow and bosses
Steak and Blowjob Day. Thank you! I’m gonna borrow that one..
Isn’t steak and blowjob day meant to be the 14th of March or something. The chance for the girls to do something for the guys rather than the V-day stuff which is up to the guys to wow the girls.
Tigerion, not sure if you just made that up, but….
ITS GENIUS!If I did I was bloody quick about it http://www.officialsteakandblowjobday.com/
Duuuuude, that sucks
I havent any advice, missing someone sucks, nothing really makes it go away. People say do something constructive but i always feel like shit when i try doing that. Anyway, hugs. You seem awesome i hope you find happiness.
Hope it’s not too painful for you, man. Will be thinking of you (though not at inappropriate times).
Our V-Day will probably be like every other day: failing to offload the kids onto someone else and zonking out as soon as they’re in bed. That said, we do have a routine where we eat pizza by candlelight on V-Day, so there’s that to look forward to.
Dude, awesome. 😀
The first valentine day I spent here with my missus the power went out at home so we were forced to have takeaway by candlelight 😀 Probs the best v-day yet actually *hatches plan to destroy the fusebox*
My thoughts on Valentine’s Day have always been if you need a special day to validate someone’s feelings for you then something is wrong. I’ve never been a flowers and chocolates kind of girl either, so my husband and I usually just use Valentine’s Day as an excuse to buy each other stuff we couldn’t justify buying for ourselves. This year I’m buying Mr. Strange the VIP package for the Iced Earth Brisbane show.
As for the rest of your post? Just, *hugasaurus*.
Oh! That reminds me, being in the US late January/Early Feb is a truly bizarre experience. We visited a few drugstores, Target and Toys’ R’ Us and the sheer amount of Valentine’s Day related products is mind-boggling. Everything you can usually buy now comes in pink or red or heart-shapes.
Could you…buy me a VIP ticket too? *sheepish smile*
Most likely mine will consist of waiting for my GF to come online to be able to talk but being disappointed due to how busy she is just trying to make ends meet.
I haven’t heard from her since late last month…
…That… doesn’t sound right. :\ I don’t know anything about you or your situation with her, but I’m expressing genuine concern that it just doesn’t sound right at all.
She lives in Western Europe, so time differences make it really hard as it is, but she’s that busy with working it’s just next to impossible to be online the same time as her.
Sucks about situation, still good that she’s making lols regarding commercialism. 😛
I don’t have anything planned for v day, don’t know if I will either. I’ve got my own problems at the moment too, of the wallowing kind.
Bitches, man.
^- Joke. Line from movie, I like it.*manly hug & pat on back*
I’d completely forgotten that Valentine’s Day was a thing at all, until the Dead Sea Salt girl yesterday asked if I was doing anything for it. Initial instinct was to just glare at her, but I reined it in and just said “no” in an “of course not are you mad?” tone instead 😛
I have to say I’ve been mercifully free from the traditional bombardment of derision by exclusion that normally happens about now. The worst offender was fucking ozgameshop of all places…
My wife dislikes Valentine’s day. It’s not the crass commercialism, that’s the world we live in; it’s the fact that it’s just wrong for everyone in the world to be obliged to do something romantic for their partner. She forgoes any special gestures on Valentine’s Day, as long as I pick one other day of the year completely at random to do something special for her.
Well I’m flying her to New Zealand so we can spend 2 weeks exploring the land of the long white cloud. Figure if you are going for displays of extravagant affection might as well go all the way 😉
Best to not mix up the order of that or you’ll end up with a happy steak and fork marks in your knob…
V-day sounds like an apocalypse porno movie.
weekend:
Friday – felt like rubbish, so stayed at home & played Dragon age.
Saturday – friends birthday, so there was food & beers. fun times.
Sunday – my brother’s birthday, so up to the central coast I went for a BBQ.
There was multiple puppies there.
this is Wiley. he’s cute & psycho.
got to play with my Nelly puppy, too! that is always awesome. but she’s getting really old & I’ve been all sad because I know she probably wont be around much longer & she is the best thing.
tl;dr – GAMES, FOOD, BEER, PUPPIES, SAD. NOW BACK AT WORK. BORED.
I watched movies, built a shelf, saw my friend in a “Jesus Christ Superstar” (stupid bastard is talented as fuck) with my gran who made me cake just for coming to see her. I had a nice weekend. My life is pretty good.
How’d you like JCS?
that musical’s songs are catchy as all hell 😛
I know right??
i went in with no expectations but i think at some point i must have watched it because i knew most of the songs. It was really well done. Tim Rice and Steven Sonheim know how to make catchy musics
Which part did your friend play?
Psst rockets: Lloyd Webber, not Sondheim
:’) Such a nice post.
So…
@rize, @mythamphetamine, @sernobulus, @rocketman, @cakesmith, @f4ction @whoever else is interested…
Is JC2sday now a thing?
Are we playing tomorrow night?
we probably should…
i think that sounds like a pretty great idea
I like you, you communist bastard.
But yes it should be a thing
I also like it when we play dota, its good fun derping randomly.
oh man, when it comes to MOBA games i’m like Aquaman to the Justice League, i farking suuuuuuuuuuck 😛
but i guess i might have to give it a go one day…
but JC2MP \o/
I vote we give that a play either tomorrow or the day after because fun!
we need to tether more stuff together!
If it makes it any easier we only go up against AI. Never against people because people suck. =P
Yeah maybe, i might have to give it a go but i have very, VERY limited exposure to MOBA games 😛
Played dota (1) maybe once… league of legends i started at some point but gave up half way through…
soo if there ever was a total noob, it’s ME \o/ 😛
I wish I could use the unbreakable tether in JC2MP. No idea if it works (guessing not) and I’m not willing to test a trainer on a multiplayer Steam-authenticated game.
Has anyone looked into hosting their own server? Surely you can use it if you make your own server.
$4.95 for a 20 slot server…tempting.
But then we don’t get annoying randoms hassling us…
…
no wait, yep, that sounds tempting 😛
Well the tether is pretty much unbreakable as long as you’re in the vehicle isn’t it?
Yeah, but what if I want to tie someone’s car to a tree? 😀
lol the amount of times i’ve tried that and failed 😐 yes, i want the ability to do that 😛
The important questions in life.
@shane I went into my EB and they didn’t have the $8 ones. Was going to grab the $32 one for you anyway but they didn’t have that either. Only place in the Gold Coast that has it is Runaway Bay and that’s a 45 minute drive both ways and I don’t love you that much.
Thanks for checking, man. Much appreciated 🙂
Sorry Shane, my local doesn’t have any either. If you ever get your hands on a PS3 console, you could always borrow my copy of Catherine.
Someone wrote for Eurogamer basically what I was planning at some point to write for Potaku:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-09-chronicles-of-ys-a-series-retrospective
HAHAR! FLAPPY BIRD! I HAVE IT! So, who wants to buy my phone?
It’s crazy isn’t it? Yet that sort of mentality still gets around as evidenced in a recent Kotaku article. Something that took me less than five minutes to research and install onto my Android with an 894kb app download and then transfer from PC to phone is apparently too difficult to some.
Well of course it difficult! At the same time, it’s also free! Once again the old topic of ‘something worthwhile is never easy’ rears its ugly head. Some people are too lazy/have no desire to do things themselves and sadly, I know too many of these people.
My ethical/moral question of the day is;
Should I exploit someone else’s [unknowledge/non-desire to adapt]* for my own financial gain?
Not exactly sure of the correct word to use here.
/rant
Isn’t that exactly how nearly every service works? I mean, I could learn the skills a mechanic possesses, or I could pay a mechanic to fix my car.
I think I’m referring more to something that you can learn in the space of half an hour as opposed to a four-year apprenticeship.
I’m perfectly capable of cooking food, but sometimes I pay for people to do it for me, even if the food in question is absolute shite.
If someone is happy to pay for something and there’s no dodgy side (misinformation, etc.) then I don’t see the issue.
Oh wow, that’s the example I feared. I cannot cook to save my own life and yes I buy takeaway a fair bit. However, I’m lucky that the wife often cooks for us for free!
The skill level wasn’t really the point, my point is you’d be charging for a service provided, regardless of the skill/knowledge involved.
Pay me fifty dollars and I’ll walk over to that table and pick up a donut for you.
Haha, this guy. Actually I would love if you had a read of my next big post and had something to say about it. Time permitting, of course.
Eeyup.
But in the case of mechanics, it’s about access to wholesale prices for parts and all that, as well. And you get that access by investing in a centralised service centre, rather than just being an individual with knowledge.
Mechanic was the first thing that came to mind, not necessarily the best example. My point was that you’re charging for a service provided, regardless of whether the task could be performed by the client.
I know, I’m just nitpicking. Sorry about that.
Your point, of course, still stands.
Haha, you didn’t have to edit in the apology. I probably could have been a bit clearer initially.
I was about to edit in a further apology where I said I realised that what I said was kind of jerky and unnecessary. But I won’t now.
Isn’t learning a skill that others dont have how businesses work?
I mean sure i can google how to fix my sink, but at the end of the day i would prefer someone to do it who knows the ins and outs.
I fix my mums computer problems even though i just google the problem, people do it all the time. Its not unethical. Its just life.
Once I found a great online deal for Farscape DVDs, and on-sold them on eBay. Every order I got from eBay, I’d just fill out a new order at this online store and get the DVD shipped direct to the customer. I made hundreds of dollars from this. All because people weren’t able to spend thirty seconds comparing prices online.
Honestly, there are con-men perpetrating far worse scams than we could even ever imagine. If you can make a few bucks helping someone else out, then go for it.
You thieving scum! Haha just kidding.
I currently have an even bigger ethical dilemma than this bad Flappy Bird example – I should probably just divulge that.
I think that liondrive’s question about age difference last week demonstrated that overarching broad questions without context never work properly 😛
Correct. I’m narrowing the new question right down. Coming up.
…my bad :3
I thought it would be the same!
I’m sorry! :'(
Hahaha, I’m just kidding, dude! Sorry for the repetition! 🙂
I can see why more context would have been better, but I didn’t think anyone would answer if I said that it was between two guys, since it’s kinda an undiscussed area that people wouldn’t want / like to discuss, and I kinda just wanted any advice :3
Also I didn’t mention I was gay because I’d rather be defined by my personality than my sexual orientation. Like (I know this more applies in the real world, but shuddup) “Yeah that’s Liondrive, he’s pretty cool”, rather than “Yeah that’s Liondrive, he’s a homo”. It’s silly, I know.
Sorry, man. I didn’t want you to have to feel like you had to justify yourself. I really was just genuinely kidding, all the way through. I totally understand why you didn’t provide that info, and I support that choice. Really sorry if I’ve upset you in any way – was never my intention.
@shane
Don’t worry, haha! I know you’re kidding, I just felt like I needed to explain why I didn’t provide context 😛
I’m not upset with you or anyone else, haha, why would I be? 😛
Ohhh, riight… now I realize my advice would’ve been totally out of context. I don’t think gay dudes have Pumas.
I should ask my brother and his boyfriend about what the equivalent is; they know all this stuff.
To answer your question: yes.
This world makes its living from stupid people – why shouldn’t you?
I’m excited! The Lonely Planet Korea guide book I ordered from the Book Depository has arrived. Now comes the hard part: saving up to go there.
Saving is the easy part, working out what i want to do in life and how travellin fits in is a bit more complex.
Travelling opens your eyes to how the world works. If that not at least a semi-important part of your life plan (and finances aren’t a problem), then you’re doing it wrong.
It’s an investment into one’s character (or soul, if you’ve got one).
You know i don’t i am a emotionless husk, just trying to understand typical humans.
My 64gb Vita memory stick left Osaka on the 4th and still hasn’t arrived in the country yet 🙁
Sea mail?
Registered airmail 🙁
Let’s hope the airplane didn’t become a seaplane… :\
Clearly I am not up to the lofty standards set by @dc, @shane and @greenius (among others) but this marks my 5,000th post on Kotaku. Since joining TAY in November 2011 (wow has it really been that long….) you have all astounded me with your friendship, generosity, and just general awesome-ness-ness. Just want to say thanks to everyone, for everything.
MILESTONE REACH!
Now, you get to be initiated into the secret 5000 club. It’s painful and humiliating and not really worth it, but now you have NO CHOICE. *maniacal laugh*
Oh so you mean like the Oars of Thorns was the First Post Club Initiation? Sounds about the same
It’s a little more….invasive…than that.
It marks the point at which the pain begins to subside.
I hid my 5000 post mark purely to avoid the initiation thing until the statute of limitations kicked in. Winning.
According to my log, i had my first TAY post in August 2011, so we’re both 2011 bros \o/
2011-bro-five o/
2011-bro-five
\o
5000? Pfft. Get out of here, newbie!
I never check my post count but I seem to only have 4,832. I think it would be more if I didn’t have like 16,000 tweets though. Obviously at some point TAY stopped being the sole venue for my bullshit.
Obligatory
GAY
Love you bro, hugs 🙂
Don’t make me call your mother, what would @strange say? 😛
Just checked my counter thinking I’d be up to at least that much by now.
9329.
Whoops.
Damned kids, get off my lawn.
We must have started TAYing at the same time, I reckon this: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-140/comment-page-2/#comment-454589 is my first TAY post.I’ve got 16276 since June 09 which averages out to 9.57975 comments per day.
A little ahead of me, I’m at 14443 as of this and first was in April 09.
24188 since October 2009… 15.4 comments per day. Or 21.5 per weekday.
Damn, I’ve only got 3362 posts here so far (and another 370 spread over Giz & LH). My first post was talking about the dick move at the “end” of Strider
I’ve only got 4 comments between Giz and LH.
My first comment was asking the other taybies if any of them were still waiting for their Ozgameshop pre-orders of Skyrim, as I hadn’t got mine even 2 weeks after release
Wrote three pages of thoughts on games I’m looking forward to this year for my blog dealy, which will mean nothing if I post it at the end of the year. Maaaaaybe, I should post it soon. :S
Post it and link it
OKAY
So my first ethical debate example was a poor one! Time for my real-world example!
I work in IT. I have also come up with a business idea with my cousin that involves IT related work. We promote via Facebook and Gumtree however the exposure is not great. My cousin is an accountant and handles the financial side (which also means he will screw me in the end) but he also has the ability to further promote our business at his place of employment.
I cannot, however. I need to hide the fact and I am even yet to go over my contract as to whether or not this business idea breaches any conduct or conditions of employment. Nevertheless, business is slow and some of the requests I get from staff at my place of employment are for personal jobs. In past I would perform these jobs for them, during work hours and gain nothing from them. Salary: there’s no bonus. Also, being petty personal jobs, they never account for KPIs either.
Herein came an idea. I would take on a job, fein ignorance in fixing the issue and recommend them to a friend who could do it at a price lower than the standard. That friend of course is my cousin and the job eventually comes back to me and in this scenario I get paid for the work.
So. FRAUD. Yes, I know. The way I go about it is definitely questionable, yet I’m tired of doing personal work for free at my place of employment. It’s quick to dismiss scenarios similar to this, sure, aka ‘Yeah, of course I can do that little thing for you – no problem.’ The sad truth is, that one thing turns into ten little things each week from every other staff member who has shared the fact that I’m an exploitable nice guy.
What is the correct course of action here? Always deny doing personal jobs? Recommend a friend initially and immediately? Cease small business ideas?
That might get you arrested. Definitely fired.
It hasn’t happened yet. It’s still in the ideas stage.
Say FUCK YOU ALL and relocate business to Sweden.
Does that help?
Trying to get more citizens for the Swedish empire I see.
Unfortunately CK2 doesn’t cloud save, so I worked out the other day I’d lost my big Sweden game.
All the downvotes
The correct course of action would be not to present evidence of your deeds in a public setting.
I’m not certain, but I feel like that’s probably illegal.
Technically you aren’t getting nothing to fix personal thing because you are doing it at work. Sure it may not be an actual job but your hours are still being payed by your employer.
Wait, I’m confused. What does the company you work for do? Are they a company that provides IT? Or are you in the IT department for a company that has nothing to do with IT. Both are very different circumstances.
The second scenario: IT dept for a transport company.
Then you have no fear of ‘stealing customers’ no matter the case, since they only deal with support to transport department.
Not doing it at work. I should have clarified.
I work in I.T. right now, and my first job was for a smaller business. Background FYI.
Don’t do it.
– You’re recommending another party, which is actually you. By not saying “by the way, I work for this other dude”, you’re introduction a conflict of interest which is unknown to the person requestion assistance.
– I wouldn’t be surprised if things like this were explicitly prohibited in your workplace.
– In any case, yeah, I’m betting it’s illegal whether written on your company contract or not.
I need to know more about your exact work situation to suggest alternatives for you. Atm it sounds like you’re on a helpdesk, where people ring you up. Any smaller jobs you don’t really log.
I do have some solutions for you, but I’d like your background before I suggest.
Okay, I re-read it. Sounds like you’re on a salary, helpdesk-ish job, and it’s pretty quiet around the place. Staff from your company sometimes pop in and want help with their phones, or other personal stuff with nothing to do with your company. Since you have free time, you do these jobs for them whilst on company time.
Correct? My suggestions:
– Stop that shit.
– Right now.
– Say that you’re busy; working on a project; manager is requestion details of your daily work; in any case, stop it.
– If anyone outside of your company, that happens to be an existing costumer, requests personal jobs that fall into the scope of work of your company, do not suggest any alternative to them. The key here is to prevent yourself ‘stealing customers’.
– If the potential customer is a staff member of your company, and it’s for purely personal stuff, suggest to them that you can look at it outside of work hours.
– This means: lunch break, before/after work, weekends. If they come to your office requesting help, reply with my 3rd point about being busy and say you can look at it outside of your working hours.
– In the end, you will have I.T. work for personal stuff, from current company staff, with no conflict of interest and totally nothing to do with your company. This is fine – unless specified specifically in your contract (which I doubt).
Doing it any other way will get you in trouble.
This sounds like the result here.
You can’t be doing external work during business hours
So either take on jobs after hours and get paid (if allowed) or chat with your manager and get something added to your work schedule allowing you to track this.
The other danger you have here is that are basically saying that you have a bunch of spare time at work. Saying that is likely to get you more work.
Correction: I do not perform the tasks during work hours.
Okay, so then you’re unsure how to go from “im doing you a favour” to “you’re gonna have to pay for this” ?
That is up to you. A suggestion would be to go from unpaid to paid-in-beer or similar, if you don’t wanna make the jump straight up. In any case, feel free to liberally apply the ‘Im too busy to do it for free” excuse, otherwise you’ll just get swamped with ungrateful bastards that have no respect for your time and expect it for free.
Or made redundant 😛
It’s a bit of a grey area. Most cases are the staff member wanting it done on behalf of another family member/friend, and most cases are usually copying DVDs for them or recovering accidentally-deleted data.
I’m fairly certain that I’m not obligated to do either of those tasks by my employer.
Welp, you ‘dont have time’ to do DVD copies or lengthy data recoveries.
Show them how to copy DVDs themselves, and tell em you can charge them for data recovery.
Also note that you can’t use any company resource for this, not even your computer for copying.
Okay, I think we’re getting somewhere.
How do I do this? It’s very similar to me recommending someone else to them, and getting it done out of work hours. The reasoning for this is because I feel I cannot say to staff, ‘OH PERFECT, I’m just starting up a business that deals with the problem you have! Check out my website and my fees and I can do it over the weekend.’
Staff member comes up with a hard drive, says it won’t connect:
1. Say you can quickly plug it in to see what’s up. You don’t know it’s personal at this point.
2. Plug it in, it’s corrupted/etc. OR, they say straight up it’s a personal job.
3. “Sorry, I’ll look at it outside work hours”.
4. You determine that it’ll take more than 10 mins, so you want some compensation.
5. This is the point where you can safely say about your business. In fact, you have an obligation to mention your business instead of doing the work privately.
Since you have a partner, they need a cut of the pie too. You can’t just do it privately and get all the income, because then all my above points apply to you again, as the company is you+cousin.
How you implement this is once again, up to you, but you pretty much need to be like: “okay, this is gonna take some work. I can make it work, and I have an off-side business actually, here’s the details. I can give you mates rates, or you can take it to someone-else-that-does-recovery. Sorry, that’s the best I can do.”
Either they take you – experienced, they know you personally, mates rates, you do good work, won’t rip them off since they work with you – or they go to another company. Or, they just don’t do anything about it. Either way, you’ve safely navigated around a situation with a potential customer.
But before you do this, you need to ensure that your contract doesn’t prohibit having a second job or outside employment. Almost all businesses will at least require you to declare said business, so HR can determine whether or not a conflict of interest exists.
Whoops should have tagged @benny
He said his job up further. I.T. support for a transport company. No conflict of interest there, really.
@stickman, yes, but HR need to determine that for liability purposes.
@shane @benny
Perhaps, IMO it’s up to Benny. The target market of the company says there is no conflict of interest. If it were me, I probably wouldn’t be making an effort to officially announce it to my employer – it’s none of their business (due to the different market).
When things start getting official, you give them all kinds of power.
– They can officially tell you that they revoke your right to perform work, will take action against employee if they continue.
– They can defame you.
– They will think “how did he have time for this, or to get our customers” and increase your work hours or job load.
– Ammo to reduce/stop any entitlements like a raise.
If it was I.T. work for an I.T. contractor, sure. But HR has nothing to see here.
@stickman, that’s true, of course – it’s not their business, and it’s not a conflict-of-interest as far as we can see. But it’s risky to keep it hidden for two reasons:
1) It looks suspicious if it ever comes to light. “Why did he hide this? It must be a conflict of interest”
2) If his contract outright states that all outside employment needs to be declared, not declaring it is a wilful breach of the contract and can result in termination if the situation escalates. There might be insurance implications for employees who work two jobs, and fatigue management principles to consider, at least from a HR perspective. These things can leave them legally vulnerable in terms of duty of care, and the quality of services provided to clients, and even though they often err on the side of caution ,it’s not unjustified, even if there is no direct conflict.
Case in point: I work in the public service, and (apart from journalism and union activism) it’d be pretty much impossible for me to have a job that had a conflict of interest with mine. However, I am still required to obtain permission from my immediate superior for all outside work (including my writing, and working as a polling official on Election Day). It’s one of the conditions under which I am employed, and I don’t want to risk my job.
Don’t do this. It can and probably will get you fired at least, possibly worse.
Eyyyyahhhhh….. no. Like others have said, there are legal considerations which trump the ethical ones.
At least I don’t have to answer an ethical questions! Hooray for context!
I don’t have a problem with it ethically. The whole subterfuge game you’ve got in mind is kind of a dick move, but so is expecting you to provide free repairs for something that normally costs money, out of what… obligation? Peer pressure? Nuts to that.
BUT.
If you want to do this thing, you probably can, WITH SOME CAVEATS.
1) Get a lawyer.
2) Get an accountant.
3) Don’t be related to either.
4) Find out who in the company you talk to about legal stuff and conflict of interest.
5) Be open and up-front at all times.
Fun fact: A lot of artists (like, painting) who don’t even sell anything have an ABN. It allows them to streamline the process of selling things if they get their stuff exhibited anywhere. Even if they’ve only done maybe five jobs in the entire year, it becomes worth it. When I was selling some of my own stuff, I saw an accountant about it and turned up to some workshops being held in the Valley dealing with how to manage yourself as a business, not just an artist. I forgot pretty much everything I learned on the details, just that it was a pretty useful thing to have and doesn’t actually oblige you to treat it all that seriously.
My opinion on an action plan: Check the legals on your contract through your lawyer. No-compete clauses, anything that could be construed as conflict of interest (such as advertising in the workplace, spending time while on a salary – even a ‘consult’ asking about a quote could be classed as dealing with your second job, depending how anal your legal guys are). Give the broad strokes to Legal in your company first, (such as saying, “Hey guys, I’m thinking about starting up a home PC repair business on my own time, can I check for no-compete/conflict of interest stuff with you?”), ask what you have to do to play ball – we’re all friends here, right? Nothing combatative, nothing hidden. Lawyers get all nasty when they think they have to be ‘on’.
Set up a ‘business’ in your name, get an ABN etc, tell anyone who asks that you run a small business doing exactly what you’ve been doing for them – and for that reason, you won’t be doing it for free anymore because it is actually a chargeable service.
You don’t ever actually have to do any work outside of the referrals you get from work, to justify your business. You don’t have to worry about advertising and all that junk. There is no minimum limit you have to hit. (Well. Sort of, depending on what you want to do with tax – see an accountant who ISN’T family. They’re really not that expensive and you’re less likely to get screwed.) What you’re doing is basically setting up some kind of shell/excuse to use for handling these peoples’ shit.
Even if all you do is tell them, in work hours, “That sounds like the kind of problem you would take to a computer guy. I am one, have my own business, this is my number, call me outside of work and we’ll talk about it.” The only thing that could get in the way of that is a no-compete clause in your contract, and even if there is one, you may be able to negotiate an exception. Generally those no-compete clauses are about preventing you from taking company-trained skills to the competition, or strong-arming you into accepting working conditions. If a home business doesn’t really count as ‘competition’, they likely won’t care and will be happy to put something in (with limits).
At the end of the day: honesty and transparency has moral benefits, but it’s basically a legal defense. The law gives a lot of leeway for efforts made in good faith, so even if you get some bad advice, if everything’s recorded and you’ve been above-board in everything you say or do, you should be OK.
Go ahead, try to either make some money or get those freeloading monkeys off your back. The only way you really lose is if you spend more on the initial lawyer/accountant advice than you make back in eventual jobs over time. But once you’re set up, you probably shouldn’t have any further costs at all. (Except submitting your BAS if you don’t feel up to learning that yourself. But it shouldn’t be hard.)
It also wouldn’t hurt to do some research on what reasonable rates are, then maybe undercut them. If you are targeting a very specific market of tightasses, you’ll need to be cheaper than the competition.
Lifehacker AU has a bunch of articles around how to run a side-business. Good read, @benny.
Wasted Hours — Arcade Fire
Spanish Sahara – Foals
Your Body is a Weapon – The Wombats
Blonde, Bad & Beautiful – Airbourne
Mantra – Dave Grohl, Trent Reznor, Joshua Homme
Relevant: If you haven’t seen ‘Sound City’ I highly recommend it @dc.
Hahaha, oooh…
Boss Ass Bitch – Nicki Minaj ft. PTAF
Yeah, this is my worst one so far…
Mr. November – The National
Still jealous. Real jealous. Watch the live stream?
I watched it when I got home yesterday. And I’ve watched it today.
The best show I’ve ever been to. So, so great.
Gold Digger – Kanye West
MC Frontalot – Shame of the Otaku
GWAR doing a cover of Billy Ocean’s Get Out Of My Dreams, Get Into My Car
Slow Me Down – Devin Townsend Band
@mrtaco: WHAT THE FUCK IS A DEAD SEA SALT GIRL?
I picture someone who looks vaguely sherpa-esque who just returned from the Holy Land to collect salt! I feel like I missed a story here!
Salt from the Dead Sea! Girl! Selling it!
But why? WHY?
Because people need things to buy!
Because the money of gullible idiots is every bit as valid as anyone else’s money?
More or less!
They have stalls set up in the middle of shopping centres and usually seem to employ Israelis who stop you as you’re walking along and show you their beauty products, getting you to rub this salt on your hands over a bucket and point out how gross all the shit that comes off of it looks, then they show you some of the lotions and stuff “see how nice that feels/looks/smells?” and tell you about their today-only special where these products that are normally a hundred bucks each are down to 70 or something instead so does that sound good? Yes? Ok money pls.
Haha, your shopping experience sounds way different from mine. I MOVE AT CRAZY SPEEDS, I AVOID EYE CONTACT, WOMEN AVOID ME, I SWERVE IN AND OUT OF CROWDS.
I do all of those things!
But I tend to end up getting caught on the eye contact thing. Sometimes I can avoid it and then just have to be rude and pretend I didn’t hear them talking to me, but that’s hard too 😛
Dude one time I was powerwalking with my head down in my phone, dressed in office attire during a lunch time, and they still chased me a good 5-10 metres trying to talk to me. Assholes.
Headphones, sunglasses, small children, disaffected scowl. These are minor deterrents and work against the rookie salespeople. The masters will come at you no matter what you’re toting.
No one ever approaches me. I guess I don’t look like a responsible adult. (They’d be right, there! XD)
I get away with not being hassled by basically looking like Chewbacca in a bad mood whenever I walk. I assume people are afraid of me which is slightly preferable to thinking they can just come up and talk at me without permission
Whenever I walk past the Proactiv acne thingo stalls, you can see the salespeople pause, look at me and think to themselves “Would this dude be offended if I started talking to him about acne treatment?” and then they look away.
I can only assume it’s because I have fantastic skin?
Must be an awkward job though 😛
The Dead Sea Salt girls in Canberra are blonde-haired, blue-eyed…
Well, in the bible, Lot’s wife looked back at the destruction of Sodom and became a pillar of salt.
Rookie mistake!
Probably wasn’t even walking away in slow motion. Rookie
I thought Vonnegut’s line on that was the best:
“And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
Overpriced soap for people with no sense.
But lots of cents. HAHAHAHAHHA.
*kills self*
*brushes proud tear away*
It always bugs me when people say “All money and no sense”.
It’s supposed to be “All dollars and no sense” dammit! It’s clever!
And, no. I didn’t buy some for my wife’s birthday that one time and get laughed at. That would be ridiculous.
I think every guy in the world falls for this once.
Hahaha, they try and pull the present-for-girlfriend/sister/mother thing all the time. Well, not so much these ones but some of the other beauty product people. Like the ones with the sandpaper block for your nails.
Once or twice after going through the “no I don’t have a girlfriend” and getting the “but you must have a mother!” bit, I went to deny that too. Didn’t have the chops to pull it off as genuine though, could only manage it as a smartarse response 😛
One day…
That’s when you say that your mum and girlfriend were in the same car one year ago today and start crying. That’ll end the awkwardness!
That’s dark enough for me to have come up with it!
I’ve definitely never got her one of those sanding blocks either. And not in the same transaction.
Two smrt fer that.
Rob Zombie’s new single?
Have I actually played anything graphically intensive on my new gaming laptop? nope. I’ve played, in order, Dota 2, Persona 4 via emulator, and Dark Souls. So all games I was able to run fine beforehand.
Priorities. I got ’em.
Dark Souls can be pretty graphically intensive. I’ve hit a few spots where my desktop starts to chug. Blighttown and the Painted World both had some bad slowdown.
That it is. It’ll be nice to start shifting more blame on myself than shitty frame rates when I die in DS now.
Still blame DS PC-port. Unless you mod it, it’s locked at 30fps, which will result in slowdowns on even the best hardware.
pfftt, anybody who plays DS on the PC without the DSfix are crazy.
But can it run Crysis?
Wow, I didn’t realize you were in 2007! How’s 2007, bish? Oh man, you could invest heavily into Apple if they haven’t released the Iphone yet! Wait, 2007 was also the year of the japan earthquakes! WHY HAVEN’T YOU WARNED THEM YET, BISH? YOU HAVE TIME TRAVEL AT YOUR DISPOSAL, DAMNIT!
It’s still a valid point. 😛
I kind of want to play Lightning Returns but I still haven’t finished FFXIII let alone XIII-2.
Is there actually a semi-coherent narrative linking the games or is it some tenuous behind the scenes stuff that you don’t really need to know about? i.e. is FFXIII basically the FF equivalent of the Legend of Zelda, where technically the games are related to each other with a timeline but each one is self-contained and basically has the same characters popping up?
Also assuming an ongoing story, has it crawled up its own arse so far that it’s flipped inside-out like Kingdom Hearts yet?
Nah, the stories are definitely linked. I’d blocked out the story of FFXIII from my mind when I picked up FFXIII-2, and I had literally no goddamned idea what was happening, and consequently stopped playing.
Bugger. I was hoping I could skip XIII and pick up XIII-2 and not feel like I missed a whole chunk of stuff. I hate jumping to a sequel part for a game series without playing the earlier bits unless they’re really tightly self-contained
Funnily enough I remember playing X-2 without playing X at all and managing to get by pretty well. Missed out on a few references and things like that but I didn’t feel completely in the dark.
I have no input on XIII or the sequels as I never played them so yeah, could be anything really.
playing FFXII is needed to understand most of it. FFIII-2 contains a fair amount of plot info leading to Returns but its mostly it’s own thing.
But uh, the story isn’t KH levels of batshit crazy, but it still manages to be confusing, underwhelming, and a tad pretentious. Of course, I’m not the biggest fan of the trilogy, so take that as you will.
Confusing, underwhelming and pretentious = every FF story from FFX onward.
EDIT: Actually what I recall of FF9’s plot didn’t make a lot of sense either, and 8’s was convoluted bullshit combined with poor localization…
IX was actually a really good coherent plot about saving the world from an evil power until about 4/5 of the way through when they suddenly thought their simple fantasy story needed extra-dimensional cloning by a crazed god figure.
X was definitely a turning point. 9 and 8 are debatable. And you can’t really insult the later titles from 10 onwards considering there was just MMOs and XII, which was ballin’. I haven’t had experience with the MMOs, so if you’re insulting XII, well then. I am pretty damn cross.
But on topic, XIII’s overall plot manages to be confusing, underwhelming and pretentious even by FF standards.
Yeah, my reaction at the end of XIII was pretty much “huh, guess I won then”
I’ve been told that XII is pretty good. To bad you start off as the kid. I had no interest in him thus I stopped playing.
The good part is you don’t have to give a shit ’bout the kid after you play long enough. The supporting cast easily carries the show. And drives the plot, for that matter.
It was a surprisingly good cast actually. Too bad I got to the end and only barely understood how things played out plotwise with the final boss. Everything up to that point was really fun.
One of my friends summed up the story as basically Star Wars in Final Fantasy and that is pretty accurate for the most part.
XII was abysmal and singlehandedly killed any interest I had in the series.
I’m actually the opposite. XII is one of the only FF’s that I’ve actually tried to 100% (the others are FF:T and X-2). I found it enjoyable and yes the story was pretty standard but I liked the world that they had created.
You can’t see it, but my face is VERY VERY CROSS
SO CROSS.
FF13 was a bunch of people I didn’t care about at best, but mostly just loathed, taking WAY too long to try to get me to care about them and what they were doing (which I also didn’t care about).
My understanding is that I got far enough to meet Fang, which is possibly close to the end of the game’s informal ‘tutorial’, but no way in hell was I putting up with those fucking ‘characters’. The saddest thing is that these people I loathed and their lame interactions were actually a reprieve from the godawful combat system – the worst of any FF yet, which is why news of FF13-2 made me groan out loud in frustration when I heard it. OH GOD, PLEASE JUST LET THIS ONE DIE, IT’S TERRIBLE, DON’T DRAG IT OUT FOR THREE GAMES.
The fact that Lightning Returns features the only character I kind of liked, with a re-vamped combat system that is much better than the one I hated from FF13 makes me resent 13 and 13-2 quite powerfully. And if I ever get tempted to pick up Lightning Returns, I’m not going to play 13/13-2 first, I’m going to search for a video on Youtube which gives me all the cutscenes and shit so I don’t have to put up with the horrible combat and grinding in corridors.
I didn’t like really care for Lightning, then she punched Snow in the face and I suddenly liked her.
Snow and Hope spent most of what I played in XIII competing to see who could be the least likeable FF character ever.
Oh yeah, Hope was a little … twat? Yeah sure, I think twat is a less offensive word to post. Hope was by far my least favourite character of the game, followed by Snow.
Yeah, they were a formidable duo in the hate-stakes. Vanille certainly tried with her terrible voice-acting (come on, Aussies, get it together – we want this accent in more games!), and Zasz with his one-note fatalism, but they never really stood a chance compared to douchebro and emokid.
See I have the Asia release as well as the AU release for XIII and XIII-2 so when I last played, it was with Japanese dialogue. Vanille is less annoying, though still a bit strange and awkward, but this is offset by Snow and Hope being even bigger douches. I never really had an issue with Sazh but he’s much better in Japanese. Shame the game’s dubtitled, a lot of the little things he says aren’t translated at all 🙁 It was my second attempt at the game and it’s such a long, unfun grind through the corridors that I lost interest even faster than my first go through.
A smarty games man called Sid once said that a game is a series of interesting choices. I think that FFXIII’s failing is that there aren’t any choices. The areas are straight corridors, the characters all build out a set way, there’s no exploration, you hardly get any gear and always just use the best one, the dialogue is fixed… there’s literally nothing to choose. The only part where there’s any meaningful choice is in the combat, and even there it’s mainly out of your control and the ‘choices’ are made for you by the other characters.
People whinge about the linearity of the game but that’s not the problem. Grandia II is a completely linear JRPG too, but it has meaningful choices. Deep combat system, lots of choices around how to build characters out, which to use in the party and so on. Areas with some exploration involved. Characters that you give a shit about.
What happened to Grandia anyway? I know that the original designer of the series died, but surely that wouldn’t stop Grandia IV happening? :\ Grandia II still has the best JRPG combat system ever.
I know this is a crazy minority opinion, but I actually quite liked Snow. He didn’t have stiff competition, but he was probably my fave character in FFXIII.
Dude was in love, and I can forgive a lot from a character who has a passion I can believe.
@shane I checked the EBGames near where I work and I couldn’t find any for $8. There was a preowned one for $32 but then I remembered what the cover of the game looked like and was to embarrassed to take it to the girl serving at the counter. =P
You could have just said “I’m asking for a friend…” 😛
Also, yeah, the pre-owned game is $32, new is $8 apparently.
Thanks for looking, though!
Let go, Let it gooooo!
Sorry, I went to see Frozen again on the weekend because my sister hadn’t seen it and wanted to go with me. It’s just as good the second time around.
Went to a restaurant on Saturday for my Grandpa’s 84th birthday. Ended up having a really long conversation with him that started off about animal rights, hunting and culling and ended up turning into a conversation about free will and then quantum mechanics.
I finished A Link Between Worlds on the weekend as well. Got through it with no deaths, which is sort of an accomplishment. Great game. The fact that they let you tackle things in the order you wanted was interesting. On the downside there was a pretty clear order you were meant to do things judging by the difficulty level of the dungeons, and I accidently didn’t end up doing some of the easier dungeons until the very end which felt weird because I could rush through them no trouble.
I spent the rest of the weekend playing a certain beta, and having played it I’m now convinced it’s worth pre-ordering.
I saw Frozen on the weekend but cannot recall any of the songs. I guess they don’t quite stick on the first pass. Or just maybe not for deaf man here.
Let It Go
I like Love Is An Open Door, and the Fixer-Upper song. Let It Go kind of annoys me tbh.
My favourite is For The First Time in Forever (Reprise)…
In the context of the story…
I like how Anna just sings obliviously in classic Disney fashion. All optimism, etc. Elsa’s trying to explain and getting increasingly frustrated. World weary. Amazing contrast.Gooky, fix your damn avatar! You look like some random newbie around here. 😛
@mrtaco
He doesn’t have any pictures of himself; the crowd of girls always get in the way of the camera. He probably doesn’t even know what he looks like in the mirror. 😛
Some of our oldest, most loved TAYbies don’t have a Gravatar….
I didn’t say they needed to, but I’m pretty certain @mrtaco did indeed have one at some point! I swear!
You must be thinking of Mooky.
Ah, a troubled young man to be sure!
Not sure if real person… You sure you never had a pic? :\ WEIRD
Dead certain. I’ve never used Gravatar 😛
@yellowius
I used to get complaints from my friends for not having an avatar picture on Skype.
So I just captured the filler image they use and used that as my avatar 😛
Though I’m on an old version so the image should still appear different to their ones anyway. Really don’t care since I’ve got things set so that I never have to see the damn things anyway.
Here though, eh. I’d change it if it were part of the profile, but I don’t really want to go and make yet another account somewhere else to do things.
I have no profile pic on FB, hilarity sometimes ensues.
“10 tips to make your Valentines day wax nearly painless”
Finally. an article relevant to my interests. thank you, PopSugar.
*Forwards to girlfriend*
How painful can waxing a car really get?
So Danganronpa comes out this week in america, meaning my Limited Edition should be getting shipped soon! Can’t wait for it, the game is freaking great and anyone who has a vita and likes Phoenix Wright need to play it.
which brings me to this, yo @negativezero how long does an order from NIS usually take to get to Aus? i’m pretty sure you said you’ve ordered from them before.
I’ve bought most of their CEs starting from the point they began international shipping, which IIRC began with the first Ar Tonelico game but it might have been Atelier Iris 3.
Depends. Usually a week or so. Sometimes faster, sometimes longer. Sometimes Australia Post fucking lose it and you have to get a replacement sent and then NISA dick around for ages and have to be chased multiple times to send it and by the time you get it it’s four months later, the window of time you had for the game has passed and the rigmarole has soured you toward the game and made you wary of buying expensive CEs from them any more. See also: Disgaea D2 🙁
I remember your troubles with Disgaea 🙁
and the CE of danganronpa was only about $15 extra, which for the soundtrack alone is worth it.
but thanks for the info! 🙂
I’ve got their Danganronpa CE ordered too. As well as The Witch and the Hundred Knight. I haven’t decided yet whether to pull the trigger on Demon Gaze or not yet, the CE doesn’t seem to offer a lot and I’m not sure if the game’s any good (whereas I know that Danganronpa is)
You will rise to a greater power.
We will win ourselves a home.
You’ll get the power and the glory
For ever and ever and ever
DAMMIT @rocketman 😛
that’s been stuck ever since you told me about Jesus Christ Superstar 😛
Like Rocky Horror, that’s another musical where I hate the story but love the songs. So good.
Go for Jeff Waynes The War Of The Worlds, story and songs are both awesome.
The chances of any thing coming from Maaaaars…
Relatively low I admit but if you’re seeing the evidence with your own eyes there’s no point quoting the odds
Ever heard Alchemist’s cover of Eve Of The War?
Jesus Christ
Superstar
Who in the hell do you think you are?
Grunt. I probably need a haircut or something, maybe trim the beard… maybe go for a walk and take some happy pills. Reason: Have apparently been scaring the residents of other floors I’ve been visiting in the building.
Moving between floors for errands and TWICE I held the door for terrified-looking little women. Some of whom ducked their heads and averted their eyes before scarpering, one who looked up and me and actually froze.
I kid you not, deer in the headlights FEAR.
I had to force a smile and stand aside a little more obviously, making a gesture for her to go and pass on through… But she kept standing there for ages. Any longer and I would’ve been the one getting nervous.
Look, I know I’m grumpy, I have a headache, haven’t slept (which coworkers tease as physically obvious), and I haven’t trimmed the beard in a couple weeks. And I guess sometimes if I’ve been frowning too much, there’s a little bit of a scar over one of my eyebrows which doesn’t sit right with the rest of the skin and creates a pretty sharp, deep wrinkle, but honestly it’s normally invisible – you guys have met me, wouldn’t have noticed it.
But we’re in a secure government building, I have the security tags on a lanyard – the government equivalent of a dog-collar – and I’m not big or scary. Bleh… maybe I just need a day off.
Do you look like a serial killer? If you’re not sure, check:
1) do you have actual literal blood on hands? There are few explanations people find reasonable for this level of faux pas.
2) are you gesturing with your hand or with a knife when directing people through doorways. The distinction is small but important!
3) do you lick your lips before speaking then do so in a gravelly voice and end every sentence with “my dear”?
4) have you in the past or plan in the future to start a human skin collection? This might be coming across in your body language.
If none of the above apply, I don’t know how I can help with this issue you’re having.
Plus, that “fsfsfsfsfsfsfs” lip smacking thing is a faux pas.
I may or may not have recently threatened to grind someone’s bones to make my bread, but otherwise should be in the clear.
Ground bones don’t really work as a flour replacement, by all means kill them and grind their bones up but put that on the garden and stick to plain flour & yeast for bread
Oh, are you a giant? That’s classic giant behaviour, and some people find giants unsettling. A completely unwarranted prejudice. You’re statistically more likely to die from being strangled by Nick Nolte than any form of giant-induced trauma.
How… how many people has Nick Nolte strangled?
Sigh. My google search history really is beyond redemption.
Well I’ve had to shoo away the occasional random nick nolte but I didn’t think it was anything to be worried about. I might invest in a dedicated nick nolte zapper the next time I go to Bunnings.
Somewhere someday someone gets an extremely unexpected google autocomplete when they start searching for “how many”. I feel like somehow… I will know.
Grinding someone’s bones sound less threatening and more sexual.
The key difference is in the plural state of the word ‘bone’, if it’s a singular then its sexy but if its plural then its a deadly threat.
And if it’s made by telltale, it’ll be inexplicably dropped after 2 games and never resumed. Bastards…
I once had lunch with an intimidating person that fits your description! Was pretty scary!
Did it include fava beans and a nice chianti?
Nah, if you’re only scaring a few people it’s clearly not enough. Go full black metal and terrify everyone. Full on facepaint, leather straps with spikes and when you talk to people, only do so in the tones of King Diamond
You’re so beautiful and attractive that women that gaze at your face stop in their tracks, completely transfixed.
I like these guys ^
They’re alright.
but they would stop in their tracks with fright if they encountered you in a dark alleyway
🙁
If it was me, I might be the one inducing the fear. @transientmind & I might end up locked in terror like weeping angels looking at each other
talking about weeping angels being locked looking at each other, when I was working in a supermarket babies would take one look at me and do one of two things:
1. Be transfixed and just stare at me (I reckon it was the beard)
2. Immediately, and I mean immediately, start crying their eyes out (I reckon it was the beard)
Occasionally children would sometimes call me ‘daddy’. It was worrying for me. More so for the mum. Working in a supermarket was fun
Children seem to find me fascinating, it’s creepy. I’m thinking of developing some kind of repellent spray.
pepper spray should work. Might get you into trouble though. It’s best to try that out in a controlled environment first and come back with your findings
Chances are people would take a dim view to it. Tasers and a boot to the face, whilst undeniably effective, aren’t popular
Either I am hyper-efficient in my new role where I’m working (which I doubt) or my new manager has low expectations as I was thanked for completing a bunch of work that they expected would take two days but I did in about half a day. I’m going to go with low expectations because it’s the government.
There are weeks on end when I do literally ten minutes of work a day and get praised for it. Go government.
Wait, why do I have to put up with those days too? I don’t even work for the gum’int.
Government style organisation…
should be a dead giveaway right there 😛
I think I’m governmenting wrong.
Hey! Not fair, I want a nice cushy government job too.
Perception is reality. If they perceive you’re doing more than is expected, congratulations. That can be more important than actually doing more than expected.
The fastest way to cause a table flipping division amongst people is to start talking about Final Fantasy.
Not controversial enough. We’re gonna have to go big on this one.
You know what would make Dark Souls an actual game worthy of praise? Microtransactions.
I’d get upset but truth is I’d probably ended up buying everything.
Hahaha, you monster. Get out.
Still not controversial enough! The wiiU is dying, Nintendo is an abusive master to their Australian fans! They should put their IP on other platforms and get out of the hardware biz.
Uhm. What else…
I only play CoD for the single-player campaigns and I’m glad they have one in BF3 because it was pretty cool too.
Oh, oh! I know. I’m OK with female video game characters being sexy.
Hm. Aaaaaaaaand, something-something Phil Fish. Gaben. Notch.
You may now explode with nerdrage.
That’s just trying too hard. I give it a A-.
I’m too busy agreeing with you to be angry 🙁
Well, I agree with them too (to varying degrees; don’t really care much about Nintendo stuff, though I wouldn’t mind playing some Zelda games without having to buy the video game technology equivalent of an etcha-sketch to do it). But they typically inspire some debate.
Except for the Fish/Gaben/Notch thing. I really phoned that in, no matter what @saturday may think!
If you really want to start a nerdrage, suggest that Valve should take their time with Half Life 3.
I for one couldn’t care less if that beast never saw the light of day.
99c for each estus flask use…
I can top that.
Dark Souls II is now Ouya exclusive.
3DS only would also incite similar rage.
I would play the hell out of Dark Souls on a handheld. Yeah!
Imagine if you could be invaded by streetpassing people.
YEAH!
I’d sneak past @blaghman’s house at night and invade him.
And then do the same in Dark Souls.
YOUR BATTERY DIED
Solar power battery. PRAISE THE SUN
How did this not get more traction? Come on, people! Upvote city!
That would be a proper hardcore mode, heath tied to battery power. Your character is only alive as long as your battery is, the less power your device has the less health you have. Additionally, the more damage you take, the more power the system wastes. Real world power points will become as welcome a sight as ingame bonfires and you’ll look at coworkers and/or family and think “If I were to sacrifice their humanity, could I kindle this outlet and double my battery life?”
Kind of like a brutal hardcore grimdark tamagotchi
Fuck, I think there’s a market for this…
FUCK YOU FFVIII ROCKS
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
That’s the spirit!
FUCK YOU NO IT ISN’T SPIRITS WITHIN SUCKED
wait, are we trying to argue against popular opinions?
NO.
but i never disagreed with you…
let me fix that for you: (╯^◡^)╯︵ ┬─┬
now you were saying?
GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY TABLE
I JUST WANTED TO BE FRIENDS
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Well, we can be, now we’ve stopped shifting the furniture.
The best one is the one where people make their subjective opinions into “facts”
Eg: the best final fatasy is 11 because I think the zoombini colours are a metaphor for death or some shit.
That’s why I hate discussing things I dislike, people take it as “try and convince me that I’m wrong” which is hardly ever the case. If it’s something important sure let’s debate it but my subjective opinion of something isn’t going to change if all you have to say is “nah it was good” if you want to tell me what you liked about something I’ll listen, I’m cool like that.
YOUR MOTHER
…IS A CLASSY LADY.
(http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/11)
She is pretty good.
IN BED!
At sleeping.
WITH ME!
Because we tired.
FROM ALL THE….
Yeah I’m done.
Uhh, post-fail?
It’s times like these I’m thankful Rockets is just my internet son….
Final Fantasy fanatics are a certain special degree of weird.
I like Final Fantasy (At least, FF 8, 9, 10, 12, Kingdom Hearts and Dissidia) but I’m not a fanatic that thinks OMG CLOUD AM THE DEEPEST
Yeah, but then you didn’t like Gravity so your opinion is useless
Disclaimer: I have not seen Gravity, I just know that you said you didn’t like it on Twitter yesterday and people were all “YOU ARE LITERALLY WORSE THAN HITLER AND SATAN COMBINED”I liked Gravity but it did have a number of problems. Bent science and reality a bit too far.
The only good thing that ever had the final fantasy name attached to it was that movie and even then only because it was beautifully animated, other than it was still shit
I dunno. It used to be, but nowadays the XIII fiasco has left fans so jaded I think the majority of us would probably just sigh. 🙁
You are all wrong.
*clears throat*
Half Life 3 is never coming out.
*drops mic*
Half Life 3 will be a free to play multiplayer game.
massively multiplayer
*picks up mic*
Hello?
*tap tap tap*
Something, something PC master race, something something
*places mic gently on the ground*
“MMMMMMAAASTERRRR RRRRAAAAAAACE!”
*bursts on-stage screaming, flailing arms complete with arm-bands featuring valve logo*
*sets console on fire*
*field-goal kick’s Cakesmith’s mic*
“It’s gettin’ STEAMY in heyah!”
Flappy Bird is the best thing to happen to gaming in the last year
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/area5/outerlands-season-one
Everyone should back this because it would be sadness if they don’t make it. Only $45k away but 5 days left 🙁
Hi, TAY.
The heat has decided to bugger off!
\o/
Also, new Top Gear!
I can barely remember any of it, apart from a ton of me laughing whilst watching it.
And
the train safety video.Oh, cock.
Like this?
No way I’m clicking that at work. 😛
The risky click is intentional 😀
If it gives you comfort I had to link it from work……on my mobile from the bathroomUpvote for proper mobile-W/C use.
who doesn’t look at cocks in the work toilet?
Oh god last weeks was fucking amazing. Hammond and his little Vauxhall Nova. That poor thing got such a beating. Though the last challenge was great, especially Hammond out of nowhere with a god damn tank!
Thanks to everyone who replied to my previous page dilemma. 😀
I didn’t really want to single anyone out, as I anticipate a backlash from everyone else that replied, but @stickman @shane and @transientmind had some really great pointers for me. I definitely have some thinking to do, now. Thanks guys. And uh yeah, thanks to everyone else that now believes that I’m a criminal. 😛
Just remember, it’s only illegal if you get caught
#Helping
#HashtagsForHarli
THE most important point to take away from today, of course.. 😀
How I feel working in level 2 IT support and having to deal with escalations from the level 1 team all day:
http://i.imgur.com/UnVTu9N.png
Story of my life…
Just escalate it to level 3.
“Not enough info, risk of getting dick stuck too high, escalating to manager.”
I usually just bypass and go straight to the dev team 😀
we work for the same people? WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?
Edit – oh god the amount of times i’m tempted to send a ticket back starting with
“I did your job for you…”
We recently had to introduce a tag on our ticket classifications only we can see. It’s for ‘bad requests’ (ie: something that should not have come through to us). Every month we generate a report with tickets that have that tag and give it to the level 1 team leader and it goes against the level 1 staffs KPIs. The amount of requests that shouldn’t be escalated to us has dropped significantly since then.
My work would be too polite to allow this… i’ve brought it up with my manager several times, and the answer is the same every time…
“If it’s a fix that only takes 5 minutes anyway, why not just do it?” :\
Use the reasoning we did:
Level 1 raises it to us
It sits in our queue for half a day (say 6 hours, that’s our average SLA before it goes to our high priority queue)
We see the issue within 5 minutes of troubleshooting
We resolve and close
Instead of it taking 5mins it took 6 hours and 5mins
Pretty confident that MOST of our guys don’t do any troubleshooting at all, and just consider themselves fault-loggers.
Tell those scum newbie level 1 tickets to go grind before bothering you.
The scum at my work are the ones that want to bypass the helpdesk altogether, call you instead and try to get a resolution over the phone.
You’re level 1? Sorry I can only deal with your tech support request once you’ve killed 10 possessed badgers in the forbidden wood. You know, the one that’s separated from the rest of the village by a small wooden fence and a 2 minute walk.
Doing some website testing on the office mobile phones. See that they all read “5:10PM” and in my mind go “YES, ALMOST HOME TIME!” and do an internal happy tap dance.
Then realise the phone clocks were never turned back for daylight savings…
;_;
Why not just use dev mode in your browser?
Because that wouldn’t allow for me to secretly mix my personal phone in with them and browse TwitterEngraving a plate for a medal cabinet. Engraved with RAAF 1942-1944.
“Oh he got out just in time.” I joke, realising what I just said as I said it.
Predictably the response was a hard look and “He died in combat.”
Where’s that hole in the ground to swallow you up when you need it?
Oh
RocketmanFreeze…http://youtu.be/cXxoSdm3d2c
Upvote for the obscure reference.
*hipster hair flick*
Imagination is magical.
Me: “Well, if you can’t wait until tomorrow when there’s a tech free, I guess… hm. We don’t have to get a professional to do if if there’s anyone on the floor who thinks they can do it. Though you wanna be VERY, VERY confident that they know what they’re doing. It’s possible to badly screw things up in there if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing.”
Client: “Uh, how badly are we talking?”
*look into imaginary point in the distance thoughtfully* “Preeeeeeetty bad…” (Sounding morbidly impressed.)
*client uses imagination* “Uhm. We… we might just wait until techs can attend.”
“Very good.”
Imagination is wonderful! Totally didn’t have to give any specifics at all. I wonder how else that might be applied to convince people to do what you want. Maybe medicine?
“Well, you can take this treatment, but you wanna be, uh… rreeeeally sure you don’t miss any doses. Like… any.”
“Uh… why, how bad can it be?”
*doctor looks into the distance, uses impressed tone of voice,* “Preeeeeeeetty bad…”
*patient sadfaces*
See I’d probably respond: Soooo, in other words, you don’t know?
It must be a tone of voice, maybe? I’m guessing you have to sound kinda surprised and actually a little impressed at just how horrific it is. And probably be prepared to launch into a list. A terrible, terrible list.
(Although now that I think about it, I don’t think ANY of that would work on you. You’d probably be morbidly curious about just how bad things could be. …And I suspect totally willing to let a higher-up make the risky call to do it.)
Oh easily one of the best manipulation techniques there is is to make people fill in the gaps themselves. It works in social engineering attacks all the time, you might as well use it for… well I was going to say noble ends but procrastination is… well its pretty noble I guess. If it can be bothered.
SBS 2 is the finest broadcaster in Australia:
Discuss
That. Is. Amazing.
Whoever runs the SBS 2 twitter is also on the ball
My god, it’s amazing isn’t it?
I probably watch SBS2 and ABC2 more than any other channel combined. Don’t usually mean to but you get caught up while channel surfing and next thing you know you’ve watched several shows back to back.
I watched TV once a few months ago, and that’s exactly what happened to me! I never watch TV, see. Next thing I know, the ENTIRE EVENING is gone.
She keeps gesticulating with her arms taped to her sides and it’s all I can focus on.
That was funny and you’re probably right…BUT!
I remember back before SBS won all those awards and had no ads and showed Jackie Chan or Ghost in the Shell films most weekends.
I miss the old SBS.
Wow.
I just started my own health cover membership and am now looking at university courses and places to rent because I can’t quite afford a deposit on a place let alone the repayments even without additional costs of ongoing education and when did I become an adult what’s happening to me.
…I’m gonna play videogames now :S
I guess you could say you’re ‘in too deep’?
Just like @rocketmanI need terrible singing and DotA again.
I didn’t take up private health insurance until I turned 31, because that’s the point at which you start getting a permanent, unavoidable premium increase for every year you’ve been without insurance. If that wasn’t a thing, I’d have saved joining until like… 40 or 50. As it is, not having had any health insurance and not having had any costs it would’ve reduced has saved me over five grand in the last ten years, at LEAST.
Insurance is such a fucking scam. It’s paying a stupid amount of money for a discount card for something you may never need, and not even a very good discount at that.
Me, on the way out the door: “See you tomorrow, gents.”
Left, chuckling to myself.
Played the Lightning Returns demo and enjoyed it. No idea what the hell is going on but it seemed like fun. The “new” battle system just seemed like a different way to do (and name for) Paradigm Shifts, with added dress-ups. I have no problem with that because dress-ups. 😛
Yeah, I didn’t find it much different at all. Think I like 13-2 better atm.
I wish they did dress-ups and a party of 3, WE KEEP LOSING PARTY MEMBERS DAGNABIT!
Gonna wait til it drops in price cos console, and I have piles. ;p
I’m thinking it will be the perfect thing to cheer me up while I’m going through the transition of my son starting school so I’ll hopefully be grabbing it on the weekend. Which will make it the first new single player FF game since VII that I haven’t bought on release day.
Where do you get the demo from, the PS store or something? I’m one of the few people who loved FFXIII and FFXIII-2 and am pretty keen for Lightning Returns.
Yeah, go into the Game section of the PS Store and Lightning Returns is in the PS3 Demos section. I didn’t even know there was a demo until today when people were talking about it in the “This week in games” article. The demo didn’t even come up when I did a search in the store for “Lightning Returns”. I miss the old store where it was super-easy to see what’s new all the time.
Thanks for that 🙂 I had no clue there was an English demo available! Last I heard about was a Japanese one, but I can’t understand Japanese 🙁
So it seems a lot of people are upset about Megadeth cancelling their Australian tour because Dave Mustaine is crying because AJ called him a nasty name and hurt his or something and won’t apologise.
I feel sorry for those who bought tickets to Soundwave mostly for Megadeth since it would be the bands first time here since No Sleep Til Festival, and they’d actually be supporting an album this time around not doing an anniversary tour for an album.
I also find it funny everyone that is upset by this because there’s no replacement, it’s less than 2 weeks out from the first show, good luck finding a big enough name to fill Megadeths shoes in that time period.
Apparently Mastodon will play last on the “metal” stage now, and other bands will be given longer sets to account for the gap.
Your description of Mustaine crying, etc is ridiculous and way off base. I often find AJ’s behaviour embarrassing and seriously unprofessional. He’s definitely not a trustworthy source,so I’d hesitate before ever believing his version of any events.
You sure? Are you really sure about that? I always see him crying/complaining about something whether it’s him being supposedly picked on for writing political motivated songs, his views on Obama and the current government, or his strained relationships with other musicians etc.. It gets tiring, I know half of this is from the journalists interviewing him, but he & his management (which he has supposedly fired in recent weeks) can actually put a stop to this like Slash & his management did with all the Guns N’ Roses/Axl questions. I was watching a video of Dave talking about his new guitars he’s going to be using live, then all of a sudden he starts talking about Metallica, which didn’t even relate to the topic at hand?!
I don’t believe anyone’s version of events, so yeah.. Like the whole incident of Jason Newsted being booted off as a support act, Soundwave say it was Dave’s camp who said they didn’t want him and Dave’s camp say Soundwave refused to listen to who they wanted as support acts, but Dave claims to be best buddies with Jason still, well you don’t throw your buddy off a tour if you ask me. In the meantime no one has asked Jason for his side of the story.
*ahem*
That’s nice.
You find it funny that people are upset? Why?, just because you didn’t particularly care about them doesn’t mean other people aren’t allowed to care. Im sorry your statement just was a bit mean.
Actually I quite like Megadeth, i’m disappointed they did this, but i’m not surprised. Dave Mustaine has a short fuse and makes irrational decisions at times. I know AJ Maddah is a complete cunt as well. This whole thing of how it originated I am sure was some petty thing that was blown out of proportion by both. That’s why I don’t care cause I am sick of bullshit like that, cause it comes back around and hurts us the fans the most.
Like Stone Temple Pilots, they claimed they couldn’t come out here due to having to record their new album, that was only a half truth it turned out. They won’t reveal the real reason other than ‘scheduling conflicts’ whilst personally this doesn’t bother me, since I was only mildly interested in seeing what they’d be like with Chester. It just discredits them with fans here hurting them and leaving them bitter, again I am sure some people bought tickets solely just for them.
Well, the whole thing started with AJ saying that Mustaine asked him to take Newsted off the sideshows which I really believe that Mustaine would never have asked for. I reckon it’s a case of Megadeth’s new management assuming something and doing it on their behalf without consulting Dave and then AJ assuming (as he does) that it came from Mustaine.
AJ is the most unprofessional business person ever though. Just because he couldn’t immediately talk to Dave on the phone he went straight onto Twitter and broadcasted it all. Same thing happened with Blink 182 last year, Hole (although I can believe that Courtney’s a bitch and probably brought it on herself) & NIN. Only bands I can remember being taken onto twitter by AJ but I’m positive there’s more.
All that said, AJ really should’ve done all he could to’ve gotten Megadeth on last year. I’m not convinced he knows the Big 4 would’ve been a massive massive thing though. He doesn’t actually seem to know much about the bands he tries to book other than metalcore bands. He booked Less Than Jake a few years ago and put them on first on the bill. They missed their plane and didn’t make it to Brisbane and when people complained he said he didn’t know how big they were. Only one of the biggest ska-punk bands of the 90s/early 2000s. Back to Megadeth though, the average Soundwave fan probably doesn’t give a shit about Megadeth because it’s been the ‘cool’ thing to do and say since as long as I can remember for some reason
I honestly don’t believe either sides story. They both spew too much bullshit. But saying that I never saw the statement about Dave asking for Newsted to be taken off, only Dave complaining that he was never listened to in the first place about what bands he wanted at his side shows. Which made it sound like he never wanted Jason there to begin with, which is plain odd.
Hole I remember Courtney Love wanted to be on the bill above Limp Bizkit if I remember correctly, but she was upset over something like that and she pulled out, well that’s what I read. What I remember most was Corey Taylor saying to the press that she was lucky to even be on the damn bill to begin with.
Don’t forget A7X in 2011, they were thrown off for some reason. I forget why exactly but Iron Maiden also come to mind. They themselves can be quite rude anyway, so I am quite surprised they were asked for this years line up.
Megadeth already had prior commitments to Soundwave, I remember that and was really bummed cause they had dates already announced for Feb 2013 when Soundwave was announced. But I agreed, a Big Four event here would’ve been amazing, but the bands had already stated by a few of the bands that it was highly unlikely it was going to happen ever again after their few US dates in 2011. One I remember Jeff Hanneman joined Slayer for 2 songs in California.
Nobody knows pain at work until you have to wear full long’s outside with heavy steel cap boots. But on the flip side nobody knows happiness unless you have experienced that and get home and have a nice long shower, its literal bliss.
I was working mid summer in an unventilated high rise fire stairwell on asbestos doors for a week in a sealed suit. Full mask and everything.
I pity you. But i understand.here is a hug mr freeze.
Not quite as bad as yours but last year I had to work in long sleeve shirt and thick work trousers in a big shed with no fans/air conditioning for 1-2months. Supervisor asked WHS if we could wear work shorts and they said no “because you could get sunburnt”. Sunburnt in a shed …
Worked at an industrial bakery in Canberra, 0300-1500 shift, I started in the winter.
The uniform was personal clothes (tee, jeans etc) under those super light disposable overalls.
My job was to clean out the wheelie bins we used for the dough batches outside with a gurney.
I left that week, never looked back.
Uphill both ways, etc.Haha. At least there was a damn good reason for mine.
It’s always easy for the people making the decisions on these things and to be stubborn about it since they usually don’t have to wear it. We’ve currently got these horrid shirts with a huge inseam across the middle of the back that’s causing friction burns on everyone. Bosses in suits refuse to back down from their decision.
It makes it worse if your shirt is polyester too, not cotton Q_Q
Go to curse.com for a free beta key to the elder scrolls.
Toyota has announced that it will stop manufacturing cars in Australia in 2017.
About 2,500 workers will lose their jobs.
Toyota Australia president and CEO Max Yasuda, and Toyota Motor Corporation president and CEO Akio Toyoda, broke the news to employees at the company’s Altona plant this afternoon.
“This is devastating news for all of our employees who have dedicated their lives to the company during the past 50 years,” Mr Yasuda said in a statement.
Toyota blamed the high Australian dollar, high costs, and free trade agreements for the decision to close down.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says the closure is an “unmitigated disaster” but PM Tony Abbott says “better days will come”
Source: ABC News (abc.net.au/news)
Sigh, can’t wait for all cars to have that import tax.
“Better days will come”…?!
In a sense, that’s probably true, because the pain of being made redundant will eventually pass, but it’s hardly a sympathetic turn of phrase to the 2500 people who are going to lose their jobs and have nowhere to go.
