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So, for those of who who eschew the weekend TAY, this will be news to you.
My favourite Australian author, Max Barry, is a finalist in the 2013 Aurealis Awards for his novel Lexicon. The book can be bought for $9.95 at the moment (on special from Doubleday, usually upwards of $20), so I recommend you all go and order a copy right now. I bought mine this morning, and can’t wait to read it. Max Barry is a dude who writes fast-paced books with characters that are simultaneously real and hilarious. His style is fluid and very engaging.
And… this book is also a finalist in the awards. The award ceremony is in April, right here in Canberra. I just need to figure out what to wear. I don’t want to be the only guy in a suit, and I don’t want to be the only guy in T-shirt and jeans! Wonder if I’ll get to meet Max Barry…? Is there an award ceremony protocol that demands playing it cool, or is it acceptable to bring an armload of books for nominees to sign? So many questions!
@transientmind this might be of interest to you:
After our TAY posts last night, I took Peaceful Tomorrows to read in bed last night. For the first time ever, I actually enjoyed reading one of my books. There was no sign of that little voice in my head who usually pours molten scorn over every page, saying “Yeah, but don’t you think it’s just a little bit shit?” So…yeah, obviously I have no idea how my brain works.Thanks for indulging my bragging. You guys are the core of my readership (By my reckoning, around half the copies of my books in circulation are owned by TAYbies), and your support over the years has been, and still is, awesome. Aaaaaaannnnnd, I’ll stop it there because it’s starting to sound like a victory speech, which is all kinds of wrong.
Now, on with your regularly scheduled TAY.
Congrats on the nomination, Shane! All kinds of cool!
Jeans and t-shirt with suit jacket. That should cover your bases.
That or a singlet and football pants. Can’t go wrong either way.
No, I can’t take that chance. I think I’ll contact the convenors. Not yet though. Gotta play it cool for a little while before I indulge my freak-out (because if I wait, I should only have time for one).
Find photos from last year’s awards and go with that
This advice is way too sensible, and doesn’t fit well with my plans to freak out.
Edit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42956650@N00/sets/72157633515141751/ Looks like @strange’s suggestion was pretty much spot on.
Ask Max Barry what he’s wearing….
Only in a late-night drunken phone call. 😛
I say top hat, monocle, tuxedo jacket and no pants
@shane I was also going to seriously suggest this. Seemed good enough for our CFO and GM to wear to our Christmas party.
Tuxedo t-shirt?
Tweed jacket with iron on patches on the elbows, a scarf, a pipe and a brandy balloon.
In my heart, you’ve already won.
Wow, that’s cheesy. I’m gonna leave it here.
HIS HEART’S A TIME MACHINE! LET’S GET HIM!
I’ll just use it to travel to the past and ENSURE YOU WERE NEVER BORN.
We all know how those stories turn out. You’ll inadvertently turn out to be my biological father. 😛
Which makes your attempt to kill me that much more devastating.
Not kill you, just steal your heart. Romance! 😛
Edit: Hmmm, I sure as hell didn’t think that post through. Let’s hope you’re not my biological dad. 😛
Son, you don’t have to steal my heart. You know I love you, in the way a father who traveled to the past then back to the present and is younger than you should love a son.
By the way your grandfather is Scottish. Also as your father I forbid you to shave your beard off again.
This family tree is getting interesting.
Are you saying that finding TAY is like winning a prize? Because it’s kind of not 😛
Okay, it totally is.Something with bell-bottoms. Disco could make a comeback at any time.
Mornings suck, moreso when you have to go to the dentist and spend money you can’t afford to…
Ain’t that the tooth.
5 pages too early!!!
Are you really going to make me say it?
EVERY.
PAGE.
IS.
PAGE.
SIX.
(If you feel it in your heart.)>:(I have no heart.I will make you say it so often that it will become reflexive, it will replace your signature, it will be the name of your autobiography, it’ll be what you shout with pain if you hit your thumb with a hammer
Only at 2:30
I don’t get it…
Tooth-hurty?
*scratches head* Yeah it would. It’s the dentist. But that wouldn’t be time dependant.
Dentists are very time dependant, if you show up too late you’re out of luck
Morning all.
Played/finished Left Behind on the weekend. Normally I don’t get DLC when it comes out, but since it was TLOU I felt I had to. It was pretty awesome.
I loved it, man. Liked all the down time and the character moments.
Wrote up some thoughts here!
Edit: So this is what pimping links feels like. Dan and Shane have taught me well. XD
Snuck a few puns into your mind as well, on the down-low. Hope that’s all right.
Also, who are these girls who think you’re adorable? I think we might need to start making @mrtaco-esque jokes about you… Mooky.
DayZ Diaries:
About half an hour ago I got held up.
But then I ate a banana and it was okay.
Bananas are good K
Did your attackers split?
Bandits: “You better be making sure you have enough Potassium in your diet!”
Bish: “K”
Bandits: “Good, we’ll be off then” *walks away*
I went from starving and surviving on cans of soft drink to finding a heap of food and a pair of canteens all from one quick run into Staroye, easily my most productive looting session in the game to date.
Still haven’t found a sodding gun but at least I finally have the second least shit melee weapon.
New day, new TAY!
I’m at work and after a 2 week holiday all I want to do is sleep and so I’m just gonna be lazy all day \o/
How was everyone’s weekend? I spent mine at a friends 22nd and cleaning the house because apparently that’s what you do when you come back from holiday?
Friday was watching the Youtubes with the missus, Saturday got drunk and bonded with the new housemate over Borderlands 2 before he passed out and Sunday was spent wishing it was still Saturday as well as looking up how expensive it’d be to book a function room for my 30th this year, answer below.
it’s fuggin expensiveThey always is! I just prefer house parties, means if you get trashed your already home so you can sleep anywhere
my girlfriend is looking into that for her 30th too. we found hiring a house looks cheaper and we don’t have to kick everyone out at a certain time, a couple we’ve seen advertised as “great for parties or bucks nights”,
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze this week! Arrrrrgh! Can’t wait!
I still need to plau the one that was on Wii but seeing as it’s still $90 in eb games or jb hifi, nup
Was a great game, though. Stupid Nintendo and their lack of price drops though. For a company that doesn’t like money, that’s a bit unreasonable. XD
Should be $45 if it’s part of the ‘classics’ range. Finally Mario Bros Wii dropped to that price, which is still insane…
I don’t think it’s been made part of the Classics range. Looking on the EB website, $68 pre-owned. I’ve been waiting to buy a few Wii games but they’re just too expensive and/or sold out on ozgameshop. I really want The Last Story but never got round to it 🙁
I’ve got a Wii spare thart I’m going to hack and just pirate the games eventually. I’ve got no shame in it either – no one is getting $90 from me to play a SD game from 2006 or whatever.
A game for WiiU!? I don’t believe it!
Will purchase.What’s that? Some kind of Sony game?
Morning all!
Titanfall!
Overall I have to say I’m liking it, though I have been playing exclusively with at least one friend which may be colouring my opinion. Certain aspects can die in a fire (smart pistol) and other feel wonky as hell (the “heatseeking” slow kicks) but overall I like it.The one major negative I can see for the future is that some abilities and weapons are *very* exploitable (griefing or playing to win) like having no team damage but arc grenades affect friendly titans and pilots.Oh, and if anyone was either talking to me or inviting me to stuff on Origin over the weekend and I didn’t reply, it’s because Origin’s notifications are terribad and I missed them completely. Sorry!
Also: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/02/titanfall-beta-open-to-all-on-xbox-one-with-pc-to-open-maybe-today/
I couldn’t work out how to join friends that are playing. Not that I tried for that long though. Probably played the first mode about as much as the tutorial then went back to playing Fire Emblem and watching Twitch Plays Pokémon.
That Twitch stream is crazy. I watched last night and they were stuck in Dark Cave. I had to stop watching after about 10 minutes. I knew I would not sleep if I let myself be suckered in too much
I saw one part for a while. Went and did something for about 3-4 hours, came back and they were still circling the same NPC.
Didn’t help people just kept typing “Start”.
It’s an amazing stream. They’ve managed to clear the Vermillion Gym bin puzzle, a narrow ledge that requires about 12 successive right inputs without a single down (the Route to the right of Cerulean) and Rock Tunnel with their only usable moves being normal type and both main Pokemon being weak to Rock. So good.
The Victory Road Strength puzzles are going to be amazing.
They’re through the Rock Tunnel?
Yup. When I left this morning they were trying to Cut the tree to get into Celadon Gym.
Are you PC or console? No idea about Xbox, but PC needs to go through Origin.
PC. Right clicked on someone playing it, join game was greyed out. List in the in game menu that looked like it should have a list of friends playing only had me. Didn’t want to spam anyone with invitations but I’m guessing that was the only way.
I know Cakesmith has lots of issues with the Origin overlay so possibly related.
I get the impression we may play some more tonight so I’ll shoot you an invite if you like. cc @cakesmith @greenius @jocon (?) anyone else interested.
yeah I’m in
There was some mention of a private server or private lobby when I was transitioning between areas but I didn’t catch it in time to see if its something that’s there or coming up in the full game
Far as I could see, no private matches in the beta so there’s only room for 6 people in a party.
I assume the full game will work like CoD in that you can have private matches but can’t progress in challenges and levels in them to stop people whoring it up.
It will most likely be greyed out if there’s no space in the lobby, I know once you’re in a lobby there’s no button to invite people if it’s full.
Loved the game, Origin says I played 7 hours over the weekend, and I hit the max level for the beta…
Yeah, hit the max level and now I feel bad whenever I get another challenge. So much wasted exp! Even though it’ll reset for the full game 😛
So after having a few weeks of crazy busy at work, I can now take a break and sit at home with the flu.
Hey, i’ll take whatever reprieve I can get… *cough, hack, splutter*
Dude cover your mouth.
Morning humans! Hope your weekends were good
I’ve forgotten how hard SPAZ is to get started with the limited fleet strength you have, but once you get ships that fit well with your playstyle it’s great! 😀 Got my first medium class vessel now I can fight hard instead of hit and run.
Hey buddy!
Morning! How are you DC?
Not too shabby. Going to see Robocop soon, the feel good movie of the year that brings humans and robots together! Hope you’re good too!
I’ve had a bit of a raise in spirits. I got to talk to my girlfriend again on Saturday night, letting me know that she’s going back home for her Bachelors graduation (Which was years ago btw but was postponed due to strikes in Athens and all). She had to sacrifice all her days off to be allowed to go until Summer (Our winter), so I might not be able to visit her this year. 🙁
I’ll try to stay hopeful, but it does become easy for someone like me to lose hope in everything.
I don’t usually get the whole Monday blues stuff. Today I’m making an exception though. How a bus is ten minutes late on its first run of the day abd by the third stop on that run… Translink….
I’m hoping work turns out like my dream:
My work had moved to the seaside pier for some reason, I got to my office and it was taken over by students sitting exams and no-one would tell me where I was supposed to go. My housemate for some reason worked with me as well but had wandered off to look at the pier. I walked somewhere and was suddenly running with ex-Liverpool & Man Utd footballers who I then played football with before finding myself in ahotel room where one of my workmates was working out of. Another of my housemates then climbed into the ironing board cupboard wearing Cartman’s Awesom-o costumeI think it means I want fish n chips and ice cream by the sea. Suprisingly normal dream for me.
How’s everyone else struggling this morning?
Overslept, forced myself to eat some breakfast, forgot to put my salad that I made last night in my bag so I have no lunch. Guess I’ll just have it for dinner. I’d say my wife could just have it instead of making herself a sandwich or something but I put onions in it and she hates onions in her salad.
Missed my train this morning because some twit in line ahead of me at the ticket window didn’t know how to use EFTPOS and held the line up for five minutes. By the time my train was rolling in I was just buying my ticket and the doors closed while the ticket was printing. The guy in the window was all “there’s another one in fifteen minutes” which is no comfort to me because I still get to work 13 minutes late instead of 2 minutes early.
I have a cold or hayfever, either way my nose is running, I can’t stop sneezing and I feel like shit. I’m sitting here sniffling and mouthbreathing.
I want to wake up and have this morning have been a dream, so I can have a second go.
Man, just can’t understand some people…
…I mean, onions in a salad are awesome.
I agree. Onion bros!
You ever get the feeling that you’ve wasted a weekend? Like you start it out thinking you’re gonna do this and that and these and the reality is you maybe get through this but not that or these. That was my weekend!
Also I’m challenging myself to read 52 books this year for reasons I’m not exactly sure of. Many people have recommended many things. It’s almost overwhelming. Books are good.
Hello. When is the next meat?
A book per week would be very difficult for me. Good luck.
Whenever you start planning one!
This weekend.
YAY!
Speaking of which, I still need to check that I can crash at @cakesmith’s…
Confirmed.
\o/
\o/
…@mythamphetamine hasn’t actually organised anything yet has he?
Well, I think a few people had kinda sorta half organised stuff? I thought there was a meat occurring at Mojo (which has since been changed/never was at Mojo) on Saturday for joint birthday shenanigans.
I’d also love a group dinner at Din Tai Fung when/if people are available. Outside of that, Mardi Gras is on, we could all go to one of the parties at some point?
I arrive around 8pm Friday night, if folks are free for a catch up then, too.
Really though, I’m up for whatever, whenever.
Do comic books count?
Graphic novels and of course they do. Manga counts too 😛
The guy who hire me,who was the CEO of the company i worked for past away last night after a long battle with leukemia. He was one of the kindest and most generous people i knew. He had been fighting for like 18 months and suddenly he took a turn last week. I only ever spoke to him on occasion but i feel i owe him for putting a little scared kid into his workplace. Sigh
cancer sucks
yes it does. One of the worst things is to watch someone go through it all
There’s a fuck of a good reason that the cure for cancer is a wonder of the world in Civilization. If only we had 600 shields to spare
Sad news dood 🙁 Shame to hear about that. If you’re going to the funeral, I’d say a few words about how thankful you are that he gave you the opportunity! I’m sure his friends and relatives would appreciate a few kind words 🙂
Also, tip for next time (not picking on you, just pointing out cos not sure if you are aware), with the context of the subject, ‘past away’ should be ‘passed away’.
Ruh oh.
Apparently tomorrow I’ve got to travel to the other side of Sydney by myself to conduct a training session with a client that I’ve never met D:
I get nervous enough talking to them on the phone! 😛
On the up side, a few hours away from the office! And free cab-charge! \o/
ps. Hello.
I stopped reading at hello.
Also: I watched Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels last night. Pretty swell movie. Snatch was better though 😛
Vere iz da Stone? Also, I prefer Lock, Stock.
Lock Stock > rocknrolla > snatch
I thought rocknrolla was the weakest of the three, but I think that might’ve been more because I watched the first two so much and rnr retrod a lot of material from those two. Still good, but not repeat viewing good in my eyes
I used to love time away from the office when I had jobs I hated, even if the alternative was objectively worse. From my viewpoint, being beaten up with beaten with a sack full of doorknobs while trekking naked to the south pole would have been worthwhile if it meant I got the week off work.
Now I dread any event where I might have to be away from my desk. I just want to get on with it and talk to as few people as possible.
Hola Tay
I had a busy Saturday and a quiet Sunday. On Saturday I BOOKED A HOLIDAY! In November I’m going to Cambodia!
I also went out with friends on Saturday night- two of my oldest friends from high school. Some of you may have seen on Facebook, but nights with them often descend into taking silly pictures!
A Monday morning question : what do you do with your oldest friends?
P.S. I’m at a conference all day, so I’ll either be sporadically posting or incessantly posting
Tease them about their age.
Talk on the phone occasionally and constantly suggest that maybe we should make some plans to catch up someday.
Well, my oldest friend plays bass in my band. The rest of my friends from school are still my closest friends now, so the usual stuff.
Holiday in Cambodia?
Don’t forget to pack a wife.
Ahem.
Fuck it, I was about to make that joke! Have an upvote you bastards
My oldest friends I met in pre-school. They’re twins, and I enjoyed from ages 4-13 being the only person who could consistently tell them apart. Then they repeated 5th grade (their mother felt they were too young to progress to 6th grade since they started Kindergarten at 4 and 3 months or something so they were ~6-10 months younger than their classmates) so I went to high school a year earlier. I went to a selective high school, they went to a private Anglican school. We lost contact after that. They invited me to their 16th birthday and I was the odd one out since I didn’t go to the same school or share the same interests anymore. We talk online occasionally, but not often. I got kind of mopey when I noticed they – and many of my high school friends – had gotten married without me receiving an invite, or moved overseas without telling me, but… I didn’t invite them to my wedding. I wouldn’t tell them if I was moving overseas. I realised I was being illogical and got over it. We all live different lives and there just isn’t room to keep ahold of everyone. I thought maybe it was just jealousy that my old friends had really moved on in their lives and I felt stagnant by comparison, but on the other hand there are plenty of people who still live where they always have, have not enjoyed huge success or springboarded to the tops of their respective fields. I haven’t really been left behind, I just haven’t made the same lateral moves.
I only really have two friends IRL, both guys I went to high school with. Even they have another much larger circle of friends I’m completely uninvolved with, and could cut me loose in a heartbeat if it no longer suited them to be involved with me.
The really sad part is I don’t even know if that bothers me or not.
Oh no. I’ve run out of deodorant! Now my date today won’t want to cuddle me during the movie!
This is going to be the worst date ever!
Sweat is a real man’s deoderant!
😛
Now girls won’t just stop what they are doing and rush over to you and try and have sex with you! Because if deodorant commercials have taught us anything, girls will sleep with ANYONE if they are wearing deodorant.
We’ll I didn’t comb my hair, so my movie date will be slumming it too!
If @mrtaco forgot his deodorant, the natural and manly pheromones would kick in about 5 mins into the movie and turn it into X-rated.
In said situation it usually doesn’t matter how much deodorant there is, the fear and nervousness makes it overcome it all >_>
If its a movie you’re going to the solution is easy, just spread some butter under your arms and say the entire theatre smells of popcorn and it’ll probably stick to your clothes
I laughed out loud waaaay too hard at this.
Weekend things!
I re-watched Cabin in the Woods on Friday night. That movie is rad.
Saturday I spent playing Lightning Returns (@strange, @greenius) and Hearthstone when I got frustrated with Lightning Returns. I don’t know if I’m enjoying it. I pretty much gave up when I got to the point where I had to find the numbers for the code (like, 90mins into the game) because I didn’t realise they only appear after a certain point. So then I tried to find stuff to do while I wait and ended up fighting guys that I could take out without too much damage to me, but would take me forever to take out them. I guess I’ll get the hang of it eventually.
Also, Just Cause 2 MP on Saturday because reasons. A convoy of Berings tethered together went about as well as expected (poorly) and Icelake has turned into a destruction derby area which, I can’t prove or take credit for, but I’m pretty sure was started by the likes of me, @rize, @sernobulus, @mythamphetamine and @pixel_the_ferret_viking.
Sunday was spent playing Titanfall. It’s a pretty cool guy. My thoughts are pretty much the same as what @rize said earlier up the page. I will get it, but not for full price ($90 for PC? LOL).
And then we played more Just Cause 2 just cause.
EDIT: I are English good.
Cabin In The Woods is glorious
I have a friend who is scared too easily to watch any vaguely horror movie whatsoever, so it took ages to convince him to watch Cabin in the Woods without spoiling it. What’s stupid is he’s horrified by stuff that’s supposed to be horrifying, but when the same graphic content (like the big monster fight with people dying and blood everywhere) is presented in a poetic justic/comical kind of way, he sits there cackling at how great it is.
It’s really kind of amazing how much informed context can inform our reactions.
it’s true. I laughed louder than I should’ve when Maude died in The Simpsons and it still makes me chuckle even though it shouldn’t, but because it’s a bizarre ott cartoon death in a way. The rest of the episode is a downer obviously, but for some reason I find the death amusing. Does that make me an evil person?
I always found the last appearance jarring because even though they got a soundalike to play Maude and gave her as few lines as possible she still sounded off to my ears. When they gave her a stupid random death I was half expecting her to turn out to be an impostor or something until they went into a sombre episode about Ned coping with the loss.
I think other people knew her death was coming because they’d seen that the voice actor had quit or gotten fired or something, so they took it more seriously (or less, depending on how they felt about the value of The Simpsons at that time).
Ah, I never picked up on Maggie not doing voices for a few seasons. I’ve only really watched them recently having started picking up the dvds again and have noticed a few changes in voices but was putting that down to the actors getting older and what have you. I’ve gotta say though, seasons 11 onwards pretty much, the episodes aren’t joke after joke after joke, but they still have their moments and aren’t as bad as people like to make out I think, and I’m saying that as someone who absolutely loves the first 8 or 9 seasons and watched them religiously over and over again while I was a student
I agree. The later seasons aren’t bad, they just don’t live up to the originals. They also had way too many celebrities.
That’s one of the few things that grates me. In the earlier seasons, especially with musicians, it seemed like they went out of their way to get people that they were fans of and actually wanted to work with and put into the show, and also a guest star was quite a big thing, McCartney, Dustin Hoffman or Johnny Cash . Recently though, especially the last few seasons, it’s like they just get whoever’s popular: Bieber, Lady Gaga etc. I don’t know if that’s different show runners and producers actually wanting those people, but it feels like they’re being pressured to get popular people on the show
@cufcfan616
I hold in my heart a certain belief that Matt Groening wanted to end the Simpsons many years ago, but FOX held onto their rights too tightly. So instead of busting his (and his team’s) ass making quality program, he just turned it suddenly into the soulless cash-cow that FOX had wanted all along. Bland inoffensive stories and jokes devoid of controversy, escalating paycheques for the staff and cast, endless waves of celebrity appearances, shameless merchandising (though to be fair, this has always been the case with The Simpsons) and endorsements, etc.
That’s probably true @shane . Watching a lot of the dvd commentaries, particularly of the older seasons you can see, well hear, the writers and showrunners realising what was working back in the day and what they took out of the show that brought that drop in quality which is what I partly attribute to the last couple of seasons being a lot better in terms of writing. Example, having an extra ad break in meant taking out a couple of minutes of footage so they couldn’t run a second story in each episode along the main story and it’s the second stories that used to bring a lot of the gags as well as actually pushing the envelope for animation as well as story writing.
But yeah, Groening probably wants to let it go now. I keep on hearing ‘one more movie’ and that’ll be the end of it. If the voice actors were tired of it though all they have to do is say so, but I think they like millions per season too much. Harry Shearer’s probably the only one who doesn’t like the show much anymore and you can tell that in how his voices have changed.
Probably.
I get most of my Steam/Origin games from G2Play, and they’ve currently got TItanfall up for preorder for $59.90 AUD.
http://www.g2play.net/category/3242/titanfall-ea-origin-key/
54.99 on Ozgameshop email store and I’ve got a $10 voucher, so will probably do that.
Not bad at all… I wonder how many points I have… hmm…
Turns out my points expired because I hadn’t used them in the 12 months since they were granted to me. Ah well, they were only worth $0.54 anyway…
Lightning Returns: that point is the point where I started again. I’d taken too long to do the initial investigation and failed a quest. When I got back to that point where you had to wait until 6am, I started doing things in the Wildlands where I enjoyed the game much more..
I’m planning on starting that tonight, I hope it’s fun.
I’m having fun, others are not so much. I hope you have as much fun as I am.
I think I will, I’m a sucker for FF games, even though XIII and XIII/2 weren’t the best I still did everything and Platinumed them. What were you mentioning earlier about restarting cause you failed a mission? Aren’t they retryable cause that’d suck.
It’s about timing. Some missions have to be completed by or at certain times. If you miss the time window then you fail. You can’t fail main quest though, just sidequests.
hmm, I don’t like that I don’t think, I’m gonna be reloading a lot, I won’t be able to progress if I miss stuff, I have a crazy gamer brain that must get all the things
There’s not many like that. I’m like you in that I must do all quests, and I only missed the first one because I was still learning my way around the game. I think you’ll be fine. Once you learn the way the game works you won’t miss anything. I hate timed things, but it’s really quite balanced in the way it worked the time angle.
Over the weekend I sat around watching movies. I will rate what I saw out of 5.
Lovelace – 2/5
Zombies vs Strippers – 1/5
Hammer of Gods – 1/5
The Adjustment Bureau – 3/5
This is 40 – 4/5
Semi-Pro – 3/5
End of Watch – 4/5
Starship Troopers: Invasion – 1/5
Overall, it was a weekend of spectacularly bad movies with a couple nice surprises in End of Watch and This is 40. The only reason I watched any of these is because it was on my friends harddrive.
Edit: Just remembered I also saw Pain and Gain. 3/5 but only because The Rock was awesome in it.
Who’d’ve thought that a movie named ‘Zombies vs Strippers’ wouldn’t be very good?
Just can’t get quality these days.
It’s no Lesbian Vampire Killers that’s for sure.
Or Zombeavers.
That was the standard I was hoping for..
I watched it thinking it would be funny, if only in a “so bad it’s funny” way. Nope, it’s just shit.
It’s pretty sad when that happens. I remember queuing up a bunch of a really bad ‘only gets shown at 2am to force you to finally go to sleep’ movies, and stuff with truly awful-sounding synopses and titles would turn out to be just terrible in the ‘oh god I’m so bored’ way instead of the ‘hahaha this is awful, I love it!’ way.
FRANKENFISH, I’M LOOKING AT YOU.
I don’t mind stupid/bad movies. Sometimes I’m just in the mood for them. This was so much worse than I expected. So much worse. Even the boobs were awful.
Is Lovelace the biopic with Lindsay Lohan as Linda? I knew it’d be bad but I thought it might at least be interesting.
I think it was meant to be with Lohan but she was kicked out and replaced last minute. In all honesty, it wasn’t an awful movie, it was just boring and depressing. Was sort of like the last third of Boogie Nights but even more “bleh”.
As far as a bio of Lovelace, you might find it interesting.
Oh yeah, I think Lohan’s extracurricular antics made it too difficult to insure her for the production so they got someone else.
I might still check it out.
Banished is being released this week. Been following this game for the past year and I can’t wait!
Didn’t play as much Game of Thrones RPG on PC as I would have liked over the weekend as I was kept occupied with other things. Did play a bunch of Titanfall beta. Liked it at first, then I got tired of Attrition because people play in annoying/cheap ways no matter the game. Hardpoint was much more interesting, since it’s a zone control game like Domination.
I have to say, the game mechanics aren’t what really make the game fun, it’s the spectacle. Seeing two titans (literally) duke it out above while you’re scurrying around underneath is really something. It sucks when you get caught in the crossfire of something like that and you almost wish it was a visual effect only, like something you’d see in the introduction to a solo campaign if the developers could be bothered making one.
I doubt many people will be as impressed by that kind of thing as I was, we know our games too well, we’re too spoiled, we understand that things are a certain way not by chance but because that’s what someone wanted us to see and it takes the majesty out of it somewhat.
But I liked it.
Just a reminder, if you want to chip in for room hire, please get in contact with me via twitter, steam or email.
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Oh, thanks for the reminder!
I did a thing on the weekend, I moved data from one PS3 to another, less terrible PS3, and then I finished Bioshock Infinite.
So, how much longer is left until the transfer is complete?
I did a similar thing. I put my Lightning Returns saves onto a USB stick so I could move them to the bedroom PS3 (PS+ hadn’t uploaded my saves for two days for some unknown reason) in order to play in there while my husband used the loungeroom PS3. And then I played Lightning Returns all weekend. Best weekend.
Did you enjoy Bioshock Infinite?
I did, I heard that the ending was a bit confusing and off-putting for some, but I felt like it was an interesting way to end the game.
I’m gonna have to get me some of that Season Pass goodness.
That sounds like two things.
YOU WHOLE POST IS LIES.
This weekend has made me want to play Mirror’s Edge 2 more than anything else at this point in time……
Simply breathtaking game. [Simply…… literally and figuratively, the simplicity of ME just blows my mind, yet there is SO much detail in the world]
It has it’s problems, yes, but I’ll put that down to EA putting it’s draconian development time enforcement on that one. It’s been 6 years and I love the game as much as on day one. I want number two, oh yes I do 😀
And now I want to play it again!
Greatest thing I’ve seen all week.
Japan.
One of our most requested guests who calls us out on all of our shit.
It’s DAN & KARL VERSUS HOT ROSS! (aka @Rocketman)
His origin story, the real reason he bailed from The Big Smoke and the crime families who treat the Burdekin as their playground.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2014/02/17/dan-karl-versus-hot-ross-part-i/
Enjoy.
It’s impossible not to.
Part I? The suspense.
This is the tame half.
Hola. Various things:
– Since the GTA Online money grab, my friends and I went from $1-2bil to around $250K. I’m mad, and I’m gonna lodge support ticket with R*. If they don’t play ball, Xbox Live it is. We bought a second console, 2x GTA copies and 2x 1yr subs just to play this game. >:(
– I’ve heard of people saying they hate Halo ODST, but all I ever heard were complaints that the trooper wasn’t as powerful as Master Chief. No one ever said what a downright piece of shit game it is in terms of LIGHTING and the fact that there is none. Majority of our gameplay is spent with the shitty excuse for night vision turned on, which turns the world into a bland TRON-knockoff where every sharp edge is illuminated. Ugh, can’t wait to finish that game.
– I kinda played some games on weekend, which was awesomesauce. Mario WiiU, Remember Me, Guacamelee. All great games, much fun.
ODST was okay. The worst parts were definitely playing as the Rookie at night. Playing as the rest of the squad during the flashback missions was okay.
I personally loved the gloomy abandoned atmosphere of playing as the rookie at night just as much as I loved reliving the daytime missions. ODST might be my second favourite Halo game, after 3.
There’s a difference between gloomy and atmospheric, and shitty game design. There few lights that are present in the game don’t even reflect light properly and only illuminate a tiny area. Limits of the 360? – doubtful, and no excuse even if it was the case.
When you’re playing as a soldier from the distant future and you’re using a shitty excuse for nightvision and you’re still blindly running into walls to get out of an area, the devs messed up hardcore.
Wow. I never ran into that problem at all. I mean, yes – relying on the night-vision too much did ruin a fair degree of the atmosphere. Would’ve been good if it had a recharge timer or something, with level design modified appropriately, but it was never an active hindrance. (The shitty map took a long time to learn how to read properly, though.) Maybe your gamma/TV brightness needed adjustment?
In-game brightness setting does nothing, neither does TV brightness. This is because there’s literally zero light to begin with. There’s plenty of streetlamps and lights in the world, but it’s like they turned all light effects and reflections off. So, there’s nothing to increase the brightness of.
I’m also not a n00b (not that you said it!) and this is the darkest game I’ve ever played due to the shitty graphics. Not even Amnesia/Fear/Metro is this bad – at least on those you have light sources and affective reflections.
Actually… do you remember if you ran off the DVD or if you installed the game? Perhaps it’s a glitch, since I did install.
If it’s total absence of light, I wouldn’t rule out glitches. I was pretty sure there was some form of ambient lighting pretty much everywhere, usually in ways to subtly direct you through the level (and sometimes not at all subtly). Though I did install, too.
I am pretty sure I ran off the discsince Halo 3 multipalyer wasn’t optimised for install and Bungie recommended against it, but I seriously did not experience anything like the absence of light you did. I can’t explain your glitch but the night missions weren’t as dark as you’re suggesting. I know that’s subjective, but still.
I’m actually liking the game, for sure, it’s just it’s so fucking dark. Ugh.
The thing that got me about ODST was that they tried to make it feel like a different style of game in a way but it played pretty much identically. If they’d changed it up more and made it more stealthy (make it like a Halo Dishonoured mashup) I think it could have been a far better game
Yeah, there were a lot of areas where you could see they were allowing you to make some stealthy decisions, but the majority of the game seemed to be engineered towards allowing your attempts at stealth to give you maybe one or two freebies, at which point you’re back into fragile-version-of-master-chief-mode.
I didn’t mind ODST but it definitely felt like an Expansion Pack for Halo 3, rather than a game in its own right like Reach was.
That’s probably because of the format, huh? Explore > find stuff > do the short 1 mission from the found evidence > continue.
No, it’s because it was originally an expansion pack for Halo 3, but after that game was so successful Bungie basically bought themselves back from Microsoft, but Microsoft still had them on the hook for two more Halo games, so they spun ODST into a full game.
I have two stories for everyone this morning! The first is that I created my first gaming app over the weekend, yay! Two full days of work, or about twenty hours. That’s about it – one story down.
The second: I awoke early this morning to my wife desperately trying to calm me down due to a violent nightmare I was having. Apparently I was progressively panting. Once I knew where I was, I began inhaling deeply to calm myself (woosa, woosa) and then we both went back to sleep.
Talking about it once we were up, I explained that I had dreamt about a home invasion. Of course, she didn’t believe it and thought that I really dreamt about having sex with another woman.
Just tell her you were and that was the nightmare, sex with anyone else is a horrible thought.
Yeah I my mind and I must really hate each other with how many times I get nightmares, definitely not fun to go through.
My nightmares usually have many Zombies in them, and other times Raptors and I don’t have any onboard weapons or anything, not even strength (As in feeling like you’re underwater-style punches), completely helpless. It’s really hard for me to sleep after one of those. The worst nightmares I have are reliving bad memories from my childhood, then I just wake up with tears in my eyes.
So you’re saying the answer to “Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep” is no?
Correct. It is said that when Robots dream of sheep, they see the ones like in Worms where they can explode
The regular exploding sheep or the later super-sheep?
While we’re on the topic, where the hell does a WORM get a pocket big enough to hold a bloody SHEEP??
A home invasion…of sexy naked ladies
I sometimes wake up because I’ve punched/kicked the window so hard that you can see the reverberations.
!!! REPOST !!!
One of our most requested guests who calls us out on all of our shit.
It’s DAN & KARL VERSUS HOT ROSS! (aka @rocketman)
His origin story, the real reason he bailed from The Big Smoke and the crime families who treat the Burdekin as their playground.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2014/02/17/dan-karl-versus-hot-ross-part-i/
Enjoy.
It’s impossible not to.
Sent a joke in reply to a group work email. A few seconds later I hear my boss (who sits next to me) do one of those blow-air-out-of-your-nose half laughs. Then he sent a return email:
“bahahahaha”
You did not laugh that hard! I know you didn’t!
I do that with my 2-3up manager every now and then. Last time I was making fun of this Acronym for a new product that had a lot of consecutive “C”s in it, so I expanded even further, including words like ‘Cheerful’, ‘Calamari’, ‘Campaign’ and ‘Cheeky’, making the amount of Cs very very long haha. He was laughing pretty loudly and he sits beyond the short wall in front of me.
Sounds better than BAOOYNHL.
How would you feel if he replied with “Fffff!” ?
That would actually be hilarious.
I’d be more crushed if he didn’t laugh/reply at all 😛
*snort caused by restrained jubilation*
next time ask him to reply with: ” *sigh* “
bahahahaha
Fuel has got to the point where $80 only barely fills my tank past halfway 🙁
…jesus. Are fuel prices just way better in the ACT? Pretty sure it’s less than $100 to fill my X-Trail.
I used to get a full tank from $40!
Car could barely make it up a slight hill, but hey 😛
I still remember petrol being under 70 cents a litre. I miss that.
Showing my age here, but when I was a kid, petrol was expensive at 30c/L!
I’ve chosen the best time to buy my first car :\
What’d you get?
Toyota Camry Touring (1999)
Was in imaculate condition, was bought new by a dude that gave it to his daughter and they both kept it serviced, only had 134,000 klms too, Taken it to Forster (9 hour drive from Brisbane) and back and it didn’t skip a beat.
That was a reliable car. I imagine it’s not too bad on fuel efficiency for it’s age either. My ’99 Sonata was good for it’s class and it’s age, though mine had 340,000kms when we got it on it because it started life as a company car for a sales rep (based on the log books, anyway). We were the 5th owners I think.
yeah, really good on fuel considering the size, I shopped around for like 6 months, I had plenty of time to make sure i got one in good condition, cause I know very little about cars so the less I have to worry about the better.
Whoa! That’s nuts! $80 on a good day completely fills my BF XR6.
VE SV6 at $1.89 a litre.
Average is maybe $1.53 here….
Yeah, I’m gonna say $1.89 is not a good day.
If it’s over $1.50 i just put $20 in, but fill up whenever it’s around $1.40… I hate that $1.40 has become the “cheap” price.
Where are you? I would kill for those prices..
Southern Sydney… most places it’s around $1.58 atm, but a local Caltex was $1.43 at the end of last week.
*edit*
That’s for e10.
Still cheaper than E10 here.. Ranges between $1.55 & $1.65
Really? I’ve been filling up around 150-160/L for premium 98 the last few months.
Whoa, 179 for RON98 here.
When you say tank, are you talking petrol tank in a car or M1A1 Abrams style?
If the latter I think 80 bucks is pretty economical
Fuel went up because of gov tax. Tax removed, fuel went up again. AUD really high, fuel went up. AUD down a bit, fuel up again.
tl;dr a pidgeon died and fuel price went up.
Whoa. How often do you need to fill up?
A full tank for mine is about $85, using 98 unleaded (I void the warranty on the engine if I put standard 91 in) and that’ll last me about a week and a half, so about 800km.
I filled my car with E10 for just over $40 yesterday. Would have been just under if I’d filled it on Thursday, but no, I did it at the end of the weekend like an idiot.
Our car is small and efficient and we don’t drive much so one tank usually does us for the month unless we do an unusual amount of visiting family. Made it to Tomerong and back on 3/4 of a tank, and that was a 400km round trip. It estimates a maximum range of 350km for city driving though.
What the fuck.. Where was this? I hope at that price it was 98 and not 95.. Though saying that I paid close to that a litre for 95 the other week, ugh.
The Matilda Blue on Stuarts Rd.
And yes it was 98.
Man, that sucks. Your car can run E80 though, right? There’s a fuel station near me that sells E80 I bet it’s cheap!
I swear it was only like $100 to fill your car with the good stuff when I was driving it. That’s ridiculous o.0
Gotta take my car in to get fixed today.
Hope it doesn’t take too long. I hate being without it.
Hands up who else immediately thought of a joke involving the back seat of the car
o/
Repost from old TAY
Is anyone still playing Bravely Default, I finally got it and need some friends to summon / help build my town 😀
thanks @batto for adding me
Me! I just got it a week ago!
Because that’s when it came out here.
Taynames says my friend code is 3566-1805-8818
cool, I’ll add you when I get home, can you link me TAYnames and I”ll finally add my code.
Add me as well! http://www.tinyurl.com/taynames
will do, won’t be till after 5 I’m at work 🙁
I haven’t even started yet. I found out that the main story is about sixty hours though, so in short – it kinda went to the bottom of my Pile-of-Shame. Short campaign games are first.
well add me when you’re playing, by the sounds of it I’ll still be playing.
Haven’t started it yet, but nearly finished Fire Emblem so not far off now.
sweet, we can pal up (each friend halves build time so it’s really useful, plus you can summon friends in a fight)
If anyone’s interested, I done did maded the videos of the Titanfalls
I also had the breakdowns of the languages.
Are you recording using FRAPS or something? I kind of wish I had videos of some of the killstreaks I went on last night.
Also, Titanfall karate kick montage!
Nah I’m using bandicam, way lower in size than fraps and isn’t as much of a cpu hog though the quality is admittedly not as nice. I’m thinking of trying the NVidia shadowplay thing since my gameplay while recording was a bit patchy, not sure if that’s the game or the capturing. Either that or hook the live gamer portable up to my monitor instead and run the game through that
*opens link, sees Smart Gun*
*…adds @aliasalpha to the list*
Nice. I watched the whole thing. I have to give kudos for the text overlay. It is easily distinguishable, and it actually fits the aesthetic of the game quite well. Good job on that front.
Thanks, I always like to try and get the same font or at least a close lookalike for doing game captions, gives it a bit more consistency than 12 point times new roman.
Okay, for some weird reason, my fightsticks are having problems in Skullgirls,.
It was all fine and dandy before, but now they’re mapped to certain keyboard inputs that I can’t change. 🙁
EDIT: fixed, had to turn off Xpadder. \o/
Ever work out your PS3 sound capture issues?
Note to self, refresh page before asking questions…
Hello TAYbes, I figured I might as well ask here, but does anyone know if their workplace has any graduate positions open in Melbourne/Vic?
Thanks!
Greenius! You can have my job – I don’t really want it! I’m sort of just forced to keep doing it because, you know, my wife and kid like to eat and what not. No biggie. #Helping.
I wouldn’t be applying to graduate position. Apply for another similar entry-level place. Graduate positions are: lower-paid, lower-tiered, extremely competitive.
That’s true! But how would I go about finding them? At the moment the plan is to just type “graduate” into SEEK and apply from there as well as applying to relevant graduate programs. The problem I have with more specific entry level stuff is that I’m not too sure what positions I’d be best suited for and what each one entails.
What’s your education? And areas of work you’re looking at? I can perhaps assist.
I found that anything that has the word ‘graduate’ was kinda outta the question for me. There are other entry-level positions (they have entry-level in description), and even plenty of other positions. The thing is, it’s hard to find – and doubly hard to look at the description and ‘1-2 years experience required’ and not just skip over it.
The reality is that you can apply for these positions even if you don’t meet the requirements. Depending on the position and number of applicants, you still have a fighting chance.
In any case, work experience trumps all.
Like I said I’m not too sure about specific positions and areas of work :(, but I did a Bachelor of Business at Monash University because business sounded like a pretty broad degree and should (hopefully) be relevant to most things.
As for work experience nothing formal and in an office yet but I’ve just done casual work but they’ve given me enough relevant skills. The plan is to just get a low entry position/graduate for a couple of years for the experience and then find something else.
Do you have a plan for yourself, like a 5-10 year plan?
With Back of Business, you’re in a good position. It is indeed broad and counts as an academic degree, so you can apply for pretty much anything that’s asking for anything academic-related.
This is what I’d do in your position: research what actual pathways are open to you. Pick a couple that seem interesting right now – you’ll change your path in 5-10 years anyway. Apply for some jobs that seem somewhat relevant to your 5-10 year end goal. 1 year in a position is plenty, 2 years is plenty too. Move around the industry gaining experience/knowledge, ergo credibility. After a couple job hops, the basket where you choose jobs from will be pretty big and you’ll have a great chance to be picked.
I didn’t do Business, so I can’t give actual recommendations on pathways etc.
What sort of background do you have? I’ll have a look but I suspect most of our openings are in the Sydney branch if there are any.
I majored in Banking and Finance and Econometrics. I’m tech savvy and whatnot and I’ve worked as a Brand Ambassador which involves talking to lotsa people and cross-selling products.
Job hunting sucks.
I thought grad job hunting would be a cinch. Now i’m huddled in a corner laughing maniacally because the only other option is to cry.
You know what hunting is fun? Monster Hunting! (we never played together 🙁 )
I’ve got to go to a wedding in 2 weeks.
can someone please tell me wtf a ‘smart casual’ dress code actually is?
Pants that are nice (Jeans are okay if they’re good jeans). Button up shirt. Shoes that do not look like a dog has eaten half of them.
Well, that’s what I interpret it as, and I’ve never been kicked out of an event for my clothing.
ok. decent black jeans, shirt, blazer… footwear is tricky coz I only own converse. I can get away with cons, right?
Converse is okay if they look new and aren’t flashy colours etc.
If I get kicked out of one of my closest friends’ wedding because of footwear, I’m blaming you.
Ha! But, if you get kicked out, they are also assholes. You open a can of worms when you say ‘smart casual’, because the range of clothing that fits the description is huge. The only way to be certain of a standard baseline is to say ‘formal’.
Nice pants/jeans, button-up shirt (not necessarily tucked in), belt, casual shoes (inc. cons). Done.
I think its generally considered to be “I’m going out to dinner with friends so I don’t need to wear a suit or any of that shit but its a restaurant with other people around so I can’t wear those tracky dacks with holes in the arse”
I’ve got a wedding to go to as well! But apparently they are buying me a shirt to wear, so I don’t have to worry! \o/
They told me it was so that my shirt matched the dress of the other witness, but it’s probably because of my horrible fashion sense.
T-shirt, jeans, suit jacket.
Or boardshorts and nerd glasses.
Jeans + button-up shirt. Maybe nice shoes aswell.
If you know the bride, the best thing to do is to ask her. There are varying interpretations of what smart casual means to people.
Hey guys, since I’m back I’m finally organising this Lion King thing, with a bit of help from Rocketbuddy.
Since there’s a gathering happening on the 22nd of March (that’s a Saturday), we were going to go and see it on the 21st (that’s a Friday). So if anyone is able to be in Sydney at 8PM on a Friday, you’re welcome to come.
Since there are very few tickets this close to the date, we’ll probably be buying them soon, like, on Friday or something. So I guess if people are interested, send an email to blaghman (at) gmail (dot) com, and what I’ll probably get you to do is send some money to either Rocketbuddy or me, and we can buy you a ticket when we do so. Alternately, people could just go buy tickets themselves for that date. There’s a small number of seats available at both the $60 point and the $128 point. I can’t remember if there’s some element in Capitol that makes the back super bad, but from memory you’re just sort of… really far back. Hardly the end of the world. And there’s only like 6 rows between the doubling price point, so probably best to go cheap.
Anyway, yeah, sorry for being so bad about organising this, but hopefully we can get a small group together, even if the timing isn’t good for out-of-staters.
(cc. @powalen, @mash- Oh. *Starts sobbing*, @likethosetwentypeoplewhoshowedinterestwhoI’vefigittenbecauseI’manumpty)
One art, please!
http://i.imgur.com/oEywGB7.gif
Let me save you $60, folks.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
ZABENYAAAAAAAAAAAAa
MA MA ZIT HM WENYA
~Fin~
Rafiki drops Simba. He survives the fall, and turns to the dark side.I should probably organise something for the 22nd soon.
Alas, the 21st I’m doing things we people from work as it’s mine and like 4 other peoples birthdays that week.
So remember me complaining i never got a titanfall beta code?
turns out Gmail decided to hide it from me, it wasn’t in my inbox OR my spam folder, but when i searched “titanfall” in my inbox i found it… i have no idea why it wouldn’t show up before…
BUT HEY I’M IN AND THE GAME IS PRETTY COOL MAY PRE-ORDER NOW, YOU WIN ADVER-BETA
Gmail… does that?
*paranoid*
It totally does. I checked my spam folder for something a couple weeks ago and found a bunch of bills and letters and gaming notifications I’d never seen before.
I check my spam daily, but the Grandmaster is talking about emails that aren’t in either Inbox or Spam, and yet still exist…
Oh! I misread. Wow.
I once missed out on free tickets to see Sick Of It All a couple of years back but that was due to not checking my emails properly. When my girlfriend cleaned my inbox out of 5000 emails, I have no idea why she did it, she came across that email and I wasn’t in the good books for a little while. Wish I could’ve blamed that on the spam folder
I went for a haircut yesterday and I had a pretty interesting conversation with the girl cutting my hair. We talked about career aspirations, university / tafe, work and family / self time balance. I really enjoyed it.
Then she said: “You watch the Big Bang theory?”.
To which I replied: “Nah, not really.”
Then she started to explain the show, and the characters, etc… It was a special kind of hell.
No one’s perfect. My advice: marry her and then try to change her.
How could I ever marry someone that likes that TV show? If we got married and had children it would tear our family apart. No matter what, the kids would disappoint one of us and would turn to a life of violence, crime and drugs. Eventually they be found dead in a ditch all because I married someone that liked The Big Bang Theory!
Oh, also she was already getting married to someone else next month.
Fine, just ignore my terrible advice 🙁
Big Bang Theory is awesome. 🙂
Bazinga
Bazinga…
ha, I would have put earphones in and ended up with an ugly spite fueled haircut
Don’t wrong the person with sharp instrument around your head. D=
… i like the Big Bang Theory :'(
…why?
I like the humour?
*pats Pixel’s back* we’re not a very liked bunch around here 🙁
Lol ah well, matters not, i still think it’s hilarious 😛
and i adore Jim Parsons acting, cracks me up every time
AM I A MAAAAAAAAAAAAN, OR AM I A MUPPET?
… DAMMIT @shane,
NOW THAT’S GOING TO STUCK FOR WEEEEEEEEKS ლ(ಠ益ಠ)ლ
I just found it a breath of fresh air to the usual reality show/home and away garbage that TV is spewing out way more than this. I’m not offended in the slightest by it “making fun” of people like us, though I don’t personally see that, and my girlfriend finds it hilarious too.
Quick, you only have until next month to disrupt the wedding! QUIIIIIICK!
I liked the first episode …
*watches first episode*
Wow, that was pretty funny.
*watches second episode*
That was pretty funny , although it seemed oddly familiar.
*watches episode 3*
hold on, every episode is basically the same.
*watched episode 4 *
…yup.
Yep, oddly enough i’m OK with that 😛
i just like how it attempts to bring in (and sometimes horribly fails) gaming culture… and somehow i still find awesome and hilarious 😛
I hated it so much to begin with. It just felt offensive, like the nerd equivalent of blackface or something.
Admittedly it’s gotten better since then, but I still hate myself any time it makes me chuckle 😛
At this stage i just laugh at horrible wrong they sometimes get it… and then when they do get it right i laugh because “it’s true”… i like my gaming but i’m perfectly OK with people making fun of it, i’m not easily offended 😛
I’m the opposite. I actually felt it was far more sympathetic at the start, and progressively got more and more anti-nerd as it went on 😛
I stopped watching after the 2nd season because I figure most shows can’t survive intact after more than two seasons. I left thinking it was pretty great because it didn’t try to fake geek-jokes with some made-up properties, but stayed true to the source material. When the boys get into arguments about Superman and shit, they’re REAL ‘comic book nerd’ arguments, not just shit the writers made up that says to jocks and bogans, “Hurrr, this is what nerds talk about to each other.”
I think I lasted three seasons, and have seen intermittent episodes since then. I don’t want to necessarily blame the introduction of new female cast members for the show’s decline, but both events did happen concurrently.
It’s a Sitcom, it’s their formula, always has been.
I used to like it?
shave your hair. Costs a lot less in the longrun plus it avoids social interaction. Win win in my books
or do what I do and just let it grow, even less effort than shaving, although it does need brushing, I went from a shaved head to this so I approve of either end of the scale, no inbetween O_O
Win/half win for me. I like that I don’t have to awkwardly try and organise a haircut any more. But on the other, I miss my hairdresser. She was lovely.
I’m sure she misses you too.
One, two, three.. yep, that’s three jokes about your rampaging sexual exploits. That’ll do until tomorrow.
How is organising a haircut awkward?!
Does everybody on TAY hate social interactions or something?
*puts hand up*
yep 😛
I’d answer but it’d be a bit too social for me…
Because either I had to send a message, which means who knows how long til a reply will appear. Or to get an immediate response, call up. But that means figuring out when the best time is to call. 9-5, oh she’s probably at work. 5-6, oh she’s probably on her way home. 6-8, oh, she’s probably having dinner. 8+ hmm… getting kinda late, maybe I should just leave it til tomorrow. Rinse and repeat.
And then even once it’s initiated, you have to try and figure out a time that works. On the one hand there’s the one that works for me, but then there’s the part about not wanting to inconvenience her and force my schedule upon her and I already feel like I’m being a bother to begin with why did I even do this in the first place augh.
It’s fucking hard, man.
Jesus it’s been a good two/three years since I last did that but still it’s all there…Can’t you just go to the hairdressers and be all like, “Hi, I’m here for a haircut”, then they’d be all like “sure, right this way”, or “our next available opening is in half an hour, is that alright?”, to which you say, “sure, no problem”, then you come back in half an hour and get your haircut.
There we go, I just provided a haircut booking template for all of TAY to use. YOU’RE WELCOME!!!
Nah, this was a friend who just did it at her place. And with mate’s rates too which was nice 😛
I had a friend who did that, but she was pretty terrible. Now I go to a barber down the road from work and he’s awesome AND his prices are fantastic. Sometimes I have to wait, but usually I just call up and say, “Hey, are you busy around X time? Oh, how about Y time? Awesome, I’ll be around then’ish.”
@transientmind Mine was pretty awesome. Really knew her stuff, I even took my ex to see her once when she was over here for a visit, gave her this asymmetrical thing that really suited her and she loved. Took along my sister a few times as well, because she hates hairdressers after a really bad incident with one ages ago.
Actually she was another random meet person. I went to one of my uni friends’ 21sts and while I was there, got talking to this girl. Somehow or other, she ended up giving me a lift back to a station closer to home, where my mum met up with us and brought me home. Ended up bugging my friend for her number I think (?!?!?!), got her on MSN and chatted a few times. Then about a year after complete radio silence, she reappears on MSN and asks who I am, unable to remember. Chat for a bit, then she tells me I should come to her work for a haircut. Took her up on it and then just kept going back, following to whichever salon she’s relocated to 😛
*hides behind fringe*
I’d find a new hairdresser. If you got to discuss all that while she cut one hair, clearly she needs more training! :p
BOARD GAMES AND FUD!
So it turns out that International Tabletop Day is on April 5 and Orange’s food week thingy is on from April 4-13.
This seems like a good combination for all the people that mentioned that they kind of sorta wanted to drop by Dubbo at some point along the year.
People could come via Orange and do some cider making or whatever (and @novacascade can help out with the whole organising thing) and then come up to Dubbo that evening for board games. Stay overnight/crash at a motel and then more board games before heading home later.
It’s all a bit up in the air but if people are considering making the drive, might as well make it a bit more of a thing and try to co-ordinate multiple people coming at once.
Maaan, that sounds kind of fun. But I’ll be busy on that day.
Board games are more important than measly accolades.
Pick your favourite of the many poor excuses I made up and put it here.
I’ll choose for you!
“I would go, but it’s Dubbo and hhahhaahhahahaaaahahahhaha as if I want to go to Dubbo”
I already miss my car 🙁
Now how are you supposed to pick up [redacted] nice females?
Manually?
“Yo gurl, wanna hop in my ride? It’s long and cylindrical…”
*Points to train*
You guys have weird trains.
Automatics are better
If you’re a woman.
Or sane enough to realise that there’s no point doing extra work when there’s no real benefit to it
IE: a man.
😛
(sexism jokes aside (although even my sister says that automatic is for girls) I can’t stand having to drive auto, both because it’s boring and I feel like I have less control. Way too often it won’t shift gears when I need it to or uses the wrong one instead and just generally drives me insane)
Or automatic is for those who have permanent leg injuries that make it next to impossible to use a clutch without causing nerve pain (i.e. Me)
@tech_knight Shhhh, you’re taking all the fun out of it with your serious 😛
When do you NEED the super responsiveness of manual gearing? Also if driving is boring, that probably means you aren’t paying enough attention to the road (or have good drivers around you all the time but that’s just wild fantasy)
Inappropriate timing on gear-changes drives me NUTS with automatics as well. It can be tighter than that, dammit! OPTIMAL SPEED.
For the longest time, whenever you saw in comics, TV, movies, whatever, one of the characters asks, “Can you drive stick?” I thought they meant some kind of weird truck-specific kind of drive, like there was something out there more complicated than manual gear-shifting.
No, apparently there are just a shitload of people out there who have been done the grave injustice of not being taught how to drive a manual.
I don’t mind. They’ll be among the first to die in the apocalypse – I’ll be pulling their skeletons out of my new ride.
@transientmind I won’t be the first to die in the apocalypse, but I’ve driven a manual car on less than five occasions, so I’m likely to be a liability to a group of survivors and will probably be killed for meat shortly down the track. If that’s the case, I just want to let you know in advance that you were right. If that doesn’t end up happening, I’ll recant on my old-age deathbed.
@aliasalpha I drive in Sydney. You need every bit of responsiveness you can get, fuckers be crazy here 😛
Pfft, you just need to learn how to drive auto! They are pretty predictable so you can really get them to do what you want. Also, they do come with manual-shift modes if required.
The only time they’re somewhat required for a normal passenger car, is if you have an awesome sports car with LSD and a burning hole in your pocket for tyres. Even then……..
I heard that manual gears last longer and are cheaper, but that’s about it.
With guns.
By which I mean his ripped arms.By which I mean his arms would be ripped from their sockets if he tried to carry all the girls who want him.Dangit, what is that, joke five now? 🙂
I know, they’re hard to resist. Just li– *gags self*
THREE. There have only been three… for
todaythis page.@mythamphetamine @blaghman @Tech_knight @novacascade @popdart5 @mawt @tigerion
NUMENERA : TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
What will the orangecloaks spill? Where is Raller Cay?
Wednesday, 7:30 Sa time
Also, @gingerchris86 is keen to sit in and watch, are we all happy with that?
Sure, could do with a small audience. What happened to the streaming idea? Not enough backers to warrant it I guess…
Also, the dice-gods better be smiling on me this time… I bled for them previously
I was going to float that when we start the next adventure – thought we could do a quick “state of the campaign”
That’d be very interesting to do
Sounds good!
Massively late on the confirm but I’m still up for it. I’m not really able to log into TAY much this week but Twitter me if something goes awry.
I got the audio output in my Roxio Game Capture HD working properly! \o/
I had to select analog audio from the PS3’s audio settings.
More e-mail agonising. Need to talk to the course coordinator about considering dropping out, but the words are hard to find. Should just copy+paste the conversation with a friend that I had last night about it. Except that’s fallen off the edge because Skype is a fuck.
Dear [course co-ordinator],
I know, I know: this is really awkward. But given what happened between us, I think it’s best I drop out of the course. Please don’t take it personally; I just gotta sow my wild oats elsewhere for a while, and I want to spare us both the pain of having you see that.
Kind regards,
Gooky
So that’s the sixth Gooky joke today, and the third for this page…
What? Really? I’ve done that many…?
I mean: quiet, you. 😛
Well break it down into core reasons and expand from there
“I can’t manage the time commitment”
“Medical issues prevent me from dedicating myself to the subject”
“I’ve lost my passion for the subject”
“If I have to spend one more day in the same room as that prick who constantly sniffs every few seconds I’ll cave his skull in with the nearest chair”
Dear dude.
When a course gets too much,
Drop it like it’s hot
When it’s not what I want to do
Drop it like it’s hot
So yours sincerely from gooky, I’m gonna
Drop it like.it’s hot
Peace out
Gooky.
All to the tune of Kirby!
Twitch Plays Pokemon in a nutshell:
Watch for five minutes where they’re stuck on a random route.
Turn on stream a few hours later, still in the same spot.
Turn on stream a few hours later, holy shit, they beat a gym leader.
Turn on stream a few hours later, they’re stuck on a random route.
My favourite part so far was when they were half way through the Dark Cave and apparently used an escape rope.
EDIT: I didn’t actually see it, but it was being discussed when I was checking where they were up to.
Wait what?
Hahaha holy shit.
Nah, one of the Pokemon knows dig, it happened a few times. =P
Ah, it was dig was it? Still funny haha.
THE DIG \o/
Sigh, have an upvote.
I joined when they were crossing Nugget bridge and watched until about their 3rd attempt at fighting Misty. Then when I came back 12 hours later they were still trying to get out of Cerulean city, having finally visited Bill and beaten Misty. I heard about 6 hours later they were stuck in the ledges on route 9. I haven’t checked in lately but apparently they’d made it through the rock cave and to the next pokemon centre, which I assumed was in lavender town.
I have no idea how they’re going to pass the trash can puzzle to get to Lt. Surge.
The chat is the funniest part.
“Let’s go get TM45 and throw it away”
“I think the problem we’re having is we’re not checking the Pokedex enough”
They beat the 4th gym (Erika) about 30mins ago.
Holy shit for real? I’m going to have to tune back in tonight.
My wife has no knowledge of Pokemon so I had to find a decent map of Kanto and explain the route of the game, point to where they were up to, and explain that you’d normally finish the game in less time than it had taken them to get to the second gym.
They spent 7 hours or more trying to get past this simple ledge on the way to the Rock Tunnel, not to mention the stream seems to be getting more and more popular, I think a 3rd party has interfered with the game because the rattata with dig was banked and the start throttle was introduced.
I look forward to them trying to do Victory Road. You know, the boulder puzzles that 1 wrong move requires it to be reset by exiting the room.
Also the route to there has another ledge where if they jump over it they will need to go back to the start of it again.
