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2,126 responses to “Talk Amongst Yourselves”
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I SWEAR TO GOD IF WE DEVOLVE INTO PEOPLE WHO SAY FIRST I WILL RIP SOMEONES FINGERS OFF
Fourth!
I think you need to get some happy face in you. See above.
Sarcasm is so hard to convey in text 😛
Pfft, yeah, it’s so hard…
that was so funny
Thanks, man! 😀
Brad Muir!
Ugh… Monday mornings are so boring. Sitting on Kotaku’s front page. Refresh… refresh… refresh.
…refresh.
It’s been a week since Peaceful Tomorrows was nominated for the 2013 Aurealis Award. In that week, I’ve run an insane gamut of emotions. And I’ve done no writing at all. None at all. Starting to do my head in!
Anyway, enough of that rubbish.
I’ve got bacon and eggs for breakfast… mixed in with my potato salad, because it’s Potato-Salad-Monday (a @dc invention of which I approve entirely).
Aaaaaand, enough of that rubbish.
It’s been a long time since I gave any games away on TAY. I really don’t have that many left to give, because I’ve tried hard not to replace the ones I offloaded. But I want to clear out the following.
@benny gets first pick of the following, because reasons. Then, first in, best dressed.
More might be added in the near future.
Games \o/
NINTENDO DS/3DS
* Super Scribblenauts
(JETPACKS AND WINGED SHOES!)
* Grand Theft Auto – Chinatown Wars
(GTA on handheld that doesn’t suck!)
GAMECUBE/WII* Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker(I don’t need this game, because I wake the wind every time I over-indulge in cheese)
Claimed by @evilmonkey
PLAYSTATION 3 (because I’m probably never going to replace the console [which sadly means I’ll never get to play The Last of Us, Heavy Rain, or Beyond: Two Souls, or replay Demon’s Souls (but I digress with these increasingly nested parentheses)])
* Uncharted 1(best Uncharted)
Claimed by @redartifice
* Uncharted 2(Ltd Ed steelbook, DLC has been redeemed, EPIC SET PIECES)
Claimed by @benny
* Custom cover for Uncharted 3
printed by yours truly because I hated the cover that came with the limited edition. This one features a sweeping desert panorama. Can be provided with any other game.
PLAYSTATION 2
* Fahrenheit
(David Cage! Emotions!)
* Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
(still the best GTA)
XBOX 360
* Injustice: Gods Among Us(my 2013 disappointment of the year, Special Ed. steelbook edition)
Claimed by @pixel_the_ferret_viking
* Bioshock
(RAPTURE!)
Edit: This could have been my third consecutive TAY-get. Thanks a lot @BENNY >:(
edited back to me wanting Injustice because i was outvoted unanimously 😛
Anyone? Anyone? No?
All right. It’s yours.
Edit: Assuming it’s not the one that @Benny picks.
naturally, and a tentative THANKS SHANE!
also why are you having another game give away? YOU’RE TOO DAMN GENEROUS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!
I hate clutter. I think owning too much stuff is the reason I have no money. So if I give away said stuff, I’ll have money again. Right? RIGHT?!
do i need to send you my details?
i guess i do after i moved :P… UNLESS YOU’RE STALKING ME
*checks outside window*
What? I have to send the games? I thought offering them would be enough!
SIGH. All right, I’ll let you come and pick them up. Greedy Russian 😛
да! спасибо!
Damn! I was gonna ask for that one, but fair’s fair, you were first.
This is so awesome of you, just giving away games.
Other than Injustice, the only game you’ve listed that I haven’t played/finished is Wind Waker, so if you really want to give them away, I’ll put my hand up for that one. I’ll even swap you The Dig for it.
It’s cool man, if you want it, you have it, i’m happy with that…
I have leeched waaaaaaaaaaay too much off these generous people anyway
EDIT – edited back my post because people are nice
Why are you making a mockery of my rules? I’ll send you a second game if you’re not careful.
*shifty eyes*
but… but…
i’m sorry /o\ i just found @evilmonkey more worthy then me
What makes me more worthy than you?
Seriously dude take it, I don’t mind.
Nah, I don’t play PC games. But you can have Wind Waker.
Edit: if @benny doesn’t choose it.
Cheers man, that’s awesome.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking Nope, I won’t take it, you put your hand up first, it’s only fair, I’d feel really bad taking it when you put your hand up first.
Besides, I’m happy with Wind Waker.
you sure man?
i feel bad for taking the game ahead of you /o\
Go for it man.
HAHAR! I have the power of the Gods! You think you’re getting Injustice? You think you’re getting Wind Waker? I supersede you! HAHAR! The choice is mine!
Yeah, you guys can have those ones. I’ll take Uncharted 2, thanks Shane. Metacritic tells me that’s the one to introduce me to the series. Thank you.
NO NO NO NO NO!
You can’t just jump into the series right in the middle. You have to start at the first one.
Too late, Red’s already claimed it.
Except Uncharted 1,2 & 3 are the same game done with varying quality.
Uncharted 2 was like my favouritest game in such a long time. Such an amazing game.
THE TRAIN, MAN!
I don’t usually replay games but I finished Uncharted 2 then replayed it 2 more times immediately after! SAY WAAAAAAT??????!
Awesome. I picked good, then.
Hey man
If no one else claims it, I might grab Uncharted 1 if that’s OK? I never actually finished it- jumped straight to Uncharted 2, only hired the first.
YES. And I can send the Witcher 2 map when I send it. I keep forgetting, but I’ve never forgotten that I keep forgetting.
cheers man
Chinatown Wars! \o/
Best GTA. Someone take it.
AF2014 Talk:
Steed: Good team, very clear plan of what they expect to deliver for a prototype, will be very much the ‘this is how we do it’ project with mostly technical coverage.Little Pink Best Buds: Looks like DF has thrown the A team at this one, crazy premise and very interesting result
Mnemonic: The absolute chaos project – this will be maximum documentary / people value – the artist lead that doesn’t really know what he’s doing, the experienced PM not in a PM role that will be providing guidance but can also be dangerously influencing the project to be something rather different. This one has got me a lot more interested now.
Dear Leader: Similar to Steed, fairly well in control and a very different kind of game.
All up it’s a good contrast between the four projects, there are very different things to see from each one. I’m enjoying the documentary episodes.
I kept checking the past few days for new episodes but I forgot it was the weekend 😛
I am the Lord, thy G-od. Though shalt have no other G-od before me.
More coherent thoughts when I’ve had coffee.
Twitch Plays Pokémon update:
6 badges
Zapdos caught with Master Ball
Butthurt Starcraft 2 streamer mobilised several thousand followers to sabotage the game, wanted to spam democracy near the PC and release pretty much everything. DigRat, Dux and X Cabbage lost alongside some other unused mons.
Okay its official people are
cuntsgents?
What the hell was he butt hurt about? And what’s the point of destroying something else?
People suck.
Probably butthurt that people only care about this on Twitch right now so he’s not getting his usual amount of attention, or something? I think it was so popular that it was causing other aprts of Twitch to crash.
All that blood and still no partied Zapdos D:
after almost releasing him twice, well, we’ll wake him when we need him.
Have they beat the Safari Zone yet? I won’t believe that can do this unless they get the HM they need from the Safari Zone.
I *think* so. A few of the other casualties were ‘mons caught while doing the Safari zone. I think they’re heading for Cinnibar now.
Well I think the HM you get from the Safari Zone is Surf so if they’re able to Surf then I assume they conquered it. Hooray!
Definitely have Surf since you also need that for Power Plant and Zapdos. I think the safari zone happened some time Saturday.
I’d forgotten about the Power Plant even though I’ve neen playing my own game of Fire Red alongside heirs. On Friday evening I went and got Flash, made it through Rock Tunnel, got my 4th badge, got the Silph Scope, beat Lavender tower, grabbed Hitmonlee from the karate dojo and left off about to go into the 5th gym and probably get my ass handed to me by some psychic pokemon. Maybe I should try levelling up the Haunter I caught. All my pokemon are around level 30 at the moment as well, so there’s probably some grindage in order.
I’ve fired up Pokémon Black recently, and after just over 5 hours I have 7 badges. I’m cheating a little to rush endgame.
I don’t know how long I’ve “actually” been playing, but the in game timer says I’m at 21 hours. I’m playing on an emulator and constantly holding down the turbo button though, so I’ve probably lost hours to just standing in one spot over overshooting doorways. So it’s pretty faithful to the Twitch stream, I guess.
That sucks but you knew it was gonna happen eventually, these are guys who hate seeing competition In other forms so it’s expected
It’s a microcosm of the entire entertainment industry, really.
Something new and unexpected blows up and it starts poaching users from the established old guard, and they get pissed off because they notice that it is costing them money. But instead of trying to compete by providing a better service (in many cases because they can’t), they go on the attack and work to create protectionist rules and barriers, to the detriment of the consumer.
People really are the same pretty much everywhere at every level.
Possibly the best analysis of arseholeishness ever
It’s unlikely, but if anyone is interested in picking up DARK SOULS for XBox 360 that doesn’t already have it, now’s the time.
It’s on sale for $7.48 on the XBox Marketplace.
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-AU/Product/Dark-Souls/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024e4d083a
Edit: Don’t know if it was mentioned in the previous TAY, so apologies if it was.
Edit 2: Apparently this is for today only, so if you want it, you best get moving.
I own the game, have platinumed it, and I’m still considering buying this. There is literally no excuse that will suffice. Everyone must buy.
I tried getting the PC version to work for me and simply couldn’t. The best result I could get was a version which ran in a space occupying the upper-left quarter of my screen, and wouldn’t bring up any HUD elements, including menus.
I’m not even that mad.
Did you use the mods? Mine is a bit weird running in windowed mode for a few seconds then flicking to full screen, I seem to recall a chunk of messing about to get it working
Yeah, downloaded DSfix and DSMfix, had a fair play with different settings both in the .ini and the in-game options. Interested in seeing what happens after they extract GFWL. IF they do. I might need to do a PC playthrough to tide me over until DS2 in May. Either that, or I’ll bite the bullet and get the PS3 version. But… graphics! GRAPHICS!
Do you want me to email you my settings & files? Probably won’t work but it doesn’t sound like it’d get any worse
Sure! Can’t hurt. 🙂 Thanks for the offer.
Fling at my handle here, but with the gmails.
shall do when I fire up my real computer, on the shitty laptop that stalls every few minutes and needs a good punch in the CPU at the moment
It was (by me) but it’s worth re-mentioning.
I’ll also re-mention that Red Dead Redemption is $12.50 and fucking amazing so everyone should buy that too. Well everyone with a 360 with a hard drive and who doesn’t already have it on disc
productive weekend in Dark Souls
Sen’s fortress can kiss my arse, Iron Golem Defeated!
trotted back to Firelink and went to the Asylum and beat the Stray Demon to a pulp, FIRST TRY \o/
got the peculiar doll, went to the Painted World, screamed a bit at the phalanx and then went and had a chat with a damsel with a tail (HI PRISCILLA) and then jumped in a hole, did not kill her…
then went on a bit and found the notorious archers everyone has issues with.
cried a bit
cried some more,
and then went and played Project Zomboid
overall half decent weekend 😛
But… Priscilla has a cool dagger tail thing. Also, fighting an invisible boss… what’s not to like about that?Good job otherwise, though!
i felt bad, SHE HADN’T DONE ANYTHING WROOOONG, she’s just trying to live her life 😛
i didn’t feel i had any motivation to attack her… I’M A GOOD GUY! 😛
None of these enemies or bosses would attack you if you didn’t go near them. Remember our discussion about the Capra Demon, once a peaceful pet owner… :\
i know! i just make for a terrible evil guy…
apologising each time you kill someone is normal right? RIGHT? 😛
After seeing the ending(s) and watching all the lore videos on every possible enemy/NPC/zone/topic, I end up taking a very nihilistic view of the world and that totally influenced my actions in wrapping up my pre-NG+ checklist.
I killed fucking everyone.
I won’t lie and say “don’t mean to brag” because I totally do
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/437568146262614016
Yes I want to make sure people know. Otherwise what’s the point?
I bow to thee gods of Dark Souls
@shane & @freezespreston
Congrats man! that’s awesome
Crap, I still haven’t made it out of the Undead Asylum. Don’t laugh.
I’m only just ahead of you man, I restarted last week, and I’ve only just made it across the bridge to the Undead Parish.
It’s karma. A few weeks ago I saw someone on Youtube complete the game in like two hours and foolishly I announced that I could do the same. Let’s just say it didn’t quite go to plan.
Should’ve done it on 360, so you could get the smug looking avatar shot.
Time to start again, I think, and do it right.
I would but I have one more achievement than you do.
??? I thought they had 41 trophies/achievements each.
Ooooh. Just checked. They threw the platinum into the achievement lost as well. They don’t usually do that.
I’ve never played, or even seen Dark Souls, but from what I have heard, you deserve to brag at least a little! Must have been one hell of an effort!
Had a pretty good day yesterday. After church, my friend Trent who had his birthday yesterday suggested that we go to Cold Rock and get ice cream. I had Passionfruit ice cream with Fruit Tingles, which is a surprisingly good mixture. We went to a park to sit in the sun and enjoy our ice cream. I also watched two movies: Meet the Robinsons and Identity Thief.
Identity Thief is the type of movie I enjoy watching every so often: A stupid comedy that you can switch your brain off for and just laugh. With Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, how can you not?
I scrolled too fast and this post melded into the talk of dark souls above, I started wondering where the hell you can go in that game to get icecream and why I’ve not been there yet…
So you know that scene in Aladdin just after he takes her on a magic carpet ride and she kisses him and he falls back off the ledge of the building into pure bliss.
Nothing like that happened on my dates
I kid
It was really awesome, I have a big smile on my face. I probably will keep it there.
I was so scared and for no real good reason, I forget that Im pretty cool sometimes.
fixed that for you
Well done man, sounds like you had an awesome time \o/
WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP MISQUOTING ME FUCK 😛
IT’S NOT MY FAULT YOU’RE NOT GIVING YOURSELF ENOUGH CREDIT!
by which of course i mean you’re awesome ALL the time, not just sometimes 😛That’s it! Hold him down I’m getting the funnel!
I’m just glad that what happened to Aladdin after that didn’t happen to you.
What? Freeing the genie? I think Rocketman would be okay with that. Actually, he probably already did that if he can’t keep the smile off his face #euphemism
Hey, i have a little class, not much but a little.
Imagine if you rubbed your lamp then Robin Williams shot out and started making you crazy promises?
Catch him in a tissue and flush him down the toilet, works for me.
i honestly think thats the apex of self-confidence when you can go ‘me? i hear he’s a alright dude.’ moderation in everything, especially confidence.
Wait… you mean you’re not supposed to give confidence the keys to everything and hope it doesn’t make a mess of the place eating everything in sight and trashing your place?
Good for you, boy
So did you Rocked it, man… As in Rocketman…
hoy, aussie friendos.
rough wake up. never seen a city celebrate so hard in six in the morning. a odd amount of donuts and alcohol passed around. its also been snowing for the whole day, looks like. thats nice. dont appreciate its beauty as much as i could.
This really makes me want to visit Canada..
Hahahaha!
“want to visit Canada”
Hahahahahahhahahhaaaa!
Son, this is the most amount of partying they’ll do for the next 4 years.
After today, it’s back to business with freezing in the cold.
well, youll freeze, we’ll all just hibernate until the hockey season starts up aagain.
Its funny exactly how apathetic you are too it all.
DONT BEND TO THEIR PRESSURE
haha, im afraid like many i was swept away in the festivities- youre confusing apathy for post-celebration exhaustion. crazy stuff, canadas liquor laws got bent just for today, so bars were open well into the morning. spent some time at one wearing maple leaf pjs, lol.
Woo!
I love disc soccer sportspuck!
Go local sports team!
yeah scored the most breakaway hole-in-one insert soccer term here!
Canada won the finals?
I feel like I need to remind everyone what happened when the Canada lost last time ……
oy, get it right, that was the stanley cup
ishouldknowiwasslightlyinvolvedintheriots
After celebrating one of my bestie’s 30th on Friday, Saturday was spent playing more Borderlands 2 with the new housemate while everyone else was at Soundwave and yesterday saying goodbye to another mate who’s off toa coast to coast America trip. I wanna do that but go to all the civil war sites and what have you. Trouble is I’d draw up a list of stuff that would take a year to do in America.
Back to this week and it’s my last week of work before starting new job.
So I didn’t play any games this weekend apart from a few brief bursts of Pokemon Fire Red on an emulator in the few waking moments I had that I wasn’t doing stuff.
Because Telstra are going to widen and lengthen the shaft they’re giving to their customers next month and I’m in the last few days of my contract, we decided to renew early (we don’t get penalised for doing so) and upgrade to the iPhone 5S while it was still relatively reasonably priced to do so. We considered switching to Optus or Vodafone but I don’t think Vodafone’s deals were that much better, at least if you want an iPhone (which I do). So we went out on Saturday, made a visit to a Telstra shop, then my wife needed to get her hair did which takes all goddamn day. Normally we could pass the time playing with our phones but about an hour after we walked out of the Telstra shop our old SIM cards deactivated. If there is a hell, it’s sitting in the back of a hairdressing salon with no wifi waiting for a dye job to set. Oh no, wait, that was nothing compared to the next day.
We were out all day Sunday at a 6 year old’s birthday party where I knew none of the adults because they were friends of a woman my wife last knew in high school around 1999/2000, and did you know that girls between the ages of 5 and 12 love One Direction and squealing loudly at the slightest provocation?
I suppose at least when people ask me all day what I did on the weekend, I have an answer that doesn’t involve “video games” or “sleeping in”. So there’s that.
Situation sounds similar though: Hellish environment, heavily outnumbered, shrieking horrors, thoughts of death…
You just described a insane clown posse concert or a nicki minaj concert.
I should’ve stayed home and played Dark Souls \o/
I did have the option of staying home but I could tell my wife wanted me to go with her more than she was trying to let on, plus it was around a 90 minute drive each way which is a bit much for her since she fatigues easily. I decided not to be a selfish ass for once.
They need a port of dark souls for the PS Vita, that’d be ideal for situations like this (if you have a PSV, might be less optimal if not)
I don’t have a Vita. I do have an old PSP and a 3DS. And I could have done stuff on my phone, but that would’ve been rude.
Ugh. People trying not to let you realize how much they care about something is my achilles heel, too.
Nothing quite like a loved one being all selfless and thoughtful to make you realize that we’re not here on this earth for very long, and we don’t always get gift-wrapped opportunities to show our people that we care about them.
Hola Tay
I had a busy Saturday- caught up with a friend of mine who had
escapedcome back from Canberra for a few days, then went out with another group of friends to Wolf Creek the MusicalINTERLUDE: WOLF CREEK THE MUSICAL AT THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL
Played a little Dark Souls on Friday, got the Drake sword and am working my way through Undead Parish.
A Monday Morning Question: Which other property needs the Musical treatment, serious or otherwise?
It’s gotta be Dark Souls. I would step over anyone’s grandmother to see that.
The song “YOU DIED” would be a showstopper.
Reprised every two minutes.
With intermittent crying in the background… and the beat can be a mix of various controllers breaking
Sounding more and more bored each time it happened
You dieeeed
you dieeeed
Agaain??
I know this is haaard
but duuuude you just suck
You had to plant the idea in my head. I’m not going to be able to let this go until I’ve had a crack at writing this song… :\
YOU DIED!
You met a nasty undead!
YOU DIED!
A dragon bit off your head!
YOU DIED!
A block that wasn’t meant to be!
YOU DIED
in all the ways from A. TO. Z——————-
You’ve died through poorly dodging, and rolling the wrong way
You’ve died from nasty demons more than once every day
You were savaged by a rat
You thought that that was that
but you came back to the bonfire and ran all the way back!
PRAISE THE SUN!
After having seen the news that Sony is developing a movie about Sega v Nintendo Console Wars, surely that should be a musical.
CONSUMER:
I’m just a man, who loves to play games
I get confused, by all of the big names
Where can I play, the games I like to play?
MIYAMOTO
Please let me be your Super, Nintendo
I’ll always be, your best-o friend-o
Mario games, the games that are right for you
SEGA GUY
Please let me be, your Master System
If you don’t play these games, you’ll surely have missed them
Sonic and All of his friends, are the best for you
*tapdance off*
EVERY FUCKING SINGLE TV SHOW, GAME OR UNMUSICAL MOVIE I LOVE
man i love musicals maybe even too a fault.
Honestly though i would say a really well done version of any ghibli film
I would die right then of happiness.
Limbo. Set it to moody goth metal and you’re most of the way there already.
I know they’ve already done it, but I’d love to see Evil Dead: The Musical.
Pokemon.
Well it’s certainly monday morning in the office…
i’m on my 3rd cup of coffee and wired as shit
the guy next to me is nodding off to sleep,
the girl opposite of me smells like a sportsbar full of sweaty men that hasn’t showered in 5 days… (apparently she’s been on an all weekend binge, and can’t stop chatting about it, despite no one seems to care)
today is going to be a grrrrreat daaay
*head desk*
It’s twitching below my right eye currently
Half our software is either running very slow or broken. Just another Monday morning in the Cloud 😛
yeeeeep, that’s pretty much my morning too XD
BRB 4th cup of coffee incoming!
I might be on my way to coffee number 2 in a minute.
The lyrics of Robert Cray seem appropriate here.
For many years the lyrics to MY work day were those from ‘Stress’ by Jim’s Big Ego.
They work best if you read them in a machine-gun rapid-fire run-on sentence wired on caffeine.
eh, I just started my third cup, it’s not working. *fashions coffee I.V from office supplies*
At least nearly everyone in my office is away today so there is that, should have brought a portable in today. Mondays are the blurst
Fourth cup. Madder’n a cut snake.
Torn between raging endlessly and getting shit done.
Caffeine-abuser solidarity!
oh man that was hours ago, I’m on my sixth now and I’m getting nothing done, really struggling to motivate and focus myself to do anything lately, work related and at home.
I checked my calendar this morning, found I had an on-site job to go to at Paddington. Get there, park the car, find the place, and it’s half torn apart as they’re in the middle of renovations…
Call the boss to let him know, tells me to head back to the office…
So now I have nothing to do all day and I’m also on my 2nd coffee!
Ohhhh. Thief is out this week and no one knows about it, no reviews or any real preview code?
That…..doesn’t bode well.
Yuuuup I have no idea what to think about it. The games development has been a roller coaster of emotions. Oh well, I have Donkey Kang
Pity, because it’s the dev behind DX:HR, so I’m hoping competent.
Plus it’s a game about being a sneaky bastard and I never played the originals.
I’ve also never played the original. I have a feeling it will be a good game but the fanboys of the original series will cry out and say it’s shit because it doesn’t reached their unobtainable standard.
Of course. I still might pick it up if it’s Ok-but-not-great, if just to scratch my itch for sneaking up on fools.
First review score is out.
Apparently some Spanish gaming magazine gave it an overall score of 90/100.
http://baziwood.ir/1392/11/26/first-thief-reboot-review-score/
There’s a screenshot of the Thief review score from Gamespot floating around. They gave it 6/10, but it’s Gamespot so it’s probably worth at least 9/10 on that scale.
If it’s bad, there’s always the original…
I hear.. divided opinions on it. It worries me.
Have you watched the video walkthrough of mission 1 that was posted here last week sometime? That converted me from maybe to preorder in a little short of 20 minutes.
Oddly enough it wasn’t really that spoilery, I get the sense that mission 1 is getting to where the story starts.
Same thing happened with Human Revolution and it’s the same devs.
Fingers crossed it’s as good as that turned out to be.
On the plus side: when fans found out about the heavily-scripted CoD-style set-pieces (complete with running-through-exploding-corridors), the levelling system with most exp awarded for combat instead of thievery, quick-time events, dark-and-emo mascara-and-eyeliner Garrett, and a tacked-on multiplayer mode, the devs did a backpedal on most of those errors, taking the criticism to heart and making changes for the better.
On the downside: they put those fucking things in there in the first place. When a doctor decides to treat your inner-ear infection by opening up your chest cavity then realizes he made a mistake, you don’t let him continue to treat you, you tell him to back the fuck up and get a different doctor, because he clearly doesn’t ‘get’ medicine.
So I’m already resigning myself to a tacky ‘modern’ deviation from the spirit of the originals with a decent degree of polish, to be purchased in the Halloween Steam sale.
you and your metaphors……
they’re great 😛All this talk of Lost Odyssey lately has made me wonder. Am I the only one that thinks Kaim was based on Keanu Reeves? Looks like him, sounds like him, lack of personality like him.
Edit: every time I try submit a comment it tells me I’m posting too fast, umm, I’ve posted 1 thing about 20 minutes ago, also it reply failed :/
Welp, another weekend down. Essentially did nothing, accomplished nothing, and I’m further behind on my plans that I was supposed to sort out.
Woo, Monday!
Right, so, a weekend. That’s what they’re around for! \o/
Well. Some stuff happened last night.
Crazyguy1990 bought me Skullgirls. So we played it. Awesome game. When I asked crazyguy how I should pay him back, he said to buy him Descent in return.
As I do not have my own paypal, I have to screen all purchases by my mother. I explained that some guy on the internet bought me this game, and that I have to buy something for him back. (Incredibly poorly-phrased) She flipped out. She was really concerned why some stranger on the internet bought her child a game. I then had to explain the entire concept of TAY to her. She proceeded to give a lecture on pedophilia. She warned me not to disclose an personal details. (Ruh oh) I think she’s going to start screening TAY for signs of pedophilia. Be on your best behavior guys! Keep your pedophile urges to yourself for a while.
Somehow, she seemed to calm down when I explained that one of the TAYbies was an Aurelius Award nominated author. @shane
I’m just glad I didn’t tell her the guy who bought me Skullgirls was called Crazyguy.
I have that effect upon the ladies.
Edit: Hi, Mrs Phlanispo!
Edit 2: To be fair, I totally understand and support your mother’s position. I’m sure as hell going to be keeping tabs on my kids when they start using the internet. There are scary people out there. Thankfully, TAY seems to be mostly a safe haven from that. Still, I applaud her vigilance, so don’t be too hard on her!
So where dem kids at? Also, we need to throw in lots of random acronyms: DJHEB, D&G, IWG, NDH, IWNG, IOHFKJDHFDF!
Also, lol, how old are you?
In all honesty i can’t blame her!
First time i was invited to a “meat” i was a bit abrehensive about meeting people from the internet whose names i still don’t know (looking at you @shane (just kidding I know your name is Alphonse!))
And i would never give out my details on a public thread like this…
Yes you should always be wary online, and cautious… we’re pretty fortunate to have a pretty close knit community, but still i’m always cautious…
That having been said, as @shane said, we’re pretty fortunate for this community and i feel honored to be part of it…
Actually, in that state, I’m known as Crazybuy.
Crazybuy, throwing gifts after you since 1990
“YOU GET A GAME, YOU GET A GAME, EVERYONE GETS A GAME”
Disappointed no bees gif.
Disappointed that i don’t even know what that is XD
Okay, here it is. But you are going to laugh. And loud.
http://i.imgur.com/qrLEV.gif
I think I’ve been here too long. So many in-jokes…
Bahahaha that’s awesome, I must’ve completely missed that
Hahahahaha that could well have been phrased better.
It also doesn’t really help that when I was 32 or so I was accidently chatting up a 16 year old girl on okcupid. It was her fault though, you have to be 18 to use the site and instead of just adding 2 years to her age like a normal person would do she added 10 so the site said she was 26 and she didn’t bother to mention this for like a month.
It all worked out well though, she’s now the closest thing I’ll ever have to a kid sister.
Although, since I still totally would, that just changes things from paedophilia to incest… yeah I don’t think I’m helping…
cc @scree, who introduced her cousin to TAY and then had aunt crazy-lady flip her shit
To be fair though, Scree’s cousin was a bit young.
Maybe, but she was being bullied at school for liking Nintendo stuff.
It wasn’t even that though. She was actually angry because I was discussing family things with “strangers”. You are my friends and this is an open forum and I can talk to you about what I like. (I am like 26 though =P)
Actually read what we’re talking about. It just shows your Mother cares for you. You should let her read TAY as it will put her mind at ease. My Mum reads TAY and has spoken to a few of those from it. This is a good community.
Also, you do not have to buy Crazyguy a game. That’s not how it works here.
People buy things out of the kindness of their heart and don’t want things back. I cannot afford games and people are constantly giving me things. For that reason, I tend to do what I can to try and repay people.
Your Mum is a very sensible lady.
TAY is a great place, but it’s not necessarily somewhere I’d want my 13 year old daughter hanging around. I don’t really think it’s appropriate for someone that young. You’re 16 though, aren’t you? I think you’re sensible enough (obviously a trait you’ve gained from your Mother) to know how to stay safe on the internet, and old enough that the at times slightly colourful joking around here isn’t going to adversely affect you.
Besides, if I’m around I’ll always speak up if I see something I think isn’t quite right.
As far as I know, no-one has ‘disappeared’ after their first TAY meat.
Although we can’t rule out the possibility that TAY is actually a trans-dimensional soul-stealer who absorbs the login details of prey foolish enough to meat, then continues posting in their name to better lure in fresh victims.
The gatherings are called ‘meats’
IS THIS NOT A CLUE???
If I were an other-worldly ancient horror whose existence warps the mind to madness as I digest my victims in a parallel plane of eternal torment (which I’m not, and don’t), it’s certainly an error that I could see myself making and running with.
Ha! That’s quite funny. Sometimes it’s insightful looking at things through someone else’s eyes.
@redartifice, because you kind of asked for it
YOU DIED (from the Dark Souls musical)
[upbeat music]
[trumpets and background singers kick in]
You died! [you died]
You died! [you died]
But at least you tried [you died]
Pick yourself back up [you died]
You must turn back the tide [you died]
Ring the belllllllls
[Your destiny awaits]
Defeat the hellllllls
[Open those fog gates]
Only youuuuuu
[You are the Chosen One]
Can pull throuuuuuugh
[Dying can be fun!]
But you died! [you died]
You died! [you died]
Just take it in your stride [you died]
You must persevere [you died]
At stake is your pride [you died]
Swing that swooooord
[You must link the fire]
Defeat the hooooorde
[Before we all expire]
You must fiiiiiiight
[You are the Chosen One]
For the liiiiiiight
[PRAISE THE SUN!]
I posted mine a minute later upthread, but:
YOU DIED!
You met a nasty undead!
YOU DIED!
A dragon bit off your head!
YOU DIED!
A block that wasn’t meant to be!
YOU DIED
in all the ways from A. TO. Z——————-
You’ve died through poorly dodging, and rolling the wrong way
You’ve died from nasty demons more than once every day
You were savaged by a rat
You thought that that was that
but you came back to the bonfire and ran all the way back!
I’m having real trouble figuring out why this musical doesn’t exist. It would be amazing.
The love theme “Me and Humanity” would be a showtune for the ages.
Had to give it a crack
How can you love
A Hollow such as me
By the sun above
without my Humanity?
I’ve slain so many demons
But my undead heart is lost
I’ve tried to fight so long for you
but paid the human cost
Me—–
and humanity—-
A man without his soul
trying desperately to hold on
Me—-
and Humanity—
Oh wait I found an item and will
REGAIN
MY
HU-MAN-I-TY!
Im going to record a version of this to the tune of trumpets by jason derulo
and the bonfire it goes
DO DO DO DO
Man, if I had any musical competence these would all make a great Youtube Video.
No mention of the Thanks Obama meme?
Given the handful of character bosses and the chosen undead as well as a few NPCs of note, it really could make for a good musical now that you think about it. Chosen faces off against Ornstein & Smough, summons Solaire for assistance and its a 4 way sing off and choreographed fight.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/22/5434142/the-return-of-tex-murphy-and-a-90s-fad
So excited about the new Tex Murphy game. 3D explorable environments with b-grade FMV cutscenes. It’s amazing. Pandora Directive, Under a Killing Moon and Overseer were ahead of their time.
oh lawdy! takes me right back to the cutscenes in the original Red Alert…
I’m not a fan of b-grade movies, but for some reason I can’t get enough of b-grade FMV games. XD
Kotaku have an article about imaginary boyfriends and girlfriends which reminds me of the time I was a kid and imagined that Linka from Captain Planet was my imaginary girlfriend. Obviously I was Wheeler.
I would talk to her, open doors for her, hug and kiss her (hug and kiss air) but that all disappeared when I had my first kiss with a real girl in grade six. Linka was important though because she was the fake experience I needed in the lead up to my actual first snog. Or not.
Yes, it’s pretty weird in hindsight. So, imaginary friends. Who had/has one?
She was from the Soviet Union, eh?
I’m not saying kid version of Benny is a communist, but…
Benny is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star!
THAT ACCENT SHE HAD
*Looks under bed for reds*
*sees reflection*
*gets criticised for making same joke everytime someone mentions Red*I never had one, but it sounds like I missed out!
My daughter isn’t going to have one either: “No, daddy, they aren’t real! They don’t ezist! URRRRGGGH”
You can’t be Wheeler. I’m Wheeler! You have to be Kwame or Mati, so there.
On the subject of imaginary girlfriends, I don’t think I ever had one, but I might have to consider having one as I haven’t had a real one since I was 16.
I… have a bitter enemy inside my own brain. That’s kind of the same thing isn’t it?
Okay, who was it that gave me money that says Pax meat x2?
Was it @novacascade? It can’t be @rize as he is going alone.
You have to tell me who you are D= I’m not a wizard
Also, we’re up to $880.
Why is that sentence so sad 😛
If that is sad then my whole life is… Oh…
=PSorry Rize, what I meant is that you were only paying for 1 person
I put my name as the reference for my payment.
Yeah I sent money for 2 people, plus some extra for the room hire. I thought I put Nova on the reference field, sorry
I thought it may be, but I wanted to make sure
Yo scree how much was it per person again?
$48
So thanks to @cakesmith, i got the opportunity to pour some time into Project Zomboid with @rize, @sernobulus, @f4ction and @blaghman over the weekend.
My first impressions are pretty damn good, even for an early access game…
It is pretty much everything i’ve wanted from a Zombie Apocalypse game,
Plus i managed to burn down our safe house due to my amazing cooking skills \o/…
some things are still pretty broken (INSTA TOMATOES… oh god so many tomatoes)
but still heaps of fun, i highly recommend anyone with a disposable income to have a look at it!
@blaghman is the crazy tomato guy.
How is it in relation to other Apocalypse style games ala DayZ/Rust
i can’t really comment on them as i haven’t actually tried them… but being that the focus is not really multiplayer in the same style (multiplayer was only just implemented) and that’s it’s Isometric View rather then FPS, i would say quite a lot different…
The way we described it was basically, the Sims meets a zombie apocalypse, except actually fun…
You character has needs and feelings that needs to be catered for (food, hunger, tiredness, stress, anxiety etc) which all attributes to how well you can do… eg it’s damn hard to hit a zombie when you’re in a panic state, because you can’t hit very well…
So yeah the focus is a lot more on that and i find it very interesting…
That does sound interesting, after looking at screens the multiplayer looks like it would be fun too if its fully upto scratch, your description of the game is spot on it does look like the sims meets a zombie apocalypse (which also scares me that that might be a future expansion for the sims) Will keep this one on my radar
…guys…
Stick of Truth… ten days away….
Can’t…wait…
Which guy’s stick of truth, and why do you have to wait ten days? Though I know @mrtaco has a waiting list, so I guess it all makes sense… :\
…no.
Just no.
Even the usual Page 6 Dad jokes are funnier than that was.
True, true. I was going to edit it, but it already had an upvote.
*rolls eyes* The people here…
-@strange, 24th February 2014
Did you get the preorder through Green Man when it was under A$50?
No, I got the PS3 version from JB Hi Fi.
LOST MY SOULS (To the tune of ‘Let it Go’)
Died, went back to the bonfire tonight
Twiddled with my… Havel ring.
It’s a kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I’m the King.
Solaire is howling like the swirling storm inside.
Couldn’t beat Quelaag, heaven knows he tried…
Don’t let them in, don’t let them win
Fulfill the prophecy and kill lord Gwyn
Keep self control don’t lose your souls…
I LOST MY SOULS….
Let them go, let them go. Don’t need to level up any more.
Let them go, let them go… you have a bonfire to restore!
I don’t care, what the people say
Let the game roll on
Death never bothered me anyway.
—————–
It’s funny how some boss fights
Can make you feel so small
Ornstein has his lightning, the Golem is so tall
It’s time to go to Anor Londo
Upgrade my weapons and kill Smough
The painted world can wait for me…
I’m FREEEEEE!
Let them go, let them go
I don’t need to kill every boss I see
Let her go, let her go
Priscilla can’t hurt me!
I don’t care what you’re going to say,
Her dagger isn’t worth the fight anyway.
YOU DIED
😛
Fantastic work, Mark.
This musical could only have come about through jolly cooperation.
This is why I love TAY.
Now we need @blaghman to sing it.
Also, Serrels, are you going to pax this year
NO. I MUST RESIST!
*Pulls out microphone*
I WILL BE STRONG!
*Opens up Audacity*
Brilliance in the making
YES.
GOD. OH GOD. YES.
I’ll have what he’s having.
Yes!
This is it..this is the pinaccle of Dark Souls Hypes before the 2nd comes out, they need to make this a real song and have it on TV commercials and ads on youtube!
Awesome weekend!
Friday night saw some multiplayer Project Zomboid with @f4ction, @sernobulus and @pixel_the_ferret_viking. It was great fun, especially the part where Pixel wailed on me with a bat because he thought I was a zombie, then walked back inside and set our safehouse on fire.
Saturday night was a bunch of drinks at the Albion in Sydney with @cakesmith @blaghman @doc_what @alexpants and @mythamphetamine and his mate. I learned that Fireball whiskey is amazing.
Sunday night was more Project Zomboid where we basically enslaved a bitten and infected Faction to build a perimeter barricade while we went looting. He then started getting violently sick, so we tried to help him by beating him to death.
Oh, and Blaghs discovered the secret to vegetable replication and filled the neighbourhood with tomatoes.
We discovered that stuff in Texas last year, and it was quickly dubbed “Christmas” as it was like drinking a christmas pudding (aka my grandmother puts a shitload of cinnamon in/on christmas puddings)
Man that game sounds great, I need to get gaming capable PC soon
Also tomatoes are fruit 😛
FEAR MY 250 TOMATOES!
I don’t know who decided shots with tabasco sauce were a good idea. But I hate them.
I believe that one was suggested by the bargirl.
You were female and not wearing a top… I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO!
Poor Mrs Pixel.
Maybe she’s into that? I don’t want to judge.
…. iiii…. TOUCHE GOOD SIR
*runs off*
I am led to believe you have a server!
Is there a way that some person who is aware of this can access said server?
It’s just one I’m running off my computer, so it’s mostly on when I’m playing. I can give you a shout the next time we’re on if you like!