And so soon after Holden as well…
Not to mention all the parts manufacturers who are going to go broke without their biggest clients. you can bet those workers won’t be on severance packages nearly as cushiony as the Toyota/Holden employees.
So many people flooding the job market all at once. It’s not a good thing for anyone.
Plus without the auto industry in the country that’s another union Abbott doesn’t have to worry about. Better days indeed.
For him.
Exactly, Shane. It’s not just 3,000 jobs at Holden or Toyota or Ford that it’s going to hurt here, it’s every one else in industries that rely on these companies having contracts with them to manufacture parts for them or supply them with the materials for them.
At this rate that Australian things are being sold off or killed, nothing is going to be Australian owned, made or grown. Like Coke has already done it to Golden Circle, there is just about nothing in the Golden Circle range that is Australian grown any more it’s all foreign.
Refusing to help SPC modernize too.
Yeah, the gov’t is going to lose a lot, just think of the income tax they would get from the workers, then the GST from SPC, etc etc.. They’re going to lose more than 25 million dollars. But we know this gov’t isn’t about smart decisions anyway.
Well. My uncle is actually a major supplier of pineapples for Golden Circle, and he’s Australian and owns the family farm out by the Glasshouse Mountains completely. (Would’ve been my Dad inheriting the job as eldest, but he turned that down to go be a forester.) So while Golden Circle isn’t Australian owned, they’re buying from Australian farmers, at least. They put him on the ads and everything.
As far as I know, it’s actually mostly (all, even?) still Australian-grown… they have a cannery in NZ I’m not sure about, but it’s mostly the ownership of the company that’s gone to the US.
Weird, since now the cans now say “made from imported ingredients” or some say “made from local & imported ingredients” Whilst Coles & Woolies plain labels now boast about having Australian produce in their cans, when they weren’t before :/
Maybe it’s only pineapples to which the ‘local’ still applies? I know they do other fruits… but my family only grows pineapples. 🙂
I dunno, but I did notice only pineapple pieces (or may have been crushed) being the only all Australian product which has ingredients identical to the other canned pineapple products. Otherwise pineapple was a mix of local and imported, which is to me wrong when it was always just Australian, and the fact all that’s in the can in pineapple, pineapple juice and pear juice.. It just makes you wonder.
It’s going to have a massive flow-on effect. It’s not just the manufacturers and the parts companies, it’s all the people that serviced them. Money not there for lunches, amenities… should have a tremendous effect on the economy to lose them both at once.
That’s a huge blow, as auto manufacturing is a big multiplier on the economy.
“High dollar” hahaha. Didn’t stop them before, why quit at 91c?
Unless they know something the average Joe doesn’t? Which is that Aus will crash like a mofo on ‘roids in the very near future.
At the *real* end boss of Chaos Rings
Took mum to see frozen today. I think she enjoyed it more then I did.
Also, I’m a bit disappointed in Dragons crown. Anyone else here finished it?
Suddenly my Vita has all the space. And I am going to fill it again \o/
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/o\
If you’re not watching True Detective, you should be.
Edit: The last ten minutes of the latest ep is one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen on TV.
In this week’s games-that-will-never-be-localized news, new preview for Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment. Looks fairly decent, especially for an anime tie-in game. Shame it’ll most likely stay in Japan forever. 🙁 Not like the Vita needs some new games to look forward to or anything…
Why would you support a console you’re trying to sell? There’s hardware, what more do you want??
I dunno, but I’m so glad that the Vita is region-free. Wish it supported multiple PSN accounts at once like PS3 and PS4, but I can live with that restriction. Japan is still staunchly against digital-only releases so anything I might be interested in worst case I can just import. This case in particular, if the Japanese complexity level is reflected in the trailer I could probably play it and get most of it since I understand almost all the dialogue snippets in there and it looks like it’s fairly extensively voiced which makes it much easier (can understand a lot more than I can read).
Maybe once the current release rush dies down a bit.
DARK SOULS!!!
Anyone else see the Japanese collectors edition?
Comes with mini replica weapons O_O
Japan always gets the best CEs 🙁
It was also several hundred dollars for it on Play Asia.
Yeah, we were drooling over it a couple of months ago, but it was out of stock on Play Asia, and was selling for >$250 when it was in stock 😛
Pretty amazing though.
First off, thought I’d drop this link if anyone’s interested in it:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/TEKKEN-FOUR-NAMCO-COIN-OPERATED-Arcade-Game-VIPER-32-33-INCH-SPLIT-CABINET-/331125602848?pt=AU_CoinOp&hash=item4d189fba20
What’s the point of the cabinet being split? I’ve not seen that in an arcade machine before (but then they were long gone from wagga ages before tekken 4)
Easier to store and/or move around? Assuming that the two parts can completely separate.
So we did the official announcement thing on facebook and used this picture
http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/IMG_2388Crop_zps37673b8a.jpg
One of our friends made the implication that Mrs Tigs got knocked up by Cary Elwes.
When I told Mrs Tigs this she said “Don’t worry, you’re better looking”
When I raised an eyebrow and asked “Really?”
She replied “Don’t worry, you’re here”
I’m not sure how I feel about that
Is it like pizza where if its more that 30 minutes late its free? Because that’d be a good argument for drawing out labour a bit
Congrats to both of you! 🙂
Hey everyone! Mark appeared in a Channel Seven news bulletin today where he discussed his experimental sleeping patterns from last year (he gets a decent amount of screen time, too!)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/watch/21384360/shocking-study-on-lack-of-sleep/?cmp=ob
*swoon*
Ohnoo, but he didn’t do it for very long at all, and he didn’t like it! People need to know it’s an awesome, working alternative to normalcy and sanity.
I did it for like… a year, and was able to get a truly amazing amount of stuff done, even worked two jobs.
(Edit: And, y’know, apart from the voices, no permanent side-effects.)
You’re never lonely when there’s voices in your head, that’s what I always say.
The voices in my head agree.
Castle Doctrine.
looks weird / interesting concept. anyone played it?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/249570/
Its really difficult. But I do want to try play it more
So, I’m going to be in Sydney in May, from the 8th to the 13th. Going over for a wedding on the 9th. I’m hoping to have some time to myself on the Monday, so I was thinking a meat might be possible. Anyone interested?
I had a “Bravely Default” day today. I’ll generally play games for an hour or so a day but every now and then I’ll focus on a title and try my bestest to play the heck out of it.
I kinda lost interest in it ages ago and went from playing a bit daily to once a week or so. Been somewhat forcing myself to power through it and I’m so glad there’s difficulty and encounter rate settings that you can change whenevs! I dropped that bad boy to Easy and set random encounters off and the game got more enjoyable :D. I was also doing every side quest before that point but since then I’ve stopped doing them completely.
This was all fine and dandy until I reached a certain part of the game that completely locked me out of leaving the area (because it save locked me in!) until I defeated one of the final bosses. Since I took the easy road for a significant part of the game I was kinda underlevelled >_>. Not cool game, not cool! Luckily I had the Summon Friend system to abuse :P.
I wish future JRPGs have adjustable settings like BD and possibly a similar sort of social aspect that’s entirely optional.
I didn’t quite finish it yet but I’m getting closeeeee. The game is still worth checking out for JRPG fans but dayum, that second half is real bummer…
Hurry up and have a Kicarus day.
Soooooon
Do you use the stand?
Yeah, I think that’s part of the reason why I find it easier to play now. Would always use a pillow or something before that just never worked.
Always play laying on my stomach too 😛
It makes my hands hurt after a while when I use the stand :P. Using the 3DSXL?
Yerp.
And I’m only playing one or two missions a night.
Chapter/Mission based games work well for the whole one a day thing 😀
I was also playing with 3D one which got kind of uncomfortable after a while. If you’ve got the time Kid Icarus (the original) is pretty fun too!
Thumbstrap!
I used it briefly in Mario 64 but it was weirdddd
Haha, yeah. Not the best for that.
There’s no other way to play Hunters or Kid Icarus though. Absolute best for that.
Whatever happened with your 3DS situation?
Never got around to lodging a proper complaint with consumer affairs or whatever. Got my 3DS sent back though, free of charge. And went out and bought an XL with old firmware so that I could make use of exploits down the line, though only recently got the parts I need to make a solderless board for performing NAND backups (stupid Hong Kong post). So now I just gotta get that up and running so I can make use of the damn thing 😛
Just had a shave using the can of shaving cream that was half-finished. Figured I may as well see how that goes, use it up since it’s there.
Nope nope nope nope nope. Worst ever. Back to a plain old bar of soap, thanks.
I shave in the shower, it’s particularly easy now since I have a mirror in the shower itself.
The last thing my showers need is to be longer 😛
ALSO HI BLAGS are you still Japan?
Ermahgerd, it’s like you don’t even read my blog.
:p
I’m in Russia at the moment.
I thought “blog” was just a term for “things that I think about but keep to myself”.
I blame @dc for the misunderstanding.
Since I can’t resist a chance for a plug. http://anidiotabored.wordpress.com
Pretty pictures!
Russia you say.. No door handles fallen off on you yet?
You prefer soap? Also, is this the foam, or gel? I definitely prefer the gel, as it’s more ‘slippery’.
Yeah, the gel works best for me, too.
Or ‘worked’, rather, when I was LESS OF A MAN – young and beardless.
*bows in the presence of a real man*
Yeah, soap seems to work much better. This was the gel, but I found it to be completely un-slippery in comparison.
Try conditioner.
@dc
I’ve already found the first club I’m gonna take you to, The Beat Megaclub (pretty sure you’re in Brisbane) 😉 sounds promising! 😀
And yes I’ve been drinking again, but get off my back, I’m on uni break 😀
Pretty keen! Just gotta save some mulah mulah then I’m set! 😀
Also probs won’t be till mid year, but I’m not fussed! Keen as!!! 😀 😀 😀
There’s also one called the sportsman of somewhat, but that looks seeds aa all hey out, so f*** that shit. Too, me, Megaclub. You better get keen €D
I’m getting more and more wasted, I probs have a problem :3 Super stoked though!!!! You owe me this! >:)
See you mid year!
Those posts were shockingly coherent.
Well, I mean you kinda lost it at the end but you know, all your words weren’t gibberish.
I got shockingly wasted and did some questionable things things last night…
Autocorrect actually did its job for once though. And I was still drinking heavily for the next 2 – 3 hours after my last post…
:3
Man, I used to work near Sporties, I’d go there every day – along with all the other tradies – for the $5 roast lamb & veg. And I guess the bartender thought I was cute because every now and then he’d comp my scotch.
But yeah, apparently after dark, it becomes a different place and the barman transforms into the drag queen on all the posters. My brother and his friends all used to hang out there whenever any of them was feeling down and wanted to feel better by having older dudes hit on them.
Ugh @ the Beat. I get that it’s supposed to be a gay club, but due to its size, music, and a variety of other social factors, pretty much anyone goes in there. Apparently there’s a difference between the different floors or something. When my one-time girlfriend decided to go back to being gay (I was really just the rebound guy), she spent most of her time there, too, so there’s that negative association as well. 😛
I think the other popular beat in town is The Wickham. That seems like a more traditional pub, with a nightclub upstairs/out back or something, not sure. Never been there, but I remarked to one of my workmates who used to go there a lot, “I walked past the place and some chick staggered out and started hitting on me,” and he replied, “Yeah. That’s kind of the place it’s turned into now.” So maybe its heyday is behind it.
Hmm, you’ve mad the sportsman sound more interesting. The pictures they used on their website was what made it seemed seedy, all guys 40 – 50+ who look like the cruising type. That’s why I was a bit put off, but I’m happy for recommendations! 🙂
Uh, that’s exactly what it is! Just at lunch it’s a bunch of straight blue and white-collar workers getting cheap tasty roast veg & lamb.
I’d suggest that a cluster of 20-somethings looking to feel more attractive by getting hit on by the 40-50+ something cruising guys is probably rare.
Yeah, I go clubbing to get drunk and have fun, not to hook up (especially with guys over twice my age :\). If I go to Brisbane I might give Sporties a miss then. Thanks for the heads up! 🙂
Well, I dunno. The drag shows sound like they could be a fun old time. Never stuck around for one, though. Not my thing.
If you’re ever in Perth I’ll take you to The Court. Lesbian Mud Wrestling, pretty sure straight guys are into that kind of thing, right? 😉
YES. YES WE ARE.
The Beat Megaclub sounds dodgy as hell…
(a beat is a gay cruising joint)
The club adheres to that ethos
It’s called a Megaclub though. Mega. Club. MEGACLUB. It sounds amazing! (and dodgy, but it’s all good 😉 )
It does look interesting I’ll give it that 🙂
All Brisbanites are welcome to join 😀 The more the merrier! This is assuming I go to Brisbane at some stage, but I’ve hyped myself up enough to make the trip at some point this year! It won’t be for a while though :'(
Apparently it’s pretty fun. Fun for chicks, straight guys can go for lulz. I’ve never been though.
considering The Beat lets absolutely anyone in, I’m quite proud to say the only time I tried to get in there for pre-drinks when it first opens its doors the bouncer tried to turn me away. Another one to add to the list of places that take an instant disliking to me.
On the Gold Coast there’s MP’s. Not entirely sure what it’s like since they renovated it and relaunched but it used to be a decent place from what I’ve heard.
My sense of geography is actually abysmal. The Gold Coast’s kinda near Sydney, right? Maybe I’ll make it my goal to go clubbing in every capital city! 😀
About an hour from Brisbane actually.
Hahaha, my geography is actually horrendous 🙁 I used to think that Broome was over east somewhere and that Albany was a little south of Darwin…
Thanks for clearing that up!
So apparently Russia is like 60-70% female.
And yet I still can’t pick up here.
I’m beginning to suspect that the problem might be that my only redeeming feature is my Harry Potter shirt that the Russians can’t read.
In mother russia, girls pick up you!
That’s hardly going to make him feel better… 😛
hehe i meant more in a literal sense. Like over their heads!
You should take some tips from those highly realistic porno’s.
You should have played more Dota before going, work on your Russian vocabulary.
сука means “pretty lady”. You should definitely go up to all the girls and try calling them that.
Who knows, it might work. You will probably just have to pay afterwards.
AF 2014 voting
Pendelton Ward vote: Damnit Jerry – this seemed like the most ‘game’ pitch that could work
Steed – Steed! I liked this the best out of the long list, and I want to play this game
The other two that aren’t Steed: ExtraTerrarium, Project Xing. No strong reasons behind these choices.
Ooo I was just about to do an AF2014 club post!
I went Little Pink Best Buds and I’m pretty happy with the finalists. ExtraTerrarium was my main pick but Steed and What Could Go Wrong were also in my top few so voting was easy. I just hope ether doesn’t get it cause it sounds like too much of a clone.
@dc @sughly @tigerion @mawt
Little Pink Best Buds was the most interesting and intriguing concept, but adapting it to a game would be difficult. I’ll be curious about the result if it gets through. I hope the zombie one doesn’t make it, it seems far too infeasible to make a prototype for that in a fortnight, let alone be developed in full by DF.
Yeah, it’ll be hard to guess what would be typed and write suitable responses that won’t get too repetitive. Actually now that I think about it what you said makes a lot of sense and at the time I just didn’t want a mobile game. Just changed my vote to Jerry. We all know the $$$ potential of mobile games so anything that gets DF lots of money is good in my books.
I agree with your points about the Zombie one too and that was the Pendleton one I wanted least. I haven’t played any of those social survival type games but I know they’re probably not my thing and it’ll most likely turn into a “shoot other players on sight” type of game rather than surviving zombies.
I don’t mean to influence your vote. Unless you didn’t vote for Steed. If that is the case then VOTE FOR STEED.
:pVOTE FOR STEEDI already voted for Steed!
In fact it was the first vote I cast (since it was the 2nd pitch on my page at the time). But then I unvoted it and voted for What Could Go Wrong since @sughly forced me to :'(. But now my final votes are for Steed, What Could Go Wrong and ExtraTerrarium – EVERYONE WINS!
What could go wrongggggg should win everything and be made right now
BLACK LAKE >:| @dc back me up
Did you play it yet Sugs?
@greenius – I downloaded it…
Mmm I’ll give you some kudos for that!
A little sad that great spirits didn’t make it, it was the only pitch to reference psychonauts.
However breach and steed both made it so who knows.
I really have no interest in any of the Pendelton ones
I don’t know if it means anything but if you click on “See non-finalists” Great Spirits comes up on top (at least for me). Does that mean it came 11th? Bummer :(. I was interested in that one too and it probably would’ve gotten my vote if it made the top 10.
If the Pendleton ones were against any of the other pitches then I’d have no interest in them whatsoever. They’re fine in their own category I guess but compared to the others they just didn’t seem as good to me.
DARK SOULS 2 \o/
Countdown: 32 days or thereabouts. *twitch*
The news outlets have finally caught up with Japan’s collector’s edition, now long sold out everywhere. This article is particularly butthurt about it: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-10-japans-fancy-dark-souls-2-edition-has-case-of-replica-weapons
In other news, where Dark Souls was rated for 17+, Dark Souls 2 was rated “Teen” (13+) by the ESRB. This article breaks it down a little more, and comes to the conclusion that the ratings are inconsistent, and that the game doesn’t look to have toned anything down.
All weapons have now been replaced with wiffle bats, You Died now says You Fell Asleep and the groans and grunts of battle are now high pitched shrieks and giggles.
Honestly, to me this sounds waaaaay more terrifying than the original game 😛
I’m surprised someone hasn’t already made that mod for Dark Souls.
You can customise the “You Died” and “You Defeated” text to say whatever you please. There are also texture mods, so the wiffle bats could be done. Just a matter of editing the sounds.
Why hasn’t someone done this yet? Who wouldn’t want to backstab someone with a wiffle bat version of the Dragon’s Tooth and have them giggle?
Replace the death message with an ACSII dick.
Well… after 4 years & 6 false starts, finally finished Dragon Age : Origins last night. Well…. the main campaign, at least. Got another 15hrs or so for the Awakening expansion.
typically good BioWare game. really liked it. gonna have a crack at the second one in a while.
the hardest part of the final boss was the constant crashes. seriously. thank god for autosaves. coz I had to restart the fight about 10 times coz it would just seize up. was a pain. anyway…. yeah.
The final battle was epic as hell as my elven mage’s girlfriend Leliana was jumping on the flipping dragons head to finish it off like a total badass. It crashed a lot for me during the game too, got pretty frustrating, even had times where my graphics would bug out and everything was just black except for the people so it was like I was in the void.Also I couldn’t ever get that stone thingy DLC (That was free with the game) for some stupid reason. I couldn’t download it from the BioWare website (Like I did for ME2’s Cerberus code) and I wasn’t able to log into the servers either to get it from there, after about 3 hours trying to get around it I gave up.
It took me a restart due to my elven rogue being stuck in Orzammar as he couldn’t fight the two dwarven minibosses and win ever so… yeah mage made it a lot easier to deal with having so much damage and healing/lifesteal spells to top it off
Yeah, the final battle was pretty good. Shale tanking the dragon, Alistair taking care of the darkspawn, an army of Elven bowmen helping out, Wynne trying to keep everyone alive & my rogue backstabbing a freaking dragon. was pretty rad.never had any graphical glitches though. most of the crashes happened when I’d open the inventory. had to quicksave every time I needed to swap gear, just in case.
Best advice I can give for DA2: Don’t talk to anyone about it from now till when you start playing. Play and judge it for yourself!
that’s my plan. I know absolutely nothing about it, other than its a different game to Origins.
even if the gameplay is rubbish, I think I trust BioWare enough to at least have a passable story.
I’d say that’s the right attitude. Man does that game try to get in the way of itself. If you REALLY need help internally suspending disbelief, just remember the intro: the interrogation of that dwarf? The entire game is his re-telling of how things happened, which is apparently how they justify the copypasta dungeon design etc.
It would have probably been received fairly well had it not been named Dragon Age 2, but it’s really not a follow-up to Origins. Best to go into it with as few expectations as possible.
@35 don’t read this it’s my very one sided opinion of DA2
I think even if it wasn’t labelled as DA2 it would still be just as hideous, that has to be one of my biggest gaming dissapointments. So boring, plain and unappealing, I had no interest in the characters whatsoever and the way they kept making you go back to the same locations over and over was irritating , I really wanted to like it and tried hard but ultimately it was the start of my “Pile of Pride” (games I didn’t finish and am proud of it).I don’t disagree with your assessment though I did finish it twice.
you’re a much more patient man than me. Kudos for putting yourself through that (I’ll pretend that you played it twice to make up for my efforts :P)
Edit: also while I have you, have you played Muramasa on Fury mode? it sounds insanely hard, I wanna go for the platinum but fury mode scares me
No, I can’t even get the true endings on normal mode. The demon cave with the Red & Blue, then Horse & Bull, then Red & Blue & Horse & Bull Onis is too hard for my pathetic gaming skills.
Don’t talk to anyone about it from now till when you start playing.2 replies telling him about the game. I laughed.
I really really hate episodic content. Just long enough to start really getting into it than BAM! Wait another few months bro! LOL!
Ah well. Wolf Among Us Episode 2 decisions
Sympathized with Crane“Persuaded” Tweedledee to talk
Let Snow come with me
Smacked the smug off Georgie (one of only 28% to do so :/)
Didn’t hit Beast again.
I see Bigby as someone who is willing to get his hands dirty and has a very short fuse but all in the name of what he believes is right.Also did this one seem much shorter than Ep 1?
Obvious theory
Crane is a sick fuck but 99.9% he didn’t kill her. Too damn obvious.@dc @redartifice @idontknowwhoelsehasfinished
Felt a little shorter, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a sequence cut which is the reason for the delay. Our choices were the sameIt was shorter, yeah. Or at least felt lighter on actual content.Actual Episode 2 spoilers:
I’m half inclined to think it was someone else using Glamour to look like Crane. Anybody could be anybody at this point. I wouldn’t be surprised if the real Snow White actually did die and the one we have now is just Glamour again 😛I wouldn’t think it was a glamour. Crane being obsessed with Snow kind of makes sense in the scheme of things. No doubt he’ll protest that it was though.I have some series knowledge that may be spoilery so click at your peril:
By the time of the comic series Crane isn’t around, having left fabletown in disgrace. He turns up in the comics later.Not gonna click! Don’t want to go into the game with any expectations from the original 😛
NOT series spoiler, just speculation:
The fact that they’ve identified a killer in ep 2 of 5 makes me think there’s a lot more oging on here. I also think illegal glamours is going to have something else to do with it.Without having played Ep2 yet – Is anything in the game contradicting the comics – like, is it its own thing with its own timeline, just using the same/similar characters? Because it seems to have started in a sort of 80s setting, where the comics were 00s. That’s plenty of time for this shit to have all gone down and still remain congruent with the comics.
Or at least, that’s what I thought until I finished ep 1. I’m… uh. Guessing that gets resolved somehow and that it didn’t just so wildly deviate from the comics.
Morning!
So Sid has an ear infection and needs to see the vet. I was going to use that money to buy singstar games. Oh well.
Simple solution: get Sid to entertain us with song.
Sid can’t howl, only bark.
So that would be Bark At The Moon by Ozzy Osbourne on repeat then
What console were you getting Singstar games for?
PS2 and PS3
I might have PS2 Singstar ABBA lying around somewhere if I didn’t already get rid of it (I lost faith in it when all my manpoints evaporated spontaneously: I got a higher score than Mrs Shane at Dancing Queen). Also, I might have two microphones. Can’t promise anything, because they’ve been on the chuck pile for months. But I’ll have a look.
I think I saw some Singstar stuff in that giant box of loot you gave away at Blagh’s ages ago.
Ahhh, that’s where it went then. Whoops!
It’s alright. I already have abba
I have bought Saturday Morning RPG on the only a little biased review of one of the artist/level designers for the game. It sounds pretty fun though, and only $6.99 on Steam. I will let you know if it’s worth it.
So Watch Dogs WiiU got delayed to focus on PS3/360/PS4/Xbone/PC. After it was already delayed for all systems and most of the hype has died down.
Sending it to die on WiiU… Can’t catch a break.
I was really excited for it but … I guess even the hype train looses steam eventually.
Me too! It should’ve come out last year. I don’t even care if I don’t play it now 😛
Don’t get me wrong. I will probably get it day one, but honestly don’t care if it takes another year to come out.
It’s a shame because the tablet makes sense in the context of the game. Hopefully the delay allows Ubisoft to implement something more specific to make the WiiU different than the other versions.
But if they just released it using standard Pro Controller for input, WiiU owners could actually play the same games as everyone else. Now, they either won’t get it; or get half-assed version; or they go buy a PS4/Xbone to join everyone else.
tl;dr if you can’t make gamepad work on-time, just forget it.
I guess I’m one of those strange people who is totally okay with waiting extra if it means I get a different/enchanced experience. I know that’s wishful thinking in this case but Ubisoft have generally taken a few more risks with their Wii and WiiU games so maybe they might incorporate some of the hacking controls into the interface of the gamepad. If I wanted to play it on a standard controller, I’d buy it on something else.
Yeah, I’m with you on the ‘wait longer for better’ scenario for sure. But that’s simply not how it works with games (see: bugged BF4, COD ghosts running on xbone), and it’s not what the customer expects. Customers are greedy bastards and they want everything right now, and unfortunately they are correct.
Xbox users won’t care, they have a console that gets the game day 1. But there do exist WiiU users who only have a WiiU, and decisions like this is why they are feeling screwed and why everyone else is reluctant to buy ‘the console that’s on the back of everyone’s mind’.
Nintendo does seem to discourage a lot of cross-platform development in general and unfortunately they have boxed themselves in over the last few console generations (actually you could say that has always been Nintendo’s mantra). Nintendo consoles have traditionally been harder to develop for, hence why companies choose not to make games/port games over which leads to the “it has no games” chant which leads to less sales and it ends up being a vicious cycle.
Even if Nintendo were to make a console that was comparable (spec-wise, control scheme, the whole shebang) to Xbone and PS4, yes they would gain more of the multi-platform titles but they lose the fact that they are Nintendo-different. The last ten years can be generally summarised as the big two consoles and Nintendo because they never fit the mold. Commercially it creates problems but Nintendo, through either obstinance or a direct plan to be “different”, choose to do that and I don’t see them changing drastically in the next generation at least.
Here’s how I see it. Scenarios for gamers:
A) Purchase a PS4 for $550, WiiU for $350. Total = $900+. Result: ability to play ‘all’ games, plus awesome Nintendo exclusives.
B) Purchase WiiSuperU (great specs, on-par with PS4) for $550. Total = $550+ Result: ability to play ‘all’ games, plus awesome Nintendo exclusives.
I know which one I’d choose.
If all consoles were even in terms of hardware and control scheme, people would buy based on exclusives. Nintendo would win that fight hands down. One can only hope that Nintendo starts thinking for the future rather than being stuck in 2008.
Definitely lost most of my hype for this. Better be one of the most amazing games ever to grab my interest.
Lol that’s hilariously bad management.
I’ve seen rumors that they might be intending to move Assassin’s Creed to a bi-yearly cycle instead of yearly and do Watch Dogs in the off years between. Don’t know how true that is but they did look to be quite similar games.
I had a dream that all the BlazBlue games were on sale on Xbox Live. Huh?
I’ve never played a BlazBlue game in my life. Is this a sign?
I have five hours of freedom and can’t figure out what to do. I might need to make a list. Maybe something like:
Mondays: Catch up on trashy TV shows
Tuesdays: Current game (Kingdoms Of Amalur) day
Wednesdays: Dark Souls day
Thursdays: Quilting and sewing
Fridays: Oh yeah, guess I should do some housework day. 😛
Probably all to be replaced by ‘Lightning Returns day’ next week. 😀
(Game title) day ftw!
My Bravely Default day today got cut short by needing to charge up my 3DS 🙁
So much Lightning Returns discussions! (@cakesmith). If I recall you also had the CE guide for XIII-2? Are you getting it again for Lightning Returns? I am just for the sake of getting it but it was like $10 more than XIII and XIII-2’s CE guides were 🙁
Speaking of which I just looking up stuff on EB’s website and apparently they’ve sold out of pre-orders for Lightning Returns and they’re taking them for second shipments :|. I didn’t even think the game was going to be that popular.
Maybe they thought it wouldn’t be and were under prepared?
Actually, considering Squenix seem convinced everyone loves it, maybe they’re just right?
That’s not a good sign for me to be able to walk into a shop on Saturday and buy a copy. 🙁
And yeah, I always buy FF guides. We’ll see if any of the super-pretty ones are left by the time I’m able to, though.
Oh noes :(. That was just EB though so maybe JB or the others will have stock!
Looks like the list helped, even though I didn’t follow Tuesday’s directive yet.
So far I’ve watched the Project Runway All-Stars finale, did a bit of housework and I’m about to go into the sewing room and piece some log cabin blocks. After lunch I’m planning on playing Amalur, so I’ll have just about covered the whole week’s directive in the one day. 😀
Started playing Ys: Seven last night / this morning. It’s pretty fun, great combat and easy to use menus and such. Very faced paced. Really hoping the story picks up though it’s very “traditional RPG” story so far …
Something something land in peace after a long war something something you are a traveller / adventurer in a new town something something discover ruins get special abilities something something.The characters aren’t amazing, not to say I don’t like them they are just very, for a lack of a better word, bland. Although one of the characters is called “Dogi” but I just call him “Doggie”.
Awwww Ys.
Have you played Memories of Celceta? It’s the only Ys game I’ve played but it’s apparently based off of Ys: Seven so I’m definitely interested in checking that out too since I’m enjoying Celceta.
Your thoughts on Seven are pretty similar to my thoughts on Celceta. Combat is fun but the story and characters are just kinda …there 😛
Nah haven’t played Celestia, I’m waiting for the local release, which is the end of this month. It’s the main reason I’m playing seven, to get ready for Celestia.
Ah true! I forgot it didn’t get a local release yet.
Are we getting a CE like NA did? I had a quick look on EB and it doesn’t seem like it. I figured we may not get one which is why I imported it.
Nah, just going for a normal. I don’t know too much about the series to invest in a CE. =P
Haha yeah, I don’t even know why I got the CE 😛
SHINIES!?
It came with a compass …WOOO!
The 3-disc silver anniversary Ys soundtrack collection!
Seven has a better plot than Celceta. Gameplay is very similar.
The story is very traditional RPG because that’s what the Ys games are. The story is fairly minimal and mainly serves to guide you from place to place. As they go they speed up and get more exciting though. They’re well-structured. But yeah, the characters aren’t enormously deep. Celceta builds out Adol a bit more.
FYI Dogi is a recurring character in the Ys games. He’s Adol’s adventuring companion that he meets toward the middle of Ys I, travels to Celceta with in Ys IV (despite not appearing in the game itself), visits his hometown in Felghana in Ys III and goes travelling through some islands with in Ys VI.
Ys Seven is a direct follow-on from VI. VI opens with Adol and Dogi’s ship being attacked by pirates and Adol washing up on shore. They rejoin toward the end and stuff. One of the other Seven characters who you’ll meet a bit later on was an antagonist in VI.
The more of the games you play the more the world and characters get fleshed out. There’s a lot of depth there but only if you want to go looking for it.
Demon’s Souls people:
I’m looking for people to help me with a boss battle, how does summoning work? I’m in Soul Form (the mechanic seems to have been tweaked and renamed to Undead in Dark Souls), not Body Form and outside the arena/around the level there are ghosts of players running about and red stone messages everywhere.
These could be five years old for all I know.
Anybody able to help?
You need to be in body form. Use a Stone of Empheral Eyes to return to body form. To be summoned you have to be in soul form.
Also keep in mind summon signs in Demons Souls were never very common even at its height.
Out of curiosity, why? Was it a bit dodgy or just no one was interested?
I need a hand, and would be willing to part with decent unique weapons or ore!
What Soul Level and what boss are you at? I’ve been running the game again this week so could possibly help?
Around the 50 mark, 1-4 King Allant.
Oooohhh. Right near the end. Nowhere near there yet.
Don’t get grabbed by him. He actually drains levels from you and undoes the last few stat points you levelled up. 2 or 3 grabs in one fight can drain 10 levels off you.
Naturally.
Oh man, that’s a tough fight. I tried to go toe-to-toe with him, but he slaughtered me effortlessly. So damn fast. In the end, I just glitch-sniped him. #SecretShame
So glad there were no/few bosses in Dark Souls you could cheese like that.
Tell me more?
From: http://demonssouls.wikidot.com/walk1-4-boss
Make sure you have a butt-tonne of arrows with you. Hundreds. Get them from Patches if you’ve saved him. Wear the Thief’s Ring as you step through the fog gate. You can backstep and he still will not notice you and you get a better view of him. Pull out your bow and manually aim at his head. If the King’s life bar is not showing across the bottom of the screen, then he won’t attack you. So just hammer him with arrows for the easy victory. If your first shot does less than 25 damage, you won’t be able to kill him this way, because each shot causes him to step back slightly, and eventually he will be out of range.@leigh forgot to tag you in above post
I am not near the PS3 so from memory:
The entrance before the steps to the fighting arena seems to be where people say you can safely hit him from range, but his shockwave still hits. I’m wondering if he actually comes down those steps at all.
I am resigned to the fact I can’t beat him with my current load-out (Strength Build with slow heavy weapons) so I’m looking at going back to the blacksmith to refine some of my spears/poles and maybe up my other stats. I am pretty high soul level so Dex/Faith/Stamina aren’t too shabby but might focus on Dex too.
The small matter of that dragon causing me to waste a spell slot on Water Veil too….
@leigh, if you aren’t wearing the Thief Ring, he will come anywhere in the arena. If you are, and stay right next to the fog, he won’t even see you, even though you’re pumping him full of arrows.
I can’t reply to the lower comments in this conversation thread, but many thanks for all your help people.
I think it was just a bit risky. If you died in a world while in body form it would drop that world tendency towards black which made the enemies harder (but drop more souls). If you were at the point of needed help with the bosses you’d be desperate to keep it white.
Or maybe just because it’s never really explained how. Demons was even more vague and hard to read than Dark. Even things like what the weapons requirements and type was represented by unexplained random symbols.
It did have a cool rating system. After a co-op session you rated the other guy E-S depending if he was good or not. When summoning someone you could see how many matches and each rating they were given.
Time once again for six word sci fi!
The Android found love in appliances
A ship in vacuum shouldn’t creak
Little orphan Annie gets clone parents.
Coalescing malevolent psychically transcendent xenomorphic entities.
Smart Skyscrapers attempt to unionise
Six becomes five as dozens weep
The fortune cookie predicted alien attacks.
The sword of stars splits heaven
Flappy birds leads the robot armada
Morgan Freeman narrates Gordon Freeman’s diary
Someone writing the copy for the Brisbane Times appears to have been rebelling against their coverage directives just a tad.
Possibly resentful of the coverage she’s receiving, someone has been referring to Shapelle Corby as, “The drug smuggler, Shapelle Corby,” or just, “the drug smuggler,” in lieu of her name.
I’m honestly quite tickled by this approach.
David Koch said on Sunrise this morning that he is against Seven giving her anything at all and that Seven shouldn’t have anything to do with her. Than during a cash giveaway segment he asked if anyone would like some free money without going to a Balinese prison.
I guess a stopped clock can be right twice a day.
Either that or I’ve started turning into an Old Person, who agrees with David Koch. I think it’s age which does that.
I’m scared.
Hold me.
SMH had the title “Convicted drug smuggler released”. About half an hour later it was changed to “Schappelle Corby released”.
Bah. No balls. They should’ve stuck with it.
Another fantastic session of JC2MP last night, with @rize, @cakesmith, @rocketman, @mythamphetamine, @sernobulus
so much fun was had…
those icecream trucks…
I’m afraid to play it too often cause i’m worried i’ll get sick of it, BUT I WANT TO PLAY AGAIN 😛
I got sick of it a few nights ago, and then a couple of days later was so keen to play it all over again 😀
Those sportscars last night… WE NEED TO DO THAT AGAIN!
I’m amazed that driving like normal person (relatively speaking, of course) was so much fun. JC2 just didn’t seem like the game for that sort of stuff 😛
I know, it was kinda really cool… and exploring is just heaps of fun… and when we get bored there’s always Bering 😛
“Where’s Nob? I haven’t seen him in a wh…”
*car flies overhead*
“WHOOOOOOOOOOOOSH”
“…Hi Nob!”
“That’s our Nob”
*thumbs up, teeth gleam*
*canned laughter*
I have it installed now 😀
YAAAY \o/ TIGS IS JOINING THE SHENANIGANS
Anyone after next-gen consoles? Dick Smith online have a 10% off today only sale, PS4 is $493.20 and XBox One is $538.20! Mmm tempting..
Free delivery(?) for the address I put in, anyway. It’s on Gizmodo, but only mentions Xbox unless you read the comments.
What are the chances of actually getting it? Haven’t had the best record.
Good point. It’s a preorder for late Feb/early March delivery but yeah, it’s a gamble. Odds are you can get an Xbox One no worries at all.
*Bigger odds would be that you just lose out $500 or so for a week before they email an apology and refund you.
Dick Smith would have to be withholding consoles from people to have these to ship out… Cause the damn things are are still sought after, unless they have had a heap of people not want to pick up pre orders…
(probably relevant to @benny too)
They had a similar 10% off sale back in December for a late January shipment pre-order and I bought it then. It shipped in late January and I got it within a couple of days without any troubles.
Judging from comments on other sites though lots of people have had problems with buying stuff from DSE online but I’ve never had any issues.
Website says Thursday dispatch for PS4.
Wow, they sure don’t stock much there any more.
Also, this:
http://www.dicksmith.com.au/xbox-360/xb360-forza-2-viva-pinyata-bundle-dsau-jb1067
Brb, gonna go eat some halapenyos.
I’ve been using my phone internet since we moved and it is balls.
Just straight up balls.
My phone’s battery (which I’ve had to replace because the original started to balloon) drains pretty quickly out here. A bad signal means that it’s almost always searching and I think it’s losing power at about twice the normal rate before I even start doing anything.
So I have commandeered Freya’s PC and internet dongle thingy. I’ll probably use this later to do some job hunting but for now, it’s being used for more important things: TAY and Reddit.
Telstra needs to hurry up and connect our phone and internet, else I might die of boredom (or watch every episode of Top Gear, whatever).
But there’s a twist… how are you going to watch the LATEST top gear without interwebs?
SO GOOD that episode.
Watched it last night, ’twas pretty damn amazing!
I want that quad-bike…
actually no screw that, give me the Mclaren P1 😛
The P1 was alright. I did like how Clarkson referred to the V8 as a petrol generator heh.Still my favourite car they’ve driven on the show of late was that Audi R8 Spyder.. Just something about it I really liked. The P1 was a bit too wanky for my likes, everything being special this unique that 😛
I’m interested to know more about the upcoming episode where they trek to Chernobyl, though.. Should be interesting.
Two other people I know have said that. My brother in law said it was hilarious. Definitely one to check out then.
The entire 20th series was great, and they continue to be impressive and funny. Last weeks episode was just great too.
I’m amazed that it appears their budget increases every year…
“For this, i’ve gone to Italy.”
“Now we’re back in America”
“Oh by the way, now we’re in [insert random country]”…
Half of the appeal to me now is the shenanigans they get up to, scripted or not…
Their specials (Especially the Bolivia special) are so awesome
I’ve always described Top Gear as the world’s best funded mid-life crisis.
And Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond has some of the most desirable jobs (at least for me :P) in the world!
The BBC have a lot of money whether it be from advertising, their yearly subscription fee or (I assume) government funding. and Top Gear proves to be a very popular & successful brand.
No advertising on the Beeb. It’s all from the TV license, merchandise and selling the shows to foreign markets.
They also have a good deal going when it comes to licensing stuff. Which is why a lot of British shows get butchered when they get exported. The BBC just pays some amount to cover licensing a lot of, well, everything from photos to music, and the shows get to use whatever they please without worrying about the cost.
It’s why QI can’t be aired in America easily. All the photos used in the background cost a lot of money to clear over there for some reason.
It’s a damned odd world we live in.
@trjn I was under the impression they operate similar to how SBS used to and only had paid advertising between shows and no ad breaks.
My favourite was when they were in America and Hammond had one of those ranged key things so you can start the car with a button push as long as the key is nearby.
So when the stopped at an “real american diner” to try the food Clarkeson snuck out, drove Hammonds car into the middle of the freeway and left it there
The same way I plan on watching the latest Archer and Community.
By curling up in a ball and waiting.It’s ok, archer is on hold for 3 weeks
You’d think that would help but it did not.
Yeah, I when I saw that at the end of the episode, saying there’d be a new episode in three weeks… I ran around the apartment screaming and ranting.
I was very unhappy . I’ll start showing withdrawal symptoms soon…
maybe I’ll start looking like pam…Of you turn off the boobie videos your Internet time will become faster, more efficient and more productive.
#lifehack
Yes but then what’s the point of being online?
Aren’t you guys in town though? I’ve usually got great signal around there, until the phone attempts to pick up 4G. Not so great then.
We’re near the racecourse and I’m with TPG. It’s not an ideal combination.
I have found that the best reception in the house is under the skylights. One is in the kitchen, the other is above the crapper.
Ah I see. Does it run off the optus or Vodafone network? Either way both services are dodgy as hell out here. Telstra is the only reliable service, but of course costs are higher.
It sounds to me like the mancave needs to be shifted to one of those skylights!
Put a desk in front of the toilet and you will never have any more problems in life.
So those life lessons about shitting & eating in the same place we’re wrong? This changes everything!
Optus.
It’s really not ideal.
Ah yep, locked into a contract with them? Might have to switch over man.
It’s one of those month to month plans. Still, once the internet gets hooked up here, we’ll have the wifi running and it won’t matter so much that our phone reception is kinda shitty.
I’ve got some Telstra prepaid mobile broadband credit here, are you using it? Can have it, if yes.
Thanks for the offer but I’m fairly sure this is a post paid dongle.
Find out if you can use the voucher as credit. It’s $90.
@transientmind
Whaaaat. I’m declaring you the most interesting man on TAY.
You’re both right.
Addendum: Sleep deprivation is a pretty intense and interesting state to be in. I’m not in that league, but I’ve been living on five hours a night for four years.
I’m generally on 6 to 7 and feel like I wasted the day if I sleep too long. It’s really annoying…
I can take the hint.
Yeah man, you need to be wackier.
Right? Sometimes I read his posts and wonder what I’ve been doing with my life.
OK, here’s the basics:
SCIENCE/WHY DO IT:
Your brain waves go through different stages during your 8hr session. Alpha, beta, REM, beta, Alpha, repeat. The only time you’re actually getting ‘restorative’ sleep is the REM part. In an 8hr session, you’ll probably only get 2hrs of REM total, comprised of roughly 20min duration in each of those alpha-beta-REM cycles.
Polyphasic sleeping aims to force your body into adapting-to-survive, chopping out the alpha and beta parts, so that when you put your head down and close your eyes you go straight to REM. That way you get your 20min, and you just break it up into a regular session every four hours, so you still get the 2hrs REM every day.
Edit add: WHAT TO DO:
20-30min ‘sleep’ time scheduled every 3.5 hrs (4hr blocks of the day, including the 20-30min you’re napping). A schedule I really liked was 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm, 10pm. Set the alarm, get up. No matter how tired. It won’t work if you sleep in – you’ll ‘reset’ and go into slept-debt-repayment mode, and all the work will be undone. It’s an exercise in discipline. When you consider that married couples surveyed in the UK rated a good night’s sleep as being more desirable than a good session of sex, you get an idea of how hard it can be.
Edit: Oh shit, I totally forgot. DO NOT BE HAVING CAFFEINE. That shit fucks up your sleep, son.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
The first fortnight (or more, for some) SUUUUUUUUCKS. You haven’t adjusted yet, so it’s basically 24/7 sleep dep for weeks. You actually turn into a zombie and have to do up like… a ‘to do’ list. All those random thoughts whirring around every second of the day, just in the background? They just stop. Eventually you start feeling human, but you’re still really damn tired and wish you could just get some ‘catch-up’. Eventually that stops too, and you get the maximum benefit out of every session.
You also NEED to have a supportive workplace. I would have started doing it again in the last few months if it weren’t for the fact that there is NOWHERE quiet you can go to nap, here, and even if there were, the new management considers it ‘weird’ and ‘inappropriate’ and doesn’t want you to do it. Which I could fight, but it’s WAY too hard.
You need to be able to do it at work because you can’t skip any. You just can’t. If you do, the next time you lie down, you will not be woken by hell on earth until you have had a 4hr catch-up session. 4hr seems to be the magic wake-up-by-yourself point.
(Edit: Well. You can occasionally skip one – ONE, not two. Skip two and you will pay for it – session, but you can’t make a habit out of it. You could really only get away with it one out of every two days. It’s not like the ‘normal’ sleep schedule where you can get away with only sleeping a couple hours, every couple days.)
Also, you will eat more, because you’re burning more energy moving around and being active than you would from sleeping. Working out didn’t seem to be affected – 2am was a great time to do that, and I still actually prefer to go at that time.
SIDE-EFFECTS:
Nothing physical, but I theorize that it does fuck with your mind a little.
Eventually the concept of a ‘day’ book-ended by morning and night becomes an abstract concept. You get bored and lonely and want to call people to see if they wanna hang out, but no-one’s available. The world goes quiet for these weird periods while you’re still full of beans and looking for things to do.
The world starts to feel almost like a time-lapse video of itself, with you standing over it all watching people do their waking-sleeping-waking thing while you observe from the one long, contiguous ‘day’ which never ends. Like watching ants.
Which is kinda why I stopped – I was feeling too disconnected from humanity.
A lot of notable scientists/thinkers had a reputation for trying it, and I hear special forces units use it to survive certain operating conditions, like being pinned down for several days, or prolonged sniper duty. But it can take anywhere upward of a month to get used to it and really start feeling the benefits, which is usually a few weeks more than most folks can handle, if their motivation is only idle curiosity.
However, once you’ve got it done, you’ll find that you can get really restful naps whenever you have an opportunity, as the brain lapses back into that familiar behaviour. If I’m ultra-tired, sometimes a couple 20min naps are all it takes to get fully caught-up.
I got sent home due to sickness. Fun fun fun.
Time for some leisure computing!
Come on Mr Norman, back on the bus. Let’s get you home.
Going home to play Dark Souls and watch 80’s action movies?
…
I hate you.
Diarrhea, Die Hard, and Dark Souls. One hell of a combo.
The first and last are almost certainly related. You’ve got the middle one backwards though.
me too. well.. not so much sent home, but the general manager rang me up and said “I hear you’re not looking too well..”
Apparently one of the onsite techs called her and said I looked sick. I still am a little sick after going home yesterday with a migraine, but I didn’t want to trouble anyone with my issues. Especially since I don’t get paid when I’m not at work. Tried to find out from her while I had her on the phone, if I was going to be made full time now that my trial period in my new role is over, and I was kindly informed that I should put casual on my timesheet this week, and she’ll speak to the CEO and get back to me. Fat lot of fucking good a contract is if it doesn’t actually mean anything. 😐
(The contract says my trial ends on the 8th, so technically, as of Saturday, I should be full time and on much better pay, but as usual, it seems I’m getting screwed over yet again)
Backpay ftw. Push for it and it’ll happen. Although usually casual earns more than perm staff in the same role …
roflmao… yeah.. USUALLY. I had to fight tooth and nail to get a $2/hr pay rise when I started working full time hours for them during said trial period. $23/hr for what I do is bullshit when you consider I’m 35. One day soon though.. one day…
So, Kickstarter is intimidating. It’s not a difficult system to work within, and it’s not even unfriendly or cold… it’s just really intimidating.
Kudos to @beardymcmuttonchops. Dude has balls.
Just post it so i can throw money at you already.
I’d love to be ducking a barrage of monetary shrapnel right now, but first I need the go-ahead from my publisher. If I get it, it’ll go up in mid-March, early-April, probably.
JUDGING
Don’t think of it that way dude. Think “This is a way I can make my art reality” – after that, it’s a no brainer.
Was just speaking to my bro in law on the phone about our DayZ session the other night. Colleague over hears this part of the conversation…
“Nah dude, fistings the way to go. Much quicker. No fisting is to painful for my liking, too slow and leaves you exposed for longer….”
…
…
at this point his reaction is a confused WTF so i prettend i didnt see him and continue to elaborate on fisting within my conversation…
“Thank god for fisting is all i have to say. Makes our night time games WAY more exciting. If it werent for fisting id probably fall asleep from the lack of action…”
At this point his jaw has dropped. so i elaborate.
“All I’m saying is that unless you start fisting when you are running, you run at a much slower pace… thats why you are always an open target. you get left behind. You know how relentless DayZ bandits can be in Chernaurus.”
Penny drops, co-worker yells out…
“WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU SICK BASTARDS???”
Ahh the comedy of hearing half a conversation… it’s a classic
I think everyone who goes onto our TS can relate to this
@tech_knight @popdart5 @mythamphetamine @mawt @tigerion @blaghman @novacascade
You know how I said i was booked next wednesday? I’ve managed to weasel out of it, so if you guys are keen we can play as normal. If you’ve already worked around it, we can go the 3 weeks as dicussed. Let us know what’s best for you
I’m good for any wednesday
Giggity.
Down boy 😛
THey did just release the “sex in the ninth world” book…
I fear for the future of our campaign
Nup I’m up for it certainly, me and Solid Snake-bot will be there!
I’m in New Zealand for a couple of weeks so not for me
No prob, we’ll assume Beltigron is off with @blaghman
Still fixated on your slash fic I see 😉
Beltigron pulled Blaghs closer, and whispered into his cauliflower ear: “Flex for me, my darling”
I’m still right for next Wednesday. Or any Wednesday for that matter.
“You can’t put fire drill on your timesheet for yesterday!”
“Why not? It was a fire drill.”
“No, it needs to be labelled, ‘Emergency Evacuation Activities.’”
“…You’re kidding. No-one in the department is that ridiculous.”
Apparently they are.
Because a week without career self-sabotage is no fun at all.
ASIDE FROM THAT BULLSHIT… I’m vaguely concerned about our current procedures.
At the moment, the building has to empty out from the top down. As someone on level 1, I consequently have to sit there listening to that godawful alarm going off right over the top of my head for 40min while we wait for the directors and top brass up in penthouse town to evacuate first. What the fuck is this, steerage?
THE BUILDING IS ON FIRE AND THE DOOR IS RIGHT THERE.
Also disturbing: each floor was waiting until it had everyone in the elevator lobby for a headcount before allowing them to go down the fire stairs. And even though we have two stairwells, one either side of the elevators, we were only using one of them. No fucking wonder it took so long for each floor to register that they were clear.
If there is ever an actual emergency in this place, I am just walking outside – 20 seconds and safe, fuck waiting for over half an hour before leaving.
That doesn’t even make sense. While the people from the top floor are working their way down, so too can everyone else. If everyone leaves their floor at the same time, there wouldn’t even be a bottleneck.
I think the theory is something to do with Queueing Theory – the same thing that causes traffic. In theory, all cars should be able to just start at once, right? And if everyone starts and goes at the same speed, no need for a traffic to keep concertinaing like it does. Only, the factor there is ‘safe distance between cars’ varies by speed.
I think the idea is that if you let everyone out at once, they’re going to jam up the stairwell, and the firemen would rather have to rescue someone on a lower floor than a higher one, as people have various complications over time from smoke inhalation, panic/heart-attacks from the exertion of going down stairs, etc.
Which I dunno, science? It still seems incredibly idiotic when you know you could be outside and safe in the time it takes for the folks on the 11th floor to even be down to the 9th floor.
I guess… but it’s still crazy. It doesn’t seem fair that first they deprive you of a high-rise view, and then your right to a safe exit. Seems that in a fair world, one would be a trade-off for the other.
And even if there is some bottlenecking with everyone leaving at once, it goddamn sure wouldn’t be forty minutes of it.
What they need to do is install a series of fireman poles around the outside of the building. That way everybody in the building just simply jumps out the window, grabs the pole and slides down.
There! Now everybody is safe from the fire and the only thing people need to worry about is a 60-floor fall.
Surely a 40 minute fire drill would be a result that triggers a change in procedures. No-one overseeing that drill can consider that a satisfactory result.
Regarding the two stairwells thing, that part may actually be logical as the other one will be the access point for emergency services to enter if necessary.
It was actually closer to an hour by the time we were done assembling and roll-call, etc. And yes. The head security guy and the fire dept representative were very animated and gesticulating wildly to the floor wardens in their little huddle. I’m hoping a LOT of asses get kicked out of this.
Seriously. An HOUR for the building to be on fire?
When it happens to us we even get people just going “Lets just get a coffee/beer” while they’re waiting at the evac point, you know, and scare the shit of the humans responsible for making sure they got out safely!
I’ a fire warden at work. last time we had a drill we got told 4 mins 20 seconds to evacuate a school was not good enough.
so yeah… 40 mins is a bit…. stupid. someone should talk to someone about something regarding that thing.
It’s like our procedures. If there’s a fire, bomb threat, earthquake or any other emergency we have to count the till out, record it, secure it in the safe, pull all merch displays down from the counters, secure all storage cabinets, power down the eftpos and then head to the relevant marshalling area.
It’s actually written down in our employee handbook to exactly follow that.
Hahaha, serious? That’s amazing.
I guess, from a business sense, it kind of… no, I still can’t picture it working like that. All I can see is a Fire Marshall getting annoyed and dragging away a staff member who’s hysterically screaming, “But I didn’t power down the EFTPOS!”
I like to think that they’ve put a value on their employees life and it’s less than the $1000 that’s generally the maximum in the till at any point.
Remember treasured employee: Your life is important to us but not as much as our loose change is
Dude, you have to do Timesheets? I have to do timesheets and they’re the bane of my life. I charge 3.5 hours every single week just doing timesheets.
Yeah, we need to prove which department our time is being charged to, and don’t have an automated system to do it. So yeah, I spend a couple hours a week on that, too.
When i was a residential tutor, part of that role was fire warden.
We used to stand pull the year’s first fire drill after the biggest pub night in Orientation Week at 7am. We then stood by the front gates and yelled “you’re dead” “burned to a crisp” “do you smell smoke” and the like to anyone who took more than 5 minutes to evacuate.
the freshers got the message.
That’s funny, but also pretty asshole-ish. I like it. 😀
The best quality version I could find, sadly.
My wife’s currently having a meltdown and it’s hilarious. She has a fairly unique name and never really met anyone with it. She had a new staff member sent out to her work and she has the same name. She’s freaking out thinking everyone will get confused and how is it going to work? Considering my name is one of the most common ones I can’t help but laugh.
Yeah, you can’t tell if people are talking either about you, or that popular supervillian in the comics? I can see where the confusion can occur.
I know a few people with the same name as Mrs Freeze, but never have I come across her pronunciation of it.
Omfg, it’s not Le-a or something is it?!?! D:
Uh, why?
…Nora? Nora Fries?
Her name isn’t actually Mrs, is it?
My room mates dog got into my room and promptly helped himself to a Tyrion Lannister figure a friend bought for my birthday. I love dogs but this little guy was close to a washing machine visit.
>:(
A washing machine visit? Is that a thing? Do people do that?
You know what? I don’t want to know.
Nah. I picked him up to have a word with him. Just so happened to be in the laundry with an open washing machine next to me.
How else are you meant to clean them?
Happened to some extended family members with a kitten. Not deliberately though. 🙁
I shouldn’t venture into lifehacker comments, but this is an epic putdown: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/01/exhale-on-your-left-foot-to-avoid-side-stitches-while-running/comment-page-1/#comment-1374768
I….what?
I’ll admit… the neckbeard thing made me laugh.
Urg… My brain.
On the shopping centre’s community notice board
This can’t be real right?
Oh god, can’t stop laughing.
Need a photo!
That’s much more subtle than just asking for the phone number. Kudos.
Alas, I’m outside the age bracket
I’m not 😉
“Alternative” payment? What, like goth money?
Ha!
Monopoly money
Bison dollars
Bitcoins?
I hope she accepts Dogecoin
Help. Someone take Flappy Typing Tutor away from me.
Mod it to include naked ladies, take the first L in the title away and you’ve got yourself a hit.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/246580/?snr=1_7_15__13
(EDIT:Fixed to non-mobile site).
Steam 😛
Well this is too precious.
Today, our department has launched its own internal social network. ‘Yammer’.
Yup.
Edit: ACTUAL DETAILS REDACTED IN CASE. No, I’m putting the name back… it’s too cute.
At any rate, I am skeptical.
Been using it for about 3 or 4 years now. I believe it got bought out by Microsoft(?) a year or so back.
Yeah.. we got that too here at my work. There’s a gamers group and I give advice on new League of Legends players, pretty awesome… at least until the DoTA2 fanboys show up feeling all threatened by it (Despite DoTA2 never being mentioned at all haha), it seems their real name showing in the comments still doesn’t stop some humans 😛
I’m of two minds… co-opting and subverting a government-run site for discussing video games seems awesome.
But they’ll undoubtedly use it to monitor when and how often you’re posting, and report on it.
Our department has an internal communication network that is apparently an off the shelf product called Microsoft Office Communicator. It’s exactly like MSN but for office workers and is semi-professional. (I’m not even joking).
Telstra actually ran their own, too, called ‘dbabble’. It was mostly used to pester Testers. “Are you in? Can you take a call?”
Called Lync? actually scrap that. Read it more carefully. I think Lync is the new office 2013 replacement for what you’re using.
Mmm yeah we’ll probably get Lync in 2018, considering we only got MOC 2007 last year. Go government.
yeah wouldn’t surprise me. I’ve worked for the govt a bit in the past. They’re always pretty slow to roll out new things. Not as slow as some corporations, but still too slow for my liking!
Windows XP Pro at work still… Oh and IE8. Trying to get anything done on pages that run code designed for newer browsers is disastrous. Browser just locks up for a few minutes whilst it slowly decides if it wants to play nice. I can’t even get onto the Westfield website – just blocks it out telling me my browser is too old.
I’ve given up ever seeing Chrome or even IE10… Or maybe Win7?
We also have internal social network – Chatter… Some departments are quite active but it’s mostly a watlsteland.
LYNC 2013 REPRESENT.
Yeah, it’s part of the Exchange stuff. Office Communicator’s deprecated now though, as of a few years ago it was replaced by Lync which is a much better piece of software all around.
We use it extensively.
Dad’s company uses it too. As 90% of his colleagues spend 90% of their time out in the field rather than in the office, the uhh… PG version of how is described it is “Rather Useless”. I’m sure you can read between the lines
We trialled it for a month or two. Can be useful.
Bravely Default final battle and story spoilers:
@jimu @distantdrop
I just wanted to say I had a chuckle when it showed Nob’s smiling Mii and then Ouroboros blew up his world 😀Ha!
Yeah, I saw a few of you guys and my face was behind the battle, you notice that? Using the camera, like that papercraft Vita game everyone loves.Haha yeah I was like WTF WHY?! (then making stupid faces)
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/02/the-cars-australia-built-a-eulogy-to-local-motoring/#comment-2238721
I don’t know why I’m letting this Jester guy get to me so much. Normally I’d just roll my eyes and move on. Maybe it’s because I have friends in the manufacturing sector and know how hard they actually work or maybe I know how much a thousand a week actually isn’t when trying to support a family.
Bah. I just need to forget about it.
Clear the dude knows little about manufacturing or the economy either.
He does have a point (to some degree – mind you, not trying to take sides here). Skilled workers could be a bit of a stretch for some of the workers being described. Depending on the person, and the job they’re doing, some of the laborers are probably not as skilled as one might tend to believe. I mean, it is a factory assembly line after all. Not all of them would be doing anything that actually requires any diagnostic skills or any real hard thought for that matter. Quite a few of the workers would simply be assembling things in a certain order. Last time I checked, skilled workers actually required that some thought went in to the process, and they used knowledge that they had been taught (usually at college or uni) to complete a task. (And by that, I mean more than just which part goes on first, followed by the next etc.)
I think it’s a case of too much union bullshit fighting for more and more pay for workers who are unhappy with their earnings for the menial tasks they perform. Obviously this doesn’t apply to everyone who worked for holden, but knowing the way unions are, I’d guess that this is the reason behind most of the trouble. I’m sure there’s a lot more to the situation that I’m also unaware of which would contribute, but simply going off his comments, he does have a sliver of validity to his arguments.
Labour cost is one of many factors that contribute, sure, but it’s dwarfed in comparison to the influence of terms of trade, high dollar, and the relative dearth of subsidies in Australia to the automotive sector. Sure, a high labour cost won’t help, but I’d point to many, many other factors before assigning blame in that direction.
Besides, direct labour cost as part of manufacturing is decreasing as automation gets better.
absolutely. As I said, there’d be more to it than I’ve been privy to. I was merely pointing out that he’s probably right about some parts of what he says. I think the whole pay thing is a combination of union bullshit combined with industry… hmm I dunno what the right word is.. like.. you put someone on the assembly line making plastic toys, and compare them to someone on an assembly line making cars, who do you think is more likely to get a raise? They essentially do the same job, just with different materials, but you can bet your ass that the car assembler will see a raise before the toy assembler, simply because of the industry they work in. Cars have to be seen to be safe and reliable, compared to toys (which yes do have to be safe for children, but.. well.. I’m sure you get my point). The cars have a bigger impact on our every day lives, so I think the unions tend to fight harder for these things, and I’m not saying it’s wrong that they do, but sometimes a little perspective helps too.
The point i’d make there is that labour costs are all the way up and down the value chain, and there’s a bit more to it than sitting on an assembly line. There’s a large degree of manual fitting and fixing, as well as a number of other specialised trades including welders, painters and electrical trades. It’s not all production workers.
The reason you’d fight for holden is that value chain has a multiplicative effect, which a simpler product wouldn’t (to the same degree).
yeah which is precisely why I said it wouldn’t apply to everyone, and would depend on the job they’re doing! 🙂
Just knowing how unions are from working with the govt, it wouldn’t surprise me if they had fought to get much higher rates for people doing the said menial tasks as well.
That’s half the reason to be in a union though, they can collective bargain even for the “menial” tasks.
I’m a little sceptical of the unions’ grasp on reality at the moment, especially as there is talk that the public sector union is going to dig in its heels and fight for a 4% pay rise per year for the next three years. Personally I consider that desired pay rise to be lunacy given the shape of the economy.
Now I don’t know a lot about the situation or yours but I do know that the only person I know on over $1k a week is a diesel mechanic in the mining industry.
Personally that much for factory work sounds a bit OP unless thats including a whole bunch of overtime.
Edit: Sorry two people, the other is a Corporal in the Air Force.
Most tradies I know clear a grand gross easily each week.
Fair enough, but are workers at the Holden factories qualified tradesmen? ie, mechanics, electricians etc? I was under the understanding they were more labourers as such.
Edit, and dunno about where you live but previously mentioned mechanic mate used to be a fully qualified light vehicle mechanic and was getting considerably less than a grand a week. And that is about standard.
Light vehicle mechanic? Yes. Much less. It’s why I only did 2 years of it before quitting. They earn just over half nearly any other trade. Plumbers earn nearly triple. I’d do that but there’s the whole being a plumber side of it. 😛
Manufacturing plants tend to have a lot more qualified workers than not. It’s how unions can have power to bargain. Unqualified labourers can be picked up from the local Centrelink office no problem and if they start demanding too much they can be quickly replaced. It’s a lot harder to replace 30 qualified tradesman though so they’re kind of forced to enter talks.
Yeah plumbers make mad money.
Eh, as I said I don’t know a whole lot about the situation or if they do/don’t deserve that much at the plants.
Just that I would not say $1k a week is anywhere near bad money, and damn high for a non tradie.
I just bought a house, by myself, and will probably never see that kinda paycheque. A grand a week is easily enough to do well by imo.
Also construction sites are where the real rort is. You can get an additional $10-15 per hour purely from height and site allowances from a high rise construction site.
That’s kinda the sort of thing the guy was complaining about really.
Let it go and do you want to build a snow man stuck in my head
I dunno, I think I’d rather build one out here where everyone can enjoy it.
Plus nobody likes brain freeze.
Poor @freezespreston
=(
I don’t know about you, but it isn’t his brain I’m interested in *wiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
It’s true, she’s been texting the lyrics to me all day. The fact that I haven’t seen the movie made it a little confusing at first. =P
Sorry
Haha, it’s okay. Makes the day more interesting.
I imagine it went something like this:
“Do you want to build a snowman?”
“What? It’s summer…”
“Or ride our bikes around the hall?”
“Are you feeling okay, Scree?”
“I am one with the wind and the sky”
“I’m calling a doctor”
More like
“You you want to build a snowman?”
“uhhhhhh?”
“Let’s go outside and play
I never see you anymore,
Come out the door,
It’s like you’ve gone away
We used to be best buddies, but now we’re not,
I wish you would tell me why
Do you want to build a snowman?
It doesn’t have to be a snowman…
[go away anna!] Okay, bye”
“My name’s not anna”
Got stood up on a friend-date on Friday night.
Had the car broken into and my work laptop, awesome bag my sister got me for Christmas, and my moleskin notepad with 40-50 pages of my writing stolen.
Confronted my mother on Monday about her stupid rule breaking she does with my son (feeds him lollies, caffeine, chocolate, teaches him to climb on chairs and tables and take things off shelves). She wasn’t happy about it.
…
On a side note I found the charger to my DS so I can finally finish the Professor Layton I started in 2012. So…not entirely terrible, I suppose.
man.. if she’s not happy about it, she shouldn’t feed your kid stuff you’ve asked her not to. My mum would never do that to her grandkids. No matter how stupid the request seemed, if my sister asked my mum not to feed her kids something, she would totally respect that. You’d think that being a mother herself, she’d kind of get that. All the feels for the lost stuff too man.. super sucks 🙁
My mum would probably do the same thing as for as biscuits and lollies. Part of being a grandmother. Although she would probably respect whatever we said if we specifically asked for it. She wouldn’t give them caffeine for instance.
Sucks about the car and lost goodness
*hugasaurus*
As for the Mum thing, I feel you. I lived with my parents for the first few years of my daughter’s life so it was extremely difficult to get my mother to abide by my parenting rules/style. She’d get so offended when I asked her to do things my way. I think they think they’re helping, and/or trying to make up for what they might consider mistakes they made when they were parenting.
You reported it right? Sometimes these things can turn up after the thief has tried to pawn or fence other stuff. They bag the little **** then find out what else he’s been selling lately. Sometimes it’s tossed as no-value, other times you get it back.