I assume they will get stone walled trying to get the surf HM, I honestly don’t see these guys coordinating less than 500 steps in the safari zone.
SAVE US HELIX FOSSIL!
Maybe we should use the SS Ticket!
Maybe i should check the pokedex…. just in case somethings changed…
GOTTA LOOK AT BULBASAUR!
Oh thank Christ, Bulbasaur is still a “Seed” type Pokémon.
You know what i’d like to do? hear his cry 20 times in a row
I have the urge to see this sort of hivemind experiment extend to something that doesn’t have a fail state. Something like Secret of Monkey Island.
Maybe it could be done with some sort of grid overlay on the screen and numbers would correspond to a click on that part of the screen.
I don’t think they could complete the grog juggling puzzle to open the cell door.
But no fail states means no risk!
It’s amazing the strategies that are cropping up in an attempt to avoid getting stuck though. The reason they’re keeping a slot open in the party is to accommodate getting Lapras from the Silph Co building without having to log into the PC (and risk Pidgeot being accidentally released), which is the only sure-fire way to be able to surf to Cinnabar Island.
I was wondering about the Lapras thing and how risky it would be to try to get it from the PC. Must have still been kinda risky doing the deposit to open that spot.
All for nothing anyway because (reading up on it now) apparently they went and got the free Eevee instead and bought a Firestone 😛 Going to need to go to the PC again eventually…
The “Release” option is right next to the “Deposit” option in Gen 1…
Can someone explain this to me?
Someone wrote a program that parses phrases in Twitch chat as inputs in a Gameboy emulator to play Pokemon. Now up to 45 thousand people are simultaneously submitting inputs for a game of Pokemon Red.
Here’s the progress they’ve made so far.
Oh dear.
Got a letter in the mail, I got a free extended (+2 yrs, +100K km) warranty on my car.
That certainly doesn’t happen every day. Wtf.
Oh I have photo’s for you by the way 😉
Yay!
I’m hungry, have no food nor money on my person, and have to walk to the city to pick up a cert that I didn’t calculate into today. I hate the days just before payday when you’re seemingly living off scraps.
On the plus side, I have an interview tomorrow for a job that’s come out of the blue. Looks like the beard’s getting trimmed tonight to look somewhat respectable again (that’s not a euphemism)
Upvote for interview, downvote for hunger, but somehow you still get an upvote! Yay! 😀
All I have is a bottle that did have frozen orange squash in it. Now it’s melted down to a phallic shaped piece of yellow/orange ice…
I do have $1.80 in change. I must hunt down a hashbrown 😀
Or buy a loaf of Coles bread for a dollar. Got margarine? Toast! Toast for days.
I have a $20 voucher from my flybuys card that I’m gonna make the most of tonight. Now was more focused on what am I going to do for lunch, but I just realised I left half a container of rice in the fridge at work 😀
I got myself into some serious money trouble many years ago, and I learned the hard way how to survive on practically nothing. Every now and then the old habits resurface.
good old money troubles. I have a few of my own. Slowly paying off a multitude of debts is not fun. Little victories though when something gets paid off in full. This week will be the added bonus of the final payment of two shitty loans.
Suffice to say, I think my credit history is shot for the next 5 years 🙁
Is flybuys worth getting? They keep asking me if I have it when I do the shopping, I’m just wondering how much I’m missing out on, paranoid that I could have earned 2 or perhaps even 3 dollars in rewards
Heh, at the start of PAX week I bought myself a loaf of fruit bread and a jar of jam. I was set for breakfast and/or late night snacks for the entire trip 😛
Was also done out of personal necessity, since I pretty much need to eat as soon as I wake up and didn’t want to have to wait for the rest of my friends to get ready to leave so we could find food.
Peanut butter works better with fruit loaf
I upvoted because he pretended it wasn’t a euphemism, and I find that level of denial kind of tragically cute.
I’m so trimming my beard tonight. Trimmin it reeeeeeeeeeeeeal good
My Skullgirls Gameplay vid is up! \o/
interesting, i also Solo Ms.Fortune 😛
My main three are Ms.Fortune, Filia and Cerebella.
It’s always a combination of those three for me.
Taskbar on the left? How exotic…
It took me a while to get used to it, but it’s fantastic on a 1680×1050 monitor.
Watching the first season of Supernatural. God, the characters look so young. It’s actually a bit freaky.
One of my favourite gifs ever.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i4ZZtnUAGlw/TymvDAbtRwI/AAAAAAAAArg/zTD_ZeOSulc/s1600/supernatural-mouths-open.gif
I don’t think we got past much of Season 1. Must correct this injustice
The first season is the best season! I love all the urban legend episodes, they’re hands down my favourite episodes (especially the Bloody Mary episode). And yeah, they both look so young! It’s pretty cool watching them get older as the seasons go on though.
I also stopped at the end of the first season. I saw some episodes from season 2 while they were on TV, but it really seemed like they were reaching. I can’t believe they got up to six seasons.
Yeah, they started to focus more after season one on a particular storyline that’s carried it through all other seasons. It’s not a bad storyline, but I feel that it kinda took away from some of its charm and fun.
And they’re up to like season 9 now I think :\
It’s still a good show, but it doesn’t have the same charm as season one did.
I think you mean, I can’t believe it was renewed for season ten.
…
Edit: I shouldn’t be surprised. My one-time roomie would not shut the fuck up about Jensen Ackles, to the point that I now know his name despite not caring about him. I’m guessing the power of womanly tingles cannot be underestimated.
Season one and two, my favourites by far. Also, I stopped watching completely at the end of season six. Really want to get back into but. So. Difficult. With boring episodes. It’s almost like grinding.
I unplugged my last Xbox 360 last night. It’s sitting in a pile in the corner of our lounge, ready to join its sisters in a plastic bin in my storage unit. There’s still two or three X360 games I haven’t played or haven’t finished which I’d like to play at some point but I haven’t even turned the system on to play a game since about June last year, and haven’t spent any long period of gaming time since Halo 4. Unplugging it gives me a permanent spot to install my PS4 instead.
This also means it’s probably time to box up the remainder of my X360 games collection and probably go through it all and get rid of some of them. So there may be some TAY game giveaways upcoming.
Could you not just get a HDMI switcher or something so you don’t have to box it up or is this a physical space issue?
Physical space issue, also simplification and why have it plugged in if I haven’t used it for a new game in over a year? X360 has no exclusives any more (this started a few years ago). Everything is either on PC or on PS3, and the true exclusives are moving to Xbone instead. Plus around 2010 or so, around when they released Kinect, I felt like they lost their way and stopped making as many games I cared for in the first place
Today’s unexpected discovery: Lightning’s name is actually Claire. Based off what I’ve seen of Lightning Returns, her middle name is ‘Jesus’ as well.
I could be wrong, but that sounds kinda like a spoiler.
I don’t think her middle name is really Jesus… 😛
…
…
…I meant her first name.
nah, it’s been mentioned somewhere before, I knew this already and haven’t played Returns
Yeah, it was the end of the first game IIRC
yep, just did some googelzing, it was in chapter 11 of XIII
I dunno if it is or not. I’m going to go with not, since it really doesn’t affect anything and it’s probably never actually said in the games either.
The second part of that is a joke.
Claire Jesus Farron? I remember reading somewhere her name was Claire ages ago it stuck with me cuase they said her name is Eclair in the japanese version I like Eclair more
Eclair makes more sense. Though it’s a boy’s name. It literally means lightning.
But it always makes me think of delicious cream-filled pastries.
ha, had no idea it meant that, I also like delicious things.
I googled the name reveal, it was revealed in XIII chapter 11 so maybe a spoiler for XIII but not for Returns
You find out that her names Claire towards the end of FFXIII, not right at the end, but pretty much at the last quarter I think. Now I want to know her actual middle name! D:
Ugh, Bandicam is having problems, which sucks because I was originally using it for my Skullgirls video capture, but now it isn’t working. :\
Isn’t working how exactly? It’s not the most reliable program ever and does tend to crash a bit if you do stuff like tab out or force it to stop recording
It’s not picking up video during gameplay.
Maybe I’ll try temporarily disabling the other two monitors…
When was the last time you updated it? The most recent patch had some mention of fixing a bug where the encoder didn’t work properly if you were using dual monitors, the fault probably applied the same to triple
I’ve got it working. \o/
Turns out I needed to select “DirectX/OpenGL Window” as the target, instead of “Rectangle on a screen”.
Oooh yeah that’d do it. As I recall it, that IS the thing that can cause the recordings to break if the game crashes, it seems to require a clean exit from the window to finish the record correctly. As long as you don’t crash it should be grand though.
Anyone remember when Andy Millman went to the BAFTAs? For some reason I can’t get that episode out of my head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF2yT31FXTw
At least I’m unlikely to run into Ronnie Corbett in the bathroom, but just to be sure, I’m going to make sure I’ve gone before I leave home.Rockstar support ticket created in regards to $2bil being turned into $240K. It may seem like a #firstworldproblem, but when you’ve purchase two of each – 1r Live, Xbox, game – so my gf and I can shoot up still with our pals, there’s a lot more than epeen value going on. I will try the same with Xbox Live if I get no result. Worth a shot.
was all your money acquired through legit means? I had a tonne of money given to me by a guy in my crew and that was still taken from me, although it seems if you had your money not banked they couldn’t touch it, i managed to have 2.7 mill sitting in my pocket that never got swiped, lost 2.5 billion though. The only reason they even care is cause they’re trying to sell in game currency and all the funny money ruined their plans.
My money was split between money shared with me and some bounty kills. So all legit.
It’s also weird about the on-hand cash not being touched, since my friend had $300K on-hand. But the R* support article says they did indeed process on-hand money too…
weird, maybe they worked out that was my legit money. I think the problem is that they’re just sucking up all ill gotten gains even if someone shared the cash with you and you never actually did anything wrong.
Well, that’s their problem. They let it happen and go on for a good month or more. My gameplay has changed (read: improved) and it should be optional at this stage.
yeah, my argument was always that we are operating within the parameters of the code of the product we were sold, none of us hacked. It’s a total dick move and I’ve pretty much stopped playing it now, was having a blast but all the nerfing (especially xp nerfing) really got to me. Maybe I’ll go back if they ever actually add more content (aside from a weapon here or there)
XP nerfing; nerfing of job $$; no heists; allowing it to continue for months; unequal deduction of $$. And yeah, add in to that your above point – we didn’t cheat no abuse anything. Then, they didn’t remove any purchases, so if you bought everything maxed out you’re better off than I am now (6 car garage, 1 supercar only, etc). I’m expectantly awaiting their reply…. -_-
yeah, i lodged a support ticket with them about losing my first character (thanks cloud saving) & their response was pretty much, sorry try again
@gutsoup Ahh, unfortunate. I guess that would fall under the “R* owns everything you do” blanket. The money issue kinda does too, but I think I’ve made it clear why ultimately it doesn’t.
Starting playing my Gurpgork save file in Dark Souls again:
Just got past the Iron Golem and into Anor Londo. Picked up Greater Magic Weapon and starting leveling up towards being able to use it. I also upped my strength to try out some Greatswords I had picked up. Now I’m starting to regret that because I don’t really think that there’s any good strength weapons. Might have to count that stuff as a loss and start dumping into dexterity before it’s too late. I also seem to have forgotten to get that strange doll dohickey so that I can get into the Painted World and I can’t activate the shortcut in Sen’s Fortress.This has not been a well planned run.
I need to redo my fist weapons only run. PunchyMcPunchington needs to make a comeback.
What do you mean you can’t activate the shortcut? Just got to jump over the broken bridge to the other tower where that merchant dude is chilling and head to the bottom to get the key…I forgot to get the key. Just went and nabbed it now.Actually, on this point… what’s the deal with elemental weapons? I tried using the ‘magic weapon’ spell at some point and it seemed to turn my deadly slab of sharpened metal into a wiffle bat.
I levelled up a +15 normal and a +10 fire of exactly the same model sword and even when I use the fire weapon against enemies the wiki claims are ‘weak to fire’, the end-result on numbers over the enemies’ heads seems to be pretty dramatically in favour of the +15 normal. ‘A’ level strength affinity 50 strength seems to be outweighing the benefit of elemental weaknesses.
Does this sound right, or is the elemental weakness being overestimated in the wiki?
A strength scaling with 50 strength is going to be better than pretty much any elemental differences.
Awh. All that wasted soul-farming to build the perfect weapons… Oh well. I guess I still need divine for the skeletons and uhm… I guess that’s it. Oh, fire for those poisonous corpses in the painted world.
Skeletons don’t respawn if you kill the necromancer in their area and the poisonous corpses in the Painted World aren’t a fuss if you just step back after killing them.
I probably shouldn’t even really be bothered by poison at this stage, I’ve been through Darkroot Garden so often I’m SWIMMING in purple moss.
They cause toxicity, not poison. You need the blooming moss clumps for that.
I went into the painted world carrying only two. Made the whole area stupidly frustrating. Just managed to make some progress and then HEY YOU’RE TOXIC AND GOING TO DIE UNLESS YOU GO BACK TO THE BONFIRE AND RESET YOUR PROGRESS. 🙁
Would have been fine if there was a way to farm the clumps in there, or if I could have gotten back out so I could visit a merchant.
Ahh, guess I’ll keep that fire sword handy then. Er. If I ever go back there. I have no idea why I would. NG+, I guess…
Those bloated hollows still can completely fuck you up with toxicity sometimes. I had heaps of trouble with them until I got a shield behind the area;s mini-boss which gives some toxicity resistance (despite what people say, poison resistance seems to have no effect on toxicity attacks, only on poison)
Played a little more:
Grabbed the cage key and unlocked the Sen’s Fortress shortcut. Then I headed back and killed the Stray Demon. That was an adventure. I failed to get to the bird nest three times by screwing up the roll and then when I got there, I rolled off of it. When I finally got to the Stray Demon, he one shotted me with his AOE attack while I was recovering from the fall damage at the start of the battle. Got wrecked once or twice more before I managed to get a good start to the fight. He got stuck in a loop where he did the butt slam over and over until he was down to about 20% health. From there, it was too damned simple.Let there be no doubt about my lack of skill in this game.
I’m pretty much asking everyone this, but what system? Also, do you play online?
Master race and online but I rarely reverse hollowing.
So ah, who wants to do stuff in a months time (March 22nd) for my birthday?
EDIT: If enough people are interested we could do something different, like karaoke or something. THROW YOUR IDEAS AT ME!*
*Please don’t, I have no depth perception and can’t catch. But feel free to suggest things!
HAPPY BORTHDAY!
(I will be interested! Keep my in the loop man!)
I’ll be too busy with my birthday.
My present from myself will probably be attending your birthday.
You should confirm this soon so my present can be attending your birthday which will be held in Sydney the same day.
I suppose.
Oh, well I’m actually going to go to Sydney the day before specifically to leave that day, just to avoid you.
It’s nothing personal, it’s just entirely personal.
No offence Blaghs, but [insert something incredibly offensive here]
Works for me!
LET’S DRINK THINGS THEN KISS!
I like stuff.
Hey all you Frozen loving peoples (I haven’t seen it so no comment) – if you haven’t seen this it’s pretty amusing. Harkens back to the Google Translate version of Fresh Prince, but with Frozen.
“Let It Go” from Frozen according to Google Translate
lolwut
Does anyone else have issues with loading the Kmart website?
Yes, I think it’s an affront to webdesign and the very dignity of humanity!!!
Seems to load okay though
Tough decision tonight……
Do I play Bravely Default, Zelda 3DS or Lightning Returns?
Zelda LBW? If so, PLAY / BEAT THAT!
yes that one, I really am at a loss though, really keen to try all of them,
I’m playing Lightning Returns right now, finished Bravely Default a few days ago and finished Zelda before that.
My order of awesomeness:
Zelda >>>> Bravely Default >> Lightning Returns
None are bad though but just different levels of awesome 😀 (I can go into more detail if you want :P)
well, I got straight into Bravely so I could get friends to help, forgot Lightning Returns was coming until taybies spoke of getting it (whoops), and have had Zelda since Christmas, I’ve totally neglected Nintendo for a few years, I used to be their biggest supporter too (had a monster cube and wii collection), been playing Vita so much I keep going for the second stick to change view on my 3DS 😛
Robocop was way better than I expected. Really enjoyed it. Cool seeing Joel Kinnaman outside of The Killing and Gary Oldman is always incredible in whatever he’s in!
Freeze didn’t put out. Worst man date ever.
He at least bought you dinner first, right?
I seem to recall @freezespreston once mentioning that you don’t settle for a kiss on the first date 😉
We’re way past the first date at this point. 😉
Aww man, I wanted to see Robocop. I have no one to see it with. 🙁
🙁
I can reenact it if you’d like?
I’m torn. On the one hand that would be awesome to see, on the other it would probably ruin the movie for me. 😛
(Edit: “Ruin” as in the movie would never be able to live up to your reenactment.)
I was totally going to say, I’d elevate the material to a new level. Gary Oldman-style.
Come down to Canberra! :p
Oh man how freaky was it when you saw Murphy disassembled!Urghhhh. Been playing Dogeminer since yesterday. Why do these things have to exist? 🙁
BECAUSE MAN WAS BORN TO BEND HIS KNEE. TOIL! TOIL FOR YOUR PITTANCE, SLAVE!
…I’ve read too much news and politics today.
Went into Robocop fully prepared to hate it but despite my best efforts I found myself enjoying it.
TITANFALL
Word is the beta has opened up so anyone who applied should now have it in their origin game list so if you’re interested, check and see if you have it. Though if you’re not interested I’m not sure why you’d have applied for the beta in the first place, you’re rather confusing…
https://twitter.com/VinceZampella/statuses/435238819537764352
Woohoo!
…and now to download it! Well shit.
Any idea how long it lasts?
Not sure, there was talk of extending it but I’ve not heard if that happened yet
he also tweeted: “supposed to be over on the 18th at 6pm, but we will extend that”
@strange @cakesmith @distantdrop @gutsoup
I got my Lightning Returns CE Guide today and it’s nice :D. Same awesome quality like the FFXIII and FFXIII-2 guides since Piggyback are great. Also comes with a huge map of the four main areas.
Are you all playing on PS3? I think I have a spare Xbox DLC code that came with the guide
I’ll probably be finished the game before I can even afford to order the guide. D:
Did you get the Squall pre-order bonus DLC? I downloaded that today and it’s making me way OP. When I Stagger enemies and then use the ability that came with the Garb I do 50000 damage a hit. Combine that with Overclock, and battles against tougher enemies are going much faster now.
No! :O
I got a Cloud DLC though 🙁
Oh, oops. I meant Cloud. They’re both weather terms and I get them mixed up. 😛
If there’s a Squall costume ever released I would definitely pay real moneys for it though.
“Squall’s costume: Gives you the ability to brood so hard your opponents just sort of give up and then suddenly WIBBLY WOBBLY TIMEY WIMEY!”
I hat you so much right now
I think it’ll be a while away if there is one, will take some time to gather all those floating belts 😛
I’m playing it on the 360, whats the code have?
Art of War DLC which has a costume, weapon and shield.
There’s a card with both DLC codes on it so I’ll try it out for PSN and then give you the other code for Xbox.
I started playing Disgaea D2 after getting sick of dying in Dark Souls. Currently a little way into chapter 3. Just unlocked the Archer and Onmyou Monk classes. A bit disappointed that they seem to have done away with the system from Disgaea 4 that let you share a percentage of XP between people in a specific group, which was amazing for power leveling. Still feel like the monsters are utterly useless compared to how powerful the human characters are. The plot so far is standard Disgaea. It’s nice to have Flonne around again – the dynamic between Laharl, Flonne and Etna is something they’ve never recaptured in the subsequent games.
Anyway, it’s good. I can’t see myself sinking the level of time I sank into D4 into this though, since it doesn’t really offer anything to make it quicker to level up a lowbie to match the rest of the group quickly (the XP-sharing from D4 was amazing for getting reincarnated characters up to speed again). I also haven’t hit a level that can be efficiently grinded for XP yet either. 🙁
My next goal will probably be to unlock the Gunslinger class since my thief is pretty close to 15 and doing pretty well with gun leveling too. Not sure I like the way that you only have the Red Mage unlocked to begin with as well, but you pick an element for the character when you make her so you could have a Red Mage with Wind spells? So odd. I do like that they relaxed restrictions for some of the character classes as well, most of them you can level up eg. the Valkyrie or the Fighter to unlock something, where in previous games you had to get a specific one. And I’m kind of glad it doesn’t seem to have the massive glut of different classes that D3 had, which was just a bit over the top.
I haven’t played D4 but I they have a “Promote” feature in Disgaea D2 which lets you promote a class to the next rank without them losing their levels / skills / stats. They also have a class called Beast Master which increases stats of all Beast Monster but I haven’t really bothered checking them out because my team is already packed. Also, Magic Knight is so very OP. Gonna turn my normal mage into one so I have 2 of them.All the Disgaea games have had a Reincarnate option which lets you move a class into another class (eg up to a more powerful version) but you start over at level 1 with 75% of the stats you had previously. Which is usually fine since if you reincarnate at say level 50, you’re going to have around about the stats you had at around level 35, but back to level 1 again, so you can actually end up with more stats by the time you hit 50 again than you had previously.Beast Master is in D2 onwards IIRC, don’t recall her being in D1. Definitely in D2. Useless class though IMO.
Yeah there’s a Reincarnate option but there’s also a “Promote” option which lets you be the next “rank” of a class when you unlock it. Saves the hassle of having to re-level. The Promote option doesn’t become available until you unlock the next rank for the class.@greenius
The big monster Hunter date was kinda like chasing a unicorn huh?
Then it fell by the wayside… and so did I… and now I’m drowning in a pile of shame with a lot more promising games round the corner…
BUGGER FINDING A JOB!
MH4U2015!
SOLD! NOW WHERE’S THAT UNICORN!
OMG, one of the suppliments that my friend bought me is used to boost energy, and I swear to god I feel like I’m on speed :O
I can’t even exercise cause every 3 minutes I get up to start dancing! :O
HELP ME!!!
Chances are it is speed. Careful with that stuff 😛
…I need some of this.
It’s called C4 EXTREME by Cellucor, no joke, I was too tired to stand so I continued dancing while laying down on the floor :3
Dancing is exercise for the soul!
Oh THAT’S probably why I don’t understand dancing, my soul died years ago
http://instagram.com/p/j3qtRRIQIQ/
With moves like that I’m sure you’ll tear up the dancefloor in a club 😉
Sydney folks:
@35 @Cakesmith @Batgirl @Anonymous_Pessimist @Powalen @EffluviumBoy @ShiggyNinty @Doc_What @Alexandhispants @Harli @Serrels @Ruffleberg @Batguy @Fatshady @Kermitron
Honorary Sydney folks:
@Rize @Blaghman @F4ction
and those I’ve no doubt forgotten, I’m sorry :S
I’m arriving in Sydney around 8pm this Friday night, anyone up for a catch-up/dinner date then?
Failing that, I believe birthday drinks are in the works for Saturday night, though I’m unaware of location. I believe @35 had some ideas on this one?
I’ll be around until the 3rd of March, and would love to have as many meats as possible, if/when you’re all free. Most of you have my number by now, if you don’t just give me a yell and I’ll DM you on Twitter or something. I’ll repost this once a day (making alterations as need be. If you’d rather I remove your tag, just let me know) until I leave, in an effort to drum up some interest and keep it fresh in everyone’s mind.
Much love,
Leph.
@GentsQuarterly @Alexpants @Markserrels?
EDIT: Dammit Flu
Dammit. 😛
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@effluvium-boy
NO EDITING
D.C.!@effluvium-boy
I had to turn to TAYnames in the end. turns out I’d just typo’d it. Grr. It’s Monday and I already need alcohol. 😛
A guy has to remember who the jerks are, it’s the only way I remembered! XD
Ohhhh why/how did I forget TAYnames… Idjit -.-
Dammit Aleph, we have a PLAN for this! http://www.tinyurl.com/taytags
Where’s the NT section?!
I won’t be able to come on Saturday night (going to the Sportsball for some reason), but any other day is good with me!
umm…. i’m going out for dinner with people early in the night. I’ll meet up with you guys a bit later, wherever you end up,
if you don’t end up at Mojo’s, I can recommend Spooning Goat (or I <3 Goats. cant remember what its called now), or Frankies (though you’d have to get in there early to get tables.) Umm… if you wanna head a lil bit further out of the CBD toward the rocks, you could try the Lord Nelson. umm….
alternatively, you could go straight to the Record Crate & save me the walk into the city :p
umm… they’re all retty easy to get to. someone should know where they all are. if not, google. if you cant be bothered googling, let me know & i’ll find the addresses / directions for you.
Thanks man 😀
Well, I’ll try to gather as many folks as possible, and figure out where everyone wants to go. Thanks again!
You’ve just mentioned about 3 of my most favouritest drinking holes in Sydney.
you have good taste in watering holes then.
got a few other favourites, but they’re a bit out of the way for a meat.
I’m up for things.
DOUBLE FINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~
I’m in a Double Fine mood and would like some help deciding what to play:
– Psychonauts (never finished it but played a few hours and enjoyed it)
– Stacking (got to the last level but stopped for some reason, also enjoyable)
– Costume Quest (never played)
– Iron Brigade (never played)
Thankssss
AF2014 soon!
Costume Quest is probably their best game after Psychonauts. Play that!
But if it’s their best game after Psychonauts shouldn’t I play Psychonauts? :O
Nah, cause it’s pretty short and can be played in small bursts without having to commit a huge amount of time.
Play psychonauts.
Difference is, I’m right.
I’d like to one day, I really would.
Hiyo
It’s Jimu. Hey Jimu.
Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemu
Jimoooooooooooooo
TAY peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppppppplpelpelpelpelpelpelple
Jiiiiiiiiiiiiim oooooh
gussoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop
It’s a Jimmeh!!!!
Welburrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt
hey @bish @powalen @benny @beavwa
I added all y’all on my 3DS,
Now come and build a village for me 😛
I think if we meet irl you can have me again! Sure I had two @sernobulus
Also, I need to hand you yer bday gifd
oh., I”ll have you again…….. *wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
Wait, we’re still talking about the game? Right?
*wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
Added
Go to the Save menu and choose ‘Update Data’ or ‘Add Friends’ or something along those lines!
I’ve been watching a lot of Spelunky streams lately, so I bought the game and started playing today.
What I’ve learned is that I am completely terrible at it. Best I’ve done is get to 1-4. My favourite death was getting the teleporter, trying to teleport down and ending up in the wall because I can’t count.
@shane
I know you gave me them books as thanks, but I would like to pay you. It might take a while, but I will find you, and I will pay you.
And that’s enough internet for today
NOPE. Even if I wasn’t feeling magnanimous because of my award nomination, I had your eight games in my house for almost nine months. If three books doesn’t cover that rental fee, I can send more. But under no circumstances will I accept any kind of payment.
Thanks, though! Enjoy them in good health.
It’s fine. I’ve had friends keep my games for even longer.
I wasn’t playing them and you looked after them so I didn’t need payment, which is why I would like to pay for the books.
Thanks anyway, but you introduced me to Ace Attorney AND Ghost Trick, some of the best fun I’ve had in gaming for AGES. As far as I’m concerned, we’re even now 🙂
Alright. Did you try any of the others?
I didn’t get to all of them in the end, but I gave most of them a go 🙂
As long as you liked them.
Gawd, stop being so kind and generous to each other… this is the internet consarnit!
Never!
I can’t wait 2 weeks for Stick Of Truth to come out. I’m going to freeze myself in the snow. Wake me up in 2 weeks
All that she wants, is another baby…
@LIONDRIVE
So you can stop stressing I play Dark Souls on PS3 and I play online all the time.
Woo! I’m not alone in the world! I’ll probably invade you at some stage >:3
Darkmoon Blades for the win! >:D
Do you put your summon sign down often?
Once I defeat a boss I’ll spend about 3-4 hours just co op running it. And while farming I’ll drop a sign.
So yes. Constantly.
As far as invading me….you can try. Good luck.
My plan with invaders / invading is purely just to pester. I’m never gonna win, but I’m not going to go down easy >:)
Feel free to add me on PSN (only if you want), same name as here (liondrive).
Maybe if you’re in an area I haven’t completed yet I’ll try and summon you 🙂
Pokemon has consumed me again.
Thanks Pokemon Bank!
What you need is a glorious Helix Fossil
RED! Now’s not the time to use that!
I couldn’t keep watching, it hurts me!
They’re about to get Hitmonlee/chan.
Apparently the daycare strat was too difficult… I wonder where they might get a water stone from then?
How is he not dead? Or is he just low on cash?
How’d he manage to catch any mons, btw?
Dome actually
S.S. Ticket!
hey do you know if I have to actually street pass folks to get em in my village in Bravely. I added friend codes then added them in game, I can see I have them cause I can assign the ABlink thing with them but I still only have 2 people building things.
Everyday you can do the net search thingy (cant remember real name) it will randomly add 2-4 guys to the village
ha, they gave me one of them missions teeling me how to do it almost immediately after i asked, got 4 nemesis and 4 new peeps & ur guy updated to restore 3300 hp instead of 150,
Oh god. The Twitch Pokemon stream just released their level 34 Charmeleon. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry 😛
THIS IS WHY WE DON’T USE THE PC
EDIT: https://mediacru.sh/GHb3UUOJ5ef3
The reddit doesn’t know about it yet…
For some reason I can’t stop watching this, but this is sad. Who releases the starter? D:
The Helix Giveth, The Helix Taketh
THE FALSE PROPHET HAS LED US ASTRAY
Thought on Robocop
They were sorely lacking a proper villain. They needed a Boddicker. Jackie Earle Harley’s character could have fit this role brilliantly but they let him waste away in pointlessness.Agreed. I’m hoping that there will be a bit more action If they release a sequel now that they’ve covered his emotional transition in becoming a robot. Introduce a villain that you love to hate and it could be the makings of a good saga.Writing up a blog post. Gonna write a few over the next couple of weeks so that when I finally set it to public there’ll be a bit of content there, and not just an embarrassed ‘Hello” post.
This one was about starch. Spoilers: starch is icky. 😛
\o/ revised Soundwave time tables are up.. /o\ Jason Newsted & The Living End now clash dang it. Oh well, one out of like 8 bands ain’t bad..
Mr. Strange is not happy about Amon Amarth now being on first. It’s almost impossible to get in on time to see the first bands play.
They’ve done that every year for the Sword.
I know, that annoyed me intensely 🙁
Yeah a lot of people are unhappy from that and I understand I thought they deserved a later time slot… Plus I liked Jason Newsted in that spot honestly 😛
Howdy all. Long day of no computer access makes Popdart something something. I’m going to be pretty hard to contact for the rest of the week so don’t be surprised if I don’t respond until hours later.
Also, I’d like to thank everyone for their opinions on my 3DS dilemma. I got Link Between Worlds and I am enraptured by it. Thanks for the tips everyone. 😀
I wish my mother hadn’t discovered memes. Too much grumpy cat.
Just hope she never discovers yo’ momma jokes.
She’ll realise they’re all about her. BOOMhttp://imgur.com/gXHcW1C
ey? ey? see what I did there?!
So, I thought, hey I do pretty well for someone who’s self taught, but I would love to be able to make my own patterns. So I was looking at courses and well…it seems to be rare to find one under $400.
Start by making patterns from the things you already own. It’s fairly ease to trace the basic shape of garments. If you want more accuracy, get a piece of foam and cover it with it paper, then pin the seamlines to the paper. the pinholes will give you the pattern.
The more you do things like that, the more you’ll understand how things go together,and you can then gain the confidence to make your own designs.
There’s also classes like these which could help you out, but wait for them to go on sale because they’re the most expensive courses on the site.
Also articles here may be of use as well.
I do alter patterns because I can never find exactly what I want. I would like to take it further.
Thanks, I’ve bookmarked the site and will keep an eye out.
Just realised I wasn’t too clear. I was talking about making your own patterns from garments you own. Seriously, the more you do that, the easier it will be to “take it further”. You can teach yourself,and not have to do an expensive course.
Does anyone know where Matt Lees ended up after he left Videogamer.com?
He’s now full time on http://WWW.shutupandsitdown.com
Thanks.
Damn, for a joke mode, The Typing of the Skullgirls is insane.
By Arceus, Witcher 2 is free for a week. To bad they chose to have it on the same week as the Titanfall beta.
If you don’t have it, there’s no excuse not to get it.
If you do have it, then play Titanfall!
It’s win-win!
\o/
Free to play for a week or there’s a week for you to register as owning it?
I’m pretty sure It’s just an extended version of the ‘free weekend’ dealies.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/20920/
Ahh pass on that then. If it was free to own I might eventually drag myself into the mood to see if the sequel was less shit but no chance of my doing it on a time limit
After reading about the Getflix thing, I am considering running a VPN to acess Netflix. Be that as it may, I need to figure out if my internet is fast enough first. I doubt 1Mbps is going to cut it if I want to use Netflix.
Huh.
https://support.netflix.com/en/node/306
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3312131073
The high speed must be due to the time.
Bandwidth and latency are two different things, and they can have different impacts on what you want to do with your internet.
Wall of text: Latency vs Bandwidth 101.
The typical description of bandwidth is how many megabits per second you’re downloading from wherever you’re connected to. For something simple like a straight download from Steam or images on websites, that means your results will be pretty good – the size of the file is already known, and the server intends to push all of it to you in a large a parcel as your pipes will fit.
Then you have latency… that’s the time it takes for a signal to get from your PC to the other PC/server, and that’s where we start having problems in Australia. A good example of the importance of this kind of communication is, say, a first-person shooter online, like counter-strike. When you play the game, your PC is rapidly updating the server with where you are and what you’re doing every instant, and the server is updating you with what everyone else is doing, so you can react to it.
It’s very rapid communication, and if the latency is too slow, you get ‘lag’; a backlog of requests, where the transfer speed is too slow to keep up with the number of updates. It’ll either rush them all through at once (as you’ll sometimes see in MMOs like WoW) or it’ll make an executive decision that you don’t need any of those old, old packets of data anymore, and skip them entirely – which you’ll see as jerking/teleporting around the map.
Where many streaming media services fall down is that instead of being straight-download with no reliance on latency, only bandwidth, they found that people were downloading the entire piece of content with their massive bandwidth (which costs the provider to send), but not watching all of it. So essentially part of the video was being sent for no reason. So they decided to implement systems which also require on latency – the server relies on your PC to communicate with it and let it know, “Hey, I’ve watched this next second, send another one along.” Given that this has to happen every second, so they can pass along the next bundle of frames, your limitation doesn’t become bandwidth anymore, but latency. Having a larger pipe (bandwidth) means that you can pass more data along when you hand-over the next second’s worth of media, so high bandwidth will let you view higher quality, but it won’t be the limiting factor in determining when the parcels should be sent. It’s not second-by-second in most instances either; streaming sites do still buffer several seconds at once, but the transfer itself can take long enough that it requires hitting a certain frame before the two talking points will queue up the next bundle to pass along – which is why you get hitches in streaming feeds.
When this switch is made, all of a sudden latency becomes as important as bandwidth. And the sad thing about living in Australia which is on the other side of the globe from the US, where all the content is held, is that latency will NEVER be good. Signals can only travel so fast – there is kind of a hard limit; the speed of light. And the earth is big enough that the time it takes for light to travel from one end to the other is actually a few miliseconds – a measurable, noticable amount.
There are artificial delays in the way of ‘routing paths’ – you never/rarely connect DIRECTLY to a server. Your ISP and then the provider will be handling your traffic through a dozen different servers, because that’s the nature of the network – there’s no one big cable connecting your ISP to that one computer over there; it has to bounce between different machines in different locations until there is eventually a connected path. Adding more nodes to that route means that each machine has to run a calculation to pass the data along. It’s microseconds difference, but it adds up. But OTHER than those artificial limitations, you can’t improve the speed of light, so connecting to the US will always result in some delays.
All of those nodes in a route are not passing their data along for free. Your ISP will be negotiating with those nodes to get a certain price, and based on ‘peak usage’, some of those nodes are going to be more expensive at different times of day. This is why some ISPs (who are garbage) will choose to use a different route which is slower, because it hits more nodes to cover the same distance, and who – because of that – don’t charge as much to use that route. This is why services like TPG, dodo, or AAPT will appear to ‘slow down’ at certain, predictable times of day. The same routes (and those who provide them) that produce good results in the east are not going to work for the west.
It’s also why VPNs – which rely on you bypassing your ‘regular’ ISP-approved route – can sometimes be faster in latency, depending on where you connect to. But having that channel open requires a separate stream of information being passed to keep it open, which ties up some of your bandwidth. This can create the appearance of slow-down for streaming services. This is why VPNs appear to give increased performance for online gaming, and reduced performance for streaming media services and file downloads. The limitation there isn’t latency, but bandwidth.
Anyway. There endeth the lesson. It’s a little oversimplified, but explains where to start looking when you start experiencing problems with performance.
Edited for spoilers because wall ‘o text!
Netflix is fantastic.
This, except there’s far too much stuff to keep track of.
DARK.SOULS.
From humble beginings, heroes are born. PunchyMcPunchNice hat
BOAR-ingDARK SOULS \o/Gurpgork am use same hat.
Here’s the birthday card I wrote for my mother:
One time in my youngest sisters birthday card I wrote “Have a nice life, bye”.
She cried. I like to think it was out of happiness.
Damn, I love this trackball mouse… 😀
Goodnight,
Miss my car even more now. Had to drive Mum’s to climbing. Even though it’s the same car ~11 years later, I hate the damn thing. It’s like trying to drive a letterbox. Claustrophobic and can’t see shit.
The woman at climbing who offered me advice on choosing new climbing shoes (since apparently she grew up helping out at her parents’ shoe shop so kinda knows her stuff) got chatty again, I was talking about how I was pondering dropping my course and it turns out she’s studied programming too, and loves maths. Man if next week she starts talking Nintendo or something… 😛
*grabs popcorn*
At this rate we’re gong to cause a global popcorn shortage…
go ooooooon?
*sits down, crosses legs, grabs pen and paper*
I’ll sit there and do nothing but talk all night instead of climbing.
What’s the car? I’ve found most newer cars restrict vision a lot purely because of their massive pillars in their efforts to be ‘safe’.
YES! Our Hyundai has huge stanchions holding the windscreen because that’s where the side airbags are which reduces visibility by quite a large margin which makes the airbags more likely to be needed. The airbag is trying to justify its own existence!
Honda Civic. Can’t remember what year model, maybe 2011. Mine’s a Civic too, but a 2000 model. Love it to bits.
It’s not just the windows though, the interior is just full of… stuff. Mine’s full of open space. It’s great.
Ah, interior. Today everything is made to be reachable by the driver. Back in 2000 it was just the wheel/pedals/stick. 🙂
Those were the days.
That said, I can’t reach shit because my arms keep hitting things because THERE’S NO GOD DAMN SPACE!
HOLY SHIT TITANFALL IS DOWNLOADING AT 1/Mbps. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!
Origin, it lies. I was supposedly getting 2.4MB/s on my crappy 600kB/s connection. It’s probably measuring uncompressed progress from a compressed download.
I got it at 3.8MB/s, according to Origin…
Also, I managed to pick up Hitman Collection from EB day. Four freaking dollars.
Best get. One of the discs even says win98SE on it – I could run it on my other computer!
Win98SE? wooow, is that Hitman 1 or something?
That disc has Hitman 1, 2 and Contracts on it, the other disc has Blood Money.
I tried playing #1 (HD remakes on Xbox360) and it hasn’t aged well. D: Near unplayable in terms of controls.
You want unplayable, try running the first game on PC. Its not framerate capped and so every time you start a mission you need to use a time slow down cheat to make it a playable speed. That wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the fact it also resets to lightning speed whenever it re-loads the environment for example after a loading screen or after using the map.
The worst part is that it’s so huge a speed boost that any small framerate variation is magnified quite a lot by the time slow so whenever there’s a lot of stuff going on in the frame, the game pretty much goes into bullet time and then if you reset the speed so it feels normal again, it whiplashes back to fast forward as soon as the screen clears.
LOL that’s an awesome failure. It’s not framerate cap, more like sync with the game engine. Anyway, hilarious. 😀
Yeah, I suppose its more a case of there being no limit to the CPU cycles it can process and it was made in the day when 1ghz was a futuristic fantasy much less a quartet of 2.8ghz’s
DARK SOULS 2 \o/
Countdown: 23 days
http://www.digitalspy.com.au/gaming/news/a550526/how-peter-serafinowicz-was-cast-as-mild-mannered-pate-in-dark-souls-2.html
It’s great when genuine fans of a franchise are given the opportunity to contribute.
And a deeper look into character customisation:
http://www.gamezone.com/originals/2014/02/15/need-humanity-deeper-look-into-dark-souls-2-s-character-creation
For my part, this won’t affect my playthrough much, because armour. But I’ll still give it a bit of my time.
bahahahah excellent
*rubs hands together*
*Sigh*
After listening to Frozen’s soundtrack on repeat for a while, I’m starting to assimilate to the hivemind and my opinion of it is improving (And clarification that my opinion was never negative, just less positive than others). We really are fickle creatures, aren’t we?
On a related note since I love musicals, a repost (don’t worry, you’ll only have to put up with these for a week).
Hoy, since I’m back I’m finally organising this Lion King thing, with a bit of help from Rocketbuddy.
Since there’s a gathering happening on the 22nd of March (that’s a Saturday), we were going to go and see it on the 21st (that’s a Friday). So if anyone is able to be in Sydney at 8PM on a Friday, you’re welcome to come.
Since there are very few tickets this close to the date, we’ll probably be buying them soon, like, on Friday or something. So I guess if people are interested, send an email to blaghman (at) gmail (dot) com, and what I’ll probably get you to do is send some money to either Rocketbuddy or me, and we can buy you a ticket when we do so. Alternately, people could just go buy tickets themselves for that date. There’s a small number of seats available at both the $60 point and the $128 point (I’ve just accepted that everyone’s getting the cheapies at this point). I can’t remember if there’s some element in Capitol that makes the back super bad, but from memory you’re just sort of… really far back. Hardly the end of the world. And there’s only like 6 rows between the doubling price point, so probably best to go cheap.
Anyway, yeah, sorry for being so bad about organising this, but hopefully we can get a small group together, even if the timing isn’t good for out-of-staters.
As this is a repost, I will continue my quest to save you folks money be re-enacting critical scenes from The Lion King.
Darth Vader is now living a humble life as the alpha male of a lion pride, and after a series of comical misfortunes (read: not comical at all), he finds himself precariously grabbing onto a ledge, with a stampede occuring below him. Said stampede was announced moments ago when RObin Williams’ character ran about shouting “STAMPEEEEEEEEEEEDE”.
Darth Vader’s brother, played by Professor Snape’s brother swings along and tries to save Vader from falling, screaming inspirational phrases such as “YOU CAN’T DIE YET!”, “HOLD ON!” and “LONG LIVE THE KING!”, but he is yet to master how the whole retractable claws thing works, so accidentally flings him off the ledge into the stampede.
When do they go to Mordor to find the elder wand?
That’s in the sequel.
Robin Williams? You disappoint me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zazu_%28Disney_character%29#Zazu
Referencing Jumanji.
The snow glows white on the mountain tonight,Not a footprint to be seen,
A kingdom of isolation and it looks like,
I’m the Queen…
The wind is howling like the swirling storm inside,
Couldn’t keep it in, goodness knows I tried,
Don’t let them in, don’t let them see,
Be the good girl, you always have to be,
Conceal, don’t feel,
Don’t let them know…
Well, now they know!
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,
I don’t care,
what they’re going to say
Let the storm rage on,
The cold never bothered me anyway
Almost memorized it. It’s driving me insane.
I memorized it a few days ago, i sing it often. Its awesome.
But you need to memorise it if you’re planning on singing a cover version. C’mon Scree, this is stupidly singing on the internet 101.
seconded
I do like that soundtrack.
Oddly, Let It Go doesn’t really do much for me. I’m a big fan of Love Is An Open Door (notwithstanding their plagiarism of Arrested Development), and the Fixer-Upper song, though.
But it’s Idina Menzel.
How can you not love it? I don’t understand.
Do you really want to know? Because I’ll tell you.
I don’t think it should be the ‘centrepiece’ song of the movie, because it can’t decide whether it wants to be a standalone song-for-radio, or a context-dependent song-for-the-movie, and because it tries to keep a foot in both camps, it sort of fails at both. There’s a little too much ice/snow/magic context in the lyrics that keep it from being a standalone song, and there’s not enough of a link to the themes of the movie for it to serve as a context-heavy soundtrack song (hint: letting go is not one of the main themes in the movie!). It’s a very pretty, dramatic bit of music and singing, but the lyrics left me cold (see what I did there).It just can’t stand next to the brilliance of songs like The Circle Of Life and You’ve Got A Friend In Me (and even to an extent, A Whole New World), which absolutely encapsulate and summarise the feel/theme of the movie and can still stand on their own as great songs
Ahh, see, I understand what you’re getting at, but I have a counter point.
Idina Menzel.
Let’s ignore the fact that as much as I love her, she “sings” what is far and away the worst “song” in Rent. Really just best to ignore that completely.
Are you sure you’re listening to the indina Menzel version? The Demi lovato one is terrible in comparison.
Yep! Track 5 of the soundtrack disc. I’m sure. 🙂
It’s a very pretty song, but I just don’t think the lyrics fit.
Really? I thought the lyrics fit well.
One of my complaints while watching was that it felt to “pop-ish,” and this was confirmed when my sister was listening to the Demi Lovato before she watched the movie. However, all that went away when I realised the passion in the song. So many emotions. David Cage would be proud.
Sydney folks:
@35 @cakesmith @batgirl @anonymous_pessimist @powalen @Effluvium-Boy @shiggyninty @doc_what @Alexpants @harli @MarkSerrels @ruffleberg @batguy @fatshady @kermitron
Honorary Sydney folks:
@rize @blaghman @f4ction
and those I’ve no doubt forgotten, I’m sorry :S
I’m arriving in Sydney around 8pm this Friday night, anyone up for a catch-up/dinner date then?
Failing that, I believe birthday drinks are in the works for Saturday night, though I’m unaware of location. I believe @35 had some ideas on this one?
I’ll be around until the 3rd of March, and would love to have as many meats as possible, if/when you’re all free. Most of you have my number by now, if you don’t just give me a yell and I’ll DM you on Twitter or something. I’ll repost this once a day (making alterations as need be. If you’d rather I remove your tag, just let me know) until I leave, in an effort to drum up some interest and keep it fresh in everyone’s mind.
Much love,
Leph.
I can’t make promises but I’ll consult with my other half and see if coming out on Friday night is a viable option – otherwise I’ll try and be up for another day.
Hey man!
Not sure what you’re up to when you’re down here, but are you still up for being in the movie?
Thinking of shooting the start of the movie on the 1st or 2nd?
Also, @blaghman, will you be here for that?
Also also, @35, are you free then too?
My plans are exactly what you see here, plus a tattoo on the 27th (the only time I’ll be offline, unless anyone wants to come for moral support :P)
DARK SOULS.
looking at the wiki. found this helm. WTF?
how can any self-respecting hollowed wear that? how can you get through doors & stuff?
http://darksouls.wikia.com/wiki/Xanthous_Set?file=Xanthous_set_male.png
“Man walks down the street in that hat, people know he’s not afraid of anything.”
Man walks through the valley of the shadow of death with a big stick, people know he’s not afraid of no evil.
Why didn’t Jane carry a big stick? That would’ve been perfect.ARE YOU READY, ARE YOU READY FOR THIS ARE YOU HANGING ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT, OUT OF THE DOORWAY THE BULLETS RIP YEAAAH TO THE SOUND OF THE BEAT
Im so proud i didnt have to google that.
Poor Jeremiah.
He was a bullfrog.
Maybe he got sick of looking like a bullfrog and having people help themselves to his mighty fine wine. And then got his head stuck in a bottle.
He was a good friend of mine R.I.P.
I wanna see a full scale cosplay of that…
I have a date on Friday,
You know for a unattractive, unlikable person i seem to go on more dates than i should.
Why can’t you send some of these women with apparently awful standards to Canberra?
Because you would stare at them and tell them that they are too good for you.
YOU START BEING KIND TO MY FRIEND SEAN AND YOU CAN GET ALL THE LADIES YOU WANT
What does @35 have to do with this?
I don’t know, but I’m getting the feeling that I’m playing the part of the currency in a pimp-john transaction here.
hush you. You’re neither of those things.
I know that but you guys arent going to rain comments on me if i tell the truth that i am amazing. 😛
?
Mum?
Has she come to terms with your fascination with Elton John?
EVERYONE LOVES ELTON JOHN
You, me, and everybody’s got a part-time love.
(for elton)Tried to organise a Titanfall session last night. Considering it went into open beta for a stress test, you’d think we’d have had problems with the game. Nope!
It was Origin that failed…
I should probably get on that hey?
For the beta? I think it ends today. The game is out early Smarch, though.
\o/ fashionably late as always
Thursday for us. They extended it because they had mad server problems on Saturday.
sweeet, i might have a bash at downloading it tonight then
“Respawn Entertainment is opening up the Titanfall multiplayer beta test to all Windows PC users who registered for the beta before Feb. 15 at 4:00 p.m”
http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/16/5418284/titanfall-beta-opens-to-all-pc-users-who-registered
Well today is usually the multiplayer day isn’t it? Titanfall is a multiplayer game. Seems like there might be a connection there.
My origin name is the same as on here and as far as I know I’m not doing anything tonight because I have no life.
I have been watching lots of anime recently, mainly just one show
its called Golden time and its awesome (may or may not be awesome)
Its one of those annoying relationship anime where it just has to do with the struggles of a select few characters trying to find themself and love. What is different is that it deals with the idea of mental illnesses like OCD and depression. Its a startlingly accurate look at how the mind of a deppressed and anxious person deals with a relationship. Its not really preachy and all the characters despite their flaws are easy to like. Im so glad i started watching it. Also the whole thing where characters actually deal with talking to others so romantic stuff actually does happen and its not just one guy longing for one perfect girl until a episode from the end of the series they magical realize they are meant for each other. I dont really recommend it, because i have a really specific taste and even for the most romantic person its probably a little gushy.
Also been watching Kill la Kill
Its like FLCL with a fucktonne of fan service and a actual overarching plot. The animation is quite awesome but i urge you not to watch with others. Its pretty much like soft core anime porn. Its done in a way that isnt tasteful at all. But if you can look past it, its great.
Golden Time’s quite nice. I’ve enjoyed the middling amount of source material I’ve read.
Kill La Kill is interesting so far. It’s been very solid, although I keep comparing it to FLCL and Gurren Lagann, which is baadd because those two are just magnificent titles, and considering Trigger (the guys who made it) are just starting to differ themselves from Gainax.. Still, it’s my best watch of the season.
You know what you should watch rocketdude? Space Dandy. Because why not.
It’s completely fair to compare it to FLCL and Gurren Lagann. Hiroyuki Imaishi (who is an amazing animator by the way) directed all three, Kazuki Nakashima wrote G-L and Kill la Kill, and the Animation director (Sushio) was also animation director for Gurren Lagann and one of the key animators for FLCL. Also if you go through the key animators you’ll find a lot of them are ex or current Gainax guys that worked on both shows, eg Yoh Yoshinari (one of Trigger’s founders and the director of Little Witch Academia) was one of the key animators in all of them.
Imaishi’s style is what really shines through in Kill la Kill. For reference, all the mid-episode eyecatch art in Gurren Lagann? That’s his work. Lots of perspective-based deformation, basically everything is a series of cool poses and everything transitions quickly. Lots of sparkling things and dark shadowing and stuff.
Another completely valid comparison visually would be Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (also Imaishi’s work)
Fair point, but I want to rate Klk on it’s own and not as a pseudo-gainax title. If I keep comparing the fight scenes to GL’s and it’s comedy with FLCL’s I’ll just miss what makes the show unique.
Of course, I’m doing this with the mind that the director dude *wanted* to make something different from Gainax titles. Maybe he just wants to stick to the same ol’ same ol’. I’d not be dissapointed if he took all of what made his Gainax titles great with him.
Has anyone read The Witcher novels? I started playing the 2nd game a few months back and realised there is a tonne of back story, I dig that and would happily start from the novels if they aren’t half bad.
I read the Last Wish… basically a compilation of short stories about Geralt of Rivia, including the intro movie to the first game (The battle against the Striga)… overall very well written and highly recommended
Also from memory only 2 books (the Last Wish and Blood of Elves) have actually been translated to english, but if you speak Polish, you’re set 😛
here’s something i prepared earlier. http://www.pixel-otaku.com/review-the-last-wish/
Edit: seriously though, that’s far better written than I remember when writing it. I think Pants has pretty much redone the whole thing. nice job, @alexpants
Very nice little write up indeed.
First book is a set of linked short stories and is awesome.
Second book did not grab me anywhere near as much as the first, struggled to finish.
Third book was released in English recently but I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet.
The game series has generally stood apart – they draw on some of the same characters and it’s in the same universe, but they’ve written their own stories. I liked the references to the first book by the second game, but it’s not necessary to have read anything.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @35
Awesome, thanks for the feedback guys! Found it online for $8 with free shipping \o/
… woooow that’s insanely cheap! well done!
also enjoy, it is a fantastic read
Getting real tired of waking up in 1000% humidity. Makes it so damn hard to do anything.
Are you Spongebob?
I’m thinking of getting gill implants
Morning!
I’ve been playing Steel Diver: Sub Wars (Nintendo’s latest Free to Play effort) for the last couple of nights, and I’m really, really enjoying it. It’s essentially a methodical first person shooter where you are plopped into a map and have to destroy the other team. It’s great because at the very start everybody is moving slowly, trying to scope out the position of the other team with sonar/periscope sights, then once someone spots an enemy, everyone goes nuts until one team has the advantage. At that point it turns into a cat-and-mouse trying to pick off the survivors.
A lot of fun! It’s extremely more slow-paced than your typical FPS and the controls are clunky due to being a submarine 😛 But I don’t feel like it’s a negative because everybody else has to deal with the tank-like turning circles and things.
Also you can only communicate via morse code which is pretty sweet. You beep out your message using a reference sheet and it gets broadcast (it gets automatically decoded for you though, thankfully :P). Sounds so cool.
Plus the upside to Nintendo never paying attention to the internet is that their version of Free to Play is excellent. No microtransactions, unlimited online multiplayer without paying, etc. It’s basically just a souped-up demo with the option to buy the full game for more single-player content and new submarine classes.
Going to go buy the full version tonight because I’ve exhausted the single player content (you get two three-part missions and two sub types in free play, more with Premium). Give it a go!
… WHY HAVE I NOT HEARD OF THIS I FREAKING LOVE SUBMARINES
*runs off to download*
FIRE!
Have you got the original Steel Diver?
Misunderstood title, imo. I love it.
YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! YOU AREN’T MY REAL DAD! >=(
Seriously though, I already have way too many games to play on my Vita.
That’s twice this morning that I’ve seen these elusive “Vita has too many games” phrases :O
Make me.
Sick him, @dc!
I read that as “Marry me” at first …
That would be one way…
And only on 3DS. The amount of games they’re dumping on 3DS vs WiiU is insane, and it’s only because the handheld is doing well.
I’ve got mixed thoughts about it. I love Steel Diver, but this looks weird 😛
Still would like to try it out though. But then, eShop. Bleh…
Steel Diver was a fantastic launch game, I don’t care what anyone says!
I think this is a great extension to it. Feels exactly the same but completely different! (plus you don’t have to use the touchscreen controls anymore :P)
I liked the touchscreen controls!
I wish you could order physical copies of eShop games 😛
Me too but they don’t work as well in a 3D game 😛 Lucky for you you can use touchscreen, “dual sticks” or a combo of both in this game if you want!
You know you want to. It’s freeee
I heard you can’t choose to play with friends though. That’s kinda shit.
Yeah, it’s a bummer. But probably never going to be that popular a game among TAY anyway 😛 We’ve got Mario Kart for that!
I’m DaBest, not @greenius.
Pft, I wasn’t talking about you jerks.
😛
Guess I’ll have to see about getting my 3DS up and running.
Ugh.
Here’s a bunch of photo/video showing what’s wrong with my TV, if anyone’s interested. Unit #4 (of 2nd brand), getting returned in, 3..2…1…
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-cHEUCCSOaedDc5Q3cxVy1SOWM&usp=sharing
“This video is not available in your country”
:/
Regarding the light patches in the corners when the screen is black, my relatively new TV has started doing that, but it seems to go away when it’s warmed up. Not sure what the go is, but I should probably start looking into it…
Mine was ‘okay’ the first week after I plugged it in, but then started getting worse sometimes. Dunno, perhaps it’s a slight temperature increase, but I’ve had it twice as bad as what’s on the photos. It’s visible even on non-black background, but it’s too hard to show on my smartphone camera.
If I were you I’d start taking photos, and return if it doesn’t stabilise.
Wait, is it just light in the corners of the TV while black?
If so you’ll be returning every TV you get. TV’s very rarely have the full backlit panel these days unless you pay over 5-6k. Side lit panels are cheaper and more energy efficient but they do have that problem.
This TV isn’t even sidelit. Here’s my full list of problems:
– Severe backlight bleed.
– Uneven backlight bleed, which moves.
– Uneven back panel movement, subject to 1-2 degree temperature change (at best guess).
– Image retention.
– Bright backlight bleed in the middle of the panel.
I know the corners will never be without backlight bleed on an LCD, but what’s on the pictures is both excessive and uneven.
Gross. What brand is it?
LG. It’s a piece of shit compared to the previous Panasonic, but I had three of those units before giving up.
Ew. 15 years ago I swore by LG but now…. Ew.
@freezespreston I dunno, people seem to either have Samsung or LG right now. I got the Panasonic first, and wow that thing was first-class. Metal finishes, metal casing on back, high-quality remote + free additional one, superb UI, superb software, exceptional PQ. All well and good… but it has MASSIVE backlight bleed. :'(
I got the LG because: my gf recommended it, and she worked at JB HIFI; manager at that store recommended it; LG rep recommended it; other store workers said same thing. As soon as I unboxed it, it was clear that it’s at least 2 classes lower quality overall. But, it had okay panel for a week/month..
I’m not impressed with the top-end Samsungs either. :\
I’ve had more than a few LG products of varying applications in recent years and they’ve been universally substandard.
How thick is the TV? Is it an LED backlit one? I’ve found at least in the case of monitors that an LED is dramatically better in stability and lack of bleed than standard backlighting
It’s LED yes, with I assume standard array backlighting. One of the pics seems to show the strips, which looks like 3 (+1 at bottom) horizontal strips. Definitely not edge-lit.
It’s bullshit that I can’t be certain of the above. There’s zero information that manufacturers release. >:(
Yeah I’ve never seen an LED get all weird & patchy without problems. Have you considered trying a plasma just so you can be pissed off with a different type of TV when it inevitably breaks?
@aliasalpha Yes, Panasonic Plasma (arguably one of the best TVs ever) was considered. The problem is that I play games a lot more than I watch movies/TV, so screen burn-in is going to be an issue. :\
I thought plasma burn in was pretty much a thing of the past these days
@aliasalpha It can still happen. It can still happen on LCD’s, too. Mine has image retention or something, anyway. I’d have weekends where I’d play a game for 5+hours, there’s no way HP bars won’t burn in on a plasma. :\
Heh my first LCD had the Mass Effect HUD burned into it for weeks until I realised I could blank it out by blasting the TV with a pure white image for 10 minutes or so.
Took me a day or two to notice it early on then I was watching STTNG, Picard was walking down a corridor and I suddenly noticed he had what looked like a faint minimap in the corner of the screen
Well, I just checked in on Twitch Plays Pokemon.
http://i.imgur.com/9WJQ1sJ.gif
EDIT: Hah! Someone used this exact response on the Reddit sub.
Haha, what happened this time.
Just trying to get through the Game Center still. That floor maze.
Erika was defeated.
Pidgeot is sucking up the entire team’s EXP by itself.
Factions formed around those who wanted to get Eevee and those who wanted to wait until Lapras.
