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Public Holiday. Ha Ha Ha to NSW and Queensland. 😀
Public holiday?
Well it is for ACT, SA, TAS and VIC.
What’s it for? The name?
Labour/Eight Hour Day.
Ooh we need to get that here in NSW. They talking about making horse Melbourne cup day possibly a public holiday, but don’t really care for it. Rather labour day.
You do. October 6 for the rest of the country.
Damn. Wouldn’t mind one today.
Adelaide cup in SA
No HaHaHa for WA? They had their Labour Day last week. 🙂
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No need to be a jerk about it. 😛
Every day’s a holiday for us!
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🙁
😀
😀
🙁
Kind of loses the novelty of days off, huh?
Hooray unemployment!
How awesome is it to be living the life of limitless luxury on the dole having to choose between paying bills and buying actually edible food rather than blobs of indistinct flavourless gunge preserved in fat & sugar all the while being told repeatedly that you’re scum even when there’s no jobs to apply for and even if there were they always go to the son of the boss’ mate from uni who wouldn’t know his arse from his elbow despite the fact it’s an essential qualification for that particular job?
Wooooo!
Do I come across as ever so slightly cynical at times?
Aparently WA doesn’t exist 🙁
I figured you’d already had your public holiday so I didn’t need to mention you. My sister lives in WA (and I used to).
The problem being that i had my first day back at Uni on labour day, so instead of a public holiday i got shitty public transport timetables 🙁
That sucks. Public holiday Public Transport schedules are the worst.
Man it was as good as a public holiday for me. No dickheads ringing up from HQ in ADE asking dumb questions they could answer themselves by reading job notes!
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I see what you did there. No. Not really.
Morning all. Hope everyone had a good weekend.
My cousin and her kids stayed over for most of the weekend which was alright. Also I fainted saturday night. That was a bit freaky.
Why did you faint? Launch investigations. Doctors, blood tests. Look at food consumption. How much rest and all those kinds of questions would need to be considered.
He saw the uncensored version of Stick of Truth.
lol I actually got past the alien ship part yesterday. Don’t think it was necessary to censor it. It’s a south park thing.
Yeah, I’m going to try and get a blood test at some point. I’m pretty lucky, all things considered. I managed to avoid cracking my skull on a counter and instead fell into a pile of sheets.
Damn, that was pretty lucky. Only reason I’ve ever fainted was due to a combination of alcohol and being too hot. But yeah, definitely get that shit checked out.
Usually when stuff like this happens. The sooner the better info you get when you do a blood test. Everything changes fast. Though, yeah check it out when you get the chance
Morning all.
Usually I hate mondays, but today is an exception. I finally got my PC fixed, and as of today I’ve got two weeks off work. Needless to say I’m going to be having a lot of game time.
So first up I’ll be continuing with South Park (was only able to put in half an hour over the weekend), then some more Plants Vs. Zombies: GW, then once thursday hits it’ll be Dark Souls II.
I’ve decided to skip Dark Souls 1 and go straight for 2. Am I going to miss anything in terms of lore?
I wouldn’t know, I’m probably not even a quarter of the way through it myself. I knew I wasn’t going to finish it before Dark Souls II hit, so I just put it on the backburner, and I’ll pick it up again after I finish DSII.
Dark souls doesn’t really present the story for you. It more beats the crap out of you as you struggle to figure the story out. That is if you try to figure it out from the pieces it presents it to you, at all really.
Yay implied narrative! *gets the shit kicked out of* this is awesome!
Yeah, @youramishdaddy – Dark Souls doesn’t hand the story to you on a plate so much. There’s a minimal bit of exposition, but the rest is had through conversations that hint at what the characters have been up to, and clues left on the ground or flavour text attached to items you find.
Probably the best way to get caught up on the lore is VaatiVidya’s ‘Lore in a minute’ youtube video take on Dark Souls, which sets the world up for you very nicely, explaining a bit of the background behind the intro cinematic and expanding on it, using information gleaned from everywhere else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uItoZfcK524
Each of the characters has a ‘prepare to cry’ lore video prepared for them, too, which goes into deep, deep spoiler territory, but also packages everyone very nicely and ties them together. Can’t recommend that youtuber enough. I downloaded all the Prepare to Cry videos and watched them while eating dinner, a month or so back.
Cheers buddy. I’ll favourite this and have a watch when I get home.
I’ve only really played through Demon’s Souls, and the most compelling boss I encountered was the Maiden. A guard defending her with his life, a group of creepy demon babies in a pool of blood- yet put two and two together.
That is an awesome series, thanks for sharing!
2 seems to be a new setting and everything so you won’t miss a thing.
Address please!
I’m on it.
Edit: @shane Do you want me to just message it to you on your Facebook? Seems like it’d be the best way to do it.
That’s fine. Or email me at shane @ shanewsmith.com
Cool, expect an email within the next 5 minutes. And thanks again.
Sent, let me know if you didn’t get it.
Got it!
Hola Tay
Writing this while we are driving back through the snowy mountains from Jindabyne, after spending an extended weekend with the extended family. A lovely wedding, drank and ate a lot, now 2 days of driving ahead of us.
A Monday morning question, as the place we stayed at was an “equestrian resort”: best video game horse? I reckon Wander from shadow of the colossus
Never played SotC, got the HD version from PS+, but never got around to playing it.
So I’m gonna say Epona from LoZ runners up are Ruin and Despair from Darksiders and (I know you can’t ride him) Bjorn from Peggle.
The Red Dead Redemption horses are the only ones that I’ve felt were done right. Every other game’s horses felt ungainly and awkward.
Arse Creed 1 had a bloody good go at horses, they were the best before RDR’s I think. The main area where they felt like they fell short was where they kind of skipped to a locked animation and it looked a bit obvious
I always grew very attached to my RDR horses, mainly because of their reliability in getting me away from zombies at a moments notice. Epona (LoZ) would be up there in terms of prestige, but I always loved Odin’s horses in the FF games that he made an appearance. Majestic 6-legged harbinger of doom…
Ponyta
Ponyo was a Ghibli movie. IDIOT. 😛
😀
A terrible one!
😛*looks around*
There’s no @sughly around to bait, Pow. XD
>:(
the unicorn horse thing from Clop 😛
I rather liked the horses from Beyond: Two Souls and The Last of Us, but they have nothing on my beloved horse from Red Dead Redemption. I loved that guy. :’)
Edit: I really disliked that horse from SotC, controlled terribly. Was far more efficient to travel places on foot. XD
Wander was pretty cool but I think Ruin from Darksiders wins on sheer badass awesome levels.
Speaking of which. Hey Mark do you have a seperate page with your DS II build, stats items etc. It feels imporant to do some research before and during playing DSII.
you might have more luck getting a response if you tag someone. Was this message intended for Serrels?
More or less, but really if anyone knows if he does it would be great.
Was not aware of tagging haha.
Try @markserrels . That might get his attention!
I swear my bed actively hates me. At night it’s like sleeping in a pile of bricks and I’ll spend most of the night tossing and turning, unable to get comfortable and sleep properly.
In the morning when I have to get up it’s the fluffiest cloud imaginable and getting our of it just seems like a monstrously difficult task.
Oh man do I hear that. I hear that so much.
Also I’m running on ~3 hours sleep at the moment. :'(
Turn the mattress upside down. That will totally work …
“Oh, hello bliss and comfort and the feeling that I could curl up in this snuggly ecstasy forever… WHERE FUCK WERE YOU 4-6 HOURS AGO WHEN I WAS TRYING TO GO TO SLEEP?”
Yup. The closest I can get to inducing sleep these days is making my room supernaturally cold, arctic++, maybe even sit in air conditioning in my undies until I have a chill on, then crawl – shivering – into my nice, warm bed.
Seems Shane’s a bit tardy this morning, so I’ll remind you.
3 days…
(EDIT: Accept no imitations! They’re never as good as the original!)
(EDIT EDIT: No, I was right! I think? I give up)
Titan?
72 hours (if you want to get technical).
ugh. hate morning shifts. I mixed red bull and coffee and a bit of iced tea of all things and my stomach hates me for it
SUNBROS
Just three days to go! (thanks @batguy for holding the fort)
Today’s news:
Some Walmart in America started selling the game early. http://www.twinfinite.net/blog/2014/03/09/dark-souls-ii-copies-sold-early-maybe-can-get/
A write-up of early game experiences
http://segmentnext.com/2014/03/09/dark-souls-2-day-1-easy-green/
I wonder if you’ll do a countdown for the PC release closer to the date…
(you probably won’t)
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He’ll be too busy playing it.
Seriously, it would seem the Employment mob I go to & Centrelink don’t even communicate.. They scheduled an appointment for me tomorrow when I have one with Centrelink at that same exact time, just wtf..
That’s fairly standard, both will breach you if you don’t show up in 2 simultaneous and separate places. You’re not with Summit are you?
If you can’t sort it out, go to Centrelink because they’re the ones who ultimately give you money, take the paperwork showing that the idiots at the job network have scheduled the other appointment and it’s evidently not your fault. If you don’t have paperwork, they should be able to look it up on their crappy system assuming its one of the 9 days in the year its actually working.
I just rang the other mob and told them to reschedule. They’ve stopped sending me letters too, and just rely on texting me one day in advance, i’ve had words about this but it wasn’t fixed for the third time in a row..
Deleted, due to virus already posting what I said.
count yourself lucky they even did that. I signed up with one of those job agencies when I was on the dole, and I never heard from them once.
Haha, what the fuck, seriously? That’s really poor. I have to report to each mob once a month, and it’s always the same, i’ve been looking for work here’s the proof sign a thing saying I am doing as told and go on my way. Just seems like a waste of time to me, but eh, they’re always on time so it is all good!
That’s the way it’s always been when i have to use them. I was on newstart several times in my early 20’s and they were supposed to help me to find a job and have classes on how to dress up your resume etc. Never heard from them once after giving them details when I got my registration done. Sarina Russo is the worst of all of them though.
Lol, they’re that useless with me because centrelink class me as level 1 which means they’re not allowed to help me, uh fucking seriously.. What’s the point of me going to them, then?
I just want a job that’ll give me enough hours to be able to live and contribute a bit more to the household monetary wise but this is proving hard :/ also i’d like to be off centrelink as well lol.
I had a pretty awesome day on Saturday, but I thought I’d wait until new TAY to do a write up. I went to Breath of Life Festival, which is a music festival raising funds for the Australian Lung Foundation.
The first two bands I saw were two local bands, Rhino and Opposer. Two reasonably solid metal bands, nothing much worth writing about.
The next set I saw was Porter Robinson, an American DJ. To be honest I got rather bored with his set. There was no crowd interaction, although he did redeem himself by using some imagery from Neon Genesis Evangelion and Mario.
Knife Party followed, and they were a little more interesting. They did interact with the crowd, and it wasn’t just one guy djing on a stage.
After two DJ sets, I was keen for some music played on actual instruments, so I went and saw Saviour in their first and last set in Tassie. Unfortunately, they hadn’t practiced for a month and it showed. At least they were more interesting than Porter Robinson or Knife Party.
Next up came two bands who’d been performing at Soundwave: In Hearts Wake and Buried in Verona. Both bands were a lot tighter than Saviour, and pretty good to watch. I hadn’t heard much of their music, so I didn’t know any songs, but the crowds seemed pretty into them, and the mosh pits looked crazy.
Back to the main stage and one of the highlights of the day: Public Enemy. All I can say is wow! Chuck D and Flavor Flav were pretty amazing to see live, and DJ Lord did a solo that made the other DJs I’d seen look tame by comparison. An hour long set by the Rock and Roll hall of famers was brilliant and I could have watched them for at least another hour.
The next act on the main stage couldn’t have been more different: Empire of the Sun. Their stage show was brilliant, the lighting was amazing and their costumes were incredible. All those ingredients came together for one of the best looking shows I’ve ever seen.
Finally, the headliners: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. They were 20 minutes late arriving on stage, but they made up for it by putting on an incredible set. Macklemore had the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand and his performances of Thrift Shop, Same Love and Can’t Hold Us were great. The Festival finished about 35 minutes over time, but I don’t think the crowd cared judging by the excitement as we left the venue.
One disappointment was that I didn’t get to see Dead Letter Circus between Public Enemy and Empire of the Sun because I was feeling tired and needing to sit down, but all in all, it was a pretty amazing day, and I’ve added two performances to my top 5 of all time. (Public Enemy and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis) Hope you don’t mind the wall of text.
EDIT: Spelt Flavor Flav’s name wrong. Derp.
So what’s shooting “In a Telltale kind of way”? I’ve only seen one telltale game with a gun & that was the early bits of the walking dead which I recall being a bit painfully bad. If that’s the telltale way, I’m not exactly filled with good thoughts for Tales From The Borderlands
I’m assuming there’ll be a puzzle involved and an objective other than ‘making that person dead’…
I actually expect the opposite in one case
Objective: Kill that dude
Inventory: Gun, Magazine
> Combine Gun + Magazine
> Shoot dude
I’m serious, it would totally fit Borderland’s humor.
Now I’m reminded of Borderlands 2:
That guy who wanted to be shot in the face. Good times.Best thing ever was doing everything except what he asked
That reminds me of that puzzle in Tiny Tina’s Assault DLC.
*Really complex puzzle appears*Brick: I’m gonna punch it!
Tina: Uhhh, you solved the puzzle!
I loved that DLC.
I want to play it again…
I got all the DLC recently and haven’t played any of them. D:
The Tiny Tina one is pretty amazing! Also, I recently did a “Mr Torgue” run with @rize. It is also amazing.
YOU’RE amazing. >:|
@dc
HOW DARE YOU! YOU CAN’T PROVE IT! YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
TORGUE MOTHERFU*ER!!
People need to shout that every time an explosion happens anywhere. I do.
First day back at work after 2 weeks off
….aaaaand the support ticket system is down.
So… technically you have no work to do!
Correct!
File a support tick… oh never mind
I’m at home by myself today. Decided to go buy some bacon and english muffins to make a bunch of bacon, egg and cheese muffins since no ones here to judge me.
I recently rediscovered the wonders of Hollandaise sauce.
I swear you guys make up most of these food terms. Hollandaise sauce? That just sounds fake! Don’t get me started on bacon. Baaaaacon. Ba-con. That ain’t even a real word.
Bacon and Hollandaise. So good.
One day, when I’m a real person I might buy some! FOR YOU!
You haven’t lived until you’ve tasted Floiquazx.
Only if it’s proplorped correctly. Otherwise it’s a bit dry.
I used “Search google for” command.” Now if I try to google search “flowers” or something, “floiquazx” will show up.I hope you’re happy. 😛
Dude, Hollandaise is the bomb
Oh man. Hollandaise sauce. The nectar of breakfasts. When I figured out all you need to make it was egg yolk and butter I just went to town that day.
Also I learnt that if you do it wrong the result literally tastes of steel/copper. Not fun.
When it tastes of copper, does it also go red? If so I think you’ve cut your hand open mate. Best fix that up
wait, so a pound of nails isn’t supposed to be added into the recipe?
Well, I’ve never seen it on masterchef
Then again I don’t watch masterchef because it’s shite.
You need a souring agent in addition to the yolk and butter. Lemon juice or vinegar (traditionally uses tarragon vinegar). Also whenever my mum makes it she adds a bit of cream to give it a thicker consistency.
Good morning all. On the weekend I ran over hordes of Gretchin and blasted their puny tanks into oblivion with a mighty Leman Russ. \o/
Now it’s Monday and I’m sitting behind a desk. /o\
The only combat value grots have is to hopefully foul the tracks of tanks with their squashed corpses
The National’s I Need My Girl is my favourite song from that album. So, so good.
Ah, Monday. The Walking Dead. Girls. True Detective. YOU SO AWESOME!
You forgot Top Gear, the greatest show on television.
Cars are stupid. FACT.
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Mrs. Freeze hates cars but loves Top Gear.
Smug British presenters are stupid. FACT.
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They’re actually quite self deprecating.
So you’re saying Stephen Fry is also stupid? Since he’s the presenter of QI, and he is British..
He’s not smug though
He’s… kind of very smug.
Are you really suuuuuuure?
Fry’s not really smug, he’s posh, well educated & not shy in expressing his opinions on topics.
Smug implies a sense of personal superiority which particularly in England is almost universally associated with posh, educated and opinionated but just being posh, educated & opinionated doesn’t make one smug.
If you say so DC, if you say so…
OH YESH THE SPECIAL IS TODAY ISN’T IT
CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN SLOW, JENNIFER CLARKSON AND THE HAMSTER
I thought it was Jennifer? lol.
But yeah, it is, it’s sitting there waiting to be watched. Should be good.
I also went and got myself all 19 series (i’ve only seen series 20 & 21 in full, only casually watched the rest before) of Top Gear along with all the specials, cause why not.
It’s hard for me to refer him as anything other than “That really grumpy old guy.”
At least it’s funny. Jeremy is unique, he knows he is being a cunt and loves being so. But he’s also a very intelligent man. I mean I too would be grumpy if I had to be around the ignorance that is Hammond & Captain Slow some days 😛
Sigh i have a unplesant tale of me fucking up
I went out to Cairns for a installation job last Monday and Tuesday. We completed the job and on our way back to the hotel we got a call from the machine operator. He had driven the machine back to the site to be used and completely lost the back end around the round about. We went to check it out and it was purely because i didnt tighten a hydraulic fitting. The guy was actually pretty nice about it and said it was partially his fault for not checking the whole system before driving on the road. I apologized and i thought that was the end of it.
On friday afternoon the operator called the shop and screamed at me, I have taken my fair share of abuse from annoyed customers but it was nothing like the 20 minute barrage of constant profanity and insults that this guy laid on me. He insulted everything about me, in a way i realized he was just venting after probably getting a similar cop out from his boss. But after 20 minutes of listening to someone tear me down, i was in tears. I handed the phone to my boss who also got yelled at for another hour. After he was done getting screamed at he gave me one of the worst talks ever, He wasnt angry, he just was disappointed and it hurt so much that i had disappointed him and made him get yelled at. It made me look at myself really hard. I completely deserved the abuse. I fucked up and i couldn’t justify it to myself and looking at yourself and realizing you are kind of shit hurts. My ego took a huge hit. But i see this as a wake up call. I refuse to let this shit situation get the best of me. I wont ever be so careless again.
*hugs*
*Emphatic reassuring hand on shoulder*
… It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these on TAY.
I hate it how people carry on as if they’ve never made a mistake in their lives.
But I understand that feel when you stuff up and they get upset. The worst. But I figure it shows you care and take pride in your work. You’re not just shrugging and saying so what. Although those people never seem to get in as much trouble and seem to always just coast by effortlessly.
Mistakes happen. I once backed a forklift into it’s charging podium, pretty much destroying it (the podium not the forklift). The warehouse manager called me “demo” (short for “demolitions expert”) in a really nasty way for months until I snapped and decided I didn’t want that job anymore, and tore strips off him about what a piece of shit he was for it (and other things).
He actually respected me more for it and I wound up staying on a few more months. Not a course of action I recommend, but y’know, once in awhile…
Nobody deserves that kind of abuse just for forgetting to do something.
Fucking up doesn’t make you shit, it makes you human.
I know it’s rough when you’ve made a mistake and you have no one else to blame but yourself. That said, we’re all human and we all make mistakes. I personally make sure I never get angry with people unless they have consciously done the wrong thing (lied to cover something up, malicious, rude etc.,). Chin up man, I doubt anyone hasn’t made a mistake somewhere in their job. Just keep doing your best – obviously you won’t be making that same mistake ever again.
just think about all the times you got it right, no one ever praises you when you do things right but they’ll blow up at you as soon as you do anything wrong, like others said, you’re only human these things happen, learn from it and be become better because of it.
What @dc said.
Was he even listening to you or just yelling constantly? You could have put the phone down and gone for a coffee or something
Honestly, what is it about hiring someone to do a job that makes people feel like they own that person in perpetuity? If you make a mistake in a professional context, you apologise, make restitution (if applicable), and go your merry ways, a little more jaded and a little wiser. At no point in any service contract is abuse part of the package.
*hugs*
Yeah, someone fucks up here, we refer to the contract. Worst case scenario, it cost money and we have to pay to fix it. Then whoever screwed up gets training. Unless of course it was like… willful negligence or something malicious, which is a disciplinary action.
Bummer dude…
At least no one got hurt (physically) I suppose.
Their reaction on the prooblem sounds very unprofessional and sounds like a bigger problem than the problem you were discussing(?) with them.
Look, they sound like garbage from your explanation. Don’t put yourself down for garbage. If they start yelling angrily and there is no need for yelling. As in you can hear them clearly. Just don’t show attention. Put the phone on the side have a coffee or whatever and the come back and msg them asking if they have calmed down.
Yelling and being angry is such an animal-like response.
Hi Ya’ll
Had a decent weekend, played a lot of the South Park game and it was great & hilarious.
Started playing Pokeymans X cause @jimu got it for my birfday (was a while ago, just hadn’t seen him till satday), it’s not bad glad it finally had a graphical overhaul.
Watched some more Attack on Titan, it was better than expected (So violent :D)
Finally watched I Am Legend and enjoyed it (like people told me i would, been avoiding cause Will Smith)
Watched “Seven Psychopaths” also enjoyable and surprisingly funny
Also watched lots of Ninja Turtles cause I’m an adult.
Oh and my Dog decided to dig a hole big enough to fit in so when it rained he had a pool to play in, equal parts cute & messy.
How are you all this Monday?
I saw I Am Legend at the IMAX cinema in London. Was so, so awesome. (They also had a preview of The Dark Knight.) Puts screen 5 at South Bank Cineplex to shame, my friend!
Sounds like a good weekend!
It was about 10 times better than expected case I expected to hat it, would have been a good one to see on the big screen.
I am Legend still gives me feels.
Please say hello to meI Am Legend Spoiler
the dog dying had the biggest impact on me, was such an awesome dog, at least it went out heroicallythis
Regarding ze feels:
That dog, man what an emotional scene. Will Smith in general did rather well in that movie.Yup, Will smith did a great job, I shouldn’t underestimate him so much,
Will Smith is a great actor who has trouble picking films.
Not as bad at it as Ryan Reynolds though.
