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2,357 responses to “Talk Amongst Yourselves”
Morning should be illegal
Shit we all screwed then
my cats would still find a way to wake me up at silly o’clock
Morning, all.
*cough*
Your name makes it look like Saturday morning. It’s not Saturday morning. Why you lie like this?
I’m not naming myself Monday. Fuck mondays.
Fuck Mondays. The bootleg band version of the Happy Mondays
Surely they’d be the porn version
Rivalry between the days of the week… Praise the Mon! \o/
Pfft. Praise the Monday… that’s the kind of thinking that has people side with the Imperials! (Which normally I do, but on the face of it, you have to admit it was a very, very, very shitty empire. I mean, it lasted what… one or two decades? And didn’t survive the assassination of its leader. NOT EVEN TRYING, SPACE EMPIRE, COME ON.)
It wasn’t an empire based on structure, it was an ego trip for a megalomaniac. Palpie established a degree of order but it was all about maintaining the status quo and gave no thought to stopping the root of the unrest. He didn’t even bother going the bread & circuses route, just martial law, it was doomed to failure from the moment he started.
Until you mentioned palpatine, I thought @transientmind was talking about the Elder Scrolls. I thought Tiber Septim had somehow created a space armada in his offtime.
The Elder Starships? Hang on, I’ll think of something.
Morning all. Hope everyone had a good weekend.
I picked up GoT S3 on Blu-ray. Still haven’t watched it yet though. I got the edition that came with a dragon figure, because, you know, it came with a dragon figure. Also played a bit of the ESO beta. NDA is lifted so I can talk about it now. It’s a pretty decent game.
I still haven’t watched season 3 yet. For some reason it’s now apparently socially unacceptable to not watch a tv show the instant it’s been on American tv
ESO, my thoughts were ‘standard MMORPG with first person view’. I didn’t play this weekend though so not sure how much has changed if anything since the last stress test
I’m normally ages behind on my US TV viewing because I don’t have Foxtel and I’m not really a fan of pirating so I wait for the dvd/bluray release of seasons.
Far as I can tell nothing’s really changed since the last stress test. It doesn’t really feel like a standard MMO to me, but maybe that’s because I’ve played so many MMOs what I consider standard is different. It definitely ticks some of the standard MMO boxes, but there’s enough of a difference in it when compared to games like WoW, TOR, LOTRO, AoC etc that it’s got my interest.
Yeah, it’s definitely got an MMO feel to it, but I find it very different from the usual lot and in a very good way.
I’m waiting til bonus time to pick up the S1+2 set that comes with a Daenerys figure, and the S3 set that somes with the dragon figure. Had my eye on them a little while now but my money keeps vanishing on other stuff.
Another morning, another step towards global thermonuclear war.
Well, not really, be we are close to the road to the Third World War.
Morning everyone, I feel I need to buy a beard comb
DARK SOULS 2
THE COUNTDOWN CONTINUES
Only (severed legs) eleven days to go!
*twitch/foam*
I decided a while ago that I was going to go into Dark Souls 2 rusty; that I wasn’t going to play Dark Souls in the couple of months leading up to March 14. My subconscious is working against me, though, because I had an incredibly long Dark Souls dream last night with tonnes of invasions and battles. It was a pretty great dream, but a little exhausting to be killed over and over again in my sleep, and now I have a headache as if I’d just stayed up all night playing the game.
Here’s the latest news:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/03/your-dark-souls-2-questions-answered/
Long video in which Aussie Youtuber VaatiVidya answers questions about Dark Souls 2 and why he is so hot.
FROM Software discuss the engine they created for Dark Souls 2.
http://www.examiner.com/article/dark-souls-2-pc-ps4-and-xbox-one-graphics-engine-discussed-by-from-software
I don’t think this should be read as confirmation of a next-gen version of Dark Souls 2, but rather an acknowledgement that they have future-proofed for games they might develop in the future with that engine. (This is purely my speculation)
http://www.gamerheadlines.com/2014/02/5-ways-dark-souls-2-improves-upon-its-predecessor/
Five ways in which Dark Souls 2 improves upon its predecessor. No new information in there for those who have followed along at home with this countdown.
And in other news that has emerged, which doesn’t really need links:
* Demon’s Souls 2 (which would be a Sony-exclusive) is thought to be too risky a venture. Multi-platform releases are the way of the future. It has been 100% confirmed that there will not be a Demon’s Souls 2.
* Dark Souls 2 pre-orders are 50% higher than they were for Dark Souls.
I like Dark Souls. Do you?
Nup.
damn, just a couple of weeks? That crept up quicker than expected
I don’t think you were dreaming, you were probably sleep-Soulsing.
I checked, believe me. Deus Ex is still in the console 😛
Maybe you sleep-bought the on-demand version?
Picked up PC Powerplay on the weekend, which has a hands on preview, and apparently Dark Souls II was built for PC first, and then ported to consoles.
Also, sorry I haven’t got my address to you yet, my PC decided to stop working, so I’m doing all my internet browsing on my phone. Should have it fixed by the end of the week.
No worries, man. Hope it comes good.
Dark Souls 1 still hangs over my head. Unfinished. Taunting me. Slowly driving me into insanity. The game’s punishing me when I’m not even playing it.
Not really a surprising figure, Dark was the multiplatform semi-sequel to a PS3 exclusive so xbox only players had no attachment to the series. Now it’s an established and somewhat widely known cult franchise, preorders of a sequel were always going to be substantially larger.
Is there something about Demon’s Souls that makes it exclusive to sony for the lifetime of the series on name alone? I wonder if that’s why they made dark instead of demon’s 2 in the first place
Yeah, something to do with Atlus (the publisher of Demon’s Souls) and an exclusivity deal with Sony.
Yes! Day count has returned!
Amazing game ahead.
Any idea why it’s a Friday release and not a Thursday?
YES!
…
No.
That seems like a good thing, to me. Pick it up Friday lunch during work, knock off a little early, don’t sleep for a few days…
Yeah, on reflection, I think you’re right: they were considering the impact on the economy when every awesome person in the country suddenly begs off work a day early.
It’s out on the 13th. Which is a Thursday? And also 10 days away.
@shane
Yeah, that’s what the website has listed for EB. Could have sworn the last time I was at the CBD one they had the 14th written on their preorder shelf placeholders.
I’m confused.
Edit: When Shane started the countdown I was going to ask if there was one day too many on the clock, but then the EB visit reinforced the Friday thing so I thought no more of it. No idea what is going on now.
This @markserrels article from last year says 14th:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/dark-souls-ii-has-an-australian-release-date-and-a-new-trailer-and-a-collectors-edition/
Wikipedia pointed straight to that as a source for NA 11th, JP 13th, PAL 14th. Might have been revised but I don’t know what to think at this point.
Yeah, latest indications from most retailers suggest 14th here in Australia. Which, time differences etc, makes it the 13th in Europe.
Hotness issue aside, that VaatiVidya video was super-informative and actually set my mind at ease on a few points. Except invasions – fuck not being able to opt-out completely. Still probably going to do the first play-through offline. If it’s anything like my current play through, I’m pretty much ALWAYS getting invaded at the least convenient time. I win more than I lose, but sometimes the invaders are completely dishonourable assholes who will fight normally just fine until it becomes obvious they’re going to lose, then they run away to shield themselves with enemies I haven’t killed yet to buy themselves time to munch more humanity sprites. Ugh. The cowards should just die with some dignity. (RANT!)
Discovering an invader is ‘one of those’ is enough to make me just run through the nearest boss fog or find somewhere really fucking difficult to get to and snipe them with Gough’s greatbow. (Sometimes if I’m quick I can do it while they’re running. It’s really satisfying and a little funny to land a hit in the square of someone’s back when they start running away to get to a safe spot to take some humanity. Especially since if they were successful, you can usually have a second shot lined up and ready to land by the time they pick themselves up off the ground.)But yeah, to what everyone else is talking about: (because they’re clearly not as into Dark Souls as they should be) I was surprised that VaatiVidya was such a stud. He’s the complete package! He’s iInto/an expert on the best parts of Dark Souls lore (seriously, I devoured the entire Prepare to Cry series last week during dinner), doesn’t make his channel personality-based but content-based, is Aussie, and is hot. If I were a woman, I’d probably be tracking him down and claiming him as
my propertymine.At any rate, this timing is good. I’m two achievements from 100%! I only have three weapons left for the weapon achievement (Gwynn’s Greatsword, Greatshield of Artorias, Priscilla’s Dagger – the tail-cut is going to be the worst. Going to go for one-shotting it to agro, then die, de-agro and try again – do NOT want to be doing it in NG+2, it’s bad enough killing poor Sif again – *sadface*), and only have to get the other ending, then I’m done. Will be doable before DS2 lands.
Niiiiice work, man. You’re about to join the gaming elite.
PS: That tail cut worried me too, but I got it first time. There’s plenty of great advice on the wikis about best weapons and tactics. I think I used pyromancy.
PPS: I don’t think Priscilla de-agros. I could be wrong, though.
She does not.
Dangit! I foresee many deaths, then.
Also, I tried for it many, many times on the first playthrough. Then someone I summoned for help with it went and killed her. Even after I pointed at the ‘need tail’ message I’d left and everything… So yeah, will be soloing.
Seriously, upgraded pyromancy is the recommendation of the day. Great Chaos Fireball or Great Combustion. Right in the tail. Before she aggros is best.
That’s probably what I’ll try. Helm of dusk, bellowing dragoncrest ring, power within, great fireball (highest damage – equal to great chaos but only 1 attunement slot and no lava on floor). That or grind up another two levels of attunement for 3 slots.
From what I’m reading, I have the sneaking suspicion this may even be overkill. (My ascended flame is maxed. I did that as soon as I got it, due to PVP concerns, before I started playing offline.)
Not that 3 attunement slots would go astray… I might do that after I get my dex up to 50 (only 8 points to go!) to make it a super-fast cast speed. (50 vit, end, str so far, 42 dex.) A couple of the pyromancies are good to have up your sleeve for PVP. I can handle most folks with sword-and-board (HAVEL LAUGHS AT YOUR PUNY SPELLS, MAGES) thanks to my high-damage/high-poise/medium-mobility, but there are some folks who you can tell are determined backstabbers, and those ones need to be rolled-away-from and pelted with surprise pyromancy to lure them into making a (horribly ill-advised) frontal assault.
Ha! Be careful not to one-hit kill, because you’ll get nothing 😛
whoever decided the standard working week should be 5 days straight was an idiot
So what’s your alternative for a standard 7 day week? 3 days work, 1 day break, 2 days work, 1 day break, repeat? Some other permutation?
I mean, I struggle most days regardless but damn if I don’t love having Friday evening through Sunday sleep time to just enjoy doing anything.
4 on 3 off. Sometimes I’m tempted by working in the mines for 6 months on and however many months off
They call that “compressed hours” at my workplace, a friend of mine has just started doing it. Certainly would make sense, it’s not like I get much done on a Friday anyway. :p
I would happily work 4 10-hour days to have Fridays off, or even Wednesday so I’m only ever working 2 days in a row.
My workplace will never offer it though.
6 days off, 1 day on.
What about working 2 19 hour days in a week (38 hours) for 5 days off?
Nah.
I would totally consider that. EPIC MARATHON WORKFRENZY TIEM!
Morning TAT how are we all? Personally I am excited and terrified as in just under a months time I’ll of (assuming my visa is accepted) arrived in China. Where I will likely spend two months in isolation lost and confused.
I mean taY*
spend all your time squating in one of those abandoned cities. Assuming Chinese law is like Australian law (it’s a big assumption I’ll give you that), in a few years you could lay legal claim to a whole city…or ciTAY if you will
Yes, first some random city, then the world.
if you ever need a bailout from a awkward situation there, feel free to call me. 😛
I’m sure your advice on getting kicked in the nads would surely come in handy.
I’ve developed a precognitive ability to sense these things now.
I mean, it hasn’t actually helped, but I can sense ’em coming now.
Does this precognitive ability fire whenever you see anyone at all?
Whenever I see TAT as an acronym I always think of RPGWorld. *sigh* Times are Tough.
http://rpgworldcomic.com/d/20001021.html
Started working my way through Dragon Age for the millionth time. I kept meaning to go back to it and cross off all the side mission stuff I missed but I kept not getting there. Finished all the Ostagar stuff, start doing other quests and suddenly want to change from a shield warrior to a mage.
I’m so bad at this…
It took me multiple attempts to get through that game because I kept going back and making a new character.
I’ve still been meaning to play through some of the DLC for both Origins and DA2 before Inquisition comes out.
I reckon that the mage has the most interesting story, but Dragon Age was the first game in a long while to actually let you use your shield as a weapon (and looks awesome doing it).
I actually need to plan to get the DLC stuff done too, I guess.
Solution: Arcane warrior.
Mage with a sword and a shield.
Morning, TAY.
Stick of Truth is near, and I’ll stop bugging everyone about it.
Also, I won my first derby in Next Car Game last night! \o/
Where’s NCG up to in terms of multiplayer? That’s going to be one of the main reasons for me to pick it up.
They’re working on it.
Single player is awesome, too.
Definitely worth it
Rumour is, The Legend of Zelda and Pokemon Kanto versions of Monopoly; and Super Mario Connect Four are in the works. Exciting!
Bought.
And I don’t even like Monopoly.
Monopoly is the worst. And Nintendo Monopoly is silly.
BUYING CHARACTERS IS SILLY.
So against all expectations I actually sunk some decent time into Fallout New Vegas over the weekend. I finished the Old World Blues DLC (which I was previously halfway through) and now I’m taking the Lonesome Road. Man, I’d forgotten just how good this game is. Like it’s just… really really good.
Once I’m done with Lonesome Road I’ll go actually finish the main story, though I feel the real story of New Vegas has always been the story of the Courier’s past, and while I feel that portioning it out via DLC was kinda bullshit, I do love that the story in the DLC is laid out in a way that feels like you’re almost backtracking, like you’re meeting the other courier Six from the opposite direction to meet at the Divide. It’s all very poetic.
I wish I was playing New Vegas right now.
Best hint I can give without giving anything away: don’t skip side-quests and head straight for the end of the story. It’s worth doing as much as you can first.
The reason I haven’t finished the game yet is because back when this game out I did nothing but explore and do sidequests. I wound up rolling a second character after the first DLC came out because I was unhappy with the build I had when my first character arrived at the Sierra Madre. Once I’m done with the DLC I have nothing to do. I’ve also seen my wife finish it like 3 times but that was 3 years ago so I’ve only got vague memories.
As it stands…
I’ve killed House and inserted Yes Man into the Lucky 88’s computer so I think that’s locked me into the Wild Card ending. I went to Yes Man and got the mission to protect President Kimball but because I accidentally killed some NCR rangers the NCR hated me and I can’t go near Hoover Dam, so I auto-failed that mission (something to think about on my next playthrough) and I’m now getting news reports about his assassination. So once I’m done with Lonesome Road I have whatever mission is after that, so I’m pretty close. I have a save at a point before you get locked into an ending track but I think because it’s been so long I’m just going to pick it up with a new character.My third character is one I started back when the game was still really glitchy and had memory leak issues which caused long load times and serious chugging making the game unplayable once I hit the 30 hour mark on my second character. I made him with a high explosives score because I wanted to do something different. Normally I just sell dynamite and grenades but I’ll be darned if they aren’t a ton of fun to actually use. I reckon I’ll try and get the NCR-friendly ending with that one, then start a fourth character to favour the Legion.
I never did think much of Old World Blues. I saw why people loved it, but I played it after Dead Money and Honest Hearts and the lack of a plot with any ‘oomph’ made me feel a bit sad.
But goddamn did Lonesome Road deliver. Ulysses might suffer from CRYPTIC METAPHOR syndrome but there’s a lot to love about the guy. It makes me wish there was a post-game in NV, I really think Lonesome Road could serve as a hell of a extended ending/epilogue.
I was more excited by the idea of Old World Blues than I was about the execution. It was a perfect love letter to 50s-era science fiction. It wasn’t a great deal of fun to play (I just really grew to really hate nightstalkers and robo-scorpions) but I enjoyed the general idea and the personality of the minds in the think tank. A great deal of thought went into crafting the Big MT, and I respect it. My least favourite DLC was Honest Hearts – I feel like they didn’t really establish the character of the burned man very well so I didn’t really care about him or his people or any of what was going on at all. I got in and out and was glad to be done.
Dead Money was really excellent. I hated it at first, found it frustrating (too many traps and dead ends) but once I got into the meat of it it was incredibly engaging.
Oh yeah, Old World Blues had charm/gameplay galore, but after the rather underwhelming performances of Elijah and Graham I just wanted a damn character who I’d love to try to kill. Honest Hearts is easily the crappiest. Boring, boring, boring.
Dead Money was alright, I feel if it had undergone a bit more expansion it would’ve easily tied with Lonesome Road.
I only got to play Old World Blues and Lonesome Roads. Man they were so great, I also started Dead Money but then my computer crashed and my save got wiped. =(
As far as DLC goes in New Vegas I both love it and hate it! I love the story DLC because they are so interesting / fun to play but they also have armour & weapon pack DLC which, next to costume / hat packs, is my most hated DLC.
I think most of the weapon/armour packs were platform/store exclusive launch DLC (which sucks) but I think I managed to pick it all up anyway. I also got both Fallout 3/New Vegas and all associated DLC super-cheap on Steam so while I prefer to play on console I will always have a copy available long after the death of my 360 (unless Steam disappears).
I got the GOTY edition which means I get all the weapon packs … Which means I start off with a truckload of weapons / armours. =P
Who would’ve thought running around as a sunflower spitting sunbeams at zombies would be so much fun? 😛
….I haven’t actually tried any multiplayer matches as the other plants yet…
SUNFLOWER POWER \o/
The best part about this is that he’s not even talking about a game.
Anyone here know of or is a traffic predictor wizard? I’m either half an hour late or half an hour early. I think I’ve arrived precisely when I meant to once.
Plugged it last week, but the microgame Province has <3 hours to go on kickstarter, and you can get a complete copy for $7: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/laboratory/province-a-competitive-building-microgame-for-2-pl
Loveheart or less than three? 😀
Hi TAY
Back in the country and back at work. Why can’t all holidays come with a week to get over them. Actual holiday was great but anything involved in travel is a nightmare. Thankfully our outbound flights were all ok, well other than when my in flight entertainment got stuck in kid mode.
Back to the daily grind however we have a scan today so more excited than upset at returning to work. So that turned out well.
Morning all.
I’ve previously mentioned that Tales of Symphonia was showing its age with the re-release, engine wise. Got a bit more time with it on the weekend, and it’s funny how fast I’ve gotten back into it. I guess the story and gameplay still holds up pretty well. Also refreshing to be able to play with the Japanese voice acting.
And then because I hate myself (and I had 4 more days of Pokémon Bank access), I went through the national dex in Y and listed everything I didn’t have, and trawled the old Sapphire / Leaf Green / Soul Silver / Pearl / White saves to bring everything forward that I’d need (aside from the event legendaries I never got). Also clocked Black in about 11 hours, having stripped the game of all legendaries (all caught with premier balls). Now I’m starting on Black 2. Must be the whole Twitch Plays Pokémon thing that’s got me playing them again.
How far have you got? I have …
Just destroyed the second Human Farm you visit (the first one you destroy). Right now I’m in the second seal cave thing.I’ve actually got further then I did when I played it years ago. So everything that’s happening is new to me. =D
Still early days for me, only just up to the
first / fire sealI’ve finished it several times before. I saw that there’s a trophy for finishing the item encyclopedia – from memory it took 3 playthroughs to do this on the cube. I wonder if it’s been adjusted at all or if this is still the case.
Haha, I think I will give getting that achievement a skip if that’s the case. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Tales of Symphonia but I don’t think I will be playing through it 3 times. XD
I stopped after two on cube because the ‘alternate ending based on favourite character’ was a bit of a let down – it was pretty well the same. I don’t think that needs to be spoilered?
The first time I played Symphonia was in 2008 or so and it still held up pretty well. But I guess that was before I played Vesperia or any of the newer games (previously I had only played Eternia which is even older than Symphonia :P)
I can’t remember if it has random battles or not but hopefully it still holds up well enough for me to finish it. It’s been on the pile a long time…
I can’t really give an objective response to how the game itself has held up outside the engine – this is one of my favourite games of all time and the nostalgia is well and truly in full effect.
The soundtrack in the CE is a bit silly – they dumped MP3s straight on data CDs, but the less than 500MB of files is spread over two discs.
Our CE isn’t as good as the US one since they got their soundtrack separate and over 4 discs (I assume it’s better quality?) and they got a few extra goodies thrown in like a steelbook case.
It doesn’t have random battles, enemies are on the screen. IIRC it was the first Tales to ditch the random encounter stuff. Symphonia is basically the first ‘modern’ Tales game.
Oh good! Going back to the random battles in FFX/X-2 HD will be hard 😛
Over the weekend I discovered that I’m addicted to Lego Marvel Super Heroes. I’m four hours in, and the game has just unfolded into a GTA-esque open world title with so much to do – it’s amazing.
The characters are awesomely funny and the gameplay is the same Lego-building crap you know and love (or hate). I haven’t had so much fun in a video game since Pokemon Y or GTA V.
Hola TAY
I had a busy Saturday- went to my parents Friday night and played Suburbia, which my mother appears to be some kind of savant at- she somehow generated a crazy economic engine and then bought her suburb a good reputation. Spent all Saturday helping my dad jackhammer a bunch of rocks on the farm for a tractor shed he’s having built- we got it within a much lower variation in level than it was.
Raced back to the city for a friend’s birthday, went out for Indian which was nice, and then spent all Sunday doing not much due to aching everything from the jackhammer.
A Monday Morning Question: Which video game has the best economy? what do you like to see in a virtual economy?
I thought the GTA V economy was quite innovative. But I also liked trading in AOE2 when that came out, and thought that was quite clever too.
If you’re talking resource management in terms of economies, Sim City and Enemy Nations were quite good in this regard, in that you really can’t prioritise everything.
That said, as a gameplay mechanic, I like Dark Souls’ economy. It’s simple: souls buy everything.
Total Annihilation / Supreme Commander. I like how resources are based on throughput rather than stockpiles.
Any economy where you find discarded money lying on the ground or in pots/chests is the best economy! I want to go to there.
Well presumably Eve Online’s economy is the best given how madly complex and authentic it feels.
X3’s is probably the best one I’ve personally used to any extent. I made bucketloads of money running a silicon mine, crystal fabricator & series of solar power plants then running the cargo through the neighbouring sectors in my fleet of captured pirate freighters escorted by squadrons of captured pirate fighters. Somehow I got really really good at making pirates bail out and which let me steal their mostly intact ships, sell the most damaged ones to fund repairs on the least damaged ones and I had a steady supply of effectively free light cargo runners.
Waiting for my “Redundancy Package Recalculation” email today. This is what makes working in this dead husk of a company worth while.
*continues fidgeting*
KA-CHING!
Is that when you’re going to buy me a PS4?
Morning TAY hope you all had a good weekend.
Had alot of fun playing through Gears of War 1 and 2 over the weekend with a friend (had never played them before) decided I need a bigger TV, 40 inch for split screen gaming just ain’t cutting it.
Surprised no-one has mentioned anything about Dark Souls ye-oh wait.
Dark Souls? You’ve come to the wrong place, friend. No Dark Souls talk to be found here.
Dark… Souls? What are you talking about?
Is it this?
Disappointed Shane, I thought you were going to direct the guy here.
I don’t know, man… I don’t think that kind of behaviour befits an award-nominated author such as that guy.
PHOENIX WRIGHT 5
Possible minor spoilers. But funny.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zzpoasharw8joaa/2014-02-24%2020.12.56.jpg
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I wish more people would compete for the greatest freak-out ever.
Morning all, hope you all had a good weekend. The Numenera recap is coming along slowly but I should have it done by either tomorrow or Wednesday. My weekend was just a bit too busy to really devote any large chunks of time to it.
In other news, I tried out ESO and it didn’t really grab me or make me want to play more than about an hour. I think I’ll just go back to Skyrim and hope another MMO is more to my liking. I also played some Blood Bowl and I think I might try recording a match to test out some of the recording stuff I’ve gotten together. It would be funny to rewatch my failures and my terrible, terrible dice rolls (for the record, I should probably stop trying to throw snotlings and goblins XD).
I dont get how people do it. I was told 5 hours sleep would be enough.
Once you train yourself to do it, it totally is. I used to be a light sleeper for eight hours. Now I sleep like a log for five and feel about the same afterwards.
Im a going nowhere in life slacker who sleeps 10hours+ most nights
Get insomnia! Eventually you get used to no sleep.
Question, what are people who are getting the South Park game doing? Are you bothering to import? (originally i wasn’t going to cause what was removed sounded pretty minor but the more i l read the worse it sounds, ) If yes where is a good place (I usually get from the UK but i hear they’re censored too.)
If I get it I’m probably just gunna go with Steam. The stuff that’s been censored doesn’t worry me too much.
the censored stuff didn’t bother me, I was thinking it sounded more offensive than the uncensored version. I think the internet over reacting as usual made me question my choice. Still undecided, might just get it off the american psn.
Digital download for myself, most likely. During sales.
I’ll be getting it on my PS3, do you think it’ll be up straight away for download on the American PSN?
I ordered it from GMG (who confirmed the PC version for Australia is still censored) since I had $40 credit & they had a 25% off coupon so ultimately it only took $5 out of my bank. It sounds like they’ve at least put some effort into making the cut content something that lampoons the stupidity of cutting the content so it might be a bit of a laugh.
If you’re after the uncensored PC version it might be worth getting a code from ozgameshop when they start selling them and activating it with a vpn to be on the safe side. If you want console your best bet would probably be American amazon.
I’m just gonna buy the local version. I want the crying koala.
Just getting the Steam release. AFAIK the AU version’s only cuts were the anal probing bit, and the way they cut it (covering the screen with a crying koala) is so hilariously South Park that I think it’s almost better censored than it would have been untouched.
yeah i thought the same thing, that the way it was censored almost made it better, I’m just trying to make sure that not too much is gone, I read over the weekend that 3 mini games and 8 scenes are removed.
Preordered from GreenManGaming.
If it’s censored, so be it.
If not, cool.
https://twitter.com/GreenManGaming/statuses/438700141923799041
They told me it was when I asked.
Maybe when it’s a few bucks on Steam..
Download this and extract to South Park steam folder http://www.mediafire.com/download/v3zvdi3z9uwbe1m/South+Park+Stick+of+Truth+Uncensored+Patch+v2.zip
will uncensor it
Really loving my PS4 at the moment. I only have the one game, so I’m hoping to get another soon. I’ve also been watching Blu Rays and enjoying being able to do that. So far I’ve watched Scott Pilgrim vs The World and The Muppets.
One day I too shall watch an Blu Ray
Definitely worth it if you have a high def tv.
Time to upgrade the VCR!
Grab Resogun.
Also, if you have PS+, you get free games each month.
I’m finding my PS4 is way better than my XBone in terms of downloadable titles. Some great ones out at the moment, and some awesome ones on the way.
I still like the XBone controller better 😛
I’m also waiting to find out how much the tickets for the QOTSA concert in Hobart are. Not sure if I can justify the expense, and it’s also a pain getting to Hobart when you don’t have a car, but I will find out.
My mates got tickets to QOSTA & NIN, they paid 135 a piece for the ticket.. So if it’s NIN & QOTSA expect similar I guess.
$95, which isn’t too bad, but I don’t have that type of money on me at the moment. 🙁
That’s pretty good, especially if it’s GA not allocated areas and other stupid shit.
I rung nintendo for some help with my wiiU. I was disappointed when they picked up so quickly because they were playing the isle delphino music
‘disappointed at not being placed on hold for long enough’
I…. I think that’s a world first.
I like nintendo music okay?!
When i worked for Hardly Normal, i frequently asked to be put back on hold for our Extended Warranty department because B**CH YOU CUT OFF THE MIDDLE OF STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN… they also laughed a lot at me when they picked up the phone only to hear me belching out the lyrics to it…
I was about to start going do-do-do-do dodo when he picked up
You should have… instantly breaks the ice 😛
Don’t you have a UK import Wind Waker Wii U?
Yup. they still help you
Awesome. I was worried they might give you the run around because of that.
He told me to make a new account on the WiiU and make it a british account. I was able to download it and I can now swap between the two at will
Ninty Rep “Hello, sorry for putting you on ho-”
Scree “No! Go away!”
N “sorry?”
S “Put me back on hold!”
N “I’m sorry, I still don’t follow.”
S “The music! You interrupted it! Gosh, you have way too good of service there. I WANT TO SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER!”
The enterprise and government group with Optus have some really chill hold music and I’m always totally OK with chilling out, listening away.
Part of that is it reminds me of better times, getting paid absurdly well while late-night fault-logging for wholesale partners, shift-work in my improvised recliner-chairs (three office-chairs put together, the middle one sideways, so I could lounge on it and nap). Bringing in the laptop to pay the WoW beta and reading webcomics.
Hello, TAY!
My weekend was pretty swell. Had the biggest laze-about day on Saturday. I was planning to go to the movies and see The Wind Rises at 10am, but I woke up at 8:30 and it was pouring rain so I just sat and ate junk food all day instead. Needed to do groceries too, but then I didn’t.
Sunday was movie filming fun day. I won’t be winning an award any time soon, but I hope the scenes aren’t completely unusable! I won’t talk about what we did though… I don’t want Doc’s lawyers chasing me.
Next year’s movie should be an underdog sports movie where I get to show off my frisbee skills. Opportunities to boast about them are much too infrequent for my liking 😛
Also I got offered a new lease on my unit today! With no rent increase! \o/ Everything’s coming up Milhouse!
Sorry, next year’s movie is the Dark Souls musical >:(
But… but… my Eye of the Tiger training montage!
I’m sure we can work it in. Care to replace Frisbees with throwing knives?
Didn’t have ANY caffeine on the weekend. Suffered through the withdrawal headaches etc, eventually felt better, came in to work without the craving.
FIVE CUPS OF COFFEE BEFORE 11AM MOFOS I CAN SEE THROUGH TIME I’M SO JACKED RIGHT NOW GUYS YOU DON’T EVEN
Worth it
That seems excessive.
I disagree.
I know that feeling
Heh, saw Australian Moto GP legend Daryl Beattie this morning whilst I was at some random servo just behind Movieworld.
Random thought:
I wonder if anyone here has sweet frisbee skills…
Unfortunately, I think my frisbee skills have only soured with age.
Nah
I used to be… sort of OK… been years though so it’ll take me a while to get back into it…
#truestory
My dog hates my throwing skills, because they are non-existent
I would if my dog would stop devouring them 😛
I want a sugar coated Frisbee that you can catch with your mouth, dog style.
That would be sweet.
*slow clap*
I played Ultimate Frisbee that one time…
I used to. Could totally do forehanded throws, between legs, swooping or curving throws, swooping AND curving throws.
Now I’d be lucky to get the thing flying in a straight line.
Perfectly level flying is the supreme challenge of the Frisbee-throwing pilot.
Flying frisbee’s while piloting an aircraft doesn’t seem entirely safe in the first place
Looking for something to do after you play Wonderwall on the quad, huh?
I am extremely good at throwing a frisbee in a completely unintended direction.
Me too!
Public Holiday.
Oh yeah.
I didn’t do very much this weekend. Played a fair bit more of Disgaea D2 but got absolutely wiped out by the final boss and got a bad end and he was so insanely difficult relative to the rest of the game up until then (I’m very over-leveled at this point) that I kind of think it’s just a huge ‘fuck you’ to players and I’m not going to play it any more.
Did some more grinding in Kantai Collection. My Yamato advanced to level 52 (8 away from her Operation Ten-Go remodel), Kitakami became my second ship to make it to level 80 and I’ve gotten Kiso into the 50s now as well, so about 15 to go before I can rank her up and get my third (and final) Torpedo Cruiser which should help free up some versatility. Running low on resources so going to take a break for a day or two, but before that I spent about 2 hours sparkling every destroyer I own and trying to collect all the ones I need to finish out the newer composition quests. Sent out a fleet of Akagi, Yura and a pair of destroyers on an 80-hour expedition which will hopefully complete and unlock the submarine expeditions. I need to figure out a good way to get one of my subs (probably Imuya as she’s highest level) to 50 so I can do all the sub expeditions. According to rumor, they’re going to be adding the first non-Japanese ship to the game at the end of March and were dropping hints that it might affect the sub expedition quests. Fans have been all speculating about crazy shit like them adding the Bismark or USS Enterprise or something, but IMO it’s almost guaranteed that it’ll be one of the i-500 series submarines, which were German U-boats which surrendered to Japan after Germany was defeated. Anyway, once I finish with Kiso I’m thinking I may put some effort into Jintsuu to get her new just-released upgrade version with the new Searchlight equipment. Oh, and while doing my usual build quests over the weekend I finally got Kinu. Previously whenever the RNG smiled upon me while building the light cruiser & sub recipe and gave me a rare cruiser, I’d get the much rarer Abukuma and not the less rare Kinu. I’m getting very very low on dock space now though, only about 5 free slots, so may end up having to hate my money a bit. Thinking I might expand the construction docks to 4 at the same time.
I also tried out War Thunder on PS4. I only had time for a single game before getting kicked off the TV. Did really well though, six aerial kills, four of which were with the first Biplane I sortied with, and only one death. Playing with the Japanese aircraft at this point because I think I prefer the turning, dogfighting style of the UK and JP planes, but don’t want to fly Spitfires. Once I’m better I’ll probably spend some time with the Americans since I’ve always wanted an air combat game where you can fly 50s jets like the F-80 and the F9F. Sadly they’ve apparently capped their efforts to around 1953 so none of the cool late-50s jets like the Cruader or the Starfighter will be in the game 🙁 Also unfortunately they don’t let you log into your PS4 War Thunder account from PC. Eventually this is meant to be enabled but apparently it’s contingent on them getting to the point that they can keep the PS4 and PC versions completely in sync with each other. They’re both on the same patch at the moment (1.37) but the PC is a few fixes ahead. In the mean time I think I might sign up for another account and just play on PC, though it’s frustrating that I won’t be able to keep my progress cross-platform (PS4 accounts must be new accounts apparently – they say it’s a Sony restriction but that’s pure shit, since FFXIV allows you to use one account in both places)
It’s good to see that KanColle is still going strong. I figured that considering the sheer number of ships that you had collected that you must have been close to maxing out your capacity. It’s just a shame that the only way to get around that is to get rid of ships or pay money for extra space but I suppose they must make money somehow.
I don’t think I’ll end up getting back into KanColle. The game itself was fun but it’s a browser game at heart and I’m not a huge fan of those. I’ll wait and see how Kai turns out and I hope they keep the idea going. I might still check out the Castle Collection one or whatever it was called to see how different that is.
It would be especially trolly that once you get the searchlights on Jintsuu it increases the chance to be focus-fired by the enemy. It would be historically accurate but game-wise it wouldn’t be fun. I reckon the speculation on the German U-boats is pretty accurate but they might always opt for another Russian ship or perhaps some of the other ships that were taken as reparations by the Allies. Although it would be funny to see a Dutch or an Australian ship or even HMS Prince of Wales.
The reason I’m low on capacity is that I’m keeping ships I have no intention of ever using, I just need them for composition quests. I could if I wanted clear out about 15 slots. I’ve only got one double (I have a second Iku, because you can’t build her in the game at the moment and I got a second via the Christmas event and so if I fucked up and my main one got sunk, I want a replacement).
In terms of stuff I’m missing, I’m missing Destroyers Uzuki (added recently) and Akigumo and I think one other drop-only rare one. Missing Subs I-8 and Maruyu – Maruyu is supposed to be like a booby prize from Large Ship Construction but haven’t gotten yet. I don’t have any of the Agano cruiser sisters (Agano, Noshiro, Yahagi) and I’ve only got two of the four Mogami cruisers (missing Mikuma and Kumano, have Mogami and Suzuya). I don’t have Musashi, but she’s not buildable yet and will probably be even harder to get than Yamato was, I really lucked out with Yamato. I’m also missing Taihou and Shoukaku. Then there’s the Kai-2s, I need to get Kiso K2, Verniy (upgraded Hibiki), Naka, Jintsuu, Kinugasa, Isuzu, Kongou and Hiei up. Also technically in terms of appearance I need to get Zuihou, Zuikaku, Chitose and Chiyoda to their top remodels as well since they have different appearances at their top remodel.
Apparently KanColle the game doesn’t make very much money for Kadokawa. It’s been tuned such that you could happily never pay for it. I spent some money in it ages ago to buy extra repair docks. They don’t have any of the usual time-saving bullshit like double XP if you subscribe or anything, the only thing they recently added that is a money sink is the Marriage system, where you need to buy a 700 yen ring & registration papers so you can take your Waifu beyond level 99 (applying the item insta-levels her to 100 and raises cap to 150). You get one of them for free via quests but I’ve been in PVP with guys that have upped all their subs. And a fair few that have married multiple destroyers, which is kind of disturbing since the most popular like Inazuma and Ikazuchi look about ten years old. 😐 But anyway.
The Searchlight item is a reference to the fact that Jintsuu used a searchlight during the Guadalcanal night operations to bracket enemy targets for focused fire. In the game what it does is decreases your opponents Night Battle crit chance, increases your fleet’s night accuracy and crit chance, but also makes the ship using the light more likely to be targeted by the enemy. Nice Risk/Reward thing IMO. Jintsuu’s the only one that gets the item which is nice since I constantly get her and use her for scrap, more often even than I get Naka, so maybe I can actually use one. Her Kai-2 art is pretty nice as well.
Also, I think they’re going to run out of ships. There’s whole entire classes of Destroyers not in the game yet and a few really important ones that will obviously appear at some point, eg Nowaki (one of the ‘miracle ships’ alongside Yukikaze, Shigure and Hibiki). They’ve already got all the Battleships. There’s a few carriers not in the game yet (Shinano is the most obvious, speculated to be the next big event reward since she was laid down as a Yamato-class battleship before being converted. There’s also Unryuu, Amagi and Katsuragi) but after that you’re really left scraping the barrel, looking into ships that were cancelled or never completed (eg. Tosa or the other two Yamato class) or they really will have to look into foreign ships.
The fiction of the world as I understand would allow for other navies. However the unspoken truth of the matter is that the ships you’re fighting against are Americans. Their gun calibers are measured in Inches instead of centimeters and there’s nothing more alien than the Imperial measurement system. 😛 But I think the way it works is basically that the enemy ships are effectively the re-animated bodies of sunken ship-girls, so maybe the US Navy was wiped out first. If they go that route (the upcoming anime might expand on this) then they could probably work in any ships they wanted. I think they’d probably go easy on the US stuff – Arizona is probably off limits for example – but I’d probably seriously consider building a US battleship fleet. Bonus points if I can do stuff like put Fusou and Yamashiro into a fleet with the US battleships that sank them at Leyte Gulf and stuff. 😛
Also if they ever want to expand the game to a non-Japanese audience for serious, they’d probably need to have a reasonably diverse lineup to not be seen as imperialist propaganda or something.
i played a shitload of War Thunder when i got my ps4, kinda fizzled out cause I don’t know anyone that plays it. We should become psn friends,
We should. I can’t remember which account I was signed into when I was playing though. Probably atomiclemon since I’m trying to use my US account as primary now, but might have been my AU one (atomicstrawberry). Maybe add both.
will do I’m “Gutsoup” on the psn
I basically tried out a bunch of different nations because you get the win bonus for each military each day. If and when they sort out the PSN / PC thing let me know, I’m happy to jump back in
well today is certainly Monday!!!!
Flat tyre on the way to work, so had to sit on the side of the highway and change it
3 nails in the tyre, $166 for a new one, guess that’s not too bad.
Then i learned that the families 17year old cat died last night… i might not have been particularly fond of that cat, but any pet death is still sad…
and the only thing in the kitchen at work this morning was decaf instant coffee… WTF I DON’T EVEN…
i think monday just hates me and is trying to convey it as well as it can…
On the plus side, crispy duck for lunch, there’s no way that can go wrong right? 😛
If it makes you feel better I’m still on holidays…
…wait, that will do the opposite.
Butt in seriousness, hope your Monday picks up.
Especially with Russia at your door right now…**I am a bad personWell i’m on holidays next week so there’s that \o/
and yes you are<3Hello friends!
had a bit of a breakthrough with the game im working on and have decided to share a screenshot from my test setup!
http://i.imgur.com/B76bhiJ.png
Dont be too harsh with your judgement! Everything is completely untextured and camera angle is not finalised…. that still ways away!
Edit: yes, that dog is a tribute to Odie from the garfield comics, with some alterations to the jaw for animation purposes….
Looks interesting, looking forward to seeing a textured shot. 🙂
. o O (“Ride the pig, Gir! RIDE THE PIG.”)
INVADER ZIM!
ODIE!
Green woman is sniffing Green Man’s butt? Other than that, pretty cool!
Just realised next Monday is a public holiday.
Woo Canberra day!
But but, next monday is “Yay-i-don’t-have-to-go-to-work-for-3-weeks” day
Are you taking time off so you can enjoy some time with your mother?
I bet you were expecting a “your mum” joke here.isn’t it already? wink wink nudge nudge know what i mean?Yes i am, i think this is the first time she’s visited where i have the entire time off 😛
We might also be making a trip up to Canberra so it could be there should be some sort of lunch thing, but i will keep you posted on that 😛
Sounds good, and while you’re up here you should probably just move back too.
Iiiiii wish 😛
actually not really… IT’S TOO DAMN EXPENSIVE 😛
you should probably move here… it’s the only sensible solution…
or move back to Wagga so it’ll only take me a few hours to drive there 😛
Hurry up and buy a plane, it’ll solve all the travelling issues.
i tried typing in “Bering” last time i was at the airport but nothing happened,
I don’t think the buy menu has been enabled yet…
Though a lot of airport security spawned,
probably shouldn’t have been standing under an A380 at the international terminal trying to Bering Troll Melbourne Airport
Everyone should move to wagga, then I’d know people in town
Oh, cool. Unfortunately, though, it’s a week too early to be useful for Dark Souls 2.
Just take that time off and list it as a family emergency.
If I believe in Canberra Day, can I have a day off to celebrate too?
Because I’m willing to lower myself to that level.
Yes, as long as you don’t try to clear it with anyone else, or even mention it to them.
Is in SA too, Adelaide Cup day.
Played TW2 over the weekend. Playing the alternate Iorveth path this time on Dark mode. The cave full of Nekkers was pretty damn hard tbh, but now I’m through that everything seems a lot more cruisy.
Dark mode is instant death = save wiped right? Who is it just the harder than hard mode?
Also, which path do you reckon you’ll take with you when TW3 comes out?
Nah save isn’t wiped. I think that’s Dark Mode on TW1. Most hits will pretty much kill you, so Quen is your only way of taking anything. Most monsters take a lot more damage too. Guys that throw daggers are pretty much the worst -__-
What paths are known in TW3?
I was talking about the storyline that you could take with you from TW2 to TW3, similar to how TW2 recognised if your computer had a save file from TW1 and it would change a few dialogue options and a few extra characters would show up depending on what you did in the first game. I imagine that there will be more than a few changes depending on what story path you carried over to TW3 from TW2, considering the choices are rather more exclusive.
Ah, I see. I’m playing this on my 360 as I didn’t think my PC (at the time when I first bought TW2) could handle it. No idea if there will be a way to carry the save file across. I hope there’s a way to reflect some of these choices – I’ve heard there are a couple differences in TW2 if you had played TW1.
Didn’t get a lot of gaming time over the weekend but i did get a chance to try out Diablo 3’s latest patch and i gotta admit, it’s made D3 a pretty cool guy!
i know i know, it’s crap, it’s not as good as it should have been yada yada yada,
But with the revamped loot system, and now optimised netcode (no lag, what so ever, even with Steam downloading updates)
I had an amazing time… This is definitely what the game should have been out of the box…
Now i can’t wait to receive my Reaper of Souls collector’s ed \o/
It’s crap, it’s not as good as it should have been yada yada yada.
welll… WELL… YOUR FACE!
yeah! that sorted you out didn’t it?
REVEL IN MY SUPERIOR ARGUMENT SKILLS
EDIT – that i’ve had to edit because spellingz
Edit it again.
argument😛GODDAMMIT..
done XDI’ve been tempted to play through it again (I updated on Friday) but have no one to play with. =(
*cough*me*cough*
😛Bad cough you have there. Anyway, back to sighing because noone will play D3 with me.
*sigh*
I will play with you…
Yes! Finally someone will play with nob!
and maybe play some games after?I knew if I set that up for you you’d take it haha.
That’s what she said?
Well, it’s not that hard to bait Nob.
@blaghman, in fact, it’s not that hard to become a nob master baiter.
Yup. Thoroughly enjoying “new” D3. I almost thought that they had gone too far the other way – dishing out too many legendaries, etc. – but then I started playing with the new difficulties and it all made sense.
The number 1 lesson I will take away from this is to never buy a game that Jay Wilson is lead designer/project lead/general screwer-upper/whatever on.
I thought it was odd too initially… died a few times because on inferior gear and then it made a lot of sense XD…
also opens up a lot of new playstyles because of the skill enhancing weapons now, so it encourages you to try out new things… i am really enjoying it
I’ll just stand over here, playing PoE.
*doo doo doo doo*
Power Over Ethernet?
*runs for cover*
I’ma get you and cut you up boy >:D
Nah it’s all good. I’m just being small fry and playing Path of Exile. And I’m not going to cut you. Honest. 🙂
That person he paid “to cut you” on the other hand? Can’t really make promises.
I’ve have no idea what you’re talking about. *shifty eyes*
In a completely unrelated note. I won’t complete my “job” until I get my suitcase of
bloodmoneymoney“laundry”.I have had a look at it, and will give PoE a bash one day… i just have so much else to play that i payed for that i struggle to justify a F2P game
Fair enough, I completely understand. I too have a pile of stuff that I still need to play but PoE keeps drawing me back in. They’ve got their first large content update at the end of this week so I’ve been familiarising myself with it again.
Ultra Street Fighter IV lets you pick which version of the character you want to use. Prefer how Dhalsim worked in Super Street Fighter IV? Use him. Want Vanilla Ryu? Go for it.
They’re doing exhibition matches of this right now at SoCal Regionals and it is fucking brilliant.
Day one purchase.
I might as well ask again:
Does anyone’s workplace in Melbourne have any graduate or entry-level positions open?
I’d be pretty okay for that position! So please let me know if there’s any openings 🙂
(I’ll even buy you games! …maybe)
What sort of work are you looking for?
Not too sure :P. I have a Bachelor of Business from Monash but I only picked business cause it seemed pretty broad as I don’t have anything specific in mind.
I majored in Banking and Finance, and Econometrics so that’s a bit more specific.
i’ll keep an eye out at my work… they regularly advertise new positions, but not sure about the staff turnover in those departments
Thanks! We can totally be buddies! (not sure if a positive or negative for you :P)
I’ve met you before, you’re cool… which of course means it’s a negative thing, because i can’t have my poor reputation ruined by hanging with cool people
*hair flick*
FRIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEENDS \o/Sidenote – my hair is now long enough to pull off legitimate hair flicks… i should probably consider a haircut
#coolstorybro
Not until I see proof of this.