The Eevee splinter group won out, causing a visit to the PC to make room for Lapras.
Charmeleon and a Rattata were released.
In an attempt to buy a Waterstone or Thunderstone for Eevee, a Firestone was purchased.
Oddish was caught somehow which made the release of Charmeleon/Rattata entirely pointless by filling up Lapras’ spot.
The firestone was used on Eevee.
Now stuck in the Celadon Rocket hideout, forever looping on the spinning floor tiles.
Basically, this entire thing is Eevee’s fault. We’re in the darkest timeline.
Helix Fossil take the wheel! Guide us through the floor maze with your eternal wisdom.
DAMMIT! Those eevie heathen bastards will pay for their transgression. The Helix Fossil will smite all the unbelievers and bird Jesus will protect all those under his wing.
I love the amount of meme’s that are being generated.
Evvee is now a flareon and a false prohpet
Also they stored helix fossil for a while then somehow got it back.
Fucking helix fossil.
All glory to the Helix Fossil. It will lead us to the holy land in which ABBBBBBK( will be waiting.
Bird Jesus be with you.
The narrative that’s come out of this is great. The fan art especially!
It’s an amazing experiment. No one is in control, each person can only wield the tiniest bit of influence. A lot of what happens emerges from the noise without anyone directly doing it. The way it’s playing out is fascinating.
I think my favourite joke from the twitch chat was “Guv’mint Simulator 2014”
The stream is currently at 74k viewers. Someone posted this, showing what it would look like if roughly that many people were playing from the same place:
http://i.imgur.com/goRaTda.jpg
That’s a shitload of Game Link cables.
Imagine the riots
Student: I need a maths text book
Me: 2 unit?*
Student: does… that mean I have to be smart?
Me: …I’ll get you the general book.
*for non-NSW people, 2 unit = shorthand for ‘Advanced’ Mathematics. throwback to the day when General Maths was a 1 unit subject. its not extension, though.
Since when has it been called that, when I was in school it was general mathematics, advanced mathematics and advanced extension mathematics D=
officially, it’s General Mathematics, Mathematics & then Extension Mathematics 1 & 2.
unofficially, its maths (general) & then 2, 3 or 4 unit maths (‘advanced,’ extension 1 & 2, respectively.)
its just what it gets called.
Jeez high school is more confusing than I recall lol.
Wait what? 2 unit was standard maths when I was in school, 3 unit was the advanced one. General maths was the one done by kids who had trouble counting to 10 even with the aid of their fingers
Easy – General maths
Normal – Maths (aka 2 unit)
Hard – Extension 1 (aka 3 unit)
Nightmare – Extension 2 (aka 4 unit)
Me too. Guess that just proves we’re old or something. 😛
in NSW, it changed in… 2001? 2000? cant remember.
so no, you’re not that old :p
Except that’s the entirety of my teenaged daughter’s life ago….
you’re not old. your daughter is young.
DAMN WHIPPERSNAPPERS! GET OFF MY LAWN!
It’s as old as GTA3. That’s kind of weird considering how long ago GTA3 feels
MGS Ground Zeroes runs 720p on Xbone, 1080p on PS4.
There is simply no way to defend the shortcomings on Xbone in graphics department now. It’s been months since release, and many more since final hardware revision. Additionally, Ground Zeroes is a 3hr prequel that was thrown out to us as an appetiser because the devs are completely done with that section of the main game – no excuses that there was no time to develop it properly.
But… but… the framerate!
Same on both, so no one can even use that as excuse. 😀
1280*720 = 921,600
1920*1080 = 2,073,600
PS4 is pushing out over twice the pixels, at same/better IQ, at same fps. Lucky for us, you can’t deny math.
They’re both at 60?
Just trying to toss owners of the inferior console a… bone.
#ERRYDAYISPG6
*After his clever joke, Transient walks off to play some game at 144fps in 3D, or something*
EDIT – nope, because people tend to misunderstand my humour 😛
It was about pr0n, wasn’t it?
…
only about |—|
thiiiiis much
MASTERRRR RRAAAAAAAACE!
In a fitting moment of irony, my graphics card has started glitching out and will need to be replaced, which – with future-proofing in mind – will probably set me back the cost of one of the new consoles.
Mmmmaster raaaace…?
On the plus side, you get a convenient $400 paper weight?
MASTERRR RRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!
Yeah but with the right mobo you could slot in 3 of those fuckers!
And then spend months troubleshooting and working out what dozen or so games in your collection actually support SLI and don’t require you to disable 2 of your cards to merely load but damnit those dozen or so games will be fucking AMAZING!!
Apparently the Xbone drivers are pretty balls and MS are working on an improvement.
So there’s still hope (and of course, as the generation goes on people will learn to optimise) but yeah, looks like the PS4 is simply better hardware.
Drivers? The dev kit software? I dont know about this. 😮
From a technical perspective and my slightly-higher-than-average understanding of it, the one saving grace that XBone has is that 32MB eSRAM (ultra-fast memory).
The question is: is 32MB enough, and/or will devs be able to (or care to) use it?
Without any industry knowledge whatsoever, my personal suspicion is that Microsoft has very clever people working on optimization techniques which are usually pioneered and kept as guarded secrets by developers to give them an edge. Once they discover the techniques to best optimize for xbone to provide superior (or at least equivalent) performance, they will distribute this information to developers and maybe even pay them to optimize this way so they can stop getting their ass kicked in the geek news.
Yeah, I expect there will be massive payouts for people using the eSRAM. Another thing is that both have AMD hardware, and perhaps both will be compatible with AMD’s Mantle API, which will result is massive gains. I have a feeling MS will do better with this, as they do run a Windows OS, vs PS4’s linux distro.
Well they’re always working on directx which is the core of both windows & xbox hardware interfaces, any improvement in one will lead to an improvement in another, as long as MS haven’t skimped on the actual hardware it’ll probably improve a fair bit as it goes along. If the PS4 is running on what is basically a Linux distro, they may well need to wait for AMD to do a bit of work to get the benefits and I get the impression that AMD support for Linux has been a bit patchy in the past. Never really needed to use an AMD/Linux combo though so my impressions could well be wrong
Also, even though I don’t personally see it catching on much yet, I wouldn’t count out Valve’s SteamOS having an impact on how AMD supports linux. They’ve proven time and time again that they’re not stupid. A tad naive, but not stupid. There’ll be something happening on that front, I’m pretty confident.
Interesting times ahead, it’ll be fun seeing how it all shakes out.
Yeah I’ll be interested in seeing how it goes. I guess the big driver will as usual be software. If EA make a version of Origin for Linux and release some of their high profile games then it’s probably a sign that it’s getting real traction
From what I heard, the eSRAM is very slow compared to the PS4 because it’s DDR3.
Nah, the main 8GB memory on Xbox is DDR3 (standard desktop RAM, slower), vs GDDR5 (fast graphics card RAM) on the PS4. Xbone however has a tiny cache of 32MB called eSRAM, which is on-die. The speed of this is way higher than the GDDR5 main memory of PS4.
Sick. Ergh.
🙁 Downvotes for badness. My eye is kinda sore today too, so I know your feel.
fully.
also, hope you’re feeling better asap man.
Deus Ex Human Revolution \o/
Pretty sure I’m up to the final boss. Watch out, world! I found all the old men in hiding on my way down, and they’re each trying to convince me to do something different. I’m assuming that because there’s an achievement for multiple endings that there’ll be a choice to make at endgame, just like the original Deus Ex.Sadly, I don’t think disabling the insanity signal and then hosting a steel cage death match between three old bastards to determine the future of mankind will be one of them 🙁
Save your game.
I have done so! In fact, I always have two save files in rotation, and each time I save, it’s in the alternate file. That way, I can ensure maximum success with my non-lethal stealth playthrough.
(And then, after the successful save, the default button position returns to “New Save”, and I’ve inadvertantly created a few of those. Presently, I am rotating Save File 8 and Save File 12, with 11 other files at various stages of game completion that have been abandoned.)
I’ll probably finish it up tonight.
Yeah annoying thing for me last time was one guy died after I tranq’d him (My guess he fell to his death) and I didn’t know until I finished the game and didn’t get the achievement.. I’m going to be trying again one day, cuz non-lethal is a real challenge and a lot of fun. I was trying to do it ultra-hard-mode and not set off any alarms too, so basically be a ninja without a killing weapon.
How do you know? Does the game show you which guy died, or are you just guessing? I’m pretty sure I haven’t killed anyone yet, but hell if I can be sure about it 😛
The game doesn’t mention it (or didn’t when I played it) but I really wish it would. Some kind of “enemies killed on this level” and option to replay levels individually once the game is finished would be a really nice feature for a no-kill run.
I think mine as ruined by me pushing a quartet of dead bodies together in a vent, mostly for fun. I’m guessing they glitched out a bit, collided and counted as falling damage or something.
I wish it did, then I wouldn’t feel cheated 😛
That is my guess, because I do remember leaving manholes open for instance so maybe when they keeled over they fell in and landing head first in the sewer. You really just have to be extra careful
Cheating.
I save my hardcore live-with-your-decisions gameplay for Dark Souls and The Walking Dead. Everything else, I’ll grind against the rules a little for achievements. 😛
Keen to hear your thoughts on the denouement in particular.
Then you shall have them:
I’m keen!Did the special edition thingy change the way the different endings are determined? I actually disliked that more than the forced boss fights
No idea, haven’t tried it yet.
I’m playing the Director’s Cut now – haven’t played earlier version. Here’s how it seems to be playing out.
While wandering through zombified Panchaea, I’m getting distress calls from the Human League guy and the Sarif guy, and I have to explore to find them. When I do, they seem to be unconcerned about mortal peril and more concerned about what I’m going to do once I shut down the signal. My assumption is that talking to them unlocks some options for the final ending(s).Let us know which you pick. I think the DLC section in the middle probably influenced me.
Twitch Plays Pokemon!
For @alexpants:
Copy/paste from Reddit
Since entering Saffron we:
1 – Tried, unsuccessfully, to deposit a pokemon at the Daycare Center (needed a spot for a surfer).2 – Fought all the trainers in the dojo except for the master, left when our party needed healing and when we realized we didn’t have a spot for a Hitmon___.
3 – In an attempt to get a spot for a Hitmon___, we touched the PC. It first took Bird Jesus (Pidgeot).
4 – We bargained with the PC to get Bird Jesus back, but it demanded a sacrifice to the evil Dome Fossil. Though we attempted to get rid of the false prophet (Eevee), in our haste we accidentally released Abby (“ABBBBBBK (“, or Charmeleon), and Jay Leno (“JLVWNNOOOO”, or the rattata without dig) before the PC would return Bird Jesus.
5 – That was not enough punishment, however: the evil dome fossil also forced us to take dig-rat (the rattata with dig) with us.
6 – Saddened and confused, we went to the poke mart and bought great balls in an attempt to catch Abby and Jay Leno before the dome fossil could take them too far away. We could not find them, but we found an oddish.
7 – With nothing left to do, we attempted the Team Rocket Headquarters at the Game Center. After many, many attempts at the maze, we picked up a rare candy. Angry at our partial success, the dome fossil’s minion, Eevee, stole our firestone, and attempted to take the place of Abby.
8 – After a fight in the chat, we reattempted the maze, only to pick up an escape rope and immediately use it. We went to the PC to attempt to get rid of dig-rat, since we remembered our experience in the dark tunnel, but the PC took Bird Jesus again.
9 – We managed to retrieve Bird Jesus, but at the sacrifice of our lord, the Helix Fossil, to the servant of evil, the PC. We decided to cut our losses, and take dig-rat with us for now.
10 – We reattempted the maze, only to dig out several times. In frustration we went back to the pokemon center, and in a stroke of luck, retrieved Lord Helix Fossil with no casualties.
11 – In celebration, we fed our rare candy to Dux (the Farfetch’d), and are now reattempting the maze again.
EDIT: Meant to be a reply to my previous post. Whoops.
I expect a hard copy holy book to be published about this whole journey.
Okay, because my complete ignorance and the fact i’m at work so i haven’t been able to watch any of this,
can someone in broad strokes just elaborate what they are actually trying to achieve with this “Twitch” thing…
i’m clearly not very cool and everything is flying right over my head 😛
Parser reads Twitch chat and commands are actioned in a game of Pokemon Red.
Why? Why not?
It is the ‘infinite monkeys’ theory at work.
“With an infinite amount of monkeys and an infinite amount of typewriters, one of them will eventually write Shakespeare”
A bunch of memes have come out of it (Helix Fossil, Eevee the false prophet etc)
Ah, now it makes more sense of why he does things that contradict each other 😛
THANKS CAKE!
http://www.reddit.com/r/churchofhelix
You sit upon a throne of lies! Hond voth hi!
http://www.reddit.com/r/churchofpokemon/
So its basically a case of someone playing a game live and saying “what button should I press next” and a chorus of thousands all scream different things until the player decides?
Yep, and it’s glorious.
The game is directly accepting the screaming of the chorus of thousands as input.
Oh an AUTOMATED player? Okay that makes it a bit more interesting from a programming perspective. Still sounds dull as fuck to watch though
It is. It’s the kind of thing you watch for 5 minutes and then see where they are a couple of hours later.
http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/1y6drw/live_updates/
Okay, I’ve just tuned in. HOW THE HELL WERE FOUR BADGES OBTAINED?
Bird Jesus and the fallen ABBBBBBK(, who is now in the holy land.
I have little to no work today, so I’ve got Netflix running at work and I’m watching Archer.
Started season 4 over the weekend. First ep was awesome!
I’m powering through S2 atm, but Netflix doesn’t appear to have season 3 or 4 up yet 🙁
I…used alternate means…
I think I read somewhere FX aren’t putting any new seasons of their shows on Netflix.
I might have made it up but it’s been about a year since they added new Archer.
This saddens me greatly.
After 7/8 years and coincidently, less than 6 months after my Xbone purchase my Xbox 360 has decided it doesn’t want to turn on any more. *mega sad face*
The power brick light still lights up orange when it’s plugged in, but Xbox just has had enough. I’m not sure what I should do tbh. I’m still in a bit of a state of shock.
It’s clearly seen that it’s been swapped out for a younger model and decided to take it’s own life… did it at least leave you a note?
or did it eat a disc as a giant “F**K YOU”?
It ate GTA V. I don’t know what I did to deserve this. The Xbone was meant to be a new member of the family, not a replacement. 🙁
Jealousy is an ugly thing…
And that’s a worth while tactic… I shall promptly test this on the missus, will report with my social experiment tomorrow…
“I swear honey, i brought her home as a new part of the family”
#pixelgetsdaladyfolk
http://starwarsroadtrips.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/x.jpg
My condolences. I am sure someone can organise a fitting service for your beloved.
My condolences. Got some damn fine use out of my 360, good times. Good times.
At one point I actually had a subscription to a games-by-mail delivery service, trying out new ones like, every week! Good times…
Which, funny story, drove one of my friends insane. I thought the random messages were a little cryptic, but eventually things came to a head: he bailed me up at a party and complained, “Damn you, you bastard! How are you doing it?! Every time I think I’m close to beating your Gamerscore, you jump up another few hundred points! I’ve been using guides and everything! Are you watching my score and just waiting til I get close before you blitz me?! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?”
At which point I sort of paused, mid-drink and looked confused, “We were competing? I don’t even know what my gamerscore is, I plays da games. I get new ones in the mail and then I play them til I’m bored, then I send them back to get new ones. I guess the game gives you a barrage of easy achievements in the first few hours and the rest you have to work for, but I’m not bothering with that and just moving onto new games. That’d explain the gamerscore thing.”
The look on his face made his girlfriend explode into laughter, because apparently he’d been getting very worked up about our imagined rivalry.
Funny story! Makes me wonder…what is your gamerscore??
You didn’t ask, but mine is 27500 or thereabouts, I believe. *flex*
Well now I have to look it up. First time the thing’ll have been powered on since Halo 4!
(I luvs me da Halos. Even if it uses the shittiest control system for an FPS under the sun. Mastacheef&Cortana4eva.)
Also: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/06/19
Mah score is 23235.
MUST FIRE UP CONSOLE AGAIN. MUST BEAT SHANE.
Actually, what I MUST do is go back and play all the games I actually care to play, then trade the whole fucking lot in or sell to a relative who wants them. Seriously, I’m sitting on this shit I never use.
I’ll be keeping my 360 for the forseeable future, and might be interested in obtaining some of your fucking lot when the time comes.
Mine’s 59321, I could very nearly beat both you and @shane single handed!
Also I have no life at all.
I was still a little disturbed when the xbone marketing was trumpeting about ‘keeping your game progress into the next generation’ a la same live account with that gamerscore. Had at least one parent at work with a kid that wanted the bone because they thought this meant full backwards compatibility and bringing all the games forward. Had to explain carefully that they may want to reevaluate why they should fork out for next gen when this wasn’t the case.
My 360 is on the way out too so I’d suggest adopting my plan, keep an eye out for sales on the latest 4gb edition of the 360 (BigW & JB often have them for $140, might even come down to $100 soon since the XB1 is out), buy that, pull the hard drive out of the original case (you might need to get a torx8h driver for the tamper resistant screws, they should have those at Bunnings or if not, ebay), whack it in a $2 drive case from ebay, do the licence transfer thing and have the newest 360 you can for the foreseeable future.
Also, you should be able to pin out the tray and get your copy of GTA5 out, pop the face plate off, there’s a small hole under the drive tray where you can put a pin or paperclip in and push to unlock the drive. I don’t want to put a second link in & trigger moderation but load up youtube & search for “Fix::How To Manually Get A Disc Out Of A Broken Xbox 360 Disc Tray”. It’s not the best video ever made but shows the right place to push. Its pretty much a button that forces the tray to unlock and push forward a little, you need to give it a bit of force but it’ll feel like it’s moving if its working. Worst case scenario is that if the console is going t be chucked anyway, just jam a knife in the side and force it open because its not like it’ll matter if the drive mechanism is damaged.
The knife may have to come out for this one. :'(
The paperclip trick is usually pretty reliable since its entirely mechanical, it only really fails if the mechanism is physically jammed
Disgaea D2:
Turns out that it does have the Promote option. I don’t know why I never noticed it until now. Reincarnate does give a bigger stat bonus though.I hit a bit of a difficulty wall. World 4, level 4 I think, there was an area where there were mobs of Bushi (Exorcist I think they are now? Name keeps changing) on either side of the map, shark things at the back, and a trio of gunslingers right in the middle. I wasn’t able to move in fast enough to take out the samurai ladies before they got a turn, and during that turn they would completely wipe out several characters at once with Blade Rush or Nether Slash. Even Laharl (who I should point out was turned into a girl for this chapter, which was amusing and kind of awesome) couldn’t last more than a round against them.
So I decided to level up a bit and found a really good power-leveling method. They added a ‘cheat’ system into the game that lets you ratchet up and down the amount of Experience etc. you gain from battles (by similarly lowering something else, eg gaining less money) and also in there you can increase the difficulty of the monsters up to 20 times normal. Used to be that increasing and decreasing difficulty required doing that annoying voting thing where you would bribe senators and stuff just to increase / decrease by a point.
So anyway, there’s one map in World 2 where there are four Dragon enemies. You send out your tankiest dude and then stack the other nine dudes on top of them to make a ten-man tower, then you attack each dragon one at a time. Everyone in the tower attacks at once so you can do thousands of damage, and they all get the XP for the kill. Started grinding that, slowly ratcheting up the difficulty and got everyone in my core party to around level 55-60, promoting them as the next level of their class unlocked. I think that’s slowed down now, I imagine I need to hit 100 before they come good again. Then I dropped the level multiplier back down to 0 and smashed my way through the rest of chapter 4. Enjoying the game a lot now that I’ve started to get a handle on it again, just needed to figure out a good leveling approach.
Oh wow, I didn’t think stacking people worked like that. I should try it when next levelling someone.
The chapter where Laharl turns into a women is fantastic.Pretty sure that particular method is going to hit diminishing returns at some point. I got up to about 13x multiplier on the enemy level and at that point my bottom dude would die about halfway into the fight so have to factor that in and rotate the bottom of the tower for each go.
It’s pretty awesome to send in a level 1 character and have them sitting in the high 30s or so after one fight though.
Stacking people usually results in a fair amount of discomfort, sharp elbows and knees, and (depending on the context) can also cause quite a bit of jealousy.
Or if it’s a human pyramid, it takes a lot of time, effort and coordination and the end result is people saying “what was the point of that?”
And you can gesture towards the person at the top and say “They’re the point. Obviously. Everyone else is the base.”
One page too early!
YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE ME SAY IT…. !!!!
EVERYPAGEISPAGESIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>:((if you carry it with you in your heart)I have no heart, I replaced it with an old fish tank pump years ago. Works a treat but its a bit noisy and I have to stay within range of a power point at all times
Wolf Creek 2 Feb 20! HYPE! XD
Dark Souls!
Tried Smough and Ornstein last night, got wrecked and very frustrated. So I gave up and did the Painted World instead. Managed to get Priscilla’s Dagger first try but I’m doing a strength build so this has lead to a bit of pondering. Decided to stick to the smashy smashy strength build.So now my problem is that I turned my +10 Battle Axe into a Golem Axe which needs 36 strength to wield. I do not have 36 strength. So I just spent 40k souls and a fair bit of time running around to get my Zweihander up to +10 instead. I think my main weapon in the end will be a +15 Great Club though. Smashy smashy 🙂Also, Freya is bad at Hitman.
Update:
Smough and Ornstein are deaded! I’m going to make Smough’s hammer, just because.his hammer is awesome. Single most damaging straight up base damage weapon in the game.
Does need 58 STR though.
I’m fairly confident that I’m going to do 50 strength with a +15 great club as my main weapon. So it’s not too much of a problem to get the extra 8 strength needed to whip that out.
I was just enjoying the fact that I was staggering S&O with a giant blue sword. The only way to improve that is with a giant hammer.
AARRRRGH Why can’t Excel add time up to more than 24 hours by default!!!
I’ve got five tabs open telling me how to MAKE it do so, but this spreadsheet I’m working on was designed as they built the great f**king pyramids. Satan himself designed this spreadsheet just to ensure that I’m punished BEFORE I die and go to Hell.
They’ve nested IF functions. Not, you know, nesting within IF functions.
They’ve got about 4 fully nested IF functions off to one side and then put a central IF function that nests those functions within an IF function.
SWEET JESUS TELL MY WIFE I LOVED HER AND THAT MY TIME ON THIS EARTH WAS FAR TOO SHORT
How does it work? I’m guessing you have to use a complete date and time value?
I have to adjust the various date/time cells from H:MM to either [H]:MM or DD:HH:MM.
The problem is FINDING all the date cells.
If you looked at the spreadsheet without unhiding the columns, then it looks like A B C E G H M T W X Y AA.
All those other columns are filled with unnecessary formula’s.
I should just do this from the ground up but IT is a little annoyed with people doing such things, especially if they update something to be better.
I see.
Can you not rewrite the spreadsheet and then show it to the higher ups saying “look how much better I am, promote me, fuckers!”?
I wish I could, but IT would come out and say “It’s not compatible with Excel 98 and people still run that, leave these things to IT” and the bosses would say “IT have a fair point, don’t go doing that again.”
I wish I were joking.
(Note: when I say “IT” I don’t mean the on the ground guys. They’re generally awesome. I’m talking about the managers, who don’t have IT training but have a Bachelor of Business so they MUST BE GOOD.)
Oh… those people. Yeah I’ve seen them on occasion. “Windows 3.1 and a BNC ring network was good enough for my father and its good enough for me!”
so after about 55 hours, I’m up to the 2nd last mission in Dragon Age Awakening.
should be able to get through that & Witch Hunt tonight.
really, really liked this game & I’m sad it took me so long to get into it. but happy because I finally did.
anyway… I’m on a good run of actually finishing games this year & I’d like to continue it.
so I’m taking recommendations for the next thing to get off my pile of shame
ideally, I’m looking for something that a) I already own, b) is rad & c) isn’t a 50+ hour game. suggestions?
By all accounts, Remember Me is a lot shorter than most AAA titles (I’d call it an A title). It’s interesting in parts. I’d probably recommend that next.
Don’t know what you own, but I recommend Spec Ops: The Line.
Or The Walking Dead.
Or Mirror’s Edge.
Or a combination of those 3 games, a parkour themed descent into madness in a world full of zombies.
I’d totally play that.
its called Dying Light & is out late this year.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/239140/
I’ve been watching it closely, trust me but there’s no indication of spec ops level story
To be fair, there was no indication of that in spec ops itself either, until a bunch of reviewers had grudgingly got around to playing it then were like, “Woah. OMG YOU GUYS, YOU GUYS!”
Heh true, the first half of spec ops was okay and then felt like the story was being held back by being married to an average 3rd person shooter
I’m thinking I might start doing a similar thing to you and start pushing myself towards games that deserve finishing. Also, seconded for Remember Me. Easy to knock over (10ish hours I believe? For close to 100%) and a damned good game.
I really must get back to it myself, I got 3/4 through and got distracted by something else. It may be clunky as hell and more linear than I was hoping but its stylish as all hell
Rocksmith.
Learn all the songs 😛
So those people that do that RPG session game, how are you all going with that? I ask because the group we’ve been assembling for D&D seem to all be coming up with the “I’m super busy with uni soon” statement (even though they’re all part time and I’m fulltime, wut) so I can’t see it going ahead… hence I may need to look at finding people to do Warhammer Fantasy RPG online.
They’re just dicks, there’s no excuse for not having a couple hours a week spare.
When I used to have RPG days with my friends from high school we’d go all day, like 8 hours including a lunch break. I couldn’t do that anymore when I started working full time though. :/
The thing is I was only after 3 or 4 hours a month to be realistic to my amigos. Apparently that’s far too much.
Whoa dude, settle down, that’s far too much. Also I’m not gonna suggest an alternative. Also, I’m gonna post pics on FB every week where I get drunk.
I need new friends if these guys don’t think my friendship is worth 3 hours a month :\
NOW OPEN FOR AUDITIONS FOR FRONDS
It’s going well! If you’re keen on running a campaign i’m interested
Do you guys currently just TS or do you use Roll20 or something?
Roll 20. We recently moved from the native voice chat to a google+ hangout with Roll20 integrated
I’d also be very keen to listen on some of an adventure, to get the general flow of how things work for you guys?
Well, we’re having @gingerchris86 sit in tomorrow (assuming we play-I might have to pull the plug given I’m ill) so you’re welcome to join too. Add me on google + and i’ll include you in the call
Don’t push yourself to put up with our shenanigans if you’re feeling unwell. There will always be another time 🙂
Thanks man, I’ll see how I’m travelling tomorrow
Late to the party here but I’m curious about this proposition. Are you referring to 1st, 2nd, or 3rd edition of WFRP? I only recently got the 2nd edition core rulebook and it certainly intrigues me. I’ve been playing a game of Only War and I’m familiar with the other 40K RPGs and I find it interesting to see how all of those systems built out of this core system.
I am interested in playing in a campaign regardless. MOAR RPGS FOR THE RPG GOD!!
My comment vanished so here goes, round 2!
I’d be playing 2nd edition. I played 1st edition way back when and 2nd is supposed to be an improvement without reinventing the wheel (as opposed to 3rd, which some say is more of a board game). I have Dark Heresy (and was lined up to play with loops until I kept missing sessions for work) but I feel more familiar with Fantasy (I started playing Warhammer as Chaos and Lizardmen)… and my novice RPG storycrafting lends itself more to Fantasy 😛
Ooh count me in for 2nd edition. I am all for the randomness in the character creation so I will roll for pretty much everything 😛
I like the setting of Fantasy more than 40K (heresy I know :P) simply because I’m more familiar with it. I was only introduced to Fantasy through the Warhammer Online MMO so I’m a late comer to the series. I’ve also been a part of a Pathfinder RPG set in the Fantasy universe but that is distinctly high fantasy in comparison to the general doom and gloom so it will be nice to get back to the roots. Let me know if you need/want anything for it as I’m keen to help in any way I can for more RPGs 😀
Oh yeah, @redartifice this will be my eighth concurrent RPG that I will be playing 😛
Living the dream man!
If you’re happy for anything then we could roll you a character on Steam or TS whenever you want. And don’t worry, I know a few people who dislike 40k as they feel it’s far too grimdark (I totally understand).
Man, the Thomas Was Alone OST is pretty damn great…
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that’s all i got to add
*sits back down*
I’d listen to that on repeat for a looooong time. So good
It’s actually perfect background music for when i work XD
Interesting enough to focus me, but not too “busy” to disctract me from the task at hand…
nice and mellow… and awesome 😛
Sad, true, and brilliant, all in one statement.
Assuming most traffic is based in the USA, they’re 16-19 hours behind us (our eastern seaboard) coast to coast. So probably midnight to 2AM one side and 3AM to 5AM the other might be the biggest lull for them.
That would make the Australian Window of Influence to be around 7pm – 9pm EDST for us. Mid to late evening anyway.
Edit: 2hr window instead of single time
From 9pm it’s 10am in the EU so you’ll have them start to jump in as well.
No Kotaku I am not posting too quickly, you’re listening to slowly!
Ok, so let’s say I was going to attempt to play Dark Souls (and actually put some effort into it this time… I got the drake sword when I used to have it on 360, and haven’t beaten the Taurus Demon on PC…), I’ve read a few beginners guide, who seem to suggest starting with a Wanderer, and putting most points early on into Vitality and Endurance to give yourself a better chance of survival early.
Any suggestions or opinions?
I’d say (and i’m by no means very good at all) that it depends on what you like, and how you like playing…
I picked a knight, because i just enjoyed playing as that class more… I tried wanderer, i tried bandit, i tried warrior and kept coming back to the knight…
There’s just something about a heavy set of armor, being slow, but dishing out a crapton of damage i really enjoy…
But each to their own, if you like dodging more, or the magics… i would say experiment… and as some people would say, after a little while, classes don’t matter anymore because you can so easily change up your character during gameplay
Suggestions
1) The first thing you want to get is a shield that blocks 100% physical damage. If it’s not in your starting equipment, you can buy one from the hidden merchant in the Undead Burg.2) If you’re planning to platinum the game, you need to start planning it pretty early. Refer to the wikis. Follow in my footsteps and spend 10 minutes reading wikis for every minute you spend in game.
3) Some enemies aren’t meant to be killed the first time you go past them. (They can be killed, but it’s not easy) These include the Black Knights, the bridge dragon, and Havel The Rock.
4) If you choose Thief as your starting class or choose the Master Key as your gift, you can unlock a bunch of rad equipment a lot earlier. Read wikis for info on the loot in Blighttown and the Valley of the Drakes.
5) Don’t hit NPCs with weapons. They don’t like it.
6) Be prepared to die. A lot. You might sometimes play for hours and make next to no progress.
Bandit.
Hulk smash puny hollows!
I think either Pyro or Bandit for starting classes are best.
Pyro = Oh a boss appeared? I guess I should be scar-FIREBALLS!
Bandit = I crush EVERYTHING with mighty axe!
More extensive pros and cons:
Pyromancer (My Recommended)
+ Starts at level 1 (leveling up is cheaper for the first couple of levels).
+ Starts with pyro glove and fireball which is an extremely power spell early on (and better spells can be bought later on).
+ Not specialised in any particular field, this making him optimal for building into whatever.
– Starting Gear (excluding Pyro Glove) is bad. You have weak armour, a terrible shield and a below average weapon.
– Low starting stats (end/vit).
– Basically you will have a problem when fighting powerful enemies in melee (that’s what fireballs are for).
Bandit (Second Choice)
+ Very powerful starting weapon, infact I think it’s the most powerful starting weapon.
+ High Str/VIT/End makes you very formidable in melee.
+ Very amazing shield (Light-weight/blocks 100% melee damage/protects against poison)
– High Str, which while is a big positive also makes it less appealing to do a dex based character.
– If you want to invest in any kind of spell casting your gonna need to pump up your Attunement
– You are locked into melee combat. No ranged attacks for you
Bandit definitely has the best starting weapon but Pyro is probably the best newbie class.
Starting gear isn’t too relevant because the merchants that give access to better stuff are available early on and you can find quite a lot of decent gear around Undead Burg/Lower Undead Burg.
A low starting level lets you get the right mix of stats sooner and fireball is a great spell for new players who aren’t able to melee bosses comfortably (because they haven’t worked out the safest place in many boss fights is right next to them).
I chose the Hunter class, purely because it had the best stats lined up for the DEX build that I wanted to make, also having early access to a bow is useful, and it is by far the most aesthetically appealing starting class (no ugly character for me :D).
I don’t think it really matters what class you pick, since each class can be tailored to whatever playstyle you choose.
Saying that, Pyromancy seems to be the most popular starting class due to its low starting level and lack of specialisation in starting stats.
And OP fire 😀
Ah yes, can’t forget the OP fire 😛
Pyromancy is good for starting out, but loses some of its usefulness against faster enemies / bosses, so don’t bank on it being a kind of “get out of jail free card” (IMO).
Give me a quick stabby stabby weapon any day >:D
Stabbity stabbity STAB STAB STAB >:D
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Little stabby weapons while can be deadly are pretty useless against big bosses.
“huh? stop poking me with that twig”
*THWACK*
*giant hammer squishes you*
Who said anything about little stabby weapons? My +5 Silver Knight Spear has pretty high damage output while being quick 😀 Coupled with my Grass Crest Shield means I can keep stabbing for ages! 😀
I have a soft spot for my stabby thief. Because, by himself, he got me this: https://twitter.com/Shane_W_Smith/status/357730145605390336/photo/1
Show off 😛
Nah, good work man! That must have taken quite a while to complete!
Around 60-65 hours from go to woah, including about 5-8 in the DLC content (no achievements there).
Been working on that the past week. 3 weapons and 4 miracles to go.
Awesome! 🙂
Could also start Sorcerer or Thief and build a Mage build. Bit of a struggle at the start but early mid game onwards you’ll be destroying EVERYTHING.
@greenius is currently doing a Mage build and I Just did one. Normal enemies can be a bit more difficult (especially if you haven’t played through it before). Still, magic can make quick work of bosses.
I just got the Moonlight Greatsword!
Was like 1 hit away from killing Seath too when I dieded and got cursed 🙁
I think the best beginner build (at least the best for me) is a mid-tanky build (under 50% weight) that uses STR, VIT, END and some Pyromancy with a 1H weapon (like a sword/spear) and shield.
You’ll be able to take enough hits and deal out decent damage. The best of both worlds!
The problem with other builds I’ve tried is that dodging can take a while to get used to for lighter builds and they won’t be able to take many hits. Same sort of deal with mages but magic can be a bit annoying to use in the bits between bosses but magic against bosses themselves is easy mode.
Most classes would be a good start for this generic build (I think I started as a Warrior or Knight) and it’s worth picking the Masterkey too cause it makes a few things easier.
I haven’t mucked around too much with different options, but pumping endurance and strength to start with worked for my thief, which basically facilitated getting good gear early and using it. I think I dropped maybe five points into VIT my entire playthrough, and that was only after I got END, DEX, and STR all to 40 😛
Holy shit you guys, 3 days to go and I’m on leave for 2 weeks and after today it cannot come soon enough.
Whachya got planned?
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7jtn8sLjY1qzv4vio1_500.png
PopSugar headline: “Lets give a warm Australian welcome to the Modern Family cast”
…so lock them up in offshore detention in inhumane conditions & periodically have a mob attack them?
I’d sort of be in favour of that.
Edit: oh god, even for me that’s a bit mean.
Strange things happen when you don’t have a passport with a verified identity, a legal entry-point into a nation, and legal access to the nation sorted out.
Dear Computer Folk,
I still owe my sister a birthday present, I meant to get her the Walking Dead game but couldn’t figure out htf to do that, since the one you can buy in the shops seems to be for Windows only but she has a Mac (there is a PC that she uses sometimes, but it likes to not work and I don’t know how capable it is), she does use her iPad a lot but doesn’t want to deal with in-app purchases which seems to be how they sell the episodes on there. She did hand me her laptop to buy them on Steam for her the other day, but I was busy and told her I’d deal with it later. And just now I saw this:
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/adventure/telltale-games-collection/
But on the page there it talks about requirements of Windows. So if I buy that for her, will she still be able to play them on her Macbook?
Thx,
Console Guy
if she’s got Steam, just gift it to her through that. according to the steam page, it’s mac compatible.
Ok. But what is the meaning of “just gift it to her through that”?
I don’t know what steps that involves 😛
1. Log into your Steam account.
2. Navigate to the MAC section.
3. Find the game. Add to cart.
4. On checkout, select the ‘gift’ option.
5. Send it to sister via her Steam name, or email address.
Can’t even do step 1 😛
Do some stuff to make it possible, then. 😛
Never!
do you have a steam account?
if not, getting that is Step 1.
Step 2 – click this link – http://store.steampowered.com/app/207610/
Step 3 – Add to cart
Step 4 – click ‘purchase as a gift’
Step 5 – pick ‘send directly through steam’ if she has an account. go to step 7.
Step 6 – pick ‘send via email’ if she hasn’t.
Step 7 – Enter money details. & confirm etc.
Step 8 – done.
I figured it’d be better getting that GMG pack though, since for the same price you get a tonne more games with it. Would that work the same way?
if the GMG store page says it needs Steam, it’ll give you the Steam keys to redeem.
you’ll just have to send them to her for her to enter.
From the Telltale website:
Mac System Requirements
OS: Snow Leopard (10.6.X) to Mavericks (10.9.X)
Processor: 2.3 Ghz Intel
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 2 GB Space Free
Video Card: 512 MB Nvidia or ATI graphics card
Additional: Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics or Mac Minis or early-generation MacBooks
EDIT: Also buying it from the Telltale website you get a DRM free version. I know how much you don’t like to be tied down 😛
Hm. Any idea what “early generation MacBooks” means? I can’t remember when she got hers, but I think it might have been around… 2006? No. Maybe 07, possibly 08.
2006 is pretty old man. Go to top-left corner, click the Apple, click System Info, then keep clicking through until you find the details system report. Export that somehow and send to us.
I have my doubts right now if she can run it…
Went to the apple and About This Mac, says it’s on 10.5.8, has a 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, and 4GB RAM.
Requirements say above that 10.6 is required. Need the graphics card specs, if any.
Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT
OK, she can run it. But that all depends on if the game will even install/run and not say “HURRRRR YU DUN HAV 10.6”.
@stickman Ok cool, I’ll just get it and she can deal with any incompatibilities. She already demanded it of me so even if it happened then the issue would’ve still come up 😛
Thanks for the help. Fuck this shit is complicated. Imma go play some Nintendo to make myself feel better.
On the plus side, if you purchase the Steam version it’ll work on Windows too, so no need to buy twice.
Pretty sure ‘early generation’ means anything on OSX 10.4 (Tiger) or lower. They made a big hardware switch after this version.
If the Macbook runs 10.5 (Leopard) or above, it should work (albeit probably slowly on an ’07 machine :P)
I’d be very surprised it it runs particularly well, if at all.
Here are the specs for a 2008 Macbook Pro. I don’t think those even meet the requirements, especially not if her laptop is older/not a Pro model.
Plus The Walking Dead stutters on much more powerful machines, regardless 😛
That’d probably run it okay then, telltale is a bit wonky on everything, its part of their “if only they were a bit better” charm
Backing up my computer… fun! I want to reformat it sometime before Uni starts next week, so today is the day. My music folder took up a lot more space than I thought it would considering the amount of music I actually have. FLAC’s evidently have a downside.
And I’m not sure what’s wrong with my wifi adapter in this computer. Every time I try and play Counter-Strike GO my ping is up in the range of 500ms and if Oliver and I try playing it together his will shoot up too, but his is fine when he’s playing by himself and we’re both fine if I play it on my mac (which is crash-tastic) :S Bought a cheap USB wifi adapter of DX, so we’ll see how that goes when it arrives I guess.
Does it shoot up if you’re playing by yourself even if his system is off? It sort of sounds like there might be interference or collision that’s causing a lot of dropped packets
Hmm. I’ll have to see when I get the chance. He leaves his computer on pretty much 24/7 but I’ll try tonight.
So, when I said this morning that I had no work to do, and was watching Archer… I spoke too soon…
This happened;
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BweJJq1ctWw7ek5QUWlNcTc5RnM/edit?usp=sharing
That has to be built into 12 new desktops by Thursday.
A broken image?? D:
Hmm, works for me… I set the GDrive permissions to “anyone who has the link” so it should work…
*EDIT*
Should be good now, I set it to completely public.
I dunno, it still doesn’t like me for whatever reason. I’ll just assume it’s something terribly horrible 😛
You gotta image em too? It’s like half a day setting up the hardware, dunno how long software. Software part has lots of free time though, if done right. 😛
PAGE SIX! *hyperventilates* *has orgasm* *followed by heart attack* *dies* *winks*
Not dead yet.
Hmm. A bit dramatic. I’m tempted to do a DC and edit.. BUT FARK IT! PAGE SIX IS ALL ABOUT THE DRAMAS! And funs! And puns, too. And shit so much spelling and grammatical errors I don’t even know where to start. And starting sentences with ‘and’ – a big no no.
Hey all you people out there having a rough day. Here’s a little trick I learnt on how to cope:
1. Draw a square.
2. Draw a triangle next to the square.
3. Realise that without geometry life is pretty pointless.
I’ve been watching some Winter Olympics while home sick today, makes me kinda want to move to Sochi
I’ll keep considering it though, there’s no point Russian into things #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeThat reminds me, what’s the difference between a straight Russian Olympian and a gay African Olympian?
About 9,500 KilometersAnd you thought this was going somewhere crass.Like Las VegasI don’t know why we keep Putin up with these page 6 jokes. Haven’t you gotten sick of them nyet?
Fine, I’ll stop Stalin and come out and say it: I was Lenin away from dad jokes but I feel recently reinvigorated.
If this keeps going I’ll ask you both to Trotsky out of here.
If you still like them, Soviet, I guess they’re here to stay.
Too many react to page 6 like literary Gorbachev got to admire some of the wordplay that goes down here.
It makes me want to Yeltsin good fun and to calm down, but some can’t be reasoned with.
😀
What do Russians say when they need to use the toilet?
Moscow! Moscow!Oh dear… Page 6, how appropriate.
Saw this come up on facebook, thought of @shane. And who should I see in the comments section….
http://www.negpoz.com/31-puns-bad-theyre-good-read-laughed/
I think @redartifice should do a play on puns.
Ah, who am I kidding, we all know it’ll just be a play on words.
I think if I did @strange would nuke the place from orbit, but at least my performance would bring down the house.
I’m sure that would be quite a reaction.
Support ticket came through, about a service being “MIA”. This is how the last sentence finishes:
CRISIS OVER
Bought the thing on GMG. Also just made my sister create the account on it, since it’s not like I’m ever going to use it for anything so she may as well have it there in case of things in the future.
Sorted 😛
Did you use the 20% off coupon?
Hahaha, nope. Didn’t even see that bit of the post 😛
Oh well.
I might have a hint of new job. This is not a page 6 joke 😛
Page 6?
I was going to make a destitution joke…
But I got nothing.
Man. That dyslexia is really acting up today. Not in the typical way, though. Just when trying to talk, I’ve been using opposite words, all day.
Eg: “I can’t forget how to– I mean, I can’t remember how to…” and the like.
Really have to settle down and focus. That hasn’t been a problem in YEARS. I must be stressed.
Not that I actually know it’s proper dyslexia, of course. Never got diagnosed, after all. But from what I’ve read, there’s a good chance of it.
Spoiler because lack of puns, long and boring.
Something that is not easily-guessed about me is that I had a few dyslexia-linked conditions as a kid for quite a long time. Several years. But was never diagnosed. It was mostly referred to as a learning disability at the time, and that didn’t seem to quite fit. At kindergarten when we should’ve been finger-painting, I was painting the letters of the alphabet. Oh, I could write. Only… backwards. Mirror-image. Caused a bit of a stir with the parents/teachers. They were concerned there was some brain issue. But it never slowed me down as such. Took a while, but by the time they were actually marking us on it, I got my shit together.
When the kids in year 1 were learning the alphabet, I was allowed to sit in the corner and read books. So it was never a learning disability… but there were various little manifestations that weren’t quite common.
Like the stuttering.
Yeah, in my primary school years, I would stutter. Not especially self-consciously, I was barely aware of it; and I never copped any flak from the other kids either, because I was kinda their boss. Certainly very assertive and bossy up until the 3rd grade when we moved towns. But it was enough of a concern to teachers and my parents that I was swiftly enrolled in some drama and speaking classes. Learning diction, enunciation, public speaking: reading poetry and acting, until the stutter eventually disappeared. Sadly, it also caused me to speak like a bit of a toff for a while, which took plenty of tooling around on the wrong side of the tracks to undo.
To this date, I still do it, though – stutter. Very occasionally.
I associate stuttering with a lack of familiarity with the subject, or getting too excited and running ahead of my brain. So it turns up every now and then, especially in social gatherings where I’m not ‘performing’. Speaking spontaneously in public performances became familiar, as I did Toastmasters, debate team, acting, and various official student council/house-captain/etc roles over the years.
But every now and then – like today – a little something pops up. Such as using the opposite word to what I intend. For HOURS.
Reading up, it sounds like textbook dyslexia. Word-retrieval errors, mirror-image writing, stuttering… But at this stage of my life, I don’t think there’s any point to looking for a diagnosis of whatever neurological conditions might be lurking back there. I’ve performed – well into adulthood – on the stage, in sales, customer service roles, amateur radio announcing, providing training for a class, presenting project proposals, gone to debates at a state level, made moving speeches at weddings and funerals, impromptu, unscripted. So it’s not interfering with my life. Although it has made me somewhat unintelligible in the occasional moment of stress with my Kelly, in the past. But she’s a very patient, understanding girl. Knows when to tease and when not.
So yeah. Possible/likely neurological disorders. You wouldn’t pick it!
You’ve a very transient mind, it seems.
That’s no joke.
That’s partly why I chose the handle. 🙂
Oh, I know! I was trying to think of a dyslexic pun. But my brain kept rejecting, “Nup.”
What about pun?
One of my closest friends seems to have it. Used to switch letters around in words when spelling. For some reason no teacher ever did anything about it. During high school I would have to reexplain what the teacher just said in terms he understood and he would catch on straight away.
It was kinda like his thought processes worked differently
I don’t think you need to do anything, you sound way more successful than me in all things and I had no problems in school.
My problem is, if I don’t find a topic interesting I can’t remember anything about it.
So I got As in English and Art but would barely scrape through Science and Math.
Also, I don’t like trying. At all. i’m ridiculously lazy like you wouldn’t believe, I just can’t find a reason to care. Im always getting in trouble for slacking off and when they investigate they find I actually do a lot of work. It’s weird.
Oh my god, I have that too! (Well, except I failed art because because I kept doing weird things, so I dropped it in favour of physics. Then, y’know, the drama teacher begged me to drop physics for drama for the sake of my OP, and the physics teacher begged me to drop physics for drama, which probably should’ve been a strong hint that I should drop physics for drama. I did not drop physics for drama and got a C.:P Which is probably why I got an OP4 instead of something better. My youngest brother actually studied instead of partying, and he got an OP1. But he IS smarter than me, so maybe it wasn’t just the partying/studying difference.)
I did physics, chemistry, maths B&C and logic.
Didn’t hand in a single assignment, aced all the tests. Got straight C’s and an OP 16.
There’s a lesson here somewhere…
If I got an OP I have no idea what it was, had given up on High School after failing English because me and the teacher didn’t get along.
I lived around the corner and often just didn’t turn up to school. Went home for naps.
I figured out they only actually checked attendance in the morning, so I would show up for that, then go home.
I passed everything except Science and English
Was disgusted I got a higher mark in Math since it always gave me trouble.
Every now and then (I’ve yet to determine the triggers, if any) I won’t be able to read block text, my mind focusing instead on the spaces between the letters. For the life of me I can’t read it, because it’s a completely alien language.
It’s like someone flipped the contrast or something.
Never put much thought into verbal misnomers, do you find it’s easy to catch if you’re aware of them happening?
Yeah. Centre, refocus, breathe, stop. Same thing with the stuttering. You gotta stop your mouth from running away with your head and be very deliberate about what you say.
Which makes people think you’re quiet and reserved, and sometimes you’ll miss some awesome joke opportunities but whatever, who cares. 🙂
I tend to re-read the same line of text several times, like my brain flicks back to the start of the same line rather than dropping down one
I get that if reading large passages with little/no format beyond that of alignment. Also substituting words from lines directly above/below the line I’m reading. I thought that was fairly commonplace though.
I have a weird thing with left & right, can turn left or right whenever I want without trouble but if I want to describe or follow a direction I have to stop and think or I always get it wrong. It’s a bastard in games particularly, to the extent that friends have started saying “No, the OTHER right” when I inevitably turn left
Same!
Forward and back means more to me as in the direction most platformers go.
Heh. Apparently this becomes really common with stage actors and directors, and radiographers. Stage left and stage right, after all. And radiographers look at your x-rays the other way around, so your left lung, for example, is on the right side of the slide.
In the first few years of his practicing, I was constantly correcting my little brother, “No, your other left,” when we drove places.
My sister has that, which is funny since she used to teach Piano, which is very left/right dependent.
When she was learning to drive she and my father developed the your side / my side system, which works a charm.
My issue is East and West. In theory I know that from a standard point, East is Right, West is Left, but every time I go to think about them, I have to go “North-South-East-West” while making a little cross to make sure I get it right.
I’ve been getting east/west as well but just in Arma/DayZ so I assumed it was just the left/right thing with me reading it on the map. Hmm, there were a lot of /’s in that sentence.
I swear you would have the most interesting autobiography ever written.
Thanks? 🙂 Maybe for a video game geek…? Although not really. Vin Diesel apparently games a fair bit. There are more interesting lives out there. One of the guys I went to school with saved up for a holiday to Nepal – saw the horrible poverty there and the corruption that drains all the aid and charity money, so when he went home, did some fundraising, then flew back and BUILT AN ORPHANAGE HIMSELF. Won Young Queenslander of the year for his on-going efforts, and a bunch of other things. Couple years younger than me, but we knew each other from swimming. (And the fact that the entire school was only a couple hundred people.) ‘Lars Olsen’ – google image search (include ‘hervey bay’ in the search) if you want even further jealousy. Bastard has eyes even bluer than mine.
Everything’s relative.
But I had some lucky starting rolls in life, and went out and did and saw a lot, so maybe. I know for a fact there are a few things that people would never believe, which I’m pretty sure will only ever come out if I get very, very drunk.
But enough about your penis…
I started off reading this as a #page6joke. :\
Sometimes I forget common English words, but that’s cos I’m an outer space alien and I like to live on the edge.
Yo dawg, we herd u liek paste so we put paste in yo paste so yoo can glue while you gloo
ily
I know
http://cinemafanatic.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/empire_strikes_back.jpg
What’s the advantage of living in Switzerland?
Well the flag is a big plus!Duuuuuuuuudeeeeee
Crystal Magic and Moonlight Greatsword :O
Knight Artorias took me a while on my melee character but with magic he’s just dead after a coupla hits :/. I wonder how OP Dark Bead will be 😛
Ooh, in Dark Souls update goodness… I missed the Moonlight Greatsword. Hacked away at that rear tail repeatedly with a giant greatsword doing max level damage… even got killed by it thrashing around, once. But nada. If I play a magic character, I figure I’ll just use an enchanted claymore, should do the trick.
Anyway, the night before last, I sat down to grab the missing divine ember I needed, and killed Nito. It was kinda cool wielding a divine ultra greatsword in my left hand (to take out the half-dozen skeletons around the place) and my +15 man-serpent greatsword in my right. DUAL GREATSWORDS, SON.
Then I spent the rest of the night farming twinkling titanite in the Crystal Cave to enchant up my newly-acquired Paladin set, and the Black Iron set in preparation for my next goal… Hallo, Hellkite Dragon.
Izzit your first playthrough?
Yup. Well. I had a knight that I abandoned who never even really got into the Undead Burg.
WOOO! I’m loving all these people who are getting into Dark Souls (again) 😀
EDIT: Nevermind.
Unrelated, but I thought you might appreciate: http://i.imgur.com/ueFvzRK.jpg
Dark Bead will one shot most bosses and two shot the rest. It’s pretty OP.
How are you finding Melee?
Less OP? 😛
Very.
Admittedly, I’m still doing several hundred damage per attack because Gurpgork am strong.
Is this your bandit?
Yup. Although I’m well past the point where starting class has any influence on what’s going on.
So, spray paint is super expensive and not worth it. I was supposed to knit chainmail and then spray paint it silver, but that plan has gone out the window.
At Supercheap Auto it’s $3.90 a can.. Usually they have sales where you can pick up 4 for 10 dollars though..
It might need to be a special wool one or something.
Point, I missed that. I wouldn’t use the turps based spray paint I linked then, acrylic is probably more suitable i’d say 😛
I need silver. but yeah, half a can barely covered what I had
I’ve got a whole cupboard of silver spray paint for fabrics but the dangerous goods postage may be a little excessive 😛
thanks, but I ended up buying metallic wool instead
This is pretty cheap, I think?
Not steel wool D=
Imagine the fun you could have if someone had a vest made from that, sneak up behind them and wire a 9v battery to that bit of their back that almost no one can reach
Haha, provided there’s flame suppression available nearby, why not? 😛
For the longest time, I didn’t actually know that some people couldn’t reach that spot on their back. Just… never occurred to me, I suppose.
@mythamphetamine I can, there’s no part of my body I can’t reach, except perhaps my self esteem…
You have to imagine a sad face there because there’s no fucking way I’m using an emoticon.
Just backed something on Kickstarter for the first time.
slowpoke.jpg
I haven’t even done that… =(
Not even Star Citizen? I thought everyone alive backed that
DOUBLEEEEEE FINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
So far they’ve still not made a game that I’ve liked. The closest was brutal legend that I loved right up until I hated it
NEVAR! I’ll play that piece of vaporware when it comes out! IF I doesn’t turn into a PVP thing.
I haven’t backed any games. Only ever hardware.
What did you back?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1836563008/wakfu-the-animated-series
Today was nice. Weta, Walking, boardgames, good company and a really nice dinner.
This weekend is actually art deco weekend up in Napier so going to scoot up there for a few days.
Tomorrow should be nice and easy, rest up, head into town and maybe check out a couple of museum things. Then maybe take the cable car up to the botanic gardens.
Then BBQ and boardgames in the evening
@sernobulus and I just bought Toukiden so we need buds!
I only played the demo for a couple of minutes but it’s basically Monster Hunter on Vita made by the Dynasty Warriors people (so that’s awesome in my books!)
I wish Monster Hunter actually came out for Vita though 🙁
It does look kinda fun from the video I’m looking at, if I had a bit more than -$23 at the moment I might have looked at picking it up.
What they need on the PS4 is a vita screen mirroring app so you can watch it on the big screen and capture the output
They have that, it’s called the Vita TV.
Err yeah, I was thinking something more along the lines of just showing my vita content on the TV so I didn’t have to fuck about console modding if I wanted to capture any vita gameplay. Certainly not buying an ersatz vita just for that
I puchased it but haven’t turned it on yet as I am a terrible person. 🙁
I thought you didn’t like Monster Hunter? :O
I like Monster Hunter, I just don’t have the time to devote to getting really good at it. Toukiden seemed to have a bit more of a plot going on.
Yeah, seemed like it! And pretty cutscenes too.
Most of the recent non-MH hunter games have had a stronger single-player plotline as a selling point, ever since God Eater did it.
What did I tell you people? Democracy doesn’t work!
Twitch Plays Pokemon has now made it a vote system with the most popular input every 10 seconds being used. This is balls.
EDIT: Quickly changed to every 5 seconds. Still balls.
EDIT EDIT: Down to 2 seconds. Still balls.
EDIT EDIT EDIT: REVERTED! Praise to helix fossil!
It could work, but the lag means that we’re never getting out of the pokémon center, because people are inputting based on where he is now.
Once people work thing out, there will be something resembling progression again but it’s so much less fun to watch with the new system. I watched a bit of the pokemon yellow one which has 1 second inputs and that slowed the game down too much.
We’re on 2 seconds now. Not going to work.
I’ve been trying for years to convince people that what we need is to unite as one under my rule in a tyrannical despotism where the only objective of the populace is to cater to my absurd and capricious whims but no one ever seems to go for it.
I’ll say this though, under the shadow of my mailed fist, we would have had a fucking NBN!
I miss the mushrooms at the start of the old good game 🙁
because the hallucinations after you took them made it a more interesting show?
I just think that the old start screen was so iconic, with the music and “Good Game” at the end after all those gaming symbols.
The new ending screen though is really good, and I can’t decide whether or not I like the rubber chickens.
EDIT: Apparently I couldn’t decode the chickens.
Do the rubber chickens have a pulley in the middle? If not they’ve already failed
Titanfall!
-Early impressions are very positive
-The epilogue is pretty cool, it makes losing seem less annoying
-The chaingun on the titan feels about as satisfying as flicking a Ritz biscuit at my enemies. 40mm cannon is awesome
-I built my guy to run very fast wielding a submachine gun. It makes the stim ability insane.
-Even though I hate the brown-ness of it, the design is great. I love how patchy the Militia’s armour is, it makes them seem like they are vulnerable and low-tech. It’s the little touches, like the fact that the SMG has the red dot sight built into it. Something about the design is just awesome to me.
-I am a little annoyed that I have to level everything up.
-Surprisingly, I had very little lag problems, but there was one match where I somehow racked up 900 ping. How does that even happen?
-This is a weird thing to be thinking about, but I wonder what the acronym for “Titanfall” will be. Call of Duty is CoD, Battlefield is BF, and Team Fortress is TF2. The acronym can’t be TF because of Team Fortress. So will the acronym be Tt or Ttf? Again, weird thing to be thinking about.
-The fact that I played the beta makes me even more annoyed that I can’t afford the full game. It’s coming out around my birthday, so maybe I can use any money I receive.
I don’t know when the beta expires, (probably tomorrow) but I would like to play with some TAYbies before it goes.
When people were discussing Super Meat Boy, Mario bros never stopped people from using the SMB acronym, so my guess is people will just go ahead and refer to it as tf if they so choose regardless of the potential misconceptions.
What? SMB is Super Monkey Ball.
Exactly my point I guess =)
…
Does anyone even play the 1st Team Fortress?
Because then we could use TF for TitanFall, and TF2 for Team Fortress 2.
I always thought the first Team Fortress went by TFC – ie Team Fortress Classic. Or are they different? I can’t keep up these days
Nah, the original ‘Team Fortress’ was a Quake mod, joined over the Quakeworld servers. When Valve made Half-Life and earned a shit-tonne off it and its heavily-modified Quake2 engine, the expectation was that they would make Team Fortress 2. The development on that continued for YEARS, without ever being fully-realized. Unlike the zany No-One Lives Forever’esque camp 60s spy thriller aesthetic is has now, at the time it was leaning towards a darker, grittier military shooter, closer almost to Day of Defeat, looking for all the world like an OpFor mod.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiJCS-mpQSE for examples.
Team-Fortress Classic, years later, appears to have been prototyping for the direction they took the franchise into to eventually get to Team Fortress 2 in its current incarnation.
Or you could just watch the entire history of the thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT372PpHUDo
We really should have a big multiplayer session tomorrow night assuming its still running. Who else has the PC version? A quick TAY search implies that other candidates include @rize @pixel_the_ferret_viking @grandmasterb-funk @beavwa @cakesmith @greenius @jocon are you lot up for a game Wednesday night?
A router somewhere along the line went down or was completely packed with requests and the network needed to route around it into what turned out to be a vastly less efficient route I’d say. That’s the normal reason for large lag spikes
Good idea. Do we have a list of all the people who have the beta? (On PC) Tag anyone you know who has it. I think @rize, @cakesmith, @greenius, and @jocon have it.
EDIT: I somehow didn’t realise you tagged a bunch of people already.
EDIT EDIT: Shit, I won’t be able to go online tomorrow night.
EDIT EDIT EDIT: Woohoo, I can go online Wednesday night.