Same goes with Angelina Jolie!
yeah, must be her choices, haven’t liked her in much at all.
She’s pretty great in Girl, Interrupted and The Bone Collector!
Kinda agree with @dc, but pretty much just Mr & Mrs Smith, for me.
makes me think of the South Park with Will Smith’s kids where his kids keep telling him to do bad movies cause they pay a lot. Might be some truth in that 😛
I’ll watch him in anything though, he’s so dreamy. Like my second man-crush after the obvious Bruce Willis.
yep, I just jumped on the hat wagon with this one, thinking back I’ve enjoyed more things with him in them than disliked them.
Well. There are films which are TRULY TERRIBLE, but I’ll still enjoy him in them. Like Green Lantern. Oh god so bad.
I saw I Am Legend a couple of days after our dog got put down. That scene (you know the one) had me crying.
aww that sux, we have 2 German Shepherds, i kept going over and giving them patsOur dog was a Jack Russell, got bitten by a snake. Not quite the same, but still really hard to watch, and the scene still gets to me a few years later. On a related note, if I had a German Shepherd, I would either call it Book, or Commander. Maybe Rex.
I called mine Kratos, my girlfriend called hers Moon so when we call then it sounds like we’re saying “Moon , Craters”
Commander Shepherd?
Heh, my childhood dog did a similar thing – dug a nest in one of the garden beds big enough to curl up in.
Both odd and awesome was that dog.
Guess their genetic heritage is showing through. Wolves will dig their own dens or ‘renovate’ the dens of smaller animals if there isn’t a suitable shelter available. (Though it’s usually for birthing and whelping, not just sleeping.)
yeah he has some strange quirks, but so hard not to love em even when he’s being bad.
Spent all weekend wishing it was next weekend because that’s when I get my bonus. Probably gonna be about eight bucks. Gonna highroll it with a LARGE at Maccas to celebrate. Aww yeah.
Spent some time playing more TW2. Dark mode is honestly not that hard once you pick up the cursed armour/weapons. I’m currently farming harpies as I want enough money to get the next two suits (I really want to collect them) but it’s also levelling me up a lot. I just might have made this game too easy for myself. I think I struggled more with “normal” mode more than Dark mode.
I wish TW3 was out already. I finished TW2 just last month and have my save file ready to import!
Ending spoilers/conjecture for TW3:
I wonder if they’re going to give Letho a cameo in TW3 if you decide to let him live. I know some people thought the ending sequence was anticlimactic but to me it really suits Geralt just wanting answers and some resolution to his amnesia. (I personally let Letho lived as he rescued Triss in my playthrough).He also saved Triss on my playthrough but I feel that everything was building up to the two Witchers fighting, plus he basically masterminded the entire thing and “If you let me go, I will disappear forever”. Yup, I’ve heard that before.I did the same thing my first playthrough. It definitely felt right to me, but this time I’ll take the other choice as I am feeling a little more ruthless.
I must have been the only person to
kill Letho. To be honest I didn’t feel bad for it. The game really does a good job at “grey” moral decisions.Oh yeah, some of the consequences of my decisions made me regret my choices massively. So well done.
TW2 is just so utterly brilliant. TW3 with a much bigger budget kind of boggles my mind as to how good it could be.
You went Iorveth’s route right? Those harpies are frustrating at first but as long as you don’t destroy their nests they keep respawning for infinite farm.
Also (minor spoiler for a hunting side quest):
I had a small giggle at the crazy man collecting harpie feathers.Oh man, that side mission. So good, I just completely lost it at that point.
Yeah that’s right. To be honest I find harpies the most ridiculously easy enemy in the whole game. They’re even easier than the early monsters you find in Flotsam. They’re just not aggressive enough, they rarely attack and if you stay on the offensive you interrupt any attacks they make and with Whirlwind you can handle large groups easily. I don’t understand why they’re worth so much xp and provide so much money.
Uhhh TW? Target Walkers? Trail Wishers? Tuppence Whackers? Turpentine Warrior?
Towards Wagga? Thorium Whistle? Titanium @welbot? Am I getting close?
No, I am not posting comments too quickly!
The Witcher, bruh!
So my mother is currently on the phone giving the council a right earful of complaints about their blatant disregard to keeping the waterway at the end of our street clean.
This waterway is full of dumped rubbish from garden waste to other waste from food to shopping trolleys to just general rubbish, and the council CLAIM to have fixed all of this, yet they have done nothing, it’s all still there like the steel chest full of who knows what, the dozen or more trolleys.
It’s so bad the smell comes up through the storm water drains through out our street and the street around the corner at least.
Maybe my fathers idea of taking a water sample and having it tested isn’t such a bad idea, especially when there’s multiple colours through out the water from black, to clear to cloudy green/grey with oil slicks on top and this is present in some areas all at once.
But hey, the last time the council spent any real money here was when they installed this waterway 15 years ago. Yet we pay rates and can’t even live in a neighbourhood that is maintained properly.
Yes and being aggressive to a civil servant who has none of the power to change that outcome is the best idea.
If you and your family feel so passionately about it maybe organize a neighbourhood cleanup?
Actually no, I disagree, sometimes you have to be exactly that or otherwise they will not take you seriously. But considering this is the 3rd time in 2 years my mother has rung up to ask to have something done and this time she was called a liar and that it had been all attended to, well you tell me.
Also, no, that is not a smart suggestion at all, given not only the smell, but what could be in that water and surrounding areas is a real call for concern. I can name several things that don’t smell as bad as this and I wouldn’t go sticking my hands anywhere near those given what pathogens, and bacteria live in those. The fact it’s got such an anaerobic smell to it, gives you an idea what is likely to be present.
And another thing, this bloke has the power to actually have something done since he is HEAD of that department which is responsible for the waterways in the shire. But he said he believes there is nothing wrong with it.
Edit: one other thing, this all flows into the Tweed River, which people fish in, swim in and do other recreational activities in.
don’t do neighbourhood clean up, I worked around creeks for about 6 years, there is some disgusting shit in our creeks and a ridiculous amount of needles.
Yeah man, I’d never touch it, nor suggest anyone that isn’t the council or someone contracted by the council do it.
I find it funny that the council have these strict rules for having dams on properties here or bodies of water on private property that eventually flow into our waters, yet they can’t even keep the same standards for themselves.
Shouldn’t have to have a neighbourhood cleanup, we pay our rates and taxes for a reason, if they can’t even maintain things and keep the area clean, then we should be totally within our rights to not pay our rates, until they can.
Yeah exactly, my father pointed this out to the council, if we pay our rates then aren’t we entitled to a clean environment to live in. Hell the council won’t put in concreted foot paths around here or give us some street lighting. The only concreted foot path here goes from the shopping centre to the local club where the oldies go and get on the pokies & grog.
I agree that calling someone and making a scene with someone who has no power to do it is pointless (it’s like the people that go to store and yells at the sale staff because something they have no control over is “too expensive”). That being said, doing someone’s job because they are too lazy to do it isn’t the best course of action.
As I mentioned Nob, this bloke called my mother a liar and he is the head of this department responsible for looking after this exact matter. She was nice up until then.
That’s fair enough, I’m all for kick people up the arse for not doing their job after repeatedly being asked. Especially when they are rude about it.
Yeah, I mean it’s not fair to just abuse someone for the sake of being abused. But when people will not do their job, or say they have and in fact haven’t it’s a different matter.
Also annoys me when mum rang up about 3 weeks back to follow up on the previous call 12 months prior, this bloke was not in the office he was on RDO according to his receptionist and she would have him call her back within the next week, he claimed he rang back but no one answered, considering it was mums mobile number as a contact, yeah.. He didn’t like that when mum mentioned that either lol. If someone doesn’t want to do their job they should just say so, so we don’t bother the poor darlings again about it.
Time to start sending emails/writing letters and keeping them. Written record, and all that. No-one anywhere gives a shit about phone calls. Maybe even mention why it’s being written.
This sounds like something the local paper would have a good time writing up.
Yeah, think we may just do that. I mean when there’s been a trolley from Bunnings there for 7+ years just chilling and eroding away slowly, you know they don’t touch it at all.
Fuck local papers, this is the kind of shit a current affair producers lie awake at night fantasising over. Evil bureaucrats ignore underdog battlers, society gone to the dogs!!! If you could find a way to add a shonky builder into the mix they’d cum as soon as reading the email. National exposure via a vapid sensationalist bullshit machine might be distasteful but it’d be vastly more likely to get the problem solved.
But ACA D=
The local paper (lol Murdoch owned apparently) loves ripping into the council, it’s not a bad place to start.
Yeah, I’d also go down today and take photos and take a sample of the water for analysis. If you tell them you have photographic proof taken today, and will be sending a sample of the water away, it might be enough to get them off their arses.
Yeah gonna have to, I mean there’s also the chance a sewage pumping station across the road from it has also had some serious leakage and blockage problems over the years, so it wouldn’t be surprising if there’s ecoli in that water too, which poses a real danger.
Yeah ACA are bottom feeding scum and siccing them on a problem is kind of like organising the trashing of the house of someone you hate by sidling up to a KKK member and whispering that someone black lives there. It gets the job done but leaves you feeling dirty
Haha, yeah. Nice analogy I must say hahaha.
Ugh, being outside is like walking into an oven.
Inside is good.
Yep.
So I decided to check out Louie by Louis C.K. last night, not a bad show at all. Not always funny, but it’s more funny/entertaining than not.
@strange:
THE WALKING DEAD TV SERIES DISCUSSION
4×09 AFTER
I really, really enjoyed this episode. I’m a fan of Carl and Michonne and it was good to get a character study on both of these guys. Loved seeing how far Carl has come and his struggles out in the world by himself. Really liked that Rick could see this too. Was nice to learn more vague details on Michonne’s past and I liked her resolve to be with people instead of carrying on like she had been doing before she met Andrea.4×10 INMATES
I really liked this episode too. (Though I feel like it was better in ideas than execution, though.) For the first time since Hershel’s farm it’s cool to see a new story outside of the prison and back into the world. I like the cutting between groups. I particularly liked Glenn’s story at the prison and am glad that Tara is part of the show still. Her character is cool and broken and flawed and being part of the group directly responsible for the attack on the prison will make things interesting if they ever regroup. I thought Carol came out of nowhere, though. That felt a little too coincidental. Again, seeing the fallout with Tyrese later down the line will be interesting.4×11 CLAIMED
Really like Michonne’s change of perspective now. How she’s opening up about herself and feels warmer. This cool bond she’s got with Carl is pretty great. They’re the new Carol/Daryl. Loved all the house stuff with Rick too. Felt a palpable sense of danger. Really like the potential of this Washington D.C. arc. Will be nice to leave Georgia and see other parts of The Walking Dead’s world. The group who have Glenn/Tara feel a little over the top and cliche-like, though.4×12 STILL
I loved this one. I liked the weird tangent and how we got to learn more about Daryl and Beth. In fact that’s something the second half of this season is doing well, exploring characters in unexpected ways and grouping unlikely pairings together. I’m looking forward to seeing more momentum on the other storyline fronts though, but I’m glad they’re taking their time to tell stories that are a little bit different.Episode 11 Spoilers
The one thing I didn’t like about the “new” Michonne was that she just seemed to… snap into this smiley, loving person? I didn’t feel like there was much transition at all (or at least it could’ve been handled better. I dunno, felt a bit jarring that all of a sudden she’s really open about herself (though I do like that we’re learning more about her)EDIT: 12 is the latest episode, right? I don’t know if I’ve seen it yet. Don’t want to click the spoiler to find out 😛
Episode 9 and 11:
I thought that was a direct result from what happened in After. Almost saw her make a conscious choice in that episode and that look on her face when she saw her people at the end through the window.Today’s episode will be 4×13. Still is from last week.
Oh? Hm… Did I watch that one? I can’t even remember. Oh well, there was nothing really that spoilery in that tag anyway.
EDIT: No wait, I did watch that one! …I think.
I’ll give a vague spoiler to trigger memory:
Golf club.Okay, I definitely haven’t seen it then.
Or maybe I have…
Well this is weird…I agree with almost everything you said! 😛
I’m loving that we’re seeing so much more characterisation which has been missing and part of why I thought it was silly that they fleshed out the Governor in a way they hadn’t for any of the main characters in ages. I feel like this show is strongest when it’s focused more on the struggles of remaining human while having to deal with the changing world,and not on some stupid “enemy” like the Governor. It’s always been about who are the real Zombies, the Walkers or the Survivors? And when it strays from that it gets ridiculous.Yeah, I agree with everything you’ve said! Oh man, Strange and D.C. see eye to eye!
IT’S A BELATED CHRISTMAS MIRACLE! 😀
Spoilers for all episodes:
One thing that’s odd is Maggie doesn’t seem concerned about Beth at all. Just single mindedly focused on finding Glenn. Might be a coping mechanism, but after what happened to Hershel I thought family would be on her mind!I’ll be honest, it’s refreshing to see someone speak positive about these episodes. I think they’ve been great focusing on 2 different characters for the most part each week. I’m interested to see where this whole Glen & whatsername leads and if they do find Maggie.Everytime I want to play a game, I think of reasons not to. 🙁
Think about playing a game you don’t want to, then you will think of all the reasons why you should! \o/
But there aren’t any reasons why I should… 🙁
Excitement? Thrill of adventure? Funsies? Burning through the pile of shame?
maybe he’s a Jedi. “hmmph Adventure, Excitement, a Jedi craves not these things”
if you have it on psn you’ll get a platinum trophy just for finishing it, I only beat it at the start of the year, was worth my time.
Over the weekend I had nothing to do (“As usual”, I hear you jeer. How dare you.) So I sat down and watched a bunch of movies that SBS are showing as part of that 100 Clicks festival. Here’s some mini-reviews for each of the films I watched!
Air Doll
Already shared thoughts about this on Twitter, but anyway: This is a Japanese movie about an inflatable sex doll that comes to life. Sounds a bit weird, but it was actually a pretty great movie! I really enjoyed it. It was surprisingly sweet and had a great ending. I liked that it dealt with things such as the meaning of life/death and the value of a person. Touches on themes of loneliness too with the Doll’s owner and several other minor characters (though I wish it went even deeper with that because I felt it was the strongest theme the movie had). Some funny moments as well. Would definitely recommend if you want to watch something slow and different. (ps. I’m a bit of a fan of Bae Doo-na now, I’ve liked 2 out of 2 movies I’ve seen with her).
The Incite Mill: 7 Day Death Game
Another Japanese one about a group of ten people who answer a job ad for a psychological research experiment. They get sealed up in a facility and start playing a Detective game. People start dying, people start crying, etc, etc until the rules of the experiment are fulfilled. It was actually very similar to the 999/Zero Escape games, though honestly not as good. It was an OKAY movie, but nothing to go crazy about in my opinion. Stars the same dude as in Battle Royale (he really likes playing the normal-guy-in-horrific-situation character, huh?), so I kinda had high hopes. Some violence, but nothing gory. Good if you just want something simple with a bit of mystery and like that sort of locked-room-game scenario.
Kopps
A comedy this time! From Sweden! This one was about a small town police department who, after getting notified they will be shut down due to a lack of crime, start committing crimes themselves to bump up their statistics. I thought that sounded like a pretty funny premise, so gave it a go. It was pretty alright! Got a few good laughs out of me. The problem with foreign-language comedy films though is that I always feel like I’m missing half of the jokes. Like I only really get the chance to laugh at the really obvious stuff. I still enjoyed it, but probably not as much as someone who actually understands Swedish would. Luckily this movie had a lot of… Americanised(?) jokes. A lot of action film parodies and the like (mainly from one character who liked to imagine himself in American action movie scenarios). Overall good.
Drive
Hoooooly crap. This movie is SUPER violent! Why didn’t anybody warn me? Argh. One minute it’s a slow-paced, almost-romance flick about a guy who drives cars and then suddenly there’s blood everywhere and peoples’ bodies being made into shapes they shouldn’t. I dunno about this one. I was really liking it at the start, but lost me a bit once the heads starting rolling (literally). I think I enjoyed it though? I’m really not sure, it’s weird. It’s one of those movies where I’m glad I watched it, but never want to see it again. (Also, I remember someone posting somewhere about how one of Ryan Gosling’s eyes is significantly lower down his face than the other and once I saw it I couldn’t ignore it for the entire movie).
Beautiful Lies
Here’s a movie that I didn’t particularly like. What a snooze. This one was a French romantic comedy about a salon owner whose employee falls for her, but then she accidentally sets him up with her mother, hijinks ensue and… yeah. The plot is typical horrible romcom stuff. I wanted something light-hearted to watch after Drive, but I think this was a bit too much. It wasn’t all terrible! The scenery was really nice to look at. And uh, I haven’t watched a French movie in a long, long time, so… there’s that.
Let the Bullets Fly
A Chinese action/comedy movie about a bandit who poses as the governor of a small town and starts a war with some sort of high-up guy in the town… I’m not really sure what his position was… Anyway, I quite liked this movie. It was pretty funny! It’s that sort of slapstick-y, obvious humour that you don’t really need to understand the language to get. The setting was interesting too. It was Chinese, but in a very Wild-West style, I liked it. I think I’m a bit too stupid to understand the actual story though. I only have a vague idea of what I actually watched… The story moved really quickly with lots of quick-cuts and there was a tonne of characters (to make things worse some actors played multiple characters). But I still enjoyed it. I got the basic premise of the plot and the comedy/action scenes filled in the rest. (Just like a summer blockbuster!)
Nikita
Really liked this one! It’s a French movie about a lady criminal turned lady assassin, basically. Noticeably older than all of the other movies (1990? May as well have been in black and white) but one of the better movies I watched over the weekend. Loved the tone of the movie. Was shot really well (pun intended), especially at the beginning with all the coloured lighting. I thought the time-jumps and the overall pacing were handled pretty well too. One thing I didn’t like was that it seemed to wrap up really quickly after it just started to get into what I thought was the good bit, but I’m glad it didn’t drag on. Left me wanting to see more, that’s a mark of a good movie! Would watch again.
IN SUMMARY
Some really good movies! The stand outs for me would be Air Doll and Nikita. Even though there were a couple I didn’t really like, it was cool to watch so many different movies. Would recommend for the people like myself you have no life.
Rankings:
1. Air Doll
2. Nikita
3. Let the Bullets Fly
4. Kopps
5. Drive
6. The Incite Mill
7. Beautiful Lies
There’s heaps more on SBS On Demand! Homework: Go watch something new that catches your interest and report back! If you find anything good, let me know!
This post is significantly longer than it looked while I was typing it in Notepad…I really liked Drive. I especially liked Goslings shoes. So dreamy.
If Nikita is the one I am thinking of there was a TV series adaption made. Heard good things about it.
Yeah I think there’s an American one still running. Haven’t watched it though.
I watched Leon on the Professional which was good. I think Leon featured in Nikkita, but Leon the Professional exists in a different universe? Maybe I’m over thinking it.
But yeah, Drive is amazing. Basically hated Ryan Gosling until I watched that film. Has anyone watched Only God Knows? Reviews have been bad, but everyone I ask says that I’ll either love it or hate it.
If you liked Let The Bullets Fly try some of Stephen Chow’s films (Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer) as they are similar with the over top stylish filming and the universal slapstick humour.
Nikita is a classic and surprised you hadn’t seen it.
I love Drive. Amazing film.
If they’ve got them (Saw them on SBS originally so maybe?) Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl is fantastic as is Versus.
Yeah, Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer were great. Let the Bullets Fly wasn’t quite as zany as they were though.
And… Oh, yeah… I hadn’t seen Nikita because… er… well…
it came out a year before I was born 😛+1 for Kung Fu Hustle, love that movie. Apparently he was planning on doing a sequel to it too, but has put it on hold for now.
Ooooooh, The internet tells me there should be more Rick and Morty today.
@virus__
Stick with Louie. It gets better and better as it goes. The dental scene is legendary.
I love Louie 75% of the time and hate it 25% of the time. 😀
I almost feel like that’s what Louie wants.
I sure will, I think i’m on episode 6 so far, I like the format of the show, it’s like he’s making fun of reality shows whilst taking the piss out of himself too.
I thought the check up with with Dr. Ben aka Ricky Gervais was just the best. I had seen that scene before though, so yeah lol. I love that man. Just got done watching the first season of his show Derek, which I enjoyed.
Haven’t checked out Derek yet. Definitely on my radar though.
It’s pretty good. It’s definitely very British in terms of comedy lol.
Hey, whatever happened to Xbone’s game sharing? Is that still a thing or did they can it with the Online only stuff?
Does PS4 have a similar sharing thing? From what I know you can nominate a PS4 as the Primary console for an account, which will then let you play its purchased games with all other users/accounts on that console (ie. “Green” can play all of “Greenius”‘s purchases). I believe that if I don’t mark the console as primary it’ll only let the owner of the purchased content play it. It was a little bit different on PS3 where up to 5 consoles (later lowered to 2) could share the content and any users could access it.
Steam sharing is a pretty cool feature so I’m hoping it goes to other things.
Xbone killed game sharing once they backpedalled on the alwys-online thing. In any case, it later transpired that it would only allow glorified demos anyway.
Boooo! That’s almost all my interest in Xbone gone 🙁
PS3/4 and Steam sharing is still a thing though so it’s not too bad 😀
I’m glad Steam finally allowed sharing up to the same level as I could do on consoles. It really bothered me how my wife had to use my account just to play games I’d bought, even though they were installed on the PC. :/
Guys, I paid for pax meat deposit. If you don’t believe me, I have Techie to corroborate my story
But you could have reprogrammed techie to lie to us! D=
I think she spent it on a spot light of some variety!
A spotlight with a pixelated gamepad icon on the lens to install on the roof of police headquarters. Whenever there’s a crime, the police can shine the Scree-signal, she can race down there immediately and say ‘sorry’
I know it’s a joke, but I am so angry at spotlight the arts and crafts store because they no longer have the wool that I was using for Nobs chainmail
Hmmm, I appear to be in a slight predicament whereby people are getting busier and aren’t able to play tabletop RPGs anymore. One or two of the games I’m in are in danger of being dropped entirely so I must have a contingency in place.
If, theoretically, I was to run a game for TAYbies, what sort of system (eg. 40K, DnD, other) and what sort of story would people prefer to play? I’m just gauging interest at the moment to see who would be interested in another TAY RPG as I would have time to GM a new campaign if one of my other games gets canned.