Die Hard 4
-Matthew Farrell’s chat name is F4RR3L. Seriously, F4RR3L? Come on.-“Hey, Farrel! Sully PDL-ed the new copy of Killzone 9. Wanna check it out?”
Guerrilla made 8 sequels in 3 years. That’s pretty impressive.
-I know you are meant to suspend your disbelief in any Die Hard flick, but come on. A Terminator action figure landed on the explodey button. That is a bit too stupid.
-The “car destroying a helicopter” thing would’ve been more awesome if I hadn’t seen it in every “upgrade to blu-ray” trailer ever.
-Does Mai have an adamantium skeleton? She got run over and just walked it off.
-It was pretty weird to see McClane against a technological threat. This is the guy that thought fax machines and microwaves were too advanced for him.
-When John McClane was climbing on the truck, all I could think of was Back to the Future part 3.
-Thomas Gabriel is a pretty fantastic villain. I was kind of lukewarm to him at the start, but he totally won me over when he was told about Mai’s death. I think Timothy Olyphant is a pretty good actor, and I’m surprised he doesn’t get more work. Seriously, when you type his name into imdb, you see I am Number Four and Hitman as his greatest achievements.
-I wish there were more scenes with Mai and Thomas Gabriel. It was clear that Gabriel really cared about her, but that was only shown after her death. All you got before her death was the tiny little scene were he kisses her and tells her to take care of herself. Come on.
-I think the movie went a little too over-the-top with the jet scene, but it was pretty cool to see, I guess.
-The CGI does not hold up. Not at all.
-Wait, McClane shot himself, and Gabriel was killed by the same bullet? Even by Die Hard logic, that makes no sense.
-You know, I really wish Simon Gruber had got away in Die Hard 3. He would have ruined the world economy. It would have made the whole fire sale thing even more impactful. Think of it:
Simon Gruber gets away, the economy is destroyed. After 12 years of slow recovery, things are finally looking up. Then the fire sale happens, and everybody thinks the economy has tanked again. Tensions would be even higher.
I think Olyphant’s character in this is how I would have liked a Nolanverse Riddler to be portrayed.
Really? Simon Gruber gave me the biggest “Riddler” feel in Die Hard 3. I am pretty sure the writer for Die Hard 3 took direct inspiration from the Riddler when writing Simon’s character.
But yeah, Thomas Gabriel was a damn good villain. He’s not up there with the Gruber brothers, but he is definitely better than Stuart.
Is less the actual riddles, which gruber did, and more the arrogant hacker who thinks he knows best that I thought would be a cool twist – infoterrorist.
Ah, Touhou. The game series that no-one has played, yet everyone has listened to it’s soundtrack. I wish more games had boss music like this.
I’ve played it. Too shitty at the games to get to the secret bosses but have finished Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Pefect Cherry Blossom and Undefined Fantastic Object and can get my way through most of Mointain of Faith and Subterranean Animism. I also played the shit out of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody when it was new. Don’t really like the others and I’m way too shit at Shoot the Bullet to enjoy it.
I kind of lost interest in the franchise a while back though, haven’t touched anything from Double Spoiler onward. Still listen to a lot of the music arrangements though, especially the metal stuff from UI-70 and Demetori and some of the electronic stuff (Alstroemeria Records and IOSYS especially).
I…have played it. Several of them. I absolutely suck.
Fuck. Lost my temper. I think that’s enough innernettes for me today.
To his credit he took it well, kudos to him for that
Can be a big difference talking about something unrelated to you and your field and something that personally affects you.
.
,
When @dc’s not on screen everyone should say “where’s @dc”.
I think this is the third time I’ve read this joke.
It’s about the fortieth time it’s come up*. So you’ve gotten off lightly so far.
* Just in case I sound bitter, I should say that I’m responsible for around thirty of those instances.@vonsack I’ve hit a wall in Game of Thrones PC. Basically you have to build your character perfectly from the start and if you didn’t there’s a fight that simply can’t be won. I’ve rage-deleted it from my PC. So there’s my endorsement. Up until then I was actually really enjoying it though!
Advance warning is good.
Oh what, really? That’s pretty shitty :/ Haha rage-deleted, I’ve been there a few times. Where did the game take you if you don’t mind me asking? Any impressive visuals?
As Mors Westford (a veteran of the Night’s Watch) you mainly travel around Castle Black, The Gift and Mole town, at least where I was up to in the story.
As Alester Sarwyck you go from Riverspring to King’s Landing and the Red Keep. The Red Keep and it’s dungeons are very atmospheric and well designed. King’s Landing isn’t as fully realised as I’d like but there’s also no need to make the locations too extensive other than to piss money away, so I can see why they’ve done it the way they have.
The story was quite engaging, I actually regret deleting it as I’m sure if I could just get past this fight (or maybe just piss away all my money on health potions aka dreamwyne) I’d probably be ok. Something I didn’t realise at first is that the Alester sections occur about 3 months prior to the Mors sections, so you start to see where the stuff happening with Mors was kind of set in motion by Alester. It’d be even more interesting if the stuff you did as Alester really changed what happens with Mors but I don’t think that this is the case.
I might reinstall it and have another go. I don’t know if Steam will restore my saves (probably not) but if it doesn’t maybe I will just build my character better this time. :/
Normally steam does store your saves separately to the common files, So if you reinstall you will probably still have your game.
Oh man I’m slightly tempted to pick this up now just to see those set places and learn the story. I like that dreamwine is in the game as a health potion too. If the gameplays alright and it has a decent story/enough atmosphere I might get it.
I appreciate the feedback friend!
The gameplay is alright except the some of the combat which feels very cluttered and messy. It’s really about using certain abilities in order, e.g.: use your knockdown ability then the one that does extra damage to people that are knocked down, etc. But when you’ve got three heavily armoured guys and archers peppering you and you’re fighting in this tiny corridor where you can’t see what’s going on because the camera keeps going behind a wall… GAH.
But for real if you get it cheap it’s worth a go.
HOLY CRAP I JUST GOT 52 IN FLAPPY TYPING
SERIOUSLY, SEND HELP
But really though. This game is genius.
So I played the 3 tutorial missions in Dogs of war
Seems to have a fair bit of depth and could be fun. Not sure how locked in you are to the team you choose or the people on it. All seemed a bit, pick one for the hell of it.
Haven’t played online yet or got into the proper army building. I’ll probably give it a go for a bit, if the battles are fairly short like the tutorials it might make a good lunchtime game.
The email issues seems to be solved now so if you signed up and didn’t get the confirmation email just login again and it will resend. Might cam immediately this time.
Talking with a friend about his day out with a ladyfriend today, and interrogating on who this person is. He mentions that the other day they saw a movie together. Robocop. Her choice.
See, @dc? 😛
I just found out that some of Tula Pink’s rare prints (fabric) that I’d being dreaming of one day owning were back in stock and let out an excited exclamation which Mr. Strange asked me about. And then he offered to buy some for me for Valentine’s Day. 😀
So now I’m very relieved I’m getting Mr. Strange something awesome for Valentine’s Day, too. 😛
So this is pretty interesting.
I love the Extra Credits series. I watch them all religiously. Always something interesting to say. May not agree with them all the time, but its always interesting. I’d also watch a full blown series if they ever chose to go along with that Extra History spin off they did about the Punic Wars. Very interesting and well presented
I think that athletes in Sochi should be more philosophical if they lose.
after all, you win some, you luge some #dadjokepagesix hi @strange!Well this is going downhill fast…
It’s a slippery slope.
You mate… are skating on rather thin ice.
😛Terrible effort. Sorry Red but after that I’m going to have to give you the cold shoulder
Every time I get an email saying “@redartifice mentioned you in their comment” it
ruinsmakes my day because I know it mean Page Six has happened.That’s an ice sentiment 🙂
Snow turning back now!
It’s Ok, I expect a cold reception from @strange on these jokes. I’ll just keep up the avalanche of puns.
Has absolutely everyone playing dark souls abandoned the undead burg? I’m trying to get about 10 seconds of footage of a bloodstain ghost for a video I’m working on and there’s not a feckin bloodstain to be had anywhere, even at the bosses!
Aha! Reverse psychology works even on Dark Souls!
Double Fine Amnesia Fortnight Talk
What Could Go Wrong?, Fathomless, Derelict, and ether all interested me originally.
I ended up picking WCGW, Derelict and Buried Metropolis for the first round. I don’t know if I’ll switch back to ether for this round of voting or if I go for something different again.
Also, I picked the zombie game from oldmate wossname’s pitches because none of them interested me.
I liked the idea of Buried Metropolis too but the whole “public Wi-Fi points” thing doesn’t go well with hermitness :P. I keep thinking public Wi-Fi is more common in America as well (is it?) so it might not be as convenient here.
I forgot to ask but did anyone else support AF2012? What did you all think about the pitches and prototypes?
I liked a lot of the pitches but being able to vote for everything and showing the votes publicly definitely would’ve influenced the way people voted. I don’t really remember the non-prototype games but I did like the stealth farting one and something about different planets and food and Zelda *shrug*
Black Lake was my no. 1 pick so I was bummed when it wasn’t in the top 4 but luckily they made it anyway. That became my favourite prototype while White Birch was my least favourite one.
(@beavwa @tigerion too)
I still believe the best AF prototype was Happy Song. It encapsulated perfectly the concept and the ‘feel’ of what could be done with it – a prototype doesn’t need to be a completed level or a fully functioning engine.
As history can decide the ‘winners’, it certainly seems like Spacebase DF9 (?) was the strongest of the 2012 batch since it progressed. I played that prototype and saw the potential, even if there wasn’t that much play to be had there and then.
As with DFA, I get a lot of the value out of the documentary. For the previous AF, while hack/slash may have delivered little more than a barebones flash game, I enjoyed seeing the programmer put in charge of the project and have to think about how to bring about his creation beyond the level of a solo coder – especially when he had Greg Rice, who would normally be their most senior PM, as a resource to decide how to use.
I guess it’s that sort of viewpoint that has swayed me this year – I voted for one game (STEED), and for two people to get PM / dev project experience – I really want to see the 2PP guy get through as that will be a great experience for him and his team (and for the viewers). Bring on the Extra Terrarium project!
My third option at Project Xing is locked in now that I’ve seen the interviews. It’s different, and it’s trying to prototype a very interesting concept. I’ve steered away from the more standard adventure game ones since those are the kinds of things they could develop normally at DF. AF should be all about trying something new.
Whoa, text dump. Eh, old page so only you will read it.
I read it!
How did I guess that would be the response when I saw the alert? :p
STEED
So how about dem videogames? *emphatic nod*
I am buying dem videogames.
All the singstar. All for Taybies!
I do like the vidyer
Games? On video you say? Hmm, tell me more
They’re just a passing fad, you’ll see. In a few months people will have completely forgotten what a videogame even is.
Kingdoms of Amalur. \o/
I’m having so much fun with this game and it looks like I’ve still got at least a third of the map to explore.
I really liked that game. Rough but fun. Shane it won’t be around again.
You rang?
For some strange reason, I started reminiscing about FishCam, back when it was on Channel 31 in the 90s overnight.
Those of you in the Melbourne and Geelong region may know what I’m talking about.
For the rest of you all, it was merely a test pattern, but instead, used a camera in front of a fish tank, and was accompanied by music.
It was one of the more popular shows on Channel 31, and at one point became an actual scheduled programme.
Oh lordy, that sounds amazing. We never had anything that cool.
@powalen
Firemblem? Kicarus?
1. in the mail 2. if I find it for a tenner one day
A tenner? For a Nintendo game? Bahahaha
It’s a nice way of saying never.
Or when it pops up at Cashie’s.
It’s been like $14 at Target and pretty cheap at The Good Guys a few times (I think I got mine for $20 or so). EB have recently had it on sale for $20ish too.
Solid game for that price!
My Target’s are still charging the full $60. I’d of grabbed it if it were ever that cheap.
I got both Tekken 3D and SFIV 3D for a tenner each at my Target. It must be decided at each store.
https://ebgames.com.au/wii-137166-Legend-of-Zelda-Twilight-Princess-preowned-Nintendo-Wii
Preowned, mind you.
Are… you asking me to compare?
Fremblem is probably still ahead, but Kicarus is easily my favourite Nintendo universe. Fingers, toes and other things crossed that it becomes a regular series.
I’m asking you which one I oughta play next :P!
I was gonna play Layton 5 or something new but then you were all HAVA KICARUS DAY! and I figured I should finish off what I started rather than playing a new game. But we all know you secretly love Fire Emblem.
Whoa, favourite universe? :O
Oh! I thought you finished Fire Embruremu!
In that case, Kicarus! Just so you can ride the coattails of my hype while it lasts 😛
Play Kid Icarus first so you still have a good game to go to once you’re done with it 😛
Play Fiah emlin when mine arrives and we can be Faih Emerin buddies! 😀
I would love to see a whole cartoon series of it, like the one with Palutena’s Soup. The other three of those four animations were ok, but that one was far and away the best. Perfect Saturday Morning vibe. Would watch the shit out of it 😛
It’s really the only series that would work as a cartoon (other than Pokemon obviously :P). It’s something fresh! Mario is a little too set in it’s ways now I think. Fire Emblem would be good too but it doesn’t really have recurring characters.
I’d love a Metroid movie though! Cartoon or Live Action, either or.
People go on and on about wanting a Zelda live action movie but I couldn’t think of a worse idea 😛
Interesting theory the other night. We were discussing Other M, and one of my friends said that he sees it more as an adaptation of the Metroid series. Then it suddenly clicked. What if Other M is actually the result of the original Metroid movie plans, now presented as a game!
I mean it basically covers the same ground as Fusion, which came out just before Prime which sparked all the movie talk in the first place. Plus it has the whole story-heavy focus, with movie mode and everything. Totally makes sense!
Fusion and Prime came out together, remember they linked?
I still wont play Other M.
I want a good Metroid already.
Prime 2 & Zero Mission were the last ones I really enjoyed.
Other M is a good Metroid. It’s just crap story-wise, a steaming turd on the timeline!
I can hardly remember anything of my time with Corruption. But I must’ve enjoyed it, my Wii says I’ve spent a hundred hours on it :/
I tried Corruption twice. Too shooty for me.
You’re the first person to ever use the words good when describing Other M to me.
I’d been asking around for a while and no one ever has something good to say.
If I had a friend who could lend it to me I would have borrowed it.
I’m not willing to spend cash on it at this point.
I’ve always been right up there to defend it 😛 While also shooting it down for being crap.
To me it does a great job of taking 2D Metroid and extending it into 3D space. I would happily buy another Metroid that plays just like it.
The game goes pretty cheap nowadays, last time I saw it was like $9 on clearance from Target. Easily worth it imo.
Hmmmm, maybe.
I have Wiiphobia, dunno why, loved Mario Party on Wii but not much else :-/
I’d just like to see a version of the game with sane controls. It’d be quite good if it wasn’t so hard to actually play it.
Hi
Howdy
Greetings.
Who was asking if Walking Dead season 2 was headed to Vita? Cos, yes!:
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/02/10/sony-says-100-games-planned-vita-year-borderlands-2-set-spring-release/
I was somewhat interested. I thought it was alreadyon there, but it’s good that it’s coming. And Borderlands 2. And the Sly Collection.
Too many games, not enough
timemoneyYeah, it’s hit that point for me where I can’t keep up with releases anymore.
Good times 😀
I wasn’t asking but I have been waiting. Good to know
Why does a chicken coop only have two doors?
Because if it had four doors it would be a chicken sedan.
Well, this was a thing.
The hell…..???? Thats amazing. What an interesting story
Not sorry.
wow! I prefer red vs blue though! Still very cool however!
Eleven and a half hours of Pingu?
…Nice.
What do you call a young mexican?
A paragraph, cause he’s not quite an esseWhy don’t you see anyone in the Mexican Olympic team?
Because anyone who can run, swim, or jump is in the US already.
What did the mother cannibal say to the young cannibal whilst they were in the nursing home?
Don’t forget to eat your vegetables!So wrong. So damn wrong.
…
Have an upvote.
Took me a while. A long while.
It’s wrong that it took so long for you to get it, you need to sicken your mind up lad.
I don’t wanna wait until April for the new Steel Panther album, I wanna see my name in the liner notes now >=[
Woooo! Finally beat my purity Nuzlocke run. I managed to beat the elite four and the champion with nothing but a Miltank, Swalot, and a Golduck and I may or may not have drank a lot of milk to achieve victory. Still, I’m feeling quite accomplished after that. 😀
Whats the difference between a purity nuzlocke and a regular one?
Oh and congratulations. Completing any sort of nuzlocke run is quite an accomplishment
A purity nuzlocke was just something that I came up with that added a little flair to the idea. Rather than only catching the first Pokemon in each zone, I could only catch the first single-type Pokemon. It turned out to be harder than I thought because I had to chuck out my starter when it eventually evolved and the Fairy changes got rid of a lot of the single normal-types.
Needless to say some of the gyms were just horrible to fight without any sort of effectiveness bonus. Also not having a single Pokemon with Fly was frustrating.
Oooh interesting. So many nuzlockes rely on twin typing for extra STAB coverage. A purity run would be much more difficult. I may have to try one out
It was pretty funny to take down the Dragon elite four member with nothing but Swalot and Gunk Shot. \o/
And then he died to a freaking Gyarados with Earthquake. /o\
Is it just me or do there seem to be a whole lot more comments in moderation lately?
The last few days I keep seeing the counters on stories going up, but click through to see about half as many comments and no new ones since the last time.
You’re getting paranoid, Gooks.
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I think the counters broken. If you want an example of how broken it is, check the recent gizmodo whitenoise.
Oh was that moderation? I kept seeing several stories with apparently a dozen replies but no content, I figured it was some database error
I don’t even know. That’s just my own guess, I have no idea if they come up on the counters or not. Who knows!
I blame tony abbot!
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Nope! I don’t get moderated, but I DO get ‘you’re commenting too fast!’
Some rowers capsize.
You could say they’re in an oarful situation
-Goes to YouTube.
-Checks the “popular in Australia tab”
-Notices a clip from the big bang theory
-Sees a smosh video
-Despairs at a pewdiepie video with 3,000,000 views, meaning he made upwards of 5 grand on one video
-Eyes a Ray William Johnson video
-Observes two prank videos, one of which is titled “transvestite prank”
-Cringes at an Air New Zealand “making of” video with chicks in bikinis and a hashtag in the video title
-Sighs, acknowledging that his country is filled with these people.
-Rants in an internet forum in third-person
Popularity is wildly overrated and I do admit to a bit of genre blindness realising that I just upvoted your comment…
Most people are idiots no matter where they’re from
tvtropes is winning.
Oh god, my life is over! D:
I’m never drinking again*!
Pictures from last night are popping up on my Facebook wich are actually mortifying. I can never show my face again! I’m going to become a recluse, a sad lonely sober recluse 🙁
*excluding valentines day and the 22nd of Feb :3
Why can’t you be drunk if you’re in private since there’ll be no one to see you?
Could you not steal someone else’s face and wear that when you go out?
You’re putting the cart before the horse. It wasn’t because you were drunk, it was because you were outside the house.
I was getting wasted in the driveway to my house with my friend, haha! I didn’t even want to drink 🙁 Apparently I got so drunk me and my friend snapchatted a fair few pictures, which everyone screenshotted 🙁
There’s a… very lovely photo of Oliver and I on one pubs facebook page that was taken on Saturday night 😛 I hate it when staff come round flashing cameras at you
I don’t even photo well sober, let alone drunk :\ I’d be pretty pissed if staff tried to take a photo of me without permission, if I was sober enough to realise what was going on that is.
Still better than that stupid SuperWog show that got a contract with AdultSwim. I don’t understand people.
And reply fail. Intended for @phlanispo
ugh, I’m getting the urge to make dresses from Frozen and Tangled. but not for me
Why not for you? Not really a dress person?
because I already have a cosplay set up. =P
Do 2 at once, split right down the middle, no one else will think of that one!
37/31/37. Thanks!
Elsa, Anna or Rapunzel?
I’m not sure. Which do you think would best accentuate my features?
yours or your countless female friends? =P
The countless female friends are his best features.
Nah, he was asking for actual numbers. 37 in the first month, 31 in the second month and 37 in the third. He’s got a lot of ladies to get dresses for.
If you are really serious, I’d happily pay for an Elsa dress for my girlfriend. She’d love it.
Which one? Coronation, ice or young Elsa
I’d say the ice one
Coronation dress Elsa is best Elsa.
Oh shit, Shirley Temple died.
yeah. i was surprised too.
not because she died, you understand.
I was surprised because up until recently, she was still alive.
I thought she died years ago.
As did I. I remember when Michael Jackson died. I was more surprised that he was alive than anything else. Actually, this happens almost every time a celebrity dies.
RIP.
Sucks to hear it. 🙁
so early last year, my flatmate moved out & is now living in china indefinitely. fair enough. we came to an arrangement that i’d store all his stuff that he could’t take & didn’t want to throw out, and in return, he’d pay the internet bill. $60 a month is way cheaper than any storage facility & it was in his name already, so this worked for both of us.
last few days the net has been really shitty. & about an hour ago, it just stopped working.
guess who cancelled the payments without even having the courtesy to tell me?
also,
guess who’s gonna be putting a whole garage worth of furniture up on ebay this week?Don’t suppose he left behind any non-furniture stuff? 😛
there’s also a shitload of uni notes…
I’ll give you fi-
Wait no I won’t I still have all my uni notes and I think even my HSC notes somewhere.
I never went to uni.
perhaps I have the beginnings of a fraudulent degree in nanotechnology sitting in my garage…?
Sweet, we can discuss nano stuff.
Nanotech? You don’t want to be getting into that, your job prospects will be very small…
Goodnight, everyone.
Goodnight!
Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Although I’ve got no idea how that would help, it’d keep me awake all night, a bunch of caterwauling tits flapping about the room, they probably only know one or two songs and keep getting the words wrong and then I’d realise that angels are mythical and so can’t be there which means I’ve probably forgotten my meds again…
It has been a good night to Dark Souls. Although I did spent two mor hours on it than I planned. …But I did get home late, so I’m blaming work.
Cleared out most of the catacombs, unlocked the fire smith, got rank 2 with the chaos covenant, killed the ceaseless discharge, got the chaos ember, got the fire ember, mucked around with ascending a whole tonne of weapons. Productive few hours.
Is the catacombs the place that’s full of pitfalls & skeletons & has a view distance of about 5 metres because it’s blacker than a coal miner’s arse?
That sounds like the Tomb of the Giants. The Catacombs have the bloody mages that resurrect the skeletons, I think.
I beat it by having most of them fall off ledges for no reason. >.>
I dunno about the Tomb of Giants yet. The Catacombs were pretty dark, though. And there were plenty of drops and ledges, and loads of skeletons.
If you use a Divine weapon the skeletons don’t resurrect, so before heading there that was job number one – get a decent divine weapon. I had already picked some up but they all had faith requirements which would’ve meant grinding like… 400,000 souls to use. So screw that.
I went to the New London Ruins first, to get the Very Large Ember, upgraded my Balder Side Sword to +15, and could one-hit the skeletons. Gave me enough time to track down the Necromacers and dispatch them.
I enchanted my zweihander, because while I’m sure it’s probably better used on something else, I find it way too slow for my tastes and I don’t like the direction it moves, the parts of the hitbox it hits.
I’m thinking of the spot right off the firelink shrine after the graveyard where you can get the zweihander. I suspect I’m going to have to look for/make a divine weapon as @transientmind suggested but then I have no faith. Nor does my character.
Enchanting a +5 weapon with divine at whatsisface was the way for me – even a high-powered weapon required no faith. It’s probably just the special/named ones with it built in which require that.
Ahhh good old whatsisface, he’s over in thereabouts isn’t he? I might need to grind out some doohickeys to trade though
Somebody of Astoria! Beardy mcBristleface! Endlessly hammering in a way that I’m pretty confident annoys my neighbours when I’ve spent too much time at the bonfire directly above him sorting my shit out. Between the Parish and Sen’s Fortress.
And rather than grinding the doo-hickeys (green shards) to give to him for it (I had plenty of success with the slimes in the depths, though), you can just buy them from the Giant in Anor Londo.
Yo peeps, I’m having an internal first world debate, and I was wondering if anyone had any input. I’m tossing up between picking up an Xbone or a new GPU. Currently I can run things pretty well, but my 580 is sort of getting a little long in the tooth, so I was considering holding out for a bit and getting something from Nvidia’s next line of cards, maybe seeing if I could pick up a g-sync monitor because the tech seems cool. Alternately, I like both Forza and Dead Rising, so I was considering an Xbone purely for them, hoping for whatever else comes along in the future.
So uh, yeah, thoughts, opinions, “Christ you live a cushy life Blaghs”?
Oh, I guess, worth pointing out that I have a PS4, which is a pretty cool guy, so I’m covered in terms of non PC games already…
Completely biased opinion: do anything that isn’t buying the Bone, purely because its controller is rubbish. Especially in comparison to the PS4’s.
It’s kind of weird that you dislike it. But hey, I haven’t tried it, so I can’t comment.
I have 2 PS4 controllers already, and they’re pretty great. Since I have no friends it means that one of them is on PC duty all the time anyway, so I’d only be using the bone one for exclusives, at least until decent PC support is implemented, and depending on taste, of course.
What makes you say that?
You I like 😛
What don’t you like about the XBone controller?
Everything. It’s the cheapest most horrible-feeling first party controller I’ve ever used. You could easily convince me that it’s actually a third party knockoff. The buttons are all loose and horrible, the control sticks don’t feel right at all, and the analogue triggers feel more like these weird pieces of plastic that you flex rather than actual triggers at all. Nothing about it feels in any way quality, sturdy or comfortable.
And it’s not Nintendo fanboyism showing through or anything. The Xbox controllers were odd but ok, and I liked the 360 controllers. And while I’ve always hated PlayStation controllers I loved the DS4 the moment I got my hands on it. The Bone though? Ugh.
Ah yep that’s fair. The shell does seem a tad too light, but those triggers/thumbsticks? Couldn’t disagree more there.
Some of this may be Xbox fanboyism haha
The shell feeling cheap and light is my main problem. The sticks and buttons are ok, but I have heard reports of the stucks being loose from others so I believe it. There appears to be a variable build quality.
I really hope they fix this with the next batch of controllers. I’m holding off on buying any extras.
The home button on my day 1 controller occasionally sticks, but I haven’t had an issue with the thumbsticks… yet.
A question – wasn’t a removable / replaceable shell an important part of the design? For rage throwing protection or something?
I… have no idea. I don’t recall hearing that. I would say being lighter makes it marginally less likely to break something when hurled though.
@kermitron http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/how-the-xbox-one-controller-has-changed/
There’s a section titled “Go ahead and throw it”, makes mention of the skin absorbing impact and coming off, but not breaking.
Interesting. I don’t know how much faith I’d put in that though.
DS3 was light as heck, but it just exuded quality. Comfort is debatable of course, but you can’t deny that DS3 was the best quality controller of the gen.
Dualshock 3 was miles behind the 360 if you ask me, but I heard the PS4 controller (are we calling than a DS4?) has had massive strides. With the drop in quality of the Xbone controller, I’d say the DS4 is probably the best in the market right now without having even touched one.
I’m still partial to the offset thumbsticks of the Xbox layout though.
I thought it was the Sixaxis that was stupidly light (yuck! :P), and the DS3 was better thanks to the rumble motor weight.
The DS3 and 360 controllers are pretty much equal for build quality, I think. Doesn’t really seem to be much between them.
@kermitron Well yeah, I never said which was better overall, just that DS3 was better quality than even the Xbox360. Only the triggers let it down.
Yeah, PS4 controller is DualShock 4. I have one and it’s pretty neat, also DSE and some other stores have demo stands you can try it on. No demo stands for Xbone seen yet! >:(
@mrtaco it’s an argument waiting to happen, but: battery life, analogue stick movement quality, button quality, high-tech stuff like button pressure sensor, D-PAD YO, etc. All makes it higher quality to me, regardless of the comfort etc.
I’ve seen some demo stands for the Bone in an EB or two, maybe a JB too.
For me though, the PS3’s built-in battery pack is a MAJOR negative. Mainly because I keep my stuff around forever, so before long the battery life will reduce to nothing usable, and then things get messy. Plus having to stop gaming to go and grab a cable and sit on top of your console when the battery runs down is far more inconvenient than jumping up and popping in a pair of standard batteries then getting straight back to it.
The rest of it is all more or less the same to me between the two. I hate the DS3’s d-pads possibly even worse than the 360’s 😛 When trying to use it for Mortal Kombat at my friend’s place, the mushiness of the buttons left me with no real feedback of whether I was actually pushing the buttons or not, completely threw me off the entire time. At least with the 360 pad you can tell when you’re pressing it down, even if you’re not entirely sure what direction it is.
I suspect that comfort is only debateable with the DS3 if you have hands that are within a standard deviation of the size it was designed for. I’d put money on giant ogre handed freaks like me having an almost universal negative opinion on its comfort.
When I tried a DS4 in a shop though, the very first thought I had was “Hey I might be able to actually use this” so there’s clearly progress.
What I don’t get is why they can’t make a large & small variant of each controller since it’d just be a larger shell & lengthening of some wires. I’d fucking adore something the size of the original “holy crap this was actually made for ME and it’s so big I could kill a tiger with it if I needed to” xbox controller
The moment I picked up a DS4 I thought “Gamecube” and was filled with happy nostalgia. I would raise that there is an element of Nintendo in my impressions there, anyway. Nearly made me buy a whole damn PS4.
I want a PS4 #helping
I would say spend all the monies on the PC unless you are extremely keen for Forza and Dead Rising. If you can wait then upgrade the graphics card and by the time you can afford an XBone hopefully more XBone exclusive games are released like Halo and …
Uhhhh…
Ummmmm….
Did I say Halo?
(Something something master race)
You’ve got 2 games which is a good start and usually my bare minimum for considering a console. What games are coming out in the next 6-9 months that are either XB1 exclusive or are more suited to that console than PC (I may as well just say titanfall) that you also want?
If there’s 5 or more games that fit that category, I’d say go for the XB1, if not go for the GPU
Titanfall will be on PC for me, no question, I’m awful with controllers on shooters.
No idea what else there is, but I’m known for my lack of forethought and buying things wildly. Hell, I own a WiiU, so clearly I’m mad.
Good GOD, did you just call a first-person shooter ‘better suited to console’? Mouse and keyboard! It destroys gamepad. Every time.
Except the 75% of the time when it doesn’t
Well yeah with aim assist I guess it does 😛
Hey, I’m only talking about FPSes, where it’s 100%. Oh, and point-and-click adventures, real time strategies, turn-based strategy. You know, the only games which matter. Leave your other weird freak platformers, 3rd-person adventure, and driving games out of this.
It depends almost exclusively on the design and titfall looks like something made with consoles in mind first. There’s also preference to consider, if it’s a sitting on the lounge game or a sitting in a chair in front of a computer game
Mouse aiming is easier than console aiming. Of course mouse will have the advantage when pitted against a gamepad. But gamepads *feel* better to play with, as far as I’m concerned.
The real issue is that both mouse & keyboard and joypads suck for 50% of their functionality, aiming is piss poor on joypads without a lot of assistance and movement on keyboards is shit. @transientmind is entirely right in saying that in a straight contest of accuracy between skilled opponents who make no mistakes, a mouse will beat a thumbstick pretty much every time. That might leave him feeling all smug, superior and pc master racey but then put him in a race in GTA4 against a player with a joypad and watch the keyboard flounder hopelessly against analogue acceleration, braking and steering.
What’s needed is a new control paradigm and try as I might I can’t seem to think up a way that’s not clunky as fuck.
MMMMMMAASSSTERRR RRAAAAAAAAACE!
*hyperventilates and passes out*
And yeah, I was only talking about FPSes.
Movement on keyboard isn’t as shit as you think. The ability to have 100% movement speed in an instant, vs in a short while, is big. In fact, if you play actual hard-core FPS like CounterStrike, the side-step-while-aiming thing is an all-powerful move.
Also woefully unrealistic because inertia is actually a thing but I’m actually arguing against myself there because I was meaning the availability of fine adjustment leading to more control options and I knew full well that’s what I meant so why am I arguing about it with myself?
Christ, you live a cushy life, Blaghs.
Get 2 Xbones, one for yourself then re-sell the other here to cover the cost of both and then some! Cause you probably could do that.
GPU.
Depends on everything else, really. If money was really no object, I’d be seeing current-gen GPU, specs of entire system, resolution of your main monitor, etc.
G-sync monitor is only good in certain use-cases. You should re-visit this at a later point. Anyways, it’s like $600+ for a 24in monitor?
What resolution do you play at? Sometimes 1 GPU isn’t enough.
What games? Shall we just assume the blockbusters, hence the most graphically demanding?
Specs of rest of system – need it to eliminate bottlenecks.
Tbh, a GTX 580 running on 1920×1080 is going to mean you can only max out 90-95% of games, instead of 100%. Unless you pick up a $700 (8-900 in Aus) card, you’ll be buying one that’s ranked too low to see any benefit of an ‘upgrade’.
The way I see it, the Xbone is very unlikely to get anything that you won’t also be able to get on PC. It’ll be a non-starter in Japan again though, where PS4 will likely take the market there. Japan still doesn’t do many PC ports (I’m hoping the fact that the PS4 and Xbone are both x86 machines will improve this though) so you’re going to get console exclusives there.
Which is why for now my primary next-gen system is PC and my secondary is PS4, and I’ll probably not bother with an Xbone until they’re sub-$250 and have some actual Xbone (not PC & Xbone) exclusives.
If you have a PS4, I see no reason to get an Xbone. Unless you like Halo, Gears of War, or Fable, I see no reason to get the console in the long term. I have heard a few things about Sunset Overdrive, which I guess is a thing. But, in the end, most of the console exclusives will also be in PS4. But, hey, if you like Dead Rising 3 enough, there is nothing I can do to stop you.
Keep this in mind however, if the performance of a 580 isn’t good enough for you, I doubt you’ll like the way the Xbone plays.
Phlanispo’s Random Opinion Poll of the Unspecified Timeframe
What is your thoughts on Dead Rising 3’s aesthetic? To me, the original actually looks better, simply because it is more aesthetically pleasing to me. I find aesthetic to be more important than graphics, but you may disagree. I think Minecraft looks better than the latest Call of Duty, simply because the aesthetic is nailed down.
(I don’t base this on nostalgic memories of the original Dead Rising, as I played it a few weeks ago, and thought it looked better than Dead Rising 3)
Oops, I kept this open in a tab for an hour without actually posting it.
Aesthetics always win out over graphics for me, though personally I’m not a huge fan of how Minecraft looks (similar issues to what I have with Terraria).
And sadly I am a fan of Gears, Halo, and Fable, so I know I’ll pick up a Bone somewhere along the line.
And to continue my out of order responses,I don’t really know how DR3 looks, I just want to play it because I have a massive soft spot for those games.
I just watched about 2 or 3 hrs of Youtube…being sick is wierd :-/
I wrote a thing ages ago and only just now worked up the courage/stupidity to post it.
Also, I need to write more.
Thats Beautiful 🙂
Also you have cool handles/names/things.
Wait… Did you burn somebody’s house down?
There’s a reason I’m single, and hiding on a remote island.
Oh…
Cool.
Thanks so much folks, your support means a ton.
Nice. Wayyy better than anything I’ve ever dreamt up.
What, since when is “dreamt” not a word, spellcheck?
Dreamt, Dreamed. I’ll go with either ;P
I was woken up at 4:30 by on call… in at work by 6:10. fires now out and I’m making sure no-one else has the issue…
So tired….
COFFEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Acidic reflux /o\
After milling about with my laptop for a week, I realized “Wait, didn’t this come with something?” Then I finally got around to installing that SSD I had lying on top of my nightstand for, oh, about a week. 😛
I’ve still to get a caddy I need to replace my optical drive so I can stick in the HDD as well. Wish it was easier than that, but, eh, I’m the guy who chose to get a laptop.
STATUS UPDATE: Oh balls.
Ah crap, I missed page six!
#EveryPageIsPageSix
Lucky!
😛
I now know what 80 dollar work pants look and feel like, they feel like my 40 dollar work pants when they were brand new.
Yeah but did you get $80 pants for $80? A true man gets $100+ pants for <$50! 😛
Apparently I missed this, but Frozen is being turned into a Broadway musical.
So, @blaghman, up for a trip to the US?
http://www.broadway.com/buzz/174011/dreams-do-come-true-disney-confirms-broadway-plans-for-hit-movie-frozen/
(This better post this time. Its eaten it twice so far…)
I only just watched the movie! I wonder how they’ll do the ice and snow affects
Tear open a bean bag next to a desk fan.
Well being in America, there’s a fair chance they could get the effects astonishingly accurate by just opening the doors and letting the ice & snow in in much the same way we’d be able to get very realistic fire effects at the moment…
I require your opinions o’ folk of TAY. I need a new 3DS game to play and I’m not sure what to grab. I’ve already got DKCR, Pokemon, Kid Icarus, and Fire Emblem so I’m mostly looking at either Bravely Default or Link Between Worlds. Any suggestions?
Both! Plus Luigi’s Mansion 2 and Super Mario 3D Land!
Link Between Worlds is brilliant.
Shinobi is apparently $10 at JB at the moment, and EB has it for $12 in their current sale. Excellent game, friggen hard as balls but also as cool as.
My vote is for A Link Between Worlds.
I just finished Bravely Default yesterday but before that I finished A Link Between Worlds. Zelda is the better game of the two IMO and it’s one of the best 2D Zelda games. The pacing is great too.
Bravely Default on the other hand is still a good game and it feels like the Final Fantasy that never was. Reminds me of lots of early classic JRPGs and if you’re a fan of them you’ll love it. Compared to Zelda its pacing is terrible (the second half of the game is ugh) but it’ll definitely last you longer (in terms of content and hours to beat).
Pokemon, Mario 3D Land, Luigi’s Mansion 2 and Theatrhythm (especially if you’re a fan of FF music!) are good too.
The answer depends on how much you’re pining for FF5.
What’s in the news today?
Commonwealth Bank announce a 4.27 billion dollar profit. Yet they still claim hard done by and need to raise fees and stuff.
Mercedes Corby is suing Channel 9 over that movie because…uh….reasons.
And…I can’t read anymore.
Wow. 2 stories and I’m already completely over it. New record I think.
The whole Corby saga has just confirmed for me that the commercial stations will sink to any level for the “story”, even when they report on other people’s reporting in some sort of self-congratulation/deprecation.
From what I saw Mercedes Corby is the only person who didn’t look like a total piece of shit in that movie. Maybe she’s suing for de-defamation because she’s a money-grubbing attention whore in real life?
Maybe she’s suing
for de-defamationbecause she’s a money-grubbing attention whore.I thought I’d re-visit the comparison costs of new console vs. a gaming PC again. The monetary gap between the two is shrinking at a rate faster than I expected. Check it out…
Hardware costs
– New-generation console: $550
– Gaming PC*: $1250
Running costs for console
– annual online subscription fee = $ 50
– average game cost p/month = $ 89
Total running costs over 5 years = $5590
Running costs for PC
– annual online subscription fee = $ 0
– average game cost p/month = $ 50
Total running costs over 5 years = $3000
TOTAL SPEND OVER 5 YEARS
– Console = $6140
– PC = $4250
* EXAMPLE PC BUILD
$215 : i5 4440
$350 : GTX 760 4GB
$ 45 : 8GB DDR3 RAM
$ 90 : Mini ITX mobo
$175 : 256GB SSD
$ 90 : Mini ITX case
$ 85 : BD optical drive
$ 70 : 500W “80-Plus Silver” PSU
$130 : Windows 8 OEM
TOTAL $1250
So there’s the absurdity of cost for gaming on a console for 5 years using today’s figures. By this time next year, just the upfront cost of buying a console could become absurd, especially if the industry adopt Steam OS by the end of the year.
I stand by my assumptions made before this generation launched: These consoles are overpriced, antiquated and cause more hassle than they’re worth.
Wii U
-Initial cost: ~$420
-Online subscription: nope
-Typical new game: $68
Total over five years assuming a game a month is how you’ve calculated it:
-$4500
Not bad at all.
Are there 60 wiiu games worth owning?
Are there 6?
There’s at least ten, and another about to release in a week and a half.
What ones out of curiosity? I’ve not really paid attention to it since it failed to grab me initially
Nintendo Land, NSMBU, ZombiU, New Super Luigi, Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Rayman Legends and Mario 3D World are the ones I have.
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and Wind Waker HD are pretty good too, but no interest in those for me since I’ve already played enough them in their original forms and don’t feel the need to buy them again. Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze is out next weekend, it should be every bit as excellent as DKCR.
This year I think we’re due for Mario Kart, Smash Bros and Bayonetta 2 as well, so that should be pretty great.
Yeah I was afraid of that, my list still consists entirely of “ehhhh… maaaaaybe ZombiU?”
It’s kind of sad that the number of games I’d like to develop for the wiiu is about the same as the number of games I’d currently like to play on it.
I always find it confusing that people can look at that list of games – something I consider to be a ridiculously strong library for a console’s first year, I don’t think even my dozen GCN games could beat it – and just shrug with indifference. But then I go an stare at the entire shelves of PS3/360 games on offer in the shops and do exactly the same 😛
People are weird.
Well @mrtaco, you and I are two different people. At least I HOPE we are, if you’re a hallucination you seem to be having a much more fun life than me which is kind of depressing and if I’m the hallucination… just get back on your meds, wake the fuck up and end it!
Bright and happy games tend not to be my thing, I imagine them being the kind of thing I’d enjoy playing for a session but then not play again. When I was something like 11 a school mate had an NES which were pretty rare around here at the time and I finally got to see this Mario Brothers thing that magazines (which were a thing that existed back then) were going on about. I seem to recall coming away with the impression that it was okay , well made and clearly fun but obviously the people who were so impressed by that that they were giving it 10/10 hadn’t spent enough time with the C64.
There’s no denying that they’re often expertly made things and I can easily imagine sitting down to play one at someone else’s place, really enjoying it and buying a wiiu to keep playing it but then really never getting into it.
Wii U gets a game released every month? Wow.
I’m sorry, I had toA game a month for 5 years on a Wii U? Might be estimating a bit high there.
So far I’ve only been averaging out at about one every two months, but that’s still more than I can keep up with. The last two of my eight games are still yet to be opened 😛
Wii U aside, I don’t think I’ve ever bought 60 games for any console. And yeah, I’m behind on my massive purchase total of 4 games since I got the MH3U bundle.
My GameCube collection was the first to start going crazy. I forget where it’s at now, but it’s at least somewhere around the 80 mark I think.
Pretty sure Wii’s cracked the hundred now, and the DS isn’t too far behind. I may or may not have a problem.
I’d argue that PC game costs per month are way less than $50 due to the humble bundle, steam sales and all those other deals and whatnot. Master race!
Then again, it could be way more if you’re buying more than one game a month. I guess it also depends on whether you want to put in a bit of work and build something yourself, or just buy something that’s ready to go straight out of the box?
Yeah, but a pre-built system of those specs would cost about $2,500 because money.
You’re forgetting that annual subscription gets you 4 games a month. So if you want you’d be very correct not to buy a game on the consoles, pay the same amount and end up with 4 times as many games.
There’s no simple way to work out the value. A lot of variables to come into it without even taking into account what people want.
There’s overlap value if you get everything, and there’s missed exclusives if you only take one road. There’s no definite answer one way or the other.
Is that PC going to remain “current” spec for 5 years though?
Are you talking about upgrading? To that I would retort “are you going to upgrade your console?” =P
This is a like for like example. It’s a lot more common these days that games are made for a wider array of hardware. Arma, Skyrim, Battlefield, etc… all have video options to let them run on really crappy computers. And over the next 5 years, I think this kind of PC “backwards compatibility” will only continue.
No I get that games are made for a wider range of settings, I’m just contending that in 5 years time the “minimum requirements” for the latest PC games may not quite keep up with the hardware listed.
But the more I think about it the more I think they probably would. A quick search for minimum PC requirements on a current game (I randomly chose Battlefield 4) says a GT 8800 is the absolute minimum, and that came out in November 2006 (so 2007, lets say) – which gives an approximate “max lifespan” for a graphics card of around 7 or 8 years.
Consoles tend to last about that long. The last generation went unusually long.
Right. But, that PC is going to be well behind in 5 years, whereas the console probably won’t have even peaked yet.
Also, I just like playing games on my console. It’s easy, no fuss, and comfortable. Can’t account for that in cost.
The ease thing is a lie.
Put game in, download day-one patch (if there is one), still experience bugs, wait weeks for next patch to pass platform certification, rage quit because another game got released broken. What about this is easy?
And if you’re already saying ‘that doesn’t happen with every game’, well patching and driver updates don’t happen with every PC game either.
This “ease” thing for console is as much bullshit as the perception that you have to spend hours in front of a PC to get a single game running.
Except about a quarter of my Steam library won’t even launch and just gives a bunch of errors. I’ve spent hours on them researching and trying to make them run with no luck. Never had that happen on a console.
Uhh.. It’s not a lie. At all. Why would anyone use a console if it’s as difficult as you seem to think?
I’ve got nothing against PC gaming, but it just ain’t for me.
You obviously have a very strong opinion here, and went into your original post with a point to prove, which is just an awful way to provide a fair and balanced comparison.
Was I getting paid for that? Which part of my name said “journalist” haha. There’s no prerequisite for objectivity here.
My comparison was to show the shrinking monetary differenc between the two and why consoles are not as they used to be, due to a number of reasons (some being the advancements PC-centric companies have delivered, ironically, by watching what last generation’s console did right.)
The worst I’ve ever experienced is:
– Put game in.
– Download update.
– Play.
I’m not sure how those numbers lead you to this conclusion. The difference would be insignificant on your calculations if the console hardware was free.
pay me and I’ll write you a decent piece on it.
Only if you pay me the same amount to read it.
thats the problem with kids these days. They expect everything to be free.
EDIT: except when getting internet access on a gaming platform, they’re ok with handing over cash for that lol.
These figures may be correct for you, but they assume a hell of a lot about others’ buying habits.
I feel like you’re just trying to start a PC vs. Console flamewar and this is the wrong place for that.
Nope, no flame war at all.
My original point was to show to people playing a lot of video games now and over the course of the next 5 years, they’re in fact not saving any money by sticking with a console (and I state this because “price” is one of reasons that gets regularly stated for why people chose console over PC.)
It looks like a bunch of people got butt hurt though, about me making a point about how PC advantages are beginning to outweigh any advantages consoles had.
I think the language used may have been why people perceived it to be an aggressive comment, and they reacted accordingly. Also, just coming in here and dropping your bomb without context was a bit jarring. There was no “butthurt”, but that’s a ridiculous term, anyway.
If you wanted a proper discussion, maybe you should have started with your figures and invited people’s opinions, rather than stating your own as if it was fact. That could actually have been an interesting conversation.
False comparison. You’re comparing price for *some* steam games on PC (the ones without Australia Tax) vs the local retail cost for console games.
If you’re going to compare, then it needs to be apples-to-apples on the game cost which is by far the biggest chunk of your total cost. Most PC retail games at launch in Australia are around $79, not $50. That brings your 60-games-over-5-years spend for PC to $4740. Factoring in the higher price for a decent gaming PC (the specs you cite will absolutely not last for a games PC for 5 years, side note, so your actual initial outlay is probably going to be higher or you’d need to factor in a few hundred a year for ongoing upgrades) they’re close to parity, but the more games you buy, the more the PC will edge ahead value-wise.
Disagree on your conclusion (consoles are categorically *less* hassle than building and maintaining your own Windows PC) but whatever.
The monthly game cost was average.
“average” should have been added to those two lines. It was implied, but not stated.
Was having fun with Metal Gear Solid 2 last night. As a result I know have the menu music stuck in my head. It makes things like sending emails and making coffee more suspenseful.
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I went and bought the 360 HD Collection a while back, and I got about 10 minutes into the ship at the start, and could barely play any further, it’s just so goddamn difficult to play with the fixed perspectives and lack of a camera control. Since then, the whole console has been traded for Steam credit, so it’s not really an issue any more… Wait… what was my point again?
Thank god they changed the camera angles for MGS3, it was a pain manoeuvring through a jungle without being able to adjust it. Its a bit easier in MGS2 as there a lot of hallways and whatnot.
My main gripe with it was I thought the PS2 cut scenes looked better :/ The HD version does make it look crisper but at the same time shows how aged it is.
Having fun with MGS2?
Is there a cheat for that or something?
Nope, just good ol’ fashion Hideo Kojima ridiculous bliss \o/
I saw Robocop last night and actually enjoyed it. I can say it’s the second best Robocop movie ever released. Sure, a lot of the social commentary is gone, but it is still there albeit in the background. Also, for people who were complaining that it’s not super hardcore violent like the original, they get away with surprisingly a lot. Seeing him without the suit is…disturbing.
Things I liked (spoilerised but no real spoilers):
-Built its own story. Takes elements from the original but builds on them-Focused on the “human” element
-Surprisingly decent action scenes
-No over doing references to the original
-Gary Oldman
Things I didn’t like:
-Why he becomes Robocop is a little lackluster but it does make sense. But lackluster.-It doesn’t seem to know who the real villain is. Is it the guys who tried to kill Alex Murphy? Is it Omnicorp? Is it the corrupt cops?
-Michael Keaton is kinda just there
-A little anticlimatic. It builds and then kind of just coasts to the end.
My advice is watch it as its own movie. Don’t try and compare it to the original. It’s an above average action movie.
Is it worth watching at the cinema? Do you have anything better to do on a Friday/Saturday night? No, then sure, go ahead.
7/10. Will buy on blu-ray.
But only when it’s a dollar?
I was almost going to put “for more than a dollar” there.
Are you sure you meant Alex Mercer? 😛
Hah, whoops. Fixed.
Yes, but the important question is did you take a date?
I did not. Just saw it with a friend.
I’ll stop poking fun at you.
He did ask me along, but I’d already seen it.
Because you hate doing things with me.
Why don’t you love me?!
Agreed.
I totally went in prepared to leave the cinemas with removed eyesballs but I enjoyed it.
That scene where they show what they left of him, holy balls that was creepy! Imagine seeing your lungs inflate and deflate like that.The way it lingered on it to the point of uncomfortable. Gah. And I’m not normally squeemish.
I saw the original Robocop when I was probably 6 years old and the level of violence where Murphy gets shot up scared the piss outta me.
Haha, yes! There is a whole generation of people out there, including me, who grew up in the 90’s and saw the Robocop cartoon first. Then promptly rented the VHS tape and had their little minds shattered. I’ve had the “that movie scared the fuck outta me as a kid” convo so many times.
Clarence Boddickers “Nanananana…nanananana” *Boomhandshot* up until the final bullet in Murphy’s head stuck with me for ages.
It’s kind of messed up how many cartoons were based on stuff I’d consider unsuitable for kids. Remember Toxic Avengers? Based on the Toxic Crusader movies which were cheesy horror b-movies with lots of gratuitous nudity (the titular Toxic Crusader was a nerd who, following a prank, fell into some toxic waste, mutated, and then got revenge on all the cool and popular kids who bullied him).
Oh man those practical effects. The one where they run over that kid’s head in the car and pop it. Blergh.
If he has a blind girlfriend then I saw that movie as a kid too!
Yeah, I think he meets a blind girl after his mutation. I saw the first three movies one summer at a friend’s place when I was somewhere around 10-12.
Fark, I never even knew there was a Robocop cartoon! I know what I’ll be looking for through totally legitimate channels soon.
From memory as a kid it wasn’t too bad 🙂
I only have fleeting memories of ever seeing the originals, which leads me to believe that I’ve never actually watched the two movies, only seen random youtube clips etc… I feel I should rectify this rather quickly.
Robocop 2 and 3 were terrible. Honestly, don’t even bother with them.
Wait… there was a Robocop 3? I honestly thought it was only 1 & 2…
There is a Robocop 3 and people forget it for good reason.
Is it any wonder? I mean look at those graphics
What? 2 was great!
3 drive Frank Miller out of the film industry for decades though.
It has been a while since I saw 2. Maybe I need to rewatch it but I recall it being bad.
I swear that being poor is holding me back D=
I would have started on more of the projects if I could afford more material =P
I’ve had the same issue over the last few months. I finished a contract-based job in September, then went on holidays to the US for 6 weeks (so couldn’t really apply for jobs before I left) and by the time I got back, it was a month out from Christmas (when it appears that many companies either shut down completely, or freeze all hiring completely…)
I’ve only started a new job last week, so I’m starting to put a few things back in motion that have been on the backburner for almost 6 months (like finally using that RAID card I bought to build a plex-based media server at home… mmm RAID…)
You’re correct. The only way to really get forward in this life is:
A) Get everything you need given to you.
B) Get lucky as fuck.
There is no other way.
Yeah. Hard work and determination don’t get you anywhere. Even if you’re in a high paying industry and you’re great at what you do, you’re still going to be under someone’s boot and probably completely burn out trying to please them.
Back in the 70s people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were visionaries and built empires. Now visionaries just get hired by Google.
I think you already have too many projects currently on the go. =P
Can’t have. I’m too bored.
I think that’s what she needs materials for, a clone so she can get more work done. Hmm, Cloning Scree… I’m getting an idea for a game… How do you feel about occasionally being half frog or half sheep, @Scree?
I don’t know how that would help =P
Well you could sheer SheepScree to get wool and FrogScree could… Yeah okay I’m not sure what she could do, find things underwater for you or something, perhaps eat files that are annoying you?
That’s what my dog is for? =P
This is why when I actually have money I’ll stock up my stash so that everything is there for those times when I can’t afford to buy anything. I also try and stock up during the sales. There are ways around being poor holding you back, but they just take a bit more forethought and sacrifice. For instance, I’ve hardly bought any games and forgone most collector’s editions of games for at least the last year in order to have enough money for my projects.
Yeah, I haven’t really bought any games aside from the singstar ones. Lincroft is having a half price fabric sale but I managed to find one of the materials I was looking for cheaper in a small shop.
You only really need one kidney after all…
Umm, not trying to be insensitive or anything (cause I know what it’s like to be unemployed), but are you able to be employed at all? It might be better for you in the long-run to put some of your projects on the back-burner until you have an income (even if it’s only a small one) of some sorts. I think I recall you saying you get centrelink, but if it’s anything like my student allowance payments then it’s really not a viable income source.
I am a full time carer for my mother. I’m not allowed to work on the payment.
Hmm, that’s a tough situation. It might be something you’d need to discuss with centrelink or something. Hopefully it all works out though.
The projects are just making stuff for Tay people.
Centrelink: Here’s not quite enough money. Remember that if you earn any more you have to declare it so we can give you a bit less and make sure you always have just a little bit too little. Good news though, by the end of 2015 we expect payments to have risen by as much as 30c!
I get a supplement for being a carer. But of the $900 I get, $600 goes to mum for rent. On top of that, I pay the phone and internet bills. I also give extra to Mum for rates so it doesn’t come out of our food money
Yesterday afternoon I swapped desks at my office, moving to a far better spot. It doesn’t happen often where you can move, so I took it. A change is as good as a holiday, they say!
This morning I also cracked open a new razor. One of those vibrating-handle ones. Fresh blades, dat vibration, hydrating gel reservoir. Mmmmm…
Today will hopefully be a good day. 🙂
That was… oddly sexual…
Hey man. You really freaked my wife out asking if her name was Lea.
Ummm… I’m not quite sure what’s happening. Are you mad at me? Why comment on this un-related post if you’re not? D: I wasn’t trying to be offensive or anything, if that’s how it came across.
*genuinely slightly panicking*
Edit: unless Lea actually is her name and you/her are wondering if I am someone at her work? *resumes panicking, just in case*
Her names not Leah. Now. She was born in Mackay and adopted out at birth but her birth mother named her Leah.
You being from Mackay and mentioning that one specific name gave her an aneurysm.
He did say Le-a though, which I assume was a joke name, pronounced Le-dash-a.
Everyone stop panicking.
Ohhhh, I see. That’s a pure coincidence. You said she has an uncommon name, I replied ‘Le-a’ as in the infamous ‘Ledasha’.
Also I’m not ‘from’ here, I just happen to reside here at this point. 😛
Uh, I’m suddenly seeing a lot of claims from people that Lorde’s grammy acceptance speech was actually a lizard people type rant but the organisers switched the broadcast to a rehearsal speech to suppress the truth.
I didn’t know they gave grannies away.
You know, kids these days and the crazy things they’re into.
This week it’s Opinions Page 7.
DS# IS HIGHER QUALITY MUMBLE GRUMBLE BLAARGH
I though every page was opinions page?
#EVERYPAGEISPAGESIX >:(
Yeah, well, that’s just like, your opinion, man.
You want my opinions?
-Banana’s are disgusting
-Algae is too hard to get out of a tropical fish tank
-Muscles hurt more than they should when I’m only trying to help them
-Savoury Shapes may be accurately named in that they’re not sweet and they are in shapes but they’re nothing special
-I’m annoyed how hard it is to find weapons in DayZ Standalone but I’d probably be equally annoyed if it was easy to find them
-Banana’s are still disgusting
-The human body should be modular so I can take my nose off and clean my sinuses thoroughly
-It sickens me to think that the first exposure to gaming that numpties might have is something like dungeon keeper mobile and that they might think that was the kind of thing I was evangelising as better than movies & TV
-Despite the fact that it’s just a missing JPG from months ago, I’m still pissed off that uplay fucked my Trials Evolution Gold save and now claims I don’t have the platinum medal on Gigatrack despite my recorded time being a good 5 seconds under the target time with no faults & being in the top 300 on the leaderboard.
-If I had supreme power for a few seconds, I’d rearrange the planet so we only had one timezone because trying to organise games with mates on the other side of the planet is fucking irritating
-Seriously, banana’s are fucking disgusting
Yeah, well, that’s just like, your opinion, man.
Dear Gooky Taco,
We are currently on #LetterWritingPage7. Please move your proposal to another page. I look forward to #OpinionsPage11 becoming a thing.
Sincerely,
Phlanispo
Take a look around. Yours is the only letter here 😛
Dear Gooky Taco,
Can’t you let me live in denial? It’s bliss here.
Sincerely,
Phlanispo
All this talk of Robocop brought me back to the horrible old movie tie-in video game I used to play on the Commodore 64 (Yeah you young’ins, that was the original 64, ya dig??).
I’m hearing good things about the Lego Movie game, but I can’t remember the last time I played a movie tie-in video game that I liked on it’s own (you know, as a separate thing from the movie).
What was the last good movie video game you played? I think mine might have been LOTR: RoTK waaaay back in 2003…
Thor DS. Pretty simple/barebones beat-em-up, but typically solid delivery from WayForward. And totally worth it for ten bucks 😛
Goldeneye on the N64.
Edit: Before that, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (SCUMM)
Agreed. Goldeneye. o/
Man, you guys are going back pretty far.
What about Rogue Leader? Not sure how much of a movie game that is, but kinda.
That’s more of a comic tie in, didn’t it deal with the world devastator & reborn emperor stuff?
I think that might have been Rogue Squadron? Rogue Leader took on more of the original trilogy stuff.
That’s a valid point. I’m having trouble defining the mental line I’ve drawn with stand alone content vs directly tied movie content, but Rogue Leader isn’t raising the same mental flags that my initial response items do, if that makes any sense.
This is describing my mindthoughts perfectly 😛
The Star Wars games would probably be best described as universe tie ins rather than specifically movie tie ins.
Obviously within that there were specific tie ins like The A2600 Empire Strikes Back or the surprisingly not shit Xbox/PS2 Revenge Of The Sith game. Then there’s things that muck about with the setting like Jedi Power Battles which might be very broadly defined as a tie in for Phantom Menace since it used the setting but not really the story or the pod racing game which was more taking one scene and making a game from it.
Stuff that uses the EU like Rogue Squadron or Shadows Of The Empire would surely not count as movie tie in but obviously are Star Wars games and then there’s completely original stuff set in the Star Wars universe like Republic Commandos, Jedi Knight, The Force Unleashed or Knights Of The Old Republic.
It works the same with other things to, Blood Stone is a James Bond game (and a pretty damned good one) but isn’t a movie tie in whereas the treyarch Quantum Of Solace game was a movie tie in and should be killed with fire along with the source code and computers used to develop it, perhaps the building as well, just to be on the safe side.
My favourite movie tie-in game was A Bug’s Life on the PS1 😛
X-Men: Origins – Wolverine comes to mind for me.
Yeah, ROTK was surprisingly addictive.
There sure aren’t many great ones. Not since Super Star Wars, and the epic early-nineties Disney games, anyway.
Oh, not a movie but Batman: Brave and the Bold! Again, WayForward strutting their stuff 😛 But I really liked that. Also on Wii, the Godfather game was pretty good.
How about Aliens on the C64? The good one made by Activision that is, not the shitty version (I think by US Gold)
Well I actually enjoyed the pod racing game from episode 1
Battle for middle earth was a good RTS in the LOTR universe.
Lego star wars was also good.
Dear Quiz_b
Depends. By the caliber of what I liked as a kid, or what I actually think of today? Because, as a kid, Monster’s Inc and Lilo&Stitch on the Playstation were the shit. Nowadays, I realise that they are mediocre, at best.
Sincerely,
Phlanispo
Currently writing a two page brief explaining why it’s impossible to see into the future. Am tempted to replace it with two pages of “You’re an idiot. You’re an idiot.”
@transientmind, you seem to be the resident professional self-sabotager here; what’s your opinion on this?
I thought it was possible from a physics-ain’t-gonna-smack-you-down POV to view the future, but not the past?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Time_travel_to_the_future_in_physics
Rephrase: It’s impossible for my department to see into the future, because we don’t have a science lab or NASA’s budget. 😛
Ha, carry on then. 😛
Not with that attitude it isn’t.
NASA can’t even see the present on NASA’s budget. (Even though they’re technically looking at/for the past, as it’s delivered to us from light-years away.)
It’s perfectly normal to view the past. Astronomers do it all the time. In fact whenever you see anything, you’re seeing what already happened fractions of a second before.
Zing!
Dear Negative Zero,
You have been watching the Vsauce YouTube channel, haven’t you?
Sincerely,
Phlanispo
No?
I am a bit of a science / astronomy / cosmology fan though.
Chew three sticks of gum and vent to your more reliable coworkers, then go draft a sensible, politic-friendly email.
As often as I seem to make the self-sabotaging snarky remarks for the sake of being a smartass, I am actually usually the voice of reason and temperance in modifying my team’s mails when they ask for communication advice on issues that have them steamed up. Helps keep us all out of trouble – I can actually play diplomat pretty well.
And just like I tell them: take out anything emotive, anything that implies a judgement in the first half of the email. Lay out the puzzle pieces as facts, then save the professional (not personal – you are a professional, you have the expertise in this field and it should be respected as such) opinion for moving those pieces around and showing how they fit together.
Eg: In your professional opinion, the objectives are unrealistic without major investment in X, Y, Z resources. And without adding any values judgement, you can still be blunt.
(“The results desired can’t be attained. We can get close to an estimate if our staff are tripled and new systems sourced through tender, but not within the time-frame. This isn’t going to happen.”)
Then you recommend a realistic alternative, even if only as a, “The only thing I can think to recommend for results even close to what’s asked for is…” People get pissed off when there aren’t alternatives for them to look to. They might reject it anyway and try something different for themselves, but the one thing I’ve found folks hate most is just being blanket told, “I can’t help you.”
(Vaguely related anecdote: When I was in tech support, you’d be surprised how many of the senior, veteran testers would routinely tell a customer, “Unfortunately, that’s not within our maintenance agreement,” then just leave things hanging, with a customer who can’t get online and doesn’t know where to turn to. Even if you can’t help, you have to be able to tell people where to turn to next.)
#boringrealanswers
#hashtags4harli
I was just kidding with the tag. I don’t actually think you’re actively self-sabotaging yourself 😛
And I wasn’t seriously going to snark up the brief.
#moreboringreality
But why not, do you not have enough YOLO in your SWAG?
Yes. Another consulting mantra – never just present a problem, always have at least one possible solution. Not quite as snappy as ‘perception is reality’, but I think it’s close to #2 on the list.
Does it not simply reduce to “Our eyes work by registering light bouncing off objects, in order to see anything, light must have already bounced off stuff and therefore even if by a picosecond its already in the past”?
Unless it is light that is displaying things that are happening in the future!
So Lightning Returns generally seems to be fairly well received, with most places saying it’s an interesting game with some nice mechanics and changes of pace and everything. Plus it looks pretty fun.
And yet, FFXIII has a Metacritic average of 83% and LR is at 68%. WTF
I found your problem
The Kotaku reviewer was relatively disinterested by the whole process.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/02/lightning-returns-final-fantasy-xiii-the-kotaku-review/
Definitely doesn’t look like my kind of game. Shame.
When @blaghman’s not in the country everyone should say “Where’s @blaghman?”
“Where in the world is @blaghman?”
The person you were looking for was here and he wanted to study Saxon manuscripts. He said he didn’t like seafood.
#NostalgiaOverload
Edit: #HolyCRAPNostalgiaOverload
“Who’s @blaghman?”
“What’s @blaghman?”
“Why’s @blaghman?”
“When’s @blaghman?”
“How’s @blaghman?”
No one cares.
(@blaghman)
When’s he gonna get to the fireworks factory!? *starts sobbing*
A @blaghman leaves a country and travels north at 75 km/h. Two hours later a second @blaghman leaves on a parallel route and travels north at 125km/h. How far from the country will they meet?
Trick question. Nobody wants to meet @blaghman.
😛How about this version then:
A @pixel_the_ferret_viking invades a country and travels west at 75km/h. Two hours later a second @pixel_the_ferret_viking invades a parallel country and travels east at 125km/h. How many countries do they invade before they dominate the world?
Trick question, my Chevalier Piazza IX blew up before i got very far 😛
*baaa baba baababaababaa BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
And suddenly, a Bering.
i LOVE that that’s a thing now 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Lets just hope this doesn’t end like the last time you started a thing and invaded Poland
(cc @rize)
@cakesmith
Well it certainly ended well :\
me marching across the border and planting a danish flag going “mine” and laughing maniacally
And then when @blaghman gets back we can be all “who’s this guy?” while referring to @blaghmans reappearance in the country.
@mrtaco you want an opinion?
Video game villains are mostly awful.
Now you’re a villian bashing video games, which makes you awful.
*thinks*
…you’re right.
That’s not an opinion. That’s just cold, hard truth. TESTIFY
And because you said mostly, this statement is not countered with any specific example. Nice. And agreed.