Well that’s rather poor timing! I was editing the tags in, we probably cross posted
Edited tags don’t give notifications :O
Well that sucks, I’d better tag @rize @pixel_the_ferret_viking @grandmasterb-funk @beavwa @cakesmith @greenius @jocon in a reply to you then so they know about a possible game of titanfall Wednesday night if it’s still on and if they’re up to it.
I tried to add a bunch of people as Origin buddies, but I couldn’t find most of them because their Origin ID’s weren’t on TAYNAMES. Update TAYNAMES, dammit!
Sure
Upvote for Ritz biscuits.
Deus Ex Human Revolution
So, I made my decision. The choice that will be my ‘canon’ decision.I sank the facility. It sucks that Jensen died, and all the psychotic innocents in the facility too, but I didn’t particularly like the black-and-white of any of the remaining options, and also I kind of liked the idea of sinking the three geezers responsible for this whole mess. The world’s a better place without them.
The denouement was kind of corny, very Metal Gear Solid-y, especially with all the stock footage, etc. I get the feeling it’s kind of customised to your gameplay, because Jensen said in my ending that he tried not to kill anyone (got the Pacifist cheevo). I think I might almost have preferred Jensen to discuss his thinking with the computer and then be overwhelmed by the explosion, etc, instead of as a cheesy voiceover after his death. But it’s fine, it’s an ending. Didn’t blow me away, but didn’t disappoint either.
The after-credits bit was obviously a nod to folks who’d played the original Deus Ex, but it’s so far in my past that I’m sure I didn’t get the reference.
I’m about to go and run through the remaining endings just to see ’em, but I’m fine with the choice I made.
cc @transientmind @phlaiman
Edit:
Woah, yeah, all the other endings are kind of extreme. I definitely made the best choice for me.Interesting. I made the middle choice, continue augs but heavily regulate them. After the DLC section you could see how little companies could be trusted but I could also still see the benefits still.Great game huh? Can’t wait for the sequel.
Really great game. Loved it. Best stealth mechanics I’ve ever played.
I almost regret getting the optic stealth invisibility power towards the end of the game, because it made the stealth stupidly easy. It was really tense and riveting up to that point!So…
it’s still just “press button 1 to see good ending, press button 2 to see bad ending”?I… guess so…? Kept very true to the original Deus Ex in that regard.
A bit shit? Yeah…
This was a case of literally pressing one of 4 buttons in one room to trigger one of 4 ending cutscenes though wasn’t it? Nothing was eliminated by your gameplay choicesIt was my understanding that two of the options were unlocked by completing optional objectives. But no, nothing was closed off by playthrough style that I’m aware of.Personally, I’m okay with it, though.
I like the full agency they’ve given us. The idea that if we’ve been paying attention to the story and characters, and optional information (ebooks, emails, etc), we’ll have a pretty good idea what’s going on in the world, and can make an informed decision guided only by our memory of this information and our own moral code. I believe that closing off options because of gameplay style wouldn’t have fitted this game.Depression is weird, like im not depressed right now, i know I’m not but is it normal to feel so introspective all the time. I kind of just forget all outside influences and look internally a lot these days. Its weird being in my own head. I find I am a much more serious person and a lot more apologetic for things i have said or done. I don’t even know what I’m looking for inside, right now I’m pretty happy with who I am. Maybe I’m just not sure where I want to go or who I want to be.
Im at a really big crossroads, do i fufill my dreams and travel, do i stay at my job and face my fears of being told im not very good or do i study and try and set myself for the future. Or is it something else entirely i should do. I guess its so hard because i feel like if i leave i am just running from my fears, but if i stay i will be unhappy a lot. I cant figure out if i just want to leave because im scared or because its the right thing to do. I dont want to be the little scared kid anymore, but i dont want to face unhappiness just to prove a point to myself.
its all so confusing and it feels so imminent like if i dont choose what to do with life soon i will just miss my bus. I know that isnt true. But the feeling of urgency doesnt just go away.
Anyway thanks for letting me rant, sometimes i just need to spill my guts, i know my personal dramas arent that big of a deal and honestly i feel a bit horrid for sharing and dumping all the time which is dumb because i encourage DC to share all the fucking time.
I won’t try to tell you what the best option is, but traveling does give you a lot of great perspective and for me it made a few things a bit clearer.
Following dreams is a pretty rewarding way to live life, even if it’s often a long-term commitment with little or no short-term return. That said, there’s a certain stability and certainty that comes with being in a rut, and that’s where some folks find their best comfort.
That feeling of urgency suggests (at least to my untrained eye) that maybe the rut isn’t where you want to be right now, though.
PS: How dare you share feelings. Monster.
I just don’t want to fall pray to “the grass is always greener” syndrome. Sure I’m in a rut now, but who is to say that the rut isn’t so much in my physical state but in my mental.
Totally get that, but if you’re feeling genuinely dissatisfied, you really don’t have much to lose by taking a shot at something else. Not that I’m advocating reckless or impulsive action, but it’s never a bad idea to keep an eye out for opportunities to branch out, or even do some probing on your own.
You’ll make the right choice for you, I’m sure. Trust your gut.
But if you’ll humour me my two cents… Me, I say travel. Some pretty fucked up shit happened when I was fresh out of home and at uni. It messed me up good and I went off the rails. Dropped everything I was doing. I spent a few years on the road with no backup, no safety net, working out my issues. Fucking and fighting and anything to deal, but along the way, you start seeing patterns – every little community as a microcosm, with the same characters in it, the same terrible situations, the same precious, rare glimpses of the power of humanity in the face of all that hopelessness. The scorn and contempt I held for people who refused to reach up and better themselves or their situation, the people who drag down their contemporaries who try? It melted away. You live and work with different people long enough, you learn to relate, you learn what makes ’em tick, what they fear and what they dream of, and you sympathize a little – because we’re all not that different. And if you see enough, maybe you’ll learn things, and be able to share those stories with the people you meet down the track to help them with their situation which is oh-so-similar to ones you’ve seen before. Travel broadens the mind, and you don’t even have to go very far, just go somewhere different. I think your gut’s saying to travel, that you won’t be young forever, that no-one ever looks back on their lives and says, “Geez, I wish I’d spent more time working instead of seeing new places and having loads of sex.” It’s scary shit, some of the scariest you’ll do, but ask any skydiver – when you’re in freefall, it suddenly feels less scary, you learn to ride it. Anything that gives you joy, perspective, tolerance, and banishes fear? Worth a shot.Oh, and if it helps…
Every job I got after I decided, “Fuck this, I want to work somewhere with air-conditioning now,” my degree would have been useless, not worth spit. Including two jobs which were in the field I was studying before I bailed on it. Anything you learn now won’t be worth much in five years time, you’ll always be looking to have skills instead, or stay current – which traditional uni won’t do on its own.I have a fear, I have only had one fear and that is failure. The what ifs don’t just go away because you make a descsion. In fact they become louder and harsher. And the noise stays in your head until you just want to run back to where it was safe and put your blanket over you and let your mum tuck you on. Until you do that for a while and realize that it isn’t what you want. I don’t want to be stuck in this fucking loop anymore. It’s happened once and there isn’t anyway to stop this fear. Everyone has it, that’s why people stay is there comfy cozy life of contentment. Not because it’s hard to escape, it’s because of the fear of failure.
Alright, it gets a little sentimental here, but… While I was kicking around and getting myself in trouble, I didn’t have many fears. I was busy working them out – fear of failure, fear of dying, that kind of stuff. But the one, biggest fear, the thing which always choked up my throat whenever my life was in danger – whenever your life is no longer in your own hands and you’re utterly at the mercy of the fates and random chance – was that I didn’t get to tell the love of my life how I felt about her. That she would go on just feeling sad that her friend had died, and still believing that she was worthless, that she wasn’t capable of being loved, with how fucked up she was. With what I always thought would be my ‘final thoughts’, it became desperately important to me that someone – somewhere – would be able to pass my message along to her for me. But afterward… I could never bring myself to be the one to do it while I was alive, while it would be of any use.
That fear was governing everything I did. The fear that I would tell her and lose her, the fear that I would live never knowing if I’d had a shot at winning her, never knowing if we’d have been able to make a life… It interfered with my relationships, it interfered with my job choices, my decisions in communicating, in the hobbies or past-times I undertook to try and make myself a man I considered worthy of her – like if I finally fit this idealized image I had in my head of a man worthy of her, that I’d finally be able to win her over. And that fear was crippling, and I was not living happily, and I was just afraid so damn much, so damn often.
And the only way I was able to rid myself of that fear was to rush headlong into it, confront it directly, taking the bull by the horns. I told her how I felt. I told her what I wanted from her. And the fear left. It didn’t matter that what I feared might actually come to pass – the fact was that I had done something about it. Taken charge, taken control of my life, dispelled all dishonesty and put forth everything of me that I could.
It worked out pretty well. Not immediately – she panicked and freaked out. She had secrets and guilt, and even though she felt the same way, didn’t know how to take the next step, or if we even should… but she said seeing that reckless bravery from me (and bravery isn’t not being afraid – it’s doing something you’re fucking terrified of even though you’re afraid), inspired her to do the same. And I could die, now. I have no (or at least, precious little) fear. I might be angry, but not afraid. I know I’ve given everything my best shot.
The only way I know how to handle fear is to deal with it. Confront it head-on, do what’s scary, and live with the consequences. You only get one shot at life, and you’ll regret not doing anything MUCH more than you’ll regret taking your best shot with what your gut says, with all the information you had at hand at the time.
Fear is not some crippling spectre who haunts your dreams and shepards you into corners you don’t want to be in. Fear is an obstacle you smash through with a terrified roar.
You are a beautiful human.
(Oh, and if the power of emotion doesn’t help, there’s always logic to calm yourself with. The logic being: If you confront your fears and they come to pass, when they are done and over with, you win anyway. The fear is over because it has happened and you have survived. So there is nothing left to fear. No fear… only survival.)
I didn’t let you rant, you just didn’t let me stop you!
I’m at a similar kind of crossroads dealie now too, with the whole “is leaving running from fear/will staying be pointless unhappiness” thing. Though more urgency here since I need to decide before Friday 😛It sucks man. It sucks a whole lot.
Okay I’ve got a good plan for you. Go to the bank and get all of your money out as 5c coins, go home and flip them all at once. Methodically count them all individually and tally the results, heads for stay, tails for go. Do this 2 more times because it’s best out of 3. By the time you’re most of the way though counting the last flipping, you’ll look at the clock and realise it’s Friday, think “FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK” and then make a snap decision that’s the one you really want to do anyway.
Decision made and you’ve filled in the rest of the week without stressing about it. The down side of the plan is that your hands may smell of coins for the rest of time.
Trossleph in London (and/or Canadiatown): The Wonder Year.It’s a thing. Or could be. Probably should be.
Why can’t you study after you go travelling, perhaps while working a part time job?
As someone with a fuck of a long history with depression, I’d say that if the travel is a relatively short term window and it really is a dream then definitely go for that. If you’re anything like me, when you’re awake at 5am with no tears left, not going on the trip when you had the chance would be exactly the kind of thing that the fucked up part of my brain (as if I have any other part) would latch onto as another trigger to make you feel even shittier.
If nothing else, I’ve realised just how damaging to the mental health the stress of an impending decision is, just make one and get it over with, then you can get on with regretting things you didn’t do…
Holy crap, Sapporo has way too much beer in one can (650ml)….
Also, Skullgirls’ final boss is giving me way too much grief…
Bored thoughts:
I’ve got TOO MANY GAMES and a lot of the new releases I’m getting are lengthy JRPGs so I wanted to finish off some other games before I hit my JRPG fest but everyone was all DARK SOULS this and DARK SOULS that and since DARK SOULS II is coming out soon I figured I’d replay it again.
Magic was alright but after a few hours I decided I’d just stop the playthrough at Anor Londo and go back to the original plan and play other games BUT… everyone was still all DARK SOULS this and DARK SOULS that and HNNNNRRRRGHHHH I couldn’t resist and played Dark Souls for like 8 hours today and now my eyes hurt 😛
At least I made solid progress!
Killed Seath, Priscilla, Artorias, Sif, Four Kings, Gwyndolin, Pinwheel, Nito and Ceaseless Discharge – also got Crystal Spells and Dark Bead as well as Moonlight Greatsword +5 and Logan’s CatalystAlso with the TOO MANY GAMES problem, I had a demo of Toukiden but held off on playing it in case I liked it but I can’t remember what happened and next thing you know Nob and I are trying to play multiplayer (we didn’t) but we both just bought the game and Danganronpa :P. Ugh!
…at least I finished Kid Icarus: Uprising 😀 (more people should play that!)
@powalen – If I didn’t have TOO MANY GAMES (and the controls were better) I’d totally go for a near 100% run. So many nifty features and collectables :D. Does multiplayer/online do anything? We should try it out one day :P. Speaking of which I just remembered I never played Luigi’s Mansion 2 online :'(
AMNESIA FORTNIGHT! STREAM STARTS AT… 5:30AM :(. I’ll catch it later in the day though! (@dc)
Damn, I’ve got to get back into Dark Souls, everyone is way further than me. Despite having played heaps of it lately I don’t think I’ve really made any progress beyond killing the asylum demon.
Been to distracted with DayZ, the Titanfall beta and now the demo of Dead State
It’s my third playthrough 😀
Still as exciting! …and frustrating 😛
How can you do so much in 8 hours?!?! WITCH!!! WITCH!!! Seriously, it probably took me close to 8 hours to get through Sen’s Fortress and get to the first bonfire at Anor Londo. I don’t even die (much) or get stuck or anything, I just dilly dally about! D:
I’ve played it before but it’s mainly because magic is so very overpowered. Like, kills bosses in a few hits overpowered D:
This’ll probably be my fastest run too and I’m thinking it’ll end up around 20 hours even with all the optional and DLC content (unless I give up on the DLC bosses again ;D)
Other than helping unlock those picture puzzle pieces, multiplayer doesn’t do much except provide funsies.
Which according to you I refuse to have!
(I hate fun.)
Annnnnnnd completed
RT Podcast
Goodnight, folks!
Morning!
(why am I up so early?!)
The new Humble Bundle is pretty awesome!
I’ve got spare keys for Dust and Monaco if anyone wants them.
@jimu @dkzeitgeist
YAAAY finally more people will be owning Monaco as a result of this \o/
As always, I’m like “ooh, two games that I don’t already own!”
Which admittedly, for five bucks, ain’t bad. But still.
I recently played/bought about 3 of those games but I’ve been wanting Antichamber for cheap for a while and now it comes with extra Guacamelee DLC so I’m happy
OH MY GOD IS THAT STEAM-FREE ANTICHAMBER??
BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY
Don’t even care that I already bought Guacamelee by itself a couple of months back and haven’t even downloaded it yet.
I just finished Guacamelee recently in co-op. It’s fun!
I’ve been waiting for this day for years now 😛
Why is steam free such an asset?
Because it goes well with my tinfoil hat.
He’s a man of principle! Bizarre principles I don’t share or understand and which run pretty much opposite to mine, but principles all the same! 🙂
Dat Steam lvl D:
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the cadre of responsible adults who have been running the world for the last 50 years, its that principle is a fine thing as long as they agree 100% with your own, otherwise its entirely justifiable to bring the world to the brink of armageddon in a not-at-all-childish nuclear cock-waving exercise.
This guy. This guy gets it!
…though I slightly crossed said principles today, when I came across an $8 copy of Blood Dragon at EB. I mean I’m pretty sure there’s cracks and such out there to get around the whole Uplay thing, so I figure it’s worth the $8 gamble. And if not then I’ll just sit it on my shelf and be happy that it’s a thing that exists 😛
Why didn’t you say that on Twitters?
…I did!
SHIT! just realised I @’d your old Twitter handle.
Want me to DM it to you?
Please
Already did it!
Thanks for telling me. I just nabbed it. I redeemed Giana Sisters and Dust. Is there any games in there that anyone wants gifted? I’m pretty sure I’ll give away my Monaco code, as I am never able to play co-op games with anyone. (The offer for a left 4 dead and killing floor multiTAYer is still open) I don’t know much about the Swapper, except that it’s a puzzle game and I hate those.
Sydney folks:
@35 @cakesmith @batgirl @anonymous_pessimist @powalen @effluvium-boy @shiggyninty @doc_what @alexpants @harli @markserrels @ruffleberg @batguy @fatshady @kermitron
Honorary Sydney folks:
@rize @blaghman @f4ction
and those I’ve no doubt forgotten, I’m sorry :S
I’m arriving in Sydney around 8pm this Friday night, anyone up for a catch-up/dinner date then?
Failing that, I believe birthday drinks are in the works for Saturday night, though I’m unaware of location. I believe @35 had some ideas on this one?
I’ll be around until the 3rd of March, and would love to have as many meats as possible, if/when you’re all free. Most of you have my number by now, if you don’t just give me a yell and I’ll DM you on Twitter or something. I’ll repost this once a day (making alterations as need be. If you’d rather I remove your tag, just let me know) until I leave, in an effort to drum up some interest and keep it fresh in everyone’s mind.
Much love,
Leph.
CURRENT EVENTS/PLANS
Sat 22nd, drinks… somewhere?
Sun 23rd, KFC club?
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Weekend of 1st & 2nd Mar, TAYfilm!
Here’s what’s gonna happen. We’re gonna um and ahh over a bar and just end up at Mojo like always. Someone brings Cards Against Humanity and everyone dies.
Gimme yo number so we can have our phones make out. Not that I ever text anyone anyway.
Can’t do this weekend, but should be around at some point.
I’m also popular and can’t do this weekend.
Yes. KFC is on. I’ll text you soon.
So summoning friends in Bravely Default is hilariously overpowered when you’re low level, last night I summoned @bish to bash a boss for me (that’d be a good name for a move “Bish Boss Bash”), he did more than double his max health in damage, 1 hit kill. :D, Also thanks @jimu for your “No more boo boos” support, you heal almost 4000hp, my current max is about 400hp 😛
Ablink is pretty overpowered too which is why I didn’t bother with both for most of the game since it felt like cheating :P. Especially since @distantdrop finished the game in a couple of days and pretty much had everything while everyone else was just starting out :O
yeah, I guess I’ll just save em for if I get frustrated. It did feel a bit like cheating.
I dropped to easy on Chap 6 cos no one was more powerful than me and there’s a jump in enemy levels.
hmm, I’l probs get stuck for a bit cause I can’t make myself reduce difficulty.
Wait’ll you get there. You’ll see why.
Worst bit of the game. It’s fucking horrendous
oh right…. I’m scared *cries*
Will a bit of grinding suffice or is it too ridiculous?
Spoilers :-/
Had some pretty funny stuff happen on Mass Effect 3 last night. While I was throwing soldiers around with dual Throw abilities and as the fight seemed over, I was trying to find the last soldier in the fight. After a short search (And following the sounds) I saw him just lightly spinning around on the ground after I threw him the first time, like the ground beneath him didn’t have any friction, all while he was constantly groaning, I couldn’t help but laugh cuz it looked like he was trying so hard to get back up but just couldn’t for a full 20 seconds.
I have in my mind a plan to replay all of the mass effect games… then i keep remembering that they take me 40+ hours each (because i like taking my time) and i have a lot of other games to get through :\…
I’LL DO IT ONE DAY
I’m actually doing playthroughs of every class right now cuz I really love using the different playstyles. For example my last playthrough Soldier, learning how to use grenades more effectively since you don’t have much else for ability damage, and before that my Engineer, just “lol turrets and drones for all!”.
I for one want a team to do ME3 multiplayer with, I really miss doing that and I’m not one for pubs 🙁
I only have ME3 on xbox :\… i do however have ME2 on PC if that’d help? 😛
It doesn’t, sadly 😛
naaaw /o\… i wish i had the money to rebuy it, because i would be keen on trying multi….
Until then, there’s always JC2MP? 😛
Haven’t got it, and I personally don’t see the appeal of it, but that’s just me
I have ME3 on PC if that helps
I pretty much just went Infiltrator and headshotted my way through. Which is weird because usually I suck at sniping.
The time slowdown on scoping up helped a ton on the headshots for me.
Yeah, soldier + sniper rifle + heavy pistol (CARNIFEX) is where it’s at. Headshot city, bodies from hell to breakfast.
I really loved the ME3 multiplayer. It’s a testament to how fun it is that I put up with EA’s shitty servers/netcode and all the assorted annoyances with it for as long as I did.
If they made a MMO in that style, I would quit my job, move to a budget caravan park with broadband, then live on centrelink and do nothing but play that.
I’m still sour about their shop because I can’t buy specifics, only “packs” which is another word for “Gambling” :P. I haven’t unlocked a single Geth character yet, but I have unlocked the Alliance Infiltration Unit :). The multiplayer is surprisingly addictive.
No you wont
Both my girls have grown 2 inches in 2 months D:
Also I’m working my way towards getting the Dark Souls Platinum before DS2 comes out and…it’s frustrating. Only have 3 weapons and 3 miracles to find. The miracles are easy. Just need to do a bit of covenant work. 2 of the weapons I’ll have partway through next NG (+4, why did I stuff around so much?)
But trying to find a damned Channeller’s Trident is driving me absolutely insane. Killed literally hundreds of the bastards while wearing the Gold Serpents ring and 20-30 humanity but it just will not drop. Making me want to go on a puppy punching spree.
There a forum where you might be able to have someone trade you a trident?
Eh, feels like cheating. I got this far on my own so want to completely earn it.
Yeah that’s fair enough. The drop rate mustn’t be very high on the trident then?
I’ve seen claims of less than 1%.
Holy shit haha that’s quite low.
It took me around seven hours over the course of five separate sessions to get one to drop. I tell you, I got pretty good at running back and forth from the bonfire.
It’s kinda funny how repetition sees you totally perfect a certain section of your run, to the point that when you go to do it later on a new character, you breeze effortlessly through something that took you multiple attempts and loads of estus on your first run through.
You wouldn’t believe how fast and clean I go from the bonfire at Guinevere’s chamber down to the Giant Blacksmith in Anor Londo, picking up 11k souls on the way.
I thought the bonus to drop-rate capped out at Humanity 10… 410% max, with humanity 11 being exactly the same. Is this not right?!
Pretty sure you are right. Freeze is just pretending to be overqualified 😛
It does. Doesn’t change the fact I had that number of humanity. While farming I tend to leave a summon sign at the bonfire to break up the monotony.
I decided I wanted to use the Balder Side Sword in this run.
After like 2 hours I’ve changed my mind, and I’ll be using the Black Knight Sword for a while (It’s annoying because in a different game it dropped off the second Balder Knight I fought).
I so wish I had any Black Knight weapons.
That being said, smashing things with the Great Club is still rad.
The Black Knight Sword is amazing for low-mid level gameplay. I used one for pretty much my entire run through NG, and NG+
It took me a couple of hours farming them in the Parish to get them to drop. Realized after a bit that only three of them will actually drop it. From the bonfire above the blacksmith, heading back toward the path toward the Hellkite dragon where you would have first come in, the dude with his back to you immediately past the landing area outside the back entrance to the church can drop it, followed by the guy with his back to you in the area above the spot where the boar was, followed by the one dude in the front entrance of the church. The rest of them drop rapiers instead.
So, now would be a bad time to tell you guys that I got a Balder Side Sword from my first run into the Parish, and a trident from my first run through the Duke’s Archives?
I got a greataxe on my second character when first attempting the Undead burg. I got to the smith for upgrading before I learned about the Drake sword, so by the time I got that, it was barely any good for me. (Good moveset and speed, of course, but by then I was so used to smashing things with an axe.)
Re: covenants
I wish there was some way to bulk-pledge medallions and humanity. Standing there for near twenty minutes while you hand-feed a spider 30 humanities one by one is kind of dull and dreary.AF2014
WHAT! Why didn’t you guys tell me there’s been videos already :O
http://www.youtube.com/user/DoubleFineProd/videos
Stream is live (I think) at the moment too!
@dc @sughly @beavwa @mawt @tigerion
I rely on you for all my Amnesia Fortnight news, Greenius! Sleeping at the switch, eh? MONSTER!
I’ll probably just do a full catchup each weekend, kinda hard to try to watch any live streams.
Any time I checked the streams they were just desktop ones of them modelling/animating characters – nothing too exciting. They uploaded finalist interviews and pitch reviews last week but I didn’t realise :(. The first doco ep seems to be uploaded too.
So I mentioned this on Twitter last night but I just wanted to reiterate that the story in the Game of Thrones game really is excellent. It’s a shame it had to be delivered by such a rough game, but I really think everyone who’s into Game of Thrones needs to give it a chance. I’d consider it equal to watching a season of the TV show in terms of the content and story it delivers, with the extra option of reading the codex entries you collect if you want some extra details.
It’s a shame Cyanide isn’t making more like this. I know Telltale is doing a game and I love Telltale, but I think I want another old-school RPG more. Do we know if Martin is writing the Telltale game or will they do their own story?
Can you actually walk around the locations and cities from the book/show? I’m currently reading the books and it’s really making me want to play a (good) Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire RPG, mainly just to see the locations.
I assume Telltale’s game will be an adventure game and I’m sure it’ll be great for the story but I think I’d like something with more action and like an RPG. But the scope of the world is so big that what I’m after could probably work as an MMO as well (but it’s not what I’d prefer).
I like playing games for their story so if it’s good and the gameplay is passable enough, then I’ll definitely look into getting the game the next time it’s on sale for a tenner or so. Thanks! (is the gameplay really horrendous or just not that good?)
The main locations are Castle Black, Mole Town, Riverspring (Sarwyck family), Castlewood (Harlton family), King’s Landing and the Red Keep. You also visit some other locations briefly. I’m not done just yet but I suspect we’ll just be going back to King’s Landing for the finale.
My initial impressions weren’t that positive but really the castles are quite impressive when you take the time to sit back and enjoy them. You don’t really get to explore much, but you do have time to look around. King’s Landing isn’t really all that similar to the TV show (and feels very small for what it is) but apparently they had some licensing conflicts with HBO when the game and season 1 of the show were in production so I guess that means they weren’t able to copy off each other when designing the environments and for the most part kept them seperate. Interestingly though they got the actors for Cersei Lannister and Jeor Mormont to lend their voices to the game which is a nice touch. You meet a couple of other characters from the show but I’m not sure if they’re the actual actors or soundalikes.
The combat isn’t that bad, but some fights can be tough because the strategy is all in using your special attacks in the right order and there’s not really any way to avoid taking damage apart from using interrupts to stop boss-level enemies from using their best attacjs. Otherwise you basically you pick your target then you stand there and beat on each other. I’ve heard it compared to Dragon Age, but I haven’t played Dragon Age yet (despite Shane sending me his copy like six months ago). As long as you stock up on health potions when you can you’ll be fine (though it’s handy to have some wildfire available in a pinch).
The main roughness is in the visuals and voice acting which make the game look like it’s about five years older than it really is. It just doesn’t present as well as a game from 2012 should. But it’s well worth slogging through it.
>:(
I’m sorry /o\
It’s because I don’t reallyp lay my PS3 much but I’m going to binge on PS3 stuff real soon! I have to play the Left Behind DLC for The Last of Us, then I want to try and knock out all my PS3 backlog so I can sort of set it aside for good since it was never a major console for me.
I’m just kidding, man. It’s not my game anymore; as long as you’re not lifting my prints off it to frame me for a crime, there’s literally nothing you can do with it that’s my business, or that would bother me.
I know, but that doesn’t assuage my guilt.
You know, since Fox News are attacking the Lego Movie for being anti-business or whatever, why aren’t they attacking Frozen for being an allegory for homosexuality? I guess allegories and metaphors are too complex for their viewership?
EDIT: I am in no way saying that Frozen being an allegory for homosexuality is a bad thing.
I just felt the need to clarify that. It’s the internet, someone is going to misinterpret my comment.
The word allegory has too many syllables for them
But it rhymes with Cory.
The whole movie basically is a promotional tool for Lego products, seems rather counter-intuitive to regard its themes as intentionally anti business.
Maybe it’s anti business for megabloks
Frozen is from Walt Disney. A good ole AmeriKAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHN company, that ye all very much.
Lego is made by Bolshevik bastards in some Scandanavian socialist hell hole.
Oh wait, it’s made by Warner Bros.
Don’t matter.
SOCIALISM IS BAD BALD EAGLE ATTACK!
BUT THE BAD GUY LOOKS LIKE MITT ROMNEY.
(ignoring the fact that Romney is the most generic-looking man in existence)
Holy shit, right? It’s like if all the rich, white men got together and designed a man.
We have the technology.
And Lego men are also hollow inside…
Nah, Mitt Romney is porous. He adapts and changes his opinion to whatever the mood of the room is.
I had to google what you were talking about and now it all makes sense…I did not know this
Buried Treasure:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/the-minimal-transparence-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-263630
Welp, just finished talking with my course coordinator and he reckons it’s probably best for me to not do the course this year.
Now I gotta face the big scary world and figure out what to do next instead. Ogawd.
PLAY ALL THE GAEMS \o/
…
That’s how it works right?
Oh come now, its @mrtaco we’re talking about, surely he’ll be romancing all the ladies
Multitasking! \o/
He can juggle them damsels and get his game on!
Timesplit 75/25, 75% time on games %25 on the ladies, that should do right?
Taking a laptop out for dinner or bringing your DS is socially acceptable right? RIGHT?
Achievement Unlocked: Balanced 3 Dates In One Day
I did three 21sts in a day once before. And all of them spread all over the place, too (Engadine -> Campbelltown -> Bankstown). Surely it’d couldn’t be much harder than that? 😛
Well, yeah. Those StreetPasses ain’t gonna clear themselves.
UH OH! Scary dentist appointment today. Due to stupid wisdom teeth. At least I know that I’m finally wise.
And I won lots of battles in Steel Diver: Sub Wars last night! There’s one map in the game that’s set in a japanese hot spring bath. The two (miniaturised) teams start in opposite baths and the fence that separates them has little holes to get through. Pretty fun.
And no, there is no naked people in the baths.
#NOTHELPING
Wisdom teeth removals are fun! You should go for local anaesthetics rather than general, that way can you feel the pressure of the dentist cutting, drilling and yanking the teeth out 😛You’ll be fine though! I just did the D.C. advice and eat KFC potato and gravy. So much regret though…
I didn’t get a choice of anaesthetic, they were just like “three of your wisdom teeth are horribly impacted, so we’re taking them all out now. Go to sleep.”Oh no! If there’s one thing I don’t want to be like, it’s Greenius!
I’ll take all the drugs please.
Plus the dentist is right across the road from a Woolworths. If it hurts too much I can run crying across the road and shovel ice cream into my face.
I got all four of mine done in 2005! It was kind of fun. I remember counting down from ten, and then waking up later on. My mum fainted when she saw my puffy face, and she hit her head XD
Then I played with the stitches in my mouth with my tongue until they fell out. It was a good time.
“All 4”? Pfft, noob. I had 7 mate. I’m doing painful dental stuff on a new game plus level!
Heh. Man, I was miserable for WEEKS after I got my wisdom teeth out… Good luck, man.
I don’t know whether I have to get them out yet. That’s what this visit is for! Fingers crossed… (though I don’t like my chances :P)
http://aliasalpha.customer.netspace.net.au/freakteeth.JPG
See the red highlighted ones? I had most of those pulled and/or cut out in 2 ops with local anaesthetic so I was awake and having all the fun of hearing everything and let me tell you the upper jaw is a fantastic sound conductor.
I managed to survive alright and I can say from experience that there are plenty of things worse than pulling teeth.
Stock up on soup (which you should blend smooth) and custard if you do have to have them removed, they’re the best thing to have to avoid problems
…holy crap
It was a bit like that. The day before the first op was easily one of the shittiest days I’d ever had so I actually managed to get into a kind of quiet spot in my head where it really wasn’t as bad as it could have been despite that fun thing of dental needles feeling like one more joule of force would have them punch right through your cheek and the sound of teeth being uprooted and drilled being conducted through your upper jaw right into your ear so your skull is working as a horrible sound subwoofer.
By the second op I’d had the experience before, knew the surgeon was fucking great and that my super healing powers (gained from years of crouching behind boxes to let my heath regenerate) were so good that I’d be back to normal in half the estimated time so it was pretty much okay. It says a lot about my difference in attitude going in when I wasn’t thinking “Shit I hope this doesn’t hurt too much” and instead thinking “Fuck me, I’m not having soup and custard for years after I heal from this fucking op”
I got invaded in Dark Souls!
Standing in the church, about to go get the Gargoyles, when the invader thing pops up, so I’m all like coolsies, I can do this. I run down to the altar, he appears up on the ledge that jerky mcMage guy used to be, so I beckon him down. He comes down, we start fighting, he’s better than me, but I can Estus so feck him. I get him down to a fraction of health, but I’m pretty low, so I Estus, he pops a humanity and I swear a little, and then the fight goes downhill. I manage to attack him, and not hurt his health bar, though he seems to stagger. Sometimes it will pop up with me doing like 64,000 damage. I get some backstabs on him, all do nothing. After a few minutes he just gets 2 backstabs from nowhere near me and I die. *sigh* DARK SOULS! *Shakes fist*and that’s why i stay hollowed XD…
although i realise that i’m skipping a massive aspect of Dark Souls by playing like this 😛
Yeah, I’ve decided that I should try all this stuff this run, just to see what it’s like (until I inevitably give up against Smough & Ornstein).
I think a decent chunk of it is my own fault, since I’m torrenting while I play, but it’s still a smidge annoying.
I only just decided to read into covenants last night…
IF i ever complete this game, i wouldn’t mind giving a few of the covenants a go, seems pretty interesting… although the aspect of co op scares me because i don’t want people to get angry at me when they realise how much i suck and will inevitably get them killed 😛
I want to sun-bro it up, but yeah, I’m a little afraid of the crushing disappointment my allies will feel.
Gravelord Servants it is 😛
Seriously that one did look pretty interesting and i want to give it a bashor Blade of the Dark Moon… at least that way i won’t let anyone down, when i fail to kill people horribly… they can just point and laugh instead
See, it doesn’t really mater your skill level. At the worst you are a human shield /decoy that will take a couple of attacks while the summoner is going in for the attack.
WELL WHY DON’T YOU CO-OP WITH ME NOB, AND WE’LL SEE HOW YOU FEEL THEN!
If I’m playing co op and the other player dies, if I get re summoned or re summon them I throw an apology stone and usually drop a slab or fully upgraded weapon.
Covenants and PVP were things I didn’t really try either (I also barely use items or forge Boss gear D:)
I tried being summoned a few times but it takes too long 🙁
Where are you dropping signs and what levels? It can make a massive difference.
Near the boss doors and I was around the levels for the boss (I remember trying it for Gargoyles at a lowish level, 20 maybe?). I did this ages ago though and I think it was during bad times on PS3 or on PC where there’s just no one in general.
DARK SOULS!
Kate Upton at the bottom of my page is nice. I like nice.
I tried to have a look at that article, while at work…
then the first .gif happened and then i didn’t try to look at the article…
and then i found $10
It sure beats seeing Miley, Styles or Bieber’s ugly mugs at the bottom of my page.
OH WOW KATY PERRY AND KATE UPTON! TODAY IS A GOOD DAY!
@rocketman made a suggestion on Twitter about what @freya should do with control of my account.
I don’t think it will work.
There is the additional problem that @freya doesn’t actually know how to hovertext in this place.
Makes it a little easy to spot the real me, doesn’t it?
Spoiler
Looks like the Luigi’s Mansion 2 Diorama is up on Club Nintendo rewards for 5k points, already spent a majority of my points a few months back so I believe its not an option for me 🙁
I was just about to post about it. Did it JUST go up? Cause I saw that Luigi article and someone posted about Nintendo doing nothing for Luigi when I remembered about it and lo and behold, it was available 😀
I guess it would of been posted very early this morning maybe even late last night, ironically as the vooks article mentioned if I didn’t get these hanafuda cards I could of gotten it X(
Five THOUSAND points. That’s 25 distinct games at Australian retail.
I probably have enough cards around for that.
But I haven’t registered anything. God dammit this is going to take forever. And then by the time I’m done it won’t even be available any more.
I went to bed at 8pm last night. Woke up 7:30am, so that’s 11.5hrs pillow time. I need that more often.
@mythamphetamine @tech_knight @mawt @tigerion @blaghman @novacascade @popdart5 and spectators @f4ction and @gingerchris86:
Really sorry fellas, but I’m gonna have to pull the plug on Numenera tonight, voice is gone almost completely.
That’s a shame, get well soon buddy!
Edit: Maybe the spectators can spend the night reading up on Popdart’s recaps so they know what’s going on in preparation for the next session 🙂
No worries Red.
Will have to spend the time playing Pokemon or Dark Souls instead. What a shame 😛
Damn, look at the desperation I have reduced you to.
All good, friend. Take care, and gargle that collloidal silver!
The amount of conscientious objectors here is frighteningColloidal silver is great, if you want to end up looking like papa smurf
All good Red. You do what you need to to get better as our next session can always wait. 🙂
Don’t worry, you can spend more time on TAY now. All the puns!
ANOTHER DAILY REPOST ABOUT THE LION KING!
Hoy, since I’m back I’m finally organising this Lion King thing, with a bit of help from Rocketbuddy.
Since there’s a gathering happening on the 22nd of March (that’s a Saturday), we were going to go and see it on the 21st (that’s a Friday). So if anyone is able to be in Sydney at 8PM on a Friday, you’re welcome to come.
Since there are very few tickets this close to the date, we’ll probably be buying them soon, like, on Friday or something. So I guess if people are interested, send an email to blaghman (at) gmail (dot) com, and what I’ll probably get you to do is send some money to either Rocketbuddy or me, and we can buy you a ticket when we do so. Alternately, people could just go buy tickets themselves for that date. There’s a small number of seats available at both the $60 point and the $128 point (I’ve just accepted that everyone’s getting the cheapies at this point). I can’t remember if there’s some element in Capitol that makes the back super bad, but from memory you’re just sort of… really far back. Hardly the end of the world. And there’s only like 6 rows between the doubling price point, so probably best to go cheap.
Anyway, yeah, sorry for being so bad about organising this, but hopefully we can get a small group together, even if the timing isn’t good for out-of-staters.
Thus far we have Powalen, Freeze, CJ, Rocket and Myself confirmed.
I’ve seen it twice on Broadway and West End. Well worth seeing. Also the musical every guy gets a free pass for without having to explain themselves, childhood nostalgia and all that. XD
WHOOPS I ACCIDENTALLY BOUGHT A SPARE TICKET FOR DC, THAT CAN ONLY BE REDEEMED BY DC! WHATEVER SHALL WE DO?
Haha, that ain’t going to happen!
BUT THEN MY MONEY IS GOING TO WASTE! YOU DON’T WANT TO HAVE MADE ME WASTE MONEY, RIGHT? THAT’S EVEN WORSE THAN ACCEPTING A GIFT!
You should’ve thought about that before being so damn reckless, my friend. 😛
WHAT A COINCIDENCE! I HAVE RETURN FLIGHT TICKETS THAT ONLY HE CAN USE HERE AS WELL!
Men get free passes for The Producers (Nazis) Les Miserables (honking great rebellion) Jesus Christ Superstar (if you’re Christian) Wolf Creek the Musical (serial killer!) and Miss Saigon (Vietnam, man). Not that you ever need a free pass for a musical
I saw The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. Not sure there’s any redeeming man card stuff there, but you know what? I loved it. Crazy cool sets. Gothic atmosphere. Catchy songs. Good times!
In Year 12 for Gothic Literature I did an oral on Phantom (the movie version of the musical). I proved its manliness without a doubt. Because if anyone knows anything about manliness, it’s me.
Springtime for Hitler! \o/
I know all of the lyrics for that, but it’s not something one sings in public.
Not to mention Spamalot (Monty Python!), Avenue Q (Muppet Sex!), Cabaret (Hot Dancing!), Hairspray (Swishy Dresses!), Legally Blonde (A Greek Chorus!), and of course Beauty and the Beast (Gaston!).
Spamalot is something I would see.
Love this song.
Spamalot was pretty great.
Came second to Wicked in terms of shows I saw in London though.
What about Jeff Wayne’s The War Of The Worlds? It’s got fucking martians and a war machine on stage!!
Also has amazing songs like this!
This is awesome!
Ah, I see you’re linking the second best of the new songs. :p
That is NOT The Departure. >:|
😀
MWAVE have a decent sale on some console games. I’ve never bought from them before but they seem okay.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/134040
Just got Gears of War Judgement for $10!
____
And Vooks has a price round-up on Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze. $68 at Big W seems the cheapest locally
What’s a Mwave?
Hopefully a legit site!
Also, TO MANY GAEMS! >=(
Gears will be my have a co-op sesh and skip all the cutscenes and then never play it again type of game!
Did that for Gears of War 3 and had no idea what was happening 😀
Ah, Donkey Kong looks so damn good. So damn good.
I imported (because TOO MANY GAMES) but hopefully there’s still hype in 3 weeks! I looked up the part where I gave up in DKCR and apparently it’s really early on :P. Some beach with waves where you had to hide behind rocks!
Aw, you didn’t finish the Returns?
I was playing co-op at a friend’s house but we gave up. He let me borrow the game years ago but I still haven’t played it yet. Considered playing it sometime now before Tropical Freeze but I don’t want to overdose :O
I know a secret way to get Dankey Kang from JB for $49!
Use the $30 gift card I have! ;D<\s>I can use your card? :3
Wow thanks! You’re such a buddy 😀
This is a good way to get COD on new-gen. $25 + $10 upgrade = $35. Still too much for Ghosts for me …
Does the upgrade still work for physical? I thought upgrades were only if you had the digital version purchased.
Nice! I wanted Gears of War Judgement myself but I didn’t want to pay money for it. $10 is basically the same as not paying anything, right?
Did you end up buying it? I just received mine today.
Also you haven’t added me on Steam yet (foreveralone) it’s like you don’t even want 75% off Shadow Warrior! :O (it expires March 2nd, so add me before then)
Mine also arrived today. \o/
I was actually curious so I checked the registered post tracker and they said it was delivered around midday, so I went out to reception at 1:30pm to ask if they had it and she was like “I was just writing you an email!”
Sorry I forgot to add you, I’ll do that tonight. but don’t send me the voucher. I probably won’t buy it before March 2nd now, so it’ll probably go to waste.
I just opened up my copy and it comes with a download code for the original Gears. Sweet!
No rush in adding me then (unless you still wanna be buds :D)
Lol, I got the “limited time offer” code for Gears too. I wonder how long these copies have been sitting in mwave’s warehouse? They’re obvious UK imports, so I feel like they must have tried to ride the ozgameshop gravy train.
I already have the first Gears on disc and I’m preeeeetty sure my wife also claimed ownership of a digital version when it went free under the “Games with Gold” promo like 8 months ago, but hey, why not. Maybe I have a friend who has been living under a rock for the past 8 years. 😛
Your link says Revenenenenenenengeance is $19, but it’s not 🙁
Probably best. Wife and I are having a no-spending period for the foreseeable future.
Hey PAX 2014 TAYbies!
I just got word from @scree that Kingpin are ready to make the official booking for us for PAX Karaoke this year. Problem is, is that they need a 50% deposit within a week to make the booking solid. By our calculations for the costs, that would be around $900 total, which includes the room hire and the per person packs. For all that are attending and would like to pay the package up front, that would help us out a great deal for the deposit ($48 per head according to the package we finalised). Scree will be happy with making arrangements with you all. I think we’ve currently got around $200 chipped in already towards it from the TAYbies that have already been happy to assist (And thank you so much if you already have btw!).
Scree’s contact details were in this older post.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-262/comment-page-8/#comment-2391877
Also we’d like to be 100% sure who is attending this, just so we can properly prepare for this as well 🙂
If I got anything wrong Scree please correct me
I’m pretty sure I said I was going, how many $$ do you want?
Just the per head cost so it gets payed for up front for you, which is $48. We’re still taking care of the room hire overall
That’s silly. You guys shouldn’t have to cover the room. I’ll send more than that.
If you want to pitch in for the room hire as well, by all means we’d appreciate any help we can get. Scree will be happy to coordinate with you, just send her an email 🙂
Caaaaaaaan we get some more details please? I never heard what the final plans were.
If I can slot them in, it’d be me + 1. Possibly another 3-4 extra’s too.
Unfortunately I gotta get back to work, I’ll update with the full details of what we picked when I get home if Scree hasn’t done it for me. In short from what I remember, we’re hiring a few rooms including Karaoke and we picked a package that includes 1 free game of Bowling or Lasertag, some food and drinks. The package is $48 per person that will be attending.
We’re hiring the lounge/function room for karaoke. We also decided that package 2 will be best because aside from one game of bowling or laser skirmish, there is also a decent amount of food.
More details
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/package2.jpg
Ok cool. Date/time/locations details would be good too, so I can confirm we’ll be around. Thanks!
It’s Saturday the 1st of November, 8:00 pm, at Kingpin at crown casino in Melbourne
Thanks. Maybe we’ll have flights sorted this weekend, so I can confirm if we’re going.
Alright, thanks
I really wish I could say yes but things are just too variable for me to reliably commit to stuff at the moment. If it was just hanging out at some place or other I’d say I’ll try but with a catered place where it’d matter if I couldn’t show up… I just can’t sadly.
As I’m in the same boat I may end up hosting in North Melbourne for those who can’t afford or commit to other stuff.
That’s a-okay. I was told we can add people at a later date. So don’t stress.
Any idea if there’s a cutoff on the date you can add people?
I think it’s a week before Pax.
Oh well that’s a bit more manageable, I’ll be able give a firm yes or no at least a month earlier than that
Alright, thank you.
Just to clarify: Did the money I sent Scree the other day cover that $48 cost? Or is this a separate thing? Just want to make sure!
@scree
Yeah double check with Scree on that one but I would assume it did.
That was for room hire. It doesn’t include the $48. I’m sorry.
Also I received it.
I’ll send mine over when I get home tonight just because phones are dreadful for all this thing!
@scree: I’m happy to confirm myself and pay the $48, but:
– Was the collection you were doing earlier toward this or something else? Very confused
– What are we actually getting? I don’t karaoke but will be happy to hang out and experience the other parts of it.
– Which day is it?
Emailed you to ask for the bank details as well. I’ll chip in a bit extra toward the room hire too.
The earlier collection was towards room hire as I thought we had to pay 50% of that for the booking. I was told differently today.
Room hire is for the room itself. The $48 is for food, drink and 1 game of bowling or laser tag
it’s Saturday.
Turns out Bieber is actually a musical genius that’s just had a bit too much coffee. #behindthetimespost
Wait, there is a Justin Beiber song called “U Smile?” Who approved that?
Ugh. So, that whole ‘upgrade’ I mentioned weeks ago, dragging us into the future (of four years past) with Outlook 2010? Turns out it broke the ability to search subfolders in our group mailbox. In which we receive hundreds of emails every day, and have dozens of subfolders, which each need to be looked through manually to find a client’s mail. Researching on the Interwebs for a solution (because IT are useless), the consensus seems to be that it’s not actually possible in this version of Outlook.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
No usage/system improvements, only cosmetic, active decrease in performance/loss of functions. FUCKING PROGRESS.
I assume you’ve encountered this
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-outlook/how-do-i-search-subfolders-in-outlook-2010/1d1740e4-8973-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5?msgId=f2f3760e-0710-4a54-89b7-a96653c6c73e
If so, could it be the problem is that its a group mailbox? Maybe a permissions issue?
Yeah, checked it out, but that option only works for individual mailbox. The shared one remains screwed. Thanks for looking, though.
A possible workaround could be everyone in the group locally indexing the shared/group mailbox, but that’s been disabled and locked down. (Probably due to the insane amount of traffic it would cause.) Knowing full-well that they won’t be able(/allowed) to fix it, I’ve logged a ticket with IT. Let them chew on that for a while.
Do you actually get an error, is there an option greyed out or does it look like it should work and then just not do anything?
Greyed out for searching within the shared folder if you want to select subfolders. If you use the ‘advanced find’ and tick multiple boxes, you get an actual error. “The folder you selected does not let you search other folders at the same time.” Doesn’t do that to your own personal folder, only the shared folder. Which is the only one we really need to search multiple folders of. 😛
That definitely sounds permission based. Ask the IT lot to test it by elevating permissions on your account temporarily to see if that fixes the problem, they might manage to get the whole thing fixed in an afternoon if it works
Word on the web is that it doesn’t work regardless of your permissions, that you need to do local indexing of the shared folder as a work-around, but we’ll see how smart our IT guys are. I’m leaning on the side of skepticism. Their standard response to anything that seems a little more unusual than a password reset is, “Why would you want to do that?”
We’ve had a lot of errors in the past thanks to the scripts they load on start-up to restrict permissions in a variety of explorer functions, which after a while results in the in-explorer ‘search’ function spitting out errors, and the inability to open .zip files. But because that would involve digging into the scripts to fix (and after the whole re-build profile/re-image machine attempts), they simply gave us 3rd-party programs instead of fixing what might be causing the issue. 😛
That’s probably the worst part of being unemployed, hearing stories about people doing the job I’m qualified for and who are either just plain shit or don’t really seem to care if the job gets done.
To be fair, they lost a LOT of people when the Newman purge swept through government. There’s no-one left to do anything more involved than password resets or machine re-images, now.
I’d like to say that’s a surprise, but…
Also, the Newman Purge sounds like an emergency procedure they’d do to a warp core in star trek
Sounds like you got the shared mailbox set up via the 2007 old method. The best method for 2010 is to open the mailbox as a new ’email account’, not as a ‘mailbox’.
Tell I.T. that, otherwise I can give you step-by-step details. I’m assuming ‘full control’ perms are given to you over this shared mailbox.
I’ll bring it up, but we aren’t able to add new accounts. That was the first thing I actually tried to do on getting 2010.
You know, account settings -> account settings -> email accounts -> new -> email account -> manually configure -> microsoft exchange or compatible -> “A new Microsoft Exchange account cannot be manually configured while Outlook is running. To add a manually-configured account, exit Outlook. In Control Panel, open Mail, and then click E-Mail Accounts.” Attempt to do that, and we’re locked down.
Account settings > Account settings > Highlight main account > Change > More Settings > Advanced Tab > “Open these additional mailboxes” > Remove them.
Then, the correct procedure is to ‘Add Account’, which should be the button above the first ‘Account settings’ in Outlook; e.g. File > Add.
If you don’t have perms to change that, leave it with I.T. They need to add the mailbox this way, then it will appear on the left side-bar just like your main email account (assuming they gave you full control delegate status on the mailbox).
Yeah, that’s where we run into trouble. I’ve left it with them, they’ve remoted in to take a look, taken screenies of the setup, going away to the guys who were responsible for the roll-out. Maybe they have a line to someone who will know what they need to do.
When adding the new mailbox, you t ype in the sharedMailbox@company.com as the email, but leave password blank. When Outlook prompts for username and password, use your standard username/password.
And they laugh at me when I shun these so-called “upgrades”… BUT WHO HAS THE LAST LAUGH NOW??
*swooshes cape and scampers up through the rafters*
DARK SOULS 2 \o/
The countdown continues, but today is enshrouded in fog and only opens from the other side.
PC Version release date:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/515904-dark-souls-2-release-date-for-dark-souls-ii-on-pc-shortly-after-xbox-360-ps3-version-trailer/
Digital Spy, citing producer Takeshi Miyazoe, reported that the date will “hopefully” be confirmed within a month. He said the date will come “shortly after” the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on March 11 in the United States and March 14 in Europe. “It’s tough to say,” Miyazoe has told Digital Spy a few days ago. “We’re still working on it at this point. I’m not going to say months. I hope it’s weeks.”Let’s take a look at spellcasting and magic:
http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/20468/article/dark-souls-2-let-s-take-a-look-at-magic-and-spellcasting/
Spellcasting costs staminaLong spells can be cancelled mid-action, but still count as a cast.
Spells can be aimed like a bow.
Spells have a long range.
Spells appear to have some vertical aim-assistance.
You can backstab with a wand.
Some synergy between miracles and spells in terms of character class
Spells seem to do less damage than in Dark Souls, but seem to have lower stat requirements
Amber herbs replenish the casting count.
Not so much “PC version release date” as “estimated PC version release window”
Well, they discuss the date long enough to admit that they don’t know what it is.
Interestingly, he seems to be putting the blame on Namco rather than FROM.Shaneeee I need to see how many days left!
So do I but I’m getting it on PC so even Shane can’t tell me
50 days.
So you know but FROM don’t? Are you from the future? Any chance of some lotto numbers?
Depends. What are you going to do for me?
Buy you dark souls 2?
Freeze already did that 😛
@shane call dibs on buying you dark souls 3?
If the spells are anything like they were in the beta they’re near useless. Enemies that took 4-5 hits with a basic sword took 12-15 hits with the most powerful spell (Magic Greatblade). It was ridiculous.
That sounds rather unbalanced. Maybe they scale dramatically with intelligence. Or maybe they’re still working on the balance side of things…
reply FAILZ
Question. I see you mention Dark Souls literally everyday with the latest news about it, so I was just wondering what three things as a fan you would like to see improved, included or changed in a new Dark Souls game, however unlikely it is. For instance, I would like it if:
– Coop amongst friends was made easier (blue summon sign for friends, sign always appears in your world)
– Unusual weapons like whips and Caestus’ became more viable, and that more unusual weapons are included, and
– A new form of magic is included, namely Necromancy, that scales with vitality (hp% damage for spell casting) that specialises in debuffs, AoE spells and Damage over Time.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Tricky, because most of my issues with Dark Souls are already being addressed! And for the most part, I really just want more of the same. More Black Knights, more incredibly tense boss battles against massive foes, more gorgeous environments.
* Lag reduced in multiplayer
* Another appearance by Patches
EDIT: OH! Less randomisation of unique items (I’m thinking crystal lizards here, and would prefer that they drop a set range of items [with the potential to influence a higher pre-set set of swag with higher item discovery]. As a trade-off, make them more difficult to locate!)
As a general wishlist item for RPG-type games: I’d like the ability to equip up to ten rings simultaneously, and as many amulets as my guy can string around his neck. Seriously, if I had ten magic rings in my pockets, you would bet your ass I’d be wearing them all. The difficulty trade-off could be permanent penalties for rings that aren’t compatible with each other!
That’s it. That’ll do me 🙂
You seem very content! I guess that’s a good thing though, haha! 🙂
Those changes would be cool, by the way. Necromancy could also reanimate corpses for farming purposes (or I suppose pitting them against enemies), and do additional damage (or no damage) to undead mobs!
Yeah I was thinking about necromancy when I was going through the catacombs and thought it fit well with the world and might be interesting.
Raising skeletons would be cool, but there’d have to be a limit so that it doesn’t get spammed in PvP, maybe like 2 skeletons max. I was thinking things more like Gravelord sword dance (swords coming out of the ground), hands coming out to slow movement, and things like that.
I think it could be quite an interesting concept.
Whoa! For some reason I was expecting end of March for PC version.
This is great news! Made my day!
Uh, read it again. You might be waiting much longer than the end of March… :\
Oh, misread it. Oh well…
sighs, shoulders slump
Would those interested in a possible Warhammer Fantasy RP session reply somewhere here? I just want to know what I may be getting into GM size wise.
Now back to being bored! PEACE.
[edit] and apparently two comments in five minutes is too much.
I’m keen. Do I need a specific book?
I’m uploading a whole mess of books to my dropbox at the moment, though starting character-wise it’ll stick to careers from the 2nd edition core rulebook and the new beginner careers from the Careers Compendium (which is up at my dropbox, I can share the url through steam so Kotaku doesn’t get in trouble).
Cheers
I’ll express interest. Dark Elves or Skaven an option?
Just humans, Elves (ie Wood), Dwarves and Halflings for now (unless you could provide a daaaaaamn good reason why you’re chilling in the Empire).
Skaven are everywhere, its kind of their thing
Yes, but not partying with humans and dwarves etc and roaming the streets of Altdorf
So I guess anything Nurgle related is right out then.
For the moment keep it mainstream. But as a fan of Nurgle I would totally be fine with you developing a following for Papa Nurgle and his garden of disease.
A nobby nobs type guardsman would work as a nurgle cultist
Wrong universe, man. There is no Imperial Guard in 1500s 😛
City guard I meant.
That said, the warp does weird shit to time, who knows when a traitor scout ship could crash way back in the past? A single traitor marine would make a fuck of a good chaos lord nemesis for the RPG and a lasgun would be a weapon to fear rather than regard with a mixture of pity and contempt.
GW have gone back and retconned the universes being the same, sadly.
Despite not really knowing anything about the lore (I literally know nothing about it.) I would be keen for it.
I’m in the same boat lore wise
Ditto
This should give you a general idea! http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_Fantasy_Roleplay
So this is the main nation http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Empire and where we would begin our adventures.
There are lesser races of men in other areas but you can pretty well lump men into The Empire. Expect to only really encounter the bolded races.
So you’ve got the semi-advanced humans of The Empire (blackpowder weapons, steam tanks, wizards).
The frenchy Bretonnia with the whole knights and peasants everywhere.
The Elves (those who live in the forest, those who live on their own ocean continent, dark elves who are like torture-porn elves on raptors).
Dwarves who are dwarves. Guns, cannons, helicopter-like stuff, less magic etc.
The Skaven ratmen who live everywhere and are techno-magic wizards (like, guns that fire magic). They’re also the other end of the scale, slings and throwing rocks. They have crazy-good assassins and poison
Chaos who are badass vikings with daemons and stuff. Much better than 40k Chaos, these guys are MONSTERS.
The Lizardmen who got created by aliens to fight Chaos, think Aztecs with super-powerful wizards.
Vampire Counts. Boo. Zombies and blood suckers and ghosts.
Tomb Kings. More boo. Skeletons and stuff.
Orcs and Gobbos. Think every instance of orcs ever. Goblins are pure insanity.
And Ogres. I don’t know a thing about them.
Hm.. Dwarves sound awesome, might roll as one of them when the time comes.
Dwarves are cool in anything… ANYTHING…
even Artemis Fowljust saying 😛
Sad that I don’t even know what you mean by that 😛
Artemis Fowl
Fun little read, nothing serious… but i love Eoin Colfers humour and take on “fantasy mixed with our real world” stories
I read them a loooong time ago, and they’re probably more aimed at teenagers rather then adults… but me being me and my juvenile nature still find them funny 😛
Oh man, I have the whole series of Artemis Fowl and I may have squeed just a little bit when they announced that they’re finally making a movie of the first book. That series is most of my childhood/teenage years.
@popdart5
… movie? MOVIE?
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*thump*
Dwarves are the worst race in any fiction ever, and they’re always artificially buffed in strength or resilience with some sort of nonsensical explanation that defies physics to make up for the fact that they are basically tiny, inferior men and it wouldn’t do for them to be realistically portrayed, because then no-one who likes them could justify playing them.
…no
😛But.. technologies! Helicopter-type stuff! Cannons! Sounds like they are the true engineers of the universe 😛
The Tomb Kings will rule over the remains of all the empires of history, our mailed fist shall choke the throat of all life and bring it into our fold.
You will be assimilated, resistance is futile…
Also you’ll have your arses handed to you in Blood Bowl, Charnel Valley Corpse Grinders forever!
I think GW made a stupid call in breaking The Undead up into Vampire Counts and Tomb Kings.
Yeah, vampires suck, they should have just been deleted. Same with zombies. Skeletons forever!!
Lore-wise I can see the point but yeah, probably just GW being money-grubbing and wanting double the codexes and double the units sold.
Ah, good old chaos… where a single unit of chaos warriors was easily worth four times their number in regular human troops, and a flying wedge of mounted warriors was the terrifying hammer smashed against the anvil of the foot units. An army type where you could viably bring a mounted lord and retinue, plus a sorcerer surrounded by foot-troops, and that would be enough to fell a Bretonnian army ten times the size.
Still not as good as Undead who could realistically win a battle without inflicting a casualty just by sheer terror!
Nearly did that once, playing a mate who used skaven who’s morale is wobbly at the best of times, some well placed flanking moves, a few good charges and 3/4 of his units broke and ran in the first turn where we connected and I just had to wipe out his remaining few units to take the battle.