Okay, work is quiet today, but even if it wasn’t, the idea of a Dark Souls musical has captured my imagination, and I just can’t let it go.
SAY GOODBYE HUMANITY
[To the tune of Billy Joel’s Say Goodbye to Hollywood]
Am I frightened of this beast on the bridge?
Just a smidge.
Because he’s hurling fire dowwwwn
But you know I gotta keep pushing forward
With my sword
It’s still better than Blighttowwwwn
Say goodbye humanity
Say goodbye, my hollow
Say goodbye humanity
Say goodbye, my dark soul
Facing down all of these demons tonight
In a fight
They’ll write epic songs abouuuuut
I gotta ring both of those damn bells
Run like hell
‘cause this swamp’s given me gouuuuut
Say goodbye humanity
Say goodbye, my hollow
Say goodbye humanity
Say goodbye, my dark soul
There’s nowhere to hide
Death takes a hold again and again, and
I’m severed (ohhwoahhhohohohhhhh)
I don’t have a chance
I just can’t win. I wanna give up
Forever (fore-eeverrrrrr)
So many places here that I have to tread
They’re all dead
And filled up with vile things
Life is a series of defeats, and defeats
Leave me beat
It’s time for the violins.
Say goodbye humanity
Say goodbye, my hollow
Say goodbye humanity
Say goodbye, my dark soul
RED AND BLACK
[to the tune of… Red and Black from Les Miserables]
It is time for us all
To decide who we are…
Do we fight for the right
To a world without dragons now?
Have you asked of yourselves
What’s the price you might pay?
Is it simply a game
That will cost your humanitay?
The color of the world
Is changing
Day by day…
Red – the blood of Hollow men!
Black – the dark of souls that pass!
Red – a world about to die!
Black – the fight that ends at last!
You know, we already have seven songs? We’re halfway to a damn musical already.
THE BRIDGES OF BLIGHTTOWN
[melancholy tune]
See the bridges down in Blighttown…
They’re creaking in the fetid air
This place is all but damned; in all of all Lordran
There’s nowhere any worse than there
The torches flicker down in Blighttown
Life was here so long ago
How this noble place collapsed; how it fell off all the maps
I can’t begin to even know
[up tempo]
See the demons down in Blighttown
Mosquitos bigger than my head
My blood is their desire; the dogs are breathing fire
Won’t be long until I’m deaaaaad
There are people here in Blighttown
Though their souls have come unlodged
The darts are flying past; and they build toxic fast
And there is just no room to dodge
My goal lies down there beyond Blighttown
Into that swamp I must press forward
The swamp’s infesting me
The bugs ingesting me
And I’m in too deep to swing my sword
[slow tune]
There’s a spider here in Blighttown
With a naked chick on top
Made of pulsating fear; she’s spewing lava here
[crescendo] But no matter what, I cannot stooooopppppppppppppppp
We need to collect all of these and put them in some semblance of order.
I’m collecting them, don’t you worry!
Quick, @doc_what, I have an idea for TAYfilm 2015…
You find people willing to sing the songs, I will make this happen!
@Strange will have to help with costumes though!
I am by far one of the worst singers you will ever hear (in my primary school musical, despite landing the leading role, they made me ‘speak’ the singing parts), but I am willing to sing as many of these songs as you want.
Don’t worry, I am.
You could probably do a bunch of Billy Joel mashups
In a Lordran State Of Mind
We’re Gonna Kindle The Fire
Goodnight Solaire
She’s Always A Woman (Just make it about Quelaag)
All About Soul (Don’t even need to change the title)
Don’t think I didn’t think about it. I’ve got the Essential 2-disc collection playing at the moment! 😛
Ooh, Mike Patton is doing the soundtrack to “The Vatican Tapes” should be awesome, can’t wait to hear what he comes up with. Dunno if anyone cares @sughly might
I guess he has to do something now to stay busy since Faith No More are well, no more..
are you kidding? the guy has about 12 projects running at any given time, he is always busy 😛
Haha, fair enough. I only know him from Faith No More, nothing else 😛
oh wow, that’s probably his least creative stuff, you should look into his stuff one day, he is seriously one of the busiest musicians in the world. One of my favorite artists ever
Soundwave 2014 repost for those who missed it last night!
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.
and lastly my favourite picture from the day!
Did Alice in Chains do Rooster with the video montage of war footage on the screen? That was incredibly powerful when I saw them at Soundwave 2009.
Not sure I walked off about 3 songs in cause the crowd were just dicks and pushed and shoved whoever they liked. Considering I was over in front of the divider between both stages where it wasn’t exactly packed it just seemed unnecessary. Plus I couldn’t hear the vocals so it seemed pointless staying.
Fair enough. I saw them at the Melbourne Showground and there was a grandstand so I sat there as my feet were killing me by that point in time. I think DuVall is a pretty good replacement for Layne, not quite the same, but pretty good nonetheless.
I still have vivid memories of Soundwave 2009, as it was my first mainstream music festival. I missed seeing Dillinger Escape Plan because I was lining up for a Lacuna Coil signing. (I got to touch Cristina Scabbia. Aw yes!) AIC were awesome, The Subways were cool, Lacuna Coil were brilliant, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Anberlin and Underoath rocked my socks off.
I had no major interest in NIN, and the Bloodhound Gang weren’t that great. I missed seeing All that Remains and In Flames due to clashes, and I was only able to see two songs of Lamb of God because the group I was with wanted to head back to our accommodation early (although I saw them perform Laid to Rest and Redneck which were the two songs I wanted to see).
All in all, a pretty amazing experience, unfortunately I haven’t been able to go to another Soundwave because I’ve never had the money. Maybe one year …
He seems to fit the band rather well imo. Never really listened to AIC, mostly because I never found Grunge to be something I like. I do like a bit of Soundgarden but that’s really it.
Bloodhound Gang, yeah Jimmy Pop is atrocious live from what i’ve seen. I’d still see them saying that haha.
Yeah man if you can ever afford it again I highly recommend it, i’ve been the last 3 years now and it’s been good fun. 2014 being the weakest year yet, but that’s understandable given 2013 was just massive for the festival in terms of the bands they got.
Did you miss seeing Clutch?
Nope, I had no interest in seeing them since I don’t really know any of their stuff or that they were playing 😛 Plus when they were on I was off looking for a merch stand & the signing tent lol.
Edit: I pretty much only know their songs Electric Worry which was used to help promote Left 4 Dead 2 lol.
God damn links hate me.
You’re a big page saying “sorry we can’t find your link”
Terrifying.
@markserrels
Damn you. Let it go is stuck in my head again. I managed to get it out…I managed D=
You’re hanging on too tight, just let it g… sorry I’ll stop
I had it in my head for too weeks straight. Memorised the lyrics, thought, oh that will be it. Nope. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
I can never decide if its less painful or more when its a song you like that stuck in your head. I’ve had ones I hate stuck in mine for weeks at a stretch but at least I can hate them freely
This reminds me, I need to learn the lyrics to “first time in forever”
Don’t do it. Get out while you still can.
It already gets stuck in my head, so I’m screwed
Just be glad you dont live in Sydney, Mardi Gras coming up and my aunty who does a lot of the costume designs for it said Let It Go is going to be one of the main anthems for a few of the parades and parties
@dc, how about that Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze?
Eh.
😛
@shane
You’ll have to forgive me, there’s no trumpets.
!!!!
<3 <3 <3
🙂
Now do @markserrels! And “Me and Humanity”
I’m working on Lost My Souls as we speak.
I MEAN SHUT UP I DON’T BOW TO PEER PRESSURE YOUR FACE BOWS TO PEER PRESSURE!
SING, MONKEY, SING
SUNBRO SERENADE
[tune: Just The Way You Are]
Don’t go changing
Your allegiance
I need to know my Sunbro’s there
You’ll always have my
Gross incandescence
You’ll always have your friend, Solaire
I would not invade you
In times of trouble
You never could have come so far
You couldn’t summon
Any better
We’re Sunbros just the way we are
Don’t go trying
Some new cov’nant
Just for the miracles they bring
For we can have jolly
Co-operation
You don’t even need to wear a ring
Don’t want to ever
See that you’ve gone
Cause it would ruin all our fun
I need my Sunbro
To stay by my side
So we can always Praise The Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun.
You just had to do one that was my favourite Billy Joel song, didn’t you?
Yep.
Also, I’m lazy, I think I’m just going to go all Billy Joel for the rest of the day 😛
“She looks like a spider but she’s always a woman to me…”
Gross. I hate that song and now it’s stuck in my head. >:(
Sunbro deserves a better tune.
We are accepting submissions.
I’m working. I shouldn’t really even be on TAY but I had a break for lunch. Which I haven’t made yet because I was too busy catching up on TAY. 😛
the fuck
i look away from tay for a few hours and you’ve all written up the first act of a dark souls musical
i mean i know tay loves dark souls but srsly the fuck?
Best day ever, right? 😀
goddamnit it shane we’re only on page two and we’re already doing crazy shit
WE’RE ONLY ON PAGE TWO DAMNIT
Wait till you see what I have planned for page six.
nothingNow that’s crazy.Personally already over it -.-”
NOT DARK SOULS
So, I’m about halfway through the new season of House of Cards. I’m liking this season a bit more than the first, but it’s a lot more unfocused. I thought
Zoe’s death, while expected,was well handled.
I accidentally clicked the button
WHY DID I DO THAT
I’m sorry rocketbro 🙁
Dude i basically read the entire Ice and fire wiki after 3 episodes of the first season. I either forget plot points or just straight up dont mind. Its the ride not the destination. Spoilers have never really bugged me.
I did the SAME THING /o\
IT’S A SPOILER TAG EXPECT SPOILERS
The spoiler tag has become something ‘other’, now. It is used to prevent giant walls of text or even dramatic pause for jokes, such that now when I know I’m going to add, “ACTUAL SPOILER:” before my tag.
A “Wall of text” tag would be handy to differentiate it
Kind of. But even so, Red can’t fairly be blamed for my derpery. 😛
Yup.
Much like the Australian Government, I do these things to protect people from themselves. 🙂
Oh why did you have to tell me what to expect inside spoiler tags? You’ve ruined it now!
‘m on my second cup of coffee and yawning like a mofo. I also forgot the salad I prepared for my lunch.
Today is a struggle.
On the upside for some reason performance results came out early and I’ve been confirmed as a “high met all” (expectations) which is better than the “medium met all” rating I got last year. The next step is “exceeded some”, which is my goal for this year and ironically means spending more of the company’s money by taking the occasional trip for presentations and conferences instead of doing teleconferences. As someone whose job is to save money by efficiently handling claims, this just doesn’t compute. Business! \o/
Is my car ready yet
No.
🙁
http://www.kotaku.com.au/author/marsh-naylor-on-talk-amongst-yourselves,-shared-by-owen-good-to-kotaku/
Is there some kind of bizarro-TAY out there?
It sounds like a scary place.
AmeriTAY. It’s all on the Kinja system so has user blogs.
We have our seperate blogs instead. And Pixel Otaku.
It is the alternate dimension that we do not speak of.
It’s the TAY where NO ONE has a beard. It’s horrible.
NA TAY. Tis a silly place.
And honestly the only reason i stick around here is because i just cannot handle kinja.
I thought you liked us.
love you too assface.
😛
What’s a kinja?
A koala trained in the Japanese arts of stealth and murder
I thought they were just dropbears. Maybe a kinja is a kangaroo ninja?
Dunno if everyone here has seen the article on giz or not but it’s well worth reading
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/02/wheelchair-bound-woman-walks-again-with-a-3d-printed-exoskeleton/
Science rules. Fuck you disability!
Sweet jesus.
Howdy all. I haven’t been on the TAY much lately because of work and a busy weekend. Also apparently I got in trouble for falling asleep during two separate training sessions last week so I’m trying to be on my best behaviour.
Anyway, spent my weekend cleaning my house for a rental inspection and playing various RPGs. Here’s a very quick wrap-up.
Friday Night Star Wars as a Trandoshan Scrounger
Turns out taking on a Rancor in melee combat when you’re not a Jedi is a recipe for near death. I ended up barely surviving when the rest of the party stabilised me at -9 HP. It didn’t help that I charged the Rancor and hit it with the Star Wars equivalent of a quarterstaff. XDSaturday Night Pathfinder set in the Warhammer Fantasy world, playing as a Human Fighter/Cavalier.
What’s the bane of heavy armour? If you guessed anything involving physical exertion or delicate balance, you’d be right. The last session was set in the interior of a volcano so there was a very real danger of slipping into hot, molten magma. Fortunately that didn’t happen but everything we fought were fire elementals and when they combined with my steel full plate did not result in a fun time. It’s a good thing our cleric broke the final encounter by giving us all Potions of Fire Resistance. \o/I always get drowsy in training sessions. I think I dozed off once but my co-worker kicked me in the ankle before my boss noticed, bless her Polish heart.
Yeah I kinda reverted to uni mode during training which ended up alternating being bored to sleep or being super attentive. It didn’t help that our trainer knew the material but he didn’t know how to deliver it in a way that was engaging.
In the latest training session I was in, one girl at the back actually fell asleep and in the process, kicked over her PC tower (which was on the floor), causing a loud ‘bang’ and the loss of her systems until she plugged it all back in again.
Well. Finally got through Ep1 of Walking Dead.
Honest with HerschelSaved Duck
Sided with Kenny
Refused the gun
Saved Carly
I think on my first playthrough, I
did everything the same except I gave her the gunSo, are you more interested having now finished an episode or is it still kind of meh? I personally think episode 2 is the weakest/most predictable of the five, though others seem more impressed with it and there are still some difficult moments. If I have one piece of advice is that if you feel the urge to go back and rectify something you see as a bad choice, don’t – at least for your first playthrough.
I feel like living with what you might see as a mistake lends itself to the storytelling process. If you feel regret over something, you feel like Lee regrets that decision too, and that will have an effect on choices you make later.
It’s….serviceable. It’s way too clumsy and obvious. When it got to
The second choose who to saveit elicited a FFS and an eye roll rather than nervous fretting. The game is just sitting there, waving its arms and screaming “DIFFICULT DECISION!” while jamming it up your nose rather than just letting it happen.My advice: keep playing. Most of the choices are obvious, but they get much more difficult to make.
We made the same choices!
Best friends forever!
Ooh, I get a free Imax ticket because of birthday.
Looks like it’s down to a choice between Gravity 3D or Robocop. Hmmm.
I see no choice there.
Robocop’s that good, eh?
I would say Gravity. I haven’t seen the new Robocop but it doesn’t seem like it would be as visually appealing movie as Gravity.
Plus Gravity is really damn rad.
If you haven’t seen Gravity on IMAX then you know what you have to do! It’s apparently at its best there and you won’t get that experience once it hits blu-ray. Robocop is solid surprisingly, but nothing that can’t be captured on a HDTV.
I haven’t seen Gravity on anything!
Hopefully session times show up for later this week.
Do it, it’s an amazing 3D movie.
And that’s a sentence i never thought I’d say
I liked Avatar there 😛
I loved Avatar’s 3D. LOVED IT.
Dust particles and shit in my face!
Me too. James Cameron movies are always great. To tell you the truth, Titanic was pretty great in 3D too.
It was one of the (several) movies I’ve seen there where I’ve somehow ended up stuck in the third row from the front, so some of the 3D felt a little too close for comfort at times 😛 Still loved it though.
Sandra Bullock 3D.
Hey. How’s it goin’ mate.
Hi Shiggy! How’s TAFE?
TAFE IS FUCKIN RAD. HOLY SHIT.
Who is this etc…
Also, Hello!
KONNICHIWA NOBULUS-SAN
GET OFF MY LAWN!
MATE!
HEY GUYS, IT’S THAT FAMOUS GUY FROM THE POD CASTS
*swoons*
I’ll sign your tits for a bluebottle.
^ I know this guy.
Who’s Brendan?
Not a goddamn clue.
Hmm, anyone else gonna get Thief? I don’t know much about it, but I own it already. Trying to decide if I should use kb/mouse or controller, since my SteamBox can play it too.
I planned on getting it for my Xbone but since I didn’t realise it was coming out so soon and don’t really have a budget for games til next month, I’ll see how it reviews. I don’t have a strong investment in the franchise.
I’ve only ever played Thief: Deadly Shadows (aka Thief 3) on original Xbox so I don’t know how it would play with kb/mouse. I would say controller would probably be better as it would be harder to accidently bump into an NPC and ruin your sneakiness.
Yeah, I’m thinking controller too. I expect the game to be very console-y anyway, as is the case with reboots these days.
I’ve got it preordered on Xbone, won’t be overly concerned about how it compares to earlier entries as I never really played them. If nothing else it’ll be something to tide me over until Titanfall.
Having said that I hope it’s movement system feels as polished as the one in Dishonored.
Well this is an interesting development…..
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/big-mango-tourist-attraction-stolen-from-bowen-in-north-queensland/story-e6frg6n6-1226835934289
Maybe they’re making a big fruit salad or smoothie. Watch out Coffs Harbour your banana isn’t safe 😛
Hahahahahaha what
Well there’s plenty of big attractions (and I use the word ‘attractions’ quite incorrectly) around the country, it’d be hilarious if they were all stolen in a pointlessly large ornament crime wave.
Hmm, if they try to take it across the border into NSW will it risk transporting fruit fly?
I was thinking the same things, nick all the “big ” stuff and just dump them somewhere really weird/ inconvenient for giggles, Imagine a headline like “Big Attractions discovered on top of Oolooroo” or something to that effect.
Or take them all out into the desert and use them to spell out the word BIG in letters so large that they can only really been seen from the sky
as long as they do something creative and awesome I’m fine with it, if they’re just being jerks they are dickmen of the highest caliber.
WOO!
Gears of War Judgment was $10 the other day so I bought it online and my copy just came today. Turns out it also comes with a code to download the original Gears of War, sweet! 😀
Happytimes
TOO MANY GAEMS!
>=(
Not enough games!
At least our Blockbuster order is on backorder so probably won’t ship for a while 😀
I’m on 2 weeks annual leave. I have a whole bunch of games to play but can’t decide which ones I should actually invest in. As a result, I ended up putting another 5 hours in Hearthstone…
Also, how do people keep track of time when they’re not working? Holy crap, it’s 2:40 already and I haven’t even had lunch yet.
I did that over my Christmas break, had about 20 games I wanted to play and ended up playing old favourites instead for most of the time.
Time flies when you’re not at work, it’s not even funny.
I’m still trying to work out how it can possibly be monday already, I think I got caught in a time rift or something
I found work to be a great source of timefly also.
Time just flies.
Lightning Returns!
Or don’t… it’s kinda just okay and I’m sure you have way better games in the pile (XENOBLADE!) 😉
Question /Game time ( i hope I word this right)
What song/ songs do you like that you wouldn’t normally like but like from context in a game or movie (f#$* me monday brain you made that sound much more confusing than it is).
1 that springs to mind for me is Compass – Jamie Lidell from Red Dead Redemption. Not the sort of music I enjoy but the song stirs up memories of Red Dead (for spoilers sake I won’t elaborate)
Interesting question. First that comes to mind is the Crisis Core soundtrack. Some parts are laid back and mellow, music I can dig whilst other parts such as battles are hectic and heavy – music I wouldn’t really listen to. I love the soundtrack to bits, though.
oh man that game is just a whirlwind of emotions,
The hip hop in GTA V. Wouldn’t listen to it anywhere else.
Britney Spears in GTA V. Driving about with Gimme More was pretty damn atmospheric!
O_o not sure if serious or sarcasm, either way hilarious 😛
No, I’m completely serious. Downtown Los Angeles, mansions, movie stars and all that. Really set the tone!
It’s a good song for doing the same IRL too!
AND THEN YOU STOLE MY MINI
And I’d do it again! My favourite GTA V moment was when you guys went to do a job and I refused to car pool so went on a bicycle. Then five minutes later as you were doing the job by the beach I accelerate a car into the enemies, brushing past you all. XD
We should do another GTA V MP night
You lot are all on PS3 aren’t you?
Me and @DC are, as is @BDKIAF, I think @masha2932 has it, @dkzeitgeist @gutsoup? and a couple of other people including @greenius who I’m definitely forgetting.
@redartifice just to clarify, PS3 is a bad thing because I have it on 360.
They need a PC release so we can all master race it up damnit!
Semi-remembered! 😀
– There’s a 360 gang going around too!
A better example is the Zelda Orchestral CD that came bundled with Skyward Sword limited. Much like Mark Serrels, the damn thing makes me cry when listening to it, remembering various Zelda gaming moments as familiar tunes fill my ears.
Most of the music in Treme! Totally not my preferred style, but it’s magic in that show, and it sounds amazing in context.
cc @dc
Man, I really need to finally watch that.
Hotline Miami.
A lot of 80’s synth electronica stuff (i’m so good at describing music) that i wouldn’t generally like.
But in the context of Hotline Miami, it’s the best soundtrack i’ve heard in a game.
that was an awesome soundtrack, have you played Blood Dragon? Similar ish music (synthy electronicy stuff) and in context is amazing.
Anything that has a strong emphasis on acoustic guitar strumming. I need some context.
The Last of Us? that was all kinds of Grandpas guitars
Haven’t played it yet. 🙁
🙁
Tricky question. There are plenty of games with songs on the soundtrack that I let blend into the background because they work well enough even if I don’t like them. Then there’s the brilliant soundtrack decisions Saint’s Row 3 made like “You’re the Best” and “Holding Out for a Hero” (can’t speak to 4’s use of “The Touch” yet, since it’s still sitting around waiting to be played).
I have to say I don’t like country/western-ish music but it definitely worked well in Fallout: New Vegas. Same goes for all the general old-timey music that featured in Fallout 3. I love those tracks now, but it wasn’t something I’d have considered listening to before those games.
ha, those Saints Row dodgy 80s tracks do work well, I can assure you that “The Touch” is used with the same finesse as the tracks in SR3
That one song A7X had in the original NFS Most Wanted..
I’m convinced this applies to every Musical ever.
When we go on road trips, my brother will actually play tunes from musical productions like The Producers, or Disney movies, and I can’t stand them. And with the breadth of styles they cover, I figure it just has to be that in my mind they do not stand on their own, and are relying almost entirely on context.
Like, for kicks I’ve listened to this ‘let it go’ track from Frozen everyone’s raving about, and it does nothing for me. And I can KINDA see that one, because parts of it at least sound very similar to any of the popular ballads playing on coworker’s radios these days. But Springtime for Hitler, or the campier Gilbert & Sullivan stuff? Just not listenable on its own.
Edit for relevance: Also just started listening to the Dark Souls soundtrack and kinda disappointed at just how much of it is that dramatic, choral battle music for all the various bosses. It all seemed pretty much samey to me… whereas the stuff that actually had impact for me was the quieter, more melancholy stuff, like the Firelink Shrine music. That’s really what I was looking for, but there’s less of that than I’d hoped/remember.
Go listen to a decent recording of Phantom of the Opera and say that again.
:pdamn good response, yeah some songs from musicals are pretty shoddy on their own but if you enjoyed the musical they’ll always be connected and the song does seem a lot better.
The best example for me at least was pretty much the entire soundtrack for Madworld on the Wii. I generally don’t listen to too much music but the rap tunes in that game were so good and tied in so well with the overall feel of the game.
I always felt they used the wrong music with that game. When I first saw it it looked like a shoe-in for a soundtrack by KMFDM or similar.
For me, stuff like the score to Gothic 3. Done by a symphony orchestra. Such a great sountrack, but I would never listen to it while not playing the game.
Alright folks, MQFT!
Pick 1:
G, L, F
EDIT: F won. I guess I’m playing Final Fantasy: Lightning Returns.
Maybe next time GTA V and The Last of Us…
L
L?
G
No real reason
F
F.
Why?
I don’t usually give a F… so I take advantage of it when I can.
L
F!
Gilf? Not that desperate yet are we?
Not desperate! Selective.
ha, I thought the same thing but thought GMILF like Skwisgaar Skwigelf
Gallardo, Lambo, Fiesta?
Gooky, Lambo, Freeze?
D:
It’s ok, F is winning 😉
D:
Don’t fight it
Gallardo is a Lambo.
Yeah, so the competition is rigged!!!
F.
1
Get out.
Another vote for 1!
WHAT HAVE I DONE
LLLLLLL
The damage is done…
Bought an SSD today! Moving into the computing future, or something.
So uni starts this week. I have 5 classes for the entire week (starting next week). That’s like… less than an arts student has. And thank god they’re mostly all in the afternoon again! Can’t stand having classes at 9am and that. I’m glad the degree is finally getting a bit more targeted towards what I actually want to do. 1st year is retarded. Why make me do accounting for an IT degree? Dumb.
heh heh… Yeah those silly art’s students with their small timetables.
who would be doing an arts degree…. hehe…. not me that’s for sure
*looks around nervously*
*heavy sweating*
It’s okay, every single one of my friends down here is an arts student 😛
Lol, how are you still alive?
I cope. I take their artistic wankery one day at a time
I did an IT degree on the Business/Engineering/IT campus… then went back later and did Journalism, which was on the Arts campus. Teenage me wanted to repeatedly kick himself in the crotch for not having picked an Arts-related course the first time around, so much more talent on that campus.
Yeah. It kinda makes me envious seeing my friends doing all these cool things and actually making use of their talents, whereas for the most part all I have to show are essays and incomplete programs…
…By ‘talent’, I meant eye-candy. 🙂
That said, creative talent tends to manifest in more obvious, impressive ways in that precinct.
haha fair enough 😛
I started off doing computer science, hated it, then swapped to a digital design and screen arts course…
that was a shock… going from a 99% male course to having units were i was the only guy in my class…
and by shock i mean the best.
Don’t be surprised if the SSD is unpartitioned, I’ve been briefly caught out by that twice in recent months.
Why the hell did they want you to do accounting? They never made me do that when I did my IT degree but I guess back then, IT had a faculty rather than just being chucked into business
Thanks for the heads up. I got caught out on that on a hard drive last week after I went and wiped it. Wasn’t expecting it to unpartition it too 😛
Accounting is a part of Project management, which IT is big on. Unless you want to stay as code-monkey.
I’m meant to be doing an info systems degree, and one of my classes this semester is project management and modelling, so fair enough 😛 (Can’t stand programming)
My advice, is pay close attention in project management- it’s a skill that you can apply to other fields and is a good one for the resume.
Upvotes for good advice.
@benj I hated Project Management but it was probably the most relevant subject in my entire degree
I thought it was really interesting in year 12, and that’s the number one reason I chose to do an info systems degree, so I’m hoping I don’t hate it.
You will feel the G forces push you back into your chair!
So RockPaperShotgun have written up impressions of the Elite Dangerous Alpha. I have to say, I’m feeling relieved. Not having seen much of it I was a bit nervy but this made it sound so much better than I was hoping
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/02/21/elite-dangerous-alpha-preview/
I couldn’t wait for page 8, so: The worlds worst Jazz album cover
The bonus track was responsible for 90% of all unplanned pregnancies the year of the albums release.
I’m not sure I want to know what he’s going to do with that flute.
Set the mood.
Push push.
aaaaaaah, why did I click It. Must wash eyes
So pretty much as I’m thinking of ‘All I will take away from Page __ is..’ as a cool new TAY meme, Red you go and post something like this. Coincidence?
Push Push.
All I will take away from Page 3 is that DC likes Britney Spears.
😀
Leave DC alone!
Assumed hermit joke?
Chris Crocker joke.
Ah.
There’s not a lot wrong with ol DC, so I say give him hell for that at least! Unless he dislikes her music, but likes her.. cos.. I guess that’d be understandable!
Hey, does anyone want some NGamer magazines? I’m planning to get rid of mine and thought I’d ask.
I am going to assume that’s a no, hooray!
I dont know what it is but check for worth on eBay? if nothing more than sentimental value may I suggest a viking funeral?
@tech_knight @mythamphetamine @tigerion @mawt @popdart5 @novacascade @blaghman and spectators @gingerchris86 and @f4ction
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
What can the Orange Cloaks tell you?
WEDNESDAY 7:30 SA TIME (if that’s good for people)
Sweet. I wasn’t sure if you were going to wait for the next fortnight to roll around but this Wednesday suits me fine.
Wednesday week I’m not available, so I’d have to push it further! I know this one is tough for @mythamphetamine though
Lets hope it’ll be more than just Scrappa and Russef, otherwise our previously-on-Numenera tactical advantage may not be so tactical anymore :/
Mrs Tigs and I are still traveling so I’m out
No prob
F***ing uni! F***ing universe! I was already super stressed about uni going back, and balancing uni and work, and I’m (hoping) that the universe was trying to throw me a bone by removing my Friday course so I have a 4 day weekend, but…
…ALL I WANT TO KNOW IS WHY THE F*** MY FRIDAY COURSE HAS DISAPPEARED!
I planned everything out around that time table. EVERYTHING! Enrolments were closed today, and all of a sudden I’m a course down! My carefully laid out plans are in ruins! I’m hoping my course was supposed to be only a 3 unit semester, but I doubt it 🙁
Why can’t things ever just be simple?!?!
Oh, games. I have a $75 JB voucher, so should I get NFS: Rivals, Lego Marvel Superheroes, or wait and use it on Infamous: Second Son?
Definitely check with the unit peeps to see what’s up with that. I don’t know which Uni you’re at but mine often didn’t automatically allocate units to times (despite me putting in preferences) so I had to quickly pick something that was available :/
As for gaems – LEGO Marvel was the first LEGO game I played and it was kinda just okay. I’d say hold out for inFamous!
My uni’s enrolments are actually a joke. I have 8 units to allocate, so I assumed it was 4 each semester, as is usual, with 8 more to select next year, except that three of them have prerequisites that are other units, so these 8 units may be for the next 2 years as far as I’m aware.
For instance, let’s say there’s units A, B, C and D. There is an instance where to do B I have to have done A, to do C I have to have done B and A, and to do D I have to have done A, B and C, but the last I heard these 8 courses were for second year only…
How. The F***. Does that work.
The only way I figure it is to do A in semester one, B in semester 2, C in third year semester 1 and D in third year semester 2? But that means that each semester is a 2 course semester for the next two years, which can’t possibly be right at all…
Sorry about rambling again, I’m just super confused and pretty stressed. It’s like they think that I’ve f***ing done this shit before and that I know what I’m doing?!?!
Infamous.
I finished that game I was playing and now I have to pick another game to start playing D:
Tearaway, BioShock Infinite, Fire Emblem… others?
CHOOSE FOR ME!
…please
Infinite. In memory of Irrational.
That’s one of the reasons I bumped it up the shame list 😛
Others!
I would play, Tearaway. because that’s the only game on the list I haven’t played. =PI recommend Infinite. That totally sucked me in.
FREMBLEM YOU IDJIT
I played Kid Icarus AND Attack of the Friday Monsters, you’ve used up your recommendations! (for now)
Then I recommend you play Fire Emblem
Waifu Emblem. If that’s the wrong version of Fire Emblem then play Infinite.
(and @batto)
Only reason Fire Emblem is lower down the list is that I’ve played it before for about 20 hours but I just never finished it. I think I’d be near the end but I can’t remember anything about it and don’t really have the time to start it again 😛
Okay here’s something to debate. Or not. Example: I enjoyed Coldplay’s first two albums. Hmm X&Y. Make that three albums. However their last two were absolute shit, IMO.
Now apply that to gaming. The closest scenario to that for me would be the Final Fantasy series. When I first started that series was grand, then slowly with each new release it grew tiring. To the point of no return with XIII. I will really struggle to get back into it after that one.
TAYbies, what other situations are there where iterations (music, gaming or whatever) across the same franchise waver so dramatically?
Star Wars.
The Matrix.
Great examples. Probably because I agree.
Music: Within Temptation. Everything up to and including The Silent Force is incredible. then they decided to try and break into the US scene and started churning out generic rock which is made even more painful by remembering how unique they used to be. Their latest is better but it’s too little too late. They’ve completely lost their magic for me and it makes me sad.
Bowie . When he’s good, he’s sublime. When he was awful, he was awful.
Has to be the Ratchet and Clank series. Loved the first 3 on PS2, never played Gladiator. Loved Tools of Destruction, QFB was ok, never finished Crack in Time and have no intention of grabbing Into The Nexus.
Doom & Quake.
Oh man, I remember playing the original Quake when it was first released. Such an incredible experience. None of the other Quakes ever came even close to that first one because they changed the style and atmosphere so dramatically.
I really wish I got to play them in their heyday. I only remember being shown Wolfenstein at a friend’s place, and it was one of the scariest games I’d ever played 😛
Only ended up checking Doom out at some point when Doom 3 was fairly old (though still lingering in shops – ended up grabbing a clearance copy for $2.50 because it was possible to get it working on win98 :P), it instantly became one of my favouritest games ever. Wonder what life would have been like if I knew of its majesty earlier…
Still yet to check out Quake though.
Vida la Vida was a’ight. Simply a’ight.
Kingdom Hearts, and I’m including their spin-offs, because they’re so important to the story :p but no really, I found CoM to be pretty good, as well as BBS, but then there’s the DS titles which kinda sucked, and I’ve not tried DDS so *shrugs*
Pretty much any horror franchise; Texas Chainsaw, Halloween, Friday The 13th, A Nightmare On Elm Street, they all had a point where they were just no good any more.
Though saying that a few of the later movies/reboots were decent & enjoyable like Rob Zombies Halloween & H2, Freddy vs Jason and the 2009 Friday The 13th, I enjoyed them to the point where I actually bought them later on.
Music, for me Green Day is a good example, I don’t really enjoy post American Idiot Green Day, 21st Century Breakdown is okay, but the amount of over production & auto tune present on that album really did it in for me as a fan. It wasn’t until Uno, Dos & Tre I started listening to them again. BUt saying that there’s only a handful of worthwhile songs on those 3 albums, stuff like X-Kid, Brutal Love, 99 Revolutions, Stray Heart, Oh Love, Nuclear Family, Stay The Night, out of 37 songs that’s not really that many memorable ones, I enjoyed the albums but stuff I liked there was only those few for me.
I love the Halloween original and the remake. Both are awesome. Wasn’t too big on H2 though.
Agreed. I liked H2, mostly for the opening sequence was great.
Guitar Hero. I never played the first two (although what I’ve played of 2’s setlist was pretty good), but 3 was awesome, 4 was a disappointment (Metallica showed that 4 would have been much more improved with a less “appeal to everyone” setlist and just rocking out instead), 5 was awful and 6 was also awesome. So at least it ended on a high note, although on the other hand the fact that they finally got things going good again then couldn’t expand on that further is disappointing.
Bon Jovi.
The Walking Dead.
The Lesser EvilLol Bon Jovi, I thoroughly agree. Richie showed up Bon Jovi somewhat at Soundwave. His vocals are just vastly better than Jon’s (in my opinion)
Crash Bandicoot.
Forgot how amazingly brilliant the opening tune for Beauty and the Beast was. Chills, man.
@jimu
What an abomination.
What?
I suppose you think this is better?
You know I do!
HELL YES IT’S BETTER
So many sweet, sweet memories..
I got that game for my eleventh birthday. So, so good.
YOU ARE
I hate almost everything about the n64 era of gaming. I realize that makes us enemies. 😀
Mortal.
D:
Goldeneye was overrated shit wasn’t it?
Only good N64 game I ever played was Rogue Squadron and that was infinitely better on PC since you could use a controller made for a human rather than an anime tentacle-rape octopus monster
Away wicked soul!
Don’t you dare insult my Playstation. May the souls of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro haunt you forevermore.
That is fucking wrong!
An era? A whole era?
Jeebuz!
So in the past 2 weeks I think I’ve brought, maybe 9 games..and yet I find myself going back to playing NBA and ArmA 2..yep the pile will continue growing… I HAVE A PLAN mind you that I will figure out down the line but for the moment..ugh I need a better computer
Is the plan to give me your games to ease yourself of the burden?
It’s a solid plan, Cam.
We need a group huddle to discuss this
I think this is amazing.
Alrighty, applied a quick fix to quite a serious problem. It would have been awesome if my uni had of told me that:
A) One of my units was postponed to second semester, and
B) That I had to choose two majors, not one.
I’ve never been to uni, you think they’d make these things a bit clearer >:(
It’s your trial by fire, if you can’t cope with picking classes, god help you when the semester starts… or something…
Were you the one saying you’re doing I.T.? Remember there’s a couple of us here that did it, and I’d be more than happy to chat with you to help out with things if you need.
I didn’t say it, but I am :3
Doing a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, with majors in Games Programming and Information Technology.
I think I’ve got it all sorted now, but time will tell.
Thanks for offering to help though 🙂
If I do need any help / advice I’ll ask next time rather than rambling, haha 🙂
Controversial, but true. I hate pasta. Pasta is horrible and bland. *nods head decisively*
(I do like Lasagna and Pizza though, so those Italian folks are still okay with me!)
you haven’t had real pasta if it tastes like that.
You need to eat my nonna’s pasta.
Hers especially!
Don’t believe any other italians about their nonna’s pasta being the best, my nonna’s pasta is truly the best.
Except it’s a lie. *Mine’s* is actually the best.
Although my sister makes some pretty damn awesome pasta from scratch. Got the technique perfectly nailed, makes for great crostoli too.
Pasta is great if it’s cooked al dente. If it’s cooked until it’s soft it becomes tasteless and not nice to eat.
You should come over for lunch and we’ll make fresh pasta together (even if it’s just you watching me make it and heckling 😛 ) to see if you like it. McDonald’s is even nearby if you need a backup food plan.
All pasta is terrible! ESPECIALLY AL DENTE! XD
I get it now. You’re just looking for a fight. *hugs DC instead* 😛
Hugs enrage me! (Unless I’m drunk, then I give them freely. Like knuckle taps with explosions!)
I always wondered why whenever you were out drinking brisbane would go into lockdown due to explosives
Now you know and knowing is half the battle!
You’re the antichrist DC!
You are!
Hardly!
Pasta makes me bloaty and uncomfortable.
I love pasta so much that I eat it raw.
So I’m not the only one…
I’m glad you clarified that you like Lasagne, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to be friends.
Just might be my favourite food, friend!
Change that “just might be” to “definitely” and we can be bestest-best of best friends.
Already have one of those.
<3 @freezespreston
Damn :'(
HEARTBREAKER!!!😛Lasagne Bolonese at the place where the Pasta is Fasta is amazing. Ly good.
Amazingly good.
Spaghetti Bolognese reminds me of the time I got food poisoning in London and vomited ten times in one day. D: I associate the sight and smells of that dish with vomit, for real. Haha!
That’s like. Eww.
“See My Death”
to the tune of
“Be Our Guest”“See My Vest”Spoilered for people who don’t want to know anything about Dark Souls, or just plain don’t care.