In terms of good villains (well written and with clear motivations) there’s Handsome Jack, GladOS and…
I was going to counter with Handsome Jack. I’ve never seen nor heard of a better villain in a game.
Glados is fantastic too, but Jack is a personal favourite.
Hmmm… The guy from Fable 3? Alien chap in Saints Row IV?
Vaas in Far Cry 3.
I’ll get back to you on any others if I think of them.
Kefka. That guy was a massive asshole.
..AM from I have no mouth and I must scream..and uhh…Psycho Mantis.
I’m struggling to even think of videogame villains, let alone awful ones. Or non awful ones 😛
Literally nothing but Bowser.
Fanboy.
This is what you get for being a Nintendo fan! Embrace the master race. We have ALL THE GAMES. Or at least, several thousand more than the other platforms do, anyway.*
*I did not say they would be good, or iconic.
You know who was a real jerk?
That other guy in Pong.
And he smells, hence the name
In books and movies especially I love any villain whose motives can be understood, sympathized with, and even seem like a viable, reasonable course of action… if only it weren’t for the inconvenience it imposes on the protagonist, or the devaluing it makes of individual human life (eg: the needs of the many, etc).
I’ll just settle for villains who aren’t fucking stupid, that’s the thing that really pisses me off about most of them. Stupid villains being beaten by heroes who are equally stupid but just a bit luckier
The trope which pisses me off the most is when the ‘heroes’ defeat the evil empire which outmans them, outguns them, and has better training, intelligence networks, and no morality preventing dastardly tactics. That should be a no-fucking-brainer. But noooo, all too often our heroes win for the stupidest reasons possible, such as being ‘on the side of justice!’ or having ‘pluck’.
Motherfucker, I’ll take training and experience and equipment and utter lack of humanity and pit it against ‘moral fibre’ any day of the week.
And then the lair collapses for no reason…
I so want to write a movie which deals with a realistic professional force of antagonists against a plucky bad of ragtag heroes but seeing a bunch of dysfunctional yet charismatic tits get gunned down in 30s because they don’t understand elementary tactics wouldn’t fill enough time.
At least in Star Wars, Skywalker could cheat by using the Force and even then he was one of only a tiny handful of people to survive the death star run which was stated as being pretty much a token defence because they were about to blow up the planet anyway and there wasn’t any significant perceived threat in their initial deployment.
Happy Birthday @mythamphetamine!
Hey, hey @mythamphetamine, they say it’s your birthday. Hope you have a good day! Try not to burn down too many houses. There aren’t that many around, where you are.
Edit: Wow, that was total ninja, @welbot.
Why burn houses when there’s so many abandoned cars around!
Thanks, guys 😀
Have cake! But not sexually, unless you’re into that sort of thing I guess
Watching Let It Go in 25 different languages. It’s funny seeing what the differences is.
In particular, the Japanese version seems to be the poppiest and the French Canadian bit sounds like she’s drunk.
DARK SOULS 2 CHARACTER CREATOR HAS BEARDS AS AN OPTION!!!
GAME OF THE EVERYTHING OF ANYTHING OF ALL THE TIME!!!
Beardth the Scaleless.
Beardlaag.
Beard Gargoyles.
Gravelord Beardo.
Beardseeker Frampt.
Big Beard Logan.
Stray Beard.
Moonlight Beardfly.
Beardra.
Havel the Bearded.
Beardtorius of the Abyss.
Unbearded Merchant.
Gaping Beard.
Gaping Beard sounds even worse than Gaping Dragon…
Moonlight Butterbeard.
Ceaseless Beardcharge
Taurus Beard and Capra Beard
Priscilla the Halfbeard
Seath the Beardless?
Hahaha! Priscilla the Halfbeard!
Also it probably should be Chaos Beard Quelaag
Unbearded Merchant sounds extremely untrustworthy.
What about just moustaches? Can I have a Sir Hammerlock?
No.
Well, female character again for me then!
Can female characters have a Sir Hammerlock?
SSD conked out, can’t be detected by BIOS upon bootup or even as a external hard drive with a hour’s worth of toggling. Going to return it to the place I bought it from, although I’m sure the return policy is not in my favour. Might have to use the warranty offered by the manufacturer, but I’m sure that’ll lead to many a hoop to jump through.
Did you try turning it off and on again?
Even tried forcing a unexpected reboot.
Did you end up in the middle of invalid memory?
Oh really? Then why don’t you come down and make me then! Huh, what you think I’m afraid of you? I’m not afraid of you. You can come up here any time and I’ll be waiting for you!
Told her.
Just claim it as a DOA. If that is indeed the case.
Happy Birthday @mythamphetamine!
I got you a present!
http://tinyurl.com/nsttxxv
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEPH!!
Does that mean JC2MP Birthday Shenanigans?
“Go on, blow out your candle” *Bering comes crashing down* “HAPPY BIRTHDAY \o/”
I’m thinking we trick him into standing on a mountain top alone, then all of us try to Bering him at once.
5 berings, tethered together? 😛
That’s not going anywhere near the direction you point it, no matter how hard you try.
i just figured it would be a hilarious spectacle 😛
What are you taking about I’m sure it will-*remembers when we “daisy chained” icecream trucks to @Rocketman*
…
Yeah, you are probably right.
Haha, I read “Yeah, you are probably right” like this:
Tried it. Doesn’t work 🙁
I hate you.
You are a terrible, terrible person.
…
*upvotes*
I was just given a calculator by our supply manager because apparently I need one? Clearly they haven’t heard of/don’t use the computer calculator or, you know, Excel.
Go government.
Consisting it’s the Can-Do government just be glad it’s not an abacus.
I’m surprised by the number of staff here keeping notes on sheets of paper when there’s a perfectly good notepad.exe right there.
I can type at 120wpm, most people should be able to do 50-70 in a professional environment, and pretty much no-one can write much more than 30-40wpm by hand while remaining legible. Even short-hand would have trouble.
Then again, we still have people who insist on printing out all their emails to read them.
I wrote everything by hand and send it to the head office via fax.
The future!
I’m surprised that people are stubbornly persisting in using fax. I would have thought it would have phased out by now along with the pager but people keep claiming that it is “more secure” and “more official” than email.
If you’re wondering, shorthand can be written at around 80wpm but it’s surprisingly hard to find any resources to learn it.
I get bored.
At my old job, I always had a scratchpad to jot things down on. You’d be amazed at how useful that can be, particularly in a one monitor setup.
I short-hand a lot and I do use notes a fair bit because I tend to make little diagrams and what not. I use notepad on occasion but writing by hand allows me to not stare at the screen all day.
Also as an RPGer and scribe my writing speed is pretty decent. Definitely slower than typing but it’s okay. I also scavenge paper to a ridiculous extent so I reuse print margins and the back of pages to the nth degree. I do agree with you though as the main reason I print stuff is because other people want to see it on paper which is just uggh to deal with.
I still use my scientific calculator that work bought for me. Maybe I’m just in the minority that still uses it?
A scientific calculator I can understand as it actually does stuff the computerised version can’t. I was given a generic calculator with no special function so I don’t see the point at all.
Scientific is different, it’s heaps easier to punch keys and numbers than punch numbers and mouse over keys! 😛
Given the current governments attitude to technology, it might be a sign that the computers are being replaced with the things abbot was impressed with in school rather than scared by as an adult…
Oh how I wish a suspension from parliament meant that they’d get a caning. That would be one old-time thing I would want to see return.
I used to get scolded for using Excel instead of my horribly unresponsive desk calculator.
So I switched to using my phone, which also got me scolded.
In the end I went back to using Excel, because it’s just so much easier to track and correct complex calculations when you can easily see each step laid out.
We need something to say that’s the opposite of “Get off my lawn” for these situations. I’ve encountered that so much it’s incredibly frustrating.
I remember hearing a story about an accounting firm in the early 2000s that insisted on everything being done by hand.
Some enterprising new recruit did up a spreadsheet that handled all of his week’s work in about 5 minutes and then he just faffed about for the rest of the week. When he got caught, he proved that it was efficient by doing everyone’s work for the week in about an hour.
They did not change their minds.
Why don’t people trust computers to handle maths? Shit, I’m good at maths and I don’t trust me to do maths.
I’d have proposed a race with a raise on the line
Pretty sure @freezespreston got the dates wrong.
I’m in Sydney from the 22nd Feb through 3rd March, mate! Come down a week earlier damnit.
Who said he’s coming to see you?
…I know :'(
DARK SOULS 2 \o/
The bearded bearddown continues: only 29 bearded days.
I’ve made a decision that I’m not going to touch Dark Souls. I want to be rusty and unprepared when I play Dark Souls 2 for the first time.
I… think there might be something wrong with me.
Apparently there’s no invulnerability frames in the roll any more D:Yep, it’s true.
And also none when you’re pulling switches, opening doors, backstabbing, or going through fog doors. To compensate, all these actions can now be cancelled mid-animation. We actually have to be legitimately good enough to successfully dodge. I’m surprisingly okay with this. \o/I’m kind of liking this but also kind of not.
Let’s face it, the invincibility frames in Dark Souls are insane. Once you learn to exploit them, the game becomes significantly easier. I’m just worried that they’re now going too far in the other direction and dodging is something new players are going to be much more hesitant about.I’m more worried about how you could possibly play the game without using a shield. 2-hand / dual wield builds are going to be at a massive disadvantage, surelyOn the other hand, even shield builds are going to be forced to drop the shield and pick up a torch from time to time. Dodging (or at least parrying) might become a necessary skill to learn.Don’t forget the tried and tested “stand back to bait a lunge and then counter attack” or the cowardly wizard approach where you just run away until they get leashed back and then lob magic into their retreating backs.True enough.
I often use the cowardly wizard approach and don’t have any magic. 😛
Well, shit.
Heavy armour build, ho!
I still think the mobility bonus you get from light armor vastly offsets the extra tankyness of heavy armor.
I REALLY appreciate the <25% of encumbrance bonus I get to walk speed and rolling in my Wanderer’s armor. I have ZERO poise so I get stunlocked easily… IF I let myself get hit. The solution is generally to not get hit, or make sure I get hit in the shield. That’s what it’s there for.
Yeah, never been a major fan of defence over mobility in most games. If I have to choose one, the mobility wins. Not getting hit is better than negating most of the damage.
On the plus side, as long as they don’t also apply to the enemies, I’m OK with this.
One thing I HATE about fighting so many enemies is knocking them down and having to wait ten freakin’ minutes (slight exaggeration) for them to get back up again and recognize exactly which animation frame they need to be in before I can do any more damage to them. I should be chopping those things apart like firewood if they’re going to lie there like a log!
Good point! I do hope you can do ‘finishing’ moves on prone enemies. That would be all sorts of awesome.A few seconds of free time to smash an enemy with a two-handed overhand greatsword smash is just as worthwhile – and there are actually some enemies who you can do that to while they’re prone – but specific finishing moves would be boss.
It should be the equivalent of a backstab and a reward for knocking the enemy down since that’s often not the easiest thing to do
YES! I was messing about getting some footage last night and decided to commit suicide by attacking that black knight in the undead burg with a level 11 character with her basic mace. Did something like 80 damage on a successful backstab but knocked him down and so decided I’d try and get a heavy attack in on him just so I could get over 100 damage in before I died and it just sailed right through him
Stupid soulcrushing dreams. Go to bed relatively happy/content and then wake up miserable. I swear my own brain is out to ruin me sometimes.
Woke up this morning, walk out into the kitchen, girl I’ve met a few times before says “you have sexy hair this morning” before I even notice she’s there.
Odd morning…
Probably because you didn’t notice her. 🙂 The ladies dig that.
Depends on the situation, if you’re driving at the time they tend to be a lot less enthusiastic and you have to wash the car afterwards.
I shouldn’t have laughed at that.
*Upvote*
Anyone want to preview and critique my Kickstarter-in-progress page, please? Everything’s there except the video (which I haven’t made yet).First three affirmative responses get a Twitter DM with the link.
On second thought, might wait until the video is done and seek critiques then. Sorry for the tease.
I’d volunteer, but I don’t have twitter 🙁
Goodluck with your kickstarter project at any rate! 🙂
How do you keep up with Dan & Karl’s Zeitgeist, then?
If only Dan promoted it elsewhere. What to do, what to do…
😀
I don’t even know what a “Zeitgeist” is, nor have I ever seen a guy called “KARL!” around TAY before…
No one’s ever seen Karl & I in the same place before, either.
No-one? Including you?
No, because Dan doesn’t show up in mirrors.
Ooh I’ll steal one of the slots and offer useless advice!
…is what I’d do if I did the twitters.
Dm me when it’s done and I’m happy to review.
If you want ‘advice’ from someone who knows nothing about anything, I’d volunteer if you were still taking volunteers.
Klok Opera Only thing keeping me sane today
edit: whoo I did the link thing right.
Edit: any Metalocalypse fans up in here?
HORSE.
THUNDERHORSE.
o/
Right here buddy!
re watched The Doomstar Requiem Klok opera last night, so fucking funny. Was about ready to go postal in the office today then put that on and have lightened up substantially. Good old Dethklok
Ok, what the hell, I love Dethklok and somehow didn’t know this was a thing… THIS IS AMAZING!
Oh damn, enjoy dude, it’s hilarious.
Can’t deal with it.gif
I’ve probably been kicked in the crotch less than fifteen times in 23 years. What the fuck are you doing?
Canadians man.. nothing more need be said ay!
O_o
I get punched in the crotch pretty much everyday by my kids, and hope to be getting sports-type protection for Valentine’s Day, but your situation is flat-out weird.
Have you checked in the mirror lately to make sure no one has scrawled “KICK ME IN THE BALLS” on your face?
Cite number 8’s excuse- “Your face just screams ‘kick me in the penis!’”
She’s a subtle one, she is.
Wait, getting kicked in the balls is still a thing? I remember the phase in highschool when everyone would do that. In like year 9.
Er. No. I’ve been kicked in the crotch maybe 5 times in my 30 years.
15 times in 2 months is usually termed a fetish.
I’d best start charging then. :/
Uh. I think I’ve maybe been kicked in the balls five times tops in my entire life. And most of those were attempts that were blocked by me “catching” the leg before it could happen. And pretty much all of them came from my sister.
What the fuck are you doing?
I don’t know. “What the fuck is going on” is normally the first thing I say after these things happen, excluding the copious amount of man-sobbing I get in.
That is not normal. It’s never happened to me. Fuck that situation. Punch them in the boob and say, ‘lol jk it’s cushioned you can take it.’
Also that is bullshit and I hope you punched her in the boob before responding in like. As far as I’m aware that is the nearest equivalent.
Man, you know what I hate? the whole “which is worse, pregnancy or ‘being kicked in the crotch’ argument.” Why is this even a thing? when I had that sprung on me I goddamn destroyed that logic. Pregnancy is mostly a one, two time thing, any more and the liability falls on your shoulders. Crotch hits? Ohhhh it’ll happen, and more than once. It will, and it will happen out of your control. And at least pregnancy brings about new life- what the hell does crotch kicking accomplish aside from the potential to destroy the ability of giving life?!
Boob-punches were had, But only to those who I knew would accept it without raising a fuss, and alas there are not enough women in the world who accept these things.
“Accept?” Should you just accept being assaulted because the person doling it out doesn’t want to be hit back…?
Honestly, I feel like the age of no-hitting-women-under-any-circumstance is starting to dwindle into obsolescence. (Not advocating open season or anything, but not even defending one’s self because of some weird chivalry is kind of silly) :\
Equality has certainly made strides in that area , but amongst my age group maturity as a whole has and will stagnate for quite some time to come.
To be fair, almost all of the times afterward there has been remorse, apologies, concerned souls, a picture of two loaded unto facebook, so it’s not entirely heart-rendingly merciless.
Fuck them facebook photos though.
How old are you? Like, 20 or something? I’m 23 and don’t know a single person my age who thinks that kicking someone in the nuts is acceptable or funny. The people you spend your time with need to grow the fuck up.
19. Still plenty of idiots lurking about.
It’s not about growing up, though. I could certainly say that for some people I know, and god knows I entertained the thought the first and time or so, it’s that the universe is aligning just right for the planets to spell out “Fuck you and your prostate saturday.” I mean, these things just happen, private settings, parties. Some crotch hits were light, meant as a joke. Knees, you know? Just angle your body a bit and you can block them. God knows you feel it vibrate through your body, though. One or two, god, though, you would swear they were attempting to become the pele of crotch kicks, and it’s those moments which I’m most bitter about.
I just, I dunno man. I’m growing crazy paranoid. I could go into a library and the cute receptionist there could declare hunting season on my loins.
What i don’t understand and pardon if i’m being blunt, but why even hang with these people if they have a tendency to do that?
I would not hang with people where i would fear for my physical well being every time i spent time with them,
I would tell to kindly go fuck themselves if that is how they want to treat people and then jump on my unicycle and get the hell out of there
EDIT – okay so the unicycle bit was made up to lighten the mood a bit but my point still stands
Have you checked your back just in case someone has put one of those Kick Me signs on there?
@pixel_the_ferret_viking Jumping on a unicycle might be a bit of a bad move with just kicked balls though…
@pixel_the_ferret_viking this is what I’m seriously mulling about. It’s not like every one of them were horrible people, bar one or two whom I would describe as “firecrackers” at their mildest. They’ve all got a squeaky clean history with me, too, this came about completely fucking randomly. Passive as I can get, I’d not hang with people who actively cause bodily harm to me.
@aliasalpha
fair point… Segway? 😛
@saturday sounds fair enough too…
Sounds like you should either avoid those “firecrackers” (rawr) as much as possible, or have a serious conversation about where boundaries go…
There’s nothing wrong with sitting them down and say “don’t”
I’m a firm believer in universal equality, I’ll be courteous to everyone unless they’ve done something to not deserve it and anyone who is so blindingly stupid as to initiate violence with a 2 metre tall block of muscle (and too much fat) will end up a bloody pulp
Wait… you’re 2 metres tall? Holy crap in a handbasket! I’m about 182cm and I’m basically the tallest amongst my social group/family.
Pretty much, I’ve been measured at anything from 1.87-2.05m so I just average it at 2
Bleh, I know where you’re coming from, but I can’t agree. For me personally anyway.
I know, I know, chivalry is useless, unappreciated, serves no purpose in today’s society, and can even offend… it’s just too deeply-ingrained. My parents were big fans, and maybe even as recently as 15-20 years go, there was actually a pay-off, it was appreciated.
I mean, I’m not saying don’t defend yourself… Hell, I’ll restrain a woman who’s being violent – I’ve had to do that a few times, and earned a few bruises for my efforts. When my roommate found out her boyfriend had been cheating on her, she made a habit of – legit – punching him in the face. Like, with intent to do serious harm. I’ve seen a few blows traded in my time, and was utterly alarmed to see her in the process of throwing an absolute haymaker, which I had to catch in my hand before it landed on this guy’s waiting nose. (Which, due to the force, still almost did. There was maybe a millimeter space and he was left blinking in surprise with a fist between his eyes.) Something would’ve been broken, there. Nose, teeth, cheekbone, eye-socket, something.
And other times, you have to wear a slap in the face. That seems to just come with the territory of telling harsh truths to women who don’t want to hear them.
But if she’s really going for it, intends to do you serious harm, like swinging fists and/or weapons, I’m a big proponent of the whole, hands-up, “You’re insane and I’m leaving,” and walk/run away. (The ONLY exception for me would be a woman with lethal intent and a reasonable shot at enacting that intent. That should probably be subdued – and preferably with restraint, if you have the knowledge of pressure points and grips/locks.)
I just can’t bring myself to accept ‘fighting back’. A punch, or even slap…
Men are stronger than women. It’s just how we’re built. Pound-for-pound, your average guy of a certain weight will hands-down physically dominate an average woman of same weight. And the population is not evenly-distributed in our weight ranges. Even a thin, rangy guy can dramatically underestimate his own strength when lashing out. We’re just physiologically different – our muscles are wired differently, we have different proportions of and reactions to adrenaline, different metabolic reactions to fuel muscles in short bursts. It just doesn’t seem fair to use that advantage – especially in the context of women always having the grim awareness of that disparity over their heads every time they walk anywhere after dark.
I’m all for a culture of responsibility, and ‘you brought this on yourself’, but there are proportions and striking is the limit I’d draw the line before.
To be honest, I’m probably the same. I would definitely hesitate before I lashed out at someone, and probably hesitate longer if the someone was female.
But if there’s an ongoing pattern of abuse that apparently happens at random times and can’t be readily escaped from, then I think the line has already been crossed on your behalf.
It’s not really chivalry, its an appropriate escalation of force in response to a level of threat. If you can swat someone’s hand away, catch their arm as they swing or dodge then it’s fine to just render them useless but there does come a point where someone presents a legitimate risk of injury (after all, fights aren’t all about muscle mass or martial arts would be worthless) and that’s the point where the most efficient application of force should be applied to remove the risk. Gender really shouldn’t be a factor in the threat assessment because the chances are if it is you’re going to overvalue the threat from a man and undervalue the threat from a woman because society has had this protector/protectee role bullshit ingrained for centuries.
Yeah, look I didn’t intend to be so poetically-violent it’s just that in 2012 I had an orchiopexy performed so it’s a little bit of a touchy subject for me. The last thing I would want is further trauma done by inconsiderately stupid drunk bitches (or blokes for that matter.) Not cool and you shouldn’t stand for that – unless of course it is becoming a fetish for you.
An orchiopexy? Jeez, that must have been a thing.
Yeah, it wasn’t cool. The Codeine I received was, though.
…I seem to be really good at echoing the comments of others.
What the fuck are you doing?
I had this friend in High School, right? And we were just hanging out at lunch time and this broad strolls past wearing stilettos. We’re like, “That’s weird.” and think nothing of it.
We go back to talking shit when from behind us we hear “Hey Brad.” As he turns this chick kicks him square in the boys with her plastic & steel encased stripper feet.
Naturally, the dude goes down. Then he’s crying. Then he starts coughing and can’t stop. Then there’s blood in his cough. Then he just vomits, everywhere.
We’re calming him down and eventually he chills out but is just ashen faced for the rest of lunch so we take him to the office and he goes home.
That night, he’s tenderly checking his nuts. Oh shit, there’s a lump. He immediately goes to the doctor because, you know, cancer.
Turns out, one of his balls has basically popped and the lump he felt is a a piece of his once whole testicle, just hitchhiking on his other one. There’s more, but. Erections? Almost impossible, and you better forget about children, the doc basically says.
My point? Don’t fucking stand for it. That shit is stupid and dangerous and those idiots need to be told as much. Fuck them and their “hilarious antics”.
Or, whatever, if this is your way of seeing if we’re accepting of your fetishes then cool.
Wanna be on Dan & Karl VS?
Holy fucking shit.
I’m afraid my actual fetishes are not depraved enough nor my stories as embellished as yours as to earn me a spot on Dan & Karl.
I mean, we could have a point system so all my little fetishes count towards a grand total, but if we start adding up everybody’s disturbing traits I’m sure I’d still be outclassed pretty easily.
That… would be an interesting spreadsheet.
Oh god, just oh god.
*crosses legs , shields balls*
🙁
To be fair, but, Brad was kind of a dickhead.
Oh, well I’m sure he probably deserv-NO SHE EXPLODED HIS FUCKING TESTICLE.
Oh good, at least he had one dick spare. PHEW.
I’m feeling a little ill.
Waaaaaa…oorrrrrrrgh. Nuh uh. *deletes memory*
*twitch*
*faints*
The PS to this story is spoilered because it’s Zeitgeist level
The chick who did this eventually ended up dating one of the biggest douche bag nerds in the school. You’d go over to their house and there was black marks on the wall where he’d put his feet when he played Xbox. Anyway, they both didn’t work so she came up with idea of getting her asshole bleached and posing for Picture magazine. So, she goes and gets her butt hole all nice and clean and pays for the shoot and sinks their last few dollars into this gamble on par with a farmer moving away from corn to wheatgrass because that’s the latest Hollywood phase. She sends the photos to Picture and gets knocked back. So she sends them again, knocked back. Third time, though, and this package has some of the more “racy” shots. Nope. She’s the only person I’ve ever heard of being knocked back from being in the porno magazine I just assumed didn’t have any standards. Now she’s a stripper or dead or something… Maybe I should track her down for a VS…With this I have fully regretted bringing my post into existence.
Nope, just done, can’t deal with it. What have I wrought unto TAY.
Yes please.
You’ve got me curious as to who this was now.
I know who you’re thinking of and they got their photos in, remember?
In all their awkward, deer in the headlights glory.
I doubt you’d know this one.
Just throwing this out there. Y’know, just spitballing.
In preparation for the VS, you should get your butthole bleached and send some shots in to Picture. See if you get any further than she did. Maybe you and Karl could both compete.
Morgan Spurlock would approve.
Or you could go the Theroux route and shadow her for a week (but then you’d miss out on the bleaching).
Wait, how was that story needing spoilertags but the original not? This one is tame compared to the first.
I thought so too, but I assumed that was because of the “universal wince” factor that comes with any nutcracking tale.
Content, yes but this one has the words
“bleached asshole”and for some reason I have a problem with someone skimming through and copping that in the face.The other one eases into what’s gonna happen so it’s kinda hard to just get a bit and be like “Well that’s full on”.
That’s what I thought, anyway.
True story: when I first typed “original” in my comment I mistyped it as “origanal” and then giggled to myself when I noticed it because appropriate.
I’d rather cop a bleached asshole in the face than an unpampered one.
Nope. Nuh-uh. No siree. Negatory. Nooooooope.
Wait, he didn’t press charges? I assumed she was put on death row because HOLY SHIT HIS TESTICLE EXPLODED.
His parent’s wanted to, but he decided against it.
He’s a better person than I am, that’s for sure.
Sounds like you’re hanging out with some real [redacted].
At first i thought you spoke about crotch-kicking as a figurative thing, you know, having no luck with the ladies because she turned around and FIGURATIVELY kicked you in the gonads…
When i realised you were talking about actual crotch-kicking i was like
“WTF KIND OF PEOPLE DO YOU HANG AROUND”
last crotch tap i had was a wet towel during sports in school, MORE THEN 10 YEARS AGO!!!
what kinda people does that? seriously!
I have no idea why even one girl would do such a fucked up thing, let alone many. I have no words.
What the hell, man? I haven’t been kicked or punched or even bitten (well, apart from gently) in the crotch since I left high school. And I’ve been a complete and utter prick to like… a lot of women. A lot. Like, in the past fifteen years I’ve deserved some crotch-punishment.
This must be some kind of regional, cultural thing.
Not cultural. Not regional. Just crazy women.
I was kicked in the bollocks by a cow once.
I know cricket isn’t that popular a sport in Canandadadada but there must be some equivalent of the cricket box. A few thumbtacks glued to the outside of that should rapidly cure the whole ‘kicking someone in the balls is funny’ notion.
Hockey and football have em, I’m sure. I think they’re called cups over there.
Some of you might remember that there was a promotional flavour of V to promote The Wolverine.
It’s still on sale because nobody bought it. Well, nobody except me earlier today for $1.25 per can.
Coincidentally, that’s the price that the Reject Shop near here sells V they imported from New Zealand. I’m stocking up on that and the promotional flavour is … well, I’ll drink some later and see if it’s worth $1.25 a can.
The Graphite flavour was alright. I won’t miss it but it wasn’t bad.
I got handed a free can of Monster energy drink by a girl wearing a shirt probably 2 sizes too small for her. I kinda regret it because now that I have it I have to drink it.
At first I was curious, then I realized I can get 2L of vastly superior Coke for $3. So, no sale!
My local coles was clearing lemon coke for 75 cents for 1.25L bottles.. I quite liked it since it was coke with just extra citrus flavour..
Ugh, foul perversion of the sacred Ambrosia! I could only see lemon coke being worth using with, like… booze. That’s about it. On its own, it adds an unwanted element to the PURITY and SANCTITY of the HOLY COKE.
*evangelize*
Lemon coke is marginally better than vanilla, which tastes like baby spew. But all are inferior to cherry.
Which, of course, is stupidly difficult to get anywhere now as it’s import-only because the philistines in Australia didn’t like it and they stopped making it locally 🙁
I never got to try it. 🙁
Also vanilla beats lemon. 😛 HEATHEN. COMMENCE THE COLA WARS.
Nowait, that’s Pepsi vs Coke. This is more of a dogmatic schism… what do you call that kind of war? Let’s just go with The Reformation.
Eh coke already use lemon citric acid it only made the flavour more present, really. I quite liked it. Dunno why everyone got so upset by a flavour lol.
nutty buddy
Might I advise you purchase one of these, that is an unhealthily large amount of nut kicks.
edit: did that reply fail? this was directed at @saturday
As an added bonus, it’ll make your package look massive. 😛
I like the sizes, The Hog, The Hammer etc. cracked me up.
I think being kicked in the crotch 15 times in two months would already make his package look massive from all the swelling 😛
Well. Least I got that going for me.
I have seriously entertained the thought of wearing one 24-7.
When I’m working from home, I like to remotely control my work terminal, open up Notepad, write “h e l l o” and “I see you” and just leave it open on the screen.
Next message: “help… me…”
Daisy, Daisy…
“I’m afraid I can’t let you do that [coworker that sits near you]”
Leave a nice message for the cleaners.
No RDP? No locking of local console or turning off the screen?
D:
Yeah, it’s RDP I’m using.
I like to assume the screen I left on last night flares to life and all my co-workers in adjacent cubicles see these words appear suddenly.
In reality, the screen probably stayed asleep and/or no one noticed, but it’s a fun fantasy.
Yeah, as @beavwa said below, with RDP you only get the login screen at most.
You can use VNC, when you’re in the office somewhere. That has options to keep screen on. I used this to turn on/off music at random times of the day whilst at uni dorms…. conveniently during the time the cleaners were there.
Unfortunately, when I remotely access my machine there’s only a lock screen visible on the local side.
When I was in year 11 we had a common room shared with year 12 (it was a small school) where they had a few PCs off to the side. One of the guys in Year 12 secretly installed some kind of remote administration software on the main computer lab and from his perch inside the common room would randomly select some poor primary school kid’s machine in the lab and troll them by moving the mouse around, opening notepad and typing messages and stuff.
It was pretty funny until he got caught. Then they confiscated all the common room’s network cables with the assumption we’d go request one from a teacher if we needed one. Because network cables are clearly super rare and no one would have a dozen of them in a box in their garage…
I am half-entertaining the thought of just posting and posting until we reach page 9. I’ve got my rant in, I’ll just hunker down and let the bitterness fade and/or coalesce into a potential super-villain origin.
What the heck would you be called?
“Busted Ball Sack Boy”?
“The Nutty One (the other had to be removed via surgery due to continual blunt force trauma)”
In seriousness: “Iron Crotch” would make you sound like a Russian Super Soldier.
Your concern is touching
and hilariousHOLY SHIT
THIS IS WEIRD PAGE EIGHT
I totally forgot. But now it all makes sense.
I’m glad to be the figurehead of this odd, odd page.
…huh.
Fuck it, we’re near the end of the page, all aboard the regret train.
Also I got the SSD replaced and now I’ve started drinking. The day a man is led to drink over such a thing is a odd day indeed.
I’m a little confused, why is this a regret train? Cause you regret hanging around chicks that’ll kick you in the nuts in a split-second?
Anyway, I’ll bite with the regret thing.
I don’t usually believe in regrets, I don’t see the point in regretting something when I can’t change it. Saying that however, my biggest regret is not asking the girl I had had a crush on between years 4 – 10 out on at least one date, all though that may have turned out for the best at the end of the day.
I’ve a very firm opinion of regretting, my stance is to ignore and go on about my business because somewhere down the line, I’ll cock up even further; so I have to save regret for that.
But this is simply me perhaps gushing about a topic that makes me slightly, if not completely uncomfortable- that and kinda marking the mood of an entire page, I think I’m entitled at least a bit of embarrassment.
Joining @saturday.
Uh…. potato!
Onion is better!
Choo-choo. Regret train. Best get off at page 9, the only other stops beyond that are “I’m genuinely happy for your life yet I feel distinctly bitter about how it all turned out when I inadvertently compare myself to you” station and “I never really thought how I took others for granted” place. And quite frankly, the restaurants at both those stops are sub-par.
So how about that local sports team.
They sure did score all of the points.
So a bunch of former students have come in today to set themselves up, sharing the office space with us for the rest of the year. One of the teams has a girl among them, who is now sitting across from me.
I’ve suddenly become aware that whenever I hear a girl’s voice, I tend to perk up and try and figure out where it’s coming from, and that realisation is making me kind of uncomfortable.
Imma blame it on a lifetime of male-dominated environments, going from an all-boys school to Computer Science at uni to [reel missing] to yet another programming course. Yeah 😛
oh pleasepleaseplease put a “weird-page-8” twist to this store? 😛
Here we go again!
http://i.imgur.com/2gL5I.gif
Hahaha I want to upvote again now the gif’s there!
Also at the same time this is exactly why I didn’t want to make that post 😛
I sympathize. I do kinda hold back on some of the amusing things I see in a day, due to wanting to avoid becoming a one-note caricature.
I’m almost disappointed it’s buried at the end of this page because I was quite proud of it.
Maybe you’re in heat? 😛
Permanently 😛
So…. a red-blooded healthy young male? 🙂
My brother once told me, “You’re over the hill. Past your prime.”
I was like, “What? You’re crazy. Flexibility maybe, but men don’t reach their physical peak for strength and endurance til their mid-30s. I’m getting faster and stronger every damn day.”
“Nah man, your sexual peak.”
“Pfft, whatever.”
“Alright. Let me explain… you know how sometimes – just every now and then – you don’t really feel in the mood for sex?”
“…Yeah? And?”
*knowing look*
“OH MY GOD.”
“Right? You’re not 20 anymore.”
Man. I think I totally slept through my peak.
Excessive sleeping is an adolescence thing, far as I know. Your peak is probably yet to come. 🙂
NO PUN INTENDED
(Figurative sleeping though. In that I didn’t have much to do with that side of things in my early 20s, and now I tend to kind of shrug at it for the most part)
I’m a pretty huge fan of it. Devoted many, many, many hours to research, practice, visualization and actualization. It’s important to me. As important as any hobby. I feel very strongly about its beneficial effects. 🙂
@transientmind Wait now I can’t tell if you’re talking about sleep or sex.
Or both?
I only meant one of them really, but either works!
*drums fingers on table*
never actually been able to do that. By drum tap your fingers on the table one at a time in a wave. Not sure why. Dexterity isn’t my strong point but it’s certainly not a problem of mine.
Practice paradiddles:-
Left right left left right left right right
Did I mention I’m sorry? I honestly meant to just get it off my back seeing as this tale didn’t hold any water when I talked about it in real life, so I thought if there was any place to vent, you know?
It is fine, though. A healthy amount of denial about this page will do me good after we hit page 9.
Why are you sorry? Your story led to an interesting discussion. There’s no need to be sorry and wish this page was wiped from existence.
I’m Canadian. Sorry is in my maple-syrup infused veins.
@scree, you’re not of Canadian descent, are you?
Hm, I could be. I don’t actually know my fathers side of things. Only my mums.
Presumably they also include hocky, bacon and beer
I managed to get Organza for $4 a metre. Lincraft has it half price for $5 a metre. I feel like win. =D
Organza always sounded like a Spanish captain from Sid Meier’s Pirates!
It’s a very nice material, but incredibly flammable
So best not to use around gunpowder then? Hmm then again, it’d be amp from the sea spray most of the time so that might counteract the threat.
Isn’t flammable material generally considered a less than ideal thing to make clothes from?
Yeah, put the problem is majority of clothes are made from a flammable material. The good news is, there isn’t really any open flames at pax.
Not complete denial, though. How am I going to learn from these things?
Still, like, I’m going to avoid page 8s for a while. Or typing at all. Both are equally attractive.
Your mom is attractive.
today I’ve received 2 compliments. That’s like 4 times more compliments than I’ve had in my whole life.
Edit: that just had to be a get didn’t it 😛
In your entire life you’ve received 0.5 compliments? How does that even work?
Edit: Well done on the page get
Fuck! I’ve ruined the maths!
fuck, i think we broke maths
A half compliment? You’re the finest drawer of stick figures I’ve ever seen.
You’re really good looking when I see you in low light?
I’d do you as long as we’re not face-to-face?
Edit: I guess this one is more a quarter-compliment.
wait….. that was you?
You look great when walking away from me.
You look great when I’m not wearing my glasses?
Or, a real life example that was given to me one day:
“Your laugh is so cute, I just wish that the stuff you laugh at wasn’t so weird.”
I always remember your scent after you’ve left, it lingers in my memory.
Here’s another- You are a fucking awesome guy.
Just the best.
The bestest around.
So page-gettingly-amazing.
Were I unwed, I’d take you in a manly fashion.
*starts forging divorce papers in saturday’s name*
Don’t worry, it’s a Canadian marriage, it doesn’t count.
You are mistaken. We have complimented you here on TAY many a time. @dc can back me up on this.
Did you do your hair differently or something today? Figure out what was different about today and you could have compliments every day. 😀
And if that doesn’t work, he could undo what he did yesterday tomorrow, and then re-do it the next day. Novelty is as much a factor in compliments as anything else.
But he could get compliments every second day!
that comment hurts my head, “I can undo what the Peacefull Tomorrows did with today’s yeterday…. *faints*
Make a change one day = get a compliment
Change back the next day = no compliment
Make that first change again the next day = fresh compliments!
thanks you gotta break it down for us simple folk
funnily enough the only thing I’ve done differently is being crankier than usual,
haha, yeah might be exaggerating, they were mostly about being a nice person, relatively speaking I’m a saint, the people here are all high and mighty and mostly jerks 😛
exactly, if us asshats genuinely complement you you can’t be all that bad.
You know, if the compliments were genuine.
I’m extremely tall and very strong, I can’t help but be high and mighty
As for the jerk… look sometimes a guy gets lonely…
You’re my ideal, gutsoup.
😀 *blushes*
The wind beneath my wings.
no, Windywings comes before Gutsoup 😛
http://i.imgur.com/T6FiY99.jpg
Damnit Kotaku.
Just ordered one of those plush Doom marines. The Cacodemon and Pain Elemental were lonely.
Nice!
I was close to buying one out of impulse, are they charging delivery?
Ohhhhhh are they ever.
$18. So nearly the price of the item.
I only paid $10 shipping for both the others together but that was from Bethesda’s store. Now I think on it I probably should have checked there first.
Hnnngh. I shouldn’t have looked. That Forgotten Son of Phobos snowboard. I want it.
I don’t even go to the snow with any regularity. I’ve been three times…
I’ll check out the Bethesda store then 😛
Yes but look at the snowboard,look at it, wouldn’t it be the best to own it?
#helping.
Screw snowboarding, I just want to hang it on my wall.
I’ve never actually been to proper snow, or seen it falling. Only ever had to trudge through frozen tundra slush.
Is this when I say that’s it’s snowing where I am RIGHT NOW?
Because that would be a lie. That said, it snowed yesterday, and did so earlier this morning, too.
Heya TEY!
Can anyone here, or even @markserrels if you are still online, tell me why all my comments are suddenly “Awaiting Moderation”?
Im like a lonely, unheard, voice among the Kotaku crowd :o(
IGNORE THIS i realised this post is a year old but only looked at the Feb 12 ahahah /failure
There was so much testosterone and teste talk on the previous page that I just had to go to Kmart at lunch and buy the Schwarzenegger 6 movie DVD collection. For twenty dollars.
Commando, Conan the Barbarian, Predator, Terminator and True Lies (and Stay Hungry – one I have not seen) make up this great pack. If only it also included Running Man, Freeze would be creaming in his jeans reading this.
Still, this would have to be my personal favourite five Schwarzenegger films and not too raw a deal at three dollars thirty three cents recurring per film, I must say. So let off some steam and make it a night in with that special someone and treat them to an Arnie film (or two.) I’ll be back.
/plug
Shame Batman & Robin isn’t in there. That film is Schwarzenegger at his best.
Nor Junior.
Twins, too! Worst Schwarzenegger pack ever.
You guys are the worst. 😀
He kicks ice.
Man, that’s an awesome pack for $20. Good find.
I’m vaguely aware they probably caught a lot of flak for being terrible, but I am also a pretty big fan of the films Arnie was making around the time of The 6th Day, End of Days, and Collateral Damage. I really enjoyed those!
And Jingle All The Way!
…Get out.I mean… I do not share your taste, sir!
It’s teurbo tiem!
Was it called “Schwarzenegger’s six-pack”?
Haha. Not too raw a deal huh? I hope that was intentional.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0091828/
It was.
So was let off some steam.
Does he reload his gun in Commando? And no Running Man? Blashpemy. Hey Christmas Tree. Light bulb.
True Lies I love because it has Eliza Dushku in it, although it’s now a barely teen Eliza Dushku so I’ll leave that part of this crush for a barely teen CUFCfan616
Am I the only one who likes The Last Action Hero btw?
I think Transientmind likes Last Action Hero. I can’t remember it that well, personally.
Huh. Hawken is moving to Steam. Won’t be able to play it again without signing up there.
Oh well, see ya 😛
Why not create a Steam burner acc?
REASONS
Also I’m not that fussed, I played it on maybe two weekends and forgot about it 😛
Dirty secret about Steam: you by no means need to have all of your games on it.
but your friends aren’t real friends till they are steam friends
Wait what?
That doesn’t sound right, citation please!
JOIN US. IT’S BLIIIIISSSSSS
Also there’s hats. HATS!
and trading cards! So many trading cards…
And it only hurts in the beginning, trust me, you get used to it
OHman, when it first came out and I realized I had to wait fucking HOURS for the Steam servers to recover from the absolute barrage of everyone in the whole world trying to unlock Half-Life 2 at the one time… FOR AN OFFLINE GAME I HAD THE CD FOR. I was so mad.
Now my gaming is built around Steam. It has become integral. It keeps coming up with things I didn’t even know I wanted!
Are you a december 2004 bro as well? could it be? 😛
Feb2004 actually. 🙂 10yrs of service badge in the next couple weeks.
that takes me back. Getting the demo on the PC Gamer cover disc, trawling my desktop up 4 flights of stairs from my basement bedroom to where the (dial up) internet was in my housemate’s room on the top floor of my house…just to activate the demo…I was so glad I got ADSL2 and wifi when I got the full game
I go out of my way to avoid pain in the first place!
Plenty of Lube helps :p
So I’m dog tired, right? Microsleeps, light-headed, feeling weak. So to me, it makes perfect sense to fix myself right up by taking a walk home – 45min at a sweating pace, really gets the blood pumping and a very light endorphin buzz, plus my Angry Young Man music.
Coworkers consider this madness. They do not understand the short-term restorative powers of physical exertion.
At any rate, there will be Dark Soulsing when I get home.
Expanding the world really makes things kinda fun. Having options for what to do next – right now, my goal is to explore the painted world. My last few goals have been steps on the road to that goal – getting a hyper-upgraded fire weapon, because apparently most of the things there are weak to fire.
I was so happy when I found a second man-serpent greatsword lying in an area I hadn’t explored yet (on my way to figure out the whole ‘Big Hat Logan’ thing). I know that statistically it’s probably not the best value in a fire weapon, considering it loses its strength bonus which is the main reason to use one in the first place (‘A’ rating! Hardly anything has that), but I’ve become so used to it and its timing, range, and directions that it’ll be comfortably familiar to fight with.
And I hear there are areas I still haven’t explored – Oolasoolaboolie, Izalith, Giant Tombs, Painted World, Crystal Cave, Four Kings… and some mysterious thing when all of that is done, I guess. I mean, I still haven’t seen hide nor hair of these lore figures everyone keeps referring to. Artorias, Gwyndolin/Gwynn.
Fun times ahead.
Stop making up words.
Hey, Dark Souls did it first!
I am unfamiliar with this music, please enlighten me.
It’s my description for the type of music played by angry-sounding young men. You know, Disturbed, Perfect Circle, Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold, Sevendust, Papa Roach etc.
Without having to bother going into all the genres and subgenres, distinguishing between metal, folk metal, heavy metal, rock, hard rock, electric rock, rap-rock, and OH MY GOD I DO NOT CARE. People care way too much about that shit.
I have 3 levels. Rock, Metal and Death Metal. Everything falls into one of those.
I also have three levels. Power Metal( AKA my happy place), everything else I like, and all that stuff I don’t like.
I kind of shoehorn most metal sub-genres I like into “Power Metal” because it’s easier that way. 😛
What about the 4th genre: Irrelevant?
Oh right.. Never really listened to those bands since they never appealed to me lol.
Really Perfect Circle are angry? When I caught them at Soundwave I thought they were different from that 😛
They’re definitely more on the ‘mournfully resentful’ end of the sliding scale of anger issues. 🙂
Ah right, Maynard is very passive aggressive live I must say.
Needs more Meshuggah. Get some Futile Breed Machine on your MP3 player and then try to run in time because that’d be hilarious to see
He’d look like a spider that’s just been nuked with too much mortein… 😛
You’ve gone past Gwyndolin.
need to move the spinning staircase in the middle of Anor Londo down to the bottom and pray at the altar while wearing the Darkmoon Seance ring (You did pick that up from the Catacombs right?). Once there you can join Blade of the Darkmoons to invade people who have been indicted or go through the fog and kill him.Oooh. Well I don’t care much about PVP covenants so I’ll probably kill ‘im. Good stuff, thanks.
I only JUST recently got that ring too, I should’ve made the connection between it and the bonfire name.Every time I see mention of the man-serpent greatsword I always read it as Manservant Neville.
I miss The Middleman. 🙁
So I managed to pick up an extra 2 mics during that harvey norman sale \o/ $20 amazing =D
Amazing bargain or amazing that Harvey Norman are actually having a sale?
both \o/
Since its microphones, maybe it should look like this?
♀ ♀
\0/
Bah, spaces getting deleted…
And that’s why I don’t acsii art =P
It’s not ideal but I don’t have photoshop on this machine. Sorry.
It’s fine. It’s all good.
D: Do you know how much fabric $20 would buy?!
😛
Yeah I know. But it’s for the pax meat, so it’s not just for myself. (I know you’re joking but I still feel the need to justify myself)
Oh, thank fuck, I found my component cable for my PS3. \o/
Sucks that it can’t do a HDCP handshake, but otherwise, this should be fun! 😀
Capturing something or just using a non-hdcp compliant TV?
Testing my new capture device.
Unfortunately, it seems to lag like crazy.
🙁
What device did you end up getting?
When you say lag, is it the capture that’s dropping frames or the passthrough not working properly?
Roxio Game Capture HD Pro.
It supports PS3 input via Component.
It outpts via HDMI, but it’s a bit of a pain. 🙁
Yeah sony got really lazy and just applied HDCP to the entire interface instead of making it a per-media thing like it’s supposed to be.
So with the lag, is this on the preview window on the PC or when you’re passing the signal through to the TV? If it’s the PC, that’s perfectly normal, the live gamer portable and elgato video capture box wossname that I can’t be bothered to look up the name of both have a delay of 1-2 seconds, definitely nothing you can use to game on but it doesn’t affect the recording at all. When I’m capturing I just have the TV on, the mic on (the LGP software lets you capture the mic input as a separate MP3 which is nice, you might need audacity or something) and the monitor off so it’s not distracting.
So did Roxio not give you component cables for the PS3? Cheap bastards! Avermedia & Elgato both bundle component cables with theirs.
Aleph and I have discovered the most wonderful mode of Dota.
It’s called Ability draft and it is horribly broken in the most fun ways. Everyone is given a random hero (I think from a smaller than usual pool but I’m not sure) and then you draft the you abilities from all of the abilities these heroes have.
I played as an Anti Mage with call down, a Lion with Paralysing Cask and Black Hole and so many other ridiculous setups.
Games are completely lopsided but it’s just so much damned fun.
Genuinely the best thing to come outta the update.
From the same chat that produced the link to my pornstar doppleganger, I have now been sent this.
Not sensing a theme here at all.
Was the doppleganger singing in a barbershop quartet style?
Well it was just a gif. So he very well could have been!
Well that’s probably it then, completely innocent.
Although I have just thought of a title for a porno Dopplegangbanger
Oh man, I love that song. A friend and I sang it as a duet with piano accompaniment many years back, and our audience just looked at us like we were the biggest idiots.
I don’t think that are interested in you at all
DoofusBang them already, get it out of their systems. 🙂
I have reason to doubt the effectiveness of this course of action 😛*deletes from web history*
http://www.gamnesia.com/news/wii-u-lifetime-sales-exceeds-xbox-360s-in-japan
It ain’t all bad for the Wii U!
@mrtaco
There are a few of us.
http://imgur.com/rm5vSi0
I’ve heard that
the barn isn’t that funky.Depends if you mean funky or fuuuuunnnkyyy.What the FUCK has happened to that sheep? There is fear, confusion and shock in the eyes of all of those animals. Is that game an investigative police adventure tracking a notorious zoophiliac?
Hard boiled true white collar crime story about embezzlement of funds from a corporate trust account. The graphic reenactments of a guy transferring funds on his computer are truly shocking.
No no no, those are animals that are running away from someone who has imprisoned and has been fucking them like some manner of barnyard Joseph Fritzel
Nah, they just found out and have got their superannuation together, sold their companies stock options and getting the hell out of there.
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/02/12/hero-x-battle-princess-reimagined-generals-coming-vita-extra-content/
I kind of want to try this game. It sounds like Sengoku Rance without the bits that make me slightly ashamed to admit I played Sengoku Rance. And twice the stupid.
“King Arthur, Christopher Columbus, Aristotle, Sun Tzu”
Well that’s a diverse cast-
“All of the characters are girls”
… Wait, so this isn’t sengoku rance?
EDIT: Hahahaha Australia gets Joan of Arc, Gailileo, Vlad the Impaler, and Ishikawa Goemon?!
It basically is Sengoku Rance. The original PC game has the same sort of content IYKWIM. Sengoku Rance’s Uesugi Kenshin is in it, even.
Ugh I was working on making cushion covers for Mums cushions but when it was cool enough to work on them, Sid decided he was going to lie on it.
He ended up only moving when it was too hot for me to continue.
Sounds almost cat-like, laying on that one bit of the magazine you want to read
Pretty much. It’s kind of a common occurrence. If I lay out material and go and get a drink. When I come back, he’ll be on the material.
If I haven’t laid out the material yet, he may just lay where I need to lay it out. I tell him to move and he just gives me a sad look.
You know that feeling when spend money on things you want. Then look at you bank account later that night and just sit there staring thinking “Shit… I wish work actually gave me hours for once…”?
Because i doNo because YOLO.
Roasting marshmallows over the gas stove.
Not quite the same as proper fire, but still good.
Quick, grab two sticks and rub them together!
Can’t I just grab the one?
As long as you break it in half, sure.
Ouch.
Okay, I gave Intelligence 5 episodes but now I’m out. Every episode has started to ooze more and more with US patriotism in a really icky way, not to mention I can’t figure out whether the writers are super-stupid or just lazy enough to believe that everyone watching is super-stupid. I really wanted to like it, too.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Ninth Session Recap (5th February 2014) starring:
– Phetys aka @mythamphetamine the mechanical Nano who fuses flesh and steel,
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders,
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
And unfortunately absent:
– Beltigron aka @tigerion the mystical Nano who crafts illusions,
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places, and
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness.
The group poured over the maps and other documents that they had received from the City Watch and they debated their options. The party knew that the Orange Cloaks had some sort of presence in the citadel to the west but the Watch reports from their assault of two years ago detailed a series of automated defences and other hazards, in addition to the obvious danger posed by the resident bandits. The reports also stated that the main entrance to the citadel was both an easily defended chokepoint and the only entrance into the citadel as it was built into the side of a mountain range. Fortunately the party had, with the assistance of the Canthark, obtained a second and far more secret route into the citadel through the mysterious Doorway Network. Unfortunately though they had no way of knowing where in the citadel they would come out into and the maps that the Watch had drawn up were not detailed enough to help them. Despite this danger, the Doorway Network appeared to be a far safer option than knocking on the front door so they opted to trust in the Canthark’s wisdom.After getting as much information from the City Watch records as they could, the party began to search for the secret entrance that led from Charmonde to inside the western citadel. They eventually found the door tucked away in one of Charmonde’s numerous back alleys. The crystal that the Canthark had given to the party reacted to the door’s presence and forced it to materialise on this plane of existence. The party quickly entered the Doorway Network before anyone could see them and they were greeted with the familiar sight of natural earthen tunnels mixed in with a variety of basements and attics. The tunnel only led in one direction and it was not long before any sign of civilisation dropped away entirely. The party assumed that they had travelled some way outside of Charmonde but without any way to determine time or distance they could not be sure.
A couple of hours passed before the party reached the end of the tunnel. A large metallic door was their only indication that the Doorway Network had led them to the western citadel as the Canthark had stated it would. The party wanted to proceed immediately but Scrappa, Phetys, and Russef held them back and offered to scout ahead for any traps or sentries. They warned the party that they had no idea where the door would exit out into and it was better if not everyone was caught immediately. The rest of the party stayed behind while Scrappa, Russef, and the now cyclopean Phetys gingerly pushed open the metal door and slipped inside.
The door appeared to open out into some form of power generating room as a number of turbines whirred and churned a large pool of a strange purple liquid. It certainly looked like the interior of a large facility and there was no sign of any guards or defences yet. Russef thought that this was too good to be true so he decided to move ahead to check the strange pool. Unfortunately he was the only one holding open the door to the tunnel and it sealed shut behind him, fading out of phase. Scrappa tried to reopen the door with the activation crystal but to no avail. Scrappa, Russef, and Phetys were now cut off from the rest of the party and they could not be certain that the phase door would reappear in the exact same location. They decided that they had to scout ahead alone.
Russef investigated the strange pool of liquid while Phetys conducted a visual analysis of the surrounding area with his one remaining eye. The platform that they were on had a gangway to their right leading off to a corridor deeper into the facility while to their left there were a series of small platforms that spaced evenly across the pool. There was another exit on the far side of these small platforms but it could only be reached by jumping across the chasm of the pool to each of these platforms. The churning of the pool seemed to power to energise the turbines and the rest of the facility but Russef wasn’t sure if the purple liquid itself was dangerous. He fished a shin from his pocket and tossed it into the pool. It seemed to float in the pool for a brief moment before it vanished without a trace. The group decided not to risk jumping across the platforms and potentially fall into the pool.
While Russef and Phetys were considering their options to the left and right of where they exited the Doorway Network, Scrappa was developing his own idea. There was a corridor leading straight ahead but there appeared to be some form of laser grid in one of the rooms up ahead and Scrappa assumed there would be a large number of other traps as well. To avoid potential harm to the group, Scrappa activated his instant servant cypher and instructed the small device to reassemble into a human-sized automaton. With his mechanical assistant, Scrappa hoped that any traps in the corridor ahead would be triggered by the automaton rather than anyone in the group. He ordered his servant to advance to the entrance of the door leading to the laser grid room and found that no traps had been triggered. The laser grid room lay to the right of where the servant had stopped but the main corridor continued straight ahead. Figuring the corridor to be safe, Scrappa stealthily moved ahead to join his servant.
He figured wrong.
While an automaton was able to pass without incident, Scrappa as an organic managed to trigger a trap and unleash the guardians of this facility. Strange, orb-like devices dropped down from the ceiling with a device appearing in front and behind Scrappa. Scrappa was so startled by their sudden appearance that he slipped on the smooth, metal floor and fell down. The devices hovered in the air for a moment using some type of rapid rotation to maintain altitude before each guardian trained an ocular sensor on Scrappa’s prone form. The guardian that had dropped down in front of him lunged directly at him and Scrappa was only just able to roll of the way as the guardian bounced off the floor and became disoriented momentarily. Scrappa was now cut off from the rest of the group by two of the guardians as another two guardians appeared from across the gangway to Russef and Phetys’ right. Phetys locked his sole optical sensor with one of the guardians and he recognised what it was; he had only heard stories of the strange Gazer machines that guarded many ancient structures and their erratic flight. He knew them to be dangerous as they were always present in large numbers.
The Gazers that had just appeared began emitting a whining sort of sound and two more Gazers arrived to defeat the intruders. There were now four Gazers guarding the far exit of the walkway and two more that were impeding Scrappa. Russef ran forward with his dagger and drove it into the alloy plating of one of the Gazers and it wobbled from the impact but it was still functional. Phetys lunged out with his razor ring but his strike missed one of the other Gazers as it darted rapidly in the air. Scrappa also struck out with his blade but just scratched the surface of one of his assailants. The Gazers flew at the group in a confused jumble but everyone was able to duck out of the way and avoid their attack. Phetys was puzzled by this as it appeared their apparent lethality had been greatly overstated.
Russef stabbed his dagger deep into the Gazer that he had gashed before, cutting deep into its circuitry and sending it plummeting into the purple liquid below. He then decided to move forward to try and get into the corridor beyond the gangway as the Gazers were still whirring and it looked as though they were trying to attract more of their brethren. The Gazers saw Russef move away from Phetys and converged on him from three different angles. Russef displayed almost inhuman reflexes and not only avoided this coordinated attack but managed to redirect one of the Gazers and send it careening into the wall where it got trapped in a tangled mess of loose wiring. Despite that turn in good fortune, it didn’t change the fact that he was now surrounded by Gazers and in a spot of bother.
Phetys saw that Russef was in trouble so he ripped off his blue cloak and ran forward to assist. He skilfully managed to not only net a Gazer but then wield that Gazer as a makeshift flail that sent another Gazer crashing into the wire jungle. Unfortunately Scrappa was not having as much luck as the two Gazers that he was dealing with rammed into him and shoved him back towards the pool. He inflicted a severe gash on one of the Gazers with his dagger but he was now in danger of falling into the strange, disintegrating liquid.
Thanks to the chaos created by Phetys’ unusual tactics, Russef seized the opportunity and ran into the corridor and immediately looked for the source of the Gazers. He saw a disoriented Gazer meander out of a room further down the corridor so he started moving towards it. He assumed that Phetys and Scrappa would be okay.
Meanwhile…
Scrappa was busy sparring with two Gazers when he lunged forward and sank his blade deep into the machine’s core. The Gazer whirred and then crashed to the floor but the other Gazer charged forward, seeking to avenge its fallen comrade. It caught Scrappa full in the chest and knocked him backwards where he found himself slipping off the edge of the platform. His dagger flew out of his hand and splashed into the pool as he flailed out wildly, only barely getting a grip on the ledge of the platform. He was dangling precariously over the pool of disintegrating liquid and the Gazer loomed menacingly over him.
Phetys had his own problems to deal with. He still wielded a Gazer that remained wrapped up in his cloak when one of the other Gazers disentangled itself from the loose wiring and flew directly at him. Phetys side-stepped the Gazer and then brought down the cloaked Gazer in a crushing overhead swing that crumpled the other Gazer and it splashed into the pool of purple liquid. Surprisingly it didn’t disappear but Phetys didn’t have time to consider the meaning of that as the Gazer that he had controlled using the cloak activated some sort of laser that set the cloak alight and freed itself from Phetys’ control. It began to stabilise and aimed its targeting reticule directly at its former captor.
The corridor that Russef was in only had one Gazer defending it so Russef thought he might be able to slip past it and get to what might be the source of these machine defenders. The Gazer was a determined opponent though and blocked each and every avenue that Russef tried to duck past.
Back in the generator room, Scrappa managed to pull himself up from the precipice and avoid the Gazers’ attack as he drew a new dagger and prepared to lash out. Phetys ran over to join him and clocked a Gazer right in the optical sensor with razor ring, the indentation of the Gazer’s metal panelling accentuating his strike. Observing this cunning blow, the Gazer that had freed himself from Phetys’ cloak fired a laser directly into Phetys solitary eye. The cyclops was now blinded. Despite his heavily incapacitated state, Phetys avoided the other Gazers as they flew at him in a dazzling display of deft dodging.
The Gazer in the corridor was still blocking Russef’s path to what he assumed was a control room so he ran and slid underneath the Gazer, slicing the machine’s hovering device and ripping wires and panelling from the guardian as it crashed to the floor in a wreck. Russef began making his way to the room and found that there was some sort of console with a wide variety of different options available to him. He believed that he could disable all of the active Gazers but it would take him some time. No screams echoed from the generator room so he reckoned that his companions would be okay for a little while longer.
Scrappa again sparred with a Gazer however neither combatant was able to strike true in their attack. Phetys opted to simply attempt to tackle a floating automaton while blinded and that was as successful as one would expect. The Gazers attempted to exploit Phetys’ erratic movement but the laser fired wide and the other Gazer missed their own ramming attacks. Scrappa was able to finally pierce the plating on the Gazer that had hounded him so and forced it to immediately shutdown. After hearing the laser shot from the Gazer, Phetys again attempted to tackle the Gazer and force it to the ground. The Gazer had predicted this tactic and simply manoeuvred out of the way while Phetys ran at it and fell off the edge. He, like Scrappa before him, was able to latch on to the edge of the platform but he was now dangling precariously over the disintegrating pool of purple liquid.
Russef finally managed to locate the command prompt on the console and deactivated the Gazers were they all powered down and fell to the floor. Phetys pulled himself and, after Scrappa told him that all of the Gazers had turned off, was able to reset his optical sensor and restore vision to his remaining eye. Slightly confused by the sudden cessation of hostilities, Scrappa collected his instant servant and began moving across the gangway and towards the corridor that Russef had disappeared down. Phetys meandered a little as he walked behind Scrappa as the sensation of losing what remained of his sight was disconcerting to say the least.
After successfully deactivating the Gazer defences, Russef experimented with the console a little further to see if he could unlock any further functions or information. A little fiddling and probing later, Russef managed to access a series of camera feeds of a number of different rooms within the structure. While most of the rooms were filled with nothing but scattered machinery, there was one room that interested him. It appeared to be close by and there were two Orange Cloaks standing at the base of a staircase. The room also had a number of pods or capsules but they did not seem to be in use. Russef immediately left the control room to relay this information to Scrappa and Phetys.
The party converged in the corridor outside the control room as Russef explained what he had seen in the other room. He stated that they did not appear to be armed but they did seem to be keeping watch, although they didn’t seem to have heard the ruckus in the generator room. The party considered the situation and decided that they should attempt to surprise the Orange Cloaks to prevent them raising an alarm. Scrappa volunteered to distract the two men with his instant servant while Phetys and Russef would sneak around behind them through a side room. Scrappa moved to the end of the corridor where the entrance to the room with the Orange Cloaks was. Phetys and Russef turned right into a room full of machinery that directly led into the room where the Orange Cloaks. They could see the two men standing there but they didn’t look like they were paying too much attention. Phetys and Russef managed to sneak into a position where they could surprise the Orange Cloaks when they went to investigate Scrappa’s distraction.
Scrappa stood outside the door to the room and instructed his automaton to bang on the wall. The sound of metal clanging on metal reverberated throughout the corridor and echoed through the facility. Phetys and Russef saw that the Orange Cloaks had taken the bait and they went to go and see what was making such a load noise. They waited for them to move up to the door as they drew their weapons and readied to strike. One of the men reached for the handle and opened the door.
What will happen to the brave scouting party and the Orange Cloaks? What other secret and strange creatures and machines dwell in this ancient fortress? And where are the enigmatic Raller Kay and the charismatic Nerada Trome? Tune in next time for more Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World.
It’s taken a week to get this out and I’m really sorry for the delay guys. I have a real issue with writing combat scenes so I was probably procrastinating a little too hard to avoid having to do it. Hopefully this shouldn’t happen again.
I’ve also updated the Tumblr so take a look. Now with more pictures.*
http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Not guaranteed to be more pictures. 😛Said it before but I’ll say it again: Your writeups are great, and I really appreciate you doing them. I actually refer to these over my own notes for somethings, they’re so well done!
Thanks Red. I try to capture as much as I can of each session so I’m glad it shows. The combat scenes are kind of difficult to retell due to the fiddly nature of them but I’m happy to keep doing these. 😀
Probably a really stupid question, but does one of you draw those pictures, or do you get them from a site or something?
Red grabs them from a bunch of sites. I don’t think he uses any particular places but DeviantArt and stuff is a good place to source art from. Does that sound about right @redartifice?
Oh okay. I was super impressed with one of you for your drawing talent for a moment there. Not anymore though 😛
I source from a number of different sites 🙂
*Single tear runs down my face*
:p
Thanks popdart, I am sad I miss the night but at least I’m still able to follow what is going on through these
All I can think of is the old Star Wars Phantom Menace game on the original Playstation (around the 5 min mark of this video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwJd1u5PZhc). When I played this game with my friend we had to restart at this check point so many times that the words “We’re cut off” were permanently engraved in my brain
It’s a dark day for Scrappa when his automaton can do more epic (And successful) stuff that he himself can. My automaton pulled a Solid Snake with the knocking on the wall 🙂
Story from my mother about my youngest today.
Oops. Maybe we should be watching our language a bit more around the kids.
I’m guessing that ship has sailed. Once it’s out there…
I spent a little while last year where my go to incredulous phrase was “what the fuck…!”
After a short while I toned it down a little, for the sake of the kids’ ears. A few weeks later, I let out the revised version “What the…” and my three year old helpfully finished the sentence in as loud a voice as she could muster.
Helping!
@vonsack I reinstalled Game of Thrones and continued where I left off. I was able to backtrack to stock up on health potions and get past the battle I was stuck on. Made pretty significant story progress and I am glad I did – it’s really interesting stuff. Also, you find codex entries that tell you more about stuff about the world, like families, history, etc. IF you’re a GoT fan you’ll probably enjoy going through it.
So, frustrations aside, I have to give the game my recommendation. It might not have the polish of a AAA title but it’s got… something.
Oh sweet its good that your game was saved. You’ve sold it to me! Man if there’s more to learn about the world of Westeros im in (I’ve spent hours on the asoiaf wiki page reading the history and whatnot, to the point where I click ‘random page’ to try and find something new)
Heading to the shops tonight so i’ll keep an eye out for it. Again thanks for the feedback, it was very interesting 🙂
I’ve been watching the curling at Sochi, and I’ve decided that this is the only sport more amazeballs than lawn bowls. I’m still not 100% sure on the rules, but some of the plays are freaking amazing.
I am now genuinely jealous that some of the guys here are going to see it live next week.
Oh damn, somebody complimented curling? I’ve genuinely no words for it.