Keeeeeeeen.
Happy to learn a system, though preference would be on the lighter end of the rules spectrum. Like I said when we started Numenera, I like operating by the rule of cool in Rpgs.
I would be up for anything, personally.
Anything? ;]
Anything
I’d be keen for this certainly! I always enjoy learning these systems, if you can take someone being a bit noobish at it.
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NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Raller Cay got away, but has his plan been foiled? Will the murder of Nerada Trome come back to bite the party?
Wednesday 7:30 SA time!
Also cc@gingerchris86 and @f4ction if you want to sit in
Heya – Probably going have to give this a miss. Sorry, Life is crazy at the moment – I’ll let oyu know when I’m able to watch – More of an update later
At the moment I’m downloading Zen Pinball 2 so I have another game I can play while I’m waiting to have money to buy a proper game.
I like those Zen pinball games, the marvel tables were pretty great. Sux that you have no money for games though :(. You don’t have a pile of shame like most of us to work through?
I traded in my pile of shame so I could get the PS4.
METAL GEAR AND INFAMOUS NEXT WEEK SUCKAH!!!
Metal Gear?!
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(!) I’ve been spotted *hides in box* “phew”
inFamous. WOOOOO! Honestly the first time I’ll be using PS4 since early December. :S
Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!
I use mine nearly every day
for Netflix@greenius will be so proud.
Among the things played this weekend: All AF2014 prototypes, at least one AF2012 prototype, and …
XenobladeI like all those things!
Thoughts on the prototypes? (@dc @sughly)
Which 2012 one did you play? Black Lake? Black Lake.
My favourite was LPBB. Zany… crazy… was left at the end just (?_?)
Steed was ok but I’m not sure how much depth the concept has.
Dear Leader seemed ok but it’s not the sort of thing I’d normally play – hard to judge, I guess?
I missed Mnemonic at first but when I did get around to playing, I was a bit lost/confused at first (I hadn’t watched the docu stuff since ~ day3 or so).
But the time I kind of ‘got’ it, it was over.
Also, I took waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long to
find the key.Yes, Black Lake. (can probably see this from my steam play history :P)
I saw all the doco eps and I was most looking forward to Steed and LPBB.
Steed
– I agree with what you said. The prototype was over too soon but who knows what’ll happen if it was made into a full game. I thought that this one may be the most likely to be made into a full game since Tim really liked the idea and they had a Steed video of John looking at horses before the voting even closed. SUSPICIOUS!
LPBB
– I was pretty disappointed with this to be honest :(. The whole chat thing is barely there and doesn’t even work. Lots of little glitches too (to be expected from a prototype I guess) and it just takes too long to sit through everything to make it fun experimenting (I just looked up a playthrough to see the end)
Dear Leader
– Love the art style but I’m not really fond of these types of games. Papers Please was alright but got really repetitive but I’d definitely be interested in checking out a full release
Mnemonic
– Everyone thought it’ll be a mess from the first few eps of the doco but this one surprised me the most and may be my favourite prototype of the lot. I was stuck on a certain puzzle for agesssssssss
using the key to look at the skyline and to an extent using the photo in the alley (read the solution online for the wall one)I think it’s because I had the right idea but you needed to be in really specific spots for these to trigger. I liked all the cool little touches as well like the Rorschach fade ins/outs and just the whole noir theme. Derek Brand is pretty rad at art!Initially I thought that these ones would be a lot better than 2012’s but I think 2014’s were more fun to watch than play and 2012’s was the opposite. Nothing will beat Black Lake as my favourite though!
As for Black Lake I only made that guess since it’s the prototype I liked the most :D. Why’d you only play that one in particular?
But what we really want to know is, HOW WAS XENO!? 😀
Just played through Mnemonic. I dun geddit. It felt pretty interesting though, the mechanics of it all. I can see this being pretty effective in a full game, with the story properly fleshed out. Although hopefully with less
hearts in blimps, wha? Something about telepathy and er, eh… maybe if I didnt skim read everything…Yeah I enjoyed Dear Leader the most, but I still havent even finished a full play of it – got interrupted mid game, twice. Sigh. Er, Steed, yeah, pretty fun for 5 minutes but I really wouldnt want to play a full game of it.
LPBB, I really like this one. I agree that there’s a lot not right with the chat function at the moment, but it’s got so much promise. Really liked the surreal story that goes with it too, super cool. Also Pen’s writing is the best. “You guys DONT have the right!” Love it. Played with Ash, he was almost in tears laughing at
moustache guy peering through the window. Then kept saying how bad he felt for big leg after we finished the game haha. Yehh… poor ol big leg.Xeno was ok – got past that part I was stupidly stuck at… (only got to play for about an hour).
Black Lake, because I saw it played on some stream but they cut off before the end saying “a-ha, we don’t want to spoil what happens”, so probably mostly due to curiosity.
re: Steed, I read a comment and can’t shake it from my mind.
something along the lines of it being pretty similar to a reskinned brutal legendLPBB I played, got bad ending… read comments about “you haven’t really seen the end unless you see credits” so kepy playing again and again. I like how bizarre it is.
Re: Dear Leader – ya, I really liked the art style too 😀
Also played Walking Dead S2E2 & ….
sniper elite: nazi zombies 2. I was gifted it, ok?…
Diablo 3.
Good times.
Yuuuuuup. So good! Are we going to do some more tonight?
So much clicking.
Well, that’s Dark Souls done and dusted 😀
The ending was a little, underwhelming, to be honest. Might play a bit more of it, purely for PvP / Coop, but now to move onto my AAA pile of shame. So that means…
MQFT!!! (I think that’s what it’s called :\)
Choices are: C, Ds, De, L, or N.
N for $200.
Demons Souls
Firstly, wrong.
Secondly, YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO GUESS!!! >:(
I’m saying C.
Also, to get the most out of the ending, start watching the VaatiVidya lore videos. Especially the ones where he discusses which is the ‘good’ ending of the two.
Damn, maybe I’ll have to finish it twice for the second ending :\
I think I have a grasp on the lore, I was more just talking about the anticlimactic cinematic at the end. It makes sense and everything, but I was expecting a bit, more?
Maybe I’m just being picky though.
I recommend watching the video for speculation on what it means, but ultimately… it’s all very bleak. There is no ‘good’ ending.
ACTUAL SPOILDERERS:
The flame is fading. The Witch of Izalith tried to create a new flame, but it might as well have killed her, and gave rise to the Demons. The flame already faded once, but Gwyn sacrificed himself to re-light it. You saw the result of that explosion when you went back down into the Kiln. All the melted stone. Gwyn was a bright and heroic lord – practically a God – but he’s burned out, he has so little left to give to the flame. You can sacrifice yourself to keep the Flame going again, just a little bit longer, but it will still ultimately go out unless Frampt can find another undead to replace you. Which – if the legend is true and the curse of the undead is lifted, he won’t be able to find anyone who can collect as many souls, or as much humanity. If the legend about the curse of the undead isn’t true, then humanity will soon be ALL undead, as the curse is spreading. Undead, and… hollow. As the abyss and its humanity sprites fail to spread. But the age of the flame will come to an end no matter how long you burn, the gods will lose their powers and die or go insane (as most already have). The end boss of Dark Souls is the crushing weight of entropy, the heat-death of the universe, and Entropy wins.So bleak!
N for NotDarkSouls.
It is indeed MQFT!
or N gets my vote!
L for Liondrive!
L
It is done. Dark Souls 2 for PS3 – now pre-ordered though JB.
Was inclined to wait for PC, but… DAMMIT I WANNA PLAY NOW.
It’s all I can do to avoid starting up a completely new run of Dark Souls with a new character. With absolutely no point to it. (There is literally nothing left for me to do except maybe view the Lautrec dialogue I’ve missed, and play a faith/int character. But IMO, Dark Souls is about the giant slab of metal you hit people with.)
It WOULD be the obliteration of the most important part of my work week, but since I’m getting it delivered, it might not actually arrive until Friday or maybe even the Monday/Tuesday after the Dark Souls 2 weekend. Since I haven’t yet finished SouthPark and I have an intense session of Europa Universalis 4 going (Russia dominates the WORLD!), I don’t mind TOO much. (Though I will be annoyed if I don’t get the weekend for it.)
If I weren’t for the fact that my PC copy is completely paid off, I would be throwing my wallet at Dark Souls 2 so much this week.
But as it is, I must stay strong, and hold out for Infamous next week to tide me over.
Wooo! Dark Souls \o/
Oh wow this,.. new layout centrelink has dished out for the page you see when you login in, so so minimalstic i’ve no idea where all the important stuff I could access before has gone. Better yet their reminders for important shit like appointments has become so vague I find it pointless..
Example.. “You have an appointment with your provider at 14:30 on 11 March 2014. If you cannot attend this appointment, you need to call the organisation that made the appointment. If you do not attend or call, your payment may stop and a penalty may begin to affect your payment”
Before these changes that used to say who the provider was, the date, time, their address & contact number. Now I get to play the guessing game. Luckily I saw this a few weeks back before it all got changed and knew it was Centrelink.
I swear most government websites are barking up the wrong tree by trying to emulate the trendy and hip look of some social media and news websites. People need government websites to find information and understand that information, not get the buzz on your latest campaign that doesn’t affect the average person at all.
Yeah this time they went for the Metro styled theme from Windows 8, yeah cause pretty colours and less information make it easier for me right, centrelink?
The Walking Dead 4×13 – Alone:
Just watched this weeks episode.
Probably one of my favourites this season. Again with a strong focus on character. Feel like I know more about these people than I did last week which makes a successful episode.
Really looking forward to seeing where this Terminus thing is going. All roads seem to lead there. Ricks group, Tyrese’s group, Maggie’s group. Wondering what’s going to happen with Beth too.
Some great character development for Bob in particular. Doesn’t feel like a glorified extra any more. Loved how it started with the flashback. So good.
I wonder if Joe’s group are the same people who holed up in the house Rick was in?
Wait wait wait. When I first started lurking around I thought I recalled you mentioning you weren’t a fan of the show, or am I mistaken you with someone else?
I’m a complicated guy, Liondrive. You’re thinking of the right person. 😀
I had a change of heart around December when I marathoned the first three seasons.
What you need to know about DC, Liondrive, is that he’s crazy.
The leader of the guys in the house was definitely Joe. Which makes it suck even more that Darryl ran into them like that. I found the fact the show made it look like he was falling for Beth a hell of lot squicky as well. 🙁 And people are taking stupid pills again. There is no way in hell Darryl wouldn’t check before opening the door. You could even see a head through the wooden bars. As for Bob, he was so effortlessly cool in this episode he reminded me of Transient Mind. 😛Oh, and regarding your earlier concern:
I think Maggie is focused on Glenn because she thinks Beth is dead. She knows Beth wasn’t on the bus because she got off to go find her. She didn’t find her. I think that’s part of why she’s so determined to find Glenn. She can still have hope for him. He’s all she’s got left.Couldn’t agree more with the Beth/Daryl thing. She’s what? 17 at most! He’s easily late 20s, early 30s. Kind of weirded me out. :SIf anyone wants a PS4 it’s like $457 at Dick Smith online at the moment!
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/136163
Cheaper!
Tempted. I don’t expect it will drop lower than that any other time this year?
It might later on in the year but probably not any time soon. They’ve already discounted it 10% but some glitch or error let’s you use another promo code to get it even further discounted.
$494 seems to be the standard Dick Smith sale price though and it’s been that a few times.
I just calculated I’ve slept about 21 hours since last Monday, that might explain why I can’t concentrate on anything.
I’LLSLEEPWHENI’MDEADDAMMIT
Dark Souls.
Still mucking around in Anor Londo, Jolly Co-Opping O&S whenever I get the chance to.
Trying out different weapons, and the heaviest hitting weapon I’ve got is the Black Knight Sword +5. Doesn’t matter what the stats on all the other weapons are, this one does the most damage by far when one-handed by someone of my stats. Anyone else find an oddity like this with their build?PS: Here, apparently is everything you need to know before playing Dark Souls 2
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-before-playing-dark-souls-2/1100-6418150/
Edit: there is actually some useful information in here.
* A ring that reduces the health penalties of dying often (much like Demon’s Souls)* Tapping “roll” when climbing down a ladder now causes the player to drop, rather than slide. Eep. I’m gonna do this a few times by accident, I’m sure.
* Burning a Human Effigy at a bonfire will also make it more difficult for you to be invaded. (@negativezero)
* Merchants have limited amounts of supplies (titanite, too, allegedly)
* Bunch of other stuff too
The second one was in Dark Souls. Tap to drop, hold to slide. I died once on the way down to Hydra because of it.
Really? I had no idea. I don’t think I’ve ever seen my chap drop from a ladder ever. I’m going to have to experiment with this.
Maybe it was the other way around on the PS3, because tap was slide for me. Never found a drop (though it would’ve been handy). Didn’t try holding, though.
PPS: Screenshot comparisons between early DS2 footage and the version being released. Apparently, it’s done a Watch Dogs.
http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/03/09/dark-souls-ii-early-ps3-copies-shown-significant-lighting-downgrade-from-january-videos/
that sort of thing is pretty annoying, I don’t care about gerapherix that much but I know people who are heavily influenced by that sort of thing and it affects which platform they’ll buy it on. It’s like the early trailers are baiting for pre orders and once the numbers are up they stop caring.
I know this statement is very uneducated and there are probably 1000 000 factors influencing development, just seems like dodgy marketing
I’m not fussed about it. Just gimme Dark Souls!
yep, that how i usually am, don’t care just gimme fun things, just seems to be happening a bit lately,
Guess I’m buying the PC version as well!
I’m just hoping the the lighting quality/texture res in the top shots is present in the PC version, validating my decision to wait for the *ahem* clearly superior version #masterrace4lyf
NOOooOOooOOoOoOoOoOooo!!!!
New game means I’m not far enough in to try and invade you :'(
I’m hollow anyway. Can’t be invaded 😛
DOUBLE NOOooOOooOOoOoOoOoOooo!!!!!
I thought you had to be human to be summoned though? Or I could invade the world of the person that summoned you any way >:)
Oh well, I’m not far enough along, and can’t use my Dark Moon Blade at any rate 🙁
You have to be human to be invaded. Hollows can’t be invaded.
You have to be human to invade. Hollows can’t invade.
Hollows CAN place white/yellow signs to be summoned for co-op.
Yeah I knew about the being human to invade / be invaded, but I also thought you had to be human in order to use the white / red sign soapstones :S
I wasted sooooooooo much humanity going human to help out with coop early game :S
Oh man
We had a meeting about the job i went too, i have to go up to cairns on wenesday and apologize with my boss. Not looking forward to the punch in the face i am bound to receive. They did say i didn’t have to go but i feel like i should face this.
On the plus side, my new lady friend is truly wonderful. Shes happy and positive and really funny. She is also incredibly beautiful and so out of my league. I mean I am witty, smart, nice, generous, fun to be around… oh who am i kidding i am amazing. In any case i am very happy and didnt realize relationships could be this easy and enjoyable. Man i have had some fucked up experiences
Upvote is for second paragraph! I’m sure first paragraph will go well too!
You have to go with your boss and both apologize? Were you hired by the King of Cairns or something?
The King Of Cairns sounds like a sitcom
So last night I seem to have dreamt of Sketchbook. Twice. Which is really really weird because it’s extremely rare that I dream of people I know in the first place, let alone repeatedly. And while I was struggling to get to sleep I was thinking of costume ideas for a friend’s 21st I’ve got coming up in a couple of weeks. Still not sure how I’m gonna do it…
Also last night I realised that there were roughly 50 hours between when I started Donkey Kong on Friday night, and when I finished it on Sunday night. And my gameplay time was just short of 30 hours.
…..
If it’s extremely rare that you dream of people, and you dreamt of her twice in one night, I’d be taking that as a sign 😛
Of what? OF WHAT??
That’s she’s trying to kill you in your dreams, Nightmare on Elm Street-style.
Do I have to spell it out?
*sigh* fine.
Gooky and Sketchbook sitting in a treeK-I-S-S-I-N-G
First comes love
Then comes marriage
Then comes a baby in a baby carriage 😀
See what you’ve made me resort to! >:P
Oh, that. I already knew that bit from the heart flutters and such, that’s old news 😛
If only it were true on the other side of the fence ;_;
Aw, man. That’s adorable. 😀
Also DKC took me two weeks. You so crazy!
Perhaps Sketchbook Girl is trapped on an astral plain and can only communicate to people by going into their dreams. I’m usually not a fan on the supernatural stuff but I think I can make an exception for this.
*grabs popcorn*
This is going to possibly seem a bit weird, but whenever you talk about Sketchbook my brain immediately thinks:
http://i.imgur.com/Y4mhzDI.jpg
She’s the main character in a slice of life anime called Sketchbook.Wikipedia description of the character:
Sora is extremely quiet, rarely speaking in the anime. She is easily frightened, and even mildly startling events can send her into hiding. On more than one occasion she flees from her close friend, Asō, because her hairstyle is unfamiliar. Among the things she has admitted or been shown to find scary are bowling balls, high voltage towers, gym instructors, escalators, security cameras, frozen pike, passing trains, Daichi Negishi, and a balloon-seller in a cat costume.
That’s… actually kind of dead-on. At least, to how she used to be before becoming more comfortable around people and hanging out with us.
*grabs popcorn*
*realised that I don’t like popcorn*
*gives popcorn to @shane*
Walking Dead S2E2
What the shit? I sat there and watched Kenny get torn apart and heard his screams. And now you want to undo that with no explanation but a hand wave of “Oh he got out”. Fucking lazy writing.^ He’s talking about the game 😛
Spoilers for Season 1 and Season 2 Ep 2 of the game
Kenny never had a death scene in the last game though, it was just assumed.The post game summary explicitly states he died.Actually, it explicitly says “he was lost”I noted that specifically when I played it.
Exact words were
“lost to the horde”. Which means on no uncertain terms he was killed by them unless the English language changed since last I checked.Fair enough.
It didn’t really bother me much, but I totally understand why it did bother you.If you could tell me why that’d be great because at this stage I have no idea why. All I can really think of is maybe it’s because his sacrifice to attempt to save the guy who got his family killed was a powerful character moment for me and they kind of just threw that away. Still shouldn’t bother me as much as it did. I’ve been over stressing a lot of minor things lately though…You’re right – it does cheapen that a little. But if you consider that the act of risking his life was the powerful moment, it kind of sorta doesn’t matter whether or not he actually died… Okay, just grasping at straws here.The Walking Dead is not high storytelling; it’s bald-faced emotional manipulation. There’s a plan afoot, I’m sure.
Spoilers for The Walking Dead season one and two. (Game.)
How’d it happen your version? In my version Ben fell off the roof and was impaled. Kenny went down to save Ben and zombies surrounded them. You heard screaming, but could easily have been Ben.Same. But Lee stat there trying to save Kenny before hearing the screams then dropping his head and walking away. Remember, he could see. Also he told Omid and Christa he saw Kenny die in the next scene. It just undermines any permanence or impact the game has when they’ll just do whatever they want and just shrug and say whatever. I REALLY started to lose interest once that happened. Pathetic.So I finished South Park SOT, despite it being relatively short I don’t mind it, way to many censored scenes though XD almost makes me want to grab a US copy.
that game really shows how very weird the ACB’s guidelines are, so much that was let in is way worse than what was cut.
Yeah.
Performing an ‘abortion’ on a dude is verboten, but on a robot with a female voice giving commentary is fine. No anal probing, but battling a giant aborted fetus zombie wearing nazi swastikas is perfectly acceptable.The worst thing I think though is that all of the content they had would be par for the course in the TV series and at worst probably attract an MA rating. That really disturbs me, there’s no scientific basis for holding games to completely different standards than film or TV.
Hilarious, must tell someone… hi TAY
so a guy in my office that I don’t care for (he’s a jerk) was just putting staples into his stapler, accidentally dropped it and in his attempt to catch it stapled his own leg, that takes some skills.
Skills to pay the (medical) bills!
at least he has some skills, cause his work skills are shite 😛
I have only just discovered archer and I’m sorry, but I must post this
http://thechive.com/2013/10/11/the-archer-team-archer-ized-the-danger-zone-music-video-from-top-gun-and-its-everything-youd-hope-for-video/ I loved the endingScree …
Scree! …
SCREEEEEEEE!
What?!
Danger Zone
MAWP! MAWP! MAWP!
Urgh. I hate being sick. I’ve barely gotten any sleep since Tuesday night cos I can’t stop coughing when I lay down. Add to that the mugginess and it’s not fun!
So has anyone played Assetto Corsa? Is it worth it right now? It looks pretty good in the mean time whilst waiting for Project CARS to come out eventually.
Also my housemate is stoned right now and it’s kinda funny to watch her navigate the house 😛
Haven’t played AC, but it’s on my wishlist.
Do you want it?
Yeah, but I need to justify it to myself somehow 😛
It’ll help you get better…
Serious response:
It has a hell of a driving model, and the ai isn’t sucky.
It’ll take time, but once you’v put the hours in, you’ll realise why it was worth it.
Also, it’s worth it.
EDIT: Looks like you’ve bought it.
Yeah I gave in 😛 still waiting for it to finish downloading though. I’d love to play with a wheel but I’ve never really had space for one, which kinda sucks.
Finished S2e2 of Telltale Walking Dead
Took blame for the photoSat with Luke
Told Walter the truth
Convinced Walter to forgive Nick
Left to find help.
It was a good episode but reeeeaaaalllllyyyy wish they didn’t jam Kenny in there. Actually made me angry. And he hasn’t done anything anyone could have done. Why not Christa? Or Molly(?), the chick from Savannah?
I think narratively it had to be someone Clem would immediately connect with. She didn’t really get to know Molly, and looking for Christa/going North is the overarching b-plot. Everyone else is very definitely dead, whereas Kenny was a question mark. Also, I guess Kenny’s obvious emotional trauma and resultant psychological issues are going to be a factor moving forward).For the record my playthrough was the same as yours except I sat with Kenny.
Who here is getting Infamous Second Son next week on the 21st?