THE MEN OF THE NORTH KNOW NO FEAR.
Yeah, those kind of enemies we actually have to put effort into killing. Good thing is we’re fucking awesome at that too!
Huh. Never seen the Tomb Kings.
Guessing they’re old timey Necrons basically?
Tomb Kings are basically skeletal undead with an Egyptian theme, Vamp Lords are Transylvanian themed vampire & zombie style undead.
Seems rather superfluous to split them up since they’re functionally the same, were I the cynical sort I’d say it was GW pushing an artificial separation with a new edition of Warhammer to try and force people to buy 2 codexes instead of one.
If I were cynical…
Soooo Necrons…
Necrons who forgot to bring their guns, yes.
I’ve wanted a Gauss Flayer more than once when playing as undead
I’m interested if you don’t mind someone who’s never played before and can be see as a meat shield
So you’d be playing as pretty much any human being to exist in the Warhammer world 😛
Just call me McMeaty and count me in!
I’m keen for this!
So you probably already know that I’m keen. What you didn’t know was that I was so keen that I rolled up a few characters to see how robust the character creation is. My results were as follows:
– a female, human Nordlander militiaman who can accurately be described as a cross between Mulan and Big Bertha. And her name is actually Wertha. That was what I rolled.
– a male, human Averlander tradesman who is a down-on-his-luck farmer/miller who used to sell flour to the Halflings for their Pie Festivals each year. He currently only has 4 crowns in his life savings (compared to the militiawoman who had 12 :P)
You mentioned it before but I’m totally alright with rolling characters again if you have any setting or other campaign requirements. I just thought I’d have some fun and praise the rolling gods (I rolled four 4s in a row on a d4).
The default starting money is brutally bad so I’m planning on allocating a bit more than that (since 12 crowns won’t get you much, let alone 4)!
Apparently a club nintendo code I received with a game I received recently has expired, even though the date says it expires on the 12th of April 2017.
Hmmmmm.
A game worthy of redeeming? Time to email support I would think.
It was Pokémon X, I was trying to put some more points on for that Luigi Diorama, but I doon’t think I have enough lyiing around to get the points I need anyway 🙁
Oh wow, Pokemon X! Redeem that already! 😀
Does redeeming a game even do anything?
EDIT: I haven’t used club nintendo in a long time, but I was pretty sure all the functionality is in the cartridge.
I believe redeeming it will gift you a digital copy to download. Same game as the cartridge copy, no functionality loss at all.
WHAT!? Since when?!
Stop confusing me! 😀
@benny how?
Are you saying registering Pokemon gets you a free digital copy? I’ve never heard of anything like that :P, is it true? IS IT? TELL MEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Whoops. I didn’t read it properly. I thought he had a redeemable code for a copy of Pokemon X, not a Club Nintendo code. My apologies.
EVERYBODY CALM DOWN AND STAND BACK
Jeez @benny stop confusing me! 😀
(and probably @jajabinks2)
So, turns out tonight is one of the patented “Tonight-Pixel-gets-paid-to-play-games” nights…
Do we wanna plan anything?
JC2MP?
Monaco?
Borderlands 2?
All of the above?
Let me know if anyone is keen on things…
Tagging people i can remember:
@rize, @cakesmith, @rocketman, @sernobulus, @mythamphetamine, @tigerion, @whoeverelsei’msorryififorgotyouistillloveyouandyouknowthat
Name the game and I’ll see if I can play it
okeydoke, i got you on the twitters dont i?
i think i do… i’ll try and organise things because i’m totes good at that*
and hopefully get something together for tonight
*completely useless at it
If we have 4 I wouldn’t mind doing some Monaco again! =D
If we’ve got more/less I think it will just end up being JC2-multi!
lol probably… knowing us we’ll start with one and end up in JC2MP anyway :P…
also something something i downloaded DOTA2 but have no idea what i’m doing something
Monaco seems pretty likely seeing as it’s part of the new Humble Bundle (which is the best that I’ve seen in a long, long while).
Plus the fact that Monaco is a completely amazing game 😛
A fortunate coincidence!
Same!
You monster! You talked me into playing it for the first time ever last year then we never played it again. I NEED TO PLAY MORE!
Well then, we should play it some time soon.
soooooo…. Monaco tonight? 😛
Im in for whatever, if i have the game ill play.
\o/ excellent
feel free to spread the word as well
You got the titanfall beta?
nah, completely forgot about it last night so it’s not downloaded…
oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not really that keen on/good at/like competitive multi anyway, i’m all for the co-op 😛
But not as exciting as the other patented, Pixel Gets Laid to Play Games night. 😀
… if an alternate reality exists where that happens, GIVE ME THE DIMENSIONS JUMPING DEVICE!
but alas… [insert overly used marriage joke here]
Skullgirls!
…?
OH MAN SO I HAD A IDEA
its not fully developed but the idea is basically a childrens book series that slowly evolves into a graphic novel series.
The story is based around a balloon being let go of and the balloon floating to different places and the balloon sort of acting like our window into the place it is, for nobody is really going to give a second thought to a balloon. But alas like all of my brilliant ideas they are half cocked and not really going anywhere.
Looks like this might be on the up.
That’s a rather inflated opinion. Blow it up and start again.
Yeah, you’re right. My mind just ballooned with the thought. It does that sometimes.
Man, you’re just full of hot air.
Man, where were you when we were making Jokes about moo man on twitter?
Cheese, don’t have a cow, man.
For the record though, I would milk that joke for all it’s worth.
Oh, don’t worry, we did
Cal see em? It’s very important, that Cal see em.
That’s it, moove to the side, you’re done!
😛Hay! I’ll moove pasteurise when this grass humour seeds and desists.
NOT PAGE SIX!!!!
@aliasalpha just because page six is dad joke page doesn’t mean we can’t make those jokes on other pages. Common misconception.
@redartifice I know, I’m just trying to drive shane mad by saying that every time he makes a joke on a page that isn’t the 6th page
@aliasalpha
EVERYDANGEDPAGEISGOSHDURNEDPAGESIXDAGNABBIT….FUCK!*headsplode**applauds*
Oh man, I totally forgot about this one! Mrs Shane dissolves into fits of giggles whenever I even say the first line of it these days 🙂
Joke 1
Knock, knock.Who’s there?
Interrupting cow.
Interrupting cow wh…?
MOOOOOOOOO!
Joke 2
Knock, knock.Who’s there?
Interrupting cow.
Interrupting cow who?
MOOO…. FUCK! >:(
Elephants and Hens.
Look it up.
Like Twenty Bucks?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108410/
Wow shit that is my idea, i guess if i thought of it someone has done a better job
To be fair, Twenty Bucks isn’t that good.
And who care’s if someone else has done the core of your idea, I’d still write it.
Got called by debt collectors. My brother who’d used my details has an outstanding bill of over $400. Fun times ahead.
Ugh. Any way you can convince them of that? Complete a stat dec?
Yeah, just sent one off. Lady on the phone didn’t make it easy though :/
Yeah cos you’re guilty until proven innocent!
Your brother is a twat.
The sad bit is that they would hear that excuse every single day. So when it’s actually the case, you’ve got absolutely no chance of being believed.
Even though it’s your brother doing it, that’s identity theft/fraud. Sooooo, y’know. You might want to mention to him that you’re not paying the money, and if he doesn’t want to go to jail for fraud/identity theft, he might want to pay the money he owes.
He says he’s paying it back and frankly I’d rather pay the money than have my brother charged and face prison as a father of two awesome little men. But yeah, passed on details to debt people etc
Hope that won’t impact your credit rating, man!
It shouldn’t impact his credit rating at all unless they list it with a credit reporting agency Dunn & Bradstreet, which debt collectors only do as an absolute last resort if they reach a point where they believe they have no chance of recovering the funds. Since most of they time they purchase the debt at a reduced rate from wherever it was incurred, it’s not in their interests to just write it off.
Now they might actually commence legal proceedings against you if the debt is big enough, that’s a whole other story.
Ah okay, cool. I’ve never had to worry about it before, but I just assumed that any debt that went to a collection agency was automatically written up as a black mark on the credit history.
I’ve had a collections agency chasing me for an allegedly unpaid gas and electricity bill for like 2 years but it’s not on my credit history… yet.
(Seriously though they finally gave me the evidence to show, oops! I forgot one of my bills when I moved house! So I’m paying it off at $60/month)
Someone is fucked either way. Debt collectors ringing means credit rating is up the poop.
Twitch plays Pokémon
This stream picked up another surge in popularity, now with the Anarchy/Democracy system I’m starting to feel conflicted am I annoyed that the moderator was fixing something that wasn’t broken or otherwise shouldn’t of been touched? or is my veteran/nostalgic senses unable to accept change?
Suffice to say I don’t have much urge to watch it anymore with losing abby and the 3rd party interference the internet randomness just seems to of died.
Everything that was great about Twitch Plays Pokemon was born from the chaos of the previous system. I’m not a fan of the voting system, any success feels cheapened.
To be honest you could probably debate the voting systems effectiveness, with most streamers having a 20-60 sec stream delay you might argue what’s the point of it.
I agree with you in principle but on the other hand, I firmly believe that they would never have gotten past the rocket hq without it. I think it should be dropped, but reimplemented if they’re stuck in one area for more than, say, 12 hours.
But isn’t it okay if an experiment fails? They don’t have to get to endgame, surely.
Depends what the goal was. Was it an experiment to see what happens, like all pure experiments are? It’s hard to just let it run open-ended like that. Sure, if it runs out to pitch drop experiment levels the players will drop off until a few dedicated players get past the puzzle then the action ramps up again as people jump back in. And that would be great… but do we have the patience? It’s not really an experiment when the only two outcomes are “we get there in the end” and “we give up”. I don’t see that much an issue with a little artificial bump here and there. It might be less pure, but it’s still honest.
I’m not a fan of adjusting parameters mid-experiment in any circumstance. Let it play out, analyse the data, try something else later if you want.
I just want them to get past Giovanni and I’m not sure that’s going to happen this week.
I can understand why changes were necessary. Hell, I can understand why they had to throw them in partway considering nobody could have expected this to explode the way that it did.
Yup, considering they have been in the goddamn Rocket HQ dungeon for 2 days and are still In there, I can completely understand why they did what they did. Let’s hope they turn it off after they finish (if they ever do).
Giovanni is down, looks like they’re going to nab the Silph Scope and that’s that finally done.
EDIT: Fuck you digrat. Fuck you.
HAHAHA! Holy shit! Did the really use dig before getting the scope? Oh well. Looks like we need to spend another 2 says on there.
They have lift key, so getting back to the scope should be relatively simple now.
@sarcasmfairy @pixel_the_ferret_viking @inquisitorz @mythamphetamine
Ya’ll have Broken Age on your wishlist so I’m just letting you know that I randomly got some 25% off Broken Age vouchers in my Steam inventory so you can have them if you want! (I got 3)
I also have 30% off Aqua Kitty, 75% off Shadow Warrior and 10% off Toki Tori 2+ if anyone else wants them.
@inquisitorsz
thanks for the info but I got that voucher too =P
Not sure if I’m going to get it just yet. Honestly haven’t had time to play anything for a while
I got two too. Not sure why, cause I don’t own it…
It says Double Fine loyalty so maybe it’s for owning/buying other DF games?
That makes sense. I do have a bunch of other DF stuff.
Is 75% of Shadow Warrior for the new one? I might be interested. I’m also kind of interested in Broken Age however I might already have the voucher since I have a bunch of other DF games.
Edit: I was able to log in and check my inventory from work. I have the voucher. Only one though. Which is weird since I’m pretty sure I have like every DF game ever after buying their Humble Bundle.
Yup it’s for the new one. Expires March 2nd.
I don’t think I have you on Steam so add me and then I can trade it with you.
Will do. Are you greenius there too?
Yup!
So anybody around who plays Project Zomboid? I’m thinking about maybe firing up a server this weekend now that there’s a multiplayer build available, seeing how it plays out – as opposed to my single player ongoing fort building.
( @f4ction – you still playing PZ?)
Haven’t played it since it went to Steam but @ynefel and I talked about playing it soon!
Steam was what actually dragged me back in. I’d stayed pretty low after “the theft” and getting on Steam just made it that much easier to start up again. 🙂
Well I’m all set to go \o/
Sweet, I’ll work out how to create a server when I get home tonight.
http://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php/topic/5577-multiplayer-open-test-details-inside/
Running a server:
In the game directory there should be a batch called ProjectZomboidServer.bat (windows) or a shell called projectzomboid-dedi-server.sh (linux). Run that. You may want / need to tweak them to allow less or more memory to be allocated to the server depending on player counts, but the default should work fine for most. We’ll provide mac instructions once we’ve nailed it down, however mac users can connect to windows/linux servers no problem. If you envision lots of players it would be a good idea to tweak the memory usage to 4gig or as much as you can spare, as that’s likely the major deciding factor of player counts.
The server uses the port 16261 for communications, and each player has a download port for getting the map data from the server, starting at 16261. You will need to open a port per player, so for a 32 player server open/forward 16261 – 16293. Instructions for forwarding ports etc can be found all over the place, and will usually involve going onto your router. So google your router along with ‘port forwarding’ if you’re unsure, or ask a friend. Setting your internal IP (192.168….. obtainable by ‘ipconfig’ in a command prompt) to the DMZ on your router is a shortcut to doing all this, and will probably be the easiest option, but you’ll then be lacking your router’s firewall so that’s up to you.
Now it’s just a case of providing the IP to those with access, who can add the server in the JOIN SERVER dialog in-game. Find your IP here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/
For detailed linux instructions, read Connall’s guide here: http://theindiestone…zomboid-server/
Ok, figured out how the server hosting works. Good to go. 🙂
Do you have any super secret details you can share?
Sorry got sidetracked by dinner and housework, just heading to bed now. Hit me up on Steam though (beeawwb) and we’ll get things set up.
I friended you. Oh god won’t you do the same?! I’m so desperately lonely.
Weird Page 8 time!
This is a mundane weird one though.
For some reason, I had never clicked about Naked DSL before. With all the adverts in my face about it, for all the length of time it’s available, I’d never clicked that it meant I could get rid of my useless land line, not pay line rental and still have internet.
Just signed up for it and boosted my quota from 30gb per month to 150gb per month.
I feel like I’ve just joined the world in celebrating 2011!!
(I’m Tasmanian and can’t get the NBN because I’m on the wrong side of the street, so it may be a while until I join you all in 2014)
Oh man I’m so excited now. I might actually be able to download and play the copies of Far Cry 3 and Max Payne 3 that I have sitting in my Steam library that I was going to be shaped if I downloaded them.
I might actually get rid of my CRT television next.
…no, no. That would be too much.
It’s cute that you think everyone else has the NBN.
Those of us who do are waiting for the rest of you to join us. :p
I know who has NBN.
The houses on the other side of my street.
SERIOUSLY WHY DID WE CHANGE GOVERNMENT WHEN NBN WAS BEING INSTALLED ON THAT SIDE, AND WHY DID THEY HAVE TO STOP?
Sob.
That’s truly something that doesn’t make sense, when you think about it. The infrastructure is right there! Surely it’d cost more to do something other than finishing what you’ve already started.
Yeah, but if you finish the street, you might as well do the house on the corner, and then the next street too. And then the suburb. And hell, if you do that suburb, you might as well do the next one too. And so on until you’ve done the whole city. And once you’ve done one city… etc
To be honest, even though this is a facetious example to highlight that the border’s gotta be somewhere, I’d be a fan of this never-stopping approach.
If you give a
mouse a cookiestreet an NBN…I have to have a landline as my mother in-law refuses to call a mobile number.
Luckily we get a decent deal of $89 a month for unlimited phone and Internet.
We trained my mother and Mrs Quiz’s father. Although they still occasionally try to call, even though we’ve had the landline unplugged for a year or so.
I fully expect Telstra to call up and ask if it’s ok to delete the 400 message bank messages we must have.
There’s a mother in law joke there somewhere… something like “its quieter and we saved 20 bucks a month, win/win”
If I could be bothered to change away from Tesltra for our landline I’d consider that. We pay $49.99 for 500gb from TPG and I think our line rental is nearly $40 and we never make calls on the landline. $89 for unlimited both is tempting. Who’s that with?
https://www.spintel.net.au/products/broadband
I was wrong. It’s actually $69.95 a month.
Next step, the ever-elusive You-Know-What, or NBN. Shhh! You can’t say its name – it changes all the time! FTTH, then it was FTTN.. It’s like god damn Voldemort.*
*Vanquished.If the Internet had a say, it will probably be called
Consult the Helix Fossilnext.
Edit to make it more relevant.
…
NOOOO! My joke is irrelevant. Please, no jokes about all my other jokes.
There’s a paradox in there, somewhere.
If they get any more vague it’ll be Fibre To The General Area
Something to someplace.
Fibre Up My Arse.
No wait, they wouldn’t do that – it’s a blowout already.
They just bury the end of the fibre cable into the ground in the middle of the suburb. “There! Now they all have interwebs. That’s how it works right?”
Or just send everyone a box of All Bran with a note saying “You fuckers wanted fibre in your home? Here!”
*Tasmanian* *Has NBN*
Funnily enough a lot of people on the other side of our street don’t have it either.
You and @quiz_b could be neighbours and not even know it.
From memory you’re up north, aren’t you @benj?
If not, maybe…
I live in the Northern Suburbs of Hobart.
I’m from up north but I live in Hobart now around Sandy Bay 😛
Well that settles it then. Not neighbors. You live on the other side of Hobart.
…which is still only 20 minutes drive from where I live. 🙂
@grandmasterb-funk did you get your Danganronpa LE yet? Mine arrived yesterday. Played a little bit but haven’t gotten to the meat of the game, no one’s died yet. I’m assuming that’ll happen soon.
I watched the first couple of episodes of the anime so assuming it played out the same way as the game, I already know the answer to the first murder. Hope to get up to or past that tonight.
I put an order in for that (and Toukiden) last night. According to @greenius the place I ordered from take about a month to deliver.
Did you ever play Soul Sacrifice? We should play that too!
Never played it, I see it at EBGames but it’s never on sale. Still like $50! D=
It was a PS+ game recently too. At least in the US.
PAL got it a few months ago too
haven’t got it yet… i think… i have my orders sent to a PO, so maybe i gotta check it.
however i only got confirmation they sent it last friday
Yeah, my confirmation arrived on the 11th so I might have had it ship a lot earlier. I preordered it a few minutes after they put it up for order.
Still tossing up whether to get their Demon Gaze LE or wait and get standard. If I skip it I think it’ll be the first LE they’ve released since I first started buying from them with Ar Tonelico that I skip.
So I’ve been having headaches on and off all day today, it makes it difficult to get anything done. So annoying.
Does that cup-your-mouth-and-nose breathing method used in Patch Adams work at all?
Genuine question.
I don’t know?
Do you wear glasses? Perhaps you might have to get them changed, I know my head gets a bit messed up when my glasses need changing
I have 20-20 vision. Sorry =(
Well I’m now jealous & remembering when I could say that. You’ll get old one day!
Sorry
Mars bar slice. Choc-fudge brownies. Ferrero-Rocher layer cake. Peanut-butter chocolate balls. Marshmallow & coconut loaf with sauce spiral. Black forrest cake. Peanut-butter cheesecake.
The girls at work have been bringing in baked treats at random for no real reason (apart from one-upmanship or unofficial competition).
Seeing the escalating generosity/conflict, one of the girls has for her foray into the war of the ovens, brought us a slice…
It is basically mashed milk arrowroot biscuits.
She’s been bringing it around to everyone with a gleeful recommendation, “They’re REALLY tasty.” But all of a sudden many of us are on diets. 🙁
Feels bad, man. I mean… I’m gonna eat mine, not throw it out like everyone else did, but it’s no peanut-butter cheesecake.
(Oh, seriously, you should try that. I had to go and ask the girl who made it what it was called again. I told her, “The only thing I can remember about it is that I witnessed nirvana, the rest of the day was a bit of a haze of food-afterglow. …Sigh. You’re still married, aren’t you.”)
Beat them all by bringing everyone a tube of condensed milk.
In year 11 we had a camp for a week in the Cania Gorge. Up on the granite we got flooded out and stranded for a day while we waited for the waters to subside. It was brutally hot, stupidly humid with all the evaporating rainwater, and no airflow. We basically clustered up in groups in our tents and laid around on each other drinking straight from tubes of condensed milk and… well. Being ill-behaved teenagers.
Edit: Condensed milk from a tube still makes me think of heatstroke and girls.
The heat wasn’t the only stroke that day.
*rimshot*
NOWAIT
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billysquire-thestroke.mp3
Organise the guys at work to do a savoury week next week
Mmm… Daniel Craig…
He ain’t all that 😛
😀
Goddamn reply fail. This was meant to be for the cake story above.
Cosying up to the boss for more hours >:)
Thank God I’m just so gosh darned likeable, when I need to be >:)
Guardians of the Galaxy
Colour me intrigued: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTZ2Tp9yXyM&feature=share
Well, that looks fucking rad.
Yeah, I had high hopes and this has matched ’em. Has a unique charm to it.
Also, how cool is it that Chris Pratt is in a leading role in a movie this big?
Yeah, I really like Chris Pratt. He scored the lead in Jurassic World as well.
I’m still wavering between “this looks stupid” and “OMG BEST EVA”.
I thought it’d be the stupidest thing ever until I watched this trailer. Now I’m convinced it’s going to be awesome.
The trailer looks tits but like tits, they sometimes lie.
They’re still tits though.
I’m trying to come up with an argument but pretty certain there isn’t one.
It looks okay. The jokes felt a little flat.
I love how it’s the anti-Avengers.
Yep, looks a lot more interesting than the comic
They misspelt “Groote”, but that’s ok.
Looks… I don’t know. I’m interested, if that helps?
@benny
I bought it online from blockbuster (for $44 or something, it was so cheap :D), and I’m thinkign it might be a European code that won’t work with an Australian Club Nintendo account.
@greenius
I haven’t found anything onliine which says you get a digital download when you redeem a code.
@benny was lying because he’s a Ben and that’s what they do!
As for the game – that’s most likely the case. From what I’ve seen all first party Nintendo games have region locked Club Nintendo codes. So UK stuff ain’t gonna work here.
Yeah, I think I was wrong and that the code just gets you 200 Club Nintendo points. If you’re in the UK. I got a little over-excited when you said Pokemon, that’s all.
humble bundle.
Antichamber & the swapper for a lil over $4.
also some other stuff.
you should totally buy that coz those 2 games alone are worth double that price each.
https://www.humblebundle.com/
Guaca and Dust are good too!
So, I’ve checked out the rest of the Aurealis Awards graphic novel shortlist. Without wanting to seem like I’m confident in the least, or particularly invested in victory, I think I’m in with a decent shot. At least an even shot. By which I mean that I can accept that my book isn’t in that list just to make up numbers, the gag entry.
I think I’m growing as a person.
Do awards get given posthumously in case of an unfortunate… accident?
Just curious
Totally innocent
O_o
What? I said it was INNOCENT! Just a strictly academic question about the structure of awards because I’ve never gotten one and don’t know the system. You’re way too paranoid, it’s like you think I have $500 on Tim Molloy or something…
Have you read any of the other entries? Is that where this confidence is coming from?
Everyone has previews on their websites except me! 😛
Hopefully you win it man. If you don’t for whatever reason, you should do an Aubrey Plaza and run up on stage and try and pry the award out of the winners hands.
If it means anything you popped up on Oliver’s twitter feed and he had a look at your website and said your books look awesome, especially the artwork, so I told him about the award, and we both wish you the best of luck 😀
You’ve just made a powerful enemy of @shane. He doesn’t take praise well.
Thanks, man.
I thought about telling you that he was following me on Twitter, but I decided I didn’t want to risk creating a jealous rift between you two. But if you know about it already, then *shrug* 😛
Haha yeah, no jealousy between us : P
Guardians of the Galaxy trailer”
You had my curiosity, now you have my attention
EDIT, just saw Reds post. I need to learn to skim read better…
Free copy of The Swapper.
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=6D5S2Bt3TkzGYueU
Oh, you can do that? Interesting.
Why thank you
AF2014!
More info on the teams http://www.doublefine.com/af2014/
I just saw all the interview stuff as well as the first ep. Compared to last time I don’t think I like the pitches as much but for me it’s all about the process and the people behind it so it’ll still be good!
I’m pretty happy with the teams as well but I noticed some people are on multiple teams :O. I like how through all the 2PP stuff I can actually put faces to names and know who’s who and what they’ve done to an extent. I can’t say I know that much about any other game studio.
None of the ideas were in my initial top few picks (except for maybe Steed) but after seeing more info about them I’m getting more interested. It’s weird how excited I get for this but just watching all the Double Fine stuff (especially the Broken Age doco) makes me want to be all creative as well :P. I might look into making my own game or something since I’ve got nothing but spare time now 😀
(let me know if you want to be un-tagged since I’m just tagging AF people 😛 @dc @sughly @beavwa @mawt @tigerion)
I think Levi being on Pen Wards team has boosted my enthusiasm for that game!
I think Steed sounds like its best suited to Double Fine, but Mnemonic has my attention. (Even though the pitch was pretty terrible and I’m not sure about the team lead.)
David being on Pen Ward’s team boosted mine too. He’s so enthusiastic!
I agree on your Steed points but I hope it doesn’t get too arcadey and turns into a medieval horse Crazy Taxi (he did say action/adventure and that’s what I want :O) and I hope it’s not first person. Interesting and new concept though 😀
I also agree with your Mnemonic points. The team leader does seem a bit nervous but at least that’s what AF is for I guess. I didn’t mind the pitch cause it had a nice art direction but I feel like it’ll be better as a point and click rather than 1st person Gone Homey (is that what he’s aiming for?)
The first person actually sounds sort of cool, like scenes playing in loop and you can explore them as the loop is going on and all that. Could be cool?
Ah true! Too early to tell now though. We’ll bitch and praise when the prototypes are out! ;D
BLACK LAKE!
…white birch
Poor Andy, great ideas but terrible prototype last time. :'(
Did you watch the Top 10 Finalist interviews? ether actually sounded better than I initially thought. Bit of Flower/Journey going on
Nah, didn’t watch but got that Flower vibe in the pitch video and I hated Flower. XD
Judging but what theyre talking about in the live meeting just then, Steed is very actiony, arcadey
‘lo
Check yo Twitter/TAY notifications
It all makes sense now.
Old me is lost to bullshit Twatter security
These actually blank comments Or my craptop eating crap?
Blank 😛
😀
Not a reply fail, @benny. Sometimes a smile says a lot.
*decisive nod*
It’s contagious! 😀
😀 Oh god why won’t it go away! 😀 😀
/o/ \o\ /o\ /o/ \o\ \o/
Ugh, so fucking exhausted…
):
On the bright side, I found a clip for my microphone! 😀
It’s literally taped to what would usually be a cymbal stand.
Does the job nicely, though.
Ahh gotta love a dodgy solution. I’ve spent the last 2 months with my mic running into a rebuilt netbook running Linux mint with an audio loopback acting as an adhoc line booster because the impedance on my headset mic is too low for for my new mixer
Nice!
Anybody not yet have Antichamber?
Well, now you do!
Here lies a Humble Bundle gift link for Antichamber. 😛
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=SwSpUtTnfuThea32nearly clicked it to see what you were on about, then i realised what it was XD…
I can’t bring myself to take that one, someone else deserves that more
Added spoiler tags around the link. 😛
I think clicking gift links comes up with a pop-up confirmation box anyway so you can’t accidentally claim it.
I could be wrong though!
I’d claim it, but my internet’s down! :'(
how are you posting then?
Must be carrier pigeon.
Using all my 3G credit from my phone :3
I need my actual internet back! >:S
Well apologise for whatever it was that caused the fight in the first place and try to get back to the way things used to be
So I’m trying to find fabric stores because $14.95 a metre for cotton Jersey seems a tad expensive.
The only fabric shops close to me are Lincraft and spotlight. My lincraft hasn’t got it, and spotlight is the one charging $14.95.
Damn stores.
I blame the schools.
Damn schools *shakes fist*
Thanks Obama!
Thanks Abbott
http://i.imgur.com/XsDUV9o.gif
No places to order online or is it the kind of thing you need to see in person first?
I need to see if it’s stretchy.
Is that not the kind of thing that would be in a description?
the place I was looking at didn’t see. it sends samples out though so it may be the way to go
Much nicer than most places do, it’d be great if DVD shops would send you an episode of a show if you’re considering buying a box set
But full tv show episode would be different to a tiny bit of fabric.
It would be closer to a trailer – just enough to see whether you’d like it, but not enough to actually do anything with it.
Jersey will always be stretchy.
It’s not the stores. Cotton jersey is expensive because cotton is expensive. The crops have been failing or something. I’d find a link for you but I’m exhausted. $14.95 is actually a really good price if it’s 100% cotton jersey. Cotton jersey is a fairly high-end product.
If you’re going to have to buy it at that price anyway, I’d recommend getting the lovely 100% Organic Cotton Jersey from here: http://www.bloomfabrics.com.au/shop/products-page/certified-organic-fabrics/
$15 per metre, with free shipping. The colours aren’t anywhere near the same as they look on screen though, so email and ask for swatches if the exact colour is important to you. The lady is really nice.
Thanks Strange. This really helps a lot. There is a place in sydney that sells 100% cotton Jersey for $3.95-8.95 a metre
@gutsoup
Hey mate, I only just found the time and added you on 3DS. You’ll have to forgive me though, I have no idea when I’ll have time to play it further however. I hope the add helps in some way.
Someone told me that Titanfall was pushed back to June. Is this true?
Also, is the Titanfall Multitayer happening? When you think about it, it is almost pointless, since the beta doesn’t have chat support for some reason.
Gamespot says the 360 has been delayed, but not until June as that rumour suggests.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/titanfall-for-xbox-360-delayed/1100-6417577/
It’s being released on March 25 for 360, March 11 for PC and One.
Those are American release dates, I presume, but a quick search tells me that Aus is getting it on the 13, so probably around the same date for 360 as well.
That article dates from the 6th, which was 13 days ago – but I couldn’t find anything more recent suggesting it being delayed until June
There are quite a few people in the comments section who think that this is an intentional move to prevent the Xbox 360 sales cannibalizing the Xbone sales. What’s your take?
I am a little suspicious, as I doubt that an extra two weeks would really make that much difference in ironing out bugs.
I could totally see MS paying them to release the 360 version a bit later. I can also see a spacious office a year or two from now with Bobby Kotick in it and Phil Harrison there with an open checkbook asking how much they want to be paid to stop making CoD for 360. The install base for those old consoles is so big that it’ll be years before they go, just like how for a long time PS3 struggled because it had to compete against PS2.
I haven ‘t played the Beta, nor do I have a Microsoft Console (and the only PC I have is a laptop which is slow and I don’t like using), and I barely do any coding, so take what I say here witha grain of salt, but…
I doubt there’s any 360-specific bugs. Anything major would most likely affect all platforms, and anything minor would require a delay to all consoles. We also know that EA is willing to lose quality if it means getting a product out on time (e.g. Battlefield 4).
But the other thing is that this is going to shift very few Xbox Ones. Any Wii U or PS4 owners will get it on PC, Xbox 360 owners are probably goung to be happy to wait, and 360 and One owners will get it on the One, because it’ll be better quality etc.
While some 360 owners may upgrade because this is a last factor (they’re assured of Microsoft quality, like the exclusives, and this is the final step that convinces them to upgrade) but most cross-platform people are going to get it on PC.
I really doubt it’ll affect sales all that much between the 360 and the One, to be honest.
I suspect that the only real issue that would differentiate the different versions at this late stage would be optimisations or possibly server integration if the 360 backend functions substantially differently to the XB1. It’s not entirely implausible that this is also the reason the 360 was conspicuously absent from the beta testing phase because it wouldn’t run quite as well.
It’s tempting to try and see this as a cynical tactic to shift the new console but if I were in the position of power and had a potential COD killer, I’d show it off everywhere, build the hype and exclude the 360 entirely because to fans of multiplayer shooters, it would have serious power as a potential system seller.
Heyyyyy @mrtaco
In some article a while ago you said you had like 10 awesome exclusives games for your Wii U so I was just wondering what they were? I can think of a few but it doesn’t hurt to have more Wii U games 😀
I still need to get Wonderful 101 and LEGO, too bad they’re still the same price 🙁
Nintendo Land, NSMBU, ZombiU, NSLU, Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Rayman Legends (not exclusive any more but hey we got Mario and Luigi costumes and GamePad stuff), Mario 3D World, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze this Saturday. Then Wind Waker HD and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. And yeah, heard good things about Lego too.
Think I saw people mention that Need For Speed Most Wanted was decent, been thinking of picking that up if I see it cheap. Actually I’ve been wondering whether Game & Wario is any good, don’t think I’ve heard anyone talk about it but I like the Wario games. Also Wii Party U sold absolutely ridiculous amounts in Japan, I think it even outsold Link Between Worlds. Apparently it’s rather fun.
I think you mentioned using Nintendo Land when you have friends over so it seems like you have multi sessions a lot. I played a bit of it at PAX and it was fun but only in that multi environment. Would be boring otherwise!
Nah, I enjoyed playing it on my own too. As I did with Wii Sports Resort (I hated Wii Sports, only ever played it because people demanded it), it had a whole lot to do on your own and this follows on from it in style I think.
BLOOD DRAGON GET!
Ended up wandering through EB, pondered at the $8 price tag and my friend goaded me into it. Crack stuff seems to have worked, so yay 😛
Also cool that it included a soundtrack and a poster. Shame the manual is absolutely shit, really would’ve liked to have seen them do something nice for that. Stupid Ubisoft.
At least the in-game tutorial is good ;D
That was one of the best things I have experienced in a game.. I think I should replay it..
F#$% yeah, I freaking love that game, $8 with soundtrack, must get to shop and buy…. I love the soundtrack too.
Ha! An actual line from Miles Edgeworth Investigates
“And I would have gotten away with it too, if not for you meddling prosecutors.
<3
Great game. Sad that it’s over now.
Time to play the sequel… ohh
🙁
Yeah, I know. 🙁
I was thinking about getting that partially-completed fan translation version that’s online, but translation is only part of the magic of localisation, and I don’t really want to play a half-finished English version anyway 😛
Still haven’t played Dual Destinies, though, so there is that. When I get money, anyway…
Still haven’t said anything to parents about what happened today, just sitting here acting like nothing happened at all.
Totally wouldn’t think I’m turning whatever-age-I’m-turning-that-is-too-old-to-be-acting-like-this on the weekend.
Haha, the one night of the week where they’ve all gone to bed early. Forced my hand 😛
Bleh, I hate having to explain.
(not that what I did really counts as that I don’t think)
I’m going to guess, twenty… seven. 27. You’re 27.
Also if you think dropping your course was the best thing to do then don’t worry about how your parents react. They’ll react like parents do while you know it was the right thing to do. You know what parents are like 😛
Yeah, own your age Gooky. You’ll never be as young as you are right now, so there’s no point feeling like an old man. You could be older.
Also, deciding what is right for you is what makes you a man. No matter how your parents react, you know what is best for yourself!
Yeah, I know… on all fronts there. I’m still partly paranoid about posting stuff like that, mostly out of habit more than anything. And the main bit behind not wanting to mention it was just not having to explain it again, because it’s difficult. I know it was the best thing to do and I know it had to be done, but I just don’t want to have to justify it to others. Unfortunately it doesn’t come off very nice if you just respond with “Because.” Or, “Reasons.” 😛
It was hard enough to try and wordify them to Dan today, and he’s someone who actually understands everything involved etc.
Well. My parents were at odds with me on a number of things, and they turned out to be completely correct. But I’m still a far more experienced and wiser individual for having gone with my gut and done the stupid things I did. Sometimes you learn things from the mistakes of others, sometimes you learn from your own mistakes… the latter ones stick better, but obviously they take up a fair chunk of your time and can set you back a bit. I think parents prioritize the time thing, being farther along, themselves.
I reckon 24.
I’m not going to make a joke about there being a lady for every year on your cake…
26, I reckon!
@mrtaco is there a prize for guessing the right age?
Not enough candles in the world.
Really four candles should be all you need but that’s only if you’re doing a two ronnies bit
I guess 22… or maybe 32. One of those 😛
22… 32?… 42!? Stop me before I go over!
Put me down for 19.
Okay, but I always thought you were older than that…
I am, but aren’t we really as old as we feel? 19 it is, baby. 😀
I thought the saying was that you’re only as old as the person you’re feeling
Backlash from parents is expected. Think of them as shareholders and yourself as an investment. If the person in direct control of the investment did something drastic that the shareholders didn’t agree with, stock prices would plummet!
Ooh is it 30? Do you have a white crystal in your palm and a feeling it will go red on the weekend when Carrousel begins?
Would appear Jason Newsted has dropped out of Soundwave :/ Oh well. Now I don’t have to decide between watch all of his set or all of The Living End 😛
Would appear he’s dropped off the face of the planet. Apparently even his agent doesn’t know where he is. D:
Yeah, that’s concerning. Jason is a great guy, he’s always been one for the fans, and the disrespect he is getting over on Facebook is just disgusting.
He’s in Australia though? Maybe he’s been caught by the bunyip spider and is in a web being liquefied and devoured.
Also I kind of hope he’s not really suffering a horrible death at the moment
His bands equipment is. But Jason Newsted? No one knows where is and cannot contact him, plus an announcement put on his Facebook said he was not coming to Australia now.
I don’t want to ever be accused of praising Telstra, but we just signed up for a bundle with them that’ll save us around $60 per month, and get us an internet data limit four times greater than what we currently have.
That plan started today, and our download speeds (around 150 kilobytes per second under TPG) have jumped very suddenly and dramatically to around 850 kilobytes per second. I almost feel like I don’t need the NBN anymore.
What plan was this? As in price & data limit. All I see is the same old over priced ones :/ My contract is up for renewal with them next month and i’m kind of over paying 92 dollars a month for 200gb of data and no included phone calls.
https://www.spintel.net.au/products/broadband
$70 a month for unlimited everything. It’s what we use.
Sadly where I am, I am seen as “regional” by every single provider so it’s not that cheap for me 🙁 If it was i’d jump at it..
Anything non-capital is regional, I though. High5 for extended camping!
Ooh I’m sorry, you’re 30cm too far away from the Sydney CBD, you’re officially a country bumpkin and have to pay triple…
Well if I was in Palm Beach (near Freeze) they’re in a metro area and get way better deals. Since Optus service the area with cable.
“Telstra Everyday Bundle” is what it’s called. We got an email discount offering us this bundle for $85 per month (normally $105). It’s no Freeze deal (he posted earlier today), but it’s the best we can access!
We get:
100GB of data per month (doesn’t seem to have on/off-peak times either!)
Line rental and all landline calls anywhere in Australia included
Previously, we were paying around $150 per month:
$50 to TPG for 25GB of ADSL1
$100 to Telstra for line rental and $1 STD calls (wife’s parents are both interstate).
$50 for 25 gigs on TPG ADSL1? The fuck? I pay that for 500gb ADSL2+. It’s split 50/50 on/off peak but we usually use the off-peak for torrents and the on-peak for everything else.
Yeah, I know. The perils of living in Canberra with shitty infrastructure.
How can politicians operate in Canberra and not think we need better internet?
I’m sure that any area servicing politicians has up-to-date infrastructure with the very best service available. Canberra isn’t just one big suburb, though. Our place only gets mobile reception at the front of the house 😛
Admittedly I do underestimate the size of Canberra due to the compative tininess of the ACT, but still.
Erm. Maybe a look at iinet would be worthwhile at some point?
Like… $30 for 100GB on ADSL2. Add another $30 to bundle the line rental, if you care about having a home phone.
We can’t get ADSL 2 here. Most providers can’t even find us on the map (even though we’re right in Canberra). TPG and Telstra are the only choices we’ve ever had.
I’m… I’m so, so sorry. I didn’t know. 🙁
*tears up* What kind of God could create a world like this?
Time to break out the old murder/suicide kit.
Good work. That’s the sort of speeds I currently get, also. It’s decent, but no NBN. However, at the same time I could never go back to 150kb/s. Ever.
FYI if you didn’t know there’s a difference between little b and big B when stating speeds. Right now you’re getting 6.6 Mbps (speedtest.net result) which is okay, but previously you were getting 0.14Mbps?? D: That’s not anywhere near ADSL1 speed even!
I don’t know this stuff.
Damnit, I’m a writer, Jim, not a net-speed-knowing-guy! (see how good my writing is)
I meant kilobytes per second.
Welp now you have further knowledge. 😛 Best these days is to use Mbps, as that’s the typical result speedtest.net gives.
I just looked at the download speed that IE told me.
There’s some shameful full disclosure for your ass. 😛
Read that article for The Order 1886 and hnnngh. Everytime I see more information it looks more and more like my kind of game.
Theeeeeennnnn I read the comments and *facepalm*
People are throwing some major bitch fits about fps lately aren’t they?
Ah, does look so damn good. I’m convinced now. Commence media blackout!
Have they given a tentative release date at all?
http://www.ibtimes.com/order-1886-release-date-coming-fall-watch-sonys-gameplay-trailer-here-1556327
So that’s September/Octoberish right?
Ah, I guess inFamous, Watchdogs and Murdered: Soul Suspect will move up the queue before The Order. The Witness and Rime too. Getting desperate to play more PS4 games. XD
I’d not object to any PS4 games! They’d better have stock around by the end of April, I’m having one for my birthday and I don’t want to resort to break and enter for it.
Didn’t know the first thing about Murdered: Soul Suspect. Just watched the trailer and wow. That looks amazing.
Certainly has potential, it’s another one I hope they don’t fuck up.
Not many games I can think of where you investigate your own murder, only other one I can think of is Discworld Noir
Ghost Trick
Really love the atmosphere and art direction.
It’s one of those games where it can only turn me off as it goes. It piqued my interest with a weird setting and secret society framework which are always a bit of fun, the worst they can do is turn it into a shit game.
Comment summary: ONE SET OF NUMBERS I DON’T UNDERSTAND IS DIFFERENT THAN THE SET OF NUMBERS ON THE OTHER PLATFORM I’VE DECIDED TO PASSIONATELY DETEST FOR NO ADEQUATELY EXPLAINED REASON! THIS IS EITHER PROOF THAT MY CHOICE AND BY EXTENSION MYSELF IS SUPERIOR OR PROOF THAT THE PEOPLE MAKING THINGS ARE INCOMPETENT AND SHOULD BE SUBJECTED TO SOME MANNER OF FARCICALLY OVERREACTIVE PUNISHMENT THAT SALVES MY PREPOSTEROUSLY FRAGILE EGO WHICH IS MORTALLY THREATENED WHEN I SEE PEOPLE ENJOYING THEMSELVES IN A WAY THAT IS NOT PRECISELY THE WAY I ENJOY MYSELF!
This is the problem with letting technical information out into the open world where numpties can read it. The only thing they can comprehend is that one number is higher on chart A than on chart B and spend the rest of the time misrepresenting it as proof of their pre-existing prejudices.
See also: Climate change deniers, young earth creationists, trickle down economists.
50+ fps is the target, so 30fps on a next-gen is pretty disappointing. But, 30fps was what we got on 95% of previous-gen consoles, so I’m okay with that. Add in that it’s running at pretty much max resolution AND has 4x MSAA… I’m impressed (coming from a PC dude).
Stable 30 will beat anything higher that’s variable for my money
I’m going to rant here because i really feel the need to vent (and because facebook can be a deathtrap for rants).
Right, so the new season of ‘So You Think You can Dance AU’ is airing on TV and i just happen to know one of the competitors in the top 20, like i went to school with him, etc…
In one of the ads for the program in which he stars, he is made out to be this simple country farm lad who wakes up at 4am every morning to drive tractors before practising dance. you know real humble beginnings stuff.
Now usually i wouldn’t have a problem with this. Except for the fact that he lives near dead in the middle of town, in what is the biggest city in SA bar Adelaide, his parents don’t own a farm, he only finished school last year, he’s never had a job (let alone on a farm) and his parents own the biggest local real estate agency (so they are rather well off).
I don’t hate the guy, nor do i want to take anything away from him; i mean he can dance well enough to be where his is, so good on him. Just sometimes i really don’t understand the media. Like i’m sure it was done to sell him as this specific character that the masses that watch this stuff can be empathetic towards. Can’t you just sell the kid as who he really is? For a reality show, you sure got a whole lotta show and not much reality.
…
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… I don’t even know why i care, i don’t even watch the show :/
Because established narratives are comfortable and easy for people to follow, if a character is framed to appear as an archetype they already know it means they don’t have to think. It’s the hack, bullshit, creativity destroying, timewasting, ad vehicle equivalent of the hero with a thousand faces concept
Yeah i get that… It’s probably what gets at me the most, it’s even worse knowing why the media does it. It is a tried and true concept that works for everything.
Like what’s a good cooking show without some people the audience can hate? *glares in ‘My kitchen rule’s’ direction*
This is why I barely watch anything on tv, unless it’s sport or Top Gear.
I’m sick to death of “reality” bullshit and “faux-nalism” (Today Tonight, ACA) being all over the damn place.
I hate being reduced to an archetype. 😛
(Edit: With that in mind, you’d think I’d try to avoid BEING one, but nooooo.)
So he’s from the mount?
*shifty eyes* Shhhhhhhhhhhh.
I knew a girl who was on The Biggest Loser a few years ago. They did a good job depicting her, I thought.
I went to uni with a girl who was on the “Who wants to be a princess?” show (and yes, of course it was the weird gothy one who came out as bisexual on the show).
I didn’t know her all that well, but sadly I don’t think they changed things up all that much for her…
The only person I know who was ever on a reality show was a knob from my high school who auditioned for Australian Idol. He didn’t get aired in Australia, but there was a clip on World Idol of one of the judges telling him he looked like a gay construction worker.
I just received an email from amazon recommending automotive replacement parts.
What the huh?
By the time you’ve read it they’ve stolen two of your car’s headlights and a bumper bar.
Well your pretty much screwed when even amazon has no confidence in your driving capabilities.
So I just spent the last five or six hours playing Blood Dragon.
Oops.
Also really wishing I had a wireless adapter for my 360 controller. I don’t know what’s wrong with you keyboard+mouse loving people, this is weird.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/White-Wireless-Gaming-Receiver-For-MICROSOFT-XBOX-360-/360368437761?pt=AU_Video_Game_Accessories&hash=item53e7a1fa01
Get one of these, works a charm! if you don’t mind manually assigning the driver through device manager 😛
When I ordered one of those it came with a printout of step-by-step instructions.
Of course I tend to just use a wired controller anyway.
It’s like if I wanted to go around a race track in my car Vs an F1 car. I’d undoubtedly go much faster my my car because in an F! I’d spend the whole time trying not to go flying into a wall. However if I had the time to practice on the F1 I’d sooner or later be going much faster.
However there are some types of games controllers are much better. I wouldn’t want to take a f1 car on a dirt rally. 4WD and some measure of ground clearance would kick it’s arse.
*reads the comment*
*reads it again*
*and again*
IT’S TOO EARLY FOR A METAPHOR THIS DEEP DAMMIT!
now where’s my coffee
*head desk*
So like… the keyboard and it’s buttons are the off-road course, and my hand is the F1 car?
I think that’s how this works.
DARK SOULS TWO \o/
The countdown continues… 22 days.
New Dark Souls 2 trailer: http://www.vg247.com/2014/02/19/dark-souls-2-hollow-lullaby-trailer-discusses-death-and-destiny/
Zero Punctuation (finally) reviews DARK SOULS http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/8802-Dark-Souls
Heh.
Yahtzee’s pretty much 100% right on how I felt about it, too.
Sorry nintendo, I still wouldn’t use 3D
http://i.imgur.com/UCfyAy9.jpg
(found on reddit. Rated M for mature themes)
3D is great. The only time I ever turn it off is if the battery’s running low and I don’t have access to a powerpoint 😛
Sydney folks:
@35 @cakesmith @batgirl @anonymous_pessimist @powalen @effluvium-boy @shiggyninty @doc_what @alexpants @harli @markserrels @ruffleberg @batguy @fatshady @kermitron
Honorary Sydney folks:
@rize @blaghman @f4ction
and those I’ve no doubt forgotten, I’m sorry :S
I’m arriving in Sydney around 8pm this Friday night, anyone up for a catch-up/dinner date then?
Failing that, I believe birthday drinks are in the works for Saturday night, though I’m unaware of location. I believe @35 had some ideas on this one?
I’ll be around until the 3rd of March, and would love to have as many meats as possible, if/when you’re all free. Most of you have my number by now, if you don’t just give me a yell and I’ll DM you on Twitter or something. I’ll repost this once a day (making alterations as need be. If you’d rather I remove your tag, just let me know) until I leave, in an effort to drum up some interest and keep it fresh in everyone’s mind.
Much love,
Leph.
CURRENT EVENTS/PLANS
Sat 22nd, drinks… somewhere?
Sun 23rd, KFC club?
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Weekend of 1st & 2nd Mar, TAYfilm!
If dinner is a thing on Saturday, I vote Wagamama, because god damn I’ve been thinking about katsu curry and now I really want katsu curry you guys.
KATSU CURRY!!!
#KatsuCurryClub
I never got to use my two-for-one discount coupon thingo D:
Think of all the curry you coulda eaten…
DUDE. EVERYONE SHOULD COME TO KFC.
Me and the Berg will treat you right.
So another good session last night in JC2MP with the “crew” *finger snap*
(@rize, @sernobulus, @mythamphetamine (whom gave into peer pressure because he said he didn’t want to), @rocketman, @blaghman))
However, next time we really should try a new server, i feel terrible for leaving out @f4ction due to the issues he was having…
i might jump on tonight or tomorrow night and find another server that’s similar which he may be able to join in on…
A++ would sit by myself again.
Also don’t bother looking for one for me, I’m just going to go back to SP games.
But but… aaaww /o\… i’m sorry man, i really do feel bad about last night!
also just over Multi or?
Messing around trying to get JC2MP to work left a bad taste in my mouth. I’ll play Project Zomboid instead.
Fair enough… well if you wanna give it another bash at some point, give me a shout out, i’ll be happy with trying to assist in any way i can
I’ve uninstalled it 😛 No intention of trying it again. But thanks!
Im sorry I ditched you guys, A female texted me and my gosh does she reply to text messages quickly.
That’s cool…
you have… priorities…
and clearly that was more important…
no no, that’s fine…
I’M NOT CRYING MY EYES ARE JUST WATERING BECAUSE OF THE ONION I’VE BEEN RUBBING IN THEM
*runs out the door*
😛DAMN IT YOU CANT DOWNVOTE YOUR OWN DOUCHEY COMMENTS
BUT I CAN UPVOTE \o/
#helping
If there is one thing the olympics have taught me, its that you have to be naturally talented and start super young at a really specific thing to be the best.This whole practice and talent will come is bullshit. Sure you can get good, heck you can even be the best, but then some kid who has been doing it his whole life rocks up and blows you out of the water.
Yeah, but most people value a balanced life over supreme achievement in one particular field. Let the focused talented freaks have their tiny little slice of perfection, and think about all the stuff they missed out on when they were kids.
Yeah i guess i got ninja turtles so its a fair trade.
I wouldn’t trade the Ninja Turtles for an Olympic gold medal, nosirree.
Wouldn’t even hesitate on that choice.
I suddenly feel far better about being mediocre at everything, @shane. I’m not bad at anything. I’m not great at anything.
I’m not mediocre, I’m balanced.
Im bad at most things, not very bad just bad. My only saving grave is i know a little about a whole fucktonne of things. History, geography, music, movies most subjects ill have some sort of knowledge on. But its all very shallow knowledge, something enough to hold a conversation with someone .
FTFY
DONT SKEW MY WORDS ASSHOLE, FUCK
😛
I’m sure the same thing can be said about professional gamers in DoTA2, LoL, SC2, etc. I try to be good at LoL but I see these kids on twitch that has the game bound to their soul, playing way better than I probably ever will. 😛
They eat, sleep and breathe it man.
Oh, and there’s some sort of proverb or saying that says that success is only ever tarnished when compared to other people.
That’s hard advice to follow though, because even our internal measures for success have been developed based on observations of others.
I love that quote, makes me smile.
Aw, but I love being lazy
-Shia LaBeouf
Amazing.
-Shia LaBeouf
– michael scott
I tossed up between going with Michael Scott or Shia LaBeouf. Figured more people would understand the Shia reference.
Remember when we were lying in bed saying how useless we felt because all the TAY people are just disgustingly talented as @mrtaco was busting out some ridiculous pianist skills?
Good times.
You guys and your pillow talk!
fucking douchebag gooky being impressive.
I remember thinking that
I know right I hate that dickbag
“pianist”?
I don’t know if this has been on TAY before, but apparently Gordon Ramsay is coming back to Amy’s Baking Company for a follow-up. It will air on Feb 28, I believe.
For those of you who missed the first train wreck, here it is in all its can’t-look-away glory. I’m not normally one for this kind of TV, but this… is pretty damn amazing. I’ve seen it three times, and I still can’t believe what I’m watching.
Awesome. I am so excited
Me too. The first episode was unbelievable.
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/194trtw9lwx2hjpg/original.jpg
that caught me off guard…. what is it??? Is it human 😛
@phlanispo and anyone else who wants a free GBA/GBC/GB emulator on their idevices
GBA4iOS 2.0 is here: gba4iosapp.com, hit the download button, hit the download 2.0 (it needs iOS 7, otherwise there is a version 1.6, but it doesn’t have the new features), hit yes to the apple thing, and when it’s downloaded, tell the notification you do want to open it.
Then you can download roms anyway you want! And best of all, it doesn’t need a jailbreak.
Thanks man, todays boring day of work is now going to be filled with me playing tetris and pokemon. Mostly tetris.
JAR JAR YOU CHAMPION!!!
Well, that’s a sentence that I thought no one would ever say ever.
I guess there isn’t something like that for Android?
Try John’s GBA lite or something along those lines.
I’ll look into it, as I’m trying to get a FF6 game without it bugging out on me and with a good framerate, do you recommend any in particular (If it isn’t John’s GBA Lite)?
Hmm I guess you have a few options. Either a rom of the Advance remake for use with John GBA lite or the SNES original with SuperGNES lite though I have no idea which one will be best for your device performance-wise, of course.
Android has a ton of emulators, but if you want FF6, go the SNES version (because I hear that one has the best graphics).
I don’t have any Android stuff though, so take what I say here witha grain of salt.
Hey, you got my name right this time!
🙂
I did end up scrolling up to double-check, but I got it right!
At least you didn’t have to check TAYNAMES.
Hey gang.
How many of you cool cats listen to streaming music or radio? If so, which services do you use? And do you prefer just straight up music or the more traditional radio style of talk segments & music?
I only even listen to old podcasts of Kyle Sandilands and Jackie-O, they are my all time favourite presenters. They are just so witty and funny.
WE MISS YOU KYLE
i actually started a petition to get him back on the radio and it had a overwhelmingly negative feedback. I CAN STILL DREAM FOREVER THOUGH
This reminds me that I still have the old Tony Martin/Mick Molloy CDs sitting around. Man, what other radio presenters were so funny they put out compilations of their best segments? It’s all so culturally irrelevant now because they tend to reference events that were current (when they were on the air in the 90s), but it’ll always be a part of my teenage years.
Not a lot, but whenever I do, it’s Rainwave – game soundtracks, chiptunes and remixes
http://game.rainwave.cc/
I use Pandora. I love it. All music, no ads etc. So much variety.
I use Grooveshark mainly, just because of the lack of audio ads.
Banner ads, side bar ads – that I can handle. When I end up hearing the same advert for a new album eight times a day, that’s enough for me.
Plus, you know, it’s free forever. Downside is that due to a court ruling they cannot have any music prior to about 1974 on there.
Don’t ask, it’s complicated.
I’m fairly sure last I checked they still had some new songs on there.
Yeah, they were allowed to re-build the new catalogue. It’s the classics that they technically cannot allow on site. Some weird kink in U.S. Copyright law. So anything before 1974 (or a year somewhere around that) gets wiped off on a weekly basis.
Sorry, I misread, I thought you said they can only have music prior to 1974.
Although, I checked recently for some music from an old movie for some music I was playing (from 1971) and they had it. It sounded like it was cut from the movie though, still had the original dialogue in it. Maybe Movie scenes are different under US copyright law?
I honestly do not know. It is so confusing.
From Wikipedia:
So, yeah. Maybe they can’t, maybe they can. Either way, I’m confused.
Crazy American copyright law.
My radio streams internet radio and podcasts for me /cool
The below doesn’t relate to you, I’m pretty sure. I know you have talk podcasts, but IMO that’s awesome because I can listed to them when I feel like it, and now have it shoved down my throat when I don’t feel like it.
But, as for the radio talkshows on HotFM etc…
FUCK talking and FUCK those guys who talk shit every time you want to listen to the radio, e.g. at 5pm after a day at work, or 8-9 before work. I purchased a 160GB iPod for my new car and it’s the best accessory ever. I don’t even know what new shitty song Miley has because I shrivel up into a demonic form if I turn on the radio and hear some loser talking shit.
haha, people are often shocked that I don’t know any recent pop hits, I avoid radio like the plague
I use Grooveshark, mainly because other sites spaz out on my puter, simple easy to use. I prefer just music,
I watch a lot of podcasts these days. Don’t worry, I’ll get to yours some time this year.
When it comes to music, I had a weird system:
Before my macbook died on me, I used to utilise the record function on garageband. If I found something I liked, I would hit the record button and be as quiet as possible for seven minutes. I would then convert the garage band document into a mp3 file, and listen to it to my heart’s content.
It was a pretty patchy way of doing things, if someone outside my room made even a slight scuffling noise, I would restart the download. I usually got my family to stay quiet for ten minutes by screaming “RECORDING!” as loud as I could, and hoping they got the cooperated.
Sometimes I would make a noise at some point in the recording and not realise it. Because of this, the Primal Dialga them from Mystery Dungeon would have an audible sniff at the very beginning. I listened to it so many times that my brain thinks the sniff is a part of the original soundtrack.
When it comes to the actual type of music I listen to, it is nothing but game soundtracks. I can’t stand music with lyrics for the most part. This rules out most music.
The Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers soundtrack is probably my favourite soundtrack from any game ever, and I listen to it constantly. How could you not love it? I mean come on, listen to this!
I think I went a little off topic…
For the first time I’m not having fun in Dark Souls. Farming for ultra rare weapon drops means it’s no longer about skill or knowledge but pure random luck which sucks immense balls.
Agreed! Getting the Channeler’s Trident was, by a very, very long way, the low point of the game for me.
It doesn’t look like there’s an all-weapons achievement in Dark Souls 2, so that’s something.With your struggle to get the trident in mind, I’m spending some of my soul-farming time just running repeatedly through the entirety of the Duke’s Archives. The whole area does actually give a pretty tasty chunk of souls. I think it’s something like 40k’ish all-up, before I go and reset it at a bonfire, and doesn’t take long – only a few minutes. Plus always getting bonus humanity from those once-scary tentacle ladies.
I haven’t had much time to play this week, but I did finally wrap up the storylines for Rhea & Big Hat, and opened up the Kiln area, killeds its mobs, but didn’t go through the fog gate.
I figure this is probably close to The End, so time to complete as many things as I can. Forging those boss souls into weapons, buying those armor sets from Donhall, using up my chunks and slabs, etc. It turns out I DON’T actually have the Prepare to Die edition on the PS3, only on the PC, so I guess I won’t be doing those extra areas, which is a bit of a shame.
(Also, found out I was playing online by accident due to the presence of idiotic sticky-notes on the floor and hopped offline after a while to avoid blue dudes.)
Before you finish:
Check the checklists in the wikis. They’re pretty thorough, but here’s some stuff you can do:* Kindle all the bonfires. That kindling remains in NG+
* Kill all NPCs for loot. Sin doesn’t carry across into NG+, and all NPCs will be revived.
* Upgrade all weapons. You keep your inventory, but won’t have early-game access to all the blacksmiths (of course) in NG+.