Have you ever say down and watched lawn bowls? Is one of the most amazing things, you sit down thinking “this is stupid” but five minutes later you’re screaming at the TV, oohing and ahing with every play, and you’re having a great time.
Curling is like that, but you get to watch teams of… Four? They’re all working together, screaming in tongues, and you join in goddammit, because it’s intense!
It actually is a amazing sport, which is one of the reasons why Canada plays the fuck out of it, yet we’re all conditioned to think nothing of it.
God next somebody’ll compliment Lacrosse and then Canada’ll be all “OHH YEAHH BITCHES OUR SPORTS MATTER”
One day.
I started playing indoor carpet bowls with my grandparents when I was like 11 and started playing lawn bowls around 13-14. I then switched over to ten pin bowling but I look forward to going back to lawn bowls when I’m old. My grandmother still plays like a demon, state championships all up in there.
True story: I used to play lawn bowls from like 13yrs to 20. I got pretty damn good, beating all the old timers and shit, going to regional finals etc. I even went to youth state championships and a consequent training camp for the state team.
I still have my bowls somewhere, I must have a roll soon…
http://terrycavanaghgames.com/maverickbird
Dammit Terry. Just lost the last hour or so to this.
I feel like it is both a blessing and a curse that I am unable to play that right now.
I managed to escape it after 10 minutes.
Okay, so if I could get the streaming and recording working properly on my capture device for the PS3, what game would you be interested in seeing me play?
What have you got?
I just got Injustice:Gods Among Us, so I could try and do that.
DARK SOULS. Onebro fist-only all-boss speedrun, please.
Battletoads.
DARK SOULS 2 \o/
Countdown: one month exactly.
Today saw the release of two more pages of the Dark Souls 2 comic. I hate that I’m going to buy it when it’s released, because the writing is so goddamned awful.
They just announced preorder bonus weapon pack….
Intriguing! Wonder how that’ll go in terms of difficulty balancing, or whether PvP balance will be affected now. More curious than upset.
Reading through Facebook comments, there’s an insane amount of bickering and butthurt at pretty much everything that gets posted. I don’t know what else I expected.
The stuff are all unlockable in-game, the pre-order bonus just allows you to net em early. Still interesting to see if they’re merely cosmetic or useful stat wise.
It’s all weapons that are in the game anyway. You just get them all at the start with the preorder. So won’t unbalance the game but will probably break early game a tad.
Without trying to sound inflammatory, that just made my respect for the game slip a little…
Every time I’ve ended up with a DLC weapon in a game (either purchased or as part of a CE) it’s generally affected the game in a negative way, usually by being completely OP.
EDIT: Reading the above comments, it sounds like they’re not exclusively DLC which hopefully helps.
I see it like giving you the Drake Sword right at the start (which it nearly is anyway): Makes it a bit easier but certainly not a cakewalk.
Also all the advantages of the weapons seem to be offset by a major flaw. The high damage lightweight one has no durability, another high damage one is extremely heavy, one that does high bleed damage barely does any physical damage.
Gooooooood.
Here are the full details of the weapons from the press release:
Black Flamestone Dagger and Black Flamestone Parma – A dagger and shield encrusted in Black Flamestone both found in the Gutter at Black Gulch. Even though they are heavier than a normal dagger and shield, the Flamestone crystal’s unique properties make the dagger extremely sharp and give the shield high resistance to damage.Yellow Quartz Longsword and Yellow Quartz Shield – A straight sword and small shield hardened with yellow quartz both uncovered at the bottom of the Iron Keep. Even though these items can break easily due to their high level of corrosion, they are exceptionally light and their power to inflict damage has not declined.
Bound Hand Axe and Bound Wooden Shield – A brutal hand axe and shield found in the Undead Purgatory. Both items are wrapped in chains and thorns to cause additional bleeding on enemies. Both the axe and shield have diminished in overall slashing power but their ability to deliver pain has been deliberately increased.
Homunculus Mace and Homunculus Wooden Shield – A mace and shield with spherical protrusions found in Aldia’s Keep. Although heavier-than-normal maces and shields, the hard protrusions greatly increase the striking power of the mace as well as the shield’s defensive capabilities.
Transgressor’s Staff and Transgressor’s Leather Shield – A staff and leather shield entwined with an unknown and seemingly lackluster element; these items are found in the Dark Chasm of Old. They have become a catalyst for sorcery and hex and cause an effect known as Darkness.
Without knowing the real values of the weapons, they probably aren’t Black Knight weapons.
Reading up on them, they do sound rather Drake Sword-esque. Good early but you’re going to find more useful stuff pretty soon into the game. Most of them seem more novel than good.
“More novel than good” is the best (read: correct) way to do DLC weapons. Like some of the stuff you could get in Saints Row 3…
I’m not the only one that enjoyed learning the weapon styles of a starting classes in Dark Souls am I? Oh, well I guess I am.
Regardless, they could give you a +10 lightning Claymore for all I care. I will not be using the weapons on my first couple of playthroughs.
I mean, it just surprises me that people would get so angry over it, if you don’t like the DLC weapons don’t use them. It’s not Rocket Surgery / Brain Science.
Not be using the weapons? As in the DLC weapons or ANY weapons? I you’re planning on doing a headbutt only playthrough you’ve got to youtube that
A month is a variable between 28 and 31 days. How can it be exact? Are you trying to blow some minds???
Sure. Or I could be saying it’s the 13th of this month. The game comes out on the 13th of next month. The technically-inaccurate-but-most-oft-adopted way of measuring a month’s duration.
Uggh, must resist the temptation to get hyped over games that are barely in alpha and have no proper release date. I’m looking at you, Blood Bowl 2.
TAYlist request time, got a song you want me to play put it here.
Requests will remain open until noon SA time, 12:30 Kotaku time.
Love will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
Holding on for life – Broken Bells.
Dead Kennedys – Police Truck
Human – The Killers
Human By Goldfrapp (If you have it)
Evidence by Faith No More (If you dont)
On the Road Again – Canned Heat
And
Radar Love – Golden Earring
ROCK LOBSTER
Don’t Ask Me Why – Billy Joel
Why? Don’t ask.
Any song by either Haim or Kingswood?
Gold – Spandau Ballet
Sweet Nothing – Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welsh
Ooh ooh ooooh, actually (preferably)
Lost at Sea – Zedd ft. Ryan Tedder
Only got Sweet Nothing, hope that’s cool.
More than I was expecting you to have, so awesome! 😀
Mandatory hipster request :
Down in flames – Like…Alaska
Serious request :
Blister in the sun – Violent Femmes
How about some AC/DC?
Thunderstruck okay with you?
Requests are closed, thank you.
*Sniffle*
Every comment I make is stuck in “awaiting moderation”
Try editing them to see if that un-sticks them. It’s a weird thing that happens from time to time.
Hey! It Works!!
Thanks :o)
GAH!
Posted my Year of the Hermit blog last night. Be warned, first post has major spoilers for The Last of Us. Minor spoilers for Beyond: Two Souls.
Wooo! Blog! Feelings! Emotions! David Cage! Feelings! Emotions!
That about sums it up!
Oh man, the feels received from the beginning of LoU. While reading your write up I got goosebumps thinking back to it. Good stuff \o/
(stayed clear of beyond and tomb raider as I haven’t played them yet :P)Haha! Thanks for reading, man. The only other gaming one so far is this. (@sughly gets a mention, because Sughly is awesome. :D)
Yeah woo go me! Too bad it’s 2015 now 🙂
You turned me into a liar! D:
Only reason he did it.
WHAT. >:(
Is that photo you? You’re pretty decent looking, 9/10 would consider banging.
Also there’s a lot of tl;dr in there (no time right now, maybe laters), but I noticed something about your teeth + enamel. Show pic? Also, ‘restorative fillings’ and something else – you can fix it up.
I can safely say I’ll never be posting a picture of my teeth any where online. XD
Thanks for reeeeading, man.
I find that I notice you trying to cover up your teeth a lot, but I’ve never noticed that they’re bad. I have teeth problems that made me feel similar to you, but it’s been over 10 years so I’ve just accepted it and try not to be self-conscious about them any more.
I have this weird mental image in my head where I think it’s far worse there than it is in reality, but doesn’t change the fact that I feel real shame. 🙁
I kinda got over that with my teeth. I don’t know if you noticed (not many folks do) but my front-right tooth is chipped, and my front-left is a falsie. It’s actually blackened at the top, which can’t really be covered up, because it’s the dead nerve inside. (The nerve was actually exposed for a while, and too much exposure/oversensitivity killed it. Which makes sense to me, given how painful it was.) I was pretty self-conscious about that blackened part, but eventually I just figured… well. If people wanna know, they’ll ask and I’ll tell em. It’s nothing unhygienic, it’s nothing I can fix, it’s just a discolouration that doesn’t really look great. You play the hand you’re dealt.
Oh, also if you ever see me under blacklight in a club or something, don’t be too shocked – the false tooth doesn’t show up as white like other teeth do, so it’s REALLY noticeable in that environment.
Unless you feature in the Big Book Of British Smiles, you’ve got nothing to worry about…
I read a couple of those while I was at the library waiting until it was time for my bus. You write goodly, my friend.
I can almost see this becoming one of those blogs that get a book-deal.
I thought this, too. It’s got it all. Daily ramble, articulate and engaging, handsome author (but with terrible teeth to equate him with the everyman :P), gimmick of a photo per day, the hope of triumph over adversity, and the relatable struggle to overcome one’s deep-seated limitations.
This could be the Rocky of the blog circuit.
Maybe a Girls-like TV show. I ain’t showing my breasts, though! 😛
Hahaha! You so kind! You and your lies, though. You and your lies.
Do you prefer the longer articles or shorter daily rambles?
LONGER!
But that might just be me.
*radio silence* was engaging, too. But too brief to really get meaningful insight into the main character.
Totally thought about turning that into a radio drama of sorts. Voice breaks through static, can’t make it out at first and then all this fiction starts to bleed into the blog. XD
Well I was going to have a read to show my support but now I can’t because of spoilers!
You win this round, DC!
One of my favourite things about your writing is that it’s totally unpretentious. You write like you talk, and that makes it instantly engaging. I don’t know if that comes naturally to you or not, but it’s a very good thing.
Me, I wish I could write like I talk, but I adapted the other way. I talk like I write, which (although it’s at least consistent) just alienates everyone.
Aw man, thank you for that. That actually means a lot, cause I’ve been wondering if that ‘voice’ is any good. I like the way you talk and write too. It’s smart and knowledgeable and gives you instant credibility. Sometimes I feel like people see me as the ‘kid brother’, someone you can’t really carry a serious conversation with or go to for advice and the like. You’ve got that authority in your voice, man. Could be cause you’re a dad too?
No, I think I’m just pretentious. Gotta own it, or it’ll own me. Constant struggle.
PS: I actually was considering asking your advice about something, but after this, I’m concerned that you’ll think it’s just humouring you because of this post, and now I don’t know what to do. 😛*chokes under pressure*
Good suggestion.
*chokes*
I should be glad that I don’t write like I talk, since I talk like a pompous prick in real life. Just the other day, my mother criticized me for talking too pretentiously, and I responded with this:
I then proceeded to procure the most recondite words into the rest of the conversation.
Been in a super depressed, angry emo mood the last few days. D:
I MISSED YOU GUYS, THOUGH!
I MISSED YOU TOO!
I mean, oh, you were gone? *cough*
*whispers to self* play it cool nob, play it cool.
*HUGS*
Who’s this guy.
I MISSSSSSED YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUThank god you weren’t here for the mixture of emotions that was odd page 8, then.
WHAT PAGE 8 I DONT KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT NA NA NA NA NA I CAN’T HEAR MYYSEEELLF
Page 8 was nuts.
Nah, bit of a cock-up, really. Too many balls in the air.
These things are sent to testes us, after all.
Like glans through the fibreglass, so too are the TAYs of our lives.
What a vas deferens a new page makes.
OK, it’s a hard choice, but this one’s my favourite.
@transientmind Well, that’s just a kick in the head. 🙁
No, not that head.
Didn’t mean to give you the shaft with 2nd place, man. 🙂
It was painful but thankfully we kicked it.
@dc never left. He was in our hearts all along.
The first picture that comes up searching for ‘angry emo’
http://i.myniceprofile.com/131/13122.jpg
Have a cookie
Yes, I too, was wondering where you were. I had to actually write on TAY while you were gone, to fill in the gaps. It was scary.
I trust you wrote about Gattaca? That’s D.C. bait if ever there was one!
I did not. D: I spoke of orchiopexies and Schwarzenegger.
If arnie has one, would it be a Schwarziopexy?
Ahh it’s not page 6 anymore…
#EVERY.PAGE.IS.PAGE.SIX >:(
Ahh that’s why it was quiet around here! I should have twigged sooner.
I’ve started playing a heap of State of Decay recently and every time I’m reminded that they had to cancel multiplayer in it I get really disappointed. It could have been so amazing!
Despite that, it’s still a really great little game. Zombie survival with emphasis on grouping up, hunkering down and scavenging.
So any one know what the best deal is with the Final Fantasy X/X-2 remakes?
I can’t decide if I should get it on vita or PS3 (or both)
I also find it a little odd that the vita version is about $10 more when it’ll run at a slightly lower resolution.
I think its because the vita version is the only one with cross-play.
Wait, does that mean if I get the vita version I can play it on both? Because then I’m definitely getting the Vita one.
No, there’s no cross-buy. If you buy it on both platforms you can transfer your save between the platforms.
I don’t know why the Vita version would be more expensive especially since X-2 isn’t included physically (they couldn’t afford to do a two-cartridge release for us dirty westerners apparently) and is instead a digital download.
Personally I’m waiting on it. I liked FFX but I already played the crap out of it on PS2 several times and don’t feel super inclined to revisit it yet, at least not at the price they want.
I’m currently less then half way through 1 years worth of PS plus and I’m tempted just to wait and see if it comes up for free there. I do already own both originals and I still haven’t finished VIII since I bought it so I really shouldn’t be in any hurry (but I want it! on both systems! because greed!)
I preordered with JB when it was $54. Hopefully that will drop upon release considering they now have it listed as $49? I’m not too sure – I will have to inspect my Paypal to see if the money has already been taken or not.
PayPal marked mine as expired and I had the Limited Edition too. Hope I don’t miss outttt
Huh. Well whaddya know. Just got my usual Uni’s bulletin and it has a whole article about what foods it is ok to cut mold off of and still eat.
Turns out if it’s got a high moisture content (casseroles, soups, stews) or is meat (chicken, steak, fish fillets) or porous (bread) then chuck the whole thing.
But they’ve proven that it’s ok to cut off the mold from most cheeses and veggies as they are hard and as long as you cut it away with a nice buffer, the rest is fine to eat.
So all those times I threw away cheese but cut the moldy crust off a piece of bread. I’ve been doing it wrong.
I was just thinking earlier this morning about how badly I miss my days at university. Thanks for bringing me back to reality.
I don’t think I’ve ever looked at something with mold on it and thought “You know what? That’s probably still good.”
Uni students must really have it tough.
Pretending to be poor, suffering for your studies, shunning the material world in favour of intellectual enlightenment, is part of the uniform at university. It’s crazy, but it’s totally part of the lifestyle.
Oh man, that reminds me of that uni student who decided to live on a raft on Lake Ginninderra because he said he didn’t have enough time to work as well as study so he couldn’t afford housing.
I totally did it wrong 😛
I dunno. I kind of think that the self-indulgent pretence of suffering is the wrong way to go about it.
…Pretending? c.c
There’s poor, and then there’s poor with bingeing on $7 beers twice a week.
Hah! Bulk-buying the cheapest, discount slabs for the dorm, more like. Pfft. People pretending to be poor.
most of the time I just eat around mould no matter what the food is 😀 I’m pretty sure I’ve cooked more than my fair share (0) of bad chicken and been none the worse for it. Sausages are the only thing that gives me the gip if they’re not cooked properly.
Not sure what students are doing these days though if mould is starting to grow on meat. As far as I know that takes weeks 😛
Dumpster diving.
Aww man, and I missed out on a ham cheese toastie this morning because the bread was moldy.
For the sake of future gastronomy, you might want to read the post again.
Aha! *head desk*
Shane my friend I thank you.!
Because potentially spending a week in hospital or even dying is worth saving 2-3 dollars.
But being sent to the ER is as close as a student can come to earning street cred. STREET CRED.
There’s also the fact that mold can cause neural degeneration so you’d probably not care all that much about the street cred as you’d be wondering why the stranger changing your adult diaper is calling herself “Mummy”.
Don’t ask me to parse student logic. I didn’t even understand it when I was watching it happen around me.
There was a guy my sister knew who ended up in the hospital with scurvy because he thought it would be a good idea to buy and freeze like 50kg of beef and only ever eat that for several months…
But it’s frozen! Frozen foods last forever, right? RIGHT?
always figured mildly mouldy cheese was ok. I mean… blue vein & stuff. its like its meant to be.
I used to work around the mould all the time when I was at uni. Even now I take the best before and use by dates on food as very general instructions and often ignore them anyway.
This morning, my eldest turned four. She woke up this morning and burst into tears because she was ‘about the same size’ as yesterday. Apparently, she’d expected to wake up and suddenly be a big girl.
I think we have prepped her badly for this.
You mean life isn’t like The Sims where she’ll spin around weirdly and suddenly be older? D:
*shakes fist at lying video games*
My eldest has prepared her whole life by being half the size of everyone else her age. My youngest is way taller than the oldest was at the same age.
If she’s any thing like Mrs. Freeze, she’ll still be formidable at the strength tester machine!
Tell her the process will occur the day after.
Proceed to then replace all the furniture in your kid’s room with smaller-scale versions.
Y’know, give her a real alice-in-wonderland type of magical feeling before you burst in and you’re all like “PSYCH! YOU’RE STILL AS TINY AS EVER HAW HAW HAW HAW.”
So mean. And expensive. Also, she’s smarter than us, so she would totally notice.
I’m sure any pretense of the act being mean would disappear once you realize you have miniature furniture to play around with. Expensive would be a given, though. 😛
Happy birthday, Eldest!
I have tried the graphite flavour of V and it’s kind of not terrible?
It’s better than the blue flavour which carries on the tradition of blue flavours being along the lines of “I’m not sure but I think there’s some pineapple in there”.
Blue is its own distinct flavour, a mutation of what we once called a pale imitation of blueberry. Or blue raspberry. Or blue lemonade or whatever the hell it can be marketed as.
I only like blue icecream from icecream parlours, which is generally bubblegum.
It’s a horrid flavour, I know this, but I like it.
ah, yes, I think bubblegum is the norm for blue! is it? I’ve no clue. Perhaps it’s distant ancestor of flavour was bubblegum, although how it bridged the gap from actual flavour to some sort of tasty uncanny valley still eludes me, like evolution’s missing link.
I liked it, but I don’t really see it anywhere anymore, which is weird cause ACT shops normally stack a tonne of promo stuff and then struggle to get rid of it for years.
…maybe they’re finally learning?
Don’t worry, NSW stores are absolutely packed with it.
Next time you’re in Sydney, you can probably pick up a car load.
Oh man, a few months ago the IGA near my place had slabs of monster for like $10 (for 16 cans-ish?). I started freaking out that if I bought it I’d drink them all in a weekend or something stupid and ended up buying none of them…
I feel like Id end up doing the same thing with these V’s.
I once bought 24 cans of Mother from 7-11 during one of their dollar days. It took months to get through that stuff.
What the hell was I thinking?
Or consumers have finally gotten stupid enough to match the rest of the country.
I thought the official flavour of blue was “Fuck it, that’ll do”
I only have a 10 minute commute to work, but boy do I see some stupid shit. Cars pulling right out in front of oncoming two lanes of traffic, and blocking the road; just generally blocking every single intersection; mom and kid riding bike on the wrong side of the road; parking on the road… like, actually, on the road (white line on kerb means WUT?); no indicators; illegal parking errywhere; etc.
Sometimes I want to be a cop just to smack some people down and bring them to reality.
I wish people were allowed to just submit photos to the traffic division of the police. I’d (happily) use up my whole month’s credit doing just that.
My wife was aggressively tailgated by someone a few weeks back on a 50km/h road (it’s a pleasant road to drive on and you can comfortably do 60 but the signs are 50, so everyone except us speeds on it, and we get tailgated by people who will shoot past us at 70+ as soon as the road is wide enough). Sure enough, this bitch nearly caused an accident by overtaking as soon as the road widened after a bridge and had to zip back in front of my wife because of cars queued up to turn left at the next set of lights, nearly causing an accident. My wife wanted to call the police and report her (she’d had a good 2 minutes to memorise her number plate while being tailgated) but what can you really say? “I saw this person drive like a dickhead then speed”. Yeah, I’m sure they’d get riiiight on that.
She should have swerved off the road and into a tree. That would have gotten a police investigation! 😛
Gotta be committed to the cause…
She’s said if she was still driving our old car she’d have been tempted to let the accident happen when someone else cuts her off or is otherwise clearly at fault. But she doesn’t want to let anything happen to our new baby.
“Clearly at fault” <– unless the other car actually hits you, you have an obligation as a driver to drive as safe as possible. You’d be fighting a losing battle if you flipped your car causing civil damage and your excuse was “someone was pretty close to me, I panicked”.
Oh, believe me, I know. It’s just that she’s managed to *barely* avoid accidents on at least two occasions where the other person was driving dangerously or otherwise completely in the wrong. In our old car she might not have been that lucky, or might not have cared as much. We’re talking “other person on the wrong side of the road” or “tried to merge lanes directly into me” level of wrong.
Heh, you do get some odd ones eh? :\ I’d be considering a dashcam if I lived in a more metro area tbh.
@stickman I think if it gets any worse I’ll consider it but for the time being it’s a couple of isolated incidents that felt particularly bad because they happened within 3 months of us getting a new car. It would be devastating if we lost our new car to some other person’s dickhead behaviour.
At least in QLD (a police state), the police aren’t here to enforce every law or even protect citizens (from themselves or each other). The only time popo-s are interested is if: there is a massive fine:effort ratio; and/or they get good publicity out of it.
E.g. traffic division of police doesn’t care that a traffic light is malfunctioning, at peak hour, on [state highway #1] and [major arterial road].
It’s not really that. Not at all. You won’t hear about 99% of what the police do. They don’t worry so much about the more minor things because they physically can’t. There’s nowhere near enough of them and they’re stretched thin enough as it is.
And they wouldn’t care about lights being out. It’s not their responsibility. It’s up to main roads or local council to deal with it.
Unless it happens at a major intersection like the corner of Main and Stanely at Woolloongabba, or five-ways in the Valley, at which point you’ll see them out directing traffic. Which, interestingly, seems to tie up anywhere up to four patrol cars.
Thing is the police can’t just go and start directing traffic unless officially directed to by Main Roads because bureaucracy is the model of efficiency and sense.
You can actually.
The cops will check their contact details from the rego database and give them a call to ask them if they know anything about someone having stolen their car and driving recklessly at X time at X location.
Whenever you hear a news report that someone is ‘known to police’, that’s what they’re talking about. Not enough to convict or even arrest, but the name keeps coming up. They keep track of that.
Yep, photo evidence should be pretty much an on-the-spot fine, if it shows the license plate. 🙁
this might be relevant : http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080816144645AAfpjDu
Not one answer of become a millionaire playboy with a fear of bats.
Disappointed.
Plenty of Jodie Foster references, though.
The turn off into my street is a regular 1 lane each way road with the parking lane long the left, people use that for overtaking if you slow down for even a second to take the turn. They don’t seem to give a shit that it’s not only illegal but also on a bend where they can’t see properly
This is a 1-way each way, with an overtaking bay on the left. People just park there permanently, like wtf lol.
Welcome to Mackay, where the number one road rule is “give way to the larger vehicle”.
Should have bought a Hummer. 😛
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FINE, I’ll get schoolbus then! Gee, the peer pressure on this site …. 😛
Haha, I watched the episode of Dharma and Greg yesterday where Dharma bought a school bus for their second car, and annoyed some tailgaters. There was no destruction like that, though.
Ninty Direct! I believe there are people here who enjoy watching them, yeah? Rumour mill is hot, but it appears Bayonetta 2 will definitely get some in the spotlight, X will as well. Anything’s possible. And I do mean anything.
Metroid Other M 2Or, you know, maybe nothing important will be shown. 50/50, you know ninty.
(In regards to the spoiler).
NO, JUST NO! NO, NADA, NYET. NO FUCKING WAY. I am not going to play a sequel to that steaming pile. Never again.
haha, just rumours, and it’s always the craziest ones that are
truefalse. I don’t even know how that would be possible, considering the game wrapped itself up neatly. For what it’s worth.I couldn’t finish it, I just can’t believe how bad it was. Surely considering the fact that majority of the fan base considers the game to be absolute crap they would want to avoid making a sequel. I would love another Metroid Prime.
I would love another Other M-style game. It was fun!
The only problem with it was the story.
The prime trilogy was just better on every level though. =P
Nah, completely different beasts. Prime’s cool and all, but I prefer the 2D Metroids. And Other M was more like a 3D version of that, and worked pretty well.
XENUBLADE!
(@greenius)
Haha this guy! Luckily I had already stumbled upon this comment and was typing up a response before you posted this comment. You should be my new Nintendo Direct buddy! (@powalen >:P)
Hmm, 8:00am is a bit bad (heading to work then). I could probably try and stream on my phone
Thanks for the heads up! I had no idea :O (thanks for NOT telling me @powalen >:( )
Fairly reasonable times too 😀
Western Australia: 6am on Friday, February 14th
Adelaide: 8:30am on Friday, February 14th
Sydney/Melbourne: 9:00am on Friday, February 14th
Brisbane: 8:00am on Friday, February 14th
(from VOOKS)
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I’d be pleased with more X(enUblade) and Zelda news, hopefully a new Metroid game (in Metroidvania/Prime style 3DS? :O) and maybe some new IP announcements (Retro? :D). Wasn’t Shiggy supposedly working on a new Nintendo IP? I can’t remember the news from way back when :P.
I’d like if they included the original Bayonetta with 2 but that’s just because I can’t be bothered replaying it on Xbox 😛
NOT REASONABLE AT ALL.
I’d rather stay up until 1am or whatever ridiculous time it has been before. At least then I can actually watch it! ;_;
I meant reasonable for the unemployed 😛 (well at least while I’m still in the habit of waking up early)
Info on Hyrule Heroes (?) would be cool. Hopefully we will actually learn some stuff for XenUblade! I haven’t played the original Beyonetta but would probably play it if it were re-released on WiiU (hint hint: Ninty).
Ooooh I forgot about that! And why not throw in some Monster Hunter 4 info too 😀
I’d be kinda happy with a Bayonetta PC port too. Such a solid action game, Platinum Games FTW
Oh man! I sooooo want some Monster Hunter 4 info! I wish it was on WiiU instead of 3DS.
GOOD JOB!
Vita* 😛 (at least for portableness)
I’d still like a proper HD MH on console or PC too. That would be sweeeet!
Good job!
What ever happened to the Monster Hunter MMO that was announced late last year? I would love to give that a go!
I think it’s still China only 🙁
@Greenius
Damn. It looked so pretty / shiny. I wanna play it! =(
the MMOs are complete pieces of crap, I hear. Microtransactions at their finest.
I would actually love a Metroid Other M 2 😛
Apparently it’s 9am for us in Sydney? Boooo.
oh please not another Other M, I’d take a 2D platformer or another installment by Retro.
A Nintendo press conference? My money is on them announcing something with Mario in it
There’s always one guy with completely insane theories. =P
BAYONETTA TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SO HYPE
SOOOOOOOOOOOO HYPE.
I SWEAR THEY BETTER NOT ANNOUNCE CRANKY KONG IN BAYONETTA
SLOW MOTION BUTT SHOTS OF CRANKY KONG? GOTY!
GAME OF ALL YEARS!
If sportscasting was like this all the time, I would never stop watching it
http://twentytwowords.com/dallas-sportscasters-shocking-response-to-michael-sam-coming-out-as-gay/
@dc, in some ways this actually reminded me of Will McAvoy.
You’re right. His phrasing and mannerisms. Totally can see it!
I really hope that guy goes in the first or second round and the team that takes him puts out a statement along the lines of “the dude is good at sportsball, we want him sportsballing for us and that’s all there is to it.”
It’ll be fascinating to watch the draft (which is a phrase that may well have never been uttered before in all of history) because they’re right in saying it’ll lower his odds since the managers are pretty much cowards who appeal to the lowest common denominator who are usually bigots but the massive amount of support he’s gotten may well polarise it and prompt a team to actually take a risk and sign someone who can just do the job they’re hired for without any bullshit.
Wow. That was really good.
Hey @dc, did you ever end up trying more JRPGs since Ni No Kuni?
Jus wonderin’!
No. I didn’t really like most of the JRPG elements. I liked Ni No Kuni in spite of the JRPG-ness. XD
Haha yeah, I remembered how you listed all the things you didn’t like about the game and they were all JRPGy 😛
I tried watching a Let’s Play of Ni No Kuni and it was like watching paint dry. I know it’s more dull to watch some games than play but… man. That game.
I loved the art and music mostly and that was enough for me!
Let’s Plays work much better if the person playing the game has a good personality, and decent commentary.
You probably got one of the run of the mill terrible ones.
Dark soulsie stuff so sorry if i annoy people
took down the Gaping Dragon last night,
maaaaan that fight was almost too easy once your learned how much he telegraphs what he’s going to do… died the first time because he was chasing me and i was too busy looking at him and run into the chasm where he came from… whoops…
second time because i got too bold and got stomped by him as he staggered me…
third time he died a horrible horrible death and i defecated* in his corpse…
*okay i threw a gesture but you get what i mean
TAY. Sick of Dark Souls. HA!
HA!
…. HA! (I imagine one or two people are this point.)
Congrats, dude. I have never actually died to that boss. True, I’ve never faced him without summoning both Solaire and Lautrec, but shut up is why.You can summon Lautrec? Huh. Never knew that. Usually I’ve stabbed him for his sweet sweet ring by that point.I love the vengeance fight so damn much that every time I play through, I let him live, let him kill the Firekeeper, and invade him when I get to Anor Londo. Awesome times.Yes but cliff shoving!Apparently his whole questline is pretty rad, ending in invading his world’s Anor Londo and reviving the firekeeper he kills so that she can talk. I just like shoving him off of the cliff.I was planning to go through all that stuff so he’s still alive in my game. Eventually I might get around to doing it.I’ve done it before but guess I never summoned during that run. From thereafter decided his armour and the Shotel weren’t worth the trade off for early access to his ring so it’s been kick kick bye straight after the Gargoyles ever since.i wanted to summon someone, but i ended up getting invaded after my second death and the asshole killed me so i lost 15k souls and 3 humanity… after that i decided it wasn’t worth trying to get to him while human 😛
I am just about NEVER in human form when I go to take on a boss, so I never think to get any companions. Which sucks, because I skipped getting the witch against the butterfly, which means now that I know about that shit, I won’t be able to do it for 4 Kings. 😛
If what I’ve read is right, that’s a good thing. Her presence isn’t that useful, from what I hear. It (or the presence of any other summon) makes the Kings spawn much faster.It’s not that they spawn faster, it’s the 50% health boost they get for having a summon (100% for 2) that makes it longer to kill each one and more likely to spawn while still dealing with one.Jeg tvivler på, du kunne irritere mig mere end jeg kunne genere dig.
Are you sure, ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?
Hvis du virkelig ønsker, så kan jeg snakke om Dark Souls på dansk? 😛
Ps: that made a remarkable amount of sense considering i’m guessing it was whacked through google translate 😛
GØR DET!
Side ti er danske side?
det vil jeg støtte 😛
Van néhány jó pontot, de nem vagyok benne biztos, hogy egyetértek veled. Engedje meg, egyetértenek abban, hogy nem ért egyet?
Whakatika: wareware ahau google iriti i te pātene “kitea te reo”, na e ahau pato noa i te whakautu tupurangi i roto i te reo tupurangi, tumanako mo te pai.
Ja tak!
I got bored and started jumping around a few sites to piece something together. Checked it via Google translate and it was identical, so score for them I guess 😛That moment when someone mentions the word reflector…
DAMMIT NOW I NEED TO LISTEN TO ARCADE FIRE!
$115 of flowers later *grumble grumble*valentinesisarort*grumble grumble*
how rad is being single?
none of this getting-gouged-by-florists rubbish.
She doesn’t even particularly want them. Just wants her coworkers to see she gets them.
buy decent quality fake flowers.
reuse them every year.
everybody wins.
This is truth. My Mum only works part of the week, so when mothers’ day last rolled around, it was nowhere near a day that she’d be working, so I actually had to get our flowers ordered for like… three days prior so they could be delivered to her at work.
Because if everyone doesn’t see you get them, there’s just no point.
And yeah, the coworkers all ooohed and ahhhed at just how much her boys must love her based on the size of the bouquet…
Women are fucking crazy.
Instead we get an incredible sense of loneliness!
WE WIN!
Don’t be lonely. It’s (reportedly) the easiest day of the entire year to go to a bar and pick up.
I’ll be completely amazed if @transientmind doesn’t have a story backing me up on this one.
That would be making the assumption that he’s ever been single in Valentines.
Y’know it’s funny because I honestly have never attempted to pick up on Valentine’s Day.
I do know from walking around, however, that many of the bars in the Valley at least are holding Valentine’s Day singles nights.
There are a LOT of people out there who DON’T want to be lonely on V-Day.
it was in jest, i’m a strong independent black woman who don’t need no man.
i may not be a women… or black…. or strong…They better taste pretty good for that price!
OH! Tomorrow is candlelightpizza day! Awesome.
I’ve got a pretty wicked present for Mrs Shane in mind, and it won’t cost me a cent. #overconfidentgloat
How’d you score a mini top-hat and Bow tie for free?
I’m assuming that the present is some ill-fitting pants you made yourself that fall off when you stand up.
Also, I read that as OverConfidentGoat at first.
my girlfriend has told me on multiple occasions that if I buy her flowers she’ll throw them back at me and tell me what a waste of money they are. We often chuckle to ourselves at what a weird concept it is, “I love you, here have some severed dying plant genitals”
http://bash.org/?151227
“it doesn’t matter at all what you look like, I’ll still love you”
“So you’re not physically attracted to me? You don’t think I’m pretty?”
“No that’s not what I…”
“What’s wrong with me? What part don’t you like?”
“I didn’t mean…”
“Why have you got to be such an ass? You know what? Forget about tonight” *storms off*
*left holding a potato for valentines*
I wish I had a potato for valentines.
$115 can buy many potatoes!
It’s my Valentines wish!
You know, with careful use of an apple corer and a microwave to warm the potato…
No!
Could be worse, you could leave out the word “plant”
yeah, wouldn’t be acceptable for anything other than plants, still amuses me though.
HOLY CRAP!
Long time no see, guys! 😀
How are we all!!
So i have been mostly on lockdown with stupid-busy work, uni and baby related stuffs!
On the plus side – exam was today! woo!
Also, after quitting the other week and telling my boss where to go, my boss has retained me with a pay rise and benefits! Yay! I love being indispensable
On the other side of things – found this on ebay – finally.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=191067917915&ssPageName=ADME:X:PROI:AU:3160
BUT I’LL NEVER BE ABLE TO AFFORD IT!!!
DAMN YOU FATE!!! 🙁
HOW IS EVERYONE?!?!
Hmm. Maybe I should use that tactic for my next pay rise! Then again maybe not.
* When is little ‘Loops due to make his/her first appearance? 😀
Due may 12th – really not long to go now 😐 lol
Oh yeah, we’re totally having a kid at the same time.
COINCIDENCE?
Really?
I’m pretty sure like 80% of TAY is having a kid in the next few months.
…ok, maybe a handful, but it’s still weird.
CommiserationsCongratulations!What kinda kooky stuff y’all been up to??
hahaha seriously?!
WE’RE AWESOME! 😀
ZOMG Chuloopa’s awesome baby making skills created shockwaves and distortions in the space/time continuum causing several people to get pregnant? AMAZING!
Oh is that why you want the chainsword, just in case you need to do an emergency caesarean?
BABIES FOR THE BABY GOD!
OR… a particularly nasty diaper…
that sheet is nasty!
Good luck getting that thing through the post.
I would love to hear the conversations ASIO would have.
“Drugs, drugs, drugs, here’s a gun, another gun, giant chainsaw sword, gun, some drugs..”
“Whoa, back up there Charlie. What was that? A giant chainsaw sword?”
“Yeah.”
“…let it go through Charlie. I wanna see what happens with this one. I’ll give you 5 to 1 odds the kid’s in hospital by the end of delivery day.”
“Oh you’re on, Bob. You’re on.”
Oh man… if it was an actual functioning chainsword… wow.. that would be amazing.
I’m seething in jealousy with the bastard who owns the chainsword. Even if it is a smurf one
Ohhhh mannn.. you and me both… i have wanted one of those things for the LONGEST time
Did you really tell your boss where to go?
Here’s what I assume happened:
CHULOOPA: “Sure boss, the conference room is just down the hall and third door on the right. By the way, I’m quitting.”
BOSS: “NOOOOOOO Loops, I’ll never be able to find the conference room on my own. Would you accept a raise to stay?”
CHULOOPA: “Um…”
BOSS: “And benefits?”
*BOSS gives a slow wink that CHULOOPA doesn’t notice*
CHULOOPA: “BY THE GLORY OF THE EMPEROR, YES!”
*As Chuloopa dances down the corridor, the boss whispers after him.*
BOSS: “Don’t tell our wives.”
Sort of.
Only with a lot more swearing.
Also, so we’re clear, benefits mean being paid out gradually for my 200 hours of unused holiday leave.
Not the USUAL Chuloopa benefits, which are more fun.
And I thought my TAY Slash was over the top.
TAYlist for the 13th of February 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by wet weather and 35 degree heatKilling Heidi – Weir
Cars – Drive
Billy Joel – Don’t Ask Me Why (Requested by @shane)
Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover (I just love Collins’ style)
AC/DC – Thunderstruck (@strange wanted AC/DC, so why not go with a fan favourite)
B52’s – Rock Lobster (Requested by @beavwa, been reading Manly Guys Doing Manly Things lately?)
Queen – Fat Bottomed Girls
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Requested by @redartifice)
Bryan Adams – Summer of ’69
Canned Heat – On The Road Again (Requested by @freezespreston)
Offspring – Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
Violent Femmes – Blister In The Sun (Requested by @35)
Good Charlotte – I Just Want To Live
Killers – Human (Requested by @dc, or are we dancer?)
Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welsh – Sweet Nothing (Requested by @liondrive)
Faith No More – Evidence (Requested by @gingerchris86)
INXS – Original Sin
Spandau Ballet – Gold (Requested by @cufcfan616)
YEAH!
Parlez vous Francais?
Don’t ask me why.
I’m not taking off my shirt for you, sorry Shane.
Don’t look for answers, just take the chances.
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things?
I was catching up on it yesterday, and one of the recent pages had one of the main characters being called Rock Lobster as a nickname due to a serial number that ended in B52.
Was just on my mind when you requested the song.
It’s one of the regular “Sunday” comics posted on Kotaku, which is where I first heard of it.
I approve of your choice. 🙂
People attempting to speak danish reminds me that my mum and dad is coming to visit for the first time since “the incident”*…
It’ll be a bit awkward with my mum, but i haven’t seen my dad in 4 years so that’ll be nice \o/
I’M REALLY BLOODY EXCITED.
They’re arriving at the start of march, so i have 3 weeks leave as well \o/
*”the incident” is a loooong story which people who were here in 2011 might remember…
It was an ugly part of my life, and i’m hoping it’s all water under the bridge now, but time will tell
Ik kan spreken uw taal geen probleem dank u zeer.
… is that dutch? 😛
WRONG COUNTRY ┻━┻︵ \(°□°)/ ︵ ┻━┻
verified by my Dutch team leader, that is terrible dutch 😛
ek kan Afrikaans praat en ‘n bietjie Zulu
Lol i had to look up what language that was 😛
that’s my favorite emoticon ever 😀
It’s the Hulk of table flipping ascii 😛
Oh, now I must know what happened. WHAT HAPPENED?
I feel like I should know, because I was around in 2011. But it was three years ago, man! I have to really concentrate to remember if I had breakfast this morning (though on reflection, if I have to concentrate, it probably means that I didn’t get the nutritious start I needed). Well, that train of thought got diverted and then derailed.
Eh i don’t blame you 😛
it was a big deal for me at the time, now i realise how pathetic it was 😛
spoilered because whingy and poor me
Long story short;
parents got a divorce,
Mother came down here to stay with us in hope of becoming an exchange nurse
with us in our then 1-bedroom apartment in Canberra
Mother got knocked back due to age restrictions on exchange nurse program
she basically became a hermit for the next 3 months, just staying in our apartment.
Bit by bit tension started to rise between her and my missus because being a couple is damn hard with a mother always there.
I as a fool tried to be a mediator between the 2.
Ended up with me absolutely loosing it at both of them,
telling both of them to start acting like adults and stop relying on me to “fix” everything.
stormed out of the apartment, punching a wall in anger in the process.
broke my hand in the process because i’m an idiot.
mum ended up leaving that afternoon, found her own way to Sydney and flew home.
Didn’t speak to her for 12 months.
Only just now have we started talking “normally” but it’s still awkward
that’s the long and short of it, there’s more to it, but that’s the broad strokes 😛
Aw, I’m sorry to hear that man. I think it’ll be fine this time though.
Glad you guys have repaired the relationship.
It was a weird time, and a bunch of unfortunate circumstances… it wasn’t handled the best, and i paid for it 😛
Hand in a cast for 6 weeks and couple of months getting it back up to strength
Atleast you got some wall punching man street cred. 😛
Yeah well who puts the load-bearing wall there anyway! 😛
that sheez is solid!
I had some fucking insane Army friends who used to play ‘find the stud’.
It’s not what it sounds like.
The idea was you get almost black-out drunk then put each others’ heads through a wall. If it goes through plaster, the person whose head is getting rammed wins. If it hits a stud, they lose.
In reality, nobody wins. Absolute nutters. I don’t really miss them.
@transientmind
…. i… i have no words… other then wow!
What a lame situation.
I kinda ‘palmed’ a wall out of anger, and unfortunately for me it was right in-between the studs. Absolutely no damage or pain to hand, but there’s now a hole in the wall …. :\
Lol i was hoping that was what would happen 😛
Nope, fractured knuckle instead…
And yes, shitty situation all around, luckily it’s over now, we’ve dealt with it so we can move on
Jeg vil have dig til at forstå, hvor svært det var for mig ikke at lave en din mor joke her.
ahahahaha when you tried to do that, AND THEN I ACTUALLY BROUGHT MY MUM TO YOUR HOUSE 😛
First time i’ve seen Rize speechlessYour mum came at @rize’s house? Did Mrs. Rize know?
.. you’re a terrible person and you should feel bad
😛I know
<3Hey, save it for tomorrow you two.
I’m sorry, but if I have to chose between Pixel and sitting on the couch eating pizza and playing games…I chose the games.
… Just Cause 2 love? 😛
ALL ABOARD THE LOVE BERING *booom*
Edit – @cakesmith that’s fine… i understand…
no, no don’t worry… i’m not crying, it’s just the onion i’ve been cutting
*runs out the door*
Oh i know how to say “I love you” in Danish
My Auntie’s from Aarhus.
Bahaha awesome… my mum lives in Horsens which is just south of there 😛
Dark Souls:
HALP!
I’ve finished the game twice as melee characters (one with Pyromancy) but in my latest run I’m thinking of going a mage type of person (without Pyromancy).
But I have no idea what to do :P. I can’t even remember where to get spells from, which ones are worth having and which stats to increase, so any hints, tips or build recommendations would be much appreciated!
I’ve only played for a couple of minutes and left the Asylum but that soul arrow thingy already seems overpowered D:
Thanks
@freezespreston @shane
EDIT: Oh and is it even a fun build to play as?
Ummm…. hmmm.
There’s a sorcerer in the Lower Undead Burg who can teach you (sell you) spells, and you can pick up spells around the place as well. You need to boost intelligence and attunement (intelligence relates to the power of the spells, attunement is the number of spells you can have ‘equipped’ or memorised at one time.More info on spells http://darksouls.wikia.com/wiki/Sorcery
My first play through was initially a pyro that became a magic build.
There’s a guy you free in lower Undead Burg that teaches you a good range of useful magics and there’s also Logan in Sen’s Fortress for the better stuff. You need the residence key (bought from the merchant under the spear dudes in Undead Burg) to free the first dude and I just used the master key to get Logan.You can also get Dark Bead in the DLC in the section before the Manus fight. It is the most brokenly overpowered spell in the game and turns most boss fights into jokes. Completing Logan’s NPC storyline also gives you access to Crystal magic, which is almost as insanely powerful.In general, you have to save the magic for bosses and melee your way through the rest of the game because of limited charges and all that. Although you can use magic to blast your way to the next bonfire and to farm drops.I enjoyed it.
EDIT: Oh and if you do Logan’s quest chain, you get his hat. It’s a rad hat.
Surprisingly fun. And I usually hate Mage builds.
Very broad overview of what’s important.
Start by getting Great Soul Arrow from the blacksmith just before New Londo. Make sure you get the Residence Key from undead merchant and save the sorcerer from Lower Undead Burg. Get Soul Spear and Homing Soul Mass from him as well as Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring. Get the Dusk Crown from Dusk of Oolacile in Darkroot Basin. Free Logan from Sen’s Fortress to get Crystal Souls Spear and Crystal Homing Soul Mass from him. But all his spells so he goes hollow and get the Tin Crystallization Catalyst and White Dragon Breath. By this point you should have 50 INT and doing 1500 damage with CSS. Makes bosses a joke. Don’t forget to cut off Seath’s tail for the Moonlight Greatsword, best weapon for mages.Worth noting that Logan sells Soul Spear before he goes to Duke’s Archives and after he leaves for Duke’s Archives, the other merchant will start selling it.EDIT:
Also, apparently there’s no reason to get more than 50 INT. Aside from the fact you’re already doing insane damage, the scaling from catalysts drops off after that point or something like that.The scaling for everything drops off pretty drastically past 50. Pretty much the ceiling you want on every stat.
This is why I’m thinking future playthroughs it will be viable to try other builds without having to worry about new characters. My current one has 50 str and working on 50 stam (currently on 40, got a LOOOOONG way to go, soulswise), and I’d already sunk a stupid number of points into dex already, so that will totally be a viable thing to play with in NG+ I reckon. I’ve already been buying every spell I can get my hands on, and been hanging on to one of every weapon type, so after I’ve played my dex build, playing a mage should simply be a matter of buffing int.
Magic is Op so would be a fun build if you just want to stomp everything.
Nob’s guide to magic spelly thingies.
1. Go to DLC area
2. Get “Dark Bead” Spell
3. 2-shot basically every boss.
I know I’m probably posting too much, but I had the most awesome dream last night (it has to do with Video Games, so hold on there before you scroll, especially you @dc).
I was playing a game (professionally made, I hadn’t made it). It was an Adventure game, with full Oculus Rift compatibility. AND it had gloves you wore which were wired into the rift, AND a circular treadmill that measured out your movements.
You could walk around the game, fully immersed, and pick things up and do all the great adventure gamey goodness. When you picked an object up and looked at it, the description that the player (or on screen text) would normally say was narrated by Morgan Freeman in a kind of Stanley Parable way. “The player looked at the can of beans. It’s label was bright, but the corner was coming off. It has a use by date of 1994.” When you had to combine items from your inventory, you had to unsling an imaginary backpack from your shoulder, sift through the items, and try to physically make them work. For some reason in my dream I created a duck launcher through a supersoaker, a rubber band and a live duck, which I then shot at a security guard that had a phobia of ducks.
When I woke up I realised I would pay megabucks for that game. Serious megabucks. Like thousands.
Technology is already almost halfway there. There was a Kotaku article a few days ago about a rig like this set up with Skyrim.
I would do Skyrim like this so hard.
I would do Battlefield like this so hard.
Pokemon I wouldn’t because I’d be scared sh*tless.
EDIT: Also, thanks for pointing out where my subconscious has seen this thing before!
I’d totally play a Pokemon VR as the Pokemon itself.
That’d be the worst thing, you get beaten near death in Skyrim and you try to run away from the fight to a safe location to heal. Suddenly, got a stitch IRL, GG. 😛
Ssssh. You had me at inventory management.
Holy crap just got 47 in Maverick Bird!
…
God dammit.
I thought I was doing well with 13.
I’m out. You win.
I gave up after 2…
Is that the game where you give the finger to tom cruise’s character from top gun? I reckon I could score a LOT higher than 47. Unless there was a time limit of 10 seconds
It’s kind of abstract, but I think that’s more or less what it was getting at.
http://terrycavanaghgames.com/maverickbird/
Did you ever finish Super Hexagon?
EDIT: 17 :P. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that I get a high score every time the level stops spazzing out 😀
No 😛
I can’t remember what I’ve still got left to unlock on it. At least Hyper Hexagonest, and I don’t think I’ve beat Hyper Hexagoner either.
I’ll never forget the time I beat Hyper Hexagonest :’) (I was playing with the phone on silent so I tried to turn up the volume to hear the new level music and then instantly died :P)
Hexagon: 71.47
Hexagoner: 68.48
Hexagonest: 43:24
Hyper Hexagon: 49.01
Hyper Hexagoner: 27.27
Hyper Hexagonest: Locked
How about that, I was mostly right 😛
Hexagon: 133.40
Hexagoner: 95.58
Hexagonest: 63.44
Hyper Hexagon: 61:10
Hyper Hexagoner: 83:41
Hyper Hexagonest: 64.42
But you’re still kicking my ass in Maverick!
Aww yeah :coolface:
Do Flappy Typing Tutor. Score to beat there is 52 😛
C’mon, you can’t ask someone to do something internet related without a link!
Pfffffft
@greenius http://www.mrspeaker.net/dev/game/flappy/
Also, just got 55 on Maverick. Platinum medal 😛
Little did you know I’m actually an amazing typist!
Little did I know that doesn’t really matter because I’m terrible at Flappy Bird (which I’ve never played or anything like it until today :P)
EDIT: Also I had my volume up super loud and the crash noise scared me :'(
IHY
@strange @greenius
I have Lightning Returns!
I’ve played the first 5mins. Will play more soon…
OMG ME TOO! 😀
That’s on both having the game and only playing the first 5 minutes 😛
:O
Jellllllyyyyyyyyyyyy
Edit: curse me and my hermit like ways, I had like no idea that was out today, I just thought how did those bastards get that early, I might have to venture out of my cave.
True story:
I pre-ordered the next 6 or so games I wanted online so I wouldn’t have to leave the house to pick them up 😛
I really should do that, I used to not cause I was too impatient and couldn’t wait the time between release date and delivery, now I’m too hermitty so I’m just causing myself to miss out. I’m getting close to getting my licence so maybe once I do I’ll go places.
I have my license and a car to use but I still don’t go anywhere 😛
Around half of them are JRPGs so since they’ll take a while to complete I even imported some of the games so I don’t mind waiting 3 weeks or so for them to arrive (especially if I’m saving $40 on each game)
what did you pre order out of curiosity, I’ve been hankering for some RPGs, I really need to get Bravely Default and Lightning Returns.
Lightning Returns, Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, Dark Souls II, Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD, Infamous Second Son and Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes
I have it too! 😀
I played for an hour and a half and then started again because I was failing stuff for taking too long exploring. I played for the same amount of time again and got a lot further. I think I’ve got the hang of it a bit better now. I’m enjoying the game but hating the time constraints.
What site do the cool kids use to share photos these days? I haven’t used one in a long time (I think the last one I used was flik’r,is that still even a thing?) Also old man Gutsoup doesn’t twitter 😛
Who understands those cool kids anyway.
the general one i use for random meme/stupid pic uploads is imgur, or generally facebook for stuff i want my family and/or friends to see.
Yeah imgur is pretty easy to share photos with…
Also Old man Gutsoup should do like the cool kids and get the twitters…
DOOOO EEEET 😛
But he has the Twitters…
https://twitter.com/gutsoup 😀Then old man Gutsoup needs to crank it over and use it every once in a while 😛
I used the twitters for about 6 hours, thought I’d deleted my account and never spoke of it again until dc pointed out that it was still there.
I seriously thought I’d taken the account down, I have no idea 😛
http://www.hotornot.com
I use SkyDrive which is the Microsoft version of Dropbox.
Edit fail page get?
Wow Freeze. Way to drop the bar just that little bit more every day.
That’s a very Monty Python-esque page get there good sir…
I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION, YOU SONS OF A SILLY PERSON!
YOUR MOTHER WAS A HAMSTER AND YOUR FATHER SMELLED OF ELDERBERRIES!
Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
oh god now you got me started 😛
Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Oh, but you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
but if I went ’round sayin’ I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away.
aaaand now i know what i’m doing this weekend 😛
Help, help, I’m being repressed!
BLOODY PEASANT!
YOU DON’T FRIGHTEN US, YOU ENGLISH PIG-DOGS. GO AND BOIL YOUR BOTTOMS, SONS OF A SILLY PERSON. I BLOW MY NOSE AT YOU, SO CALLED ARTHUR KING, YOU AND ALL YOUR SILLY ENGLISH KNNNNNNIGITS!
FETCHEZ LE VACHE!
QUOI?
FETCHEZ LE VACHE!
…
SPROING
Jesus Christ!
O.O
Run Away!
Singstar Legends get.
So I am going to get my local GT to help me get all the Singstar games
Posting again since @trjn couldn’t use it.
I have a $50 and $40 voucher for Telstra Prepaid Mobile Broadband. I don’t know if you can use it for other Telstra credits, but first and second person to want it gets it.
Should be any prepaid Telstra service which would include mobile, since their recharges cover mobile phone & mobile broadband.
Well in that case I’m surprised no one is taking up free $90 worth … that’s ~5.6GB data for mobile broadband.
I’d be under the impression no one active has a prepaid Telstra service and they’re post paid if with Telstra lol.
@Greenius
Here’s my 50int build for Dark Souls!
Stats
(In order of priority)STR – 16
DEX – 12
INT – 50
ATTU – 18
VIT/END – ? (Overflow stats, I prefer END over VIT)
FAITH – NO! STOP! THATS A BAD GREENIUS! DONT PUT ANY STATS HERE!
Equipment:
Weapons – Drake Sword / Catalyst (early game) – Enchanted Claymore / Logan’s Catalyst (Mid/Late Game).Shield – Anything you want, I’m a fan of the Spider Shield!
Armour – (Head) Crown of Dusk (Everything else) Whatever you want!
Rings – Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring / Ring of Favor and Protection.
Spells (Late Game):
Crystal Soul Spear / Dark Bead / Pursuers (costs 2 slots).Curious as to why
You went with the claymore instead of the A INT scaling weapon that deals single source damage that most enemies have almost no defence against with the addition of a ranged wide area attack and a Magic Defence increase of 40?The +5 Enchanted Claymore and the +5 Moonlight Greatsword deal 583 (197 Physical/386 Magical) Damage and 480 (Magical) Damage @ 50 int. In most, cases they would both basically be identical in damage. So it comes down to one thing, do you want a bonus 2handed attack, and 40defence buff or do you want a weapon with a better move set and excellent range. I personally prefer the extra mobility that the Claymore provides.Ha. Just looked it up. Looks like its one of those arguments that go round and round, never going anywhere judging by the hundreds of forum threads asking that same question.
I’ll just stick with you’re wrong and I’m right.
😛
For some reason i saw that as 50 Cent build
now i want to play dark souls as a rapper.
I picked the Sorcerer starting class, does that have suitable equipment for early game?
What about reinforcing catalysts? Is that worth doing and can you even reinforce them?
So far I’ve killed the Taurus and got that better soul arrow that the New Londo guy sells as well as the key to the residence.
Yes.
No.
So easy rite?
Magic is so OP D:
More helpfully the Sorcerers Catalyst is the third best Catalyst in the game behind Logan’s and Tin Crystallisation. Just stick with that until you get them and just keep pumping points into INT.
Although I did use the Tin Banishment Catalyst early on as it’s a decent weapon in its own right before becoming a bit useless later on.
It’s not a BAD class. I just prefer to pick a class that has pretty decent stats that will get me close to the Drake Sword. Basically the worse class you could probably choose is Priest and Knight because of their high starting faith scores.
No, reinforcing catalysts is completely useless, unless you want to hit enemies with them which I would advise against being a squishy mage. Still, it’s your game so you can do whatever. =P
I 3 shot Gwyn at the end of the game with the Dark Bead spell. The amount of power that spell dishes out is just beyond ridiculous .
Can you even reinforce them? I didn’t think you could?
I never really bothered to check. =P
I wish I had gone with a magic build instead of a Dex build. I have to get up close and personal with all the bosses and wear light armor and the margin for error is stupidly low 🙁
Also from what I’ve seen, Homing Crystal Soulmass is pretty decent as well.
Jesus. Big Day Out may be in its final days. BDO2014 had a $15 million loss at the end of it. Perth’s been axed and Adelaide likely to be.
Fuck.. I knew they ran at a loss this year, but I didn’t realise it was THAT big.
Doesn’t it sell out every year though? How can they possibly be overspending so badly?
Hasn’t for a number of years from what I gather. Especially in Adelaide & Perth where it’s taken the biggest decline of attendees & Perth tickets have gotten really expensive in recent as well, from what I gather after I read an interview with AJ Maddah did, tickets were well over 160 this year in all states, which sucks. Since it was that much when I last attended 2 years ago.
Like AJ was saying on Twitter yesterday, Warped Tour in Coffs Harbour sold ~1800 tickets which just covered the cost of The Offspring for that show, a similar story in Canberra but other dates were better.
I think it’s been a case of the organisers not listening to what their audience wants
I’m no expert, but it sounds like costs have risen, they’ve put the ticket prices up to compensate, but fewer people are willing to pay those increased prices, so attendance is lower, which means they don’t get their money back, which… vicious circle.
Yeah, for sure costs have risen, but i’d also say it’s possibly also got a lot to do with the fact that they aren’t appealing to the crowd they want, as I said below, Pearl Jam as a headline act probably wasn’t the smartest move, but you get that. Also when acts like Blur were announced that generated a lot of want from people to have them do sideshows (before they cancelled on the festival) since they didn’t want to spend whatever 180+ for one band, which is fair enough, especially if they were only going to see like an hour of stage time.
I always saw Big Day Out as a festival which got what artists that were hot and popular in Australia at the time and were available for a tour.
Agreed, this is a big reason why it isn’t as popular now, in an interview I was reading yesterday where AJ Maddah was saying how Ken West has stated in the past that he doesn’t care if no one turns up to see his favourite headline act. That is not painting a very good image for festival promoter to say stuff like that.
AJ made point that the promoters are hard for the nostalgia acts from the 90’s when the festival came to be. Sure that’s nice if there’s the numbers there for Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Blur (which were a huge attraction this year but they pulled out), but ticket sales have said otherwise and so have people on social media who do not want to spend 200+ dollars on a festival ticket to see 60-90 minutes of their favourite band, when they want a sideshow or a headline tour!
Pricing & line-ups are the main reason Big Day Out isn’t flourishing like it used to it seems. Sure 35,000+ people at Gold Coast this year seems impressive, but they haven’t said how many tickets they had in total for that show, likewise Auckland sold 40,000+ tickets, again not sure how many they had to sell. I’d like to know what Perth & Adelaide saw, cause Sydney & Melbourne i’m sure would’ve been the same or more than Gold Coast, easily.
I think the festival has way more life in it, if it receives a complete overhaul in its line-up structure & pricing of everything from tickets, to official festival merch (which we all know is waaaaaaaay over priced) to things like drinks. Considering at these events to buy alcohol you need drink tickets and alcohol is usually mid strength and way over priced at something like 10 dollars for one mid strength whatever.
I think Big Day Out to be successful needs to cash in on a headline act that is current and people want to see. From what I heard Arcade Fire was probably the biggest drawing act at Big Day Out this year (hi @dc!) followed by Snoop Dogg. Yet Arcade fire was not in a headline slot, they were on at 6 or something? Pearl Jam was the headline act, they aren’t current and Big Day Out is not a nostalgia festival well from what i’ve seen it isn’t since it’s all about new and emerging artists and what’s currently popular. Save the nostalgia bands for Soundwave where the headline acts are bands that have been established for 20+ years (well that’s how it has been in recent years)
That turned out to be a little longer than I expected oops.
That’s what she said…sorry, it was there wanting me to say that 😛
I think Big Day Out needs to figure out what sort of festival it wants to be. Now that AJ’s onboard I think it’s safe to say it won’t go back to being a full on alternative festival anymore, but it can’t be a broad mixture of things where people will have maybe 3-4 bands that they want to see and nothing else will interest them. There’s too much diversity at BDO these days, especially when you consider there’s a fair number of specialised festivals happening all over Australia all year round now.
Case in point, the only BDO I’ve been to since I’ve been here was to see Rammstein. The only other artist I wanted to see on that bill was Andrew WK but I guess Tool & Deftones would’ve been similar bands for other Rammstein fans but I don’t really like either of them. There wasn’t anything else remotely like them. Not surprising then that the grounds weren’t exactly jam packed full of people.
With nostalgia bands, I struggle to think of any newer bands (again, speaking from an alternative/metal side of things) that are capable of pulling in massive crowds. Slipknot and SOAD are probably the only major draws that I would consider a ‘newer’ band but they both first released albums 15 years ago. Maybe it’s a case of festival organisers not being willing to risk a new band in a high slot or that newer bands just aren’t getting the same attention they might’ve 20 years ago. It used to be that a headliner would be judged by their record sales but you can’t really do that anymore these days as you can’t really judge a band’s popularity over here until they’re actually here thanks to pirating and the decline in record sales
*disclaimer – my views may be completely out of touch with what’s popular these days 😀
I don’t think AJ would want to compromise Big Day Out being too like Soundwave, I would like to think he wants to see it return to more of an alternative/mainsteam festival to bring the numbers up and make it something of a successful thing again.
Yeah exactly, like last Big Day Out I went to was 2012 where The Living End played, sure I didn’t directly pay for the ticket but that was the only band I was interested in (also Tony Hawk but he isn’t a band :P)
I’m not caught up on what’s hot honestly or new and massive. But from the feedback i’ve seen in recent about this years Big Day Out, people who were in the festivals demographic were not interested in Pearl Jam or really knew who they were, which does say something. I dunno about risk or more so they want to appeal to what they like (which Ken West or may have been Adam Zammit has said they do first appeal to their likes) which is silly, why not try and book the hottest alternative artist of 2013 for 2014 for a headline act, it’s not hard to see what’s being played most and bought the most in this day and age.
Record sales are still impressive in this day and age honestly. iTunes & like minded digital sales sites have really helped, then there’s streaming shit like Pandora, Spotify etc.. I remember when Slipknots last album All Hope Is Gone came out in 2008 it went to the #1 spot on the ARIA charts first week and sold over 35,000 copies in Australia which was impressive. I look at charts and such from time to time to see where my favourite band who just brought out album placed or how many copies they’ve already sold, they try and claim pirating music is a problem but from the numbers I see they’re telling a much different story.
But also singles are where the artists see’s the impressive numbers in sales. Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue said recently there’s more reason for them to put out singles than a full album, also the fact the Crue haven’t really written a memorable song since 1989 but that’s a different story 😛
Got confirmation today, that as of next pay cycle, I’ll be permanent full time! w00t!
Now just waiting on confirmation that they’re going to pay me what I asked for! Soon… Sooooooon!
“Congratulations, you’re now permanent full time employed! Pay you? What? Who said anything about that?”
I been putting up with that shit for almost a year now. They better not stiff me on this one! All work and no reward make welbot …something something…
So i’ll just leave this here and let everyone laugh at Billy Ray Cyrus for knowing how to make fun of himself and his daughter.
Well that’s certainly… whatever that is.
DARK SOULS!!
I made a thing. I’m basically trying to scare the shit out of my fellow DS fanatics
http://youtu.be/JrEfw1zpDWo
Ha. Having Solaire pop up like that. Genius.
That. Was. Awesome. Threw you a like.
Thank you sir! Just one of those weird ideas that popped almost fully formed into my head. I’d seen one of the many rants about Dungeon Keeper (More like dungeon loser amirite?? … I’ll get me coat…), possibly the one by that Francis guy and then not long after was playing dark souls, hit a fog gate and the timer idea was just there and horrifying in it’s kind of perfect yet fucking abominable style.
FIFTY FIIIIIIIVE
CURSE YOU MAVERICK BIRD
Apparently the next medal is at 100. Goodbye, world.
So, @beawwb, is your username of “B-ob” pronounced “Bee obb,” or “Beedashobb?”
@beawbb?
@beawb, perhaps?
@beawwbb?
Sod it, I’m going to play Dark Souls.
@beeawwb
You rang?
Oh, no… You didn’t. I’ll just be over here in the corner then.
I believe we established (not that long ago) that the correct pronunciation is boob.
Bee obb
Originally it was poking fun at a mate who called himself B-Rad on IRC. The name stuck with me, however and B-ob became beeawwb for forum registrations because of the prohibited – dash.
But also @benny gets partial credit. ;p
I have a really weird playlist.
It includes queen, bad religion, disney, RWBY and nofx. I am weird =P
My work playlist flits from King Parrot, August Burns Red and Iwrestledabearonce to Regina Spektor, Bach, Urthboy, Pez, Pez (@anonymous_pessimist) and all between.
My coworkers don’t appreciate it. I’m OK with that.
I’ve got old school death metal, contemporary melodic death metal, thrash metal & doom metal as my main genres but if you put my whole music collection on random you’d get Natalie imbruglia, tori amos, a-ha, Madness, Frankie goes to Hollywood and loads of other cheesy 80s & 90s pop and rock stuff
FRIEND!
BROFIST!
Nothing wrong with 80s pop to go in with your grym & kvlt metal collection. 80s pop is fantastic 😀 most of it anyway 😛 not the synth pop
I just ‘acquired’ a load of new (to me) thrash bands so am gonna be spinning a few of them at work hopefully today.
Thank God it’s several pages late, but I was mortified to discover TWO of the bands Pandora had sent me – which I had liked – were actually Christian Metal. Which kinda explains the lyrics, I guess. (Mortified due to the hit to my already-terrible metal-cred – I already like enough uncool things as it is, come on!)
My old playlist bounced between Thrash, to Musical Theatre, over to Melo-Death, back to super catchy modern pop, around again to various metal style covers of songs, and then some more 80s pop to fill the gaps.
Having “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” followed by “Nemesis” by Arch Enemy was a rather unique experience.