I’ll prolly pick it up on either the 21st or the 22nd. Keen to get my hands on some more PS4 games, since I haven’t been a fan of most of the PS+ freebies lately.
Resogun = Brilliant
Don’t Starve = Crap
Outlast = Too p***y to play :3
Dead Nation = Already have it
Whaaaaaaaaaat!? Don’t Starve is amazing!
It was soooooooo baaaaaaaaad (on PS4 anyway)
Just wasn’t my type of game. I don’t know if I was missing something, but chasing after a bunny for an entire day cycle while swing my axe at it as I slowly starve to death wasn’t super fun.
And yes, I know there was a trap you could build to put over bunny holes, but it wouldn’t let me put one over the damn bunny hole!
The lack of purpose is what was the real turn off for me though. There was no purpose, no sense of reward, no point.
Like I said, just wasn’t my type of game unfortunately.
The goal is to don’t starve 😛 (but I know what you mean). Those games are still fun for a few hours though!
I’m going to get it but I want to get a US copy since I’m basically adopting my US account as my primary one and I don’t want to get screwed out of any DLC. So either will get digital or import.
Hells yeah, man. First major PS4 game I’m really looking forward to…
Same! Then Watch Dogs in May 😀
I’m looking forward to indie games The Witness and Rime as well.
Awesome. Not sure what I am looking forward to after Watch Dogs lol. Maybe Drive Club.
Murdered off that list?
Oh, still on the list. I know it got some bad press but so did L.A. Noire and Beyond: Two Souls so that ain’t a deal breaker for me. Just those other ones have my hype. 😀
It still looks like a cool idea and there’s time for it to be fixed up a bit. I’ll grab it but without much in expectations at this point.
I think the art direction alone is something I could appreciate. Just take in all the sights and sounds, etc.
Murdered is one of those games I plan to get on ozgameshop when its a bit cheap but I’m not expecting too much. Based on descriptions I’m sort of picturing something a step below my solid 70 percenter category, something basically okaaaaay but all the good ideas are somewhat spoiled by the mechanics and bad execution.
TRANSISTOR AND NIGHT IN THE WOODS (NOT CONFIRMED FOR PS4, BUT DON’T ANY OF YOU TRY AND RUIN MY HOPES AND DREAMS!!!)
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture too. That looks amaaaaazing.
Here are my most anticipated games for the year!
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/76419586848/08-february-2014
I, ummm, already read it :3
I’M NOT A STALKER!!! YOU’RE JUST INTERESTING IS ALL!!! D’:
Haha! Outstanding! Thanks for reading, buddy!
@dc
Umm, you’re welcome I guess, haha?!
I’ve never been thanked for reading something before :\
You’re a good writer at any rate. Very personal and real style about your writing. It’s quite interesting and engaging, and I usually full on hate reading :\
You’ve warranted a spot on one of my four constant mobile browser tabs (you’re blogs ranked number 2, after TAY, and before IGN and my uni timetable :3 )
:’)
3 more records delivered today makes for a happy Aleph!
How’s everyone doing this Monday?
I r gewds. Bored though. Also itchy, took the dog for a walk and the bitey things were out in force 🙁
Bite them back. That’ll teach ’em.
Haha, idk if I wanna bit insects honestly 😛
So that True Detective show is kind of alright.
I like the bit where the guys did the things with the stuff. Pretty rad.
Season finale spoilers.
So glad that the Yellow King thing didn’t get all Lovecraftian. Although that opening scene of the last episode felt like they were trying to cram a lot of characterisation in. It might have worked better if they revealed him a bit sooner so that we got more time with him.I have episode 1 waiting to be watched…but this review makes me unsure what to do.
Watch it.
Heh, turns out one of the neighbours has a flock of rabbits.. I thought it was just two at first, but apparently it’s a fair few, and some of them are left to roam free, according to one neighbours whose yard they were in chilling & grazing lol.
God help them if any of the rabbits got into my yard or the yard next door, the poor thing would have a horrible time with any of the dogs. I wouldn’t be surprised either if one of our few resident pythons snacks on them one night.
It probably *was* just two at first.
Oh these two were males apparently, but also the word is this lady fosters random animals for the RSPCA, yet the RSPCA here said it doesn’t want rabbits and they’re more a pest than anything and apparently cost them 200 bucks to desex & vaccinate.. What rabbit is worth 200 bucks?! They’re like 20 bucks at any local pet shop here or good butcher >_>
Edit: but yeah I agree it was probably that LOL
Life… Finds a way.
Surprisingly productive driving lesson. I had a headache, so the instructor thought it wise to do standard driving rather than the reverse-parallel-sideways-extraordinaire parking I usually do. All I did was drive and talk with the instructor. I always avoided all conversation whilst driving, out of fear. I was taken aback that conversation didn’t impact my driving in any noticeable way. This driving lesson really showed me that I have improved.
Yay ego boost!
Nicely done, man!
Bit more practice and you’ll be driving and texting like a pro!
Please don’t do this 😛Just before I left Canberra, they had installed txtspk signage in high-danger areas.
I recall one saying
DRIVE N TXT
U B NEXT
Silly government, trying to be all relevant and shit.
That said, they also brought my favourite one in then, which simply said “Don’t Tailgate.”
Liondrives driving tips that I found really useful:
– Don’t overthink stuff like parallel parking and reverse parking.– Treat every other driver on the road like they are idiots.
– Don’t be overcautious, that’s what can cause accidents.
– Don’t be over confident, that’s what can cause accidents.
– You’re in control of the car. If the passenger tells you to do something you’re not confident doing, or that you think is unsafe, use you’re own judgement (i found that out the hard way :/).
Liondrives tips for the actual driving test (the practical one, not the computer one):
– Do everything by the book (indicate for blah long before leaving a parking bay)– Stop at ALL stop signs, don’t roll through them.
– Check your blindspot continuously. Even if you don’t actually check, just make the head motion.
– Don’t use your eyes when checking mirrors. Physically move your whole head so the instructor sees that you are checking mirrors.
– Practice talking to the instructor while you’re still learning. They tend to talk to you during the test to semi-distract you to see if you can focus on driving still.
– Follow the speed limit to the letter. Don’t go over 3km over (preferably don’t go over at all, but I think 3-4km over is the limit), also, and this is personally, don’t go more than 3-5km under the limit. I think that this kinda shows you’re not confident, but saying that, it is better to be under rather than over. Also, don’t get tripped up by school zones!
– Even if you think you’re doing shit, or that you’ve failed, DON’T get in your own head about it. Some instructors are quite lenient, and may have marked you as a pass on a skill even if it took you 2 – 3 attempts.
– Wear a handsome shirt and a winning smile when going for your P’s test. You’ll get a pass one way or another.
Regarding my earlier MQFT, the most suggested game to play was “N”, which, of course, stands for Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch!
I actually don’t know why I stopped playing it, it was really fun :\
I just had crunchy peanut butter for the first time.
It’s alright. Way harder to spread on the toast. The nuts don’t really add much in terms of flavour. It’s basically just normal peanut butter, but crunchy.
I rate it 6/10
Peanut butter should give it a minimum 8/10 score nuts or not. You’ve been paid off haven’t you! HAVEN’T YOU!
Peanut Butter tastes like sweaty jockstrap.
Not joking, my sister loves it, and I can’t stand it.
One time at school, my mum made sandwiches for us, I had Vegemite (Don’t like the taste of it anymore), and my sis had PB, and we grabbed the wrong sangas, so I chucked mine in the bin.
Wrong. Smooth peanut butter is about a 5 while crunchy is at least a 9. Super crunchy gets an 11.
This guy knows where it’s at.
They both get a 0.5
Mate i’ve had quite enough of your Peanut Butter Bashing i oughta teach you a lesson!!!
On why Peanut Butter is Jesus in spreadable formI already have two nuts.
Why would I need Peanut Butter?
Transubstantiation jokes abound.
Hang on, you’re like 17 or something aren’t you? How in the name of hell are you having crunchy peanut butter for the first time now? That’s kind of like saying “Hmm, what’s this bread stuff I’ve been hearing about lately?”
I’ve never had it, and I’m 28
I am allergic to nuts, though, so that might be a factor.If you’re allergic to nuts, how come you keep coming back here? 😛
That was bad and I should feel bad, yet I don’t!Son, I am so proud of you right now
Haha. I make such horrible puns all the time at home. I blame my father.
Shane’s your dad?
Not me. My puns are uniformly excellent.
Pfft my father has 24 years practice of dad jokes, they’re waaaaaaaay more corny than what Shane has up his sleeve 😛
Oh really? That’s craaaazy. It doesn’t kill you, I hope?
Nut allergies are usually pretty serious, so yeah i’d say depending on the dosage it really could.
Only twice, so far.
No, I’m lucky – my reactions are pretty minor. Tightening of the throat etc, but not to the point of restricted breathing.:S Geez, do you have an epi pen and all that?
NOPE!
Now we know what to get the guy who has everything!
I see you like to live dangerously.
Obviously another Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut…
I avoided it as a child due to my hatred of nuts*. (Somehow I liked peanut butter) I accidentally grabbed the crunchy because I forgot to read the label.
*I don’t hate them anymore
That’s a funny looking zero!
Peanut Butter is the most vile spread known to man. I’d rather eat a gnarled, fungus-ridden, blended foot. I can only assume that the people who buy and enjoy that horrific product had their taste buds surgically removed as a result of an unfortunate brain injury that causes wild, detestable eating habits.
But I don’t like to exaggerate.
I have a of cookie butter sitting in my fridge.
It tastes pretty much like you’d expect it to.
You accidentally a word there.
I was intentionally leaving the receptacle a mystery.
it’s a jar. My tablet seems to hat kotaku comment fieldsAh 😛
Cookie butter sounds interesting I must say.
I’m assuming he means the cookie butter is ‘a’ grade.
Trick is to spread it slowly, so it melts into the toast.
Pro-tip: crumpet + crunchy peanut butter. Nuts slip into the holes, so good
Okay, snack advice with peanut butter (you need a bit of time and other ingredients, but it is worth it).
Imagine this, a chocolate muffin with two Oreos in the middle of it that are separated by a layer of peanut butter. Chocolate peanut butter Oreo muffins. Boom.
Alternatively, use Nutella instead of peanut butter if you don’t like peanut butter / love Nutella more.
I’d rather not imagine that.
They are super delicious though! They sound like they could clot up your arteries with cholesterol just looking at them, but they are super yummy! 😀
Now that’s GOT to be a euphemism for something sexual…
So I have 4 different kinds of red fabric paint. I was trying to figure out which would be best to praise the sun =P I asked my Mum who pretty much said “they’re the same, they’re all red.”
I had to explain as an artist, I can kind of tell the difference between the reds.
In the end I decided it was more like vermilion and that I need to buy a different brand of fabric paint.
That reminds me of this from Parks & Recreation lol.
But vermillion is an awesome colour.
they weren’t that close in colour =P
Fair enough 😛
I use these for painting on fabric:
http://www.airbrushmegastore.com/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=109&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1
Not sure if they’ll have the exact shade of red you need but they don’t need any special treatment, I just put them on with a sponge and leave them to cure for at least a fortnight before washing and they stay on really well.
My exploits in Pokemon Yellow are going well. I have reached the S.S. Anne. My party:
Copernicus the Butterfree, level 25
Benedict the Wigglytuff, level 26
Lady Sofia the Sandslash, level 25
and last but not least; Conrad the Pikachu, level 8.
I don’t know why he is in my party, I haven’t used him since I caught Copernicus.
Oh, and Tradeable (It’s a real word, trust me) the Spearow, who I plan to trade for a Farfetch’d that will become a HM slave.
I have a dilemma. It is clear that Copernicus the Butterfree cannot stay for much longer. He is already becoming irrelevant, and he will continue t do so until he is replaced. I know Powalen did a Butterfree-only run, so his opinion on the matter will be a little biased.
Butterfree is amazing.
Gen 1 is not.
Drop it like a hot brick.
It really hasn’t aged all that well. Why can’t I equip items? What the heck is “special?” Why doesn’t the game tell me the damage values of the moves? Why do level 7 pokemon appear on route 1?
Wait, are you referring to generation 1 as a whole, or just gen 1 butterfree?
Both are terrible 😛
Reconnected my wheel in preparation for Assetto Corsa, looking forward to it.
Also, I have a creative 5.1 VX sound card that I no longer need, due to upgrading.
Would anyone like to have it?
They still make sound cards? I think the last one I had was a Soundblaster 16.
Much more of a luxury than necessity these days. The onboard’s actually quite decent!
Also depends what you’re doing too 😀
Well, the reason I got one in the first place is because I have an analogue 5.1 speaker system , and the onboard was only stereo, hence why I got the soundcard.
Man watching American Restoration, the stuff they restore and the work they do in general, amazing.
Definitely my favourite of that series of reality shows. The final product always looks so damn awesome – pity they’re always $4-5K…
Monster climb night tonight, normally I can only work my way up to a 4D if I’m lucky and then maybe get to a 4C after if I’m really lucky… this time, two 4Es!
Feelin’ good 😛
I just came within a few seconds of submitting an order to import an assortment of weird niche Japanese dominion-inspired board games. I would have done it too, but it requires shipping via a proxy and when I logged into my long-dormant Tenso account (last used to import the Idolm@ster anime blurays because Amazon JP wouldn’t ship the first volume to Australia for some reason) I found that Japanese laws have changed in 2013 and they have to have proof of identity on file to stop people using the service to export stolen goods. 😐 So now I have to wait for a few days for them to verify my address before I can get amazon to ship stuff to them and hope the three games I was about to buy are still in stock a week or so from now.
I guess if I still want them in a week it’ll feel less like an impulse buy.
Boy, that’s an interesting opening sentence.
How so? Japan has a massive cottage industry where they take the Deck Building mechanic from the card game Dominion and add various interesting twists and then slap anime art on them.
I have one such in my collection, Tanto Cuore, and it’s kind of fun. But super niche. You’re competing to see which player can build the best household of cute maids. Seriously. They managed to make two full games and two expansions out of it.
The ones I was going to pick up were:
– Kunitori 2 (sadly the original is out of print) which is yet another entry into the Sengoku-era-except-all-the-daimyou-are-cute-girls genre that Japan has a love affair with
– Heart of Crown, which is an interesting game where the setting is a divided country and you play as various political factions each allying behind a specific princess and trying to fight a war of succession to see her placed on the throne
– El Alamein, where the forces of Monty and Rommel face off in an epic battle for control of some city in Egypt. Spoiler: Rommel has large tracts of land. This is actually a sequel to Barbarossa, which was a game where “cute German military girls rush against Moscow to defeat the evil magician Stalin” and which the same publisher that did Tanto Cuore announced they’d be translating a few years ago but still haven’t released because they’re too busy making bucketloads of cash from Krosmaster Arena. I’d actually have grabbed the JP release of that but it’s been Out Of Print since about 2011 and new copies go for upwards of $150.
I’ve actually been eying all three for a while now. Especially Heart of Crown as it’s had some really strong reviews and the artwork isn’t as pervy.
Uhhhnn. Staring at my collection and don’t know what to play. Resonance of Fate? Eternal Sonata? Darkness 2? Deus Ex HR? Dishonoured? Shadows of the Damned? Finish Speesh Maureen? Yakuza 4?
They all sound good but I couldn’t be bothered 🙁
Deus Ex and Dishonored! Whittled down the list for you!
Okay. Deus Ex it is. I have up extremely soon last time as I wanted to be a rampaging murder-bot as it claims to play how you want but seemed to actively punish me for playing like that.
Deus Ex takes a while to play through. Best stealth game I’ve ever played, but it’ll take time. You probably won’t get through it before Dark Souls 2…
Also, yeah, probably wouldn’t be nearly so much fun if you wanted to play as an unstoppable combat-guy.
Shadows of the damned is great…. if you can handle 5 dick jokes a minute.
You don’t know Freeze
😛
Only 5 a minute is hardly worth opening the case for.
There’s a level where you get to walk around on a giant naked woman’s butt and titty.
– Resonance of Fate is a take it or leave it thing. People that it clicks for seem to love it but it requires a lot of perseverance and investment into it before it pays off. I found it boring personally.
– Eternal Sonata is a competent if a bit linear and weird JRPG that has some really dumb melodrama and fucks you over right at the end by arbitrarily increasing the difficulty by changing all the controls. :\ PS3 version is better. I never finished it.
– Deus Ex: Human Revolution is an absolutely awesome game with some of the best music and atmosphere out there, and some fascinating ideas and discussions around augmentations, the nature of humanity, transhumanism and stuff. My game of the year for 2012. You should play it.
– Dishonored I have not yet played. Got gifted it over Christmas but haven’t been in the mood for a stealth game yet, definitely want to get to it though.
– Shadows of the Damned I thought was shit. I know a lot of people loved it but the combat’s repetitive, the controls are bad and the humor tries way too hard and falls flat most of the time.
– Space Maureen is a great game but it kind of comes undone on itself toward the end and also it ends on a cliffhanger that will never ever be resolved because it sold average and THQ is no more and Relic works for Sega now. 🙁 You might not be finished with it yet, but it’s finished with you. It’s a great game though.
– Yakuza 4 is on my pile of shame. Along with 1 and 2 and 3. 🙁 I should probably just jump straight to 4 and watch whatever summary videos are available. But it looks like Yakuza 5 is going to go the way of Kenzan and Ishin and the two Black Panther games never come out in English so kind of hesitant to invest too heavily.
Came across a way to make South Park: Stick Of Truth uncensored.
Download link below and extract to your south park steam folder.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/v3zvdi3z9uwbe1m/South+Park+Stick+of+Truth+Uncensored+Patch+v2.zip
Where’d you find it?
Planning on watching 12 Years A Slave tomorrow as it’s $10 at the local cinema at the moment.
Dark Souls.
I was briefly a member of the Forest Hunter covenant, in an attempt to get some more multiplayer experiences (not so many folks above SL100 want my help with O&S, apparently). Most of the folks I’ve been summoned to fight are ready for me, and are just waiting there, usually with summoned help, and typically kill me in seconds. Some wiki research revealed that there are people who just sit there in the forest and farm invaders. Okay…Anyway, I eventually get summoned to fight a legit opponent. He kills me the first time, but almost immediately I am summoned again to fight him, and this time I take him down. He sends me a message via 360 messaging:
“ppl like u r the reason some ppl gank”
I understand about ten per cent of this sentence (and this ten per cent does not include the verb) so I respond with “???”
His response: “r u fuking stupid or sumthingg?”
*BLOCK COMMUNICATIONS*
Sometimes you just know when there’s just no point.
So, yeah, kind of soured on that whole thing. Unpleasant reminder why I don’t usually MP. Rejoined the Sunbros. Now waiting for action…
The PC version has that mod that prioritises friend summon connections. That’s a good idea.
I was reminded recently of my favourite aspect of the invasion mechanic, in Demon’s Souls.
One of the bosses, you actually get summoned by the game to be the boss. Now, you could be nice to someone else and let them win, screw that though because winning means you get a cool hat. HAT TRUMPS ALL.That one was pretty great.
It’s definitely gonna be interesting to fight the Mirror Knight in DS2.I know nothing of what that will involve, but I prefer to go in blind.
I’ve never been able to get the multiplayer in Dark Souls to work, though I have only tried it a few times.
When I was a teenager “Gank” meant – To steal something.
But apparently these days, according to Urban Dictionary it’s online slang and means – To gang up on someone.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gank
I also find it funny that he asks if you are stupid, when he can’t even spell for shit.
Thanks for the definition. Gank. What a weird word. Is it really that much harder to say “gang up”? 😛
If the 360 controller didn’t make typing such a chore, I think I would probably have pointed that spelling out to him.
BTW, as long as I’m replying to you, your game is on its way.
Cheers. I’ll watch the mailbox over the next few days.
I remember the term being used for being killed by other players way back when I played MUDs in the mid-to-late 90s and haven’t ever seen it used in the theft context.
This is worrying. I have a test tomorrow, and I need to study. I can’t study because of this headache that I’ve had for hours. I also have the symptoms of a fever. I don’t know whether I will be well enough to go to school tomorrow.
Two possibilities; If I am indeed sick, I will have to get a doctor’s certificate, or I will get an instant zero. My mother will have to take time off work to get me to the doctor’s office, meaning I’ll have to deal with the guilt of forcing my mother to take time off work.
Possibility Two, I am well enough to go to school, but I will suffer from not being able to study.
I just remembered that I’ve also got an essay tomorrow.
I’m stressing, and the stress is only going to make me more ill.
STOP STRESSING! Be at peace! AT PEACE!
What’s the subject? Also if you don’t know it by now, will a few hours of skimming over the textbook desperately hoping some of it will stick really help? That always only ever fucked me up. Rather unintuitively, my grades in uni dramatically improved when I stopped studying and went into tests after a few days of complete distance from the material
Mathematics. I received a copy of last year’s test, and I hoped that completing it would give me an advantage.
You know, having just completed Southpark, (and having installed the censorship patch to reinstate all the cut stuff) I have to say, the CENSORED stuff, is in no way worse than the actual stuff they left in the game.
I remain gobsmacked by the OFLC and their decisions, I mean, the game should not have been censored *at all*. It’s actually not that bad, it should’ve been just rated R. But seriously, the content left IN the game is far worse than any of the content taken out?
Over the last few days we’ve had a whole bunch of these little guys hanging out on our ceiling. Dad sprayed them all the other day, but this one appeared today. I caught it and fed it to the spider 😛
Anyone have any idea what they are? They’re a little scary-looking, they way they just sit there with their wings out to the sides. Like they’re ready to attack at any moment or something. Almost seem kind of wasp-like. But only small though, maybe 1cm from head to tail. Never seen them before.
The Fly with No Name, possibly? 😛
Can flies breed with paper wasps? That’s kind of what I’d imagine the offspring to look like
Haha, that’s pretty much what I was thinking too.
I am so incredibly tired but I can’t sleep and it’s all I want to do right now.