Well knowing my utter lazyness i’ll probably have a slightly more magnificent mane when i come to Canberra in a few weeks 😛
Spent nearly the entire weekend with the soldering iron. Started out ok, but then kinda fucked things up along the way trying to fix it. Stayed up til 10am Saturday night, and nearly 7am last night. BUT IT’S DONE NOW!
http://i.imgur.com/AagO20o.jpg
Non-destructive (/untraceable) hardware mod to enable backup/restore of the system NAND, in case of future need to drop back to an older system software version that’s still vulnerable and can run homebrew, do region-free, etc. Odds are I won’t even end up using it for ages if at all, but I enjoyed the challenge of trying to do it and am pretty happy with how it turned out 😛
Last night was shitty though. I must’ve re-soldered those pins about five times each trying to realign them after an earlier “fix”. Then when I thought I was done I discovered I’d snapped the ribbon cable off where it was attached to the ground rail. Thankfully managed to fix it with a small piece of wire offcut, and seems to have made it much stronger so it should be more resilient to future breakage.
Annoyingly though it doesn’t quite work properly. The idea is that you first attach it to a USB SD card reader, then turn the 3DS on and it triggers a bootrom error that sets things to a mode that makes it readable by an SD reader. The reader I was planning on using doesn’t do this though, the thing just boots normally. There’s a second reader in the house, a multi-card one. This now triggers the right boot error, but for whatever reason when plugging it into the PC it can’t be read as another drive. But luckily plugging it in with the OTHER reader makes it work, and I’ve made one image dump already. So at least it appears to work 😛
Still need to make a few more dumps to check for consistency, then test out an upgrade/downgrade to make sure it works properly. That’ll be the scary part.
I, uh, put a luigi sticker on my 3ds. If I hold my 3ds up to my face it looks like I have a mustache.
My 3DS is missing a little silicone thingy so if I put it on a table it slides around. You can’t get replacements
buy one of those furniture foot pads you put underneath large furniture, cut out little dots out of it and apply to each corner of your 3ds?
YOU DID WHAT
It’s one of these.
I hate stickers and stuff on consoles. Stock standard all the way 😛
But mustache.
Hairy taint?
YAYYYYY! Stuuuuuuf!
I have a question regarding classification of people that I’m genuinely curious about. But I’m unsure if I should post it, lest I unleash an unwarranted torment of flame. 🙁
So, spoilered. Don’t click if you’re hasty to make assumptions etc.
I’m looking for the phrases to describe people:– Females with an insanely vested interest in anything pro-female and everything anti-male are extreme feminists?
– Assholes like Westboro Baptist Church who picket soldier funerals etc are religious extremists?
– Anti-gay people who can’t see further than male-female relations are bigots etc?
– What are super pro-gay people called? Like the kind that will protest if a TV ad has straight people but no gay people, etc, equivalent to feminist etc.
I’m not trying to start any flamewars here, legit curious. I haven’t heard what some of these groups are actually called.
In general, I’d say someone was ‘Militantly pro-[whatever]’ if the category doesn’t exist or if I don’t know it.
That’s a good way to do it, I guess.
I would probably say the most appropriate way to describe one of those groups is a “blank” activist. Generally you can add and subtract stuff from it to better describe it. For instance, a blankety blank activist who blanks.
That’s sounds like a Numenera class description.
I am an active activist who activises.
“There’s so much more room for activities.”
And yes, I
may havelazily just straight pinched the Numenera class descriptor idea. 😛For #1, Radical feminist is the term I’ve heard used on both sides of the divide, it does have a history of being used as an insult but then I’ve seen it used as a self identifier as well. Probably the easiest thing to do is ask
For #2, I think the best term is theocratic fuckwits
For #3, I think the all encompassing term is bigoted shitstain
For #4, I’d not be surprised if there’s a legitimate grievance being misrepresented or ignored in the haste to paint the group as a shrill caricature. Once again I’d suggest asking.
Enh, it’s not always misrepresentation. My brother’s been finding himself more and more interested in activism as he gets older and gets more tired of the shit he has to put up with, but the ‘community’ wrapped up in that can be pretty… well. Toxic? Poisoned by hate? We see it with gaming enough – people getting really angry about something for long enough does something to them. Even if it’s initially justified.
This is sadly true, one only has to look at trans exclusionary radical feminists to see that bigotry and blind hatred can ruin even positive things
As always, Captain Picard has the right quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yeY7Xei7rnY#t=5
I don’t hold much truck with any of those causes anymore. Feminism’s no good… it has the ‘fem’ part in it. Let’s just work on ‘equalism’ – or the REAL word: ‘equality’. You see a specific example of inequality, you fix it. That way we cover everyone! Gender, sexuality, race, religion/lack-thereof, disability, and so forth. Putting the ‘feminism’ tag on something means you’re looking at things from one really specific angle. Being an ‘equalist’ is much better than being a ‘feminist’. More inclusive.
This is true but sadly efforts in that regard tend to favour the status quo who are pretty much straight white cis-het guys and generally smooths over legitimate issues in favour of everyone just shutting up and accepting what they’ve got to stop the privileged majority getting their feelings hurt by people pointing out that others have it worse than them
The problem with that is that you need some way to identify which segments of the community need a focus.
The problem is the kind of people stickman mentioned who actively hunt for offense. They throw up random things that people dismiss as irrelevant because they are. But that hides any major issues related to the ’cause’ for lack of a better word.
The technical term is ‘humanist.’
Mm, that’s a good clip.
It is, aside from the words, its the voice… I mean I’m straight but Patrick Stewart could have me whenever he wanted. Same with Christopher Lee
Ooh spitroast!
Birthday! Celebrating by watching HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY youngest TAYbie! What plans for the rest of the day?
Happy
12thBirthday, Phlanny!Eh, close enough.
I’m tossing between starting on the code for Giana Sisters I got from the Humble Bundle, or playing some more Skullgirls.
EDIT: Oh, you mean plans for leaving the house? Nah.
Damn, I remember when I was that young and could toss at the slightest stimulus…
I was waiting for someone to make that joke. I was not disappointed.
Did you guess it was going to be me who said it?
For the sake of not hurting anyone’s feelings, no comment.
Happy birthday! Eat some cake for every one of us. 😀
Hooray! You’re looking old!
One year closer to death! High five!
o/
So looks like Disney decided to buy the Best Animated Feature oscar for Frozen instead of The Wind Rises. Not unexpected, but disappointing.
Still haven’t seen The Wind Rises! Probably going to have to wait for DVD now.
What’s the wind rises?
Hayao Miyazaki’s last film. Opened in US cinemas late last year and a more general release last week. I think it’s showing here soon if not already too.
Both the dubbed and subtitled versions are on now in Sydney
(one small cinema only though, no major release). Until the end of this week, I think.EDIT: Oh, it is getting a major release!? Awesome! I’ll definitely be seeing it then! I must’ve been looking at a pre-release thing. I just assumed it wasn’t getting a large run 😛
It might not be getting a huge run but FWIW they did a pretty decent run for Ponyo, and Ponyo wasn’t nominated for an oscar.
You should see it subbed if you can though. The main character is voiced by Hideaki Anno, also known as That Guy That Directed Evangelion (he got his start as an animator working on Nausicaa for Miyazaki)
My thought too. 😛
I thought Oscars went like this: “Hey you, random person. Have you heard of xyz? No? *strikes out entry* NEXT”
More like “Hey you, Academy voter. We represent a huge movie publisher conglomerate. How much is your vote worth?”
It’s about as corrupt as trying to get an Olympic Games or a Soccer World Cup in your country. :\ The problem is that Disney (at least, Buena Vista) are the US distributor for all of the Ghibli films but they also had a popular movie they made internally this year, so there’s no way they would put money behind a foreign director.
It has literally only just about to start screening in Australia. Nova here in Melbourne starts running it today. You haven’t missed out!
I thought Frozen was amazing and have no issues with it winning.
I still need to watch this, also Tangled.
We should organise a Disney movie night at @blaghman ‘s. But, y’know, add alcohol so it’s manly and shit.
That reminds me, when is @cakesmith / your birthday thingie happening? I should book hotels and stuff.
Should probably start organising something for that…
Oh yeaaah…
You take shots every time someone cries?
We tried that with MLP… pretty sure that was succesfull 😛
This is a picture from the last time I had a manly Disney movie night.
It was super manly(for the TS people, the guy on the left is Andrew aka. NonDiegeticSound).
yes, yes you do. And enchanted
Frozen was a lock. Crowd pleaser, wide release.
Same company distributing it as well, so the instant Frozen was a hit, The Wind Rises was fucked.
Even without campaigning (and I’ve seen neither film) Frozen would just win on sheer name recognition.
Probably true. Most of the Academy voters are old fogeys in their 60s and 70s who don’t like anime and would probably enjoy a film about the guy who designed the Zero even less.
I know, The Lego Movie should have won
I’m kidding
not reallyIt was only released this year, so will likely be nominated next year.
I know. It’s so good it deserves to win this year.
Look at your theatre listings, it’s not even out yet, how can it win awards??
Let’s see, showings, 5, 7, 9, 12.
… Oh right, Australia.
ITS NOT OUT!!!!
I’m gonna downvote you because Frozen totally deserved to win.
Downvotes aren’t for disagreeing. >:( If you downvote someone too many times they get auto-moderated IIRC.
Got new VOIP phones in the office today.
They come with free bubble-wrap.
BEST. DAY. EVER.
Also, the surface of my phone is ultra-glossy and I noticed that when I had it standing at a certain angle, I could see my reflection like in a mirror.
YES.
I’ve had to wedge some post-it note pads under the stand, but it is now at the perfect angle for me to glance over any time I need a vision of beauty. *winks at self* Hey handsome.
Also, have now had so many cups off coffee that my chewing gum now tastes like coffee-flavoured gum.
Might be time to lay off the coffee.
Switching to Coke.
I see you’re still riding that caffeine wave.
I’ve kind of lost count, but I would say that’s a fair assessment.
I expect to be curled up in a ball of intestinal discomfort by the end of the day, aye. I just need to make it that far.
You do know that the episode of Futurama where Fry stops time from drinking 500 cups of coffee was only a cartoon, don’t you?
Wasn’t it 300 because they all got a $300 tax refund or something?
300? Probably was, I need to watch Futurama again. From the beginning to the end, you know just in case I miss something important…
I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment.
LOL. 😉
You sure it doesn’t have a protective film on the screen? Ours are touch screen too with variable backgrounds, shit is pretty cash. $300+ Jabra headsets all up in dis.
We got shiny new Telstra VOIP phones last year. Sooo shiny, the touchpad thingie on it is pretty cool for the 1 call I make every 2-3 months.
OSCAR STUFF.
So how did Band Grandpa not win best make-up & hair..? I mean come on, that was a fantastic effort to make Knoxville like he did. BUT that’s my opinion.
I suppose Band Grandpa is the musical version?
You know it! 😀
It’s going to have a hard time competing with the Dark Souls musical.
Academy Award Winner Matthew McConaughey.
Bet He’ll romp it in at the next TV award show for True Detective too.
Surely we live in the McConaissance.
At least he kept his shirt on?
Ahh, we had DnD campaign on Sunday, after a month break. I did my Bear Rogue idea, hence I was Sir Bearington.
The night was pretty fun, with plenty of bear-related jokes (“I wanna roll for yellow shorts and backpack for Sir Bearington”), intimidation of the NPC’s, and some combat quirks.
One awesome part was when I leaped out of the shadows, crit, did ~90 DMG (20’s are high rolls for everyone else normally), KO’d an enemy from sheer shock, rolled for gore and got covered in blood and gut chunks. 😀
an excellent riposte, Sir Bearington.
Indeed. I guess you could say that his foe found it… unbearable. Hah hah hah.
Please tell me you’re going to multi-class and pick up a few levels of Druid/Ranger so that you can get a pet bird to put in your backpack. 😛
I’m not sure how multi-classing would help in this? We’re playing DND NEXT latest version, I think, FYI. Our DM would let us do wacky stuff like pet bird, as long as it doesn’t do huge damage or something.
Oh that’s cool. I’m just remembering DnD 3.5 and even 4e has a few restrictions on how you go about acquiring pets and other animals as companions. You either have to be ridiculously skillful or be a Ranger or Druid class.
Ah, I see. We have some very loose restrictions, but ultimately if the pet won’t be OP or offer a big advantage, it should be fine.
I actually have a robot chicken mount… @redartifice
Or be a bear with a pet bear.
Be a bear with a pet bear and a bear mount. Bear cavalry riding actual bears! And then enchant your riding bear to have the bear-force.
Yo, long time no TAY.
For the Trials fans out there (most know this from twitter anyway) but last 2 weeks I was in Helsinki Finland hanging with the Trials crew. Was under embargo for a week or so but they just announced that Trials Fusion will be out April 16th.
Don’t want this to come across as an ad or anything but yeah, im kinda pumped. I even managed to play the whole game, from start to finish a couple of times and yeah it’s pretty rad.
There are a few things I can’t speak about but most I can. Feel free to ask any quesitons.
In short, the game looks good. I played on PS4 mostly. Tracks are great fun, extremes are EXTREME as you’d expect. Each track has challanges now so that there are 3 goals to achieve. complete 15 flips, carry bombs, turn on switches, win a tennis match, ride upside down etc etc.. seriously some crazy ones but makes the replayability 100% more fun. Really good addition to the game.
Also im also really happy that they kept the price point the same. im thinking about $25AUD although thats only a guess, or about $50 maybe for their retail which is the game plus a season pass. Season pass has 6 X DLC’s which are usually $5 each.
Maybe the Aussie tax will make that $60 but i’d still pay!
Anyway, just wanted to give you all a bit of an update. Trip was super fun, went to a tradional Finnish sauna that included NudeShady and ice swimming! Wore shorts in the snow, rode a motorbike around the studio and generally had a blast! Such a nice group of guys.
I have a bunch of footage and I’ll try putting something together shortly.
Also went to Estonia (Tallinn) and Latvia (Riga) for a few days at the end.
Trials Fusion is definitely on my “Day 1 purchase” list.
(I assume you can answer this but I may aswell ask) Will the DLC be evenly spread (i.e. every 3 months)? Or just released as “whenever it’s ready” kind of thing?
I don’t know honestly. I came home with like a million questions I should have asked. I’m no journalist to I kind of skim over every detail. I expect there will be a timeline of sorts, but yeah I got nothing 🙁
Well with such a close release date I guess now is the time to officially give up on ever getting the Evolution DLC for PC…
How do the challenge things work, is it just stuff you enable at the start of the track or something you can do dynamically along the way? I could see flips being dynamic but do you have to scoop up bombs as you ride along?
There are 120 of these challanges so I didn’t get close to seeing them all. They usually require triggering something. Some exist through the entire track, so the flips can be done anywhere and is only competed when you finish the track. There was one example where you roll backwards and once you go far enough, you have a trailer attanched full of soccer balls I think. You have to get them to a certain point on the track to complete that challange. There was another where you had to wheelie from one red line on the track to the other.
The challanges are specific to each track and there are 3 per track. There were some basic ones but plenty of crazy ones. They used to have a few of these as achievements, now there are heaps of them and they are for the most part a fun side game.
My fav was the upside down track. The whole game flips upside down and you have to complete the track. It’s possible but tricks. Then i came up with the idea to try laying on your back and looking upside down at the projector screen.. it works and yo ride like a champ.. then you get up and instantly feel sick. I had another of the devs try it and he was also sick. Not a good feeling but was fun all the same.
Hope that answers the question?
How did the PS4 controller stack up against the 360?
Ps4 was ok. I didnt get to see it on xbone but it worked well on ps4. Hard to compare to 360 but id say on par with 360. Not bad at all.
A tweet from Rolling Stone:
One problem: Director Steve McQueen is black, but he’s not African American.
Don’t be silly, every black person is African American.
Technically correct, then!
The kind of correct that is incorrect!
I thought Steve McQueen was white? And also dead?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McQueen
Close enough.
Anyone up to scratch on their Marvel/DC trivia?
I’m watching Arrow atm, and (somehow only now) it’s occured to me that Slade Wilson sounds a hell of a lot like Wade Wilson… both are fond of explosives and swords, only the latter is completely mental and OTT, and almost appears to be a parody of the former… According to Wikipedia Deadpool was introduced to the Marvel Universe 11 years after Deathstroke… anyone know if there’s anything behind this, or am I just conjuring conspiracy theories?
Deadpool was based on Deathstroke in the same way DC based Lobo on Wolverine.
It’s even in the name. I believe it went something like this:
Q: Where do you do the Deathstroke?
A: In the Deadpool.
So yes. You’re right in your assumption.
Lobo was based on Wolverine? I can kinda see the whole immortality thing but everything else seems a few too many shades apart to say that Lobo was based on Wolverine.
I think the idea was to take that grizzled, hard drinking anti hero archtype that Wolverine fits into and take it to the extreme.
I don’t know if that’s the true influence for the character, I’ve just read it from more than one resource (though not that that means much on the net).
according to the creator of Lobo
Arrow is so great
Really? I’ve been ignoring it because I heard it was shit. But I can’t remember where I heard this, so it may be I was in bad company at the time.
It started really poorly. I gave up after a few episodes because it felt like a gritty Smallville.
I was surprised to see that there’s a second season but people say that it’s picked up.
Started rough, got pretty good after about ep 7. It’s consistently enjoyable.
I’m on episode 17 I think, and it is getting better I’d say.
Oh lord, my eyes feel like they’re being slowly burnt out of their sockets.
Totally worth it though 😀
Have you made a bet that you can stare at the sun longer than someone else?
Morbidly Obese Midget porn?
I made the mistake of drunkenly looking up at the foam machine to try and see how the foam was made… several times :3
It buuuuuuurns!
Oh lordy, uni computers suck. That wasn’t a reply fail to @aliasalpha above, that was pretty crappy computers doing what they do best (that and Internet Explorer). This will probably be a new post as well, even though I clicked reply…
You’re drunk again. Go home.
I was pretty drunk last night, not gonna lie about it.
I am sober enough now to recall somebody mentioning that they were going to “throw the gauntlet through their neighbours window”, or something along those lines.
How did that go by the way? 😛
it went well, a bit of TAY digging can unearth up a fairly eligible drunk post.
Does anyone have Doctor Luigi on the wiiU?
So repost from a few pages back:
Anyone know what’s happened to Agents Of Shield?
I can’t find it on 7, I’ve checked the whole week. It looks like it’s been replaced by something else, but I can’t find it anywhere.
Annoying since we got half of Season 1 cut of because of the Tennis, had 2 episodes, and now it looks like there’s no more episodes. America’s probably nearly at the end of Season 2 by now.
And people wonder why Australians pirate.
7 will remove shows with no prior notice if they’re not doing as well as they thought they would. It is terribly frustrating.
It might be on it’s mid-season break (some weird thing American shows do), that may be why it is no longer on. That or the first season is over. Some new shows run short first seasons mainly to gauge popularity, so that they don’t blow thier budget on 15 – 26 episodes of a show that is not as popular as they thought it would be.
That, or you know, Google is a thing…
Tried Google, found nothing 😛
It’s definately got more episodes that have been shown in America.
Wikipedia says that there’s 15 episodes, the next one that would have been shown was episode 12.
i’ve already thrown this out there on twitter & fb, but its such a cool idea, i’m gonna put it here too.
SBS are streaming 100 films for free throughout March. some really good stuff there.
hit that shit up.
http://www.sbs.com.au/movies/100clicks
Thank god for the remnants of the imperial weight system eh? Could be kilo for kilo…
Get Ready to be Boyzvoiced is one of my favourite comedies of all time.
All of the Three Colours trilogy is there, as is the Swedish Let The Right One In.
A lot of the rest look like the sort of movies SBS used to put on at 10pm on Saturdays as Cult Movies. Always a good sign that.
Hmm I always wanted to watch Nikita.
Saw Wolf of WallStreet.
S’alright, though it did drag at parts.
The copious amounts of nudity and drugs more than made up for it, though. ;).Nah, it’s still shit. Do yourself a favour and check out Scorsese’s classics such as Goodfellas, Departed and Casino, if you haven’t already.
It was a debaucherous black comedy about debauchery. I don’t care if autocorrect says that debaucherous isn’t a word, it is.
I liked it because it completely nailed the tone it was going for. Also because Popeye.
I liked the Drunkest Guy in the World / Crashed Lambo bit. And Margot Robbie.
It did? I didn’t think so heh.
Why is it that every time I look at my list of games, I can automatically find a reason why I don’t want to play it…
It’s infuriating!
D:
@shane, today I received Uncharted 2, thank you!
Awesome! Hope you enjoy it, man
the hardest thing about Dark Souls is how it fucking crashes 9 out of 10 times I run it. & the 10th time, it doesn’t save my progress.
Hurry up Dark Souls 2, & please don’t be as shit.
Imagine it having a mode where it deletes your save file when you die…
thats nothing. i’m playing a mode that deletes your save when you start up
Shit.
Just when I thought I could sit down and do some recording of Tekken 3, the emulator decides to screw itself. 🙁
Alright my Soundwave 2014 report!
I’ll keep this short.
Sierra – Went to support the local band/friends, who while i’m not the biggest fan of their music, absolutely stomped their performance.
Real Friends – Got surprisingly hectic, so i got my mosh on early \o/
The Story So Far – Just as good as last time i saw them, i lost my voice and my wallet here.
Zebrahead – Probably my favourite set all day, they got a fan who took them sportsballing the day before to come up on stage and have a drinking comp with them and then he got to stay on stage drinking for the whole set. They played all the songs i wanted.
And i caught one of the drumsticks when the drummer threw them! \o/
A Day to Remember – I went as hard as i could while looking after my precious drumstick. Jeremy got in the hamster ball, crowd surfers surfing crowd surfers and they played ‘Sometimes you’re the hammer, sometimes you’re the nail’ so i was happy.
Green Day – The crowd was really getting into Bohemian Rhapsody which was playing before Green Day got on stage, which was awesome. As for Green Day themselves, it may as well been a concert. 3 hours is a long time and so much happened during it that i’m struggling to remember parts, but it was everything even the slightest of fans could have ever wanted from them. Most of the set was Dookie and American Idiot. So yeah!
Oh and apart from the on-stage antics and Billie bringing people on stage, the crowd hoisted this girl in a wheelchair up and carried her right up front and close so she had the best seat in the house!
But yeah i still get pretty high on adrenalin thinking about the day even now, it was just great in every way (besides losing my wallet) and so much better than last year.
Goodnight, all.
Serious question time.
Since I am going to uni and currently have a HECS debt accumulating, this debt slowly gets paid off after I have completed university and am earning over “$X” income, right?
My employee is taxing me roughly 28% on my income however, because I have a HECS debt, although as far as I am aware this additional tax does not actually go towards paying off my debt, since I’m fairly sure I’m not earning over the HECS debt taxable threshold.
It’s not exactly a high paying job or anything, I work at a f***ing supermarket for Christs sake (and I’m already contemplating quitting!)
Does this seem right (since I’ve never been to uni or had a HECS debt before and don’t know what the norm is), or is this a bit dodgy, cause it sounds a bit dodgy to me, and you guys are the smartest* people I know…
*Oldest (on average :P). What, older people are supposed to be smart, right?!
http://www.ato.gov.au/rates/help-repayment-thresholds-and-rates/
Thanks heaps!
That only confirms though that I’m pretty sure I shouldn’t be repaying it at all, cause I don’t earn close to $1000 a week :\
What’s the standard income tax rate, if anyone knows?
http://www.ato.gov.au/Rates/Tax-tables/
Thank you so much!
You’re actually a life saver!
All this tax stuff goes right over my head :S
I miss being a child :'(
If you end up paying too much tax, you get it back at mid-year anyway. Not really worth stressing over. You might even get it all back, depending on how much you earn in the year.
Seconding what others have said, as I only just figured out the ins and outs of this (I just busted the threshold, four years after finishing uni. Go semi-useless degree).
Your tax rate WILL be higher than the average joe while you have hex debt. You will have extra removed from your pay packet every fortnight.
Come the end of the financial year, one of three things will happen:
1. You have not met the threshold. You get a tonne back, as the HECS/HELP/WHATEVER gets paid back to you, then they calculate whether your ordinary level tax needs to be paid back.
2. You meet or exceed the threshold. Your tax return aside from a measly little sum (mine was $80) is taken off your debt.
3. You meet or exceed the threshold and your HECS/HELP is paid off in full (it’ll take a damn awful time) and they will return the extra tax they took out to give back to you in your return, and your tax level will drop back to the usual level for somebody who does not have a debt.
Now for the scary bit: The government is looking at introducing interest on your uni debt, so once that is confirmed, everyone should pay as quickly as humanely possible through extra payments.
Is that interest in lieu of the indexing that currently applies, or on top of it? Because that’s just punitive (and is something that not even banks can get away with).
Unfortunately yes. At the moment it’s adjusted per CPI so it’s kind of Interest, at a very low level.
The government wants to up that to a higher interest level. 🙁
And it doesn’t matter that the banks can’t get away with it, it’s the Government. They can get away with what they want. No partisan politics, just an observation of the facts – the Govt. can legislate their way to what they want, unlike the banks.
As long as it’s not interest on top of indexing. That shit would compound like crazy.
Obligatory Einstein quote here.
I hope not either. That would make me a very poor, sad panda.
As in, I’ll only be able to afford to eat bamboo, will have to live in a forest and probably be too depressed to shag anything.
Just finished performing the second of two consecutive NAND dumps, starting afresh for each one. Both came up with the same MD5.
I am pleased.
Really gotta stop with these stupidly late nights.
Or just go full nocturnal.
Never go full nocturnal.
DARK SOULS 2 \o/
JUST TEN DAYS TO GO, SUNBRO! \o/
The big news today: A PC release date has appeared on marketing material, but Namco is pretending that the date hasn’t yet been confirmed. And that date is…
APRIL 25http://www.gamespot.com/articles/namco-responds-to-dark-souls-2-pc-april-25-release-date-listing/1100-6418058/
Other news:
Another explanation of accessibility in Dark Souls 2.
Essentially there will be more tutorials, and movement will feel more intuitive because it’s motion-captured rather than hand-animated.http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/03/03/dark-souls-2-producer-explains-accessibility-says-combat-feels-more-intuitive/
Wooooooooooooo! Ten days!
I think the Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remaster is out the week after Dark Souls, which is good because I’ll be able to use it as therapy when Dark Souls 2 gets too intense.
damn master race being slow & stuff. :'(
Hey, cool. I can definitely wait until then for a PC version! Great news!
Let’s hope it ends up being legit. The picture is a bit suspect (see typo: “Black Amour edition”)
a·mour [uh-moor]
noun
1. a love affair.
2. an illicit or secret love affair.
Dark Souls 2 is set during the 60s, and deals with the love affair between an undead black man and a wealthy white necrophiliac. Overcome prejudice and fight in the name of love!
I still can’t get in to Dark Souls for some reason. Parts of it I love, but so much other stuff is mediocre for me. I’m hoping Dark Souls 2 will be a more refined game, especially with the promise that the PC version will be done well and not tacked on after a vote 😛
Master Race bitchiness?
It wasn’t just that it was a bad port. Hell, I don’t hold it against them at all, they flat-out stated it would be. It’s amazing it made it to PC at all.
I have a number of issues with the game that I’ve learned to not elaborate on because everyone jumps down my throat, but I think my biggest issue was being over-hyped by others and it really coloured my opinion of the game.
So given that its on gamespot, would that be 25th in America and thus the 26th here?
Because that may be the bestest ever birthday present ever…
Bleugh. 🙁
Agreed.
Finally… It is Done.
https://twitter.com/transient_mind/status/440607051194986497
My only platinum trophy on the PS3.
Now I am free!
You have ten days of freedom. Spend them wisely.
Also, congrats, man! Huge achievement. BLO-BLOOOP.
Man, it took me nearly 3 years and several hundred hours to get that.
Granted I didn’t try for it until a week or so ago but still.
Freeze was my inspiration!
I normally don’t pay attention to trophies, usually because there’s bullshit multiplayer things in there.
Well done. That’s dedicated gaming, right there.
Double yew zero zero tee. Nice one mate
Youngest just pulled a toy pony from her nappy and proudly announced that it was a Poo-ny.
#soproud
Awww, that’s awesome. My kids tell me to stop joking, because it’s not funny. /o\
#PaternityTest
She will go far
Up to end game on Tomb Raider: Malibu Stacey Edition. I’ve gone back to find some more collectibles so I can level up a bit more.
Powerful movie/game scenes that made you cry: GO!
Okay I’ll start. The Toy Story 3 end scene where Andy
gives away his box of toys.Also, for bonus points: the ending of Skyward Sword.Six Feet Under: ending.
Toy Story 3: ending.
Metal Gear Solid 3: ending.
The Shield: ending.
The Walking Dead game Season 1: ending.
Noticing a theme here?
No, me neither.You reminded me of one: Fringe series ending. Yeah, I’m not noticing anything either.
“Peter, you are my favourite thing”The scene in The Hunger Games when
Rue dies.I don’t often cry or even tear up at movies or games, but for some reason that scene it me hard, even though I knew it was coming.Senna:
Seeing the vision at San Marino and you see his car go into the wall… I fucking teared up big time.. :`(That’s a great doco.
I’ll admit I totally started crying during the opening credits of Senna.
Man on Wire.
Not super spoilery, given it’s the premise of the film
Near the end, when it’s just him, strung between the World Trade Centre towers.Not a movie but:
The ending to the Jurassic Bark episode from Futurama. D=
Also the fact that no one has mentioned the start of Up makes me realise you are all horrible people.
=PAlso, the “Philip J Fry” episode gets me feeling the feels.
The Late Philip J Fry?
Same here.
Nono, the episode which is about Fry’s relationship with his brother.
White Fang… EVERY.GOD.DAMN.TIME
I’m so close to finishing that book for the second time. A great read.
I didn’t even know there was a book as a kid… just watched the disney movie and tears were streaming… it wasn’t until years later that i got around to read the book and it is pretty damn amazing
– Mass Effect 3
Mordin’s death– To the Moon – the ending
– Beyond : Two souls – the ending
Movies:
Big fish – especially this exchange from the end (paraphrased) :
Dad : Tell me how it happens.
Son : How what happens?
Dad : How I die.
Son : I don’t know that story, dad. ….Help me tell it. How does it start?
Dad : *weakly* ………..like this.
TV:
Six feet under
Doctor Who (those regeneration scenes, man…)
Saw Forrest Gump again not too long ago. That one hit a little too close to home this time.
Grim Fandango
The ending
Poor GlottisMass Effect 3
Mordin’s DeathThane’s Death & Funeral
Last goodbye to Garrus (I love that scaly bastard!)
Do tears of frustration and rage count? If so, I’ll add when uplay broke my Trials Evolution save & robbed me of the platinum medal I rightfully earned on Gigatrack. 208th in the (pc) world and apparently I only have a pissing gold…
Those three Mass Effect 3 scenes. Especially the second one, that really got me. 🙁
For some reason, I am not one to cry from sad things in media. Yet I can be brought to tears very easily due to anger or pain. Here is my list:
Definitely cried
Arby n the Chief ending. (No spoilers)
I watched the ending. I felt hollow and dead inside. For the next three hours, I tried to go on with my life. But the ending kept gnawing at me. I broke down and re-watched the ending. Only then did I cry.
These characters that I watched for years just… killed themselves. For years, I shared their happiness, I shared their pain. The fact that the credits were nothing but sirens really hammered the fact that, yes, THEY ARE DEAD.Arbiter is one of the most fascinating characters I have observed in media. I watched him struggle through life, and in the end I accepted and supported his decision.
Probably cried
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness Ending – I Don’t Want To Say Goodbye
What can I say that I haven’t already said? I have made multiple comments raving about this game. Greenius has Xenoblade, I have Mystery Dungeon. Ignore Metacritic, this game is fucking fantastic. Also the part where
Grovyle sacrifices himself was heart-wrenching. GROOOOOOVYYYYYLE! Easily my 3rd favourite character in gaming. (Behind Lilly and Emi)I don’t know whether I cried, it was too long ago. I can confirm that I was heartbroken, at least. Even just hearing the music can manifest sorrow, and believe me, I listen to that song all the damn time. The music is stuck in my head as I type.
No tears but extreme sadness instead
Katawa Shoujo Lilly or Emi’s good ending
I didn’t cry, but my thoughts were about nothing this game for a long time. When I completed a route, the next day was nothing but reminiscing. The rest of the week would be spent trying to get past it. Katawa Shoujo is free, by the way!
That’s all I can think of. Shane right when he says the saddest parts are the endings.
Holy shit that took me half an hour to write.
TRUE DETECTIVE
Thought the latest was a little mechanical, getting all of the pieces in place for the big finale.cc @dc
@shane
Received Injustice last night 😀
Thanks man, played it most of the evening and are quite enjoying it
PS3 or PS4?
If PS3, hit me up for some multiplayer.
PSN ID is same as my Kotaku handle.
Xbox 360 sorry mang :\
I was hammering the crap out of the campaign last night though… amazingly good storyline for a fighting game 😛
This is where you and I part ways with our opinions 😛
http://www.pixel-otaku.com/shane-and-the-game-of-the-year/
Lol, ah well, i like the evil twist they put on the DC Universe i guess… which is funny, because i’ve never really been that much of a DC fan… can’t explain it, i’m just enjoying it, i guess that’s what matters 😛
Awesome, man. Hope you continue to enjoy it! It’s great in multi.
Just thinking out loud here. I’m getting very excited about South Park.
It makes me realise how many different ways you can go about marketing a game and how I feel excitement about each.
South Park kind of came out of nowhere for me until about three months ago and now I’m really hyped.
Wildstar made me so hyped about it, but my hype has waned. It’s almost like they’ve given me too much information, too far out.
Thief flew under the radar until the point that it was being reviewed. I was hyped until I read those reviews.
Oddly, the radio silence on Fallout 4 is making me more hyped for a game that might not even be in development than if they confirmed it, then shut up about it.
Is there a perfect way of hyping a game, without burning out your audience? What was the last game you got hyped about?
Edit: Two page gets in two weeks? I need to buy a scratchie.
You never watched South Park when it first started back in 1997?
Sorry, I should have mentioned South Park: The Stick of Truth.
I bought the South Park Nintendo 64 game. That was enough crappy South Park games forever.
Or so I thought.
Drools.
South Park on the N64 was good if you treated it as a multiplayer-only game. Even then, it didn’t last long though.
Set a date, stick to the date, be a good game. See: Dark Souls 2.
It’s not Obsidian’s fault that THQ went belly-up right when they were going to release it the first time though 🙁
I wasn’t specifically referring to Stick of Truth with that comment, but on recollection, yeah, they’ve had some issues.
Tell you what, I’m looking forward to Watch Dogs more for the ‘this is how they fucked up’ stories, rather than the game itself.
Are we still stuck on “set a date” on DaS2 PC?
There appear to be different hype levels between those playing on console day 1 and those playing on PC day … later. Makes it an even better example of how this detail fits in with the rest of the marketing and hype.
Dark Souls Two is the way to do it right.
Daily news updates, drip-feeding information, mistranslating interviews to freak out the hard-core fan base, continuing to use words like accessible in order to make news headlines (with a side benefit of continuing to freak out your hard-core fan base), making terrible tie-in comics, producing exclusive collector’s edition stuff only available in Japan which sells out in minutes and was exorbitantly expensive anyway, overseeing a fully-stocked pre-release wiki page, beta write-ups, trailers that (at best) oscillate wildly between cool and truly bizarre, review embargoes, occasionally sexist posting on the Facebook fan page, leaving master race fans behind again…
Seriously: thank god the game is gonna be good, because this marketing campaign has not been 😛
Yeah, can’t believe they even hired someone to do daily updates on TAY. What a bunch of doofusheads. 😛
I know. I shouldn’t have made those sexist posts either 😛
The whole campaign is really a subtle hint that the game is going to be almost incomprehensibly complex and you’ll need a wiki to give you even vaguely accurate information, just like the first game
Well I’m guessing the way is to see what Watch_Dogs did and then not do that.
I’d happily accept a steady drip of information and actually having questions answered in a straight manner for once. Tom Clancy’s The Division looks like it might be awesome but I’ve still got no idea how the PvP works and if it’s avoidable because I generally hate PvP. There’s implication that you can avoid it but a quick explanation of how the mechanics of it work (mmo style match queue, avoidable PvP areas etc) would have a fair chance of shifting me from considering getting it one day to considering getting it day one. It might not be the kind of thing you normally think of as marketing or hype but it’d alter my view of the game for the better knowing the information for certain and really not be a loss to reveal it unless its something utterly revolutionary that’ll blow people’s minds & they want it to be a surprise.
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You Melbourne people are in for a treat. These guys are amazing and an acoustic show would be perfect. Plus, FREE!
Shit. I have a 7 hour appointment that day.
ooooohhhhhhh
SUCCESS \o/
in the midst of a shitty hangover on sunday, I watched Blade Runner for the first time in years.
few thoughts –
1 – WHY THE HELL ARE STUDENTS STILL STUDYING THIS FILM IN THE HSC?
2 – I really wanna play Deus Ex : HR now. Never got very far in it, but I really like what I’d played. so yeah…. that’s the next thing coming off my Pile of Shame.
I was going to say “at least they’re studying a decent movie” but if year 12 taught me one thing it’s that you’ll hate everything you study, given enough time…
Also, damned good choice for the next game to cross off.
Great game, you won’t regret.
Because there’s lots to discuss in Blade Runner, like whether Deckard was a…
OH NO
WE’RE NOT GOING THERE
Wait, like Deckard was a what?
I’ve watched it, but never studied it in class!
Like whether Deckard was a Republican? Is that the question? Because he totally seems like one.
white, male, middle-class. pro-guns, pro-death penalty for minorities.
he was a republican.
nah, as far as I’m aware they study it alongside Frankenstein in a topic called ‘texts in time.’
two works with similar themes (ie: what defines humanity, playing god, value of life etc.) created at very different times (Shelley in 1818, Scott in 1982).
just a comparison between the two about how they each handled similar concepts.
…to be honest, given my job, I should probably know more about it.
Lucky.
I did year 12 English and I got to study The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I got good marks for eviscerating it.
I really cant remember what I studied in year 12.
but now having worked in a school for 5 years, I’ve realised how easy the HSC actually is.
its stupid how its made out to be a huge deal, like you’ll never amount to anything if you don’t do well in it.
WELL I DIDNT GO SUPER WELL IN IT. & I’M NOT OVERLY SHIT. TAKE THAT SOCIETAL PRESSURE.
We were still riding off the high of the 90s fad of re-doing Shakespeare’s plays as films, and one of my major Year 12 English assignments was a creative writing piece doing a modern-day Macbeth.
The teacher asked to see me about the piece being ‘R-rated’. Too much sex and violence. (Which I thought was unfair – I didn’t write anything explicit, it wasn’t porn. I did tasteful ultra-light foreplay with fades-to-black and off-screens for anything that wasn’t explicity present in the original text, which includes the murder of Duncan!) I think he meant, ‘Too much sex and violence to be coming from the pen of a 16yr old’. Which is baffling, because you would think a TEACHER of all people would know more about the true nature of 16yr old boys.
Still got an A+ though.
It’s weird as, but I managed to go pretty much all of high school without studying Shakespeare in depth
Well if it was R Rated you were 2 years too young for it
Unicorn?
Deckard was a unicorn, right?
I thought he was Luke’s father.
No, Luke’s father was dead the whole time and the kid was the only one who could see him.
Didn’t his niece ruin Diablo?
He totally was a smuggler though. After all the issues he had with it raining everywhere he moved to Tatooine.
Got my code for South Park: The Stick Of Truth last night and am preloading now, 4.1gb if anyone is interested.
Wonder how big the uncut version is…
4.11 GB.
Edit:
just in case anyone takes that as a serious answer, I should point out that, as far as I’m aware, it’s utter BS.Looking forward to Saturday. Going to Breath of Life Festival to see Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Empire of the Sun, Public Enemy, Knife Party, Dead Letter Circus, Buried in Verona, In Hearts Wake and Saviour. Miss out on Parkway Drive because they clash with Empire and Macklemore, but I’ve seen Parkway before. Not sure if I’m interested in Porter Robinson as I don’t know much about him. Pretty good lineup for a music festival in Tasmania.
I believe he’s a protege of sorts of Skrillex, signed to his label etc.
The only track of his I know is from the Forza Horizon soundtrack, called “Language”.
Heavy Montreal’s lineup got announced last night and…. I think I need to move to Canada.
Metallica
Slayer
Anthrax
Lamb of God
The Offspring
Bad Religion
Three Days Grace
Dropkick Murphy’s
Epica
Apocalyptica
Pennywise
Alestorm
Hatebreed
Nekrogoblikon
It’s like my dream lineup but on the other side of the world 🙁
Offspring & Pennywise seem to be a bit out of place there.
Though Apocalyptica…. love to see those guys. its like cello porn. so good.
No. Trust me, you really don’t.
Says the guy who decided to live in the coldest, most barren part of the country.
I mean, at least the rest of this barren wasteland is warm(er.)
Cold, desolate, barren wastelands are the birthplace of Metal.
It is the battle-cry of the modern viking, music hewn from ice and stone, born in the places where the very land itself wants to kill you. It takes the men and women tempered in these hostile lands to forge METAL – the defiant roar of a refusal to perish meekly.
http://static.businessinsider.com/image/52821f6cecad047d0a9f9e90/image.jpg
Just a hunch… but you miss Dark Souls already, don’t you?
*weeps* I DOOOOOOO
I’m even looking at the best poses in art for Oscar for a tattooooooo
My fave: http://www.loganfeliciano.com/uploads/5/1/0/6/5106201/4864991_orig.jpg
That’s definitely similar to what I was looking at. Though I’d want something a bit more active, less defeated. Weary, but not beaten, with a low-grade undercurrent of menace held in reserve. Like those movie-poster shots – rear-view, looking back over one shoulder, maybe greatsword resting on the other shoulder, long, triangular, pointed shield held in that very cool way the Dark Souls characters hold them.
Or fuckit, I could just make my project for the next year to build a suit of Dark Souls 2 armor for cosplay. That knight in the promo art with the fur (There’s some really good Oscars, Artoriases, and Solaires out there. Plus a few Ornstein and Priscillas that looked very cool. Even saw a Mimic.)
YES I REALLY LIKE DARK SOULS.
Well. Apart from the late-late-SL150+ game.
The problem with soul-level matching is after my totally awesome badical best-weekend-ever where I spent the ENTIRE WEEKEND dropping my sign and helping people kill bosses and racking up a millions of souls in the process, I got 50 in all stats except att/int/faith and made progress on faith/int, but now the only time I get summoned is people standing around waiting for PVP, no boss-killing. SO BORING. If it’s just me, I’ll stick around to defeat one invader as a courtesy, but often there’s already someone else there too, and 3-on-one is distasteful to me, but it’s all I ever get summoned for anymore. 🙁 I even stopped dropping my sign at hubs and bonfires and just left them next to boss-fog gates… no dice. That’s all I got – PVP summons.I guess folks at my soul level don’t need help with bosses. Which makes sense. In the race to 3am to complete the achievement I went offline and in the space of midnight to 3am, blitzed solo through Kalameet, Manus (I couldn’t just finish the game again and leave the free exp on the table), Gwyndolin, Gwyn, then NG++ all the bosses needed to get Sif and the Anor Londo blacksmith (plus Ornstein & Smough because they were RIGHT THERE). I don’t think I was ever in any danger.
Doesn’t matter, that’s my last playthrough.
If only because I don’t wanna kill Sif anymore. When I wasn’t in fear for my life anymore I was noticing his animations and stuff. He limps around like a wounded dog when he’s on his last shreds of health, and barely even attacks you. It breaks my heart. I’ve seen the cut-scene where he greets you at the grave after having been rescued by you in the Abyss. WHY, SIF? JUST GIMME THE RING! I won’t turn out like Artorias!
;_;
Went to put in my Visa application today, fair enough should of taken my invitation with me w/e they let me email it to them.
But what gets me is that it said $50 fee for my Visa, they never said anything about now outsourcing the people who do the Visas for them so I ended up paying $170. I bet it was the suit and tie. Also the lady there was just default yelling/angry voice no wonder the guy working there look so defeated.
And jumping onto the page again to confirm a number of things about Ass Creed V.
1) It’s not Scotland, Ireland, Japan, Russia, India, WWII, Egypt.
2) No Edward, Haytham or Connor. No Auditore’s.
And no official word, although they announced the yearly games on this date in the past.
So…go back to Dark Souls 2 watching people.
AssCreed: Ninjas.
This needs to happen …
No
As cool as it seems, they said early on they don’t want to do ‘the ninja thing’ because ‘everyone else has done/is doing the ninja thing’ and they don’t want to get lost in the crowd.
Play Tenchu
They need to make a new Tenchu. An actual GOOD one this time
Tenchu 1 and 2 in a one package remake.
Then stop and don’t remake any more old ones.
Take those two and start doing new ones from there.
Actually, the first two were made by a different company. They made the last one on wii which is…pretty mediocre
I have a feeling people took this comment way to seriously. I’m just gonna go over here now.
Wait, have they stated teasing this years AC already??
Oh yeah. They gotta get the masses slavering for their yearly releases, don’t they?
Note: I am a member of the slavering masses.
There may be an AC4 Tankard with a few drops of beer still in it next to my chair.
So people are expecting V to be good?
In AssCreed world doesn’t that mean it’s going to be terrible?
The only AssCreed I really have any interest in is IV because … pirates. I have a feeling the fact that the last game was about pirates was the reason why people loved it so much.
Pretty sure that was a lightning strike that they’re desperately trying to bottle. And they were probably already way too deep in AC5 development to capture that magic. That success was probably the worst thing to happen to the AC5 team.
One word
VikingsEdit: Disclaimer:
I stopped playing and caring about this series around ‘Press B to throw a rock, you dirty peasant’ and the DRM shenanigans not long after. This is not a serious response, but seems more plausible than Ass Creed: Eskimo after the snowy picture teaser.I would play that.
Wow.
If it’s not, they’ve just missed a Very good opportunity.
I’d be down for that, or one set in China. I’m really hoping the next Total War is set in the 3 kingdoms era of China and is more like Shogun and less like Rome 2.
I’d play that. It would tie into the stuff from AC3 and 4 too, since
the Vikings had a settlement in North AmericaOh man. I would LOVE to explore AC-world history of Scottish subjugation. Murdering the filthy English pigs, fighting for Scottish independence… losing. Yeah, that’s right, your hero doesn’t win the war for the Scots, he dicks around with the Assassins and Templars. None of this Connor Gump bullshit.
Mountains! Forests! Beaches! CASTLES! French interference/allies, Irish cameos, woad, kilts, and the worst Scottish accents Hollywood can provide. I can see it now and it’s beautiful.
Or I guess you could go with the more unruly history of Irish rebellion… but when have they NOT been rebelling? Besides… Pfft, Irish. They’re like the wilder, angrier, dumber version of Scots. Who would want to watch those kinds of characters?
Gotta admit, that might actually drag me back to the series.
Not india? damn.
Glad it’s not WW2. I think Asscreed loses something if it’s too contemporary.
They wrote themselves an out for anything even remotely modern which uses vehicles like cars – there’s stuff in the logs about how the animus fucks up and loses people when they get into cars.
GRRAAAAAAH! HULK SMASH.
By which I mean… uhm. Yay, victory for not-self-sabotaging?