Edit: And that’s not even mentioning the rad amounts of jazz, though it and Metal share a lot of musical elements, so they work well together.
Pretty much any polyrhythmic metal will trace at least some of its origin’s back to Jazz.
Also I need to listen to Arch Enemy now, Ange rocks!
I have a mad soft spot for Melodic Death Metal, which is odd since I dislike basically every other form of death metal. And Arch Enemy are my band of choice in that regard. Haven’t really been into the hard stuff for years now, though.
If I had to pick one melodic death band it’d have to be In Flames but I’d not want to pick one
I’m gonna be elitist and only say old In Flames 😛 really I only like Clayman and Jesters Race.
For me the most consistent melodic death metal band is Soilwork, but At The Gates were amazing when they toured last year. Arch Enemy, I like the stuff with Johan, absolutely love Wages of Sin but anything else with Angela is hit or miss, more often a miss for me. Check out Johan’s band Hearse, and in particular Armageddon, Mon Amour. Absolutely amazing album and imo, better than anything Arch Enemy have put out
Polyrhythmic metal… I really dig that term.
And yeah, you’re right. Math- and grind- certainly have roots in jazz, and a lot of the death- and especially black- has direct ties to classical music.
I *love* it, and wish others could see the ties.
I just wish I could get some of the weirder stuff like Dillinger Escape Plan, I’ve just not heard the right stuff yet I guess.
Have you seen Metal Evolution? It’s by the guy who did Metal: A Headbangers Journey (Which you should also watch if you’ve not seen it), it traces the lineage of the major genres of metal and has loads of really interesting stuff in it showing not just modern bands but major precursors from the genre and where they got their influences.
For example for the Shock Rock ep, they have interviews with people like GWAR & Slipknot but also Alice Cooper & KISS who inspired them and then showing stuff by Screamin Jay Hawkins or interviewing people like Arthur Brown that inspired Alice, KISS & Bruce Dickinson
Dillinger Escape Plan is amazing. My favourite album is probably Ire Works (great introduction to the band, actually. Couple of melodic tracks, interspersed between the batshit insanity that is their other stuff.
Also worth checking their earlier earlier stuff, with Mike Patton.
I really enjoy frenetic tunes, anything that catches you off guard on the first listen. I like having to ‘learn’ how to listen to it. How to anticipate it. Iwrestledabearonce, Circle Takes The Square, The Number 12 Looks Like You etc, they all challenge your preconceptions on what should and shouldn’t occur in music. I love it.
I’ve not seen Metal Evolution, nor A Headbanger’s Journey. If I really dig a band, I’ll check out alternate media of theirs (HORSE the Band’s Earth Tour is a prime example. 10 hours of fuckery around the world :P), though the metal umbrella as a whole is SO enormous, it goes beyond genre. I think I’ll check them out, see what it’s all about 😀
That’s the first ep of metal evolution, should give you a good idea of the style the series uses. It’s focusing on the era before metal and how it influences the origins of metal.
If I have any money left after this bloody dentist appointment on Monday I’ll see if I can afford Ire Works & see how it clicks
I have a really pop and electro / dubstep oriented playlist. Lots of Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Nero, Skrillex, Crystal Castles and Knife Party :3 Oooh and lots of remixes!
I’m getting really into strong vocals lately though, like Adele and Lana Del Rey :3
I have a really weird playlist.
It’s just Judas Priest. That’s all there is, nothing else at all. I am weird.
Needs more Judas Priest
I agree, it always hits the end way before I’m ready for it to.
You should watch Metal Evolution as well, episode 2 has Priest in
I have a playlist with rap, hard rock and vocaloids in it.
i win
I tried to get vocaloids on pandora because spotify hates me. It doesn’t really have any
interestingly you can buy some of Jin ( a well known vocaloid artists) stuff on itunes, which i found super odd but kinda cool.
Yeah I was looking for Miku hatsune stuff
My work playlist is pretty much all 70s or 80s. Steely Dan / Donald Fagen (every album), Van Halen, Queen, The Doobie Brothers, The Eagles, Earth Wind & Fire, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, the list goes on and on.
Hm, I should get some steely dan
Steely Dan are my favourite band, full stop. 🙂
My current playlist is a mixture of Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire, trance remixes of saccharine Japanese pop music and Judas Priest.
Finished work!
10 hours before I start again /o\
successbaby.jpg
So i’m attempting to look for a decent (under $250 ideally) digital camera, that works well in low light levels, I thought i’d check out JB online DSE etc.. I think i’d have a better chance if I went in store and looked, ugh.
At least then you’ll be able to see the size, as opposed to guessing feom dimensions. Some of them also let you test out the cameras as well. Not the best option, but maybe you’ll just have to?
True, I was trying to more so figure out what sort of range they both had lol.
I’ve got 15-40% the entire store at Dick Smith tomorrow if you want to come up and have a look?
Ooh really, i’ll see if I can got a stupid appointment with the employment agency at 12:30 which is just annoying lol. Assuming The Pines, yeah?
Ayup.
Haha someone posted this in the comment section of a article on IGN.com
“Kotaku is basically the hipster of all game/otaku news.”
I chuckled a little, before carrying on with my hipster ways 😛
What exactly is this ‘otaku’?
Hipster? It’s more like the university dropout. It constantly steals stuff from other articles, it can’t stick to defined boundaries, (Bashcraft content kept under the banner of “gaming culture”) and has some really odd opinions on things. (“not all women have vaginas. This fact makes the game exclusionary.”)
Also its probably taking copious amounts of drugs.
SPORTSBALL! CRICKET!
South Africa 56/4 in 1st innings, chasing Australia’s 1st innings of 397.
Good thing you put your worst batters at the top of the order… oh wait…
I dunno why they put Marsh and Clarke to 4 and 5. IMO Marsh is a perfect #3 and Clarke is at his best at #4.
Thanks to the Humble Bundle, I now own a bunch of Side Meier games! I think I redeemed all of them to my steam account, so I couldn’t gift any of them. Sorry! I guess I’ll know better next time I buy from the Humble store.
Oh man, sometimes I really wish I had greater scope to discuss political issues online. I’d be getting into a Facebook debate defending this project for sure.
http://www.pozible.com/project/178615
By the way, I think you should support this project. But not because of politics at all.
I just spent lots of money on obscure bands help.
Okay, next time you have money, buy me a PS4 instead
What bands?
Just bought Decompositions: Vol 1, by Circle Takes The Square, and and It’s All Happening by Iwrestledabearonce (accompanied by sweet shirts for the two of them) on vinyl.
Keen!
Hmm, the promise of buying me a PS4 was conspicuous by its absence…
Would you like to spend more money on a band that is so obscure it was literally just made up now?
Because for 20 bucks you can get the only copy of Blaghs and the Never Mind it’s just me’s debut album “Christ I’m bad at thinking up names.”. So indie and hipster it hasn’t even been recorded yet, and the songs would be made up as the dashingly attractive lead sings them.
I’m not particularly reckless with money, and I’d buy this.
I’ll take 8!
*Obligatory Robocop reference*
I thought you were talking about the “live strong” style armbands.
EDIT: And since you bought the obscure ones, you went with “breathe steady” or “proceed tenaciously” armbands.
What Would Ahura Mazda Do.
):
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*MGS alert noise*
TURN THAT FROWN UPSIDE DOWN!
🙁
… Well that didn’t work.
That was back to front, not upside down. In fact, upside down it’d look the same so it’d be a bit redundant to do.
Hmm, the new addon for Arma 3 has been announced, it’s a multiplayer gamemaster mode
http://youtu.be/5JiXznUyldM
Looks pretty damned interesting if you have enough players.
DARK SOULS 2 \o/
COUNTDOWN: Like, 27 days or something. *involuntary tic*
There doesn’t seem to be any Dark Souls news today according to my daily Google search, but I did discover that apparently there will be a Sons of Anarchy video game.
http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2014/02/sons-of-anarchy-video-game-is-happening-says-kurt-sutter.html
“1st person, action adventure. HD graphics. It represents the evolution of gaming.” tweets show creator Kurt Sutter.
Hyperbole aside, the world of SoA is rich enough to support a wicked game. I suspect strongly, though, that it will be a CoD-clone to appeal to as wide a cross-section of the fanbase as possible.
Really? My first thought was GTA-clone with a biker focus. The GTA4’s Lost and the Damned expansion.
See, I thought so too. I actually assumed that because GTAIV basically did SoA, that this game would never actually exist. Driving a bike in first-person is gonna be really irritating.
Unless they took it in a whole L.A. Noire kinda direction, with a (Telltale) Walking Dead style dramatic story taking place using L.A.N’s face-tech to capture the show’s actors, in between riding and occasional shooting. What with the whole drama/intrigue angle of the show… that’d be baws. But y’know, 1st-person action-adventure which promises to ‘represent the evolution of gaming’? (I’m not entirely sure that’s a good thing, by the way. I mean, it can be – Evoland did that and was totally fun.)
I’d be cool with that. I don’t expect this will happen, though. It’s a TV licence tie-in, after all, and it’s pretty much gotta come out by year’s end (while the show is still running).
NINTENDO DIRECT TIME, GUYS!
… Guys?
Guys?
30ish mins isn’t it?
It is, but I figure now would be a good time to start up the hype train here.
CHOO CHOO!
http://youtu.be/ggqCHWlydgU?t=19s
EDIT: That part was almost as cringe-worthy as the death metal orchestra at the beginning of the finals.
I want it to be an hour from now already so that I’m about to play Lightning Returns, not about to walk up to school like I am now. 😛
Role reversal! A week ago someone else wanted it to be school time already early in the morning. How’s he settling in to the routine?
He still loves it enough that he’s happy to turn the TV off quickly after breakfast and get dressed. Not sure how long that will last but I’m certainly enjoying it while I can. 😛
Is it a remake? It’s numbered 13, and I thought they had 13, 13-2 ?
It’s the conclusion to the story.
So it’s 13-3? Why didn’t they just label it as such.
*has never played a FF before*
This annoys me way more than it should.
http://i.imgur.com/piC30yj.jpg
Just pick a style!
Evolution.
It’s almost as bad as when books change cover style halfway through the series and only the first ones get rereleased with the new covers, not the new ones with the old covers and then they’ll NEVER EVER MATCH UP ON YOUR SHELF.
If you couldn’t read, you’d have zero idea that those games were in any way related to each other.
Once again, XIII-2 is the best of them. They should stick with that style.
The Asian releases are pretty consistent, though the FFXIII-2 text is marginally smaller.
Learning about press releases! Fun times.
I’ve totally jumped the gun with all this Kickstarter stuff, but… I… can’t… stop!
I read some stuff on I think it was either Rock Paper Shotgun or Penny Arcade Report on how to run a kickstarter – or rather, stuff one developer wished they’d known before they launched theirs. If I get time I’ll try to find it for you, but it was choc-full of tips and advice.
At any rate, the point I took away from it was it’s OK to wait as long as you have to, to get everything right for it – community awareness, etc.
Man. This is gonna bug me, I’ll have to see if I can find it. I’m pretty sure it was Penny Arcade Report.
That’s good advice. I’m definitely not going to rush it. I’ve been laying the groundwork for this since December, and I’ve already put at least a hundred and fifty hours into planning it.
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is on Steam, and it’s only $10!
If you don’t have it already, there are no excuses.
BB PG! \o/
i have $300 for the rest of the month and that includes groceries, medical bills, petrol and loan repayments? 😛
Okay, some excuses. 😀
But it’s still cheaper than a KFC meal, and it’s an awesome fighting game.
Added to wish list 😛
@phalinsipo:
Your dream was a sign.
@phalansipo?
Holy hell. Although, I remember that they were on sale on Xbox Live, so it doesn’t exactly apply.
For future reference my username is “phlanispo,” pronounced as “flan-ispo.”
The fact that you thought it was “phalansipo” is quite amusing. If I remember correctly, greenius (I think?) thought it was Phil Anselmo for quite a while.
Here’s the original comment
WOO NINTENDO DIRECT!
…stream completely broke after 10 minutes 😛
Oh well, guess I’ll just read the news or watch it later :/
… 🙁
Same.
I’ll wait for tay summary =P
Frustrating night for me last night. Go to play one game, servers just went down for maintenance as I was playing, so switch to LoL, spent huge amount of time updating due to horrid internet speeds (Maxed out at 35Kbps). Finally finished so got invited to a game, Optus has an outage during my game and doesn’t come back up all night. Ended up being stuck playing Titan Quest then going to bed depressed. Thank goodness for Steam offline mode working after I initially signed in when I started my computer, just couldn’t play anything that has achievements, cuz I hate the thought of missing out on an achievement due to not being connected to Steam.
What I got out of the Nintendo Direct:
Little Mac?
Little Mac.
Ballin’.
Has a new hat?
Nintendo ain’t valve. I’m afraid with their unique way of thinking Nintendo wouldn’t even decently copy valve’s tried tradition of hatitude. Maybe ankle socks. They’re like that.
SHIT YES
I GOT MY MAIN
STEED!
MRS PEEL!
WHAT COULD GO WRONG!
Edit: Oh wait. Haha! They actually announced the results and this isn’t one? ;'(
Not enough votes, that’s what went wrong.
Results:
Steed, Mnemonic, Dear Leader, Little Pink Best BudsNone of those are my first round choices! D: *shakes fist*
Steed was a second round choice for me, though.
Good call on the Dear leader
Well Steed was one of my originals so that’s good. Sad that breach didn’t make it, think that could have worked well as both prototype and full game.
Can’t wait for the daily docos!
I’m going to miss most of them I think, but 2 weeks worth to catch-up on when I get back
Borrow the blu-ray!
Just saw the results and I’m all for STEED now! 😀
STEED!
I have worked 50hrs this week, 50 of the most stressful and shitty hours of my short career. Im so tired. I also have a driving lesson tommorrow where im going to freak and spaz out. Hurrah
also i’ve had no time to take my dog for a walk and i think he is starting to hate me, not really because he is a dog and loves everyone. I just feel awful i haven’t any time with him except when i bring him inside for a few hours a night. Such a bad dog owner.
*hugasaurus*
In the words of Blink 182: work sucks.
Negative: Busted aircraft toilet
Positive: Free wifi
Somewhere between negative and positive: The wifi only works when you’re sitting on the toilet
The frogurt is CURSED.
that’s bad
But, you get your choice of toppings.
That’s good!
The toppings contain Potassium Benzoate…
…
…That’s bad.
Can I go now?
The aircraft toilet was broken when you wanted to use it or you actually broke the toilet?
Plane not leaving because it is broken. Waiting for it to be fixed
Just pop the bonnet, i’m sure you can spot the fault straight away 😛
@greenius HOW ARE WE NOT PSN FRONDS YET?!!!!
Dis be leaf? 😛
BECAUSE YOU HATE ME!? :'(
Add me ! 😀
I already did. I used the one on TAYNames. Was that the right one?
There are students outside my office having some sort of makeshift party with annoying ‘computer noise music’. It’s 9.17am. I’m trying to sleep but this damned noise is keeping me awake so I have no excuse but to work (and TAY).
*shakes angry fist at students*
I hate it when my colleagues wake me up and expect me to work. So inconsiderate. 😛
Two Zeitgeists this morning. All of a sudden, I can forgive Valentine’s Day for everything.
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY, SHANE!
REMEMBER THAT TIME WE GOT STRAWBERRY MILKSHAKES?
Yeah. You put your hand in my pocket. The girl at the counter thought we were a couple. <3
Simpler times.
Well the fact you were drinking out of the same cup with 2 straws did make for a convincing arguement 😛
the video for ‘Two Guys, One Cup’ sounds a lot tamer than the one for girls
… i would not google that though 😛
LOOK AT THIS DICKHEAD SWOOPING IN AND STEALING MY THUNDER!!!
He didn’t post the link yet, you still have time!
GENT!
@gutsoup, @benj: http://collider.com/rick-and-morty-season-2-renewal/
yusssss!
*leaps up and punches the air*
F#$% YEAAAAAAAH!!!!!
they deserve a second season, so funny
Such an awesome show!
#popsugar
…
wait what?
this… this is a thing?
Didn’t you know? If you become a celebrity, your BO instantly improves.
Which is what? 500% increase in sexy? 😛
I’m counting on it!
*writes more books*
the increase in improvement of body odour is in direct correlation with the celebrity’s wealth
Maybe Mark will counter with Guys of TAY and their Repulsive Stinks!
I would have gone with musky scents
*sniffs armpit*
Edit – because something something anatomy something second language leave me alone something something 😛
Ooh ooh ooh I’m in with a chance here!
…I don’t even want to know. D:
It’s probably just guys who have fragrance endorsement deals or something, though.
Are you pshychic, cause that’s exactly what it is…
Not psychic, just “S-M-R-T”. 😛
Specific
Measured
Realistic
Timeframed?…
Damn you TAFE
Timeframed? It was Timely when I was there
I think it’s open to interpretation, i think we had one teacher say one thing and another saying that, so yeah
LINK!!!
HEY! LISTEN!
#pixelgetsreferences
also this if you are genuinly interested 😛I actually just wanted a link! Haha, oooh :3
Yeah i feel bad for being a terrible person and doing bad jokes instead… so i’m sorry if it came across as disrespectful
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever been apologised for in my life, haha?!
WOO EXCELLING AT DUMB THINGS IS STILL EXCELLING AT SOMETHING \o/
*Wind Waker Ocean Theme begins*
ZELDA-FIVE o/
*leaves Pixel hanging*
o/
o-
o\
/o\
*jumps out window*
o/
…
*peers out window*
/o\
do they use Lynx? I’ve seen the adverts, women from across the globe will fight each other for you the instant you pick it up in the shop
Tried it, doesn’t work…
I even walked up to one, lifted my arm and forced her nose into the armpit going
“CAN YOU SMELL THAT”…
still didn’t work…
maybe because it was a stranger at a bus stop…
yeah, you should only do that to your friends 😀
… on a completely unrelated note you should attend a meat…
because… reasons
*looks around shiftely*
I don’t see how this could backfire on me.
*prepares to attend meat completely unaware and oblivious of everything and everyone*
It’s okay, we’re just from the internet, nothing bad has every come from that right? RIGHT?
THAT EXPLAINS IT
Kevin Bacon?
… dude you just blew my mind…
Bacon!!!
*Swoons*
Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Hanks:
It’s Friday the 14th, much scarier than a Frriday the 13th nahmsayin!?, and to celebrate here’s TWO EPISODES OF YOUR FAVOURITE PODCAST!!!
This week, I discuss my exercise regimen then decide to strip on air while Karl, with the vocabulary and confidence of fat 6 year old, attempts to describe it.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2014/02/14/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s04e16-the-superman/
Alone this Valentine’s Day? Don’t understand love? Well why not spend 45mins with two inexperienced, socially inept man children as they discuss their first loves.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2014/02/14/dan-karls-zeitgeist-valentines-day-special/
You’re all my Valentine, gang.
Love,
Dan
This is how we’ll be celebrating Valentine’s Day.
http://www.jibjab.com/view/W71GDRL4TmaYgypG4LNrDw
Camel toe 😛
Edit: on a related note I had a friend who referred to overweight people’s ones as a Moose Knuckle, oh how I laughed
Haha, nailed that intro. Nailed it.
I hate networking events.
Just pretend you’re Sydney Bristow at an embassy party making small talk. Then sneak off to steal some microfilm!
It’s all an elaborate game of Spyparty!
Also, who still uses microfilm?
I just like the spy feel it conjures. XD
Also, I assume Adelaide is stuck in the ’70s?
There is a certain element of NIMBYs that are.
People with information so secret it can’t be stored on any network.
I thought you would have replied to that with, I hate
networkingevents. 😀YOU DON’T KNOW MY LIFE!
😛
Yeah, but I’m trying. I’m outside your window right now. Hi.
Want some rye? Course ya do!
I was thinking more, let me in and let’s watch Gattaca?
Somethingsomething*jiltedonValentine’sDay*grumblesadface
@dc @shane
Uh, Shane’s out here with me as well. You have room in your single bed for three, hey DC? 😀
CREEPIEST VALENTINE’S DAY EVAR ಠ__ಠ
@benny
¯\_(ಠ◡ಠ)_/¯
The IT person immediately assumed you were having networking issues 😛
You’re not the only one…
*edit* seriously, whoever designed the back cover of HP Pavillion laptops can go die in the physical manifestation of my eternal fury.
Are you trying to pull one apart?
I tried that once… then i didn’t try it because i decided it was too much effort 😛
Yeah, I was given one from a clients office that hangs when we try to run a checkdisk, so I was told to pull it apart and replace the RAM, but it took me 15 minutes to get the screws out and the backplate off, and now I find out that while we do have spare laptop RAM here, it doesn’t fit the slot in the laptop.
winner \o/
Yeeeaaah that sucks…
I still think the main offender if there ever was one, was (when i was a techie at least) Asus…
It didn’t even have access plates to various components, noooo… you had to remove 18 screws and took off the entire backplate (which the heatsink was glued to) and carefully unplug the system fan as well… TO GET TO THE RAM!!! stupid stupid design
Ok, so while we didn’t have any replacement RAM, I swapped the module to another slot to see if that made a difference… no dice 🙁
Tried checkdisk again, still freezes, but after a quick search, apparently HP includes BIOS-based HDD/RAM tests, so I’m running the HDD test now to see if it throws any errors.
*waits patiently while sipping coffee blacker than the soul of a HP Executive*
the BIOS RAM test is a bit iffy, it works 75% of the time from experience (again my experience is 3+ years old now)
But the HDD test is pretty conclusive…
If suspected RAM issues you can always download a diagnostics CD like HIRENS and do a ram test through that (if the HP test shows nothing of course)
You didn’t have to take the keyboard off? You have to with their netbooks that I’ve seen
Acer’s snap-in snap-out keyboards were pretty great for this… And yeah i think with the netbooks this is still the case, but aside from the top bezel (which feels like it’s going snap at any moment) it’s pretty damn easy to remove
The best part is when you put it back together and have 1 screw leftover.
Even better if you forgot you have a screw left over and left it sitting in a recess on the backplate…
*put it all together*
huh, there’s a spare screw hole (hello!)
*turn it over*
rattle, rattle, rattle…. well F**k
The knee bones connected to the…something
The somethings connected to the…red thing
The red things connected to my wrist watch
@cakesmith
That’s totally how i ‘puter…. is that how you ‘puter? 😛
How I ‘puter:
http://i.imgur.com/g0Unp2z.gif
Can confirm immediately thought the network was having issues.
Ugh. That was in my development goals for this year. Network better. Market yourself. Build your personal brand. Get your name out there. WHY. WHY IS THIS NECESSARY. I DO THE CLAIMS YOU PAY ME THE MONEY. THAT IS WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR.
There needs to be some sort of law which prevents people in technical fields with technical skills from being required to play the interpersonal ‘game’ of promotion, etc, which requires TOTALLY UNRELATED SKILLS to advance in a technical field.
Technical professions need agents more than hollywood actors do.
There should also be a law that makes all technically minded people excempt from any duties, and while we’re at it, never pay tax and be viewed upon as gods…
That’s sure to work right?
See, the thing that grinds my gears about bureaucratic hierarchies at the moment is that you have ‘ideas people’ and various consultants and other upper-level leeches who THINK they’re contributing to the ‘strategic direction and vision’ of an organization with the most vague directives possible who pick up the highest paychecks possible in an organization purely by virtue of the fact that they have talky-skills, and used those talky-skills to convince other higher-ups with talky-skills that they deserve the highest pay for their contributions.
Then it’s the shit-kickers who undergo the actual implementation of those vague directives, translating the bullshit into action and results who are less well-paid because they have useful action skills instead of talky-skills, and useful action skills don’t earn as much as talky-skills do despite contributing higher value to an organization, because talky-skills are used to increase remuneration.
And that will ALWAYS be the case as long as talky-skills people are allowed to influence/dictate the difference in pay between talky-skills and action-skills. It would be useful for the action-skills people to have some way of influencing this, but traditionally the only professions this has actually been successful in is with trade unions. Unions for technology and clerical are fucking useless.
Yep this is true, i’m not a talky person, and am definitely a proverbial shit-kicker… and get paid absolute crap for it
Also, there’s a BIG difference between, “I wish people could be compensated for the value they actually bring instead of their ability to talk-up their value,” and, “I wish people could be treated like gods and not have to work.”
What was that, man? You’re better than that; unless it was sarcasm? Colour me confused!
Absolute sarcasm, sorry for the confusion 😛 i tend to do that
Well, I like everything you usually say so I figured that was probably it. 🙂
Text can be hard.
Yep 😛
Plus i have a pretty cut and dry sarcasm, so i should realise that 😛
even when talking face to face some people have to do a double take before realising that i’m not serious… maybe i should just realise that that kind of delivery doesn’t translate from one language to the next XD
You have the best rants.
I never go to them anymore.
Edit: What they mainly consist of is me standing on my own, sipping an apple/orange juice and being very awkward whenever humans try to talk to me because no one around me plays games at all. After that I realise how socially inept I am and go home feeling like shit as a result. Plus some of the people responsible for the huge amount of stress I’m currently in also go to those functions, so I prefer not to socialise within 200 metres with them ever.
Oh good, i’m not the only one that does that…
actually hang on that’s not a good thing…
…
SOLITUDE \o/ 😛
That’s okay, you can always jump on TS so we can do DBZ Abridged quotes againSENSU BEAN! *throws*
Yeah I should come back on TS more, if I had more games to play with you guys, JC2 I don’t have and I’d rather not butcher my monthly download quota.
I miss ME3 multi
I’m keen on getting into more Multi games… but even just jump on and chat like rize and i did for a little while before we started playing was nice…
reminded me that i should talk to people more often 😛
EDIT – also
“Wanta biscuit? HAVEA BISCUIT” *chucks biscuit*
Yeah if you guys are on TS each night I’d be up for that, sure beats just playing games alone with no one to talk to every night. The guys on the other TS I go to when playing LoL… they’re very immature and kinda bogan-y too… not the greatest of company.
Artemis is barely online anymore either due to her work schedule just trying to keep her job, making ends meet with bills in the economic situation in Portugal, you know, same old depressing stuff that I can’t really do anything about myself, nor will she let me anyway, being the proud/stubborn girl she is.
Also
“Enjoy the climb back up to the top, bitch!”
Yeah i’d be keen to be on more… maybe not every night because somethingsomething spend time with the partner something
but yeah definitely
“Now how am i going to get down from here”
(“CLIIIIIIIMB DOOOOOOOOWN”)
“It is really high up”
(“CLIIIIIIIMB DOOOOOOOOWN”)
“oh well, i guess i’ll just sleep up here then
(“AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH”)
god i love that show so damn much 😛
“DOOOOOOOOOOOOOODGE!”
Well, I just made my lunch to the sound of Baba Yetu. If that wasn’t a life goal at some point, I would be quite surprised.
How very civilized of you.
I had to navigate a meier of bad songs to get to one that is true lunch-making material.
I spent 4 minutes thinking up a Sid Meier pun and that’s the best I could come up with? Me, I am disappoint.
We Love The King Day celebrated in Phlanispopolis
As it is friday, and I don’t have a lot of work on my calendar for today (my boss spends more time out of the office than in, so most of our tasks/instructions are found on the work calendar that was synced to my phone…) so I’m hoping that I can punch all my work out before lunch, then spend the afternoon reading Guardians Of The Galaxy.
hmmm knock out stakeholders… that could work…
BRB, impromtu “business” meeting with the CEO
I picture @morkai doing something more like this:
hmmm…
I’m in a suspiciously good mood today despite some of the crap going on right now…
…
THERE’S A CONSPIRACY AFOOT, I CAN FEEL IT 😛
Edit: I misread that and the reply made no sense
Judging by my Facebook feed of single people being butthurt, today is the day that I shouldn’t be expressing my love for my girlfriend because it makes them feel bad?
Screw that, you shouldn’t resent peoples happiness. Geeeeeez. Us single folks have The Last of Us: Left Behind and House of Cards s2. Quit your belly aching, Facebook guy!
This is why I moved my pc out from the bedroom and into the living room so she can play on the PS3 and I can play PC games both on the couch and occasionally we’ll accidentally touch each other. True love…until I want to play something on the tv 🙁
I need more monitors and TVs for the best of both worlds
Accidentally touch each other? TOO MUCH INFORMATION!
it’s usually accompanied by ‘get off my side of the couch’
OR, you should proclaim it as loudly and elaborately as possible so you can re-assure them it does exist in the world?
i’m good with people
so You’re saying I should glue some flowers onto my mankini and parade myself around my Facebook feed. From memory I got a lot of positive feedback the last time I donned that outfit and tagged a load of my friends in the picture. A lot of them complained about their eyes being blinded from what I can only assume was from seeing something of pure awesome
I’m not NOT saying you should do that
You’re also not saying he SHOULDN’T…
Nah, they’re making you feel guilty. You should make them feel pathetic in return. At lesat that way, everyone loses, not just you. Also, you get way more good-points with the GF for posting something than you’ll get neg-cred from so-called friends outside the relationship.
My favourite Facebook post so far says: “Happy Valentine’s Day! Hope you’re enjoying your flowers, or chocolates, or smug self-satisfaction at not celebrating Valentine’s Day.”
I’m contemplating writing something on mine about my valentine: Pizza.
“remember when i said i’d eat you last? I LIED”
WAIT. PIZZA IS MY VALENTINE!
THAT TWO-TIMING HUSSY.
GO TO HELL PIZZA. BEER IS NOW MY VALENTINE.
I hate to tell you mate… but beer and me made out last night… hard
*cries*
I like that post 🙂 I also like the suggestion to make people feel pathetic. That’s where I excel 😀 (I’m really a nice guy…)
Despite that my brutally honest response would be “Who gives a shit about what other humans think when you express your love to your significant other”, I used to be one of those single people that got even more depressed during valentines day when I look around and see all the lovey dovey couples with public displays of affection.
I guess I’m a bit conflicted on it, if I knew people that were having a really hard time in their love lives, I would try to keep them out of it to spare them the reminder of their current situation, minimise the risk making them feel like even more shit than they’re most likely currently feeling (Which isn’t good to begin with).
I feel like it’s almost a stereotype for single people to feel wronged at Valentine’s Day just cause that’s what they are expected to do. Valentine’s Day means nothing to me at all. Don’t feel strongly one way or the other. *shrugs*
It’s more the constant reminder of what it’s supposedly about is what gets people all riled up. Before I met Artemis, Valentines day was more used to trick me into thinking I was actually desirable to a girl I liked only to be tricked/ambushed in high school. That’s how I remember it, a day where I’m reminded for the next 24 hours that lots of other guys are happy with a gorgeous girl by their side and I’m sitting there, alone, with only myself to look at and thinking “I’m not attractive in any way”.
So yeah, not going to lie, several years of Valentines day nights I spent just crying after I got home from high school because I got a fake “secret admirer” note, only to be lured somewhere secluded to get beaten up/laughed at by other girls.
🙁 Sorry to hear that, man.
Oh man, that’s awful 🙁
It’s one thing to be alone, it’s another to be openly abused and mocked for it.
And another thing that nobody was there to tell you otherwise so it ends up feeding on itself.
Yeah I didn’t have a good childhood and it’s frankly affected my confidence and self-worth ever since.
I know that feeling all too well mate, E-hugs
Can’t say i ever had that particular thing done to me, but at least you know that you’re amongst people who suffer from low confidence and self-worth outselves*, so if you ever need to vent you know where to go.
And also know that you won’t be ridiculed for it here (or ts, or at meats)
*well can’t exactly speak on other peoples behalf but i know that i’m far from the most confident person in the world.
Depends on how your brain is wired you don’t need open mocking, mockery by exclusion is just as effective and incessant without anyone even needing to put in any effort. It’s the ultimate in abusive efficiency
that’s not something anyone should go through 🙁
Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!
I cant stand V-Day. not because of all the people doing all the luvvy things. that’s cool.
but because of what V-Day is.
today is the day you go out of your way to make your significant other feel loved etc. not tomorrow, not yesterday. not the other 364 days of the year. just today. because fucking Hallmark says so.
that pisses me off.
share the love all the time, or not at all.
See below re: competitiveness.
Sure, be lovey all the time, but be PUBLICLY lovey today. Because it’s your reputation as a lover, and your partner’s reputation as a catch, on the line 😛
my PDA for today has been sharing Q from TNG delivering a bunch of roses. I’ve successfully managed to get her to watch TNG from beginning to end but she absolutely hates Q for some unknown reason :/
See i was once like that, but relationships arent like that all the time, you fall into routine, you be inconsiderate by accident, you hurt them without meaning too. Maybe its a giant scam by hallmark but whats the problem with a reminder to be great to your SO. Maybe doing it once a year is stupid, but if it makes you reevaluate how you treat each other i think its good.
just one small mans opinion though
Oh Rockets…. there you go again, bringing reality into my little world of vitriol & rants :p
seriously though, I truly think V-Day is bad for relationships because it lets couples off the hook in a way. ‘its not V-day, so I’m not expected to do nice stuff’ its insane. by setting aside one day to do lovey stuff, it sorta sets a standard – all the other days aren’t lovey days, when they should be.
the other part of it is I’m anti-authoritarian to a fault.
I mean, if an authority figure demanded I go eat ice-cream & play with puppies & get paid for it, I’d tell them to fuck off, they aint in control of me. then id go do data entry work for free for 8 hours just outta spite :p
so if someone says today is the day I’m expected to be romantic & stuff, I go out of my way to subvert that idea. by being single on V-Day & rad / nice as possible for the rest of the year.
Self-awareness is a good thing. 🙂
(Edit: And I like seeing it.)
oh absolutely, it’s a Hallmark holiday and everyone knows it. Tbh, we don’t go out of our way and do anything special on V-Day other than flowers or something because we don’t like going out where there’s going to be crowds. Don’t wanna go to a restaurant because we prefer a quiet meal so we do that the rest of the year instead
be my guinea pig?
Next V-Day, ignore it all & do the V-Day stuff the next day / next week / at some other random time of the year.
this is legitimate curiosity. I mean, all flowers magically triple in price the week ahead of V-Day, so it might be cheaper & a spontaneous display of affection for not-on-V-Day might be seen as more betterer by any people your significant other might want to show off in front of :p
it’s like boxing day sales when you see people stocking up on Christmas decorations and what have you, flowers drop by half price and’re still good. Having worked in a supermarket for 5 years I know when to buy stuff and when not to
It’s the same thing with diamonds, they were largely worthless until the start of the 1900s until marketing took over and made them artificially desirable and now people put themselves in debt to buy a shiny rock
Yeah. It’d be nice if life worked like that, but people just don’t do every day the things that we have individual days for.
Don’t take a day to celebrate the sacrifices of our war veterans, celebrate them EVERY day. Don’t give your mother flowers on Mothers’ day, make her feel appreciated EVERY day. Don’t celebrate [the birth of Jesus/a day of goodwill toward all men – take your pick] for Christmas, do it EVERY day.
Ever since we started burying the bodies of our dead instead of eating them or leaving them to rot, humans have been creatures of ritual. Regardless of the reasons, days of significance are useful.
We don’t have days of celebration as a free pass, as an excuse for exhibiting the behaviours or remembrances of that day every other day of our lives. We don’t say, “Yeah, I’m going to treat you like crap or take you for granted every day because I know I can make up for it on Valentine’s Day,” the same way that people don’t take out insurance then go drive around recklessly, dinging their car on whatever, because ‘I’m covered’.
We have them because we know that no matter how hard we daily try to appreciate what we should, with the competing demands for our daily attention we are well-aware that we don’t pay attention to every belief, cause, or behaviour that we wish we did – but by gum, today is a special effort above and beyond what we would or should be showing you every day. An extravagance that ‘makes up for’ the little moments of neglect. Paying the piper, with interest.
It’s a day to acknowledge that no matter how hard we try, we’re imperfect creatures and we’re well aware that we haven’t always fully expressed how important this person is to us.
Life isn’t ‘all or nothing’. It’s ‘doing the best you can’.
Thats what i said but this guy made it sound good. Jerk 😛
Happy Singles Awareness Day!
😐
Is that a synonym for happy “HAHA-I-HAVE-MONEY-AND-CAN-BUY-WHATEVER-I-WANT-WITHOUT-CONSENT-BUT-YOU-CANT” day?
… yeah i can see how HIHMACBWIWWCBYC day didn’t catch on
Totally this. Valentine’s has become just like every other day since I’ve been married – it’s the anniversaries that are the important dates to remember. Thank you, Google Calendar.
Based on a lifetime of observation, in some ways, Valentine’s Day is a way for women (not all women, obviously, but plenty for sure) to prove to each other just how much their partners care for them. Because they are bitterly competitive and can’t feel lucky unless it’s in comparison to someone else*.
*One of the (many) reasons I married Mrs Shane is because she doesn’t really buy into this.My wife hates valentines day because she doesn’t like being told what to do and picking a day to be romantic and spend money is bullshit. She told me to pick any other day to do something nice for her instead. And just buy her flowers occasionally, because flowers are nice.
I may not have a significant other, but my singstar mics arrived, so I have that going for me, which is nice.
I don’t have anyone to duet with D=
Sure you do.
See: Smooth McGroove
Yeah, but that guy has eight other people to sing with at all times.
And a cat!
… gave Sid the mic… barking counts right?
only if I make him
To be fair he would make a killing in “Who let the dogs out” as a duet 😛
Again, only if I make him. He’s not one for barking, weirdly
Use both mics at once and score twice the points with one voice, that’ll be pretty awesome
Why? Why is it singles awareness day? because you have some belief that a day soley exists in the year were only one type of people can be happy? Just have a nice day!
Im sorry i just get annoyed that other peoples happiness and want to express there affection makes people feel shit. Because
1) its selfish as fuck
2) Its silly,
Is it not also selfish as fuck to celebrate not being single? How does it differ exactly?
Not really because nobody in a couple is gonna bag on singles for being alone. Well they might but that couple would be literally the worst couple in the world.
I dont know, i was probably a little aggressive in my opinion and it was unneccessary, sometimes i have to turn my North QLder off. No offence was meant sir.
None taken at all mate, just curious since it seems that celebrating a binary state such as relationship status as a society wide thing is always going to be as exclusionary as it is inclusionary.
Titanfall PC has controller aim assist. Haha, how can devs be so stupid.
https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/426733968977715200
“But I want to play with controll-”
*SMACK* *GTFO*
Seriously, if you want to play it with a controller, get it on console.
Bloody idiots.
Precisely. Kb/mouse should be the better options. Thusly, I have two major concerns now:
– It’s a shitty console port with shitty control scheme.
– It’s simply going to be hacked to shreds on PC. It’s not hard to fake a mouse as a controller.
Why would it not? How moronic would it be to support controllers and then hobble them by making them less accurate by removing the only thing that makes controller FPS play viable?
So if you use an xbox controller, it controls exactly the same way as it would if you were playing on xbox. I can’t see the problem with this.
Because you’d be playing a multiplayer-only title on PC, against KB/mouse users. You’d be called a hacker, and it’d probably be easy to just generally hack the game to abuse the system. Also, everyone using controller will get reported as a hacker so the actual hackers have a good chance of getting away undetected.
So because of how controllers are implemented, it’s easier to hack the game? Would that theoretically involve similar assistance for mouse users?
If this is the way it works from day 0 then the expectation will be set that controller users are working that way, and won’t be reported. Maybe they’ll allow games to be filtered so only one control scheme can be used. Maybe they’re even going to try cross platform play.
I’ll be curious to watch this space as a halfway stage between the current expected norm and true competitive cross platform play. An interesting experiment to say the least.
Yes, it’s not really that hard to ‘fake’ your mouse as a controller. Yay, aim-assist.
PersonA with controller has aim-assist, personB has aimbot or something similar. Bam, both reported, queue is flooded.
Anyways, console only has controller as input. PC has controller, mouse/kb, trackpad, scroll mouse, even Wii-style remotes. Because it’s a competitive multiplayer title, mouse/kb stand out as the most viable control method. Introducing aim-assist skews the results, meaning controller becomes viable to some people.
What happens then is that instead of the game being PvP, it becomes input v input.
And it’s probably going to be an experiment they’ll keep tweaking until you see fairly even representations of each input (or they give up).
The whole thing has a whiff of FASA Interactive around it, I wouldn’t be surprised if Respawn headhunted a few of their key ex-employees for Titanfall.
I have come to the conclusion that I am bad at BOARD GAMES. I played a bunch of games last night and ended up coming last in Settlers of Catan and second last in Race for the Galaxy. The only other game I played ended up in the middle of the pack so maybe I’m just below average.
That’s not the point. The point is whether you enjoy playing board games or not? There’s always opportunity for improvement, as with anything really.
I generally enjoy playing them but unfortunately a few of my friends get super competitive when playing so I kind of join in on the train too. Losing generally doesn’t phase me but two games in a row was a little frustrating and drained the fun from the evening a little bit.
If over competitiveness becomes frustrating, maybe a shift to some co-op games like Shadows over Camelot, Space Alert or HANABI.
How is Race for the Galaxy? I want more board games and it’s on my list, but I’m not sure how much fun it.
It’s an interesting game (and coincidentally the one I didn’t completely fail in) and it takes a little getting used to but the scope of what you can do is pretty cool. It’s a little bit like 7 Wonders but your actions are less limited by the cards you get. The first time I played I combined military and trade and pumped out something like 10 points in one turn thanks to producing and trading goods. I’d recommend it.
Race for the Galaxy is an awesome game once you’ve learned the cards. Until then, it can be a bit overwhelming especially with a few expansions in it. The core gameplay is simple but there are a few strategies that are quite optimal (produce / consume strategy can run away with the game if you get the engine moving).
It’s very quick to set up and games rarely last very long. It also has an awesome 2-player variant.
There are different games with different logic and mechanics that you might do alright at. There’s quite some diversity in games.
Maybe try something more chaotic like Galaxy Truckers or maybe something along the lines of 7 Wonders which is a card drafting game that relies on making up a strategy as you go based on the cards you have to pick from and what your neighbours are doing.
Or there are simpler games like Qwirkle that scores in a similar way to Scrabble.
It’s more about having fun than winning but there is almost definitely a board game out there that you don’t suck at.
It’s funny you mention 7 Wonders as I’ve never really had much luck with that one either. A friend of mine reckons it’s the type of game where you don’t know who has won and lost until the final turn and I reckon that’s a fair way to describe it.
I managed to handicap myself right at the start in Catan and the other game I played I was a little too protective of my hand ie. I chose not to discard when I probably should have which ended up just blocking any sort of development.
I think card games to me are a little hit and miss. I used to play a lot of war games when I was younger so I’m generally far more conservative when I play and often too focused on just one strategy. Then again, I’ve had pretty good luck whenever I play Smash Up so probably just need to get my head around how to play stuff.
You can definitely work out who is leading in 7 Wonders early on and work around it.
The bulk of the scoring happens in the third age, so a good chunk of the first two ages is used to set up the final age. Getting the right resources in place and having buildings that can chain into useful third age buildings.
Paying attention to who has what is somewhat pivotal. If you see that someone has nabbed a full set of science in the first age, you know that will win if they aren’t denied science in the second age. If your neighbour is going heavy on resources, you can go for a more commerce heavy strategy to try buy what you need from them.
Knowing what cards are available helps a lot. That just comes from practice.
There really is a good level of strategy to the game. There’s a reason why it’s my favourite.
I have *never* won a game of Seven Wonders. Something about it just doesn’t work for me.
Assuming everyone knows how to play, Catan is about 70% dictated by initial settlement placement (and thus by how well you roll dice to see who starts!) and the game is basically decided by about halfway in unless someone starts playing really badly. The first player to have the Robber Baron on one of his good production areas is also usually going to lose. If it happened early enough you could get completely locked out of the game forever, to the point that when I used to play it regularly the house rule was that he didn’t move off the desert until every player had built a third settlement or a city.
I think maybe you should have a look around for some good co-op games, maybe that’ll click better for you.
One really good one is Sentinels of the Multiverse. It’s a co-op game where there’s a super-villain with minions and stuff, and each player is playing a superhero (most of them knockoffs of Marvel stuff) and working together to beat the villain down. Each hero has a different play style and everything, from simple stuff where the guy just buffs everyone else and has a big health pool to more complicated stuff, eg one of the characters does more damage the more of a certain type of card is in your discard pile, effectively powering up as the game goes. Lots of strategy involved, plus the fun of figuring out a way to get the group to synergize well is pretty exciting too.
Also if you like war gaming / RPGs then there’s a few good cut down ones you could try along that vein too. I don’t really like the D&D board games (though I’ve only played The Legend of Drizzt) mainly because of a lack of character progression, but those might be interesting to you. There’s a few where you have asymmetric play, i.e. one player is the DM which are fairly good. Mansions of Madness is a pain in the ass to set up but if it works and your players can get into it it’s pretty great. Descent can be cool. My group of friends had a fair amount of fun with Super Dungeon Explore as well though IMO that’s really stacked toward the heroes.
Fuck. Just managed to accidentally lose about 20 odd tabs that I had open, either because of the screen I accidentally got into and didn’t understand or because I had a private window open in the background that I forgot about.
Either way, rage.
You can’t mash ctrl+shift+T?
Not with Incognito/InPrivate Browsing,I’m afraid. 🙁
Is there a use for this other than porn? XD
I use it to look at sites “fresh” if I’m already logged into them in my main window, or sometimes to avoid screwing up stuff with cookies.
Also I use it if anyone ever links me to something on facebook.
People hide the fact they’re looking at porn?
What @mrtaco said, but also anyplace you know is going to have really aggressive advertising. Like that whole Buzzfeed-article shit that then links off to a million different malware sites.
Google search recommends terms in bright purple that you’ve searched before simply because it has three letters in common. To counteract this, I open a private browsing window when doing a quick google search. I’m sure there is an option to get rid of the purple search recommendations, but I haven’t bothered looking for it.
Ctrl+H?
Not after having closed the main window and then opening it up again, the recent tabs list was flushed.
MASHING IS ALL I KNOW!
Lightning Returns! (No plot spoilers, just my thoughts on a character)
Could you be any more annoying, Hope? “Hey Light, maybe you should try this” “Don’t forget that…? “Just wanted to remind you…”. Ugh. Stop treating me like I’m a moron. What happened to “Children should be seen but never heard”? 😛I gave up all Hope when I stopped playing the series. #PageSixThrowback#pagesixerryday
The title doesnt even make sense, according to anecdotal evidence: “Lighting never strikes twice in the same spot.”
fucking square being ridiculous
Hope was always annoying. Like…. to the point I’d intentionally get him KO’d just coz he was a jerk. glad to see they’ve maintained some sort of consistency through the trilogy, though.See, I get why he was annoying in the first, he was a little brat who’d lost his mother. He was fine in the second one, but this is different again. He’s the voice in your ear giving you instructions. But most of them are redundant, or what needed to be done was so obvious you didn’t need to be told.Out of interest, are you playing with the english dub or the Japanese dub (the JP dialogue patch is free…). I found Hope a lot more whingy and annoying in Japanese than in English, but the rest of the characters impove a lot.
Also how is the game? It seems interesting and I’m seriously considering skipping FFXIII and going straight to XIII-2 or even LR to get a better experience.
I’m playing with the English dub.
I’m enjoying it, but nowhere near as much as I enjoyed XIII-2. It’s a bit frustrating,especially with the timed mechanic. You’re hesitant to explore because you’re always running out of time. Oh, and there’s at least one annoying platforming section. Which is made all the more annoying by the time always ticking down.
I’d definitely recommend skipping straight to 2. It was more like the FF game XIII should have been. Not sure about Lightning Returns yet. It seems to be bringing back the most annoying elements of XIII and adding its own on top.
The time element is one reason I haven’t grabbed it yet. I hate that sort of mechanic usually. It’s just stressful because it tends to make you feel forced to play optimally at all times.
It’s a lot of why I struggled to get into the PS3 Atelier games (Rorona has a lot of time management) and why I find the Persona games hard to enjoy.
Yeah, I feel as though I need to be optimising my use of time always. I think if you manage to complete a fair few quests in one day though, you should be okay, timewise. I’m thinking I’ll definitely need the strategy guide ASAP though, whereas usually I don’t look at one when I’m playing a FF game until the bit near the end where you’re tying up loose ends.
Today feels like it has flown, yet at te same time, it’s at a crawl.
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I wish I had more to post. 🙁
So I’m in the loo at work again and I decide to see what interesting thoughts people have scribbled onto the walls today. To my left:
Toilet Ping Pong!
Look right
Naturally I turn and look to see what is written on the right wall:
Look left
BOARD GAMES
Points for sincerity, I guess:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1823411947/drive-and-survive-board-game-for-the-whole-family
EDIT: BOARD GAME PAGE GET I DECLARE THIS PAGE A PAGE OF BOARD GAMES
38 days to go? I don’t think the creator has 38 days to live.
A bit harsh?
Still funny
I laughed out loud when I saw Facebook: 0 friends.
I wonder if kickstarter needs a fb account to make a project
No, but it recommends it.
Nah.
Yuh.
I drove around with a stranger to prove I was competent enough to drive around alone, apparantly he didn’t think so, so I have to drive with other people critsising me for another 2 weeks, and then I can drive with the stranger again.
Sucks to hear.
I’m a neurotic driver, and I keep missing stuff due to my A.D.D. so I’m pretty much terrified of driving at times.
Eh people fail there first time all the time, i would worry buddy. I only past mine first time cause i did it in a small town where its ridiculously test.
You know whats weird? I didn’t. I failed the stupid Ls test 4 fucking times because I kept falling for the trick questions but then the actual driving test, I scored 107/110. I was really pissed off about it too because I’d spent weeks practicing reverse parking until I had it down pat and we didn’t do one. I’ve not done it since.
You had to drive to get your Ls? SA has a 10 picture test where you need to show who has right of way, and you need to 100% that, then you get a 30-40 (can’t remember how many) question multiple choice test where you need 70% to pass.
Oh no sorry, the computer test was to get the Ls and I failed that 4 times (in NSW its a 50 question 4 option multiple choice where you’re allowed to get one wrong answer) and then the driving test was to get the red Ps. I failed the hazard perception test for the green Ps the first time because I didn’t twig that it was mostly set up to test you on your ability to sit still and do nothing
Huh, in WA, you have to do a theory test at school to get your Ls, and you have to past the test after six months of Ls to get your L2s. (Which are the exact same thing in name alone) Then you drive for another six months, and then you have to do a perception test to get your Ps.
I have delayed my L2 test for ages, since I don’t think I’m ready. I should have done it 5 months ago.
Second time.
I got 85/100 and I needed 90 to pass.
I have to go do that soon, not looking forward to it at all.
A few tips – you definitely know these already, but they might catch you out if you’re nervous.
1) Master parallel parking and 3 point turns. They will test you on one of these (but not both) so you have to be prepared.
2) Don’t speed, obviously. Try and keep it a few under, but don’t go too slowly either, or they’ll doubt your confidence. Know whether your appointment is during school zone hours so you don’t speed through one.
3) There is probably a stop sign at the exit to the parking lot you have to start from. OBEY IT. If you accidentally roll through it, you’ll fail, but they won’t stop you doing the whole test.
Nice tips. I’ll add to the above:
1) You can’t touch the kerb with your wheel. 30cm to kerb when parallel.
2) definitely do not speed. Even a needle-width above is failure. Also, note that passenger side view skews the actual needle reading, so stay 5km/ph under at all times. Feel free to be 20% under, you can’t be failed for that. Further, if you’re unsure if a speed limit went higher, stay at the slower speed.
3) Ha, tricky! 😛
Generally, just be ultra-careful.
I think the tip that I was told was that a stop sign means be completely motionless for at least 3 seconds
A lot of people think that but it’s not true. As long as you come to a complete stop, you’re following the law. That said, a 3-second pause won’t kill anyone, it ensures you properly checked that nothing’s in your way and your next move will be safe, and it makes it clear you definitely stopped to your examiner.
Oh yeah the law is that as long as you stop it’s fine, the 3 second thing is to demonstrate comprehensively to the examiner that you’ve absolutely stopped
When in doubt, be safe and then say you didn’t think you could make the turn in time or thought your sight lines were too obscured or something.
Also look over your shoulder every time you change lanes or turn and visibly glance down every street you’re approaching even if you can obviously see there’s no traffic because they’re looking for that kind of stuff to mark down. It’s situational awareness theatre in a way but it’s easily one of the biggest things I’ve heard people being failed on because they just used their eyes to look and not their whole face which is somehow so much better…
Another tip – I have been told that the instructors like to pretend they have a seatbelt on when they really don’t. If not all people in the car have a seatbelt on, you fail.
That sucks. Did they give you any feedback? They’re not allowed to tell you what mistakes you actually made, but they should offer “general” advice.
Really? My test sheet in QLD 2007 is the actual marking sheet. How are people supposed to work out what to fix if they don’t know what’s wrong? Also what’s stopping the marker being a dick and just failing you.
@lucifer9783: my tip is to just drive like you have an egg beside you, instead of a human. Pretend you’re driving a massively expensive car, and just take everything super slow. As long as you do 50 in a 60 zone, and 70 in an 80 zone, it’s all good. Fuck everyone else for the one hour you’re on the road and just make sure you do everything by the book (and then some).
E.g. book recommends 2 seconds of indicator before moving, you do it for around 2-3 and think “hmm that should be okay”. Nope, sit there for 5-10 seconds.
Did you pass or fail? I have my score sheet because I passed first try, but my understanding is that they are not allowed to point to it and say “you did this, don’t do that next time”. The score sheet is kind of nonsensical if you don’t know what the mistakes mean. I had a couple of mistakes (not enough to fail) but I have no idea what they were. Did I not indicate properly? Did I go slightly too fast through a turn? I have no idea.
I passed 100%. Then I did the test again a year later (manual license) and I did some things wrong yet still passed. They were clearly marked on the score sheet that I got the second time too.
I failed the first time and was given the score sheet (Queensland test, obviously) because it was part of the paperwork I had to submit.
There were clearly marked sections and I think I got docked for not smoothly changing gears, stalling once and a couple of times I got docked for road positioning.
On my second test, I drove worse and passed easily. Not hitting the guy’s leg every time I tried to shift into second gear definitely helped though.
But stop yourself before you say “Hmm… Shall I have you boiled, scrambled or poached?”
Yeah, what? I got told about the things that I did wrong. Well, first I got asked what I thought I did wrong, then I got told. NSW 2006.
I got my P’s last year. Maybe it’s different now to 2006, but I’m sure that’s what it said in the handbook. They discuss the test with you, but they don’t specifically tell you what the instances were. I guess while they’re “discussing” it, it’s pretty obvious to you though.
They still legally need to show you the marking sheet upon request and specify what you did wrong. It’s your right to have a drivers licence, therefore proof of failure is required.
If you know of this or not, it has to happen. I’ve been told of country towns where the arrogant tester fails everyone first time in a stupid attempt to encourage safer driving, or something. There has to be proof of failing, since: it’s your right; you actually pay money for it.
Interesting. My wife’s aunt failed four times and all they told her was to get more practice. She’s not the most confident driver so she probably did fail legitimately. Also that “fail you first time” thing is shockingly common even in suburban areas. You can appeal the decision, but most people don’t. As far as driving being a “right”… well my response to that is that few “rights” require you to pass tests before you’re granted permission to do them.
I’ve checked the driving test guidebook for NSW and it does say the examiner will give you your scoresheet and the examiner will discuss your result and areas that need improvement, but I am certain that I read somewhere possibly on my scoresheet, that they can’t tell you the specific errors.
Well you have the right to try and if you try it’s only reasonable for a failure to be explained or they’re the stereotypical angry girlfriend saying “Well if you don’t know whats wrong I’m not going to tell you” which is no way to run a road system
I’ve definitely heard of the marker failing everyone the first time, thankfully never had that one myself.
I have a copy of the mark sheet from both of my tests, and discussed with the instructor where I went wrong.
I should say this comes with a great big “I’m from South Australia, things might be different here” disclaimer
I failed my first time. The instructor didn’t need to tell me what I did wrong though, cause I clearly cut-off a car at a set of traffic lights and almost got t-boned. I just kept driving and said (in a monotone voice) “shiiiiiiiiiiiiet, I guess I failed huh?” and drove back to the dmv while he had a heart attack, hahaha!
I failed my second time too, and here’s a big tip for your next test, always check your blindspot. I failed cause I didn’t see a scooter (which I swear didn’t exist, and the instructor was just scarred from last time so didn’t wanna pass me).
Passed my third time though 🙂
Wasn’t watching my mirrors or blind spots enough, I crossed a lane once, apparently you need to hit the accelerator with the hand brake on when starting on a slope, I was also bad at correcting my steering out of a u-turn and three-point turn
Scanning is a big deal, it’s best to make exaggerated head movements so they know you’re doing it. I don’t think I was tested on a hill start, so lucky me!
More practice I suppose, did you have to do the 120 logbook hours or are you over 25 and exempted?
SA is 75 hours (15 at night) but I got in before the cut off, so I had to do 50 (10 at night)
Wow, that’s cool. I assumed 120 was the standard nationwide.
When I went for my first driving test, the instructor told me, “Well, that’s pretty much a pass. Take us home and we’ll do the paperwork.”
Along the way, there was a back road (this was regional Qld) which stretches straight for several kilometres but for whatever reason has double white lines. There was a tractor driving along with half his wheels off the road, half on the road, doing about 10km/hr in a 70 zone.
Three cars ahead of me just pulled out in front of him and passed. There was almost enough room to do this without going over the double white lines, but not quite.
I should’ve known when I looked over the tester and saw a poker face. I asked him, “Does the law really expect me to sit behind this guy at 10kmph? He just replied, “Well, we’re still under test conditions, so I can’t answer.” That should’ve been the clue, but I was an idiot, I could see well ahead, and there was no on-coming traffic, so I simply figured, “No, that can’t possibly be right, there’s got to be provision for this kind of thing,” and pulled out.
The wheels did go over the double white lines. Probably no more than the length of a ruler.
The instructor sighed and said, “Yeah. Yeah, the law does expect you to sit behind him if the alternative is going over the double white lines. Sooooo, that’s a fail.”
+1 to this. Pretty much what I said above – assume the rules are a MINIMUM for what you have to do.
Heh in test conditions, if there’s any doubt at all, play it safe and explain it away later
By the way, it’s always nice when this is the first thing you read in the morning: https://twitter.com/GSehnert/status/434015484409688066
how is… is that a compliment or insult? 😛
Almost guarantee he’s the kind of person that would find being called anything associated with women an insult.
Funny, just last night I got told that I was a factory reject dildo.
Edit: After reading Red’s thing above, it was by a girl too 😛
I’ve always thought they’d be injection moulded so I guess you must have had an air bubble or something
funny, I always figured excelling at critical thinking was what led to blocking tea party people.
never mind that dude. he’s a twat.
Kinda hoping he responds to me calling him sunshine so I can insult him some more.
Fuck that guy.
Gary used the wrong ‘your’. You should let him know.
Aw man, I wish I’d been awake enough at 6:30 this morning to pick that.
Your life may not be lesser for unfriending them but it might be an idea to keep an eye on them…
hey PS4 with camera owners
Have you tried the air hockey thing? It’s surprisingly awesome, me and a mate played it for over an hour last night, if you move your control you can alter the length and angle of the table, it makes for some hilarious and confusing fun. I’d recommend giving it a shot.
Okay, so bored games page 13.
I’ll admit that when I was a kid, board games were amazing. In truth, they still are but I just don’t have the time to play them anymore. I hope that changes as my kid gets older.
I owned the Jumanji board game, which I won in a competition. It had cards with invisible text that could only be read when you put them under the decoder and riddles straight out of the film. A game for those who wish to find a way to leave their world behind.
Beyond that, my family and I would also play Monopoly, The Game of Life, Guess Who, Mousetrap, Trivial Pursuit and Hungry Hungry Hippos – but some of those aren’t really board games. Good times, indeed.
When i have kids I’m going to feed them a steady diet of Carcassonne.
I tried to get in to Carcassonne, but I’m a Catan man at heart.
I’ve only played Catan 2 or 3 times (and a couple more on tablet). It’s a great game, but i’m not sure I’d buy my own copy.
It’s a classic but I feel like board gaming has kind of moved past Catan.
Absolutely, though Catan is still a great, great design.
The classics are classic for a reason. From my perspective it’s easier to introduce friends to Catan (and I’m yet to find one who didn’t love it) than something more complex. Board gaming on a whole may have moved past Catan (and I agree that it has) but it will always be there.
See if I wanted to introduce someone to modern board games, i wouldn’t use Catan. If I wanted to show someone what a Euro game was, I’d play Catan. I think it embodies very well that school of design, and its influence is undeniable, I just wouldn’t use it as a gateway.
The setup of Catan is a hindrance to new players. Hell, I remember @markserrels mentioning that it was one of the only board games he has played and the setup being something that particularly put him off of the experience.
I’ve done a lot of introductions. There are quite a lot of games that are easier to get people into the whole board gaming thing than Catan: Ticket to Ride, Qwirkle, Hanabi, Carcassonne. Really, most games that you can explain in the time that it takes to setup and don’t take long to setup.
Catan is the reason modern board gaming is what it is. It’s a great game with a lot of historical value but it definitely isn’t the first game I’d bust out with new players around.
I have an app for randomising Catan setup. Combined with a board holder (so the pieces don’t go everywhere) the setup takes negligible time.
Ticket to Ride, yep I’d give a tick on that being easier to introduce people to than Catan – I just don’t have it around. Carcassonne though… as above, I dunno. Maybe I’ve just been playing it wrong but I find it incredibly complicated to get my head around.
@beeawwb Carcassonne is remarkably simple: draw a tile, lay a tile. All sides must match. Score by placing a meeple on a thing that doesn’t already have a meeple on it. You get the meeple back when the thing it is on completes.
I wasn’t kidding when I said I’ve introduced a lot of people to a lot of board games. I’ve had a fair bit of practice explaining games to people and a good chunk of our collection is made up of introductory level games.
Catan rarely got bought to the table. Part of that was because Freya doesn’t like it but most of it was that it’s a game that takes a lot longer than it should and is a bit fiddly to set up. It’s not a bad game, there are just better games out there.
I think I just never got properly introduced to Carcassonne, and the scoring was the bit that had always confused me. I have an unopened box (including “The River” I think) at home, might give it a go.
And yeah, I’m probably just a Catanevangelist because it was introduced to me as the first “non-Western” board game I’d ever really seen, so because I’d had a good introduction to it I force it on my friends. :p
@beeawwb But Die Siedler von Catan is German.
I think you mean non-Hasbro/Parker Bros :p
I think I mean “European; not American Capitalist Imperialist Zionist Illuminati Propoganda” :p
Catan is East German. Therefore Non-Western.
HOW GREAT IS CHURCH?
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WOOOOOOO, BACK INTO MORE MEETINGS!
I DON’T MISS THAT AT ALL…
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WOOOOO
I’VE… never been to a proper church service.
You’re missing out on the most amazing chance to get some extra sleep, or lament that you won’t get the tasks you set out to do done.
My stepmother took me to church once. I hated it. So she put me in Sunday school, which I hated even more. Eventually she gave up on making my heathen father and I do boring bullshit on the 2 days out of 14 we got to spend time together and we got extra time to hang out. \o/
I’m a heathen across multiple generations- my dad is an atheist, and my paternal grandparents weren’t super churchy. Apparently when I was born Mum talked about sending kids to Sunday school, dad said it could be entirely her responsibility. We never went.
I was baptised roman catholic but I couldn’t tell you whether that was influenced on my dad’s side (British) or my mother’s (Australian) because neither of them took me to church and my grandfather’s funerals were both pretty general and non-religious.
My mother had no issue with me choosing not to attend scripture classes in primary school, even though the nun running the roman catholic class started harassing her and insisting she start bringing me to church so I could have my communion and confirmation – which of course never happened.
My stepmother was German, and I have no idea what her family’s religion was, but she felt very strongly that I needed some religious influence, not that she was strongly religious herself, at least not in any outwardly forceful way. Maybe she just toned it down around my dad.
Ex-Roman Catholic, baptised and confirmed. Decided to start thinking for myself instead.
Both parents devout, all grandparents and most aunts / uncles devout, and my brother has just started his novitiate at a Jesuit monestary.
Man am I the black sheep or what?
I did the confirmation shit because that was what you were supposed to do and basically my mum just kind of went along with the flow without really caring.
Me being me I hated every second of the bullshit (got in trouble asking if I could have peanut butter on my jesus cracker) and then right at the end I made it just a bit funny by picking a magic name that made my initials almost spell out a work, ARSK so it was phonetically like ‘ask’. Now that I think of it, it’s rather an amusing coincidence that I’ve spent a decent chunk of time over the years taking the piss out of young earth creationists and occasionally trying to convince them that things like the global flood and giant pet-boat is a flat out physical impossibility when my initials spell ARK…
I once looked into getting my best friend excommunicated for his birthday but it was something you had to do yourself and provide loads of personal details for so there’s no way I could do it and keep it a surprise
Baptised as catholic, did the holy communion thing, then I read about the crusades and lost all interest in religion.
Dunno, Satan hasn’t told me anything about them.
http://www.reddit.com/r/onetruegod
This church?
You sit upon a throne of lies!
http://www.reddit.com/r/churchofpokemon/
“I wish I had just one-”
“Shut the fuck up, Tucker!”
Did you join an Outlaw Motorcycle Club, Rize? Cause some call their club meetings, church..
I wished my girlfriend a happy valentine’s day this morning, her response “you better not get me any f#$@ing flowers or chocolates or I’ll punch you in the face for wasting your money”, she’s so romantic 😛
Then you can safely assume that you don’t need to show any spectacular signs of affection on this day either.
No, wait, that can’t possibly be right…
the closest thing to a romantic gesture I’ll do is probably play this
My partner and I will be “celebrating” the non-holiday by drinking whiskey and cocktails with our friends – many of whom are single. (Which is how we spend a lot of time. The date is incidental!)
I just got a teddy, balloon and sweets delivered to my office from mine…”don’t bring any more crap food into the house” *orders it for me
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women…
I think this means you’re still expected to get her something, though.
I’ll see, she’s often too busy at night, she runs her own business (sort of) and we actually spend very little time together on week nights.
Naww young love.
We’ve been together almost 12 years, nothing young about us or the “love” 😛
Something something something it’s a trap something something.
She’s a keeper that one!
How to Win at BOARD GAMES:
A primer by a dude that occasionally doesn’t lose.
Step 1: Find out the objective of the game.