Got a couple of hours on Tales of Symphonia yesterday, got the main sequence break run set up now. Went straight from
Ossa Trailto clearing theTower of ManaUnsurprisingly, I’ve been dying a bit due to doing things in such a silly way. CC @sernobulus
DARK SOULS II
ONLY TWO DAYS TO GO.
kjfhgdfjkghdflkghdfjkgjkghgjkhklghdfshdfsgDFufgsadlfjewaoc*********
*short-circuit*
*rebooting systems*
Today’s news:
As the game is now available in America, there is a launch Trailer: http://time.com/#18901/dark-souls-2-launch-trailer-mocks-you-as-it-should/
I imagine it won’t be long before reviews start appearing now… possibly around 3pm our time. That seems to be when the midnight launches in Murica kick off.
The Gamesradar one definitely hits at 3pm our time, so I’m expecting the rest to be timed roughly around then.
Mr. Strange sent me his order confirmation email so I can go and pick it up. I read the email and it says
D:
Oh no, that stinks! 🙁
Who did you order it from? Was it Big W? Might be worth a phone call on launch day, just to check. It is an estimate after all…
It was Big W.
Mr. Strange ordered it from there to spite me after I got cross with him that he hadn’t pre-ordered already. He then got cross with me because I wanted it launch day and didn’t think saving just $5-10 was worth waiting for a delivery. 😛
But yeah, they say on the buying page that release date is the 13th so I’m not sure where their estimate is coming from.
WOW:WoD prepurchase and lvl 90 upgrade is already available for purchase, won’t be to long before the collectors edition is announced, unsure yet it I’m going to participate in this expansion :S
It’s still about 6 – 8 months until it releases, so pleanty of time to make up your mind. I’ll probably get it just so I can level a character to 100.
stupid train losing power. should’ve stayed in bed
Got back into SPAZ over the long weekend. That was a big mistake…I think I put like 10 hours into it over 2 days 😛
Also, I’ve started playing Payday 2 again and so far I’ve had a really lucky streak with randoms not being terrible people. Here’s hoping it lasts!
Its probably because the people still playing the game are big die hard fans and have played a lot.
I’m a big Die Hard fan too. Yippee-ki-yay, motherfuckers!
Though I fail to see the relevance of Bruce Willis to Payday…
Maybe because Payday is kinda like how the Die Hard movies would play out if there was no Bruce Willis around to stop you.
I don’t think it’s that. Many of the people I played with were a lower level than me (I’m like 46ish). I think a lot of people have returned due to the new difficulty level that was just added to the game, which makes it all the more amazing that I’m not having negative games.
EDIT: I did have one game where a guy joined halfway through a heist, and was cheating and spawning infinite sentry guns. Decided to play it safe and leave that one.
huh that is pretty lucky then. Time to install the game and be terrible with rize
I think I still have it installed. All I know is I never really worked out what I supposed to do so I’d just follow someone else and then start shooting at people when shit hit the fan. Also I went with all the drill skills thinking they’d be great only to discover they are completely useless as they have have no effect on the only drills you ever need to actually use.
You guys are playing Payday 2 again?
I have that and I’ve been dying to play that but randoms force too many rage quits from me.
What time are you free tonight? 😀
About 9pm your time?
Give me a shout on Steam around then!
I’d be willing to run around some Payday 2 at some point (although I don’t think I’m feeling suicidal enough to try out the new difficulty). Tag me on Steam if you need a high level bud as I think I was about level 60 when I stopped playing (Steam ID is same as TAY). 😀
I would be kinda keen to fire it back up again, too. I never got to ultra-uber-pro levels or anything, so depending how far you got, I could be the weaker link… but I am pretty good with the headshots.
I…had a look around my home base a bit?
But if the randoms aren’t terrible people, the rules of the Internet imply that YOU are the terrible person.
…
…
…shit.
Ten?
Is that all? 😛
I think I’m past 100 on Steam from previous playthroughs 😛
I bought the original during the steam summer sale, and haven’t played it with anyone yet. I’m starting to regret my purchase.
Yeah SPAZ is pretty cool, and it’s got nothing to do with when I saw the announcement trailer for SPAZ 2 :P. They seem to have updated the difficulty options even more since I last played it, like Bounty Hunter levels and also completely randomised research levelling, as in they completely mix up the levels of each kind of upgrade so level 5 might be less powerful than level 3 for instance. I’m tempted to try it for harder levels so I have to adapt to new combat strategies and different ships.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/03/10/costume-quest-2-announced.aspx
Costume Quest 2! Yesssssss!
Easily one of my favourite Double Fine games!
I still haven’t played the first one. =P
That’s cause you’re the real monster here, Nobs. :'(
*runs off sobbing*
It’s not too late! I only finished it recently but… Toukiden first pls 😛
Still playing Fire Emblem! I’ve almost got all the babbies!
That game is creeeeepy how you force characters to kiss. What are you doing with your life, Nobs?
Nobody said anything about kissing. Horizontal boogie only.
That’s alright then. *decisive nod*
Forcing characters to make babies obviously.
You should fix that, it is a fun little diversion.
Awesome news. That game hit me right in the childish daydream fantasy ideals.
I just hope that can bottle the lightening again, without making it stale. Then again grubbins was basically the same game in a slightly different location so new costumes and a basic story and I’ll play it
Project lead Tasha Harris is also at Pixar now. I wouldn’t mind if they added more complexity outside of the combat system. More indepth story, gameplay mechanics and the like.
Any drummers out there? I’m 5 lessons in and yet to buy a kit. Enjoying it, but it’s challenging.
I imagine it would be, without a drum set.
If he’s got the music in his heart, there’s no need to crush his delicate spirit! Geez, Shane! GEEEEZ!
Yeah @shane, improvisation is the key to genius! Why when I was first studying network engineering I was so poor I had to build my own full duplex network interface with a pair of speakers, a pair of microphones, tin cans & string!
That’s actually a lie but I did spend a good few days really trying to figure out if I could build such a thing and shoehorn it into an assignment somehow. Typical that it was at the stage where all the assignments got boring and became essays about network security and the best I could manage was analogies involving ewoks…
When I was 7 I didn’t have a drum kit. So I took the plastic tubs my toys were kept in and set them up like a drum kit using my parents wooden spoons as drum sticks. Where there’s a will there’s a way Shane.
@cakesmith has been known to hit things.
what sorta kit are you looking at?
I’m sorta maybe half thinking about perhaps considering the possibility of potentially buying an electronic kit at some point.
At my lessons, I practice on a Roland TD11/12 which is all decked out and sounds awesome. I’m looking at getting an electric one too for a couple of reasons (living situations, enjoy music production, like to play around with sounds.)
I’ve been following gumtree closely over the past 4/5 weeks and came close to buying a TD 9 on Sunday, but it fell through. I’d prefer not to spend over $2k. It’s a bit daunting though because I’ve played guitar for a 10+ years and probably haven’t spent $2k combined on guitars in that time. :S
You should totally get one of those electronic hexagonal kits they used in the 80s, those things looked awesome
Also, because its relevant to drumming and one of those badass technology overcomes disability things I love seeing: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/03/this-bionic-drummer-arm-is-like-def-leppard-20/
Morning!
So yeah, drum kits are mad expensive. I once added up how much I spent on my current kit and it was upwards of 10k. Sadly, it’s currently residing in my grand parents garage 🙁
I don’t have much experience with electronic kits. Acoustic I can give you some suggestions!
The best thing you can do is pick up a cheapo (like this to get you started. Get a couple of cymbal stands and get a cymbal pack (I personally like Sabian). There’s no need to go like mega crazy with cymbals. Start with hats, a crash and a ride. Ebay is a good place to buy cymbals from. Secondly, get a decent set of skins. My personal preference is a brand called ‘Aquarian’. Again, Ebay is good for this. This will get you a decent sounding kit to practice with. Then, further down the line get something a little more expensive.
Cheers, cakesmith, but if I am to get a kit, it will definitely be an electronic one for the time being. So you don’t really play anymore? 🙁
I moved interstate and it was one of the things I had to leave behind 🙁
I’d love to still be playing (my neighbours probably less so)
You can get the Roland TD11 from JB Hi-Fi for $1555 and 20 bucks shipping.
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/hi-fi-home-audio/musical-instruments/roland-td-11k-v-series-electronic-drum-kit/676689
Cheers, but I want to get one with mesh pads (snare and 3 toms.) It puts the price up a fair bit.
Might be worth looking at allans billy hyde, they at least advertise themselves as a good place for people starting out and had a decent price on the mixing gear I ended up buying a while back.
That was my first stop. It’s been good to practise on the kits there, but to buy one brand new is just going to be too much. Although, they do do some good deals on weekly repayments.
@cakesmith only hits things because he loves them.
I mean, that’s what he told me.
I started a playlist of anime themes and songs to listen to last night and there are so many awesome ones. I started with pretty much every song in Angel Beats because angel beats. I then started listening to the FMA OST and my gosh i had forgotten how emotive it is. Such beautiful orchestral music. Anyone else got any reccomendations?
I have the entire Haruhi soundtrack on my ipod 😛
You know what else has an amazing soundtrack? Baccano.
Baccano!
Bacco…
YES!
Bacon-O’s?
Cowboy Bebop OST 1, 2 and 3.
Throw the Attack on Titan opening themes in there. For contrast.
Uhh, anything from the Persona 4 soundtrack since it has an anime and is totally rad anyway.
Maybe some Naruto? BLue Bird is totes the best opening, and there’s some good stuff on the soundtrack, like Sadness and Sorrow (or Grief and Sorrow for the piano wankery version), or, I dunno, I like Orochimaru’s theme (or his fight theme).
Oh, and the Dango Daikazoku song from Clannad. >.>
Dango, dango, dan- *bursts out crying*
I was super disappointed in myself. I saw a copy of Clannad (for 360!) in a store in Japan, and I didn’t stop and sing that song.
Blurst at life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puHyO5JNOE0 I’ll just leave this here. (I have no idea why this works so well)
I hope you have some FLCL on there, “The Pillows” 😀
YES
YES
/mbison
Any opening/closing song from a anime with Ecchi/Kawaii/Hentai/Slice of Life/comedy themes are usually poppy and fun to listen to
Kill la Kill’s Soundtrack is amazing.
Kill la Kill in general is amazing.
word, one of my faves, animation is gorgeous, fight scenes are awesome and the soundtrack is really great 🙂
I find the opening theme to be a little bit tame, considering the general tone of the show. The ending theme, however, is bloody amazing because it’s tame.
i wasn’t talking about the theme songs though, meant more the OST
DONT LOSE YOUR WAY
GitS :Sac. Techno and Russian Opera!
– Yoko Kanno’s soundtrack work is pretty awesome. Cowboy Bebop is obvious, but her Ghost in the Shell stuff is excellent as well. I’m a massive fan of her work from Macross Plus (After, in the Dark / Torch Song and Pulse in particular) and Macross Frontier (most of the best vocal stuff in that eg Lion was written by her). One of her other best pieces is Moon from Turn-A Gundam.
– Yuki Kajiura has a pretty distinctive style in her soundtrack work. Her .hack//SIGN and Noir soundtracks are very listenable, especially the vocal ones. She also worked in three separate bands, See-Saw, FictionJunction and Kalafina, and pretty much all the output from those groups that’s been used in anime is pretty good. In terms of more recent soundtracks, she scaled back her distinctive sound a bit for more atmospherics, but still pretty good. Could check out Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero or Kara no Kyoukai for her stuff (all excellent anime as well if you haven’t seen any of them)
– Taku Iwasaki has some great soundtracks under his belt. He has a very large, epic sound, often with a very martial rhythm. The most obvious recent stuff from him is Kill la Kill and Gurren Lagann but the one I find I go back to the most is his soundtrack for the original Rurouni Kenshin OVAs.
– I’m a big fan of the handful of soundtracks that Ko Otani worked on. Obviously his crowning achievement was the Shadow of the Colossus soundtrack, but in terms of anime stuff I still find his Haibane Renmei soundtrack work to be awesome.
– I forget the name of the composer, but Mushishi has an amazing soundtrack. Peaceful and contemplative and quite ethereal. Raises the whole show up from being merely excellent to being incredible IMO:
– On a similar line, I really like the openings from Aria. They’re relaxing and chill, like the show.
– Last Exile had a pretty decent soundtrack. Especially the vocal stuff – Hitomi Kuroishi has done vocal work for specific tracks for other shows as well and they’re always pretty good. Her ‘planetes’ from the show of the same name sticks out in my mind as well.
– Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari by Supercell, the ending theme from Bakemonogatari, is probably the best OP/ED piece from the last 5 or so years. Ryo/Supercell have done some other work writing anime stuff for various groups but haven’t hit that same peak again. Most of the stuff he’s written for anime is very good though.
I used to have a massive collection of openings / endings and soundtracks that I liked but I lost them all in a HDD crash and now I’ve forgotten what a lot of them were.
Kids on the Slope has some decent renditions of classic jazz songs and some nice pieces of it’s own. And also it’s Yoko Kanno and as others will testify this automatically means it’s amazing. 😛
If you enjoyed Samurai’s Champloo’s hip-hop offerings you can take a look at Nujabe’s work. He’s made a lot of smooth beats all centered around hip-hop and are perfect for easy listening. His discography is quite large, so there’s plenty to listen to aside from what’s featured on the Anime.
FLCL, The Pillows as @gutsoup mentioned. They also have a nice collection of songs outside of FLCL, and are as alternative rock as alternative rock can get. Oddly enough, I’m fond of their song ‘Sunday.’
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency. I got no reasoning behind this. There’s a scene where squirrels are mind-controlled or something so they eat through nazis while dubstep is playing in the background. That’s more praise towards the show than the soundtrack, though.
I’m afraid that’s it for soundtracks that I feel stand out on their own instead of soundtracks composed of ‘background tracks.’ Random songs that come into my mind are Synchromanica by Gallilei Donna and the opening and ending of ‘The Tatami Galaxy.’ Seriously, those two are damn good songs in general.
I really love the music from Angel Beats. Also the first intro for FMA Brotherhood gets stuck in my head.
oh also stuff by Susumu Hirasawa (if negativezero hasn’t mentioned them already) He did “Forces” for the Berserk soundtrack, one of my favorite songs from anime ever. He also did many other good things.
I completely forgot about his work somehow. Susumu Hirasawa is pretty awesome. In addition to the stuff from Berserk, there’s also his soundtracks for several Satoshi Kon productions. I think Paranoia Agent and Paprika had the best stuff.
Watamote: It’s You Guy’s Fault I’m Not Popular. Japanese death metal! The lyrics make as much sense as English death metal. What’s it about?
Uhh… It’s a slice of life anime about a social outcast…
I enjoy saying Winter is Coming in real life. It’s satisfying AND true. 😀
Our winter barely deserves to be called winter. I wish we got snow in the suburbs like America does.
You just want to sing Frozen songs in public. I’m onto you, man.
I just want to build a snowman while letting it go.
Seems the cold doesn’t bother you anyway!
Do you wanna build a snowman?
Lets build a snowman, we can make him our best friend
Uhhhhh no you don’t. America had a hard time with winter, I wouldn’t want to inflict the same infrastructure-mucking-up-affiliated problems on you guys if I could.
Only on our man dates 😉
D: So that’s why you take all those bathroom trips!
*canned laughter*
No. Our man dates are single camera comedy dealies, not multicam. Don’t you forget that! >:|
*studio audience gasp*
Why you got to ruin a beautiful thing?
*cutaway gag and Ron Howard narration *
That’s better!
That’s our @dc!
*Studio audience laughs and applauds*
*credits roll*
Slap bass and @dc doing standup over credits
So what’s the deal with video games?
@dire_wolf
Are they videos or are they games? *smug mock-confused look*
That’s our DC!
*wild applause*
Now I’ve got to lace your food with peanuts. You’ve left me no choice.
I’ll take one of these
Remember when boxes of cereal had a toy in EVERY box. Those were the days.
I remember getting mini comic books in them, things like He-Man….. man that was some time ago
God. I haven’t seen any snow for 16 years now. I miss it more and more every year.
holy crap, you just made me realize I haven’t for 18 years, not since 1996.
I’ve seen snow once about 25 years ago, that was it
damn, we need to do a snow meat 😛
I’m very much looking forward to Dark Souls 2.
I think one of the main reasons I haven’t felt motivated to finish Dark Souls is because I already experienced the whole thing with Mr. Strange. I’ve seen everything over and over and doing it myself would bring a sense of accomplishment, but not a sense of finishing it because I already feel that. I worked with Mr. Strange developing strategies for him, and generally helping him out by paying attention to things like his health and stamina and the enemy around the corner so I feel like I’ve done it before.
So Dark Souls 2 will be all new, and I’ll be able to play it first for once. \o/
I’m sitting here obsessively googling Dark Souls II, and there is a great deal of forum-type discussion about the game, including spoiler-riddled discussions of mid-late-game boss fights that haven’t been in previous demos. I don’t know whether that means some folks already have the game, or whether some pre-release review copies are doing the rounds, or…
It’s all made up, except the post I made about fighting the Vermilion knight using only a slingshot and a cursed spoon. That’s from an early copy.
Dark Souls II is your Space Maureen. It doesn’t rhyme so it can’t be true.
Dark Souls II is my Dark Souls One.
It has to rhyme, so PRAISE THE SUN.
So everyone swig your estus flask
DARK SOULS II is your new task
The greatest thing I’ve ever seen:
Dark Souls 2; my Spesh Maureen.
And once the souls are released and free
Begin the hype for DARK SOULS III
It definitely broke street date in a few places in the US, no idea if it was widespread enough for there to be discussions based around those copies though.
Some theories
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/693331-dark-souls-ii/68748741
I also google myself when thinking about Dark Souls
… Huh? Website? Search Engine? What are you talking about?
http://imgur.com/5NPh0
I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the earliest wiki-contributors are pre-release copies, either from privileged fan/community members involved with From, or media copies like Mark. I’m sure for a lot of folks the joy of Souls is something to be shared and collaborated on – victories, defeats, strategies, etc. Unfortunately, a dedicated team is doing that in advance of the public, but very little on the Internet is actually private. So. Watch on the sidelines for a few more days.
My son is home from school again today. He’s too sick to go to school because he’d germify all the other kids, but he’s well enough that he doesn’t want to just lay in bed all day. In fact, he’s well enough to be actually jumping around everywhere and being generally annoying. 😛
I think I needed this though, because I used to sit around feeling sorry for myself after the grueling school walk and missing him a lot, but now I’ll be able to remember how annoying he can be being here all day, and appreciate the time I get to myself properly.
out of curiosity how far is the walk to school?
It takes me 20 minutes alone, half an hour with my son. The distance isn’t the real problem though, it’s the hills and above all, the heat.
What about biking it??
I seriously thought about that, even though I’ve never ridden a bike in my life and don’t own one. I’m not sure how it would work with my son, though. One of those kid trailer things?
If you learn to ride a bike film it! This is a montage I’d like to see! 😀
A basket?
as someone who had to teach his little sister to ride a bike at 19 you are in for a world of fun.
its not fun
If not a bike, rollerskates!
My kids are gone. I miss my kids.
Yay my kids are back and OH GOD WONT SOMEONE TAKE THEM AWAY ALREADY?!
Thank you. Some peace and quiet….I miss my kids.
If someone had told me that parenthood is pretty much exactly this… I don’t know,… I guess I probably wouldn’t have done anything differently, but I would have appreciated some warning! >:(
Thanks for the warning freeze
I wish more mothers were like you with sick kids when I was in school, they’d always send their plagued kids to school and they’d spread their disease amongst us all x.x
So I found out recently that, because of Blu-Ray, you can pick up the entire DVD box set of Star Trek: Deep Space 9 for under $200.
The entire series. All seasons.
My weekends, social life, personal hygiene, wallet and nutrition are about to be shafted.
Especially if this turns out to be true about other Star Treks as well.
Except Enterprise. That show can go die in a Klingon Fire Pit.Just fast forward through all the Sisko scenes. He’s terrible.
Enterprise is either all done or well on it’s way. I watched the first season and holy crap they made it look amazing. Like, massive quality difference, especially on a big screen.
We paid way less than that for the entirety of DS9 in a JB sale. We watched an episode a night before bed until it was done.
DO NOT DO THIS!
It was a huge mistake. Having seen a lot of DS9 on TV I’d previously thought it was my favourite/the best Star Trek. But watching it all even that close together was excruciating. Most of it is bad. Very bad. The final season is pretty good but by then you just don’t care about anyone and really want them all to die painfully, especially Kira and Sisko.
Some things are better off left in the warm and fuzzy glow of nostalgia.
We did a similar thing for Voyager(which is now my favourite Trek) and it was nowhere near as bad, but still got a bit much by the end. Overdosing on Trek is bad for you. 😛
I recently marathonnned DS9 (having never seen it before other than the odd episode here and there) going a few episodes a night. My interest waned in the middle and I started letting my wife watch some while I was at work, but after the end I kind of want to give it another go.
I’m definitely going to pick up the various Star Treks now that affordable blu-ray sets are a thing. I have a giant box of TNG DVDs in a collector’s box I got from ezydvd like 7 years ago and it’s fine but I also remember it costing like $400. I want to rewatch it but the DVDs I have look blurry as shit on a 46 inch TV.
So I’ll totally get TNG DS9 and Voyager. Maybe TOS. Maybe. I can’t really marathon it like the others, it’s best in small doses.
I am yet to watch Next Gen, DS9, Voyager or Enterprise. However I can proudly say that a marathon of The Original Series is only THE BEST THING EVER. KHAAAAAAAAAN!
Also, my favourite ep is City on the Edge of Forever. So many feels.
Yes, I realise that my reference is from the films – I have seen them as well. Personally, I thought Final Frontier to be quite good. The worst one is easily Voyage Home – it’s like a really bad City on the Edge of Forever. Terrible.
Final Frontier is the one directed by Shatner where Kirk singlehandedly defeated God, right? Like they go to the end of known space, meet God, and Kirk defeats him? That’s the one you think is good?
Actually, it was Satan. Kirk defeats Satan. I think. Haha, yeah I didn’t mind that one – was better than the damn whales one.
Oh man, I just looked that up on Wikipedia. It looks soooo bad 😛
Haha, yeah it gets a pretty bad rap.
Don’t watch Enterprise. TNG is great but the first season is pretty shaky and the uniform designs along with the Enterprise bridge layout kind of look like everyone is chilling watching TV in their PJs. It takes off in season 2 and this shift in quality is the origin of the phrase “growing the beard” as the opposite of “jumping the shark”.