See… my…. death,
See my death,
Cooked by angry red drake breath,
Fall afoul of some fungi, my friend,
Then mauled by son-of-‘Beth.
Walking high,
Along a ledge,
See some treasure, off the edge.
How to reach it?
Read “Try jump-ing”
All my souls I end up dumping.
Half spi-der! Half a dame!
Vomit lava, set aflame,
Count of lives? No doubt at least my for-ti-eth.
Go on, set out once more,
Havel’s behind that door,
See my death,
Yes, my death,
See my deeeeath!
Undead burg,
Demon bull,
Shiny longsword out I pull,
Try to beat, and end I meet,
Estus flask is never full.
Not alone,
Boss fight shared,
With my sunbro, I’m not scared,
Ornstein and Smough, fight just begun,
We’ve no time to praise the sun.
Bravely slash, then try to roll!
Light’ning spear takes my soul.
Jol-ly co-op-er-a-tion,
nothing left!
More flask when times are dire,
Just kindle that bonfire,
To stay my death,
Too much heft?
Fat roll hell, corpse six-ti-eth!
See my death! See my death! See my death!
I read it in Mr Burns’ voice.
Is it even possible not to read it in a Mr Burns voice?
Oh man. This is soooo good.
Walking Dead Ep2 done.
Chopped off David’s legDidn’t shoot Jolene
Didn’t help kill Larry
Just killed the first St. John brother
Didn’t steal the food.
Oddly, I actually enjoyed that one. Think because
it was about cannibals and didn’t really have any zombies.Still a tad overwrought.
Ep 3 is my favourite!
Ep 2 is my favourite!
You’re my favourite.
(Walking Dead TV show discussion buddy!)
Haha, I didn’t expect you to say that! Especially because I seem to disagree with you about everything to do with the show 😛
Gastro sucks 🙁
Having had it, I wholeheartedly agree.
Hope you get well soon, mate.
Play some games until you feel better! \o/
Gastro stop is a good thing
It prolongs how long the infection lasts though, so I’m not having anything like that 🙁
Lessons learnt from the weekend:
-Carlessness sucks
-Trains in far away places aren’t all that frequent
-Not looking up timetables is stupid
-Don’t attempt to throw girls into the pool. They scratch.
-I have neglected my piano far too much in the past month or two and should rectify that
-Pac Man Vs on DS isn’t as good as on GCN. Though much easier to play
-GCN adapters for Wii Remotes are cool
-People don’t like it when you try to climb up their balcony
-Despite attempts to minimise its impact, I still have problems in regards to how I feel about hair loss and its effects on my appearance
-Having neither 3DS nor Pokemon makes for major outcastage in this group
-The beach is nice and it’s been far too long since I last went
-Feelings are stupid
-I am stupid
(didn’t even recognise a Question Mark Block-shaped cake for what it was until I went to show my sister a picture of it last night)
I think that’s about it.
You look good bald, don’t worry about it.
Can’t. On being shown some of the photos that were taken, I can’t stand the look of my head from any angle other than front-on. But that’s ok because I generally only have to see it that way 😛
Shave it and cover your head in tattoos. I recommend a Monkey Island panorama stretching all the way around the back of your skull. Whenever anyone asks what on earth you were thinking, simply point to the section that says “How appropriate, you fight like a cow!”
You have all the best ideas.
If I ever get a tattoo, “How appropriate, you fight like a cow!” is one of my 2 options
Words to live by. Words to die by.
Also I think the aforementioned panorama would need to have a three-headed monkey featured in the middle on the back.
Yeah, I’m picturing iconic scenes, one insult swordfight, that one time there really WAS a 3 headed monkey, something with LeChuck & something with Elaine. Maybe a small one of Monkey Kombat with a giant red cross through it to show how fucking moronic it was TO ADD AN UNSKIPPABLE RANDOM ELEMENT YOU HAD TO LEARN ANEW EVERY SINGLE GAME AND THAT WASN’T FUCKING FUN!
I wasn’t a fan of monkey kombat, it must be said.
Don’t be a doofus. Nobody will ever be as critical of your appearance as you are, they’re too busy being super-critical of their own appearance.
The non-doofus side agrees with you whole-heartedly. But the other can’t hear you over his incessant whining 😛
Also I don’t generally consider myself to be particularly vain at all. I mean I try not to look like a slob, but that’s pretty much where it ends, no other special efforts or considerations. This though… it’s the one thing that manages to get to me.
I know, right? Some people look like aliens with bald heads, and some look like Gooky 😛
Is that a compliment? Who knows!(It is)That’s a good group. Stick with them.
But what am I supposed to do while they’re all sitting around playing Pokemon?
Wish you had pokemon. Resolve to get pokemon.
I was considering it when it came out. And then moreso when it seemed like every single person at school was playing it. But then I thought about it more and how I tend to hate RPGs and thought yeah nah I don’t need that. Now I’m back to the reconsidering part again…
BUT NO THAT’S STUPID GETTING IT JUST BECAUSE SHE LIKES IT IS DUMB
But Hawlucha is cool. And it is supposed to be a pretty good game…
But I’ve attempted to restart Red which died halfway and I had that attempt at playing Heart Gold that was only fired up on two weekends god knows how many months ago, I probably won’t even finish this one.
But it’d give me a good excuse to fix up the new 3DS and actually start playing games again.
But you had that already with Link Between Worlds you idiot, it’s been sitting there for months and you still haven’t done anything.
Don’t mind me, I’ll just be over here arguing with myself for a while.
I had a similar problem with my DS. Any time I wanted to use a handheld – such as a commute – was not long enough to get into a super-involved game, and anytime I was at home, I have my all-powerful god’s-great-grandfather titan of a gaming PC to keep me entertained. There’s not much room in my life for a handheld, even if I did only buy pokemon diamond and TWEWY on it. I just didn’t play it.
Haha, I’ve still got TWEWY sitting in my pile to be played. Another I didn’t touch because “RPG? Ehhh, sounds too much like hard work, I’ll come back to it later” 😛
Most of the time I play my DS while sitting at the PC…
People underestimate how easy it is to scratch a pool
Did I miss the update in regards to Pillow, Climbey and Sketch all being there? What happened?!?! D:
You know we’re all curious!
Climbey wasn’t there, she’s been MIA since December 😛
Pillowmaker was paired up with me for mattress share once again, and was cuddly as usual. Also the one that left me with a nice big scratch on my ribcage.
Sketchbook has now been excavated from the depths of my mind and is now all I can think about again. Which I love and hate at the same time.
#sexyproblems
Nah not those kinds of thoughts. Actually I don’t think I’ve even thought about her like that at all.
I meant it as an alternative to #firstworldproblems, suggesting that these are problems experienced by sexy dudes like you. 😛
Anyways, good luck and have fun. 😀 Seemed like an eventful weekend.
Did Kotaku change the font for usernames? When you look at a post, the normal text is fine, but the text above saying “this comment came from Phlanispo” seem to be in Playbill *for some reason. It’s very difficult to read now. Am I the only one getting this error?
*It’s probably Arial Narrow, but Playbill is so much more dramatic.
I seem to get that from time to time, it’s like the page glitches up and the otherfonts take over for a while. Though this one seems to be sticking more than usual.
It does look a bit different and the next/previous page links are larger and more pronounced too. Not sure if the article headings look different as well or I’m just so used to ignoring the title and just clicking to see what the content is
It’s definitely a bit different this evening. At first I thought it might just be that I’d actually zoomed to more than my usual 90% (seriously, Allure sites look way better at 90%), but the font is obviously different,as is the article titles on the main page.
Yeah, the CSS must be borked. I like the other font better. 🙁
Double yew zero zero tee!
GMG emailed me my key for Thief (not that Garret really should need a key) and its preloading now. 19.6gb though…
As soon as it unlocks I’m going to steal all the things!
I’ll steal your virginity.
It sells for a decent amount on eBay.
I think that would technically count as rape wouldn’t it?
D:
Well it sounds like I don’t have a choice in the matter… You’re not even buying me dinner
I’ll call you later?
Sounds good to me.
You know whats really scary? That’s genuinely the closest I’ve ever had to a date…
Oh man, now I feel obligated to follow through!
@stickman You think that’s pressure for you? Imagine how I feel!
Hell I’ve not even had a shower today and I’ve still got this fucking headache…
I can’t believe I found this:
Smash Mouth- All Star. Done in Mario Paint.
That is actually brilliant.
Oh no now I am down the rabbit hole of mario paint songs oh dear god no
I’ve watched eight now and they are all pokemon tunes arceus save me
Now I’ve moved on to touhou tunes and holy hell I so deep down the rabbit hole that I am forever trapped tell my family that I love them
requiem for a dream halo theme primal dialga temporal tower sky tower spark man theme of tara golden sun guile’s theme skyrim theme tetris theme they are all one in my mind they have consumed me
I will never get that hour back…
Curse you @crazyguy1990
Oh shiny new razor blade. If only I could use you every week.
There’s only so many times you can give randoms a Colombian neck tie before the police start to get suspicious of the guy buying all the new razor blades
Good evening brosephs and brosephines (or does it officially click over to morning at midnight?)
Anyhoodleydoodle, I know how much you’ve all missed my frequent spamposts. So, here’s a pic I put together tonight for no special reason. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2tccqpledtszu2o/OzComics24Feb2014.jpg
For more, check out my gallery: http://shanewsmith.com/gallery/gallery
Cheers!
That the cover art for the Dark Souls musical?
Oh, man! I gotta do this tonight. It’s gonna be amazing.
Heh. Prepare to Rhyme Edition.
That’s for the Hip-Hopera version surely
BORROWED! PRAISE THE PUN!
The Assonance of the Undead.
Just swap the guitarist for Solaire and it’d pretty much look the part
Finally got my uni timetable together after spending all day at work stressing like crazy >:(
I know no one here cares, I just need to vent a little.
Apparently I missed a lecture today according to my new timetable, luckily I now have Tuesdays off though, so can catch up tomorrow (plus it would have more been like an orientation lesson anyway).
I may have accidentally abused my uni’s support staff in the process however, and I’m not 100% convinced my timetable is in functional order, but I currently have a four-day weekend next semester, so the amounts of f*** I currently give is zero.
tl;dr
4 DAY WEEKEND!
I am fretting that my uni timetable is wrong somehow (and that I should be in classes right now despite the start date of 10/3). I’m also stressing because Deakin’s bookshop says I don’t need any books for the year and I’m afraid it’s wrong.
Maybe it’s because I’m older and more stupid than all the 21 year olds and stuff. But I have uni Mon-Thu with Friday off \o/ But Wednesday is classes 11am to 5pm solid. BOO. And Friday will almost certainly mean I have to work. EUGH.
I always wait until the lecturer says that you need the textbook before I buy it, just to save a bit if money.
I’m 100% certain that my timetable is wrong, but that’s going to affect third year liondrive, not me, so that jerk can deal with it when the time comes. All I know is is that my uni is in for a fight if they try and take my four day weekend away from me.
If there’s clashes or other such stuff, you can request a review/change.
Curious to hear more about this and what you didn’t like/why. Presumably you’re talking about all the games of the latter half of the 90s there, PS1/Saturn/PC included?
Console games, anyway. PC blew that era of console gaming out of the water.
What did PC have? The only thing I remember playing around that time at all was StarCraft and Command & Conquer. And cool as they were, I was much happier with my 64 😛
oh man, that’s my favorite gaming era, I have the fondest memories of my 64. It was also when I had the most friends around for multiplayer, best years.
Ohhhh, of course! That must be why @dc hates it so much 😛
:\
Naw.
Was kind of mean, man.
@dc Wasn’t supposed to be, was just thinking hermit vs heavy multiplayer gaming era is all. I’ll accept the misfire though.
Haha! Sorry man, thought you were implying I had no friends. Which was true, but would’ve been mean. 😛 Yeah, not a multiplayer guy and if I was PC was basically king of multiplayer at that time. I also liked to build Duke Nukem levels in the Build engine. Modding for PC. WOOOO!
@dc Wait wait wait. King of multiplayer? PC? Then? No way.
*online multiplayer
@dc I dunno, most people I knew then didn’t even have internet (myself included), let alone have any idea how to play games with each other through it. Going around to a friend’s place was much more feasible 😛
Our family got the internet crazy early.
PC had all my beloved adventure games. You could save at any time. Controlling first person stuff with mouse/keyboard was way better. Lots of games had way more complexity. They looked better. Looking Glass was there. BioWare was there. Sierra was there. LucasArts was there. Consoles had God awful 3D, small memory cards to save on, dodgily implemented check point systems…
Yeah, master race. Woooo.
Psh, saving anywhere is practically cheating 😛
Which ones were Looking Glass? Feels like a name I’ve heard before, but I don’t have any idea who they were.
Looking Glass did Thief and System Shock.
I AM SO PROUD OF YOU.
MMMMMMAAAAASSTERRRR RRRAAAAAAAACE!
Haha, these days I just play for the games and don’t care about platform. It’s just nice that consoles are basically PCs these days any way and have caught up in most of the areas that used to elevate PC for me.
All they need is a proper keyboard & mouse controller (not some weird adapter hodgepodge) for the consoles and they’d be truly competitive
Speaking of master racey things, did you get a chance to try that dark souls stuff I sent you yesterday?
Ah, nope. It’s uninstalled, needed to re-download. Did get the mail, though. Thanks for that. 🙂
No probs
Tune in to next week’s Potaku where we talk about 90s gaming…
Been a while since I’ve done a plug. Feels nice.
Played Skullgirls, got stuck on the final boss for well over an hour before giving up.
Then I checked the Extras screen on the main menu, and clicked “Contributors.” Biig mistake. Contributors basically names everyone that backed them on indiegogo. Everyone. The credits are well over five minutes long, (when holding the fast forward button) and are still going.
@crazyguy1990
5 minutes is nothing (even on fast forward), when I finished GTA5 and the credits started, my controller turned itself off from inactivity twice, they’re literally at least 25 minutes long if not over 30.
I mean sure, they all deserve their name out there and it’s a fuck of a big game but its not exactly interesting to watch
Pretty sure that Rayman Origins’ credits sequence is much worse.
Like, holy damn. And I think they might have even started looping over again.
I still think that it’s worth it to hear the ending song.
Talk about an ear worm.
Also, whatever you do, don’t go into options and choose “Marie 300%”, unless you are a masochist.
ALSO MY SISTER MANAGED TO FIND AND BRING BACK ZANGEKI NO REGINLEIV FROM JAPAN FOR MY BIRTHDAY SHE IS THE BEST
She also got me this cool looking snap-together “puzzle” mechanical pencil kit thing. Otherwise got given some clothes and a skydiving voucher, that should be fun. Really want to take my
phonecamera up with me try and get some awesome pictures like I did on some of the rides in Japan. Though I know they’ll tell me I can’t.Quickly buy one of those gopro cameras and strap it to your helmet
…I’ll let everyone make their own sexual joke in their mind there…
Nah I wanna play with my 808.
…heh
I’ll make a Pokéfan out of you, yet! Gooky… I’ll make a Pokéfan of you…
*music swells*
Let’s get down to business
To defeat the Gyms.
Choose your starter wisely
Charmander for the wins!
You’re a severe disappointment
But you can bet before we’re through
Mister, I’ll make a Pokéfan
Out of you.
Deep within the forest
You should train your team.
Find a Pokécentre
‘fore you run out of steam!
You’re a hardcore Nintendo fanboy,
But you’ve shunned Pikachu.
Somehow I’ll make a Pokéfan
Out of you.
@mawt: I’m never gonna fill my ‘dex.
@bish: Say goodbye to your “Mom” quickly
@sughly: Boy, was I a fool to trade for that old Jynx
@rocketman: This guy’s under some Ghastly Hex.
@mrtaco: Hope he stops talking ’bout Caterpie
@novacascade: Now I wish my Farfetch’d had his Sticks.
BE A POKÉFAN
We must be smart to successfully catch
BE A POKÉFAN
Learn the type chart to plan our moves
BE A POKÉFAN
Work your way up and earn each gym badge
The Champion’s waiting for your skill to improve!
Time is racing toward us
til’ Rocket arrives.
Build a balanced party
And you might survive.
You’re unsuited for the Elite Four
So pack up, go home, you’re through
How could I make a Pokéfan
Out of you?
BE A POKÉFAN
We must be smart to successfully catch
BE A POKÉFAN
Learn the type chart to plan our moves
BE A POKÉFAN
Work your way up and earn each gym badge
The Champion’s waiting for your skill to improve!
BE A POKÉFAN
We must be smart to successfully catch
BE A POKÉFAN
Learn the type chart to plan our moves
BE A POKÉFAN
Work your way up and earn each gym badge
The Champion’s waiting for your skill to improve!
PI-KA!
Awesome, 9/10!
It would have been a 10, but you picked Charmander.
So he gets an 11.
You know what? Have the Charmander.
My Squirtle and I will be too busy being the Champion to worry about your poor decisions.
*sits alone in the Bulbasaur corner*
What’s a Bulbasaur?
Let’s ask Twitch to check.
CONSULT THE HELIX!
@Rize makes an excellent point
Obviously it’s musical week on TAY. I wholeheartedly endorse this.
I don’t think I can express in words how happy musical week makes me.
Why don’t you tell us…
…in SONG!
Musical time on tay
Is a magical kind of day
The thread’s meant to be
in perfect harmony
And we’re also talking about games!
We’ll—-
Sing about Pokemon, civ v and dark souls
Sing about zomboids and R P G game goals
We’ll sing about starcraft and armies and ray-
man we’ll do so much singing on TAY!
Musical time by the way
is the best time to hang around TAY
When we can converse
about which starter’s worse!
We’ll have so much fun talking about games!
Pure f#$king awesomness. That is all.
Hahaha! This is great. Also yeah Jynx is super lame, I would regret that
I… never saw Mulan >.>
That was awesome. Charmander for the wins!Move over @alexpants, I’ve got a new person to be disappointed in!
I’M FREEEEE!
There’s also a whole bunch of others in there too, pretty much everything after Hercules other than most Pixar films (though didn’t catch Wall-E or Up til years after they came out).
Fixed some of it recently by catching Tangled and Princess and the Frog when they were on TV though 😛
You want to be disappointed in someone for not seeing movies? I reckon I’m all you need mate
Harold Ramis has died 🙁 A brilliant writer of comedy
Doh…
Ray…
Egon!
🙁
oh no, that’s sad.
Is that new Ghostbusters still happening with Seth Rogan and Jack Black (why them, why), I heard he was sposed to be in that. 🙁
Often when I take Sid out for a walk, I may talk to myself to sort out cosplay issues. Anyway, I had just been looking at Elsa’s ice dress and was pumping myself up even though she has a lot of gradients through the dress. I was like “there are a lot of gradients…Fuck it, I’ll make it awesome!”
I looked up to see my neighbour outside looking at me oddly.
Odd
I thought your neighbour would have learned you are crazy by now.=PDecided to pick up Dark Souls yesterday arvo and try to get through more of it.
I planned to get a divine weapon as the catacombs were up next but got lazy and just jumped straight in. Turns out it was way easier than I anticipated, as the second and third necromancers I encountered killed themselves as soon as I saw them. Then I dropped my controller which made me roll off a cliff…Might try again tonight.
Most people just roll themselves off of cliffs without dropping their controllers. Some even do it on purpose in the Catacombs because there’s a shortcut if you fall in the right spot.Yeah, I saw a bunch of platforms in the side of a cliff I figured I could use to get down, but shortcuts in games (other than racing ones/time based stuff) never made much sense to me. Actually, the funny thing was, if I did a plunging attack I may have survived cause I landed on a skeleton at the bottom…Every time I do a plunging attack, I still lose gobs of health equivalent to if I’d fallen without taking someone with me. Sometimes the game is so rude as to kill you before it gives you your desperate last-ditch kill souls in consolation!
I picked it up last night too, but then my PC blue-screened due to what appear to be either driver issues or directx issues… I say this because when DS didn’t work, I fired up Battlefield 4 and got the same errors, so I know it’s not isolated to one game.
The last time my PC started blue-screening for no apparent reason and posting results with my GPU driver .dll, it was because the card was dying. Had dud memory sectors that were killing everything when filled. Probably wanna try a driver rollback and if that doesn’t fix it, isolate the card by trying the on-board video for similar results.
Yeah I’m going to wipe the drivers tonight and reinstall from scratch, and try reinstalling DX, but there doesn’t appear to be an official way to remove all traces of DX and install fresh, it appears MS only allows you to reinstall, which I fear may cause different issues and/or more clutter, though I don’t know enough about the install process of DirectX to be able to say for certain.
Might be an idea to reseat the card and power cables, possibly ram as well. I recently noticed some of my ram had come slightly lose by maybe 2mm, enough for windows to know it was there but not enough for BIOS to which I never knew was possible. Never hurts to double check.
So I’ve been checking out Star Battle 3 on Starcraft 2 last night (Custom map). Wow the game has gotten a lot better and more crazy last time I played it. Sadly though it looks like NA latency has gotten worse since a year and a half ago :(. It sometimes makes it hard to control the ship, but it’s still quite playable. There is a version of it on SEA but it looks like the person responsible for keeping it updated disappeared a long time ago, causing the community to split off to NA or quit, which is a real shame.
For those that don’t know, Star Battle is a 6v6 custom map on the BattleNet Arcade where you’re all playing as capitol ships (10 to choose from currently, including ships from all 3 races in Starcraft 2/HOTS) in an epicly large space battle in a DOTA-style environment, where you get money from destroying little enemies (Which are fighters in this case) and you use that money to buy upgrades and abilities at base. The goal is to either kill the entire enemy team (It’s permadeath, no respawns, once you’re dead, you’re out), or to destroy the computer mothership/command center. One thing I learnt so far, Void Rays are even more annoying that I remember. 😛 Main reason why Star Battle is a lot of fun, so many lasers, missiles, nukes, mines, drones, fighters, cannons… pretty much everything a large space battle enthusiast can want 🙂
Ping to NA servers is something like 400ms. It’s a complete nightmare. I remember when the Blizzard micro trainer map thingy came out a while ago. It was up on the US server first so I tried it there and couldn’t do a lot of the challenges simply because of ping. Switched to playing it locally and suddenly I could do everything.
It’s like playing underwater. Starcraft really suffers from these server issues.
That high? I remember having ping of a little under 200ms trying this last year, that would explain why it feels so sluggish now. Sadly I don’t have much choice if I want to enjoy this map with other people, as other people only play on NA over SEA (Understandable as the SEA one is out of date).
When I was playing it was around 400ms with 150ms to SEA. Odds are I had some terrible routing because i know some WA players were getting better pings to Korea than SEA.
It’s been a long while since I checked. I wouldn’t mind getting back into Starcraft but when I’ve got a 50ms ping in Dota 2, it just seems silly to go to something so laggy.
Odd how different a person I can be at work than I am at home. At work I’m calm, level headed and authoritative, deal with everything easy and efficiently with minimum of fuss. Get me out of the work environment and I’m a screaming ball of nervousness and temper, unable to deal with even minor problems.
Anyway, woke up with a massive headache today and a horrible link in my neck. Yay!
I’m exactly the same as you, but my ache is in my throat.
Well, you did share a room with @blaghman over the weekend.
ZING!
Was that your payment, @rize?
Was that Xbox Live Dark Souls sale only for Gold Members or something? I was thinking about it yesterday and went to check it out but while it says it’s around $7 on the search page when I go in it switches to $29.99. Since my wife has gold (we don’t both need it for me to play online on the Xbone and she manages most of the game/DLC purchases through her account since she plays more stuff these days) I’m wondering if that’s the reason I can’t get it at the sale price.
Yeah I think sales are one of the carrots for XBLGold
I was going to stealth buy it because my wife knows what my temper is like and thinks I’m an idiot for considering it. I think I’ll jsut go without instead of asking her to buy it through her account. 😛
It’s worth a try at that price (if you can still get it that is). If it pisses you off too much you can delete it and then at least you’ll have to be serious about giving it another go to redownload 4-5gb or whatever it is
You can’t get it for the sale price because XBLive sucks. No, really, the UI lies to me all the time. It says I can get games for free with gold, I click it, nowhere to be seen. Prices on $0 or cheap are full price when clicking on it.
One of the advantages to having http://majornelson.com/ bookmarked, he announces all of the deals and links to the store page directly so you can get there without the console UI screwing around.
Assuming you have XBL Gold that is, Silver members don’t get sales. Well they don’t get anything other than a machine that can play games really.
Awesome.
Aww that’s adorable haha
Reviews for Thief are flowing in.
They are not good. 🙁
General consensus seems to be that it’s good, but not great.
AKA: Steam sale game.
I’m putting it in the same boat as DmC: Devil May Cry. There will be people that enjoy it, there will be fans of the original series that loathe it and there will be people somewhere in the middle.
Definitely a Steam sale game.
Ouch.
That’s a shame. I was thinking of grabbing it thinking that not being a fan of the original would increase my chances of liking it.
I was so into the first Thief games. I even made levels and campaigns, man. Got really into that community. Fan-levels were some of the best, because you could get down to the business of breaking into someone’s home and robbing them blind and knocking out their guards, as opposed to the tedious levels of zombie/forest-spirit silliness that marred The Dark Project. Metal age was one of the best, and even though Deadly Shadows was somewhat consolified, it also had some amazing and atmospheric levels and stepped up the graphics over the originals while keeping most of the heart of The Dark Project. Deadly Shadows felt a lot like how Hitman: Contracts did for Codename 47.
I really wanted a good Thief game, but I’ve always suspected that the developers have spent their entire time with Marketing looking over their shoulder and asking why it doesn’t play like Dishonored. Weren’t they at E3? Throat-stabbings are in, right now. Why aren’t there more gameplay segments they can use for TV spots, why aren’t there more explosions or assassinations, how are people going to get adrenaline pumped playing this? Because they fundamentally don’t ‘get’ it.
So no, this does not come as a surprise. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, in the first builds they showed to the public, there was an exp system which heavily-rewarded combat over stealth, and quick-time events – which tells you everything you need to know about what kind of ‘fans of the series’ they are. They came at this from the wrong angle form the very start. Fans told them how wrong this was, but when you’re in charge of an installment in a franchise, you shouldn’t have to be told.
All the same… still very disappointing. Expected, but disappointing.
I’m likely having a quiet weekend without multiplayer stuff and I’ll have it unlocked by then so I expect to get through a lot of it. I’m not expecting miracles but I’m hoping that some of the criticism is overblown because it’s not exactly like Thief 2
On the plus side, the Rock Paper Shotgun review is much more forgiving and goes into a bit more depth on how it plays and what’s right or wrong about that.
I may do a video review of my own, having shadowplay running while the game is on seems like the ideal medium for capturing sample clips for later editing
Jalapenos were not a good idea last night…
🙁
Jalapenos are always a good idea!
Not if you value your colon, they aren’t…
I have sriracha sauce on at least one meal a day… trust me, it doesn’t affect you after a while, you get used to it and enjoy the flavour.
It’s really weird, but sriracha really doesn’t do it for me- I don’t know if the brand I have is just bad, but I bought a bottle and was kinda like, huh, is that it?
I much prefer Cholula, Habanero Tabasco or the sauces from Chile Mojo
I have several bottles of hotter sauces (Byron Bay Chilli Co’s Habanero Mango stopped me in my tracks…) but I just love the flavour of sriracha, it’s got a decent capsicum sweetness, a big tang of the vinegar sourness and a decent garlic punch, so it goes on almost anything in our house.
I’m sorry, I’m now salivating on my keyboard…
I tried Blair’s Death Sauce a couple weeks back.
I started crying out of one eye.
Should have gone with habaneros.
Aside: greatest things ever are chilli Rellenos. Whole jalapeños stuffed with cheese, battered and deep fried.
O.
M.
G.
I’ve had those bell peppers stuffed with fetta, they’re pretty great. Haven’t heard of those before though.
Must try.
Just did a big catchup of Twitch Plays Pokemon. Had a good laugh at some of the stuff I missed, and I’m really keen to see what happens now that Lord Helix walks among us.
For those interested on the full story so far:
http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/wiki/historyoftpp
Though I can’t really come at playing this sort of game on PC, Humble as a really good deal on Saints Row IV atm: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/deepsilver_week
In song:
Oh When the Saints
Go Marching In
Oh when the saints go marching in
Oh that price is a really low number
When the Saints Go Marching In
#taymusicalweek
I played on PC and it was fine. Well, aside from the flying sections where the controls were pants on head retarded and I had to use a controller.
I just prefer this sort of game on console (also comp is awful).
PC for strategy, console for crazy.
I do almost all of my gaming on PC these days. Most games are ported anyhow. That means the choice is between controller and keyboard/mouse.
If a game has controller support, why wouldn’t I play it on PC instead of console? It’s the same screen with less fussing about and it’ll almost definitely have better graphical performance (mostly by way of having a high, stable framerate. I’m not that fussed about shiny textures).
Might have mis-phrased- my comp is awful, not all comps are awful.
I’m not sure what you mean by same screen with less fussing about- when I play a game like this I want to put the game in the machine, press start and play sitting on my couch in my loungeroom, which is something a console ver does awesome and is my preference.
While I could certainly set up a loungeroom PC and all that, I prefer the console experience for this sort of switch off your brain game- it’s a lean back and relax game, not a sit forward and pay attention game like a strategy game, which I’ll happily play on PC.
I mean that my consoles are connected to my PC monitor.
I’ve got a bloody fantastic couch but I prefer to do most of my gaming at my desk.
Finally got around to finishing off Bioshock! That twist was pretty great
Was hoping for a tougher boss battle though. I think I had a harder time with some of the Big Daddies, lol.
So how does the ending go down if you just harvested all of the Little Sisters?it doesn’t end well for… Humanity.That sounds a bit dramatic
Pretty sure the cinematic is on youtube. You don’t get much different in the way of dialogue during the game if you’ve been making that choice, so I wouldn’t see much benefit to replaying just for the different ending cinematic.
Been a crazy morning, traffic was terrible and everyone was driving like aggro dickmen, saw a poor cyclist get T-Boned by a 4×4, the dude must have flown about 8 meters through the air, fortunately there was a cop car about 2 cars behind me so they responded fast and several people jumped on their phones to get an ambulance. He seemed ok but probably has a few broken bones. Work is crazy busy today too,
I hope you all had a better start to the day.
If anyone is interested it looks like EB Games has broke street on Tales of Symphonia chronicles, than again it might be one of them cases where it never had a official one to begin with.
Regardless its available.
so tempted to grab that, I played the hell out of it on my Cube but I’ve got too many games to finish.
Hell yes, picked up my CE a little while ago.
Note – there is no Street Date. It had an ETA of Thursday, but the distributor has said to start selling once they arrive, no restrictions.
I haven’t gotten any notification about my CE being available to pick up yet. 🙁
Not that I can actually go collect it since my guts decided to tie themselves in a knot on Sunday and haven’t untangled yet. 🙁
I started playing Walking Dead again, starting at season 4 after I lost a heap of my progress. Planning to get through 400 days and then start season 2 ASAP to avoid spoilers.
I’d already forgotten how awesome Clementine is as a character. Also, I’m trying to make the same decisions I made last time but I’m really struggling to be nice to Ben this time…I’m playing through now and
Ben is the most useless character in the game. All he’s done is get my two favourite characters killed.He’s just an innocent victim of bad writing, isn’t he @dc?
*nods knowingly*
I decided before playing for the first time that I was going to be the best humanity could be in this circumstance, mostly cause you rarely see that in a zombie survival game/show/movie. Without spoiling anything for you, it’s…taxing…I’m doing that and it’s annoying te shit out of me. 99% of the time I’ve stuck by Kenny and done everything for him. I decided once to disagree with him and try to save Larry and the game treats it like we’re worst enemies now. Seems like you can’t play by common sense or grey areas, just all or nothing on either side.I gave up really early with Kenny. Common sense makes him go friggin’ crazy and being a jerk makes him happy (from my experience) so I just started ignoring him. Oh, I should mention, my gameplay idea is actually “be the best humanity can be, right after doing the best by Clem”. She’s so awesome!I think it’s just that he’s a dick. There are people like that out there who don’t see shades of grey or people being friends while sharing conflicting views.
Ben oooh, I hated his face so much I never did anything nice to or for him so he turned in a brooding toolI won a friggin’ Xbone in that V comp!!!
That’s after winning a PS4 in December
*POW!!!* Haters gonna hate ^_^
Get out.
You’re right, I hat.
Are you related to @chuloopa by any chance?
No, why do you ask?
He used to always win competitions. =P
Used to?
I won a Vita just 2 weeks ago.
You disgust me.
Lucky bastard.Yeah, that’s a very good run of luck there, you don’t happen to have incriminating photos of people do you?
What are you going to get first? Or given your history, what game are you planning to win next?
Wow. Niiiice.
I hate non-modular power supplies… that is all.
Non standardised laptop power supplies too. Fucking HP and their dumb arse 135w bullshit
They have a time and place. Better efficiency.
The efficiently difference is so minimal today that it’s completely irrelevant.
Upvotes for truth (as far as normal consumers go), and because I don’t know the exact difference. But, OEM’s don’t use modular, and it’s an entirely different purpose, but I still feel there’s a slight efficiency loss.
Heck, networking standards dictate the maximum amount of consolidation points in order to still hold a certification.
OEMs wouldn’t use modular because they cost more and OEMs are all about cheapest output possible
BOARD GAMES
Yay! my copy of Suburbia shipped!
Also this kickstarter caught my eye- a tiny euro-style game that you can get a full copy of for $7:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/laboratory/province-a-competitive-building-microgame-for-2-pl
EDIT: Song version:
People…
Who like Meeples
Are the luckiest people
In the world…
YAYYY! IT’s a good game 🙂 I’m enjoying the Ipad app myself! 🙂
Super keen to play it again!
I GOT MY CAR BACK
IT’S ALL SHINY AND PRETTY
LETS NEVER BE APART AGAIN <3
That will get unpleasant when you need a poo
Or convenient, depending on the car.
Now, this is just because I love you all, and want to inflict gross amounts of pain upon you.
Say Goodbye Humanity
Oh… the humanity!
I have never uploaded my singing voice to the internet before, and now you know why.
I know it’s bad, but the thought is what counts, right? So please be gentle, and please let me keep hanging out here…Edit: Oh goddamn, that would be a page-get 🙁
page get for maximum exposure,
good work
OH MAN, SHANE’S DESCENT INTO MADNESS HAS BEGAN!
I picture Mrs. Shane with her ear pressed against the man cave door listening.
You’ve actually got a decent singing voice. I feel like your shyness is getting in the way of singing with a little bit more power though. Also, I’m proud of you Shane. For having the confidence to upload such a thing.
SINGING PAGE 5!
Remember that time I sang karaoke?
Nah, she’s out of the house for a bit. That’s why I recorded it now…!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who waits for everyone else to leave.
And there’s always a surprise construction worker renovating your bathroom. ALWAYS.
No, sometimes they’re upstairs doing the floor, or out the back working on the deck, or something else.
…
One sec, checking the garage for hidden tradies…
Right click, Save Link As..
Sadly, that’s what it’s for…
Just safeguarding in case you do a DC and remove it. 😀
Welp, there goes shane’s chances of running for political office.
PHEW.
ha 😀
Could have had your vocals pushed up in the mix a bit, you got lost and a bit indistinct sometimes but yeah, not bad…
Yeah, that was the idea. If I could’ve gotten the lyrics out and kept my voice entirely subsonic, I would have done that 😛
Also, I did this with a karaoke mp3, a camcorder, and Adobe Premiere. I had all the wrong tools 😛
You’re saying that but what I’m hearing is “Coming soon: Music video”
DARK SOULS TWO
Countdown: Something like 19 days. I forget.
THE MAKING OF DARK SOULS TWO VIDEO – RELEASED TODAY ON IGN
http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/02/24/making-dark-souls-2-part-1-back-through-the-fog
I like this countdown because holidays.
Although my Dark Souls time is bring taken from by @cakesmith being silly and being born during that time.
For a moment there I thought you had another child on the way, and that you named him Cakesmith and I was all “Good lord, what an awful, awful name.”
I should probably start planning for that…
http://www.condomman.com.au/buy-bulk-condoms-online/
Best superhero in the world?
I mean, he has a 97% success rate regarding protection.
Wait. So every 33 times I have sex I’ll have a kid?
Lucky it will take me 10-15 years to get there…
I always hated that statistic. Basically, it’s 100% unless user error or damaged, so it’s been reduced to high 90s.
For the record, user error includes forgetting to put it on.
I’ve had two break on me in my life. That said that two times were somewhat panic inducing at the time.
97% is the kind of stat where they’re pretty sure its 100% but need to cover their arse legally
Two weeks earlier would have been perfect. 😛
Almost done with NG+ in a fraction of the time spent in the first playthrough – and that’s even with multiplayer enabled, which is pretty much more time-consuming than it is productive.
I roll with the Way of White whenever I can, to try help folks out (when my fucking summoning signs aren’t disappearing every thirty metres) but getting invaded while trying to do that is incredibly annoying. I swear there’s some kind of mechanic where someone can repeatedly invade you over and over and over again until they finally kill you. Although it is fun to close gates and move bridges and shit so that they can’t get to you without a long-ass detour through tricky platforming and potentially fog gates. I once made an invader fall to his death trying to leap onto the rotating platform in Anor Londo. That was satisfying… But mostly I just want them to go away and let me focus on co-op.So, this is well timed. I don’t even know if I’ll be able to wait for the PC release and may cave, getting it on the inferior console. 🙁
Yes, sort of. If you haven’t read into how Dark Souls pairs people off for summoning/invading, look into it. It’s an interesting read.
Basically
People are segregated into separate pools each time they log in, which then builds in population over time, so the chances of you running into the same people are a lot higher than you’d think.Well, that would explain a lot. 🙂 Fascinating stuff, but I honestly care very little for the invasion mechanic and rather wish I could opt out of it entirely – co-op only. Which I mostly do by staying hollow if I ever die and dropping summon signs every time I can, until I need to go looking to summon folk for a boss fight.
After the initial inconvenience of being invaded a few times in the Undead Burg every time I tried to get to the first bonfire, I went offline entirely for my first playthrough. I figured I’d save that for NG+ where I might actually need it. Turned out to be incorrect in most cases as the bosses aren’t noticably harder, but I sure as hell am.
(With one exception… Man. I brought someone along for the Smough/Ornstein fight and OH MY GOD it’s a cake-walk when someone is busily tanking/distracting one of them. Not getting double-teamed makes the fight laughably easy. Although the first time, even though I was attacking Smough first, the other guy was out-damaging me on Ornstein, and I really wanted to leave him til last… which meant standing still and letting Mister Executioner smash me with a giant hammer.)
But I’m a big fan of helping folks in co-op. FEELS GOOD.