Managed to bite my tongue when a client asked for daily updates in writing on a project which won’t have status updates for WEEKS. I desperately wanted to say, “Do you want me to tuck you in to bed every night as well? Read you a bedtime story? The best you’re going to get is a mail rule auto-responding to any mails from your address with, ‘Just like yesterday and the day before, nothing has changed, and I’m not going to call the service provider and spend the better part of an hour on hold every day only to have them explain to me that they haven’t done shit to your order since yesterday because they don’t have to.’
Self-important little pest actually had the gall to open his call with, “Look, I’m going to be a pain in the ass on this job, because very important people need it to have happened yesterday.”
Couldn’t stop myself from responding, “Guess they’re going to be pretty upset that you’re only telling me about it today. Probably even more upset that while they can jump our queues here and get me looking at it today, they can’t jump the service provider’s queues because the service provider doesn’t care how very important they are. They only care about contracted deadlines. Which are a LOT longer than ‘yesterday’.”
When will folks learn they’ll catch more flies with honey? You don’t know what to do, you know you fucked up and just want some help making the best of your mistake? Open with that. Don’t go on the offensive and hope that self-important bluster and demands will help make your fuckup go away or seem like someone else’s fault but your own. We are not executive assistants whose sole purpose is to make you feel like GOD.
VICTORY! \o/
You should be able to schedule a bunch of daily emails. My recommendation: make each one a static image in a flipbook of a bored stick figure drumming his fingers on a table.
Subtle. I like it.
The phrase is this
“We’d prefer to stick to a reporting arrangement outlined in the contract”
or
“We’d prefer to keep you on an update schedule that allowed our employees to focus more work on project-critical tasks”
Yeah… see, that’s much better than my response of, “You want what?” like he was a crazy person who had just offended me deeply. (Which… is pretty accurate, though.) It did give him pause and put him on the back foot, but he rallied magnificently against my Phone Intimidation Voice (low and gravelly) with, “Uhm… updates every three days?”
Then, yeah, I outlined what we usually do. “What will happen is we’ll give you deadlines for the tasks involved, and if the provider can’t make those deadlines, we’ll let you know.”
(I generally don’t speak bureaucratese – it is anathema to me.)
See, if you write a schedule of reporting into a project plan, you can just point to it every damn time.
Play the system when it’s in your favour, man.
Guy’s not even involved, though he should’ve been. Proper project people with all the knowledge of what to expect and how to request it have been doing so. Professionally and congenially. This guy missed the boat on giving his data to those same people and is now trying to slip in under the radar as a separate request. Nooooop. I’ve referred him to the Department’s project lead for the move, now. Gave her the update on his demands, so she knows what to expect. She had a good laugh.
If he’s not the project sponsor, then the line is
“I’m sorry, but that’s a matter for the client and I suggest you take it up with them”
If you don’t want to tell him dick there’s plenty of ways to dodge.
Not sure if stomach is hurting from 3 days of vomiting or the fact I haven’t eaten for 3 days.
A little afraid to tempt fate by eating something.
Start with toast.
Yup, I concur, easy to eat and will absorb a lot of the crap in your stomach.
Ew. My sympathies. When the hospital had me on fluids via IV-drip for gastroenteritis, they finally let me out when I could keep down water. I was on powerade for the next two weeks. (To the point that I now can’t drink it or even smell it without being reminded of my short-term but intense affair with the toilet, and marathoning the entire 7-season run of the Gilmore Girls.)
Ew, Gilmore Girls. 😛
*menacing growl*
It’s okay Shane, i like it too… Luke’s a champ
Lorelai is one of my favourite TV characters of all time.
… now you’re going to make me want to watch it again XD…
*scratches crotch,
sniffs hand,
Coughs, Harks*
Yep, i’m manly
I keep up a ruse of passive annoyance to hide the fact that I regard it with passive semi-indifference.
On the Powerade at this moment.
Steamed white rice, nothing else. Regardless of which path it takes out of your system, it’s good at absorbing and carrying out anything nasty still lurking in your stomach.
I was always told that steamed rice and boiled chicken breast are the two most (chemically wise) inoffensive things you can eat.
In saying that, boiled chicken smells like something you would not feed a pet.
Stick with rice and put the smallest amount of chili or oyster sauce in it, or peanut butter at a pinch. Makes it a little more palatable.
I actually like the taste of plain white rice. Same with plain pasta. Quite happy to eat a bowl of that.
Chilli is probably a bad idea on an upset stomach.
I recommend a seafood basket, a caesar salad with extra creamy sauce, a jug of warm lager, and an ice cream sundae with rich strawberry topping.
If you can consider that and not barf from the thought, you’re ready for dry food.You’re welcome.…Same to you.Don’t forget a bucket of chicken from KFC
No one can consider that without barfing, so it’s kind of cheating.
#relevant
Sardine Milkshake \o/I’m going to disagree with everyone here, because I find that about the only thing I can eat while sick is ridiculously sweet. So I recommend trying a coupla M&Ms, see how that goes.
Alternately, take some Ondansetron and brute force your way through meals.
I found chewing gum helped a lot when I had food poisoning. I don’t know why, but it did 😛
For those who are playing Diablo 3 again, I made a TAY clan (basically a guild). Let me know if you want an invite.
Sweeeet, throw me an invite next time I’m on.
YES PLEASE
what server are you guys generally on?
…please don’t say America. I get horrendous lag on there. 2246ms last night! even the freaking quit button was timing out!
Edit: that’s not all the time, of course. generally get about 450ms with rough patches, but still…
America. 205ms.
Yup this, America… i was getting 155ms yesterday
weird. I get about 160 on Europe & about 120 on Asia.
oh well…
are clans account based or will they only show up on certain servers?
My Mum suggested that Question Time should be renamed “My Party Rules”.
Parliament Preschool.
Question Time is the best thing to show to creationists who complain that ‘humans didn’t evolve from no monkeys’!
Good god Pizza Hut, what in blazes are you thinking?
Cheeseburger crust pizza. The picture of it looks like some genetic experiment that’s begging for death.
*google image search*
…
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww!
It’s doesn’t look that ba-*blergh*
*swallows*
Sorry, threw up in my mouth.
The only way it can really make you suffer is if you add jalapenos…
Cheese crust, hot dog crust, now burger crust… What’s next? Popcorn crust? Sour Worm crust? Roast dinner crust?
The crust is the best part of the pizza! They ruinsed it!
pizza crusted pizza…
Pizza-ception!
Crust Crust.
Crust stuffed with crusts from other pizzas topped with breadcrumbs and croutons.
Nah surely crust stuffed crust would be pizza crusts stuffed with the crusts they cut off kids sandwiches
*artery hardening intensifies*
I would.
I am.
Oh.
It reminds me of an ammonite for some reason.
Today I am sending off some forms to Oz Comic Con. If they have any spots left, I’ll be hitting up their Sydney event in September as an exhibitor.
Sydney folks, you will be tagged at a later date.
I have the TAY Tags! page bookmarked already, and ready to go.
http://powalen.com/tags/
http://tinyurl.com/taytags
I’ve never been to Oz Comic Con before! You’ll have to show me where all the
cool kidspeople you’re friends with go.They come to Shane W Smith’s table. I don’t know. I’ve never been to a convention as anything but an exhibitor 🙁
Huzzah, I also reside in Sydney. I’m assuming I’ll have to speak to @powalen about being added?
Ah, yes! I’ve been meaning to add a “kick me if you want your name on the list” thing to that page 😛
I’ve made a note of it!
@powalen
One of these days, Shane!
Yep, @powalen’s the one you want. @powalen
@powalenYou silly, Comic con isn’t about comics.
Oh hey the profile page finally fixed itself.
Yeah I noticed that earlier, nice job kotaku backend folks
This Netflix kerfuffle is really shitting me. Yes, I use Netflix via VPN services and it’s nothing short of fucking amazing. The problem is that we are now being labelled as pirates. I don’t think the finger-pointers actually know the meaning of the term.
We are paying for the Netflix service, as well as paying another business for the use of servers in the US. It works well for me – television and films on my own time, and for a mere US$10 a month approx as opposed to the up-to AU$100 or so for Foxtel. Screw that. When I was hunting for a decently priced Foxtel package – I couldn’t find one. Netflix ended up being the true service I wanted.
So what services do we (legally) have to deter us, aside Fox? Quickflix? Ultraviolet? Seriously, those services are rubbish. Quickflix has no content and Ultraviolet isn’t even a streaming service. It’s a digital download code for a copy of a film you own to put on your mobile phone. Um, what? I don’t want that shit. My phone probably doesn’t even have space for that. Who even wants to watch films on their phone?
Anyway, I believe the only thing holding most people back from migrating to Netflix would be the live sports offered on Fox, I assume. And uh, the fact that it’s not officially available here, of course.
They can call you what you like till they’re red in the face, but you’ll still be watching all your shows.
Oh God, I’m just reading about Foxtel Presto now for the first time.
using Nexflix via a VPN is nowhere near piracy. its closer to an import.
An ILLEGAL import which hasn’t gone through the official
gouginglicencing deals!YARRR!
Noone has paid me any money for people watching stuff on Netflix. I have no connection to it or any of the content on it but my claim to a slice seems no less tenuous than many of those who are being paid… IT MUST BE ILLEGALIFICATED!
I hope their irrelevant business dies the inglorious death it deserves.
Or feels like it’s about to and so gives me the money that I in no way deserve and have done nothing to earn, that works for me too.
I’d also settle for one each of the next gen consoles Netflix, this is me being reasonable…
Maybe a PC copy of Dark Souls 2, it’s apparently coming out on my birthday so that seems fair.
I might add:
The low price of Netflix actually deters me from pirating. Hear me out. I was introduced to Netflix via a friend whilst in Melbourne over Christmas. I noticed Sons of Anarchy on there, cool, so I watched the first three episodes. I was hooked.
Back in Adelaide, I had two options. Proceed to [redacted] a the full six seasons at like, 60GB total and wait (it’s easier to do the lump as opposed to individual eps – plus I need to host the space instead of someone else) or sign up for Netflix and begin the viewing immediately.
I asked the wife if there was anything she was interested in watching on Netflix and very soon, the choice became clear.
Now that I have Netflix I really only use Foxtel for live UFC events and any HBO or AMC shows. If it weren’t for the live sports I’d probably have cancelled my Foxtel subscription.
Netflix is fucking amazing and accessing it isn’t piracy, it’s actually something that that whole pricing reform thing last year recommended.
Geo blocking is what should be illegal.
Instead of listening to those recommendations, though, the government is instead supporting the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty to make avoiding geo-blocking illegal. (Well. A treaty-violation. Meaning we’d be obliged to draft laws to make it illegal.)
Also ensuring we adopt all the shittiest things from the US’s fucked up copyright legislation but without any of the checks and balances and pesky things like fair use.
Copyright is so completely fucked up. Too many companies with way too much money involved in it to ever get it fixed and too many politicians on their payroll to fix the issue as well.
And too many opportunities for institutions like YouTube to say, “Oh, I’m sorry… within the law? Don’t care. Read your terms and conditions. You wanna broadcast here, you obey OUR law first, the other laws second.”
I’ve said it before, but… gee. It’s almost as if someone came up with a way of transmitting data globally, and people who are invested in transmitting data to individual regions at marked-up prices are unhappy with the fact that everyone else knows how to move data globally.
man. something about Gizmodo comments section is really cathartic.
and then this guy compares people who believe climate change is real to Nazis.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/03/australias-climate-is-getting-worse-says-new-csiro-bureau-of-meteorology-report/comment-page-1/#comment-2283847
What an arse. As is the guy upthread.
yeah, I’ve got a long post in moderation in response to the upthread guy.
Ooh, and now he’s downvoting me.
Tha horra.
if I were you, id be heartbroken.
I’mma drown my sorrows in icecream.
if a downvote is the best argument he can muster, I don’t think we’ve missed out on a good debate.
also, upvoted you from my alt account.
just so he’s aware his actions are completely meaningless.
I upvoted from THIS one!
@transientmind i’ve already used up all the upvotes from this account.
dont normally double dip, but I felt vindictive enough to go out of my way to cancel out his bullshit & therefore nullify his entire contribution to the page.
Ahh but if global warming was real, your icecream would have melted! Explain that with your precious logic!
Duh. Climate change leads to an increase in freak weather events, there was totes a blizzard in my kitchen.
Duh.
@redartifice So some imaginary weather change caused the developers of warcraft to appear in your kitchen by magic and save your icecream? You’re totally making that up!
I think you are giving him too much credit to say he has made a comparison. That is just random words spewed to disagree
JOB HUNT PARTY ASSEMBLE!
How’s the hunting @dc @masha2932 ?
Good job!
Where? People are looking for that
That doesn’t sound like a very fun party at all.
🙁
No luck yet 🙁
CookingMama on twitter just helpfully pointed out that a Pepperoni pizza on that Cheeseburger crust is over 12000kj.
Healthy.
what? HOW? jeeeesus!
How many KJ does an adult male need in a day? 8700 or something like that?
At least Cheeseburger crust fans will be easy to spot after a while.
…From space.
I feel like someone at Pizza Hut HO was watching Epic Meal Time and saw the dumb stuff they put in their pizza crusts and decided to run with it.
I stand by hot dog stuffed crust pizza being awesome. So if they were watching Epic Meal Time and had crazy ideas like that, thanks Epic Meal Time!
Actually, I did try one of those and it was surprisingly OK.
Just OK, though. I much prefer razor-thin ‘barely there’ crust as a practically intangible delivery system for meat, cheese, and grease.
I was inspired enough to make my own so I could have a hotdog stuffed superthin crust. Was pretty spectacular.
…Now I feel like making hotdog stuffed crust pizza for dinner. 😀
I didn’t mind the hot dog crust.
I’ll take three.
Looking at that pizza though, it will probably feed at least three people.
I don’t think anyone ever goes to Pizza Hut for healthy food. 😛
That’s still 4000kj per person which would be bad in of itself.
If you’re a pussy.
I just don’t understand the fuss. I don’t know anyone who would eat a whole one by themselves at once, or even have one every day or so, and even if I did, they have a right to eat whatever they want without other people complaining that what they like to eat shouldn’t exist.
As for myself, I probably wouldn’t try this one. Purely because the “burger” parts are probably like those gross mince pieces pizza places like to use, only larger. Not because of any calorie count or perceived unhealthiness of it.
I think of it as the horror one reserves for truly terrible movies like Nudist Colony of the Dead. An F- grade movie about a nudist colony whose members commit mass suicide in response to a judge ordering the camp closed, then return with a vengeance as the living dead.
It’s a musical.
Clearly this abomination is an affront to decency and rational thought, an offense in the eyes of God and man, but this is just that kind of world. Where what we know shouldn’t exist for reasons of good taste, do and are (inexplicably) enjoyed by many.
Part of the enjoyment is undoubtedly complaining about how godawful it is. 🙂
If people want to eat it fine. But the fact they made the decision to release something more than four times the calorie count of anything else out there is just troll marketing.
Again, this is my dinner.
And it will be glorious.
Thoughts on Alice: Madness Returns?
It looks pretty but how’s the gameplay? If I recall they were saying it was a bit repetitive and not too fun? It’s been on sale lots of times but this is probably the first time it’s been on sale without Australian tax added on top.
Swishy dress physics!
What more do you need to know
I really enjoyed it, but unfortunately it did not agree with me on PC
On that topic, is Nether still working for you or has it gone back to making you feel sick?
I enjoyed it, totally worth what I paid for it (YARGH!). And yeah, combat never really advanced much, but it was fun enough, and well worth the time, in my opinion.
I really, really enjoyed the concept and art design and hope that they make a graphic novel from it. I found that the stages do drag on a lot. I would’ve liked it a lot better if the game was shorter. All in all I’m happy to have played it through to completion.
I recommend playing it 🙂
I found the gameplay pretty average. Nothing special, but nothing terrible either.
I decided not to buy it.
Thanks dudes and dudettes!
Whoa, so CGI is pretty cool now.
Weird.
Very.
..but pretty cool.
Galaxy: The chocolate of corpses…
Audrey Hepburn was cute as.
And they’re using her corpse to flog chocolate…
Eh, it’s just a body double with some CGI all over her face.
Still feels deeply wrong to be using someone’s image without their consent, if they did it to someone living they’d rightfully have the living fuck sued out of them
You should see the Gap ad featuring her. That one’s fucked up. This one’s cool.
@strange
:/
Yeah it’s bad, but it’s also hilarious. 😀
It’s funny you started talking about this today because I rode my first red chocobo in XIII-2 today. There’s something about the stupidity and terribleness of that version of the song that just makes me smile every time.
Oh god, I gave up after 30secs. That is just … awful, really really really awful.
My guilt at checking out TAY and other websites during the day is assuaged by the fact that I have had to endure listening to a collection of senior staff chat about holidays for the past half hour.
Debating whether or not I need that expensive Dark Souls II collector’s edition.
I ended up just going for the cheap version. I don’t really have enough space for the statue that comes with the other version, and couldn’t afford that stupidly expensive Japanese version with the mini weapons. Besides, once I get the game I’ll be too busy playing it to worry about or look at what came with it.
I’m a sucker for statues but yeah, I’m running out of space as well. 🙁
I am also a sucker for statues, which is why I’ve given myself a rule of no collector’s editions this year. 😛
There is no debate.
You need it.
You don’t need it.
I don’t understand. Is the debate over wether to buy 1 or 2 copies?
I’ve been thinking about cancelling my order for a while but I finally cancelled it then (THANKS PANTS!)
The only thing I was really interested in is the art book but it looks like one of the smaller ones, so I’m better off buying a Design Works (if one ever comes out for it). And thanks to you I also realised I don’t even have the shelf space for the statue 😛
My phone is dying. I’m surprised any time it manages to accomplish something in a timely manner, and definitely surprised when it manages to turn on.
I just have pre-paid and only spend around $15 every few months so any phone on a plan is not really a sensible or cost-effective option for me. I currently have a Sony which I love so I’m definitely looking for a new Sony, and I need it to be under $300. I’ve narrowed it down to the Xperia L or the Xperia SP. Does anyone here know anything about or have any experience with either of these?
I currently have an Xperia E. It’s not the Sony you want though, trust me.
Helping via elimination.
Go for the SP 4G. And remember to use Kogan for the best price.
I looked at the E because it was cheap, not sure why I took it off my shortlist though. Care to elaborate on your problems with it?
I think with the SP I feel like the 4G is a waste of money for me. I don’t use data, just connect to my wireless when I’m home, which is why I’m hesitating about buying it even though I’ve heard great things.
The Xperia E is surprisingly slow, and memory will fill fast if you don’t have a micro SD card to put in. It is very cheap though, at $59.
The 4G on the SP is a huge upgrade/futureproof for only a slight price hike over the L, I would go for it. And personally, I find the SP to be a nicer, more premium looking phone.
You’ve been really helpful, thanks!
Nice to know. 😀
EB have their March Madness thing starting and …. there’s actually some decent deals in there.
Who are you and what have you done with the real EB?
I can’t find it
By the looks it’s probably in store only.
I got an email.
Oh, but I’m too lazy to check my email
http://links.ebw.ebgames.com.au/servlet/MailView?ms=NDUyNTU4MzcS1&r=NjUxNDkyMjY1MTIS1&j=NDAwNDMwNTQ4S0&mt=1&rt=0
Here’s the online link to the email lol. I just got it. Think I might pick up a 360.. If i’m allowed to lay by it lol.
Thanks. I didn’t really see anything I wanted though.
I’d have a look in store, there would be heaps more stuff to choose from.
I would be mostly after vita games, but a lot of the ones I want, I can’t find.
What Vita games you looking for?
Bah, I was sort of thinking a new 360 myself until I saw the word preowned
What’s wrong with pre-owned? They’re all sent away to head office, reconditioned and tested.. My PS3 is pre-owned and it hasn’t missed a beat.
I just don’t trust anything that someone else has owned before me, too many shitty experiences with second hand stuff and the point of my wanting a new 360 to replace my currently ailing one is to have one that will last for as long as possible so unused is a major asset
Hnngh. Must resist.
Edit: might pop in tomorrow and see what’s available then..
DAMMIT
Used Luigi’s Mansion to upgrade from 4.4 to 4.5, screwed around with a few things to see what happens with save data on the SD card when you go back, finally psych myself up to try and go ahead with the restore and click Write… “This media is write-protected”.
Why can’t anything ever go smoothly 😛
Your head is smooth.
Ha, turns out that it was just because I forgot to put the little lock switch thing back into the microSD adapter, put that in and it works now 😛
Good thing I bothered to find it when it fell out…
Help I can’t find McGarnical’s tag here. @mcgarnical? @mrmcgarnical? I DON’T KNOW
I’ll briefly summarise:
– PS4 has started shutting itself off (mid-game, mid-movie, whatever) completely, then rebooting in a safe mode. Choosing to restart is an endless loop of safe mode reboots. Only options are really to reinitialise the whole console, basically a factory reset, or shut it down and unplug/replug it after five minutes. The latter is made difficult by the fact that the power button sometimes stops working here.
– it also turns itself on without input (I’m nowhere near the console or the controller), then shuts itself down. This isn’t it being put on hybernate or standby mode or whatever – it’s 100% powered down. Turning it back on, it goes into safe mode.
– after enough incidents, went to Big W this past weekend to see what they’d do about it. They recommended going to Sony directly with it.
-went to Sony with it. They emailed me a link to an update file, dl’d onto a USB and did the factory reset on the console yesterday. They said this is exactly what they would do with the console if I sent it in to them for repairs.
– worked fine last night (I watched Gravity, good film). Went to play Ass Creed this afternoon and all of the problems reappeared after about 15 minutes.
Probably forgot some important stuff here
– mum, who works at the store, is saying she’s been told they won’t do refunds after 30 days out from the purchase which from what I’ve been reading goes against consumer law.
– dad is now saying that Big W can only refuse the refund if they have an agreement with Sony where Sony takes full responsibility for the product or – oh hell I don’t even know anymore D:
Wait, that wasn’t brief at all.
🙁
RMA
Send it in to Sony anyway, best case they have the same trouble you have and replace your console. Just don’t wait until it is out of warranty.
Somewhat unrelated, but I didn’t like Gravity. 😛
Yep this is me!
Damn, I really wanted to set out a proper explanation of your rights but I have to go to bed – early start tomorrow 🙁
What Big W is saying is BS anyway. I’ll add more tomorrow!
Yeah, this.
Harass them, they can’t deny a return on a faulty product. Warranty/returns was a major part of a previous job for me and the simple answer here is that they’re trying to avoid work.
Skullgirls! MultiTAY! Right now!
Who wants in?
If so, just jump into the game! 😀
@phlanispo
If you edited in the user tags, apparently they don’t cause the flag to show up so:
OI! @phlanispo!
Cheers, mate. 🙂
Lots of people will tell you that Boston’s 1976 self-titled debut album ‘Boston’ is their best work. Lots of people are wrong. ‘Walk On’ is actually their best. It is known.
Awesome, I’ll definitely check it out.
A song so catchy, most people probably don’t listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it’s not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it’s also a personal statement about the band itself.
Oh. My. God.
If I can offload the kids, that’s at least three shows I can go to. So happy right now. 😀
Oh shit yes.
My only issue tickets aren’t on sale yet according to Oztix D=
Apparently they go on sale today. Arghh, so excited! 😀
Oh that’s better lol. I might wander down to my local retail seller and buy a ticket then ^-^
I remember saying on Twitter sometime last year Gloryhammer need to do an Australian tour and Ben the drummer tweeted me back saying it would happen, I am quite pleased it now has!
Edit: Children of Bodom are touring a week after Gloryhammer, must resist..
Yeah, Ben and Paul told us on 70K they were hoping to be out here in April but it was getting close with no announcement so I thought it may have fallen through. They said they were going “everywhere” but we thought that just meant Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne like usual. Very happy to be wrong! 😛
That’s awesome. They seem like cool dudes.
I’m quite surprised they’re going to some places like Toowoomba, Dubbo & Byron..
As for your edit. After you seeing Gloryhammer, Bodom would seem like an even worse show than usual. 😛
This is very true… I know Bodom aren’t anything amazing or special, but I just like for some reason after all these years and the fact their only decent stuff was on their first 4 albums lol.
I don’t know about not being special, I just know that Bodom were probably the laziest, ‘we don’t care if anyone’s enjoying the show we’re just here to get paid/laid’ show I’ve ever seen. Just going through the motions,really. I don’t think the band themselves were even enjoying themselves.
I have had a love-hate relationship with their music for the past 10-12 years. I go through phases where I like them, then I don’t 😛
Ugh, i’ve seen a few bands like that, sucks some take that sort of attitude toward the fans who paid good money to see them, and they can’t be more in to it or at least pretend to be.
But dat Laiho.
Oh man, he’s such a princess. I remember being in line next to him to get on the ship a couple of years ago and he was wearing more make-up than me! And he even had someone else carrying his luggage for him. 😀
Hell yes, anything related to Alestorm and I’m there! Will you be at the Sydney show?
I wish! Gonna be at Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Brisbane though. Already got tickets. Gloryhammer are incredibly fun live. 😀
@phlanispo
Thanks for Skullgirls multi-player. 🙂
Your welcome. Maybe next time, I’ll actually know how to pull off one of my super attacks.
What the hell, Dead or Alive 5 is getting a new DLC character that is a girl who doesn’t have ridiculously sized fat sacks attached to her chest.
Next in bizarro-world they’ll be trying to tell me that the game is actually good.
I always liked the DOA series on a technical level, and it always looked pretty nice. I won’t vouch for it being good, but I also don’t onlyp lay it because of the impossibly propotioned ninja girls in short skirts.
That said, I never bothered to pick up 5. I don’t know if it was badly made or if it was the usual backlash against it’s sexist character designs, but it seemed to be reamed pretty hard by the internet.
My terrible secret is I actually like DoA. Played the shit out of DoA2 LE on Dreamcast and DoA3 on Xbox. I have 4 and 5 but they haven’t had anywhere near the staying power for me, but 5 is pretty reasonable. I’ve never had too much of a problem with the designs or anything and it’s an easy game to pick up and play. Nowhere near as technical and deep as a lot of the others out there though.
I think the main thing stopping me buying 5 was that 4 had very low longevity. I don’t do a lot of multiplayer and I feel like the value in playing a fighter’s solo campaign is limited. My friends are terrible at fighting games so they don’t like to play against me for long unless I figure out how to lose without being obvious about it. So all in all it was something I wanted to pick up from the bargain bin, but never did.
That was my problem as well. Also the AI in 4 was cheap. It was building up a memory of the moves you’re making and so got better and better during a game at countering you, in an attempt to make you mix things up. The problem was that that info doesn’t get flushed or reset on a continue, and certain characters because of the way they play will usually open most strings with certain types of attack. Eg. I like to play with Hitomi a lot, but the AI in DoA4 would quickly learn that a lot of her attacks are mid-level punches and start countering the crap out of you 🙁
I felt like 5 is a lot better. It has a story mode where you’re flipping between lots of characters rather than a simple arcade battle. Also the updates to the character models are nice, moving away from that plasticy look they had since 3. But I don’t think I’d pay for it. I got it free on PS+ at some point.
DoA5 got an expanded release which added a few extra characters as well, haven’t tried that. There’s a free-to-play downloadable version which starts with 4 characters (Kasumi, Hayate, Ayane and Hayabusa) and charges $4 per extra character and $15 for the story mode as DLC. Interesting concept but if you were to buy everything piecemeal like that it’d set you back like $130+. Hoping the full game will hit PS+ at some point.
Okay, I spent two days catching up on last week’s TAY, and I come here, and there is 5 pages already. I’ll probably reach page 6 by Thursday.
It’s Sunday and I am on page 5…
Now that my backup and restore function is underway, I’ve started generating friend codes to see what pokemon safaris they end up creating. First one has Phanpy and Camerupt, and a friend already wants me to finish the game so he can get a Camerupt with its hidden ability or something. Got another code sitting here waiting to test, but everyone went to bed already 😛
Interesting. Someone showed up, got them to check it out. It’s the same thing.
Guess it’s not based on the friend code, but on the 3DS itself.
…how strange. Just finished restoring the first friend code’s image, and this time the 3DS had the current time when booting it up rather than the time the image was backed up, like the last one I did. I don’t understand this at all 😛
Your friend list populates the friend safari set. This will give 2/3 pokemon.
To unlock the third, you have to have both been online in the game with the friend having beaten the elite 4.
To get hidden abilities, that friend must be online in the game while you catch the ‘mons. Generating local friend codes probably won’t help with this.
Edit: I was going to suggest that maybe it’s based on trainer ID, but you can use friends that don’t have the game. If changing the friend code doesn’t change anything, it might either be something rudimentary like the Mii name, or it could exchange a 3DS identifier once you use friend codes to connect. I’d suspect whatever protocol is used to identify you on the Pokémon servers when you go online would play a part, and I don’t think the friend code would be the only unique thing to identify you. Side note – do you know if factory resetting a 3DS will change the friend code, or is it locked to that piece of hardware?
Edit edit: Expanding line of thought further. If I put my game in another 3DS, I’d still expect to use my save file and be identified as me (probably by trainer ID), and have the same in-game friends, but I’m not sure how the 3DS based friend list would integrate, since that would be different. Perhaps another experiment to try there.
Heh, I ended up thinking about this a bit too. I did use the same Mii name and stuff (although not sure if I ended up creating the Mii exactly the same as the first time. Would be interesting if it was the Mii data that determined it :P). And another thought was that maybe if I did a factory reset it would change it, since I’d already set up everything but the internet connection with the image I restored, maybe something else gets generated during the initial setup.
I was curious too about how it would work with transferring your stuff over to a new 3DS, since there would have to be some way of keeping that same ID across to the new one. There must be some kind of extra data beyond just the friend code itself in your friend profile thingo. Definitely gonna have to run a few more experiments 😛
Edit: Oh yeah think I remember reading something about how factory resetting a 3DS will change some of the keys it uses to encrypt stuff, so your SD card data will get erased if you try and use it on the reset model because it won’t match. Not 100% sure on that though, but I think there is stuff that changes other than just your friend code when you factory reset.
So how did you end up with Pokemons for like $17?
He paid a homeless man $17 to steal it.
That Good Guys clearance at the end of last year, they gave out a $40 gift card (on top of the refund) to everyone whose orders couldn’t be fulfilled. I made a bunch of calls and hunted down a store that still had Pokemon in stock, %58 – 40 – 1 = $17 😛
Nice 😀
I ended up with my Good Guys games though 😛 (Luigi U and ZombiU!)
I watched Ghost Adventures for the first time on the weekend. Surprisingly, it was more ridiculous than its
My mother loves ghost adventures. I have to admit, it’s more interesting then a lot of the other ghost hunting shows
Uh… It seems that three quarters of my comment disappeared. Surprised I didn’t notice that.
I was wondering. Care to elaborate?
The first sentence that got cut off was about how the show was just as ridiculous as a parody I had seen beforehand. The rest of my comment was talking about how Ghost Adventures did a triple-take of everything. I then proceeded to talk about all the times that a bit of dust would pass by the camera and they’d claim it as a “spiritual anomaly.” That’s about it.
Yeah, but I understand the triple take. Some stuff is really easy to miss on the first or second take. As for spirit orbs…they’re…weird. I don’t know if I agree with them or not. But I think they’re still more interesting then say, ghost hunters.
Batman: Arkham Knight reveal trailer.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=bLv8xko2teg&linkId=7602886
I’m not sure if I’m interested to be honest. Asylum was great, City was good, and I skipped Origins cause it looked kinda bad :\
This looks promising though, but I’ll have to see more first.
“Eh, I’m burned out on the batman games, I dunno if i’ll”
“INJECT IN MAH VEINS”
Holy smokes, Batman!
Origins felt like a waste of time.
I’ve been awake since 4am…
D:
I’ve been awake since 4pm yesterday. My sleep pattern is not so good at the moment.
Had an abysmal time in Lost Izalith this morning.
Game started off well. I went through The Tomb of Fuck You, killed ol’ Nito, and then went down to Lost Izalith for what was the first ever time. Well, first I died three times to the Centipede demon. Then I went down. Cue fifteen deaths to the stupid leg things, until I realised I could just avoid them. Then it got really bad. I went to OnionBro, jumped down to kill off three of the things in the pit, went back up to talk to him and the fourth one fell into one of the pits, killing itself. Whelp, that’s that quest chain ended. :/ Went to talk to SunBro, rolled off the bridge while fighting the Titanite Demon twice. Equipped the Stamina ring to make the fight easier, and after dying forgot that I’d dequipped the lava-proof ring, so proceeded to leave the bonfire and immediately run to my death. Missed the root underneath the boss to kill it three times in a row (I am really bad at jumping). And when I finally made it, it did the big lava spout attack as I killed it, so we both died. I am greetest at games.Damn, that’s tough, man. But at least it’s over. 🙂
I then went over to Darkroot basin, because I was all “I’m gonna play the DLC, and smash Artorias!”
I got there, killed the golem, and then remembered that I needed something from the Duke’s Archives to access it. *Smashes face into keyboard*
So now I’m up to Seath, and this is not a fight I’m looking forward to, despite how stupidly powerful I am.
The thing you need is right at the start of the Archives. The Crytal Golem before the first library. But…. enjoy Seath 😛I’m aware of that, but I have to beat Seath anyway, so I figured I may as well do it while I’m here.Did you pick up the Dingy robes? Wearing those makes the fight a cake-walk because they have such high curse resist. If you’re super-worried, add a cursebite ring or maybe even the blood shield and you’ll have the most stupid-high curse-resist bar ever seen.
Keep to his sides, don’t worry too much about getting caught in the edges of his sideways Crystal AoE (it’s the big cone in front of him that you have to watch out for, because that spikes upwards for massive physical damage), and when he screeches and raises his tail, get the hell out of dodge or have a REALLY good shield/stam.
If you’re going for a tail-cut, only hit the tip of his tail – it doesn’t register when you hit the thicker section closer to the base. This sucks because he’ll often be oriented in such a way that his tail is hidden inside a wall, and you need to lure him out. The key to all tail-cuts is extreme patience, blocking and dodging perfectly/persistently until the enemy makes that ONE (or two) move that leaves their tail most exposed. (Except Priscilla. For her, you just do a massive fireball at her back to agro her.)
(Edit: Also, if you keep dying, you can pretty much just sprint from the bonfire to him without fighting ANY enemies. The clams won’t chase you through the fog gate.)
http://huvrtech.com/
I love how the video is titled “BELIEF.” I you suspend it, it is the most amazing thing ever.
DARK.
SOULS.
TWO.
\o/Nine days to go for console peasants like me.
Probable PC countdown: 51 days.
TODAY’S NEWS:
Reports that a Famitsu review gives Dark Souls II a score of
37/40.A comparison of Dark Souls II starting stats, class by class.
http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/20682/article/dark-souls-2-starting-stats-comparison-chart/Looks like this time around, Onebros need to go Deprived, rather than Pyromancer.
So attunement will visibly affect casting speed of all forms of magic? Also, the cleric has surprisingly high strength…More info on stats:
http://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/Stats
It’s gonna be harder to decide which stats to boost this time around. Endurance was super-useful in Dark Souls, because it boosted stamina and equipment load. Resistance was useless because each level granted some resistance boosts anyway. Now they all look to have about the same level of utility. Damn it 😛Edit: It also looks like
* There’s a stat that determines a % chance to avoid chest traps. If there’s an element of randomness in safely opening chests, that’s gonna get irritating.* There’s a stat that gives the player a chance to break enemy equipment. Presumably, enemies will have a similar ability.
@shane @crazyguy1990 The games arrived safe and sound. Thanks
Awesome! Hope you enjoy!
thanks, i probably won’t play until I feel better
Sweet.
Have fun!
I watched Frozen for the first time last night. I really enjoyed it but I now have “Let It Go” stuck in my head … wait, that’s a good thing … carry on.
The snow glows white on the mountain tonight, not a footprint to be seen,
A kingdom of isolation and it looks like, I’m it’s queen,
The wind is howling like the swirling storm inside,
couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I tried
Don’t let them in, don’t let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know
Well, now they know
I LOST MY SOOOOOOOOOOUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLS
oppa gundam style!
let it go, let it go,
Can’t hold it back anymore
let it go, let it go,
turn away and slam the door,
And I don’t care, what they’re going to say,
Let the storm rage on,
The cold never bothered me anyway
It’s funny how some distance
Makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me
Can’t get to me at all
It’s time to see what I can do
To test the limits and break through
No right, no wrong, no rules for me
I’m free
Something something something snow
Something something LET IT GO!
You totally nailed it.
So beautiful =’)
http://m.9gag.com/gag/aBKX4OP?ref=fb.s
Dark Souls vs Modern Action games.
That one’s been around for a while, but it’s pretty great.
9gag is the internet’s toilet, the last place anything goes before it is flushed and washes up on the sunny beaches of Facebook.
So I log into origin the other day and it is advertising 30% off sim city “It now cots less to construct an epic metropolis as big as you can imagine.”
Does that count as false advertising when the chief complaint of most unsatisfied customers has been that the city size is way too small?
No. They just assume their average customer is pretty stupid and can’t imagine much.
Well the first part seems to be right. Enough people keep buying the BS they feed us (I’m part of the problem.)
Yep
I finished watching season 5 of Supernatural last night. I’m not sure how I feel about the fact that they made more seasons after it since the ending worked really well as a series final.
I wasn’t sure about it not ending there either, but some of the best episodes have been after that original ending so I ended up happy it continued.
Sounds like I have something to look forward to then. Yay.
Same. I continued for another season but it didn’t feel the same. Have really struggled to return to it ever since.
Yay! Another bland and uninteresting open world Batman game where you can spend most of your time in a bland city with no real personality or identity.
I miss the Asylum style.
But… POLYGONS. So many polygons!
Batman (the character) works best when restricted. Then you can see his abilities and intelligence come out. I think that they need to bring back the claustrophobia.
I dunno, an open world game again is getting me a little worried. It’s making Gotham too small for me – I imagined a place bigger then New York, a city so large that Batman wouldn’t be able to police all of it all the time. Hence he needs to use his gadgets and intelligence to target key locations, criminals, crimes.
I want Asylum back. Maybe lock him in the sewers and he can’t get out, knowing the city is going to hell above his head.
What!? The last couple of Batman games have been a treat!
Huh? Batman Origins? Never heard of it.
*grabs disk and throws it out the window*
I know I’m probably the only one who feels like it but City was okay but let down by its environment. Gotham felt more like a painful obstacle between the good bits and I hated having to use way points and map rather than navigating from the map built in your head from inhabiting the world you’re in.
Nope, I too yearn for more of an Asylum Batman game.. I liked City, but it was too big for what it was. I haven’t played Origins yet, but i’ve no real high hopes for that. Apparently Rocksteady is back behind this one?
Yeah they are, which has got me interested for the time being.
Dear @dc,
I know this isn’t really a page for writing letters, but I feel I need to ask you a question, and I feel like this is the most appropriate place and format.
It is a well established fact that one of the many things you hate, something that appears on your fabled list more than almost anything else, are buildings. You despise them with the power of a small piece of coal, with the strength of a ferret, and with the ferocity of a tomato. Or something.
So, what is your opinion on the Hermitage, a building that is fully supportive of hermits (and also the home to some truly fantastic impressionist and cubist pieces)? Does your hermitness overcome your great hatred? Do they even out in the end? Or is your hatred of buildings an effect of jealousy at a building that is more hermity than you could ever imagine?
Yours in I’ve-Been-Up-Since-1:30AM-So-I’m-Going-To-Be-A-Bit-Loopy-Today,
Blaghs.
I’m updating an application that kids use to assist with spelling, grammar, and some other stuff, and it includes text to speech. There’s a filter for bad words (for obvious reasons) but some of the default stuff on it is hilarious:
“large unpleasant woman”
“unsophisticated country person”
“aggressive woman”
“person of French descent”
That’s…quite a polite list, you scruffy nerf herder.
It reminded me about the Armstrong and Miller skit on predictive text: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hcoT6yxFoU
For anyone interested (I think @scree was) Dick Smith seem to have 20% off VITA memory cards. As I have no idea what a good price for a Vita memory card is I’m not really sure how good a deal this is (if it all).
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/goto/135581
And I still can’t afford it =P
Did anyone else know THE WALKING DEAD SEASON TWO EPISODE TWO drops today? Reviews are springing up everywhere.
*shoves fingers into ears up to the wrists* LALALALALALALALAIAMNOTLISTENINGLALALALA
Edit because Page Six and I’m DEADicated:
Vegan zombie “GRAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIINS”
Nope. Where’s @DC when you need him to tell us about this stuff?
Twitter. 🙂
I need to get through Ep 1 ASAP, then on to Ep 2 so I can avoid spoilers. It seems to be becoming harder and harder lately.
Oh good, Page Six. Just as I’m leaving. Perfect timing. 😀
Party pooper.
What a very @strange comment.
Is it just me or does Batman look weirdly proportioned and unimposing in the new trailer?
(http://youtu.be/bLv8xko2teg?t=1m1s)
At 1:01 in particular his head looks oversized, which might be what makes him look small and infantile over the next five seconds. Again when he walks up to the Batmobile.
Maybe my monitor is off and everything is squished or something.
Alternate explanation (Possible spoiler): Arkham Knight actually stars Batkid.
Yeah, I thought the same thing while watching it.
Maybe they’re hoping to create a spin-off with super-deformed characters (for all that children’s toy money) and figure the best way is to slowly alter everyone.
Holy crap. BIG HEAD MODE.
$5 DLC to buy Normal Head Mode*
More games need DK mode like in Goldeneye
Big head mode will always be DK mode for me.
I think his torso is smaller, but the head is the same.
Men look more powerful when they have a smaller head in proportion to their torso. The other weird cartooning thing that I learned in art classes is that femininity is accentuated by neck length. (To a point, obviously.) Weird how some symbols and archetypes wire directly to our hindbrains to convey certain information.
Do they call you Mr Glass?
The reference is awesome, but I’ve actually never broken a bone in my body! Not even as a kid falling out of trees and shit.
…Ohwait. Unless you count teeth as bones. Because I’ve broken those.
Terry McGinnis?
It looks like XSeed are simultaneously teasing Akiba’s Trip 2 and Senran Kagura Vita on Twitter at the moment. Which is cool and everything, but where the shit is Trails in the Sky SC?
Need more TitS!
Senran Kagura has that covered.
Completely unrelated, but I find it amusing that of the three games you’ve mentioned, the one with (I assume) the least questionable content is the one with TitS in its acronym.
Basically true. Xseed releases mediocre fanservice-laden boobie games so they can afford to handle awesome games like Ys and Trails. I’m okay with this.
I thought I was well enough to handle a sausage and egg muffin.
Fairly cCertain I thought wrong.I regret everything.
You gotta get your BRAT on, foo’.
Those are rough on my digestion on the best of days.
For dinner last night I made the grievous error of trying some 5dogs (in the valley) hotdogs. They taste fantastic but my gut simply cannot handle them.
I wanted to play more Stick of Truth, but I simply had to lie down and groan for a while instead.
Getting old sucks. I wish I could eat half the stuff I used to without trouble.
It all kinda started going downhill for my digestive system when I hit 26. Up until then I was scarfing down multiple mcdonalds meals in one sitting (while remaining rake-thin) and drinking all night up to and sometimes during the next work day.
Now I have to cut back on junk food and go to the gym more whenever I detect the beginning of love-handles or the obscuring of abs.
everyone interested probably has this already, but walking dead s2 33% off on steam…
http://store.steampowered.com/app/261030/
@Phlanispo
Man, you don’t even know. Back in the before times we’d probably be up to page 15 by now 😛
We never even reach erotic page 18 anymore (hooray).I blame Pez.
Not reaching page 18 is a bad thing, a very bad thing >:(
It’s the most beautiful page there is *wipes tear from eye* :’)
I was wrong, I reached page six by Sunday.
Dear TAY,
I’m a page early for page seven (everypageispagesixshutupshutupSHUTUP), but I’m edging ever closer to my 25,000th comment, and I’ve decided it needs to be a good’un.
Am now accepting suggestions. Default option will be some Dark Souls 2-related pun, probably.
go with a classic :
Big combination of all shameless plugs over the last 25,000 comments.
Something underrated and smug. Like
…
The Dig.
write something about dark souls and then shamelessly plug it while making a bad joke on a page that isn’t page six?
It’ll be my Everest!
What did the scientist say when he found 2 isotopes of helium?
HeHeThat was terrible. Are you getting enough sodium?
Na.
Sulfur difluoride
FFSQuizUp Beta for Android has arrived for everyone. Been waiting ages for this woohoo.
Almost exactly 12 hours ago, I finally completed all 3 of the Kalos Pokedex \o/
This is the first time I have ever been able to complete a full dex.
Now I think I can safely say I’m done with pokemon for a little while… although the idea of doing a Wonder run has some appeal. Might buy an X cart for it though, I don’t want all those hours of work training and breeding, not to mention losing my competitive team, to go to waste. This is why we need multiple save files
Huh, now that you mention it, one of the highest ranked problems with multiple saves has been fixed. Namely, a desire to trade / transfer between those multiple saves. I guess Pokemon Bank paves the way for that finally.
Edit: words
I beat the pokemon league last night!
that’s i huge achievement for me, i haven’t finished a pokemon game since sapphire.
Murdered: Soul Suspect is looking at hitting us on June 6th.
Gotta say it looks interesting.
It also qualifies as dadjokepagesix because it’s a punny title. 🙂
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-17456-Murdered–Soul-Suspect-Hands-On-Preview—Dead-on-Arrival.html sadly it might not be all we’re hoping for…
Played a bit of South Park last night (maybe 2.5 hours?)
Thoughts:
Enjoying it so far. Combat system is simple yet the active input means you can’t just sit there pressing a single button. And expect to do a lot of walking, especially at the start.Apparently it’s about 10hrs for the main quest and then another 5 or so if you do all the side quests. Short for an RPG sure, but I think it will be a good length for a game like this. It’s basically a really long South Park episode.
Negatives? Controls on keyboard/mouse can be a little clunky and you can’t rebind them.
In regards to glitches, the only one I’ve found so far is some of the audio seems to ‘pop’ every now and then. The game is also locked at 30fps, but I feel this probably has something more to do with getting the animation style to work than the port itself.
If I would recommend it comes down to the following:
Do you like South Park? If yes, play it. If no, don’t play it.
Didn’t realise it was that short, although it probably fits the whole “it feels like an actual episode of South Park” feel they are going for. I think I’m gonna wait for the eventual steam sale.
No rebinding of keys? From a game by Obsidian?
You’d better be able to use the 360 controller on the PC at least
I’m totally okay with it being short and sweet. Most RPGs are way too long.
My copy is still stuck at pre-load
You’ll need a VPN to unlock it on Steam.
Meh, I’ll wait then. By the time I can be bothered looking it up and be bothered implementing it, it’ll have probably unlocked anyway
If you get bored/impatient, give Cactus VPN a shot. 24hr free trial, pretty easy to set up.
Register email, get sent a trial username/password, download client, run client, input username/password, choose US, activate, start Steam.
Reckon if you redeem a code for SP:TSOT from GMG with that VPN that you’d get the uncensored version? A mate of mine is looking at ways to get the uncut version and that sounds easy enough to do and he does tend towards being a path-of-least-resistance kind of guy (sounds nicer than calling him a lazy bastard)
Entirely possible. I haven’t got far enough to see if mine’s censored yet. I pre-loaded ‘in Australia’, but unlocked and activated ‘in the US’. I haven’t left the US since, so I guess we’ll see. I’ll try to play a bit more tonight and see if I get to any of the chopped content and see a crying koala.