DS9 is good but there’s a lot of places where it drags.
Voyager was per favourite as a kid and I feel like it was more of an adventure, but it’s not without it’s issues.
Still heartily recommend all three though.
I’ve got to pick up all of Voyager sometime. I still haven’t seen the last season because channel 11 stopped showing it.
200 bucks? Fucking hell, I spent way more than that for half a season on vhs which barely lasted a hundred views…
Also don’t listen to those negative nancies, DS9 was awesome all the way through. Apart from a few kind of bad episodes and one or two that were totally cringeworthy. But for every Profit & Lace which was cringeworthy, transphobic and also boring, you got a In The Pale Moonlight which is just fucking amazing start to finish.
Enterprise did kind of suck but the worst part was it was just starting to get really interesting when they canned it. Series 1 was crap, series 2 was pretty bad, series 3 was kind of okay apart from similitude which may be the worst star trek episode ever made (even including spocks brain & shades of grey), series 4 was slightly patchy but it was where the series started to get really good episodes.
This school library has just about every copy of Asterix I’ve ever seen, including one I don’t think I’ve ever read.
…it’s probably unprofessional to be seen reading for the next few hours, right?
Nah, you’ll be a role model for the kids. READING IS COOOOOL!
Its like that time my mums boyfriend showed me his collection of Phantom comics when i was unemployed. I have read sooo many phantom comics but because of how long it has been running i dont think i could ever finish them all.
Oh man, there are so many awesome Phantom comics.
I have 3-400 sitting on a shelf at home
Reading is what libraries are for!
It’s also for nerds!
How did you know what to reply with if you didn’t read what Pow wrote?
Cakesmith confirmed as giant nerd.
Or maybe I was saying libraries are for nerds?
Pow used a plural form of libraries so you would have said “They’re also for nerds”.
My vague recollection of year 2 English classes has seen through your lies!
YOUR FACE IS A NERD!
http://tinyurl.com/ksboo98
*ahem*
theres no ‘maybe’ about itI remember my primary school library only had about 2 or 3 different Asterix. It had every Tintin though, so it was alright.
My school had like 2 Asterix and 3 Tintins. I read them repeatedly.
I’m two books away from owning all of Tintin. Most of them date back to when I collected them when I was about 8. I need to replace a couple though, both are old 60s hardcover printings and their binding is too different, plus one of them belonged to my uncle and had Mad Magazine stickers stuck to the cover and the spine is broken and the book barely holds together 🙁
My primary school library had Where’s Wally with big marker circles around Wally on each page.
And yet people still had trouble finding him.
It’s not nice to make fun of the colour blind.
Oh. Makes me wonder if there’s a Braille edition of Where’s Wally…
there should be an audio book version.
Then don’t be seen
Asterix is the best.
Edited because Nob likes pointing out my stupidity. He has all the hat for me.
Collosatron is already out. I have it on my phone.
What?!?
I tried searching for it not 10 minutes ago and couldn’t find it in the App Store /o\
Edit: Found it. Buried right at the back of their catalogue.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/colossatron-massive-world/id680436745?mt=8
Yeah, it’s a little odd. Not sure why it wouldn’t be at / near the front. =/
Lol, L2 App Store
Make me.
You can’t tell me what to do!
Yeah I can. I’m your real dad.
Papa?
Well, I’ve done it.
I’ve actually beaten Dark Souls now.
Went with a Dex build, using a +15 Great Scythe (Before that it was a +5 Black Knight Sword). Was sitting on 40 Dex, 28 Str, 30 End and 22 Vit at the end of it all. I didn’t bother with killing Kalameet (because BALLS TO THAT), and I skipped some other optional stuff (didn’t kill Gwyndolin as I never bothered to get the ring, didn’t go to the Painted World because I’ve done it twice before).I noticed something interesting after restarting in NG+. If you kill the Asylum demon straight away (It took me four hits. FOUR.), you get the Big Pilgrim key off Oscar, also, I think he went and killed himself or something because I wandered off, heard a dying sound, and got some souls…Nice work, man!
YOU DEFEATED
Re: Oscar –
Yeah, I’d seen some footage which I’m guessing were hypotheticals based on unused recorded dialogue buried in the game files, where Oscar actually survives the Asylum and you bump into him at various points. I tried to let him live by not talking to him, but I needed that key to get through to the top of the Asylum, and killing the demon straight-up didn’t drop the door key, so there was no choice but to let him kill himself/bleed out. Very sads.Anyways, grats. 🙂
Also,
Apparently in the DLC when you face Artorias it was supposed to be while he was still turning. So he had dialogue like, “get back, I cannot control myself” and stuff like that.Here’s a link of you want to hear it, http://youtu.be/M94DZSEE1kwThanks! I feel like I’m a bit behind the curve on finishing it here… But yeah, I’ve been looking up some of the cut content over the past few days, and there’s some really interesting stuff in there. Oscar having more of a role, Shiva the merchant guy having a story, the Crestfallen merchant going hollow, another boss in New Londo, and a bunch of other stuff. It’s pretty cool.I’ve no idea who else here watched Top Gear, but last night, oh man. So good. Was definitely hilarious, like this entire current series has been.
My predictions for next special
“We’ll be driving 18-wheelers across Mongolia!”
It’s the only logical step up from this suicidal task of theirs.
Oh god, the shit they get themselves into. Like Hammond & his horny horse.
“A crane? what possible trouble could they get into with a crane?” said nobody on top gear.
Exactly! What could go wrong. Like with exhaust stacks that are 2 feet above the total height of your obscenely already large truck..
Seeing that True Detective thread on the front page reminds me that I’m always really cautious to talk about the things I love with people in any real depth. I feel incredibly protective of what I like and always get worried that others will shoot it down or criticize it, invalidate it, etc. Gotten better at talking about the things I love on TAY and the like, but it’s still something I always feel guarded about. That’s why I feel like I’m terrible to debate with. When Sughly and I were talking BioShock Infinite last year it felt almost one sided. He’d talk to me and then I’d just nod my head and smile. I imagine it’s annoying. 😀
I don’t even know what a True Detective is..
It’s a detective that stays true to his/her heart!
Sounds like some sappy romantic love thing..
Critics are calling it the romcom of 2014
You do tend to shut down with even minor criticism of things. Someone can even say they enjoyed something but didn’t like one thing you get all antsy and disappear. You gotta stop taking criticism of other people’s work so personally man. I don’t know if you see it as an attack on you for liking it but it’s not at all.
I do tend to take it as confirmation that I have shitty taste. :S
You see, if everyone liked the same things, or never criticised we’d all be boring and and never debate anything. That would be awful. Personal taste is a good thing, and it’s also a good thing not everyone likes the same things as you.
Well personally I like the fact not everyone likes the same music as me or enjoys watching the TV shows I watch or even going outside and doing something, hell some of my best mates despise the outdoors and are total snobs toward anything that isn’t a PC game or Nintendo game, yet we still get along fine.
You..ah..have seen the stuff I enjoy right?
Look at my top steam achievements.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Beavwa
You got nothing to worry about.
Well I guess you didn’t like Wonderful 101… 😛
Well someone has to pay to keep those 2 girls and their one cup in business. Never thought I’d actually know anyone who did it though…
Yep, agreeing here. Glad you’re making progress, @dc – it’s good and healthy for friends to be able to enjoy different things and even good-naturedly engage in opposite sides of the utterly pointless and meaningless tribalism that springs up. Eg: QUEENSLANDAH! Or, I dunno… MAAAAASTERRRR RAAAAAAAAACE etc.
But at the end of the day, I doubt anyone’s thinking any less of someone here just because they like
boredom simulatorsracing games, and while I might SAY it, I don’t sincerely believe that people who like My Kitchen Rules are directly responsible for the fall of civilization. (Well. Maybe just a little.)Friends rib each other on points of difference, it’s a good thing.
I’ve always figured that a lack of that is one of the things wrong with the American system of schooling, where US kids are raised to have pride in their school (whether it’s deserved or not) and villify their opponents, resulting in a very ‘with us or against us’ all-or-nothing mindset; unlike schooling the UK or Oz where within a school, they split you and your buddies up into competing ‘houses’, but you still eat lunch, go to class, hang out with with The Other Guys, they’re still your friends. I figure it teaches tolerance at a bare minimum, and more likely encourages a tendency or ability to find commonality with people of opposing interests in specific areas. Much healthier.
On the other hand: it’s really good when you recommend a friend something you like and they also end up liking it.
EDIT: I’m pretty good with talking about things I like, actually. The big exception is music. I HATE talking about music and avoid it as much as possible 😛 Just seems to feel like music conversation has more of a judging tone to it than other things. I don’t know why, though. Probably a combination of not being that knowledgeable about it and because it seems like it’s this massive thing in others’ lives whereas I’m more passive.
You don’t have to worry about me hating you if you don’t agree with me 100% of the way 100% of the time, I’m mellowing quite a lot in my old age, I’m down to the high 90s in both now.
By the time I’m 80 I might be able to hold a 10 minute conversation without threatening to punch someone in the throat for not agreeing that Black Sabbath are one of the most musically important bands in history.
Waited until the next page was up.
If there’s something I want to say, I psyche myself up thusly: I just assume everyone hates me, and that no matter what I say, I couldn’t possibly make things worse!
Well, I assume everyone hates me or atleast thinks of me as the kid brother who has no real opinion about things any way. I still feel the need to save face so I can hang out with the older kids, go unseen. XD
Hello all,
Sorry for my absense of late, My life has been very crazy.
My partner and I have been deep in the game of finding, applying, landing, and Planning for a new place. We finally got the Keys on saturday and moved the first boxes on sunday. The new place is in Wolli Creek, with a beautiful veiw of the City. (pic.twitter.com/bKTeMQOcSx)
On top of all this I’ve been Ill for the last week. I also saw NIN on thursday, and I’m seeing the Beautiful Kate Miller-Heidke tomorrow night.
Game wise – I’ve been playing Broken Age and Thief.
Broken age is awesome, everything I love about adventure games. a bit easier than I’m used to but still awesome nonetheless.
Thief was really great I finished it last night, and I can’t see what people are upset with about it. Then again I havent played the older games…
Other games I’m playing – Birth of the federation 2 (Alpha) and Planetary Annihilation
I’ve been on the look out for Racing games with Weaponary. Mostly for PC, I’m thinking things like Wipeout or Blur. But maybe something modern, any ideas?
How is everyone else doing?
For a moment I misread that the new place was at Wolf Creek.
. o O (Dude. I don’t care how cheap it is, you need to pick somewhere else!)
Ooh that would be creepy, and I’d probably be the first to die…
Fun fact, I managed to get popcorn in my friends bra when I saw that with her. This was because I jumped a mile during the car scene. She was wearing a tightly closed t shirt, Somehow it still got in there
Determination! 😛
Heyo.
Blur is like Mario Kart for adults. But it’s only fun if you play with your friends on split-screen. The campaign is ridiculously hard because the AI cheats and the car stats are totally wrong.
I personally only like racing with weapons if you play with friends. I usually lose to BS reasons when playing AI, so I prefer just to race.
This is the thing, I want something I can Multiplay too… I guess I might as well just plugin the PS3 and play Blur and be done with it…
Wait, as an adult I’m not supposed to play Mario Kart?
Where do I trade in my adult card?
Mario Kart is still more fun IMO. 😛 I never said you should stop playing it!
Blur is pretty beastly when you’re having drinks and having a party. Dat pumpin’ electro soundtrack.
It was hard? I don’t remember it being particularly tough, though it was what… three/four years ago I played it or something?
It was cool though. Burnout meets Mario Kart.
Yeah, it’s hard. AI simply cheats. The biggest heaviest 4×4 will fly past me in my speediest Audi R8 or similar supercar. Then you add in the usual BS of getting hit my random things, and it’s insanely difficult to rank even third without some blind luck.
My mind first read ‘Wolf Creek’ and I was like D:
Moving suuuuuuuuucks.
If you need a hand, let me know.
Because I live in Brisbane and there’s no physical way I can help.
Because moving suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.
No one ever wants my help moving. :'(
Are you the one the prophecy foretold?
Are you the one who sucks more than moving?
I must consult with the nine. We make haste!
-rides off on horse, loses control, falls off-
See, this is what ‘m talking about.
Fuckin’ swords and magic man, it’s just shit. Why should a sentient creature let me ride on it’s back. IT FUCKING SHOULDN’T! -wipes debris off cloak, cloak keeps getting in the way- AND LOOK AT THIS SHIT!? It’s never not in my way. That’s why you don’t see this garbage in sci-fi, man. I mean, sure, the Jedi have robes but they’ve also got fucking magic that I’d wager they use to make their hoods do that cool thing that obscures their face and STOP THE GODDAM SLEEVES FROM ALWAYS BEING IN THE GODDAM WAY! Did you know I tried to take a piss in this thing the other day? -starts walking back the way he came- Not only did it take me so long to get my dick out, I then proceeded to look away for a split second, because, you know, like an idiot I figured I had this down after 27 years of practice, AND THEN ONE OF THE FUCKING SLEEVES OF THIS SHIT CLOAK SLIPS DOWN AND GET’S ABSOLUTELY SOAKED! Now I smell like piss, I’m covered in fucking mud and dirt and no doubt shit from the castle up there -motions to castle as slave empties bucket over walls-. You know what, fuck this. You can ride to the nine yourself. They’re cunts anyway…
Never change. 😀
Blur is lots of fun I quite enjoyed it.
Doesn’t have weapons per say but flatout: ultimate carnage is good car destroying fun.
Yep, sick. Shit.
Gastroenteritis then?
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.”
Hmm, I see what you mean, it won’t even let you gift the entire pack. Could you get one of the people you were going to gift it to to buy it, send the copies wherever you wanted and give them the money?
Favourite Gaming Music Game:
First piece of awesome game music that comes to mind! Be sure to post a link!
The Hospital Room — Dreamfall OST
…
Also love The Path (A New Beginning) — The Last of Us OST
Resurrection – Power Glove (Blood Dragon OST)
Oooooh, this is cool.
The entire soundtrack is amazing. One of the only ones I listen to regularly.
SOOOOOOO GOOOOOD!!!!!! HRRGHGFGSWfv!! *faints*
Shulk and Fiora – Xenobladder OST 😀 (ps. Might want to avoid the comments if you haven’t played the game)
Ooooh, violins. I love violins. 😀
I’ve got to say… I love the cover art of that game too. So beautiful.
Many brownie points for you!
I always liked the dance version of The Promise/Sunleth Waterscape/Serah’s Theme whatever you want to call it.
Not a fan. XD Speaking of Final Fantasy though…
(cc. @greenius…)
What about this version? 😛
Boastius
D “Upvotes and then comments later” C!
Eh, not really into video game OST it’s just not something I like. But a game on the PlayStation called Test Drive 6 had Cars by Fear Factory on it, and I always enjoyed that. Which featured Gary Numan in it, which was cool.
Munchy Monk 2 – Rhythm Heaven
…
*backs away slowly*
Rhythm Heaven is the best!
Setting Sail, Coming Home (End Theme) – Bastion OST
Ah, so so good. This hasn’t left my playlist since 2011.
Love how it mixes those two songs in stunningly awesome ways.
Yeah! They fit so well together. Also, The song also hasn’t left my playlist since I first heard it.
Not the best music by any stretch, but the first thing that sprung to mind for me was Oni, but since I can’t actually remember which song is which, I’ll just link to East Wind. Definitely not the kind of thing I’d listen to normally, but the game means that I have to love it thanks to overwhelming nostalgia.
Hmm, I don’t pay much attention to soundtracks to be honest, but the opening songs from Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 were too amazing to forget.
Don’t say Mystery Dungeon
Say Crash Bandicoot or something
Don’t say Mystery Dungeon…
Can’t… stop… self…
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Darkness and Time – I DON’T WANT TO SAY GOODBYE, DAMMIT!
*cries*
Was that the one just before & during the credits?
P.S. I like that game too. Possibly moreso than the main games.
It the music that plays during
your death scene. You just saved time, killed billions of people, and you are dying in front of your friend. Right in the feels.I remember that. Beautiful Music, was the icing on the cake for the pre-ending story.
Seeing as i’ve been playin Danganronpa, it’s music’s in my head at the moment.
This is one of my favourites from the soundtrack
This panel of quotes from The Beatles in interviews always is a good laugh. They seemed like fun blokes back in their day, y’know when they were all alive and stuff.
Watched the first episode of the new Cosmos last night. It’s pretty good. I like that they bookended it with Carl from the original show and it was interesting to see Tyson’s personal connection with Sagan as well.
The soundtrack is a bit overblown (we’ve gone from the beautiful keyboard melodies of Vangelis to a full-blown Science Fiction orchestral epic 🙁 ) and they’ve gone a bit too deep on the effects in a misleading way. Specifically during the sequence where they’re traveling through the various parts of the solar system and pass through the asteroid belt, it looks like the asteroid field from The Empire Strikes Back. Dense field of huge rocks where everything is like 2-3m apart. In actuality the asteroids in that belt are hundreds of kilometers apart.
Still, I thought that it was surprising to have content like Cosmos being backed by and screened on Fox in the US. The bulk of the episode is focused on explaining the age of the universe and discussing religious persecution of scientific thought. I think their choice to talk about Bruno rather than one of the actual proponents of heliocentrism like Copernicus or Galileo was quite pointedly aimed at a pretty specific audience (“your god is too small” for example is a particularly provocative line).
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a brilliant choice for taking the reins. He’s not the same as Sagan – Carl Sagan was an incredible communicator and wordsmith who could take any complex concept and explain it in a clear, concise and interesting way – but he has an enthusiasm for science that is infectious.
Looking forward to seeing more. And eventually being able to find someone that will accept my money for it since no one wants to take it at the moment. 🙁
Thanks for the review, it is something I plan on checking out
No way to get here or any word on which month/year we might be able to see it
March 16th on Foxtel.
Buggered if I know when people that aren’t richer than god and can afford to drop $1000 a year on crappy cable TV will be permitted to access it though.
Dunno if this is geo-blocked or not – I assume it is, but I can’t watch from work and our internet connection here is routed through strange places – but apparently the first episode is streaming on their website here:
http://www.fox.com/watch/183733315515
Nope, geo-blocked here as well. Although I did get to see one frame before it did
It was a good single frame, huh?
Something I’m asking now as people get weird about it but from what you’re saying there it sounds like it’s pushing the atheism thing a bit? Does it do it much? The whole atheist thing irritates me to no end and they always seem more zealoty, bigoted and pushy than any religion. I’m not religious by any means (agnostic to really don’t care) but if it’s like that I don’t think I really could be bothered with it.
Have you seen Cosmos? The original Carl Sagan one?
Not once does it push Atheism. It pushes rationalism, critical thinking and skepticism and the scientific method. It’s a general program about the scientific method, the history of space and time, the history of science, and explaining the fundamental laws that make up the universe. He covers everything from evolution to relativity. Very much a science crash course.
This is probably the closest he really gets to talking about the subject in Cosmos IIRC:
And even there he doesn’t really make conclusions, just encourages thinking about it and asks some interesting questions. The new series continues all that sort of tone. You’re not talking antagonistic anti-religious behavior like, say, something with Richard Dawkins.
Sagan’s other works (eg Pale Blue Dot) he commentates more on religion but Cosmos was intended to encourage interest in science and scientific thinking. He does have a very eloquent dismantling of the concept of young earth creationism for example, but again, not from Cosmos IIRC:
The first episode of the new series has nothing in it that makes a judgement for or against religions. The particular part I mentioned was talking about Bruno, a philosopher who was persecuted and burned at the stake as a heretic because he believed that the earth revolved around the sun, and that the stars were all their own suns with their own worlds, and that a god that was supposed to be infinite should mean that his creation would be equally infinite. Of course they conveniently left out the bit where he was actually put on trial because he was a pantheist but that’s another issue. It was more a commentary on religious close-mindedness than anything.That I’m happy with.
I’ve never actually seen the Carl Sagan one which is one of my secret shames :/
Easy enough to fix as it’s all on youtube.
Hoooraaaay. Hours of mindless processing work ahead. Might as well do an AMA, I guess?
Hallo TAY, feel free to Ask Me Anything.
(Edit: I have no idea what there is left to ask though, since I already spam this place with all manner of shit unsolicited.)
What is your opinion on the whole Russia and Crimea debacle?
Edit: You did say ask you anything 😛
In my Europa Universalis 4 session that I was playing only this morning, Crimea is narrowly avoiding a second invasion thanks to the sudden declaration of a conquest war by the Ottomans. I (Russia) have been REALLY GOOD about not starting baseless wars for expansion for the last couple decades, but that was only because the King’s heir was 15yrs too young to take the throne and the Regency Council hasn’t had the power to declare the wars necessary to finally claim Crimea as rightly Russian.
However, I am of the opinion that as soon as the Ottomans are dealt with, Russia will be declaring a holy war against Crimea with the aim of forcing them to convert to Orthodoxy, because converting provinces via missionary afterwards is a pain in the ass.
You’re at work and ate too many chilli burritos the night before and run screaming to the toilet and absolutely destroy the thing. Once the cramping and misting has finished you discover to your horror there’s no toilet paper left.
Do you
A) Try to shuffle to another stall, praying that no one walks in on you
Or
B) Sacrifice your undies
A) Shuffle to another stall. If you’re in the men’s room, you should not be surprised to see some wang. Maximum exposure is 30 seconds, so if someone gets some ass-shot or crotch-shot in the meantime, lucky them!
Why is your gravatar such bad quality?
Not particularly deep, but it makes me curious…
It was initially a doodle I had drawn on paper and scanned in, converted into an icon for some purpose I forget. But it was ultra-tiny. It has not scaled up well. When I added it as a general-purpose icon EVERYWHERE, I actually had to go in and manually adjust it by hand to get rid of some of the crappiness – it used to be worse!
One day I will get around to reinstalling Photoshop (which I actually own legally, thanks to past graphic work) and touching it up as something Real.
I own photoshop CS2 legally now too, also premiere CS2, after effects CS2 & something else CS2. Thanks Adobe screwup!
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. I don’t really feel like I got the return on that I wanted. I’d have got away with not using a legit copy, honestly.
A mate of mine dropped 2 grand on Lightwave 3d, its sitting on my shelf now because it was too hard for him what with having a book to read and all.