And helping people with tail-cuts feels really good. If it’s available on a boss, I make that my mission – regardless of what the summoner is up to, I’m going for a tail-cut. I still need to do that to Priscilla and Seath for my achievement – helped so many folks get their own tail-cuts, couldn’t do it on my own. 😛
Dammit. Good Guys got no gaems.
Not that I didn’t expect that, but still.
That’s no good?
Bad Guys.
I still gotta use my $40 voucher. Almost got a 16GB VITA card, but they had none in stock….
I was really hoping to maybe use it on Tropical Freeze, but no luck. And no Pokemon available as a fallback option 😛
One of the ones I went to had a whole load of a couple of Bone games though. That’s about it :/
Wanted to wait until I had a bit of a backlog, but i started a tumblr last week as an experiment:
http://tomorrowsdispatches.tumblr.com/
The idea is to report on science fiction things in pretty much Reuters style- give you enough to work from to understand the story without explaining everything. Would love your feedback!
Awesome.
I saw you post some on Twitter a the last few days, and I thought they were awesome.
Now that I know it’s actually you doing it I guess they’re OK…
Thanks?
😀
So awesome. I prefer the black and blue triangles over the yellow and green but that’s just me nitpicking. Are you looking for more entries?
The visuals are one of the stock themes, I figured I’d change it if I found a better one
I’m trying to do one post a weekday, but I’m happy to feature a “correspondent” if you had something cool
Sweet as. My mind is buzzing. If I come up with something I will email it for you to okay or shoot down.
if you make a tumblr I can reblog it
CBF. It’s cool, you can have my ideas for free.
Seems legit.
One of the greatest feelings I get at work: being berated by a self-important jerk about not doing a job that’s a week overdue, and responding by forwarding him the email my boss sent him a month ago asking to send us the information required to do the job. Then forwarding that same email from when you re-sent it to him a week and a half ago.
It happens with alarming frequency, but never the same person more than once…
Oh God, seriously. I come here on TAY to get away from work..
I have the same thing happen,but with the same guy, over and over, you’d think he’d learn. it’s to the point where i send him e-mails that look like they are written for a toddler, I break everything into dot points and use really simple terms and still have to drag the info I need out of him every damn time. I’m a wreck of a person and manage to be more organised than these business jerks.
WHAT IS A FLAG ON OUTLOOK? WAT IS OUTLOOK? HOW I MARK UNREAD? CALANDER SCHEDULING, WUT WUT??
CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
From: dbag@workplace.com
SUBJECT: EMERGENCY!!!!!!URGENT!!!!MUSTBERESOLVEDRIGHTTHISSECOND!!!!
Body: I can’t select the purple font I put on the emails I send to my friends.
I don’t really have a monstrous pile of shame that I need to grind down but I think I’m going to hold off on buying any new games for a while. Of course, this will only last until they release Super Smash Bros WiiU and (I hope) a SSMB-themed WiiU. Then my bank account will be unleashed. 😀
Can I hire you to play games for me, record them with commentary, then play them back at 1.5-2x speed while skipping the boring parts?
You might. What will you pay me for my time? 😛
Virtual cookies?
Virtual cookies are only good for the virtual soul I’m afraid. Perhaps Mr Sim in Sim City might be able to assist you. 😛
In seriousness though, I probably won’t have oodles of free time despite not buying any new games for the next few months. I still have to get through a few of the doozies I’ve got going at the moment (Skyrim being one of them).
And you’ll be too busy playing RPGs.
Nah. Always room for more RPGs.
Mmm.
Cashew Baklava….
I’ll have some
You could but I ate it all.
Don’t worry. I’m paying for my greed. So damn rich.
Dug through my games to fish out the Club Nintendo cards.
Good god there’s a tonne of them. Also annoyingly, a whole bunch that don’t appear on Nintendo’s timeline to tell when they expire. Even some big ones like Skyward Sword :/
Really don’t want to go through all those surveys…
I just kept giving mine to @sughly who got to the point where he’s told me no more. He can get anything he wants at this point.
For someone who doesn’t particularly care for Nintendo games any more I certainly have a lot of them.
So I watched the Bayonetta movie.
Overall quite enjoyable, was very 90s in term of animation style, which worked surprisingly well with most of the 3D elements, but I have no idea how well it translated the game having not actually played it.
Gets a thumbs up if it’s the sort of thing you’d think you’d like, which is the weakest way of saying “it was weird as shit but I had a good time.”
Edit: Also, I spent the entire movie wondering where I’d heard Bayonetta’s voice before. I feel like hitting myself for not recognising her as The Major in Ghost in the Shell.
If that’s how you sum it up, I’d say it probably translates the game quite well 😛
MOTOKO!!!!!
Holy shit I’ve actually blown past a hundred Wii games. And that’s even if you take out stuff like the shitty uDraw crap I bought just for the sake if it :/
Xenoblade x100!
Seriously ready to throttle someone today. Due to a few mishaps, a few weeks ago, my bosses asked me to switch roles with the guy who works in the workshop with me. I haven’t been switched out of my senior role, just the type of computers I’m fixing.
So I switched, and spent a few days organizing his stuff cos he was kind of messy, and just as I started to get it sorted, I got a shitload of machines dumped on me to fix. So I asked for a little assistance, and they got one of our on-site tech’s to come in and give me a hand to work through the backlog.
Turns out he’s been more of a hindrance than a help. Pretty much ever day after he’s been in, I spend the next day trying to find where he’s put stuff, or trying to figure out what he’s done because he hasn’t updated his job notes. So now I’m as far, if not further behind, and getting my ass chewed out for being in that situation. Thankfully the IT manager in HQ was understanding, but I really didn’t need that. Just when I thought I was having a good day, (due to that useless sack of shit being booked onsite instead of in the workshop today,) I got a call asking why I was so far behind, and saying I was put in the role to improve things.
As I said, he got the point of what I was saying thankfully, and said he’d make sure that said useless person wasn’t in the workshop anymore, and rather, would give me a hand from someone who knows what they’re doing, so things should improve again, but I’ve had a stressful enough week trying to sort out his bullshit without being raked over the coals for it too. GRRRRRRRR!!!
With that out of the way, I’m hella enjoying Might and Magic X! Just a shame I totally missed a mission I should have done REALLY early in the game…
I spent hours and hours fighting stuff that was waaaaaaay too high level, and thinking it was just by design due to comments on forums etc, but turns out I’d just not gone back somewhere that I should have because some creatures I’d come across in a certain area of one place, were way too hard. Turns out you don’t need to go anywhere near them, and even though the creatures you do encounter seem daunting, they’re actually quite easy. Upon finishing that quest, it opens up pathways to a town that really should be a second or possibly third destination, but due to the way I played through, it was the last town I got to!
I was wondering why when I went to the store, it only sold really low level stuff 😐
Only plus side is, that all the battles I’ve fought in that area have been super easy since I’m probably about 10-15 levels higher than I should have been when I went through. Downside of course is, I keep finding all this (now) useless stuff that would have been GREAT to be finding about 10-15 levels ago!! lol
I can’t stop smiling.
Its what it was originally made in wasn’t it?
I loved that in mario paint. The music thingy
\m/-_-\m/
If you can believe it this band is not only German but they’re also on Soundwave. The music is just epic.
I can definitely believe they’re German
Everyone else I linked didn’t even believe me when I told them..
Bit mad, leather, bit sexy? Yeah that just says German to me
Doesn’t to me, since the Germans I know personally aren’t like that lol.
Ah, but behind closed doors…
Mind your head.
Hey, offtopic, but is your Mum okay with you being on here?
Look out @phlanispo, she’s about to strike!
It’s a little known fact that scree’s actual username used to be screeeeeeeeam!!!!! but no one lived long enough to finish saying it…
I actually haven’t brought it up. I have been meaning to send her a link to TAY, just so she can check the validity of this place. I think I’ll do it right now. I think I’ll try to send her one of the pages with the least amount of dick jokes.
Best to avoid the pages I’ve posted on too
You might want to wait until the “how to hide your porn” article link is off the bottom of the page as well 😛
Oh… I forgot about that.
Phew, it’s off the bottom page.
I feel like there are thing to do bu- ohhhhhhhhhhmygod I have Antichamber sitting there waiting to be installed.
Play Antichamber! It’s so good. Broke my brain three times, and rebuilt it slightly better.
Finally getting around to listening to that Bravely Default concert that was posted on Kotaku a little while ago. The most surprising thing is how good the in-game music sounds in comparison I think. Normally a live recording of game stuff sounds miles better, but there’s not much of a gap. I guess that’s what happens when you hire a guy like Revo to do your stuff. Successor to the Black Mages? (Though technically I think most of the group playing in that concert is Revo’s Sound Horizon band which was kind of pre-existing)
Also makes me wish I liked the game a lot more. Every element that went into it is great but the characters and plot let it down so much for me.
I’d happily buy an album that was just an audio rip of this.
A looooong time back I had an album of concert stuff of Crono Trigger (PAID FOR AND EVERYTHING, OMG!), which I loved, but there was always one track I felt was better on the original than the orchestral. The Zeal theme (Corridors of Time?) – the floating magic city. I eventually found a version I really liked on Kazaa (yeah, that long ago), but it was very poorly tagged, so I could never find out who did it or where it was from. Ahh, the dark ages of the internet.
Man, Chrono Trigger… I haven’t played it in so long. Should really dig out a copy and re-play it again. Still probably the single best overall JRPG out there, in terms of how well it executes on all fronts. Kind of says sad things about the state of the genre now that the best game in it is closing in on 20 years old.
I’m just amazed at how evocative and emotive that music was for something coded for a 16-bit system. But yeah, the mechanics were solid, the story-telling had great pacing and handled time-travel sensibly, with all the characterization and world-building you needed. A great length, the best replayability, and finding synergies was fun. It really was an outstanding example of doing pretty much everything right, and that ‘perfect storm’ of consistent and universal excellence hasn’t been matched since.
Ugh, this Roxio Game Capture HD is doing my head in again.
I have to use component input, and I’m trying to get HDMI output,
It’s displaying, but when I try to record, it automatically stops after 2 seconds.
🙁
What resolution are you capturing and displaying at? I could imagine that causing an issue if there’s a mismatch. Have you checked for any firmware & software updates in case there’s something that’s been patched? Have you got anything other than a PS3 to test it on or a friend’s PS3 to test with just in case the device is a bit dodgy?
Does the Roxio show up as a video device for other types of capture software? Maybe download xsplit (never used it myself but I understand it captures as well as streams) and see if it handles things better than the default software
720p.
So there’s no problem at all with the passthrough?
What USB port have you got it in, is it definitely USB2 and with the correct motherboard drivers installed? There’s a chance windows is putting the port down to a low power state to save power, its a bugger like that sometimes. I know I’ve typed that advice in TAY recently, it may well have been for you but I can’t remember.
@strange @freezespreston etc
Apparently these guys have some of the Japanese Dark Souls 2 Collector’s Editions in stock
http://www.nippon-yasan.com/lang-en/japanese-video-games-playstation-3/6164-ps3-dark-soul-ii-collector-s-edition.html&force=1
Edit: comes to around $210.
For your aural pleasure:
Sometimes – Miami Horror
Also, Hershey’s chocolate is so rich that it has it’s own underground bank vault.
I’m watching True Detective and I’m about halfway through the second episode:
What the hell is the King in Yellow doing being mentioned in a show like this? I did not sign up for Lovecraftian whatnot. I don’t know what I signed up for to be honest but that’s not exactly what I was after.Also, like I mentioned on Twitter, I still can’t believe that this is Matthew McConaughey.
I only heard of the series last week, is it good?
Simply put: yes.
Because I promised.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7yfa58u4mkrwhic/Dark%20Souls%20The%20Musical.jpg
….and now finished Antichamber. Wow.
Although I think I still had some rooms left to complete by the time I entered the end area.
Oh hey, look at the time.
Wow, 7 hrs later…
Was browsing my facebook feed and saw a picture and thought that looks like an @shane picture. Checked the bottom of the image and sure enough, there was the self promotion
DARK SOULS TWO (\o/)
Countdown: 16 days
Unboxing the collector’s edition:
http://au.ign.com/videos/2014/02/24/unboxing-dark-souls-ii-collectors-edition
Dev Diary:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/450832/dark-souls-2-dev-diary-reveals-dark-intentions/
SIXTEEN DAYS O_O
So glad to hear that you’re excited for my birthday …
Oh man, you’ve got the best birthday this year. *jealous*
DARK SOULS \o/
Took on Ornstein and Smough yesterday, and defeated them on my second try… first time i got absolutely reemed by Super Smough, what a jerk!…
Got the lord vessel, took it to the Firelink Altar (i know, i know i completely forgot about Dark Stalker Kaathe, oh well, next time!)
Signed up with the Blade of the Darkmoon covenant, did a few Vengeance invasions, won 1 and lost 3, i kinda get i’m not very good at PVP 😛
Went and killed Grey Wolf Sif, then proceeded into the Catacombs, next stop, Tomb of the Giants….
Oh, and what’s peoples opinion: Havel’s Armor, or Black Iron armor?
I tried out both but am sticking with Havel’s Armor for now, although wearing the Black Iron Armor allows me to run around more freely due to it being slightly lighter
I like Black Iron. When you upgrade it, it’s pretty comparable to Havel’s in most respects.GEAR! Havel vs Black Iron?
I like a mix. I have Artorias’ armor, Havel’s gloves, Black Iron boots, and a max-level wanderer’s hood. Besides looking BOSS, it has a really nice mix of all the resistances, 61 poise (which is enough to wear at least one blow taken by mistake) and with Havel’s ring, let’s me use Havel’s shield, a maxed man-serpent greatsword, a bow and pyromany flame, and still be under 50% encumbrance. All the rolling flexibility I need with some very generous defense. But I love being under 50% at all times. If I didn’t care about that, I’d probably go with a mix of Havel’s and Black Iron, but mostly Havel.Havel’s shield is my default because of its 90% magic resist, and – in case anyone ivades – becuase of the secondary buff you can apply with the normal parry key. Toss back a green herb and you can wear down those pesky magic users into using up all their charges and chasing them around the place as they try to find somewhere safe to use humanity. Just that simple combo and not bothering with fancy spells or backstabs or whatever, I win 90% of the time I’m invaded.
Nice work on downing the douchebag brothers so damn fast. They took me like… a dozen attempts, solo.
Awesome! thanks for the recommendations, i really should look at combining sets for max effect 😛
Three nice little additions to Humble Bundle 11: Beat Buddy: Rise of the Guardians, FEZ and Starseed Pilgrim.
Edit: Humble Pageget. Should I tell a joke?
Just follow your heart, man. And then ignore it and tell a joke.
Speaking of which, I already have Fez so if there’s anyone who wants my second copy, Fez up.
Ditto what Benny said. I have it on 360 so there’s no sense in me redeeming a Steam copy of a game I’ll probably be hard pressed to finish even once.
If the offer is still available I’d love a copy of Fez.
Edit: Hey Benny, Just ignore my request and give the game to someone else. I redeemed the copy of Fez provided by Stickman further down the page.
What’s the difference between a tuna, a piano and a pot of glue?
You can tuna piano but you can’t piano tuna.
#page6
I think you need to tuna your joke more if you wanted people to pun after you in a roe.
EDIT: Oh man, I missed the obvious bit. *hangs head in shame and walks away from page 6 for this week*.
What about the pot of glue?
Aw, it’s not the same when pity is invoKNEW YOU’D GET STUCK ON THAT!
No. No. Not the same.
Still good. o/
A magician was walking down the street and turned into a grocery store.
—–
A blind man walked into a bar… and a table. And a chair.
—–
#PageSixForLife
Damnit, it’s not page si… oh wait, carry on
What’s a physicists favorite food?
Fission chips #dadjokepagesix #hi@strange who thinks page six is funny*tips hat*
I hope this day finds you well?
Oh god, he changed his name. *jumps out window*
Also, Hi!
Hey Donkey Kong friend. How goes Donkey Kong? (Still World 4. Slowly, but surely. Pacing myself so I don’t get frustrated at the swimming levels. XD)
I finished world 5 last night. The difficulty really spikes in this world. Some levels were a nightmare. Also, there was a swimming level in it. >=(
I’ve been back tracking trying to 100% some of the earlier levels too, but I don’t think I’ll be doing those time trials ever. Rayman flashbacks. D:
Ugh, timed games. I will be giving that a miss because I HAT GAMES/MODES WITH A TIMED MECHANIC.
It was going well until you showed up. *angry glare*
Now it’s going great! *Rolls away laughing*
*adds Blaghs and his deceptions to my list*
*watches blaghs roll away*
What a stupid way to leave.
*jumps out window … again*
tch, that was a nice piece of glass.
What did D.C. say to page six?
Puns are fucking stupid.
*decisive nod*
Sordid.
So angry.
So much Hat.
First you hate pasta, now this… hmph…
Don’t forget the n64. I really hated that!
But I like you! THAT”S GOT TO COUNT FOR SOMETHING? 😀
Nope.. it doesn’t, you’re dropping in my respect rating systems.
As one of the humans I still respect to this day once said: “It’s okay to not like things that others do like, but don’t be a dick about it”
I don’t like all the talk on Dark Souls that was filling up a lot of TAY pages, but so what? Lots of other humans enjoy it here, so why ruin what others are passionate about?
If you’re going to cite that quote, use the video 🙂
Didn’t even know that existed haha 🙂
Wait, how is he being a dick about it? I just read what @dc posted as a jest. He’s not calling people idiots he’s just saying he doesn’t like puns …
And he’s saying so in such a way that attempts to disguise the real truth: that he LOVES puns.
Haha, we both know the truth.
I dunno, I’m pretty sure that @DC is just making jokes. On Page Six, the joke page. I don’t think he’s trying to ruin anything for anyone – there’s a particular brand of postmodern self-reflective deprecation in his humour; it’s subtle and deeply offputting. I think rather than being a jerk, he’s deliberately pretending to be a jerk.
Explaining the joke kind of ruins it, but I honestly think that DC’s post was his way of contributing to Page Six. I downvoted because downvotes sustain him in the same way that upvotes do for the rest of humanity 😛
Protip: puns are way safer, by the way, DC.
We all know he loves puns, and should be tagged in all Page Six humour from now on. (It’s been confirmed that he hates buildings though.)
I read it as joke grumbling.
IT’S THE JOKE THAT KEEPS ON GIVING!
Fine! So you can say in 6 words what it takes me 134 words to say.
*runs off crying*
Ah, the long-time lament of the loquacious.
(Edit: SESQUIPEDALIANS UNITE!)
Hey! Senor Colon Pee was absent on this one! How was I supposed to know?
We really need a font for this kind of thing 😛
How robots parse ironic humour.
😛My protocols for “identifying humour on TAY” are either:
– Colon Pee is attached to the message
– has a “/s” attached at the end of the message
– It’s an obvious poke-y reply to something
The post matched none of these, logic dictated to me it was serious
Maybe I should add in:
– Never take whatever DC says seriously due to his own human humour protocols
?
😛
Umm I’m not sure how you’re reading them but I’m reading them like D.C. is just joking along and our downvotes are all done jokingly as well. We all know D.C. loves puns and N64 and Dark Souls and fun 😀
And don’t forgot his love for Survivor! <3
… I don’t get it.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/25/5422328/the-passion-of-the-checkpoint-why-gamings-most-frustrating-failure-is
This was interesting to read!
*sigh* Pay day yesterday. Almost all gone thanks to bills and food.
Seriously, what’s the quickest way to double your money?
Fold it in halfAlso game news: Finished Broken Age Act 1, according to the Internet I was the only human being who never saw the end coming. Finished Professor Layton and the Last Spectre.
Was uhmming and ahhing about what game to finish on my pile of shame. Was getting anxious about it all, so threw in a game I knew I would enjoy before hitting my pile again.
Harvest Moon on the DS.
I was up until 1am on Monday night and I haven’t even got past the first spring.
I am so fucked. This thing will take over my life. It’s my version of Dark Souls.
Broken Age:
Totally didn’t see that ending coming either. Don’t think @sughly did either. Was done incredibly well.I thought Dead Eye would be the link. Oh so wrong. I’m intrigued to see where they will go from here.I noticed that the tentacles in the ship were suspiciously similar to the tentacles grabbing the girlsStop watching that kind of anime, Red.I played the entirety of Vella before going to Shay, so it didn’t click until after the reveal.Same here
All Vella, then all Shay, didn’t click until the revealAlso, just putting it out there for anyone who has played any Harvest Moon:
Fuck cooking festivals. Fuck ’em right in soup pot.
I love harvest moon. But yeah I also dislike the cooking festival
Harvest Moon a Tale of Two Towns gives you cooking festivals every week.
Every. Week.
I don’t know the recipes and all I can cook with are Potato’s and bloody Turnips! *sob*
I used a walkthrough for the dishes. I think there’s a TV show that will tell you a different recipe each day.
Free FEZ.
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=UZbywwwkqEUYYVHm
Thanks Stickman, I just redeemed the game 🙂
No prob, I’m surprised it took this long!
Blergh. Think it’s time I take a TAY break.
Why don’t you just embrace it, it surely isn’t so bad. People are just letting of steam and stupidity in their own way. You dont have to agree with it but this is a happy place for everyone, including you, so dont get mad or frustrated, just keep scrolling you crazy diamond.
Have a TAY KitKat?
I presume you mean break TAY. It’s been a while since we had a really good one. I concur.
with any luck, this has been fixed
Edit: hmm…. well played Ben.
Be sure to return. In other words, save something for the swim back!
What are you, some kind of wizard?
(Kotaku went down for for a handful of minutes)
GODZILLA! RUN!
GOJIRA GOJIRA GOJIRA
my favorite Godzilla thing a>
2K Games deal off GameFly Digital (sorry, it looks like Master Racers only).
Bioshock Infinite down to $9.99 (USD I think) and tonnes more. Buy one, get Spec Ops: The Line free.
http://digital.gamefly.com/?stop_mobi=once&cid=2kgf022514#!/promotion/643
I’ve been staring at that all morning, wondering which one to grab.
http://www.gog.com/news/letter_from_the_md_about_regional_pricing
The GOG boss explains their regional pricing thing. Makes business sense, just not a big fan of being thrown under the bus once again.
But, they can’t explain it. Everyone knows it was made for $$, you don’t need to hide that fact behind a ‘business’ word.
I don’t like being thrown under a bus, but I’ll tolerate it if they can get LucasArts classics onto GoG like they mentioned.
Tolerate it – just.
Interesting letter, it’s pretty much just said the same as the previous announcement, but with more words. So many more words. And specific games named.
That’s a real pity about the Witcher 3 though.
Well Witcher 3 being announced recently pretty much guaranteed it was going to be one of those games on the list
Given that they harped on about wanting other partners to not have the issues of being sued like CD Projekt was for Witcher 2, I would have thought it was only a new partners thing.
Plus after the whole debacle with the previous one, I would have thought they’d be a lot more experienced (and be in a better negotiating position with the popularity of the franchise) to be able to tell them to shove the clauses that got them sued last time.
Apparently not.
Interesting how the biggest logical leap they’re making is that lower prices for some markets = less money being made.
I’m not sure anyone is going to get lower prices, just that some of us are going to be getting higher ones
Oh then again, they mentioned Russia which tends to be cheaper, maybe then.
Context was saying that flat prices = less profit, which is the same sales logic as a download being a lost sale.
Flat prices on GOG means that selling on GOG (pre-regional ripoff) gets them less than selling on steam and places that do regionally rip people off. In that context it was a question of why would they agree to sign on there when they’d not earn as much back as on other distributors
I guess they need more market share to negotiate things like that, which would be helped by selling more new games… It’s logical, but I don’t have to like it.
@beavwa publishers have gotten used to padding their accounts by jacking up prices in secondary & tertiary markets, occasionally lowering them in very rare instances where they realise that they need to or people just won’t buy them at all. That pretty much shows they know lower prices increase sales but also know that they basically have a near captive audience with little or no alternative in the same market so people will pay the markup if they want the content.
Best we can do is have friends in America help get around regional shafting by gifting us stuff & paying them back and/or waiting for major price drops
Hi guys!
I live!
Fortunate/unfortunate depending on your chuloopa-related dispositions.
How art thous??
Edit – so page six is dad joke page now? ok…
What’s worse than 10 babies in a bucket?
one baby in ten bucketsAll your sharing of Games Workshop on Facebook is making me look at Necron armies on their website, I blame you for this 😛
If it helps – Necrons ARE pretty bad-arse.
STOP IT! I’m supposed to be saving for my apartment! *covers ears* LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!
😛
On a serious note: I might actually take it up when I’m settled in my apartment and get my own Necron army started, I was thinking along the lines of black with a yellow/gold trim for colours.
OR you could use ebay to get a really cheap HQ and two troop choices and get a crack on, so when your settled in you can MAKE YOUR ARMY GROOOWWW
#nothelping
So not helping.. but good tips though. 🙂
\o/
Skeleton miniatures would be pretty common too, if you’re handy with modding, pop on a gauss flayer instead of a sword (I’m sure you can buy weapon packs about), paint em silver and you should be set with some pretty good ersatz necrons
this guy.
THIS guy!
You, are you interested in pax meat?
Ohhhhhhh my dear lady scree – I SO would be if i were going.
Unfortunately with impending baby I made the INSANELY difficult decision not to go to PAX this year…. le sigh 🙁
PRIORITIES!!!!
Priorities suck ass… seriously – i hate priorities.
SO CAST THEM ASIDE AND JOIN US \o/
😛Can you come to the meat? I think it’s on Saturday Night.
I’m not sure – I won;t know until closer to the date, but it’s a possibility
I understand. Still, it’s November the 1st. 8pm onwards at Crown if you’re somehow able to get tot he city for that one night. =D
Awesome. Thank you very much, lady scree. 😀
If you can, let me know a week before hand as I need to let the place know
Ok – just shoot me a reminder – I know i’ll forget haha
Will do. Good luck with the Baby and all.
I still need to send you some moneys. How do I go about this?
Email, or direct message me on twitter and I will send you the bank details
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS!
CRRRRACKALAKIN!!!!!!
So yesterday i functioned with 1 hour sleep, life becomes pretty easy when you stop fighting everyone on everything. I Usually get pissed off at work like 15 times a day. Not really the fault of anyone, just annoyances that crop up and we have to deal with. I was so tired yesterday, I didn’t have the will to fight. Like moving around was fine but i knew that in any arguement or discussion i would lose because my brain was functioning on autopilot. So i stopped fighting, I just did my job with no hassles or bothers cropping up. It was fairly peaceful. So im going to try this whenever i get annoyed. Just turn on autopilot for a while, dont rush, just take my time and not fight anyone.
That sort of thing works for me too. Ever since I cut back to 5 hours a night sleep, I can let most things just breeze on past. There’s something to be said for being too tired to fight. It’s very peaceful and calm, kind of like drowning while unconscious.
That was bleak. 😛
So daaaaark.
So like my life!
Eww. 5 hours sleep? 11-7 every night for me.
2130-0100 is writing time \o/
Oh wow, that’s dedication right there. 2130 and onwards for me is about the time I sit at my couch and unwind for and hour or so. I don’t think I could do what you do – even if I do enjoy writing, myself. So, well done.
*shrug* Needs must when the devil drives
We can never banish our demons… only negotiate with them.
If your job position allows you to take your time, it’s in your best interests to avoid conflict. Just make sure you have things in writing to cover your ass, and keep on plodding…
My biggest issue i think is i always like to get stuff done quickly, But quick usually means being more annoyed or stressed if things dont go right which happens often in the world of electronics repair.
Interesting…
Are you sure you weren’t bullying everyone at the old joint?
Maybe you were constantly horrible too them, but in your sick and twisted mind you interpreted their cries of anguish as mocking laughter.
You monster.
Its certainly possible i annoyed the fuck out of them and they paid me back for it. 2 sides to every story and i was pretty fucking bias.
Maybe it’s something like Christian Bale in The Machinist.
Friend who works at EB told us on the weekend that they need a female staff member, preferably with Nintendo/PS3/Vita knowledge to fulfil the store dynamic. My gf is looking for job too, so it was good. Yesterday she went in to give resume etc and she’s got a job trial today. 😮 Fingers crossed she gets it (but she has sales background..), EB would be pretty sweet to work in at this location I think.
If she has a trial I’d say that bodes well. Isn’t that generally just a “training shift” to make sure you know the ropes and aren’t completely incompetent before they put you on the schedule?
That was my understanding, yes. But yeah, she knows how to sell and she knows stuff about games etc, so my (and her) hopes are up.
EB girl!
We don’t see many females at EB here! Read; none
every EB I’ve been interviewed by told me that being a gamer was a negative, they told me they want sales people not people with product knowledge,
So now I’m trapped in a job I have no prior knowledge about and hate it.
😛
That’s really weird, cause when I went to the group interview for EB at Robina last year they made mention that being a gamer with experience and knowledge of the product helped. Weird!
yeah, I think they just didn’t like me and were making up crap, but 2 separate stores with 2 different interviewers both told me that, 1 of many reasons I really don’t like EB and the 2 stores in question at the time were filled with the most useless doucheburgers ever, I corrected them on something nearly every time I was there. Sux cause I really wanted to work there, Even my mates tell me I’m a great video game salesman and have influenced their game purchases heavily over the years.
Yeah, some EB’s are just like that. The other EB in town where my mate works, his boss is a fucking airhead (@freezespreston knows her sadly) and is a total moron who just went and hired some girl who is like her but actually decent in the looks department.
All depends on the store though, really. Some stores employ people who game some don’t I guess it’s managers preference.
I think it’s something they’re paying attention to. (For whatever reasons. Tax breaks, exploiting lonely-nerd-gamer-lust being the most cynical ideas. Let’s just pretend for a minute that the world is a better place than that.)
I was pretty chatty with the woman who used to run the EB on Adelaide St in Bris. We chopped it up over some training materials she was researching and designing for management seminars on increasing and improving female involvement in the workplace. Compared public speaking notes, successful past proposal presentations, that kinda thing. Seemed to go pretty well, I think she ended up getting more involved in that side of things, haven’t seen her around since – but I haven’t been around much since, either.
I think it’s so EB as a company say that xx% of stores has a favourable gender equality in the workplace, so they don’t get reamed by anti-discrim laws.
So yeah, I don’t think the world is a better place. 😛
@rize, interesting read on how to administrate a Project Zomboid server in an upcoming release (build 25) which should hopefully be out soon…
The command that i liked (in line with what we were discussing yesterday:
createhorde = Use this to spawn a horde near you, use : /createhorde count, ex /createhorde 150
this should be interesting 😛
Edit – on second thought, maybe build 25 is already out? the post is from 17/02… hmm not entirely sure 😛
Could do some cool Role Playing work with that command at the DMs disposal… or just trolling somebody spawning 150 zombies in the guy’s bathroom 😉
That’s what i figured XD
because the issue at the moment is that there’s simply not enough zombies…
The problem is that with that command, the zombies spawn randomly 8+/- tiles from your current position… so i figured go:
Go invisible with server command,
run around for a little while spawning 20+ hordes of zombies around the close vicinity
would make it very interesting 😛
Nope.
Turn on god mode then kite the zombies to the safehouse.
>:D
🙂
I’d be pretty keen to see what happens when you spawn some more zombies…
Just read a thread that suggest to reroll your world often because there’s a finite number of zombies spawned at the creation of the world, but due to the early release, they don’t respawn…
This would change that quite a bit :P…
They’re also working on the admin tool to actually change up how the zombies work, but won’t be released for a little while
A finite number of zombies is actually good IMO. You can actually put maps together where you can put down territories:
– Green zone: Confirmed completely cleared of threats, safe to live and roam.
– Yellow zone: Explored, lower zombie population due to players going through it. Live here at your own risk.
– Red zone: Unknown zone, unknown numbers of zombies, completely unsafe, explorers beware.
I think the whole respawning zombies thing like in DayZ kinda made killing them pointless. With this kind of system, you taking down zombies means more to the area as a whole, you can organise teams to go into Red Zones/Yellow Zones to make another area completely safe for people to get supplies from.
While i agree in theory about that…
the whole premise of the game is “this is how you died” which assumes that the game will become progressively harder (which it does, power turns off, water runs out etc) but, i would expect the amount of zombies to increase as well, making the game harder that way as well… especially when you are limited people like we were, it was getting kinda boring not meeting any resistance 😛
Yeah but supplies are also limited in the game right? You can run out of food or water and starve, that can be also how you died, you didn’t go out into the red zones to ensure you have access to more supplies. It’s just the premise of “it’s also a survival game on top of just fighting zombies” and should really be apart of the game mechanics. Also safe zones may not always be safe if you don’t wall off the sector as zombies can easily wander in to where you once thought it was safe.
Lots of games you see are all about “surviving against the zombies by fighting them off”, there aren’t many games that talk about “taking your world back against the zombies after surviving the apocalypse” as far as I know.
Aargh, my limbs hurt so much from rock climbing yesterday. I can only lift about 3 Newtons before my limbs start to buckle.
Also, I almost lost my voice yesterday from all the screaming.
I’m now imagining you standing face to face with a cliffs wall and just yelling “AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
To be fair, Newton probably weighed around 80 kg, so three of him is pretty good.
Mind you he is dead now so he should be quite a bit lighter right?
I guess that would also account for all the screaming:
“WOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHGOD I’M CARRYING 3 DEAD PEOPLE WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH”
I could definitely do one then, at least 5 on the leg press
Oo oo oo. Choops/Loops reminded me of a joke!
What’s the best thing about twenty-seven year olds?
The fact that there’s twenty of them.Hey! His baby joke was way worse! 😀 But yeah, @phlanispo, shield your eyes!
You know, you can make that joke SFW and stay off international watch lists if you just changed “best” to “worst”
Just saying…
Hmm. Good point. My sick mind didn’t think of it though.
After going to a 6 year old’s birthday party on Sunday, I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment.
Yeah, see, it’s funny and true! It just ticks all the boxes.
Conversely, you could make it creepier by making the punchline “With twenty of them, it’s almost certain that one of them will be a compatible kidney donor, the leftover kidneys can go in steak & kidney pies”
Sadly – and as creepy as that was – it’s not as creepy as the original 🙁
That entirely depends on what @benny was planning to do with all those 7 year olds. The level of disgust in that joke is entirely in the mind of the reader, it COULD have been an innocent play on words but it sounds like you’ve made him out to be all rolf harris (allegedly [but would anyone really be surprised?])…
Point.
*turns self into police*
So, I am completely addicted to picross. Not sure if I like this free mode as I am terrible at making decisions.
Stop annoying things at the bakery then?
That comment was kinda “half-baked”.
Man, I set up a perfect joke-response-joke page 6 thing and you lot just leave it there.
You guys suck.
Especially you.
Your joke stuck in my mind (probably the glue), and something was definitely fishy about it, but damned if I can figure out the key phrase.
I was going to ask, but thought I would look stupid asking so I just pretended to know what it meant. Pretending to understand things, it’s what got me through highschool
Pretty much this, but I was also worried about upsetting Freeze by not getting the joke. Apparently though we upset him the other way too. :\
Yeah, but he didn’t need to be so icy about it.
#helping
YOU WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO GET IT. YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO ASK ABOUT THE GLUE AND I’D SAY KNEW YOU WOULD GET STUCK ON THAT AND YOU GUYS WOULD LAUGH AND SAY WHAT A FUNNY GUY THAT FREEZE IS!
You guys suck.
freeze is funny.
You can’t expect the general population of the Internet to have the attention span for a multi-comment joke.
Don’t make him get out the pie chart again …
I’ve turned it into a 3 hour animated PowerPoint presentation.
So many star wipes.
Well, you are the worst person.
It’s the transition of choice for the power executive of the 2Teen’s that’s going places.
Keep up dinosaur.
Well if you’re keen to take a discussion offline on the synergistic application of our latest capability, I’m more than happy to schedule a think tank so we can properly utilise this innovation in a coordinated and commensurate way.
My manager occasionally brings me in to translate documents intonewcorpspeakCould be worse, at least it’s not chocolate starfish wipes…
…I’m not googling that.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/09/09 Always relevant.
Oh man, I only just saw it but I was so disappointed in @shane when he ruined it.
🙁 What did I do?
Absolutely nothing because I’m dumb and didn’t scroll far enough up the page. My apologies. Unless you did something else I should be disappointed in you for…
I blame holidays and only getting out of bed at 11am and not having coffee yet.
We’ll think of something 😉
I thought of something you can be disappointed in me for! Did you see my Dark Souls song at the top of the last page?
Guys, stop, you’re breaking TAY. D:
http://imgur.com/E2UtVwT
@tech_knight @mythamphetamine @tigerion @mawt @popdart5 @novacascade @blaghman and spectators @gingerchris86 and @f4ction
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
What can the Orange Cloaks tell you?
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME
Again, hopefully I get out of work at a good enough time, but I should be there. 🙂
Ooh. The EB in my shopping centre I work in is moving.
Directly opposite me.
*looks at wallet sadly* I’ll miss you friend.
Perhaps you’ll grow stronger through overexposure?
I was expecting this to be the start of some joke along the lines of trees moving in LOTR. You disappoint me
MacFreeze shall never vanquish’d be until
Great EB wood to high Mister Minit hill
Shall come against him.
Freeze dialled the phone, cradling the receiver between his jaw and shoulder. “I need to speak to payroll. I’ll hold.” he said, his eyes flicking across the thirty-foot wide bridge of walkway and the wooden construction barriers being taken down and loaded onto a cart. “Hi, is this payroll? Oh, hi Carol. Listen, it’s Freeze. I need to change my account details.” he sighed heavily. “Just send it all to EB Games each fortnight. Yeah. Yeah, all of it. I’ll stop by every Thurday evening to pick it up from there. Thanks Carol, you’re a peach.”
Time to get transferred there me thinks!
Reading some of these jokes I feel like page 6 has almost turned from ‘dad joke page 6’ to ‘poor taste joke page 6’
It’s like TAY finally met my dad!
Dad’s these days… Wasn’t like that when I had a dad!
My guess: It’s because every page is a Dad Joke page these days, and we never hit page 18 anymore. People are getting confused.
Finished Walking Dead: 400 Days last night.
Overall I have to say I liked it. I actually had to redo a lot of it cause Vince didn’t join at the end (after carrying on with things like “sounds great, let’s go!”…) but it gave me the opportunity to have a better look at the way the stories interact with each other. It’s mostly minor stuff, but still coolOne thing I was curious about: when playing as Vince, who did you save and who did you shoot? Long story short, to get Vince to come with me at the end I had to save Justin but I didn’t really want to, despite knowing Danny was convicted of rape (but protesting his innocence) I found myself hating Justin more, which is a HUGE shift in my usual thought process for that situation.Vince is the guy in the bus right?
I made the mistake of saving the accused rapist by mistake. The game did not make it clear to me that the person whose cuff I tried to shoot would die, so I tried to save the white collar criminal only to kill him by mistake. I stuck with the decision though, reasoning that in real life I would probably have made the same mistake thinking I could save him.Dear Tay
Page 6, we hardly knew ye.
in Memoriam
Red.