Step 2: During your turn, perform actions that will get you closer to the objective.
Step 2 (a): If possible, try to hinder your opponents from getting closer to the objective.
Step 3: Win.
Step 4: Offer a sacrifice to the dice gods as thanks. This is very important if you ever want to roll above a two.
As @freya, @cj, @gingerchris and @mrtaco can tell you, I clearly forget to offer up sacrifices.
You and @tech_knight need to ask for penance.
Here is the pantheon of gods that I pray to when I’m rolling/need other luck.
Nuffle, RNGesus, benevolent d20 in the sky.
Don’t remind me
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/02/05
nah.
How to Win at BOARD GAMES:
Step 1: be the drunkest person playing.
Step 2: you’ve already won.
*Offer only valid while playing a six player game of Dominion with just the base set.
Probably.
I think you should thoroughly test my board game guide & report back.
Also:
Step 1: be Freya. It really works about 90% of the time.
Unless playing Alhambra, where the most effective strategy is “be Anton.”
The best description of online comments ever:
From this comment on Reddit (Warning: kinda depressing read)
Boogie and Nerdcubed?
\o/
But yeah, 99% of people are pricks, that’s always been how I’ve seen it.
Youtube (and to a lesser extent Twitch) is fucking weird.
You can’t get big without building a community from the comments and social media but once you get any sort of traction, you’re exposed to a gaping orifice of oozing shit and other bile.
The only way to get out of it alive seems to be someone like Day 9 or Wil Wheaton where you get to have a controlled enough environment for things to happen while you’re gaining traction (or by already being famous) that you can maintain that control once you’ve hit it big.
The big, cuddly, buddy-buddy primary school teacher personality that is just so excited about everything also helps.
…I have no words.
http://www.stereogum.com/1664824/chvrches-do-i-wanna-know-arctic-monkeys-cover/video
@rocketman
For a long time, I had some sort of passing interest in board games. I remember a period where I really wanted to pick up Risk and try to get my friends to play. That never happened.
Eventually, I saw Day 9 post something on his Twitter about appear on some Youtube show hosted by Wil Wheaton. I watched, just because, and it got me hooked on Tabletop.
That lead to me buying Ticket to Ride, Munchkin and a Mahjong set (which I have still been unable to convince anyone to play with me, jerks). I convinced the Brisbane TAYbies to come over one time and play these games. It was rad. There was pizza.
After I moved to Sydney, @freya decided to play my Steam version of Ticket to Ride for an entire morning before buying a copy on her own account and playing for the rest of the week. From there, she was hooked.
We picked up a whole host of other games, including Pandemic (which we played the shit out of) and Dominion (which we got others to come over and play one night after drinking at a record store pub place and 35 won by being the drunkest).
That lead to the regular BOARD GAMES meats and our collection grew rather rapidly from that point.
Something something PAX something something HANABI!
Now we’re in Dubbo and it’s unlikely that we’re going to have regular board gaming. Still, Freya’s best friend lives here and we converted her back when she visited us in Sydney. We also convinced another doctor friend person that Qwirkle was great by letting her shout QWIRKLE in a German accent while playing.
Board games are rad and other people should play them too. Also, I really want to bust out that damned Mahjong set sometime.
I’ll play mahjong with you next time I’m in Dubbo!
I came to serious board games through mahjong at uni (you haven’t played it until you’ve played it with asian exchange students) and through D&D- I bought Castle Ravenloft, which lead to Munchkin, which lead to other stuff. Tabletop is a very good gateway, though they only just did Carcassonne
I was taught to play by a family of first generation HK immigrants and then played it during my teenage years with my Taiwanese born best friend and a mix of other friends of similar nationality.
I think I’m alright on having played the game :p
Yeah, that’ll do it.
We used to have some of them cheat by table-talking in japanese… until a guy so white his nickname was milky revealed that he had understood every word they said
So… Back to the online Ticket to Ride?
If you ever get internet connected.
I’m using the internet to talk to you right now!
Seriously though, I got hooked up earlier this week.
I’m keen to TTR online. Or Netrunner if you are keen to teach
I still haven’t got my head around OCTGN but I did manage to put together some of the decks from the base set. We might be able to give it a try at some point.
Guess I’m a little behind the times. Good to hear.
How goes the job hunt?
Got rejected in 16 minutes yesterday!
Haven’t heard back from any other applications yet.
Impressive! You can now add ‘facilitates efficiency’ to your CV for the next round of applications.
I have good board game memories from last year.
Like my amazing spaceship where all the important stuff blew off in the first round and I floated my way through the rest of the game in silence.
And the card game about roommates where my character was a jobless bum who looked at porn for a few rounds and then committed suicide and Freya’s friend couldn’t get any nookie.
And Robot Drama Theatre.
And pretty much every time we played Resistance.
Also lots of memories of me not understanding half the rules.
Goooood times.
And those were on the few occasions that you showed up! Imagine if you were a regular!
I lead a very complicated and terrible life, you see.
This one time I was playing Ticket to Ride on Steam, with some people who we shall name… Rojan, Laghman, and… Ser Obulus maybe?
They were all off bickering on their side of the map and I was on the other side of the map just doing something and taking random paths and one of them thought I had some sort of grand strategy and I didn’t have the heart to tell them I had no idea what I was doing.
And then you flew all the way from Canada to play some BOARD GAMES.
I promise Anton and I will come over at some stage 🙂
I was thinking it might be a good idea to do something for Tabletop Day on April 5. Or the day after when it’s Tabletop Day in America. Either way, it’s a pretty long drive so that sort of thing would probably only work if people were willing.
So basically you’ve become a missionary to the heathen town of Dubbo, there to convert them to the wonder and mystery that is BOARD GAMES?
Sure, let’s go with that.
QVERKLE
So, the software that came with my Roxio GameCapture HD Pro is okay, but recording on the device is buggy.
It captures for three seconds, and then stops, whilst still saying “capturing’ but nothing shows when I try to play it.
Anyone know why that’s happening?
Might have something to do with the resolution on the console, I once had a similar issue and it was something like that. The forums should be able to help you out if all else fails. Even if the topic hasn’t been posted yet you should get a relatively quick reply.
Mine was resolved from un-ticking 1080i resolution on my ps3…I think..
Ugh not very helpful.
I’ve got 720p ticked as maximum, though.
So you’re capturing at a different resolution to the one you’re playing at? If so, try setting both console and GCHD to the same and see if that helps.
Is it definitely plugged into a high speed USB port with the proper drivers installed? USB3 is probably not necessary at least the LGP gets by fine with USB2 but it might be an idea to try a 3 if you have one.
There’s also a possibility that windows is turning the port off or trying to run it in low power mode, open device manager and the Universal Serial Bus Controllers list and get properties on each, make sure “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power” is unticked. Possibly do the same for the Human Interface Devices list, not sure if it’d show up as one of those or not, it may also show up under Sound, Video & Game Controllers but chances are if there’s a windows instigated power interruption happening it’ll be at the USB port level.
If all that doesn’t help, I’d be thinking there might be a problem with either the composite cables or the capture device.
bah. Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics has been stuck on a loop in my head all day so far. I don’t even like the song. I can’t even remember the last time I listened to it.
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I have that with Adam’s Song.
Don’t like it cause it’s too depressing, but it always stays in my head.
Who am I to disagree?
You could try listening to the marylin manson version, at least it’d sound a bit different…
Dammit alias, I’d finally gotten it out of my head until you gave me a notification :@
OK, so Dark Souls only really clicked for me yesterday when I was looking up something I was curious about but couldn’t find an in-game explanation for.
Not in terms of gameplay mechanics and all that shit – I figured that out pretty early, once I sat down and actually TRIED instead of letting my prejudices get the better of me.
No, when I say ‘I get it now’, I mean in terms of appreciating the lore and aesthetic and quest-lines and such. Because it’s just so different to how we usually get served our direction and story in games.
So obviously I must wax lyrical on why, with the zeal of the convert.
Something I had to adjust to was that there are no quest-lines as we understand them in other games. You don’t have a quest-log, there are no exclamation points over heads, you can kill your quest-givers, merchants and innkeepers, then have to live with the consequence of that. Shit happens; you MIGHt get involved, it might happen off-screen and all you see is the aftermath or clues from which you’ll have to deduce the story. Some things will happen with or without you, you will only get to influence a certain pivot point. I just don’t see ‘deductive storytelling’ anywhere outside those (supposedly) ‘horror’ indie walking simulators on Steam.
Almost nothing is presented to you as pure exposition – even the things that are presented as exposition are/can be lies or manipulation. The story is not presented in the Hollywood-style 3-part format. It’s a distant goal with a shitload of obstacles in the way, and you may-or-may-not bear witness to or be involved in things which happen along the way with the various competing interests.
If anything, it’s a lot more like walking in the final act of a movie, where you’re constantly asking, “So who’s that guy? What’s his deal? Is there a history there? Why is he doing this?” The ‘set-up’ you would usually be carefully walked-through in a movie is only presented in item text and other clues you have to go find for yourself.
Personally, I think it’s not even really possible for anyone to spoil the game for me in the traditional way for this reason: because most of what anyone is going to tell me about the plot I wasn’t actually ever going to be explicitly shown anyway. Anything you read or hear is really just someone sitting in the seat next to you explaining what happened in the first 2/3rds of the movie you missed.
Knowing what’s happening (or why) is really secondary to the process of try-fail-repeat-succeed that comprises the actual ‘game’. That, and soaking up the GORGEOUS scenery. They’ve mastered the art of ‘beautifully bleak’ and tied it to settings of powerful grandeur, epic in scale.
So with that knowledge and appreciation sliding into place and clicking – yeah, consider me a Fan, now. Hyped for 2.
The spoilers for the game come not from the plot but from the challenges and how to tackle them.DARK SOULS \o/
It’s a pretty clever beast, this game. As was Demon’s Souls before it.
Some of the analysis of the story and lore goes crazy deep, and is all entirely plausible/probable, and all entirely missable if you’re not paying attention.
There’s some incredible discussion about, for example, Oscar of Astoria.
Why was he on the roof of the asylum? Why did he free you from your cell? How did he die, etc? Freeze linked to this Youtube series a week or two ago that explores all this stuff (prior to launching into a bizarre alternate-universe fanfic series which isn’t that engaging).I reckon it was all a skydive gone wrong and he was just winging it from there
This tickles the same part of my brain that loves linked short story novels like the first Witcher book and Tales of a Dying Earth. You get little hints and snapshots of the world, but it all isn’t there just to center on you or deliver everything on billboards with 10ft high writing.
It’s a creative work that treats you like an adult, you have to observe, process and deduce. My favourite kind of entertainment.
Have you played Brothers? Or Journey? I find that non-language / non-verbal works are also good at this kind of delivery.
I have played neither. I know Brothers was on special on Steam a little while back for less than a coffee, but when I went to purchase it, it warned me that I would require a gamepad. Which, GAH! NEVER WOULD I SULLY MY PC WITH SUCH TOOLS OF THE HEATHEN!
At some point I’ll probably hook up the PS3 gamepad, but whatever.
It requires two symmetrical inputs of analogue stick and trigger button, very much part of the design of the whole game. Well worth the temporary incursion of a dirty heathen controller on holy ground.
Wait hang on, are you playing Dark Souls with a mouse and keyboard?? That’s fucking awful!
Nah, I’m playing it on the PS3. I’m totally going to play DS2 on the PC, though. As pretty as the game can be sometimes, it’s still fucking hideous compared to the PC.
Dark Souls is incredibly well designed. To the point I’d actually argue that it’s probably one of the most important examples of progressive game design of the last generation.
The best thing is how pure an experience it is. Hardly ever takes control away from you. Teaches you its rules and then applies them consistently (the fact that you can kill every NPC for example). Doesn’t stop you and force you to see exposition, instead it tells you its story through the gameplay itself, as well as lots of environmental storytelling.
Plus the levels themselves are well-designed. The way that you’ll spend an hour clearing your way through some area then discover a gate or door you can open and suddenly there’s a shortcut. And the way that all the areas seem to fit together so well. I’d love to see a big 3D model of all the areas and see if there’s any trickery involved at all, like hidden portals or anything, because it *feels* like everything is seamless.
Also really like the lack of loading screens! And the way every now and then you hit a boss that is basically a skill or gear check. The Taurus Demon is a really good example, where you need a certain level of skill and understanding to be able to beat him, and once you beat him you feel like you’ve learned the game well enough that you could probably do it again easily.
Also, when you see a giant, impressive construct in the distance, the odds are pretty good you can and will explore it. And that it is exactly the distance away that it seems to be, and that every metre of the ground you traverse between here and there is as it seems from where you are.
Like stand in the temple in Anor Londo outside the Princess’ chamber and look out back toward where you came from. And up over at that building, to the right on the mountain? Duke’s archives? I’m pretty sure it’s exactly that far away, no trickery, even though it looks like artistic scenery.
And as for learning how things move… I pretty much repeatedly go through an area over and over and over again until the whole place is mentally mapped out, ‘fits’ together, makes sense, and none of the enemies give me any more problems. You kill them so often that it just ‘clicks’ and you can complete the run without losing any (or at least minimal) health. So when I started a new character after watching that 1.5hr run-through? Yeah, I was able to get the first bell rung in like… 20 minutes without much hurrying at all. Previously I’d spent HOURS before inching forward bit by bit and completely out-levelling everything. The difference is not stats – it’s muscle memory.
Amusing side note: you know the room in Anor Londo with the painting of the princess? Someone had put down a note there in my game, “Amazing Chest”. It made me smile.
Dat seething console fanboi rage when you make a comment on the main articles that doesn’t say “consoles are god I want their babies”.
The burden of the Master Race is to preach eternally to deaf ears. But don’t let that stop you – continue to fight the good (futile) fight! If we make those heathens feel inferior they will surely convert.
MAAAAASTERRRR RRRRRAAAACE!
I didn’t even make them feel inferior! I just said “be realistic” with next-gen expectations!
But, yes, good sir. MASTAR RACE.
Well. Being realistic has the same effect with console peasants. Console reality IS inferior, see. 🙂
It’s ok we all make mistakes sometimes.
Interesting developments. My comment is the centre of a voting spar. 3 v 3! Who will win!?
FIGHT!
From reading the comment it sounded like you were belittling and using irony punctuation as a way to show your disdain of using proper terminology, are you really that surprised to receive backlash?
Nah, not surprised. But I wasn’t trying to post flamebait either.
It’s depressing when I see comments on arma3 videos of people saying how they’d like it to be on XB1 or PS4 and my patient and well reasoned explanation of why it’d be impractical without some manner of patch to allow mouse & keyboard input is lost amid an ocean of arrogant and frankly pointless vitriol over why one magic box with buttons is better than the other magic boxes with fewer buttons
According to his twitter, the creator of 999 and Virtues Last Reward has said the third game in the series is likely to be put on hold due to money problems….
which is just horrible, those games were fantastic and especially since VLR kinda ended on a cliffhanger, it sucks that he can’t make his game…
I think we did this last year, but: Time for TAY Valentines!
I’ll be the bread in your microwave.
Roses are RED
Violets are BLU
Play as the Scout
and I’ll frag you
Roses are Red
Posies are too
Please make a sequel
to Half Life 2
Let’s see…
They did. Half Life 2; Episode One and Two. 😛
Roses are Red
Lilies are white
Hear the announcer
ROUND 2: FIGHT
I’d still love you even if you were a clicker
and a board game one
Roses are Red
but loving you’s free
Except when you screw up
playing HANABI
Russia is Red
France is Blue
Once he’s researched atomic energy
Gandhi’s gonna nuke you too
Roses are red,
Violets are blue
DON’T HURT ME!
DON’T HURT ME
NO MORE
WHAT IS LOVE?
Brilliant.
Callbacks are awesome and one of the best comedic devices, but I do feel sorry for Angus. He’ll just be reading some unrelated bit of TAY, and then… “Dammit you guys!”
What’s wrong with being the Scout?
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
I’m getting excited
For Burial At Sea Part Two
My favourite is Cyclops from X-Men:
Roses are red
Violets are red
EVERYTHING IS RED! >:(
It’s not TAY specific, but it’s still a winner.
Edit: I FOUND IT: http://iruntheinternet.com/04469
My uniform is Red
And now it is Blue
Look I’m invisible
I choose to backstab you
Roses are red,
But those I eschew.
Gross incandescence…
Are you a SunBro too? \o/
Rose are red
Violets are blue
I’d like to share
A Gaytime with you
blood’s fkn red
I smoke winnie blue
you wot m8?
I’ll fkn wreck you
ur fkn ded
ur face is dum
ill rek u m8
i swear on me mum
glassin a prick
sounds like a good fing
a punch in the dick
make ‘is ears ring
out wif da boiz
‘e looked at us funny
beat ‘im to def
n take all ‘is munny
Oi, roman-tic
I’ll mess u up
bet you carnt even
lift my protein cup
Roses are
cuntsviolets are too
both of you suck
just like your mothers
im bad
Roses are red
As are flowers I’ve heard
Would you like to be
my Flappy Bird?
3 UPVOTES. Half Life 3 confirmed.
Roses are black
Violets are gold
The Deus Ex colour scheme
Will never get old <3
Also, stolen from Twitter…
Charizard’s red,
Blastoise is blue,
You’re not a Pokemon,
But I still choose you
Blood is red
My toes are blue
Fuck, I’m dying
How about you?
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Refrigerator.
Hey @dkzeitgeist, AMA with Alfonso Cuaron:
Q: What are your guilty film pleasures?
A: Last year I loved Sharknado and I can’t wait for the sequel.
You’re welcome.
Source
Also @dc will enjoy the whole thing:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1xu9dn/i_am_director_alfonso_cuaron_of_gravity_and_other/
All of his answers are hilarious!
I know! It did spoil Gravity for me though but oh well, my own fault for waiting so long to watch it.
HAH! Just read this one:
Q: People describe you, Guillermo del Toro, and Alejandro González Iñárritu as the “Three Amigos of Cinema.” How did you meet them, and do the three of you often help each other out on each other’s films?
A: We met because we used to have competitive mariachi bands. Now, we constantly mess with each other’s work.
That reminds me of a joke that did the Page Six rounds a few months ago.
How many Freudian analysts does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two. One to change the bulb, and the other to hold the penis. LADDER. I mean ladder.
They are – this is brilliant! 🙂
I would watch this:
Q: Do you see yourself potentially doing any superhero films?
A: Speedy Gonzales starring Jackie Chan as the mouse and the pussy cat would be Arnold Schwarzenegger.
He directed the best Harry Potter film, too? You learn something new everyday.
He directed the one that made me give up on the movies.
Yeah, I should have switched off after that one as well. 😛
Gravity’s shit.
I haven’t seen it so can’t comment on it but:
Children of Men!
One of my top five films ever.
Ah, joke wasted.
Gravity is amazing. One of the best “movie” experiences I’ve had at the cinema.
Don’t get me gushing about Children of Men. We’ll be here all day.
As long as you read the one about the alternate ending for Gravity I will be happy.
And yeah man, Children of Men…while the apartment attack is my favourite extended scene, seeing the complexity of the car scene is mind blowing.
WRONG
So what are Brisbane people up to next Friday? I’ll be in Brisbane for the weekend (Soundwave), Friday until (probably be there around midday or so) until 4:30ish in the city, then heading off to my mates. If possible would anyone wanna hang out or something if they’re available? Thought i’d ask here I gotta meet my mate in The Valley or somewhere in the city which is easy enough.
Tags may help I guess..
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @rocketman @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot
Blah I’ve already commited to a RPG that night. Sorry Virus. 🙁
S’all good.
going to see some awesome Sidewavesaw crapAs it is, working until 4
Haha what sidewaves? 😛 Richie Sambora is the only one in Brisbane I am aware of, which I wanted to go to but I doubt I will lol.
S’all good, might see if other friends in Brisbane are available, one said to let her know when I am in Brisbane next so I should 😛
Aw man, Richie Sambora is coming to Brisbane? Wonder if he plans to swing by Canberra?
Yeah he’s playing Brisbane and Melbourne sideshows, then he’s on the 5 Soundwave dates. So sadly no Canberra stop overs.
I’m also excited to see if Orianthi is part of his band since she has been rehearsing with him for this upcoming tour, Soundwave said to me she is only the support act for his sideshows but I think she’s in his band as his other guitarist which would be badass.
Mayday Parade. Never heard of, never will. And Terror. I’m not really in the mood to see a hardcore band I don’t know just because there’s a gig on.
Clutch are doing a gig at The Zoo beforehand. It’s their own tour before Soundwave so Soundwave aren’t advertising it. I’d love to see Clutch but as ever, money problems 🙁
I see, yeah never heard of any of them 😛
I work until 4:30 M-F, sorry.
s’all good!
Soz meht, I’m at work until 5.
You crazy kids and your casual lifestyles.
I know right?! I blame the fact I am a casual at my job!
I’m out. I’ll be working til 4pm unfortunately 🙁
Is soundwave on the Friday, or are you up here in prep for saturday?
It’s on Saturday, staying at a mates place out at Carindale and turns out dad has to go to Coopers Plains next Friday so I thought i’d save a train fare just downside is he’s going up in the morning so I have a lot of time to kill lol.
Ahh cool cool. My work isn’t far from Carindale, but too hard to get to the Valley by the time I finish work. I probably wouldn’t make it in there til 5, and that’s before I’d find somewhere free to park 😉
Wait…for how long, which day?
Friday 21st, prolly till 4:30ish or whenever my mate finishes work, not that I have a clue where he works..
Damn, will be at work. :-/
Damn, I figured this would be the case with everyone and it seems like @dc is avoiding me guess he hates me =(
Too small a group for @DC he needs at least 3 others.
If I was worrking in the City ATM we could at least have lunch or something 🙁
Pfft, rude!
S’all good man! I wasn’t even planning on being in Brisbane that early honestly. So it was kinda just randomly ask people here haha.
This just in: typos and spelling mistakes are hilarious, especially when they are repeated.
“Do you a require duel monitor?”
Why yes, yes I do. En garde!
Time to eat children. Commas save lives, people! Shit a hole in my pants.
Or a device which monitors your progress in a duel.
“You have lost 1.25L of blood. You are… losing.”
“SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP”
Or it’s a reptile referee for duels.
Somedays, Pandora gets me, others it constantly plays stuff that I’m not really interested in atm
Why do you need pandora????
The Frozen soundtrack is all on youtube.
Silly scree thinking other music is better than Frozen
I don’t want it stuck in my head for hours and hours D=
So i’m going to Tasmania in June (friend invited me down for her birthday) I assume it will be a tad cold, question is how cold? @benj what is your take on things for that time of year? I’ll be in Launceston that’s all I know.
In June?
Verrah, verrah cold.
Oh well lol. What’s Adelaide like around then too? Might visit my friend there on the way back 😛
Warmer than Tasmania. temperature in the teens
That’s alright then, what we see here then around that time.
I was in Tasmania in June of 2009. It was really quite nice. Long sleeves, but not puffer jackets. Staying out to watch a sunset gets a bit nippy, but again, nothing too crazy.
But then again, you’re a Queenslander. You dive for the beanies if it dips below twenty-four, right? You might want to pack some thermals.
That’s what I was thinking, jumper and jeans.
Born in NSW still reside there, pfft Queenslander 😛
Eh usually around 10 degrees I feel shorts & a shirt are probably not the best lol. 15 if there’s nasty wind chill.
I’m from Tasmania and after living in New South Wales for a bunch of years went back there in winter of 2000. Jeans and a jumper are not going to cut it. You’ll need thermal long underwears, and a super-warm jacket underneath/over your jeans and jumper. If you don’t believe me, pack them anyway. Better to be safe than sorry.
Ah okay, thanks Strange 😀 I need these kinda things then dang it lol.
Pack all of your clothes. Then when you get there, heap them in a pile and burn them for warmth while you buy clothes more suitable for how cold it will be.
Edit: As an ex-Queenslander with family in Tassie I will add this – ANYTHING you can wear in Queensland at any time of year will be unsuitable for a Tasmanian winter.
Hahaha. Yeah I don’t have much in the way of warm shit. I own multiple warm pairs of jeans which are good in winter but still too warm for me here in winter. I’ll have to buy another hoodie for sure 😛
Last year or year before was out Leyburn (100km other side of the Toowoomba ranges) and we had minus 5 over night in august, it was fucked and we were in the shearers quarters on a farm, no insulation, plenty of gaps throughout the building and the gas heater we had was useless it didn’t give enough heat.. But I was comfortable in a pair of decent jeans and a relatively warm jumper. So i’m thinking similar tactics. I’m only going for like a week so that’s alright, probably gonna stop over in Melbourne for 4 days before though too.
It shouldn’t be too bad in June. It’ll be cold, but not 6-7 degrees cold like it gets in July/August. But still, bring jackets.
Oh well that’s pretty acceptable then, hell even 6 degrees isn’t all that bad if there’s no wind. I own one hoodie and that is it.. hahaha.
Just because @beeawwb referred to Settlers of Catan as “non-Western” above, I was reminded of something odd about Dota.
The competitive scene is pretty much split between East and West. East is China and South East Asia. I guess Korea too but they only just started playing the game, so nobody counts them.
West is where it gets trickier. America and Europe are obvious inclusions but the “Western” teams also include Russians and Ukrainians.
I’ve always been a bit fuzzy on this but I thought that Eastern Europe was the divide between East and West because this whole nonsense is a Eurocentric bit of silliness. After all, parts of Ukraine are directly north of the Middle Easy.
Whoever came up with this whole East/West thing was a silly bugger.
When in doubt, always ask: which side of the Urals are they on?
Got it!
Iran: Western.
Afghanistan: Eastern.
It all makes perfect sense now.
Well, Iran actually was reasonably western, until the 1979 revolution.
“East” and “West” were only really relevant when there was an Iron Curtain.
You’re taking this far too seriously.
The fun part is that we’re far enough away in both directions that we can pretty much be counted as either East or West.
It’s a silly distinction and I just find it funny that it still gets used.
And now my slip of the comment shall forever live in infamy.
But yeah, the whole “East/West” thing doesn’t really make sense in our globalised world, does it?
Clearly, we should just consider all nations that are ‘MURKANIZED enough to have hamburgers as Western.
It’s the only sensible thing to do.
Ok, so first world is “Has hamburgers as a regular part of diet and takeaway shops.”
2nd world is “Has some hamburgers but probably serves them with a side of rice or something.”
3rd world is “Still trying to get enough resources together to make a hamburger”
Question: Mongolia has Kentucky Duck, but no Maccas. Is it East or West?
If the historical documentary Mulan is to be believed, they have black eyes and are probably servants of the Great Old Ones or something.
Well I think technically east & west is defined by relation to the Greenwich meridian. That makes London in Western Europe but Cambridge in Eastern Europe
The Last of Us: Left Behind is downloading now on PS3. Said it was pre-order when I bought it, but went to download straight away. Just over 5gb. (Thanks @gutsoup, bought this with the credit you got for my birthday! You’re so awesome, man!)
no worries, I’m glad you got something good with it.
Will spend the left overs on The Witness or Rime for PS4 eventually. 😀
sweet, let me know how Left Behind is, I’m curious.
I’ll probably write about it on my blog sometime this weekend. I’ll send you a liiiiink!
well I better go kidnap someone named Zelda in preperation for the Link’s arrival 😛
Aww, a friend I hardly ever talk to came around with three different types of workout supplements and brand new dumbbells for me :3
I think he’s telling me I need to lift more :\
Best. Valentine’s Day. Evah.
He wants you to lift until you can pick him up.
Geddit?
Oh lordy…
Too soon, TOO SOON!!! :O
Or too late, its not page 6
I took it in more of a page 18 kinda way (as I think was intended)…
Man, you’ve got some generous friends! 😀
My competitive side now needs to one up him somehow though :\
Maybe I’ll buy him a gym membership >:)
If you’ve got the money and really want to stick it to him, get him a trainer too. They make you work!
Maybe he should get me a new gym member ship and trainer… just to teach me a valuable lesson… or something… *cough*
Come to wagga mate, I’ve been going to a trainer for 4-5 years and I reckon I could at least do a good enough job to have you not injure yourself
Did yours run out? That’s lame 🙁
Maybe buy me some protein powder to give me a reason to out-gift you. I’m a master at out gifting people >:)
One year my mum actually bought me a PS3 game for christmas, next year I bought her a TV, bitches love TV’s 😉
*snigger* stick it to him…
I’ll show myself out
How dare you accuse me of double entendres? I’ve never done it in my life! You sir need a good smack and if I was there I’d jolly well give you one
Thanks for all your kind words about my game yesterday, guys. Really made my day :3
So I have a question. I’m looking at getting myself a website, for posting info about my games and whatnot, but I’ve got no idea what web hosting or domain registration sites I should go with. Do you guys have any recommendations? Or know some places to avoid at all costs?
I’m looking at Crazy Domains right now, as that’s what my dad uses: http://www.crazydomains.com.au/web-hosting/
Are these any good?
I’m with them currently, they’re okay. Site goes down sometimes but I’m sure it’s still >95% uptime.
I use GoDaddy for my business site. No .au domains last time I checked, but I highly doubt that would matter for you. They support all kinds of wordpress stuff and scripting if you need, and they usually have quite reasonable deals for hosting. Often you can find code vouchers floating round the internet for discounts too. Easy to deal with when you have issues too. When I’ve called them, you end up speaking to people in the US for the most part, but at least they understand English!
Heard good things about squarespace
I don’t know, that sounds like it’s for squares.
Can I ask you a question about your games? Is it all geeky programming and code or do you use software?
Whenever I make 2D games I use Construct 2 (https://www.scirra.com/) and whenever I make 3D games I use Unity. So there’s not really that much complex coding stuff, nothing too geeky 😛 For example, adding Oculus Rift support was easy, I just had to drag the Oculus Rift camera object from the Oculus SDK into the scene…
Does Construct have any sort of multiplayer support? I was thinking it might be a good thing to do rapid prototyping in for the game I’ve got an idea for but my idea is coop.
I could work around the limitation if not but it’d not have the same flow
To be honest I don’t really know. Not something I’ve looked in to before. (Because multiplayer sounds like a pain to program, and I like single player stuff better)
Well its hardly a drama if it doesn’t as long as I can set object states dynamically by clicking a button, it just won’t be as good as having another person doing it live. I mostly prefer single player but coop is also awesome
I have a couple of friends who use Unity quite regularly for making game stuff and also coding. If you want, I can put you in touch with them. (Pro game dev people who really know their stuff)
I’m just trying to remember the mob I got hosting with for Kats website, I paid like 50 bucks for 3 years of hosting with unlimited bandwidth and 10gb space unlimited email account and sub domains. Nothing in the control panel is telling me who they are 😛
How’s your super secret project going? Did you ever get around to starting it?
And I see you’ve joined the black and white brigade with your gravatar. Almost didn’t recognise you! :O
Hey, you still remember it! \o/ It still exists in the back of my head 😛 Haven’t really done much on it, been experimenting with other stuff and learning things and whatnot. I will make it eventually, but I think I want to make one or two smaller projects first, ones that I can use for learning about polishing and marketing and all the other post-release stuff.
And I think I’ve joined the black and black brigade actually. 😛 Gravatar decided to drastically decrease the brightness in my pic for some reason :/
I am now realising there is a lot of hidden things in Frozen that I missed at the movies.
I may have to buy the movie
“Winter’s a good time to stay in and cuddle, but put me in summer and I’ll be a… happy snowman!” xD That song is so hilariously morbid. The movie’s an instabuy for me as soon as it’s out :3
I’m gonna tell him
Don’t you dare!
In fixer upper, there’s a baby troll pulling troll face.
I did not see that :O Definitely going to be looking out for that next time I watch it.
Youtubers noticed it. It’s like tangled in that you kind of need to see it more then once
Yeah, day one purchase for me. Best Disney movie in ages.
I think I tangled was funnier, this one had more heart
Speaking of Tangled,
Guess who’s in attendance for the Coronation?Best cameo. I wonder if it’s something Disney will keep doing from now on in their Princess movies; throwing in cameos of characters from previous films.
Let it Go is totally a coming out song.
Someone I know is setting up a meeting with her priest to visit for an argument. She’s getting married and wants to tweak the traditional vows a little, but they’re giving her problems about removing ‘obey’ from hers. They apparently won’t let her. I couldn’t help but laugh darkly; I’d forgotten that was in there! People are crazy.
There you go, fellas. Woman too wild and wilful, mind of her own giving you trouble? Get her to marry you, insist on traditional vows, then any time she gives you problems remind her she vowed to obey. PROBLEM SOLVED. Totally. (…One way or another.)
Guy I know had to do 6 months of counselling with the priest before their ceremony. He said it was an…interesting experience
Six months of counselling? Bloody hell, what were they doing that requires that? Even ‘pray the gay away’ (*snort*) is meant to take less time than that! What on earth did he get caught doing?
I had something similar. I’m positive it was mostly to do with a half-Muslim marrying a Christian. It couldn’t happen in a church, had to iron out readings removing the word Jesus and Christ for the mother-in-law and whatnot. A real headache, that’s for sure.
Half-muslim? How can you be half? Either you are or you aren’t…
My wife’s mum is Muslim but my wife is not. My parents are Christian, therefore both sides need to be taken into account pretty much anytime religion is brought up.
He got caught being a not-catholic and wanting to marry a catholic.
To be fair, she thought it was OTT as well, but there were family politics in play. They did fortnightly (I think) sessions over skype.
Needless to say, following the ceremony, he has not become part of the flock.
Sigh. See, this and @benny’s… People REALLY need to lighten up about religion, embrace a little tolerance.
Just in general, actually, not just marriage. The world would be a much happier and more peaceful place.
Just tell her to bring a sign to hold up during the ceremony
I swear to love, honour and obey *Holds up sign that says “terms and conditions apply”*
Jesus, that’s outdated. We got married in a church but there was nary an obey to be found
Got a call from my wife. Apparently the big bouquet of flowers I sent her made he cry and freak out her office.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Ah, making women cry. Now that’s a game I’ve mastered!
:/
Well maybe if you stopped opening every conversation with “I’M NOT GOING TO DRUG YOU I SWEAR!” you’d have better luck.
But I feel it’s important to start a relationship with a basis of trust. What better than assuaging their most immediate fears?
You know you only have to dial back your creepiness by a bit to go from weirdo to funny man.
actually just stop with the rape jokes and i think you got a shot.
But then I’d be lying about who I am, and all the trust is gone yet again.
No woman, no cry! Didn’t Marley teach you any thing?
Are you sure that wasn’t just him ordering some lady to stop crying?
or is he suggesting that because no woman are present there is nary a tear to be found? 😛
Was there a bee colony in there? BEEEEEES!
NOT THE BEES
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/187912_o.gif
I was hoping for the Oprah gif. XD
It’s pretty much the first thing I think of anytime anyone mentions bees. If Oprah ever turns super-villain, that needs to be her villainy debut.
http://i.imgur.com/qrLEV.gif
That’s good husband points to come to Sydney next month right?
I wish i was going to sydney with you guys, you guys are a hoot.
It’s for my birthday…you should come.
is it really??
March 17th (@rize’s birthday)
March 20th (My birthday)
March 22nd for the shenanigans.
I think @freezespreston was
going to comeentertaining the idea of coming. I should probably organise something…I was going to run in screaming “I’ll be there!” But I’ve remembered that that’s more likely to make people not want to come.
We should see if the lion king is still on and make a trip of it??
Should still be on, dunno if tickets will be available in great numbers. Worth a check though. I nominate someone else to check, since I’m Russian around.
Mine too.
If it could not end up like last time Rocket was in Sydney I will be so happy.
Yeah i am a big kill joy….
Also no weird fucking randoms who are bigger dorks than we are.
@rocketman
It was a bad joke. I have nothing but love for you Rockets <3
Apparently the baby shower might be on that weekend. Here’s me thinking “Oh OK, that means I’ll organise to stick around for whatever you need me for”.
I think her response was something along the lines of “Nah, you’re not invited”.
You’ve impregnated her. If my father has taught me anything your work is now done.
EDIT: I had an internal debate if I should post this or not, then I realised Mrs. Rize would get a laugh out of it.Now do it again next week and see how suspicious she gets.
YOU DA MAN! ^5
Mmmmmmm, taste that Windows 7y goodness. Work computer has been upgraded / migrated from Win XP to Win 7.
Of course I still need to get my admin access reinstated, my programs reinstalled, all my settings back to normal, etc etc, but still. Nice.
I assume you’re attached to a domain, and you want local admin access for installing software? If so, your domain admin may have to add your account to a group if they have good security, but if you work for the govt, you can probably add yourself to the local workstation admin group. Try right click Computer > Manage. In the window that pops up, go to Local Users and Groups. Right click your username, click properties > Member of tab, and then add yourself to the administrator group.
NISA announced some games that I’m probably alone in caring about!
– Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited (Vita port of Disgaea 4, titled Disgaea 4 Return in Japan. IMO 4 is the best Disgaea since the first one)
– Danganronpa 2 (Vita)
– Battle Princess of the Arcadias (PS3, Arcadias no Ikusahime, really pretty 2D side-scrolling action RPG)
– Fairy Fencer F (PS3, the first JRPG under Idea Factory & Compile Heart’s ‘Galapagos RPG’ label that looked fairly decent)
WAIT DANGANRONPA 2 IS CONFIRMED!?!?
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
WE DID IT GUYS, WE DID IT!!!!!!!!
Edit: shit, coming out this fall as well, that’s amazing turnaround, they must have been working on it for a while….
maybe we’ll get the third person shooter spin-off as well?
The Japanese Vita version of the game is actually both games in one package, since they were both PSP games originally. When they started the first one NISA basically said it was too risky to release both games in one pack, but clearly they were confident it would sell well enough to make the money back as long as they released them separately because a 6-month or so turn-around from 1 to 2 is way too fast for them not to have been working on both simultaneously.
Vita is really looking up at the moment. Just got Toukiden, Danganronpa and TxK in the same week. Europe gets Ys: Memories of Celceta and Sorcery Saga next week. Ragnarok Odyssey Ace and FFX/X-2 in March, Conception II and Demon Gaze in April, Mind=Zero in May. Then there’s stuff that’s been teased or announced but not dated yet, like Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus, the Neptunia ReBirth games, Freedom Wars, Miku Hatsune Project Diva f, New Atelier Rorona and the Atelier Ayesha Vita ports, Monster Monpiece… And now we’ve got Disgaea 4 and Danganronpa 2 to look forward to as well.
Also I think the Vita port of Borderlands 2 is out soonish as well? Plus the recently announced Sly and God of War HD collections.
Overall pretty excited to see how the Vita progresses and happy I just got a 64gb memory cart.
Oh yeah, i knew about 1.2 reload, it made sense for them to split them up, but they did say they were only gonna do 2 if the 1st one did well enough, maybe it was just a marketing ploy haha.
i’ve never regretted my vita purchase, and the flood of great looking games coming out re-affirms my decision. I can add Danganronpa 2 to my ever increasing list of vita hype.
and i think Borderlands 2 is coming out with the vita slim.
also, where and how much for the 64gb card? i wanna get one myself.
@masha2932 got one recently, maybe he can helpasha!
Hey B-funk, I got my 64GB card from here http://www.yesasia.com/global/playstation-vita-memory-card-64gb-japan-version/1034043241-0-0-0-en/info.html
Very convenient so far.
Sweet! I still need to pick up Disgaea 3 Vita.
I’ve been hearing good things about Danganronpa but I have no idea about it. If that and Toukiden end up worthwhile I shall investigate…
not many people know this, but i love danganronpa, plz play it (if you like phoenix wright-ish games that is)
Danganronpa from the look of it is Virtue’s Last Reward / 999 + Phoenix Wright.
I bought Disgaea 3 and then got it digitally through PS+ so I have a surplus copy. US-region though.
Is that an offer or are you just telling me? :P. I’d happily buy it if it’s on offer :).
I was holding out for a PAL PS+ release but it seems like not all PAL regions have the game, making it a hard Plus choice :(.
In regards to Dangan, let me know your thoughts. (@grandmasterb-funk too!)
i’ve played the fan translation, really great, phoenix wright cross virtues last reward is a great example.
it’s also more of a “game” than phoenix wright, there is little mini games and such that you do to point out contradictions.
it also fucks with you, it has some awesome twists in the story.
overall, i really like the game, so much i bought it’s western release even though i’ve already beaten it, that’s how much i liked it.
How’d you play the fan translation? You can do that for Vita games without hacking? :O
EDIT: ah, it was originally on PSP
That’s an offer.
How much? It’s $30 at Blockbuster so anything reasonably less than that would be good :P. Thanks
Let’s say $10?
Done. 🙂
Thanks
move over Plainview there is another but on lifehacker
This is the funniest fucking thing i have read in a while
Recently, I saw a movie about a similar con, it was called ‘American Hustle’. Although it was a movie about political corruption and fake shieks in the land of the free, the gist of the movie had me imagining what would really happen if you substituted the sweet burger bread for the less interesting mcmuffin bread. Have you ever wondered why the smell of fresh bread in the morning makes you feel so good when you climb of bread and wander down the cobbled streets of gay paris?
In the realms of what is and what isn’t a scam, this would have to be a massive loss for Burger King and could be constructed as utter fabrication and contempt for the great Australian dream: the real Aussie burger. It could be anywhere, hiding amongst us – but here we find it – in a post on lifehacker and if my honour shall serve and if Chris, you will have my first born child, I will assign the lord and protector of the McNewsworthy, my favourite burger of choice on lifehacker.
Thankyou.
Its about getting free salad on a burger at hungry jacks. Its brilliance.
So… Xenublade is a multiplayer monster hunter clone after all. How incredibly disappointing.
Not for me!
WOOOOO!
Well actually, Monster Hunter clone isn’t right. It doesn’t look like that. It looks like a team-based multiplayer RPG. Xenoblade’s combat system with other players instead of NPCs. So more like PSO.
I can’t see a situation where that would also result in a strong set of characters and a strong plot like Xenoblade. I don’t own a Wii U and a proper Xenoblade follow-up would absolutely sell me on one, but a multiplayer one I’m not so sure about.
Good job!
Is this a scientology flavoured knock-off?
Woohoo! Major victory at school today. Before I start, here is a stupidly large exposition dump:
I am in a Business class, and I am a Year 12 student. I am the babby of TAY yadda yadda.
I took Business in Year 11, and the content of the class is basically the same, except my peers are Year 11 students. (Last year, it was a mixed class of primarily year 12s with the occasionally year 11) I am essentially doing the same class, except it counts twice. \o/
The business class is all about setting up a virtual enterprise, were we sell a fake product on the internet to real people for fake currency. It doesn’t match up to the real-world economy all that well, but what can you do about that.
(If the concept of a virtual enterprise doesn’t make sense, don’t despair, it’s a pretty confusing system at first)
Basically, the business the class set up last year was an utter failure. We made probably 600 e-dollars in revenue, and got about 100,000 e-dollars in debt. Flawless failure. The main thing wrong with the business last year is that the entire concept of the business was stupid from the start. I have actively fought for the past two weeks to make sure that my class picks a good idea, and doesn’t collapse from the get go. I have the same teacher I did last year, and I am actively working with her to make sure my class doesn’t pick a bad business concept.
Essentially, the ideas that my class came up with are vile, stupid, and are guaranteed to fail. The most popular of these ideas was a virtual nightclub. During the first round of voting, it accrued 16 votes, which is three-quarters of the class. The teacher and I could both tell that this business idea had to be stomped out immediately, so we conspired together to get the class to change their minds. Today was to be the second round of voting. During her speech at the beginning of class, the teacher tried to explain the concept of a virtual enterprise a little better to the students, all the while taking somewhat subtle digs at the nightclub concept.
She then got me to speak in front of the class. I spent five minutes explaining how the last year’s business flopped, and how the new business would suffer if the class chose poorly. I explained all the trends and “market research” I did last year, and tried to use the data to promote my business concept. Shortly after I was done, we did a bit of work, and the teacher gave another speech with subtle jabs at the nightclub concept. Then the second round of voting began.
No-one voted for the nightclub concept. 3/4 of the class voted for it yesterday, and not a single person voted for it today. Sadly, my business concept didn’t do all that well, but it did well enough to progress to the third round of voting next week. There will be three concepts to vote for next week. Concept A is almost as stupid as the nightclub concept. Concept B actually makes sense, and I am willing to support it over my own if it means getting rid of concept A.
I will spend all my time in class next week systematically destroying Concept A, just like I did with the nightclub concept. I will promote Concept B if Concept A gets too popular.
I probably have gained a lot of enemies this past two weeks. The guy who proposed the nightclub, especially. His concept was the most popular by a country mile at first, but it was utterly abandoned at the end. Even he didn’t vote for it.
Thank you for reading this far. Have a cookie. I hope the essay I just typed made any bleeding sense.
If it helps, school is doing its job and you’re learning the most important thing about business: shooting down your idiot coworkers ideas while getting buy-in for your own.
Edit: om nom cookie. I would probably murder for a real cooking right now, blood sugar is obviously low. (Have the telltale tingles, mild shakes, and lightheadedness. On the plus side, probably only an hour or so before I have completed tasks and can escape. In the meantime… a Snickers really satisfies. SO I SHALL HAVE THREE.)
Next task in learning business: Do what works best, not what strokes your own ego the most. If Concept B turns out to be better than yours by next week then vote for that on its merit.
Way too many people can’t look beyond their attachment to their own ideas and see that sometimes they’re just a bit crap, that kind of thing leads to stuff like partisan bickering and falling victim to the sunk cost fallacy which always leads to something shitty (eg: no fucking NBN because its what the other party proposed). The good thing is that even nightclub guy recognised his plan was unviable so that’s a good lesson learned.
(Either that, or nightclub guy still thinks it’s a good plan but recognized that the mood of the room had changed and he didn’t want to be the only one voting for his plan… which would be even more pathetic than abandoning it.)
Yeah ego salving is also another thing that is far too common, suppose the only way to know is to monitor him closely and if all else fails, go all SMAC and break out the nerve stapling machine…
….woah.
like… seriously. the kids at the school I work at have a hard time turning up, let alone giving enough of a shit about classes to have 3 rounds of voting on a virtual concept.
Edit: also, I need a cookie.
If I remember correctly, last year there was only one round of voting. I think the teacher wanted to ensure the class didn’t screw everything up from the get-go. All the concepts seemed to have been created on a whim. I think the teacher wanted to stress the idea of going into something like this with as much knowledge as possible. Most of today was spent trying to figure out the potential revenue streams of each enterprise. This further highlighted how bad the nightclub idea was, as nobody could think of anything. I remember “hype man” being a potential revenue stream for the nightclub. I have no freaking idea what the hell that even means.
True persuasiveness is getting people to believe in an idea so much they’ll think they thought of it.
I currently have the overwhelming urge to sleep right now.
Two meat pies for lunch, and now I’m hungry again.
You…. sleep?! wow! I thought it was a myth!
Productive Dark Souls night last night! Moar progress made. Exploration/murder log:
WEAPONS WHEE:Having retrieved Flame and Chaos embers, I went back to the catacombs to give them to the skele
torsmith. Hooray, superior fire weapons!Blew all my red chunks (heh… blew chunks) on upgrades immediately.
I picked up a few more man-serpent greatswords, which I have now decided are going to be my staple for all enchanted weapons. Fire, divine, lightning, magic, whatever. They’re just so much better than the ultra-greatswords because they still hit hard, have a stupid long reach for a sword, and are faster and don’t leave me exposed as long as the ultras – against many enemies, a single-handed R1 slash made at the same time as an enemy attacks will hit them before they hit me, and frequently stagger them. Time to toss out all those impressive demon machetes. I didn’t really like the barbed wire around them anyway.
CATACOMBS PT2 & TOMB OF GIANTS:
Heading on a little further, realized I hadn’t fully explored the catacombs should probably enter that FOG WALL! Fought Pinwheel or whatever his name is, which I’m guessing I was probably meant to do much, much, MUCH earlier because my sword snicker-snack chopped him up in like… three hits. Kindling Rite! Time to do the world-tour of all bonfires unlocked so far, accidentally losing SIXTY THOUSAND SOULS on death to a being knocked into lava by a Taurus demon after getting lazy.
Pushing on, I explored Tomb of the Giants. Met a dickbag who kicked me into a pit, then begged for mercy. Also found that crusading priestess and her guards – who she asked me to kill. And you think your boss sucks? Dunno where she went after that, though, because she wasn’t back at Firelink when I went there after. There’s probably more to this.
Fought my way through fuck-off-annoying skele-dogs, encountered a paladin dark spirit, escaped into Demon-town again.
IZALITH:
Stumbled across entrance to Lost Izalith. Murdered hopping flea-maggot things for a head-lamp, yay, can finally run around Tomb of Giants with my shield out again.
Fell through another floor (god I hate when that happens) and bumped into good old Onion Knight who took it upon himself to jump into a pit full of murderous nightmare combinations of eyeballs, mouths, and tentacles for me. After I had saved his ass – AGAIN – and broken all my weapons (glad I didn’t toss all my repair powders after I picked up that repair box), he decided to go fall asleep in some poisonous mud. Hope that works out for him; he’s an idiot but a well-meaning one. Back at Firelink, spoke to his daughter who hinted at a very unhappy story for the two of them. (“Say. What do you mean by, ‘again’, lass?”)
(I like to pop back to Firelink anytime anything happens – just in case someone turns up. It’s serving me well so far, makes me wonder what I missed before I started doing that.)
Explored Izalith a bit, killed a bunch of fire-breathing legless demon-buddhas, and half a dozen 5-story-tall headless chicken demons near lava… no idea if I wasted all that time and energy on something that will just respawn, though. I should probably visit a bonfire and come back, sometime, see exactly what respawns. Will hopefully be a little faster this time with that bastard titanite demon out of the way. (Seriously. Two estus flasks.) Realized I have no way of crossing lava to that tempting-looking shrine in the middle of all the chicken-leg demons, so I went back ‘home’.
THIS WEEKEND:
After V-Day is done with, I’ll try to explore a little more, see if there’s anything I missed before hitting either of the two (what I assume are boss fights) fog-walls. People talk about the ‘centipede demon’, but apart from seeing him clinging to a wall, I have yet to see anywhere that I might actually fight him.
Firstly, what system are you playing on (I assume “master race”)?
Secondly, what covenant are you in, if any.
Thirdly, if you want a pretty rad (read pretty shit, but awesome at the same time) greatsword you should…
Join Nitos Gravelord Servant Covenant (even just briefly). You get a pretty awesome looking greatsword, not that strong though, but it inflicts toxic. You read that right, toxic, not poison. You also get an AoE miracle, which is supposed to be good, but nobody got time fo miracles 😛Just thought toxic might be handy for PvP or for when you get invaded.
Actually playing on PS3. I started getting ready to play it on PC, grabbing the mods and all that shit, but when it came to getting my PS3 controller working and continually having GFWL nagging me, I decided ‘fuck that’ and went back to my PS3 copy instead.
Also, I’ve stopped playing online, so I don’t care about PVP anymore. My first couple invasions were OK, slashy-stabby, but they were both in really, REALLY inconvenient moments, so the next time I made a char, I signed out of PSN, then after that I pretty much never bothered signing back in again. Haven’t felt diminished in the slightest. 🙂
Edit: In fact, I think that is probably how I will play DS2, as well. Although on PC this time. Because ain’t got no time for these PS3 graphics.
Edit 2: Oh, and covenants! I joined the chaos servants one, but I’ll probably quit that. I missed my chance to join the forest guys because I answered the cat question wrong and she wouldn’t talk to me again. SO I SLAPPED HER WITH A SWORD. Then she ran away forever. Still waiting on that one to come back to me.
Apparently I’m incredibly sinful. Whatsisface is charging like… hundreds of thousands of souls to redeem me. Which is weird, because the only NPCs I’ve knowingly/willingly killed/attacked are that cat thing in the forest, Lautrec, and those NPCs who guard the forest. Oh god, do they count?
OMG, ANOTHER PS3 PLAYER!!!
…Who doesn’t play online :'(
That’s alright, I hear trying to coop with people you know is hard anyway. Hopefully they make that a little easier to accomplish in Dark Souls 2, like prioritise summon signs of people in your friends list so they definitely appear in your world, and make them a different colour, like blue or something.
I’m slowly becoming one of those invading jerks. I invaded a guy yesterday who tried to hide from me. I found him backed into a corner with his shield up. I couldn’t bring myself to fight him though, I could tell he didn’t wanna fight, so I walked up to him, turned around and let him kill me. It took him like 5 minutes to realise that I was letting him kill me before he attacked, haha! We’re now PSN buddies :3
That is like… the epitome of cool.
You could have always done why some of my early invasions did for me, drop loads of reasonably good gear and then just leave
I didn’t have anything worth dropping, but had like 30,000 souls, so I figured if he killed me he gets a copy of my souls and some exp, right?
Do you get a copy of other players souls in invasions? I can’t say I ever really paid attention to the rewards beyond the sense of relief that it was all over.
I’m not actually sure to be honest. I know you get souls for killing an invader, but I don’t know how it figures out how many souls to reward. I thought it might just be the amount of souls that the invader has on them. I once got 200,000ish souls for killing an invader, other times I get 2000 souls.
@liondrive well you’re PSN buddies now, you could always ask him if he remembers how many he got.
Might be a multiple based on soul level or something rather than on the number of souls you are carrying
The sin penalty
is your soul level x somethingthousand souls, I forget the exact number. It has nothing to do with how much you’ve sinned – that’s just a binary (sinned/not sinned).re: Princess (spoilers)
I would recommend going straight to Undead Parish (lower level) and talking to her. If you haven’t killed Petrus yet (NPC at game start who offers you first covenant), he’s gonna kill her if you beat two bosses after rescuing her. Best at least talk to her first before you do that… and then if you want to, go after Petrus, pre-empt the murder. Or you can find her hollowed self in the Duke’s Archives much later, I believe.Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh. That would explain a lot… that gutless cad. No wonder… What an excuse.
Yeah, there’s a whole story there, stuff that gets hinted at if you exhaust conversation trees and happen to see them in the right places at the right times. IT’s one of those things you can easily miss though! 🙂
Okay, I’ve got the flowers and chocolates sorted for Valentines Day. I’m just waiting for gf to turn up.
I plan to come out in my underwear with a rose between my teeth. I’ll report back.
Just don’t get it mixed up and come out wearing a rose with underwear between your teeth
No underwear. Lie on door-facing couch or something, cover shame with chocolates, rose between teeth. Trust me. 😉
That’s a sitcom scene waiting to happen: The door swings open, the girlfriend walks in with the 80 year old neighbour saying “Everyone forgets their keys occasionally, you can use our phone to call a locksmith…”, they look towards the lounge…
One man’s sitcom…
is… @mrtaco’s reality?
Welp, I did what I said and it worked well. I’ll try your version next year.
Wow I just got attacked by some random person for asking a question to someone in my Twitter feed. Um, what the hell..
People are insane
Particularly me, I completely misread that message and for some reason thought you were answering a question and thought maybe it was something oddly specific and might have caused offence though ignorance.
Yeah I just dunno what peoples idea is to get all angry at something that wasn’t exactly serious and nothing to do with them.
Well at least you’ve not been DDOSed or threatened with increasingly serious crimes all of which will go unpunished because “its just the internet, fuck it”
What the, people are just stupid.
So who else is in the PC Titanfall beta? Do we have a secret club or anything going? It’d be more fun than playing with randoms I suspect.
I got my code about 3 hours ago so if anyone is waiting it might be an idea to check your email. The download is 12.4GB which feels pretty big but I guess its all that nextgennyness taking up space, textures with a resolution better than a 2002 cellphone camera photo and all that…
Not me :(:(:(
Checked your spam folder? The email comes from EA-Australia@em.ea.com
i already have 🙁
apparently the cut-off date for when they send out invites is the 17th, so there’s still time!
*stares blankly at e-mails, repeatedly pressing f5*
I thought the adver-beta ended on the 18th
oh maybe thats why they said that haha.
and hey, advertisement or not, i’d like to play it before i buy it
Sigh, I guess you need to have pre-ordered to get into the beta? I am so hyped for this game, but I don’t have the money… I am genuinely worried that I will never play the game, simply because I can’t afford it.
No, I didn’t even really want the game much less preorder it. I don’t actually like multiplayer deathmatchy stuff and I detest call of duty and here’s a game that’s multiplayer deathmatchy only and made by the guys who did call of duty… I only applied on the off chance to see what it might be like and if MAYBE they’ve actually done something different for once. Really the main reason was that they pissed some people off restricting the games to 6v6 for actual design reasons rather than technical ones, that implies a degree of thought that makes me think they care about more than just how many bums on seats they get.
I’ve still not managed to play it yet, had loads of stuff happening since I finished the download last night but I plan to give it a bash & do some recording of it after tea.
http://www.titanfall.com/beta that’s the link for the beta registration, apparently its still open for a few days more. Can’t hurt to try
Right, I think I’ll download it tonight. I wonder what happens to the files after the beta ends? Do I just delete them from my computer? I’ve never participated in a beta before.
Well apply for it now to maximise your chances, if you get in you’ll get a code you redeem on origin which will download the files pretty much the same as it would on steam (appropriate since its basically the same program with a different hat). Once the beta is done it’ll probably just stay there with the hypothetical offer of being able to be used but the servers will be off and there’ll be no point keeping it so just uninstall it. There’s a chance it might convert to the retail version upon purchase & release but those are pretty rare times
Fuuuuck, I really want to play Skullgirls, but I don’t want to install it on my PC…
D`:
why not?
Pretty much all of my fighting games are on PS3…
ahh. just want the cheivos on ps3, or controller? I assume you know you can connect ps3 controllers to pc?
Nah, just convenience.
hey anyone heard about this?
http://www.candyswipe.com/king.html
I saw the story on it on here yesterday, though didn’t click through on any of the links and see the letter itself. Terrible.
Read about that yesterday somewhere. King are cunts for buying something that pre-dates his use of Candy in Candyswipe. Plain and simple cunts.. They knew full well that without something pre-dating his use, they would never be able to stop him using it. Money grubbing King fuckers should be shot. They’re in the same book as EA for me now. Will never pay for one of their games again, nor would I ever work for any company that supports them.
I downloaded candy crush saga for my Mum, discovered it was terrible, deleted it.
I finished all 400 and something levels. I am a horrible person.
Holy shit.
Grunt. On reflection, with some distance: Too much like PUA bullshit after all.
There are better ways to boost your confidence.
….
Seriously, there are still 2-3hrs left in the night to get dressed and run out to a bar. GOGOGO!
I don’t think I’m cut out for single life 😛
Yeah, I think I’m in a good place if I don’t have to think of women as “targets”.
Or ‘audience member’ if you prefer. 🙂
Remembering bar-trolling is not exactly deep-and-meaningful get-to-know-you soulmate shit. It’s bar-trolling. Picking someone up in a bar. It’s not exactly eHarmony. So it’s best to treat the whole thing as the pretty ridiculous exercise it is and have some fun with it instead of getting super-serious and anxious.
No-one will be having fun if they know you’re anxious and looking for True Love or something.
Ted Mosby banged practically every hot twenty-something in New York with that approach.
I’ve always found the whole pick up artist/game thing pretty scummy.
Well, good for him, I guess? I’ve never really studied Game as such, or considered myself much of a pickup artist (though friends have recommended the book – or A book, anyway – about it), as much as I tried when I was a teenager/young-20s.
But I’ve always found the, “Ew, that’s scum,” attitude kinda prudish and even a bit condescending. I mean… ignoring the fact that those girls are out in a bar, single and flirting (gee, I wonder why they’re there), it also doesn’t give women much credit for independent thought or savvy, if you don’t consider them willing participants in some harmless, consensual fun.
Personally, judgements aside?
I think the best use of the practice is to get guys’ confidence up. Like it or not, guys are expected to be the ones making the approach. And if folks feel lonely and don’t want to be, they’re going to have to get up the gumption to make some approaches. Whether it’s that coworker they’ve grown close to, or the cute barista who they have really great conversations with every time they get a coffee, it’s going to be a LOT easier to handle a rejection or even overcome the nerves over trying, if they’ve had a little practice and experience in learning that it’s not the scariest thing in the world you’ll ever do, and it’s not the end of the world if rejected. And I can’t think of a much better place to do that than an environment universally recognized as being the acceptable, expected place for that, where everyone else is doing it too.
Confidence is a great thing to have, and throwing out some pickup lines with no pressure or expectations is a great way to build it. 🙂
Who said anything about not considering women willing participants? Although picking up isn’t the sole reason people go to bars.
If you have two consenting adults in a situation where they’re both considering hooking up with someone, why go along with the whole alpha manipulative nonsense? I’ve found being a person and treating them like a person is a good general approach. If you get rejected, so be it. You have to put your ego aside when dealing with new people anyhow, doesn’t matter what situation you’re in.
Yeah, I agree. I feel like Transient’s strategy dehumanizes people a little. It might work, but still feels manipulative.
Wow, dehumanizing, really? I mean, everyone’s a unique special snowflake to be explored when you can, but manipulative nonsense? There’s nothing more manipulative about coming up with a cheesy icebreaker to make people laugh than there is about push-up bras. Something’s gotta get your foot in the door, and if you didn’t just turn off immediately at what I wrote about knowing when to pull out and how to do so while maintaining some dignity, then you’d have seen that the ‘what to do with success’ part mostly consists of having a conversation and trying not to be boring about it with, “So what do you do? What do you like?” I sure as hell don’t get where people think this means not treating people as people. If anything, it cuts past the superficial bullshit we insulate ourselves with, the practiced-by-rote wad of, “What I plan to do on my overseas holiday/home renovation/which movie or concert to see next,” stuff we trot out in every instance of time-killing small-talk, and instead challenge ourselves to go deeper, find something more.
As crazy as it may seem to you, there are actually men and women out there who enjoy the process of flirting, of unravelling the mysterious package that is another person with wordplay and wit instead of methodical sensibility. Poems have been written about that heady rush of discovery, some people are so overcome by it that they think that’s what love is and get confused at their 3-month relationship mark when the mystery has waned, and excitement is replaced by the other stages of a relationship.
And just like people don’t go to a video game arcade to read books, people go to a singles night with a certain type of interaction in mind.
@strange and @dc’s unnerving comments included, I have the powerful feeling that this entire conversation has been tainted by the perception that going out and flirting and using pick-up lines as a good ice-breaker to see who’s approachable and has a good sense of humour and how to stand out from the pack of “You’re pretty let’s fuck”, is somehow related to the skeeves who set out with the objective of rapid-fire one-night-stands, bang’em and leave ’em. There are VERY big difference between the two. First being: motive. Second being: How you handle yourself after. I’m saying get a conversation going, get a phone number, not pump’n’dump in the alley outside the nightclub. Make your intentions very clear that you’re looking for something romantic, not platonic, and not in the language of men, but in the language of women – the signs they read of in romance novels and short stories in That’s Life and Women’s Day.
Seriously, I’ve worked in a female-dominated environment long enough to become as sexless as furniture to these women, such that they’re comfortable talking amongst themselves as if I’m not there, and women? They want a guy to be playful in the initial contact. They despise boring and crave exciting, playful, confident. They want to see signs of the confident, charming, quick-witted man you know you can be.
Tonight and the somewhat depressing conversation we’ve had around health aside, when I was able to get more frequent real-time interaction with my girl, I STILL played with her. Teasing, wordplay, banter… My love of 14 years, my best friend, the one who knows me best of all… still loves to be kept guessing. She adores it. It’s how you make a girl feel wanted without oafishly or creepily saying, “You’re pretty, I want you.”
Honestly, I’m confused and a little sad, and need to ruminate further on why you guys have such negative opinions of an activity that should be so enjoyable.
I understand the confidence thing, but I can’t help from think of it from my own side, as in the side of the person being targeted. I’ve always found the thought of “Game” a bit…squicky. From an ego point of view, also. I kind of like to think I’ve gone home with someone because we were mutually attracted, not because I was the only person they got a response from, or because I was an easy target for being on my own. 😛
I’m just having trouble with the logic jump.
I said: “Prioritize unattended women, but they will be thin on the ground and probably not the best lookers in the place. That’s OK, you’re just out to have a fun night doing something new, and get some laughs, maybe some numbers,” in bold, with ‘ (hook-up if you’re exceptionally lucky/skilled)’ as a post-script.
This isn’t just being a wolf picking off the weak and sickly. Just… empathize for a minute:
A woman is alone. In a bar. On ‘singles night’. Not talking to anyone. How good a time do you think this woman is having right now? How is avoiding her out of some weird spirit of ‘fair play’ the right thing to do for her? She’s available. This is exactly what the entire point of going to a singles night is about. You prioritize her not JUST because ‘soft target’. You prioritize her because you and her talking is the entire point of you and her being there.
It’s not a conflict, him vs her. It’s an opportunity, take it.
I love you.
Barf. 😛
I may have given her food and wine.
I hadn’t started drinking when I posted that.
Well. Maybe just not cut out for the valentine’s day singles bar scene, maybe? If you CAN have fun with that kind of non-serious flirting, then that’s cool and can even be liberating for folks who think of themselves as too shy. But y’know, Online Dating is cool and stuff, too. Or, uh… Craigslist, I guess? Man. I’ll bet that site’s going nuts tonight. ANYWAYS, ZOOMS.
After reading this post I think I prefer to be single. Terrifying.
Oh sure, you post that TONIGHT without any forewarning!
Like that makes any difference 😛Well, I wasn’t even thinking about it much, but while I was sitting on Skype waiting for my girl, I got to thinking about how we met, and things she’s said… and no-one should be sitting alone when there’s such a golden opportunity out there to meet someone. 🙂
Guess I’ll try again next year 😛
This doesn’t sit right with me, but I can’t pin point why exactly.
*thinks on it*
The experiment seemed to lack a stated goal or hypothesis?
Maybe that’s why it left me with such a repulsed feeling. That must be it. 😛
Transient, I love you man. You’re awesome and one of the coolest, best people I know so I hope you don’t think less of me for saying this — I just feel like it ain’t cool preying on the vulnerable or people who might not have the same expectations as you.
I dunno, I think it depends a lot on context and intent. I mean I can see where all the naysayers are coming from, I’m no fan of the whole “Game” thing either, but to me it still seems like an innocent-enough confidence building exercise. How could you learn to cope with talking to strangers without talking to any strangers?
If the goal is to build confidence at the expense of others, that seems a little self-obsessed. These women are individuals. They have feelings. To brush that aside for some exercise in self-confidence is not a way I personally would want to live. I’d prefer to stay the meek, lonely guy I am now.