* If you’re farming for achievements, get all the rare enemy-drop weapons now. That way you don’t need to worry about them in the higher-difficulty NG+
* Level up in covenants if you can. The items, miracles and weapons you can earn will stay with you in NG+ (though some are disabled if you leave the particular covenant)
* CRYSTAL LIZARDS
It’s definitely worth buying the DLC. Missing out on the greatest boss fights of the entire game otherwise.
Yeah, I had a look at the playstation store, saw that it was like… $25 or something, decided to give it a miss on my PS3 run-through. Maybe when I get my PC sorted out – I have the Prepare to Die edition on that. It’ll be prettier, run better with less slow-down in places like Blighttown, etc.
Just waiting for GFWL to die on that.
Pretty sure it’s $15.
I look it up. Ah. There we go… $18.45. That’s ‘mehhhh’ territory when I already have it on PC and can just go there for a 2nd, prettier playthrough… Is it really that good?
Definitely.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
…OK. Fair’nuff. I’ll queue’er up when I get home.
random drops are the bane of my existence, I’ve had countless games leave a bad taste in my mouth farming for crap, I wish they’d give us more ways of improving the odds in those instances. Good luck man
You have not experienced the true hell of random drops until you have played classic Ragnarok Online and tried to farm up the cat ear headband.
I spent probably 40 hours+ farming goddamn Smokies and never got one to drop.
So I finished Game of Thrones RPG last night. Brilliant ending, capping off a monster of a story. Everyone should play it so I have people to discuss how great it is with.
I’ll be able to discuss one day. I just discovered Skyrim on my PC though…so I may be distracted for some time.
Twitch Plays Pokemon just got Hitmonlee from the dojo.
Finally, something they do right!
BIRD JESUS SMITES THE NON BELIEVER
ALL PRAISE HELi….
oh i dont even care anymore
Yeah, this died off in my feed after like a day haha.
I’m glad it’s died down a bit. Ever since they risked using the PC just to withdraw the Helix Fossil 😛
WHAT. HITMONCHAN IS CLEARLY SUPERIOR. FALSE PROPHET II: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO.
Normally I would disagree, but considering there’s a big chance neither of them end up with fighting nor attacking moves, I guess the argument is pointless 😛
HITMONLEE USED LEER
HITMONLEE USED SAND ATTACK
HITMONLEE USED GROWL
HITMONLEE USED TAIL WHIP SOMEHOW
HITMONLEE USED STRUGGLE
ENEMY POKEMON FAINTED BECAUSE IT WAS A LEVEL 9 BELLSPROUT
TAYlist requests are appreciated every week, even if I can’t play them all.
E: Shoutout to two weeks of TAYlist request Page Gets
I’m In Here – Sia
in too deep-sum 41
but seriously dont play that
Melancholy hill- the gorilliaz
No! Play in Too Deep!
Oh god, that song’s terrible
and then there’s Sum 41 /s (I like On Melancholy Hill)Top song Melancholy Hill.
Thinking about Sum 41 makes me think about the American Pie movies. I want to watch them again but my wife will make fun of me, plus she’s sick of Alyson Hannigan and the one slutty nympho character she plays in everything.
Hold the Line – Toto
If you have any Green Day or The Living End, i’d like to request them, thank you.
Because it has been in my head since I watched the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer:
Hooked On A Feeling – Blue Swede
Something by Airbourne.
You do have Airbourne right? *hard look*
It’s be un-Australian not to have Airbourne..
I remember seeing Airbourne play at the Criterion Hotel in Warrnambool when I was 18 before they even released their first album.
/hipsterglasses
Some Miles Davis.
Failing that, Wolf Like Me- TV on the Radio
Anything by 78 Saab.
Failing that, anything by IceHouse.
Customary hipster request :
Borrowed Beds – Run Squirrel
Serious request :
No Aphrodisiac – The Whitlams
The whitlams are still pretty hipster.
But my gosh do i love that song
really? I may be so trapped in my hipster ways that The Whitlams seem pretty mainstream.
I just don’t know anymore 🙁
Ur-Hipster.
The Whitlams are hipster, huh o.O
Girls on Film – Duran Duran
AND BTW HOLY DAMN THE UNCUT MUSIC VIDEO IS ONLY THE BEST THING EVER 😀
Oh my god, this IS the best thing ever!
SINGLE GREATEST VIDEO CLIP EVER MADE BAR NONE
Oh God, Rocketman is my younger self.
Prototype – Outkast
Garbage – Just anything by them, really.
Give You Up – Rudimental, or
Hell Could Freeze – Rudimental, or more likely to have
Monster – Eminem ft. Rhianna
There’s a slight problem that will prevent this week’s TAYlist.
Rain has prevented me from reaching the radio station, since I normally walk.
Then you have to sing all the songs yourself
And record it for the rest of us to
laugh atlisten to.So, I think we need to try and organise some Monaco multi either tonight or tomorrow night. If we have more than 4 people we’ll just split into groups.
Off the top of my head I know @sernobulus @pixel_the_ferret_viking and @trjn were keen to play some time. Anyone else?
I’m in for tomorrow night \o/
WHY DO YOU JERKS INSIST ON PLAYING GAMES WHEN I CAN’T?
Jerks.
Because they don’t like you.
Oh…
…it’s high school all over again.
I like you.
*blushes*
Oh you…
Well IF YOU HAD JOINED US LAST NIGHT BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU WERE TOO COOL…
or you were doing something else, but whatever, MY POINT STILL STANDS
😛@pixel_the_ferret_viking
You’re dead to me.
@cakesmith
Dead as in you’re throwing a Bering my direction dead or dead dead?
I just got Monaco from the Humble Bundle so I need to learn how to play it. Maybe sometime in the future.
Nonsense, jump in, best way to learn.
Difference is your heist will be Lock Stock, not Ocean’s Eleven.
if it works on my current comp, super keen.
I’m up. Never played it though. Friday night would be best for me.
I’m keen to play but since I literally only just got it yesterday in the Humble Bundle and haven’t had a chance to actually play it…. probably best that I get some practice first?
Go in cold like me. 😀
Ok, you got yourself a deal. How about we get two more neophytes and have us a big ol’ Monaco virgin fest?
@kermitron says he hasn’t played before too!
There’s got to be at least one more Monaco virgin out there…
@markserrels – you said you’ve never played it (http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/02/the-latest-humble-indie-bundle-has-games-i-havent-played-hurray/ ) – get on board the Humble Bundle Stumble-playthrough.
Monaco Virgin Fest. That’s a great name for a band.
They can open for my fictional band: Hot Celibate Sluts
My most-wanted Smash Bros newcomer at this point (besides Palutena :P):
Mii!
I usually hate shoehorning Mii’s into unrelated games, but I think they’d be a great addition to Smash Bros. They’re pretty important to modern Nintendo and they have such a huge potential moveset! They can draw from all the different Wii Sports, Wii Music, Wii Fit, etc plus Streetpass Plaza games, Pilotwings, Nintendoland and Mario Kart (even things like Mii Maker if they really want to get creative :P) Plus you could fully customise each different alt-colour and possibly alter in-game stats with the height/weight sliders. It’d be great!
Discuss. Or don’t. I just wanted to say stuff 😛
If that happened, I wonder how long it’ll take till there’s a big issue about being able to beat up your friends…
I beat the shit outta my sister
in wii sports boxing.
Missingno.
Have the game start glitching out as special attacks.
What’s a Palutena?
EDIT: I wouldn’t mind being able to use a “Mii”. I would only use Clockface with his secret ability to cause all players to go blind when looking at him.
Kicarus!
Pittoo pls! (I’m pretty sure he’s probably already in Brawl as a palette swap)
Lloyd from Symphonia!
I think Tales characters may be likely since Namco Bandai ARE helping with the game!
I’m almost certain that Chrom from Fire Emblem Awakening will be put in soon, probably the next person to be announced.
But as for people i want in, other than little mac (TY based nintendo), i want either Wonder Red from wonderful 101 or Bayonetta…
Wonder Red would be more likely seeing as bayonetta is… well part stripper lady…
but any of them would be hype.
I’d much rather they skip over Chrom and put in Robin (the player character) if only because Chrom is so similar to Marth and Robin has the potential to use Magic-based attacks, which we don’t get much of in Smash Bros. Either would be fine though! Love me some Fremblem.
They can’t put Robin in, because the Avatar’s gender, class and appearance is all player-defined.
The previous games to include FE characters all included Marth (who is confirmed) but had the main character for the most recent FE installment (Roy / Ike) so it’s fair to assume Chrom or maybe Lucina would be the second one. On the other hand, the two of them are both very similar in appearance to Marth so they may decide to pick a different character. As I understand it, the most popular of the FE:Awakening characters in Japan were Cordelia/Tiamo, Tharja/Sallya and Nowi/Nono (they changed characters names in the localization FYI)
Nowi and Tharja were my two favourites as well. They would be awesome to use in Smash Bros. You just know that Nowi’s final smash would be calling down an army of dragons 😀
Either Chrom or Lucina. I’d hope for Lucina personally.
Dammit Pow, stop being me!
I’ve had a few friends come up saying how they hope Mii isn’t going to be there/it wouldn’t fit. But I bring up the same things you did just there 😛 I reckon he’d be pretty cool.
Still, you’re wrong though. The biggest must-reveal newcomer is Pac Man.
Arceus. You instantly win because you are god. Could make for some interesting games.
Ha. Awesome Motörhead are doing their own festival on a cruise ship. I’m amused by the name Motörboat..
So I’m finally going to get a decent computer! PC MASTER RACE \o/
Going to be buying all the stuff and putting it together in a week or two 😀
I need some opinions though. I’ve been a bit out of the loop with PC parts and stuff for a while now, so I don’t *really* know what’s good or not these days. I’m going to be using my PC for gaming, game making, video editing, that sort of stuff. Here’s what I’m planning on getting.
CPU: Core i7-4770
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
RAM: G Skill 8G(2x4G) DDR3 1600Mhz
SSD: Kingston 120G HyperX SSD SATA 3
HDD: Western Digital WD2003FZEX Black 2 TB SATA 6 Gb/s/64 MB /7200 RPM
GPU: Gigabyte GV-N780OC-3GD
Case: Thermaltake A31
PSU: Thermaltake TP-850MPCGAU Toughpower 850W 80+ Gold
Monitor: Benq 24″ RL2450H x2
Anything you guys would change? Should I be going for 16gb of RAM instead of 8gb? Last time I knew what was what with computer parts, 4gb of RAM was plenty and more than you’d probably need… xD So I don’t know if 8Gb is good or if I’d need more for what I’ll be doing…
Also, good PC cases seem hard to find. And by good, I mean ones that I look the look of 😛 Most are too overly aggressive and ‘gamer’ for me. I just want something stylish and simple looking, but something that’s not a plain box. Is that too much to ask for? 🙁
I personally like the Corsair series they’re clean but nice looking, the 650D (pretty much any of their cases that end with D honestly) is a really nice case, I also quite like Silverstone.
Edit: The Vengeance C70 is also nice, my mate has that it’s not overly aggressive.
Saying that i’m going with this on my next build, I wanted to go the ITX version buuuuuut silverstone don’t make the size PSU for that one I require 🙁
RAM is cheap just buy another stick for like 30 bucks and i think you are all set.
Ram is not cheap now. Back in March 2012 when I built my current PC, I bought 8GB of DDR3 ram of Kingston brand, it was 55 dollars, not even a year later that same ram was 99 dollars, it hasn’t gone down since.
I think they make most of our RAM in Singapore and some key factories got flooded in mid-2012 so supply dropped and price is indexed solely to demand. I guess they’re still recovering from that?
Yeah I remember that, it also affected hard drive prices stupidly but they’ve gone back down to lower than they were before all that happened :/
That was Thailand and it was hard drives that were affected.
I think it’s just a natural market correction. They made way too much RAM and had to clear it cheap because of the glut of it.
Where’s this at? Most of the RAM I’ve found (at Umart, PCCaseGear and MSY) has been more expensive than that. Like $50 for 4gb, $100 for 8gb and $200 for 16gb :/
NZXT have some sexy cases. This is my current one & I love it.
as for 8 vs 16 GB RAM, unless your doing heavy database work or sound / video editing / 3d graphics rendering, I cant think of anything that’d use more than 8GB. but yeah. its cheap enough at the moment, so either way.
also, its not an immediately pressing issue, but you might wanna consider an extra hard drive. 2TB will fill up damn quick if you’re putting games / movies / music on it.
Edit: woah. haven’t looked at component prices in ages. RAM has gone up 🙁
Agree with the RAM. Going over 8GB is not necessary for gaming, a bunch of people did it recently while RAM was cheap.
Also, I have that case too 😛
yeah, I’ve got 16GB, but I got it a few years ago when it was really cheap. like $130 for 16GB.
& you, sir, have excellent taste in cases.
my next pc will probably have another NZXT case. very happy with it.
Yeah, very roomy without being huge, and I love the look of them. I do love a sexy PC case.
That Phantom 410 looks pretty rad. Might go for the white one 😀
Yeah, I’ll probably put another hard drive in later, but 2tb is enough to get me started.
my dad thinks they look like storm troopers.
this is by no means a bad thing.
I was getting more of a Tron Legacy vibe from it (especially from the black one with white trim). And someone else said it looks like a Portal turret…
Good thing I like all of those things 😛
One of my friends said the exact same thing.
Well, to be fair, she said it looked like “one of those robots from Star Wars”.
Just reminded me of this scene from The Thick Of It –
Malcolm: “What’s that film you love?”
Ollie: “What film?”
Malcolm: “The one about the hairdresser. The space hairdresser and the cowboy…the guy, he’s got a tinfoil pal and a pedalbin… his father’s a robot and he’s fucking fucked his sister…Lego, they’re all made of fucking Lego.”
Ollie: “…Star Wars?”
Malcolm: “That’s the one!”
I thought you were talking about Malcolm in the Middle, and I got really confused by the swearing.
Get 2x 8GB RAM sticks. Everything else in your system is good, RAM is lacking. This way you can also upgrade to 32GB later for video editing/streaming etc.
I’d be also thinking about a CPU cooler, as I’m sure you will want to overclock in the future. This can be added later, but it’s a lot easier with the mobo out of case.
If you’re going to be using it for gaming, depending on what game you’re playing. you may want to consider adding an extra monitor down the line.
If, however you’re just using it for video editing on it’s own, then stay with dual screens.
Sounds like a really good setup, all things considered! 😀
I just realised you got the non-K Intel. Get the K for unlocked multiplier, e.g. easy overclocking.
No, really, you have the Z-mobo, get the K CPU.
You’re going for 2 1920×1080 monitors? Do you actually need 2 separate displays or is it a matter of desktop space? If the latter, would a single 2560×1440 monitor do the job? It’d allow more resolution options in games and provide a hell of a lot of desktop space
It’s just about having 2 screens. It’s going to be used more for game making than playing, so 2 screens would be better, for easier multi-tasking. I’ve been using 2 screens for ages, I don’t think I’d be able to live with just one now 😛
Also if you do a lot of code having one rotate 90 degrees is a godsend.
– More ram won’t hurt. 8gb IMO is minimum now.
– Thermaltake make shit PSUs. Get something from Corsair or Seasonic. Don’t skimp on the PSU, a good one should last you through multiple builds.
– What are you going to do with the machine? You can save around $100 by getting the i5 4570K instead of the i7 4770. The difference between them is basically 100mHz and a slightly smaller cache, neither of which will make much difference for gaming, but might hurt if you’re doing video rendering or running VMs or something.
– If you’re not getting a ‘K’ series CPU then getting a Z87 chipset motherboard is pretty useless, because the main feature for the Z-series chipset is being able to overclock, and you need a K CPU for that.
– Motherboard is okay. Dunno what price range you’re looking at but my current build uses an MSI Z87-G45 and it’s a really good board.
– Bigger SSD! You’ll find 120gb very restrictive. Samsung 840 series is the most reliable out there, and the 250gb models are cheaper than buying 2×120. You could possibly offset the added cost by getting a ‘Green’ HDD for your less important files as the 250gb SSD will be big enough to hold 90% of the stuff you hit daily and actually need super-quick access to.
– Cases are a really personal thing. I really dislike tacky stuff so I generally go for cases that have clean lines, no windows or clutter, are quiet and unobtrusive. My current system is in a Corsair Obsidian 550D. Antec P183 before that. If I was going for something flashy I’d still want to go for a less tacky looking one like the NZXT Phantom.
Why can’t I upvote this more than once? Thanks, that was a heap of help 😀
I’m not interested in overclocking that much, so I’ll have a look at other motherboards. What sort of chipset should I be looking at?
If you’re going to do some development on it, then extra RAM is awesome as well.
FWIW our development machines here which are now a year old (halfway to being up for replacement) run 3.4ghz Quad-core Xeons and 32gb RAM and even then there are times when Visual Studio shits the bed and uses up all the memory or similar. My previous box only had 12gb RAM and it was awful.
…I think that’s just a little bit out of the realm of affordability for me 😛
Alright, so due to the twitch stream, GBA4iOS, and an idea I’ve had in the back of my head for a while, I’ve decided to play all the Pokémon games (in order, and just the one’s from the main series), but because I know little about the earlier gens and trading etc, I need to know what to do here (spoilered for list and block of text):
I have:
-Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, Yellow
– A GBC
-Crystal
-DS Lite
– Platinum
– Old R4 card somewhere which had Diamond + Pearl on it
– Soul Silver
– 3DS
– Pokémon X
I read that it’s impossible to transfer things from Gen II to Gen III, but that Gen I and II can communicate. After Gen III you can use the Pal Park to transfer Pokémon.
For the sake of convenience, I’d rather be playing on a phone than a GBC (back-lit screen means no glare etc), so I was wondering if it’s possible to transfer the pokémon from a GBA rom to a DS cartridge?
If not, if I edit a Pokémon team using an editing tool, but it keep it at the same stats, nature, level, moveset etc., would that be considered legit (able to be used in tournaments and not hacked?)
I would gladly pay money for the GBA and DS games, I just don’t have them yet. I’m not a Nintendo-hating person or anything.
i started playing red version on the weekend man, it looks like ass and the gameplay is terrible, there is next to no counterplay for some stuff and the ratio for missing attacks is soooo much higher than you are used too.
I feel like I’d be ok playing Red again, I haven’t played past Gen 3 so it’s the new mechanics that are unfamiliar to me, not the old ones.
There’s zero reason to play Gen 1 and Gen 2. Just play the remakes FireRed/LeafGreen and HeartGold/SoulSilver (anybody who tells you to play them is speaking out of nostalgia :P)
And I don’t think there’s a way to transfer from a ROM to a real cartridge. (gen 3 was around when wires were still used to connect systems :P). Gen 4+ ROMs may be possible to transfer to a real cartridge using the GTS, but I’m not too sure about that.
EDIT: About the editing tool thing: Generally, if you keep things exactly the same as the real Pokemon – it should pass a legitimacy check. Though really, you’re almost better off re-catching/training the same Pokemon again in the newer game because of moveset/base stat changes. Especially because Gen 6 makes it so easy to breed Pokemon with competitive stats.
Yeah, it’s just I’d want to transfer the Pokémon you can catch in the earlier gens over, with the special ones being the starters and legendaries.
@rocketman as well,
I just really want too play the earlier gens. I don’t even know why, I just think it’sd be good to see how the remakes shape up to the originals and see how the games have progressed over time.
Oh, don’t let me stop you from playing the originals if you want to! It’s just I see so much “Pokemon Red/Blue is the best” advice to series newcomers, which just isn’t true due to the remakes 😛 Go for it.
You can catch/trade-for every pokemon in X and Y (with the help of online trading), so you don’t really NEED to transfer from past gens unless you want to. Some Pokemon you’re just never going to get anyway (the event legendaries) unless you get really lucky online.
Yeah, I’d had this idea that I wanted to play through all of them. I’m nit exactly a newcomer, but I’ve never played thriugh one properly to the finish.
I might just trade then. I’ve found something that looks like it’ll work on an R4 card (which I can then transfer to B/W2 and then to X/Y) if I need to, but hopefully I won’t.
A lot of the question around transferring pokeys for tournaments may be moot, since every gen 6 tournament so far has specified x/y caught/bred only, and x/y dex only.
And I guess non-competitive ones in-game vs AI are as well?
In that case I guess I’ll only need to trade anything non-obtainable in X!
You can use anything you want in game, if you’re ever interested in tournaments though, the safe rule is assuming you can’t use anything you’ve transferred or traded. It’s also a bit shitty that they can even exclude things you catch in your own game – there’s a chance you’d be stopped from using non Kalos ‘mons you can catch in Friend Safari. Most recent tournament rules would have even disallowed the torchic that *everyone* got on release too.
But yeah, single player, go nuts, no restrictions. You can’t see national dex entries until after late game, but you can still use them. As far as the hack checks on the bank stopping them from getting there, I wouldn’t expect there to be problems with ‘legit’ mons as per your question. Obvious hacks like unobtainable moves or silly stats is probably all they check. There’s been deafening silence when people have asked how far they go.
Note: FAQ does state that a NNID can be banned from the bank for trying hacked mons, so don’t experiment on an account you’ve already bought stuff with.
Edit: Minor wording changes
6d22h3m – Hitmonlee picked
6d22h40m – Hitmonlee released
EDIT: Basic summary of event-
1) Picked Hitmonlee
2) Hitmonlee was sent to the PC due to full party
3) Purchased 2 Great Balls from the PokeMart
4) Went to the Poke Center to retrieve Hitmonlee
5) Deposited the following items: Lift key, SS Ticket, Helix Fossil, Cut annnnnd the Silph Scope.
6) Attempting to get the Silph Scope back, Hitmonlee was released
7) Deposited lower level Zubat
8) Released lower level Zubat
9) Withdrew SS Ticket, Lift Key, Helix Fossil, Cut and the Silph Scope
10) Cut their losses and took what they had
Currently they appear to be trying to teach Drowzee ‘psychic’
Hahahahahaha god damn it.
oh gods no.
America shall once again rage at us, just like when we released the first two.
Actually it was more likely to be the US that did it.
Current time US:
EST – 7:38pm
CST – 6:38pm
PST – 4:38pm
The only time we have significant control is between the likes of 6pm and 9pm AEST
Well then those Reddit people were just blaming us for their own mistakes.
AMERICA…The land of the free…ed Pokémon that were essential to the quest.
Success! Keeper Drowzee has learned Psychic!
Imagine the outroar if the Helix Fossil is released…
Oh, they’re totally going to release Omanyte when they get it. No doubt.
And suddenly there was a great disturbance in the internet, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and started posting memes online. I fear something terrible has happened.
Yeah, but that can be so easily written into the religion about ascending or something so it’ll be OK.
It’ll probably happen when they try to teach it surf.
Hey hey, I’ve got a quick request if it’s alright with yousee
If anyone has the JB Exclusive Limited Edition of Game of Thrones Season 3, or the Amazon UK Pre-order Bonus Disc can you please post a pic of the bonus disc (or just let me know what it says on the front)? I’m just wondering what extras it comes with cause I don’t want to miss out on them and with the titles they may be easier to find… online
I pre-ordered the Blu-ray last year during a sale but they never had any Limited Editions available at the time. By the time I realised they had ones with bonus discs. my pre-order had already shipped so I couldn’t easily swap it over (it was also almost double the price).
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/dvd/dvd-genres/tv/game-of-thrones-season-3-blu-ray-limited-edition/695232 (I assume the Amazon one comes with the same bonus disc)
I saw a video of an unboxing of the Amazon one with the bonus disc but he just kind of held it up in the distance so I couldn’t read what extras it had. It was different from the stock pic Amazon has on their website and lists the extras in detail.
I know it’s not a huge thing but I enjoy watching the extras and I don’t like feeling like I missed out on something 🙁
Thanks <3
@alexpants ? :3
I’m only asking you cause you’re the only person I know that has it 😀
A cursory glance at the disc the other night showed ‘An Evening with Game of Thrones’ or something similar. Not very helpful. I will get you your photo
(in like five hours)
You’re the best and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
He’s kinda okay.
He played iSketch that one time so he’s alright in my books.
I don’t let them but they do it all the time anyway.
They only put you down because they are jealous of your beard softness.
it’s like patting a kitten that’s been soaked in fabric softener.
It really is.
This is my favourite description now.
Muramasa Rebirth’s second DLC episode, “A Cause to Daikon For”, is out on the 25th (US)/26th (EU)!
The first DLC set was a little disbalanced but pretty good overall. This looks slightly less interesting as a plotline, but possibly might be more playable. Looking forward to it.
I still need to play the first lot of DLC, still have a lot to do in the normal game too though. I wish I had more time.
Need Help: I’ve played through Fallout NV for the third time, currently burning hours in Starbound, but I need another action RPG (open world or semi open world) to start on. I almost opened Fallout NV for a fourth play-through. Game has to be on PC
All suggestions welcome except: Witcher 2 (played), Any Oblivion game (played), torchlight 1 and 2
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a pretty cool guy.
I need to get back into that.
bonus points for having the same lead designer as Morrowind / Oblivion.
First one that came to mind was Dragon Age: Origins. Combat is different from the ones you’ve mentioned but it’s an awesome game.
seconded. just finished playing through it. best fantasy RPG I’ve played in quite a while.
Diablo 3
*snigger* #trollalalalala
Nah, it’s gotta be Dark Souls. Get Dark Souls.
Fallout 3!
Xenoblade (on emulator – but still legit buy it though!)
Welcome to TAY, Blue Man.
If you need a hand around here, just ask.
*snigger*
@tobiasfunke has been here before, I’m sure.
Oi, Nevernude, you’ve been here before right?
Indeed he has.
Methinks young Benny needs a visit from The Oar…
Last I remember he was arrested as a sex offender. I think I only watched up to that episode (5) of the new series, but ho damn it was most hilarious.
“Where’s my little girl? Daddy needs to get his rocks off!”
Are you here to see your daughter? Yes. Maeby.
I’d recommend a a game that will knock your socks off. You play as a character who’s about to break into this house that’s got a bunch of evidence in it. Just to borrow it…
But it’s a tough game.
Requires agility.
Just lay back and think of the xp.
http://thiskindofagility.com
Dark Souls.
As if there was any other answer.
I think some people here liked Dragon’s Dogma? I think @strange played it?
It seems alright mechanically but it’s SO BLAND.
And it falls into the fantasy naming problem where everything just sort of blurs together. “Go see Ixnorta in Flartun to get the Hontard”. Right. None of that means anything.
@redartifice: it’s also console-only because Crapcom hates money.
I liked it a lot but didn’t get very far before being distracted by life. What I’ve played of it I liked as much I like Kingdoms Of Amalur, which is also a fun game.
Game of Thrones.
If you don’t mind something that’s a bit more simplistic than Fallout NV, could try any of the Ys games on Steam. They’re all pretty good. Action-based gameplay and fairly open, though not sandboxy like Fallout.
Project Zomboid
GODDAMN COLLEAGUES grumblegrumblegrumble…
humming stupid tunes… DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG THAT’S GOING TO BE STUCK FOR???
AM I A MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN…
(or am I Jim Parsons?)… thaaaanks Shaaaane 😛
DUCKTALES,
or am i a muppet?
BASTARD!
life’s a happy song?
@dc
Where’s @dc?
He blogs full-time now.
Pixel, my pal! Want some rye? Course ya do!
By any chance is anybody going to try out the FF XIV beta on the PS4 this weekend? It’s free to everybody with a ps4 and I’ve never played a mmorpg before so I think I’ll give it a spin and see how it goes.
Also, hey guys! doing good? I don’t really care. but for formality’s sake I’ll say that’s good that you’re good. If you are, in fact, good.
Whaaaaat? Something to play on my PS4?! Hell yes I’m going to try it.
A game on the PS4? Gotta be a trap.
IT ‘S A TRAP!
IT’S A TARP!
Well I’d say I’m hovering somewhere in the region of 60% so more good than not good but it would be good if I was more good.
aw that sucks man, but 60% is a solid percentage. it’s alright, you know? That describes one’s mood perfectly if they’re at 60%. alright. And that’s alright. Are you even alright though? maybe just the work week wearing you down? It’s alright if you don’t want to talk ’bout it though.
60% is slightly better than my average. I managed to rescue a video that I thought was lost last night thanks to hours of processing with WinFF so I can get back to editing it today. Takes a hell of a lot to get me above the 60% range
FFXIV: ARR was good fun on PC. I played it for a while but mostly got distracted by other games.
I believe it went something like this:
Rize: Lets play FFXIV
Cakesmith: Sure
Rize: This game is pretty rad
Cakesmith: It is. Oh, I watched Star Wars again the other day
Rize: Star Wars is pretty great too
Cakesmith: It is.
[pause]
Cakesmith: We should play SWTOR again
Rize: I agree
[both exit game and start updating SWTOR]
I’m going to be playing it. Because free upgrades from ps3 to ps4 version when it comes out!
Side note: FFXIV:ARR was my first mmorpg too.
I might if other people are! Have only played on PC. It’d be fun to start over with people. I kind of lost steam after getting stuck at a hard boss toward the end of the leveling curve (couldn’t find a group that could clear it) and so my Kitty is stuck at level 45 as a Monk 🙁 Haven’t played since before they added the big patch.
I have PS4, but no thanks, got no time for beta testing. 🙁
Ehhhhh Final Fantasy’s not really my thing.
But if anyone want to team up in DC Universe Online, I’d be keen.
Being all sliver age heroes and what not.
I’d be down for some DCUO. I played the shit out of it back when it came out for PS3.
I played through the tutorial and eventually uninstalled it.
Edit: Although, if I recall correctly, I was trying to play on a CRT TV, which rendered the text practically indecipherable.
Okay.
Yep.
I’m sorry.
I’d dl that for PS3 if we had a group going.
The Cyan Osprey would be keen for a team up.
If someone doesn’t stop cooking goddamn bacon nearby this shop I’m seriously going to go on a hulk rampage and eat everything they’ve got.
So hungry and that’s not helping.
Don’t do anything rasher, now.
I’d egg you on, but I think that’s enough yolks for now.
Go on, I know you want to ham it up.
I’m in a bit of a jam right now. Honestly, I think you’ve bread too much into my intentions.
I think you should just go for it! Remember we’ve got your bacon this one.
Exactly. Your hind is covered.
omelette you keep going.
IT’S…
ahh you know what I’m going to say by now…
I forgot what you call these option games things, but I need help.
M or H?
M
You mean MQFT?
I pick H.
Monster Hunter?
It’s food related and you’re the hung vote so PICK ONE OTHERWISE I’M GOING TO START EATING MY COUCH I’M SOOO HUNGRY!!! :’O
Oooh, sorry for getting semi aggressive, ol’liondrive doesn’t joke about when it comes to food :3
Hungry Jacks then
Winner! \o/
I’mma eat sooo much :3
No K(FC)? 🙁
Too greasy! I got places to be on the weekend and can’t afford a breakout :3
Grab me some chips then.
Do they do nice chips? Never had HJ before
No. They don’t. At all.
They are the worst chips you’ll ever eat, that is a fact 😛
Where do KFC chips come in that list? Out of the fast food places that aren’t an actual chip shop those are easily my favourite
Same.
KFC
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HJ’s
Something like that 😛
Red Rooster chips are pretty good!
Or Salsa’s mexicrinckle chips :3
@liondrive Red Rooster chips are amazing. Haven’t had them since like 2008 I think it was 🙁 Don’t have them here in Tassie
I find that Chicken Treat have the best chips. They actually use chicken salt!
Nah mate.
H
Mystery Question Fun Time!
We missed you Helpius!
Murder is Homicide, silly.
So, I have one important question, and only one.
When is @dc going to appear on #DanAndKarlVs, @dkzeitgeist?
Once he finishes Dark Souls.
Boo-urns.
He has an open invitation.
Karl is far too scary. Dan is far too scary. Plus, I don’t have a hook. XD
Aside from being a TAY legend?
Now THIS guy would make an interesting subject. So many adventures!
Not that I can ever think of any on demand. People just talk about things and it reminds me of a funny story. It’s pretty random.
He’s just trying to draw the attention away from himself. Don’t fall for it.
Big Brother, man. Big Brother. That’s what made me think of it. All the stories! 🙂
An accident with a power saw and a pirate themed hospital could soon fix your lack of hook.
I couldn’t wait for other server details so I have a Project Zomboid server up too! People should play tonight
Where’s the game up to in terms of development? If I’m thinking of the right game I was waiting until it’s a bit more complete.
It’s more complete than DayZ, hiyooooo.
I don’t know… complete enough that it’s fun?
Was going to make a joke there but…that’s kinda selling me on it 😛
EDIT: Actually, I think I was waiting till multi was out. Hmm…
The single player branch is pretty damn functional. The multiplayer has just been released as a separate beta specifically for server testing etc and is (supposedly) quite fun, but with issues such as too many players quickly looting out the entire map. Regardless, there’s plenty of fun to be had in both versions, and they’ll be merged sooner or later.
Also: the latest “Mondoid” blog entry mentioned that hunting and trapping skills are currently being worked on. Awesome!
With a @f4ction-controlled server you can slow the looting issue by being private, I guess.
Yeah I don’t think that’ll be an issue for quite a while. Fewer players = more longevity.
Haha, that’s what I get for not setting up something more permanent and then doing something silly like “going to work” 😛
Missed a phone call this morning while I was sleeping in.
Turns out it was the guy from the car place. And when I went to call back, it turned out he’d gone out to a wedding so I have to call back tomorrow morning instead.
Stupid Blood Dragon.
:O you take that back, Blood Dragon doesn’t deserve that kind of slander put em up
😛Well fuck me, that rumoured new Telstra pricing chart is a massive head fuck. After I’ve put it all together in my mind about which combo would suit me best, I don’t actually believe it’s a better deal than my current plan. FFS.
You sound surprised.
I actually thought they were bringing in better deals. I’m an idiot.
The only interesting thing so far is this whole idea of paying $10/mo. extra so you can get a new phone every 12 months. But I’d need details to see if that’s worth it. I suspect they’ll fuck you over three ways from Sunday if you did it, since it’s Telstra and that’s how they do business.
Agreed. The new handset every year is the only good bit I can see, too.
Dollars per data is the only true metric of being competitive, and to Telstra, ‘competitive’ is a four-letter word.
When I worked there, the culture was, “We’re the king shit and we have all the pensioners and luddites on lock, so we don’t give a shit about competing, we don’t need to. Anyone who leaves is a ‘carrier hopper’ and we’ll save all our ‘winback’ bonuses for them instead of loyal customers.”
So has anybody here played Banished? I’m hearing really good things about it, but a lot of the reviews are ‘meh’, so I’m 50/50 on whether to get it.
Everything I’ve seen from tutorial videos during development etc looks really exciting. I bought it last night, but my graphics card is on the way out, and firing up the game pretty much melted it and turned on the extra-powerful backup fan, then rebooted the PC (MASTER RACE!) so I’m waiting til I’ve replaced the card before I try it again. Probably another week and a half away – next payday.
Edit:
For now, I’d say ‘no rush’ because it isn’t doing the opening-week 10-20% special that many other games do.
Give it a few days then check out the Steam recommendation reviews. I always find it helpful to read negative reviews, even if it’s something I know I’m going to like. It helps you figure out if the people who don’t like it just ‘don’t get it’, or if there are game-breaking glitches to wait a while to be patched out, or if whatever else you’ve seen has given you the wrong impression and you need to adjust your expectations.
I find I trust positive reviews less than negative reviews, but will ignore negative reviews if I’m satisfied that they’re suitably minor in their quibbles.
I’d offer to loan you my spare GTX480 but it’d probably arrive just in time for you or order a replacement
Negative reviews are the best ones to read, they’re really easy to filter, just look for discard keywords like dumb, stupid, retarded etc and the few that are left might be reasoned and interesting criticisms of the negative points of a game
Mighty generous, sir. 🙂 But yeah, a replacement’s not far away.
Well its just sitting here gathering dust. Its supposed to be the GPU in a mate’s machine I’ve got built & nearly done but I’m still waiting on him to buy a copy of windows
From the reviews I watched, it’s kinda like an RTS minus any armies or combat. Think all the resource / farming stuff in AoE2 but with a lot more survival plans.
It greatly intrigues me but I’m on a game buying freeze for the immediate future.
So Descent 2 is on Steam now. I’m tempted to buy because I lost many hours to that game as a kid, but the big question which seems unanswered is whether all the Redbook CD Audio is included. The copy of the game I had (for Mac, but let’s not go there…) came on CD and the music played straight off the disc. And it was pretty badass, basically mid-90s electronic industrial stuff. Some of it was remixes of MIDI tunes from the game, but it had a few other interesting things like a piece contributed by Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy and an instrumental version of a Type-O Negative piece as well.
I can’t imagine playing the game without that soundtrack.
Guess I know what I’m buying when I get home.
Freespace is still the best Descent. 🙂
(And yes, the Descent2 soundtrack rocked ass, I kept that CD in my discman for ages.)
I finished Disgaea D2! \o/
*adds game to list*
I really enjoyed it, a hell of a lot of fun. When I finished the game I unlocked a mode that lets me boost enemy stats by 100x. I can then use a slider to increase it to 2100x. For most games I think this would be a little much but for the amount of hours some people put into Disgaea games it doesn’t surprise me.
You mean you got *one* of the endings right? Usually the Disgaea games have many endings, several of them requiring a lot of grinding.
Also there’s heaps of post-game stuff usually as well, usually stuff where you team up with characters from other NISA games, but it requires a fair bit of power leveling.
Holy shit. I just walked outside to go to the bank and it’s like walking into a furnace.
Freeze, you should’ve gone to specsavers 😛
Yeah, I normally go for a walk twice a day – just up and down the street or around the block – but today I had to extend my lunch a bit to have a shower afterwards.
Hilariously the weather forecast I have here says today was rain with a top of 28 while present (when I last checked) it’s blazing blue sky and 36.
Good job guys.
Kanye Tickets purchased! and the concerts on the day before my birthday, TIS FATE!!!
You gave him your money?
i enjoy his music, he deserves my money 🙂
Kanye West? I like Mercy, such deep bass! It makes the whole front of my house shake when I play it loud!
How’s his new album (if you’ve listened to it)?
Saw World War Z the other night. Great movie tbh. Way above expectation. The zombies were genuinely badass and the protagonist was smart and not annoying (a key thing with zombie movies). Wife was slightly annoying and not nearly attractive enough to be with Brad Pitt but luckily she isn’t in it much. The zombie piles were a little bit silly, but apart from that, definitely a solid movie and believable for a Zombie flick. I wish there was a better climax though.
4/5
I saw that with @sernobulus. Saying he hated it would be an understatement. I said it was okay, though. He’d go home and get to play The Last of Us to wash the taste away. Turns out he hated that too. D:
The Last of Us reminds me too much of our bad date. ;_;
… That and I can’t deal with the controls / combat.
It was only bad cause someone forgot to put out. 😛
Right!? I was waiting for you @dc
Why did you hate WWZ so much?
I hated it, too. It was just a bland zombie film IMO that paled in comparison to others I have seen.
READ THE BOOK. IT’S AMAZING.
My buttocks feel sore…
🙁
Also, is anyone up for MultiTAY tonight?
I’ll be playing Skullgirls at around 9pm AEDT.
Convert it for your local area.
There’s a Bad Boys II joke in there somewhere, I know it. 😛
Hey look. There’s a Japanese place at this center. Katsu curry? Katsu curry!
Aaaaaaannndd it’s terrible. 🙁
So many Japanese or faux-Japanese places can’t do good JP-style curry.
You’re part of Nova’s Most Excellent TAY Japan Trip 2015 right? We should go hunting for the genuine article while we’re there.
I’m probably going to poison myself with all the random street food I’ll eat.
My trips away always seem to end up revolving around food, especially where it’s different.
You should do Taiwan, nuthin’ BUT street food!
My last Asia trip was spent eating local/unfamiliar food one day, and Marry Brown (the Asian equivalent of KFC – McDonalds is best avoided because they don’t actually sell any beef or pork meat. Everything is some kind of chicken variant. Because fucking religion) every other day as I tried to recover from the intestinal discomfort.
They serve proper meat at Maccas in Japan. I think you can get semi-normal food.
What I’ve heard horror stories about is what passes for Pizza there.
Yeah, I haven’t been to Japan, I’m sure they do things pretty differently there. I’m thinking Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia.
Man, I’ll try pretty much anything once but the street food in Indonesia had even me thinking twice looking at it.
Kinda looking forward to the food in Japan, though. I don’t think I’ll have the same issues. I’m pretty regular at Wagaya, which is run and staffed by folks from/who trained in Japan, there. And y’know, that strange thing they do where the entire staff yells at you cheerfully when you enter and leave.
Related cute story: I was sitting in a booth nearby the sushi counter, and a couple came up after dining to give their compliments to the sushi chef. They were actually from Japan and wanted to thank the guy for making sushi that actually tasted like they make back home. The guy was pretty stoked and considered it a great compliment and told them he was Korean and had gone to a Japanese culinary school to learn how to prepare proper sushi etc, and it meant a lot to him that natives considered it worthy.
Are you also coming on the TAY Magical Mystery Fun Tour 2015?
EDIT: Also so many places that serve ‘Japanese’ food are run by Chinese people around here, and it’s definitely not the same. I used to have a place quite near me that was actually run by a Japanese couple and it was great. And then they changed hands and it went kind of average and lost a lot of its charm. 🙁 Haven’t been back there in a long time.
Yerp! With my brother as well, who is crazy about the country and has been over a few times, talks to friends from there on Skype, speaks the language, etc.
(Edit: And watches the WORST anime.)
@transientmind: given how strong my tolerance has gotten for fucking weird and/or terrible anime I think we will get on fine. 😛
Since he speaks the language we’ll get him to do the apologizing when we do the Gaijin Smash and break all the unspoken rules and have them all get silently upset at us.
Honestly, I don’t know that he’s that up to speed with cultural sensitivities yet (despite his best efforts; he can be as much of a doofus as me, sometimes) and we might even get cameos from some of his local friends to try and avoid that kind of thing!
But yeah, you and him can geek out about about anime where virgins who turn 30 gain wizard status under the tutelage of a horny god with the power of a butt vacuum, or a guy whose finger/hand-puppet turns into a ‘real girl’/love interest.
(*switches off TV* Nope.)
@transientmind
There’s always that one @crazyguy was talking about where people gained superpowers by spitting into each other’s mouths…
@transientmind: I actually think I recognize one of the two you mentioned. Quite a while ago though.
@freezespreston: I have pretty high tolerance but that one was pretty much an instant NOPE from me.
But there are some crazy concepts that actually work surprisingly well. Like the one where all the girls are anthropomorphic assault rifles. Or the Sports show about a girls’ school aiming to be the top in the world in the ancient, elegant and most feminine sport of competitive Tank Battles.
Street food is best food. At least in south east Asia.
Singaporean and Malaysian hawker food
mmmmm
NASI AYAM
NASI LEMAK
Upvo-aww…
Page 11 repost!
Anyone up for MultiTAY tonight?
I’ll be playing Skullgirls at around 9pm AEDT.
Convert it for your local area.
Also, my buttocks feel sore…
@greenius
You forgot the bum part!
Better?
But now it looks like I had something to do with it
D:
Who said you didn’t?
What has @greenius have to do with your buttocks being sore?
Actually…don’t answer that.
Que?
No hablo anglais, senor.
Flippin’ ‘ot
Hey baby, yes you are. You, me, wanna?
Fuck?
He meant a cooling swim in the ocean but you had to go and crass it up didn’t you JimJim.
They don’t call him Ben Dover for nothing!
Haha, I was waiting for a I like you. Or ily. Well I guess that backfired.
Semi serious talk TAY.
I’ve always had an aversion to the popular. Whether it’s a result of some sort of social thing due to upbringing or the friends I had, or a resentment or perception of blandness of what I considered “popular,” or an unease at the idea of mobs dictating taste and culture over other groups, I’ve always been an outsider in terms of taste. Sometimes this has, I feel, worked out well- I never really got suckered into reality TV fads, and I never went through stupid teenage things like being an emo or a goth or whatever.
Sometimes, though, I wonder if I’m being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. Whether my first instinct to turn away from popular things is just making me a hipster or a jerk or whatever. It’s something I have to constantly examine within myself. Anyway, I guess what I’m saying is…
*sighs*Praise the sun.\o/
You’ll be dead soon!
Haha. That looks so bad without the extra context.so…. you’re either an anti-authoritarian, or a hipster?
Either way,,,,
Prepare to die\o/
Also, I’ll try not to get too famous, okay? You say nice things, so I’d like to keep you around.This is extreme niche popularity rather than mainstream blandness and it’s unique in that even the people who love it hate it half the time.
I reckon you’re clear on the pandering to the lowest common denominator front.
Serious mate, I think I’m like that around people, I always try not to seem too excited for stuff as a fallover from the teenage years of it being uncool to like shit.
Also, good luck!
Ha ha!
If the first part is serious, then me too. Except Spider-Man, Love that guy! Don’t care how many things he advertises
Yeah, was serious Ish. Better at critically policing it these days
Speaking of Dark Souls, is there anyone at all that wants my PS3 CE copy? I’ve never played it, and I own it on PC and so I doubt I’d ever fire it up on PS3 so it’s just taking up shelf space.
…If you’re giving it away, then sure, I’ll take it off your hands.
What’s your e-mail address?
I’ll send you my details.
atomicstrawberry at gmail dot com.
Sent!
I won’t be able to post it for a bit though.
Any others up for grabs?
Hands off my Disgaea copy!
NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrRRrrR
So considering how everyone has bought the Humble Bundle.
Are there plans for a Monaco multiTAYer sometime soon/tonight?
Since @negativezero decided to give away a copy of Dark Souls on PS3, I’ve just come up with
Crazyguy’s Multi-game Giveaway! (PS3 only)
I’ll be giving away the following games:
– Borderlands GOTY Edition (DLC already redeemed)
– ModNation Racers
– GTA 4 & Eps from Liberty City
– Portal 2 & Orange Box
– NFS Shift
– Resistance: Fall of Man
– HAWX
– AC: Brotherhood
– Motorstorm Apocalypse
Let me know which one you want, but no greediness, you only get to choose one.
I’ll give you a kiss for Portal 2 & Orange Box!
@transientmind Since you mentioned it above, I haven’t heard anything from your brother in regards to the Most Excellent TAY Japan Trip (love the name). He’s the only one who has said they would deposit that I haven’t heard from.
Also I wonder if @cakesmith and @benny are still keen?
Despite my initial enthusiasm, it’s currently a no, unfortunately. Thanks for the info, Nova.
Thats no problem at all, maybe another time, if I get another group off the ground 🙂
Bugger, my suspicions about Titanfall have pretty much been confirmed, respawn replied to me on the twitters saying that the multiplayer campaign isn’t the coop vs ai affair I was hoping for but is indeed adversarial. I suspect it’ll pretty much be exposition in deathmatches with periodic set piece spectacles.
It’s taken the game purchase decision from “Well maybe if a lot of people I know get it” right down to “Well maybe if it’s $5-10 on sale one day”
What if it was co-op vs a bunch of human-controlled enemies though?
Same idea, but with 2 people versing a bunch of other people???
That’d still be adversarial team deathmatch with exposition, just with unbalanced teams wouldn’t it?
What if the Devs made it so the co-op team had an advantage?
There was a mode liek this in Ratchet:Gladiator called “Juggernaut”.
One player had fully-upgraded weapons, along with various enhancements to the weapons, and had to kill all the other players, or all the other players had to kill this one player. The one that killed them became the juggernaut, and so on.
I haven’t played the beta, so I wouldn’t know if that would suit though.
removed.
So, what started as a baked potato for tea, ended up de-skinned, mixed with bacon, curry, salt, cornflour, and a splash of beer.
It’s like a big potato pattie. 😀
You guys, it’s so fucking tasty, seriously.
*drools*
Skullgirls is 45 minutes away!
The more the merrier!
Argh!
I forgot about it!
D`:
Fun thought: a board game that controls like Twitch Plays Pokemon.
Each player has a hidden goal that they’re trying to get. There’s a single unit that the group has collective control over. As soon as a goal is achieved, score points, get new goals. Have neutral goals for servants of the Dome Fossil just for kicks :p
A few ways to try and pull this off:
1) Everyone uses cards to pick out an action, all are played face down and one is randomly chosen.
2) Everyone uses a card, they’re played face down, shuffled and all are played in random order.
3) I don’t know, I haven’t put any real though into this. Something involving dice?
Start9I wouldn’t mind throwing in some sort of protest action that if enough people play it, it stalls the turn or even reverts the last turn.PLAY ROBO RALLY.
AND SPACE ALERT. Not quite as you described as everyone has their own little avatar to move, but it can go to shit pretty quickly when people interfere with each other.
DARK
SOULSREGRETS.Summoned to help as white phantom for first time ever – Iron golem. Guy runs out on nearby catwalk to go get Tarkus. I run with. Summons Tarkus, starts running back. I run with. He slows down (out of stam?) I bump into him, knock him off ledge.
OHGODWHATHAVEIDONE.
Come back later to see soapstone message, “Need wings”.
My first white phantom experience was remarkably sedate (It happened this morning, thus why I feel the need to comment on it).
I was waiting outside the fog gate to the gargoyles, I pop in to see a guy with a halberd who immediately runs through the door. After the little cutscene I run at the first one, get behind it, and cut off its tail in one attack (black knight sword is stronk, yo), two more with some help from him and it’s dead. The second one runs at us, he tanks two hits to the face, we both hit it at once, and it falls over dead.So I’ve been playing Ys:Seven, thought I would give it a go before I bought Ys memories of Celceta. The game just did on of the worst design choices which has completely turned me off not only the game, but also the series.
Basically without giving too much away, I had a fast travel option which meant I didn’t need to trudge through low level areas to get to areas to get to dungeons. The game has suddenly taken all the warp points so I need to spend my time going through low levels areas (I have already visited) and do dungeons (which I have already visited) to unlock the next dungeon. Really guys? That is the goddamn meaning of “padding” a game to make it longer.
Anyway, I’m done with Ys for now, need to find some new games to play.
Oh wait, forgot to mention, the game has blocked off certain paths. So i need to redo the dungeons / areas I have already done in a particular order. Seriously did the game designer take multiple blows to the head 1/2 through designing the game?
It’s a perfectly normal thing to do in most JRPGs and as I mentioned on Twitter, I didn’t really mind it that much. You can just run through most of the areas anyway, takes all of two or three minutes and once you re-visit each town (where you have a bunch of new stuff to do) you unlock the fast travel to there again.
But by the point it happened in the game for me, I was completely sucked in by everything and enjoying it immensely.
I dunno, there’s ways of doing it without seeming boring.
I guess if you were really hooked then it wouldn’t matter.
I will say, I did one of the bosses after the fact and it was the most fun boss so far
TL:DR Im in the middle here
You’re playing Ys Seven still? How far in are you?
I don’t know if you’ve hit it yet, it’s toward the 2/3 mark in the game, but IMO the Altago Ring was the best moment in the game.
Alone, stripped of his gear, beaten all night then sent into a ring to face down what should be insurmountable odds with just a starter sword.Then Crossing Rage starts playing, and you demonstrate that ‘impossible’ doesn’t exist for Adol fucking Christin
Oh yeah, that bit. Nah, did nuthin’ for me.
Well, it was alright.
I’m on a break or whatever, a bunch of games came out when I got to the back tracking bit and Ive yet to go back yet. I intend to.
Aw, I was gonna play Ys Seven based on you liking it but that does sound kinda shit…
Like I said on Twitter, Celceta hasn’t done that at all and I assume it probably improved on aspects of Seven but since it’s the only Ys game I’ve played I really can’t say for sure. I’m still interested in checking out the Steam Ys games because they’re supposedly pretty different in gameplay.
You were talking about SRPGs – have you played the rest of the Disgaea series? (I assume yes). There’s also Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, Jeanne D’Arc, Fire Emblem and lotsa others.
I didn’t like Jeanne d”Arc as much as Id hoped 🙁
I think Celceta does take away all warping from you briefly, but it’s just for a short period. And in both cases there’s a story reason for it. In Seven’s case it’s because you need to go to places in a specific order and there’s shit that happens as you go. If you could just warp around you’d skip whole swathes of content. Arguably it adds artificial padding.
I was a little annoyed by it when it happened too, but really all it does is make you spend maybe five to ten minutes extra going between a few places again, and the monsters are replaced with more difficult ones plus some extra shortcuts open up into new areas you haven’t been before where there is some extra gear and stuff you don’t have, plus you can start challenging the optional bosses and everything. Also new quests to do.
If they left the warping in you’d miss all that. Plus there’s a really good story reason why the warp gets reset.
I don’t reckon they needed to take warp away, not really.
You’d still have to reenter each dungeon after each warpYou could have warped right into the warp point in the deepest part of each dungeon and trivialized a good chunk of the game.
good!
Hey! That’s where I stopped playing 😀
Frozen fans and others who are good with colours!
I’m trying to firgure out what colour the bottom of Elsa’s ice dress is. So the skirt part. I see two different ones, aqua or light blue. It’s very hard for me, so I would like assistance.
To me it looks like a light teal-y aquary colour… but I’m blind so don’t trust me
The colour just when it lights up and goes all glowy or the dress itself?
the dress itself
It looks aqua to me but the kind where it definitely has more blue in the mix than green.
Damn.. Eminem is performing at the Entertainment Centre tonight and Richie Sambora & Orianthi are performing at The Tivoli and I am at neither. Curse my lack of decision make in advance.
Stand at a point equidistant between the 2 stages and sing a medley
That’s a long way from either though D=
Exactly the same distance between them though!
Lol. I’m an even first distance away down in Tweed though D=
@sughly
I want to play Theatrhythm again! 😛
What are/were you doing with it? Just unlocking characters? I prefer those harder BMS levels and don’t really like the field or movie ones as much :D. The character unlocking mode is too random for my tastes.
I guess I could buy the DLC songs but… $$$ 🙁
GIVE US THE SEQUEL PLS
Hahaha, “Its over! Its over!!”
Yeah exactly right about the character unlock. I was trying to get more shards, but was very unsuccessful :/ I got a couple more characters, but still a bunch I cant get shards for. Keep trying to do ones that are meant to have them but they never seem to get dropped.
ANYWAY. I way prefer the movie ones, theyre the bestest. Probably caus theyre a little elite beat agentsey? Theyre all good for different reasons. Like field caus its relaxing. BMS is ultra stressful
speaking of youtubes and elite beat agents, I got this score before on this vid. Took me forever, felt like that guy in your vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyfNcKE8-lI
Jesus. I haven’t done any work on my Space Marine gear in so long, now only 250-odd days to PAX. Got some serious fibre-glassing to do tomorrow D:
Don’t remind me! D=
I still have to make frames for a foot, shin, leg, entire arm, new chest (last one broke, woooo) and shoulders. Then I have to resin them… then fibreglass them… then fill them, sand them, paint them
WOE IS ME.
You labour for The Emperor, that should be all the inspiration you need and all the reward you require. Work earns salvation.
Are you using tutorials? I need to make armour for Nob and Gorzy’s costumes, but Nob’s chest plate has me a bit stumped.
What is this chest plate? Linky?
Like this
http://www.aceros-de-hispania.com/image/breastplates-medieval-931/breastplates-medieval-931.jpg
Whenever I look for a tutorial, I only get female breastplates, because boobs.
All of my stuff is made from decompiled game models that I tweak in 3dsMAX 2012 then export to Pepakura (some bits I’m putting together I’ve modelled myself), unfold, print to 250gsm paper, assemble. Coat in fibreglass resin to harden the paper (I usually do two coats at least), then fibreglass, coat in tradies bog (or car filler, same stuff). Sand, reapply, sand. Reapply again, sand again. Dremel out hard edges as need be.
Make sure to be doing test fittings all along the way. My helmet fit fine at the time, once I filled it with fibreglass it got smaller to the point I can’t wear my glasses under so I’m going near-blind on the day.
Ah, I’m using worblas finest so I don’t need to use filler. Not having Nob or gorzy here does make it a little awkward
Soo anyone in Sydney who likes Green Day, they’re doing a spontaneous gig at the captain cook hotel in 50 minutes..
I only heard about this on the radio this morning arrrrrrrrgh!
Sucks hey, I found out on Instagram after Billie Joe posted they’d be doing such. I hope they repeat the same in Brisbane tonight, if they’re even in Brisbane today lol.
Skullgirls has been postponed to whenever I’m not a quivering ball of tears….
D`:
Umm, are you alright man?
Just my anxiety playing up…
Aw, hope you’re okay man. 🙁
Sorry to hear it man. I hope whatever caused it to play up passes soon 🙁
Whilst I’m not a fighting game man myself, I can say with experience that I’ve not encountered many game genres ideally suited for play when in the quivering ball of tears state. Hope you feel better soon mate
…and nothing to see here. I was too slow to the party as the Titanfall beta ended on the 19th. Duh. Well, looks like I’ll just have to start my first playthrough of the Mass Effect 3 campaign instead.
Oh god. Oh god oh god oh god.
Hopefully I get my car back tomorrow because I’m supposed to be heading South to a friend’s place for the weekend. The whole group from school (which includes Wingman) as well as Pillowmaker. And now, I’ve had confirmation that Sketchbook will be coming too.
Help. Dying.
*looks for @shane, he’s no where to be found*
*grabs popcorn on Shane’s behalf*
Ah, thanks, man. Much appreciated.
Having multiple romantic (or otherwise) interests in the one room is a living hell. (With certain very rare and awesome exceptions.)
…Have fun! 🙂
I sure hope Mooky doesn’t sabotage the thing, soap opera style!
Maybe he’s responsible for the car! D:
The worst part is, the conversation started out with the announcement that Sketchbook couldn’t make it. I was massively relieved about this.
But then it was corrected to say that she was coming. Then somehow it was actually wrong again and got corrected once more, and I had no idea what was going on. It was asked straight out whether she was going or not, and the answer was yes. And then the heart thumping started.
Maybe she’ll have been recasted in the time away? The chemistry might have changed!
She’ll come back as someone 20cm shorter and with an eyepatch and a czech accent for no readily explained reason
“Father McGrath… I thought you were dead.”
“I was!”
Random fact of the day: I am semi-fluent in Czech.
Nice! Other languages are kickass.
I dated a girl who had polish parents but was born here… but she still spoke it fluently with her brother, which was unnerving to listen to.
Second random fact of the day: English is actually my second language, with Slovak being my first. I’m fluent in that, which is extremely close to Czech (since they stole the language). Which means I can also communicate with Polish people and I understand some Russian words and can fill in the blanks sometimes. 😛
My Dad and his brother both speak Hrvatski with their parents, I kinda wish he taught me and my sister to as well. Seems to get him by with Italian too. Would’ve been helpful for learning that in high school 😛
I once had a mad ambition to learn the phrase “I’m frightfully sorry {sir/madam} but I’m afraid I can’t speak a word of {your language}, it’s terribly embarrassing to ask but would you by any chance happen to speak English?” in as many languages as I could
@aliasalpha “I’m sorry, I don’t speak [your language], only English. Apart from that last sentence, and this one, explaining it.”
Sometimes the awesome exception is that the competition between the girls gets so intense that you get action from one or both! No effort required on your part!
(Well, or all of them at the same time – was what I was implying.)
🙂
😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉
I can’t decide if that scenario would be a better or worse alternative.
You worry too much about things that are semi-outta-your-control. If you genuinely care about one or more of them, then do something. If you don’t really know at the moment, just go with the flow and see where it takes you. Sometimes the best decision to make is to not make a decision.
Not making decisions is my specialty!
Car pool.
No way. It’s a nice long trip to Wollongong, I’m not missing out on all that me time. And singing time 😛
Just apply this to your situation…
You’re the Joker, and the three other people are Sketchbook girl, Climbey girl and Pillowmaker. Make them fight each other for your affection! >:D
So we got our PS4 tonight. Great machine 😀 Loving Killzone Shadow Fall so far! Wasn’t a fan of *any* Killzone before it to be honest, they felt too heavy, too stunted but this one feels just right. My son got Skylanders which he loves, also got Need for Speed. Also paid off inFamous Second Son… anyone else got one?