If it’s a regionally determined thing rather than an actual different product, I reckon it’d be determined at redemption rather than at download or unlock.
At least with the way they’ve done it, there’ll be no doubt once you get to one of the sections, crying koala or anal probing is a pretty distinct difference.
I just realised I never compared product IDs, the versions on the au steam and grown up, cheaper steam have the exact same product ID so they must be doing the regional castration (which would naturally be replaced here with a picture of a crying koala) via an IP based detection rather than by hosting a separate product. That’s pretty much exactly what a VPN would bypass wouldn’t it?
I’m not sure, but I think it’s either purchase or redemption of the code that does it. I activated it in the US and played through to the scene, but still found it censored.
On the plus side, the censorship is actually a good thing, as it avoids a tedious QTE and the text description is far worse than what the Americans witness.
(Which can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dBPKjnEP9g if desperate.)
Well if you’re buying a code from GMG or wherever and the product id’s for the 2 versions are the same then it obviously couldn’t be done at purchase unless buying through steam. Then again I guess when buying through steam, redeeming is a simultaneous action
Alleged pic of Dishonored 2
Well I say that, what I mean is its a picture of the words on a TV with a logo and Bethesda/arkane logos in the corners
I find the prospect of a Dishonored 2 slightly amusing. I remember when Dishonored was announced and people were all hyped over it because it was a new IP and not just another sequel, and now of course it’s getting a sequel because it did so well. It reminds me of that South Park Walmart episode.
So what you’re saying is we need to burn down the closest Walmart?
…
yes
I still need to finish Dishonored.
I got bored. It made me nostalgic for Thief. 😛
Sooo er, my ps3 slim is having issues and wondering if there’s anyone who’s had a similar experience and/or has any idea what I can try. For a while it was just turning off mid game, and we could turn it back on straight away and it’d be fine. It would do this weird kind of data verification after, but then it would play as normal. This maybe happened once every few days?
Recently, it happened again, but now I go to turn it on, light goes green for like 2 seconds, then just shuts off completely, no red light, no beep noises. If I unplug it from the wall, then replug, red light comes back, but will do the same thing if I try turning it on again.
Sighhhhhhhhh. It seems like a common thing with slims on googles. I’m guessing power supply? Some forums seem to suggest that. Others who had the issue said hdd. No idea what to doooo *cries*
Best I can suggest is to borrow someone else’s power supply. If it works with the new one just buy a replacement. You can probably get one on eBay / cashies
Yeah I did think about that. But whooooose ps3 slim is willing to be dissected? I think if mine was working ok I wouldnt lend it to someone to take apart :/
Ohh right, built in Power Supply. Forgot about that …
I’ll see if I have a spare HDD sitting around for you. You can try swapping that over and see if it works.
Yeah thatd be great! If you happen to have one. Also, mines a slim, not sure if it would necessarily be a slim hdd I’d need to try? Or if theyre even any different, I dont even know
Pretty sure they’re standard 2.5 laptop HDDs
Oh! Oh thats cool, easily replaceable then if thats the case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk9nLmFczzE noisy background music and the woman has a voice I find kind of annoying but the info seems solid
They’re the same HDDs and I’ve got a couple that I kept from previous PS3’s. So no problem. I’ll just have to dig them up. Really easy to swap over as well. Don’t have to pull apart the ps3.
Oh awesome! Thanks so much freeze. That way I know of this doesnt change anything than its most likely power supply. Should be able to work it out now hopefully, phew
p.s. its been like months since ive seen all your pretty faces. Is there some kind of thing happening any time soon? I thing that lets me see all your faces?
There’s a Gloryhammer concert on the 3rd of May. You’re going to that, right? We should totally have a Gloryhammer Meat! 😛
(Tickets are actually only $28.50 each.)
But yeah, there is currently nothing planned. Something should definitely be planned. You should plan something, Sughly!
I have a birthday in like 3-4 weeks…
So does @sughly.
Ahhhh… cool name, I’ll give them that.
Awesome. That means you’ll be there, right? 😛
@novacascade got a travel question for you…
I’m going to Japan in October. need to get to Okinawa for a wedding on Sunday 12th.
What would be the easiest / cheapest way to do this?
Japan Airlines is definitely the way to go. You can get return flights via Tokyo for around $1400-1500 depending on the exact dates you fly. You can go with airlines like Cathay Pacific to avoid the backtracking of going to mainland Japan, but you end up paying a lot more, and the layover times are ridiculously long.
There is only one flight each day to/from Okinawa from Tokyo’s Narita airport (which is where the Sydney flight lands) and it does arrive pretty late.
But if you wanted to stop and have a couple of days in Tokyo in either direction, there are tons of flights from the smaller, and more central, Haneda airport, which depart pretty much every hour or two.
thanks man.
the plan is to get to Okinawa, do the wedding, then head up to Tokyo for a few days before heading back.
found a flight –
Dpt Sydney 9pm
Arr Beijing 5.50am
*change*
Dpt Beijing 8.20am
Arr Okinawa 12.30pm
that would be ideal.
but the thing is… is that 2.5hrs enough time to do all the baggage stuff & transfer to the next flight?
I mean… I found this through webjet, so I guess… they’d know what they’re talking about?
If its sold as a connected flight, then its up to the airlines to make sure you make the connection. If the flight to Beijing is delayed, they will either hold the second flight until you get there, or put you on a later flight to Okinawa, all at no cost to you.
In this case, your bags would be sent straight through to Okinawa, you wouldn’t need to pick them up in Beijing.
My only concern with this itinerary is that flying via China may mean that you need to get a separate ticket to go up to Tokyo, and some one way flights can get scarily expensive. Not sure what dates you were searching for, or if you included your Tokyo stopover.
But I just had a bit of a play. Yes you can get that flight one way to Okinawa via Beijing for $650 (if I have found the same date as you were looking at). But then a one way flight from Okinawa to Tokyo is another $500 ish. Then to get home from Tokyo if you go back via Beijing, your $650 one way becomes an $1150 return ticket. Add that with your flight to Tokyo and you are looking at around $1650 all together.
If you were to go straight home from Tokyo direct to Sydney, that one way flight (including the leg from Okinawa) is around $3000 (see what I mean about expensive 🙂 )
But if you were to go return with Japan Airlines via Tokyo in both directions, including your stopover, you can get all the way to Okinawa and back for around the $1400-1500 I found before.
Generally, if you can stick with the same airline throughout it will work out much cheaper in the long run.
Hope this makes sense
thanks man. I really appreciate it.
biggest problem is that I absolutely cannot get any time off work that week, so i’ll be leaving Friday night & the wedding is on Sunday morning…
its… shit. would’ve loved to be able to take my time, but I found out just yesterday that 6-10th October is my first week working at a ‘new’ job with a new boss. & they’re not overly keen on staff being away from work during the school term…
I recently bought cheap tickets through air asia, $800 for there and back.
however the tickets are for january next year, so it could have just been an early bird special or something.
Stealers Wheel – Stuck in the Middle. Every time I hear this song I’m reminded of the Michael Madsen cop torture scene in Reservoir Dogs. Every time.
I even do the little waltz that he does, if I’m standing up.
According to the Portuguese Eurogamer, A Portuguese retailer is taking pre-orders of the PS4 version of GTA V, a Czech retailer has a June 13 release and a Brazilian retailer has the release sometime this month.
Also a beta graphics driver from AMD has a profile setup for GTA V so maybe an announcement is coming soon.
Ooh if so i’ll buy it for sure.
Heh, I predicted April / May back before launch, since it needed to be the point when next gen consoles had satisfied demand and were in plentiful supply.
It’s also far enough out from the last-gen console release that most people interested in the game would have bought it, but it’s early enough in the new cycle that a lot of those people will then buy it *again* to have it on a new platform.
I’d happily buy it again on PC if more people I know are getting it and I could do the usual GMG pre-order discount plus discount coupon thing to get it for 30 odd bucks, 2 player GTA Online is fun but I’ve got to the point where I’m being offered 4 player only missions. Says a lot about my approach to socialising that I’d prefer to miss out on content than associate with randoms
HOLY SHIT. I PLAYED THE NEWEST EPISODE OF WALKING DEAD AND SWEET JESUS
BEST EPISODE IN THE ENTIRE SERIES THUS FAR, BETTER THAN THE WHOLE DAMN TV SERIES
GODDAMN
LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALAIAMNOTLISTENING
NO SPOILERS
EVERYBODY MUST EXPERIENCE ON THEIR OWN
TOO DAMN GOOD
LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALAIAMNOTLISTENING
YOU WILL SIT THERE AND LISTEN TO MY PRAISES OF THIS EPISODE
LIKE IT’S PRETTY FUCKING RAD
THE RADDEST
…
Nah.
CLEARLY THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE WALKING DEAD, BUT I JUST THOUGH I SHOULD REITERATE FOR PEOPLE’S SAFETY!
IT KEEPS CRASHING ON ME, SO I’M ONLY PARTWAY THROUGH IT, BUT MAN, THAT GLORIOUS BEARD!Oh why did I click the spoiler tag?? Now the
surprise crashingis ruined!I AM WAITING FOR THE SEASON TO FINISH BEFORE I PLAY IT BUT I AM HYPED
Not sure why I was looking at tickets for a Katy Perry concert, but holy shit $173 for presale General Admission Standing?! That’s not the worst what they call the “reflection section” (aka pit tickets) GA Standing in that area is $263, what in the hell?!
That isn’t even the most expensive ticket either they go up to $513.. I thought The Rolling Stones were a rip off, but at least that’s The Rolling Stones you’re paying as much for. This is just Katy Perry…
Why’re they allowed to charge so much for something which is a bit of floor space? :/
I paid $220 per ticket for general admission to see U2 in 2006. When Elton John came to Canberra in 2007, you couldn’t get a ticket for under $350 (and that was just an open-area concert). Popular musicians can charge whatever the hell they want.
Yeah but U2 & Elton John have a career spanning 3+ decades.. Katy Perry she’s been in the limelight since what 2008?
Burn fast, burn bright. Like a firework.
Edit: Also a six year career singing fad music to a transitory audience is pretty impressive.
There’s a stranger in my bed..
Friend of mine paid $550 for Rolling Stones tickets.
I wanted those tickets but couldn’t justify it 😛
Wait, tickets for Elton were that expensive?
Geezus. Thank you to my parents for paying for that one.
Is what I was told. Might be hearsay, but I think it’d be pretty close to the reality of the situation.
Considering today we paid $150 for tickets to three Gloryhammer shows, so 6 tickets for less than 1 Katy Perry ticket, I’m certainly very glad I’m way more into metal than I am pop.
Agreed. I’ve never even paid close to that for just one band :S Most i’ve paid was I think 90 dollars for Slipknot back in 08.
Also I can’t believe how cheap Gloryhammer tickets are, I feel guilty them being so cheap!
They may have one of those deals where if people drink loads at the venue, they get paid more. So I’m sure we can help them out with that. 😛
There are many many many reasons to be glad you’re more into metal than pop…
At least with the stones you know much of the money is going towards life support…
My Travoltafied name is Skye Wailson. That shit’s going on the cover of my next book.
Daud Hernt
… Shit, that sounds legit, I’m using that as a pseudonym.
It is a fantastic pseudonym generator, isn’t it?
Bezzett by the way. James Bezzett.
Marcel Wortson.
Bethany Bozowens? Wtf.
Joe Cozzins
Jakub Daveries
….
I can live with this 😛
Syed Roginson
Lee Mozaleen
Since @dc is MIA I did his for him.
Dougal Cloirk
That’s brilliant
In Jorn Tromolto’s world, @dc and I are brothers!
Brian Cloirk 😛
Brady Allorn.
Man, my Travolta name is better than my real one.
Everyone’s is.
Brady Wailson
And now I can guess what your first name is. 🙂
Shannon Colezan.
Unsatisfied with this, I fed the name back through the generator again and got Stephen Cunningwham. Which is pretty awesome.
Cunningwham? Fantastic!
If that’s not your Dark Souls character name, I’ll be disappointment.
Do you mean cunningham or cunningwham? because both are equally amusing last names.
To be honest, I can only imagine Travolta saying “wham”
Cunningwham.
amazing.
My net name comes out as Georgia.
Otherwise I get Louis Marftinez.
…and plugging that back in gets Lukas Mozaleen. Which turns into Louis Mazzooon. Which becomes Lukas Mozaleen. Baw 😛
Hah, feeding Powalen into it gives me “Preston”
@freezespreston
The truth finally revealed!
By some really weird coincidence, my handle becomes Skye.
Well that was fun while it lasted.
*assimilates back into Pow*
Huh, plugging Phlanispo in leads to Phoenix. Entering Phoenix in comes out as Preston. Everyone is @freezespreston. EVERYONE.
My name ends up alternating between Syed Ridgardser and the almost amazing Saad Rodrayguns.
My internet name is Brogan, or Blair for short…
Hahahaha, that’s my favourite so far. Sounds like someone straight out of Space Quest. 😛
My Internet handle becomes Forbes Scone.
Haha, I love it.
My name seems to spit out the same name consistently. My internet name is “Shane Nicheems”
But if you run that through it, it becomes “Skye Nelseem” which becomes “Shae Nicheems” which will probably just loop back to Skye.
Okay, not sure why it didn’t work before but with my real name I get it switching between.
“Jude Campbeem” and “Jake Careem”
I didn’t think to do my handle. It’s Dean Whayte.
Georgia -> Gemma -> Gregor -> Gemma.
Oh yeah. Gooky -> Garry -> Gemma 😛
Brogan hahah
Wrex was totally a Brogan. 😛
These are all so great when you imagine John Travolta slurring them. So great.
It’s just a fad gag widget, but they did a good job with it.
Poor guy was probably super embarrassed. But I just can’t stop laughing.
It’s times like these where the Internet is pretty great to have 😛
https://twitter.com/AdelaDazeem/status/440340626781917184Benny becomes Brody. Now THAT’S more like it.
If you put Brody in you get …
Barry > Billy > Brody
Wait. My wife’s name becomes Brody.
Are you my wife?
Wait let me see. Err.. Don’t tell Freeze I’m on TAY. Bam! Page-get.
Yep, I’m your wife.
Stuart Morphay at your service
Sameer Walger.
That’s a weird one :\
“Lyle Brazent”
I’m actually quite satisfied with that. Maybe I’ll blog under that name. 😛
Oh. Oh wow. Strange became “Shayne”. 😀
Seem like everyone is coming full circle in this little game. Suddenly, I’m Freeze’s wife, Pow’s really Freeze and now you’re Shane. This is weird.
Mine sucks
Real: Aydin Kzing
Internet: AneesAllorn
Scot hayzes
Sean Greez. the Travoltified me sounds sleazy
But he has an amazing first name!
true, but “Greez” is a bit rough
Real:
Joss Dorniels>Jae Dizzon>Jude Dorniels>Joe Dizzon>ad nauseum
Pseudo:
Angel>Argyll>ad nauseum
Naw, Little Miss just showed me an art she made – an Alice in Wonderland thing with me as the Mad Hatter and Wingman as Alice. It’s pretty awesome.
Wait I’ve been away for a couple of weeks and haven’t be able to watch tays of our lives.
Who is Little Miss?
One of many
I’m not even sure myself.
Oh. Pillowmaker. It’s what Wingman keeps referring to her as, now I’ve kind of transitioned 😛
Nicknames are hard.
Hang on… Are you Nicknames?
Wingman: Hey, have you met my friend? *waves Nicknames over*
Nicknames: Hey, sorry, Wingman, I was over there talking to Housedog. Hi, Pillowmaker, I’m Nicknames!
Pillowmaker: Pillowm- Wait… Nicknames? Why do they call you that?
Wingman: He gives everyone weird nicknames.
Nicknames: *Stares at Pillowmaker* Nicknames will name you Little Miss…
Pillowmaker/Little Miss: Wh- I thought I was Pillowmaker? Didn’t you just call me Pillowmaker?
Nicknames: *Continues staring at Pillowmaker/Little Miss* Nicknames are hard.
Pillowmaker/Little Miss: *Looks shocked*
Wingman: *Comical shrug* Who else but Nicknames!?
*Everyone laughs*
<3
Would work better as poem.
7/10
Don’t tempt me.
Transitioned? Are you having gender reassignment surgery? You could have used spoiler tags!!!
Goddammit! Series plot twist spoiled.
*throws bag of popcorn to floor and storms out of room*
It’s probably going to get crazy, involve some kind of time travel and he’ll end up being pillowmaker all along…
I thought by “Little Miss” he was hinting towards her bring his daughter. I’m sure they will drop hints as to why she was sent back in time.
…and he’ll probably end up being his own grandfather and the man who shot JFK because he was really an alien and the actual first man on the moon because Armstrong was sick that day and he’ll cure cancer and stop Russia invading Ukraine, stop Qatar working thousands of near-slave migrant workers to death to build stadia for the soccer world cup…
This show is going downhill, it needs some new writers
Well according to AIE lore, Wingman is my wife (though I am just one of her many husbands) and Little Miss is our daughter…
Wow. Scott Ludlum didn’t treat Abbott or the LNP gently or very politically there.
http://junkee.com/tony-abbott-slammed-by-greens-senator-in-jaw-dropping-speech-of-the-year-we-want-our-country-back/30146
Goodo.
Boss.
Tony Abbott is Teejay Allorn Travoltified…
#relevant?
Okay, I want to move to WA now so I can vote for him.
Or just get rid of abbot, that’d work too
Apparently last night Abbott stated that Australia has too many “locked national forests/parks” oh dear…
Yeah…
O_o
Don’t think of that sniper as an assassin mr abbot, think of him as the ultimate healer…
Not that I’m advocating the assassination of a political leader just because he’s a monstrously destructive, imbecilic, bigoted, short sighted, corporate shill desperate to scrape any value out of the country and discard it like a dried up passionfruit rind.
Not that I’m say I’d shed a tear if it happened either…
I hope that when we get rid of the bastard we’re not so far down the shitter that the country can’t be recovered, because the future’s looking more and more bleak by the minute.
Yep. He’s out to break us and laugh at the country when he’s thrown out and let the next party fix the problems, like always.
Holy fuck.
I know he wasn’t the least bit tact, but by Arceus, if I was old enough to vote, it would be for him. Also, I didn’t know that the shark cull was actually happening. It seemed far too ridiculous and inane to be something that could actually be implemented. I have to research this.
Damn you and your dark souls musical @shane! Coming home from the gym in the car, I found myself singing along to billy joel and changing the lyrics
You’ll see I’m not so tough,
just because
I’ve been grinding
the undead burg
the undead buuuu uuuuurg
GET HYPE! There’s a new type of broom available! It’s sweeping the nation!
Looks like page six ends on a clean note, then.
Now that I am done with Pokemon Y, at least for a while, I need something new to focus on. That means its time for another installment of Mystery Question Fun Time
Your options are B, D, M and T
I am disappointed that there isn’t an “S” between that “D” and “M”.
So I go with B.
D
T
M
B
Bravely Default
Looks like the B’s have it. So I will go finish off Brothers: Tale of two sons.
Shouldn’t take long. So we might get to do this dance again soon 🙂
XENOBLADE OMGWTFTHISISNOTEVENAQUESTION!
That good, huh.
That and @novacascade was one of my original Xenoblade buddies on TAY. It was his game of the year and he’s been meaning to finish it one day
…but that day has never come
🙁
I’ve mentioned before that I can’t make it past the first half hour, unfortunately.
Ugh Brodys (Brodies?)
But I didn’t even know you tried it out so you’re not doing too bad. It does take a while to pick up but once it does and you’re exploring dem Legs with dat music. Dayummm! (I think the area “Bionis Leg” was where it really picked up for me 🙂 )
That music…
Bionis Leg was where it picked up for me. Then the marsh and forest after that kind of sucked, but the sea was where it turned awesome again.
Needs more XenUblade details. I need to know if I should be hyped for it or not.
Since my Wii is no longer in the same house as I am, maybe I should look at setting up the Dolphin Emulator…
What sort of controller would I need?
Most of the USB ones will work! (PS3/4, 360)
I haven’t used Dolphin myself but I’m guessing 360 type controllers will have native support but PS3 and others might need an additional program
Excellent. I already have a 360 pad.
Have you got any experience setting up Dolphin, didn’t @negativezero have some fairly major problems with it?
Edit – your edit beat me to it
My problem was that my old i5 750 at 2.6ghz was simply too slow in terms of single-core speed to emulate the Wii so the game ran at like 15fps and the sound stuttered. I haven’t tried on my current machine.
Hmm… I may have issues then. My CPU is an Intel Core i5-460M 2.53GHz. Probably not going to cut it
Worth a shot!
@greenius – Yeah I’m going to try it and see how it goes. Fingers crossed I can get a stable game going. Though I shudder to think how long its going to take me to get through it, even up to where I was. I had just cleared Valac Mountain. Thats going to take me an age to redo up to that point
I don’t like your chances but give it a go.
I just spent 45 mins playing it on my desktop and it wasn’t hard to set up (just tweaked some graphics options, went for a slightly higher-quality DSP mode for the sound and set it to run with audio limiting the FPS to try and reduce any noise in the sound, because the music in the game is so awesome) and using my 360 controller as if it was a Classic add-on. Just using the latest Dolphin build. Game looks pretty reasonable and I remember the Wii version looking like smeary ass so while it’s not amazing it still looks very solid. Like an up-resed mid-generation PS3 game.
26fps solid at 2560×1440 with 2x internal rendering resolution and I haven’t tried tweaking anything yet to improve that.
@beavwa Seems that a factory reset gave me a new safari, poison type apparently. Guess I’ll do one more test with the restored image and see if I just got unlucky last time.
Yup, looks like it’s to do with whatever keys are generated during initialisation of the 3DS. The restored image and new friend code are still ground type, have to do a system format to get it to generate something new.
At least that makes for a slightly easier method.
Ahahaha just got poison type three times in a row.
Gonna try one more with a change of Mii and stuff. See if that makes a difference.
Flying type!
Interesting indeed. Perhaps it does come down to the Mii after all, though I can’t be certain.
Just tried another format, this time with another random Mii but the same profile info for it I used with the first bunch.
Ended up with flying type again. I give up, I have no idea what does what 😛
Same type is not necessarily same set. So that’s your original ground set image but with a different mii? And that got a flying set?
Nah, the ground type image got ground type with Phanpy and Camerupt every time. Doing a system format was what got me the poison one with Cacoon or something and Venemoth, all the other poison ones were the same. And Flying was Hoothoot and Doduo both times.
Of course, can’t say what the third one was and whether that was different for any of them since I haven’t finished the game yet, so it’s not all that conclusive 😛
The same first two every time is conclusive enough
Man, everybody has Poison type safari 😛
So I got told by my friend, who strongly advised that I roll again 😛
For now it looks like I’m back with my ground type. But hey I can always try create more in the future.
If you can get a Normal type Safari with a Ditto, you’ll be everyone’s best friend for life.
So I keep hearing. I dunno if I can be bothered going through that though, it’s way too much effort plus I gotta bug someone else to check it for me once the 3DS is finally set up to try again.
It’s pretty easy to find Safari Ditto on the GTS anyway.
Hi, @dc
Dark Souls related for those over it / not interested.
I finally managed to get enough faith / attunement to carry out my Power Within + Darkmoon Blade + Uchigatana build. damage results are (Uchigatana is only +14 at this stage though):
Uchi only = 280 damage
Uchi + PW = 393 damage
Uchi + DMB = 483 damage
Uchi + PW + DMB = 676 damage
(all results are one handed against moss dudes)
Just gotta get my Uchi to +15 then helllllooooo PvP! 😀
Just be aware you’ll only be doing about 200-300 damage in real terms once defences are taken into account, especially with a split damage source.
Oh yeah, I realize it’ll be lower against actual people, but I’m still stoked at the pure damage increase. Combine that the Uchigatana causes bleeding and is pretty fast and I think my PvP build us shaping up kinda nicely, so long as I can get 2 buffs in before getting killed :\
Dear Tay,
Have crossed border into Mexico (Victoria) on way to my cousin’s wedding in Jindabyne. This means all of the post time on TAY are now accurate for me, which is odd.
Yours,
Ranging far Red.
So this man walks into the Apple Store with an overheating Mac and walks to the Genius bar. As the genius guy is working his magic, the Mac overheats and catches fire so the store has to be evacuated.
Apple takes the man to court for loss of most of their computers in the store, but the man says “well it’s not my fault you guys don’t have Windows!”
…I missed Page 6.
An Apple a day keeps th-I’ve got no idea where I’m going with this.
yup.. you sure did! And also, Mac’s do have windows, so it’s kind of a null joke these days. Props for trying though! 😉
You can get windows, but it’s not like Apple has signs in the store saying “How to put windows on your machine”
Office, they sell that. They won’t sell Windows 8 at an Apple store.
It’s an old joke though 😀
It was in last weeks TAY wasn’t it? I know I’ve heard it recently
I really suppose I shouldn’t be laughing but it’s becoming increasingly likely Schapelle Corby will be returned to prison mostly due to her family becoming mindless animals at the mere hint of money.
I think you should be laughing! She a fucktard, and deserves everything she gets. (as long as it’s not money 😉
I am so fed up with hearing about her and her family. She did the wrong thing and majority of the Australian populace thinks so.
At least most of the media I’ve seen (fortunately very small amounts) have been referring to her as a drug smuggler without adding the word alleged or any other qualifier
…because she was convicted, perhaps? They don’t have to say alleged once a conviction is on record.
Probably but they could have had other qualifiers like exonerated, released or something else to imply that she’s reformed, redeemed or innocent
But she isn’t exonerated or redeemed or innocent. She was convicted, served a sentence, and was let out on parole. Completely accurate to call her a convicted drug smuggler because she is a convicted drug smuggler.
No but that was the narrative that certain media outlets who may or may not have been pushing a mini-series and loads of other shit related to her seemed to be trying to sell. Painting her as a tragic underdog wronged by society rather than someone who was caught with a shitload of drugs and came up with an implausible story to try and get out of it.
At least that was the impression I got from the small fragments of the thing I was unfortunate enough to see. There’s a good reason I try to avoid the normal media as a whole.
Downloading The Walking Dead Season Two Ep Two thanks to my US Xbox account.
Engage radio silence.
*KSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH
Edit: That’s not silence.
*kssssssssssssssssssssh
Edit 2: Better, but not quite there yet.
Edit 3: Perfect.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Tenth Session Recap (26th February 2014) starring:
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places,
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness,
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders,
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
And unfortunately absent:
– Beltigron aka @tigerion the mystical Nano who crafts illusions,
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry, and
– Phetys aka @mythamphetamine the mechanical Nano who fuses flesh and steel.
Author’s Note: Sorry again for the delay guys. I spent a while deliberating on how best to preserve our dignities and I think I mostly achieved it. 🙂
The two Orange Cloaks stood dumbfounded as Scrappa, Nova, Russef, and Ranger had surrounded them and threatened with all manner of weaponry. Phetys was also readying his bladed ring to assault the Orange Cloaks but a sudden emission of high-frequency energy from the citadel’s generators had momentarily overwhelmed his internal controls and he was forced to engage his tedious rebooting process. Nevertheless, he was still threatening the Orange Cloaks in a very stationary fashion.As the party surrounded the two Orange Cloaks, they immediately dropped their staves and pleaded for mercy. They surrendered themselves to Scrappa as he was the one that had drawn their attention with the knocking-on-the-wall ploy. Scrappa noticed that as one of the Orange Cloaks was talking to him, there was a strange, glassy look in his eyes. The other Orange Cloak also seemed to have trouble focusing and was swaying uneasily. Scrappa demanded that the Orange Cloak tell them where Raller Kay was and he mumbled that he was somewhere on this floor. Nova asked what was up the stairs that they were guarding and they mentioned that was the sleeping quarters and where quite a number of Orange Cloaks were resting. The party quickly decided not to go up there.
While the rest of the party sheathed their weapons, Ranger and Russef kept their weapons out in case the Orange Cloaks tried anything. Nova motioned for the two Orange Cloaks to take them to where Raller Kay was hiding in the citadel and they staggered out of the hall and back into the corridor where Scrappa’s automaton had fooled the Orange Cloaks. Ranger and Russef kept their weapons trained on the two Orange Cloaks as they followed them while Scrappa examined the staves that the Orange Cloaks had dropped. The staves appeared to contain a small shocking mechanism that appeared to deaden the nerves of whomever it struck. He decided to leave them behind for the time being.
The Orange Cloaks led them down the corridor and towards another room that they conjectured was to the eastern part of the citadel. They started complaining of feeling unwell and one of the Orange Cloaks began coughing uncontrollably. Nova forced the still upright Orange Cloak into the next room while Ranger and Russef attended to the ill Orange Cloak. Fearing that the noise might attract undue attention, Ranger brought the butt of his crossbow down on the back of his head and knocked him out. Russef was more malicious in silencing the Orange Cloak and slit his throat when he fell to the floor. Scrappa exited the hall and saw Ranger and Russef casually leaving the corpse behind and he began to question the motives of his companions. Scrappa sidestepped the motionless Orange Cloak and directed his automaton to follow him down the corridor.
The other Orange Cloak entered into a circular room that was plain in décor aside from a few holographic ferns that were projected onto the wall. Seeing that there were no traps or other hazards, the rest of the party entered into the room just as the Orange Cloak began coughing. Ranger immediately dealt out the same punishment that he had dealt his friend and Russef also continued his spree. One dead Orange Cloak later, the party deemed it safe to continue although Scrappa and Nova exchanged a worried look about their two companions.
Nova and Russef followed a path to the right while Ranger veered to the left. Scrappa had to wait a short while as his automaton was not equipped for corpse traversal. Nova and Russef discovered a few strange machines that they assumed were powering something nearby. The end of the corridor was blocked off by a featureless steel door and they could not find any way to open it short of cutting or barging through it. They doubled back and found Scrappa immersed in the circuitry of one of the machines. Scrappa said that the machine was powering a beam emitter that should be projecting some sort of force field. Ranger came back from his expedition and confirmed that there was a force field that was blocking off the next room. As Scrappa analysed the situation, he came to the conclusion that if he worked in conjunction with someone manipulating the emitter itself, he could disable the energy source and remove the force field. He mentioned that there was likely to be another force field as there was another generator near the impassable steel door.
Scrappa began preparing the generator while Ranger, Russef, and Nova set themselves up in the room next door. Ranger was indeed correct; there was a solid force field that encompassed the entirety of the middle of the room. It was opaque as well so they could not tell if there was anyone on the other side. The force field seemed to originate from a patch of wall next to a slowly cascading waterfall which hinted at what this room might have been used for in more prosperous times. Nova volunteered to manipulate the beam emitter when Scrappa signalled while Russef and Ranger took up positions to silence any guards that might be past the force field. Russef had his blade at the ready while Ranger kept Russef and Nova covered with his crossbow. Ranger called out to Scrappa that they were in position and that he could commence disabling the force field.
Scrappa disengaged the power supply while he coordinated with Nova to block the beam emitter’s projection. The force field began to rapidly disintegrate as it began to unveil what had been hidden behind it. An Orange Cloak had been standing in a small corridor up a few stairs when the force field started vanishing and he wandered over to investigate. Unfortunately for him, the force field completely failed and revealed him to the party. Russef dashed across and caught him in the jugular with his dagger as he was about to call out for help. The Orange Cloak still tried to yell but he could only gurgle up blood as he collapsed to the floor.
The now-dead Orange Cloak was the only guard beyond the force field but there was another force field that blocked off one of the exits of the room. While Ranger stayed to guard Nova as he again began coordinating with Scrappa to disable this force field, Russef moved to investigate the corridor that the Orange Cloak seemed to have come from. The corridor went deeper into the facility until it came to a room where a large metal beam was continuously rotating around a central point. When the beam connected with certain points on the wall, small sparks flew off as the beam seemed to be charging a central generator or it was a generator itself. The beam was rotating too fast for Russef’s liking so he ventured back to the rest of the party and prepared himself for what lay beyond.
Scrappa initiated the force field collapse and it was as smooth as it was last time. Unfortunately for the party, the removal of the force field left them defenceless against two Orange Cloaks. They were more attentive than the other Orange Cloaks that the party had encountered so far and they sprang to action immediately. One of the Orange Cloaks ran forward and hit Russef on the leg with the end of his staff as a charge shocked forth and numbed Russef’s leg. The other Orange Cloak drew back and fired a strange weapon at Nova. The weapon missed but when it collided with the wall behind Nova, a weird gunk spread forth from the impact and enveloped a large patch of the wall. Nova yelled out not to get hit by the odd weapon.
Ranger locked eyes with the Orange Cloak that had just fired the device and he charged at him, leaping over Nova and barrelling into the Orange Cloak. While it was a solid tackle, Ranger was unable to lock the Orange Cloak down and he wrestled free. Ranger kept charging forward and as the Orange Cloak brought the weapon up to fire another shot, Ranger caught him square in the gut and pinned him to the ground. Nova and Russef duel with the staff-wielding Orange Cloak but they were unable to get past his skilful defence.
Scrappa was slightly concerned that he hadn’t heard anything from the rest of the party so he thought perhaps they had gotten into a fight. He walked over to the steel door and he pulled a small device from his belt. When he activated the device, he was able to discern that there was a control panel on the other side of this door that would open it for him. He tried to manipulate his sensor to connect with the panel but it appeared that there was a software incompatibility issue and the control panel would not communicate with his sensor. Scrappa began hurrying back towards the other room as he still had not heard anything from his friends.
The Orange Cloak that Ranger had tackled to the ground yelled out for help. The moment that the Orange Cloak called out, Ranger wrenched the weapon from his hands and threw it to the side, leaving the Orange Cloak defenceless. His cry for help did attract attention as another Orange Cloak appeared at the end of the corridor and he started rushing towards his comrade.
The Orange Cloak with the staff lunged forward and scored another strike on Russef’s leg. The shock coursed throughout his thigh muscles and Russef fell to the floor as the Orange Cloak pressed the sparking tip of the staff to his throat. Russef tried to grab the staff and knock him off balance but the Orange Cloak held his grip and warned Russef to stop struggling otherwise the shock would kill him. Nova leaped into action and gashed the Orange Cloak on the cheek with his arm-blade. The Orange Cloak fell back, clutching his wound, and creating an opening for Russef to jump up from where he had been pinned to the floor. As the Orange Cloak reeled from Nova’s slicing strike, Russef lunged forward and caught the Orange Cloak through the eye with his dagger. He wrenched it out with a sickening squelch as the Orange Cloak collapsed.
Ranger still struggled with the Orange Cloak that he had tackled but he relinquished his hold when he saw the other Orange Cloak approach with a drawn blade. As he stepped back from the struggling Orange Cloak, he picked up the strange weapon that he had disarmed from him earlier. Ranger levelled the weapon at the Orange Cloak as he picked himself up from the ground and caught him full in the chest. The shot carried the Orange Cloak and flew him through the air before colliding with the wall where the gunk enveloped him and pinned him as though stuck with a thick wad of gum. Nova, Russef, and a much delayed Scrappa ran up to join Ranger as the third Orange Cloak approached to help his friend. Seeing that he was clearly outnumbered and that Ranger possessed the mysterious device, the Orange Cloak surrendered himself to the group.
While the Orange Cloak lay at the mercy of the party, his friend that had been pinned to the wall by the strange substance began coughing just like the other Orange Cloaks had before. Ranger looked at the Orange Cloak who had surrendered and he too had the same glassy and disconnected stare. Ranger demanded to know where Raller Kay was and the Orange Cloak gestured to a separate corridor that was opposite where the party had overcome the force fields. It seemed that that was all of the energy that he could muster as the Orange Cloak started coughing uncontrollably before collapsing. His comrade on the wall also gave one last cough before becoming silent. The party readied themselves and began slowly moving down the corridor.
Russef and Ranger rounded a corner further down the corridor while Nova and Scrappa stayed back a little bit. The corridor began to open out into a much wider room with many cables and wires criss-crossing the floor. To Ranger and Russef’s left there was a small metal bench and there was the unmistakable presence of Nerada Trome, leader of the Orange Cloaks and adamant anti-Papist. She appeared to be dimly aware of Russef and Ranger’s presence and only seemed to notice them when they began to approach her. When she finally turned her eyes to gaze upon them, they noticed that she bore the same glassy-eyed expression her followers did.
“Oh!” she exclaimed dimly. “Raller! Raller! There are some people here.”
Scrappa and Nova entered the room behind Russef and Ranger just as Raller Kay emerged from an adjacent chamber. His presence seemed to be magnified by his towering stature and the sheer number of augmentations that emerged from his neck and back. His top-knot shimmered in the gloom as many different mechanical implants jostled for primacy on the back of his head.
“Ah,” Raller said as he spread his arms wide, “I cannot say I was not expecting you but I didn’t anticipate you would arrive so soon. Welcome nevertheless. I hope you have marvelled at the chaos that I have sown.”
“I hope you have enjoyed the chaos that we have created,” Russef replied. “Are you not entertained?”
Raller chuckled to himself. “I suppose your work should be commended but it is all for naught. I am on the precipice of achieving a great calamity and I don’t need annoyances such as you hounding me.”
“But why do any of this?” Nova asked. “Why bother stealing the power sources for Charmonde’s shield array? Why use the Orange Cloak movement at all? We could kill Nerada and your support would evaporate.”
“Ah yes, I suppose that would be a hindrance but it matters not. Nerada and the other followers are a means to an end and the toxin makes them far more… pliable to my requests.”
“As to why I do this,” Raller continued, “chaos is both the means and the end. The process and the product, as it were. Charmonde is but the start of what I can accomplish. The fall of Charmonde will plunge the entire kingdom of Navarene into anarchy. The rest of the Steadfast sees Navarene as their barrier to the north and the threat of the Gaians and the loss of the kingdom will spread like wildfire. Just imagine, an entire region beset by chaos.”
“But how?” Nova demanded. “How did you achieve any of this? Why do you want to do this?”
“The shield array component was a mere trifle for someone of my talents. The other three shall pose no great hurdle either and neither will you. The chaos that I sow will spread unchallenged like the Iron Wind itself and you cannot stop it. Go now if you must. Leave this place and return to Charmonde or wherever you please. Chaos will reach you eventually and you are powerless to stop me.”
Russef smirked at this. “Those are some bold words for a dead man.”
Raller sighed at that remark and he drew a vicious-looking blade. “I suppose there are some who refuse the truth. Fine. If it’s death you want, death you shall have!”
Despite the group being fully prepared to fight Raller Kay, they were caught off-guard by the sheer speed with which he moved. His actions were almost bird-like as he parried and riposted each of the party’s strikes with ease. Raller also displayed quite a prodigious range of skills including spitting acid and throwing poisonous darts, all of which were used to great effect.
Scrappa was hit in the neck by one of the poisonous darts and his vision began to fade rapidly from whatever venom was coursing through his veins. Despite this impediment, he assumed that the most appropriate response to the situation was to throw a small, ceramic sphere of corrosive liquid at Raller that would significantly impede his ability. That was the intention at least. The reality was that his aim was slightly skewed and he missed Raller entirely however he managed to catch Russef in the periphery of the blast radius. Fortunately Russef only sustained a minor amount of damage from the cypher’s blast.
The combat against Raller Kay was long and fierce as the party struggled to get around his impressive guard. Nova sought to turn the tide by threatening to execute Nerada Trome and forcing Raller to submit. Raller Kay dismissed Nerada as irrelevant and continued to fight the party, even after Nova killed Nerada.
Ranger tossed Scrappa the strange projectile weapon while he closed in and engaged in a valiant duel against Raller with his longsword. Due to the effects of the poison, Scrappa proceeded to miss Raller with the weapon and he ended up covering a few sections of the wall in the mysterious gunk. The debilitating effects of the poison proceeded to worsen as the fight drew on until Scrappa’s sight completely failed him and he was blinded.
Scrappa was not the only one who was rendered near useless during the fight. Russef attempted to slice at Raller’s hand to disarm him but he tripped over a large wire and fell to the floor, face first into a bank of exposed wires. The resulting electrical shocks burned him on his face until he was able to pick himself up out of it. His combat effectiveness for the rest of the fight was below average as a combined result of the electrical shocks and the mild acid burns that he suffered from Scrappa’s misdirected throw.
Ranger and Nova were able to preserve their dignity and did not suffer any serious wounds to their dignity. Ranger was targeted by Raller Kay when he spat acid however his deft reflexes enabled him to dodge out of the way. The two of them sparred with Raller continuously but Raller managed to evade their strikes and fight back with quick thrusts and vicious stabs.
Raller Kay parried a close lunge by Ranger and drew back as he had grown tired of this fight. Raller drew a small device from his belt and held it above him.
“I thank you for this melee but I must depart. You have impeded me but it is no great loss for the chaos is coming.”
With that final word, Raller threw the device down as a vast cloud of smoke erupted from it. Russef leaped forward and lashed out with his blade but Raller Kay had already disappeared. As the smoke cleared, the faint outlines of a phase door were seen on the far wall as it realigned itself with reality. The dastardly Raller Kay has evaded our brave adventurers this time but what of the future? What sinister schemes will he inflict upon Charmonde? And what will happen to the Orange Cloaks now that Nerada Trome is dead? Tune in next time for more Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World.
Tumblr has been updated too. 😀
http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Great write up as usual. Raller was always supposed to be tough, but I didn’t think he’d be that tough
Just reading that makes me angry at how the dice gods abandoned us 😛
Chaos
We have served our time in Chaos, we deserve some tranquillity next time 🙂
Walking Dead Game Season 2 Episode 2 Spoilers/Discussion – Don’t click if you haven’t played it!
I really enjoyed this one! A lot better than the first episode, I think. Some legitimately tough choices. It was good seeing that a lot of the choices were 50-50 split when I finished. Much better than those obvious option ones.Choices:
– Blamed someone else for Sarah’s photo (I’m not sure what this means, exactly. I told the intruder dude that I didn’t know the girl in the photo, then I told Sarah’s Dad afterwards that he shouldn’t have told me to distract her. Can’t remembering ‘blaming’ anybody :P)
– Sat with Luke at dinner (this was legitimately the hardest choice I had to make haha. Sat at that screen for a good 5 minutes)
– Told Walter the truth about Matthew
– Convinced Walter to forgive Nick (and he ended up saving him, aw!)
– Stayed and helped Carlos.
But yeah, really good episode. I totally take back anything I said about not wanting to play as Clementine before Season 2, too. It really opens a lot of new themes that I didn’t expect. Especially in that scene with the intruder guy (“Carver”?) in the house. Just that feeling that he could totally take me out at any moment if he wanted to. You wouldn’t get that with Lee or an adult character.
Totally called Kenny coming back, though. Was still a surprise however. But I did NOT expect to see Bonnie! And now she’s a bad guy! What is going on! I thought for sure that the DLC group I rounded up would come to the rescue during the climactic walker invasion (thinking that the more people that I saved in the DLC [everyone] the less people in your group would die, or something). I really hope they flesh her out more, she was my favourite character from the DLC.
In short: I liked it!
Does nobody watch the TV show anymore? I’ve been waiting for discussions on that since it started back up again.
I blame@dc for not being around. 😛
I watch it every week! Though I usually only exchange blows with DC on Twitter after we disagree about everything 😛
I’ll post a discussion this week if you’re interested!
Yes! I am interested.
Although I may do a @greenius and demand people talk about something, and then just upvote without responding because I have nothing to add. 😛
I watch it. I was rather disappointed with this weeks episode after last weeks
Really? Then again I have a soft spot for Beth, she’s adorable in how innocent she is because of how protective Hershel was with her.
I think it was rather boring
Each to their own. I take the show as it is. Nothing amazing, and mindless TV watching. It has its moments but I always enjoy it, unlike a lot of people for some reason lol.
@virus__
Yeah, I get that people would like the character development of Daryl and Beth but it seemed like filler to me.
It was a very strong standalone episode. I didn’t find it boring at all, it was just as tense as other episodes, maybe even moreso because of the character tension.
Korlllllll!!!!!
Thanks for the line Powalen 😛 (helping)
Also, I totally talked about Survivor last week and will this week!
KORLLLLL!!!!!!
I’ve only managed to watch the first five minutes of it so far.
The second half is the best!
Sorry, I’m usually into the tv show but I’ve fallen behind by about three or so eps.
Ooh I love these discussions
MAH CHOICES
– I said I took the photo (because, well, I did) This one just seems to be about gaining Sarah’s trust.
– went and sat with the new gang at dinner because, in Clem’s own words (that I made her say) Kenny is a bit of a jerk – or rather he’s an asshole and I never liked him and at that point didn’t trust him at all
– told the truth because I don’t know
– Walter forgave because yay
– I stayed to help, but mostly out of panic and indecisiveness in the moment. Regretted this one even before it played out.
EDIT
Also, I like what they’ve done with Rebecca. Present her as a total cow in the 1st ep, then completely 180 it in the next. I found myself making Clem a bit more considerate towards her, but I’m still holding on to that badass threat I made in the first ep.Also also, speaking of badass Clem, I laughed out loud when Carver comes to the front door, asks what your name is, and you have the option to just close the door. It didn’t work of course, but I found it funnier than it should’ve been. Sassy Clem ain’t got time for no bullshit.
Yeah I like Rebecca too! And my Clementine basically had a constant -__- look on her face the entire episode. Surrounded by idiots.Also: Now that Kenny’s back. I don’t expect we’ll see Christa (alive) again. Can’t have two “I thought you were dead!?” things in one season 😛
“LEE?!” 😛Thanks to my inattention it looked like you were responding to Strange talking about the show. Shitty mobile browser to the rescue! I only saw the first two words then the browser crashed.
I admitted to taking the photo, because pshhhhhhh, whatevs. I sat with Kenny, because he really seemed to be a much better person, and after not seeing him for ages I felt we needed more time together. I ran out to get Kenny & Luke (HOO BOY, HAD A DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS WITH CATURDAY, AND BOY HOWDY DID I MESS UP A CHOICE FURTHER ALONG THE LINE). Otherwise I was the same.Episode 4 looks pretty crazy!
Oh man, I loved this. Reminded me all over again why these guys won all those awards for the first season.
Did anyone not save Nick in episode one? Does he just get replaced by Pete for the entire thing, and all the fuckups that go with it? It seems like the story would branch ridiculously, even though logic is telling me that isn’t the case.My choices:
– Starting with the hardest choice in the entire episode. I sat with Kenny rather than Luke. If I ever have to choose between the two of them (and goddamn it, I know I’ll have to), it’s going to be so incredibly tough. Honest-to-God-lineball, that’ll be.
– I blamed someone else for the photo. I think that decision was when I called Carlos out and said, “You TOLD me to distract her!”
– I put the angel on the tree, because Sarah liked them.
– Poor Walter. Such a sad story. I was upfront with him the entire time (Also, did anyone else appreciate the “I’ve already figured it out” dialogue option? I loved being able to brag to the game – small recompense for the sinking feeling I’d had ever since I realised), but defended Nick as a good guy, and he got saved at the end.
– I stayed with Rebecca and made her turn herself in. Then I charged at Carver to protect Alvin. In the end, the only one who died was Walter. I think this is probably optimal outcome, sadly.
– Bonnie! Bonnnnnie! How could you do this?