Dear Tay,
For some reason I have a couple of things in my Steam Inventory that I didn’t know about/realise until about a day ago.
With nothing required in return, I would love to give back to this community, so up for free are:
1. X-COM: Enemy Unknown (the original game, no expansion packs) Claimed by @morkai
2. A 25% off coupon to Broken Age: Act 1 (Act 2 is a free download later in the year EDIT: if you buy Act 1, Act 2 isn’t free for everybody).
Please let me know if you want either or both.
With love to you all,
Quiz_b
Hmm, I have been curious about X-Com… What can I give you in exchange?
Nothing. Nadda. Just let me know your Steam name and X-Com is yours.
You are most kind.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/morkai_au/
Nope, everyone around here (almost without exception) is most kind. Just doing my bit to pay it forward.
Just a note: No matter how manly you think you are, have the tissues ready when a mission goes belly up. I haven’t cried as much in any other video game then when my soldiers permadeath on me, due to my stupid mismanagement.
Or due to the computer’s bullshit cheating, when you move your most highly-decorated soldier next to that shadowy spot behind the porta-potty, and it turns out that space was actually some kind of trans-dimensional fucking muton CLOWN CAR and half a dozen aliens empty out to surround her, then – because they get a free move when surprised – they toss undodgeable grenades until you want to burn Firaxis to the ground.
#Notbitter
#lovethegame
And sent.
Enjoy!
Again, many thanks!
Piggybanking on this, I have a copy of FTL if anyone wants it, brought it back during christmas for giveaway and no one wanted it.
I wish my limbs hurt from rock climbing.
Haven’t been for a climb in aaaaaaaages.
Reply Fail
So this happened last night.
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/438294406198591488
Hellscreamception
Malkovich Malkovich, Malkovich
That’s it. I’m done with Facebook.
A response from a joke someone made about the new Panteine shampoo bottle looking like a sex toy.
It’s all getting too much. These are the only people that seem to use it these days.
There’s a reason I haven’t bothered with Facebook for a year …
I use it for self-promotion! I’m holding the line. I’m hooooooooooolding!
So you’re admitting to getting free advertising while Aussie farmers commit suicide?
If time is money, then it can hardly be said to be free.
Hold the liiiiiiiiiiine!
Love isn’t aaaaaalwaaays on tiiiime!
Hold on, where do they get free advertising? huh?
I guess because someone on facebook is talking about their product without being paid? Maybe? Not sure really.
The best thing about the Internet is it gave people a platform to voice their views.
The worst thing about the Internet is it gave people a platform to voice their views.
Also, anyone else see the irony of someone complaining about the health side affects of the likes of Coca-Cola products when they start their argument with ‘As a smoker’
I really hope that’s the joke. I really, really hope.
And secretly you know in your heart that its not…
I keep Facebook only because 1) it gives my mother/family a means to contact me instead of calling me all the time, and 2) I feel like it would be weird if my wife could no longer be “married to” me. If my wife deleted her Facebook I would probably delete mine too.
All I see these days is shares bording on spam, and spam from whatever match-3 puzzle game is hot this week.
Just delete it. I did for about a year and it was the best time ever. It was when I finished uni and moved to another city, so I got rid of every douchebag and kept real friends via SMS/skype/etc.
The only way I tolerate FB now is to be an asshole to people sometimes, because of the utter shit that gets posted.
I nuked mine a while back. Reconnected it, and went scorched earth on it. Deleted everyone and everything. Every post, photo, update, status, app, whatever.
Only re-added my immediate family. Summarily ignore what they post unless it’s an invite for me to go somewhere.
I think I’m definitely going to go scorched earth on previous coworkers at least, and maybe friends of family who I don’t like much. I worry that if I unfriend a friend of my mother’s they’ll comment on it to her but they probably all have hundreds of friends and won’t even notice.
I even removed all the ones I knew I would be re-adding. Complete wipe.
That way, the adding was a very deliberate act.
And yeah, someone might comment, but you can reply, “My list was too big to keep up with. I’m only adding immediate family – blood relations.”
It’s what I did. 🙂
Seems fair. I just went and removed most of my former co-workers. I left one or two but only because they’re still on my XBL friendslist, so they’re more than former co-workers.
I don’t want to wipe everyone, but it’s down to immediate friends/family only, with a few rare exceptions of people I consider important enough. Basically, anyone I would give my phone number to can stay.
The only reason I use facebook is to keep in touch with my long distance girlfriend as best as I can. Time zones make it really difficult for real time convos
I’m not sure if that’s a troll or stupid person.
tehehehe
Quickly! Sell the story to the highest bidder.
I bid a button!
wee waaa wee waaa
All right, shoot me some money for postage, and I’ll get the button to you.
On the train ride into work today. 2 people in wheelchairs got on the train. I was siting in the “priority seating area” so I moved (as any person with a shred of human decency would). What does the late 20/early 30 husband / wife do? Stay seated, despite there being plenty of other places free.
I see kids do this rarely but adults? Show some goddamn manners you pieces of trash. I should have called them out on it. =/
Sit on them.
IT IS MAN WHO IS TIRED NOT GROCERIES
Just remember though, some disabilities aren’t as apparent as a wheelchair. I usually give people like that the benefit of the doubt and assume they have some kind of chronic pain or disease that makes it difficult for them to stand, or walk very far.
Seeing as they walked onto the train, walked up to the seat and sat down with no problem, I doubt they have much problem moving to the plentiful seats in the train.
I had this happen once, I was in the priority seat and 2 guys in suits came onto the train and wanted to sit where I was in the priority seating and one tried to feign being a handicap by saying he has fainting spells and could collapse at any time so he needs to be seated in the priority seat (even though as they came on everyone could hear them talking about going to a bar in the city for drinks that night) I declined to move and they gave me an earful before I could finish my sentence saying I was “ungrateful” and “rude” and that “scum like me shouldnt be allowed on the train” everyone kinda just stared at me as if like “What are you going to do?” So I stood up slowly, told them “I have cancer and recently had surgery to get the tumor removed, I need to sit as I cant have undue strain on my body, otherwise I would happily give you and your “handicapped” friend the seat” They both glared at me and told me to prove it, I showed them my scar and the fact I was actually on my way to the hospital for a check up (hence being on the train) that I had my paperwork saying that I had to get check ups for it
Safe to say they got off at the next stop from the glares of all the passengers on board because these two guys just tried to harrass a cancer survivor to move his seat.
So apparently there’s an Elder Scrolls Online beta event this weekend, and I have a spare key. Anyone interested?
PC only?
Yup!
*cries*
I would but even if i started the download now there is no way it would be finished by the weekend.
Question:
Did you receive 2 emails about it? 1 with 2 codes (1 for you, 1 for a friend) and then second email with just the friend code?
I got one email that has 2 keys (one for me, one for a friend).
I got that email, but when I went to redeem the code for me it said it was invalid.
Thought it might have something to do with the fact I got my key from the Curse giveaway last time and not directly from Bethesda.
Just read the email in full. I don’t believe I need a code. It just says to log in and patch, and then forward said email to a friend so they can use the spare code.
I didn’t see 2 codes, it just said “See you there, bring a friend with this code!”
One email with code for friend and telling me to just log back into my account and update. Offloaded the key not long after I got the email.
Maybe.
Yeah, I got a key too.
Have a key, peoples:
TTL369KJ3FHD74KJGELEFight amongst yourselves for it.
Edit: And… make the fight bloody, gruesome, and entertaining? I should’ve put more thought into this.
No joke, I just thought to myself “How could I make this bloody and gruesome?” and just as I did, huge peal of thunder. Very nice
I have a job prospect coming up which requires an incredibly in-depth and intrusive security check. This internet stuff… gotta be honest, it doesn’t look great at first glance.
Reeeaaaally hope people have a sense of humour/perspective.
Well given your avatar, I think people would have to conclude you’re joking.
Or possibly being given oral sex by someone you kidnapped, psychologically broke and are keeping chained up as a mindless, drooling, sex slave in a basement… Probably still okay, depends what kind of job it is.
NOT HELPING MAN.
Hey investigator guys, I totally don’t do that, Alias is joking!
Ahh good thinking mate, that’ll throw em off the scent!
@negativezero
My danganronpa finally arrived!!!
Such a pretty box D:
hey guy, let me know what you think of that, it looks like the sort of thing I”ll love but have so many games to beat. But if it’s awesome I’ll have to fold and grab it.
i’ve actually beaten the game on PSP already (fan translation).
yeah its great, it’s phoenix wright mixed with Virtues Last Reward on crack.
It’s a great story but the ‘gameplay’ mechanics in the trial bits at the end of each chapter suck copious amounts of donkey, to the point that they feel like they’re just there to frustrate you and get in the way of actually solving the crime. It’ll usually take me two or three rounds through each discussion to actually get a statement to hit properly. Sometimes doesn’t fire, sometimes mis-times… also at the end you have to do this daft jigsaw-ish thing where you have to set some tiles into a timeline to explain how the murder took place, but the tiles are so fucking ambiguous you have to take multiple goes at them to figure out what the shit they even are, let alone where they go. I wish the game was just a straight up VN / Adventure game so I wouldn’t have to deal with that crap.
Other than that it’s great though.
ah, thanks, maybe I”ll wait for it to go cheap considering I probly missed out on any special editions and whatnot, thanks for the advise
It’s totally worth getting. I just find a bit of it frustrating is all.
i never had a problem with timing the shots, haven’t gotten up to a trial yet in the vita version, maybe they screwed it up…
i do agree about the jigsaw thing, for such a fast pace game to just go “now do a relaxing puzzle” threw me out completely…
i wish they did what ace attorney 5 did with it’s climaxes, they had a quick and hype way of doing it.
also i was a little disappointed in the soundtrack that came with it… it isn’t the full soundtrack, and a few of the songs are ripped straight from the games cutscenes and are kinda spoilery (if you listen closely).
The gun cursor thing moves around randomly and the words are moving as well. Time to line up, then shoot, given that your words have to hit the other statement and there’s a bit of lead-in time means it’s actually pretty hard. Also sometimes the bullet simply won’t come out. Happens frequently. I think because they stupidly decided to have a press-and-hold mechanic on the same button so if you hit it just a little too long it does that instead. And then in ch2 it adds extra noise words to block you out as well, for the sake of it.
I just find it immensely frustrating, especially given that there’s a timer on everything as well. I’ve already solved the case in my head, I know exactly what to target and where the contradictions are and everything and the gameplay actively gets in my way to stop me from doing that. I’d vastly prefer to have a Phoenix Wright style ‘objection’ cut in during a statement.
The timer is negligible, they give you like, ten minutes to solve the statement.
However, i finished the first trial, and that delay on shooting was not in the psp version… i don’t know whether it’s a glitch or they put it in on purpose but it definitely didn’t happen on psp…
it all comes down to they wanted to make a phoenix wright style game that didn’t feel like you were just playing a visual novel, and added the mini-games to it. i think they add some style to the game, but if the game was more clear cut like PW then it wouldn’t change my opinion on the game.
If the delay wasn’t there it probably would be fine, but with it there it’s very frustrating.
Also the game explains its systems really badly. Eg it tells you to ‘shoot the person making an incorrect statement’. Not to shoot down their words, but the character. Spent about 10 mins at first trying to figure out why it wasn’t working right, thinking the game was bugged. It doesn’t explain that rhythm game bit at the end well either, I didn’t pick up on the fact you had to alternate between triangle and x, and also the combo meter goes up if you just hit x on time, but you still fail. Bad design IMO. I think that rhythm bit is straight-up dumb and unnecessary too.
yeah i hate the rhythm bit. the fan translation must have done a better job explaining the games then the official release sadly…
Me and @sernobulus ‘ copies haven’t shipped yet 🙁
*punches whoever is responsible*
It’s a beautiful box, but very flimsy. Mine’s already coming apart 🙁
@benny! Catherine arrived safe and sound. Thanks, man! Your generosity is both greatly appreciated, and thoroughly insane.
Enjoy!
*yawn* Mornin’, TAY.
*slump*
Dammit, I wanna wake up at 2pm, too.
Take it. I don’t want it 😛
You and me both, brother.
How did your camping go with the signorita’s????
Well enough. Only came away with the one injury 😛
Though now it’s all dredged up all the Sketchbook stuff that had been safely swept under the rug since December, so that’s kind of a pain.
I remember reading about Loadout quite some time ago, and only just realised that it’s finally been released as a F2P game on PC. The graphics look great, and the gameplay looks like TF2 crossed with Borderlands violence and crazyness, coupled with an insane level of customization.
Anyone play it?
@mythamphetamine @sernobulus and I…uuuh…holy hell, I have such a bad memory. Others!
…anyhoo, it’s a nice enough game, especially for F2P. Combat feels a great deal like Unreal Tournament but 3rd person.
Yeah, I actually really enjoyed it. We should do another game of it sometime.
This sounds like a marvelous idea! I’ll download it tonight and hope I can get my computer to stop BSOD-ing…
Sure.
Today’s tay is incredibly slow
So rhyming games are the way to go
Given that tay is in musical week
Rhyme your response to the next line I speak:
I thought my hero was Mario
That suave, Italian Lothario.
I should have said, before I go
Continue the rhyme so it keeps to flow!
Flow like the stuff in that plumber’s pipes?
“You rang?” said @mrtaco.
But turned out to be really…uh…Mario.
Fuck.
We’ll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange.
I helped a friend with a squeaky door hinge.
and avoid squeaks by oiling the door hinge
YOU MOVE ASSHOLE
That’s assonance, not rhyme!
Well give me a better word next time…..assface 😛
That was the joke. 🙂
One guy who wished that worked was Julian Assange?
A fruit that is lacking a visible sporange.
But where did the Dark Souls musical go?
It went where all Dark Souls fly
Into the grave. “You Died”.
YESTERDAY
(melody: P. McCartney)
Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
but now my hollow state is here to stay
Oh I believe, in sunny days
Suddenly
I’m not half the man I used to be
Ghouls are hacking pieces off of me
Oh yesterday came suddenly
Why’d she have to go
I don’t know, she’d just invade
I did one block wrong
now I long, for yesterday
Yesterday
Dark Souls was such an easy game to play
now I’m running from a black knights blade
Oh I believe in Yesterday
Why’d she have to go
I don’t know, she’d just invade
I tried spearing long
but it went wrong, oh yesterday
Yesterday
Undead parish was a holiday
Now I’m fleeing to a fire place
Oh I believe in yesterday
I’ve been playing a lot of Dota lately. I think I’m getting worse at the game but so are my teammates.
Just this last game, I went as Crystal Maiden in all pick. Bought the courier and went to the safe lane. Totally standard stuff. Nature’s Prophet comes with me and tells us he’s jungling. We don’t have any carries and I’m using someone that is hopeless in lane by themselves and he’s fucking jungling.
Dude was completely useless all game and I was useless for most of it because of a completely hopeless laning situation, while the Sniper I was up against got nice and fat.
We only won because someone on the other side abandoned.
Other people sure do suck.
EDIT: On the other hand, I just unlocked a really cute little dragon courier.
Hopeless laning situations, yeah I kept getting that :P. Playing as Medusa vs a Sven/CK lane, couldn’t even go to last hit from behind my minions lol.
Definitely not fun when that happens
That’s a much better solo lane than having the slowest movespeed character in the game vs the two longest range characters in the game (Earthshaker with his wall and Sniper with his passive).
True, but the CC lock combo they had, I would die every time and it’s targetted too, nothing I could do to counter it.
Spam Mystic Snake to keep their mana down and get a few last hits. Neither of them have any mana pool to speak of and they’re both melee so they’re going to be sitting on the creep wave.
I seem to be slowly falling back into my insomniac ways (I used to have bad problems with sleep). I’ll be starting up Project Mayhem Australia in no time 😛
Will tonight see the fated return of @blaghman and his flexing to Numenera? I for one certainly hope so.
He could flex to get the Orange Cloaks to talk! 😀
Probably!
I should also probably actually read up on your adventures while I was absent, too…
We got a temporary new character I’m going to call Solid Metal Snake after what happened last session 🙂
It’s a little quiet on the PS Vita front here but I’m wondering if we will get the slim variant that was recently announced in the UK a few weeks back. Or perhaps a price drop on the current model?
Either way, I’m keeping an eye out for specials as I would love to pick one up at a discount, even if just for the fantastic PSN titles available.
How much you looking to spend on one, mate?
Haha. I have a JB Hifi gift card with $175 on it. So yeah that, for new. I’m guessing you have one you’d part with?
Not when you have a voucher – free stuff is awesome! Why buy when you can vouch?! haha
Yeah, i have a spare one coming my way – I was thinking of selling for baby reasons.
All of my work servers have been down pretty much all day. It’s been very productive for me! Cancelled my old gym membership, updated my medicare, applied for health insurance. Today’s been a good day!
What kinda health insurance? I’m looking at stuff now too
I was mainly interested in Dental. I went with LaTrobe silver insurance. $40/m and it looks like it’s reasonable after comparing fine print.
I used iSelect to decide. But be aware, the second you type in your phone number to be able to get quotes, they’ll start calling you.
Hmm, did you find any that waive the 12 month waits? I’ve found one, offer expires Friday. I think this is my only chance, otherwise I have to wait a year to get my dental done (not an option). :\
It’s all such a rip!
No I didn’t. =/
I found a couple that waive the general dental wait times but they weren’t great coverage and looked like I wouldn’t get much benefit out of them.
The other day i went to the toilet and my patented dual streams of justice apparently leveled up.
My tri-stream of justice was quite an amazing sight to behold.
I also pee’d on my shoe a little.
What’s a tri-stream? I can picture dual but not tri.
One in the middle, one either side of that, diagonal.
Aye, she is indeed a uncontrollable beast if ever i saw
http://memearchive.net/memerial.net/3920/how-it-actually-comes-out.jpg
Glad to know I’m not the only one it happens to! \o/
WEE BUDDIES!
I’d suggest using those fancy knees and hips to sit down before you start
Real men face their wild wizz with a stiff upper lip, determination and a grip that could bend iron.
You continue you womanly urinatory ways – me? I’ll be fighting the one-eyed-beast from beneath, like a real man.
I’ll not have shoes that smell of wee.
You mean your high-heels?
Also – obviously i cleaned my shoes. I’m manly, not homeless.
I have giant manly shoes, even moreso since they don’t smell of wee even a little
Doc Martins to compensate from frilly knickers?
Nope, size 15 (or wide 14) new balance runners because they’re the only shoe from the only manufacturer I’ve found that fits my enormous freak feet
Damn. Those are some enormous freak feet!!
Like my tiny sizy 9 carny feet.
*hugs*
There’s almost nothing small about me, apart from my chances with ladies
the fuck?
You missed me, yeah?
unlike how you missed your shoes, apparently.
If you work hard and grind enough, one day you might be able to level up to a quad-stream like me!
Oh man… living the DREAM!
Don’t take my word for it, but i’m preeeeeeetty sure your wiener has developed super powers at this stage…. can you break down walls with it as well?
Hey, TAY.
HEY HEY IT’S WEDNESTAY!
Dear TAY
In light of certain circumstances I think I’ve become addicted to stress :\
I can’t stop stressing about inconsequential things :\
I think I need to hibernate for at least a month or something.
From Liondrive.
Dear Liondrive,
@rocketman and I recommend sleep deprivation. It’s really hard to care about things when your brain is functioning at a fraction of its usual capacity.
Sincerely,
Shzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*
Play ‘Jim’s Big Ego – Stress’ on repeat.
Question posed by xkcd
N-eye-ther.
I’d rather keep the million bucks than worry about the ability of people from divergent career paths trying to moonlight.
You don’t get the principal. Only the winnings if any.
I’d rather bet on the eye surgeon pretending to be an engineer, because at least no one will get hurt if I’m wrong 😛
What are the odds being paid out here? Slapping down a million dollars on something paying out at $1.05 seems rather daft. Maybe at $10, I’d consider putting money on the engineer simply because it seems pretty implausible to set up a situation where an eye surgeon can get a chance to land a probe on a comet.
Also the latter is a team effort, just one man trying it is definitely going to fail.
Depends on the eye surgery.
In honesty, I’d be more likely to put my money on the surgeon landing a probe, since it’s a matter of research, maths, physics, and inputting it all into a computer. Eye surgery on the other hand requires fine motor skill, and physical practice.
I have fine motor skills, lets get to cutting up eyes
I’d bet on the engineer, if only because the engineer’s ability to land a probe on a comet is also remote.
Who would even agree to get eye-surgery done by an engineer?
To answer your question, I would say eye-surgery
I would
@mythamphetamine would probably disagree after your last attempt… 😛
Eye surgeon, easily.
Spacecraft engineers build incredibly complex, precise devices designed for other highly trained, highly talented people to use. Also based on the track record NASA had with lander construction it’s a wonder they only had two major accidents during the Apollo era.
Meanwhile an eye surgeon is going to be an extremely highly trained operator of delicate equipment, with incredible manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination. Much more likely to be able to land a probe on a comet.
That’s assuming that you’re talking manually controlling it directly though.
The proper answer though is neither. You need a computer and a dog. And the dog is there to make sure no humans touch the computer.
Figured I’d get in an hour or so of Dark Souls before bed last night.
Summoned a white phantom for 4 kings, last night – by the elevator from Firelink. Did the bowing, worked together really well killing all the ghosts and darkwraiths in New Londo without either of us taking any damage. Was all very professional, very smooth, very slick. Get to the Four Kings fog gate, equip abyss-ring, bow again for luck and thanks (because there’s never enough time for debriefing after a boss kill), then jump down the hole…Clip the second-last jutting ledge, rebound off the last one, die.
Smooooooth.
(Post-script: Resigned self to solo boss fight, attempt again. Fight way back down again, get careless, die to Darkwraith for the first time ever, before able to retrieve roughly 200,000 souls and god knows how much humanity. Dozens, at least. Yup. Power off console, go to bed.)
Four Kings are actually easier on your own. The extra health boost they get when you have a helper means you end up with more than one at a time to deal with.Going about my day to day duties, doing what I do, in my place of work…I had to call a Mr. Triantafyllou. I thought to myself, I love that name. Why does that name look so god damn sexy? Then it clicked…with a few anagramattical moves Triantafyllou turns in to “YOUR TITANFALL.” Needless to say my mind was blown and the hype factor got even more get.
Trying to fool you?
He didn’t fool me. I got the hidden message straight away!
So the latest battlefield 4 expansion sets a new low for EA value for money. It’s a bunch of stuff from battlefield 3. For money. Even if you own battlefield 3.
Remade with LEVOLUTION my friend, thats what you get for it..LEVOLUTION! also they’re not too bad, the first expansion of BF3 was abunch of remade BF2 maps, would be nice if one map had the 2 seater bomber planes from BF2 but, those were so fun
Totally made a train at uni today. Err’one was jealous of my mad train making skillz 😉
Pretty good first day back 😀
Is making a train a sex thing?
Well, I guess it could be, but in this rare instance it was actually just a 3D graphic train.
Sorry to disappoint 🙁
Awwwwwwwwwww well actual trains are good too I suppose
GAH! THE IMAGES IN MY HEAD 🙁
http://tinyurl.com/cbdc8q5
Love that show :p
Cleaned off the last of the rooms and signs in Antichamber. Can’t help but feel like maybe I cheated a little bit, mainly because the later-game stuff with block generation and everything makes it seem a easy at times, like some of the challenge is removed by not playing those rooms when you’re stuck with one of the earlier guns.
Have four blog posts ready now. Just got to take some quality pictures of my work, and do my first TAYquilt Tuesday post and I’ll be ready to take the plunge and let the whole world into my brain. Scary!
Awesome stuff! Can’t wait to see!!
I forgot what everyone’s picture was except Powalen punching Caterpie and D.C.’s amazing MSPaint portrait
What are you using to host your blog, by the way? Just curious 😛
I wonder how carcinogenic all these dyes and glues I spend all day soaked in are?
Keep a sample for testing. If the police job falls through and you get cancer, at least you can always file a lawsuit.
Freeze, mates rates bootlaces?
Do you get issued with any sort of PPE? Is there someone “up the chain” you can (formally) request details & official stance from?
I foresee an accident and a descent into supervillainy…
I’m going to suggest ascent. Sounds like a promotion to me!
The judgemental society will remember it as a descent, you know what they’re like…
There’s a new devblog for DayZ
http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/post/77808726128/here-is-our-latest-dev-blog-created-on-the-24th
Useable fridges, hunting, cooking, archery, better animations, seems a lot of good stuff is coming
When does Thief release for us? FFS I’m sick of getting jipped. It unlocked for USA yesterday? Still locked on Steam for me, and the countdown timer is gone now.
midnight tomorrow I think
Dontchaknow it takes time for them to ship over all’a them CD keys to Oz-Steam.
Actually, we all know that’s unfair… Steam has to release at the same time as retail stores, so no-one has an ‘unfair advantage’. …Those retail stores who have had those boxes in their back rooms for several days already.
*facepalm*
OK, fine. It’s just because the US needs to bend us over and remind us who’s the bitch. 🙁
Could be worse, @stickman could be waiting for the lego movie…
It pissed me off because Steam ads said “releasing soon”, store page said ‘released’, and the countdown timer was gone! >:(
They’re so shit at getting consistency across their release dates for globally-staggered launches. Been complaining about it for years to no avail – and even allowed certain media contacts to believe I may have been a games reporter protecting his sources just doing general background research to get off-the-record comments from publishing contacts in companies like Take2 and Sega to find out where the problem lies. Publishers say it’s Steam, Steam doesn’t say shit to anyone because they very, very, very carefully insulate themselves from human contact outside of a webform.
I get the distinct impression from steam and valve in general that their approach to support is “well it works for me, must be something wrong on your end”
Steam’s tech support is pretty horrible. The first four interactions are going to be form letters, along the lines of: “Have you tried this incredibly inconvenient and time-consuming thing? Yes? OK, try this even more time-consuming/inconvenient thing. Still not working? Wow, OK, we’ll have to go for gold in the inconvenience stakes… We’re talking about getting REALLY unreasonable and unlikely, here.” Ideally they’re hoping you’ll give up and they won’t have to actually solve the problem, because it likely CAN’T be solved and they don’t want to give a refund.
Three months later, the game will silently update itself and everything will be working again.
I love Steam, but they make me want to hurt them sometimes.
Wait, interactions? Have steam support actually replied to you?
Yeah man. You only have to wait a few weeks.
It says a day & 23 hours the last time I saw it and that’d make it unlock sometime around midnight. One positive is that we get to put off being almost inevitably disappointed for a bit longer, the negative being is that we HAVE to put it off because we don’t have a choice in the matter…
It’s weird, the couple of reviews I saw (Kotaku included) said it was disappointing and borderline broken. But, they were playing pre-release copies.
Rock Paper Shotgun, a pretty good and critical website, played the release copy and praised the game – even saying it’s sublime.
I’ve realised that its going to be one of those games where the concept of the review is rendered nearly worthless by the history of the franchise and changing tastes.
Do people give it a low score because its a bad game?
Do people give it a low score because its not action enough?
Do people give it a low score for the ultimate crime of not being Thief 2?
Without exhaustive and meticulous detail which you pretty much don’t get anywhere any more, the entire process is tainted by vapid explosion addicts and drooling nostalgia masturbators to the point where its hard to trust any review. RPS saying it was good is at least encouraging since they tend to veer towards the sane and level headed but I figure you’ll only know for sure by playing it.
It’s why I often buy games I’m iffy about from GMG, 10% preorder discount plus 20-25% off coupon means a new game is about $37, if I get a solid 70 percenter out of that I’m satisfied and if its better then that’s a bonus.
Supposed to be today.
Yeah it unlocked midnight I think. I had streaming all ready to go. 🙁
@sernobulus Danganronpa dispatched 😀
Now we play the “notify the other when it arrives” game 😛
Is it bad that I have that sitting on my shelf at the moment unopened and unplayed? even though I brought it from EB on release
I’d say it’s bad but I probably won’t play my copy for a while too ;D
You should buy Xenoblade like all the other cool kids.
And Powalen
Three Friends
…and Jerry
So is Powalen a cool kid or is he not gonna play Danganronpa for awhile aswell
I don’t think he even has a Vita
…he does like Xenoblade though but also cheats at Mario Kart, so he works out to be a relatively okay guy.
Same! Danganranbanmanganrongmndfnmaiosdvmoasdfvnoafdsnjubuadfnboa is on the way! \o/
I finally managed to launch Corel Painter X3 in Steam properly!
I’d forgotten to set the proper directory, that’s why it wasn’t launching.
Bleh. Think I’ve slipped into a mood again. Everything seemed fine and/or great last week, now it’s unravelled :/
Just the aforementioned lady troubles or a more general form of creeping ennui?
Yeah, pretty much the latter I guess. Although the former certainly didn’t help things at all.
Well for the former, I’d suggest saying something. That way you’ll get it over with one way or the other, it’ll screw up and you can get on with things knowing for sure it’ll never happen or you’ll get a top result.
For the latter… Yeah I might be the worst person to be giving advice, all I can say for sure is that doing nothing absolutely doesn’t help and may well fuck up your brain in the long term. Friends seem to help, even if only as a distraction for a while (much as they do when you’re being chased by a tiger, as long as you’re faster…), it might be my nerdy nature but I find making lists of shit I need to fix in my life helps a bit so I can look at what I need to do but then I’ve also got serious depression so my rare attempts lists tended to devolve into increasingly brutal self analysis and generally triggering stuff so I stopped doing them.
I do think, however, that if someone ever tells you to turn that frown upside down that you’re allowed to stab them in the face with a fork. Bonus points for holding them down and stabbing a smiley face into their forehead whilst screaming “DOES THIS LOOK HAPPY ENOUGH TO YOU????”. I’m not a lawyer though, maybe check that with the police first to be on the safe side.
Been in one of those moods all week where I have loads of games to play, lots of books to read and probably stuff to watch as well but have the attention span of a turnip right now.
Also, fecking bloody mozzy bites on the toes
Summary of Numenera – 26/2/14
WORST. DICE. EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad you’ve got that covered, I’ll not bother with the write-up then. 😛
@popdart5 @novacascade @tech_knight @mawt
While managing to injure Raller Cay, he ran away. Should you fear reprisal? what fallout will there be from the vicious execution of Narada Trome? Will you ever roll above a 4?
Tune in next time, for more tales from the ninth world
cc @tigerion @blaghman @mythamphetamine
Oh Monte Cook, why have you betrayed me? 🙁 🙁
EDIT: Double post.
Why can’t the February PSN sale actually go for all of February D:
I was hoping to get Tearaway, but then I forgot, so now it looks like I’ll just be picking up the Walking Dead on Vita and nothing else…
And, because I missed page 6, here’s a sort-of joke:
A man walks into an Apple store with an overheating Macbook. It overheats so much that the genius suggests that they take it outside because the store’s too hot, so the man replies:
“Well it’s not my fault you guys don’t have Windows!”
Although, there is a new sale with Most Wanted on PS3 and Borderlands 2 and a few other things.
Still, no Vita games on sale.
Apparently the Vita turned 2 *shrug*
I saw a comment complaining that the PlayStation dudes didn’t even acknowledge it (with sales, upcoming games montage etc.) and the PlayStation guy replied and agreed. It’s hard to share the Vita love when they barely do it themselves :(. Every time there’s a PSN sale I get a little bit sad when there’s barely any (or no) Vita stuff on sale.
Hang in there little Vita buddy…
Damn that is depressing. Ubi are apparently having some of their vita things on sale but they don’t have many
There was a PS Vita birthday sale, along with another sale (in addition to Feb sale). Wasn’t available in AU.
Was there? 😛
The comment was in reference to the EU PlayStation team (so I assume we had nothing). It’s not too bad on PS3/4 since it’s easy to play games purchased from other regions but it’s a bit of a hassle on Vita.
Yep, I tweeted @ them and asked wtf, no response.
Ask on EU Blog posts, you’re probably more likely to get a response there
MORNING ALL!
No Dark Souls 2 news today (yet), sadly, except for some new pages in the rather average Dark Souls comic.
So instead of that, I’m reviving the giveaway I began on Monday! Get in there and take a game.
NINTENDO DS/3DS
* Super Scribblenauts (JETPACKS AND WINGED SHOES!)
PLAYSTATION 2
* Fahrenheit (David Cage! Emotions!)
* Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (still the best GTA)
XBOX 360
* Bioshock (RAPTURE!)
CLAIMED
* Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker claimed by @evilmonkey
* Injustice: Gods Among Us claimed by @pixel_the_ferret_viking
* Uncharted 1 claimed by @redartifice
* Uncharted 2 claimed by @benny
* Grand Theft Auto – Chinatown Wars claimed by @scree
@evilmonkey and @redartifice, can you pls send your addresses through to shane at shanewsmith.com so I can get your gear to you. Cheers!
Is china town wars fun? I’ve never played it. The last GTA I played was like…2
YES. It actually has quite a lot in common with 2 in terms of gameplay, so… you can have it! \o/
I was just asking ,_,
Yep! You fall into the same trap every time I run a giveaway! 😛
I will probably never learn =(
A mistake worth making. Chinatown Wars is awesome!
Will do.
And thanks again man.
No worries!
I just want to apologise to everyone. I am truly sorry.
I consider you all to be good friends of mine, and I love you as such.
No, no, this is weird page 8.
In-character-page-8 isn’t an established TAY thing.
I have literally no idea what’s happening (or what’s about to happen…?). Hope everything is all right.
I think she’s about to sell us all into slavery and feels somewhat bad about it.
Hey, no one says that villains can’t feel bad =P
To be fair, just because something is in character doesn’t exclude it from being a bit weird…
Don’t worry about it Scree!
Just hope everything get’s sorted
Me too. But you know I will worry about it. I can’t help it
And that’s why we’re here to re-assure you that it’s fine… which, trust me, it’s fine!
Nothing can quell the worries that occur inside me! *dramatic pause*
Are you about to transform into a werewolf? Is it full moon again already?
*hugs* Don’t sweat it, You’re awesome ^_^
I know quite a few people who’d disagree
Well, those people are wrong. And quite possibly jerks.
And they’d still disagree =P
(I am probably one of those people ^^;; )
Anything we can do to help the situation scree? 🙂
No, not really. All we can really do is wait.
The waiting is the hardest part…
The joys of being an adult.
We’re all here to support you. Hope it all works out soon.
Thanks. Yeah, being an adult is horrible.
@sernobulus and I played Metal Slug 3 last night. I felt the lag gave us an extra challenge.
I do not remember it being so hard though. I played Metal slug 4 on the ps2. Do not remember it being so difficult.
Metal Slug was always pretty brutal, it was such a cash guzzler in the arcades, I got my uncle addicted to it, he just started throwing fistfulls of money at me telling me to go buy more credits, then every time I’d visit him he’d insist we went to the arcade. Good times
Maybe they dumbed down the one on ps2. I just get frustrated that I can’t shoot diagonally. =P
Bleeeeeergh, on call again last night (yay money!)… normally we get no calls, but last night had to be the night didn’t it?
Sat up till 1am working with the team in the UK to sort out an issue with our ordering and manufacturing system… /o\
and i was still here at 6:30am… /o\
on the other hand i get to have a nap this afternoon \o/
And my manager bought me a coffee… so i guess that makes up for it right? RIGHT? 😛
At least your manager cares, right?
exactly… well recognition is always nice… but sooooooooooo sleeeeeeeeeeeeepy
*lays head on keyboard*
Are you on call for the rest of the week?
Nah, we rotate every day, so i have 1 on call shift a week… which generally means i have 4 hours a week where i get paid to sit in front of my computer and play games 😛
You can sleep well for the rest of the week at least.
i think i can just join the sleep-deprivation train that @shane and @rocketman has started… IS THERE ANY ROOM ON THAT GUYS?
EDIT – because something something grammar
I can’t do sleep deprivation. I like sleep too much.
Sure, it’s a lazy train and it ain’t going nowhere, but we’re all too tired to stop people coming on board.
@shane
They’re making a Dark Souls 2 animated feature. Looks like they knew exactly how to improve it.
bahahaha holy crap that is 10,000 kinds of awesome!
…
now i want a Dark Souls II: Blood Dragon mix up
Ha! That was pretty cool, but oh man, the credits run longer than the video. 😛
Is anyone going to the Dark Souls 2 event at Namco in Redfern next week? I won a pass to it but just wondering if any other kotaku folks are on the way.
I believe @fatshady +1 is going.
Is he? I thought he was overseas on trials business
Nah, he mentioned on Twitter he’ll be back (I think it was) tomorrow.
Aw man, I wish I could be there. An event!
Have fun.
Awww man, I’d love to go, I’m assuming invite only via IGN or something?
It was a comp through OXM. One of those 25 words or less kind of deals.
Man, I won a spot at their Soul Calibur V event at the start of 2012, and managed to win a copy of the game once it was released. But the jerks never sent it through, and I could never get a hold of whoever was supposed to sort it out, despite multiple calls and even a visit.
They’re now on my list 😛
That’s okay, SC V was shit anyway. 🙁 Or it was if you were me and they systematically removed every character you enjoyed playing.
I still wanted my freebie! And something else to use the arcade stick with is always nice.
Plus I like Raphael so I was set 😛
My primary characters were Sophitia, Seung Mina and Talim, and I also enjoyed using Cassandra, Xianghua and Amy. I guess I was okay with Raphael and Mitsurugi as well, but having all the characters I most enjoyed excised and in many cases not even given an adequate replacement completely ended the franchise for me.
Besides that the characters have gotten progressively uglier through the iterations.
http://www.eegra.com/comics/2008/05/33.jpg
… well that put a downer on the day…
So you remember i was super psyched that my parent’s were coming down here in early March to visit?
Including my dad whom i haven’t seen since 2009? yeeeaaah he’s no longer coming /o\
so now it’s only my mother… whom, last time she was here alone, didn’t end well…. yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
sorry to rant, but damn that’s put me down
I’m sorry to hear that D=
It really really sucks, we even had grandstand Formula 1 tickets booked (which are not cheap!) and had all this stuff planned which was exclusively for him (airshows, go around Mount Panorama etc)… well that’s now out the window…
Really it’s not his fault, but it still such a disappointment /o\
Can you get a refund on that stuff? Or perhaps sell it?
I have a mate that might be interested in going, so that’s not too much of an issue… just more disappointed then i thought i’d be
Of course you’re disappointed. You haven’t seen your parents in a while. Anyone would be.
I dunno if your situation will allow it, but… if you can swing it, maybe go visit sometime?
I missed my Dad the last time he was in town, so I made plans for my brother and I to go visit him a month later. When I got there, his new wife kept talking about how excited he was that we were coming.