What’s your biggest fear?
Did you work to build confidence or does it come naturally to you?
What’s something you struggle with?
Do you prefer a lot of friends or a smaller, closer group?
Do you ever use your ‘ladies man’ tactics on your friends? (Ie. exaggerate how busy you are to not come across as overly keen, etc. XD)
I feel like this might be my only chance to ask this so:
Ball park figure, how many notches in the ‘ol Transientmind belt to earn you that ‘man whore’ tag?Don’t have to answer that one! XD
I have honestly, genuinely lost count. I couldn’t tell you. No kidding. Too many drunk parties I barely remember, years of idiocy at uni, backpacking, all the small towns… I can’t remember all the ones I worked in, and there was usually one or two there. I just have no concept. I couldn’t even ballpark it. At least a few dozen, but God only knows.
I was thinking triple figures! You continue to surprise me! 😀
That’s probably right. Uni years, make that 2-3 per month, then step it back a bit to maybe 1-2 per month for a few years after, then getting cheated on and one every week or so (going out on Friday), then backpacking it slowed back down to 1-2 per town (more than that on occasion got complicated), so sometimes as much as 1-2 months per town… I dunno, yeah, that probably starts getting up past ‘a couple dozen’ within the first few years, actually.
Like I said. I have no concept. 😛 No round number to even associate with.
You’ve lived. *pat on the shoulder*
I only need one hand to count mine. XD
Hey man, that’s infinitely more hands than I need, so count your blessings. :p
That’s probably a good thing. ‘More than a dozen’ immediately makes some women’s expressions turn, like you’d smeared shit under their noses or something.
Dude, one hand IS mine!
(I only need one finger)
My wife appreciates that.If you know what I mean.You know what, my number should be higher 😛That’s the one thing I don’t like talking about. I’m not proud of it by any means and try to avoid the questions.
Although my wife is quite happy to tell everyone. Whether it’s because she thinks it’s wrong or she just like embarrassing me I’m not sure.
Yeah. People do think worse of you for it, after a certain point.
They assume it comes with certain behaviours – cheating, or ‘using’ folks who were after more long-term relationships, or not being safe, or all sorts of other shit.
I think realistically there’s not a whole lot of guys who would make the conscious choice not to ‘see what’s out there’… most just never get the opportunity…
Maybe. But by the same token, I think they DO get the opportunity, they just get too scared to take it, or too worried that maybe they shouldn’t/aren’t ‘meant to’ or will somehow ruin a friendship or offend someone by hitting on them, or are afraid of rejection/embarrassment in front of people/their friends/someone they might then have to take the bus with for months/work with/etc. Or they don’t think they’re worth it, and don’t want to ‘waste someone else’s time’ with their worthless self. All of which are missed opportunities.
You remember those stories I told about the times I wanted to punch myself in the balls for not taking the opportunity? And how everyone had stories where the opportunity WAS there, they just didn’t take it? And those are the ones they were aware of. There are probably so many more you’re not aware of, where someone was totally available (if not interested – they may not have known they were interested until approached), but it came and went without notice.
I think we’re conditioned more and more these days to consider that asking someone out is some kind of offensive act, that it will be labelled as ‘creepy’ if we don’t make the cut, and that despite the fact that you never know if you don’t ask, you’re considered ‘the bad guy’ for having the gall to temporarily make someone else uncomfortable at having to decide whether to reject you or not. Poor them. That’s totally worse than languishing in loneliness without clear signals that never come, or summoning the courage to face rejection. 😛
@transientmind, that last category is totally me. To a T.
If Mrs Shane hadn’t taken the bit in her teeth and approached me, I’d probably still be single, forever-alone-guy.
Yeah. Some folks get lucky like @shane. But you can’t just wait for kismet. Folks grow old and lonely doing that, because they believe the lie Hollywood told them that they’ll get their own moment of relationship serendipity. Can’t rely on it. Bonus if you get lucky, seize that fucker, but otherwise you gotta make your own luck. And much like pretty much most things scary in life, it seems scary or impossible until you actually do it, then you realize it’s not all that hard after all.
Like Dark Souls. “Oh man, I couldn’t do that…”
“Really? Have you tried?”
“Yeah, I failed.”
“Then maybe try again? With what you’ve learned, maybe you’ll do better this time.”
Repeat.
@transientmind That first paragraph is so true. I think all of those things all the time.
Hell even when things had started happening with Pillowmaker I was freaking out and automatically feeling guilty that they had, like I shouldn’t be doing them and that somehow it made me a bad guy.
Well you two seem like some of the most well adjusted folks I know, so… *shrugs*
1) I don’t have a lot of fears left. Maybe that I’ll be the last man standing and have to put up the chairs and turn out the lights? I fear for the safety of my friends and family. Losing loved ones is the worst thing that could yet happen to me, and it is in a way inevitable. I think losing either of my brothers is the worst fear.
2) I had to work. I was naturally confident as a younger kid – I was a better wrestler/rough-houser, the other kids followed my lead when I suggested things, and academics came naturally. But we started moving a lot, and after that point, I wasn’t quite as sure of myself. I always had to spend a lot of time sussing out the situation, and other people were the top dogs, and after a while, I wasn’t developing as muscularly as the other kids, so I became really self-conscious about being skinny and short.
I started faking it when getting to high school – faking confidence, doing my own thing, and eventually that worked. I was still terrified of women and couldn’t believe my success purely by accident/bluff, and was convinced that it was only a function of the status I had managed to fake for myself with all those panicked achievements in high school. And sure enough, going out into the big wide world, I was a little fish in a big pond, where the inverse had been true. It was rough. But in uni, I just stared in the mirror and said, “I’m not happy with this. I’m going to change this,” and made the effort. Fake it til you make it. Eventually the competence in things I tried fed into genuine confidence, and the faked stuff with interpersonal relationships had the same results, which also fed confidence.
‘Fake it til you make it’ is real, and effective. It just takes persistence and being prepared to get caught faking, thus failing. Own that, if it happens.
3) Smaller, closer groups. I do not have a large number of friends. My facebook was always small when I was using it. I don’t like larger gatherings much, either. I tend to watch folks having fun, and just get involved with a couple smaller conversations off to the side.
4) Nope. But that may be a symptom of having naturalized a lot of the ‘tactics’. I tend not to think of them as strategies as much as if I have to try and recommend strategies to someone, think of what comes naturally but has had some success. There’s all kinds of books and websites about how to do things, but I’ve never wanted to dig into it. So there’s a very real possibility that some of the advice may in fact be wrong or me misinterpreting something that has worked for me for other reasons, DESPITE what I thought the reason was. …But that’s unlikely, after a while you get pretty good at spotting patterns.
You’re awesome, man. Thanks for the answers!
What has been your most embarrassing moment?
What has been your narrowest brush with death?
What is your single proudest achievement?
If one of those doesn’t result in an epic @transientmind story, I’ll be tres surprised.Will answer each as its own reply to get them out.
So many embarrassing moments. It’d be hard to pick one. Hm. I think one of the more PG-13 ones would be at the graduation ceremony for my year level at high school. There were only forty of us, and each one of us got our names read out, so we could walk up the ‘red carpet’ to take a bow before the rest of the school, collect our piece of paper, and walk off.
Our names were being read out in alphabetical order, but for some reason, my name got skipped and the girl after me got called instead. There was some hesitation and she stood up, but looked to me in confusion, I was confused, we were looking at the person doing the calling, who was blank… so eventually I stood up and walked up to the podium. Only to be told in front of the school that actually House Captains and School Captains were being called last, separately, for different honours.
Cue walking back to my spot with crazy red cheeks.
Runner up: Having a Livejournal which my boss at the time logged into on my work-PC and read the entire history of. Ohyes. That was embarrassment. It resulted in a) a firing, and b) having to go through the entire history marking every entry as private and letting folks in the theatre group I was involved in know that I may have mentioned some of our extra-curricular (drug-related) activities.
Geez, runner up one says more about your boss than it does about you. Got to respect boundaries, boss. *shakes fist*
Narrowest brush with death…
Hard to tell. A bunch came real close. I’ve been electrocuted, which left me knocked out and apparently physically hurled me across a ten metre room like a rag doll. Had some burns afterwards. Hard to tell how close that came to actually killing me, though, was just really sore and tired and nauseous for a long time after.
There was a car accident on the road with some fucking idiots I hitch-hiked with between jobs on the harvest trail. The idiots nearly ran over some kids when passing through a town, had to swerve and take a ditch, clipped a sign on the way, lost control. That was pretty bad.
There’s been a few shots to the face and getting my head smacked into a brick wall that probably could’ve done the trick, too. I lost a tooth out of that one.
Got caught up in a cyclone, once, with precious little shelter. Debris flying around everywhere, saw later an entire tree had speared right through another shed I had considered taking shelter in. If I’d been in that… it’d have gone right through me, too.
Another storm out on the water, nearly lost the boat.
Hard to tell, they were all pretty much just down to random chance. If the fates had willed, I’d have been one random dice roll from being obliterated completely.
Not including some situations I luckily maneuvered my way out of that would have been definite deaths. And THOSE I take to the grave, on the off-chance that someone somewhere reads and decides, “Oh yeah, that guy…”
Proudest achievement… I dunno. I’m disinclined to relate the absolute proudest ones to anyone. I’m a bit weird about that. I have this sort of superstition that if you talk about it, relate it, then it doesn’t ‘count’ as something you’ve been really virtuous for, you can’t internally claim it as that moment that you were truly altruistic. But just in general, moments of altruism. They’re good, people should do them when they get presented an opportunity.
But some things… Overcoming the fear and cutting through the bullshit of the dance my girl and I were doing around each other. Sacking up and risking it all just for the sake of taking that chance.
I guess surviving some of the more stupid shit I got up to straight out of school. Was hanging with a bad crowd and behaving recklessly – not so much more than some folks – but I kept a relatively level head and was able to drag folks out of the more suicidal things they were considering doing. (Vigilantism, stunts.)
Thanks for the answers!
When was the last time you felt vulnerable?
Are you happy with the guy you are?
The last time was… talking to anyone about Kelly (my girl). Especially at work. It’s a tough subject, there’s layers there I don’t let anyone see, and it’s something that’s actually important to me – where precious little else is and can safely be discarded or laughed off. And talking to her, I guess. The whole thing is a circumstance I have no template for, and there are things I don’t want to accept but may have to. It’s all just challenging territory and being honest about that with anyone is something I’m wary of.
As for happy with me? Mostly. I’ve got a lot of things pegged down. There’s things I want to change, but I know what they are and am working on them. Some of it’s just being mindful about being an asshole. It’s difficult to rein that in – but I’m always easier on myself than I might be tempted to be with others because I know where I’m coming from, which makes my actions understandable to me. So I cut Me some slack. Also, I look at those big blue eyes and I can’t stay mad at me. Awww. Lookit you, me.
Alrighty, what are the two words you’d use to describe yourself with honestly?
So like “________ and ________”
Edit: I mean more personality wise rather than physically. So no “tall and muscley” or “short and stumpy”
‘Fair’ and ‘Improvising’.
To elaborate, ‘fairness’ is one of the things I try to pursue above all others. I know that ideally you’re meant to take sides with your friends, and it’s led to hurt feelings when I’ve tried to see the other side, play devil’s advocate. But it’s important. Not only so that your friends don’t go into battle with paper armour, attacking points which they totally have wrong and will get slammed for using, but also because it can defuse things. The status quo exists for a reason, and no-one ever really sets out to be the bad guy. Just often the selfish guy. And when we all come from different values and experiences, misunderstanding and how we react to those different priorities (and the values placed upon them) is where the majority of conflict comes from. We would all get along better if we could just be more fair.
As for improvising… yeah. Constantly. I do not have the manual or instruction guide to life. I am winging it. Constantly.
What is your favourite season?
Do you cry during movies? How easily?
What sort of books to you normally read and can you name a favourite author / series?
*listens intently*
(kidding)PEACEFUL TOMORROWS, YUP.
Winter. Not that we ever really get a Winter.
I don’t know if there’s much stock can be put into genetic heritage (mine is mostly Scottish, German, and a mix of various nordic/Scandinavian countries), or if it’s knowing those things ABOUT your genetic heritage that then subconsciously influences you, but I’m a huge fan of winter. Of the cold, of rain, grey skies, stony beaches, mountains, evergreen forests. My ideal retirement place would be somewhere in Oregon/Washington Pacific Northwest, if it wasn’t for the fact that the US is fucking insane and on the verge of self-destruction.
Yeah, movies can get me teared up. Not real easily, but it just depends on what else is going on. I got a tear or two at the end of Millenium Actress, and Forrest Gump’s ending came way too close to something I didn’t want to confront iRL. TV series can give the feels too, probably moreso because there’s more investment. Some anime – like the end of Angel Beats or Fruits Basket. I’ve been avoiding Clannad out of the fear that I will tear up.
I don’t read a lot of books. Which is a shame, really… My go-to feelgood author is Terry Pratchett and the Discworld series. They’re my popcorn book, devoured swiftly and eagerly, even if there isn’t much critically to recommend them other than wordplay. When I was a kid, I read everything under the sun. Made a really good effort at cleaning out the local library’s fiction section. Whenever we went to the library, left to my own devices I would always grab some Tin-Tin or Asterix, but Mum would always wander the shelves and apparently randomly select a bunch of fiction novels from various authors, just to broaden my horizons. Some of them were some seriously mature shit that on reflection I don’t think I was ready for (really – some of the ‘collection of short stories’ had some demented, bleak Cthulu shit in them), but they were themes I was able to turn over in my child brain and think about how they challenged my worldview.
Spent all my youth being told I was an ‘old soul’, and I’m reasonably sure, on reflection, that’s where that comes from. 10yr olds generally probably don’t spend much time thinking about a story they’ve read from the point of view of a dystopian future pilot whose job is to patrol the perimeter to sanctuary, targeting and frying refugees trying to make it into the gate – in graphic detail – and the decision they make NOT to kill a pregnant mother and the subsequent psych evaluation they have to sit through.
Best advice you think you can give some one?
What’s something we don’t know about you?
Best advice: Don’t be so afraid. It’s not so bad, it won’t be so bad, the worst that can happen is usually still survivable. And survival is all that counts – the rest you learn from.
Something you don’t know: God, I don’t know. So many things I haven’t told because I haven’t thought of them, because it hasn’t come up? I’m pretty honest, and if something reminds me of a situation I’ve experienced which is similar, I’ll relate the tale. Hm. Can’t think of anything, really. There’s just so much to choose from and I’d have to cross-reference it against what I’ve already related. Any kinda direction you were thinking of, for that?
Nah, not really. *scribbles findings into Transients file*
If you had to pinpoint one moment and say “Yep, that started me on the path to where I am today” what moment would it be? What situation led you to change?
Dropping out of university, living unemployed for a while, and hitting the road.
It put the biggest pin in my ego to that date, gave me time to reflect on things, and exposed me to different parts of society than I had before – especially people I’d previously looked down on. It’s pretty hard to look down on someone who’s got their shit more together than you do, and work and live with them every day. You understand their situation better, what goes into making people do what they do, act how they act… And eventually I decided to take charge, because fuckit, no-one else was going to do it for me, there was no ‘finding yourself’, no sudden maturity at some predefined point. You find it yourself.
You don’t disappoint!
Has he ever?
Yeah. My mother, who wants grandkids. 🙂
Dog or cat?
He’s a person!
I’ll let transientmind be the judge of that.
Cat. Of course. 🙂
Dogs are too needy. Cats know the value of aloofness. And a cat who wants affection for affection’s sake alone (as opposed to when hungry) is more special than a dog who just wants it all the time regardless.
The only dog I’d ever be able to get along with in a living arrangement is a working dog who has been worked hard during the day and been socialized enough to know that evenings are alone time. One who can just sit and be quiet, without all that distasteful energy and enthusiasm that makes me avoid dogs (and similar people) on principle, saving exposure to them for enjoyable but brief (by necessity) periods.
Dark Souls question: what’s the best place to grind souls pre Quelaag? All the Dark Souls 2 talk has made me think I should try to get through Dark Souls, and Quelaag is where I left off. I haven’t been able to beat her, so I figured I should maybe grind up a few levels before trying again.
Dawg, take in Mildred the Man Killer (or whatever the shit her name is) and just get her to sort shit out.
I wouldn’t have gotten through that fight if not for her.
Maybe I’ll try that first.
There are a few decent places. If you can grind out 20,000 souls, I recommend
getting the crest from the Undead Parish blacksmith and grinding the NPCs behind the seal in the Forest. You can get their attention, and then run into the tiny gap between the staircase (where you came in) and the cliff. They’ll hurl themselves to their death and net you easy souls.That said, levels don’t mean much in the game. Technique and gear are key.
Are you summoning Mildred for the battle? She helps!Already unlocked the forest. Thanks for the advice.
I used Darkroot Garden pre-Blighttown, but it comes with the disadvantage that it takes a 20k soul investment to get the seal to do it.
Aside from that… uhhhh… Nope, I got nothing. Easiest way to beat Quelaag is with Mildred though. She can tank the crud out of the lava. Other tip is to try to stay slightly back from her, maybe don’t lock on. She punishes you for trying to get into her feet.
Have you grabbed the Dragon Crest Shield from in front of the Undead Dragon yet? The 90 Fire blocking comes in SUPER handy during that fight.
Oh yeah, I’ve had the Black Knight Shield every time I’ve done that fight (95% fire block). Incredibly useful.
I’ve noticed a lot of people will take useless shields in with them with about 20 fire block when co op running with them. Her attacks just go right through them and 2 minutes later in being re summoned after sending a message to them to get properly equipped.
Showing my mastery of the game’s myriad systems, I played through the entirety of it only using a Hollow Soldier Shield (I think I upgraded it to +5 for Stability, but it’s not like that helps the other elements). You can achieve anything with a +15 Great Scythe.
To be honest the only place I can think of if at the other side of the sewers, you might have to power on and just keep trying quelaag
If you travel back up to the depths bonfire you can place your summon sign and help people beat the Gaping Dragon. Each run nets you 30,000+ souls, if I remember correctly.
Alternatively, if you just want to get passed her I’d recommend summoning two allies. Summon signs are near the Blighttown bonfire, except you have to be human to summon (and be online).
Today I’ve reached a milestone
Which I hope, to my boss, remains unknown
Emotions run high; I give you this
Nostalgic dreck and a manly kiss
TAY is a place I like to be
Y do I come here? You will see.
Free games to and from my friends
In a circle of gifts that never ends!
Very cool folks, with cool opinions
Eligible to serve under my dominion
Talking non-game stuff is always nice
Houses, work, and life advice
Overlaid on news, deep stuff, or rumour
Undertones of jet-black humour
Soul Knight stories for the Soul Knight crowd
An obsession touted wide and loud
Never miss a chance to Praise the Sun
Dark Souls is the bestest brutal fun
Cheesy puns (but I think they’re gouda)
Or page 18, getting ever lewder
‘member when “@strange is a girl?!”
Me and @DC gonna give it a whirl.
Everyone is literally the worst, ever
Never stop guessing The Dig, never!
Too many injokes to recall in just one session
Super Secret Mystery Question
Buy a copy of my books
You know you like the way it looks
Steve Holt emotes with a great big \o/
(Have no idea what rhymes with that)
Ask Me Anything, I’ll show you how
Never intend to leave TAY now
Every day I’m here, till fifty thou
Thanks, TAY. Love you all.
*elevates to higher plane of existence*
Now you just need to get those Gizmodo and Lifehacker comments up.
Shoot me if it ever comes to that 😛
Double-upvote.
wait.
Strange is a girl?!
Ah, memories.
Yes. Memories.
*mammaries
You missed the R in hours, by the way..
Joke, right?
TWENTY(-)FIVE(-)THOUSAND(-)COMMENTS(-)BY(-)SHANE
You did it!
\o/
Now I’m gonna be all hung up on what rhymes with “\o/”So they want me to be applying for ten jobs a fortnight.
Haha, good one.
Bleh. Haven’t had a get in a while 😛
Ah, crap. I really could have done with that page get.
missed it by thatttt much.
HEY EVERYONE. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-267/comment-page-4/#comment-2454222
LOOKIT SHANE’S THING.
Wow, that’s huge.
#SaveItForPage18
DAMMIT @shane IF YOU’D WAITED FIVE MINUTES THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN YOURS
Or if I got to it five minutes sooner 😛
Ugh.
Lazy bloody dole bludgers….
Eh, that’s just a number they want you to aim for. In the last 6 or so months i’ve applied for 47 jobs according to my sheet thingy for cnetrelink, and centrelink are fine with this, as long as you’re showing effort and such.
If it’s anything like when I was on Newstart (that whole month of December 2005), then you probably only have to record calling up a place for more information about the qualification requirements and stuff. And you didn’t have to only count stuff you were qualified for, because… y’know. There might not actually be 10 jobs per fortnight that you’re qualified for. But if you try anyway, again: apparently it counts.
Keep a table of the ones you’ve applied for, 6 months down the line recycle them. Unless they’re actually making an effort in your Centrelink, there must be one somewhere in Australia that does.
You can do it! I believe in youuuuu
JOB HUNTING CLUB ASSEMBLE! @dc @masha2932
I got to the next stage for a few jobs I applied for but some of these online assessments are the worsttttt. I just did one where there were “avatars” and terrible acting of work scenarios where you had to pick the best solutions.
Don’t you want to do terrible online assessment tests Taco? DON’T YOU!?
I’d rather stay at home and make costumes.
I want to be Manny 🙁
I had a girl at PAX ask if she could wear the helmet.
I… who even does that? And especially while talking to me with the hood up where it’s visible and obvious that I’m pretty much strapped in and it’s no trivial matter to just pop it off on a whim.
How dare she! Gurl, make your own awesome Manny helmet.
You’re talking about Manny from Ice Age, right? Because it would be awesome if that was the case.
*Sigh*, kids these days.
Wait… THAT WAS YOU!!??… cool, i complimented you outside the bakery in the shopping centre on one of the days.
Makes me wonder how many TAYbies i unknowingly met that weekend…
What kinda job you looking for? What’s your background?