I am so excited by this episode. Really quite strong storytelling, with impressively little hey-Clem’s-a-kid-now-cry-for-her emotional manipulation. I never considered that the camp first mentioned in 400 Days might actually be a bad place. Never even considered it. Ha! Amazing.
Coming (hopefully) tomorrow: Mrs Shane vs A House Divided.
Pete dies shortly after you save him, I’m afraid. He ends up dying a… very shitty death- So it’s the usual Telltale cop-out. I loved the charging at Carver option; I saw it and I’m like “CLEMENTINE MANLIEST GIRL.” It’s gonna be interesting to see if most of the entire cast of 400 days are gonna be bad guys (pretty much only 1/2 people stayed behind on my 400 days walkthrough).Great, great episode.
Made all the same decisions as you, Shane!
I wondered if TWD2-2 was going to bring you back to TAY, and considered sending you an email to invite you to share your decisions privately if you wanted 😛
I’m now glad I didn’t get around to it.
I should finish episode 1
…of season 1.
I accidently blamed someone else for the picture (Or at least I didn’t said that I did it myself.) Sat with Kenny because OG. Told Nick to man up and tell the truth and told Walt the truth. Stayed behind to help Carlos. I called it on why Carver was being so terminator-like in his pursuit of them, thought it was Kenny but still pleased. Bonnie, though, I also thought that was outta left field. Also, Clementine this episode had some good damn options. [CLOSE DOOR] [GRAB KNIFE] [PROTECT ALVIN] were ballin.:/ according to a mate at Dan Murphy’s where I work all the casuals but me have been getting shifts (like one a week kinda shit) since we moved to this small new temp store. When I was told there were no hours for any of the casuals but only a few (there’s about 6 or 7 casuals there by the way)
I was one of 3 hired for the Christmas period, I was the first to start and the boss said he’ll give me hours when he can at the moment. But learning this I feel like I don’t really feel wanted there. I mean I was getting AMAZING hours from November til end of January, I only had to call in sick once due to some stomach virus thing. But otherwise I accepted any shifts they offered me and was there within about 15 mins (i’m only a 10min walk from the store) always did what was expected of me, I was even commended on my excellent customer service. So i’m really stumped.
Maybe that’s why – they’re sharing them around after you got a bunch over Christmas?
Edit: also, are you older than the other casuals? You may be on a higher hourly rate so less attractive to put on
We all got similar sort of hours over Christmas but one of the new guys. Pretty much everyone got heaps of hours over Christmas lol.
Nah, most of the casuals are all around my age, apart from one I think she’s around 19. So we’re all on the same rate according to the hourly rate sheet I was given.
Yeah it’s a bit
Bring it up directly with your manager. Be assertive, but not pushy. Ask if there is any possibility of more hours, or just mention that your availabilities are wide open, and that you’d be happy to work more often if required. Maybe even see if there are any part / full time positions available.
Alternatively, mention it in passing, something like you’re always available, or that you love working (even if it’s a lie). That’s how I went from 0 to 38 hours in one week! 😀
Good opportunities are if you cover someone’s shift for some reason. Mention that if they need any more shifts covered just give you a call, and that you’re happy to help.
Post Christmas lulls are to be expected though, especially in liquor stores.
Yeah I had a word to him about it when I last worked he said he’d try his best with what he had to work with, and I said that was cool and I was available whenever. But y’know this was end of January lol.
“I had a word to him about it when I last worked… this was end of January”
Umm, maybe you should make sure he still knows that you work / want to work there…
Or, and I hate to say it, but maybe you should start looking for another job…
I’ve been looking for another job since then lol. Not many to apply for, and the hearing back part is non existant. It would also be great if 90% of these retail job ads around here weren’t placed by employment agencies who never mention the name of the damn company, they’ll vaguely hint at who it is but nothing more.
I would’ve preferred if EB had hours for me but they’re so dead it’s impossible and the fact the manager of the other store in town is a moron and went and hired some new girl instead of listening to my boss & 2 of the guys who work there by giving me some hours.
Got my SSD yesterday, so today has been spent reformatting/setting up my computer. Fun! The Windows installation itself though was ridiculously quick. Left the room for a few minutes, came back and it was done.
It still didn’t fix my problem of really slow internet on this computer (through multiple wifi dongles). Seeing “Sorry, it looks like you’re on a slow connection” whilst downloading Office on 100mbps fibre really sucks :/ I can reach around 60mbps on my Macbook in my room, around 30 on my ipod, and like 1-5mbps on this and I have no idea why. I might invest in one of those powerpoint ethernet kit things.
What’s the signal strength like and is the router you’re using N capable same with the wifi card in said computer? I know the MacBook & iPod will since they’ve had N (well Draft N) Wireless since 2007..
Looking into building a new PC and i’m looking at going for the Silverstone FT03B Mini case, now the problem is, it takes SFX form factor power supplies and from my research no one makes anything larger than a 450w SFX PSU.. Now I want to stick a GTX 760 in it, which is the biggest card the case would fit (and all I really want), but it says it needs 500watts with 30 amps on the 12v rail, now the 450w psu by silver stone cranks out 37 amps on the 12v rail.. Essentially would that PSU be adequate for the card or would I really need a 500w psu?
@beavwa @blaghman @negativezero @welbot
You guys seem to know a bit about the technical innards of the computers. Any help or advice, please?
Best to get confirmation from someone who actually builds the damn things (I mostly theorycraft and look at the tech side), but generally the PSU requirements given are highballing it. So long as you have the correct power pinny things and stuff, you should be right in that range. (GPU’s typically the hungriest part of a system, and you’re looking at a 170W max draw so far as I can tell from a 760, so you still have a >250 Watt buffer, which the rest of the machine should easily fit in)
Yeah that’s what I am thinking.. Especially since my mate runs his 670 off a 500w PSU..
I would recommend a more powerful PSU. I currently run a GTX 570 off a Corsair 650W PSU but I should have grabbed the 750W or greater. But I’m like Blaghs, I just put builds together for fun.
Well EVGA recommend minimum 500w. But I won’t be running anything power hungry other than the GPU and considering an i5 Haswell only requires 84w to run which is relatively efficient and i’d be coupling that with a low power WD drive & an SSD.
I’ve heard of people running them with less than the recommended power without problem for years as long as the PSU is good quality.
What’s the most power hungry game you’re looking to play on it?
Were you looking at going AMD or Intel for the CPU? As I recall, the AMD’s are notably more power hungry than the intel equivalents when under moderate to heavy load.
Ahh answered while I was typing, I’d say it probably would be okay but I’d recommend looking up if having 37amps would cause a problem. Probably be fine but it’s a fair bit more than recommended
I was going looking at an i5 4670 (non k model, since I have no plans on overclocking and that’s jst added power consumption heh)
Of late i’ve just been playing The Walking Dead, Octodad & The Wolf Among Us, so nothing power greedy really.
Yeah well the PSU Silverstone produce for this case has 37 amps on the 12v rail, and EVGA state their 560 requires 30 amps on the 12v rail. It’s just been so long since i’ve needed to look at this kind of stuff it’s all a bit of a mystery to me now lol.
But yeah, I threw the parts I am looking at in an online PSU calculator and it reckons 350w is recommended (minimum 300w) for that kind of build, so I do have confidence in a 450w being ample, i’m just trying to make sure my research is solid first before committing the $$
It sounds pretty solid, as long as you have no plans to overclock and then try to run super high spec games on 3 2560×1440 monitors you’d probably do okay
Yeah, I think I have this worked out lol. Haha, nah. I just run a single 1920×1080 monitor.
Pfft, you don’t need 500W for a 760. Assuming you don’t get a shithouse brand, they hit about 160-170W at maximum. Assuming you pair it with a decent motherboard and a modern Intel CPU your whole build is likely to be about 350W. Assuming a good quality PSU and a single HDD, 450W sould be fine.
However are you absolutely set on that case? IMO it looks like a rubbish bin. If I were building a SFF gaming PC (have come close to building one several times) I wouldn’t use that case. I’d do a build with a Silverstone Sugo SG08 which has an extra 3″ of room for a GPU (can fit a 770OC or 780) and takes a bog-standard ATX PSU that’s up to 16cm long. Silverstone, Seasonic and Corsair (I swear by Seasonic) all make pretty good high-efficiency PSUs which will fit inside that easily. In fact, Silverstone make models that have short cables specifically for SFF builds inside their Sugo range.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking, yeah i’m looking at a EVGA model. Yeah Silverstone make the PSU’s for that case as well actually.
Well personally I much prefer the orientation of the motherboard in that series, and I like the look of it, it’s sleek and takes up a smallish foot print which is also nice.
But thanks for the feedback & help, much appreciated. But yeah one mechanical HDD (WD Green) & one SSD is all i’m aiming for.
yup.. what negzero said! the recommendation is not really just for the card alone, rather how much you should have overall to power your system. the card itself is unlikely to draw anywhere near that much power alone. You’ll know pretty soon if it’s not enough though, cos the vid card will either beep like crazy when you turn it on, or just show nothing and not allow your comp to start up.
Ah fair enough, thanks dude.
@virus__ Yeah, the 500W recommendation is assuming you’re running a full-size standard desktop. Small Form Factor PC on a Mini-ITX is going to be less power-hungry in general.
Generally you want your PSU to deliver enough power to drive your machine at 80% of its max rate, i.e. have 20% headroom. This is because as the capacitors and coils in the PSU age, they become less efficient. Also if you have to run the thing flat out at its max rate it will fail pretty quickly, be very hot and very noisy. A 450W PSU will deliver a smidgen over 350W at 80% load so that’s just right.
I really do think you’d be better off with the Sugo case though. In terms of footprint it’s really small but you’ve got so much more room for components and so many less restrictions, eg you can fit a decent CPU cooler in and stuff. In the end though it’s your call so if you like the FT03 Mini then go with it.
Btw, make sure the model you’re getting is the ST45SF-G, which is 80Plus Gold rated and modular. Silverstone had an earlier SFX PSU at the same wattage but it wasn’t 100% modular and wasn’t 80Plus Gold.
yup. a lot of the cheaper modular ones, are only partially modular. Kind of annoying, but still better than nothing if you can’t afford anymore!
That’s a very … interesting case. What made you decide on it?
Seen any pictures of one fully set up including external cables? It looks like a lot of the case size (about 25%) is lost with the lower air filter and upper (external) cable management.
I’m not up with the technical details on PSUs, do any other companies make them in that size?
(Disclaimer: I’m generally a full tower build kinda person, so these form factors aren’t really my thing. Our most recent build was a mini ITX though – it had a horizontal mount for the motherboard and the PSU was only subjected to a length restriction, so we were still free to choose brands)
Edit: To add some perspective, here’s what Pip’s recent build was in:
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=25_1171&products_id=22721
I asked a lot of the same questions, and she was sure about this one. Interesting to hear about case choice as that can be one of the most personal things about a build.
Sure have, it’s not overly free for space. But it’s not cramped to the point there’s not enough room for airflow. A few people have modded it to fit a GTX Titan some even fitted it with an ATX PSU lol.
Personally I love the Silverstone range that has the motherboard vertical instead of horizontal, makes for easier access to the rear I/O ports and naturally having the GPU mounted that should in theory let heat escape with more ease since heat rises.
I can’t say I’m a fan of the heat management. While the one included fan on the bottom should be reasonable for cool air intake, there’s nothing for extracting the hot air (like traditional top/rear fans), and although 78mm has been left for the CPU cooler, the nice warm PSU is mounted straight on top, which may impact the effectiveness there.
Eh, components are efficient enough these days that cooling isn’t that big an issue, as long as you’re not overclocking the shit out of it. With a small footprint like that, are you looking at having it on a desk, under it, or somewhere else?
May be it was the mATX version that has the fan at the top from memory then lol.. I thought that one did too haha.
Yeah on my desk, my current case is taking up too much room and it’s a pain in the arse to shift when I have to access the rear I/O panel, since i’m in a kind of corner situation lol.
I assume it will be quite viable to leave the top cover off for direct access to all that cabley goodness?
Yep, it just clips in. I love their Raven series which have a similar concept, just they weigh half a metric ton.
Did not care for 400 Days. Felt like a pointless waste of time and nothing like the rest of the series.
Without wanting to spoil things, it’s a bridge between the seasons. The choices are meant to impact upon what happens in Season Two.
What choices did you make? The one I struggled with most (and probably the only tough one) was
sitting in the RV with the gun. In the end, I split.Shot the fraud’s foot off.Stayed in the car with the Dude
Left Nate
Lied about hitting that guys wife
And I picked up the gun. Seemed to be what you’d actually do in a survival situation. The sister seemed all for it as well.
It just didn’t seem to work really. Season 1 gave you time to get to know the characters and made the decisions feel important. In this I just didn’t give a toss and picked whatever.
I do agree with you. My reaction wasn’t quite as strong as yours, and I still kind of enjoyed it (and appreciated that they were thinking outside the box a little, and gave us something to tide us over until season 2), but I didn’t feel particularly connected to 400 Days either.
I disagree with both of you 😛 @freezespreston
I think that this sort of fiction is one of the few where one-off short stories fit really well. Loved that they can just focus on a single snapshot of a character’s life and run from there.
But I’m a fan of that sort of writing in the first place, so that may be the reason I liked it so much.
Ugh, google have made it more annoying to differentiate sponsored videos on YouTube. Previously, sponsored videos had a light yellow highlight, making it easy to tell. They got rid of that, and replaced it with a small yellow tag. It’s such a minor thing, but it is part of a long list of google screw-ups.
It’s a very smart business decision, even if it does annoy users.
But YouTube’s users are getting more and more annoyed. After the ContentID fiasco, I boycotted YouTube in favour of Dailymotion. My boycott lasted about one or two days. If google keep doing this, they’ll keep pushing people towards dailymotion or blip.
Two points:
1) Sadly, most people won’t even notice the change. I never would’ve noticed.
2) A two day boycott isn’t even a blip on a blip on a blip on a radar.
Sadly, I think you’re right. Google has way too much power.
What the hell. I received an email recommending the Lesser Evil to me. I decided to buy the Lesser Evil, but I decided to download the sample first, just to see if my kindle could properly support a graphic novel. I took out my kindle, and I realised my copy of Dead Space Martyr – the least book I read with the Kindle – was gone. When I go to the store page for Dead Space Martyr, it tells me to buy it. I don’t know what’s happened.
@shane so he can make a joke about how his book will fill the void that losing Dead Space caused.
What’s the Lesser Evil? Never heard of it.
Haha, really? That’s awesome! Who the hell sent you that email? 😛
Edit: Sorry to hear about your book, though. That stinks.
I’m looking at my amazon purchase history as I speak. (well, type) It says I bought it on December 31st 2013. It also said that I reviewed it on January 26th 2014. I suppose it might be a region thing? I had to switch over to a US account in order to redeem amazon gift cards.
Problem fixed!… kinda. I guess the book is saved to the cloud, meaning I have to download it anytime I want to read it. It automatically deletes itself. If I turn the kindle off while reading, it remains, but will delete if I go to the homepage. Over the month that I spent reading Dead Space, (It took me a while, okay?) I would shut it off whilst reading, meaning it was there whenever I would turn it on.
Dammit my explanations are always unnecessarily long. I could have just typed:
“Saved to cloud. Stuck on cloud.”
On another topic, I guess I’ll try the Lesser Evil sample, just to see if the Kindle can handle it. I don’t think I have time to read a book at the moment, but I may as well grab it whilst it is on sale.
(Psst. Protip: $7.99 is the usual price. The “sale” price is just compared to buying the print version.)
So instead of paying attention to anything around me this evening, I’ve tried to create a twitter bot of sorts.
Iunno, it’s just playing around with stuff, but it should be working by tomorrow evening!
Thanks @powalen for the help 😀
You’re creating spambots, eh? The world needs more Viagra ads.
What have I done!?
You can always use your powers for good and spam The Lesser Evil ads instead 😛
Apparently it’s super easy to just create accounts that retweet specific keywords.
I can imagine a Lesser Army, diligently retweeting every mention of #lesser #evils.
We can name it @shane!
I just preordered Titanfall. First time peorderinga game. I usually have a policy on not preordering, but having played the beta, I am very confident in my purchase. It would suck if the beta turned out to be a ruse, and the actual game is broken.
xbone or pc?
PC. Who wants to bet that Origin will make the game unplayable at launch?
Finished Walking Dead S2E1
Saved ChristaKilled the dog
Gave water to the dying guy
Accepted Nick’s apology
Saved Nick
Just once, for a change, why
can’t anyone you save actually appreciate it? It’s meant to be about survival but no one seems to be happy to survive.Well to be fair
you kind of are condemning them to another day in a zombie infested crapsack world. Technically survival is the better of the 2 options but neither sounds very nice.I watched Tangled last night for the first time (yes that is two Disney movies in a row, shut up). I enjoyed it but I think I should have watched it before I watched Frozen. I kept comparing it to Frozen and enjoyed Frozen so much more.
Hmm. I actually preferred Tangled. It was more fun.
It was fun, but I thought Frozen was more memorable especially song wise, I enjoyed the songs much more in frozen.
I agree, frozen had better songs but Tangled had more comedy
Max annoyed me, not sure why, but he just annoyed me.
I liked Max. He was a better guard then the guard.
Why oh why did I come to work today *shakes head*
DARK SOULS II
EIGHT EIGHT EIGHT DAYS
Not much today. This possible PC release date has gotten a lot of attention, but the image in question has a pretty dumb typo, so I wouldn’t get hopes up for it being genuine.
Here’s a 20 minute video that includes gameplay from the start of DS2 (allegedly; I’m watching it now)
http://www.gamespot.com/videos/dark-souls-ii-the-lobby/2300-6417513/
888 days! D=
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I have no idea what the the announced release date is but last night in a release date email from EB it said Dark Souls 2 was Thursday 13th. Isn’t that 7 days away?
I need to know which day to go pick it up, I’d hate to go on Thursday if it’s not until Friday, and I’d hate even more to go in on Friday when I could have had it on Thursday.
What’s the real date?!
A good question. I should probably check what my local EB thinks they’re doing as well.
Well, then. For some reason, probably EB’s fault, I thought it was the 14th (and we got a simultaneous release with Europe on their 13th).
This countdown has been plagued with errors throughout. What’s one more.
That’s what happens when you port content over to PC.
Will you have a countdown to the proper release once this old-gen console bullshit is out of the way? 😛
No. I’ll be too busy playing the game to worry about the self-proclaimed masters who are no one’s top priority 😛
I’m DC, AMA!
I asked you a question on Page five, and you never responded, so my question to you, is why do you hat me?
I have no problem with Hermitages of any kind!
YOU HAVEN’T ANSWERED MY NEWEST QUESTION!
Yes!
Alright, new question: Should I buy a replacement fan, get an aftermarket cooler, or just hold out for a complete upgrade (No context will be added)?
All of the above!
Not a question, but I just wanted you to know that I look forward to reading your daily blog posts.
I was genuinely excited on Tuesday morning when I realised I hadn’t read it for a few days, and could catch up.
@blaghman: Oh man, that’s incredibly kind of you to say! Now I feel bad I didn’t write any thing substantial this week. D: Thanks so much for reading, though. Means more than you know!
Will you marry me?
I couldn’t do that to Mrs. Freeze.
This is the worst AMA ever.
:'(
If it helps, I can confirm that Half-Life 3 is in development!
Seeing as I watched both recently, which Disney movie do you prefer Tangled or Frozen?
Frozen, despite the fact that Kristoph was very similar to Flynn. I enjoyed the songs more too, like you said earlier. (Though I’ve Got a Dream from Tangled was a thing of beauty, my friend!)
I prefer mother knows best myself. Also, I feel that they are similar but at the same time very different. Kristoph wouldn’t steal and is extremely good natured. Flynn doesn’t realise that he is a good person and is just incredibly misguided.
Also, Kristoph is charismatic without meaning to be. Flynn tries to be charismatic and fails to do so.
Now that we know your real name is Dougal Cloirk, will you stop the lies?
The lies sustain me, so no!
Why?
Cause Rockets suggested we all do this every Thursday with someone new weeks ago and we all forgot.
Who?
???
What’s your favourite memory?
Oh, that’s a tough one.
Uh, Christmas ’94 was pretty great. Dark, overcast morning. Brand new SNES. Brand new Donkey Kong Country. Really was the best Christmas I had. Otherwise? This will sound so wanky, but meats. I never really had all that many friends before that.
Do you still have your SNES? Played all DKC games? Favourite one?
My dad gave away the SNES without asking us. 🙁
I’ve played all the Donkey Kong Country’s except for the 64 one. (Which I couldn’t play for more than ten minutes. You know how I feel about the 64.) Diddy’s Kong Quest is the sentimental favourite. I got that for my eleventh birthday. Realistically I think no Donkey Kong Country game plays better than the stuff Retro is making now though.
Why am I so gat dang tired?
Too much scary music. I suggest you replace it with acoustic stuff! You will, won’t you? WON’T YOU?
I don’t listen to scary music, unless you consider this scary 😛
Where have you been?! 😛
Being emo, mostly. *decisive nod*
Folder or Scruncher?
Scruncher.
I remember reading somewhere that most Men are folders and most Women are scrunchers. I’m yet to verify these results first-hand.
What is your preferred sleeping position?
What is your preferred category of pornography?
Have you ever been to Spain or spent a lot of time around Spanish people? What do you think of them?
What would you consider to be an ideal first date?
When was the last funeral you attended (if any)? Did you cry?
I sleep on my stomach with a pillow over my head. True story.
Amateur. I prefer real looking people.
I have not been to Spain.
An ideal first date would be like hanging out with a friend, but amplified. I’m tempted to say dinner and a movie, but that wouldn’t be true because the entire movie I’d be too distracted wanting to talk to the person. I’m rather partial to long dates, though. Like spending the day together doing random stuff.
Grandpa’s funeral. I didn’t cry, but I was sad.
Which do you detest the most: the modern, Spanish or brutalist school of architecture? Also, domestic or commercial buildings?
I love buildings.
THIS ISN’T THE REAL @DC! TAKE OFF YOUR MASK IMPOSTOR
Round two (because I’m getting my money’s worth for this AMA, dammit):
What do you think is the best thing about yourself?
I like to think I’m kind and have a strong sense of empathy. That might be deluded though.
Not much else to like, alas.
Was working on Big Brother your first choice?
Was my only choice, really. Just fell into my lap right after university and apart from the local channels at Mt Coot-tha, there wasn’t a whole lot of production stuff happening in Brisbane. I feel like getting that job in hindsight might have been too easy for me and I don’t know what it means to pursue a job properly. It was a good time though and a time where I felt a strong sense of self-worth.
What’s your address?
You’ve crossed a line, Strange.
I will say no one knows my address because I live with my sister and feel like it’s not my place to invite people over. Almost nothing at this place is mine, so I feel like a guest here mostly and don’t want to impose. That’s why I’ll never have a meat here or invite any one over. *decisive nod*
What if I bring freshly baked bread for you and your sister?
Be ware of the mine field around the cave entrance! I’ll provide a map, but the map is off by one step. Adjust everything to the right.
What’s your sister’s address?
I’m feeling brutally honest today, I’ll answer any thing. (That’s tasteful and within reason. :P)
I just want to say that I appreciate it and I really like the idea of TAYbie AMA’s.
Just a really great chance to ask stuff that doesn’t come up in TAY conversation or at Meats. It’s cool.
Me too, I feel our questions for @Rocketman weren’t hard hitting enough. He should do it again.
I can’t believe (well, actually I can… I really gotta stop skipping pages :S) I missed this. What an awesome idea!
If you could be any TAYbie for a day, who would you choose and why?
Honestly, no one. I might be screwed up. I might be broken. I might be poor. I might be unemployed. But I’m still me and am the product of all the decisions I’ve made. Also body swapping shenanigans have always creeped me out. 😛
Wow, that’s a way more mature answer than I would’ve given.
When you TAYbreak, do you still read it?
At first, no. The last few days I’ve been reading from time-to-time, though. Might’ve noticed the occasional upvote. 😀
If Miley Cyrus and Justin Beiber were both downing and you could only save one, what would you have in the sandwich you made?
Chicken and gravy sandwich, I think.
I can’t think of anything to ask so I’ll just say hello and put a question mark at the end of it?
Hey!
I’ve got a messed up back tooth in my top jaw that I think is going to have to come out, why the hell does it send little spikes of pain up into my ear and down into my lower jaw?
Just to clarify, the D in DC does stand for Dentist, doesn’t it?
Aw man, not good. I can empathize. I know that pain all too well. (Wisdom tooth impacted back tooth exposing nerve. Wasn’t fun.) Well worth a trip to the dentist’s, my friend.
23 hours away from one. The worst part was that I went in a few weeks ago because I was getting that thing where it hurt when you got cold or hot on a tooth, got a filling and now the entire side of my face hurts
Argh! Ages late, but still getting in here with a hard hitting question.
If you could nominate one old adventure game (I know you love ’em) to be remade into a new game, what would it be and which studio would you like handling it?
Gabriel Knight and Quantic Dream!
Wh..wh..How…YOU’VE ACTUALLY GIVEN THOUGHT TO THIS BEFORE, HAVEN’T YOU! THAT’S TOO GOOD AN ANSWER.
COME UP WITH A BAD ANSWER, NOW!
Er, uh, Kings Quest and, uh, Infinity Ward?
Thanks. I feel better about my own personal answer now you haven’t trumped it amazingly.
Police Quest and Bethesda ala FalloutI would play that!
Finished TT Walking Dead Season 2 Eps 1 and 2 last night.
Ep 1:
Played Clementine as a fairly hardened character which felt right considering everything that happened to her. Because of this, I felt so sorry for her as she just seemed so disconnected, but fortunately (for me) the more time spent with others the more she seemed to pull herself together.Ep 2:
A brief summary of my reactions – “Shit. No. Wait. Stop. Fuck. Stop….STOP DYING. CRAP. DAMN IT.TAYlist request times, what songs do you want?
ANYTHING BY HANSON!
Edit: But seriously, Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen.
Orianthi, anything by her is good.
When You Believe — Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey
Hipster request :
Mother & Son – Dead yellow moon
Serious request :
Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Manwait, that’s got some non-radio friendly lyrics.Serious, not sweary, request :
George – Spawn
Wilson Phillips – Hold On
I’m actually really digging Boy & Bear – Southern Sun at the moment.
Ritual Union – Little Dragon
Or
On Melancholy Hill- Gorillaz
Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
Requests are closed, thank you for your suggestions.
Oh Yeah – Yellow.
Edit: FFS.
DeeeeeBopBop
Chk Chkkachkka…
Ooooooooooh Yeeeeeeeeeeah….
Beuller? Beuller?
Better usage was in The Secret of My Success. 🙂
So. Damn. Early.
Over time, with experiences with more women, you’ll get better. We all do.
That’s what happens when you satisfy 10 different women each night.
I’ve got a dinner with uni friend tonight to discuss adopting their cat when they go to Canada and saying I’m terrified is an understatement. Uni friends frighten me. D:
The trick is to get into a fight over who’s going to pay for dinner. Guaranteed ice breaker.
Edit: they’re good people. You’ll be fine.
Adopting a cat, though? Something I could never do.
I imagine your uni friend is just as terrified of you. 😛
Having met the person in question, I doubt that much terrifies him. Definitely has an enviable air of self-confidence and smugness (though not in a deprecating way, just in a comfortable-with-self-type way).
Haha, when I started university he was my role model for a time. The first cool guy I met who seemed to like me.
Well in that case, it’s all good. The cat thing could have been arranged over the internet but obviously this self-assured person likes you enough to want to talk to you in person, @dc. Therefore they already like and accept you and enjoy your company so you don’t need to be terrified of them, the hard work is already done.
Still weighing up getting a little buzzed before hand. Not karaoke meat drunk, though.
‘As close as possible to ‘relaxed’ fist-bumping DC’ was pretty cool. 🙂
Space Pirates person? Ask them about Double Fine!
“Canada”
*looks up from paper*
….
*resumes reading paper*
Brisbane people!
The Gloryhammer Brisbane show is Saturday, May 3rd. It’s in the Valley so even though I know most of you won’t attend the show (*sadface*), how about dinner together? A dinner in the Valley Meat, with optional Gloryhammer? Sound like a plan?
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @rocketman @sernobulus @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
These Brisbane Tags brought to you by Powalen Dot Com!Am I allowed to attend the show after?
You’re not allowed not to!
So where do I not refuse to deny turning down a ticket?
Eek, I’m all confused now!
As a solution to my confusion I shall buy you a ticket. For your birthday or something.
That…that wasn’t what I was asking.
Guess you shouldn’t have broken my brain, then! 😛
*guilt panic mixed with gratitude*
Power metal’s not quite my thing, but food certainly is. And I’m walking distance from the Valley.
Food is a good thing indeed. Look forward to meeting you!
I LIVE in the Valley. (The uh… less-pretty part. Alfred St. Where they have the big-brotheresque warning megaphones that tell street-brawlers/domestic violence cases that the cops are on the way.)
Random Google Maps: This is your place in my mind now, whether it is in reality or not. http://goo.gl/wPNsI7
I’m just up the road (where ‘just’ is ~1km) next to the Showgrounds.
May 3rd? I can’t even remember what I’m meant to be doing one week from now!
That’s our Dane!
Today is Thursday so… Survivor? 😀
Ohweh ahwehooo, weyaweyooo-ooo
I’ll do dinner but no music for me thanks. The last concert that I went to (involuntarily I might add) was Savage Garden when I was 12.
And we could live like animaaaaaaaaalz!
Cool.
I’m always up for a metal gig and on a Saturday as well 😀
You’re off to Iced Earth next week aren’t you? Still need my ticket and waiting to see whether I can treat myself to VIP or not
Yep, Iced Earth next week. And then Orphaned Land on the 23rd. Superhype!
Had to give Dark Tranquility on the 25th a miss though because we couldn’t get a babysitter. It’s Mr. Strange’s favourite band so I opted out for him. I saw them on 70K and they were amazing so if you can go, you definitely should.
I saw Dark Tranquility a fair few years ago and they were great then (Arch Enemy, The Haunted and The Crown also playing on the bill. It was most excellent) so would expect the same. I’m not a massive fan on record but if I have the money spare then I’ll be going for sure
With Gloryhammer where are they playing? Being in the Valley I can only guess the Crowbar? If so I believe it would call for metal karaoke afterwards as well? It might encourage more people to turn up if karaoke is mentioned 😀
Apparently it’s a place called The Tempo.
hahaha The Tempe. I’ve spent a fair few drunken nights there, including one birthday where I went home before anyone else. Decent enough sound but usually home to cover bands. It always amuses me when bands play there. We had tickets to see Bam Margera last year there for shits n giggles but a cyclone decided to sweep through Brisbane that night instead.
Still, gig at Tempo and then karaoke at Crowbar 😀
People who don’t see the show can see a movie? That or just hang out some more after!
I’m just cool for whatever.
You know, get that yay yo, up in da club, booty clappin, all round. YOU KNOW WHO I AM!? IM THE PRINCE Y’ALL!!! -sample of Royals by Lorde mixed with Hard Faster Stronger-
No, it’s compulsory that @dc attends all concerts by bands that @strange likes 😛
Plus Gloryhammer aren’t scary, they’re AWESOME!
just drink until the gig is over and then everyone meat up again and drink some more
May 3rd? I’m a big fan of advance notice. I’ll pencil it in, count me in.
i have no idea who or what that is, but hey, that’s my birthday! :3
/edit Actually scrap that…missed the part where you said May… :0 Not sure about that date yet.. should possibly be ok, but depends how my negotiations with work go! Isn’t there something else happening the following weekend too? Something that.. perhaps..should not be directly mentioned here? Or is that a different date again?
Someone’s got something happening on the 8th that I’m booked in for I think? Or whatever weekend is around that.. @beardymcmuttonchops ? When’s your book thingo?
Way too far in the future to say, so…maybe?
POWER METAL! \o/ I would love to come, but we’re saving all of our extra $$ for Chicago. I’d love to come to dinner though.
Chicago the musical or Chicago the place? Either way, awesome. 😀
Chicago the place! In June we’re going to Canada/America for three weeks.
Oh wow. Excitement!
@strange
FYI I have just discovered another annoying glitch with my Xperia E, I really hope you haven’t decided on that one. My alarm clock no longer goes off on its own, despite all the settings being the same as always. I press the power button to light the screen and view the time, there is a slight delay as you see an older time quickly update to the new time and THEN, the alarm goes off.
Essentially I remind my phone to remind me to get me up in the morning. It’s rubbish, not even worth the $39 I paid after a cashback promotion.
Yikes! No,I thankfully didn’t decide on that one. I’ve had some really bad experiences in trying to save money by buying cheaply.
Pretty sure I’ll be going with the SP.
Sad thing is, I’m probably in the market for a new phone also. :S
Trying to get as many collectibles as possible in Tomb Raider so I can level up Lara. Only have 4 skills to unlock now, then I’ll try and finish the game. Really enjoying it though, and collecting stuff is almost as fun as playing the game.
I normally get sick of collect stuff in games but found Tomb Raider made it fairly fun. Maybe because it wasn’t just “Ding, you got another one!”?
I also love the fact that with some relics you have to examine them to see if there’s any further information.
I find the descriptions help make it more interesting as well. Better than Uncharted just saying “You found _______”
At the time it felt a little silly but looking back it’s definitely a contributor to why it was better than the average.
Today when I went to go pick up my copy of South Park SOT I found Toukiden for the Vita and decided to snap it up.
To my surprise this is the very first time I had a Vita game that had a manual insert, it also alarmed me how abruptly it was released, maybe from now on I should preorder niche market 3ds/vita/ps3 games to avoid missing out on the Australian release versions.
At a glance on my mobile, your avatar is very similar to @phlanispo – I was about to ask if you were old enough to buy South Park SoT.
I don’t think I can buy it. Didn’t consider that part. Eh, it’s digital if I buy it through steam, so I can easily pick it up when it is sold for $13.00 during the summer sale.
On the topic of my gravatar, I deliberately went for a gravatar that was immediately identifiable, and didn’t require you to view their profile just to see what the heck it is. I kinda sorta won on those fronts. I am one of two people with a blue gravatar.
EDIT: By Arceus I take long to get to the point.
Haha yes! I received my copy in the mail on Monday and I was surprised it had a manual, but I was more surprised it was in colour as well 😛
We have a few people with the game so we should get together for multi some day.
Started looking at jobs again.
Nope, too scary.
I was just about to go apply for more. Join the job seeking club :P. @dc @masha2932 assemble!
Just make it official already and start charging the ladies.
You’ll be the richest TAYbie inside a week.
Picked up my mum from the airport last night…
she brought plenty of candy, and i made the stupid mistake of taking it with me to work.
my tummy now hurts… a lot…
…
worth it!Things all good in the hood between you guys now?
Weren’t you reading? She tried to poison him. I’m going to say things are looking better, but not entirely healed yet.
Yeah so far so good… mind you she landed at 10pm last night so we didn’t get a lot of time XD…
At least this time around, it’s not a very long time she’s here and we got plenty of stuff to do, so i don’t think it’ll be an issue… just going to enjoy my holiday 😛
I read you first post as just picked up mum from the airport. Suddenly thinking you left her at the airport overnight
maaaan i should have 😛 i would have been in bed at a decent time
I’ve heard about cookies from your homeland….
We do make pretty killer chocolate biscuits?
Never tried them but they say they’re delicious.
Yankie Bars!
Oh man…
^^ this guy gets it!
<3Farscapers.
Anthony Simcoe (Ideas Man in The Castle, and D’Argo in Farscape) is gonna be at Oz Comic-Con in Sydney and Brisbane this year! I’ll be getting his autograph on my Ltd Ed Farscape DVD right underneath Ben Browder’s.
http://tinyurl.com/asols3p
I need to save up for my Shatner experience ticket
Hola. Been busy at work so no TAY for 2+ days!
I think I forgot to mention that my friend bought be both DKC:Tropical Freeze AND Mario Cats!
DK: Looks pretty, and is damn challenging at times. First boss took us like 4-5 attempts. It takes 7+ ‘hits’ to defeat the boss, unlike the 3 on Mario. And omfg, we lol’d and raged so hard. The first boss is amazing, and without spoiling too much
we kept lol’ing how he’s gonna win Olympic gold etc.Mario Cats: We played Mario WiiU after DKC, and then we moved onto Cats. OMFG, we were tripping balls and it was only us two playing. That game man… D: it’s so trippy! The whole 3D-ness adds so much to the game, it’s not funny. And dem cat costumes – we spent 15 mins just running/pouncing/clawing/climbing, doing handstands on trees… amazing stuff. Cant wait to play 3+ player.
All in all, I haven’t rofl’d so hardcore or had that much fun on three games in a long time. There’s just something about the Nintendo ridiculousness (we spent ages looking at MiiVerse notes from players scattered around Mario WiiU – HILARIOUS) that is insanely appealing. And we weren’t even drinking.
New rule for TAY AMA’s, person who does it last can nominate who does it next?
I nominate:
@effluvium-boy
*decisive nod*
Edit: That, or whoever wants to do it. I don’t care. *shrugs*
Hmmm, @transientmind’s would be interesting too. *strokes patchy chin stubble* (Mine, not his.)
As long as they don’t feel like they HAVE to do it if they don’t want to 😛
Yeah, just occurred to me that these things probably work the best if you want to do it and are feeling open about it. Okay, scratch that rule. Whoever wants to do one should do one whenever. 😀
Nomination doesn’t mean they have to, just that you’d like them to. Seems fair enough
If no one volunteers, I’ll do one. Maybe.
Why do you want to do an AMA?
*shrugs* Didn’t want to leave DC hanging. Got no particular objection to the idea.
Mentioning that he’s got a book out?
Talking about Dark Souls?
Yeah, I could do one. Not today, though. Work is insane today, hardly posting.
(Welcome back DC.)
I have no objection in doing one…
It just wouldn’t be particularly interesting to other people i think 😛
… wait, what? this is becoming a thing?
I nominate @rocketman, the most interesting man in
the worldTAYOkay I just want to hear more of his stories 😛
@dkzeitgeist is keeping some of his best stories held at ransom at the moment, I believe. Unless the release has sneaked past me…
It’s coming soon.
It had better be.
No, @transientmind is most interesting Man on TAY
He really is! Have you read his comments in the South Park review? HE’S LIVED!
Wait, hang on… which one was that? Talking to Thaum about trans stuff?
Just hired a salesperson for our first remote office
Scary and exciting
I’m seeing Kreiger in the latest Archer Ep. “Yeah, we’re selling heaps”.
Hopefully this means we will be selling heaps and heaps then
SO… i’m on call again tonight, so what’re we playing? 😛
@rize, @cakesmith, @mythamphetamine, @sernobulus, @f4ction, @rocketman, @blaghmanShoot me a message when you decide
The waiting game.
That game sucks, let’s play Hungry Hungry Hippos!
edit – uuurrrg i should never try sarcasm, it never works
Somethingsomething insert Gooky’s Womanizer excapades joke here something
Womaniser would be a pretty good name for it hey.
I have no idea what’s going oni don’t either anymore
*shifty eyes*
just run with it! 😛
As usual it depends on how many people actually show up but I would be up for something stupid like Magicka or Monaco or JC2MP (if we have more then 4 people).
ooooohhh Magicka, i can’t remember the last time i played that 😛
Well i would be keen on:
Magicka, JC2MP (it’s been a while) or maybe even some D3…
I’d be happy with anything is what i’m trying to say 😛
I played it for the first time with @rize and @cakesmith. It went something like:
Me: “Hey guys, I just learned how to shoot lightning”
Cakesmith & Rize “That’s nice”
Cakesmith / Rize : *Cast some crazy meteor shower / lightning storm / super ultimate spell that kills everything*
My first ever co op game was with @rize… i learned how to create explosive mines and healing mines… i may have mixed up the 2 on random occasions…
“DON’T WORRY @RIZE I’LL HEAL YOU”
*Booooooooooooooooooom*
“…..sorry…. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”
I had the Tron Robe so I just chain-lightning / Lightning Striked everything
Including @rize and @cakesmithSo basically, you learnt how to play Magicka.
I concur.
sooo meet on TS, talk for 2 hours without settling anything and then play something for 15 minutes? 😛
Basically 😛
I’m down with that XD
(plus i’m kinda itching for some shenanigans in JC2MP)
I can’t tonight as I will be out doing things.
You and this “life” thing you got going on! what’s that about?
Why can’t you just be sad and boring like me so you have time to play games with us huh? HUH?
😛I dare you to call Magicka or JC2MP sad and boring the next time we’re playing it.
no no, the sad and boring is my life, the vidyagaems is cool though 😛
“The Goth Shuffle” if I’m not mistaken.
GET HYPE SON!
@shane I think I found your NeoGAF account:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=103202294&postcount=41
oh…dear…god!
I guess you could say that…
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…wait, where the hell are my glasses?
(⌐■_■)
what sunglasses?
I… I think I’ve died and gone to heaven.
Edit: by which I mean HOLY MACKEREL
Oh man, Path of Exile content update/mini-expansion lands today. Pretty pumped up to start a new character and get hopelessly beaten into the ground by some Vaal corrupted monsters. 😀
D.C.’s secret shame!
Sometimes when something like The Walking Dead is released, I refresh Steam repeatedly to see my friends unlock achievements as it happens so I know where they are in the game. Then I wait for their TAY post knowing all too well it’s incoming. 😀
I… might’ve done the same with @shane last night even though we’re not even Xbox pals. D:
This is why I’m not on Facebook. Stalking is just in my nature. 😛
Ya gotta stalk!
Facebook stalking is in everyone’s nature though so you’d be right at home. 🙂
Sooo… best birthday/christmas present for you ever would be a set of Binoculars? 😛
and a ghillie-suit
Stalking is in everyone’s nature. It’s why so many people are on Facebook.
It’s why I’m NOT. Well, actually, I am, but I only have my immediate family and I delete all the emails that I get sent by Facebook. I DON’T WANT TO KNOW.
I have like… supermodel cousins who do modelling for promotional shots when football teams need a model instead of a cheerleader to make the cheerleaders look good. They keep posting godamn bikini shots and shit I don’t want to see.
You can’t say this and then not share.
All I need is a rocking chair, a porch, and a shotgun. Durn kids, you best leave dem girls alone!
I feel so violated 🙁
This is even worse than the time you put your hand in my pocket.
I had my reasons!
You wait till he’s figured out how to get remote access to your Kinect… @DC IS THE NEW STALKIUS!
That’d be quite a feat, given that it’s not plugged in or operational 😛
or…is it? dun dun DUUUUUUUUUUUUUN
No, the spy camera is in the Tetris lamp Mrs. Shane got him for Christmas. This ain’t my first creepy stalking!
I see… we’re dealing with a pro here… Well Played sir!
Damnit, you made me check again, and I’ll never forgive you for that.
You’re dealing with a Pro… if you’re not checking every 15 minutes YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN!
Joke’s on you! I don’t have The Walking Dead on Steam!
You probably shouldn’t do that thing you do when you think you’re alone, Pow.
😀
http://www.dorkly.com/comic/59970/xbox-live-demands
Still hungry?
But why male models?
For reasons of handsomeness, maybe?
You should never mail models. They might suffocate.
So, the new continuation / reboot / whatever of Cosmos with Neil Degrasse Tyson starts in the US on the weekend. Strangely being pushed hard by Fox, though apparently that hasn’t compromised it.
I’m super hyped for it. Carl Sagan’s original Cosmos series is the single best general science program ever made which IMO should be required viewing for every teenager on the planet.
Trouble is, I don’t know if there’s going to be a legal way to actually watch it. 🙁 Presumably it’ll be locked down to Foxtel here and we ditched Foxtel a year ago due to how shitty the value it provides is. Has anyone seen it advertised anywhere? Or am I going to have to add to the Australian piracy statistics? 🙁
How about I watch it here, and then phone you in a moment-by-moment narrative summary?
It’ll probably go something like this:
“There’s a guy talking, and then suddenly! Cosmic whooshing! Whoosh!”
I will even make whoosh noises for effect.
Only if you can do it in your best Carl Sagan voice and talk about yumans and billyons of years.
The “legal way to actually watch it” would be via Foxtel.
I should have said Legal way to watch it that doesn’t involve a $1000+ contract for 12 months to watch a single show.
Maybe it’ll be on Netflix eventually.
@gorzilla made a game recommendation for me last night, the 2012 release Receiver, which he summarised as Gun Porn, The Game, looked it up on Steam, where it was on sale for $1.69 US (66% off) so I bought it after a stressful time where Steam refused to take my money, I also bought Nos a copy, I haven’t played it yet, but I’m looking forward to having a crack at it.
It’s pretty cool. Originally made as a game-jam game thingy (The 7-day FPS challenge). Made by Wolfire who are making Overgrowth (Also, they created the first Humble Bundle, though the people who worked on that have since split off to work full time there).
Be ready for a lot of repeated failures in the heat of the moment, as you try to reload, only to eject your cartridge onto the floor, or to be madly pulling the trigger while the safety is still on.
Yep, I expect many failures, it should be fun (in the Dwarf Fortress way, of course)
Four chapters off completing A Dance with Dragons…I wont know what to do with my life! 😐 Probably hyperventilate until season four of GoT is released.
You could always check out a book that’s apparently reads as if “Game of Thrones met Star Wars”.
In other news, I thought Dance with Dragons was a pretty cool guy. No real spoilers, but:
I wasn’t crazy about the structure, though. You could tell which bits were meant to belong to the previous book, and which ones were meant to belong to the next book. Although it pushed things forward a bit, it never really had its own identity as a separate entry in the series.I have a copy of The Lesser Evil sitting on my bookshelf 😀 My book pile of shame is worse than my vidya game pile, I will read it though!
Yeh, while I enjoyed it was just one long build up of events to take place in the next book. Aside from the last few chapters I felt like a lot of it was ‘this character is heading here to do this, now they are heading here to do that’. The free cities don’t interest me as much as what is happening in Westeros. I might be the only one but I love Victarion and Asha, the Ironborn way of life is so harsh and viking-like. My favourite chapters were Theon/Reek’s. Maybe I’m sadistic but the horrific torturing and all about creepy evilness of the Boltons kept me gripped.1. Got an email from the police. Start getting all nervous, open it up and….they want some more details. FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU
2. Picked up Stick of Truth. Walked in, got the standard edition and ended up walking out with the Grand Wizard edition for an awesome price. Guys. Make friends with the local EB manager. They’re good people.
3. Dark Souls 2 is definitely being released Thursday 13th March. So sayeth EB. @shane @beavwa @strange
4. We brought a Tangled Lego set for my eldest’s birthday next week. The tower full of furnishings and a few mini figs. It’s awesome.
Ooooh, that’s cool about the police that it’s still on going. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little worried about the radio silence. South Park game looks so, so good. D:
Good things there’s a delay for the PC edition, cause Titanfall is out next week 😛
What kind of details are they after?
Pictures.
*wiiiiiink*
After my boss told them I had a lot of time off I countered that it was all in one hit from injuring myself. They want more details on the injury and wether it still affects me or not. I spoke to te guy on the phone and pointed out it was the same injury that delayed my physical and I passed that no problems. He said it would be fine they just need to have all the details on record.
That sounds promising to me, Freeze. 😀
Fuck yeah.
Oh hells yeah. That’s awesome, man. Sounds like this might be the final hurdle!
Ah, the suspense! At least more details is good news, I guess. Best of luck.