Family’s important and we’re not here for anywhere near long enough, and too much slips by that shouldn’t. Sometimes it’s worth the time, cost, and inconvenience, just to be able to enjoy that precious little time we have.
I’m hoping to, unfortunately it requires $4000 spare in tickets alone… and at the moment i’m struggling to have $400 spare a month… hoping that’ll sort it self soon, because i haven’t been home since ’08 😛
That is NOT pocket change. 🙁
@transientmind
naaah unfortunately not… but scoring flights to europe generally is pretty pricey… the cheapest i’ve found recently was $1900 return, and i need to get one for me and one for the missus…
aww dude that sux, hopefully you’ll get along cause you haven’t seen each other in so long,
they do say absence makes the heart grow fonder, hop it all works out.
Yeah i’m hoping for a water on the bridge thing… just really crushed, my dad was always the person i looked up to as a kid, and we share many of the same interests, so i was really looking forward to catching up… oh well, life moves on i suppose, i just needed to vent
So, gang. EB pre-orders. Do they have to be paid off in full in advance, or can you just rock up on the day with the filthy lucre in your hand? Does one approach or the other increase the likelihood of getting the game you ordered?
Asking for a
friendfrenemyokay, I’m asking for me.from my experience you only need the deposit, I don’t think I’ve ever paid a pre order off before the date from a brick and mortar store, never had a problem picking one up either, I don’t think it matters if you pay it off or not. The only exception I can think of is some midnight launches you get served first if you’ve paid off in advance.
Yep, exactly this. If you have nothing but the deposit on it it still secures the preorder and you just pay on pick-up.
What gutsoup said.
also thanks, I just learned what lucre means, now it makes sense why my companion in Dragon’s Crown is always yelling “Filthy lucre” while he loots corpses. You know words good and could be a word.w.smith of some kind, maybe even an award nominated author.
Nah.
Honestly, I’m kinda hoping he wins that thing.
Shhhh! He might hear you.
Oi! This is an old page and you’re not tagged! Who lurks on old pages, I ask you!
HOW MANY DAYS SHANE!? I need to know how many days I have to finish off Lightning Returns 😛
I also learnt the other day that Dark Souls II comes out on a Friday, so depending on how the shipping is I may miss out on weekend shenanigans :O. What’s that? I can just leave the house and pick it up on Friday? Ha! Don’t be silly…
YOU’VE GOT FIFTEEN DAYS.
I think it’s a banjo or redback down for a standard preorder, and a pineapple for a CE.
Cool, thanks. There’s only about $40 or so outstanding on this order, so that threshold has well and truly been crossed.
PS: Thanks again @freezespreston! 🙂
Recruitment company is handing out free doughnuts out the front of my work.
I think they might know something we don’t.
*updates resume*
Haha, about a month before there were massive lay-offs where I … worked? (Still working but gone at the end of March). They reminded everyone that “it’s a good idea to keep your resume up to date”.
Weren’t you originally supposed to be finishing there in like, November? At this rate I’m kind of expecting you to be employed for the next couple of months…
I was supposed to finish in Decemeber , got a call the week following when I left asking me to come back until March because they literally have no one that can do the work.
For most companies this would be a complete balls up but I work for the government so …
May, 2014
Co-worker: Hey Nob.
Nob: …
Co-worker: What’s going on?
Nob: …
Co-worker: Oh, I get it. If you don’t make any noise, they might forget that you still work here.
December, 2016
Co-worker: Merry Christmas, Nob.
Nob: You too.
Co-worker: Got any plans?
Nob: Well, they’re making the usual threats about finishing off my termination paperwork, so it might be a lean year.
Co-worker: Here. Have a candy cane.
March, 2025
Co-worker: Hey Nob.
Nob: Hey.
Co-worker: So, it was pretty weird what happened in the Zero-G footie last night
Nob: Ugh, sportsball. The problem with them is that they always try to float it in.
Co-worker: That’s our Nob! *canned laughter*
Haha, I honestly hope March is my finish date. I hate being in this weird Limbo of “you’re not employed here but you are”.
The good thing about indefinite contract work, early on, is you can poll around for good options elsewhere, submit your resume while still working, and that throws up far fewer red flags than applying for work when you’re unemployed. Then, if you get something but your contract isn’t up, you have very little obligation to serve out the rest of the contract. Some contracts even give you the option for as little as 1 day’s notice.
2032, Nob is the national director of his department when he’s finally handed his actual walking papers during a press conference. It’s a media sensation as Nine News explains he decided to step away from the role to spend more time with family.
Obligatory “you should be a writer” comment.
Obligatory “Nah.”
Oh man, I haven’t updated mine since 2009. Fuck this *procrastinates instead*
Just add “2009 – 2014: My name is Sha News Mith. I’m a writer.”
Done.
Maybe there’s a reason I’m bad at finding jobs…
I’ve had a recruitment headhunter chasing me for the last few months. He seems to know everyone I work with as well, and I’m assuming that’s how he got my information.
Now I’m wondering why my co-workers would have identified me as potentially looking to take a role with a new company. 🙁
Kill me.
How would you like it?
Anything not involving chilli thanks.
Awwww
*walks away with bucket of chilli*
I think you’ll find that bucket was emptied last night, which is why I’m in this mess.
that sounds… very punishing
*turns heat above 0°*
*slams through the door*
WHO TOUCHED THE THERMOSTAT?
You’re not working, are you?
…yes.
No. You have to wait fifteen days until you can start dying.
Frustrating morning, as soon as I signed in this morning, I hear of a major platform outage.. I blame Raller Cay on this! His chaos is spreading @redartifice, first the dice rolls get infected and now this, what have you done?!
The Chaos Gods spread their evil touch across the dimensions. Tzeentch will be the undoing of us all.
Given how that guy moved, wouldn’t surprise me that he’d be Chaos 😛
I’m amazed you guys never asked him if he was working alone.
I was too busy utilising my only known cure for coughing fits, a crossbow butt to the back of the head.
Well, Nerada Trome is cured of her coughing fits now.
Yeah Nova’s one is a little… lets just say the side effects of his cure are quite severe.
My character wouldn’t have cared really and he was tired of all of the verbosity. He just wanted to kill him.
All the stories coming out of this game, I regret not getting involved now.
Hey it’s not too late, my character is still heavily underpowered 😛
RPGs are like that which is most of the fun really. The story is a combined effort from the players, the GM, and the dice as no matter how meticulously you have planned out your strategy or your actions, one bad die roll can derail everything.
On the flip side, one good die roll can create fantastic scenarios. For instance, a guy who was playing in one of my games was playing as a Barbarian literally suplexed a lion and pinned it to the ground as a level one character. It was extremely unlikely that he could pull that off given his stats but the dice gods blessed him with awesome that day.
Also, I’m sure that another opportunity for a RPG will pop up again soon. I’m still considering ideas to run a campaign of sorts later down the track when one of my current groups finishes up.
I’d be surely up to participating in more of these, despite the horrid rolls I have a lot of fun taking part in these.
Isn’t @f4ction working on doing a Warhammer RPG?
I’m pretty sure that’s the case but he’s probably just getting a nice buffer of material together. Or procrastinating about it, that’s what I usually do. 😛
Ok fill me in how does the dice role work in these RPG while playing online and stuff
We’re using a program called Roll20 that randomises results based on the type of the die and the modifiers that you want. For instance, a standard d20 roll is simply /roll d20. The only potential downside of the system is that it is actually randomised based on selecting results from a pool whereas physically rolling a die is not entirely random due to weight, size, power of the roll, etc.
Well, Monte Cook’s next RPG comes out later this year, and both myself and @popdart5 are getting copies.
Also, this Australian designed RPG is kickstarting soon: http://www.fraggedempire.com/
and @f4ction is talking Warhammer at some point
So there’s potential for another RPG 🙂
Speaking of The Strange (hi @strange), I’m thinking that outside of the three core worlds/planes that they have developed, it can literally go anywhere. I really like the idea of semi-parallel worlds or just weird and outlandish places and you could potentially go to somewhere that shares a lot of concepts with other literature, like mythology or Lovecraftian or other fantasy/science-fiction worlds.
I’m digging the concept art too. It really emphasises the weirdness.
It’s got so much potential. You could easily hack it and do Spelljammer or Planescape too
TAYlist request time, Hit me with your best songs.
Coldplay – The Scientist
Peaches – The Presidents of the United States Of America.
Tampon Lollipops – Skinless
or
Cameo Lover – Kimbra
ACDC – Back in Black
The Hendrix version of All Along the Watchtower.
Layla – Eric Clapton
Since people are going a bit rock n roll, how about
Sweet Child ‘O Mine – Guns’n’Roses
You Died – @blaghman
or Say Goodbye To Hollywood – Billy Joel
California Dreaming- Mamas and the papas
‘If I could’ – 1927
1st pref: (Obscure?) Baroque ‘n’ Roll by Baby Mammoth.
2nd pref: (Less obscure?) Furious Angels by Rob Dougan.
3rd pref: (Not at all obscure) Feel Good Inc by Gorillaz.
Another one: El Condor Pasa (if I could) – Simon and Garfunkel
Fun fact: Paul Simon thought the melody was actually an old peruvian folk tune, so didn’t credit it on the original. He found out it was actually written in 1913 and had a very apologetic lawsuit with the original composer’s estate.
You hear this melody EVERYWHERE in Peru.
I love this song. One of my favourite S&G songs.
One you probably dont have – Nine inch Nails – Right Where it Belongs
Another one you probably don’t have – Queens of the Stone Age – Better Living through Chemistry
If you don’t have those. Spice Girls – Stop
(Who can pick the themes from my requests?)
are you going to the NIN / QOTSA show?
Thats one of them 😀
i have no idea about the Spice Girls tie in, just keep thinking about that old mash up song “Closer to Spice”
Subtle suggestion for someone to request Pat Benatar? Well Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Failing that, Cameo’s Word Up
Hipster request :
Extinction Debt – Harmony
Serious request :
Paint it black – Rolling Stones.
Requests are closed, thank you for the requests.
Right near the end of Lightning Returns and what do I do? Go back and play FFXIII-2 instead. 😛
For a Final Fantasy game, that seems amazingly short. Or have you just been playing a lot?
You have 13 hours approx to finish the game, combat, cutscenes, conversations, menu, chronostasis and the Sanctuary can pause the timer, how long it takes you to beat the game depends on these factors.
So yeah, short for a FF game 😛
I didn’t know there was a timer. I don’t know what it is but I’ve never liked being pushed to finish a game in a certain amount of time.
Uhh I don’t think Distant explained it very well and it’s kinda hard to explain too.
But last time I checked with Strange she was at 35 hours or so, so she has been playing it a bit and it’s not too short (FFXIII and XIII-2 were around 40 hours as well). I’m at 10 hours or so and I’m maybe 1/3 of the way through the story quests but there’s a ton of side stuff I haven’t bothered with either.
Basically the set up is “You have 6 days to save the world” or something but doing sidequests and other things extends the time. Still a bit annoying though but it’s not too bad 😛
The timer is kind of irrelevant because as you do the things you normally would do in a rpg like quests and things then you gain back the time you need. At first I was panicking and worried I wasn’t making the best use of my time, but after I realised that just completing quests was gaining me more time, I stopped worrying so much. I hate timers but this was the least obstructive timer I’ve come across. Apparently you only need to complete 40 sidequests across the course of the game to get the maximum amount of time possible.
As for how long to finish? Well I’m about 40 hours in. I was playing a lot but it really took way less time to get to this point near the end than it did for either of the previous FF13 games. My savegame file on 13-2 says 98 hours, but that was to complete everything and get the platinum.
But yeah, Lightning Returns is definitely the shortest Final Fantasy game I’ve come across. And it needed to be because it was the least engaging. 😛 I think it was also deliberately shorter because they seem to really want you to do NG+.
Just wondering.
Why is it that a person on this forum is able to spread misinformation about private matters concerning other innocent people?
And why is it that so many on this forum can give legal advice about said private matters when they know only a fraction, if any, of the ACTUAL facts?
And, why is it that when one feels compelled to post the ACTUAL facts about said private matters, to put an end to the nonsense, the spreader of the misinformation can have that poster’s comments removed?
Could it be that the person spreading the misinformation does not want their incredibility exposed?
I guess if their incredibility was exposed the misinformation spreader might just be seen as an attention seeker.
Just wondering.
I “finished” Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze last night. A worthy sequel to an amazing series revival. I could provably spend some time getting all the collectibles (and unlock the secret world) orrrrr I could play Tales of Symphonia which arrived for me this morning.
Both! Play both!
Well, Donkey Kong does have off-screen play …
At the same time!
Don’t be silly Shane.
EDIT: 😛
Finish off Donkey Kong first. Could be hard switching between that and a game that looks and controls like it’s 11 years old. Still a good game but the years have not been kind to the engine.
Out of curiosity, did you play DKCR on 3DS or WiiU? I only ask because I played it on 3DS and found that it really suited the handheld so I’m a little hesitant to look at getting it for WiiU.
Both! =P
Nice! Adding it to the to-buy list when I get my WiiU. 😀
Is X and Monster Hunter on there?
They should be!
Going to wait and see for X and I’ll probably end up getting MH4 instead. Might go back to MH3U eventually but that will most likely be a little down the track.
I present to you my shallow and unrealistic Writing Bucket List.
Just wondering.
Second try.
Why is it that a person on this forum is able to spread misinformation about private matters concerning other innocent people?
And why is it that so many on this forum can give legal advice about said private matters when they know only a fraction, if any, of the actual facts?
And, why is it that when one feels compelled to post the actual facts about said private matters, to put an end to the nonsense, the spreader of the misinformation can have that poster’s comments removed?
Could it be that the person spreading the misinformation does not want their incredibility exposed?
I guess if their incredibility was exposed the misinformation spreader might just be seen as an attention seeker.
Just wondering.
Just wondering.
@serrels why are you allowing so much misinformation to be posted on this forum?
Is everyone else’s user profile page all broken to crap with no layout or graphics?
I don’t mind a retro look on occasion but 1996 netscape navigator isn’t my thing
At home, I use IE11 and yep, totally broken.
Here at work, IE8, works perfectly.
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interesting, both my Firefox and Chrome pages are broken to shite-house…
Add my firefox to the shit house and I refuse to check notifications for TAY on my phone due to it loads at the top of the page and I have to scavange my way down the list to find the comment
All fine for me, latest version of Chome.
All fine for me, using Chrome mobile browser.
Metal Gear Folk
So, I finished MGS3 for the second time last night. Just need to do another quick run of some early areas to grab some face paint I missed, and take out The End early, and I’ll have the platinum trophy (I have no idea why I went for the platinum to begin with. So tedius).
I’ve played 2 (Vita), Portable Ops (PSP) and 3 (Vita), and now I’m considering getting 4 for some resolution.
I’m wondering if Peace Walker is integral to the ‘plot’? Can I just move on to 4 and be done with it?
Not interested in playing 1, or replaying POps, 2, or 3, so my options are either the Legacy bundle for Peace Walker and 4, or just get 4 standalone…
It’s my understanding that not even MGS 3 is integral to the story. In most important respects, there are two separate MGS stories. There’s some overlap, of course, but from what I’ve seen, they stand remarkably apart.
STORY 1: MG, MG2, MGS, MGS 2, MGS 4
and
STORY 2: MGS 3, Port Ops, Peace Walker, forthcoming MGS 5 games
Hm… Well I really don’t want to play MGS, unless it’s significantly better than MGS2.
Does Peace Walker HD have updated controls, or does it control like POps on PSP?
Hmm I would really recommend playing MGS before MGS4. The resolution of a number of plot points is much better with the knowledge of all of the games before 4.
Unfortunately the controls of MGS are a bit more archaic and tank-like than MGS2 but I would argue the storyline is better. Plus, considering it sounds like you haven’t played MGS before, it helps to explain a few things from MGS2.
Damnit.
Pretty sure there’s someone around online who’s condensed MGS into a movie length video. That might be more your speed, just for context, etc. I’ll see if I can find it.
Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLTqIXZ1jQQ
This might do until I find the one I was thinking of.
Groovy.
The Big Boss storyline is important to a degree as he was the original instigator of a lot of the conflicts and problems that Solid Snake had to deal with in his games. Plus Kojima loves his circular logic and conflicts so there is a tonne of mirroring that occurs between the themes, plot points, and characters across the timelines.
But yeah, Peace Walker is important moreso to the storyline that will prevail in MGS5 than MGS4 but it is still cool to see yet another variety/forerunner to Foxhound.
So… I’ve only played as Solid Snake in MGS2 Tanker, right?
off that list, yeah. You’ll play as him in 4 and in the original.
Chronological Order of Canonical Metal Gear Games:
1964 – Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
1970 – Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
1974 – Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
1975 – Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
1984 – Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
1995 – Metal Gear
1999 – Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
2005 – Metal Gear Solid
2007/09 – Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
2014 – Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
2018 – Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1z07qp/metal_gear_solid_chronological_order/
It’s so sad seeing the “near future” of a piece of fiction being this year.
The fact that you feel old aside, that reminds me that this year has high expectations. BTTF2 AND MGS4 mixed into one year? We got a lot of technological advancement to do and a lot of war-oriented morality to dick up, guys!
BTTF2 is next year.
Ah perfect, I’m sure if we can invent metal gears in one year hoverboards and self-tying shoes won’t be far off then.
the fact that blaghs apparently feels old is still right though
We’ve already got one of those on the way.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/16/back-to-the-future-marty-mcfly-power-laces-coming-2015/
at this rate we might even get hoverboards that work on water.
Also apparently Evangelion is set in 2015. I think there was a flowchart somewhere out there detailing a timeline with the events of a bunch of ‘near-future’ events from fiction.
@saturday
BUT IT’S TOO LATE FOR ME! I’M TOO OLD TO BECOME AN ETERNALLY YOUTHFUL BROODING GIANT MECHA PILOT!
@blaghman
you’ll have to serve as the paternal replacement for one of said children while providing the needed necessary sexual tension wherever and whenever you deem inappropriate.
So uh… there’s that to look forward to in the future, right?
I first played Metal Gear Solid in 2000. The events in that game ‘took place’ almost ten years ago now :\
I read a spec fic book back in ’09, it was written in the 80s, I think, and set in the 90s. It was weird seeing allusions and stuff to the USSR, and the cold war, in a time period where it didn’t exist.
I think you can easily just read a synopsis of MGS1 and that’d be fine. It plays like a PS1 game and there’s a part toward the end that is the absolute pinnacle of tedium.
BUT it has some amazing game play moments like Psycho Mantis, Vulcan Raven & Sniper Wolf and a really great incentive to play through again depending on the outcome of a certain situation.
I don’t think it’s that integral to MGS4 as 4 is more of a continuation of The Patriots story line introduced in 2.
Just be prepared for very little game play after chapter 2.
Well I tried reading a synopsis of MGS2 – which I’ve actually played – and I think my nose started bleeding, so I’m not sure how that will go but I’ll try.
So 4 is worth it?
What about Peace Walker?
Maybe I should just go play Splinter Cell.
4 is uh ultimately the black horse of the series, because of how some parts of the story are handled and the fact that the game is 70% story 30% gameplay. Ultimately, anybody who has invested time in the MGS series should play 4, consequences be damned. Just go in it with no expectations and see what you feel about it.
Peace Walker, story wise, is totally unnecessary. Even if you play Ground Zeroes/MGS5 without playing PW, you’ll only miss out on a few tidbits, most of which you can pick up easily or over the internet on a few clicks. Gameplay wise, well, it’s solid- heh- and it has a few things that MGS5 will definitely use, so I’d play it solely to get a mechanical feeling for MGS5.
Cheers, buddy.
Pancakes for lunch is best lunch! \o/
@markserrels died! D:
http://pcauthority.com.au/Article.aspx?CIID=373534&type=News
He will be missed.
Get a screenshot?
is the link not working or is that my work comp filtering it?
Try this.
must be my puter, that didn’t work either, but at least now i think i realize that it’s a joke, I thought freeze was serious for as second there.
I can at least confirm that yes, it is a joke.
YOU DIED
Welp. Looks like I’ve got Pokemon now. For the princely sum of $17, I couldn’t resist 😛
The song worked!
I can trade with you if you want anything early on.
I’m assuming he didn’t get X/Y because of that price. What did you get, Gooks McGook?
@mrtaco
The good one.
Y
Woah, where did you get it for $17? 😮
ps. Y is the bad one.
PS. When it first came out, my streetpasses were 2:1 for X vs Y. Now if I ever get a recently playing one, it’s always Y.
Science says you’re wrong.
And Good Guys. I found one that had it still in stock, and cashed in the forty funbux they handed out with that online clearance debacle at the end of last year. Victory!
I used my 40 funbux on a fan 😛
/adult
Well that blows.
Just wondering.
Can I even get one comment on here?
@benny @pixel_the_ferret_viking: Your games are on their way.
@redartifice @scree: Your games will be on their way tomorrow.
@evilmonkey: Awaiting address. Hope to post tomorrow! 🙂
Games still available:
Fahrenheit (PS2)
GTA: San Andreas (PS2)
Super Scribblenauts (DS/3DS)
Bioshock (360)
Get in fast! PS: They’re FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Thanks man!
@shane is awesome \o/
also someone (not me i already own it) grab Fahrenheit! damn amazing game!!!
Thank you!
Part of me wants to get Fahrenheit so i can destroy it…
but then i’d have to get Fahrenheit… so no
*home sick today working on car trying to replace starter motor can’t get one damn screw loose but really just storming around the house cursing the screw and procrastinating.*
I hated working on my previous car, I used to have an SV6, and had a problem with it overheating. No worries, new radiator off ebay, new hoses/clamps etc.
Got the radiator in, and we found out the hard way that one of the radiator hoses had different sized ends (i think one end was 30mm and the other was 40mm or something like that), so we inadvertently put the 40mm end on the 30mm pipe, o-ring on, tightened it up as best we could, filled the fluids back up, and the hose slipped off, pouring green coolant all over my feet…
Haha! Sorry for your misfortunes but I couldn’t help but laugh at that last bit. Plus, SUCCESS! I replaced the starter and now my Ford, she runs sweet. 😀
Until the next thing breaks in about a week, damn Fords.
I am clearly a Holden person..
running on about 9 hours sleep since Sunday, trying to do really complicated accounting stuff at work is doing my head in now I have this< / a> in my head, not helping 😛
Edit:after several attempts to fix the link I gave up, sorry *jumps out window* :/
So some lunatic was sequentially tweeting individual frames from Top Gun and paramount felt it was a threat to their business… I’m sure copyright doesn’t need an overhaul, its working just fine…
OMFG. No fucking way. LG replied to me saying that their technician thinks this TV is working within the specifications.
http://imgur.com/m8Bwhxa
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE.
I’m sending one more email to LG. I’ll give them one more chance to fix this.
I don’t think that photo does your issue justice, cause I can’t see anything wrong.
What’s wrong with the TV? I remember skim reading something about it, but I can’t spot the problem from the pic, or quite remember what it was.
& @rize That’s not light reflecting off the TV. The vertical stripe in the middle is backlight bleed, and the (reversed) stripes on both sides is also inadequate backlight dispersal. The blotchy blue colour is not the result of a shitty camera – it’s actually like that. That’s taken at lunchtime (most light in room), 18% backlight level.
here’s the link to entire gallery including video evidence: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-cHEUCCSOaedDc5Q3cxVy1SOWM&usp=sharing
I’m fucking done. I replied back to their email, gave them until COB Friday.
I’m assuming it’s just the monitor I’m using, but even with your explanation I can’t see anything wrong with the TV in the pictures or video.
I don’t understand. The pics where it’s mostly black background in a dark room. Can you not see the uneven backlight bleed in the corners? I don’t expect 100% uniformity across the screen, but it’s evident that bottom-left corner is bleeding like a motherfucker.
I’m not sure if you’ve got an LCD TV with shitty bleed too, so it’s clouding your judgement.. But if you can’t see that the corners are screwed then I just don’t understand.
Oh, yeah, sorry, I see it now. It’s not something that seems to translate particularly well in photo form though.
Yeah, but they wanted photo evidence. If the technicians had any sort of brains they’d see the pics and be “holy crap that must be absolutely ghastly IRL”. But, they don’t even want to send one out!
This one highlights the issue easily:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/gkAgEMj4yPzqPh3lUCesNejxsX-4P8URfDcmwvIefcF47s6u7Vra_bDTbc61z7EDgQ=w1239-h496
Yes, exactly. Of course it’s a pretty worst-case scenario, but that bottom-left and top-right thing you see going on is visible on every image type including bright white.
Yep, fucking done. They have confirmed there is no manufacturer fault.
*Prepares anal fisting gloves*
Hope they’re durable
Hope you get it sorted, man!
Thanks, but looks like you see nothing wrong either. I’m baffled.
I never said that. Were you asking for my opinion on the problem? Because I accept that the TV has issues.
Some of your photos show it better than others. But it’s difficult to tell with photos, because at least some of the time, it’s a lineball call whether or not it’s just light reflection or an issue with the device. Sadly, if you’re not getting face-to-face support on this problem, I think you might end up being out of luck getting someone to notice.
And like I said, hope you get it sorted!
Thanks, again.
They are offering to send out a technician IRL, but if they “determine there is no fault” I will be charged. Considering they are saying there is “no fault, within specs” from the poor photos, I simply can’t risk it. :\
*breathes* I am so mad. 🙁
Hmm, weird. Are those the pictures you attached in your emails to LG? Cause I’m going to be honest, it seems like a problem that doesn’t show up too well in photo form, like I can see the problem now that it’s been pointed out, but at the same time it looks like it could have been just light reflection in the photos.
Maybe also try talking to the place you bought the TV from. They might be able to help a bit more, since large companies like LG are more likely to listen to problems reported by distributing stores rather than by individuals. Also you’d be able to take the TV in to show them the problem first hand.
Hopefully it all gets sorted though mate 🙁
Yeah I sent them all the pics, and the video too.
I just have smartphone, but even with an expensive camera it’s hard as fuck to get the faults to show on camera. BUT, that’s why I took the video – the video shows the blob in the middle of the screen (and corner bleeds) even with moving angles and moving picture. It also shows the image retention on the screen, because the camera is moving yet the speckles on the screen dont move relative to the screen. This is the best proof I can give, and I mentioned to them multiple times that “I have a shitty phone camera and it’s really hard to see things”.
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In any case, I’m going to JB Hifi this weekend and returning it. I was emailing LG to see fi they can replace it in-home for me (much easier than lugging in a car, it’s 60in), and I was genuinely curious to see what their response was.
While not fully expecting it, I kinda did see this happening. But, I have in writing that “the TV is within specifications and there is no manufacturer fault”. I’m also getting their actual specifications in writing soon.
What people don’t realise is that we don’t need to put up with piece of shit TVs. It’s not our fault they have crappy lines where they can’t guarantee a certain level of xx. I’m gonna be making some big noise about this to many people, they need to be warned.
Oh yeah, if I got a product I wasn’t happy with I’d definitely take it back, but I’d go straight to the place I purchased it from, not the manufacturer. Like I said, the distributor has much more of a voice in this scenario than the individual, cause the distributor will still need a refund from the manufacturer, and the manufacturer needs the distributor more than it needs one person.
I can, unfortunately, see where LG are coming from, since photos don’t do the problem justice. Without sending someone out to look at the problem first hand it was probably a long shot to get it replaced straight from them. And they probably get a fair few complaints, serious or not, so sending someone out to every complaint probably isn’t a viable option for them.
Hopefully JB should be more helpful though.
TAYlist for the 27th of February 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by the two flies that wont leave me alone in the studioGuns ‘n’ Roses – Sweet Child Of Mine (Requested by @quiz_b)
Pat Benatar – Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Requested by @aliasalpha)
Eminem ft. Nate Ruess – Headlights (So Eminem collaborated with the guy from FUN. That surprised me)
Jimmy Barnes – Driving Wheels
AC/DC – Back In Black (Requested by @popdart5, Last TAYlist, the 5th song was by AC/DC, this week the same artist)
Billy Joel – Say Goodbye To Hollywood (Requested by @shane)
Coldplay – The Scientist (Requested by @novacascade)
Unique Li – Break My Stride
John Farnham – You’re The Voice
Eric Clapton – Layla (Requested by @beavwa, smooth track, good choice mang)
Simon & Garfunkel – El Condor Pasa (If I Could) (Requested by @redartifice)
Mamas & Papas – California Dreamin’
Rolling Stones – Paint It Black (Requested by @35)
Gorillaz – Fell Good Inc. (Requested by @transientmind, I just noticed today that @gorzilla and Gorillaz are anagrams of each other)
Presidents Of The USA – Peaches (Requested by @freezespreston)
Kimbra – Cameo Lover (Requested by @bdkiaf)
1927 – If I Could (Requested by @strange)
Midnight Oil – Short Memory
Jimi Hendrix – All Along The Watchtower (Requested by @blaghman)
Wooo!
Also, the write-up on the same page of TAY as the requests…? What is this madness? I blame @dc.
They say if you yell @dc’s name 3 times into a mirror he’ll appear behind you, take a swig of booze, and start bellowing Arcade Fire karaoke.
if that’s what it takes to get him to Sydney, I’m all over that.
I never believed any of that kind of stuff when I was in primary school, but just now I got a legit uneasy chill down my spine…
it was probably @dc with an ice cube
Cool. That’s an ice theory.
NOT PAGE SIX!!!!!!
EVERY.
P… oh, never mind.
I assume it’s from the anticipation of wanting to try this as soon as you get home?
All right, I’ll be packing up and going now. You guys know me way too well.
Great list
I’m sorta hoping that one day, you’ll actually have one of my hipster requests & my mind will be blown.
I wish, we don’t have a very robust selection of songs.
all good man.
I’ll live in hope :p
Gotta love Short Memory, update a few names & places and it could have been written this year…
Woo, my Live Gamer Portable has shipped, I can finally stop borrowing my mate’s and actually own the hardware I’m capturing on!
@sughly @powalen @phoenix @strange @masha2932
Survivor is downloading! 😀
ye boi
Let me know how it is. I’m not sure if I’ll watch this one or not, yet.
Is anyone keeping up to date with the Australian Broadcast of Agents of Shield (i.e. not torrenting episodes from the US)?
Looked at this week and couldn’t see a new episode at the usual time/day. Has it moved and no-one’s been told?
Is there anything even remotely involving sport on? That’s normally the reason TV shows get moved without notice
Not that I saw. I think there’s some new TV show on, but usually 7 would say that next weeks episode has been changed to [new time here] at the end of the last episode.
@stickman, @transientmind, @anyoneelsewhoswaiting it looks like Thief may have unlocked, it’s changed from Pre-Load to Play and it seems to be unpacking now.
Cool, thanks!
Ah, I love thief to bits, but I love OLD thief to bits, not new thief. So I’m in the ‘waiting for Steam sale’ camp. Good luck though, I hope you enjoy it. I think I linked the RPS review on one of the comment pages about it, which was very positive… even if HEAVILY apologetic for its flaws.
Speaking of… http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/26/5450160/steam-developers-can-now-set-their-own-discounts
Why can’t OTHER companies come up with new features where the first thought you think isn’t, “Wow, way to fuck the customer.”
I’ll be honest, my first thought was “How are they going to keep that under control” because I could easily imagine an unscrupulous developer pricing high alternating between 50% & 60% discount every fortnight to make it look cheap and keep it in the sales list for exposure. Hopefully there’s a limit to the number of times the same thing can be on sale in any one period
Why the hell are replies taking me back to page 9? This was a legitimate page get damnit!
Well it’s unpacked and loaded and I’ve already seen 2 negatives…
First thing is an external graphics setting thing from the launcher which is the kind of thing that should have died with 3dfx and the first thing the UI does is badger you to sign into your square enix account… which didn’t work the first time and made the game crash the second… great first impression guys! Second load, it’s one of those things where you click the box that says “enter your email address” and those words don’t vanish and the button doesn’t enable.
Oh for fucks sake… it has every one of the graphics options in the game. Could the external control panel thing be any more superfluous? One really nice thing is that it has an FOV setting, no screwing with INI files or dealing with crap.
I’ll have to sit down to give it a proper play after tea but the animated scene behind the menu looked and ran really nicely so I’m confident the game as a whole will
I played for about half an hour, it was okay. Runs decently on my SteamBox too.
Ugh, giant negative about Thief, seems to be one of those games where all cutscene audio is counted as music, turn off the music like anyone who might want to actually hear what’s going on in a stealth game and you have no idea what’s going on… Now I have to turn the music on which I detest in games just so I can get the story.
Fuck me how can anyone make so stupid a design mistake?
That said, so far the game sure feels like Thief to me.
If anyone wants in The Living End have taken over Soundwaves Twitter for a little while and are having some fun and answering questions.
Ok! Just a follow up post, cos I posted on a weekend last time, and should have known nobody would read it!
Frenzal Rhomb playing the Hi-Fi in Brisbane next Saturday (8th). Anyone else going? I found out after the last gig (or the one before that) that one or two TAYbies were there, so just trying to find out if anyone’s going this time so we can meet beforehand or something!
About 2 days ago, after downloading Mario Bros Deluxe and the YouTube app on my 3DS, it now won’t connect to the Internet at all. The connection test fails and it wont connect in game either. Any ideas on how to fix it?
Is it working with any other gaming device?
Yeah my laptop connects fine
Yeah, but can it connect to Steam?
I had a problem where gaming ports were blocked, but after hard resetting the router it worked.
This sounds similar, but if steam works, then it’s a problem with the 3DS.
The error code online seems to say that the security settings aren’t the same on the 3DS as they are on the router, maybe you could try that?
Looks like a couple of hard resets was what it needed. No idea what causes these things, just glad its fixed
Have you done basic stuff like reboot the router?
Yep done all that. I suppose it cant hurt to try again though
Quick question, have you accidentally turned the wi-fi off the ds? Is the yellow light on the side blinking?
Yeah yellow light is still on.
If it helps anyone, the error code I’m getting is 003-1102
Try turning it off and on again.
So there’s a Goosebumps movie coming and Jack Black is gonna be the lead in the movie sounds promising.
http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/entertainment/the-goosebumps-movie-has-a-release-date-a-leading-/32db15db-3f24-4301-a1ab-3387bd3fef70.htm
Goosebumps movie = Would watch
Jack Black = Would rather pour bleach into my eyes
Never understood why people hate Jack Black so much, School of Rocks & The Pick of Destiny are two master pieces. Probably cause they involve Jack Black & music..
It’s just something about his… face?
In all honesty, I unnaturally just hate some people for no reason.
Jack Black, Sandra Bullock, and Tom Cruise are all celebrities that I have a passionate hate affair with :3
Sandra Bullock the most.
But I’d love a Goosebumps movie. I used to watch the TV episodes and read the books all the time! I loved the Choose Your Own ending books the most.
It’s his voice for me.
I find angelina jolie extremely unappealing for no reason I can find words for
I LOVE Angelina Jolie!
She has such a poise and grandeur about her, I love it! 😀
But yeah, everything about Jack Black is just so, urgh.
My wife hates him with a burning passion as well for reasons she can’t fully articulate. Just sees him and gets an irrational urge to punch him in the face.
I love his appearance on community because it’s Black at his most deliberately Black and it’s held against him with prejudice
Your wife sounds like a keeper by my standards 😉
Sandra Bullock is the best! Much love for her.
You came this “||” close to getting a downvote from me, which is rare cause I hardly downvote >:(
Stoopid Sandra Bullock >:(
School of Rock is a masterpiece???
Jack Black has been in one movie about music that was worthwhile, which was High Fidelity
That’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it.
Nuh uh there was Brütal Legend too!
That wasn’t a film though
Nor particularly great.
It is my favourite Jack Black film 😛
I misread it as Ghostbusters, and I got really angry for a few seconds. Then I realised it was Goosebumps, and hype happened.
I’ve never heard of it before (until now) but this game called Crypt of the NecroDancer looks rad!
It’s a Roguelike dungeon crawler with some funky rhythm game elements and music from the guy who composed Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac 😀
Apparently you can control it with a DDR mat ;P
I got told about this when discussing rhythm games with my teacher the other week. It has my intrigue.
If it’s on pc, it can be kind of hard. The stupid 360 pad doesn’t register properly
I’m sold from the name alone.
So I got Thief today for my Xbone, put the disc in “6GB update required” ON FRIGGIN’ LAUNCH DAY WTF!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s been going for about 40 minutes, and it’s sitting at 3%, so if I’m lucky it might be finished by tea time tomorrow.
I’m getting really sick of the frequency and size of updates for Xbone games. Seriously thinking about ejecting the disc, taking it back, selling this POS console and get a PS4 instead.
Does anyone know if it’s the same on PC and PS4?
It would be …
It’s probably a Day 1 update and has probably been applied to all platforms (although most people download the game anyway on PC and wouldn’t notice it).
It was 20gb on PC and another few hundred MB earlier today. Presumably the smaller PC patches are because digital versions can be updated a bit easier before being sent to steam whereas physical copies are locked in that state as soon as they go gold
Better to have 6GB of updates than none and a totally broken game though.
PS4 probably does but it lets you play the game while the patch downloads in the background.
Yup, this. Same with PS3. It lets you play but signs you out, which is no problem for single-player.
Mine arrived in the mail yesterday, FYI I think the first 25% took the longest, and it was the patch. As soon as the 25 passed I was able to play. (All on Xbone btw)
Oookay, well…
My sis gave me some postage envelopes so…
Who wants PS3 games?
Giving away:
– The Orange Box
– de Blob 2
– GTA IV + GTA: Episodes From Liberty City
– Need For Speed: SHIFT
– Resistance: Fall of Man
– Borderlands GOTY Edition (DLC already redeemed)
– ModNation Racers
– AC: Brotherhood
– Motorstorm Apocalypse
– Tom Clancy’s HAWX
Claimed:
– Portal 2
(Claimed by @scree)
If no one wants portal two, could I get it? I need to play it on something other then pc which makes me ill.
I finished de blob, I should play de blob 2.
De Blob 2 is awesome.
Upvotes for de Blob love.
Okay, send me your postage address and I’ll try and get it sent to you tomorrow. 🙂
Send to crazy(underscore)guy(underscore)199096(at)hotmail(dot)comJust replace what’s in the brackets with the actual symbols, and make sure you have “Crazyguy’s Game Giveaway” as the subject.
Done. I don’t need orange box though. =P Forgot to mention.
Wait wait wait wait wait, I have De blob 2 on wii. I don’t need de blob, I was just commenting I should probably play the thing =P
Sorry!
That’s okay.
Fixed it. 🙂
That’s a decent collection. Prevented from being a GREAT collection thanks to too many coasters (racing games/whatever, same thing), but otherwise I ams approve. 🙂
But… racing games are my fave genre…
:`(
They are no ‘games’, they are boredom simulators! About the most boring subject in the world: cars! Yeah. My middle brother and Dad are ‘car people’. They are about models of whatever and rattle off specs about which I know nothing and care less. 🙂
The only ‘racing’ games I’ve ever enjoyed have all featured some sort of explosive devices or violence (Road Rash!), or were Destruction Derby. (The only good car in a game is one which can blow up.)