I’ve got one 😀 Make sure to grab them PS+ Freebies! 😀
There’s also some good free-to-play games up for grabs too!
So that’s two of you I have to hate out of jealousy now…
*writes name on @aliasalpha ‘s jealousy list*
One day you’ll pay, you’ll ALL pay!
Actually if you all chipped in a bit, you could probably buy me a PS4…
Ehh, people have hated me for worse things than jealousy and I still haven’t cared, so I think I’ll survive 😛
If it’s any consolation it’s not that great of a machine. Alright, maybe it is, but there there now 😛
ahhh shadaap!
Yep got 12 months ps+ and got OUTLAST last night 😀
You can add me on PSN if you want 🙂
Same name as here (liondrive) 🙂
I’ve got one too! Not sure if we’re added each other: tehSt1ckM4n<– I think that’s me.
Ok, that’s all the garrisons liberated. Weapons mostly upgraded, just need to get the notes/tapes/TVs for the rest now. Then I guess I can get back to the story 😛
Stupid game, so hard to stop playing.
“Ugh. STORY? I have upgrades to unlock and collectibles to… collect, and shit! What the hell do you mean it’s 6? I got home ages ag– oh. OH CRAP YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME. I have to work in like… three hours!” Yup. That sounds like the Blood Dragon experience.
Yup, kicking myself for letting it go so long when I have to call the car guy and probably Centrelink too in the morning 😛 Then pack my stuff for the trip and see whether I can actually drive down there or otherwise go for a long-arse train trip and…
Going radio silent folks. Won’t be on TAY, though will have Twitter intermittently. See you Sydney folk real soon! <3
Happy birthday @35, you handsome beast!
Seconded!
thanks man!
I feel old.
How does the old person feel about that?
My 5000th post on Kotaku. I need to up my game.
and a page-get. I’d say your game is upped already.
DARK SOULS 2 \o/
THE THREE WEEK COUNTDOWN BEGINS… TODAY.
New Dark Souls comics pages: http://bngames.eu/ds2comic
This thing is just plain weird. I don’t think I like it.Peter Serafinowicz in a Let’s Play of Dark Souls 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4N1pIs2GIc
\o/CRAAAAP. How did I miss this?
DARK SOULS TWO HAS ITS FIRST REVIEW (poet/know it)
http://www.vg247.com/2014/02/20/dark-souls-2-first-review-comes-in-at-90-the-hardest-action-rpg-in-the-world/The Dark Souls 2 review was teased over on the M! site, and is due to appear in tomorrow’s issue. Subscribers appear to have it early however, and have revealed that the RPG netted a 90% score.
The write-up reads, “The hardest Action-RPG in the world. More convenient, gorgeous and extensive.”
By comparison, M! gave Demon’s Souls 82% and Dark Souls 81%. The game’s out March 11 in the States, then March 14 across Europe.
I pre-ordered it last night because reasons.
i did the exact opposite because reasons 😛
You cancelled your order tomorrow during the day? :\
Or, because he is a babby man?
How Is Babby Formed?
… yes… now i must go back to the future
*gets in Delorean*
*tries to start it*
*tries to start it*
*tries to start it*
*tries to start it*
*tries to start it*
*tries to start it*
*tries to start it*
*gets out of Delorean*
I’ll just walk
And meanwhile PC users merely twiddle their thumbs.
Oh, but we’ll wait.
We’ll wait.
Or we’ll buy it on PS3 first because we’re impatient…
😀
ARGH BUT THE GRAFFIX
I kicked something called a Taurus Demon off a bridge, is that good?
Did he deserve it?
Well I tried to wave to him, but he attacked me.
Then yes, that is good. 😛
I just wanted to be its friend!
I refused to kill. I’m a lover not a fighter. If that means I had to stop the game there and never look back, so be it. You monster.
I don’t believe that was the reason for a second 😛
That’s my story and I’m sticking with it.
Be a lover AND a fighter. It’s awesome. 🙂
Imagine how mad a pacifist run of a game like Dark Souls would be if there was a cheat of some sort to disable the fog gates. Dodge minions, sidestep pitfalls, evade bosses and just run like fuck and don’t look back, it’d be like a dark & brutal Mirrors Edge
@transientmind being a lover and a fighter simultaneously sounds a wee bit close to some sort of sexual assault. I know the Taurus looked horny but no means no!
Also, some screenshots for The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 2 game have surfaced. Apparently, there will be a trailer next week as well. So there’s that.
For those of you on media blackout, I present a spoiler tag which should not be clicked.
http://www.vg247.com/2014/02/20/the-walking-dead-season-two-episode-2-a-house-divided-screenshots-emerge/I still haven’t played the first episode of season 2. I’m torn between playing them as they come out and waiting for them all to release so I don’t have to wait months between playing them.
I still haven’t finished Ep1 of Season 1 :/
I do own 4 copies of the game however.
I’m like you. I own two copies of the game but haven’t even made it through the very first episode yet.
At this point though, after the years of people raving about it, I have a feeling to just let this one go might be best. There’s no way I can go into it with anything but high expectations which is always a recipe for disaster.
What? No. Just play it. The episodes are like 2 hours long. One a day! One every two days! A lot of people are in “your milage may vary” territory, so don’t let the overwhelming praise you’ve seen from vocal fans stop you from at least trying to enjoy it. Plus, do you really want to buy a second season that continues from the first when you don’t even know if you like the kind of game it is?
I would never buy the second season without having played the first. That would be a waste of money.
I played at least half, maybe more of the first episode and wasn’t impressed. The game was transparent in its attempt at emotional manipulation. If I didn’t like the first part much, chances are the rest won’t live up to expectations either.
Ah, fair enough. I misread your post as being you’d just skip season 1 and pick up season 2.
I think the game really is worth playing, it’s more about the difficulty of the decisions than the blatant emotional manipulation and seeing the way the game plays out is interesting. But it’s not a game for everyone and there’s no sense toughing it out if it didn’t grab you. I personally was hooked from the outset so I have no objectivity here at all.
Sounds like your expectations are already safely adjusted, though! 😀
I refer you back to my post on aversions to the popular from yesterday.
How did you end up with 4 copies?
PC, iPad, PS3 and Vita.
lol excellent
I need to get my save file back up to the end of season 2 (a bug deleted half of it) so I can do 400 days and start season 2 before being spoiled.
:O, you just reminded me, i finished the first season but completely forgot about 400 days
Thank you for spoilering! 🙂
If people are worried about spoilers, could they just not click the link? The tag seems a tad superfluous. Unless there’s a subtle spoiler in the URL I’m not seeing (not really played much beyond s1e1 yet)
Probably hyper-cautious of me, but the episode title is in there.
Oh I assumed those would have been common knowledge, I seem to recall that in previous telltale games they gave the title of the next episode at the end of the current one. Fair enough then.
Yeah, you’re probably right, but I know that some people choose not to watch those “next time on…” bits either. I’m probably, as I said, being hyper-cautious, though.
Logical I suppose, no harm in spoiler tags aside from a bit of browser slowdown and as long as we don’t have a hundred per page its all good.
I can legitimately say I have no clue what the hell they are talking about.
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/brits-are-banning-aussie-upspeak/story-fniym874-1226829312130?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=lifestyle
I don’t know either?
I see what you did there?
I’m Ron Burgundy?
Well colour me intrigued/confused… I honestly have no idea either
This was explained to me when I traveled around Europe.
Apparently we Aussies always end our sentence with the tone going up slightly on the last word and syllable.
So everyone thinks we’re asking a question when we’re not.
It’s really obvious to us when we’re asking a question to each other, but apparently it’s really difficult to figure out if an Aussie is just saying a sentence or is asking a question to foreigners.
If anyone doesn’t actually understand this, Adam Hills has you covered:
I know exactly what they’re talking about and it irritates the shit out of me.
And I think it’s originally a New Zealand thing that’s imported into Australia somehow. Both my parents and grandfather all used to whinge about it a lot (they all had teaching backgrounds and my grandfather is a stickler for proper diction and grammar). You’d hear it in TV and Radio advertising heaps, and also one of the long-running newsreaders on one of the TV news channels would do it all the time.
I don’t really notice it as much in Australia. On the rare occasions I accidentally watch the tail end of Neighbours or Home & Away I’m too busy cringing at the generally shithouse acting to notice a minor detail like that.
I haven’t noticed it much up in Brissie or with the folks around the country I talk to, but I also stridently avoid TV and most other popular Aussie media, so it’s possible it’s around and I don’t notice. In the telecoms world, we call the service providers and vendors with a truly staggering frequency and need to get information across very rapidly. It goes much smoother if the person on the other end knows how much of the information you’ve provided, so calls tend to go in patterns, and tone of voice is a really important part of providing ‘markers’ for where you are in that information share.
If you are in the habit of doing the ‘ending with a question’ pitch, lilting upward at the end of a sentence, you can wean yourself off it by treating every sentence as a story. Tone and pitch is used to indicate where you are in the story.
“Initial preparatory statement [flat]; piece of relevant information [lilting upward, to indicate that there is more], final piece of information [pitch shifting down, indicating finality].”
If you catch yourself lilting upwards, all you need to do is add a secondary piece of information with your pitch shifting downward, and it’ll sound like you’re just finishing your sentence as intended.
Next time you give someone a phone number, or hear someone reading one out, listen to how their tone and pitch change at different parts of the number. You can tell when someone is making it ‘listenable’ by how they group the numbers, and how they pitch their voice for each grouping.
@dc @dc @dc @dc
Adventure Game (kinda) Humble Bundle:
https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly?utm_source=Humble+Weekly+Sale+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a53f6e6a5a-TACAF_weeklysale&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a406d06e11-a53f6e6a5a-121935917
I have five days to go until pay day and my account is in double digits. 🙁
Crap, I’ll get it anyway.
Pay $15 or more to unlock The Raven….
@dc made me buy that then told me it was terrible.
Easily the worst adventure game I ever played. XD
Project Zomboid:
I decided to buy the game anyway and turns out that so far it’s awesome. Almost everything about it is exactly what I want from a zombie survival game. Plus, multiplayer survival!
However, I strongly urge everyone to avoid the demo, because it’s a piece of crap. It’s not indicative of the game at all.
Welcome, fellow survivor. 😀
Some handy tips:
1. Get a hammer.
2. Get a hammer.
3. Get a baseball bat.
4-9. Get a hammer.
10. Also an Axe and a Saw will be useful later.
I have a bat and some frying pans.
Contemplated dual wielding frying pans, but then I couldn’t carry my duffle bag.
Bat, in my experience, is the most useful weapon hands down. With a lot of careful backpedaling I can take down a small to moderate sized horde with one. Except for the time that my bat broke mid-horde, but I always carry an emergency pistol. I got scratched but made it back to base without anybody following me.
The reason I put so much emphasis on the hammer is that in your early game it can be a handy weapon, and it’s also required for pretty much every crafting recipe you can think of. I tend to spend most of my initial game time running around madly trying to find a hammer and a bat. From there, I’m ready to take on the world.
Something I’d really like to see in a zombie survival game (probably single-player, for reasons which will become clear below) is a city population count: accurate mapping of zombie populations by area/suburb.
Take Brisbane for example… it’s like, what. 2 million people? But they’re not ALL in the same area. Even assuming (very unlikely) perfect accuracy in a one-headshot-kill manner, thinning out that population would take MANY more bullets than anyone can reasonably scrounge without visiting multiple no-nonsense armories. Gun-stores and home-made supplies wouldn’t cut it. You’d need to be engineering baited traps with explosives and incendiaries for maximum effectiveness in overall population-thinning.
Brisbane’s probably a pretty terrible example for a zombie game thanks to the lack of variety in architecture types and the massive sprawl that is the Greater Brisbane area.
But at the same time, if you thinned out a few thousand zombies, you’d expect to notice a decrease in density over time. Depending on your zombie model, you could be making use of ‘attracted to the living’ forms of zombie migration, which would also be a pretty damn immersive and effective way of helping you find other survivors based on Z-density.
As it is, perhaps due to limitations in technology, games typically treat zombies like the ghosts in Pacman. They go away for a little while, then predictably come back.
All too often we equate ‘persistent world’ with a static world whose only claim to ‘persistance’ is because it’s online, so it ‘persists’ (in its infinitely-recycling state) whether you’re connected to it or not. But that’s not real persistence. Real persistence would be some way of having lasting impact. I want to see that in a game.
What you’d want is a city the size of Wagga, fairly widely spread and with a population of 60-65k. You could feel like you’re making a legitimate difference with a population that size if you manage to thin out a fair number of the rotting horde and claim some territory. A zombie population in the tens of thousands would be easier to model and distribute without having to mess about with respawning, you could realistically track each one and take them out when they’re re-killed and model migration mechanics in a pretty sophisticated way when you have a population large enough to matter but small enough to not be stupidly overwhelming.
A large scale persistent world game like that could be pretty damned sweet, not even an MMO, a big coop game would be awesome, say up to 16 players
Woo, wakeup call from the car place. And being completely unable to mentally function 😛
On the plus side, the guy reckons the car should be ready by this afternoon. So yay!
so @rize is Monaco still on tonight?
You jerks and your game playing 🙁
join us? who needs people and having a social life anyway 😛
or… you know… JC2MP tomorrow night? 😛 alcohol and Berings, what could be better?
Now that i’ve said that… i want that to happen 😛
@rize i challenge you to a shot bucket while Bering
@rize and I will be busy drinking together in person tomorrow night and eating katsu curry.
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naaaw i forgot about that, ah well, drinking to myself as usual 😛
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KATSUUUUUUUUU!
#KatsuCurryClub @alexpants
CAN’T WAIT BUDDY
@alexpants
TOMORROW! We should do stuff in the afternoon…like Slurpees and Kino…
I’m in. Also i think @batto was keen
I’m keen too. Uhh, I only have a couple TAYbies on Twitter and PSN, so I don’t have details like Steam or TS if you use them.
But yeah, I’m up for anything, and @beeawwb and I haven’t played Monaco before so that should be fun.
I’ll be home 5:20pm with a dinner break somewhere, but otherwise I should have all night.
@kermitron hasn’t played it either, that makes three.
haha i haven’t played it either and don’t plan to before tonight, because it’s more fun that way 😀
Yep, I’m in. Have tonight blocked out for video gaming. I tend to get home around 5pm (Brisbane time) and will be available from pretty much that time on.
@stickman and @kermitron – I’ve sent you both Steam friend requests from my account (beeawwb) – anybody else feel free to hit me up as well.
I’ll be home about 6pm SA time
If I can get on the PC without interruption tonight I will, it kind of depends on how much attention my wife needs after dinner. She’s been binging on Fringe lately so changes are decent.
Pokétalk:
I totally beat the (upgraded) Elite Four in White 2 last night with my Butterfree, Pioneer! 😀 http://i.imgur.com/ffJIH2e.png Completely solo! It’s been 17 years in the making *wipes tear*
Sleep Powder/Quiver Dance setup, then sweep with Tinted Lens-boosted Bug Buzz (Hidden Power for cleanup). Worked pretty well! So proud :’)
Going to wait until Z/X2Y2 before I transfer everything over to the new generation, though.
(Who likes Pokétalk these days? @novacascade @mawt @beavwa ? I dunno)
Anyway, carry on.
Hooray for Pokétalk.
Only real banking I’ve done has been to transfer the random gen 3 and gen 4 legendaries over to sit in the PC on Y.
I have a completed W cart that is my bridge, I have a B cart with all 3 unevolved L40 starters and 1 gym badge waiting for me to steamroll through the game. I should probably look to firing up B2/W2 soonish, maybe once I finish Fire Emblem – I’m just grinding again on that before the endgame mission.
Thanks to Twitch Plays Pokemon I downloaded an emulator and Fire Red last night (I know, I’m terrible) and played up to the first gym. I’m letting my wife nickname my Pokemon, so my party currently consists of Pikadik, Caterpeen (actually a Butterfree now), Bird Jesus, Dongow, Spankey and Charbutts. Oh and course my rival is called Dicks.
I’ve only ever played Red/Blue, Silver and Diamond before this. Even playing the remake of Red feels weird. I will probably do Silver next, if I don’t get bored with the whole experiment. On the upside because I’m using an emulator, I can speed the game along.
Silver or SoulSilver? The 2nd Gen remakes are some of the best Poke games around!
That auto run button… Why did GameFreak ever get rid of it?
Pokefriends following behind you! 😀
That too, but mostly the auto run 😛
But if he’s feeling weird with FireRed… his head will explode with Gen 4 mechanics in SoulSilver!
Not so much weird as in I don’t understand it, just that everything looks a bit different, I don’t remember Onix having Rock Tomb before, little things like that. I never really dug deep into the mechanics and hidden values and all of that because I never got into playing versus other people.
I played the original Silver on my original Gameboy. I then played Diamond on my DS, I think? I guess I’ll give SoulSilver a go then!
Gotta catch ’em all! I love POKEMONS!
Woooo Congrats.
Since I restarted my Gen V games so many times, Pokebank really doesn’t mean much to me. Both W and W2 are sitting at around the 3rd gym, with barely anything caught. And now that I’ve played Y, going back to the pixel sprites of B/W… it looks so bad. How did we live before 3D pokemons /o\
Currently working on trying to complete my Kalos Dex. I think I’m only 30 or so from finishing it. I’ve been chain running the Restaurant Le Wow rotation battle with my Level 100 Delphox with the Money and Exp O-Powers, and a lucky egg on one of the offsiders that I’m trying to evolve. From doing it so many times and earning so many Balm Mushrooms I’ve saved up something like 3 Million pokedollars. Once I’ve evolved everything I can, I’ve got a bit of breeding to finish off and then my first regional dex ever will be complete.
I’ve also EV bred and IV trained a semi competitive team that I really want to test out against some people, but so far a lot of my battles have been against people who disconnect when I oneshot their Mewtwo or whatever legendary they lead with. I’ve got a team of Infernape, Gliscor, Rotom-W, Roserade, Drapion and Mega Mawile.
The 3D models are pretty good. I’m sad that Butterfree’s 3D model is super ugly though 😛 Especially because the days of sprites (models, now) being wildly different across versions/generations is over… I’m probably stuck with it forever D:
I’ve found more competitive people while playing 3v3. I’ve had some really good battles in there (haven’t played in several months though). I like how fast paced 3v3 is. Not as much stalling and such.
Probably won’t be playing much until the next game comes out though. Pretty bored with XY.
ps. Mega Mawile is great.
I’m not as big a fan of 3v3 mostly because my team just doesn’t work for it. I can never get 3 of mine that fit together particularly well. 🙂
Yeah, once I finish the dex I’m basically done with X/Y. Though I think when Z gets released I’m going to wait a few weeks to get it so that a lot of people have progressed further and then make my first run a Wonder Run. Catch 6 crap low leveled things, Wonder Trade them away, and whatever I receive is my team
That sounds like a fun idea!
*receives 6 Scatterbugs in return*
…YES! 😀
Only as long as they are all different patterns 😀
Oh, a solo run? That’s pretty cool. I did that with Suicine in I think Gen 3.
BW2 still had Ghost/Fighting/Psychic/Dark E4, right? I guess that’s 2 easyish fights, one neutral and one hard. IIRC, champion had a lot of Dragons so fire damage would have been a real possibility.
Pretty cool.
Yeah, I only really had an issue with the Fighting dude and the Champion. The fighting guy has a lot of things that know Rock moves (even weak rock moves OHKO’d me :P). His Lucario also knows Extremespeed which could knock me out if I was low health (I had a lot of Life Orb recoil by the time Lucario came out). Ended up having to Sleep Powder his second-last Pokemon and use a Full Restore so I could tank an Extremespeed. Took a few attempts because the strategy entirely depended on luck 😛 (Could’ve probably replaced Hidden Power with Roost if I wanted to do a no-item run)
Iris has a lot of Rock types as well (Tyranitar, Archeops) and Fire moves. Her Haxorus holds a Focus Sash too… That one took a bit of planning. Ended up abusing the predictable AI to get past it. Sleep it first turn, Bug Buzz hit to activate Sash and then Bug Buzz again on the turn Iris uses a Full Restore 😛
Poketalk? Be prepared.
I played the first four generations. I freaking loved them, even if I found gen 4 to be somewhat lacking. Then when Black & White came out I told myself I would wait until it dropped below $30. It never did. Nintendo just refuse to drop the prices of their games. (New Super Mario for DS is still $70) I am still annoyed to this day that I didn’t pick it up, and all the X and Y talk just let the jealousy fester. So I did something crazy:
I started a new game of Pokemon Yellow on my Gameboy Colour today. There was almost no work for me at work experience today, so my supervisor was totally cool with me playing Pokemon in the downtime between work. When I say that there was no work, I mean it. I was there for 8 hours (inc. lunch) and only was able to work for about 90 minutes total.
I decided to buff up Copernicus the Butterfree. I couldn’t be bothered leveling Pikachu, and basically kept him on as a reserve in case Copernicus was in trouble. It took ages to level Copernicus up enough that he would evolve. I beat Brock with next to no difficulty. I then caught a Sanshrew that I christened Lady Sofia. (Despite the fact that Yellow version doesn’t have gender) I proceeded to walk in circles for an hour, hoping to spot a Jigglypuff. The Jigglypuff never appeared. Sadness and disappointment reigned supreme for quite some time.
I just so happened to have a 200-page Pokemon encyclopedia in my bag. It has complete information on the stats and move lists of the first three generations of Pokemon. Before I even started playing, I went through it and picked my full team for the entire game. It includes a Butterfree, a Wigglytuff, a Sandslash, a Dewgong or a Lapras, and Hitmonlee or some random pokemon that can learn fly.
…
…
…
…I didn’t get to do a lot of work today. I’m pretty sure this isn’t what my work experience teacher had in mind.
EDIT: My 700th comment was about Pokemon. Win.
One week left at work and for some reason I’m feeling completely unmotivated. Strange how the world works. Guess I’ll just watch some let’s plays on my phone or something
Oh man i have a date tonight
HYPERVENTILATES and dies
Well that’s not helping anybody.
Un-die yourself and man up, most chicks don’t dig corpses.
I don’t know about that, vampires are pretty popular at the moment.
Exactly. If he un-dies then he’ll be undead.
Just… No glitter. Please?
It’ll be awesome, Rockets!
Yeah it probably will be, but part of my charm is the endless amount of faux pa’s i make. I actually sent this girl a text message the other day that read “just a sex” instead of sec. I’m pretty awkward. 🙂
My point is that people either find it amazingly amusing or they think i am super awkward.
I did something remarkably similar to my ex…
Don’t know how well this story translates but i’ll give it a try…
So it’s quiet common to call your date/partner “min elskede” translating to “My Love”… except in this instant i was texting her and for some reason accidentally hit space at the wrong time and didn’t even realise, so that it read “Min El Skede”…
Which translates to “My Electric….” i’ll let you google translate “skede” 😛
…
yeeeaaaah
*walks out*
ITS VAGINA EVERYONE PIXEL CALLED HIS EX MY ELECTRIC VAGINA
that is the funniest thing i have ever heard.
… yep \o/
#pixeltheladiesmansince1988
And that’s why she’s his ex.
Oh you!
I’m a classy individual, what can i say? 😛
@rocketman, I would save that pet name until maybe after the first date.
So wait. The Polish word for love has the word vagina in it?
Excellent.
If you look at it from the perspective of someone studying languages with a latin perspective, if skede is vagina and love is elskede, love would literally be seen as “the vagina”.
Communication! \o/
Okay this is how classy danish is…
Coincidentally, if you type in Scabbard into google translate and try to translate that to danish see what word comes up!
yes, yes we do indeed use the same word for the thing you stick your sword into to carry around and women’s genitals…class act we are 😛I’m pretty sure vagina and sheath/scabbard are the same word in a lot of languages. Probably because the first guy ever to put his sword in a scabbard, before it had a name instead of letting it hang naked at his side unsheathed and sheathed his sword repeatedly while making a goofy face at his buddies, because inside all men are twelve years old, and from there the scabbard was just “sword vagina”.
@kermitron
I would suspect that is the case indeed 😛
Still find it equal parts hilarious and sad XD
@kermitron Has the right of it. All men ARE twelve years old, and have been for millennia.
You can tell by just how much of all recorded art is pictures of dicks on things.
But Electric anything is amazing!… oh yeah you aren’t a robot my mistake 😛
From Electric Ladyland?
I was still hoping you called her “my electric avenue”. 🙁
I was hoping for boogaloo.
Oh come on, that could be spun into a compliment so fast. Make me tingle, turn me on, positive to my negative, charge me up… all those just off the top of my head…
I laughed for about a minute straight, and had about two minutes of unscheduled random giggles. By Arceus, that is beyond hilarious. Stay classy.
My chest hurts…
Best of luck.
In getting laid.Tell her about Zeitgeist.
If she hasn’t run screaming after listening to that, she’s the one.
I’ve reached an unfathomable level of couldn’t be fucked. Its Friday. I’m hungover. And I’m on holidays next week.
I’ll laugh at the work given to me today and counter with hours of looking up Skyrim mods for PC.
I’ve got my first set of leave for 18 months in 3 weeks. The wait is excruciating.
Oh nice! Enjoy your time off mate. Any designated gaming sessions planned?
Three weeks… there’s a game being released in three weeks. Can’t quite remember the name…
Ohh right, MGS Ground Zeroes.
😛I know you’re joking, but… DOWNVOTE >:(
I’ve got 2 weeks off not 3 hours.
You can play it eighty times!
Enjoy your break! What plans have you got?
Thanks mate! I fly out to Perth tomorrow morning to visit my father and younger brother, who I haven’t seen in years. I don’t know them too well, it’ll be…strange. But a week off is a week off \o/
@batguy I’ve got a spare Deponia key if you want it!
This week, find out why I bother to keep Karl around, the problems with refusing to self groom and the beginning of the best ignored segment, Dan & Karl’s Life Advice.
Also what happened the time we were in a kiddie pool together.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2014/02/21/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s04e17-couples-counselling/
LISTEN, SUB & TELL YOUR FRIENDSSSSSSSSS!
Great ep this week!
Thanks man!
AF2014 Day 1 is up!
@dc @sughly
Ooooh, thanks man. AFTER ZEITGEIST!
Thoughts:
Everything’s looking good! Mnemonic is the only one that’s a bit iffy at the moment but it’s understandable. I’m looking forward to seeing Derek growing and getting better 😀 (and hopefully not breaking D:). I’m thinking Steed will be the one that’s most likely to be made since in some of the early interview stuff Tim joked about really liking the idea so it should just skip the whole AF process :P. There was also a Steed video made before the finalists were even announced… hmmm suspicious! Little Pink Best Buds may be the most complete prototype since it sounds like they could just make the whole game for it. If they were to get everything done the only things a full game release could add would be more dialogue and buds. Also …POTATOES! I like the art of propaganda posters so Dear Leader should be good too. I did like Papers Please but some of it just felt a bit dull after a while so hopefully Dear Leader doesn’t do that although Papers was a bit more monotonous.Yeah, I tend to agree. Little Pink Best Buds is looking the most “on a a roll” and I suspect will be really interesting in the end, I’m just not sure of it as a game but then…. Pendleton. And Dear Leader really interests me, I like the direction and thought that’s going in to it. Steed, I agree, will probably end up getting made due to Tim’s love for it but it just doesn’t suit “me”.Oh geez, the guy leading mnemonic (?) is kind of out of his element huh. Guy needs to go home and think his ideas through a little clearer.
Potato!
WWBD?
(What would Brad do? :P)
I loved Brads reply too
God dammit. Car guy called back, the replacement headlight they got sent was cracked and the replacement for the replacement has to come from Melbourne, so won’t get my car back til Monday.
I DON’T WANNA HAVE TO TRAIN
I thought you missed a call from him 1-2 days ago? Wtf?
I missed a call yesterday, then he wasn’t there in the afternoon. He called up this morning saying things should be alright, but a few minutes ago called again to report disaster.
Sounds like he’s lying.
Trains can be exciting too, you know. XD
Oh god that Megazord… my childhood memories are shattered
Bashcraft milked that photo into an entire article, believe it or not.
Yeah i saw that and died a little inside…
Though it did get a giggle out of me, so take from that what you will 😛
The legacy zords used to be sooo much better.
I HAD THAT… I also had Dragonzord
those things were the shiz…
one of my friends had Titanus
…
OH GOD NOSTALGIA
Edit-because moderation
Pfft. Of all those toys, nothing comes close to the King of Braves Genesic GaoGaiGar.
It’s not that hard to write five words.
HIYO! #NailedIt
Train means you can kick back and Nintendo instead of driving.
And you can still sing if you really want to. A nice way to clear the carriage!
*Sleep 😛
Also means travel time extends massively and is more inconvenient and much harder to make the detours I was hoping to on the way down. Bleh.
Detours. *WINK*
Yeah but you’re going like 50kmph in a train, it’s soooooo slow. 🙁
More time to Nintendo \o/
So I corner you at the train station that one time and suddenly you never want to catch trains anymore. I see how it is.
I had a good laugh at the Japanese article. So much stupidity, it hurts.
Feeling like absolute crap at the moment so I ended up going home from work in the hopes that I’m all good for the weekend.
So far, lying in bed playing Monster Hunter on my 3DS is doing wonders!
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So, Monaco tonight. I believe there’s enough for two groups, potentially 3. Easiest thing to do is jump on TeamSpeak tonight (8ish, I guess?) and group up. If you don’t have the TS details just ask someone tonight on Steam.
People who have expressed interest: @pixel_the_ferret_viking @batto @redartifice @stickman @kermitron @beeawwb @sernobulus @trjn …there’s more but either I know they’re unavailable or I’ve forgotten 😛
Is that 8ish NSW time? (I.e. 7pm “my” time)
Will grab the TS details tonight.
It’s not really a strict starting time. It’s more “turn up once the evening is here and people have had dinner”. Considering I forgot about time differences, it’ll probably actually start a little later 😛
All good, I’ll be home and fed regardless. Still got leftover chilli con carne from a big pot I made the other night. Nomnomnom.
Why can’t you guys ever play at a time I can actually join in?
When are you available?
Uh, not until like 8:30-9:00pm Qld time which pretty much answers my own question. Damn kids ruining my gaming time, wanting attention and a father.
You should ban them, they are too OP.
fwiw, this sort of time probably works way better for people on the other side of the country, too
What time could you join in?
Welp I’ll try and get on and install/prepare at 5:20, and potentially be ready to play by 5:30 QLD time. Dinner break shouldn’t be long, I can live with meat pies for dinner. 😀
I have to talk to my dad over Skype at 8, so probably won’t be on until 9 – 9:30’ish… hope that’s OK?
From the sounds of it it’ll be easier for a lot of people to start later.
Honestly, rock up whenever and it’ll sort itself out.
\o/ okeydoke
Edit – worst comes to worst, i’ll just jump in JC2MP and get drunk so it’s all good 😛
I really should go home, there isnt anything to do except get annoyed that my “boss” cant tell me the full story on anything he wants done.
“hey rocket can you grab some hire stuff for me for this customer”
Me: ” i need customer name, the contact, his phone number, the list of gear you want and the firmware versions that you need”
“just get the stuff and we will sort it out”
NO YOU WONT SORT IT OUT I ALWAYS JUST END UP CALLING 15 PEOPLE TO FIND OUT STUFF YOU COULD OF GOTTEN IN 4 SECONDS
the worst part is that he gets commision on this stuff because he has been here forever and people just ask for him because he gives them stupid rates that we arent even meant to give. So he spends 15 minutes having a yarn, 2 minutes arranging the stuff and i spend 2 hours, writing up contracts, testing and uploading firmware and calling to figure stuff out and he gets money off it.
The best part is, its not even part of my job description, when i was hired i was put on as a “electronics tech” what that amounts to now is, basically office bitch. I know why its needed and i don’t mind when my actual boss asks because he always orgainized and verbalises EXACTLY what he wants.
I shouldnt whine, i have a full time job, that allows me the luxury of time to TAY and its quite well paying and people seem to be impressed by it, which is honestly the best part. Its just so hard not to complain when you know that stuff is being mis-managed and done in a non optimal way just because thats the way its always been done
Mismanagement is sadly something you will find in almost any job you work. It’s frustrating, and never stops being frustrating, but it’s always good (as you did) to remember the positives 🙂
Eh, anywhere you work you’ll get asked to go beyond your job description. At the moment I’m the one who has to fix everyone else’s fuck ups because they’re already paying me which is a hell of a lot cheaper than paying thousands to a tradesman to fix it. It’s even extended to them asking me on days off to do repairs and maintenance on the actual shops and machinery as I made the mistake of fixing everything in my shop myself.
All this and I don’t get paid anymore than anyone else and less than some.
Companies like to take advantage of their employees.
Golden rule: If you’re good a at something outside your job, don’t tell anyone.
Protip (and this applies to everyone): When you’re asked to do additional work beyond your job description, all you have to do is fuck up once. Just once. Embarrassing someone else with a typo or bad data is an option. But for maximum benefit, it should be an injury to yourself while doing work you’re not qualified to do, though inadvertantly damaging company equipment is a decent alternative.
*writes this shit down*
Hahahahahar! Brilliant.
Any legal action that may proceed against you is your own business, and I wish you luck with it 😛
*burns papers* Bahhh!
It’s like the moment you’re ever asked to make coffee for someone – if you make the worst coffee ever, you won’t become the coffee bitch.
Exactly this. “Filter? Who wants a filter? Bah, I’ll give you the whole coffee experience!”
It’s a good golden rule, but discretion should be applied when using it. If it wasn’t for being good at something outside of my job, and then doing that thing outside my job, it then became my actual job and has set up my entire career path thus far.
Isolated and rare example, sure, but it does happen.
Not sure Rockets wants to be pulled off electronics for a full time office bitch career 😛
YOU DONT KNOW ME
You do look pretty good in a short skirt. Dem legs go on forever.
Cant tell if joking but yeah my legs are hella long
I have a camera set up just to the side over here maybe you’d like to… no?, no, that’s cool.
Good news everyone!
Pax meat deposit money is up to $660 as of today. I’m writing down who’s putting in what so i don’t forget who is helping!
And get vengeance on all those who didn’t help?
Hey you said that, not me 😉
Thanks for taking ownership of that Scree and thanks to all who helped with the deposit! 🙂
You going to be going in tomorrow for it? I’m available to come along this weekend
I negotiated an extra week so next saturday. If you’re free, wanna come to my house and help me clean? =P
Next Saturday? Sweet. I’ll be able to throw some in by then. Want to DM me some details on the tweeters?
Sure. I’ll let you know sometime today
Sounds good to me, that’s the first weekend where I’m on leave from work so it actually works better in my favour for next Saturday.
Helping you clean, real tempting but sadly no, I clean up enough messes at work already 😛
I got your details on Twitter but completely forgot to ask how much I should be sending 😛
how many are going?
I believe it’s just me.
$48
Finally, off the phone with sent-a-lonk. No more austudy. And now they’ve got me on this newstart thing that sounds scary with the reporting and the looking for jobs and ew responsibility.
I want my car.
I was on Newstart for… 3 months? I got my current job out of all of those applications I put in.
The last time I was graduated and looking for work it took me 18 months before I heard back from an application. That was to tell me I was unsuccessful.
I figured since that could likely be the case again I may as well hop on 😛
18 months? Was it a government job? They’re usually the only ones who take so long
I’m supposed to be calling them to call off my newstart, seeing as I’ve had a job for 3 weeks, but every time I call, the wait is over an hour, and I just cannot stand to sit on the phone listening to how important my call is, and “have you tried signing up for self service?”
This and I keep getting passive aggressive text messages from them advising me of appointments (that I won’t be going to), with “if you don’t turn up, we might cancel your payments”… I’m kind of hoping if I just stop going to appointments, they’ll call me to see why instead of me having to spend a decent chunk of a work day waiting for them to pick up the phone…
Newstart is easy man. Look for jobs, write them on your sheet, if you earn any income declare it every fortnight to centrelink. Also 510 bucks a fortnight is nice.
That’s how much it is? Man that’s even better than what I was on before, but without the three-days-a-week study thing. Awesome 😛
Yeah man, that’s how much I get. I hate being on it cause i’d rather have employment, but it helps me pay bills and live a little more independently than rely on mum & dad.
Oh dear God, if was on A$510 a fortnight I would put a bullet in my head.
But hey, that’s just me.
It’s better than not getting anything.
It’s not that scary.
Many years ago when I couldn’t handle the outright, no-joke, literally criminal shit management was getting up to at Telstra, I washed my hands of the whole place and jumped ship.
…Two weeks before Christmas, when everyone in Enterprise and Government is on holiday and no recruitment is happening til mid-January.
It was even too late to get Christmas casual shit-kicker work in retail/hospitality, so I went on Newstart for about a month while I waited for my recruitment agency case managers to find work for me. Got interviews and a job in January, informed Centrelink, payments stopped.
SIX MONTHS LATER…
I get a phone call from Centrelink from a Newstart person, saying, “We’ve noticed that you’ve been having a little trouble with filling in your job diary, we were wondering if we could book a time with you to come in for a training session on how to use the job diary.”
@mrtaco: and this is why you get every single dealing with Centrelink in writing, and keep duplicates of every form you fill in and anything you give them.
Fired up Dark Souls last night, took me a while to readjust to the controls (I keep rolling back from attacks and hitting X to hit them with a light attack of some sort, but end up using an estus charge), but I’ve now got past the Taurus Demon, grabbed the Drake Sword, but discovered I’m not strong enough to wield it one-handed with a shield, so I’ve gone into the Parish, and tried to take on the Armoured Pig with no shield… /o\
I can just go back to the burg and run through a few times (Bonfire > clear > Bonfire > clear etc.) to get more souls and level my strength, right?
I would suggest starting that run by running up to the top of the bridge where the hellkite dragon resides…
run out so he starts doing the flame attack and run back down… that should clear all the hollow soldiers and should net you somewhere around 500 souls without having to do much 😛
Hah. That’s exactly what I do. 40 seconds to get 555 souls. Rinse and repeat. Don’t even climb down the ladder, just roll off the edge. So easy to get to about level 20-30 very early on.
I was wondering about that last night, I didn’t realise that your level went up with every point you increase, I thought the number in the top left of the main GUI was your level (like most RPGs)
My favourite farming spots are:
1) Chamber of the Princess bonfire in Anor Londo – fight down the stairs through the Royal sentinels, regular sentinels, and batwing demons to the giant blacksmith.
Collect: titanite chunks, dragon-slayer arrows, and 11.5k souls.
2) Depths bonfire – fight past the hollows toward the lower burg, let slimes drop from ceiling, turn around and flame-sword way back toward the bonfire through them. Then run down the stairs, kill the four rats to the right, backtrack and keep going to kill the other five rats, then back up the stairs to the bonfire.
Collect: green titanite shards, large titanite shards, humanity, something close to 2k souls.
3) Crystal Cave bonfire – Run out of the boss-fight cave to kill all the clams, run back in.
Collect: shitloads of twinkling titanite, around 6k souls.
4) Duke’s Archive prison-cell bonfire – run out of cell, kill man-serpent guards, run down stairs entering the cells which have crystallized hollows, enter the room full of tentacle snake-ladies, port back up to bonfire. (If you need more man-serpent greatswords, kill snakes up the ladder.)
Collect: many humanities, man-serpent greatswords (BEST 50-STR GREATSWORD IN THE GAME).
A figure-eight loop of the cathedral/undead parish killing the 7x balder knights yields a good number of titanite shards early on, too.
(Assuming use of the drop-rate ring and 10+ stored humanity.)
You didn’t even mention the
Painted World of Ariamis, which is actually the best way to quickly raise souls with an AOE spell, or the Darkwood Garden guardians which can be tricked into suicide time and time again…I loved the Darkwood Garden guardians when I was much, much lower, but right now they yield pretty shitty souls for the time it takes to run through the area and fight. The Anor Londo one gives much better per-hour.
And I’m not a huge fan of the Painted World statue-cluster because even my biggest pyromancy AoEs don’t clear them much more quickly than I do with my giant slab of metal, and while the souls-per-minute is decent, it’s pretty much equivalent to the Princess chamber run, but doesn’t give you any decent drops, like titanite chunks which can be converted to whichever earlier form of titanite you need at a value of at least 12k souls. Souls you don’t have to spend are souls you earn. 🙂
Demon Ruins- run up the stairs to clear the Capra Demons for about 4-5k souls, run down to clear out the statues, Taurus Demons and Giant Worms for another 10-12k souls. Takes about 3-4 minutes per run.
Thinking about the statues, there’s probably great souls-per-minute to be had in the run into Lost Izalith as well. They’re, what… 600 souls a piece, first game, right? And there’s DOZENS of the sods in there… Getting in and out could be too time-consuming, though.
But again, souls-per-hour is awesome, but drops make up a huge factor. If I’m going to do a 10k+ soul run in a few minutes, I’d probably do the snake-ladies for the humanity bonus.
My favourite farming methods are:
– Invading (DARKMOON BLADES!!!)
– Re-running boss fights as a summon, and
– Farming toxic babies for humanity in Tomb of the Giants. Low souls wield (121 each), but you kill so many it’s not funny.
I’ve read that toxic-babies are awesome farm-efficiency because they respawn, but damn if they don’t creep me the hell out. 🙂
My roommate started watching me play while I was farming them and asked “what are you doing?”. I replied “Farming dead toxic babies for humanity with my great fire scythe” before making a pack of 10 babies combust with one swing. He backed slowly out of the room :3
Heh. Ah, the good old 500 free souls trick. “I RUNS UP THE STAIRS AND DRAGGIN GIVE ME EXP AND I COME BACK DOWN,” describes the brain-AFK approach I took to that for like… half an hour when I discovered it.
I dunno if any of you care aboot the Olympics, but Canada sure is getting pumped up, eh? We’re going against the americans in men’s hockey tommorow, and that’s pretty much the only game we truly give a maple syrup-glazed fuck about, eh? americans are pretty enthusiastic, too, eh? Man, I can feel the Canadian patriotism at a all time high, eh? eh?
eh?
To be fair, the fact that Canada and Russia don’t just sweep the gold medals should be a source of permanent embarrassment for them. Eh?
oh yeah you bet your timbit-eating moose that we’re overall very competitive in the games eh, but the swedes, the Netherlands, all those other guys, they’re always a good source of competition so in the end it really goes down to hockey, eh?
Eh?
rocks and trees and water!
GO BISHLAND YOU CAN BEAT NON BISHLAND AT THAT SPORT YOU ARE GOOD AT
Oh man I wish I was in Canada at the last Winter Olympics when the ice hockey was won. There were reports of the streets running red with maple syrup.
Edit: eh?
Oh man, the stories I could tell you, eh?
Me and my buds were downtown hanging with the crowds, when we won we brought out a beer bong and bottles of maple syrup and proceeded to indulge in sweet sweet regret, despite it not working out the way as intendedHahaha! That’s the best thing I’ve heard all week.
6/10
Not enough apologising for being bad at sports.
sorry.
no we’re not fuck you hockey is serious business eh?Speaking of Canada, I ordered in some Canadian Dollars for a client that arrived this morning. Brand new notes and dead set they smelled like maple syrup. I even got the others to confirm it because I thought I was going crazy.
New Canadian Money Smells Like Maple Syrup.
All The Stereotypes!!! \o/
Canadian money? That sounds loony.
ah no our coins are the loonies we don’t have any nicknames for the bills, eh?
TAKE YOUR FANTASY MONEY BACK TO FANTASY LAND
I thought I read somewhere that Canada already won the hockey.
women’s hockey. Men’s hockey is tomorrow.
eh.
Already won half of the hockey then, and aiming for a clean sweep.
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MONTAGE
LASER DINO
ROCKY
EVERYTHING
Look, I don’t know what you’re talking about, but most of the words are pretty cool, hey.
BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also Kill Star!!!!!
Edit: I was in a state of hysterical euphoria by that point 😀
& now you know why I carry on like a giddy school girl every time it’s mentioned 😛
Literally the only way to improve a Rocky montage is if he was being chased down the streets of Philadelphia by a laser dino.
Rocky 17: Rockysaurus
Its one of the most gloriously dumb things ever made
Final Chance / Last Repost to annoy you guys:
Hoy, since I’m back I’m finally organising this Lion King thing, with a bit of help from Rocketbuddy.
Since there’s a gathering happening on the 22nd of March (that’s a Saturday), we were going to go and see it on the 21st (that’s a Friday). So if anyone is able to be in Sydney at 8PM on a Friday, you’re welcome to come.
Since there are very few tickets this close to the date, we’ll probably be buying them soon, like, on Friday or something. So I guess if people are interested, send an email to blaghman (at) gmail (dot) com, and what I’ll probably get you to do is send some money to either Rocketbuddy or me, and we can buy you a ticket when we do so. Alternately, people could just go buy tickets themselves for that date. There’s a small number of seats available at both the $60 point and the $128 point (I’ve just accepted that everyone’s getting the cheapies at this point). I can’t remember if there’s some element in Capitol that makes the back super bad, but from memory you’re just sort of… really far back. Hardly the end of the world. And there’s only like 6 rows between the doubling price point, so probably best to go cheap.
WHO IS IT SO FAR
Yourself, me, pow and CJ????
And Freeze.
I’ll just go and sit by myself then.
Didn’t want to hang with you jerks anyway.
Hm. I think I’ll be going skydiving that day.
That’s what Mufasa said….
Suddenly very tempted…
Do it, it’s only $61 and it’s a chance to dress up!
HOW MUCH TIME DO I HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU
If you say “Yes I want a ticket” before about 6 this evening, that’s fine, I’m not too worried about being paid immediately, but I’d like confirmation.
Wait. Dress up? There’s a dress code for these things?
They might not like you in shorts, thongs, and a wifey, but there isn’t a real dress code.
It’s just an excuse.
I’ll dress up as Timone.
MA BOI
I said I was going! I don’t know what more I can do to convince you!
Just realised that I’ll be waking up in a strange house full of strange people for my birthday.
I think I’ve only once not been at home for that. It’s odd.
Wait… a room full of romantic interests, and a birthday to boot?
ATTENTION! Everyone who’s sitting around here with popcorn, we’re going to have to check your IDs now…
and order a lot more popcorn
I clicked the link before the possibility of a pic of a popcorn tub with a hole at the bottom occurred to me.
I am so relieved that wasn’t what it was. 😛ahaha, I’m at work don’t worry it’s all SFW until after 5pm, I hadn’t even thought of that, now i almost want to find that image but am scared to do a search, also scared of the image, on second thought the thought of it will do 😛
Google: Know Your Meme Oh God What Have I Done
alright, that was actually pretty hilarious,
Who needs praise from professional bodies when you get accepted by your peers?
I made popcorn the other day, and following an internet suggestion (I know, i know) to keep grease off my hands, i ate it with chopsticks.
I’m a convert.
Huh that sounds amazing.
THANKS RED
Popcorn is super grippable with chopsticks, and it meant i could eat popcorn and still browse the web without having to continually wipe my hands.
Genius… give this man all the things
this…sounds…better and better the more I think about it. *considers what other food to eat with chopsticks*
Surely you can’t pick up much with chopsticks though, barbeque tongs would be better
Grab a soup ladle 😀
I actually have this comic printed out and up on my cubicle wall: http://wondermark.com/601/
(The Discovery That Changed The World)
This tip originated in regards to burger rings or whatever the hell those orange ring snacks are called. Cheetos? Anyways, popcorn may be an okay choice with chopsticks but realise that your air:food ratio rises dramatically when using chopsticks!
(wtf am I typing)
I make up the air/food ration by decreasing handwiping time.
That’s only saving time, but air:food ratio directly affects the taste of the food as well as upsetting your normal gastrointestinal and digestive tract abilities………!!111!!!!
You should listen to me, I work at a place where I sometimes hear almost-doctors talk about stuff.
Time to rock the ol’ Gooky Birthday Suit me thinks
Amazing. I can’t believe I didn’t think of this joke, but I’m very glad someone did. *low bow*
@dc: “The creative process is strange and off-putting”
UPVOTE. I couldn’t have put it better myself, man.
And it’s crazy how many times I’ve had to stop writing something and just let it tick over in my subconscious for a few days. When the revelation eventually comes, it hits pretty much exactly like a bolt of lightning. It comes out of nowhere, obliterates everything around you, and is gone in a flash. It’s never gentle, it can knock you right off your pins, and it’s genuinely electrifying. You also feel a bit giddy for a while afterwards.
Keep it up! The blog, the other writing, all of it.
Edit: also, I don’t know whether you want to get all metaphysical with this or not, but I subscribe to the school of thought that sees consciousness as a spectrum rather than a binary. For the vast majority of thought processes, I think there are conscious and subconscious elements at work (if those terms can be said to legitimately apply in such a model).
Well, all thought comes from one fleshy organ*, so the distinction between concious and subconcious is always arbitrary.
*unless you’re @tech_knight.
Oh man, that’s exactly how I felt last week. Exactly. 😀
I just want to say thanks for reading, man. You have no idea how heartening it is to get even the smallest of compliments. It does wonders for the self-esteem and makes me want to press on all that more. Your constant support means more than you could know!
Psssh, you don’t have to thank me. This DC character you’ve created is compelling reading, man. His inner struggle to overcome his biggest obstacle (himself) makes him instantly relateable and sympathetic. I have a feeling that if he existed in the real world, he’d be a pal of mine.
Could say the same for your Shane character, although he’s a little unrealistic — no one is that likable.
Besides, who would believe someone that nice is also an award-nominated SF author!
Yeah, you’re right.
*scribbles furiously*
*becomes Scrooge-like miser*
No one understands the Shane character 🙁
I bought the latest Game Informer mag simply because of the Yoji Shinkawa cover art. Does anyone else think that the Ground Zeroes cover should feature his work? Every other (initial) MGS game release so far has featured it. Here’s hoping a break of tradition is not at hand, however with the drop of Hayter and the addition of Sutherland this could very well be the case of ‘a new direction’.
I still maintain that there’s some secret sneaky Snake switcheroo in the pipeline. No Hayter? There’s just no way. No way.
I think, from memory, @dkzeitgeist is holding the true-believer line with me.
Edit: but to actually answer your question, yes, more Shinkawa, more of the time. I bought the Collector’s Edition of the MGS collection just for that artbook.
There’s just no way this isn’t some classic Kojima fuckery. I won’t believe otherwise until I’ve completed the game for myself.
I want to believe. Mind you, there’s a good chance we will need to complete both Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain just to be sure.
Sutherland in Ground Zeroes.
Hayter in Phantom Pain.
Mark my words.
The best thing about the Metal Gear Rising Collector’s edition (other than the badass raiden figure) was getting a big box with Shinkawa art on it!
So while looking up that Wondermark comic with the chopsticks, I came across the author’s twitter feed about the Winter Olympics. HILARIOUS.
Premise:
Stirring olympic narratives:
• the athlete trained very hard
• his/her country wants him/her to win
• his/her family is very supportive
BETTER olympic narratives:
• the last practitioner of a dying sport
• in the olympics by mistake
• possibly replaced by a bear in a costume
• needs pure gold from medal to save dying spouse
• in curling contest for immortal soul
• skis are actually feet
• actually snowboarding to save community center from developers
• little white lie on first date has gone too far
• back half of horse costume took a wrong turn
• deep undercover narcotics agent
• trying to outski her past
• bionic sequined tutu has mind of its own
• every 4 years we must cavort to thrill the icedemon
• country ceased to exist mid-ski jump à la Tom Hanks in The Terminal
• president/chancellor/king of micronation must do every event himself
• elaborate costumed ruse to trap international gambling cartel
• athlete switched minds with family dog
• in olympics ironically
• wants to prove that a scientologist can also be a world-class snowboarder
• family was killed by a metal target and now out for revenge
• very precise fetish requires winning a bronze medal specifically
• hates snow and wants to crush it
• just wants to get on the wipeout reel
• ineffectual attempt to get divorced parents back together
• chasing dream of starring in local furniture store commercial in ten years
• need to collect all five colored rings to heal the planet
• just loves hearing accents
• ruse to sell all this ski wax before it spoils
• wheaties box photographer who always wanted to take a selfie
• there against wishes of every country
• forgot NOT to be in the olympics
• making the best of speed-skate-shaped foot tumors
• uncomfortable in clothes not emblazoned with national insignia and sports brand logos
• using biathlon as research for existential novel
• splashed with paint while nude and mistaken for member of norwegian curling team
•feverishly chasing ghost, later revealed to be a smudge on snow-goggles
•team of snowboard thieves pulling off the heist of a lifetime
And from his followers:
• Believes winning gold medal will lead to an audience with Zeus
• ghost who needs to win 100 gold medals to get into heaven.
• Primary role on hockey team is enforcer, really just wants to dance
• Speed skater is forced to maintain 55mph or bomb will go off
• foolishly chose “dare” instead of much safer “truth” option
• blindly following guy who keeps getting into bobsleds
• Just prefers the temporary McDonalds in the olympic village
• Accidentally wandered into event while trying to figure out the source of that smell
• Forgot to return rented ice skates and felt obligated to use them
• Trying to avoid getting a “real job”
• dying father made her promise to never enter the olympics; hates dying father.
• Cryptozoologist, misheard name of event as “all imp pics”
• Werewolf competing for either Gold or Bronze
• Wrote now-forgotten MySpace password on back of one of the medals
•Died overnight from hotel gas leak, being subtly paraded around by coaches Weekend at Bernie’s style
• just wants to have fun on the bobsled without all the pressure of the World Championships in Königssee
• communicating with spies via precise sequences of national anthems
• breaking own ankles by hand just not that exciting anymore
• Final Boss fight with Putin. Afterwards you unlock a new character and a recolor of your respective country’s uniform
• Didn’t realise where those stairs really went until it was too late…
• Elaborate spinoff of popular 1995 Sega Genesis game Izzy’s Quest for Olympic Gold
• Meant to sign up for Summer Games. Checked the wrong box.
• Actually a wizard just showing off.
• here to save their homeworld from a crippling gold medal shortage
• Traveled back in time to kill world leader but fell into sport due to missed date
Sounds like a setup for Fiasco
The list of awesome just kept going and going. Just when I thought “surely they have to have run out of ideas by now” THEY JUST KEEP COMING UP WITH MORE.
Love it.
What if… what if there were two such people in one event?
Then I imagine competition would be very fierce… and very confusing.
And sexy.
Fantastic!
shit they figured out why canada cares so much for the olympics
I really need to figure out how to record high-fidelity from the PS3. I’m not convinced it’s even possible – some people may have CLAIMED to do it online, but they are either LIARS or SORCERORS.
Struck by one of NeoKaiser’s comments, “That’s a lie!” I immediately felt a hankering to listen to some sea-shanties from Assassin’s Creed 4. Unfortunately, YouTube’s carefully-curated collection (ALLITERATION IS ALWAYS AWESOME) appears to just be a bunch of rips from the game-files, which only has the singing track and none of the ambient effects which make the shanties so awesome an experience.
I love the sea, OK.
It makes me feel poetic. My dream home is a heavily-modified Titan shed on a rocky beach wedged between forests and mountains, preferably with cliffs nearby, where I could just weld junk-metal sculptures and paint in peace and solitude, in view of the sea, with the sound of crashing waves to soothe my sleep. If we lived in a society where your profession didn’t have any impact whatsoever on your income, I would apply to be a ferry pilot, lighthouse-keeper, or merchant marine. (Y’know, after the standard choices of porn star/gigolo.)You’ve never truly lived until you’ve swum out into the ocean past the point of safety or sanity on the cusp of a storm and been enveloped above and below in the raw, overwhelming power of the elements as far as the eye can see – the entire curve of the horizon and beyond. Above and below – the roiling black and the inky depths, with lightning in between.
So, to me, the best part of the shanties in AC4 was that they came to the fore in the quiet times of travel, where all you heard were seagulls, wind in your sails, the creak of the hull and rigging, and the crash of waves, as your men’s voices sang out and echo across the empty ocean.
I figure the only way to get that will be to set up the perfect scenario in-game and record. If anyone knows of genuinely useful resources for this, advice would be kickass. Otherwise I’ll go google some research when I’m done with my Dark Soulsing on the weekend.
I always enjoy going to the beach and just listen to the waves, as it really helps me relax. I’d just go sit down and close my eyes, and just listen. I probably should take more trips to the beach nowadays due to work, after hours of course
for some reason Derby Ram is about the only one I can’t find 🙁
http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Assassin+s+Creed+4+Black+Flag+Sea+Shanty+Edition+Original+Game+Soundtrack/9369791
derp sorry, i put the wrong link, fixed now
I grabbed Derby Ram off youtube.
PS3 connected via HDMI uses HDCP protocol to protect content. The only problem is that PS3 devs send the entire video as a single HDCP stream, which includes the system UI as well. Therefore, it’s protected or some shit and any recording devices can’t negotiate the HDCP handshake correctly. I’ve heard stories saying some things can be recorded, but IMO I’d just abandon the idea of recording PS3 via HDMI.
Which leaves you with the RCA connectors for audio. I’m not sure what the max quality of this is, but check the system settings for the codecs/bitrates supported when running in this mode. I think it may just be enough for your purposes.
The only other suggestion I have is use someone with Xbox360, or a PS4 person (me) can record it with the built-in feature.
Good to know.
Can always just wait a year for Ubi to finally start discounting it on PC, then grab it on a Steam sale and record from the best platform. 🙂
NVidia’s website says that they’re giving away AC4 with certain video cards but it might be an America only thing
I know Republic of Gamers is giving it away with certain motherboards.
As far as I know its not the games or movies that have the HDCP shit on, its the entire interface which is why external capture devices like the live gamer portable or elgato game capture hd need component cables for the PS3 and don’t work at all on the PS4 as yet.
There are methods to bypass HDCP (which is technically illegal but fuck it because the implementation is farcical) with the use of HDMI splitter boxes. They’re comparatively cheap and if @transientmind wants to do more than just record a “Sounds Of The Sea” compilation album it might be an idea to research what ones people are suggesting for PS4 capturing
Have any of the bookier TAYbies read Guillermo del Toro’s books? I’ve been reading up on his work and only just found out he penned a trilogy and wondered if they’re worth picking up?
The Strain is getting a TV series adaption on FX this year!
I’ll take that as meaning you enjoyed the book? 😛
Or that I’m too lazy to read when I can catch the TV adaption soon! 😛
That’s less helpful 🙁 ah well, what’s $20?
I’m just going to leave these links here for no reason.
http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/the-lesser-evil/
http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/peaceful-tomorrows/
You should be aware that Peaceful Tomorrows is about to win the 2013 Aurealis Award. That means enjoyment is a sure thing*
*not guaranteed to be a sure thing. It might be a sure thing.so you’re saying I SHOULD buy the del Toro books? 😛
Enjoyment IS a sure thing, it’s the magnitude that’s not guaranteed, somewhere between 0 & 100%
>:(
@shane What? With my method you can guarantee enjoyment but still wriggle out of any complaints by saying that you didn’t guarantee a minimum level. I’m helping!
Read the first part
It’s a fun and creepy horror film- in many ways it’s a continuation of ideas del Toro originated in Blade II. I liked the setup, and the disease control approach of the plot, though I found Hogan’s prose fairly workmanlike.
Blade II’s my favourite, more so because of Ron Perlman
Wait… Taurus Demons???
*EDIT*
Shit, reply fail… Was supposed to go under Pixel and Freeze’s soul-farming conversation.
Hahahaha, you’ve still got some playing to do, I see! 🙂
I love it.
That moment when
…the lava lake hardens and you go run out on it to play on your igneous-skates and catch ash-flakes on your tongue… and you see that the rink is being hogged.I just about quit the first time I saw them. Nowadays I just charge in and take on 3-4 at a time.I was up on the cliff when I saw. So naturally, I grabbed a bow and poked my tongue out to think, making me look like a derp-cat.
(Two hits for poison, apparently. They’re weak to it!)
Ahh yes, the classic thing of “I remember when you used to terrify me, now I can kill you in 2 hits”
You mean 1?
Magic is OP.
Just saw the tiniest, frailest little old lady get off the train on a mobility scooter… hauling five rolls of turf with it.
Huh.
if there is grass on the wicket lets play cricket???
*sigh* Just so people know North Queensland does not represent the entirety of Queensland.