Just worked out I haven’t left my house at all since seeing Robocop with Freeze on Feb 17. :S
We can see another movie on Monday?
If only, Freeze. If only. (So. Damn. Poor. XD)
What if you didn’t have to pay?
No mooching either. 😛
What about smooching?
Well, that goes without saying!
… reply fail
Legit what cinema chain to you usually go to because I have a bunch of vouchers here I’m never going to use in time.
Haha! Nah, thank you though, man. You so kind.
Fine, I shall ask @freezespreston then
Yo Freeze!
I wouldn’t use them, but thanks for the offer!
You should use it. Don’t be a doofus. It would be great for you to have an excuse to get out of the house and as a bonus you get to hang out with the ever-awesome Freeze.
Yeah, @dc / @welbot, I was actually considering something similar myself, because I totally have some points which are going to expire soon which need using up, I just have to get off my ass and find out what I need to do (tied to my cinebuzz card, so not as simple as vouchers), but figured it’d be more fun to shout someone a ticket with the points and pay for my own. Or if the person was neurotic about that kind of thing, consider two tickets as half-price instead of one free. (Which, to be honest, at Event Cinemas prices is pretty much the same as a regular ticket at Southbank.)
Edit: Also, when on shoestring budgets, not even sure if city-viewing becomes worth the train ticket/petrol+parking costs. But whatever, it’s an excuse to get out of the house.
Kind to offer, but I couldn’t accept that! Thanks man!
I’m hoping this current phase of no money/can’t do things despair will fuel some changes in my life though.
@dc – Fair enough. It’s good if you DO something with it… but I wouldn’t rely on the power of discomfort alone. You’d be surprised what levels of misery folks can get used to and live with uncomfortably, indefinitely.
lol As soon as I read this, I began to construct @dc’s reply in my head.. scrolled down.. yep.. pretty much word for word what I expected 😉 hahahah
I might be up for it. I love robocop. Would just depend where and when I guess.. I’m still battling with work over pay atm, cos they have sent me the contract to make me full time, but expected me to just accept being fucked up the ass and continuing on at my current rate. Oh the joys of it all.. here we go again!
Funny how they never ring back to answer your questions until the day your paperwork is due back signed and sealed… I’m not gonna let em walk over me though. Told them I’m not signing it til I’m happy. So the battle continues!
All that aside though, let me know when they expire/when suits you, and I’ll see what I can work out to suit!
Well, I guess if you’ll indulge me an unsolicited Deep & Meaningful, waxing on memories… (At the risk of sounding preachy)
When I said:
The reason I say it: I used to see hopelessness/despair a lot when I was moving between caravan parks in small towns wherever the seasonal work was. It was more noticable thanks to the smaller populations, meaning these microcosms brought their archetypes to the fore. And when you move between them every month or two, you start noticing repeating patterns, repeated behaviours.
Same people in every town, same hopeless resignation to low-grade dissatisfaction. None of them realizing they were falling into archetypes occupied by their clone living an hour’s drive away in the next town over, spouting the same bullshit catch-phrases, complaints, and excuses, acting out in exactly the same ways. The same fights over the same ‘slut’ who is in turn cycling between the same confused/jealous/asshole boyfriends/baby-daddies.
All these men and women with longings to go somewhere better, leave the bullshit behind, see brighter things, take larger roles, do something with their lives… but they stay where they are because they’ve had a steady girlfriend or boyfriend for six months, which is the longest relationship of their lives, or because they FINALLY moved into that prime-real-estate trailer that everyone else envies because it has the best location/size/facilities, or because their friends/family might think poorly of them for ‘abandoning’ their shitty little town (out of jealousy for having the strength to actually fucking DO something they want to), or because they signed an Austar satellite cable TV package, or because they’re getting dropped utterly meaningless, unenforceable hints by their supervisor that they might be eligible for a promotion in the next couple years, which eventually becomes a few more years, and a few more…
And the worst thing is that many folks trapped in this cycle didn’t have either the education or intelligence to examine and articulate what’s wrong.
Ennui isn’t an intelligent person’s malady – they just know the word for it. Everyone feels it.
But without a label to give the feeling, it’s just a vague feeling that ‘something is wrong’ and they just try to ignore it – drink or fuck or fight, whatever is real and distracting enough to put that feeling that ‘something is wrong’ in the back of their minds, forgotten til the next quiet night, awake and lonely at 2am.
At worst, they let someone convince them that the reason they feel this way is because of some ’cause’ (whether it’s unions, boat people, off-shoring jobs), which they’ll champion with ferocious ignorance in the hope that maybe ‘things will be better’ if they can somehow win enough political battles to get more take-home pay every fortnight. Suffering under the delusion that the extra 15 bucks a week will make life more fulfilling.
The common denominator in all that I’ve seen is that people live with it. They cling to the small comforts they have amidst the general malaise, and they get by. They claim small victories. Great, good for them, but smaller victories than they have the capacity for. Because change is even more uncomfortable than the discomfort they train themselves to live with, and there’s a truth to the old saw, ‘better the devil you know’.
I personally think the strongest impetus you’ll ever have is staring at yourself in the mirror and growling: “NO. TODAY things change. In any way I can make them, no matter how little. Fuck fear, fuck excuses, fuck failure, I will pick myself back up from any humiliation or disappointment and fight for change in me/my circumstances. Again. And again. And again.” Every day if need be.
People fuel it with different motivations… Fear of dying alone or unaccomplished, desperation at their situation, anger at themselves or their circumstances, or lust and enthusiasm for the desired rewards. None of which is right or wrong – only the individual knows which will motivate them most effectively. We are but the sum of our experiences, and this informs our beliefs, our knowledge of what we perceive as the ‘truth’ of this world. Such is my experience, and yours may differ. But maybe a difference in perspective can help.
Excellent post, man.
I think I’m just going to make your user profile my homepage from now on, so I never miss another post.
I have a pile of free movie vouchers here that RACQ keep sending us that we can never use because kids. Seriously, they just keep going out of date unused. Someone may as well use them.
Do it @dc!
If you don’t feel like you can do it for yourself do it for Freeze man!
@freezespreston, @sernobulus, @blaghman, @rocketman, @rize
Tagging you guys in particular at the moment because you’re not from Sydney but I’ll be organising something for Saturday March 22nd for my birthday (if @rize comes it can be a joint thing because his is 3 days(?) before mine). I understand that you guys were interested but need to organise getting here/accommodation etc.
I myself will probably be getting a hotel room in the CBD for the Saturday night so am willing to split it let me know.
The plan will be dinner, drinks and something else. I’m thinking maybe karaoke or something if we can get enough people interested. All details of where TBC but I’m currently looking into it.
Rocketto and I went so far as to say “Hey, maybe we should split a room!”
If you have any suggestions for hotels or counter offers, that would work.
I’ll be there Friday and Saturday night, I think he’s planning the same.
If be more than happy to split since the less trouble I’ll be in and the stony silence won’t last as long.
Although I’ll be there Friday night as well. Which I believe @blaghman and @rocketman too.
I should probably book flights for that. Also, I’m keen to split a room.
@freezespreston, @sernobulus, @blaghman, @rocketman, @rize
I would also start organising accommodation soon as I’ve just checked and there must be something on that weekend as a lot of places are already close to having no rooms left.
Dinner, Drinks and ‘Something Else’.
Put me down as a yes for room sharing.
Just spent the last half hour talking to a colleague about how amazing Poets of the Fall is…
today is a good day 😛
EDIT – PotF PAGE GET \o/
TAYlist for the 6th of March 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by 52% Australian ContentDJ Quicksilver – Bellissima
Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston – When You Believe (Requested by @dc)
Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart
Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run (Requested by @blaghman, the computer generated the list with Hungry Heart, I added Born To Run and called it a Double Shot)
Gorillaz – On Melancholy Hill (Requested by @redartifice)
Justice Crew – Friday To Sunday
Australian Crawl – The Boys Light Up
Yellow – Oh Yeah (Requested by @freezespreston, or at least, I assume it was a request)
Cold Chisel – You Got Nothing I Want
Kate Ceberano – Pash
Black Sorrows – Stir It Up
Wilson Philips – Hold On (Requested by @strange)
Boy & Bear – Feeding Line
Boy & Bear – Fall At Your Feet (Sorry @benny, we didn’t have Southern Sun, I hope this Double Shot makes up for it though)
Orianthi – Shut Up & Kiss Me (@virus__ wanted Orianthi, and she’s an Adelaide Girl, she’s got a pretty good sound)
Blues Brothers – Gimme Some Lovin’
Daft Punk – Get Lucky
Whitlams – Thank You
Woooo! Thanks man! I do really like that song!
Aww yeah. That’s a good song of hers, from her pop orientated album lol.
Mass Effect Lego. Why does it not exist?
Probably because although it sold well enough in the gaming sphere, it doesn’t have anywhere near the kind of fanbase that Star Wars or LOTR enjoy. Also, sadly, Bioware appear to have alienated half their existing fans (either with the ending of ME3, or their capitulation to the reaction to the ending of ME3).
Also, aside from the Normandy, there’s nothing particularly iconic about Mass Effect’s settings. In a lot of ways, it’s a pretty generic universe (very well-written for the most part, but quite generic).
Still, if you were looking for general support for the idea, rather than an actual answer to the question, I agree completely. I would buy it. Even the Mako.
What the hell are you bringing logic and reasoning into it for. This is the internet. >:(
My bad. I can just picture the next generation of Lego fans holding up Shep and Wrex Lego figurines:
Shepard.
Wrex.
Shepard.
Wrex.
For hours of fun.
I would buy that…
i would buy the crap out of that 😛
Here’s something i never thought i’d say…
(some may find this spoilerish for stick of truth, it’s a side quest boss if you don’t want to ruin the surprise)
“I’m having a little trouble with the Al Gore boss.”this game is awesome.
I’m really enjoying it, too. Like a Final Fantasy Lite with all the crap stripped out, (unfortunately) dialled back in difficulty, and with the best features and quality of life considerations from modern games. But y’know, I love the show. So.
Right.
Final Fantasy Lite, with all the crap stripped out.
RIGHT.
You know what, @transientmind? You know what?
That just sold me on it and I’m buying it tonight.
SO THERE.
Uhm. ….Oops?
Twitch Plays Pokemon is kinda going into a decent, it’s jokes run dry and it’s followers becoming disgruntled. On the other hand we have made fantastic progress!
The magic’s gone.
Yeah, it’s kinda entering the “it’s been done” phase of its life.
It’s still entertaining for me, cause I mostly just have a quick look like twice a day to see how they’re going.
there should have been i bigger gap between red and crystal.
I thought it finished already?
Restarted on the next generation.
It’s easy to make progress with a quarter of the viewers.
Feels like a Friday today but it isn’t. 🙁 I’m super tired and just want to go home.
I’m off sick and I was in weekend mode by 10am. The fact I actually have to drag my ass in tomorrow is a reality I am putting off to face later.
I felt this way this morning, probably because deep down tomorrow is gonna be a bitch!
Just got up from secondary sleep.
Told you it was too early 😛
Old Simpsons is amazing.
Old Simpsons replaced studying for a uni degree for 4 years
What the heck is going on in Sydney 22nd March? Every hotel room in the city is booked out that one night. Can’t even find any events on. Top one in the Sydney event calendar is a free tour of Town Hall for international students and the Hunter Expressway opening up.
Dafuq. Every other day and week either side is free as well.
Crash a taybies house?
I already asked and no one responded so I guess that means no one can. Which is fair enough. It’s not something I like to ask of people anyway.
Is it just you?
@sernobulus, @blagman and @rocketman although I’m not sure if Blaghs and Rocket have theirs sorted yet or not.
I’m asking @gorzilla on your behalf.
I think Gorzilla said yes. He has a spare room, spare couch and there is a floor.
Where theres a way theirs a floor
Pretty much =P
The hotel folks will know, but I’m guessing if there’s no events you can see online or whatever, probably SEX DUNGEON PARTIES. I have no evidence or experience to back that up, but whenever really weird things are going on that I can’t explain, I like to go to there as a default assumption. Folks are getting freaky, count on it.
If a bunch of sex dungeons are getting together to have a party, why would they need to rent so many rooms?
I’m guessing they are not the kind of places you would want to lay your head down to sleep.
Probably depends if you’re a sub/switch. If you’re pure dom then it might end up being something you’re not into but could be fun otherwise
Would have offered, but it looked like everyone was chipping in for a hotel.
My place can handle a couple of floor dwellers. Beyond that it gets a little intimate.
But, yeah, you guys are welcome to squeeze in if you want.
Dan’s crashed at mine a couple of times, and Blaghs’n’Rize are not unfamiliar with my livingroom.
Of you’re happy to offer I’m happy to say yes. I’m good sleeping in any little corner or floor.
Tried to DM you but you don’t seem to be following me.
Rectified.
Have you tried http://booking.com ?
Hey, I have no idea what’s going on, but I live in Parramatta and have 1 spare bed and room for a few more of taybies don’t mind air mattresses and the like.
Oh wow dude. Are you sure? I’m more than happy to throw you some money for the trouble. It’d be going to an overpriced hotel anyway so may as well do something useful with it.
Downside for Parra is that it’s a fair way out from the city (Not to negate the niceness of Gorzy’s offer, christ knows I’ve taken advantage of his housing before). Very easy to get to on trains though (assuming the closest station hasn’t changed from where Gorzy used to live).
There’s no hotels any closer as it is. There’s some massive horse race on, a Sydney v Brisbane A League match and the MLB season openers all on the same night which explains why there’s no accommodation anywhere.
I’m not exaggerating either. Have a look on expedia, wot if and booking.com. Just a long list of sold outs until you hit the $1000 a night rooms.
If Gorzy is happy enough to tolerate us he is a saint and I won’t complain in the slightest.
Cool beans!
Ask for the breakfast special. It’s unique!
Uh, not that I’m saying you were complaining. Just reread that and it sounded a bit brusque. Not my intention in the slightest.
Come on Freeze, the breakfast special isn’t so bad that I’d recommend it as some sort of petty revenge for a perceived criticism.
Well, okay, maybe it is.
But it’s better than Pyrean’s breakfast special. Or far worse, depending on how you feel about these things.
You still haven’t forgiven me for the coco puffs and milk on toast? YOU’VE NO ONE BUT YOURSELF TO BLAME!
I’m a little bit further away from the station then I was before but it’s still easily doable.
Still no replies (not that I expected any), but I have to throw it out there again! This Saturday (8th of March) I’m seeing Frenzal at the Hi-Fi in West End! Anyone else going? Anyone gonna be in the area and wanna meet for a meal?
No replies, no likes, comment below has 7 likes. Similar happened to me on my weekend write up on previous page.
Sometimes TAY baffles me. Enjoy the show.
lol it doesn’t surprise me really. It’s not like everyone on the internet loves Frenzal. Just trying to make sure I don’t miss a possible meat like I did last time. Posted after the show saying how great it was etc, and then someone replied that they were there too!
So apparently Woolworths fucked up last week when I bought a few items, apparently they were meant to be on special and I paid full price. So since I used my discount card this was picked up and they’ve credited me the full price of the purchase & then some.. That’s kinda cool.
That totally is.
Any game that has a canned sitcom audience is alright by me. Good on you Weapon Shop de Omasse.
Don’t tell @dc
It’s okay, in game form. Goodbye Deponia had it too!
After hearing a coworker exclaim, “Oh god, what’s wrong with this milkshake?!” I made an effort to gross them out with a series of statements in a thick, Russian accent. The goal being to make each worse than the last.
“Nono, is not bad milkshake. Is not milkshake at all! Is yoghurt. Home-made – my own two hands! And own two feet. Special sardine flavour! Prize winning recipe at 1986 village fair. Is original sample! Yes, you bring back up into container, is good – preserve historic memories. I do so myself with same sample. Many times. Story of flavour is… how you say, happy accident. When making, is not having net to catch sardines, but is having rock. With rock, smash birds who are eating of sardines. Bird is making for easy-squeeze container, like American space cheese!”
I read that in the thickest Russian accent I could think of and it was amazing!
Man. Ex just showed up on Skype for the first time in ages upon ages. Apparently her boyfriend still doesn’t like it when she’s been talking to me, even though there’s nothing there at all. And it seems like it really has been ages since we spoke – apparently they’ve been together for two years now, living together for one, and she’s finally done with her law degree too (quite happy for her on that part, that thing always seemed to be taking forever). Of course this had to come up today, when I’m already feeling underaccomplished enough as it is. Bleh.
Might go drown my head in some games.
You could do what I do.
I look to find someone who’s failed even worse than I have in life.
So for that, I look to that rock over there.
Thousands of years old, or something, and what has it done? Nothing. Compared to that, I’m a golden story of success!
Things to do today: Lots.
Things you shouldn’t do today: Have a massive anxiety attack about the things you should do, lock yourself in your office and hide from your co-workers, only to figure out you HAVE to do the things today, so you get stuck at work at 7:40pm.
I am not a clever man.
…but you know what love is?
The bathroom is my go-to freak/chill- out spot. Hope you’re OK.
When I have lots to do at work, headphones are my best friend
New job is going well. I love it when new workmates are actually friendly and include you in things from day one. Also, a fair few fellow poms which cheers me up. I have people to talk to football about 😀 Except for the bastard next to me who decided to have his baby after 3 days of me being there so I have no-one to talk to for the time being. How inconsiderate.
Because the new job is going well, the old job is mucking around with my termination pay. I just want to know how much I’ll be getting but hr is hr so I probs won’t know until the day before I get it paid. Asshats
Also, any suggestions from Brisbane TAYs for what to do for my 30th? If you’re all lucky enough you might get invited too even though I’ve never met anyone 😛
You’re 30 this year? HAHAHAHA. Old.
*cough*four weeks or so*cough*
but, but, but it says you’re 35
i am much, much older than that at heart.
Hes actually 53 at heart..too much bacon
Uh, don’t know what your talking about.
*flees*
with age comes wisdom. Unfortunately whoever said that was a complete idiot
Probably coined as an aspirational statement rather than a factual one.
Woo BrisTAY. I dunno… drinking heavily is a traditional favourite. But you could always change things up with some skirmish/paintball, bowls-club rental, maybe a group tour up the girders of the Story Bridge. I think drinking heavily is probably only a good idea during the first two activities, though.
For my middle brother’s 30th, we went ‘Formal Bowling’. Opened a bar tab at Strike, everyone wore their best suits or rented tuxedos, then bowled in them.
I love bowling but I don’t love Strike 😛 I’m too much of a bowling snob XD sounds like a decent idea though. We’re also quite fond of paintball as well. Nothing like inflicting pain on friends. I think that might have to be done in fact. Well done that man for ideas.
I also encourage a painTAYball to happen at some point
I too stand by the idea of PainTAYball.
The place out at Samford is pretty awesome. Been there a couple of times Proper setup in massive fields involving structures, tunnels and cars rather than the dodgy almost temporary setups some places have. Decently priced too.
http://www.skirmishsamford.com.au/
Can we do Formal PainTAYball as per @transientmind middle brothers party
Chuck on a tux and shoot paint pellets at each other!
If there was ever a reason to lose your deposit on a rented tux, getting drunk and shooting each other would be one of the better ones.
…Bit pricey, though.
Paintball + drinking.. HELL YEAH.
Also, for anyone who likes anything Japanese:
What is it? My son’s still awake
metal with cutesy Japanese girl singers
IM THAR!
Two of my favourite things!
You sir have made my year!
Oh yes! The rest of the band is Skullomania!
SURVIVOR CLUB ASSEMBLE!
@sughly @powalen @strange @phoenix @masha2932
Wasn’t as great as last week’s but there was still some laugh out loud moments for me :D. Tony is pretty crazy!Oh and remember to say stuff that I agree with so I can upvote it without adding more to it! (@strange :P)
I still have the page with the discussion from the first episode open. 😛
Gotta get watching!
Guess what? Malcolm is back!
(he’s not, but I’m sure that’ll get your interest! :P)
Are you gonna bookmark this page too? 😀
Ugh, needius
I just don’t want her to miss out on some intense discussion! 😛
Spoilers!
I liked Brain team this week. They’re so funny, you’d think they weren’t the smart team at all haha. Hilarious how one woman (still can’t remember her name) wants to strategise and such and nobody else cares. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team seriously practice for a challenge though. They’re smart after all (even though they were still terrible anyway…)Brawn is definitely the best team. Nothing else was particularly exciting this episode…
Nahhh Ive seen teams practice before, but it didnt do them much good :/ Glad they nailed the maze thing though. I think the vote went pretty well though, am much happier seeing that majority than a majority of Brice and MorganTasha! Haha yeah, that was stupid…
Just echoing what others said -nothing really interesting this episode since the Beauty tribal council seemed very random. I was hoping the Brain team would be decimated further but they pulled through in the end during that challenge.
The male cop in the Brawn team is very smart about constantly searching through prizes to find clues though.
Also the hashtags that keep coming up are silly but still funny at times. I liked #CopsRus
Ahhh so destructive, wanting to see brains lose! I was so happy for them, need to even out the playing field a little here.The whole underdog thing made me want them to win too but man oh man I don’t see them doing well in the long run. Can I have some rice? …I want that guy to surviiiiive! Theyre going to get rid of him T_TYeah I like Spencer too! But not as much as I like people on Brawn – they’re awesome and entertaining 😀I agree… but I want more beauties off! Dont really know if I care for any yet. Except maybe big guy caus he found an idol and could be a good alpha male against cop guy. And also wavy black hair girl caus… shes purdyI liked Brice cause he was entertaining “the talk around town” 😛 and I’m starting to like AJ more cause he seems like the smartest one on that tribe. Morgan is nice eye candy for two big reasons 😛@greenius
“Two big reasons” HahahahFound the D2X:XL mod for Descent 2, loving it with my flight stick.
Sound kept stuttering, solved that problem.
Now all I have to fix is the game crashing. 🙁
GO AWAY YOU STUPID SLOW UPDATE I JUST WANT TO PLAY A GAME GOD DAMMIT
I just watched Lion King 2 @blaghman LION KING 2!
Joss Wheedom wrote lyrics to a song XD
I put money in my bank account yesterday. Apparently my bank account has only $20 left in it. Either I accidentally stated the wrong amount of money at the ATM, or someone stole money from my account.
D:
Yikes.
That sucks.
Sorry to hear that, man.
It may not have been processed yet. ATM deposits take some time to clear, IIRC. #MrBrightSide
Depends how you put it in. For reasons which make no sense whatsoever, cheques still take three days to clear, and funds transferred between other institutions take at least overnight, and even then only if you processed the transfer before 4pm southern time. Transfers between the same institution, however, are usually instant. ATM deposits – like Shane said – AND deposits made in a branch will usually be ‘next day’ depending on when you made them. Again: electronic, not human, doesn’t count as being the ‘same day’ if it’s after 4pm. In their mind, 5pm yesterday is the same as ‘today’.
Bloody banks…
9.. 9 pages of TAY? I only just finished reading page 2! *exasperated scream*
We used to get over 30 pages on a regular basis.
That’s a lot of page 18s.
How long since there’s been a page 18?
Not long enough.
Wait that’s more a page 18 remark.
*ziiip*
They’re not that hard to cum up with.
Well, that happened fast.
That’s what she said.I’m so sorry.
The last page 18 was just after Christmas.
Not that I’m counting or anything, because that would be absurd…
We need to get to page 18 more often :'(
I miss @Chuloopa
You should see them on Twitter. I can’t keep up.
Still going on the first level of DK 😛
So annoyingly close to getting gold. I WAS 0.51 OVER! And now my arm hurts from all the strain on mashing my thumb.
HI YOU!
Did you just start playing DK recently? I received my copy yesterday. It’s pretty cool so far!
I started playing around 20 minutes after this. And yes. Yes it is!
Man I suck at this. Every time, I miss the DK token at the end barrel. Time the jump for two things before, I get the one before. Time it for one before, I get the one after 😛
Man I remember why I love Xenoblade so much 😀
Managed to get it running pretty well through Dolphin. Still get a bit of stutter and slowdown during some cutscenes, or when I’ve got multiple enemies aggro’d at once but its not unbearable. Just got up to the point early in the game when (serious spoilers if you haven’t played)
the Mechon invade Colony 9, though not as far as Fiora biting it.Still awesome, and I’m catching a bit more of the foreshadowing now that I know a bit more of the story from the last time I played it. Music still kicks arse. And I managed to find the HD texture pack too. Not sure if its working entirely, the environments look much the same, though that could be my laptop. There is definitely more detail in the faces, though thats not always a good thing. Reyn in particular looks very strange
CC @strange @greenius @powalen @negativezero (don’t know who else has played it)
Edit – XENO PAGE GET \o/
You could try setting the frame rate to sync to the audio. That removed any crackling for me.
I’m so proud :’)
Sorry @shane, The Lesser Evil is barely readable on a Kindle; the text is too small. If I want to read The Lesser Evil, I’m going to have to get a physical copy.
I have it on good authority that it’s barely readable in any circumstance, so you may have just dodged a bullet 😛
You could try the PC Kindle reader
The framerate for Stick of Truth on PS3 is pretty atrocious at times. Like single digits.
Still
MANBEARPIG!Emulating the first season of the show, obviously.
Over the years I’ve noticed that game optimisation for PS3 is pretty atrocious at times. It’d better be less shit for the PS4 since I’m expecting that to be my main console this gen.
I’m on the hunt for MBP at the moment myself, have to figure out how to get across the gap in the sewers, that or find another entranceBlame the Cell. Fantastic piece of hardware, complete bitch to program for (also, Sony’s PS3 dev tools were pretty damn atrocious).
Since I had both Xbox 360 and PS3 I usually found the best thing was to look up which one any game was originally developed for on mufti platform releases. Things optimised for PS3 were fantastic but half assed ports made me want to cry. Almost half as bad as games for PC.
Yeah, I got the impression that was pretty much the problem, good hardware with poor instructions & support
Can’t get across until you’ve experienced the Scene That Australians Must Not SeeAhh, definitely not seen that then. Well for more than one reason…
I want Stick of Truth but all these performance issues make me kind of annoyed they’re not porting it to nexct-gen. I understand why they’re not, but it still annoys me.
It’s slightly annoying but with the way the game plays and looks with the crappy animation to start with it doesn’t make it unplayable. Just irritating.
Omg I just realised – DK HAS NO SUPERGUIDE
Thank god.
MARCH 25!!!
Nope, been amended to April 25.
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/d3/d30abd9bd591a3ebd7cc5c6ea8b33aa14f81dc9bbe0f0ad468433aee969622f5.jpg
I was amused.
\o/ April 25 is still a solid date. \o/
April 25 is just after the holidays finish for my better half. I asked this morning if she’d like a PC key for just after the holidays, or if she’ll just play my PS3 copy during the holidays.
…Looks like we’re not getting it on PC any time soon.
I just managed to buy it via GMG for $38!! ($49 – 20% coupon – $2 account credit!)
DARK SOULS TWO \o/
Only six days to go. SIX.
NEWS. There’s some.
1) I figured out why I was getting the release dates all mixed up. The official Dark Souls Facebook page is claiming March 14 as the release date for Europe and Australia. If they are correct, then there are still seven days to wait.
2) CONFIRMED: The release date for the PC version is April 25. The game will be optimised to work with a keyboard/mouse. There will be an ‘enhanced framerate’ option, whatever that means, and improved textures. This was confirmed on the official Dark Souls and Namco Facebook pages earlier this morning.
3) The first part of the game’s prologue has been released on Youtube, for those who cannot wait.
Anyone planning to play as Deprived? I’m leaning towards that myself.
I’m leaning towards crying for a month and a half, then looking up who’s the most overpowered.
Winning strategy.
It’s the only one starting at level one so I’ll probably go Deprived as well.
I’m leaning towards playing it as Offline.
That’s a different kind of deprived 😛
Given some of the changes and my recent experiences with Dark Souls, I consider it to be an enhancement. An enormous enhancement.
Hell is other people.
Whenever I’m going for a jog and I pass someone going the other way, especially if they’re also jogging, I tend to give them a little smile as a “good morning” and maybe some encouragement. When I got home this morning (disheveled, breathing heavy and covered in sweat) I found myself in front of a mirror and. on a whim. decided to give myself the same smile.
I think I worked out why I rarely get a smile back.
Creepiest rape-face ever!
I used to go with a mad grin, all “OH GOD WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THIS TO THEMSELF AND GOOD MORNING!”
It seemed to work. People thought I was mad.
I figure next time I go past a girl I should turn around and start following them. They’re bound to set an new personal best themselves then.
Seriously Blagh’s you’d be proud of that face. And I keep my bedroom door locked whenever you sleep over. (Well, except that one time when I’d had a little to much to drink and was feeling particularly lonely.)
I have found a gif, that I think Taybies will enjoy and use
http://imgur.com/gallery/eex9OPf
Sportsball!
That guy has horrible frisbee technique.
Look at Mr. Sportsball here.
And his frisbee metal club thingie technique leaves a lot to be desired.
Hi TAY, been a hell of a week, filled with feelings and despair, trying to stay optimistic. I started the week with a bang (literally), this was my Monday afternoon, so on the plus side I”m alive. I hope your week has been better than mine
You’re supposed to park cars on their wheels.
Seriously though. That’s nuts. Glad your okay. How did that happen?Hit a patch of oil, back slid out, went off the side of the road down a small embankment and ploughed into a solid rock face, because the car was angled downwards the back went over the front. Turns out I was the third crash on the same corner that day and you could visibly see oil running down the road. Got very minor cuts to the top of my head (I left a head shaped dent in the roof), my partner was my passenger and she just got some seat belt bruising, insanely lucky.
Holy damn! D: Hope you’re okay!
just a few cuts and bruises, my confidence took the biggest hit 😛
Is that the car you just bought too? Daaaaaamn. :'(
yep, :'(
Aw man. Atleast you guys are okay. That’s the main thing. Dwell on that instead of the bad stuff.
yeah, and no other cars involved so that’s good. Thank the great atheismo for airbags too, I was so gonna break my face then this big soft white ballooney thing saved me.
Atheismo be praised!
Must resist making jokes about moobs…
Wooooaaaaah. Dude. That’s terrifying. Really glad you and your partner came out of that okay.
thanks man, me too,
*stares at car for a few minutes*
Hmmmm, I think I see your problem
Seriously though man, glad you aren’t seriously hurt.I was always pretty shit at parking 😛
I usually have the same result when trying to parallel park.
Yikes!
*hugasaurus*
Glad you guys weren’t seriously hurt!
thanks, I think that’s my first *hugasaurus* , oddly enough, I feel a bit better. You’re good at virtual hugs 😀
Funny thing is, I almost downgraded it to a gentler type of hug, thinking your poor battered body may not be up to the full hugasaurus force. 😀
Strange hugs *are* pretty great.
One side of me is saying “holy crap!” while the other can hear nothing but Bender saying “do a flip!”
lol, I had the exact same thought, I also keep saying “Flip I flipped my flippin’ car” in my best Moss from the IT Crowd voice. At least It’s given me a laugh. I was already making bad jokes while I was strapped to a stretcher being inspected by doctors, might be why they did so many brain scans they must have thought I was knocked senseless, nope that’s me normal 😛
You had to go to the hospital? 🙁 Holy crap, man. Scary stuff.
yeah cause it was considered a high speed crash and I had blood oozing out of my head they wouldn’t let me leave, had paramedics strap me to a stretcher, put a neck brace on and wasn’t allowed to move until they cleared me. Four hours of staring at the ceiling wondering if I broke my head, wasn’t fun, interesting but not really fun.
And D.C.’s resolve never to drive strengthened.
d’oh, yep, took me 30 years to get the nerve up. I’m not sure if I’ll be doing it again any time soon.
If you were accident number three in the exact spot, it probably wasn’t your fault. Nerves are probably rattled though, understandably.
@dc, yep, pretty certain it was just bad luck, I was doing almost 20 under the speed limit, the people in the car behind me kept telling everyone that I wasn’t at fault, just bad luck. I’m not going to be able to afford a car again for a loooong long time so I have no choice but to not drive.
Can’t afford a car? Isn’t that ‘car being totalled in an accident’ issue the kind of thing normally covered by insurance?
@aliasalpha, it would if I had been insured, only had CTP, was planning on getting insured by the end of the month
Edit: dumb I know
Last night I caught up with uni pals. Was awesome. Had milkshake. Had nachos. Had beer. Good times a-plenty. Really, really needed to get out of my hermit cave, I think.
Monday.
Was this the kind of milkshake that brings all the boys to the yard? If so, how did you end up getting rid of them?
Who said I did?
*wiiiiiiiink*
Of the milkshake, nachos, and beer, which one did you enjoy most? If they were enjoyed at the same place and the nachos were decent, I wish to partake in these milkshakenachobeers.
Otherwise I’ll just go to GYG and have nachos and beer.
I know what I’m doing for lunch.
Nah, milkshakes and nachos were at Three Monkeys in West End, beer was at Scratch Bar in Milton.
Ooh, yeah, good milkshakes at Three Monkeys. But I’m not walking 20 minutes from work for a milkshake when GYG is pretty much next door.
Nachos, awayyyyyyyy!
PokéTalk:
I was thinking to myself this morning… I really, really hope they improve Streetpass/Online for the next main series game. Specifically the Mixing Records concept that they started in Gen 3 (I think). I want the game to automatically mix the records of all my 3DS friends. You would get news stories on the in-game TVs about milestones your friends complete and being able to see their names inscribed on the Gym Leaders winners statue if they beat it before you did. Streetpass, too! Take a leaf out of Fire Emblem and Link Between Worlds’ books: Have an in-game stadium that fills with Streetpass and Online trainers that you interact with. Have them nominate a Pokemon that they can asynchronously trade via Streetpass and a nominated team to battle with once a day (ala The Viridian City Trainer House in Gold/Silver/Crystal).
Especially if they remake Ruby/Sapphire. All of your friends’ Secret Bases automatically getting added to your world! With the trainer waiting in there to battle/trade with. Would be so cool.
So many possibilities, none used…
Unrelated PokeTalk:
How good is the Black/White soundtrack? I’ve been listening to it at work all week.
I KNOW RIGHT
Yeah, I like that like of stuff. Indirect multiplayer stuff.
Dark Souls confessions.
I’ve never taken on the Zombie Dragon in a fair fight. Always say back out of range and arrowed him to death. I’ve also never taken out the Undead Burg Boar fairly. Always just dropped those skulls into a fire.I’ve beaten the Painted World one properly, I managed the Valley one with Pyromancy and Sorcery while standing just outside its range (like, 10 cms out of range). The Undead Burg Boar is not a fair fight anyway, so I wouldn’t worry about cheesing it.I don’t like the game. At all. *decisive nod*
I am reminded of this:
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
Are you calling me a lady? IT’S NOT MY FAULT I CAN’T GROW CHEST HAIR!
I know the feel bro… YOU’RE NOT ALONE…
HAIRLESS CHEST LEAGUE, ASSEEEEEEEEMBBBBBBLEEEEEE
*crickets*
*sits down*
So what you’re saying is you haven’t really finished the game?
Do you mean that armoured boar you face just before the church?
That’s the one.
Ah, okay. I always found that fight rather easy. Just roll away and then stab it in the ass to take off about half its health. Though that seems to be my Souls experience in general. Fights I find difficult others find easy and vice versa.
You’re not missing much. I took him the ‘fair’ way the first time, not knowing about fire.
The Undead Burg boar is taken ‘fairly’ in a much easier way than the same-looking boars in the Duke’s Archives, except he actually has a threshold he won’t cross to pursue you, and if you stand there he’ll turn around and walk away. ALSO, he has an exposed weak spot at his ass/tail which isn’t present (or is at least infinitely smaller) on the Duke’s Archive boars.
You’d have to be pretty damn determined or persistent to NOT accidentally find some exploit.
All right, if we’re doing this.
Undead dragons (Drake’s Valley and Painted World) = same, arrowed them both.I’ve never taken on the giant rat in the Depths in a fair fight. Have stuck him through the bars once, and arrowed him from above once.
I’ve never taken on the Gargoyles or the Gaping Dragon without both Solaire and Lautrec in tow (they can kill those bosses without any input from me on NG, and minimal input in NG+), and have never taken on that dumb butterfly boss without Beatrice.
Have never defeated Ornstein and Smough without a little Pyromancy help (although it was less useful in NG+).
However I have never faced an armoured boar in anything but a fair fight! \o/
Vs. The Gaping Dragon on my Sorceror both Solaire and Lautrec died before he was even down to half health, and that was with me attacking and helping them. It was just so pathetic.Oh yeah, I’ve faced that thing three times in my various playthroughs (haven’t actually ever died to it, now that I think about it). Lautrec died every time and Solaire died twice, early in the fight, leaving me to solo the last 2/3 of the boss.I’ve beaten him four times all up. Only once with summoning. Bar his jump/drop attack he’s super duper simple. That said, I’ve died to it many times, usually thanks to stupidity.Soloing the gaping dragon is one gaming achievement I’m actually proud of.
That thing really is the stuff of Nightmares…
might not be the hardest boss (he telegraphs his moves like crazy), but the sheer design of it had me terrified like no other boss has in that gameI still remember when I first got to him. My thoughts went something like this:
“Oh cool, it’s only a small alligator thing. That’s not so bad.”
“Oh god.”
“Oh my god.”
“Oh my fucking god!”
I love that reveal, and I’m pretty sure that’s intentional.
Yeeeep that was my experience as well, i think that’s half the reason why i died the first time i encountered it…
i was to flabbergasted and panicked that i didn’t pay attention to what it was doing, and i didn’t know what i was doing either so i ended up running a little to the left, a little to the right and *bamph* dead 😛I’ve never talked to Lautrec apart from rescuing him. I’ve done that area THREE TIMES and every time I keep forgetting to go back to Firelink before ringing the second bell. So I’ve never got to (SPOILER)
expose Petruseither. And never been able to summon Lautrec, or get his reward for the rescue.I missed Beatrice the first two times doing the butterfly, didn’t know she existed til reading the wiki. (Which also meant soloing 4 Kings, every time. The second time I was so slow at it that I actually had 3 of them up at once. Getting smashed around by magic and chugging humanity like crazy.) Always just dodged/blocked attacks until the thing deigned to land within range of my giant smashy sword. The same sword that – kinda disappointingly – I have been using ever since reaching Sen’s Fortress for the first time.
The Giant Rat in the Depths can be plunge-attacked for massive damage, and in NG++ I one-shot him that way, not even 2-handing my sword, which felt like cheating. You get a special ‘face-stab-drop’ animation, similar to Asylum Demon and Taurus Demon.
I’ve never finished Dark Souls but that won’t stop me from playing Dark Souls II on day one.I abused the hell out of a walkthrough, and have no shame in saying so. I still struggled, and I still had fun, so I don’t care.I’ve been doing the same, but I have a feeling that the IGN walkthrough doesn’t have all the hints and tips it could, so I assume it was (in typical IGN style) uploaded on week 1 of DaS being released, and never updated.
My take on anything Dark Souls,
If the end result is the opponent dying, there’s no cheap tactic 😛
That having been said, because i’m one minded and never think outside of the box, i repeatedly kill things in Melee… i don’t think i’ve ever killed anything from a distance…Which means without Maneater Mildred, there’s no way in hell i would have beaten Quelaag on my own 😛
I’ve killed both Zombie Dragons with a zweihander and a Spider Shield
Found the Boar to be easy once i repeatedly poked him in his bottoms… although i concede, i stabbed him and he walked voluntarily into the fire, so it was technically suicide
It’s definitely a lot harder to do the cheap thing in Dark Souls than it was in Demon’s Souls. So many opportunities to exploit.
If you had the sneaking ring and a bow and arrow, you could just snipe almost everyone.I just never enjoy ranged combat in games like that 😛
which is why i’m still donning the short bow, despite having cleared Anor Londo and headed to the Tomb of Giants… I’ve really only used it to get the Drake Sword and THOSE F%$KING MOSQUITOES IN BLIGHT TOWN… the rest i’d rather learn to beat to a pulp, even if it takes me a lot longer then it should, but it’s just what i do 😛Quelaag is not too bad to solo-melee with at least a 70+ fire-resist (and 100% phys resist) shield and some stamina. You pretty much hug her front-left side – you’ll usually only wear one out of every triple-slashes and you’re in good position to dodge the telegraphed lava-spew. OH, and you need to roll the hell out of dodge as soon as she completes every triple-slash, because of the fire explosion. Unless you’re wearing fire-resist gear and keep your shield up, in which case you’ll only lose a relatively small chunk of health.
yeeeaaah it was the fire resist that was an issue 😛
(i had none because reasons :P)
In that case looooooots of baiting her into weapon swings, then rolling to her side. 🙁 It requires patience because what you’re really waiting for is that 1-2 hit window while the spider spews lava, then getting the hell out of the way for the subsequent explosion.
Yep, and i let Man Eater Mildred bait the shit out of her, and when she was distracted some good 2-handed swings to take chunks of health…
Then run away, screaming audibly and wait..
rinse and repeat
Sooooooo many of the boss fights – especially tail-cuts – require that stupid patience of waiting for them to do that ONE attack that leaves them exposed, wearing all the little hits they get in on you while you’re dodging/blocking. 😛 (Except for some fights where when you have a high-stability shield and plenty of endurance you just charge in and wail on their ankle, blocking whenever they bother to attack.)
I spent an awesome weekend where all I did, the entire weekend, was help people kill bosses. GREAT practice, I tellsya, learned/perfected so much. It allowed me to do my 3rd playthrough up to Ornstein&Smough+Sif in like… 3hrs. Not quite 1hr45 speedrunning, but still pretty fast.
Wooow, i should really try that 😛 damn fear of people online… that’s right, strangers (HI @STRANGE) online intimidate me 😛
If you only want to help people, just stay hollowed. No-one can invade you while hollowed, but you can still drop your sign and be summoned.
(Also, you’ll get SHITLOADS of souls out of it. And you don’t lose anything if you die as a phantom, you just go back to your bonfire.)
Oh Quelaag… no ranged weapons worth a damn, no summons because I forgot you have to be human, feck all fire resistance, severe arachnophobia… yeah that was a fight and a half…
This is why I think playing the first half of the game in light armour is awesome. Roll city!
I’ve been playing the whole game that way. Then again I suppose I’m not through the first half really
When you get Havel’s ring and a decent chunk of endurance (for equipment load), such that you can wear some medium or heavy armour at under-50% of your max capacity you can still roll with some decent mobility. Anything over 50% is a godamn liability though, more likely to get you killed than saved from danger.
I don’t think I’ve managed to achieve a cheap tactic in Dark Souls because I never see how they could be done until after I’ve killed the bosses legitimately. Most of my post-boss encounters end with a facepalm and saying something like “there was a summon sign RIGHT HERE??”, “Oh look an enormous gap I could shoot arrows through” or “I had that new spell, why wasn’t I bloody USING IT??”
I almost thought about buying the game once but then I didn’t.Oh, I thought of another one.
I’ve only ever beaten Ceaseless Discharge using the kite-to-entrance tactic. Though I have attempted conventional battle, it never went well. 😛I have never beaten a Titanite Demon without simply finding a spot they can’t hit me from and arrowing from range.I beat Havel by getting to his max aggro range and arrowing from range
I beat the Undead Dragon in the painted world by arrowing from range.
I beat the giant rat in the depths by arrowing from range
I beat the Boar in the parish by arrowing from range
I beat Laurtec and his minions when invading his world by arrowing them all from range
Are you seeing a trend here?
The big giants in Sen’s Fortess? One guess how I beat those guys. First time through the lower undead burg with the thieves and the dogs? Yeah, arrows. The Butchers in the depths? Arrowed from range.
Basically I think I am a coward and I’m crap at the game.
P.S. Gave up when I hit Ornstein and Smough as they are impossible for me, have not gone back.
EDIT:
I beat the Iron Golem accidentally by smacking his legs and making him fall off the bridgeI recommend trying O&S again as human and see if you can summon 1-2 people to help. They’re hard as balls to solo because they get you from multiple directions all the time.
If you do your summoning at the bonfire you’ll probably get invaded by Dark Spirits a lot because people are ASSHOLES who realize that O&S is a tough fight that people need help with and are thus more likely to be human for. There are fewer summon signs at the fog gate, because a lot of the folks who you might summon at the bonfire are also kinda in for the PVP, or are soul-farming silver knights. But if you farm up a bunch of humanity beforehand (keep maybe 20-30 sprites on hand from farming a couple rooms of rats in the depths by having 10 soft humanity and the ring of the serpent thingey dropchance), you should be able to eventually find people to help who will survive through to the fog gate. OR, you can simply sprint all the way to the gate ignoring anything in the way, as the sentinels will reset their agro when you get up those steps.Or do what I did, and repeat it like… two dozen times before giving up on killing Ornstein last, and killing him first instead (because he’s weak to fire, unlike Smough), then simply rolling out of slow-and-clumsy Smough’s way. Save getting Ornstein last for when you’re more powerful on NG+.
That is why I can’t do it. I get invaded every single time between going human at the bonfire and making it to the boss, and murdered. Usually by some chucklefuck that hits me from behind and stun-locks me. The one time I lasted long enough to summon Solaire to help me out he decided he’d rather aggro the stupid asshole giants that I’m too shitty at the game to kill.
Each run at the boss takes me about 5-10 mins and results in me dying within a few seconds. I stopped having any fun at all with the game about the point I entered Sen’s Fortress so I decided i was completely done with it. And I don’t feel at all regretful about that decision.
Yeah, invaders are assholes sometimes (most times). Personally, whenever I’ve been waiting on someone to summon (mostly Kalameet for the tail-cut, which I eventually gave up on and did myself, or Manus because I wanted a friend to tie up Manus while I ran around looking for that godamn Sif-summon sign), I’ve been near the fog gate. Second time doing O&S, I was lucky enough to summon two guys at the bonfire and they were able to murder the invader we had on the run to the gate.
Either way, as long as you can enter a fog gate (to start the fight) the invader will be banished back to their home. This means if they invade while you’re on their way there, you only need to out-run them – so out from the bonfire door, past the sword-knight, through the door into the room-full-of-drake-heads, past the spear-knight, up the stairs, up more stairs (knights probably in pursuit), then down the stairs to the huge hall with the 2x giant sentinels and sniper, ignoring them all and running up the large set of stairs to the fog gate. Once you’re inside the gate, you can quit to the main menu and when you log back in, you’ll be outside the fog gate. From there, you should hopefully have a few more minutes to do a summon, and if you get invaded again, you can just walk through the gate to boot the fuckers.
If you ever decide to go back to it, know that there is an internal timer limiting how many times you can be invaded per hour, and I THINK walking through the gate to boot one doesn’t reset the timer. Also, try to be in the Way of White covenant to reduce the number of invasions and boost the number of summon signs you’ll see.
Too many other games I might actually enjoy to bother with more Dark Souls. I shouldn’t need to do shit like logging off and back on or changing what crazy cult I belong to or something just so I have a less minute chance of beating a compulsory boss. I also basically built my character into a corner such that the gear and stats I have make it impossible to beat anything.
I feel the sadness that anyone feels when someone does not share the love of an activity or thing, but I understand. 🙁
So I started a new Path of Exile character with a few friends last night and we got to the waypoint in the submerged passage. We also encountered our first Vaal corrupted zone which ended up completely wrecking us but gave us many shinies and a Vaal skill gem. Thankfully the Vaal corrupted skill gems aren’t that overpowered as it takes a bit to actually charge up and use but they are glorious to witness. My friend landed a Vaal Spectral Throw which basically turned him into a D2 Hammerdin.