Approaching people you genuinely fine interesting and cool is fine, but choosing ‘weaker’, ‘vulnerable’ targets purely cause they’re vulnerable just doesn’t sit right with me at all…
I also know I won’t be able to debate with Transient in any capacity and win, so I might just leave it here and not look back. Haha!
OK, so I’m trying to figure this one out, why people are reading such negative, exploitative angles, and I think the keywords are the whole ‘targeting’ thing, and trying to get started with women who are sitting alone instead of in the protective cluster of friends.
As far as I’m concerned, the only time you should be brushing aside a woman’s feelings are when she’s looked down her nose at your approach or said, “Ew,” or “creepy,” or something similar. In which case, yes. That special snowflake of a unique human being is an asshole and can go fuck themselves, for all the consideration they’ve shown to YOUR feelings in summoning the courage to make an approach. In those situations? Brush away.
But the other times? I’ve advocated a cheesy ice-breaker, some light teasing instead of acting all annoyed or recalcitrant (as a way of maintaining your dignity) and techniques to find out who in a group is actually open to talking to you.
I’m really going to have to work to try and figure out what’s wrong with this.
Also, I know you’ve said I intimidate you and I feel bad about that man… you’re a great guy and I think the world of you and am rooting for you. And ceding ‘defeat’ on a debate is… well. I don’t mean to kick you while you’re down with yet another notification, but I promise this is the last. I’m bummed that people thought I was trying to turn everyone into one-night-stand Lotharios. I love the TAYbies and I want the best for them, and to tell them what I think will work to get their feet in the door to something challenging but special…
So when it comes to the language ‘target’, I’ve thought about that word choice, because it seems to be what’s turned everyone off. And you know what? I still want people with confidence issues to think of it.
Hear me out.
You know how soldiers are trained, conditioned to be able to pull the trigger and kill another living, breathing, human being with thoughts, feelings, hopes and fears, loved ones and dreams?
Target. (Yeah, I know, stay with me here…)
There’s a very specific psychology at play, there, and in the military at least, it’s used very deliberately. But that psychology doesn’t have to just be for evil purposes.
Removing emotions from a situation is how you also deal with fear.
If a bunch of gamers can desensitize themselves during that critical moment when they are going to feel the most fear by relating the situation to something they’re more dispassionate about and more familiar with, slipping into some faux-military vibe in their head like we’ve all heard before in so many games, til they get to actually making a clever or cheesy crack and seeing if it’s landed with approval? That’s a great thing. If desensitizing yourself momentarily is what it takes to getting you to make that approach, to push past the fear? I say do it.
Here’s something interesting I didn’t realize:
Go to the spoiler tags and look at how the language changed after approval has been given by the girl. I actually start using the word ‘girl’ again, instead of target. Target isn’t used any more – the language is now all about person, about the individual. About relaxing. The good stuff, what you can enjoy now that the scary part is over.
Now – and I think this is the important part – I didn’t actually REALIZE this is how I was writing… because I was mostly writing from my own experience, and that was obviously coloured by how I always talked to myself internally to get past the fear. How I probably still would, if I ever had to in the future.
People have been talking about ‘Game’, and even though I put in my disclaimer that I don’t know what pick-up artists would make of this, and if anyone actually wants to just go out and bang singles they should read that ‘game’ shit. I’m pretty sure I probably figure it out anyway in that dark period where I was hurt at being cheated on by the first woman I really loved, where I made a conscious effort to be the seducer…. But I have the sneaking suspicion that it was simply a hurt, tortured, bad-boy vibe that did the work, which wouldn’t work now. I don’t know, because I haven’t researched from the pros, learned their stuff. The REASON I don’t know any of that stuff, haven’t read that Game book my friends kept telling me about, is because I don’t want that shit in my head. I don’t want any secret short-cut to short-circuit reason, or manipulate a ‘no’ into a ‘yes’. What I DO know is that if you have faith in your product? That’s a turn-on. And THAT is a win:win. And if you need to find ways of tricking yourself into believing in your own product? Take them. Because that’s how confidence starts – with a lie to yourself that you desperately want to turn into reality.
I can’t help but suspect a LOT of people in this world have the adversarial view of flirting because they don’t have faith in their product. They think they have to trick/convince/bargain/get pity for a woman to be with them, instead of the reality: that a woman is getting the privilege of being with you, that you are good for her, that this is an opportunity, not a conflict.
Anyway. That’s my last word on the subject, I promise.
You know, I wrote a bit of a long winded explanation of why people might find it creepy but ultimately I really couldn’t defend it with any experience since I literally have more experience at accidently punching myself in the face than in chatting people up.
The bullet points reduced to:
Major league manipulative arseholes who would easily turn rapist if it didn’t work out use it, even if someone here would never think to use it like that (not if they wanted to keep their throat intact should I be around at any rate), it can still feel squick as all fuck to even consider yourself in the same category.
That I suspect the dehumanising thing comes from discussing strategy as if it were a pre-set series of variables rather than an actual person. Again not really what you were saying but its how the terminology makes it sound.
Also, I love how you ended this post with “Anyway. That’s my last word on the subject, I promise.”, I scroll down and the next 2 posts were by you. On this subject…
@aliasalpha Heh. Well, y’know. Chronologically last word rather than nested post order. 🙂 Timestamps etc.
It’s not ONLY about confidence, though. It’s also about having some fun, meeting some people, and maybe – hopefully – making a close enough connection that you’ll get a phone number. And picking up? Well, that’s a bonus if you swing it, but just a bonus.
I mean, quoting the post above directly: “The rest I can’t do for you. Just relax, have fun with it, find out more about this fascinating individual who is talking to a complete stranger like you.”
(Edit: Although I did then LATER note to Trjn when he objected to ‘target’ that it’s not like there’s anything particularly deep about bar-trolling… But what I meant by that was about peoples’ expectations when they walk into a singles-night event.)
If I had to guess, people see ‘target’ or ‘pickup line’ as some kind of asshole-pickup-artist trigger alert and shut-down on reading anything else.
It wasn’t just the use of the word “targets”, look at how you’ve talked about women in this entire conversation. It’s adversarial.
i picked out the word “target” because it was a big, obvious one. It wasn’t the root of my objection, it was a pithy statement to show I didn’t really like the whole general attitude. It’s all a bit “Red Pill” and that stuff has never sat right with me.
Edit: Ugh. Responding to DC was supposed to be the last word. Had trouble sticking to that.
‘Preying’ on people at a singles night? OK, seriously… read my response to trjn, I’ve tagged you. TOTAL misconception here, I think.
Boy, being straight sounds hard. If I wasn’t working tomorrow I was gonna go to a skin party* at my favourite club tonight. That’s like over half of the work you listed above already done for you!
*underwear party
Underwear made from skin????
A party where everyone’s in leather underwear would be a fetish party 😛
Even I’m not that depraved!
I admire your gumption, but… yeah. The whole “targets” thing is a bit weird.
One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do
Two can be as bad as one
It’s the loneliest number since the number one
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone.
Don’t worry, only a few hours and Singles Awareness Day will be over.
Let it go, let it go,
Can’t hold it back anymore,
Let it go, let it go,
Turn my back and slam the door
Personally I think Harry Nilsson had his sights set too high. I’ve got nothing against polyamory but the way that song progresses he’ll end up with so many people that he won’t even remember who’s who.
1 is the loneliest
2 is the loneliest since 1
3 is the loneliest since 2 which was the loneliest since 1
4 is the loneliest since 3 which was the loneliest since 2 which was the loneliest since 1
5 is the loneliest since 4 which was the loneliest since 3 which was the loneliest since 2 which was the loneliest since 1
I think he needed something else in his life to be honest, he was trying to fill a gap with the wrong thing…
This one goes out to the one I love,
This one goes out to the one I’ve left behind…
A simple prop, to occupy my time…
This one goes out to the one I love.
FIRE!!!!!
Erm… Did I sign in to the wrong teamspeak server? Theres no-one there!
No, that sounds right.
I jumped on to see just how true this was. I was not misled.
Modern day TS is a sad affair. I assume that everyone is just mourning the lack of Blaghs.
Okay…wtf?
I bought Skullgirls, and I’m still waiting for the files to finish preparing for install… after 30 minutes!
D:
is this like post download? cos steam always goes through a little fit upon first running a game where it checks to make sure you have the latest directx and such.. even if you have, it takes FOREVER! but at least it only needs to be done once per game
No, this is pre-download.
Kinda aggravating, because I really want to play it.
weird. restarting pc make a difference? i’ve never had one sit there saying that for more than a minute at most.
Nope, still happening. 🙁
hmm how weird. might have to contact steam support then. Sounds like it might be an account related thing
Logged into KanColle for the first time in about 3 weeks and it’s Valentines Day so Yamato gave me chocolates.
This is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a girl giving me a valentines day gift 😛When I was in year 7 everyone in my class was handed a chocolate by some year 12’s, for my school’s weird equivalent of V-day. That’s the closest I’ve ever had to something real.Mum, in the car on the way home from the station:
“Thought you would’ve been going out tonight”
“…why? :/”
“To take out that secret girlfriend of yours.”
“……………………..Why have you been keeping her a secret from me?”
I hate this day 😛
A few months ago with my mother:
“So Sean, how’s that secret girlfriend of yours?”
“Didn’t I tell you? She wants to meet you, but she’s pregnant and worried about the impression she’ll give.”
“Hasn’t she been pregnant for about five years now?”
“Shut up, Mum.”
Mums are the worst.
One day I aspire to be as sarcastic as my mother, and to infuriate whatever nieces or nephews I have as much as possible. Until then, I must take lessons from a master.
My Mum asks, “So when are you going to bring home a girl who isn’t broken?” She accuses me of taking the easy option with damaged goods.
So… yeah. It could be worse, I guess. :}
Soulcaliber 2. Not bad on a Friday night. Happy pay day.
HD version?
Or the good version?
;D
HD, it was on sale on psn though!
Yep! Didn’t know Spawn was playable. Pretty cool 🙂
I saw you playing that and almost messaged you “A TALE OF SOULS & SWORDS ETERNALLY RETOLD …….. SOUL CALIBER!!!!!!”
Haha I’m digging the slightly cheesy dialogue.
HOT!
Yeah shut up.. no need to brag! 😉
Rode the boy home only to realise there was no dinner. Rode back past his school to buy dinner then back again. Not cooling down…
D:
😛
“Rode the boy” ??????
D:
lol poor fella 😉
Kill La Kill Episode 17
OMFG! :ONo guys, seriously.
Holy. Shit.
Shhhhhhhh… I’m only at 16 😛
I’m waiting for the series to end before I watch episode 13 onwards. Then we can have Kill la Kill talk!
Crap. Just discovered http://fiverr.com
Quick, take my credit cards and bury them in the yard!
Eh, looks dodgy to me.
I’ll let you know in two days when my first service comes due 🙂
One of the items is “I will express your love for valentines day”. That could do with some re-wording, they could easily get away with sending someone a message describing how much you really like the 14th of February.
HOLY SHIT
I JUST GOT 89 ON MAVERICK BIRD
SO FRIGGEN CLOSE
COME AT ME @greenius
…ok so I just took a break, and I don’t know if it’s just the gif from this story on the front page, but my monitor looked like it was scrolling across.
Maybe it’s time to go do something else for a while.
Looks like I win in the end!
You stand still and say that!
@shane: The Last of Us: Left Behind spoiler that might make you want it.
There’s a scene where you can willingly tell 20 or so pun jokes.I’ve always wanted it, man. Same with Beyond: Two Souls.
Just not bad enough, unfortunately, to buy a new PS3 😛
Still, that is a pretty awesome feature.
Totally made me laugh a couple of times too.
You’re becoming the man I always wanted you to be 😛
It’s made me want the DLC
A friend started investing in LEGO a few months ago and I had no idea it was a doable thing. For some sets he just buys it straight from the LEGO site and then puts them on eBay for a higher price and people still pay more for them on eBay …wut, they can just buy them straight from LEGO too :/
Some sets even sell for profits even if it’s used, so he gets to build them and then still sells them D:
I probably haven’t built or owned LEGO for over 10 years so I was pretty jelly when looking at his collection and profits. That combined with recently playing my first LEGO game made me want to buy and build some LEGO again.
But hot diggity damn, little did I know but LEGO is EXPENSIVE :(. I still wasn’t sure what set to buy but luckily that friend had a spare set he couldn’t sell so he just gave it to me (76003 for those of you playing at home)
Oh man… LEGO is the best! I built the set which was fun but I wanted more and just took apart the Jeep that came with it and decided to make a robot using only those parts. It took me WAY longer than I thought since the parts were oddly shaped but it was fun working within those parameters. I made the raddest lil robot dude and… NO REGRETS!
Thankfully I’m not rich enough to go spending more on LEGO but I can probably build a bunch of things from just these set pieces 😀
Lego is awesome. Best toy.
I’m half-tempted to get all mine out one day, assemble all the sets I owned and replace any missing parts and bag them all up and maybe sell some (I have enormous amounts of it)
I know people working at my nearest Lego Store so I can get 50% off any time. It still costs like seventy bajillion per set.
So Kantai Collection has added a system where you can marry your ship-girls. Got to grind them all the way to level 99 and buy a 700 yen item from the cash shop (you get one ring for free but subsequent ones cost money) and then they level up to level 100 and become unsinkable and their level cap goes to 150 and lower resource consumption.
Also completing the quests and getting your Waifu unlocks a quest to get a new item of furniture, a two-person futon. It all amuses me greatly.
Mai Waifu (Yamato) is still only level 31 as I only obtained her recently.monetizing waifus is both brilliant and horrible.
“marry your ship-girls” and “grind them all the way to level 99”!!??
Whatever floats your boat 😛Dungeon Keeper free on GOG.com!
“Dungeon Keeper free”… I’ve heard those words recently and it ended badly as I recall. Good thing you can usually trust GOG
Okay, for some weired reason, Next Car Game Sneak Peek 2.0 does the same thing as Skullgirls. (Doesn’t go past “Preparing ‘Title’ files for install…”)
Also, I can’t sleep… 🙁
Eughhhh. Second night out drinking in the past week. Fun! As much as I love him, it’s kinda nice to hang out and get drunk/high with friends that aren’t Oliver for the night (and spend time with girls too). It’s nice to… Feel like you’re with friends, and not somebody you have a weird emotional investment in, I guess? That probably sounds weird 😛
So yeah, my neighbour from college last year’s new housemate is kinda awesome. He loves a lot of the same tv shows and games as I do! Workaholics is his favourite show, and he started talking about my favourite bit of the season so far, which was awesome. He’s a massive Nintendo fan too! Glad I got to meet him. Also good to catch up with friends I haven’t seen since New Years (that’s a long time in my books)!
But omg if any of you ever come to Tassie, don’t go out to any pubs in Battery Point. Soooo expensive, and the average age of patrons is soooo old.
You claim you’ve been drinking, but you spelt every word correctly, used proper grammar and punctuation, and even broke it up into paragraphs. I call BS! 😛
You need to get a couple of tequila shots in you, stat! 😀
I pride myself on my drunk literacy 😛 I’ll take your tequila shots and raise you absinthe shots thank you very much!
Ooh, absinthe with tequila chasers (or vice versa)!!!
That’s like the best idea I’ve ever had!!!
But does Oliver v2 like Xenoblade?
Hmm that topic never came up 🙁
Does Oliver even like Xenoblade? 😛
I think I recall you saying he liked Okami which is why you two became lov.., besties <3
I don’t think he’s played it 😛 He seemed pretty disinterested when I showed him the new one yesterday 🙁
>:(
Tequila and lemonade is a horrible idea.
Rum or vodka would’ve been a better option.
Thankfully it wasn’t *my* idea, though I was the unfortunate target *of* said idea…
I don’t know if tequila and rum would be that tasty.
NoooOooOOOOooo!!!
Good quality gold tequila tastes good with anything! (I like El Jimador myself)!
Either that or drink until you don’t care what it tastes like! 😀
My god I sound like I have a drinking problem :'(I don’t understand the appeal of tequila. All the stuff I’ve tasted has been pretty unpleasant. Even some of the gold stuff that is apparently better.
My advice for tequila is:
– Stay away from Sierra brand tequila. “Oh cool, it comes with a little sombrero to put on the bottle!”. NO! It tastes like a Mexicans vomit! >:(
– Silver is better to shot, gold is better to mix (in my opinion).
– The more expensive the tequila is, the better it is likely to taste. This isn’t true for some / most other alcohols, but so far in my experience it is true for tequila.
– Too much tequila in a mix and it’s all you’re going to taste. It has a taste that is more prevalent than other alcohols, even though good tequila hasn’t got a strong taste.
– Tequila suicides are stupid, tequila slammers and tequila body slammers are fun! I’m sure you could convince one of your thousands of admirers to do a tequila body slammer with you 😉
This is pretty much all in my opinion though. Most people like tequila cause the nasty tasting stuff is strong and cheap. I’d rather it taste good and be a bit more expensive though 😛
How many nationalities worth of vomit did you have to sample to be able to accurately identify them by taste alone?
Tequila is usually a horrible idea.
Skullgirls is finally downloading! \o/
Goodnight everyone.
Skullgirls launch party errynight.
Urk. Bought the Iced Earth VIP Meet And Greet Package for Mr. Strange. Had a section for billing where I put my name, and a shipping section where I put his. They sent me the ticket in my name. So very not cool.
hmm kinda dumb. any way you can contact them to make sure he’s allowed to use it, or if they can change it?
I’m trying, but it’s difficult. Think I’ll just go along with him to the door and explain there.
Best of luck getting it sorted. Hope it all works out, cos that’s a killer present to be sure!!
This may be old news, but is there/will there be any way of playing PS3 games on a PS4? I’m planning on getting a PS4 at some point over the next 12-18 months, and since I never owned a Xbox360 or PS3 there are a lot of games that I missed out on. As the PS3 exclusives interest me more, like Last of Us, Uncharted, Journey etc I was leaning towards getting a PS4 rather than an XB1. Am I going to have to miss out on those games that I want to play, or would I have to fork out for PS3 as well?
No backwards compatibility. The only way it might happen is through their streaming service, which will be a separate purchase from any PS3 versions of games currently on the market. Journey may yet get a port, fingers crossed.
Yeah, there’s no backwards-compatibility, just the Playstation Now streaming service, which has only just entered Beta.
PS3’s are pretty cheap now though, I’m fairly sure you would be able to pick one up for $200-$300, especially if you were’s going to download anything and got the 12 GB version.
Okay, for some weird reason, Skullgirls isn’t recognizzing the first fight stick properly.
I can put in all of the commands on the second stick, but om the first one it goes to other keys on the keyboard.
is the controller config’d properly? (I guess you’re using a ps3 controller on pc?)
As I said, the first one works perfectly fine, but the second one doesn’t work properly.
the drivers are for the Hori Fighting Stick 3, which they both are, but only one of them is being recognised by Skullgirls.
you mean you’ve got 2 of those sticks plugged in to the pc?
Have you got JoyToKey?
http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-General/How-to-use-Hori-Fighting-Stick-3-on-PC-properly/td-p/18712037
Yeah.
It’s okay, I’ve got it working now.
Just had to unplug every other USB game controller.
ahh hehe
Yeah, that’s how I felt when I realized it.
Woohoo! Nintendo just gave me a free game! Granted, it’s just a slightly better-looking version of the original super mario bros, but it’s still awesome. Now I actually have something to play on my 3DS!
Which game?
I think it’s the gameboy colour port of the original super mario from NES.
I downloaded that last night!
It would be nice if I could actually see the whole screen like you could on the NES instead of being zoomed in to part of the screen.
I heard a few mentions of others receiving this. Any idea why/who it got sent to?
I assumed it was to all people with a NNID, but I may be wrong on that one. Maybe Nintendo emailed a select number of random people?
Ah, that could be it. Mine’s not linked to a 3DS yet, only my Wii U.
My mother forwarded me this message from the “Red Cross.”
This is followed by a bunch of gory phorographs of the supposed “spider bite.”
It’s blatantly obvious that this is not a message from the Red Cross. I can’t believe my mother actually forwarded it to me. Blatant hoax.
I can’t believe people need instructions to kill a spider when they see it
My “pet” daddy longlegs is still going strong 🙂
I had a female redback in my fucking house an hour ago, that fucker was drowned in chemicals and I made sure it wasn’t moving afterwards so it couldn’t come back as some sort of arachno-joker
So, just sat down and went through every Kickstarter project I’ve backed to work out where they’re all at.
16 total projects
13 past original ETA date
1/13 delayed indefinitely due to no more money
1/13 delivered as pitched (note, only a beta was pitched, then minecraft style updates)
Good visible progress on 11/13
8/13 no stated ETA at all
3 remaining projects actually seem to be on track, well updated progress
Side note: Pozible projects: 2. 1 delivered in full, 1 dead with nothing delivered at all.
Interesting to look through some of these in hindsight, to see what’s happened after the original pitch. Pretty much every project has taken a lot longer than originally anticipated, even one for physically creating playing cards, so it’s not just games.
Out of curiosity, which was the one delayed indefinitely?
I’ve only ever backed Double Fine projects (Broken Age and Massive Chalice) and I’ve got more than my money’s worth from the DFA Documentary episodes alone (I only initially backed $15) oh, and the game is pretty good too :P.
Since then I’ve only really backed Massive Chalice since they said 2PP would do documentary episodes for that (which I haven’t seen… what happened to that? :/) and I gifted a retail release for Broken Age to help make up for my initially low backing.
There’s been a few that I was interested in but only at the “back and you get the game” level so I might as well just wait for the actual release for them. I’m considering La-Mulana 2 (@mawt) only because it hasn’t reached its goal yet so I’ll help out if I need to since I enjoyed the original (and only paid $2 during a sale for it, so they technically deserve more of my money 🙂 )
Moon Intern. Probably the smallest project I backed.
I woke up this morning an stumbled into the lounge room, my mum was sitting there staring at me then randomly said;
“You know what Jesse, You have really pretty hair and eyes. To bad you’re not a girl”
Me – “uhhh, thanks?”
Mum – “Seriously! If you shaved your beard and plucked you eyebrows you could attract all sorts of boys”
Me – “thanks, mum ”
*sighs*
Call me crazy, but I think my mum’s first choice in gender for me wasn’t a boy …
What I got out of this is your name’s Jesse.
I feel like I know far too much about you now, Nob.
Maybe she’s just trying to subtly point out that you’re not having any luck with the ladies and should explore other options?
Well, alot of people do spell my name the female way of spelling it …
Mums are the worst. [/duplicate]
When she sings along to that song Jesse’s Girl does she change the lyrics to “I wish that Jesse was a girl”?
Lightning Returns. ( @greenius @cakesmith )
I apparently went the wrong way, which is why all my battles were taking far too long and I was burning through potions on regular enemies. On the plus side, I now have a few higher level spells and things.
(Location spoilers but no plot spoilers besides the first mandatory part of Luxerion)
So after the Inquisitor investigation, where you’ve followed the Etro people and discovered you need the code but it doesn’t appear until 6am the next day, Hope suggests you get out of the city, so I did. I went to the Wildlands and finished the first day there, and spent the entire second day there as well, getting pretty far into the Wildlands’ story. It took me far too long to realise I probably was going to places beyond my level, and when I finally checked online, apparently The Wildlands is suggested as the third place you try and complete. So I’m now back in Luxerion chasing down the code and practically one-hitting the enemies. Oops. 😛But at least you’re OP! 😀
I figured those would be later areas so I just stayed in Luxerion. I’m about 3 hours in and I’m at the same story section as you. The game is getting more fun as I learn more and get better but I’m still not sure if I’m just weak or not doing battles correctly cause some battles and enemies still take a while and deal a decent amount of damage 🙁
It seems like quests and NPCs appear at specific times which I’m not a big fan of in games since it makes it hard to complete everything without a guide. Xenoblade had this but I had to use a Google Doc which had the times and locations of NPCs in order to complete everything :P. Although it does make the game more interesting I guess since you’ll never know what you’ll run into :O
(I still prefer the more traditional JRPGness of XIII and XIII-2 though!)
Even when I was in the wrong place, some battles were really easy. I think a lot of it comes down to having the right strategy, and making sure you guard. I am playing on Easy though.
Ah, I’m on Normal. Kinda regretting playing on Normal 😛
I read the “One tip for playing Lightning Returns” article and it said to play on easy, at least for the first time through.
I don’t like reading those tip articles but I did manage to see that tip (since it appeared on the front page) but I just didn’t want to start on Easy and then find it… well too easy :P. I’ve been given tips to start games on Hard as well rather than the default difficulty but I just didn’t want it to be too hard either.
I wish all games had adjustable mid-game difficulty! 😛
I assume you tweeted me earlier in the day before reading my comment but I’m definitely having more fun with the game now too! I wonder if @cakesmith has reached that turn around point yet or not 🙂
One thing that I was wondering about it, does it have New Game+ that carries over your stats and stuff? Seems like it would be ideal for replaying since there’s content you’ll definitely miss thanks to the time limit.
I’m not sure but I would assume so. It seems like the sensible thing to do though, so it may not be the case. 😛
It’s valentines here in canadia!
I get a tiny bit lonely.
Then I remember that around this time last year I was hit with a bar stool.
then I don’t feel so lonely!
So all in all it’s a good day.
Do you have some kind of magnetic pull to you that attracts pain? Hit by Bar Stools, Kicked in the Balls. Maybe you should look into getting health / life insurance.
Well, uh, considering it was my date who wielded the bar stool, I’d say I attract/am attracted to crazy women. Least they make for good stories.
Also, I *do* have a health/life insurance plan. I.. think. Hell if I know if I even have a beneficiary.
I too attract women who are physically abusive, I remember this one girl who I was close with in high school she had a thing for punching and later turns out biting, nothing painful y’know playful kinda shit, she was fun.. Shame we lost contact after I moved school despite I see her brother regularly and my neighbours are her cousins..
But mostly girls like to hit me in a playful kinda way which plays out well for me 😛
He lives in Canada, he gets free medical, so all is good.
I am currently playing Super Mario Bros Deluxe on the 3DS. I love the quicksave feature. Whenever I played Super Mario Bros on other systems, I could never get very far because of the stupid lives system. Now I think that I may actually finish the game!
Be that as it may, the game highlights one of the problems with the 3DS. The D-pad and the buttons are horrible. I can’t fathom how Nintendo screwed up the freaking D-pad. I wish I’d gotten the XL model when I first bought the 3DS, it was only two dollars more.
What is this super mario bros. deluxe you speak of?
Game Boy Colour port/upgrade of the original Super Mario Bros, apparently last night Nintendo sent out some download codes to a bunch of people so they could get it on VC.
How is it different?
Couldn’t say, I never picked it up and can’t remember what was mentioned in reviews at the time. Not sure how the resolutions between the NES and GBC compared, but I’d assume that if there was any difference it would’ve been rejigged to fit it better. Also as Phlaispo mentioned, I guess there was a save feature added to it.
*Could never get very far because you suck
:coolface:
Also yeah, huge mistake not getting the XL instead, especially at that price difference. The buttons on it are sooooooooooo goooooooooooood.
(Although I’m not as big a fan of the 3D on it, sweet spot isn’t as sweet as on the vanilla)
My reasoning at the time was:
-I already have a bunch of DS cases
-The original DS was very comfortable in its size. Why wouldn’t the 3DS be?
-XL did not have support for the extra circle pad or battery extender thingy
-I had this pre-concieved notion that the XL was for those with sight problems
I got the 3DS right after the launch of the XL. I regret not getting the XL, but I think I regret getting a 3DS more. I never use the bloody thing. Since Steam has molded me, I can’t justify buying anything for over $15. Nintendo games are so expensive. The only 3DS game I bought was Resident Evil Mercenaries, and I only got it because it was on sale for $4. I actually regret buying the game at that price, because it’s freaking awful. I think I would have gotten more enjoyment out of buying a sausage roll or some sushi with the money. /rant over
Actually screw it. /new rant begins
Why do Nintendo sell games at such an absurd price? When Pokemon Black and White came out, I told myself I’d wait for the game to drop down to $30. It never did. Just a few weeks ago, I saw the game “on special” at my local Electronic Boutique for $46. I just have to look at the EB website for a few minutes to get data on Nintendo’s avarice.
-New Super Mario Bros (2006) : $69.95
-Super Smash Bros Brawl (2008) : $49.95
-Super Mario Galaxy (2007) : $49.95
-Kirby’s Epic Yarn (2010) $49.35
-Pokemon SoulSilver (2010) : $69.95
/rant over (hopefully)
Heh. Funny you say that, the 3XL is actually pretty much the same size as the original DS. Only thinner 😛 Pretty sure mine fits in my DS pouch quite comfortably. And there is an XL Circle Pad Pro? Or was it just not around yet at launch? Not sure what the battery extender thing is.
Also you are wrong, Mercenaries is awesome and well worth the $30 I paid for it 😛
They sell at a high price because people will buy them at that price. They’re maintaining an image of a “premium” product, rather than casting off the product as worthless by dropping it to $30 within a couple of months of release. They’re stubborn, yeah. But that’s just how it is. Otherwise you end up with people like yourself who think that $15 for a game is expensive 😛
I know that $15 for a game is not a lot, but I just can’t justify buying games for higher than that when I have a net worth of about $100 total, and no job. (I do unpaid work experience) Especially when I am still pining for Titanfall.
I can sorta kinda not really understand the premium aspect, but $70 for an 8 year old game? Imagine if you went to the bargain bin at Big W or something, and in there it had Resistance, Call of Duty 3, or Sonic 06 for $70. How pissed off would you be?
If they are going to sell them at that price, I won’t buy them at that price. Supply and demand.
I suppose we can agree to disagree on Resident Evil Mercenaries? If not, can we at least agree that sushi is awesome? 😛
Not very, because I’m only interested in good games.
😛
I dunno what the incentive is for them to drop the price though, I mean if they did that then they’d have to issue a refund for the price difference. So why not just leave it where it is?
I was a massive fan of Mercenaries in RE4, so I Mercenaries 3D was right up my alley. Think I got a good 45 hours or so out of it, think I 100%’d it. Great stuff. Sushi’s rad too I guess.
Huh?
When publishers drop the price on their games, they issue a refund to all the retailers who still have stock purchased at the higher price.
@mrtaco Right, I thought you were referring to the customers. Glad that was cleared.
However, games go down in price all the time. It’s typically -$10 per six months after launch. If games never went down in price, nobody would buy older games. (See Xbox on demand) Crash Bandicoot on the PS1 was fun, but it sure ain’t worth $70 in this day and age. I wouldn’t pay more than $10.
Yeah, but the discounts don’t necessarily come from the publishers. A lot of the time it’s from the retailers, taking a hit to move more units or whatever. Sometimes wanting to just clear out stock to free up shelf space. I don’t know what exactly motivates publisher price drops, there must be some kind of balance between supply, demand, movement rate of units, age of product, etc. But presumably Nintendo does alright enough with most of their games to not need to do that.
I really, really, really want to like the last of us. However, the fact that it makes me feel so sick, stops me from playing it. I like the characters and the story but I’m not really a fan of the gameplay. Well, the fighting. It seems to be what affects me the most
That sucks. Jennifer Hepler was right when she said games should have a skip combat option.
I might try it again. I will try to get through it I think.
Friend just showed me this http://imgur.com/a/DYU2e
Holy shit.
It’s not quite that impressive.
So that’s why @mrtaco is so popular with the ladies.
So, due to King, Dungeon Keeper, and Flappy Bird, I have decided that I will try and steer my sister away from all the shiity microtransaction-based mobile games. Are there any really good ios mobile games I can get my sister to play?
Shameless blog advertisment:
http://thegamesland.wordpress.com/tag/mobile-week-2013/
There’s also Bastion for iOS (which was my Mobile GOTY for last year), Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1st episode free, the rest will cost $2 each), and any of Halfbrick’s games (e.g. Jetpack Joyride. They have a new one, called Colossatron: Massive World Threat, which is pretty good), the Rayman Games (the side-scrollers, although there is a port of the 2nd game), Joe Danger: Touch (there’s also a sequel called Infinity), Mirrors Edge (side-scrolling platformer), The Sims: Medieval (if she’s into that kind of stuff, there’s also a normal Sims game, but it’s Free-to-play), Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger (the classics), Civilisation:Revolution (a Civ game on the app store), Smule Piano (a kind of Guitar-Hero thing, but Piano. There is a Guitar one as well), Professor Layton: Mystery Room, Phoenix Wright, Plants Vs Zombies, and the Real Racing games. Also Minecraft: PE, or Survivalcraft (slightly more realistic than Minecraft).
Depending on how old she is, there’s also Age of Zombies (one minor swear word) and Zenonia (a few minor swear words) but Zenonia’s really good. A proper RPG on iOS, but a bit grindy.
Don’t forget TellTale’s stuff is on there as well, but it depends on whether you’d let her play something like the Walking Dead (dependng on how old she is).
Well, that should keep her busy for a while.
(In case you don’t want to look at my blog, I’d reccomend Turbofly and Space is Key).
Don’t forget that there’s also good microtransaction games.
Wasn’t chrono trigger a really, really bad port? I thought it cost about $15.00 at launch.
It looks OK. The controls might be an issue. I haven’t got it, but I just knew it was on there.
Sifn’t mention Super Hexagon.
@phlanispo, this is a must.
I only ever played it on a friend’s phone, but it did seem pretty good.
@gutsoup: Posted my thoughts on The Last of Us: Left Behind. Minor spoilers for The Last of Us, but nothing too substantial or spoilerific.
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/76693958299/15-february-2014
Dear @dc,
I just finished reading through all of your things. Are you me?
Gooky
Aw, thanks for reading man! Am I Mooky?
No, Mooky’s the evil twin!
You’re… wait, what if I’m the evil twin? Then I guess you would be the twin if the evil twin? But would that make you not evil? Or…
This is gonna be a tough one to crack.
But seriously though,
between the stuff about procrastination, doubt, fear, undatable (the “not wanting to inflict yourself upon others” bit especially. Hell even impatient rushing of a milestone), doing nothing instead of anything because the mood is wrong, thoughts on porn… way too so many similar lines of thought about things. ‘Sall got me a-pondering now too.Thanks for that man. Good to know I’m not the only one. You’re awesome!
MYSTERY QUESTION FUN TIME! (Weekend edition where nobody replies)
L, H or P?
P!P!,
hehe, PP,
adult.
Assuming that stands for LSD, Heroin, or Percocet, I’d go with L for sure! good times!
H. Don’t ask me why.
I am getting an L vibe right about now.
Is that a euphemism? I hope not.
Ola TAY’ers.
Going to give a little write up on my Titanfall beta experience so far on Xbox One.
Being a longtime Battlefield player, it feels surprising not like ‘other popular FPS franchise’ from the get go. The scope, and level design is much more open. The main feature being the verticality. As a pilot you do not want to be on the ground, cause thats when big angry robots go stompstomp. The wall running and stuff is fun, makes getting around quite a cool little meta-game. i’ve found it a bit annoying sometimes trying to get my wall-run aiming the right direction, I feel the PC version would excel at this.
The gunplay is quite safe and stock standard, barely any recoil, you reload in 0.2 seconds and no bullet drop. it’s what you’d expect from an arcadey-arena shooter.
The gameplay while in a Titan is great. you’re not invincible, not by a long shot, and any pilots who are caught on the ground when you come thundering around a corner are basically free points. Pilots up on buildings and inside structures provide a minor annoyance, but other Titans are the obvious real threat. It’s a very big, very loud chess game almost. He uses his shield, you use yours. You dodge his rocket salvo, you hit him with yours. Once the other 2 types of Titan are in the game it’ll be a little more scissors paper rock with a side of chess. Ejecting out of your exploding is fun, landing on the Titan that was just attacking you, ripping open his CPU and shredding it with your assault rifle is very fun.
If your’e not a super COD 360 no scop3 ultr4 h3adsh0t masta then you will still enjoy this and have good games. My first game I wrecked shop, beating out lvl 14’s (Max beta rank it seems). It’s a good balance of straight out ‘splosions and a bit of strategy.
However (there’s always a however…) the lag for us Aussies is pretty god damn annoying. Upon starting the beta you select a server to run through, the best ping for us is East Asia at 140-150ms, which is terrible. You can play an MMO at that ping, but an FPS just aint gonna work. it’s very client side, the server doesn’t lag at all. You can wall run and jump and everything fine, but good luck winning those 1 vs 1 situations. I came around a corner, started unloading into a guy and just died. the Killcam popped up, and on my killers’ screen I hadn’t even shot one bullet let alone raised my gun and he had killed me. It was about a 2 second delay. That doesn’t fly with me. The Titans are a bit more forgiving against Pilots due to pure firepower they have, but infantry confrontations can be VERY frustrating.
I will not be buying this on launch, due to the simple fact that I know i’m better than the game (lag) is letting me be, which is just god damn frustrating. The game is highly enjoyable, it’s sad that an outside (sorta) factor is making it worse for us.
It ‘s worrying hearing about the lag. I’m fairly sure they said that there wasn’t going to be any in Australia.
It’s not entirely unreasonable to think that this beta thing is part of the decision making process for local servers. It’s way too late for any significant code changes and if its anything other than a playable ad (which they’d likely have just called a demo), it’s probably informing decisions rather than being the basis of actual changes
They might, but I was fairly sure EA had said that we would have to use the Asian ones for now, even though there’s one in Sydney (or something). Hopefully enough Ozzies get on to get EA to change their minds.
Interestingly enough, I didn’t find lag much of a problem on the PC. I didn’t get any option to select servers that I saw but then it was just after they were being fixed up so it might have been the only active one under the upper ping limit.
I only had a few things that looked like they might have been lag but nothing really noteworthy. I did die defending a position several times to the same guy but I had an assault rifle, he had an automatic shotgun and it was a CQB situation so my death was really the expected outcome, especially when factoring in just how much I suck at multiplayer shooters.
The weird thing is that if I had to describe the game in 2 words it’d be “Disappointingly Fun”. It’s a really tight and fun shooter, they’ve done enough to make it feel interesting and fresh, the titans have a real feel of mass to them rather than just being bigger versions of the regular soldiers, the abilities are interesting if a little too threadbare (whats the point of an assassin if everyone has cloaking and better weapons?). The problem is that competitive multiplayer games are something I get in the mood for on what I’d generously describe as a semi-annual basis so without a single player game, there’s just no reason for me to even consider buying something I’d play for a day or two in a year if I happen to get in the mood
Picked up the Sid Meier Humble Bundle just to get Brave New World real cheap, so if anyone wants my codes for CivIII complete, CivIV complete, or CiV + Gods & Kings, let me know here. I’d post on twitter but I’d rather give TAYbies first shot.
Well i’m not going to complain if you want to shoot civ5 my way :P… Played a bit of Civ IV but never tried Civ V
Alrighty. Do I have you on twitter so I can DM the code?
I think so, it’s just @PixelFerret…
Also thanks man, that’s very generous of you 🙂
No problem man, I saved $35 by buying the bundle instead of getting the Brave New World DLC by itself, no point in letting a great game go to waste just cause I already have it!
NSFW Language warning.
I legitimately look forward to witnessing these spectacles every time I head back to the mainland. It’s great.
That train station backdrop looks like every single train station in the entire country. It’s amazing.
That’s disturbingly accurate.
One vote for P, one for L and one for H.
You guys are the worst at making decisions!
L!
P!
H!
H!
I’m gonna go with H.
OKAY! L – 2, P – 2 and H – 4!
Looks like I’m watching ‘Her’ tonight.
The other options were ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ and ‘Planet Terror’ 😛
Dammit, I knew I should have gone with L.
This. I tell @powalen this as the only one who watched Rubber.
Tomorrow night, perhaps!
P!
Good god what have I done?
*shoots self*
Man, you’re the movie snob, Freeze!
Should be Planet Terror, so much awesome b-grade movie shenanigans. Might watch that tonight myself…
Excellent. I have chosen… wisely!
Well, I just created an origin account. I feel dirty.
I had to create one to play Crysis 2…
*shudder*
Origin ID added to TAYnames. It’s Phlanispo.
I was thinking of grabbing Blood Dragon from EB since it’s only $8.
It’s hard to tell, but I *think* there’s things out there that let you get around the whole Uplay thing. Computer games are hard.
PC MASTER RACE!!!!
It’s called an Xbox 360…
Nah because then I’d have to get my 360 online and… nah.
Yeah but there’s no uplay, that’s the point
But there’s digital distribution, and that’s even worse!
I never claimed it was a perfect solution! You wanted to not have uplay, my suggestion would have accomplished that exact goal and all you can do is complain…
Uplay isn’t even bad, well i’ve never had an issue with it..
Aside from the fucking up my trials evo save & stripping me of medals thing that did only happened once, it’s really been pretty unobtrusive
I think the only way to get around UPlay is piracy.
Hmm… the Titanfall beta access required me to be over 18 years of age, so I claimed to have been born in 1979. I can pass for 35, right? 😛
I think we should consult @35 on this.
fucking imposter!!!
Should’ve gone 1901, or something similar. Be the oldest person playing.
When I was your age our titans were wooden stilts and slingshots!
Fairly sure that’s the most common age of all people on the interwebs.
Titanfall Beta
I understand this beta doesn’t represent the full game but I feel I got more fulfilling mechanized battles with Transformers: FoC lol, is it possible this game simply got way too over hyped? just feels like a game you’d get bored over in a week.
Naturally I’d reserve myself for the full release.
That was how I felt about CoD multiplayer in general, but at least those had a campaign to justify buying them aside from the MP.
I only EVER play the single-player. 😛
I’ve uploaded some Skullgirls gameplay to my Youtube channel.
I’ll post it here as soon as it’s up.
I received my XBone Titanfall beta code from EA but I got hooked up earlier, so it’s up for grabs.
I’m getting really bored with Dark Souls.
Sen’s Fortress was an absolute chore to get through, Anor Londo and the Painted World were even worse, and I haven’t even been able to scratch Ornstein & Smough as I’m apparently vastly shit at the game. I struggle to beat the silver knights consistently to get to the boss and I can’t even touch the giant knights, but if I want to summon Solaire to help I have to clear them out otherwise he aggros them and won’t come to the boss properly. Additionally more than three quarters of the time if I go human so I can summon help, I get invaded and murdered by some crazy high-level asshole by the time I get that far.I feel like if I’d taken a magic-based build I wouldn’t have anywhere near these problems. 🙁
I dunno… I’m finding my magic based build harder in most cases against general enemies. The only good thing so far is the damage output against bosses (but that’s probably more to do with my playstyle though).
The one time I summoned Onion-Bro for O&S I just ran past the big dudes, and he followed me fine, I think I such to one of the walks, but I can’t remember. Also, for the silver Knights, just try to aggro them into an open area, and they’re usually pretty easy to dodge around. Fighting them in corridors or whatever is the blurst.Why is Section 8 Prejudice so damn fun? Since there were was literally no-one else playing, I had to play a bot match, yet I still had a metric shit tonne of fun. It was hectic the entire way through. I hope Titanfall takes a few cues from Section 8. Actually, now that I think about it, a lot of games steal ideas from S8, yet claim them as their own.
Goddammit this is a sorely underrated game. RIP Timegate. Since the developers are dead, I guess the game will disappear alongside GFWL. Its a damn infuriating that Aliens Colonial Marines murdered Timegate, yet Gearbox got away scot-free. Gearbox stole the development money to make Borderlands, and they suffer no consequences.
Uurgh. This started out as a happy post about how fun S8 is, and it turned into a spiteful attack on Gearbox.
@dc, are you heartbroken, man? Ellen, Ellen… how could you do this to my buddy?
Guess she’s just a full-time friend now…
She can change! XD
Nah, actually really proud of her!
Is going from “Never going to happen but not technically impossible” to simply “Never going to happen” really that big a jump?
Yes. Didn’t every man’s heart sink just a little when Scarlett Johansson got engaged? 😛
What’s a ScarJo?
Edited in full name. Sorry, thought the abbreviation was a recognisable thing.
Ahh, the full name only barely helps because I’ve vaguely heard it in passing. I’m guessing that means the answer to your question is “not EVERY man”
She’s good looking & all that good stuff, but I wasn’t upset 😛
I’ll be upset when Lzzy Hale or Orianthi become unavailable, until then I have a shot! 😛
As long as Emma Stone remains in the realm of implausible possibility, there is still hope for the world.
Hey Double Fines and Double Finettes, did anyone back Massive Chalice?
When I backed it I was under the impression that we’d get similar videos to the Broken Age and Amnesia Fortnight videos, or ones like the few developer interviews they did throughout their Massive Chalice Kickstarter campaign.
I know they’ve done a bunch of live streams but I never got around to watching them since I was still holding out for the 2PP videos (which never came :P). After some Googling it turns out rather than releasing 2PP videos every now and then, they’re probably going just release them all at the end.
Are the teamstreams worth watching? The initial 2PP videos piqued my interest but then it’s been silent ever since so I’m not exactly hyped for the game yet but I have a feeling watching these will help!
Sportsball!
South Africa really look like having no chance of winning this test match.
Aussies look likely to go 1-0 up.
Okay, does anyone know how to record the audio on PS3 from a Roxio Game Capture HD?
Because every video I’ve recorded seems to lack the audio. 🙁
does it need the optical out? Maybe recording headphone out from the tv?
Rooster Teeth Lets Play:
Usually the King Plays are uninteresting. The latest one, Mad King Ryan, was incredibly awesome. I know there is at least one Rooster Teeth fan in TAY. Discuss?@greenius Been sneezing all night, so burying my head in Super Hexagon as a means of focusing to distract myself from doing so. Hyper Hexagon and Hyper Hexagoner are now both beat – 76.45 and 64.09 😛
Bugger all luck with Hexagoner though, best I did was like 26 on the first go and hardly anywhere near ever since.
Nice!
Didya mean Hexagonest? The hardest part for me is when it starts spazzing out and spins 🙁
I did, yes 😛
Hardest part for me is when it does the staggered spiral one, where you can’t just hold across to get through it.
I should sleep.
Also,
We beat South Africa by 281 runs.Maybe one more game of Skullgirls.
And I remembered why steam wasn’t downloading, it’s because I set the auto-downloads from 2am to 8am. :\
oh man.. having a totally SMRT weekend I see!
@popdart5 More awesome games for cheap/reasonable prices at EB atm:
https://ebgames.com.au/3ds-153284-Resident-Evil-The-Mercenaries-3D-Nintendo-3DS
https://ebgames.com.au/3ds-153032-Tom-Clancys-Ghost-Recon-Shadow-Wars-Nintendo-3DS
https://ebgames.com.au/3ds-154662-Shinobi-Nintendo-3DS
https://ebgames.com.au/3ds-152877-Resident-Evil-Revelations-Nintendo-3DS
https://ebgames.com.au/3ds-152875-Star-Fox-64-3D-Nintendo-3DS
I believe certain Target stores have Revelations and Star Fox clearance for A$14 or so.
So… I’m just gonna leave this here while I dance around the house for a few hours.
http://www.aurealisawards.com/Media%20Release%20-%20Finalists%20Feb%202014.pdf
That’s awesome, mate!
AWESOME, GUY! BURGER FORCE IS IN THE RUNNING FOR BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK-
wait what
I mean AWESOME GUY
THE LESSER EVILPEACEFUL TOMORROWS IS IN THE RUNNING!Well done in making the top five, Shane.
Haha, just what the doctor ordered. How’s the writer ego doing, mister beat-out-damn-near-a-thousand-peers-for-kudos? 🙂
Good job, well-deserved.
Well, to be fair, I only beat out about twenty others in the Illustrated Work/Graphic Novel category, but some of those were contemporaries who I’d been feeling pretty intimidated by.
Eh, I don’t even know. Is there a difference between ego and self-esteem? Because I think one might be doing pretty well, but not the other 😛
Didn’t really think it’d be a permanent fix, but every little bit helps, right? 🙂 People routinely comfort themselves with all manner of ‘positive perspectives’ which are easily demolished by the twisted taunts of their inner demons. As far as comforting things go, an award nomination from your peers is pretty damn solid. Very hard for those inner demons to effectively diminish.
Those inner demons are pretty persistent. The line at the moment (and their go-to approach for pretty much my entire life) seems to be, “Yep, something really cool is happening to you. Enjoy it, absolutely, but don’t for a moment think you deserve it… or worse, have actually achieved something.”
So I try not to think about it in terms of achievement. It’s so much simpler that way 😛
True enough. And in the grand scale of things, they’d have a point. But who lives their lives at that level? There wouldn’t be any point to it, nihilism would set in.
Also: The book was the achievement. The nomination is validation. 😉
Fantastic news sire! Best of luck! 🙂
*The adventures of Blaghs trying to transfer flights at Sydney airport*
“That’s our Blaghs!”
So after dealing with customs and what not, I head over to the Qantas transfer area for domestic travel. After milling around confused like a lost antechinus for a bit, I managed to get to the check in thing. With the skills of having barely slept for a while, I proclaim, “Sean Ricuurgrrfllaarrgg flying to… Um. Uh, I’m going to just hand you my passport… Oh, I’m going to Sydney.”
To the lady’s credit, she took my complete failure in stride, and trapped away for a little bit, before asking, “sorry, where did you say you were flying?”
“Sydney?”
“You’re already in Sydney.”
“Oh.”
*Blinks confused for five seconds*
“Oh yeah, Canberra.”
This look of pity washes over her face momentarily, before she wiped it away by asking where I’d been, distracting us both from the damnation that awaits me.
Thank Christ for service people who can deal with my general crapness at life.
well I’m pretty sure the reason she gave you a odd look is because she realized you introduced yourself as Sean Ricuurgrrfllaarrgg
EDIT: I mispelled Ricuurgrrfllaarrg.
I think she had many reasons to take pity on me / give me weird looks.. The primary reason is that I’m me.
You were gallivanting around Japan/China for a bit, yeah? So now you can make up for alllll your shortcomings with the fact that you’ve traveled to places. It’s how I get by despite being a pitiful shell of a boy.
Ex
“Saturday, you are a asshole with no sense of purpose in life with very little redeeming qualities”
“I’ve been to Australia.”
“Ooh. how exotic!”
Flawless? Flawless.
Alsothiscomesoffasatadtooselfdepreciatinghuh
DIRLW-RAVR8-J47NQ
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I often add heavy cream to my risotto to make it, well, creamier, and I find that makes it better overall, if not for the fact that technically it doesn’t count as a risotto anymore.
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That’d make it more savoury creamed rice wouldn’t it?
I’ve always wanted to try making creamed rice with arborio
Fuck it, I accidently redeemed it. I only wanted to see what it was, I forgot steam doesn’t tell you want it is and then make you click ok to redeem it. Shit
Thanks though…
What was it?
Syberia
It’s okay I like giving y’all the surprise 😛
We all know how hard it is to give stuff away on TAY so this was more likely to be redeemed 😀
I now have the Titanfall beta and Origin thingy. Does anyone else have it and do we have to be Origin buddies to play together?
I enjoy the CoD games but only when playing with friends and at the moment I have no Origin ones :'(
This’ll help you find you Origin buddies.
EDIT: You need to put your Orignin ID there, or no-one will know your ID. However, I presume your ID is Greenius?
EDIT MK2: Well, I guess your ID is GreenGreenius.
Yeah I’ve got it, same username as on here. Not sure if I’ll be playing it tonight, I’ve got some uploading running but I may well be up for a game tomorrow
Happy birthday, @MJHellscream!
@beardymcmuttonchops?
Thanks maaaaaaaan! 😀
Happy birthday, man. Hope it was awesome! 🙂
Thanks Shaaaaaaaane!
Dungeon Keeper get!
Currently downloading as I’m typing this. 😀
Not bad for free.
Thanks, GOG.
GOG rocks, well established scientific fact
SATURDAY DARK SOULS. Possibly my most ‘productive’ session yet!
In one sitting, killed the Centipede demon, downed Bed of Chaos, cleared the Hollow and Ash Lake, killed the four kings, and cleared the Painted World. (Didn’t kill Priscilla, though, because… she just wanted to be left alone!) The souls from alla that got many levels. It took me a real long time to figure out what I’m missing – ohyeah, Nito. I should do that sometimte this week. End is in sight, I guess?Niiiiice. That’s huge progress in one go.
I didn’t really want to kill Priscilla either, but kind of decided to have a go at her once to see the fight, expecting to lose. Then I killed her and felt bad 🙁I accidentally killed that nice, young, earnest mage guy.
Wrong button push, just as stupid and simple as that.
Whacked him with a heavy bow of a greatsword – and even trying to pull away at the last second to try and get out of it, winging him – still left him with a sliver of health. I powered the console off, fully expecting to come back with a heap of lost progress from before the last save, but nope – it must’ve autosaved as soon as I made him aggressive. So that was that. I feel badly about that. 😛
Just played my first game of Titanfall and it was surprisingly fun but best of all I didn’t lag *gasp* :O
I did pretty well too despite not being a fan of multiplayer shooters but I still have no idea what the heck I’m doing and whenever I entered a Titan I just die almost instantly 🙁
Destiny seems more my thing 😀
Oh maaaaan, I’m really hyped for Destiny!
I don’t know much about it but it’s more MMOish isn’t it, with a story and quests and whatnot?
I get the impression it kind of wants to be Borderlands but a bit too open to other players for my taste. Multiplayer can be fun but random people mostly suck
That’s why we have TAYbies! <3
This is true, if there was a big enough group and I could get it relatively cheap I might consider it one day. Still has the problem of being the kind of thing I’m only in the mood for infrequently though but if I had a solid story it might have a higher chance than titfall
You don’t have to play with randoms, just don’t go into public quest areas. Can spend the entire time alone or with friends.
@greenius @sernobulus: I’m super excited for Destiny as well. What platform are you guys getting it on? PS4?
Nothing set at the moment (I’ll only get it if it reviews well) but if I buy it it’ll be for PS4.
I’m sure it’ll be awesome though because Bungie.
Are public quest areas something that will be easy to avoid? It might be the thing that determines the possibility of a purchase. I’d be PS4 as well if & when I can ever afford and more importantly find one
I dunno, the whole public quest thing seems pretty low-impact. It’s PVE not PVP and basically matchmaking to find you a bunch of other groups that are playing so you can work together to fight a big enemy or similar. If you entered a spot that had one and didn’t want to participate I think you could just move on.
A few JBs around here had PS4 stock in recently, doubt it lasted though. Japan’s launch is in a week, and I imagine that Sony’s been stockpiling for that, and once we’re through it the system should be available to purchase again easily.
That’s odd, I instantly felt way more at home in a titan than I did on foot and just looking through the video I recorded, I was dramatically more effective.
Yeah, I be terrible in the titans, get rodeoed every time.
I really hope Destiny is good.
Damn it, I didn’t get into the Titanfall beta.
What platform? They randomly sent me an Xbox One code as well as a PC one (which I used).
PC.
Aw, well if anyone wants an Xbox One beta code I have one spare!
Any Xbone TAYbies that need we should notify?
I think most of them would have codes anyway.
I signed up a while ago but only received the key earlier today. I’m sure you’ll get in though!
You could always try using the XB1 code from @greenius with the info from this link: http://www.gamepur.com/news/13687-ea-issue-fix-players-who-receive-titanfall-beta-key-wrong-platform.html there’s a chance they might not bother to check if you were actually issued the XB1 code yourself, just if it’s valid and unredeemed
I don’t have an Xbone.
Well the point of that link was that some PC players were accidently sent XB1 codes, EA set up some kind of support thing where you could swap them over in a few hours. I was thinking if you had a valid XB1 code they might well not bother cross referencing whether they actually issued you an XB1 code and just swap it over to a PC one for you.
Its not like they’d lose out, its only for another 2-3 days and its basically advertising anyway so they’d probably not really care how you got a valid code as long as you had one.
http://help.ea.com/en/article/titanfall-beta-code-platform-issue-and-workaround/
Direct link to the EA thing
me neither, apparently it’s going open beta tomorrow, so everyone wins.
The Real Housewives of Melbourne is a thing now. Sigh…
Seriously?
Hope it goes that way of Celebrity Splash, sooner rather than later.
10/10 would watch.
@shane I had a look at my local eb for catherine yesterday, but they only had the pre-owned. I know someone found the stores that did have it, but thought I’d take a look since I was there anyway.
I did find the binding of isaac (sp?) for $8, and it included an expansion and other dlc. Anyone played it? What’s it like? Looks kinda like Zelda LttP on the back of the box?!
Also another thing with EB is, if it says there is only ONE copy, 99% of the time it won’t be true since it’ll be out the back in the defectives. This is what it was for me pretty much every time someone asked about a certain game where our database said there was a single copy.
Duuuude! The Binding of Isaac is amazing!
Think of a Roguelike with Zelda’s dungeons and a bit of shoot em ups. I picked it up randomly during a sale and ended up putting way too many hours into it in such a short time period.
There’s an updated version of it called The Binding of Isaac Rebirth coming out soon, you may want to hold out for that but there’s talk of a discount being applied to people who had the original.
Definitely worth checking out though!
Thanks for checking, man! 🙂
@greenius it was you asking about Mage builds in Dark Souls right? Finally got a chance to load it up and have a look at my build.
VIT 30
ATT 20
END 23
STR 17
DEX 32
RES 8
INT 50
FTH 13
Moonlight Greatsword, Logan’s Catalyst, Bloodshield, Crown of Dusk, Sealers Robes, Ring of Favour and Protection and Bellowing Dragonscrest Ring.
Spells are Crystal Soul Spear, Crystal Homing Soulmass, 2 lots of Soul Spear and Dark Bead.
Yup it was me.
Just reached Anor Londo and so far my armour is just a random mess of things (mix of Sorcerer’s, Theif, Brigand, Elite Knight), I have both those rings, using a Spider Shield and Drake Sword as per @sernobulus suggestion and spells are Soul Arrow, Heavy Soul Arrow and their Great versions.
I just freed Logan and figured I’d go through Anor Londo first before I bought his spells but I might just backtrack for them now. I might as well get the Crown of Dusk too while I’m there.
My stats are pretty close to the default Sorcerer’s stats except for 16 STR, 12 DEX and about 41 INT.
I’m looking at getting most of the stuff you guys mentioned though but a lot of that comes late game-ish so I’m still a fair bit off. Things I’m still not too sure about are armour (aside from the Crown) and anything decent to use in the mean time (I probably need to replace the Drake Sword)
Anyone up for some Skullgirls multiplayer sometime this week?
Any Xbox One owners want a Titanfall Beta key?
So @crazyguy1990 how about that ep 18 of Kill la Kill eh?
Watching it right now. 😀
I’m not even halfway through and… just…holy shit.
It’s even more OMGWTF! that ep 17 o_O
I have an urgent need to discuss it with someone! (after i finish work) 🙁
Most fucked up maternity test ever.haha yeah. I totally called the sister thing around ep 16 but then was like “nah no way” in ep 17, then yeah ‘that’ happened 🙂Oh today.
If today had a face I’d be punching it.
Repeatedly >:(
Ok. I’ll bite. what happened?
Crazy busy at work. Stuck with the slowest dumb f*** on the face of the earth who keeps leaving me by myself even though I’m new. Way far behind. Working till 6pm.
AND the person I like isn’t texting me back :'(
It’s making me furious. I’m about two bad customers away from putting my foot through someone’s face >:(
Oh, and my home internet’s down, so I won’t be using the internet when I get home either >:(
damn. rough day. if you’re new, why do they keep leaving? sounds like a super douche
Because he is a SUPER F***ING DOUCHE! What’s worse is that he’s f***ing slow too and just keeps getting in my way! He gets in my way one more time and I swear I’m going to make him regret it >:(
Sorry for rambling, just wanted / needed to vent a bit.
totally understand man. sometimes you just have to vent. specially when you’re surrounded by douchebags all day 😉
Some people….
The Walking Dead Season 2 on the App Store
“I didn’t pay $5 for one episode and then have to pay $15 for the next one”
And for Star Wars: The Complete Saga:
“It’s only one episode free, the others should all be free as well”.
Obviously developers just shouldn’t be paid anymore.
Do you know how much of my time I spend playing these things? Time is money, why aren’t I being paid for this??
@phlansipo
Did I mention Phoenix Wright:Ace Attorney is on the app store?
Anyway, if you really wanted to show your little sister the classics, GBA4iOS 2.0 comes out in the next few days, you have to do a little workaround to get it (not on the app store) but it can play Gameboy, GBC, and GBA games (you download them through a downloader in-app) and supports cheats etc.
@phlanispo
I’ll get it eventually.
Heh, I never realised my name was so hard to read.
Thanks for the recommendations, I’ll see whether she agrees with them.
For years, I have been trying to get her into games, but to little avail. She has a DS, but she barely played it. It’s pretty much become my DS since mine broke. I tried to get her into Pokemon, but she gave up right before the Elite Four. I guess she never really had much of a high regard for gaming, and she fell in with the wrong crowd. (ios app store)
But yeah, Pheonix Wright might work, even though I’ve never played one. (I am guaranteed to get shit for saying that) They’re visual novels, right?
When you say the the emulator is not on the app store, are you saying that you need to jailbreak the phone? I doubt my sister would agree with that.
No jailbreaking required. It downloads off safari like a normal app, then functions like a normal app.But it just can’t be downloaded off the app store.
I never played a Phoenix Wright either, but I wanted to try it anyway, so i downloaded the mobile one (all 3 games cost $18). I really liked it, but I find that appealing. It’s like a cross between Professor Layton (explorer bits, finding puzzles) and a courtroom (finding contradictions in statements). You could always get her to try the trial and see how she likes that, the Professor Layton iOS game is very similar to it.
Holy crap, I love the Ace Attorney games. They just tick all my boxes, and are among my favourite games of all time.
I remember when you first started playing them and posted your thoughts. It felt like I was playing them again! 😀
Well, (and I guess @greenius as well) would it be worth getting the HD trilogy on iOS for $18? I liked the first two episodes, but some of those exploration bits were tedious, and some of those contradictions were a few leaps of logic.
If you’re looking for a similar game, the Layton game on iOS is like Phoenix Wright, slightly different. That has the first 2 episodes free as well.
Are you asking whether we should recommend it to you or horseshark’s sister?
For you, if you did like the first two episodes then it’s definitely worth checking out. It’s fairly cheap as well (if you consider each DS game could be $20 or so) and it’s a bit easier to see things if you’re using a bigger screen like an iPad.
For the bits you didn’t like, exploration can get tedious and some of the contradictions and other evidence presenting moments are really vague and might not make any sense but I just used a guide to get through them after trying out every single logical conclusion I came up with. It’s worth playing through for the story alone and to hear that OBJECTION theme! (how good is the music!? :D)
If you wanted to know whether it was worth recommending to @phlanispo ‘s sister I would probably say no cause it’s not really the type of game for everyone. Depends on how old she is and what other things she likes. If she enjoys reading and puzzles then it’s worth checking out (the first couple of cases are free anyway) and it kinda felt like an interactive anime. But if she doesn’t like any of those things then it probably won’t be the best way to get your sister into games 🙁
Horseshark?
Isn’t he that guy in Watchmen?
Raw shark.
@shane If you tilt your head and squint, it looks like a cooked shark.
I was asking for me 😛
Thanks for that, I thought using a guide might be cheating, but I only used an online one once per case.
I think I’ll get it, it seems pretty good.
It is cheating but I don’t like wasting my time going around in circles and getting frustrated 😛
Finally got to a shop & got Bravely Default . If anyone is still playing add me, my friends code is….
2750-1449-6529Done mine is
2079 6679 5086I just found out via TVTropes that, on Skullgirls, that if you tap Medium Punch, and continue to press the other punch and kick buttons, you can actually play music.
It’s fucking amazing.
http://www.twitch.tv/eightysixed/b/457037833
(Starts at 3:50)
I don’t know what’s happening but there’s a big drawn guy playing a trumpet 😛
@strange @cakesmith
This gonna be old TAY soon but…
Lightning Returns:
I finished off the main Luxerion quest but I don’t know if I was underpowered or not but the boss fight took 15 minutes :/ (+ another 10 or so since I died on my first attempt >_>). This reminds me of that plant boss battle early in XIII-2 which took me ages as well because I wasn’t supposed to go there yet :P.
I honestly don’t remember much of XIII or XIII-2’s stories and Lightning Returns doesn’t seem to have a good one either 😛
I had plans to play LR:FF13 this weekend but I guess I only got as far as you did, damn Titanfall taking up my weekend, side quests also only seem to give trivial amount of stats so I don’t think it would of shaved much time.
Also thanks Bhunivelze for resurrecting Hope so he can pecker in my ear all game.That upvote was for your spoiler. 😀
Oh, and don’t count the sidequests out, they’re kind of crucial of you want to be strong enough,and have enough time.
Yeah,the story’s kind of bad.
(No plot spoilers here, just very vague references)
I’ve finished the Luxerion, Yusnaan and most of the Wildlands’ main quests now. Just started the 6th day, have 4 days left still. I’ve been managing to keep it to 4 for the past three days which I guess is a good thing.You do sound slightly underpowered. I’d recommend going to the Wildlands and following the first main questline to get a few useful skills and things. Don’t forget Chocolina’s things, they’re good ways to get a few more stats.
I’ve just been sticking to Luxerion but I’ve done a fair few sidequests too. I am playing on Normal though so maybe they’re extra mean :(.
Reckon I should stick to Yusnaan and do what I can there, or branch out to the other places? Will that let me access their shops earlier for better gear?
Branch out a bit. The gear’snot necessarily better, but the quests and enemies will give you experience and new skills. Plus it’s good to have other things to do elsewhere if you have to wait for specific times to do things.
1am, and I’m wide awake… 🙁
See you all in new TAY.
Need to write an e-mail to the teacher, talk to him about how I’m thinking that maybe I’m not fit for the course. Gotta drop out by Friday if I’m gonna go down that path, else I’m financially committed :/
Mind’s swirling.
Oh yeah there was also an exchange with Lil Miss, when she mentioned that she’d be in Sydney again tomorrow. Asked what for, and she said she was doing artsy things. With Sketchbook.
Immediately felt my heart slam its face into my ribcage >_>
That’s our Gooky!
One of those weird long beetles that make snapping sounds and bounce themselves around/jump about the place landed in front of me and freaked the shit out of me >:(
So I caught it and gave it to my spider friend 🙂
Farwell, old TAY
I have found a new home
Do not dismay
something something foam
I am bad at sonnets
as you can clearly see
something about bonnets
I think I’ll turn tail and flee
EDIT: Nevermind