Not that anyone probably cares, but I must say the hour or so The Living End took over Soundwaves Twitter was fun. Well was only Chris & Scott, but still those guys are fun.
Also Scott said if I can get either The Big Mango or The Big Prawn in my backyard they’ll come play there.
That sounds like a challenge. An awesome challenge.
It does, especially since Nando’s only just re-installed the big mango haha.
@phlanispo (hopefully I got it right this time)
I saw that you were after pokémon hacking tools earlier?
This is where I got mine: http://wahackpokemon.com/en/download/tools-gba
It’s in Spanish (the website, not the programs), but my computer’s still working fine (and Norton didn’t have a problem with it).
It’s the links on the left you want, the first is the basic pack, underneath that is advance map (which lets you edit the overworld and pokémon which appear in tall grass).
If you want to get seriously deep into hacking, you’ll need to download a script editor and edit the actual game code (such as trainers giving you shinies etc), but this should be enough to edit the basics.
Thanks. I had the idea of a FireRed remake where you can join Team Rocket at Nugget bridge today. (That’s probably way out of my skill level though)
That’s something that would require editing the code I think.
With this, you can edit the starting pokémon, sprites, text that’s said, pokémon in the grass, etc.
My first one made the starter pokémon the legendary dogs, made the rival’s starter weak to yours and a boring wild pokémon.
Then I made all the pokémon on route 2 Legendaries and made the mart sell master balls for $0. It could be an easy way to play through the games quickly.
I think this is the site I downloaded the ROMs from when I tried to get into hacking years ago, and fell on my face because Mac.
Sorry if I’ve forgotten, but do you have a windows one now?
Yes. MAAAAAAAASTER RACE!
Just a question. Do I have to have VBA installed already?
I don ‘t think so.
I forgot to mention that you’ll need to patch the rom your hacking, but I think the pack comes with one (I downloaded a separate one before called LunarIPS) but if you’ve ever played a hacked rom before the process is the same, if not you use the program to just splice the files together.
You will, of course, need it to play the hacked rom.
Right, I just downloaded it all. Thank you. However, it would seem I need a ROM to run it off of. It doesn’t seem like Whack a Hack has a Fire Red ROM up for download. I guess I’ll have to get it off some other website.
Yes, they probably don’t want to sued by Nintendo. One website I saw about emulatin wouldn’t tell you where to get roms, but it had this brilliant advice:
EMUlation can be difficult to get working, but once you do, it’s a PARADISE.
I don’t know what that means, maybe you can get something out of it 😉
@sughly @powalen @strange @phoenix @masha2932
OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
SURVIVORRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brawn>>Beauty>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>”Brains”/Dumb. Good lord! Brawn has the most likeable people so far, we haven’t seen much of Beauty yet but Brice is funny so I’m liking him and there’s also some nice eye candy on the tribe :P. But “Brains” oomgggggggggggg. They all think they’re all so much smarter than everyone else and they dun goof’d real bad. Their first Tribal was pretty normal but then Garrett does a bunch of stupid things later on which makes me feel bad for Spencer for aligning with him (I don’t mind him). J’Tia was terribad in the challenge and everything after the challenge was WTF OMG. Open forum!? Going nuts cause no one wants to talk?! Tipping rice!? Being an idiot at Tribal!? UGH! I thought J’Tia would be smart and look through people’s bags for any hidden immunity idols but noooooooooooope, the rice thing is incredibly stupid and “Brains” are pretty much done for. What a disgrace to the green! Then I figured she pretty much sealed her fate with that incident but noooooooooooope Garrett is so stoopid :O. Gonna be an interesting season methinks…It was definitely better than I thought it would be and one of the better start to a season (it’s worth watching Strange!)
Oh and I’m glad the teams are sorta just mixed up. There’s no real “pure brawn” or “pure beauty” etc. since there’s buff, smart and good looking people all over :P. Pretty pointless gimmick then and they could’ve just went with “Survivor Cagayan”
It’s actually advertised as Survivor Cagayan in the TV guide. Had to look up whether it was the new season or not 😛
But yeah, I agree! Was actually much better than I expected. Was expecting a total snorefest 😛
Spoilers for the first half of the episode (I started typing before I realised it was a two-parter :P)
I think my favourite team at the moment is Brawn, closely followed by Beauty. Brains is such a funny group though. Everybody thought they were SO smart haha That David guy was SO jealous of the Why-Aren’t-You-On-The-Brawn-Team guy. Really gunned for him hahaI’ll update after the second part is over!
I assume you didn’t read my spoiler? (don’t until you’ve watched everything!) but I have the same thoughts as you so far 🙂
Okay, full episode spoilers (don’t forget it’s a double episode before reading!)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *breath* BAHAHAHAHAHAHAOh my GOD. That has got to be the funniest episode of Survivor I’ve ever seen. No exaggeration. The Brains tribe has some serious issues. Jtia is a total nutjob and Garret was unbelievably stupid. At first I thought he was being a LITTLE strategic by trying to prevent the other guys from scheming against him (he is clearly the odd one out of that tribe), but no, he was just really dumb. I couldn’t stop laughing through the tribal council, wow. The non-challenge-terrible black woman who wanted to strategise was cool though, she’s my favourite on that team.
But yeah, Brawn/Beauty are about on the same level at the moment, but Brains was so entertaining this episode that I can’t rank them low. It’s a three way tie at the moment 😛 So funny seeing Beauty overtake Brains in a puzzle challenge too.
Just, a great episode 😛
@strange @sughly @phoenix @masha2932
Yeahh, what you guys said. I like cop guy and cop girl too, I like his cubby hole idea thing. Cutrious if it actually works or not. I’m guessing not, but still, nice idea. Also, when he found immunity it sounded like he was having an orgasm and it was really weird and uncomfortable.cc @greenius @strange @phoenix @masha2932
I’m excited. I may be getting my PS4 tomorrow. Got a bit of extra cash from selling some more games, and I have a friend coming to look at the rest of my games. Fingers crossed.
Started watching Attack on Titan.
It’s kind of oddly paced. And the mish mash of a heap of different animation is somewhat jarring.
Still, seems pretty cool. Think I’ll watch it through.
Yeah, its pacing is awful, and its animation irked me for a lot of it (either I got over it, or it was more consistent in the end, or something), but I loved the action scenes (dat 3D Manoeuvre Gear), and the world itself is pretty cool.
Oh, but it gets dumb. Like, really dumb. Really fast. Still good though.
Every episode is worth it just for the opening 😛
Stick with it, it’s fun to watch!
Yeah, the pacing is pretty bad. Being able to watch it all in one go offsets that a fair bit though.
Ooh, thanks for reminding me. I can watch anime again now my son is at school. I’ll definitely be checking Attack On Titan out as soon as I can.
I love it, warts and all. Havent been this into an anime series for a long long time. Also, no way you can not be utterly excited for the ep after the intro
I 100% Sleeping Dogs awhile ago, such a fun sandbox game, love the Hong Kong setting and the hand to hand combat.
Also started Lightning Returns, I’m enjoying that as well. Except for the time limit aspect, too much pressure! not enough time to relax and complete all the quests!
I really should get around to playing Sleeping Dogs.
And I was like you with Lightning Returns but then I realised it was kind of a false time limit because doing quests gives you more time. I ended up sleeping at an inn the whole of one day because I didn’t have anything much left that I wanted to do.
Ah I see, I noticed how it kept giving me extra days but I thought it might stop after it got full bloom.
Apparently you need to do 40 sidequests in order to get the fullest amount of time possible.
Also, when I read that, I went through my completed sidequests list and counted them. It wasn’t until way later that I noticed the game had a counter for how many quests you’ve completed and shows it on the very same page I was counting from. 😛
I normally really dislike sandbox games but Sleeping Dogs immediately clicked with me and I played it all the way through and enjoyed it immensely. You should give it a go.
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes now downloading via Steam – CAN’T WAIT!
I picked this up a few weeks ago on sale for about $7 and pretty much threw it into my Pile-of-Shame. However tonight was my cousin’s 13th birthday party so I bought him a copy for 360 this arvo ($70, thanks a lot EB) and it’s great fun! Most of the LEGO video games are though, I guess. So yeah, as a result – it’s now downloading.
Actually to be fair on EB, the price is pretty uniform across major retailers – it’s just a crappy one compared to the PC digital download price.
Is the steam version really only $7?
It’s currently $29 on Steam, was $7.99 via GameFly back on the 9th.
Finished Ep 3 of The Walking Dead.
Didn’t shoot the girlAbandoned Lily
Talked Kenny down
I shot Duck
Helped Omid. (He was injured. Christa could run fine.)
No thoughts? 😛
I hat Ben.
More usefully:
It’s doing okay to keep my interest past the zombie thing. Think I liked the second episode more though. This one seemed to take a long time to not achieve much. Also, where the hell did Lily suddenly get the idea to shoot Carly from? Seemed so out of character and kind of broke the flow of the story.Oh man. After that last bit happened, I went online looking for any possible options to make it not happen.
NOPE.
(Edit: That’s actually about as far as I got, I haven’t gone any further. I really should.)
I knew it.
Well, I’ve been using my PS Eye as a Webcam perfectly fine using CLEye, until as of five minutes ago when it decided to just hara-kiri on me. D:
Man I am bummed that Nintendo’s shutting down the Wii and DS online games. Not that I’ve even played any of them in forever. But still it sucks to think that I won’t be able to any more.
Totally got me jonesing for a bit of Hunters action though…
I never used it either. It didn’t work at home (ports for gaming were blocked for some reason, and we only had a few gigs anyway), but when we went overseas I won several games of Worms 😀
I thought the Wii servers shut down June last year?
That was for the Wii’s message board I think. The online games are still going.
WHY ARE HALF OF THE COMMENTS ON PAGE TEN MARKED AS BEING ON PAGE NINE
Ben is probably messing with us and playing an evil game, that or the system is broken..
I think it’s related to the user profile page being all manner of broken to crap. I blame databases
Is it still broken for you? It works fine on mobile safari.
Still redirecting to page 9, still looking like a geocities site from 1996 only without marquee tags and auto-playing midi files
Have you used the ‘report issue’ button to let Ben know?
Not as yet, I was trying to figure out if it was a local issue before bugging anyone. Might have to if it doesn’t work soon though
Have you tried clearing your cache and refreshing the page/restarting your browser? I don’t have any issues at work or at home (or on mobile).
Just did a 100% cache clear, no joy.
I’ve never heard of Republic Of Telly before but after watching this I think I might have to get it.
Ell oh ell as I believe the kids say
The best thing about multiple monitors is viewing your previous video, whilst continuing your current one, and TAYing, all simultaneously.
😀
I used a duel monitor for the first time on Wednesday. I felt like the biggest nerd. I don’t ever want to go back to using a single monitor though :’3
Nah the best thing about multiple displays is having the space to get video editing done in a nice spacious timeline without it being all cramped by the monitor & file windows
Episode 4 of Walking Dead done.
I killed the zombie kid
Rational and honest with Vernon
Left Clementine at the house (felt bad about that. Only hard decision so far)
Saved Ben because I have no idea. Dick.
Showed the bite
Everyone came with me.
Felt like this was the weakest one so far.
I dropped Ben, most satisfying moment of the entire game. would drop againYEEEESSSSSSSSSS!
The Matilda Musical is coming to Australia.
I know this will interest even less people than my usual posts about musicals (Because he’s a dirty philistine @dc doesn’t even like Tim Minchin, so I don’t know who that leaves), but I’m pretty excited about this, even if I have to wait until next year. It’s a pretty ace musical, you guys.
Ooh
I quite like Tim Minchin… though I guess I only saw him in Californication, and that address he gave to a graduating class. But he was good in those 😛
Raaaaaad. It feels like I’ve been waiting forever for it to finally come to Australia.
Ok. Plans are underway, shapes have been measured and the 3DS should be operational by the weekend.
I AM DOING THINGS AND THEY ARE GOING TO HAPPEN. BECAUSE.
HI THERE EARLY MORNING FRIEND!
I AM GLAD TO SEE YOU BEING PRODUCTIVE! FECK YEAH!
Well, not so productive. I would’ve liked to go get the soldering stuff and everything, but that would risk making a whole bunch of noise right near my parents’ bedroom, so no sneaking out to the garage tonight.
Next time.
I kind of wish I had an excuse to go out and do things in the man-cave now.
But at the same time, I think I saw/heard a snake at its door the other day (might have been a lizard, didn’t get a good glimpse), and when I opened the door later there were spiders everywhere, so it’s probably for the best that I don’t do 4AM man cave work.
I did consider going the long way around. But that would involve a great likelihood of dealing with cockroaches and spiderwebs. Both big-arse orb weavers and redbacks.
Inside was clearly the safer option.
Inside’s the safer option, true, but what’s the MANLY option?
It’s either burning it all to the ground, or crying and screaming at the mere thought of spiders. I’m not quite sure of the exact details yet.
WWTMD?
Crying and screaming at the thought of spiders while hosing the bastards down with a flamethrower
Granted it’s been a while since I’ve done soldering but I remember it being a relatively silent affair unless you’re the type who drops it on your fingers regularly
It’s more the prep that is noisy.
*@mrtaco’s alarm goes off*
“Uhhhh, it’s 3:00am already, I want to sleep in”.
*alarm keeps ringing*
*@mrtaco sighs then gets out of bed and heads to the kitchen.
*he emerges from the kitchen with a coffee in hand*
“Well, time to get to work”
*he sits down in front of a pack of Shapes, opens them and pours them on the table*
*sigh*
“looks like this one is a big pack”
*picks up ruler and starts measuring the pack of shapes*
“Hmm, very interesting”
*scribbles something down on notepad*
*Picks up shape and looks at it closely*
“Haaaaang on, this isn’t shaped like a barbeque at all!”
How do you know the habits of Mr Taco? Is Gooky is at your place? I thought he was only a magnet for women. NO ONE IS SAFE.
what is happeninggg???
Must… Find… Coconut…
Soooo if anybody is after an interesting iOS/Android game, that “Out There” is pretty good. It’s a choose your own adventure/resource management/turn based space sim. You’re stuck in space on a tiny ship and need to make your way to the other side of the map, conserving fuel, oxygen, repairing your hull. You gather new technologies and learn the alien language, slowly.
Art work is done really well, it’s very French comic book ish. Unfortunately, since it’s written in French originally, some of the translation is a bit iffy.
Some negatives include: having to skip the intro and tutorial every single time (it should allow you to just jump straight back into the game, especially if your last run was only 10 minutes in length), iffy translations, and the usual for random worlds/maps – sometimes, there is no right way to go and you will die.
Positives: Gorgeous artwork, intriguing premise, well executed in almost everything, lack of combat does not hurt at all as your main enemy is an empty fuel/oxygen tank. It’s also huge. Like, really big. You wouldn’t get to see all the things in the game on one, two or ten playthroughs.
I wouldn’t recommend it at $4.99 unless you love the premise, but even if this isn’t your cup of space tea give it a shot when it drops in price.
https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id799471892?mt=8
Quiz’s rating: 4 out 5 I’ve run out of fuel so now I will die slowly and alone’s.
EDIT: Woo first ever page get. I shall celebrate by eating more of my egg and bacon with extra bacon wrap.
Mmm…space tea.
*sips horrible Earth tea*
Moon pie.
What an age we live in.
Sounds similar to FTL but with more balancing resources in place of hectic combat. I might give it a look.
Also while we’re discussing iOS games, has anyone else tried Halfbrick’s latest effort, Colossotron? It’s an interesting idea and fun to play once you get used to the idea that you only built the Colossotron instead of controlling it directly, but here’s the thing: you have an extremely limited control over whether your Colossotron survives the mission until you get a few armour/weapon upgrades, which means more usage of the in-game currency prisms to unlock those upgrades. How do you get prisms? That’s right, in-app purchases. You do earn massive amounts of cash also, but that just allows you to repair or add temporary powerups between missions.
So, I like the idea but I think it’s one that works slightly better in theory than practice. I’ll stick with it though. Failure means replay value!
@sernobulus Suggestion for the future:
This week, I cynically “discuss” (read: yell and scream like a spoiled two year old) how a wildlife sanctuary from my youth no longer stands up. And also, the situation you’d need to engineer to make Karl eat boogers.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2014/02/28/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s04e18-the-elusive-tasmanian-devil/
LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE, TELL YOUR FRIENDSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZ!
Now that there isn’t really a community kudos, I’m gonna do my own!
I would like to nominate the whole community. Even though I wasn’t having the best of days yesterday, you all made me laugh.
In particular I would like to nominate @beavwa, @nomad, @sernobulus, @powalen, @bdkiaf, @negativezero, @gorzilla, @coldcamv, @blaghman, @rize and @novacascade for putting in money for the deposit of the pax meat venue.
I would also like to nominate @coldcamv, @sarcasmfairy @miketarno and @kermitron for twitter support.
*virtual hugs*
A community community kudos? Very meta. I nominate you for thinking up the idea
Is kudos still a think @markserrels?
This is an email I sent to Coles Customer Service this morning
To Whom It May Concern,
I am writing to express my concern, and disappointment at the quality of some of your produce in the Bay St, Port Melbourne, VIC store.
Last week I paid almost $30/kg for 2 Salmon fillets.
These fillets look like they had been prepared by a blind monkey with a spoon for a knife.
I am convinced that the “skin” had more scales on it than when it was still swimming out in the ocean and had a significant amount of bone still embedded in the flesh.
It was basically inedible.
Thinking that this was an anomaly, I purchased 2 Salmon fillets at the same store again last night (27/02/2014).
These fillets must have been prepared by monkey #1’s poor cousin!
Again, the skin was covered in scales, obvious bone was protruding from the fillet and one even still had a fragment of fin still attached.
I understand that you wish to have the freshest stock available in your stores, but I would have expected, in the very least, to have something prepared a bit better than if I had gone out and robbed a local Seagull for his dinner.
I would suggest that the Seafood prep staff receive a little training in the correct, and acceptable, preparation of fish fillets for general consumption.
Regards,
more fish puns next time
Kipper your fish jokes to yourself, man! Strange doesn’t like herring about them.
I’m expecting a whole roe of fish puns now.
Hopefully others take the bait.
if we see too many puns in plaice i’m sure they’ll change their tuna.
Speaking of tunes, I’ve got one! ‘Smoked, out the water.’
But seriously now, this thread: end of the line?
@benny I’m sure there’s some sole out there who can keep it going.
@redartifice I was marlin over it but not much comes to mind.
Coles shenanigans are my favourite shenanigans:
https://twitter.com/Coles/status/359074123613339649
I played more BOARD GAMES last night and, contrary to my experience a few weeks ago, I had fun. That may have resulted in me being better acquainted with the various games I played but I felt a lot better last night. I won Ticket to Ride by doing the fabled Cadiz to Petrograd route via the huge tunnel from Stockholm to Petrograd. Felt pretty good about that.
Had a close game of Race for the Galaxy where I set up a pretty decent VP machine and tied second. Followed that up with a princess card game thing whose name I forget which was nice and easy fun. Then played some Zombie Dice which was also light and easy fun and it seemed my bad dice rolls from Wednesday night (grrrr @redartifice) were forgotten as I got so many brains.
Last game was Kings of Tokyo and Gigazaur reigned supreme (yay). A group of other people were playing Blood Bowl Team Manager and I really want to try that out next time as I’m a huge fan of computerised BB. In hindsight, I whinged too much about the last time I played and I apologise if I put anyone offside by that.
“Princess Card Game Thing” => Heart of Crown?
Love Letter?
That’s it. 10 points to you, good sir.
Don’t think so. You had a selection of cards like a Princess, Countess, King, Prince, Baron, etc, and the aim of the game was to either hold the Princess in your hand when the deck ran out of cards or make someone lose by using the various cards to knock them out of the round. For instance, a Guard allowed you to guess if a player had a certain type of card in their hand. If your guess was correct, you knocked the other player out of the round.
I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called. Princess Affection or something like that, maybe?
I’d have been surprised, Heart of Crown is a super-obscure game that I really wish I could get my hands on. It’s a Japanese deck builder along the lines of Dominion, but it was an indie release with a very small scale print run. I’ve seen copies on Amazon but they won’t ship internationally and I’ve been a bit hesitant to send via a proxy, though the proxy I use from Japan is pretty decent. Mainly worried that it would be like my copy of Tanto Cuore, which looks great but I’ve never found anyone who wants to play it with me 🙁
Hey, I did suggest at the end of the session we switch to these: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/D34.jpg
I’m surprised someone hasn’t tried to make d42’s yet.
“I roll a natural 42. I have discovered the meaning of life.”
“Still not enough to hit the ancient, abominable, evil god.”
“Aww.”
http://www.shapeways.com/model/1103046/numbered-d42-dodecahedral.html
Work internet won’t let me see the images but huh, there you go. I can’t imagine anyone actually using it that often.
Outside of the standard d4-d6-d8-d10-d12-d20 pretty much everything else is for novelty alone
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zocchihedron
100 sided die.
You don’t get the fun tactile roll feeling with that though.
TAKE STUFF PLEASE:
– I have a 75% off Steam coupon for the new Shadow Warrior if anyone wants it. It expires on March 2nd so gettit quickkkkk (@kermitron ?)
– Bunch of 25% off Broken Age coupons too
– Fez and Monaco on Steam
Someone take Monaco, it’s awesome.
When they do, they have to do it by saying “Whats yours is mine”
NO!
I will take Fez if no one wants it.Aw man, turns out that new Tony Hawk game is going to be mobile/tablet only.
I feel sad that I may have to pay microtransactions to unlock the 900.
Tony Hawk on tablets? ewwwwwwww.
well, I’m officially not getting that, I was actually hoping they’d fix it, loved the first couple and the recent HD remake was rad.
Well, someone came home, so I’m just gonna go with the version I’ve currently got. >.>
Presenting Lost My Souls
(cc. @markserrels )
Excuses for crapness:
Tried using a handheld microphone this time, gets a more rounded sound, and the ability to move it is great, but my mic technique is awful, and it’s a really crap one, so there was a shitload of clipping and stuff. So, apologies for the crappiness in that regard. No apologies for my singing this time though. Bitchez.Why is this not getting more attention?
It wasn’t an embarrassing page get.
Oh my
WOWOWOWOWOWOW.
Did you add some lyrics to this as well? This is so good. I AM IN TEARS!
Yeah, changed a couple lines because I thought they worked a little better, and added the ending parts.
I’m glad you like it, was fun to do.
For those of you who don’t pay attention to my tweets, I now have a PS4. I was able to get enough cash to pay it off and get Tomb Raider: Malibu Stacey Edition. Seriously brilliant game that I was unable to play on PS3 as my PS3 died before it came out. Pretty intense game, but it’s definitely worth the purchase so far.
Tomb Raider was an unexpectedly good game. I’ve finished it on 360 but I’m really tempted to get the New Hat edition on XBone for my second playthrough because it’s totally worth it. Shame about the multiplayer achievements killing my motivation to 100% it though.
RIGHT!?
I was real keen to 100% it but multiplayer trophies turned me right off.
An interesting thing I’ve noticed is the alternate costumes make Lara’s face look like the old model. At least on first glance they did.
Also, seeing as you’ve already finished the game. When you revisit areas does the time of day change or are they preset. ie mountain pass at night.
That’s a great question.
I remember thinking about it at the time I was doing some collectible hunting but I can’t remember what I determined. I know the forest where you learn hunting wasn’t as rainy and terrible as the first time you arrive there. I think for the most part all the.I think all the post-game exploration takes place during the daytime and that might make sense that you get nice clear weather once you’ve defeated the Sun Queen, but I wouldn’t quote me on that.
Congrats on the PS4. It’s a really nice piece of hardware. Personally still hanging out for a game for it though, haven’t bought anything for it at all yet. It’s getting a ton of use as a netflix box though.
I think that’s how most people seem to feel about their PS3/360s right now as well tbh. We had some great games in the last six months and we’ve all got massive backlogs but I think we’re all just really waiting for the next gen to take off properly. Some people are waiting to commit, others adopted early and are waiting for stuff to do.
I retired my 360 a few weeks ago. As in put the third one of them out to pasture. Nothing released on it that I care about since Halo 4 and nothing in the pipeline. Still use my PS3 for games though. Theoretically at least. I get kind of nervous using it, it’s gotten very very noisy.
Ah. I’m still mostly using my 360 whenever I find time for gaming. I did get some use out of Forza 5 and Dead Rising 3 on my Xbone, but now I’m back to my 360 until either something new comes out (probably Titanfall) or I finally gave and buy the definitive edition of Tomb Raider (since my next pay in mid-March is also my bonus pay, I expect to be making a number of frivolous purchases around then).
The main issue I have with 360 is that most of the games it gets are also on PC, and with a decent gaming PC they’ll run better there. PS3 still has actual console-only exclusives
Minecraft: The Movie?
That is going to make so much money.
I don’t even understand how you could make a movie from it. It’s like making a Lego mov…oh, scratch that
The fact that we still have to wait like 5 weeks for that make me a sad, sad, 26 year old manchild.
I will be a sad 31 year old manchild by the time it comes out.
My kid’s school has an advanced exclusive screening organised for fundraising in a week or two….
Go, and then say NOTHING to me.
Are they still taking enrolments? There’s nothing suss about a 30 year old man wanting to hang out with primary schoolers, right?
No officer you’ve got it all wrong, it was just to see a movie!
I’ve been touched by your kids.
I like RPGs.
I’m also indecisive as all hell, so when it comes to the inevitable character creation screen, I’m stuck for ages. Seriously. I spent an hour making a Shadowrun Returns character the other night. & all you can do there is change hair type & colour. & don’t even get me started on Stats & skill point allocation. that’s another hour right there.
so yeah… I’m thinking of making a game, purely as a bit of a pisstake, called Character Creation Simulator 2014.
Simulate your character creation from a wide range of games! Allocate stat points to your hearts content! Waste dozens of hours making exact doppelgangers of Willam Dafoe and Keira Knightly without the distraction of actual gameplay or story!
Coming soon to Steam Greenlight….
I’m so, so sorry.
http://www.heromachine.com/heromachine-2-5-character-portrait-creator/
damn.
… but that one has no meaningless stat allocation. also, I was thinking 3D.
I spent so much time using that thing in high school and writing comics around the characters I built.
You know what makes me freeze up? Thinking of a name. Especially in an MMO where your first eight or so choices turn out to be taken. Takes me ten times longer if they expect a first name and last name too.
And then I always feel inadequate because I come up with something reasonable and then see people with brilliant joke names or puns or whatever. 🙁
I usually use the same name in anything I play. “Mul,” “Mal” or, in full, “Mulodotapael” for male chars, and Ashara for female.
I actually have a really standard structure on character names. Humans I use very bland names like “Vick” or “Leigh”. Elves I stretch it and add an apostrophe, like “Far’lial”. Creatures like Charr I use an almost tribal-like name, like “Thoruk”. My last names are usually just two words put into one, like “Steelclaw” or “Shadowsabre”
I’d love to see a version which then calculates an ‘end-game report’ on how your character fared in their adventures.
Stuff like, “As your starting equipment you chose the mysterious pendant, hinted at by the developers as unlocking an easter egg or powerful secret somewhere in the game, but you never discovered the secret.”
And, “As a high-dexterity rogue, you lacked the survivability to clear the Balrog encounter – your low charisma stats resulted in your only warrior-tank quitting the party in a rage.”
Only, there is no winning combination – every stat choice you make will spell your character’s doom.
That The Witcher Adventure Board Game looks pretty neat.
I’ll have to see it in action.
Is one of the conditions of winning to get all the sex cards? =P
I’d forgotten how intense marathoning TV shows can be. Just watched four episodes of Teen Wolf in a row this morning and now I’m all tensed up and stressed. They were also some of the nail-bitingest episodes of the series which didn’t really help matters. Now I just feel emotionally drained.
With Teen Wolf is it nail biting or claw biting?
Saw this down the bottom of the page: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/02/what-should-and-shouldnt-i-microwave/ so I clicked on it. @shane, you did not disappoint me. 😀
Also, I now kind of want to microwave a bunch of stuff like grapes and soap.
Anyone here use xsplit? I’ve got a 3 month code for it that I’m never going to use if anyone’s interested
Sure, could I please have it?
yup, where should I send it?
crazy(underscore)guy(underscore)199096(at)hotmail(dot)comok, sent
Done! \o/
Thanks a bunch!
🙂
No probs mate, have fun with it.
Hooked my PS4 up to my wireless internet! Downloading the system update as I type. Might take a while though.
The next generation of green bar watching.
yeah, but its a 60fps green bar!
And in 1080P. Finally you console peasants can experience PC gaming as of five years ago.
I’m pretty sure I upgraded my PC to 1440p about five years ago…
This afternoon seems like a good time to go see Gravity.
Thanks for the invite! Geez.
Oh good, I wasn’t sure it made it through.
See you there!
I realised something when I was playing Company of Heroes 2 last night. Because I usually talk to other people when I play, I kind of end up commentating when I play by myself. It got to the point where I was calling out my moves that sounded like a cross between DBZ and dude-bros playing COD.
Does anyone else talk to themselves or have some other quirk when they play a particular game or games in general?
Sounds like you’re already on autopilot for a Youtube LP channel. Just start recording and uploading.
I’ve considered trying that out but I’m not too keen on attempting YouTube simply because I have no skill whatsoever in video editing and my internet is not really up for doing that with a low quota and pitiful upload speeds (around about 0.3-1.0 Mb/s).
Are you on a shitty ISP that meters uploads as well? Welcome to the club…
Also I wouldn’t worry about no skill in editing, raw uploaded footage would beat many of the things I’ve seen. I was looking around as a comparison to see what other people uploading GTA Online stuff were putting up, the first video I found for one of the missions I’d been editing was a guy pointing a camcorder at a 30cm CRT TV (I didn’t think those were even a thing any more) while wrestling was blaring at full volume in the background. Seriously, you can’t do worse without really trying.
Yeah I’ve seen some pretty terribad stuff but that was a couple of years ago. I thought the camcorder stuff died out ages ago but I guess people are just desperate for publicity.
My ISP doesn’t separate uploads and downloads but I’ve never really uploaded enough to see how much it would consume. I only get 75/75 peak/off-peak usage per month and I find that is only barely enough.
It’ll be almost all downloads eating it, I’m certain of that. Netspace are beginning to suck after being taken over by iinet, they never used to meter both but now they are.
If you’re hitting a wall with limits regularly and tend you get games on steam a fair bit, have a look for steamlimiter, it tries to force steam to only download from your ISP mirror (assuming they have one and the content you want is on there) which should be free content and refuses the download if the content isn’t available. That alone halved my average monthly consumption, if there was something similar for youtube it’d look like I never used the internet at all…
As someone that’s tried it before, the programs out there for low level video editing are basically idiot proof. How do you think there are so many COD focused channels?
You can use things like Handbrake to compress your videos before uploading and upload overnight.
Hmm, I might have to look into this again to see what’s what. I tried recording and uploading ages ago but you make it sound like things have become even easier. Thanks for the info. 🙂
There was also this adobe stuffup where anyone who made an adobe ID could get a free copy of the entire creative suite 2 including premiere, it might even still work so if @popdart5 or anyone was interested it might be worth a look.
It’s not the easiest program to get into at first only takes a few hours to learn the basics
When I drink and play LoL I describe in great detail exactly what kind of cancer to the world my opponent is…
So exactly what 80% of regular LoL players do when they’re sober. 😛
I’m only like that with Nidalee players…
😛
Yeah Nidalee is a bit like that. My favourite champion to troll people with is Heimerdinger (both before and after his rework). His waddle is so freaking slow but I just do circuits of my turrets and watch people melt. >:D
I just find her such a toxic champion, a single attack shouldn’t do that much damage, with that long range on a low CD, try to chase her down, she cougar forms away with 0 mana cost dashes that are also low CD. I hate that champion, blergh! -.-
My main mid right now is Viktor, I’ve lost count how many times my damage is soo underestimated xD. Looking forward to Vel’Koz when he’s out too, cuz Battlecast Reaper lasers! 😛
Late game Nidalee is pretty terrible though if she doesn’t get fed. I’ve actually had more problems with AD Nidalee than AP as AP Nid you only have to dodge the spears and you’re sweet.
I watched the Vel’Koz skill video recently and my first reaction was “It’s a Void Ray crossed with a Beholder.” Overall I think he’s going to be decent and his ultimate is going to be clutch as he suffers from CC-magnetism.
It’s true he does that…
Everyone knows CancerAIDS is the gold standard of cancers.
Now I’m just reminded of this.
I always went form totally calm, to rip-your-head-off-and-laugh-hysterically -at-the-bloody-corpse every time I played Burnout 3: Takedown.
I have now connected my PS4 to the internet. If anyone wants to add me on PSN, my deets are on TAYNames.
I’LL ADD YOU TONIGHT!!!
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Man, I thought it’d be great going back to Uni and getting out for a bit/do something interesting, but my timetable keeps shrinking and shrinking to the point where I have a single lecture a week and a couple of one hour classes :/ Everything’s being moved online which is really annoying because I’m basically just stuck in front of my computer for everything.
So yeah. Hi!
Moved online so everything is cheaper, they don’t have to actually provide education and can just charge you and almost never see you. It’s academic’s dream…
I’m doing a certificate IV in general insurance at the moment. ANZIIF charge $1150 per subject to let you download some PDFs and grade your exam (which you take on a computer, at your own workplace). Then once you finish studying, you can just keep paying fees to have a “fellowship” of ANZIIF and earn CIP points… which do fucking nothing. It’s all a scam. You have CIP points to maintain a certain level of your fellowship so you get invted to lunches and have something to put on your business cards as if it matters.
Oh well. It’s the study that’s important to me, and it’s not like I’m paying for it. I’m sure my ANZIIF membership will lapse about 30 seconds after I’ve received my diploma.
YOU KEEP SAYING THINGS LIKE THIS LIKE THEY ARE A BAD THING!!!
I like to get out of the house every once in a while 😛
hmm, get a job maybe (assuming you don’t have a job)? Or drop into random classes around campus that interest you and just act like you’re supposed to be there.
Getting a job is on the list of things to do, but… haven’t gotten around to it yet. I’m a bit lazy :S
Don’t say silly things like that, silly guy.
you’re the silly one, you silly billy, you
For something you’re paying a lot of money for, to me it is.
Pay lots of money and in return sit in front of a computer listening to lectures instead, seems like a poor trade off to me. Also I know with at least TAFE, online classes their assessments they have to do more than what the students in a classroom had to do, and they don’t get the same level of teacher support yet pay the same amount.
Haha, I’m just projecting 😛
Currently I’d give anything for one of my courses to be changed to an online course, just because my schedule is so overloaded.
I know it’s a lot harder to learn at home online though, that’s why I’m in two minds about it.
Ah fair enough 😛
If they want us to learn from home then I reckon these courses need to be a lot cheaper!
That’s bullshit and how many thousands of dollars does uni cost :/
I was plugging this on Twitter but I think it needs some attention here as well.
Leigh Alexander wrote a fantastic piece about learning to play Android: Netrunner. She really is one of the best writers in the general gaming sphere and the whole journey from struggling with the maths and whatnot to fully embracing the game is just brilliant.
Even if you don’t care about board games, you should read it. It might help change your mind.
It was also co-written by Quintin Smith, which helps give some insight into the whole things. Normally I’m not a fan of the whole back and forth thing but it really works here because of the relationship between the two.
@markserrels take notes, you might have to step up your game :p
I’m kind of glad I don’t know anyone locally who could regularly play card games like Netrunner with me because I’d be so broke 🙁
Netrunner is an LCG!
You can play with just the core set if you like or you can buy into the monthly expansions. It’s much harder to go broke with this one because there is no aftermarket. You just get all of the cards and are done with it.
Yeah but if I was starting now and got into it I’d probably end up going back and buying all the expansions. Also you’re probably going to buy multiples of some expansions to get extra cards right? It’s less of a financial drain than a fully randomized TCG but still a fair bit.
Regardless, no one to play it with regularly. 🙁
Aside from the core set (which only has one or two copies of certain cards), every single pack contains three copies of all the cards in it. You can only have three copies of a single card in your deck.
Not only that, you can drip feed the expansions and only get the ones that have cards you want. Then go back and get the rest later when you want to experiment with other cards or just feel like it.
The LCG model is a lot more financially forgiving.
Ah, that’s a lot different to some LCGs I’ve seen. That’s cool.
I wish they had an LCG or TCG-style system that combined with a PVE-style game. Something like Sentinels of the Multiverse.
Like the LOTR LCG?
I haven’t played it, so I can’t say anything about how good it is, but it seems to fit the bill.
Netrunner follows the same model as all Fantasy Flight LCGs. Shitty rulebook, core set that will be enough for casual play, regular expansions with a fair bit of power creep.
So yeah, you can’t play core set vs expansion content but otherwise it’s pretty rad. I really should try to convince Freya to play. She doesn’t like losing and my history of MtG gives me a bit of an advantage.
Yeah except not that. I’m so completely over Middle Earth as a setting.
About bored games?
hahahhahahaahaaahhaahahhaha, nah.
You flew all the way from Canada just to play board games with us. You can mock all you like, we know you love it.
And then I flew back to Canada two days later.
You obviously traded city cards while there and the dispatcher got you on a charter flight. Good news is the rest of the team are one card closer to a cure?
hay u
Does anyone know if inFamous: Second Son has User Generated Content and/or Multiplayer?
I haven’t been following Second Son so I’m just wonderin’. I never tried out the UGC in inFamous 2 but I heard it was alright.
Thought to have UGC but not multiplayer. Nothing confirmed or official yet.
https://www.psu.com/a022273/inFamous–Second-Son-user-generated-content-not-multiplayer-hinted-by-official-website
Thanks!
UGC would be good.
Definitely no multiplayer but finger’s crossed for more UGC like 2.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2014/01/27/infamous-second-son-wont-feature-multiplayer
I think I need to get this weeks Humble Weekly Sale.
I got some other simulator bundle from somewhere else recently. Figured it’d be fun farming crops and managing skyscrapers for $5.
Is that Skycraper sim you’re referring to Sim Tower or anything like Sim Tower? Because I’m shit at that, but I like that concept. If there’s other tower sims out there, I want to try my hand.
I dunno, it was actually called Skyscraper Simulator 2013 or something lol.
So about three weeks ago now I started dieting, as last week I began a 12-week challenge thing at my local gym. As of this morning I’ve lost just shy of 10kg \o/. Hope I can keep it going consistently and don’t get gastro again (though I have to admit it was fairly effective at shredding the weight, it’s not really the healthiest weight loss plan).
Semi-relatedly, I’m eating Kumatos right now. They are pretty nice.