Can you give me a brief run down on what the new patch is? I haven’t had a chance to look at anything
Basically they’ve added new end game content with Queen Atziri and her Vaal court which can only be accessed by collecting Vaal shards. These Vaal shards can only be found in Vaal zones scattered throughout the world and these zones contain vastly more powerful mobs and unique monsters.
In addition, the general passive tree has been changed and some improvements have been made to the game (such as death animations and other quality of life stuff). The Vaal zones also have a chance to drop a Vaal corrupted skill gem which acts as a powered-up version of a regular skill gem. The only downside is that you must feed it souls before you can use it and you can’t use the base form of the gem at all. There are also corrupted versions of items and other equipment which generally give it special, corruption-only qualities (you can have a corrupted unique item for instance).
Got extremely drunk last night watching Billy Madison till 2am with housemate and her friend. Right now I am amazingly productive, but I’m expecting to crash and burn after lunch.
I read the first sentence… and expected the story to end up somewhere else… I’m a dirty, dirty man…
You’re not the only one.
Copied from @transientmind : http://www.quickmeme.com/img/d3/d30abd9bd591a3ebd7cc5c6ea8b33aa14f81dc9bbe0f0ad468433aee969622f5.jpg
Well I could have told you guys about the orgy but I don’t kiss and tell.
It’s because the avatar is the same as Gooky
Someone should make Gooky a version of the avatar exactly the same shape but made out of ladies
Dark Souls 2 = pre-ordered.
Hype.
\o/
Only six days to go! Unless you’re waiting for the end of April.
yeah. April.
Master Race :'(
Nearly threw up on the way home today, I was saved only by a one-two punch of Freedom Call. Somehow yelling along in my head to cheesy choruses with lines like “heavy metal warriors”and “the time has come, for power and glory” helps with the whole mind over body thing so I’m grateful to the shuffler on my phone for giving me those songs at the perfect time.
Metal. Is there any thing it can’t do?
It can’t stop.
You’re thinking of the village people there
That’s my metal.
Given how they deliver the lyrics in short sharp bursts, I reckon you could do a fairly good metal cover of many of the village people’s songs
Oh dear…
See! I knew it’d work! Well kinda, it’d be better with proper production but it seems to validate the hypothesis
Manager: Alex, starting from next Monday you need to do this and this and also this and that for a weekly report.
Alex: … D:
Manager: I…yeah. Here, have some candy.
Make sad faces = candy.
Oh god I have so much work.
and so much candy?
NOT ENOUGH CANDY PIXEL
MAKE MORE SAD-FACES THEN… MAYBE THROW IN SOME WHIMPERING NOISES
LOUDER AND SADDER
I’ve been making sad faces here for more than six years. No candy :\
I like being given extra work. Makes me feel important.
It’s a bit of that, too. So conflicted. 😛
So, didn’t end up getting one second of gaming time in last night, due to reasons…
Apologies to @rize, i saw you wrote to me on steam, but by the time i got around to seeing it you had gone offline 😛
For some reason i doubt i will get very much gaming done in the next 3 weeks at all, but i will try and squeeze some time in when i can…
On the bright side: LAST DAY OF WORK BEFORE A 3 WEEK HOLIDAY \o/
…
AND GOING TO THE F1 GRAND PRIX WHICH STARTS ON THURSDAY \o/\o/\o/
can’t bloody wait!
that’s it… that’s all i have 😛
I logged into Teamspeak waiting for you all night. ;_;
I did play D3 and got my DH from level 29 to level 40 so it was a pretty successful night on that front! \o/
I am really sorry about that, stuff came up and i really only turned on my computer, left it, and turned it off 4 hours later…
I’m a terribad person
EDIT – I’ll repay you in hugs when/if we ever meet mmkay?
YOU GOING TO CAEKS BIRTHDAY THING!?
Iiii wish… something something family, plus i’m in melbourne and have no money something 😛
which is clearly excuses so that i can stay away because i’m clearly too cool for that *hair Flick*not really, it’s mainly the money thing 😛That starts next week. Well that adds some time to my commute
Packed trams FTW :P…
as one of the Supervisors said, it brings a whole new meaning to a Can of Sardines
Also if we are driving then we normally head down lakeside drive
Ah, yeah that might be an issue 😛
It’s Friday, so why not listen to an extremely well researched and presented lecture on anthropology & how far I’d go if you and I were ever sexually involved.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2014/03/07/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s04e19-broken-promises/
Also available on Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dan-karls-zeitgeist?refid=stpr
Listen, sub & tell your friends!!!
Looks like my review never made it through… Ain’t that a bitch.
Stitcher sends you a confirmation e-mail you’ve got to verify, in case you missed that…
Oh, I verified, m’boy. I verified the shit outta that review.
TWICE!
*high five*
First time i actually listen to one of these Podcasts,
my brain is broken and i feel wierdly enlightened…
Especially your talk about
cut vs uncut masturbation25/10 – would listen to again
Like how we got our girlfriends, we just wear your resistance down.
I’m surprised Karl doesn’t have any residual Catholic guilt going on!
How you guys talk so openly about subjects boggles the miiiiiind.
I’m now a convert, i shall now host gatherings outside churches on sunday mornings, speaking gospels from the holy podcasts!
Dan & Karl’s Zeitgeist is not liable for any criminal or civil proceedings bought forth as a result of publicly reciting in part or whole of Dan & Karl’s Zeitgeist.
Second attempt submitted for moderation.
Not sure if this one will make it through either…
I wouldn’t expect less.
Was late dropping my eldest to school so I walked her up to sign her in at the office. Once that was done I was chatting to her before she went up to class when a few of her friends called out to her. Mid sentence she stopped and just took off without even a goodbye 🙁
Becoming less relevant everyday.
Stoopid growing up
At least you still have your youngest for a while yet
We’ve spoken about this before Freeze, you need to get rid of the blue skin and suit of armour if you want to make
an icea good impression 😛I can relate to being the Invisible Man too. It stinks.
Apparently I leave conversations when I’m drunk midway through too. MAYBE SHE’S DRUNK!
If that’s the case, the school will send her home. Then he’ll know for sure.
My son is like that when I drop him off at school as well. Even on the very first day as soon as the classroom door opened he didn’t care about me anymore.
But he sure does make up for it by the way his face lights up and he yells “Mummy!” excitedly and runs towards me when I collect him at the end of the day.
I made a plan last night for getting shit in order.
Move flats
‘New’ job
Back to uni (get a proper Library degree, then do a 2nd degree in something I’m actually interested in)
Go to Japan
now I have it in writing, I’ve gotta stick to it. well…. try to. we’ll see what happens.
anyway…. step 1 = get a new form of ID. L’s expired a few months ago & I need something so I can actually do the stuff ^up there^
Wooo! Sounds like the makings of a plan right there, 35. I BELIEVE IN YOU! YOU’RE GONNA MAKE IT AFTER ALL!
Why aren’t you the one singing that?
If you have a passport that’s ID just use that until you get something else.
nah, I dont have one. I need to get a passport to get to Japan, & to get a passport, I need to get ID :p
one step at a time.
Ah right, time down to the RMS and either renew the L’s or get a proof of age card would seem 😛
yep. thats the plan.
though i think it’ll be a proof of age card.
been on my L’s since i was 17 probably got about 14 hours in the log book. dont think its gonna happen :p
How old are you? Cause if you’re over 25 may as well just hold your L’s for 6 months and go straight to your red P’s..
😛
The Dark Souls II PC release date isn’t TOO bad. I was originally going to wait for a PC release but got impatient and figured I’d buy it on PS3 now and then get it on PC later during a sale (in some sort of “ultimate” DLC edition). Then I thought well I might as well get the CE for PS3 since I’m going digital on PC so I pre-ordered that only to kinda regret it later since I was only interested in the art book and I don’t think it’ll be worth $100 more. I cancelled that earlier in the week and went for the standard edition only to have this PC date announced and me all baksdhaksdbakbdasjdasd so I just cancelled my order again (SORRY JB!) and ordered it on PC from GMG for half the price with the same bonuses! :/
I also figured since FFX/X-2 HD comes out a week after Dark Souls there’s no point switching discs or rushing either game so this gives me time to complete em!
#BuyingGamesIsSeriousBizniz #TOOMANYGAEMS #Pointlessramblings
There was a farewell office party at work. I didn’t go as I didn’t know the person.
They over-catered.
They left out the cheese.
They made a mistake.
I am now happily munching on a plate of nothing but cheese.
A friend once sent me a random SMS: “The great thing about being an adult is I can sit on the couch eating an entire bag of cheese and no-one can stop me.”
I think it was a cry for help which meant, ‘Please stop me.’
That or “Best not use the bathroom immediately after me today”
@strange https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/78643492/bloom-blanket
I got this as a notification on kickstarter and thought you might be interested. More from a technical point of view than anything else.
Is also some nice inspiration for what you are planning to do
Just watched Fanboys. Stupid movie, with probably far too much fan service, but I enjoyed it anyway. Particularly
Kristen Bell in Slave Leia outfit at the end.LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
Brothers in Arms – Dire Straits
Pizza Guy – Touch Sensitive
Currently have Living Bad Dreams playing in my head.
I still have Fly Me to the Moon from Bayonetta stuck in my head. And I haven’t played it in weeks…
Make it stop @alexpants!
Because Evangelion (back in 1998, I don’t know about the modern re-make) had different versions/mixes of that as the closing credits, whenever I think about it I hear it with a kind of calypso beat, instead of the more traditional Sinatra version.
I think of the Red Dwarf Talkie Toaster version:
“Fly me to the moon and let me…” *SMASH!*
That’s literally all I can remember of that entire song.
You can’t sing, you know. 😀 LUNAR CITY SURFING!
I found a Bayonetta soundtrack while in Japan.
I assume it’s five CDs of nothing but Fly Me To The Moon.
Marty Robbins – Big Iron
My wife and I are kind of on a Fallout New Vegas kick again, which includes the iPod in the car having a collection of music inspired by Fallout 3/New Vegas that she somehow found on iTunes.
Ain’t that a Kick in the Head!
I’ve got spurs that jingle jangle jingle
All Alone – Gorillaz
Ruby – Kaiser Chiefs
Always A Woman To Me – Billy Joel
Freedom call – Freedom Call
Sybreed’s From Zero To Nothing
Easily my favourite depression trigger song, ideal for challenging myself
Snowman – Absence
Which I think is a sad song. Coz I really liked this band.
its the last track on the last album released by the band.
They announced their split the day the album dropped, and the end of this track is a beautiful metaphor for the ending of the group – the music swells, slowly drowning out the vocalist & just leaving the music by itself…
Nice choice. More Mark Knopfler please.
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians – What I Am
Find You – Zedd ft. Matthew Koma and Miriam Bryant.
Thought it was kinda shit at first, but now I love it! 😀
AWOLNATION – Sail
Disclosure – When a fire starts to burn
Yours was the body – Kate Miller-Heidke
New music \o/
Boss: “Making your own Sourdough is like having a pet. You’ve got to feed the dough and care for it while it grows-”
Me: “And then cook it and eat it”
Boss: …
C’mon, man! I thought that was funny.
I’m calling it: funny.
Sweet validation.
I’m reminded of The Young Ones
We sow the seed, nature grows the seed and then we eat the seed…
The Sun grows the food, the Ants pick the food, the Grasshoppers eat the food and the birds eat the grasshoppers
OH MY GOD
That’s why bug type are weak to flying types!
I now have a sudden urge to buy Dark Souls II, even though i know next to nothing about the previous games.
I blame all of you.
Especially @shane and his meddling countdown! 😛
And I would have gotten away with it too, if not for that meddling countdown!
Tick tock, batto…
Speaking of countdowns, just went to EB in the CBD here, where the Dark Souls 2 preorder placeholder says 14th March. So I asked, and they’re having a joint Dark Souls 2 / Titanfall midnight launch . I thought they said Thursday night but all the Titanfall stuff says the 13th so I’m still confused.
Goddamn it.
All right. I’ll go in there this afternoon and get this release date rubbish sorted once and for all 😛
I asked my EB manager. She said definitely the 13th. She looked it up and confirmed with Head Office.
I was talking with the Nintendo guy on the Nintendo level, so he’s probably playing around to distract himself from that bleak list of Nintendo releases on the board. He did offer to help me finish my Pokédex though.
Good man. Thanks for checking. You get extra kudos because the news is good.
Dark Souls II PC. Green Man Gaming forgot to add the Australia Tax so it’s $50 with some preorder DLC bonus shit as well. Use code OQE4LG-WEQPSE-SMCME1 to get 20% off and make it $40 USD. Code expires today though I think.
GMG has a 20% coupon every fortnight or so, probably no need to rush unless there’s a reasonable expectation they’ll add the Australia tax.
I think it’s a pretty reasonable expectation, they fixed it up with a couple titles I was looking at not long ago. I can’t remember which, though. I wanna say… Deus Ex: HR? And I think FF14, eventually.
GMG only sell the NA versions of Namco games by the look of the catalogue
The whole point of GMG is that they don’t bother with the Australia tax most of the time.
I have awoken from my slumber and my ears are still ringing and my legs hurt but fuck me, Queens of the Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails were amazing last night.
Annnyway, @freezespreston, @sernobulus, @blaghman, @rize, @rocketman – did you guys manage to sort out accommodation? It’s cool if you guys can’t make it, I left the organising kinda late and I’m pretty sure there’s a metric butt ton of stuff on that weekend.
Oh, we’re gonna be there.
We may need to sleep on the street, but we’re gonna be there.
Edit: Freeze was like “I’m sleeping at Gorzy’s now” and I was like “I should probably organ- ooh a Penny!”
And then I inadvertently insulted you and you threatened to wipe any memory of my family name from the face of the planet and the annals of history.
At least that’s how I remember it.
Mostly correct, but I was going to make Gorzy poison you with a concoction so foul that it would rend a tear in space and simply erase you from ever existing.
I thought that was Pez’s expertise?
@sughly
lolol
The two beautiful stallions of men named Gorzy and Flu have both offered floor space in their abodes.
I might be out of the loop, but don’t Cakesmith and Flu live at the same place?
Hey man. Hey. What they decide to do is none of anyone’s business. Who are you to judge?
Some possible news of more Red Dwarf for anyone following the show still:
http://www.ganymede.tv/2014/02/you-never-asked/
There’s no explicit confirmation in there, but Doug Naylor is apparently working on scripts and expects to see the next season of the show released in 2015. Presumably, given that he outright stated back in October that no new season has been commissioned, something has changed in the meantime…?
Bah, who knows.
Hey guys!
Do you want a build snowmaaaaaaan?
I was going to say “Go away Bish” in reference to the movie but then I got all panicky that people wouldn’t get it and would think I was being a dick. So instead: Hello Bish, how are you?
okay bye
*no answer*
Not a footprint to be seen!
…. wait
New life experience! Just stuck my head in a CT scanning machine. Wasn’t as exciting as I thought it’d be.
Hope all is well, my friend! Seems to be the thing to do this week on TAY, first @gutsoup and now you!
HOSPITAL MEAT!
Nothing serious, essentially just a runny nose and blocked ears for several months.
And…
They need to find where the voices are coming from:pTinfoil hat will clear that problem up.
Or make it worse if the voice is coming from insideHow does job?
Also how does look at pages upon pages of listings with requirements you don’t meet, and not come away feeling like you’re of absolutely no use to anyone? :/
I suggest you find a nice hermit cave!
Hermit caves are nice in theory but seem to only lead to further insanity.
In my experience that’s true.
I’ve got a job I’m not qualified to do, and I feel trapped in it because I am qualified for literally nothing else.
I can’t help you get a job, but I can tell you that getting one may not help the self-esteem usefulness factor at all.
I’m in the same boat as you Shane, I really shouldn’t have this job but no qualifications mean I’m trapped too.
Rutt buddies 😀
I read that as “butt buddies” to start with.
I can be open minded, but you should heal up first.
Apply for it anyway!
Everyone else might be thinking the same thing and then nobody applies!
Ooooh, tricky. That’s why this guy earns the big bucks!
Jerbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbs
This comment made me feel like randomly applying to one but I’ve already applied to a bunch of their listings and they haven’t contacted me so I’m pretty sure they hate me 😛
Keep a record of which jobs you applied for, the dates and what you sent them! And the names and details of everybody who responds!
Seriously 😛 I had two people respond for two different (but very similar) jobs at the same time, and one was named Elle and the other was named Ellie. Took me so long to figure out which one was which… 😛
@mrtaco
Ha, I’d have to apply for something for that to be a problem 😛
At some point you’ll do the same thing as I did: Get so frustrated with yourself that you snap and start applying for anything and everything while weeping softly 😛
Ask relatives if they know someone who can swing an interview. Doesn’t especially matter if you meet the qualifications. Apply for positions you might have skills in, but not qualifications.
I shit you not, you’d be surprised how well that works.
Actually, every job I’ve ever gotten is because I knew someone. From my current $80k job to slinging burgers, stocking shelves, my ill-fated days in retail… all because someone got me in. It’s amazing how some people will hire you on the recommendation of others, despite you not being competent for the job, simply because they don’t want to damage their relationship with the other person.
Which is possibly a two-way street. If they’re the kind of person who thinks that, they’re probably confident that their friend wouldn’t risk damaging the relationship by recommending a total muppet.
Yes, but half the time, the recommender doesn’t really understand the requirements of the advertised position – that’s sort of what I was getting at 😛
what kind of work you looking for?
Not entirely sure 😛
Ideally some kind of games programming thing. Or regular programming thing. But the only of the former I’ve found have been interstate things or want like 5+ years experience. I got to the point where I just put searched for anything at all and… well, it seems like it’d be great if I were a business guy, or a sales guy, or had a forklift license. But otherwise I’m yet to find anything.
yeah it can be really hard to find game programming work, even if there is some in your state. Just too many people, and not enough work to be had. What state you in btw?
I’m Sydfolk. Did see potentially alright sounding ones in Melbourne and the Gold Coast but they’re no good to me 😛
heh yeah understandable. I’ll keep an eye out for any hints of work going in your area. Dunno what chance there is, but if I do happen to catch wind of something, I’ll pass it along!
Ugh. Work is even worse than usual this week. Other people really are hell.No more work – I’m TAYing this afternoon.
I’M SHANE – AMA
Hang in there, baby!Way to be a lame!Fine, questions… I’ll give you the same ones as DC because I really like them:
– What’s your favourite memory?
– What’s your favourite thing about yourself?
And super bonus question round:
– Did you always want to be a writer?
1) It rained on the day I got married. It was pouring, in fact, and is regarded as the day that the drought officially broke in Canberra. But there was a break in the rain just after the ceremony and we all went off to get photos taken. It started spotting during the photo shoot, and I remember looking at my new wife, and her looking at me, and having this unspoken moment in which we both realised that it didn’t matter if it was raining – everything was all right, and always would be.
2) I like being tall. And in general, I’m actually okay with my looks. I don’t consider myself good-looking, but I’m not hung up on anything about that. I hate almost everything about my personality though.
3) No, because I don’t think I wanted anything before I was born, but the desire to be a career author does pre-date my current bank of memories.
Shane, back in 2012 in the weeks leading up to Christmas you were quite drunk. I said I tend to hug strangers when I’m drunk and then you said you’re done experimenting. What did you mean by that?
Was it scary in the time leading up to you becoming a father for the first time? How do you think you’re doing on that front?
What’s your biggest regret from the past?
What are you most proud of?
What was the first video game you ever played?
1) That was a gay joke in bad taste. I’m not going to apologise for it, though.
2) Scary, yes, kind of, but also really exciting. This time around, just scary. Honestly, being a father is getting harder and harder to enjoy as the months and years go by. I think I’m being a good dad still, and would do anything for my kids, but I’m not enjoying it as I used to. I think this might be mostly due to other factors and rising pressures in other parts of life.
3) Most of the past is just one big regret, so I’ve blocked it out as much as possible.
4) I’m proud of my kids. They might be combatative and hard to get on with at home, but they’re gonna be really good contributors to the community at large. Though I think that my pride is mostly undeserved there, as I credit my wife and kids for that particular victory. In terms of personal pride, I think probably my 1000G in Dark Souls edges out my writing and all that stuff.
5) I was around five at the time. It was Super Mario Bros on the NES. Or maybe the Enter Your Name screen in the original Legend of Zelda. It was definitely one of those.
Good answers. You’re awesome, my friend!
As to 2, I get that. I really do. I love my kids to pieces but I find I spend more time telling them to go play in their rooms or go watch TV while I try and decompress but end up feeling guilty and awful for that. I’ve been told repeatedly I’m a great father by a number of people but sometimes I can’t help but feel like a gigantic failure at it.
This guy gets it.
anything ‘ey?
What are your deepest and most humiliating secrets.
Edit: oh, oh, what’s your bank cards pin number. and all your passwords to everything
😛 I got nothingMy bank card’s pin number is ****. And my password to everything: *********
In terms of humiliations,
thanks for your question.thanks, you’re alright you are,
serious question: Were you into writing or arting first.
Did you have the ideas for your Novels prior to actually making them or was it something you put together as you went?
And finally, would you ever consider allowing dcs hand into your pocket again 😛
1) Writing! Though I did enjoy drawing when I was a kid, writing was always the thing. Even now, I’d like to go back to straight prose. It’ll always be my primary love, I think.
2) How a novel usually comes into being for me:
A scene will pop, almost fully-formed into my head. I massage this scene into something tangible, and write it down. I figure out what’s got to happen either side of this scene, and the character developments that spin off from this scene. I make notes, plan it out, and then get a draft of the entire story down. Then I figure out what it means thematically and what can be jettisoned, and I redraft it…. Then it seems that I junk the whole thing and turn it into a comic.
3) Yes. I would even pay for him to fly to Canberra for it.
What do you consider your finest ever piece of wordplay?
There’s no such thing as playing with words. Writing is not a game. Tetris, now that’s a game.
My finest game of Tetris happened when I was eleven…
I am so doing Words wrong… all I ever do is play with them! I have a mental image of Shane-Mum telling me off for playing with my
foodwords.Do you even lift bro?
Nope. And I couldn’t lift my bro even if I wanted to, because I don’t lift.
If you could punch one TAYbie right in the face, who would it be?
Do you still think about your Brisbane trip? (I do! XD)
1) Myself.
2) All the time. Without wanting to seem all … whatever…. that Sunday was one of my happiest days in recent memory.
What’s your favourite snackfood?
No body swapping questions? I want to hear Shane’s immature answer!
My answer: anyone with breasts. Preferably someone who is unattached, though, so I don’t have to deal with uncomfortable sex stuff.
http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/comics/2012-01-27-Trading-Places.png
(Bonus comic: http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/hc/comics/2012-01-27.jpg )
I like a bowl of ice cream with Flakes crumbled into it. Cheaper than chocolate-chip ice cream.
In terms of what I would take to a movie, I like plain-flavoured chips-in-a-tube (like Pringles, or Home Brand equivalent), but usually buy some Natural Confectionary rubbish because of noise.
And most unorthodox snack: ice cream with apple+mango juice stirred through it.
Ooooh, Flakes just might be my favourite type of chocolate. (Though I mostly buy it in Twirl form so the ‘flakes’ won’t go every where!)
Twirls aren’t Flakes >:(
They are in the middle. It’s science! SCIENCE!
Your science is faulty.
Well, so’s your face! >:|
Everyone knows that @dc but you’re the only one rude enough to point it out! *flees sobbing*
Hi Shane AMA!
My name is SerNobulus.
Hi nob!
– Why did nobody tell me we were doing AMAs I missed DC’s?
– you gather the Dragonballs and make a wish. What do you wish for?
– are dogs really man’s best friend?
– when life brings you down what gets you back up?
– wang size (don’t answers this)
EDIT: I’m almost sad to be leaving work now because I’ll have to wait for the responses
1) I don’t know, sorry, but I’ll apologise for my own lapse.
2) I don’t know what this means, but I think I would wish for forgiveness from the castrated dragons.
3) No, they fail the best friend test because they can’t drive you home when you’re drunk. They are very loyal, though.
4) I’ll tell you when I get up eventually.
5) …Thanks for your question!
Best advice you were ever given?
(Could be about anything)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/billyjoel/tellheraboutit.html
All right, I’m going home now. Keep the questions coming if you like, and I’ll answer them later on!
What, up to this point in your life, would be your crowning moment in the application of the Dad Joke?
For reference:
My Dad likes to tell a story about his crowning moment, which was when he was in a conference call at work and in passing someone mentions that they had to let the manager in charge of the Egypt branch of the business go, as he had been found out to have been engaging in fraud and embezzling money.My Dad’s immediate response. “was it a pyramid scheme?”
I have had so many epic moments that it would be unfair to single one out. All the stunned silences, all the dropped jaws, all the awkward pauses, all the conversations being dragged to a shuddering halt… I am proud of every single last one of them.
What has been the most empowering moment in your life, when you felt – and believed – in your mastery (of something – anything)?
I want to give you an answer, but sadly I don’t think that has never actually happened.
Edit: I feel like a perfectionist who has realised that nothing can ever be perfect. A recipe for low self-esteem and perpetual dissatisfaction.
Awh. Not even temporarily, briefly? In video games, maybe?
I’ve given your question a lot of thought, but I’m going to stick with my original answer. I think of everything I can do in terms of competency. There are things I’m competent at, and if I practice them, I can remain competent, or perhaps improve my level of competency a little. But I honestly don’t feel like anything I’ve ever done is excellent, or can compete on any kind of master level.
I think of myself as an average guy with perhaps an above-average drive to pursue slightly unorthodox goals. But in terms of skill levels… no, never felt like I’ve mastered anything.
Edit: unless you count the discipline to write every night that I’ve developed. Not entirely sure mastery is the best term to describe that… but I feel I’ve built a pretty good routine, and have the drive and discipline to stick to it, even on days when I’m not really feeling it.
Hm. I was more thinking of moments when you felt powerful, confident, in-your-element, even unstoppable, even if just a Dark Souls boss kill, or talking to a girl who you knew you were going home with that night, delivering a presentation on a subject you knew back-to-front, a kill streak in a game, or fulfilling a raid role in an MMO in which you were really good, or etc, etc. 🙂
But that’s definitely an impressive feat. Discipline is hard.
What happened with the Bathurst move?
We couldn’t make it work. I couldn’t find a job there. So I’d have to commute to Canberra and stay here five days a fortnight. And in the end, I decided that wouldn’t work for me – the inconveniences would have offset the benefits of moving. Options might open up once the financial situation eases (and/or when Mrs Shane gets a job).
In the end, we delayed the decision, the house we were considering got sold, we decided it wasn’t a perfect house after all, and we’ve decided to bide our time in Canberra a while longer.
The house right opposite the school is for sale. I emailed Mr. Strange about it, but he doesn’t want to move. So now I just have to look at the ForSale sign longingly four times a day as I trek past on my walk. 😛
move in while it’s unoccupied and claim squatters rights……….. WIN!
I lived across the road from a high school when I was in early primary school. Kids would always say I was lucky because I was going to live so close.
Then I moved to a different town and never got to go there anyway 😛
No good can come from living close to your school.
In 2003 between graduating high school and going to uni I did a year at TAFE which was across the street. Don’t think I left a small radius for the entire time.
Hah, yeah. When I was looking for a place to live in Sydney, people were saying I should get a unit in the same building as my office (one half is residential, the other half is offices).
If I did that I would never leave the building except to get food…
You could pretend you’re living in some sort of Arcology!
Just like in Season 1, Episode 2 of Black Mirror! (watch it pls)
Maybe I will, Pow. For you.
:’)
EDIT: If you do, please post your thoughts! I’d be very interested!
Somebody should write a story about that. Maybe set in some communist nation
That’s a great idea! BUT WHO?
I don’t know. I just see a red haze of anger that this doesn’t exist
I just checked out the floorplan online and noticed a horrific thing called a sunroom.
I feel better now about not being able to live in that house. 😛
Ew. One of the houses I grew up in had a sun room. Useless thing that just got all dusty and I had to clean it.
I suppose I could make it the punishment room, and send the kids to it when they’re being annoying. 😛
PRAISE THE SUN.
PRAISE IT.
HONOUR IT WITH A ROOM. … o-or something.
*shows self out*
Now I have to look up what a ‘sunroom’ is.
*google image search*
Ohhhhh. There are some very pretty ones on image search, but I can imagine there being some bad ones out there. Also, I’d probably object to it being included as a plus, in the calculation of house value.
@powalen @sughly (I can’t remember if you watched Amazing Race too @phoenix? :P)
Ep 1:
Thank god the Twins are gone. They were the team I liked the least :P. I’ve only ever seen the past two seasons so I don’t know most of the other teams but they seem alright so far.There’s your discussion. Happy now Pow? Are you going to keep watching?
Yep, agreed 🙂 Didnt really like them much either. All the good teams are at the top of the pack (for now)
I didn’t watch the first episode (couldn’t be bothered to go back and watch it :P). I’ll watch it as it gets aired on TV, because it’s conveniently on just before Survivortime. It’s one episode behind, I think…
And no, I’m never happy.
@sughly @powalen
Ep 2:
Aww I was liking Mark and Malory :(. The bits with the children was funny and awesome 😀 “your head is sweaty” loolYep, agreed. Mark was stinging me off that ep though, I felt so bad for Mallory. Yeah, probs it was her fault the bag was left, but dude – some clothes? Pick up some new ones at the airport FFS. Then hes like ‘oh well god has other plans’ – no! You idiot! That was your own doing, urgh. BUT, yeah, good ep! Flight time/Big easy being the funniest as per usual. That girl messing with him was the best.Oh! Also…
I reckon that was a good move, to give them the express pass at that point. Like they said, gets it out of play, now they are the only ones with one, especially knowing there was another two teams struggling behind. Good strategy I ruckon.Cowboys are beast at challenges! They did that car one so quickly :Ohttps://ebgames.com.au/wiiu-200181-Mario-Kart-8-Blue-Shell-Edition-Wii-U
Probably old news but it’s coming to Australia too. Seems to be an EB exclusive but it doesn’t seem worth the extra $ for me (assuming Big W have it for $68ish).
inb4 “I call Diddy” 😛
I call Yoshi! (I never get to play as Yoshi at home :P)
Diddy hasn’t been announced. >:|
any word on Dry Bones?
Dunno. :'(
Bowser 4eva.
Yeah, I was interested but don’t know if it’s worth the premium EB price. I’ll wait and see.
ps. Toad is DaBest.
Luigiiiiiiiiiiiii
That’s not how you spell Donkey.
I call King Boo!
Wat.
It’sa me. Waluigi, wah ha ha.
I personally love Waluigi and I turn my crooked nose at you, good sir.
Don’t get me wrong. I nearly always pick him because he’s so pathetic.
But calling him a fan favourite is a stretch.
Actually, amongst my high skewl mate’s he was up there.
Daisy has been my choice since they stopped the Diddy.
KOOPA TROOPA IS MINE!
Weegie 4 pres
I have never, ever played Mario Kart. Ever. For serious.
You must really hate fun!
MK7 is probably my favourite one so far. Good times racing online with TAYbies…
Deprived childhood involving Sega and Macintosh. The first time I even realized it was a thing was the Wii version I think.
Also it’s always looked kind of shit to me. Like it’d be a fun time-waster for $5 or so but as a full retail game I just don’t get it.
I didn’t grow up with it either but I enjoyed my time with the DS one. The Wii one is pretty terrible so just be glad you didn’t start there 😛
Mortal Kombat had racing?
it was actually kinda fun
i know you were being silly, but it does exist
Why am I only just finding out about this now?
Double Dash is the best! (Well, my personal favourite atleast!)
Super Circuit is the best!
MKDS! By far
MKDS>MK64>MKDD> the rest who cares
Nah, tied for first with Super Circuit. It did a few things bad which stopped it completely taking the lead 😛
MKSC/MKDS > SMK/MKDD > MK64/MKWii
Still not sure where I’d slot in MK7. Maybe in with the first pair.
I’m partial to Double Dash myself, I have fond memories of me and @jimu racing around on the one Kart, once we got the hang of it we were a force to be reckoned with, I loved the way the passenger could attack and dodge obstacles.
Diddy Kong!
Never played it! 😛
There is something very, very wrong with you, joel.
Mk7 is the second wurst. GAWD!
I’ve used a Nintendo machine maybe 4 times in my life, never played Mario kart either
Looks like I’m Mario.
Not sure if people keep up with the news, but Gina Reinhart has opened her mouth again.
She’s telling all of us to get off welfare.
She makes my annual wage in less than 3 minutes.
http://www.howrichareyou.com.au/ (to see how long it takes her to earn your annual wage).
3.6 minutes for my annual wage.
Yeah, thanks Gina. You really understand the common man.
ohhh…. Mr High Roller.
3.6 minutes!
that’s a whole 0.6 minutes longer than it’d take her to earn mine.
2.4 here… winning? \o/?
And now i suddenly feel very depressed 😛
I’m 2.7, so only .3 off me?
Yeah I think I’ll need to spend some of my meagre wage on beer after work today.
1.6 minutes /o\
i’m… sorry for your loss /o\
hug?
Bear in mind I’m working 60 hour weeks to get that so you probably earn more an hour than I do.
geebus man.. I thought I was kind of beginning to edge my way to a better life. 2.2mins for me. Any wonder my life sucks so much 😐
Gina Rinehart is a horrible shit who has no concept of value or any idea what ‘work’ actually is.
the only ‘work’ that vile wreck of a human being has ever done is inheriting her daddy’s fortune.
the sooner she fucks off, the happier i’ll be.
Instantly.
37s, hooray unemployment!
3.7 minutes. Well, that’s just goddamned depressing.
As a casual worker who works sporadically at best, let’s not talk about my 19 seconds.
You said 19 seconds? please, elaborate 😛
2.1 minutes I think I’m gonna cry now.
Just paid off the balance of my dark souls ii order (thanks again @freezespreston) and confirmed that the release is the 13th. Then the guy backpedaled and said it would be out some time this year and on my way out I walked past a poster that said the 14th
…shit. I was going to do that next week.
Ha! I outsmarted you.
… wait. I could’ve got free stuff.
Is it possible that everyone lost this time around? 😛
Edit: to be honest, I considered the possibility that you would do this, and I half-expected to rock up there and have them say, “What are you on about? This is fully paid off.” I’m kind of glad that wasn’t the case though – you’ve been more than generous enough already! 🙂
Don’t forget guys it’s out on the 12th! You heard right, I said the 16th!
It’s not like we could even ask if @markserrels will investigate the Dark Souls 2 release date shenanigans since he’ll be too busy playing Dark Souls 2.
I wonder if he’ll get slaughtered by invading OP phantoms from the devs, or if the press copies have a special “Don’t kill me!” tag.
Mr. Strange pre-ordered ours at Big W (which I think means we can’t even get the Black Armour edition. :'( ) and they’re showing the release date as the 13th. Most non-Nintendo things release here on Thursdays so I’m hopeful it will be there when I go to pick it up on Thursday 13th.
When they say all preorders will be upgraded I think it usually means initial shipment will be purely made up of Black Armours so you should be okay on that front.
\o/
Help TAY, I’m sorely tempted to spend a stupid amount of money on meeples
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1303699463/character-meeples?ref=discovery
Some of them are very cool. Might have to consider getting some
WHY DID YOU SHOW THIS TO ME?
oh god the temptation
Other people must see. Maybe they will buy them all and then there will be nothing left for me to buy
*Jaw drops on ground.*
They…they…they want to remake Shaq Fu.
And it looks kinda not shit.
They’re clearly doing it completely wrong then.
And so did the man cometh to the house and say “Let there be internetz.”
And it was so.
And so did Jo look upon what he had bought and said “It is good”
And on the seventh day, he both leached and seeded, for he was a wise and caring God.
#PraiseTheHelix
#HashtagsForHarli
So, I’ve finished Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition. First Tomb Raider game I’ve completed. (well, I haven’t done the challenges or multiplayer because I can’t be bothered). I liked the end bit, interesting idea for a possible next game. Now I have to decide what game I buy next.
For the ps4?
GET….um..uh……hmm.
Watch_Do-oh wait…
Resogun if you haven’t got it already.
InFamous Second Son is still two weeks away and that seems to be the next decent thing. I guess everyone’s tried to get out of Titanfall’s way.
Dear god. This short exchange between Scott Ludlum and Chris Kenny is gold.
https://twitter.com/senatorludlam/status/441735411858034688
Decided to check out Chris Kenny’s writing. Never really seen anything from him.
http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/chriskenny/
What the shitting fuck? The opening lines lost me completely on him.
He them go on to use the term “Border Protection Denialist”.
I’m so glad we don’t get the Australian up here. So so glad.
Wait we don’t get The Australian here? I thought my local newsagents sold it lol.
There’s probably some places that carry it but it’s not a standard like Courier Mail or Bulletin.
Ah right.. Got ya, I thought it was 😛
@negativezero re: Dark Souls
Have you thought about starting again and maybe rolling with a Mage? Since you like to stand back and hit them with range it would be perfect for you. Plus magic is ridiculously OP. Most bosses fall in a scant handful of casts. It wouldn’t even take that long. You’d be surprised how fast you’ll blitz through everything you’ve already done now you know how to handle it.I briefly considered it but it took me like 50 hours to get as far as I did, and the thought of having to suffer through shitholes like Anor Londo again or having to fight the Capra Demon makes me feel anxious 🙁
EDIT: Also I have a bunch of other games I want to get through. Only 2 chapters into Danganronpa for example, and halfway through the Stick of Truth. And that’s just recent stuff. I’ve spent more time with Dark Souls than I do with most games as it is, especially given how little I was enjoying it.
All good. You just sounded a little despondent about getting stuck. Just offering a suggestion.
I’d have loved to be able to finish the game but I’m also aware that I’m generally shit at games and I have to spend my time wisely.
A lot of that play time comes from just exploring and finding things out for the first time. Once you know what you’re doing (boss attack patterns, strengths/weaknesses, quickest path through an area etc.) it’s surprisingly doesn’t take too long to progress.
If you aren’t enjoying your build definitely try out a mage sometime (or at least just playing the game again with a different build).
I’m not going to jump straight on the “you must play it” bandwagon, but at least for comparison’s sake, on my first playthrough I spent forty-something hours to get to O&S before giving up. My Pyro took about as long to clear them, get half the lord souls, and get stuck on the DLC.
My current playthrough is like 20 hours, has three of the four Lord Soul pieces, and is further into the DLC than I got before.
Alternately, you could always just be a cheap bastard and cheat to victory (I started looking into this because I wanted to try and use a free camera for recording purposes. Sadly I can lock the camera almost into position, and rotate it, but I can’t get free move on it. :/). >.>
For timed purposes as well: the first time I finished the game it took 40 hours, the second time + DLC was only 30 and third time + DLC was 20 or so. All were new characters and the first two builds were sword and shield melee types while the third was a mage.
You finished the game in 40 hours. I haven’t made it halfway in 50. It’s clearly not going to happen. 50 hours is more than I’ve spent on any game in the last 2-3 years that wasn’t an MMO or Xenoblade.
Xenoblade is a more enjoyable game than Dark Souls by a mile.
If it helps, I spent like… two hours in the Asylum on my first ill-fated Knight, then another four or five grinding through the catacombs, before heading up to the burg and getting brutally murdered all over the place for a few hours before completely giving up, having decided eight hours was enough for me to know I didn’t like it and it was just ‘hard for the sake of hard’.
Then everyone was talking about it and having so much fun and I thought, “Well shit, there’s GOT to be something here…” so I tried again, went the Burg the FIRST time, didn’t waste any time in the Asylum, and started grinding the Burg and Parish for god knows how many hours before become dramatically OP. I was repeating every single area I’d been to until I could very comfortably learn the attack patterns well enough to get through each bonfire without Estus, apart from the occasional silly mistake.
I think all up it would’ve been twenty hours or more before I even rang the first bell. Things escalated and went a LOT more quickly after that, of course, being over-powered almost the rest of the game, but when I went back on a completely brand new character just to see if I could speed-run it, I pretty much had the first bell rung within an hour.
I think all up I had the game ‘finished’ in I dunno… 80-90hrs. (Albeit with a fair bit of completionist procrastination at the end.) But I think you’re probably at about the same rate I was, only I wasn’t playing online (and thus not having to put up with asshole invaders), and I DID get stuck on Ornstein and bro for maybe a couple dozen attempts before eventual success. Some more things sort of ‘clicked’ for me after that, though, and progress accelerated again.
I dunno. If it nestles in your brain like a worm and you find yourself curious in a year or two (which was my experience), holler. You can tell folks here love it. 🙂
2-K. Bopopolis. I swear I must have spent at least a hundred lives on this level by now.
Haha it was like this with Pikmin too where you’d just post thoughts without context 😀
(I know you’re referring to DK though :P)
I managed to do it but only got four out of the five puzzle pieces. *shakes fist*
I bet it’s the one I just found on my ~70th go. Wouldn’t have spotted it if I wasn’t playing it over endlessly like I am 😛
Haha, I know where they all are, just didn’t want to dedicate more hours to finish it again. XD
FINALLY
MADE IT
MY THUMB ACTUALLY HURTS FROM USING THE JUMP BUTTON SO MUCH
FRIDASIJFUIDS GHOFB TUE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Seriously, I only worked 3 days this week and I ran out of spoons by midday today. What the hell :S
How’s everyone else doing? Sydney was pretty great, got to catch up with a few folks, walked a hole in my shoe, ate great food and managed to only interrupt *one* scene at the TAYfilm shoot.
I’ve noticed the TAY AMAs showing up, that’s such an awesome idea! Is it just @dc and @shane so far, or have I missed others? Either way, very, very cool idea. The questions and answers both show a level of depth usually masked/diverted with humour, and I really appreciate that.
Hope you’re all well 😀
Sup bro.
Sounds like you need your own stash of spoons to avoid this issue.
I haven’t seen anyone else doing them, so I guess it’s just those two, who claim to be hermits/anti-social lol.
I’ll do an AMA. Right here right now!
How tight is too tight when it comes to the crotch in your pants?
I wear boxers!
See, I’m very anti-boxers because you’re just setting yourself up for strangulation there.
Strangulation? How?
A magician never reveals their secrets.
What would you describe as your ‘crowning moment of awesome’, (in gaming or life) where everything fell into place and for a shining moment you knew, “Relax people, I got dis”?
mm possibly when I got my job at krome. or perhaps when I saw my first shapies episode on tv. Certainly wasn’t my wedding day. Or.. not any more at least!
Based on comments, I think it was Rocket’s idea, and I assume he did it first. Not sure though.
Correct!
HAVE AN UPVOTE SINCE I LOVE BEING RIGHT!
Spoon shortage sucks. I once sent my best friend a pack of 100 plastic spoons from the $2 shop when she was coming off a lupus flare. As I recall she laughed and called me an idiot
A pack of spoons here is like… fifty cents for a few dozen. I just buy a few packs and leave them in the kitchen. I also buy milk, when I can remember.
I got shitted off by all the petty bitching and whining in the office about who was stealing whose milk, and seeing a fridge full of – I shit you not – literally dozens of 500mL bottles with individual names on, all of which had FUCKING EXPIRED. I recorded that madness for posterity, tossed the bottles, bought one large one, and wrote on it in thick marker, “DRINK ME! BEFORE I GO OFF!” The challenge every week after was to come up with something funny to write on it.
People chilled the fuck out, thank god. Eventually I got bored with keeping a fresh stock and told people, “I’m not using it enough to care, couldn’t be bothered. You guys do it sometime, even one week every three months will be enough because it’s seriously TWO FUCKING DOLLARS. No-one here is THAT cheap, right?” (Oh yes they are. But they don’t like to be seen as it. SO. Victory for Zim.)
In this instance, spoons differs from say, pens and post-its 😛
http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/wpress/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/
How goes the things?
Chillin at home and glad the week is over!
Not too shabby, Jimu. Not too shabby. And you?
yeah, not bad
Bleh, gotta have a tooth out next month, got a headache that I’m trying to cure with Panadol & vicks but I put the vicks a bit to far up the back of my nose and the fumes are getting into my throat so everything tastes all eucalyptus now.
YUM!
I’m just glad I did it after tea so I didn’t end up with eucalyptus glazed ham. It sounds Australian as fuck but not very appetising.
Good thanks, Jimu!
Since I feel obligated to ask, how did you like Bravely Default in the end?
Love it! Second only to P4G cos P4G had all the feels and made good use of repetition.
Love Bravely’s job system, so, so GOOD!
Only thing I didn’t like was Chapter 6 onwards, that was dumbdumbdumb.
Still great game!
As predected Fire Emblem is coming in 3rd. Solid game but meh on the story character front.
The main story is a bit eh but the characters are awesome! Get your Supports up for the chats and that’s where most of it comes from 😀
Yeeeeah, nah.
Some of the chats are funny. Goth girl and rabbit lady amuse.
But….meh.
There’s something very, very wrong with me, Jim 🙁
We know. You cancelled your DS2 Collectors Edition.
But I pre-ordered it on PC with basically the same bonuses I was interested in AND more! 😀
Is why I luv ya.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/42490-are-you-sick-of-let-it-go
Uhh…Aren’t you the wrong person to be posting this? Frozen, freeze, unless you’re sick of the competition.
Damn right. GET OFF MY TURF FROZEN!
If you watch it he opens with how much he loves it, it’s more about the endless covers soaking the internet, most of them not very good. Oh, it’s a parody song too in a moment of self aware hypocrisy.yeah, I know all that, but I just wanted to make a pun type joke due to your user name =P
I don’t watch covers. most of them are terrible. The only one I really liked was the trio of singers that did a medley of the frozen songs. I watched a parody with terrible animation and singing. It was, well, terrible.WHAT! NONE OF THE PARODIES ARE SUPER AWFUL, AND DEFINITELY NOT MINE IN PARTICULAR! SHUT UP INTERNET!
I think this is one of those things where people bind some kind of link between the emotions of the show and the song. Because I’ve not seen the movie, and have heard that song exactly once, and felt nothing.
It seemed like standard disney princess song influenced somewhat by modern pop. And that’s about it. No resonating themes, no attachment to scenario, no real power felt in any of the crescendos etc, which all felt kinda bland.
I just like the irony that it seems like it’s all anyone can talk about.
I’ve seen the movie, and I don’t think much of the song. The song doesn’t fit it – and it definitely shouldn’t be the flagship song of the film IMO. Still, ol Oscar disagrees with me, so what do I know? 😛
Listening to the lyrics and themes, I am entirely willing to believe that it is something which resonates powerfully with folks who feel somehow repressed or even oppressed in their lives, yearning for a taste of the liberation and self-acceptance that they don’t feel in their day-to-day experience, or which hearkens back to a revelatory moment in their own lives where they empowered themselves to embrace their own qualities as worthy, no matter what pressures others had placed on them. Which would be why it doesn’t mean one little jot to someone as powerfully arrogant, privileged, and self-absorbed as myself.
But I really don’t know, none of the notes and shit are gelling with what I’m familiar with as being universally recognized as ‘powerful’, which would make the attachment almost entirely lyrical.