😛So, I may have missed this being discussed, but it looks like there is going to be an announcement about the next AssCreed game about the 16th of March.
Current speculation is
PragueSpoilers for those who haven’t blacked their flag in AssCreed:
Maybe another female protagonist, looks like it will follow on from the story set in Prague that you find through the collectibles in ACIVNooooooo! I don’t like this whole “yearly” model that they’ve taken too 🙁
I don’t think it’s a bad thing, assuming there’s multiple teams making the games and they’re given 2+ years to make the game ala Infinity Ward & Treyarch (and now Sledgehammer Games)
But… but… pirate ships. Swashbuckling. Skullduggery. The sea!
*sad-puppy-dog-eyes*
I know, right? It was the piracy that made the series stand back out from the crowd. If they take it back to a land locked area, it’s just going to feel samey again. 🙁
Space assassins.
See, I would play this! Just buy Star Wars: 1313 from Disney and reskin it. XD
Assassins Creed V: The Creed Strikes Back (Lightsaber wrist daggers pre-order exclusive)
I… am ashamed to say I would preorder for that.
I miss the Prey 2 game that the Blur trailer inspired in my mind. 🙁
Me too, 1313 filled that void for me. Stunning that two amazingly ambitious projects like that were both scrapped. 🙁
I really don’t know how they can go back. I mean, I know there’s probably Assassin purists out there who are annoyed that your character in AC4 spent the better part of the game
not giving two shits about the Assassin/Templar feud…but the boating was so good! The worst parts of the game were skulking around being hidden and shit, because the mechanics for it were so much weaker.Maybe if they work really, really, really hard and make sneaking and skulking enjoyable instead of tortuous, MAYBE they can go back to the whole daggers-in-the-dark intrigue shit, but what they were telling us, with rewarding gameplay, is that it’s a lot better to just go make trouble.
Spoiler:
They won’t.The next game, if it’s not drastically different, will be a flop.
🙁
AC: Hey guys, this is pretty cool! Interesting take on platforming/murdering.
AC2: Wow, this makes AC look like balls. This is the real deal guys!
AC2B: OK, honestly, was skeptical about a sequel to a sequel, but somehow they improved. THIS is the ducks nuts!
AC2R: Hm. Well, it’s OK I guess. I mean… we’ve done this, though. Something new, maybe?
AC3: Something new! Oh god it’s boring and bad. I think this ship has sailed, guys.
AC4: Funny you should mention shipsBECAUSETHEY’REFREAKIN’AWESOME. Look, fuck the assassin shit, I just wanna be a pirate all day every day!
AC5: Waitwaitwait… what? They hit gold with 4, where’s the sub-sequel Brotherhood thing? Oh. That city, huh? So… no boats, huh. No pirating, either. You guys… are going to tell us why we should get this, right?
Yep, AC needs to die. No one liked AC4, they only liked Black Flag.
Also, it’s funny, because Ubi was surprised at the praise that was being heaped on them for AC4. They were baffled that the piratey ship idea went so well, and actually sent out massive questionnaires to users wanting to ask them what they actually wanted out of the games.
That and I’m guessing they made eighty hojillion dollars off it.
“HOW? What did we do?! We need to bottle lightning here, people!”
Sub-sequel? Das Creed! Playing a Kriegsmarine captain/assassin hunting british Templars during ww2, working for the bad guys to fight even worse guys
…
I would probably play that.
When Black Flag wasn’t trying to force stealth on me just charging in and assassinating half a mob before they even knew you were there then chain killing the rest was glorious.
That sounds like an interesting setting, depending on what time period it is. I honestly hope they step back a bit, go back in time to an earlier period than the 18th Century.
Arsecreed is one of those IPs which would be perfect for my revolutionary “hey lets just use the universe and make different types of game in the setting rather than just churn out incremental sequels” idea.
I’d love a Mass Effect or Deus Ex Human Revolution style RPG set in the Assassin’s Creed universe or a first person platformer in the style of Mirrors Edge
Just did a pet tag for someone who named their cat Magnificat.
Games finished in 2014:
• Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag and Aveline DLC
• BIT.TRIP Presents Runner 2
• Bravely Default
• Broken Age Act 1
• Dark Souls
• FEZ
• Flower
• Guacamelee
• Kid Icarus: Uprising
• La-Mulana
• LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes
• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
• Resogun
• Rogue Legacy
• Tomb Raider
• Ys: Memories of Celceta
Woo! Not bad since I was working for most of the year. Usually I’d be in full hermit/holiday mode 😀 (which I may be for the rest of the year :P)
Games finished in 2014
Tomb Raider DE
I’m the bestest at this gaming thingy.
Would Wolf Among Us Ep2 count? It’s only like 2 hours long.
Sure! @dc and I counted The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 1 last year 😛
But you work full time and actually do stuff, so your gaming time is probably a lot more limited than mine 😛
I’d probably have a lot more games finished if I wasn’t spending so much time grinding Dark Souls for the platinum.
It’s worth it, man. Trust me. It’s lonely here at the very peak of gaming 😛
– The Last of Us: Left Behind
– The Wolf Among Us: Smoke & Mirrors
– Broken Age: Act 1
Way below how many games I played last year at this time. D:
I think I had about 50 last year. I’m aiming to have at least 52 (one a week) but it seems like I may surpass that D:
Your 2014 list is like… longer than my 2013 list.
D.C. was my inspiration <3
Just finished Ys? Ironically it comes out in Australia today.
Haha yeah I thought about that earlier as I finished it 😛
Apparently the CE is hard to find/increased in price so I’m glad I got it now. The Ys music is good too so maybe later down the track when I’ve played more games I can appreciate the OST more
Are you going to try some of the others? You can play Origins through 3 on Steam, 5 and 6 can be played on PC as well, via translation patches. VI’s PC version is the best version and V’s SNES version is your only option for English (and also it’s generally considered shit).
Falcom have been teasing a new game project which looks a hell of a lot like a new Ys, incidentally. No one knows yet if it’ll be Ys Eight or a remake of Ys V, but since they’ve remade 3 and 4 already, 5 is the next in the line for a do-over. I suspect it’ll be Ys Eight though.
I’ve got I, II, Felghana and Origins on Steam so I’ll play them one day. Was looking forward to Seven but that thing Nob mentioned sounds kinda shit.
I won’t be playing them any time soon though
Irrelevant: but a while ago you asked whether Lightning Returns has a New Game + mode. It does.
Seven is great, better than Celceta even, and you’ll be anticipating that bit when you hit it anyway.
I miss having spare time 🙁
GTA V (I’m just counting finishing the main storyline). 5 months to finish, not too bad
Pokemon Y.
I’ve got a notepad doc at home with all of them written down but let’s see if I can do it from the top of my head.
Nob’s (probably not) complete list of games finished in 2014 (not including games I have finished previously).
– Ass Pirates
– Super Mario 3D World (CATS!)
– Enslaved
– Broken Age (Act 1)
– Freedom Fall
– Guacamelee
– Disgaea D2
aaaaaaand that’s all I can think of from the top of my head. I’m 100% positive I have missed out on a couple.
How come you didn’t include games you’ve finished previously?
DARK SOULS! 😀
I feel it’s kinda like cheating. It also has pushed me to mostly play new games rather then the usual ones I play.
I don’t generally replay games either because even though I might really like a certain game, I keep feeling like my time is better spent playing and experiencing something new.
…but I couldn’t resist Dark Souls again. At least last year when I replayed it the DLC was new but this time was all for funsies 😀
Enslaved ass pirates of a broken age?
I’d play that!
I think I’ve got that movie somewhere
Games finished in 2014:
Wait, if I can count the twenty minute long Christmas Special for To the Moon, then it reaches the blistering heights of one game.
Ooo I forgot to play that!
And to be fair it seems like you’ve been travelling the world for like ages so whatevs Mr. Rich Travel Boy! >:( (not jealous)
I’m sure you’re not.
I’ll just enjoy my memories of skiing in Siberia, in sight of the largest source of freshwater in the world.
Of visiting a Buddhist monastery in Mongolia.
Of striking out against attractive Russian lasses.
You know, the usual.
I sat at home.
Played games and stuff.
Read some books too.
Watched some TV show episodes.
Yup, not jealous 😛
@aliasalpha Misinterpret. It was one of the many jobs I applied for in that period. It just took that long before one of them responded to me in any way at all.
At least you got a response, half of the time employers don’t even bother to tell me to fuck off
So I started playing Remember Me.
Is the entire game made up of beating up malnourished, homeless, mentally disabled people?Wouldn’t be French if it wasn’t.
it’s a metaphors for how the big corporations treat lower class-look, just keep beating up people and stop asking questions.=PNah, that’s just the warm-up, like how any average young boy gets into cage-fighting when he becomes a teenager.
You know… absconded with in the dead of night in the boot of the family car, dumped out into a circle of hobos next to a storm-drain on the river, and told not to come back until you’re a man.Speaking from experience?
Ye– uh nnnno?
Welp, see you soon Monaco (& other) players! I think I have a friend coming over that’ll join, plus perhaps gf. So we may really have that Monaco Virgin Fest after all!
Because I’m way too cool for all that going out, having a social life or people who love me and want to spend time with me, I thought I’d do something for my fellow misanthropes. I present a video of the first day of Dead State: http://youtu.be/Aje1f9C2tK4
It’s not the most action packed game in the world but I can imagine it getting hectic in the xcom way where you have 2 moves left but you know you can’t be safe without at least 3 and if you get someone’s daughter killed, their mum will be all pissed off and cause trouble (you know mums are, mostly actually liking their kids and all). They may even leave the shelter stealing all the toilet paper on the way out the door.
Oh god oh god she’s here at the station oh god
Say hello
To her that is, not me
Anyone up for Skullgirls tonight at 9pm?
A bunch of us are Monaco-ing tonight at some point, want to join?
Nah, I’m playing Skullgirls til 10:30, then probably going to bed…
Ooh there’s a piano here…
Play it! Attract more ladies!
NO, IT’S TOO DANGEROUS! IF YOU BECOME THAT ATTRACTIVE GOOKY, THERE WILL BE AN IMPLOSION AS ALL THE WOMEN (AND A FAIR CHUNK OF THE MEN) IN THE WORLD ATTEMPT TO BE WITH YOU!
So @mrtaco plus a piano is kind of like dropping ghost bait in the C64 ghostbusters game?
http://youtu.be/7ZYao2g100Q
*swoon*
Dear God…
I swear, the only thing missing from this scenario is a can of Lynx deodorant.
Someone has sent me $60. I have no idea who it is.
Ref: Pax Thing
I’ve checked my emails and twitter but I’ve no idea who it was.
Was it me? I sent you that much, since I can’t maths, and Techie said that whatever was quoted only covered so much, or something, so I was like “throw some extra on there and then cry a lot.”
So it might be me.
I am very bad at bank.
Thanks Blaghs. I would say it was you as it is the only one with no name =P Process of elimination and all that
It wasn’t me as you haven’t sent me any details yet
Ah crap, sorry, will send them now
@shane Shane! Shane! Shane! Ace Attorney 5 is on sale on the eShop! 30% off until the 27th! $27.95 Go go go! (Probably never going to get a better discount :P)
Craaaaap. It would be the fortnight that Mrs Shane and I pledge with blood not to spend any unnecessary money… :\
Unnecessary is the debatable word there.
Blood is overrated
It’s Nintendo, believe me, you’ll never see another discount in price.
THANKS FOR TELLING ME POWALEN IT’S NOT LIKE I WAS GOING TO BUY IT LAST WEEK BUT HELD OUT FOR A SALE AND NOW THAT THERE IS ONE I MIGHT GO BUY IT BUT NAH THANKS
FINE I BOUGHT IT AND MY MARRIAGE WILL SOON BE DUST
PS: @powalen, thanks for the heads-up. You’re awesome!
Even if you did wreck my marriage.…Can I come live with you?If you get a divorce, at least you have access to a lawyer…
No.
OBJECTION!
@masha2932, I see you lurking with upvotes! How’s it going, man?
Hey.
It’s going well so far, just enjoying the last few days of my 2 week holiday before I start the job search next week. The first few days were filled with panic and fatigue but as I got over the jetlag and met some of my friends here both feelings subsided.
It’s hard not to think about work and the future though, and I’ve just been having small periods of being scared about being able to survive here job-wise. I think in my head I’m imagining if I was back there i could always have just settled for the petrol station job i was doing and had an OK lifestyle. Other people survive here though and I know shouldn’t think about settling for the petrol station job since it wasn’t very stimulating. I guess it’s just the initial panic, I’ll be fine.
I’ve actually been planning to post stuff but the time difference (I’m 8hrs behind) makes it hard since it’s either too late or too early so I just upvote stuff.
DARK SOULS half-day report courtesy of @aliasalpha
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3225395298001/any-truth-to-craiglist-killers-shocking-confession/#sp=show-clips
Dark Souls is a very dark… game with lots of killing… and it’s got lots of… death-type things… and it’s on the Playstation and other video… things…
Told you it was funny
I love how they blamed Dark Souls and abortion simultaneously. Also, there is a sun cult joke in there somewhere.
I just went to Youtube… They changed the interface again.
I was one of the few people who liked the previous interface. The guide button was easy to use. It displayed all my subscriptions in an alphabetical order. Now it only displays 8 at a time. I have 33 subscriptions dammit!
Also, the guide button is right next to the homepage button. Rookie mistake. I’m probably going to hit the homepage button by accident constantly. Why, Google?
Just keep a consistent interface. Don’t force us to re-learn it every few months.
I reckon its something like supermarkets rearranging things to make you spend more time in the shop so maybe you’ll spend money on things you’ve not seen before.
I have no idea how this relates to youtube but I’m really not the biggest fan of the layout. As with all of the youtube redesign problems, if it was just modular and user controlled it’d pretty much solve all the problems at once.
Why the hell would I need fast access to all my playlists when I only ever use them to organise my own uploaded content? Let me turn that off & make more room for my subscriptions.
Why have a my channel button when I can get there with 2 clicks up the top right of the page?
The social features? You basically broke them, let me turn them off, same goes for the watch later which I’ve only ever used accidently.
I must be one of the only people to utilise the watch later function…
21 Feb 2014
A blog that will never be published
One thing that they never told me is that contacts matter. That in a lot of ways, it doesn’t matter what you write, as long as you can sell it. As a kid, I never realised the truth. The value of a good network. “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”
(The truth came later. You know, I have never landed a job based on merit [and I’ve had several]. I’ve worked hard and built a good reputation for myself after the fact, but getting the job in the first place has always been a matter of knowing someone who could get me in.)
I don’t recall whether it was a conscious choice or not, but I elected to believe in the romantic ideal of writing: that quality would sell itself. That a good enough book would get published, and that success would come once I’d earned it through writing.
And look, I have to admit that given recent news, there is some merit to this approach. It might even turn out to be a winning plan. Only time will tell.
But for the moment, and especially when coupled with observations of my contemporaries, it seems that while this part of the process is important – vital – to any serious artist, that’s not where it ends. Not by a long shot. When I set out on this path, all those years ago, I had no idea what it entailed.
Ever since first being published in 2011, I have stepped so far outside my comfort zone that I don’t even remember where it was. Exhibiting at cons, soliciting punters, making friends with complete strangers whose only connection to me is a mutual interest in making comics, building and engaging audiences in social media, and attempting to maintain some sort of constant public profile… that’s the part that others seem to excel at. Not me.
The writing part is easy. Relatively speaking, anyway. Self-promotion isn’t easy for anyone (I assume), but no one else seems to be as totally intimidated by it as I am.
And now, with the prospect of launching an ambitious Kickstarter project, I worry. I keep thinking about the comics creators I’ve met along the way. The way they draw crowds to themselves, the way they engage an audience, the way they build a tightly networked community among themselves. They’re the kinds of people who can run Kickstarter campaigns. Me? I’m on the periphery. I might have a career, but I’m not tied into a network. I have loose connections to it at best. My project’s gonna tank. And tank hard. Embarrassingly hard.
“You’re not them. You’ll never be as good at this as they are.” That’s what my brain keeps whispering to me.
I know my shortcomings. There’s no point denying it: I don’t have the effortless-looking charisma I see in a lot of the comics folks I’ve met. I’m not naturally social, and find small talk impossibly draining and stressful. I’m intimidated by crowds and feel overshadowed by pretty much everyone in the creative industries. I’m not going to make it if my networking skills are the difference between success and failure.
It’s entirely possible that my writing career will have to rise or fall based solely on the quality of my work.
And that’s going to be a real test of that idealism I had as a kid.
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Context: I’ve been inspired by @dc’s blog to get some honest thoughts down on paper. But I don’t think I can ever post them to my blog. For some reason, I can’t shake the feeling that potential readers and potential backers will think less of my writing if they realise just how insecure I am. That without this false confidence I project, they might not be so easily persuaded to check out my work, or pledge to my Kickstarter (if/when, etc). Or I’m just feeling a bit anxious about other things entirely outside my control, and this is just a purge of feelings that I’ll regret publishing tomorrow. Or maybe I’m not courageous enough to put this all the way out there. One of those (or all of them).Hola, weekend TAY.
do what @DC did and create a Tumblr! Even I have one now!
The only people I’d offer the link to would be TAYbies, so I might as well just post it here. I don’t especially want to keep these words, and I also don’t want people stumbling across them by accident. It’s probably not realistic at all, but this persona-fake-confident-type-Shane still seems like an important guy to keep in the public eye.
Also, DC is much braver than he gives himself credit for. Braver than me in a lot of ways.
Aha! Yep, see, I’m already regretting posting it!
Much better that it die here in the next couple of days than be stuck on a blog 😛
DON’T YOU DARE EDIT
FWIW, it takes a lot of work to be outgoing and extroverted and engaging when that’s not your natural mode- it’s not really mine either, but I can fake it well enough (oddly, I’m fine on stage, or addressing a group, I’m just awful in conversation or social situations with people I don’t know).
Most people I meet take me for being social and open and all that, but even now it still is something I work on and need to turn on- a lot of the time I would much prefer slinking off in the background. To be open and engaging with something as personal as a written work is a whole ‘nother level of brave.
A secret peek into Shane’s diary! Very personal – I like it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Shane, publish this thing. You’re awesome. Put it on your blog. It’s good insight. It makes you more relateable to those who don’t know you. It’s well written. It’s honest. It’s good. Publish.
To tell you the truth, I totally have an upcoming entry on whether I think speaking so openly is doing more harm than good. I have these thoughts too, my friend. It’s just I honestly have nothing to lose at the moment that I’m willing to take the risk. I think there’s nothing wrong with what you’ve written and people will think more of you rather than less. *decisive nod*
When I worked at Big Brother I totally fucked up the contacts thing too, btw.
Still not gonna publish it. But thanks for the kind words 🙂
Fine. Published it. You’re an inspiration after all 😛
fell asleep and woke up again
There’s no alternative. Except death.
I go to check out Willem Dafoe on imdb, (as you do) and it turns out he has a role in… Finding Dory? What in the name of Quetzalcoatl is Finding Dory? According to imdb it’s a… sequel to Finding Nemo? How have I not heard of this? I think I heard the words “Finding Dory at some point, but I just assumed it was some dumb internet meme about Ellen Degeneres x Where’s Wally.
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121231023342/podtoid/images/thumb/b/ba/Spider-man-norman-osborn-willem-dafoe-goblin-smile.png/500px-Spider-man-norman-osborn-willem-dafoe-goblin-smile.png
Fuck you Dark Souls and fuck your stupid Channeler’s Trident. I beat you.
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/436850110815690752
Fuck yeah!
Uh… There’s one in my backpack :p
An aborted foetus?
A woman?
Only ONE?
Dammit that was supposed to be in reply to @shane’s Lynx comment. Phone browser.
Have you got javascript turned off? As I recall you need it on to do replies correctly, its caught me out like that a few times
@aliasalpha It’s Opera Mini, it runs the stuff through their servers and repacks it to use less data/run better. It can handle javascript stuff, but it’s very iffy on whether it goes right or not. Site’s way too sluggish on the normal browser.
Tried to do some homework. I spent 15 minutes staring at the page with no freaking idea what the hell I am supposed to be doing. I’m going to bed.
Pixel’s Cooking Extravaganza in Project Zomboid…
1. spend 10 minutes reading Cooking For Beginners.
2. Turn on stove
3. get meat patties
4. run in circles because the stove caught on fire
5. burn down @f4ction’s safehouse
6. \o/
*sigh* My life’s at one of those points where there are three things to choose from, but only viable time for two of them.
My mentality at the moment is “I can have it all! Life’s got nothing on Ol’liondrive! I’ll show it who’s boss!”.
Pretty sure I’m gonna wear myself out / have a mental and or emotional crash if I keep going like this.
F*** it, I’m going to have it all >:(
You want it all
You want it all
You want it all
And you want it now.
Wise words there from Freddie Mercury and look how well he turned ou… err okay perhaps not the best example.
I like the idea of going for all of them but pick one that’s definitely the one you’ll drop if there comes a time you need to.
Yeah, I know the one I will need to drop if things get too hard, but I’ve never had it before and now really want to keep it 🙁
The three things for clarity are:
– University Life
– Work Life, and
– Social Life
Goodbye social life, I won’t give you up without a fight though! >:'(
I’m GOING to (attempt) to have it all!
How flexible is uni? Maybe instead of 4 subjects a semester you can do 3.
Uni isn’t super flexible for me unfortunately 🙁 Especially if I want to finish it by the end if next year. The most flexible is Social, which I could easily drop, but that would ruin my moral. I’m going to try and balance work a bit better, say like 3 days a week or something before I stop being social again 🙁
I’m going to have it all…
*cries myself to sleep*
I’m sure I’m stressing about nothing. But truthfully I’d rather cut work and stay social. I’ve really never had a social life before, and with things like dating, clubbing and friends, I don’t want to give it up… But I need money for that stuff 🙁
There in lies the dilemma, since giving up uni is not an option.
Definitely don’t give up the social life if you need it, its too psychologically damaging
I never used to need it, but now that I’ve had a taste of it I can’t see myself giving it up and still being happy. I’mma cut back work first just a little if the balance between the three is out.
After 2 decades without, I can say that happy is probably more important than everything else
Fuck you bigotry! Fuck you right in your backwards arse, terrified, authoritarian, barbaric ear!
I might actually go to bed with a smile on my face for once.
review for Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~ on stream-
@powalen @rocketman @cj @freezespreston
Tickets have been bought. So far as I can tell Rocketbuddy, Pow, and CJ have had their money come through.
I also bought a spare ticket in case someone (@alexpants) decides they want to join us.
And now, until I get paid, I am poor.
Can you double check the numbers you sent me? Keeps telling me they’re invalid.Never mind. Wife kept putting the space in which broke it.
Why you gotta confuse her like that Blaghs? Remember she’s a blonde.
Odd.
They’re the same ones I sent everyone else (since I copied them out of that email), and they look to be correct.
*shrugs*
@dc
@greenius
@jimu what’re u doin ere!
Jus’ y’know…
I donno!
mayb @dc noes??
Mebbeh
Welcome to Dead TAY! Two days of rolling tumbleweeds and Ennio Morricone background music. Well not really but it sure gets pretty quiet here on weekends.
…
Okay, I’m off. See you in two. 😀
weekend tay does have its quiet moments, but there are people about. Crazyguy1990 is ever present!
Yeah I’m still around too I guess. Family events come into full swing for me on weekends though.
I used to be the same. Would go see my parents on the weekend, even if just to pop in and say hi. Back in the days when I lived 2 mins from their house. Now it’s 15-20mins away, so doesn’t happen as much anymore.
What’d you say about me?!
😛
I’m omnipresent on weekends.
If TAY were a booze-up, I’d be the hangover.
I see how it is. Shall I just show myself out?
D:
No!
)`:
Yeah I can tell where I’m not welcome!
Nah ily. You can stay. 😀
WHOOPS that’s a little bit intrusive. Who knew that ily is I Love You? I thought it was Like.
It’s supposed to be like. LIKE. 😀
You derp =P I still need to send off those cushions
The mere presence of Ennio Morricone suggests that weekend TAY is best TAY.
Not sorry.
@dc @sughly
When you’re taking a break from Donkey Kong…
AF2014 Day 2!
____
Thoughts:
I’m so picking Big Leg! Also there’s a shot with Anna talking and in the background there’s a wall with art on it and some of it is for Black Lake :O :O? (it’s just AF2012 art though but still… HMMmmmm!). Mnemonic :/… Looks like it became Brad’s project :P. I just hope Derek holds it together and grows, don’t break buddy!Ehhhh. Mnemonic. This shouldnt have got picked, seriously. I felt bad for him on day one when he was struggling, but he cant come in day 2 and still be that way. Shouldve gone home, knuckled out exactly what he wanted to be the game mechanics, and hit the ground running day 2. 2 days down and hes still lost.But anyway, little pink best buds looks amazing, totally raised my amount so I can play it now. The way he delivered that ‘have you had anything wrong with your body parts’ bit was perfect, oh man. Anna’s russian one sounds super promising too, really like how Lee is doing the parallaxing in the office, sounds really cool. Even if that was in day one’s ep but WHATEVER.
Also not playing DK til tomorrow since ash is as it his mums house today, dont want to be tempted to start it without him :/
It’s okay we can still discuss previous eps 🙂
I didn’t want to be too harsh or judgemental on Derek because I know nothing about Game Development, but you’re allowed to say those things :D. I do agree though, at least get the basis of what your game is about. Why pitch if you’re not prepared to follow through with it? :/. I just feel bad cause it’s kinda taking up someone else’s spot but I really, really hope he pulls though and doesn’t break down (which seems more likely) :(. Poor dudeAnd I imported DK so I won’t be getting it for like a month or so 😛
Yeah, taking a certain horror themed adventure games spot >:(
ExtraTerrarium!
I dont know what this means
It’s a game whose pitch I also liked
My legs… D:
What kind of hell is this soreness?
)`:
What were you doing? Leg work at the gym?
Yesterday I had to walk about 500m uphill to get to this music store to see if they had a dual mic clip stand (they didn’t, unfortunately), and now my legs are paying for i.
Never skip leg day.
But can I skip on leg day?
That’s what phones are for.
Or leg exercises
God DAMMIT Dark Souls stop removing my summoning signs anytime I walk more than two metres away from them to go do something else while I wait for godamn forever to be summoned. I did not load up the game to have it idle there while I read a book.
Ahem. I really hope that fix that in DS2.
You need to know where the boundaries are. You’ll find you can usually walk for ages in another direction.
Oh they’re easy to find, just pitifully small. And for some bizarre reason some of them will let you go to bonfires, others won’t. Take the gargoyles, for example. Boundaries are the walkway to the bonfire/smith, the elevators to firelink, and the portcullis gate in front of the cathedral. A grand total of 12 enemies to kill (not including pink hollows) and no ability to reset. So you pretty much just have to sit there.
Duke’s Archives on the other hand gives you a fair run when you place your sign at the bonfire, can farm the channelers for opportunities to be frustrated at the RNG. But the boundaries are weird and make no sense, and they really shouldn’t be there in the first place. If I plant a summon sign next to a boss, why does the game care which zone I’m in when I get summoned? I have to load the area anyway…
Also, you were totally right about the DLC being worthwhile.
Definitely pads out the game to what it feels like it was meant to be. Healthily filling.
One of the few DLCs out there that totally nails what a DLC should be.
How far into it did you get?
I murdered… everything. So it was basically an evening’s work. But satisfying!
Back to completing my pre-NG+ checklist.
All I really have left is getting channeler’s trident, killing Guinevere, then I’m pretty much ready for the kiln.
Oh boy, mum’s coming over today! Hopefully she doesn’t think our new housemate is as batshit mental as our old one (she’s not).
So yeah, uni’s looking like more of a bludge this year than it was last year. I have to be at uni for a whole 3 hours next week, which I’m sure will be taxing. I’m looking forward to getting back there though after over 3 months of doing nothing. I just want something constructive to do at this point :S
How do you only have 3 hours of uni?!
WHAT IS YOUR SECRET?!?!
3 hours of uni… I’d guess only needing to pick up one subject as a prerequisite for doing others later in the year. That’s how I managed it.
Stuck my writing minor in the second time it happened just because I got too bored
It’ll go up to 7 hours a week after next week, but first week is only lectures and I only have 2 of them 😛
7 hours a week?!?!
I’m on… 13 hours a week!!! D’:
Starting from my first week!!!
So I went into Target today. It was an… interesting experience.
Every aisle for women’s clothing has a picture above it that is cartoonishly over-sexualised.
There was a playable Wii U on display. This was the first time I have ever interacted with a Wii U. It has been out for 15 months, and my first experience was at Target. Splendid.
I must say, the gamepad is a lot smaller than I thought it was going to be.
The gamepad, however, was initially covered in some other kid’s sweat. It was quite horrifying.
I played about two minutes of Lego City Undercover. I got annoyed that I couldn’t beat up civilians. Come on, Chase, your’re undercover. No rules apply.
Decided to switch over to Wonderful 101. Couldn’t figure out the control scheme. A to turn into a fist, Right Trigger to turn into a swimming fist thing. Y does nothing.
When I was playing the Wii U, my mother asked what I was doing and I replied with, “I’m playing the Wii U.”
She then proceeded to ask what the Wii U was. There’s your problem, Nintendo. You done fucked up your marketing.
@powalen, remember when I said I ran in circles for an hour on Route 3 looking for a Jigglypuff? It turns out there are no Jigglypuffs on route 3. I wasted my time.
You know, whenever I replay a Pokemon game, I get really into planning out my entire strategy for the game. I have even picked the move lists for my entire team before I’ve even caught the Pokemon. If I ever get around to playing Pokemon Black, I’m going to try and do it blind.
I used to do that. Before Gen 3 came out I’d fully planned out my exact team weeks before the game released 😛
These days I find it more fun to go in blind and just catch whatever looks good along the way.
Really just want to go home tonight and finish off Dark Souls for good (Greatshield of Artorias and Darkmoon Blade miracle left, hnnnghh, so close) but I have to go to a 30th birthday of a friend.
Wat do.
Call in sick.
Paint yourself blue before you go, as the door opens shout “FREEZE S PRESTON HAS INVADED YOUR GAME!”. When they ask what’s going on, say only that you’re a spirit of vengeance.
You’ll be able to go home soon enough
I was going to do that anyway.
I heard a weird, distorted version of Let it go screeching from my sister’s room. When I asked my sister what the hell was going on, she replied with:
It’s it possible to disown a sibling? I know you can do it to your children, and I want to know if the same rules apply to siblings.
Tell her some random on the Internet is disappointed in her.
Two people. The Demi Lovato version? Really? Some people.
*walks away while slowly shaking his head
Three people
*sigh* Kids these days
Four (and five if Mrs Shane has a say).
Done.
@blaghman
Are you home?
Are you bored?
Draw sesh? 😛
I’ve been watching a lot of Double Fine game development stuff lately. Obviously our derping isn’t nearly as good but one day we’ll get there… !
Two weeks from today, Frenzal Rhomb are playing at the Hi-Fi in Brisbane! I know one or two peeps from here went to the last show or the one before that, so just checking to see if there is anyone going this time?!
So my dad came round as well… Holy fuck the tension in the room. They only stayed for like 10 minutes but oh god. Can’t thank mrs O enough for keeping them occupied so I didn’t really have to talk to my dad.
Urgh.
I just had the best idea for a PvP tactic for Dark Souls.
(+15) Uchigatana + Power Within + Darkmoon Blade = (Hopefully) Crazy damage output for one minute.
Now just need to decide whether to buff Intelligence or Faith so that Darkmoon Blade scales appropriately with a Talisman…
Faith. Power Within scales from the glove and Darkmoon Blade is a miracle.
Although I don’t think Power Within changes at high levels.
Edit: Just checked. A level one flame will produce an identical effect as a level 5 ascended flame.
I was more concerned with the Talisman used to cast Darkmoon. I can use Velkas Talisman which means I have to raise intelligence, but I think you get better results from using the Darkmoon Talisman, which requires high faith to wield. I hardly ever use any magic, so I’m a little in over my head, but really want to try this build 😀
Also, what’s the most common PvP level if anyone knows?
120.
You also need 30 faith to use Darkmoon Blade at all.
Errr, 30 faith. That’s like 20 Soul Levels away :\ that’ll put me at 95, so still have 25 to go.
Hopefully it’s worth it. It’s a lot of levels to potentially waste :\
The tactic I’ve seen everyone use is those five or so dark balls over the head all lobbed at once, which seems to do MASSIVE damage.
They fight normally or whatever til they get hurt, then they pop a full heal and run away, dragging you back through all the enemies you haven’t fought. The enemies don’t target them, only you, so they can hit you while you’re fighting, or they use the distraction to get into a good position to heal up and ambush with those magic balls.
The only REAL way to win PVP seems to be to have a shitload of disposable humanities to use – then it’s basically about running them down and hoping they get tired and slip up enough to do any kind of cast you can interrupt with a running-jump overhead greatsword smash, which usually drops them to about half health.
(I don’t know why people keep leaving themselves open to that. Maybe they’re only worried about backstabs and don’t realize how much damage you can do to poise/stam with a greatsword?)
I win a fair few of my invasions with my current tactic. Two to three poison arrows from my composite bow before they realise what’s happening, then put pressure on them with rolling spear attacks until they slip up. Not the most noble of victories, but it seems to work well enough :3
Also it helps that my dude looks like he should weigh a ton, but he has still got an agile roll and a butt load of stamina to burn through.
So I created one those Skype thingamajigers, solely for the purpose of testing a six-year old webcam I found in a drawer. I’m annoyed by the Microsoft bullshit. Why do I need two accounts?
Well, I just had this open in a tab for several hours without posting, so I may as well finish what I was going to say.
The skype call didn’t work, as I lack a microphone.
EDIT: I forgot, but one of the options during the Skype installation was Make bing my default search engine, and Make msn my default web page. Microsoft are eeeevil.
I didn’t think you needed 2 accounts now, I thought you could just sign in with your MS ID and that was the end of it
Need to do another TAYcinema soon.
Oh yeah, I remember that, it was fun. I think I’ll leave the movie choosing to someone else since the movie I chose that time was really boring. Dan and Hellscream even started their own video stream on the side.
I hope we are talking about the same thing and you’re not referring to people going out and seeing a movie. If so, oops 😛Nope. You’re thinking of the right thing. I enjoyed that even if the movie was terrible.
#missMashaalready
Aww :’-)
Dark Souls: Channeler’s Trident get. FINALLY, I can continue onward to slay all NPCs and merchants, then finish the game.
Kindling bonfires? I recommend it.
Heh. Something I did obsessively as soon as I got each upgrade. They’re all at 20 as soon as I could get ’em there. 🙂
Awesome. NG+ is something else. All the best!
Thanks! Getting into it now. Encountered my first puzzle already… what the hell is that item on a corpse near Firelink that I can’t pick up but which just leaves a glowing sack on the ground. TO THE WIKI!
(Edit: It was binoculars. Of course!)
???
Might be something you’re holding 99 of…?
Edit: re: edit: ah.
NG+ is pretty cool, but outside of the multiplayer stuff, I don’t see there being much more in it for me. I’ll kill all the bosses again to get the weapons for the trophy, but then I’ll have 100% of the trophies… I mean, a few hours in and both bells. It’s an entirely different story when you know what you’re doing.
And it’d probably be even faster if I hadn’t stayed online… god DAMN there are so many invasions at this level! I can’t move more than halfway through an area without another dark spirit. It’s been great for getting me an extra half-dozen soul levels (they drop tens of thousands each), but a couple of them have killed me, which is supremely annoying when you’re trying to do something in weird gear/rings. 😛
I decided to start adding tags to my steam games. This was the result: (Most are other people’s tags that I upvoted)
Bionic Commando
Spiderman with guns, Great Soundtrack, Underrated, Hydrophobe, Bionic oppression
(I wanted to put Bionic Racism instead but I didn’t want to get auto-flagged)
Bleed
Female Protagonist, Pixel Graphics, Hidden gem, Bullet Hell
Section 8: Prejudice
Dead Multiplayer, Underrated, Games for Windows Live ,Extinct developer, Jetpacks, Weak Story,
Poor campaign, good multiplayer, Sci-fi, Nothing Like Halo
Worms Revolution
Exploding Sheep, Nerfed ninja rope, Turn-based Strategy, donkey, Unique Weapons
HUH? More Farscape?
http://if.com.au/2014/02/21/article/Monjo-pens-HBO-pilot-Farscape-movie/QNYSTLVCCT.html
Honestly don’t know what to make of this one.
The premise is odd. Didn’t Crichton destroy the wormhole to Earth in any event?Don’t know who here is a Farscape-follower? @rize? @strange? Sorry if I got those wrong and/or omitted anyone!
Edit: Remembered that I forgot @redartifice.
Edits don’t give notifications.
I know, but it’s a courtesy thing for when Red comes to read this later on.
You think red is going to check TAY on Sunday. That’s cute.
Not sure how I feel about it, but I’d still watch it 😛
Also, even though my marriage is hanging by a thread*, I’m feeling kind of happy. And here’s why.
*It’s not really. It’s totally over.@powalenso now you can be mine…How’re you liking the 3D?
I like the new style – it’s pretty cool. Though some of the images just aren’t as funny as they used to be (Phoenix sweating for example), and I keep switching the 3D on and off again because I’m indecisive.
Also, fully voiced cutscenes? What is this madness? Paving the way for an anime series, I hope 😛
Does Phoenix sound good? In the trailer I was all “aww” cause it sounded pretty high pitched and not as low as the “OBJECTION!”s in the DS games :P.
You probably know the answer to this too, but how much does the DLC cost for us? I couldn’t find it in the eShop so I assume it’s sold through an in-game menu? I think it’s $6 in the US so hopefully it’s not like $12 here or something… 🙁
It’s $6.95 I think. And yeah, you have to have the game installed before it appears anywhere.
And all the voices are very high-pitched (except, oddly, for Prosecutor Payne)
Thanks S-DOG!
I think I need some more advice.
Family crap again
So my Aunts have sold the house, however, they had no plans of telling us. In fact, my cousin actually told me. When he rang up his mother to ask how much it sold for, his Mother said that my mother didn’t deserve to know because she hadn’t paid bills since December.Isn’t stuff like this considered illegal?
I’m asking because Mum is freaking the hell out over it and she really needs to gain weight, not lose it.
Uh, don’t you guys have partial ownership? You’re going to need part of the split. Which, yes, would be illegal. Get a lawyer. That’s serious stuff and you can’t be messing around with it.
It’s a 4 way split, but Mum’s sisters are the executors.
Executors are there solely to see that the contents of the will are executed properly. They don’t get to rewrite entitlements… at least as far as I’m aware.
They have done everything their own way
no entitlements have been rewritten! and why would you think they where?
It definitely sounds like overstepping the mark by more than a footfall, it sounds like a legal no ball to me. Lawyers definitely need to be involved, if you were partial owners of the house and beneficiaries of the will, you should be legally required to be informed of chances of circumstance and there’s absolutely no way they can withhold the agreed upon share as long as there’s something in writing.
There’d be a maximum allowable period of time after the sale in which they’d have to settle accounts with partners and by the sound of things they’re the type who’d take that to the last second but if they’re in violation of that they could be liable for a lawsuit because its not an agreement, its a contract.
Thank you. Mum feels a lot better reading this. We struggle enough as it is and they are not freaking helping.
It is important to note that I’m not even remotely a lawyer, I’m extrapolating from the bits I remember from when we were selling our house 2 years ago and from when I was going to be doing the power of attorney thing for my sister.
It wasn’t my house so I was really only observing and my sister died before I signed the paperwork for the power of attorney anyway so technically I’ve never legally been involved in any of this but it seems a logical hypothesis.
If nothing else, as far as I know your names on a legal document involving the exchange of property or money make it a contract and contract law seems to be the easiest type to get action on. You were supposed to do X, Y & Z, you’ve only done Y & Z, do X or you’re in breach of contract.
lawyers are involved, when the house is sold its gets split 4 ways, the lawyers will send out 4 equal cheques. thanks for the advise though. by the way, scree is not a partial owner of the house, her mother is, scree has nothing to do with this. and as for the maximum allowable period of time, once the house is sold, the lawyers will get the money to everyone as fast as they can.
Get a new family.
Sounds easy but unless you’ve remembered to keep the receipt…
http://www.legalaid.vic.gov.au/get-legal-services-and-advice/free-legal-advice/get-help-over-phone
Also:
http://www.legalaid.vic.gov.au/find-legal-answers/wills-and-estates/administration-of-estate
Notice that nowhere in there does it say the executor can change the content of the will. They can only execute it. A properly-written will is a binding legal document and changing it requires the involvement of a court.
I’m no lawyer but this sounds straight-up illegal to me.
By Scree’s description I’d say it’s probably not illegal yet. Unless the sale has been formally completed and everything exchanged it’d technically still be open and even afterwards there’d be a period where they’d have to inform the other parties and divide the plunder me hearties but a solid argument backed up by legal advice would be a very advisable move.
If all else fails @scree, I’m big, imposing and tend to freak people out, I can just come down and look all quiet and menacing just by standing still in the same room with them and doing nothing. They’ll cave soon enough…
Thank you so much for all your help. It’s helped a hall of a lot.
Once Mum gets her money, I’m probably going to cease to contact the family, aside from one cousin.
Not a problem my friend, glad to be of assistance
Dark Souls – The
DiaryJournal of SkailorusHah! I beat bone-club guy outside the Undead Bug. I had faced him several times before, but I could never figure out how to beat him. I remembered that firebombs helped the last time I fought him, so I bought about 70. (3K souls worth) Prooobably overkill.When it came time to face him, I thought of a strategy. Focus on dodging his attacks, backstab him when I got the chance, and throw a firebomb whilst he is down. Jump back immediately with the hope that his fiery physique won’t make it harder to see his bone club and repeat. My strategy was quite effective. Previously, I would have been able to peck off about 20% of his health.
The whole fight took about three minutes, and I burnt all my Estus. I had enough Vitality that his hits took 90% of my health instead of the 100% I got before.
When he died, he dropped something called “Havel’s Ring.” Is bone-club guy is named Havel? Maybe bone-club guy stole it from a guy named Havel, and there is a quest to give it back to him.
No, that’s Havel, and the ring now belongs to you. One of the game’s more useful rings; use it wisely. Kudos.Grats! That’s a seriously hard fight at earlier levels! One wrong move = Chosen Pancake
Boo yah, nice work.
Havel The Rockis one of the first fights that can be really hard in the game, tight quarters and really high penalty for failure as well as him having a lot of heath to whittle down.The ring is great if you’re wearing armour, really takes the edge of the stamina you lose when rolling away from an attack
That’s not a bone club, it’s a dragon’s tooth. You can find all of Havel’s equipment later in the game.Goodnight, all.
Didn’t know anyone now I’m best friends with everyone. Thanks Buliett Bourbin.
Well that’ll be news to my best friend.
Or not since that’s apparently now you.
Eaaaaasted! I will have a social Blige!!!!
Sorry for drunk posting, buy weekend Tay is dead anyway!so
Tout app awesome nm east! Never change Rat!
Peace, we our!
<3 Lio.drive to
I find your drunk posts a challenge of sort.
Come sunday over here, I’ll make sure to throw down the gauntlet. And get so wasted that said gauntlet is thrown through a neighbors window by accident.
Do you know what’s more of a challenge? Going to bed at 5am then going to work at 11am. Wish me luck!
Also, how am I supposed to say I’m just not feeling the best if I can’t get these damn club stamps off my arm! >:(
I love drunken TAY posts. XD
They should be turned into a song
@blaghman
I’m just glad I didn’t make too big an arse of myself :3
It wouldn’t matter if you did mate, I like big butts and I cannot lie…
So, uh, cool dudes playing the FF beta on PS4, what world you rolling? I’m on world 5. Because if we’re actually gonna group together we gotta try to, I dunno, group together. Might be on nigh impossible considering how hectic it all is.
That’s on now!?… i forgot /o\
Watching Kill La Kill!
\o/
And my legs still hurt!
/o\
:O
No guys, seriously.
A wham line if I ever heard one.
And, after two months, I’vev finally configured my new sound card properly!
\o/
Once all the episodes are released, I will marathon it, and we shall have all the Kill la Kill discussions! ALL OF THEM.
Ryuko is a boring protag, in my opinion- adding mooorre angst into the mix don’t make her a better person. Then again, to make up for it all the supporting cast is magnificent, including the power couple Mako and Gamagoori. Best couple.
I’m totally digging the nudists. They have the best style.
(By which I mean… those two dudes. Because I’ve only seen up to ep 12.)
http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/22/5434142/the-return-of-tex-murphy-and-a-90s-fad
Any Tex Murphy fans here? Awesome first glimpse of Chandler Avenue in Unity 3D. Arrrrgh! So psyched!
Have some new refresh material.
No!
WOO! Thanks for your refresh material!
Oh god, Heroes the TV show is coming back. No word if it’s a reboot or not.
Either way I’m just.. I don’t want my heart broken again, man.
I’m super excited, I can’t wait to see an extension of the lesbian plot they forced against ol’ whatserface! That was some grand television!
Ooh!
Don’t care what anyone else says, I liked Heroes :p
First season was pretty awesome, as I recall. Then… I dunno. I started watching season 2, and it looked like they figrued that all that foreshadowing they’d done needed to be resolved, only to discover that hinting at something makes it much more mysterious and cool than showing it. So… cue disappointment. I watched no more.
In celebration of finally getting my pc speakers to do surround sound properly, what would you all suggest I watch in surround sound?
Decided to watch Sound City.
Happy birthday, @mrtaco!
Not sure if was today or yesterday, but it was sometime this weekend.
Hope it’s a good one and you have an amazing year too!
If he’s turning 30, the crystal in his hand may have turned red and he’s on his way to Carrousel now…
Years ago, I was considering getting into Pokemon ROM hacks. I made several word documents jotting down my ideas for Pokemon games. (Seriously, there was just under 9,000 words worth of ideas, I went super in-depth) But I couldn’t do anything from that point on, because the ROM-hacking tools didn’t support Mac OS. I’ve had my Win7 gaming rig for a while, and I have been debating whether to try it again. I am a little concerned about getting viruses by downloading the tools and the emulator, however. Should I go through with it?
I’ll probably repost this in new TAY tomorrow to get more feedback.
Yes
#Helping
I have been looking at a bunch of stuff through the CoolROM website, and it looks pretty legitimate. I think I’ll have to download the actual hacking tools through a different website, however. This is scary, I don’t have anti-virus.
A little more background: I had VBA running on my Macbook years ago. I didn’t actually download the emulator from a website, a guy at school handed me a USB with the files. I tried to get into ROM hacking, and couldn’t because Mac. I ended up losing the files during a re-imaging.
You don’t have antivirus?? Fucking hell dude, get your arse over to avast.com, solid free antivirus solution and doesn’t really bug you that often to buy their extra stuff, just keep saying you want to keep using the free version and you’re grand.
Is AVG worth it, or is it just a pile of garbage?
Not used it for years but I have vague memories of not liking it. Once Norton went to shit, I tried avast as a stopgap while looking for something else and I’ve not looked back since what with it being free, very effective and updated regularly
I’d suggest using MSE over Avast or AVG, but as I worked on it I am super-biased.
@dc
Watch Day 2 yet?!
Nah. D:
http://www.s2ki.com/s2000/uploads/gallery/album_34941/gallery_82195_34941_6577.jpg
Just feel bad for one of the team leaders, is all. Someone needs to give him a hug and I’m not good at watching uncomfortable stuff like this unfold. D:
But then in a week when he gains his confidence you’ll miss seeing his magical transformation unfold
I can’t imagine there are many people here who don’t have it by now but Dark Souls is 75% off on the xbox sale today.
As is Red Dead Redemption which is easily one of the best games of the last console generation and for $12.50 you’re mad to miss it.
Pretty nice prices there.
@shane did you end up getting a copy of Catherine? I actually found one at my local.
I did not. What kind of price are we talking?
It’s pre-owned, does that bother you?
Ha! No, I think I can count on one hand the number of actual ‘new’ games I’ve ever owned.
But cost bothers me… #LeadingTheWitness
As all $8 new copies were exhausted, EB’s preowned copies for $328 each were the next best thing. Minus an eight, of course. 😀 So I grabbed you one. What do you say, my shout this time?
Oh, man. Your massive generosity is really appreciated, but I can’t accept it. And especially at that crazy price. Please do me a favour and take it back within 7 days so you can get your refund. Please.
I don’t do refunds. I’ll be sending it over to you tomorrow. Uh, belated Chinese New Year gift instead of the usual Red Pocket. Or something. Enjoy. 😛
You need to consider introducing a refund policy.
I was planning to announce a game giveaway in the morning. You get first pick of the games, okay?
And I still think you should take the game back.
Good guy Benny! He never saves anything for the swim back!
Gattaca reference guys, in case you were all like, wtf? 😀
Thanks 🙂
It was today, yeah. Was alright I guess. Slightly awkward, my friends got up early and made a cake for me, and I got to stand there and not know how to properly respond, and yeah. Maybe the day at home instead wouldn’t have been so bad :p
Okay so how old are you now then? Did any of us guess right?
Bleh. That was a reply to @dc.
Someone mentioned before about how turning something (javascript, I think) off on your phone means replies don’t work. It’s okay, we knew who you were replying to. 🙂
Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Hopefully your day had more awesomeness than awkwardness. 😀
@strange The javascript’s on, it just doesn’t always go properly, even if I get the reply box appearing under the post it’s meant to. Just gotta remember to also tag my replies just in case :p
Overall it was good. Even when I derped with trains and had to wait around 3/4 an hour for the next :p
@aliasalpha: Yes.
Lightning Returns: spoilers for the day before the last day.
So I did enough quests to get the Thirteenth Day and unlock the Ultimate Lair, but got bored in there so I just went and slept in an inn until the Final Day.Spoilers for final, almost at the end stuff:
I accidentally saved over my file I’d saved after stopping Vanille so now I’m stuck in one of the Trial rooms trying to kill an Earth Eater who somehow keeps killing me even though I’ve defeated loads of them before.Non-spoilers: I’m not having fun anymore here at the end and don’t think I’ll do New Game+ or go for the Platinum Trophy. Even though some of the fun stuff is only unlocked in NG+, I just think I’m worn out with the game. I miss XIII-2. Serah and Noel were way cooler than Lightning.
How many hours have you played? I didn’t play it for about a week and I’m only playing it every few days (so I’m a bit behind) but it seems like you’ve been playing it a lot.
I’m still only 9 hours or so (so I didn’t read your spoilers) but a lot of the game just feels like fluff to buff up game time. The story and characters are baddd (but they mostly were in the previous FFXIII’s as well). I don’t know whether I’d say Serah and Noel are cooler than Lightning but their story definitely was :P.
Last I looked I was 35 hours of playtime. In a JRPG that usually means you’re just getting started, not that you’re almost at the end and supertired of your character. 😛
My spoilers weren’t really plot related,more just me saying how I’m getting so tired of it that even going somewhere new wasn’t interesting enough.
It sounds like the whole FFXIII saga is best left forgotten. I hope the wait for XV isn’t too long. And I hope it’s not shit.
I still recommend XIII-2. It’s actually one of my favourite games, and the most Final Fantasy-esque of the three. Collecting enemies to then be your pets and fight with you in your party was a nice touch, too. Playing Lightning Returns is mostly making me want to do a replay of it.
Awesome, I have XIII-2. Can’t wait to really get into it.
I survived being at work extremely hungover without arousing any suspicion! I should celebrate with a drink! 😀
Soundwave Brisbane 2014:
Missed Alter Bridge (only caught the last half of Blackbird & the last song Rise Today) but the band sounded tight, way better than when I saw them in 2012.
Richie Sambora was good, but he was shown up by Orianthi when it came to guitar playing, he was still great, but not as great as I was expecting. Richie managed to ruin Beds Are Burning by Midnight Oil, to the point where I had no idea what the song was until the chorus. He played some Bon Jovi some solo stuff, was a good mix, he nailed the Bon Jovi stuff vocal wise and put Jon to shame really, and Orianthi sung Living On A Prayer which was just epic, her voice suits it. Saying that I was rather happy I got to see Orianthi tear it up live, the first chance i’ve really had to see her since I discovered her music a few years ago.
The Living End, amazing as usual. I was pleased by the reception they got from the crowd, since they had been receiving a lot of hate online since they were announced. Was a good set from them, I was disappointed they didn’t take the chance to play Long Live The Weekend, would’ve been a good closer, not that West End Riot wasn’t a good choice, since it was. Also their version of Jailbreak was great. I think that’s three Soundwaves i’ve been to now that a band has covered AC/DC..
Placebo were good, not a fan, but they were decent live. They were pretty non interactive with the crowd though, singer did a bit here & there but for the most they just played their songs and that was it.
A Day To Remember, were alright, they also have some interesting things for the crowd and such like getting someone to crowd surf and then get someone to crowd surf that person like a surfboard. Also sticking the singer in a giant blow up ball and chucking him into the crowd was cool. They also had rolls of dunny paper thrown into the crowd on their last song, hardcore bands I tell ya. They also tried to start a circle pit but failed I think haha.
Alice In Chains, couldn’t hear DuVall’s vocals at all which was annoying to say the least, otherwise they seemed alright. The worst part however was the crowd especially those deciding to share bodily fluids like blood around the front so at that point I left and the fact people were shoving people for the hell of it like they were attempting to start fights..
Jimmy Eat World, they were alright. Don’t listen to them but they were enjoyable for the 20 or so minutes I watched them.
Green Day; they played 29 songs which included half of Dookie and about the same of American Idiot. They only played for 2 & a half hours so they left the stage at something like 9:35 so that was a kick in the teeth if you ask me since they could’ve played for the other 25 minutes. But you get that, they were good though saying that. They also haven’t changed the structure of their live show over the last 10 years, which isn’t a surprise but I didn’t really expect it to be same sorta thing. Though the t-shirt cannon was rad 😛 never seen a shirt launched 60+ metres in the air and about as far out haha. Also a few audience members got to participate in songs whether it was singing or like the chick who got to play Knowledge (Operation Ivy cover) and then got to keep the guitar (which looked like a Fender Telecaster) that was cool.
Two bands I wanted to see most I didn’t get to see that being Alter Bridge & Newsted (since they had last minute cancellation but oh well) I also wanted to see Bowling For Soup but I got lazy and decided not to, I probably should’ve gone, I tried to locate the signing tent to go meet them but I ran into my mates and got chatting with them instead lol.
Overall, it was a good day, hell even my 12 dollar burger was edible, tasty and actually filling!
But it was no Soundwave 2013 or 2012.. I don’t think anything will top those two for me again unless Metallica headline again or Slipknot/Stone Sour play again..
I hope AJ follows through and ends up having Soundwave made into a 2 day festival, that would be awesome.
Mr. Strange’s YouTube channel has the vids he took yesterday. Couple of Bowling For Soup ones in there if you want to see what you missed. 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/user/dallash71
He has Alter Bridge too, awesome! 😀
Thanks Strange 🙂
I. AM. HYPE.
Joined the Darkmoon covenant to get the Darkmoon Blade miracle. Need 10 souvenirs of reprisals. Figured easiest place would be Undead Parish since Blades of the Darkmoons can invade guilty people at levels a fraction of their own.
I actually feel awful but it seems an extremely efficient way of getting them quickly. Poor guys…
DARKMOON BRO! \o/
Aw that’s mean.
I farmed the souvenirs in the Painted World. It took very little time. Less than an hour, I think.Though that was because I had no Gold account at the time. I totally would have considered invading people if I’d had the opportunity.
I felt too bad after 4 kills with no resistence so I’m currently in the depth with 3v1 fights. Tense to say the least. Won 3 lost 2 so far.
3-3 now.
That’s funny. By the time I was poking into the Darkmoon blade miracle I already had three souvenirs of reprisal. I’ve done pretty much the entire game (and NG+) with the loot ring on, though. So those harpies in the painted world gave me all I needed to get that miracle.
I would like to give thanks to @crazyguy1990 for gifting me Skullgirls. I owe you one.
Is Community Kudos a thing anymore? I would like to nominate @crazyguy1990. I think that’s how it works? @markserrels
I seem to recall it was going to be fortnightly but I think that was a month ago now. Maybe its fortmonthly.
I don’t think so. I keep sending emails. I imagine the next one will just be “Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark, whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhy?”
I feel kind of bad, the very first time I remembered to send in a nom was just after the last kudos we saw, I sort of feel like I broke it
Nah, I think Mark is just being lazy or people aren’t nomming.
That’s okay, we’ll make our own community kudos, with blackjack and hookers!
I hope someone can teach me the rules, never really played either of those…
Round these parts we call ‘im Crazybuy
@welbot came up with that I thinkMmmhm.
@strange: You’re probably the most likely person to know about this. I was going through some old music and rediscovered ‘Age of Winters’ by The Sword. I stopped paying attention to them after their second album was a complete piece of shit. Did they ever pull it back together again?
What? You didn’t like Gods of the Earth?
That’s my favourite…
Nope, I thought it was weak and generally awful with nothing standing out at all. Age of Winters was an amazing album, it was like someone had put Black Sabbath on ice in the mid 70s and then thawed them out 30 years later.
I’ve never actually heard an entire The Sword album, so I have no idea. They’ve been on my list of ‘bands I’d like to check out one day’ for a while, but I’ve never been in the right mood when I thought about them.
I just spent 20 minutes browsing pokemon art for my firefox theme. Well worth it to have a Piplup and Pikachu over the bookmarks menu.
It’s probably made browsing worse but I don’t care BECAUSE PIKACHU.
My fan is making this constant loud whirring noise….
Anyone know what could be the cause?
Dust. 😛
Maybe he/she needs to be fed. Also, it might be a seizure, so be prepared to call 000.
Never change. 😀
But my clothes would start to smell… :\
Final page is page 6.
Every page etc
Any one else on the Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze bandwagon? So good. Honestly think it’s a real contender for best game on the Wii U. (Pikmin 3 has been the long standing victor for some time now!)
Pikmin 3 was shortstanding victor. Because Wonderful 101 came out just a month afterwards!
I’m gonna hop on this bandwagon as soon as I can. In that I’ll buy the game. But I don’t know when I’ll get to playing it, Rayman and 3D World are both sitting there in the queue 😛
I really hated Wonderful 101. XD
Wasn’t fond of 3D World either. Haha!
DKC:TF is every bit as good as Rayman though. So whatever you play, you should be set!
Monster etc.
I can’t remember, did you finish W101 or give up on it?
Give up!
Worst!
How far in were you?
3D World is fun but it ain’t no 64/Sunshine/Galaxy
Galaxy was fun but it ain’t no 64/Sunshine 😛
I only did like two levels before other diversions took hold of me, it seemed like a solid game, am I enamored by it? not yet I guess.
Hey @dc, what’s with the name calling on Twitter? Unless you’re watching me through the windows, there’s nothing I did today that warrants calling me a gent.
It’s a term of endearment!
I asked a question about Ace Attorney 5 and you answered it.
Whatta guy!
https://twitter.com/dkzeitgeist/status/398407932976443393
Yep, I’m a real gent.
Oh, now @dkzeitgeist is gonna be all “why’d this punk Greenius favourite a tweet from 2013?” 😛
Well now he knows…
Yeah, context really is everything… and I wasn’t sure if everyone was up on this running joke yet.
So…much…Skullgirls…
I DID IT!
PRAISE THE SUN \o/
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/437568146262614016
I don’t think I want to videogame for a while. That was exhausting.
WOOOO!
That is all.
Congrats, man. That’s awesome! Take two and a half weeks off 🙂
I felt kinda the same way about 100%’ing Assassin’s Creed 4. 🙂 (Not platinum – half the trophies are locked in fucking multiplayer. Damn whoever is responsible for that…)
Goodnight all, see you in new TAY!
Skullgirls is awesome.
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And with that, this TAY draws to a close.
I am so glad I checked back and found this.
shhh it’s a secret to everybody
Damn, consider me beat! That was a work of art, I can’t believe I missed this when it was posted! :’)
I’ll have to step up my game next time >:P
Ugh… can’t sleep…
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