Something inside me broke recently and I’m playing Kantai Collection again. I don’t know why. It’s got its claws right back into me. I discovered that Map 4-3 is quite efficient for grinding levels for Destroyers and Light Cruisers, since you always hit 1-2 nodes (usually 2, with the right fleet) with submarines. If you set the DD/CL being leveled up with lots of anti-sub gear and make her the flagship she’ll get 900-1100 XP depending on A/B or S-rank clearance, due to getting MVP most of the time because she’ll crit the subs really hard with all that anti-sub gear. I’ve also found that doing this I have finally found a use for my pretty much obsolete BB(V) ships, specifically Yamashiro and Fusou, since a recent change allowed the BB(V) and CA(V) ships to attack subs like CVLs can. I’m also finally getting use out of my CVLs who normally don’t make it into my fleets due to having most of the full-size carriers (just missing Shokaku and Taihou) because of their anti-sub capabilities, though they aren’t amazing at it it’s enough to act as clean-up. Hiyou Kai recently got an art upgrade which is really nice, and last night I finally got Houshou to 25 and upgraded to Kai. Hoshou was the first carrier I obtained in the game so it’s been nice to be able to use her again as she pretty much got made obsolete when I picked up Hiryuu.
Still grinding my main fleet through PVP as well. Most of the time Yamato is my MVP. She costs an absolute mountain of resources to run, but hits amazingly hard. I finally got my first set of Armor-Piercing shell equipment recently and they’re best used on the big battleships, so I threw them onto Yamato. There’s nothing quite like watching her crit an enemy Nagato-class battleship for 200+. Currently my main fleet is Yamato at 46, Hiei at 72, Kongou at 59, Hiryuu at 83, Kitakami at 77 and Ooi at 74. Other than my current grinding activities I’ve been spending lots of resources attempting to build I-8 as she’s now constructable, and I want to round out my sub collection. Also been building minimum-resource Large Ship Constructions a few times hoping to get Agano, Noshiro, Yahagi, Mikuma or Kumano, but so far no luck. Have gotten Nagato 3 times though, feels bad using her for upgrade scrap when I spent so long trying to get her in the Christmas event.
I picked up Tales of Symphonia HD yesterday. The CE. Disappointed that all the blurb bullshit was printed onto the plastic outer of the case instead of stuck on. Rearranged it so that it covers over the Symphonia 2 side of the box. :3 Also I don’t think I’m ever going to play this, I’ve already finished Symphonia twice before and I don’t think I feel like doing it again, plus Symphonia 2 is a complete piece of shit. But the case is nice at least.
Tonight I hope to get through at least chapter 3 of Danganronpa. I really want to get that game done and dusted soon. Don’t really have anything to move to specifically afterward though.
Congrats!
Woo for weight loss! \o/
All I’ve been doing is putting it on and getting depressed about it.
Kumato tomatoes? They are delicious indeed. 🙂
Grats on the healthyness.
For a second I thought you lost 10kg in a week and I was mad jelly. Then I saw it was 3 weeks and I’m still mad jelly. It took me about 6 weeks to drop 10kg while I was doing keto back in November/December.
I guess it depends where you’re starting from. In my case we’re talking 115 down to 105. Much easier than, say, 80 down to 70.
Yeeeeah, I’m starting out a little higher than you did.
Also how much muscle you have, seemingly its weirdly harder to lose fat when you have heaps of muscle. No idea how that works
That’s not true at all. Having more muscle mass means you burn more calories just being alive.
I’m not talking myths or anything, this is personal experience. I know you burn more energy just having additional muscle mass since there’s more hardware to power but that seems to not translate to weight loss even with a lower energy intake and more activity. Or sure as fuck hasn’t for me. I’m tempted to try a month eating nothing but pie, my biology is so messed up I’ll probably lose 50kg…
Kumatos are awesome.
Oh god. Can’t stop giggling and nodding my head. 25 confessions of a father to his kids.
http://www.howtobeadad.com/2014/21114/top-25-parental-confessions
They’re all true.
#OldManFreeze
More like #ColdManFreezeCome up here and say that.
Ok.
I’ll be waiting.
Like this?
NSFW
http://www.storminforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Not-another-teen-movie-14.jpegWould you prefer full cream or low fat?
I’ve been eating my boss’ kids’ Halloween lollies since last November.
Monster.
Are you implying your boss doesn’t like you?
Free sugar either way.
Question for parents: How often do you do the “watch your kids sleep” thing?
Because I see it all the time in TV and stuff, but it’s always just sort of creeped me out, particularly since my father has a habit of lingering creepily.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESFANzZTdYM&feature=kp says it best. Just put the earphones in, not everyone appreciates Tim Minchin.
Also: A lot. I watch my kid sleep a lot. I don’t know why, but it brings me peace and love.
Also because it means the fucker ain’t trying to yank out electrical cords and lick the end of them (a current fad of his).
I check on my kids every night before I go to bed and sometimes I’ll stay for a fair while watching them sleep. Sometimes if they’ve been monsters during the day, you need to watch them while they sleep to stock back up on love for them. 😛
Dude the kids are terrors; we like them more when they are asleep because they are cute and peaceful at that time. If we didn’t go and watch them sleep and ‘feel the love’ i don’t think we could look after them the next day.
That list just made me all the more keen to become a dad.
DOO EET.
*Wait, I just realised you are. Har har!
**Wait, Nelson voice was a bit evil. I’ve said it before, and being an NPC I’ll say it again: It’s worth it.
Hey @powalen I couldn’t see you anywhere so I just got my ticket and went in, we can find each other afterwards I guess?
Man date?
No he stood me up 🙁
I’ll just meet you at home.
DARK SOULS
I’ve been neglecting Gurpgork over the last week or so because I’ve been bitten by the Dota bug. Decided to pick it back up and see if I could make some progress and ran into the wall that is the Centipede Demon. He’s not that bad, but for a slow, smashy-smashy Strength build, he is a nightmare to deal with. Well, he is, right up until the point where I managed to get him onto land and get the Orange Charred Ring. I died on that attempt but it wasn’t hard to smashy-smashy him to pieces while wading through lava. His ranged attack is just too fast to punish with a Great Club.After that, I tackled the Catacombs. Feeling lazy, I took the shortcut, instead of fighting my way through the skeletons. Killed Pinwheel in three shots. He really is a trivial boss to deal with. Will probably rush through Tomb of the Giants too and just get Nito out of the way. Don’t really like that area.You know if you run over the lava to your right there’s a big chunk of land where he comes and melee fights you instead of hanging back?Yup, that’s where I got him to drop the ring. Getting him to come off of the lava so that I could do that took a bit of time, he kept doing the ranged attack. Once I got under his feet, the fight was trivial. Having the ring just meant that I could do that fairly easily.Imagine my surprise at 2am today when Pinwheel (NG+) summoned five hundred copies of himself who all cast nuclear mega deathray blasts at me and killed me. My first-run chop-chop-chop not-even-a-contest murder of him led me to complacency the 2nd time around, for which I was humbled.I just went through the New Londo ruins so that I could grab the Very Large Ember and start getting my Great Club up to +15. Fuck I hate those ghosts. I can one shot them with my club but because it’s so slow, I have to line them up pretty precisely. Took a few tries and a phone call while talking to Ingward to finally drain the area. Then it was just a matter of remembering where the hell it was. On the plus side, even a +10 Great Club can one-shot dickwraiths when you two hand it. I like my club sometimes.Ugh @powalen
No more game suggestions from you, young man!
(finished Fire Emblem :P)
Although you did help me take two games off the old pile ‘o shame
I really want to finish that game, too. I would also like to start it.
Lately there’s been some discussion about it on Twitter since @jimu got the game recently and @sernobulus got back into it, so they made me want to go back and finish it off. I was closeish to the end when I stopped so it wasn’t too bad to jump back in and just derp around.
Now I have to finish Lightning Returns before Dark Souls II comes out :O. I don’t like playing multiple (physical) games on the same platform because swapping discs/cards is lameeee
Lame? you mean you’re lazy?
That too 😀
Lame as in I’d prefer digital in some cases but physical ends up being cheaper because of stupid Australian prices
I hat digital, Sony’s not gonna support those games for long and then I lose em when my PS3 shits itself 🙁
Now play Steel Diver.
No nudes, no interest!
Also, I wouldn’t mind playing with buds but I think you said you can only play with randoms.
NO STEEL DIVER FOR ME!
There are nudes in Fire Emblem?
…
BRB, rushing through game to get to
nudesend of game.Nintendo probably censored them
Murdered: Soul Suspect preview: http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-17456-Murdered–Soul-Suspect-Hands-On-Preview—Dead-on-Arrival.html
It’s… not encouraging. It does sound very, very disappointing though
Ew. That sounds disappointing. Looked like such a cool premise and style too.
Hopefully the final release isn’t like that.
Yeah, it has until June to improve, not technically impossible but I have a sinking feeling it’s going to end up being one of those ‘maybe when its $20 on ozgameshop’ kind of games
At least we still have Ghost Trick!
Amazing game. So damn awesome.
One of the games I’ve always wanted a 3DS/DS for.
Did you ever play it?
It’s on iOS as well. Maybe you should pick up a cheap iOS device for all these games 🙂
Ugh. Read Lifehacker article on ‘how to deal with grief’, lose composure.
So… not that, obviously.
Yep. Doin’ well there, champ. *Grunt.* This is troublesome. Hell, I only looked at the bloody article because I know I’ve been bitchy and grumbly more than I’m happy with, lately.
Kelly’s scaling back the contact, and part of that’s circumstances and the restrictions they have her under, but she’s made it pretty clear that another part of it is her trying to get me space to ‘move on’. Yeah. Right.
Which, y’know… kinda works if I can pick something to throw my entire mind into so that I’m distracted and can’t think. But I can’t ever stop, and it’s exhausting. Really exhausting. And I only have to stop for one minute and think about what I want and miss and wish and… then I don’t know whether to collapse to my knees or smash things. A little of both.
Internet rants for dramatic purposes aside, I’m a mellow guy. Keep my cool, maintain calm, to better react to whatever crises might be occurring. It’s served me well. Having all these ‘feelings’ is a real challenge and I’m not sure I can keep them at bay. I really wish I could medicate them away or just get some rest… sleep for a few weeks straight and not dream, recover some strength to get back to the business of fighting thoughts and getting shit done.
I’m really tired.
I know the loss of contact is her idea of shielding me from what’s happening to her mind and body, and I know she’s not dying… not quickly – not this year anyway. Retreat has always been one of her coping mechanisms. She always comes back, I know that dance. But it feels like losing her, and it feels like powerlessness, and I’m not OK with either. We understand each other pretty well, though. And sometimes I have to let her take the lead. Brave, stubborn little bird.
In all things, the only answer is EVER “put one fucking foot in front of the other,” until you die. That’s how you human. I just wish it were easier sometimes. For her. For us.
I think Strange and Welbot and the others who said it are right… this place helps. Unimportant shit to get talkative about is good. Video games – and we do know just how fucking pointless they are – but damn if they don’t give us something to do with our brains, things to talk about.
Have a good weekend, guys. Get really into some videogames and music and books and TV and shit. Do so with friends. I’m’a try and do the same.
If you’re not sure if you want to fall to your knees or smash something, put something under your knees that will smash when you fall, you’re getting 2 things done at once! Might want some kind of knee pads though.
I’m tempted to suggest that now might be the time to give those dark souls files I emailed you a try but that would depend on how you respond to things being grim, whether you need bright and cheery stuff to take your mind off it or if you’re more like me and prefer to dive into dark and nasty stuff so when you stop playing a regular life doesn’t feel quite as bad.
Whatever’s involving or engrossing! Dark Souls totally is, I’m a convert. 🙂 But I am almost done with NG+ on the PS3, I’ll probably get the files working when I can just to have it, then I’ll probably take a break til 2 comes out.
Arma 3 or DayZ maybe?
Gonna do some strategy games this weekend, I reckon. And hang with the brothers. 🙂
That sounds like you’re in a bikie gang! But a bikie gang who plays strategy games so that’s cool, crystal meth tycoon or something
*awkward manhug*
All the feels bro! Hope you have a ripper weekend, whatever you end up doing!
I’ll no doubt be finishing off might and magic x. vidya games ftw!
How have I not heard of Device 6 on iOS until now? It looks super rad.
How are you writing a post about it if you’ve not heard of it yet?
Happy?
I’ve heard it’s a great game, but it’s description is kinda vague about the gameplay, and I decided that $4.49 was too much to risk.
It took me around 2 hours or so (I think?) but I’d say it’s worth it, and I’m usually a cheapass when it comes to shortish games.
The less you know about it, the better but just think of it as an interactive book.
I always wish I had an ios device to play that studio’s games.
Beat sneak bandit and year walk look great too.
Ugh, so close to giving up on Nether again. I can’t get the damn thing to run
Are you getting specific errors or is it just refusing to start?
It starts downloading the update and then stops at about 20%
Okay I can certainly see a lot of people have had the problem too and for a good long time which doesn’t give me confidence that they’re going to be good at patching the game if they can’t patch their launcher.
One solution I’ve seen suggested that apparently worked for quite a few people is changing DNS providers to Google’s free ones. If you’ve not tried that, this is the short version:
-In control panel, open network & sharing centre and click change adapter settings in the left menu
-right click your local area or wireless connection and get properties
-Double click Internet Protocol Version 4
-Click the button that says “use the following DNS server addresses” (Take a screenshot if there’s anything in there already so you can set it back later)
-In the preferred enter: 8.8.8.8
-In the alternate enter: 8.8.4.4
-Tick Validate Settings on exit and OK to close it
-Double click the Internet Protocol Version 6
-Do the same thing as above only in the preferred server enter: 2001:4860:4860::8888
Oh and I read, translate and type all that then the very next tab I open is the community manager saying “Yeah there’s a problem with the launcher, we’re giving you links to download the entire game as an EXE now.” So maybe try this option first.
Thanks. I tried it before, but it didn’t work. It’s looking a lot better now.
Well, crossing your fingers and giving it another shot seems to be the best advice from the people who make it…
So Gravity’s a pretty cool guy.
Was it …
…
Astronomical?
It was pretty heavy.
He aint heavy. He’s my Brother
The effects were quite attractive.
Forceful pun.
Bullocks.
Gah.
I can’t get Twitch streaming to work properly… 🙁
Ahh, slowly getting back into the uni groove. Just completely bullsh***ed my way through my first workshop task in order to get back to Dark Souls sooner \o/
I’d potentially care a bit more if I wasn’t such an amazing bullsh***er 😉
I once convinced my year 10 English teacher that he lost over half a years worth of my assignments, journals and homework when in truth I never actually did any of it 😉
I totally got a B in that class 😀
Completely different matter, but in year… 10? Might have been 9, a teacher lost an in-class essay of mine, and we talked about it, and he was like “I think you would have gotten a low A, so I’m going to give you that.” I liked that, since my usual marks for in class essays were… less than ideal.
So glad he didn’t use the proper rules for that.
The trick was to put pressure on them. Make them believe that they had it at some stage, and that they lost it. Never be complacent with their first offer they make you, then it looks like you’re compromising. My teacher tried to get me to do only the journals again. I refused, saying that it was not my fault that he lost all my work, and that I shouldn’t be punished for his mistake.
To say I was a rat-child at school was probably a slight understatement :3
It wasn’t my fault though! My English teacher (read whole school) was incompetent!
You should totally try and wedge Dark Souls into an assignment somewhere
That’s probably not the hardest thing to do actually. I have a games programming and games methods class, I think I could squeeze something to do with Dark Souls in there somewhere 🙂
Well I once explained a network security problem using ewoks and ended up with a distinction so as long as you can make it factual and interesting it’s all good
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-25-my-heart-is-breaking-inside-the-dark-souls-cafe
So apparently the Dark Souls Cafe sucks and everyone that was disappointed not to be visiting during the 3 months it’s running for probably shouldn’t be upset.
My experience was much more Dark Soulsy than what that person went through.
They were actually playing Dark Souls music on repeat on the speakers, I was excited by the two trailers showing since they were new at the time, and ordering things through the broken english and complete lack of Japanese on my part was fun.
I mean, it was overpriced, the food was decent at best, and the drinks were silly, but I thought it was worth it.
Thanks for the link, but I still want to go there 😛
Well, I may have fixed my Roxio Game Capture HD.
Unfortunately, I can only get it to record at 480p.
There may be some Demon’s Souls footage coming…
480p is like an anti-PS4! It’s even more laster gen!
What did you have to do? Also have you looked for firmware updates? I have a feeling I might have asked that already.
If you’re talking Game Capture HD updates, they’re already applied.
It’s weird, because I recorded Twisted Metal in 720p not too long ago, but everything since then hasn’t been able to work… 🙁
Have you tried reinstalling the capture software? It might have just gone dumb and needs a wipe
Fuck. Fuck.
Finished Walking Dead Ep5 and it finally got to me.
Last 15 minutes watching Clementines desperation and denial about Lee got to me. Nothing else in the game did but that really upset me. I couldn’t stop thinking about my daughters.Choices
Cut off my armLost temper with Kenny
Kept my weapons (why? Didn’t use them)
Didn’t kill the stranger
Made sure Lee didn’t turn.
Overall I’m glad I stuck through it. First episode was really weak and a terrible opener but it just kept improving. Actually want to grab 400 Days and Season 2 now.
Hmm, I was a bit let down by the first ep, hearing it gets better is making me think maybe it’ll be worth picking up again one day
I was gifted The Walking Dead, from memory it was from Notoriousaur, though it might have been The Cracks, I’m a bit awful at memory.
I played the first episode and was like “yeah this is okay,” but then I got into the second, and holy jeebus, it really ups the intensity. So, if you can, play the second episode, and judge based on that.
I’ve got the whole season so I can, just haven’t gotten around to it. The worst part was that it felt like telltale were going 2 different ways at once, the storytelling seemed to be getting better but the gameplay was getting worse or at least different in a way that didn’t feel like adventure games anymore
I think it might have been @greenius who gifted it to me on Steam ages ago.
I think.
I think so too… *shrug*
It finally paid off! \o/
Only took, what, 2 years?
Maybe it’s because I’m finally done with Dark Souls I can enjoy other games again.
I gifted you VVVVVV as well, you should totally play that too!
That game gives me rage headaches.
Took me five or six attempts and giving up before I finally forced myself through it. Thoroughly disliked it at first. Wouldn’t say I love it now but can appreciate it a lot better.
If anyone is interested, Skullgirls is $US 7.50 on Gamersgate!
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-SKULLGIRLS/skullgirls
Could be good for MultiTAY…
Also, if you haven’t watched Kill La Kill episode 20, do it!
The amount of times my mind was blown… holy shit…Oh, first day of the month huh?
pinchespunchesWho’s this guy?
Idk? Someone must have hacked my account 😛
Woke up extremely tired and grumpy. My kids are going to have a great day. 😛
psssssssssst
Lightning Returns is getting fun again! I think playing it once every few days is helping 😛
In light of some harsh reviews, I’ve been a bit afraid to show my face, given my past staunch defence of the XIII series. I’m still really looking forward to playing LR when the time’s right though.
Don’t worry: we play the ball, not the man, around these parts.
Apparently Steam Library sharing thing is active as of today. Interesting…
A friend and I have been sharing our (physical) games for years but the past couple of years we’ve been going digital and it’s hard to argue with not buying AAA games like BioShock Infinite for $5. I just hope it doesn’t hurt sales for those really niche indie games like Thirty Flights of Loving, but I can see it boosting sales for multiplayer/co-op stuff.
I haven’t heard about the library sharing? I struggle with steam due to internet issues in my current location, however I’ve got a sizeable library (of now older games) that i cant even play. Does this mean i can share them with others now?
Yup pretty much. It basically lets you lend out your library to authorised users (supposedly family/friends). I think it’s up to 5 accounts on 10 devices.
But only one person can be playing the game at a time. So if I was to lend my library to you and you were playing a game, as soon as I play another game you’ll be kicked off after a few minutes. I don’t know if simply logging onto Steam will kick you off but I’ll be testing this out later today.
So its the ENTIRE library, not just a game from the library, in effect acting as guest access to your account?
Pretty much
(@ash @aliasalpha)
Just tried it out. It’s pretty cool!
Seems like if you both own the same game but your friend has the DLC, you can’t access it eg. I have Civ 5 and he has Civ 5 + DLC – I can’t use the DLC with my copy of Civ 5). But if you don’t own the game, you’ve got access to it and the DLC (if they own it)
Only one person can play on a library at any given time but if they try to play a game from their library (it doesn’t have to be the same game) you’ll be given a notification and 5 minutes to exit the game before you’re kicked off. If they exit their game the timer just goes away and you can continue playing as normal.
If you’re both sharing each others account, I can be playing his games while he’s playing mine and we don’t get kicked off. So that’s kinda neat!
Presumably having the same game you’d be able to play multiplayer but your identities would be swapped. That’d be rather weird given how much a part of my identity Aliasalpha really is.
Well I think everything is on your side. Multiplayer should come up under your name, your saves are saved separately to the cloud and achievements you earn are under your account.
So if you had CoD: Ghosts and I didn’t and borrowed it off you. If I was to play it online it would just show up as “Greenius”. The only thing is that we both can’t be playing CoD together online unless I buy it myself.
Oh so they log in as them rather than a version of you with limited access? Oh well that makes more sense
Yep! So in my Library section of Steam it has all of my games + all the games of whoever’s account has me authorised.
I’ve got full access to all of his games and it even let me download Dragon Age II which was completely removed from the Steam store years ago 😛
Well anyone is welcome to my steam library, considering it isn’t being used, but i doubt i got anything anyone would want, although i got a key for Broken Age ( not enough quota to dl it myself)
Broken Age is rad!
At this stage I’m stuck waiting for part 2 to release, at which stage backers (which includes me) get a dl link for a drm free copy, which I’m assuming ill be able to dl from work.
That said im going to have another go at getting asdl soon, and waiting for a free port, so if that works out i wont know myself!! 🙂
YEAHHH WE DEFEATED THE FINAL FOUR IN TWITCH PLAYS POKE- Ah blue kicked our ass, shit.
And.. hold on, how many times have we attempted to beat the four + blue now? Well, I’m sure we’ll get there in the end.
Maybe.
Happy name-day Sat’
Dear TAY,
I wanted to say “Hi, how’s things? What’s new?”
But I’m shy so I waited until the weekend.
Happy Autumn.
Love from Ash
Allo Ash! Weekend TAY is quite dead usually. You would have more people saying Hi in the weekdays. 🙂
How goes your gaming weekend sire?
Super! Thanks for asking!
Did a lot of Dark Souls’ing today. Getting very close to 100% on the trophies now. Only instead of progressing that, I mostly bummed around playing mobile games while waiting for folks to pick up on my summoning stone.
Helped a lot of folks get their boss kills, felt good. Also got bombarded with a lot of friend invites as a result, so that list has filled up a bit.
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!!!
Well there is a little bit more to it, but essentially I still can’t Kotaku/ TAY at work anymore but now comments suddenly work on my phone which they never did before, so a great opportunity for me to say hi to weekend TAY 🙂
Hi Ash!
Good to see you again. 😀
So I finished King of The Hill last night, after 259 episodes this is how I feel.
Mhmm
Yep.
Did it have an end? Last thing I remember seeing of it was when Peggy went skydiving, I have nfi when that even was but it sure feels like forever ago.
Jeez that was about season 3 😛
The ending isn’t anything amazing, but hey I thought it was good. The final shot is of Hank & Bobby grilling together with the entire neighbourhood present for a BBQ.
Very slow progress, I’ve resumed work on my gear.
http://imgur.com/a/k28xV – helmet progress. Still amazes me this all from a few pieces of A4 paper!
I’ve also applied a second fibreglass coat to one upper and lower arm, elbow pad and shin piece.
Well its okay… I guess… as far as fantastic work goes…
It’s going to be blood angels though isn’t it? That’d kind of spoil it, helmets like that would look much nicer in dark green, perhaps complemented with a little badge of a winged sword.
Lamenters
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Lamenters
Better than blood angels. The colour scheme looks more of imperial fisty though
Wolf pelts.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/03/check-it-out-the-master-of-life-advice-is-back/
Sometimes I get confused. It seems like everything Tim & Eric do gets a fair bit of attention and love except for anything they do actually starring themselves… :S
So I went to the UTAS o-week concert last night. Violent SOHO (apparently they’re cool or something) were playing and one of my friends wanted me to come. The night was awesome when the other bands were playing before them, then they started playing and like the whole room starting headbanging and throwing and pushing people around and I’d never felt more out of place in my life. The crowd was fucking brutal. That and the uni bar sucks. $6.50 for a tiny cup of beer or cider. It was cheaper buying cans of UDL for $4.
Whilst I was gone last night Oliver decided to go out and buy a skateboard, so we spent a few hours today trying to ride a skateboard 😛 He used to have one, I’d never ridden one before so it was primarily him riding round and teaching me, but I thought I did pretty well for a first go. I can stay on it and maneuver it so I’m happy. Wasn’t so willing to ride it downhill and jump off it onto the grass at the end of our driveway like Oliver was, but it was fun! It also makes a great grapefruit catapult over the fence.
Ok. Board’s cut, soldering iron’s out. This is happening.
What are you making?
A removable board for my 3XL to make and restore NAND backups, to keep it vulnerable in case of the need for homebrew later down the track. But also wanted to do it non-destructively, so no soldering to the motherboard and no cutting holes in the case to pipe the wires through.
WAHT IS HAPPENING!>
It’s the end of the world as we know it… and I feel fiiiiiine
Can’t touch this.. on ice!
Mankind has achieved many great things.
So I got Nether to work. I played it for 10 minutes before I felt far too ill to continue.
Bugger.
Blergh page get
But at least it works! \o/
Motion sickness?
Simulator sickness. Told the creators
Extra Credits did an interesting video about simulator sickness, and a couple of ways you can attempt to combat it.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CvimYs7tnRM
Yeah, but Nether has no way to change the FOV which is one of the solutions. I’m not going to medicate myself to play games longer
I haven’t heard of that; care to elaborate and save me googling? 😛
It’s pretty much the opposite of motion sickness.
Motion sickness: The eyes tell the brain that the body isn’t moving but the inner ear tells the brain that you are. The conflicting signals makes the brain think that the body has been poisoned and hits the panic button.
Simulator sickness: The eyes tell the brain that the body is moving but the inner ear claims that it is not. The brain thinks poison is involved and hits the panic button.
Either way, the eyes and the inner ear are arguing, the brain says “screw this” and hits the panic button. Yes the person feels like crap but at least the brain is in peace.
Oh right, yep that’s what i meant but id been calling it motion sickness b/c that’s what it feels like. I’ve been finding that the older i get the more ‘3D’ games are making me feel that way…
Well, you can call it motion sickness and most people will get it. I don’t often get simulator sickness from console games, it’s more of an issue with PC games. I would suggest watching that video Nova linked. It’s interesting
Well at least the download finally worked… Admittedly it’s not that much consolation since you spent a lot less time playing than you did downloading.
How do you feel about DayZ? The standalone is fairly fun, you can change your FOV and there’s usually enough low population servers that in the 35 hours I’ve been playing I’ve encountered I think 3 people
Same issue. Although I think when I played FOV changes weren’t a thing.
I think the ingame slider lets you change the FOV by up to about 20 degrees and I know you can manually mod the FOV in the .cfg file. I could probably work out a few settings to try if you like, do you happen to know a usual FOV setting that doesn’t make you feel sick?
It’s generally 90 FOV. As far as I know
Oh well that’s easy, its the one everyone seems to request (probably for this very reason)
If you open your Documents\Dayz folder, there’ll be a file called something like Scree.DayzProfile, if you open that in notepad, right down near the bottom there’ll be 2 options, FovTop & FovLeft that you need to change.
For 1920×1080 use the following values
fovTop=1.03;
fovLeft=1.83;
For 1680×1050 use the following values
fovTop=1.13;
fovLeft=1.80;
For 2560×1440 use the following values
fovTop=1.02;
fovLeft=1.83;
It also works for the Arma games since they’re basically the same engine. There are reports of it making long range shooting a bit harder to use but if you can play to the point where you get a gun and long range optic and start thinking about sniping people all without it making you feel sick then I think that could still be considered a victory of sorts.
I gave on DayZ a long time ago
Oh okay, that does make it a slightly less effective solution if its a game you’re not into
@aliasalpha
So the developers got into contact with me. It’s set at 90 FOV. Not sure what I can do then.
Has it got any settings for motion blur or other things like bloom that might make things indistinct and weird? It might be an idea to try turning all the graphics options to absolute minimum and see if it still has the same effect and if not, you could put them up one by one and see if there’s any one specific effect that triggers it
Oh, it looks like you can manually mod the FOV in Nether too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhOa-8ZWTx4 (unless its been changed since this was made). Perhaps change it in steps of 10 degrees (perhaps even try going below 90) and see if that helps
I turned everything off and removed it from full screen. I think it’s a lot better now, thanks
Awesome, glad to hear it.
TwitchPlaysPokemon is now TwitchBeatPokemon
Time to celebrate!
Best video.
Wasn ‘t there an endgame in the originals? Or did that only start with
Kantoin gen 2?Pretty much just Cerulean Cave.
What’s the difference between a chickpea and a lentil?
I wouldn’t pay $200 to have a lentil on my face*rimshot*
#unrelated
#don’tlookatmelikethat
And I thought I was the sick one on here. 😀
You should see me during the joke pages.
Very distant second to @chuloopa, the founder of and benchmark for Page 18 shenanigans 😛
Hey. I created page 18 🙁
Loops is still the benchmark however.
Whoops. Sorry.
Oh man. Oh… man…
*wipes tear from eye*
*sniff*
I’m.. so PROUD
Why did the little girl set fire to the nursing home?
Because she preferred roast veggies.Oh, I forgot BioShock Vita was supposed to be a thing 😛
Oh well…
Wooo, Foam Party tomorrow (hopefully)!
Makes up for the Underwear Party I missed 🙁
Pre apologies for any drunken messages. For some reason I can’t keep my hands off my phone when I drink :\
Oh, no need to apologise, we love free entertainment here.
😀
Autocorrect has stopped working on my phone for some odd reason. The next time I’m drunk don’t expect anything close to perfect spelling or coherent sentences 😛
GOD FREAKIN DAMMIT
I went and tested all the connections, they all worked fine with no solder bridges or anything like that. But then though hey, I could connect the board to the adapter with its cable and check the full connection works.
Nothing.
Turns out the ribbon cable needs to be connected facing the OTHER way around, meaning I need to do everything from the past couple of hours all over again…
So on the plus side, doing it again means it’s a lot neater this time.
It’s annoyingly hard to tell if the pins are aligning properly though. Guess the only way to find out is to plug it in and see if it works? :/
Ok that was weird. I got an error meaning two of the contacts were connected, but wasn’t getting a reading at all from those to probes with the multimeter. I did however get a reading (very much later) from the two tracks on the circuit board they were connected to :/
Now I’ve got it pretty much sorted! Sort of. The thing boots properly when nothing’s connected, but it still boots properly when the SD reader is connected. Which it isn’t supposed to. The board does seem to be connected properly though, because I can make it come up with known errors by bridging particular contacts on the SD adapter. Might just have a shitty reader that doesn’t work properly. Hmmm.
Also I appear to suddenly be rather quite tired.
Awake at 7:45am…
🙁
better than me. I woke up at 5:45am :\
pffft.. i woke up at 7.50
wait.. that’s better… DAMN EDUCATION!
Oh Loops?
Hey so was I.
Wait that was hours ago…
So does anyone know of somewhere with a good recap and highlight reels etc for twitch plays pokemon?
Would have loved to be a part of that but alas, life.
http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/wiki/historyoftpp_gen1
Weekend TAY is so slow…
:\
@dc halp pls
Goddamnit, Australia, you guys beat TPP when north america was asleep.
UNTO GENERATION TWO
YOU’RE WELCOME!
We did the majority of the work, you guys just coasted on our
successrepeated failures which led to many levels gained.Wait, we managed to shut down the Tran-Pacific Partnership?!
Fuck Yeah! \o/
😛
I think it’s hilarious and great what GWAR brought to Australia as a stage show for Soundwave & their few sideshows, with the whole beheading of Abbott & mutilating of QEII on stage. It’s nice to see a bunch of entertainers who aren’t afraid to offend and voice a very strong opinion about another nations hierarchy in that particular country.
But it annoys me when people say “The majority of Australia hates the PM or Queen” just because you associate with plenty of people who share the same view and opinion doesn’t mean that is a majority opinion. It would be like me saying “Oh I know lots of people who play games, so therefore the majority of Australians like video games” I too can skew things because of the people I associate with!
But seriously I’ve plenty of people over the years, young & old who would be upset/outraged by all of this by GWAR. So people saying it’s just the politicians and old people who hate this and love the current gov’t is grossly incorrect if you ask me.
There are still plenty of people out there in this country who think a monarchy is the way to be for Australia and think Tony Abbott is a god amongst mere mortals.
Disagreeing with a politician is one thing, advocating (or trivializing) their murder is something else. Weeeeeee
When you look at it, it’s GWAR, that’s their thing and it’s their way of disagreeing with things. There was also a bit of a spiel to go with it all as well about Manus and other stuff relating to what the gov’t is/isn’t doing currently.
Still doesn’t justify advocating/trivializing murder. “It’s their way” is not acceptable (at the very least it’s a slippery slope).
Who said I was justifying it? Because I am not. You can think what you like, about what I said, that’s your opinion which you’re entitled to. But I never once thought or said it was justified. I thought it was hilarious, sure, because it’s an American band making a mockery of our government and the people who voted it in, which now some of those who were swayed to vote for them or the parties who preference them are now upset that they didn’t get what they initially voted for and have potentially realised they’ve made a huge mistake.
I also thought it was great to see a foreigner take such a stance on our politics, considering the whole political spiel Billie Joe of Green Day went into ignored anything important happening here. Sure the style only appeals to a select minority but it’s made an impact of sorts, whether it’s as large as people make it out to be is another matter.
From what I’ve heard they’ve pulled the same stunt with other political figures for other audiences (like an Obama mock up). I fail to see how they’re taking into account anything happening here to distinguish them from your Green Day example.
Well the interview I saw with the singer, Oderus Urungus, he did start talking about the gov’t and Manus and a few other pressing issues that were happening here which he thought was wrong and needed to be addressed/changed.
It’s nice to see them take an interest in things that are relevant to their audiences then.
I just found any message behind the effigy stunt to be somewhat diluted when they do the same thing with [insert leader here] for [insert audience here].
Got a link to the interview?
Edit: Note to self, do not use the greater than or less than signs as brackets in normal writing. Could have been a TAY break.
Yeah it is nice to see it.
Pretty sure it’s this one; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA9TRtZAOB4 not the other one Soundwave posted lol.
Also it was either in that video or it was in one of the many articles i’ve seen about GWAR and their stunt since it all happened lol. But pretty sure it’s in that video.
GWAR could only be more cartoony if they were cel shaded though, if beheading a poorly made latex effigy counts as advocating murder then I suspect we’re on the other side of a slippery slope
LOL.
@jajabinks The ROM hacking tools and the Fire Red ROM have been installed!
oops @jajabinks2
Congrats!
Now get started (do something easy first, and back up the rom before you patch, in case something happens. If you don’t, well you just need to redownload it, but it’s easier not to).
If you need help with anything, feel free to ask, even though I don’t have much practice 😛
Well, I just hacked it so Vileplumes can be caught on route 1. Baby steps.
*confused but recommending blurps*
I just finished Octodad and it’s pretty whacky. Worth checking out if you’re looking for a derpderp gameSteam sharing is pretty cool guy
I don’t know whether to play RIFT or Skullgirls…
Please help… /o\
You have 2 hands (presumably), play both!
Steam tells me you’re already playing RIFT so I’m going to say RIFT 😛
No! Play Skullgirls!
Maybe later…
Who wants to play Skullgirls?
I do!
What’s your Steam username?
Don’t have one. Which is why I only want to play it instead of actually doing so 😛
*raises hand*
Tonight?
I’ll probably be on at 9pm VIC, so that would be 6pm WA.
See you then, hopefully! 😀
Dammit, just when I thought it was done it looks like things might be slightly misaligned. This is hard.
Have you considered crying, throwing a tanty, and burning everything to the ground?
No I am more just considering going back to sleep again.
Yes! I finally did it! It’s perfect!
…
Wakes up.
“Well, that was a good dream”.
I want to play something… but I don’t know what… 🙁
Foam Partyyyyyyyy!!!
Keen as! Gonna play in soooo much foam :3
I found this cool little forum discussion on what to do when your pile of shame is too big…
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/when-youve-too-many-games-to-play-but-no-desire-to-542258/
Also, on a related note, it’s four months until Shameless Gaming Month!
The fact that Shameless Gaming Month is in the middle of the Steam Summer Sale is kind of disheartening.
Just a little reminder to everyone that I’m giving away PS3 games!
Let me know if you want any of the below titles!
Giving away:
– The Orange Box
– de Blob 2
– GTA IV + GTA: Episodes From Liberty City
– Need For Speed: SHIFT
– Resistance: Fall of Man
– Borderlands GOTY Edition (DLC already redeemed)
– ModNation Racers
– AC: Brotherhood
– Motorstorm Apocalypse
– Tom Clancy’s HAWX
Claimed:
– Portal 2
(Claimed by @scree)
This will be my final post for the night, and this TAY.
I’m loving Next Car Game.
no, seriously, I was saying earlier that I’d lost interest in most of my games…
This isn’t even a full release, and it has me salivating for the final release.
The damage, the derbies, the possibilities of online…
I’m genuinely excited for this game.
I have a feeling that Bugbear could produce the sleeper hit of 2014.
So
Uch foam!!! Sooo fun!!!
I grinded on so many randoms it’s not funny!!!
Some how ended up with bog mac?!?! I ain’t complaining!!!
Holy fuck my eyes hurt from standing under the foam making all tonight!!! I’mma look stoned at work ronrow!:3
FOAM PARTY FET ATME!!!
If you never been to a Foam party, you really should at done stage, super fun?!!
Night Tay, never change, love you all!!! <3
GOD FREAKING DAMMIT I SNAPPED THE GROUND CABLE AT THE SOLDER POINT
It’s ok I fixed it.
Still can’t get it to work properly though.
Oh, hello morning.
I THINK I GOT IT WORKING
Slightly convoluted method compared to normal but I managed to trigger a mode that allows the computer to read it, and successfully dumped an image. Well, I assume it was a success and it wasn’t a bad read. But there’ll be more time for testing and stuff later.
Yay!
I refused to read new TAY until I finished reading old TAY. I am free!
Am I the only one wanting to try the cheeseburger crust at pizza hut? It actually looks edible compared to the hotdog crust
Home again, home again, jiggity jig.