NegativeZero’s Belated KanColle Update No One Cares About
This week I haven’t done much but grind out dailies. Earlier in the week I spent some quality time with Kiso but didn’t really make a lot of headway in leveling her up. Meanwhile through just running PVP Exercises I’ve managed to do a fair bit of leveling up.Kitakami became my second ship to make it to the level 80 mark, currently at 81. After a lot of deliberation I decided to stop running Hiryuu as my main carrier. She’s very resource-efficient compared to the others, but is hampered by a low aircraft count. Decided to swap her out for a different carrier and since I had Zuikaku sitting down at level 9 I decided she’d be the one. Outfitted her with more powerful aircraft (Managed to build a Suisei Model 12A, best Dive Bomber in the game in raw power though the Carrier Stukas you can get from quests are cool) and started running her in PVP in Hiryuu’s place.
Last night I hit 3 milestones in almost the same point. Zuikaku hit level 25, Hiei hit 75 and Yamato hit 60. This is the point at which they upgrade to Kai form or Kai-2 in Hiei’s case. Originally I was going to leave Hiei as-is but her stat upgrades make her on par with Mutsu and Nagato, so I decided to just bear the terribad monkey-girl artwork since I never use her as my secretary anyway (Yamato is mai waifu from now on until I get sick of her). The upgrade to Yamato and Hiei nearly bankrupted me, 6000 ammo between the two.
So anyway, with them done I’ve turned my attention toward my next target, which is to get I-168 to 55. Her Kai form is at 50, but I also started unlocking the submarine expeditions 27-30. 30 has a quest where if you complete it you get a German Carrier Stuka equip which is very yes. But to successfully do it you need 4 subs and the lead sub must be level 55. Currently on expedition 28, which requires level 30, and I can send my other 3 subs (Iku, Goya, Shioi) away on that as Iku is at mid-30s. So that’s cool.
I’ve also been looking at requirements for clearing my way through to World 5, and it seems I was over-estimating things. You only need to get a couple of Heavy Cruisers up, plus one of the Mogami-class CAVs needs to be leveled a bit. As such once I finish pushing Kiso up to her Kai-2 remodel at 65 I’m thinking my next priority will be some heavies, which most likely means getting Takao up to the same level as Atago (~30) and then seeing how things go. May need to get them as far as the 40s to be safe. I considered Kinugasa as she has a Kai-2 remodel, but her Kai-2 stats are inferior to Atago and Takao Kai. I also will aim to take Suzuya to 35 so she can get her CAV remodel, and 35 should be roughly the sweet spot for clearing the map I need her for as well. Or at least, I hope it will be. I also need a pair of destroyers but given the work I did earlier in the year to get Shigure and Yuudachi into the 60s for their awesome remodels, I have that all covered.
Other than that I’ve basically just been grinding world 1-1 with all my lowbie destroyers and cruisers so I constantly have ships sparkled to send on expeditions for resources. That’ll probably continue, though actually a few of my Destroyers that I’ve had since very early in the game like Ushio and Asashio are getting very close to hitting their first remodel now, almost entirely off the back of expeditions. Which is cool.
Honestly, I’m curious with the concept, but not so curious that I’ll bother fucking around with lack of localization and VPNs and all that shit. But it’s interesting to hear a now-veteran. 🙂
I should record me playing it or stream it or something at some point.
And yeah, I wish it was a bit less of a pain to play. You only need a VPN for the initial sign-up and log in and if you want to turn over the content of your wallet so your waifus will love you more. The rest of the time you can just use a direct link.
Oh? Well I’m totally OK with one-time VPN dicking around like I do with early activation of US-gets-a-bullshit-no-good-reason-2-day-headstart douchebaggery.
I’m guessing a fair amount of it is in English, then, or would I be perpetually guessing at things/cross-referencing a wiki?
Nothing in English but the UI is simple enough. I can read a bit of Japanese which helps. But there’s a good wiki for it and everything. The actual hardest thing is getting in. The game’s so popular they have what is basically lotteries where they open say 4000 slots on a specific server at some point and you need to sign up during that window before those slots fill up with other players. I didn’t have any trouble but I kept an eye on twitter and signed in within 10 mins or so of them opening it up on a Saturday.
http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Tutorial:_How_to_Register btw
Can already tell from the wiki I’d suck hard at the game. 🙂
Would be picking ships based on how they look and not their function. 😛
Fun fact: the waifus with the largest *ahem* “tankers” often represent the battleships.
I was pretty sure that it correlated directly to tonnage but Yamato cheats by wearing extra padding.
That’s often a completely viable strategy
I was playing BioShock Infinite earlier and Elizabeth pops out of nowhere with a costume change and I thought “whoa it’s @scree !” for a second
Just a reminder on how awesome your Elizabeth cosplay was 🙂
And it’s kinda annoying how the game keeps reminding me to use Vigors. No thanks! Did anyone else not really use them or is it just me? 😛
They reeeeaaalllly weren’t needed and seemed to be added in as an afterthought to make it more Bioshock. I think Murder of Crows is about the only one I used, mostly to break up the monotony of shooting identical things over and over.
At least they were utilised in BioShock as environment puzzles but now it’s just eh. They don’t seem as effective either.
I used the bull one to knock people into the air, mostly because it made it easier to mow down the repetitive fodder.
I didn’t mind the fodder dudes as much since I have fun sniping them but the bull one (and other similar ones) don’t really work on those bigger annoying guys so they became useless quickly :(. And a lot of them are way too similar “hold to create a trap” “enemies in the air take more damage” :/
And to be fair, I had the same issue with the original Bioshock. Once you got improved weapons all I ever used was the lightning on cameras and stuff so I could hack them or telekinesis to get shiny things.
I used the original pistol for about 80% of the game and occasionally the shock plasmid.
I just wish the game had taken a more Dishonoured approach, give you a bunch of tools to use and a bunch of tools you can use them on or avoid and let you actually feel like you were making decisions for most of the game rather than just reacting to stimuli.
A handful of unavoidable encounters, especially if finished with the hook-claw-thing would have emphasised the violence a lot more and been more horrible. It’d have made me empathise more with Elizabeth’s position, as it was it felt like she was reacting way too strongly to a single kill and ignoring when I just gunned down 20 people with calm and methodical headshots like a psychopath.
I’m sorry.
But yeah I kept forgetting I even hand the vigors
Is there a photo of this awesome cosplay of yours? I never saw it
It’s not that good.
http://i.imgur.com/K8hZc2T.jpg
Both cosplays were made by me
That is pretty damn impressive I have to say. It looks like you didn’t cut off your little finger though so I’m afraid I can only give it 5/10…
It’s actually based on the E3 trailer and not the final model that ended up in the game. Back then she didn’t have the pinky finger missing
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm well I suppose under the circumstances I’ll let you off and put the score back up to a 10 just this once.
Trust me, there are a lot of subtle difference between the E3 model and the final model. If I was to do the final model, it would have required me to completely re-do the costume from scratch.
Also, the guy in the journey costume is @novacascade
@scree Oh I was so busy making jokes about you not cutting off your finger to look more in character that I totally forgot to mention the Journey one, that looks pretty damned sweet too. Not played the game myself but it does look very close to the screenshots I’ve seen.
Funny thing about the journey cosplay. I had such difficulty with the scarf that I ended up asking Thatgamecompany for reference images. Which they delivered. To me, that was pretty amazing.
@scree wow that’s really cool of them, always nice to see a developer who makes an effort for their fans
YOU BETTER BE SORRY
Sorry =(
You’re sorrys hold as much weight as a @DC upvote 😛
But I genuinely mean them!
=(
I believe DC genuinely believe’s his upvotes too!
I was just teasing!!
Everytime I watch Gangnam Style I think the guy in the lift is @mythamphetemine
And all Raichus are @cody
Every time I see that dubstep cat I think it’s McGarnicallll
His Cat is a thing? Link??
Oh
Every time I see the colour green….. I think of weed 😛
Every time I see the colour green I just automatically think of people who are jerks for some reason.
*coughCATERPIcough*
I don’t feel truly hyped and excited for many games these days but the last time I did was probably for Broken Age, and now I’m oddly excited for the Amnesia Fortnight 2014 prototypes to come out as well.
I don’t think it’s necessarily the games themselves but being able to actually see the whole creative process around them from basically start to finish, just makes them a little more special in my books. I don’t even consider myself a huge Double Fine fan but I think it just makes you appreciate the games just that little bit more 🙂
Im exciyed for Cap Am2 and Spidey 2!
Annnd games?
FFXHD next. Train FF!
FFX is one of my favssss! But since I’ve played the first few hours of that game so many times I’m not super excited to start it again :P. I never finished X-2, so at least half of that will be new!
Only replayed X once after the 200 hr run.
Got as far as just before sin and got distracted.
My original game was at a friends house and got to the Blitz tournament I think. Was forced to start again when I got my own copy.
X-2 is great! Was on my third replay when I saw something shinier and wandered off.
Wait! You never actually finished X?
Oh nah, I finished X but only once. Took me about 4 playthroughs though so the start is kinda zzz!
But Tidus has such a lovable endearing voice.
I know you’re joking, but you STILL deserve a smack.
I was horrified by the voice acting. 1 of the many reasons I wish we just went back to text or they could give me the option for JP subs so I cant understand the whiny whinepoos
I’ve never finished X either, @jimu. I watched someone else play, and even then kept wandering away saying, “Let me know when you’re done with the temple/forest/cave of boredom and buttons,” returning intermittently only long enough to conclude that:
1) The plot is ridiculous.
2) Tidus is one of the most annoying protagonists ever.
3) Yuna joins a fine collection of bland heroines who make me wonder what the deal is there.
4) Lulu was hawt and I totally wanted to hit that.
5) Auron was hawt and I totally wanted to be that.
6) I can’t believe they MADE you play Blitzball.
Well, I was shocked if greeny hadnt cos he says its his fave FF.
1) Why is everyone so anti JRPG plot? It was about breaking the cycle and getting on with life
2) Yes
3) I love Yuna, Riku, Auron and Lulu. Oh and Khimari was cool! Wakka was as bad as Tidus
4) Mmmhmmm
5) Mmmmhmmmm
6) I thought the same thing but it ended up being a pretty fun minigame. Better’n those shitty card games in IX & VIII (Triple Triad 4evahhhz)
If you ever needed textbook examples on how to look cool, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6C0kcSHdiA&feature=player_detailpage#t=6 at six seconds in, perfect example.
Twenty-six seconds in: how to ruin it.
@transientmind
Ahr, wha?
He remains cool.
One of my favs! IX all da wayyyyy!
Blitzball was awesome. That’s why they made you play it. I would never have touched it otherwise, and missed out on one of the most fun parts of the game.
Your opinions are wrong!(Oh, Internet…) I mean… Yeah, some of the minigames have been pretty tedious, but when I watched my brother learning to play it, there was a point where it all kinda came together and made sense. But it was always frustrating to be getting some serious momentum in the story then be confronted with some blitzball. 😛Baby Metal is the shizwa
Me n ma son been enjoyin togetherrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
@cufcfan616 Thank you!
my pleasure 🙂
He just fell asleep to the sweet sounds of “Death” XD
Yeah, I watched and enjoyed the juxtaposition of J-pop meets metal, and linked to my youngest brother who is borderline weeaboo.
I’d had the nagging feeling that I’d seen these guys before and he pointed out the links he’d sent me. But we then went on a magical journey of watching the other clips. I liked one of their better-produced ones with cool gothic ruins-type imagery mostly because it felt kinda dark soulsy. 🙂
It’s great to see this shit. I remember this girl laughing in my face just after high school cos I was a Metal Head that loved Dragon Ball.
100 upvotes for you, goodser
It’s kind of funny because Cha-la Head Cha-la is one of the classic anime openings that is really really common to see metal covers of. Probably because it’s a nerd karaoke staple.
Also thanks to you mentioning that I now find myself listening to random Hironobu Kageyama / JAM Project music and getting pumped up right before I need to go to bed. Dammit. 🙁
Now it’s just a matter of time before I end up at Gundam X / Gundam Wing music.
I remember being in a room full of metal heads singing along to chala head chala and whatever the start of evangelion is.
cc @gutsoup
Baby Metal as in the weird Japanese metal band with the three little girls?
Babymetal is the Japanese metal band with three teen girls
Yeah. I’m pretty confident they’re an almost-parody band or something, intentionally relying on the juxtaposition of inserting typical J-pop melodies into otherwise metal grinds.
But I guess you can’t entirely rule out the idea that maybe they kinda wanted to be metal but just couldn’t let go of certain sensibilities… Pretty confident it’s the gag, though.
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDqaTXqCN-Q
(Edit: Although, without the video clips, I’d have just assumed it was an intro for some kind of action-based anime. Which is a style folks enjoy for itself. So not even a gag/gimmick, maybe.)
It’s 100% a gimmick, but a very cleverly targeted one. J-pop groups like that are a dime a dozen and only a very select few ever manage any level of success. Something like this that’s distinctive and that no one else is doing gives them an edge and helps them stand out.
More like Spice Girls
Company set it all up sorta thing
I watched that and just thought “what the fuck am I listening to and watching?” also to me it seemed like they were poking fun at Westerners version of Metal or the like.. Then I went at looked at something else and it was EDM meets screamy vocals & Jpop, which to me was a very odd combination.
I really don’t know what to make of it all, it’s just weird to me.
Two of my fave genres mashed? Yes please!
Haha, fair enough. I just don’t think it’s for me 😛 Then again I was never into the sort of fast pasted Dave Lombardo on speed and then some, style drumming that was present in the song I listened to.
Im a Fantomas fan!
Never listened to them tbh 😛 But if Dave is involved it’s probably good, considering his new project Philm is pretty awesome.
Dave of Slayer, Mike of Mr Bungle/Fantomas, King Buzzo of Melvins & whaysisname the bass player from Mr Bungle.
Sweet friggen line-up.
Love em to bits.
The first album, Mike doesn’t do vocals, just noises and the songs are really short. The second is all covers of famous movie songs, so good.
(there’s two more albums)
I’ll have to check it out 😛 Mike Patton is a’ight, only ever listened to his work with Faith No More though lol.
Check out Mr Bungle too!
new work has a social club. $30 every event for noj members, I’m a temp so not allowed to join, and take part in the drinks and gpod tab as much as you can …and I did 😀 Monday I must be behaved and sber
http://www.cinemablend.com/m/games/Watch-Dogs-960p-Xbox-One-4K-PC-Graphics-Heavily-Downgraded-62655.html
960p on XBone
1080p on PS4
4k on PC
*sigh* Let the shitstorm commence.
More concerning
Also I know I’m probably late to the party here but it’s the first I’ve heard of it.
BUT WHAT ABOUT WII U??
WHENS THE VITA RELEEZ?
I’M HANGING OUT FOR ATARI LYNX VER
2600 or GTFO!
Colecovision you monsterrrrrrrrrrr
COMMODORE 64, Broseph!!
Virtual Boy.
OH NO YOO DIDINT
I ALWAYS DO
Vectrex.
Best.
Doesn’t even have a release date. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/watch-dogs-release-date-announced-for-everything-except-wii-u/1100-6417977/
WiiU version doesn’t even have a release date yet…
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/452898/watch-dogs-creative-director-explains-longer-wii-u-delay/ A tiny bit of info about the wiiu version. At least confirmation that it still exists. Also that the game will have multiplayer which I thought wasn’t happening
Can’t imagine why. I mean… everyone knew this, going into buying a CONSOLE, right? I mean, there weren’t people out there who were seriously believing, “Oh wow, now I’ll finally have a console that’s as powerful as a modern PC!” Right? I mean, no-one swallowed that line, did they?
Or has the Master Race been crowing over superiority for so long that it feels like crying wolf (or in my case, MASSTERRRRR RAAAAAAAAAA, etc), and console faithful I dunno… decided to believe the MS/Sony PR people?
Still, the uh… video difference is. Uhm. Stark. To put it mildly.
Well console people finally had a new system after all these years, understandable that they’d be confident and probably a bit too eager to believe marketing hype.
Rather disappointing to see the quality difference, it looks pretty good still but kind of high end 360 game kind of good. It’s a fair replication of the last cycle, early 360 games looking like late gen xbox games, I was kind of hoping they’d have worked out a way to streamline it so it’d end up progressing faster.
Looking at that video at the end, without being ANY kind of expert whatsoever and not really having a horse in this race, I would be wondering if maybe the translation from PC-optimal to downscaled next-gen couldn’t have been handled better. Like… more efficiently or making better use of some custom tweaks or tricks that didn’t involve just turning off graphics options like you would on a PC.
If anyone’s going to start a shit-storm, I’m guessing that’s the assertion we’ll probably see.
I was thinking the shitstorm would be more the XBone being less than PS4 again.
Anyone who’s surprised or upset about the PC version being better is just an idiot.
Although I didn’t think the gulf would be that wide.
Well realistically I feel confident that the xbox one problems will be solved pretty soon, it can’t be a coincidence that Microsoft are pushing a new version of directx which is a core element of the xbox architecture and very realistically a reason that people are having trouble with getting the hardware to perform up to spec
Ohhhhh. Well. I can see that… while an xboner could probably grumble and let that slide, it’ll be pretty much impossible for the ps4’ers to let it go without poking and stirring. Tribalism and whatnot.
But it IS kinda established news now, right? Xbone won’t run as well as PS4 on cross-platform. Expect it. The devs everywhere have been saying it since the first games came out. I mean… I GUESS that’s a bitter pill to swallow for the xbone faithful, even though it was known pretty early that there was a difference between the specs of both consoles. Maybe folks thought… ‘it can’t have that much impact, right?’
Seen plenty of arguments about optimizing for the slightly different advantages offered by either hardware quirks, and how it may well just come down to which system the devs favour? I really don’t know how much weight that carries, though, I’m pretty sure any xbone parity or superiority is going to be the result of some pretty focused and determined (and incentivized) trickery to get around standard techniques, and that – for the most part – the results will be carved by ockham’s razor.
The Xbone does have some fantastic tech behind it though. If you have the time, check out this article for more details than I could hope to give.
I’m hardly saying it would be able to overtake the PS4 in terms of raw rendering powering (it won’t, at all). But assuming Microsoft’s dev kit is up to scratch, I would expect the difference between the two to shrink considerably over the next six months to a year.
Or, more likely we’ll end up with a situation like with the PS3 where a lot of rad tech gets put by the wayside because it’s a pain to deal with.
I get the distinct impression that it was pushed out too early and the support simply hasn’t caught up to the hardware yet. I suspect that it’ll reach parity with the PS4 within a year and both be pretty much identical machines. Of course it’ll never stop the stigma of the XB1 being weaker and having idiots claiming they can see where the XB1 version of a game is running at 1fps lower than the PS4 version even when it’s obvious that the idiots in question would have to look up what the FPS acronym even stood for
I was reading the Neogaf thread earlier about the graphics.
Holy shit,
What a bunch of cunts.
Just, get over yourselves, guys. I’m a fucking PC master race douchebag, and I think you’re being dickbags about this. Let it go. It wasn’t a pre-render, it was a vertical slice, if you don’t think this shit happens, then go and learn what it means.
Pricks.
Are we talking the Neogaf peoe or the Cinemablend people? Or both?
Neogaf.
They’re shitting all over a 3 second GIF and decrying it as the worst game of all time.
The single most important thing about the game is the answer to the question ‘is it fun to play’, if not then its just a highly stylised turd anyway. I mean treyarch could have made that quantum of solace game the most breathtakingly gorgeous achievement in the history of computer graphics, it wouldn’t have stopped the game being a piece of shit.
Fun > All
Fuuuuuck the resolution debate.
For starters, pixel density above overall resolution. Secondly, just how many people do they expect will be able to run 4K @ >60fps on current mid-range/affordable hardware? That’s some serious power, and some god-damned ludicrous expectations. Secondly, sure, the new consoles are hot shit when compared to their decade-old brethren, but then what do you expect? For a long while yet there’ll be a stark dichotomy between the user experience offered on PC and console.
anyway, worst game of the decade, fuck everything about it, it’s clearly not pretty enough.
Am I complaining about it properly yet?
I’ve never even seen a 4k display of any sort, much less a PC monitor, the best I’ve ever seen is 1440p.
Technically I’ve run Arma 3 at 4k because you can increase the render size independent of the window size, it just has no real value for gameplay since you don’t get the benefit of extra detail and it runs like shit when you pump the res so high on a display that can’t handle it.
I think you’re only really complaining properly if you pick one ridiculously niche feature that’s of interest to you and only a handful of other people and demand it’s added to the game or it’ll be the worst thing ever. Like adding a companion application that lets you do real world wardriving and troll other people’s game
Well it’s no surprise the PC version it is possible for it to be rendered in 4K, have people seen what you can put in a PC in terms of processing power.. Just seems invalid to argue that a PC is infinitely better just because you can choose to put in top of the line hardware, but that also comes at a cost of much much more than a console.
Really console gaming is just easier in some senses, it’s all the same or similar hardware so developers get it easy, and it doesn’t change for 7-10 years until the new gen comes out. If only the same could be said for PC’s with their constantly changing hardware, with refreshes at least once a year.
Either way i’m really excited for this game. Shame it comes out when i’m going away for 2 weeks 🙁
MRS SHANE VS THE WALKING DEAD.
SEASON TWO: EPISODE TWO: A HOUSE DIVIDED
Spoilers ahead.
I’m dead serious.I get the impression that Mrs Shane isn’t as into this chapter as I was. She doesn’t seem particularly sympathetic to Nick’s plight. She demands to know what his problem is, though ultimately convinces him to help Clem escape. And then promptly runs away from him, instead of at least attempting to help.Already I can tell that Nick’s prospects are not good. Not good.
Sarah trusts Mrs Shane more than she did me, and there’s this whole extra scene just after the photo is taken in which she shows Sarah how to defend herself with a gun. I did not see this scene at all – just didn’t exist in my playthrough. Amazing. She’s gotten a notification “You taught Sarah to defend herself.” That’s gonna have some impact later on, I’m sure.
When Carver bursts in, she reacts in much the same ways that I did. There’s something a little unsettling about a grown man menacing a small girl.
She blames Carlos for the photo. “You told me to distract her.” Same as me. Now that I think about it, this is probably the most dangerous of the three options, as it ultimately drives a wedge between Sarah and Carlos, and between Sarah and Clem. Yeek.
When Nick shoots poor Matthew, she defends him to the group not at all (I hedged my bets). When Alvin tries to commandeer the canned food for Rebecca, she does the same as me, and demands it be left to the group to decide.
Nick left his watch behind. HEY! There was a watch in Chapter One. The watch that Nick left behind? Holy shit. Did anyone pick up that watch in Chapter One? Anyone at all?
She sits with Kenny. Doesn’t even hesitate. The reason: “There’s more room at that table.” /facepalm
Gets mega-sad at the “Pass that, would you Duck?” moment. Me too. Right in the feels, even though I knew it was coming.
Every time there’s a conflict, she tries to hedge her bets between the factions, pleading the neutral “Hey, don’t fight” option every time.
She recommends that Nick tell Walter what happened, then tells Walter the truth. And then she sells Nick right down the river with “He’s just like everyone else.” That combination gets Nick killed.
When Carver busts in, she sticks around to help Carlos, rather than finding Kenny. (Did anyone go and find Kenny?) She doesn’t choose the “PROTECT ALVIN” option, and poor Alvin gets killed at the end.
My body count: Matthew, Walter.
Hers: Matthew, Walter, Nick, Alvin.
This is gonna be a really interesting third chapter.
I’ll read this in a year or two when the Vita release is done 😛
It’ll be on Pixel-Otaku probably, so it’ll be accessible 🙂
Spoilers for Episode 2
OH MY GOD THE WATCH :O I’d completely forgotten! Damn!Also, I got the teaching Sarah to shoot scene. Hopefully it pans out! I’m liking these sort of mini-consequences that seem to be building up. Seems like a good way of building a unique story without affecting the main plot too much like the major choices do.
Also, wow. Alvin actually dies if you don’t save him? This season really is branching a lot more! (I hope that doesn’t mean my Alvin/Nick simply die in the next episode or something)
Crazy amount of variance, right? I know this is effectively an on-rails game, but it seems like a significant difference! Wonder how it’s all gonna work…Just got the Kotaku Blue Screen of Death
Did you take a screenshot? I don’t think I’ve seen that
Nope, just got it again with another message
I prefer the kitty of death
Never had it, always blue. Sometimes an amusing message,mostly not 🙁
Why I like Babymetal, an article in two links
Here is two of my favourite songs:
@greenius IX?
Solid art design but that ability system made it too easy and Zidane was a prat
It’s third
Vivi!!!!!
Yeah, he was cool IN FINAL FANTASY 1!!!
Nah, he was cool though. Also, the princess and Quina & Freya.
I really liked the odd couple dynamic between Steiner & Zidane, the tension was good.
Oh, and the world map was great, more world maps should have so much hidden stuff.
But yeah, still third I thinks.
What’s your rankings?
8>7>9>10>5>12>4>3>6>2/1>13
No 14 or 11 cos I really cant play them properly.
And I love them all, except 14 and 11. I did have fun in the 14 beta.
I didn’t count Crystal CHronicles or Crisis Core or Dissidia cos thats just confusing.
Surge of Derberus is a piece of shit. Even the plot was pushing things and why was Kalm so massive?
Sorry to pick out typos, but you accidentally put 13 last.
I’d probably only put it above 1, 2 and probably 3 mainly because they feel a bit dated. @Jimu has a thing for old skool job systems though 😛
Whoa I just noticed how low Jemu put 6 :O. I liked it but the second half was kinda a mess
Like I said, love them all, but yeah, too many chracters
And remeber, 12 is very MMoish in it’s combat, but I found a workaround by not using Gambits (were they gambits?) Anyway, the OPTION to choose how to play was awesome.
If 13 could be switched to a more traditional ATB and I had time to input all the characters moves and choose spell myself (I know you *can* but then you fight so slow you die or get a low ranking).
You know, I like control, 13 took it away.
@jimu
Yeah, bit too many characters (I don’t like RPGs that do this since I never know who to use) but I did like that they had separate sections with each character so you at least got a taste (IX does this too). X does it well in the sense that there’s no penalty for swapping mid-battle so you can use all the characters 😀
You ever play XIII-2? If I recall you said you didn’t but I think it’s an improvement on XIII in almost every way! Lightning Returns is fun too but kinda unpolished in areas and has a less than traditional combat system. Still worth checking out if it’s cheap though
Oh and… PLAY XENOBLADE! 😀
Yeah, I finished 13-2, was heaps better.
Played LRetrurns demo, not impressed.
Ill grab LR when its $20 or so.
I don’t mind having heaps of characters to choose from, but 6 is so garbled I wasn’t sure if Terra or Locker was the main character, then they dissapear and Im the blonde woman?
Not much about it really grabbed me, it was like they were trying too hard or something. Sometimes it’s better to tell a simpler story.
I think the game suffered because of it.
Every time you mention Xenoblade I dislike it a little more.
No joke. You’re putting me off. 🙂
@jimu you weren’t going to play it anyway 😛
Lend it to @dc 😀
I would but he doesn’t borrow
I guess since he liked that pisspoor JRPG Ni No Kuni, he’d like Xenobladdrez 😛
Ha ha ha!
No.
Worst combat system by far.
Again, love them all.
8? ily
Befriend Timmy in Southpark game.
Receive new message from Timmy. Read.
…
Did the message begin with T by any chance?
It may have.
Timmy is cool, but nobody is quite as eloquent as Jimmy!
DARK SOULS 2
Master race specs are out
Surprisingly modest really, not a lot of grunt required to run it on recommended. Presumably any grunt paucity will be made up in grunts of frustration when you can’t quite kill that boss…
Now that I look at it, odd that Win8 isn’t in the recommended list…
Maybe because it was developed on Windows 7 it’s slightly better optimised for that OS compared to 8?
They certainly are numbers.
And words. People are always so quick to discard the words.
I’m really, really shit at DotA
heh I tried it once.. I didn’t even know what the hell was going on :\
I … err.. yeah, you are.
Sorry, I need to rant.
I went to the dog park. An off lead dog park. A guy seriously waited until Sid was trying to say hello to his dog before rudely saying “Do you wanna get your dog?!” I was kind of annoyed, and I wish I’d said something then and there, but I didn’t. The thing is, if his dog is uncomfortable with any type of dog, then he should not bring it to an off lead dog park.
There are plenty of on lead dog parks, more then off lead (ratio of about 1-5) or you know, walk it around the streets. He had his dog on the lead, he could see I had a dog at the entry of the park.
Seriously, I hate looking like a kid, because people tend to treat me as one.
Grow a beard. That worked for me.
Oh wait … 😛
Maybe someone could donate one?
I can do a full beard in a week if @scree doesn’t mind looking like she’s part of the crowd in the stoning scene from Life Of Brian
http://contemplatrix.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/chimichanga02.png
That dude sounds like a right dick. Sounds like his dog will either attack someone or another dog one day, fucking hate owners that do that shit, I’ve been harassed before by people who walk their dogs without leads or leave their yard open and the dog roams around in it, when I tell them to get their dog away from mine, they abuse me for it, I had one lady say my dog should be put down then. Hell I don’t know how your dog is going to react with mine or how mine would take to yours running at it with its teeth showing. She is great around good natured dogs, ugh. Also people don’t like it when I tell them i’ll just ring the ranger if they don’t pull their dog into line. Mines on a lead with a fucking harness, yours doesn’t even have a collar, which makes me wonder is it also chipped & registered too?
Ugh people.
Off lead parks are a thing? I had no idea, not that where I live is overly friendly to dogs ugh. But then again, the only dogs I seem to encounter are psychotic who only want to attack. So maybe off lead parks aren’t the best idea around here lol.
Sorry for tacking a rant onto your rant, but I totally get where you’re coming from and support your argument.
The beach front behind where the pirate ship is in Currumbin is an off lead beach. Fairly sure there one near Fingal Heads as well.
There’s a pirate ship in Currumbin?! I did not know this! Yeah but who goes to FIngal? 😛
Actually now you mentioned it I think that park on Ducat street in West Tweed that looks really sketchy is an off lead park, but again it looks sketchy and full of shady people, and it’s West Tweed..
There’s heaps of jerks out there; try not to let them get you down.
8:30am: “I’m gonna get up and draw!’
*Has shower & eats breakfast*
9:30am: “I wanna go back to sleep…”
weekend ahoy! gotta love it!
Embrace it. I just woke up from a nap which started at like… 6pm. 🙂
SMRT!
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/03/find-your-jeans-quicker-with-hanging-labels/#comment-1427669
Shouldn’t we just store them in the microwave? I mean they’ll be easy to find then!
Here’s a label for you. http://youtube.com/watch?v=i6l8MFdTaPE
never stop
Atelier Escha & Logy has been released today if anyone is interested, I’m more focused on South Park to start another RPG atm.
Hullo, TAY! I’ve a interesting thing to ask. Not page 8 levels of weird but still weird. What is the craziest thing a random stranger has asked you for?
Because, you know, I had a completely left field moment today. Walking to work in the wee hours of the morning, a man of presumable African decent goes up to me. “Wassup man? ” “S’up.” “You got the time?” “Quarter to 3.” “Ah, cool, cool. Want to buy some crack, man?” And god help me, I don’t know why, but I entertained the thought. For a few brief seconds I actually thought ‘Do I feel like buying crack today?’ And then my morning addled mind thought ‘Nah, living expensives are tight as they are.’
also, I don’t smoke crack.
So I said “nah sorry got to head to work” and we parted ways. That’s the first time I’ve had that happen to me, oddly enough considering the shitty neighborhood I’m in. Been propositioned by prostitutes and been asked if I sell crack/marijuana, but never had someone offer to sell me drugs within a second of meeting them.
Also the fact that I’ve been asked if I sell drugs makes me feel a bit weary about my appearance. Go figure.
Your Mii most definitely has one of those faces where I’m all “Man, I really want to kick him in the nads OR buy drugs off of him”.
As long as it’s not both at once I can live with this.
I get asked by strangers if I wanna buy or have drugs all the time 😛 it’s a part of the package living in Tassie. Being accused of lying when I say I don’t have any drugs is the thing that annoys me though.
Weirdest thing I get asked for is a hug. Why are you coming up to me wanting a hug when I’ve never met you before? It’s really odd.
You just think you haven’t met them before…
PLOT TWIST: This is actually the @benj show, a version of the Truman Show, but starring @benj.
That guy had just escaped into the dome which contains Tassie.
Shhhh, he can never find out the truth.
I was sitting on a log fence at the park down the road from my parents house many years ago, and a guy walked up and asked if he could cut the butt off one of my cigarettes. He then proceeded to ask me if I was after anything. Turns out he wanted to use the filter of my smoke as a filter for his speed.
A little over a year ago, I stopped at a Big W near me to search for some cheap games that were floating around at the time. This particular one sits on top of this underground carpark that is rather tight for space, and usually pretty packed despite being a tiny shopping centre that doesn’t really have much in it at all.
As usual there’s a bit of traffic in there and the people ahead of me are stuck waiting for someone to park. But luckily for me, they’re all in big-arse 4WDs, I’m in my little Civic and there’s a space just to the left that none of them could possibly fit into, one crammed inbetween a whole bunch of pipes (including on the ceiling). It was a slow and cautious park, trying to make sure I could actually fit, but I nailed it and got out to finally head into the shops.
But as I’m crossing, a lady calls out to me. I look over and she’s standing near the car that was trying to park before, and she signals for me to come over. Seems a little odd, but I head on over. When I get there I realise she’s not standing there trying to guide someone in – the car’s empty. She was the driver, and has gotten out. She’s an Asian girl with a slight bit of age on her face, looks to probably be around mid-to-late 20s or so, and the car’s got P plates on it. Next thing I know, she gestures to the car (doesn’t seem to have much English) and asks for my help. And hands me the keys. What.
I hop into this shiny new… Audi I think? Or maybe a BMW. Some kind of rather expensive car. And it’s all full of lights and screens and technology and shit, another claustrophobic piece of crap that I hate, I think it took me a while to even figure out how to turn it on. No idea what the hell she’s doing with this car, or how she even got this far with it. But I reverse out so I can reverse park it in, half shitting myself all the way that I’m going to fuck up and damage it/others around it. Managed to get it alright though, get out and give her the keys back, and walk off stuck somewhere between total bewilderment and wanting to just collapse laughing at the absurdity of what just happened.
She was obviously trying to chat you up.
Totally. She wanted to drive off into the sunset with you!
She was probably mentally singing Get out of my dreams, get into my car…
I have been asked numerous times if I could sell someone some drugs. One time, a fellow nearby actually trotted up and stopped the guy asking, saying, “What are you doing, man? The guy’s obviously a cop! Here, take this number, call this guy… tell him Jim gave it to you.” I don’t know what was worse, being thought of as a dealer or a cop. The latter certainly means that I can never actually BE one – at least, not an undercover one.
The weridest things asked by strangers, though…
One time I’m on a train, just minding my own business, wearing a suit, and I notice there’s a handful of uni-student-aged kids looking at me and talking lowly to themselves. One of them comes over and asks, “Do you get paid to look like that?” I arch an eyebrow and note, “I’m not following you. Like what?” “Uhm. Scary, like you hurt people for a living?” I looked at him for the longest time til he was visibly uncomfortable, then replied, “It’s more of a hobby.”
(Related: A girl on a bus was sitting with a group of her goth friends. She was the least gothy of them, and seemed to be kind of bored with their discussion of their favourite animal cruelty and their favourite moments of being institutionalized. When we got off the bus, she came over to me and asked, “Have you ever killed anyone?” I replied, “What kinda question is that to ask someone?” and she looked pretty disappointed, so I added, “Not that I know of.”)
Also, not a question, but weird nonetheless… Walking down the street in the CBD, a homeless woman rummaging through a trash can looks up, grabs me by the arm and locks eyes to say intensely, “A will to survive is not a will to live.” Then goes back to her trash rummaging like I wasn’t there.
I am really curious to see a photo of you now.
Honestly, not that scary. Average height, lean’ish build, no tattoos or visible scars.
Most of those were from when I didn’t even have a beard, so there’s not even the whole ‘biker/metal’ beardstigma. Wasn’t wearing trenchcoat or anything, either. Just folks being weird.
Photos, eh. Hm. OK. Lemmeseee… Got some photos up on an old folder here: http://urbanstray.com/images/face02.jpg / http://urbanstray.com/images/gamefaces-laugh.jpg and http://urbanstray.com/images/office2.jpg (with others in the same folder) are old pre-beard photos from years past. A couple newer ones are on my twitter. (Pretty sure I’ve added you, there.)
Nah, this guy’s pretty scary. And intimidating. D:
Awh. Howso? I mean, Sughly’s got a more intimidating physique than me, Beardy’s got more typically-scary bikerbeard… And you’re MUCH taller!
All about how you carry yourself, man. It’s not a bad thing, but it’s definitely intimidating for someone who carries themselves in exactly the opposite ways. XD
Fair’nuff, I guess. Oh well… Not much I can change about that I guess. 😛
@transientmind: It’s not something you’d want to change either. It’s something others should aspire to.
With the short hair you do have a sorta Jason Statham style english thug vibe about you.
As D.C. said, not a bad thing. Statham is a pretty awesome someone to be compared too.
Also I don’t use twitter anymore.
Also TAY should run a scary person competition. It would be entertaining.
Well, since nobody seems to have expressed interest in meeting for dinner tonight, I’m thinking I might go to my sisters for a roast before I go to the gig. If anyone does decide they wanna meet for food, gimme a holler on here or twitter or sms or whatever!
It’s a little far for me just to eat dinner.
So you’re saying you think @welbot should put out as well?
Was trying not to say it.
heh I didn’t really expect you to be around west end 😉
Happy Weekend TAY…. also happy long weekend to SATAYbies.
I think SaturTAY is more fitting.. SATAYbies sounds a little nuts
South Australian TAYbies.
ahhhh ic! They are nuts, so it’s all good! :p
You do realise that most of Australia has a long weekend
I did not realise that. Looks like I got my public holidays mixed up again!
Wait… what? We do? But I was going to go into work on Monday… now I have to look this up.
…Oh, you troll. It’s only Victoria and SA (and ACT). Which is that guy who THINKS he’s everyone, and that guy who knows he’s no-one (and some white noise).
Tassie has a public holiday too.
Wait I thought it was more than that. I think because ACT had it I assumed the NSW did as well.
Not that that would help you but huh I guess it is just the cool kids
…Just the cool kids who are working today instead of bludging in the pity party the ugly states decided to throw for themselves!
AND THAT’S THE FINAL WORD *james fingers in ears* LA LA LA LA LA
http://www.gamingheads.com/index.php?option=com_myphp&Itemid=3&product=140
Hnnshskekrkdmdmwbacag!!!!!
Jfjdnsndkdlfldndbdb!!
Dandnrnfdlalwldjaiansnwllhsb!!!!!!!!
*waves arms uselessly*
*collapses in a useless drooling pile*
That’s an orgy, he’s squirting them with a lube gun
Woooaaaaah
Holy shit.
Or unholy, as it were.
Looks like Freeze is sorted then 😛
Don’t wanna sort my music out and label tags correctly 🙁 Already sorted 30gb out of something like 160gb.. I had the brilliant idea of ripping my music in Lossless yesterday then thought against it cause that 160gb would probably turn into 600gb easily.. Probably closer to 700gb tho.
I know that feeling
But I decided I wasn’t enough of a music person to bother so as long as things were in the right folder I didn’t bother
Haha.. I would only do it if I went to the effort to put in the research into some decent monitors and external sound card. I just love the flat sound they produce, so awesome.
Been playing Stick of Truth for the last 3 hours…
Love it!
Make that five hours…
Broke my Dark Souls fast today. Multiplayed Anor Londo a few times. Mostly jolly co-opped, because whenever I PvP’d, I was reminded that most people at my Soul Level are much better than I am at this game 😛
My sister returned home after going out with her friend. Here is the conversation that followed:
Sister: “Guess who we just saw?”
Phlanispo: “Anne Frank?”
Sister: “I don’t know who that is. Anyway, we saw Jonathon McSportsball!”
Phlanispo: “Wait, HOW do you not know who Anne Frank is!?”
(Ten seconds of ranting, only to be cut off by:)
Sister’s Friend: “What’s the Holocaust?”
Phlanispo: “How… how…? What in the name of shit?” (Actual dialogue)
Sister: “YoloSwag”
(They leave the room)
Urgh.
I hope you at least told them to get off your lawn before they left.
Alas, I did not.
This is hilariously written.
Stick of Truth conquered. Did all the sidequests (but maybe not everything in the game because I know for sure I’ve missed adding 4 people to facebook and didn’t get all the gear) and it took 14 hours. Some utterly hilarious moments in there. Feels like playing an extended episode of the TV series, so it’s basically exactly what it should be. The combat sometimes gets a bit frustrating
eg I thought that the fight against the Giant Nazi Zombie Fetus was stupid and Al Gore was way too hardbut overall I really enjoyed it.I just beat Al Gore and I didn’t find it too hard. Bleeding effects on a quad volley bow is insanely OP. Shoot and wait a turn or two.Oh man, really looking forward to playing this eventually. I love Obsidian and am glad they’ve got a hit on their hands here.
You like South Park? :O
I like it enough. Don’t watch all that much any more, but when it’s good it’s very good.
I loved it but havent watched it for yeeeeeeeeeeeears.
I actually thought it had finished until recently.
I will borrow it from @gutsoup
Along with Tomb Raider and Red Dead
Gutsoup! SO. DAMN. AWESOME.
He brought the gift of The Last of Us into Jimu’s life too!
He did
Lucky save there
And I got The Last of Us: Left Behind with the gift card the guy got for my birthday!
He’s the designated The Last of Us gifter. *decisive nod*
TAKE THAT @GUTSOUP
It’s a title I”m proud to hold *dc style decisive nod*
OMG
JUICY JUNGLE ROCKET LEVEL
SO GOOD
….where the crap is the N??
Edit: Hahahaha I’m blind
Heyyyyy (and @dc)
Do obtained “KONG” letters count (like Puzzle Pieces) or do I have to get them all in one go?
ie. I get KON but miss the G. If I replay the level just for the G will it count as getting all the letters or do I have to get KON again?
Have to get all the Kong letters in one run!
Curse you, Assetto Corsa.
I’m not going to buy you.
Begone from the Steam front page!
Looks like we’re about to get some information about Tales From The Borderlands
http://www.telltalegames.com/blog/59786/telltale-and-gearbox-talk-039tales-from-the-borderlands039-at-sxsw
Here’s hoping it’ll be something good.
Does anyone have a spotlight near them?
If so, I am looking for 5 50 gram balls of mode Vera Liqiude wool in silver.
My local appears to be sold out.
Commissioner Gordon has a spot light near him. It’s on top of Gotham PD. It’s how he contacts Batman. I don’t think he’d let you use it for your purposes though. *decisive nod*
GUYS
FROSTY FRUITS
THAT MUSIC
EXCLAMATION
DUDE
THE KEY
SKYLINE!
OMGGGGGGGGGGGG
#NoContextGameThoughts
(with context)
AF2014:
I surprisingly like Mnemonic a lot!KFC Nachos review!
OK, so basically these are EXACTLY the same as I would do nachos at home with exactly the same ingredients, plus some popcorn chicken. Not a bad thing.
Seriously, I am 100% certain that the KFC Nachos are a large handful of Doritos corn chips, a heaped tablespoon of matching Doritos salsa, and a quarter cup/small handful of pre-bagged grated cheese from woolies, mixed together, heated slightly, and with the smallest-size serving of popcorn chicken stirred in.
Considering how expensive a small serve of popcorn chicken is, that makes the nachos $4.90 price tag pretty decent value, actually. I’d be surprised if this stays on the menu for very long because of that.
Suggestion: Ask for a spoon.
I found them okay, but nothing to write home about.
Dear Mummsie
Today I had KFC nachos…etc
No guacamole? For shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
Sounds almost as disgusting as their salsa twister that was just nasty.
Managed to get my tv tuner configured for MediaPortal.
No longer shall I be a slave to Windows Media Center! \o/
Also, MediaPortal doesn’t lock the mouse to the screen! Take that, Media Center!
Standard progression sequence for DK’s bonus levels:
-Play to first puzzle piece. Get stuck and die.
-Play to second puzzle piece. Get stuck and die.
-Play to third puzzle piece. Get stuck and die.
-etc
Also wow. 5-K is ridiculous.
They need to get rid of lives like Rayman did. Really.
Lives are annoying!
(well in-game ones :P)
It was a thing 20 years ago. It really shouldnt be these days
It’s like: get to a checkpoint, lose all lives, restart level, get to the same checkpoint – rinse and repeat :/
Yep, hate it. Frstrates me.
You die in Rayman? who gives a shit. Try again.
Oh, I thought you meant because there were so many that it doesn’t even really matter at all because there was never a threat of game over.
This. Limited lives are a holdover from the days when you had to put 20c into a machine to get a go at it.
YEP
Sooooo, s’up?
Hey! It’s Jimu! Hey Jimu!
YO YO!
*crowd goes crazy*
The ceiling.
*Necks self for such a joke*
Take it easy, it wasn’t that good a joke.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=neckingJimmeh!
Jimmeh!
JIMMEH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This morning Blaghman and I were speaking on TeamSpeak and somehow I ended up threatening to draw him as a magical girl.
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2014/068/8/e/blagical_girl_by_fr0zenphoenix-d79i4xr.png
influenced by puella magi madoka magica, Beauty and the Beast and the Sexy Beast that is @Blaghman.
I’m in that awkward position where I’m really not sure if I should upvote or not.
It’s too funny not to.
It says there’s 2 upvotes and no downvotes, but displays 0 votes anyway. :/
Fixed Now.
Ugh… you know that feeling when you eat too much?
I’ve got that. 🙁
I was watching a playthrough of Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal, and now I know what I’m doing for my next hack! 😛
So I was walking down the street earlier tonight, sans glasses, when I noticed some people further down the road, so I started doing my “gotta walk past other people calmly and cooly” preparation (D.C. probably knows what I’m talking about).
I get a little closer and I think “huh, they’re not moving, I wonder what they’re doing out on the street at nearly 8 at night.”
Get even closer and I realise… “Oh, that’s a recycling and rubbish bin.”
I am the greetest.
I’ve had the very same incident happen to me!
*high five*
Did you manage to overtake them?
And then as you’re walking past the people you initially saw jump out of the bins they’re hiding in and taunt you.
I will never walk past bins again.
Thanks, Neg. >:|
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/annoying/
:3
Done with DK!
As in cbf going through hard mode now, nor time trials. That can wait for some other time 😛
What a ride.
I know I have been complaining about this all week, but I just reached page 7 on a Sunday, and I plan to go to bed pretty soon. I will be abandoning this week’s TAY. If there are any dad jokes or Dark Souls musical numbers, I will have missed them. Weep for me.
Hope you come back soon, mang.
o/
Man you’re a slow reader 😛
Home, End, Page Up, Page down, Scroll Wheel.
That’s the best way to do it.
Ugh, my nose is dripping like a tap. 🙁
I’m really wishing it was possible to delete a game from my steam library right now.
I wanted to to buy the 3 pack of Trine 2 complete version. I currently have the standard version without the DLC. Because the bundle count as buying one copy for yourself and two as gifts and steam senses I already have a version of I can’t buy it as it won’t let you buy all 3 as gifts nor override my non-dlc version to be the dlc included version.
I tried raising a support ticket where I said I think it this is the problem and is it possible for them to delete my current version (or convert that one to a gift version as I’ve never played it) but they ignored/didn’t read the part about deleting my current version and basically just said “yes, this is the problem.”
Edit: Wrong tay