Ideally, some kind of game dev programming role. But the few that seem to be around all want years and years of commercial experience, and I don’t really have a whole lot to show off outside of not-very-good-assignments, half of which I hate and wouldn’t want to show to anyone 😛
Jeez, I wouldn’t even know where to begin with something like that. The whole get experience to get a job to get experience so you can get a job thing sucks balls.
What are you good at programming in?
Happiest with C++, C# is kind of ok I guess. But I really hate Unity. Have done some Java stuff in the past, but too long ago and too little to be of any use. Can’t really remember anything at all about database stuff either despite having done that for a semester.
Whats wrong with unity?
Reckon you could create a diablo style game engine? I’m kind of looking for something akin to that crossed with a point & click style for an adventure game I’m planning
It just completely does not gel with anything I’ve learnt about programming, combined with me just not really understanding it properly and getting overly frustrated at not being able to do the simple things that I normally would. I mean I can see how it’s useful and everything, but I don’t like it.
I have no idea if I could create a Diablo style game engine because I have not played Diablo 😛 Though it’s also really hard for me to say that I can do anything and should have anyone rely on that in any way.
Haha! I feel like these AMA’s are escalating with more personal questions every time. 😀
Nicely done, @transientmind. The kid did good.
Personal? As in sexy questions? Because I’ll be happy to hold a AMA and have some questions raised
among other thingsDefinitely won’t be raising the bar with that one though.
Enough kicks in the nuts, and he won’t be raising the bar ever again.
That’s what you meant, right?
Well this has all turned out to be a real kick to the
ballsego.We can go back and ask more personal questions about you and everyone else who did an AMA if you really want.
I’m game, I haven’t fulfilled my idol curiosities in a while, and I’m sure I could ask some hard hitting questions 😉
I’m game! 😀
Not the answer I was expecting to be honest. I’ll wait and see if anyone else is keen, I don’t want to be the only one asking you personal / invasive questions after all :3 😛 😉
@DC, what’s your single most embarrassing or mortifying moment? That one event you hold up above all others when you’re considering your shortcomings as a member of the human race.
I’m not game, after all. *flees*
Oh no! I’ll edit out my invasive questions!!!
I’M SORRY!!!
How dare you ask things in an AMA? What kind of monster are you?
@shane: I’ll answer!
Probably the time the police thought I was a drug addict in London. I make jokes about it now. It’s a funny story to tell people, but I legitimately went home and cried that day. I decided to go back to Australia that day too.
Thanks for answering.
Old wounds successfully re-opened!
Good on you for answering. Very brave. 🙂
Glad you can joke about it now. When things seem really crushing, like you just want the earth to swallow you up, it doesn’t hurt to know that eventually the feeling will pass.
Doesn’t always help in the moment, but it doesn’t hurt. Except when it does, and what you’re worried about is something like forgetting the face of a departed loved one.
I love the honesty. 🙂
Is that sarcasm? 😀
Nope!
Alrighty then, you don’t have to answer any of these by the way.
MARKED AS INVASIVE AND PERSONAL, READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!
nothing to see here eitherSince those were a little heavy, I’ll throw in some light hearted ones.
– What’s your favourite thing in the world?
– If you could punch one celebrity in the face without consequence, who would it be?
– What’s the most shameful / embarrassing song that you like?
Nothing to see here.
I meant that first one in the best way possible. Like, you come across as this super nice guy who everyone likes, so I just don’t understand why you don’t seem to see it too 🙁
The OCD one was simply because I associated OCD with light switches kinda thing, and doing something X amount of times kinda thing.
That mean one was purely curiosity. That wasn’t even a mean thing. My sense of morals must be severely out of whack if that’s the meanest thing you’ve done. Mines 1000x worse, and I’d do it again if I had to.
I feel like an invasive jerk. I’m sorry :'(
I’m going to go slither back under my rock now.
I wouldn’t have answered if I didn’t want to, Liondrive. 🙂
– Cheese is pretty swell
– @shane
– Anything @blaghman sang.
Nawww, I never knew you felt that way about me.
nvm
ooohhhh i don’t care about the other ones but the correct answer to number 2 is
Nicholas Cage
Go for it. Or ask me here. Whatever you want.
I was only (partially) joking, hahaha!
I should have put in more winky faces to show I wasn’t being super serious!
Pfft.
“Pfft” at me and you’ll regret it >:(
Question time! 😀
– Is there anything in your past you’d change if you could, and if so, what and why?
– What would you do if your child grew up to be a bully?
– What is your biggest regret (if any)?
And cause I don’t want to come across as an invasive jerk, I’ll throw some light hearted ones in for you too! 😀
– What’s your favourite childhood cartoon?
– If you could have any living animal as a loyal, obedient pet, what would it be?
– Who’s your biggest celebrity man crush ( if none, pick one!)? 😉 😉 😉
– I did so much dumb stuff as a kid. Not self-destructive or rebellious, but just plain old flat-out head-shakingly-weird dumb stuff. I’m happy to blot my childhood out from my memory entirely. But if I could take just one thing back, it would probably be the business I set up in year ten (when I was school captain, no less), where I’d charge everyone I knew fifty cents to line up at the canteen for them (and the subsequent stint I had volunteering in the canteen, where I stole money and food and never got caught). Despite being ‘part’ of a big group of ‘friends’ I basically spent my recesses and lunches lining up at the canteen, and did no socialising. I was a bad school captain. Only made, like, $150 that year as well. Even seemed like peanuts then…
– We’re very aware of that possibility, and we’re working hard to make sure we never have to answer that question. Even now, there have been incidents where she has banded together with other kids to terrorise her own little brother, and we found it terrifying and deeply troubling. Honestly, if she turns out that way, we’ll do whatever it takes to set her straight. Mostly, she’s sweet and helpful and mindful of others’ vulnerabilities, though, so *fingers crossed*
– Indulging in adult entertainment at way too young an age. Coupled with my crippling fear of talking with girls, I think it messed me up bad. Possibly permanently.
– So many to choose from. I’m gonna list a few: Super Mario Brothers Super Show; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Samurai Pizza Cats; Twins of Destiny. If I missed any of these, I’d be throwing a major hissy. On the Saturday Disney side of things, I also liked: Goof Troop; Chip n Dale; and DuckTales. Don’t ask me to choose, because I probably couldn’t do it. TMNT was the biggest obsession at the time, but I suspect that these days, I’d probably enjoy Goof Troop, Ducktales or Samurai Pizza Cats the best.
– I have a dog. I’m happy with him. Wouldn’t change a thing about him except for the hair he moults everywhere 😛
– Alan Alda. Even though he’s way older than I’d typically go for, I have a lot of respect for the guy and his achievements, and I think he’d be quite gentle.
*rings police*
But it’s not even AMA Thursday! The whole system is out of control!
Wait… there was a specified day for that? Oops.
H-uh. There’s a series of videos (or one video which has them all, or something) about the basics of Dark Souls 2 up, hosted by Junglist and VaatiVidya. Despite the fact that they’re all “blah blah this is for beginners for the most part blah” I feel like I need to watch all of it.
Shut up, I’m not deprived of information and desperate.
I’m pyromancered of information and desperate. *Audience groans*
So it’s not quite as awe-inspiring as @shane’s collosal number of comments but I passed my first milestone of 1,000 comments. I’m such a Kotaku babby.
Awwwww. He’s sho adorwable.
\o/
Even @shane’s is dwarfed by the mighty @dc
Holy shit.
Just got an email informing me I’ve won $2,820,000.00 USD in the South African Lottery.
Despite not remembering buying a ticket nor have I ever visited South Africa, I was so sure this was legit…until I saw the contact name was “Mr Ross”.
I’m on to you, @rocketman
FRIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND
(just in case, you understand)
Back off! I saw him first!
Honestly, if I ended up with 2 million dollars from a lottery (after tax) I’m pretty sure I’d set aside $100k for something insane with friends, like an all expenses paid trip to Japan or something.
Ahem….
how the fuck does everyone know my real name, its not like i broadcast it 😛
I imagine it stems from Hotross.
It’s a TAYmeme, dude. HotRoss.
@dc told everybody
Mr Flamingo.
Thats Mr Fandango to you
DARK SOULS 2 REVIEWS HAVE STARTED TO APPEAR
Here’s three to get you started:
IGN: http://au.ign.com/articles/2014/03/11/dark-souls-2-review
Polygon: http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/11/5492096/dark-souls-2-review
Ausgamer: http://www.ausgamers.com/games/dark-souls-2/review/
Ooooh, it’s reviewing well! I’m glad for you guys! 😀
AND MORE LINKS HERE
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=782478
Ahdndhsjejejekj!
Come on Thursday! Why aren’t you here yet?!?
Everything I’m reading is just pure awesome. I’ve read about ten reviews so far.
Apparently, you can
revive bossesWHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THAT?Possible grinding. Possible tail weapons. But also because some boss battles are just goddamned awesome. I’d play Ornstein and Smough multiple times, just to get it down. I’d fight The Stray Demon any number of times. Also Seath.I understood about 13% of that sentence.
Yeah… I should probably get around to finishing Dark Souls.
Something you’re probably familiar with in Souls is how after thirty hours grinding on the starting mobs after your numerous deaths and respawns, they become incredibly easy.
Something you might not be familiar with is doing a completely new character without any advantages of stats and levels, and still finding those same enemies incredibly easy, even though you’re worse off now. It wasn’t all your experience and stats… now it’s just you being better.
It’s pattern-recognition and muscle memory. Part of the joy of Dark Souls is when you realize that you’ve done something so much that you’re now a master at it, and that while stats might’ve been a crutch to give you some margin for error, you now recognize how all the attacks are telegraphed. There’s something really liberating and empowering about utterly smashing content – unaided – that held you up for hours earlier when you were less-practiced.
One of the reasons I really enjoyed doing all the boss fights co-op was the ability to test myself on that learning, again and again. Trying different techniques and finding the optimal way to do something so that you gain mastery over it. Unfortunately, in Dark Souls you’re at the mercy of the online match-making system to do that.Reviving the bosses gives you a more reliable way to experience that same enjoyment without having to wait to come across someone in co-op trying to do it. Sounds like a great thing, in my books.
it’s one of those games that I want to play, but it doesn’t play well with my PC.
It’ll either crash on start up, or if I can actually get to playing, it’ll not save my progress.
GFWL, man. FTW?!
I couldn’t resist and read the spoiler but …
I would constantly revive Artorias. Never have I fought a boss that amazing. (Plus Artorias is a badass!)I really like that a lot of people summon you for him. It’s a good fight.
Took me a while to realize I had to roll FORWARD to avoid the giant, shield-shattering leap-smash.Wait, you can dodge it by rolling forward? I just abused invincibility frames by rolling sideways at the last moment. Also how I beat super Smough the first time (with his ground pound electric attack).Yeah, every time I rolled sideways or backwards or blocked, I’d wear a little damage. That doesn’t sit well with me – almost every attack in the game is dodgeable or avoidable in some way or another. Sometimes it’s timing. Just took me a bit to figure it out.YES!!
Woah:
It helps that subsequent New Game+ options return, with the added bonus that NG+ is more fleshed out this time around, with new enemies and bosses returning as regular foesGet back up so I can kill you again!So badass 😛
http://threepanelsoul.com/2013/05/20/on-raids/
Drangleic?
Lordran sounded like a cool medieval land full of strength and mystery.
Drangleic is the sound you make while choking on a chicken bone.
Dr. Angelic.
I always though Lordran sounded a bit…uninspired? But yeah, it beats the hell out of Dr Angelic.
It looked too similar to Lordaeron but yeah, don’t like that new name. =P
Having watched a lot of anime, it has a bit of an ‘Engrish’ feel to it.
The land of lords – Lordran! Portmanteaus of English would feel a lot more exotic to Japanese folk, I guess?
I don’t think I’ll read any reviews, going in blind here on out.
Sorry, I probably won’t be participating in any major conversation until I finish the game in a few weeks. Or I may cave after a week or so, we’ll see. Torn between my own personal exploration of the game for the first time or being part of the group think/experience. Both Demon’s and Dark were highly personal first playthroughs for me, but the groupthink conversation opportunities don’t come along very often either. Arg.
Same, I’ve basically tried to avoid anything to do with the game. Gonna go in blind (basically how I played the original Dark Souls).
I’ll probably regret this, but jumping on the AMA bandwagon.
TAY, feel free to ask me anything
Where do you see yourself in five years?
What’s your proudest moment?
Any major changes you hope to make in your life soon?
You’ve talked about gym before, you enjoying it?
What gets you out of bed in the morning?
– Honestly, probably will end up having to move to the US to continue my career. There’s still some scope for me to stick around in Australia for a few more years in my current position and keep moving up, but at some point I’m going to hit a glass ceiling where I need to move teams or companies and that will mean moving out of Australia.
– Getting into my current job, I think. Grueling interview process (5 1-hour interviews back to back) and it was the second time I applied for a role here, after getting passed over the first time.
– I still live with my mum and it’s driving me nuts. I was ready to move out about 3-4 years ago but if I’d done so she would have been completely stuck since I’m contributing toward the rent. We’re in a cheaper place now so that’s not a problem, but I got convinced to aggressively save money toward buying a place of my own rather than renting. Primarily thinking long-term investment – I can rent it out if I move on – but also I want to be able to have the freedom to paint a wall or run cabling or get a cat (I miss my kitty) without someone else approving.
– I enjoy it after I’ve been, but not before or during. I have a personal trainer and he has the patience of a saint because I’ve been going for years and never made any significant progress until the last month or so when I really decided to put a lot of focus on massively reducing my calorie intake.
– I am super bad at getting out of bed. I have a slight circadian rhythm disorder which means my body clock is about 3 hours behind reality. Means my natural sleeping time is about 2am and my natural wake-up time is about 10am. So getting up in the mornings at 7-8 is something I can’t sustain easily. Luckily I have a job where hours are pretty flexible as long as the work’s getting done, so I can just come in later and work later which suits me nicely. But honestly, the motivating factors that get me out of bed in the mornings are Money, a sense of responsibility and the promise of coffee.
Great answers! Thanks man!
How do you feel about raisin toast?
Too personal
Nice treat every now and then with a knob of butter. Not something I have often.
There’s a place nearby work that does the most amazing fruit toast. It’s like raisin toast but in addition to raisins it has apricots and stuff.
Only one, seeing as you appear to be a big follower of the medium- What got you into anime?
Also, unrelated, I was about to type ‘animus’ in place of ‘anime’ but people would mistake that for assassin creed’s animus. 😛
That’s why you go with animoo. I mean sure, it makes it look like you fight like a cow, but that’s a small price to pay.
How appropriate, you fight like a dairy farmer.
I was exposed to it pretty early in life. Three separate occasions that I can think of. When I was about 3 years old we traveled to the USA for several weeks and while I was there I caught several episodes of The Mysterious Cities of Gold on TV. Technically it’s a French / Japanese co-production but I think it counts. I got hooked on it. Later on, when I was about five or so they launched Sky TV in NZ. During the day, the movies channel would play a bunch of low-budget cartoon films that they had picked up on the cheap. I only remember three of them, two weren’t anime (one of them was a horrific one which I still don’t know the name of but IIRC it involved a mother who’s son was taken and she had to travel to try and find him and slowly give up various things along the way. There’s a scene where a witch takes her eyes and it terrified me. The other was Flight of Dragons which I think was Japanese-animated but a US production) but one of them was as anime as it gets. The Fantastic Adventure of Yoko. Watched it again recently, still holds up. The third case was when Channel 3 launched in NZ – up until then there had only been two free to air TV stations. Again, as a new startup they got a bunch of kids cartoons on the cheap, and a lot of it was heavily cut anime. In particular I remember watching all of Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs and both the Lion and the Vehicle Voltron series. I also don’t mind admitting that a bit later in life I used to watch Sailor Moon. The fact my sister watched it was a convenient excuse.
At the time I didn’t really associate any of those as being Japanese in particular (aside from Sailor Moon, but that was when I was much older and could appreciate the distinction) but I did notice that those shows had a different structure and feel to them. In high school in NZ I studied Japanese for a year and a half so I already had interest in the country and culture independent of anime itself.
A little after we moved to Australia, I happened to be flicking through a TV guide on a Saturday night when I was home alone and noticed there was a Japanese animation show being advertised on SBS. My sister had also mentioned something about people in her class talking about some Japanese show on SBS that was good, so I tuned in, not knowing what to expect.
It was episodes 17 and 18 of Evangelion. For those that don’t have the entire series dialogue memorized
episode 18 ends with the bloody dismemberment of Eva-03 at the hands of the Dummy system in Eva-01. I don’t know what I expected, but I know that that wasn’t it. Hooked immediately, I went out and started renting out and then buying all the VHS tapes and watching them repeatedly.Then, hungering for more, I went hunting on the internet. I’m not entirely sure what the order was, but I’m pretty sure my next step was Tenchi Muyo, which I enjoyed in all it’s 320×240 RealVideo glory. The other thing that was doing the rounds at this point was Nadesico, which I watched most of but really didn’t like. It was extremely popular in otaku circles and everything, but mainly because it was a parody show and you really needed a lot of background knowledge of the tropes it mocked. Rewatched recently and I ‘got it’. After that I remember getting into Bubblegum Crisis 2040, but it was hard to find it dubbed and so I watched some subtitled. I remember re-watching an episode I’d seen subtitled with the dub and getting really cross at it because the voices sucked and the translation of finer details was different, and at that point switched to subtitles for life. Somewhere in there I watched one of the Cardcaptor Sakura films, but the real point that I’d say I crossed over completely was Rurouni Kenshin, that was when I moved from being an Evangelion fan that dabbled with some other stuff into being an anime fan.
That got long sorry 🙁
http://imdb.com/title/tt0084649/
I have that and the sequel on DVD here. My kids watched it once and never wanted to again.
I’ll make them watch Watership Down soon.
Not 100% sure of the relevance but I watched that as a kid too during the same sort of period and liked it a lot. I might have been exposed to it via a book first though? Can’t recall exactly.
Thought it might’ve been that but now I think on it I don’t actually recall her eyes been taken.
Definitely not Secret of Nickel-Metal Hydride. 😛 It was some other horrific film and I’ve never tracked down what it was.
What is your most embarrassing moment?
What is your most passionate dream for the future?
I honestly don’t think I can think of any one really embarrassing moment. Not that I’ve never had any, just no major incidents stand out.
Currently am not engaged in an Epic Personal Quest and don’t have any major dreams beyond moving out of home and getting a cat.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Also, what’s the scariest / most awkward situation you’ve ever been in?
As a woodchuck does not chuck wood I don’t know how much wood a woodchuck would chuck.
Ever moved to another country where you’re the only kid with a completely daggy accent? Yeah.
What are the qualities of your perfect partner?
What qualities do you dislike about yourself?
– Overlapping interests, I think.
– How long have you got while I write a list? 🙁
Have you ever cheated when playign boardgames and if so how?
*Prepares to take notes*
If you could get any one boardgame right now what would it be
Do you worry what a potential partner might think of your collections
– Not deliberately, at least not that I recall so certainly not any case that I’m guilty about. My personality is such that I’m a bit of a rules lawyer so I don’t usually break them. I do sometimes have the ability to pick at indistinct wording in a way that benefits me though, but that’s not cheating. That’s being smart.
– I’m really interested in picking up Caverna when it’s available. Dwarf Fortress: the boardgame. Yes Please.
– Do I ever. 🙁 But as I’ve never actually had even a potential partner it’s kind of a non-issue. And besides that, I don’t think I could get on with anyone that had no interest in or at least acceptance of any of my hobbies.
1. Well that wasn’t helpful in ensure I’m the victor at the next games night I’m at 😉
2. I really need to play agricola at some stage. That seems to be the closest to it and I haven’t played many of those types of games
3. At the end of the day you shouldn’t need to give up what you like to make somebody else happy. You can have different opinions on things but some shared interests and acceptance of each others likes and dislikes is key
Caverna is supposed to be Agricola Lite. Agricola is a great game but it’s pretty bleak. Very hard not to have your family starve to death.
As someone who plays a lot of japanese games, what specifically draws you to that culture?
Games specifically? Focus on characters and character interaction, plus they generally have much better overall art direction and feel more cohesive.
Oh man, I totally got swamped with workstuff and missed the boat a bit, but I wanted to know:
Inane/poppy:
1. Where does your handle come from?
2. Crunchy or smooth?
3. Physique, hair, complexion, quality of costume etc as a non-issue, which character (any media) would you most want to cosplay as? Oh, and: Part 2 –
if/when reaching your preferred physique but retaining your other characteristics (facial structure, eye/hair colour, complexion etc), which character do you think you’d really nail the look of in cosplay? (As a balding white guy, my own list is kinda smaller than preferred. If we really want, I guess we can include wig-requiring characters.)More personal:
4. What meets your criteria for an upvote-worthy comment? (You already know how different our standards are, given that I sprinkle them like confetti when I like what people are saying, even if I don’t specifically agree.)
5. Where’d you grow up (and given your mention of travelling, which places stayed longest/were most influential) and how do you think it impacted your worldview?
6. Which character trait do you think is your greatest asset, and why?
1. I’m actually not sure. Something I thought was cool when I was younger and more idiotic? It’s possible to represent 0 in IEEE floating point with a sign bit.
2. Smooth ever so slightly over crunchy as I have had issues with the bits of peanut getting stuck in teeth and also a horrific case where I got a peanut chunk stuck in the empty socket where I had had my wisdom teeth pulled from and then it came out like 3 days later. D:
3. I’m not really into cosplay and I’ve never had a physique which would even make doing it viable so it’s never been something I’ve thought hugely about. Except for this:
http://i.imgur.com/ZF69HIV.jpg
Tried to figure out a way to do it ages ago but getting the proportions right would be really tricky.
4. I have no objective criteria. I know it when I see it.
5. New Zealand until I was about 14 (in what was all four capital cities when I was growing up, though I believe that Hamilton is considered a capital city now more than Dunedin is and I never lived there) and then Melbourne until now. I think if there’s anywhere that impacted my worldview, it was moving to Melbourne. The biggest thing is how you get used to noise, people being everywhere and traveling 20-30 mins to do something being normal. I go back to NZ and everywhere feels so small and empty and provincial in comparison.
6. I absolutely hate these sorts of dodgy interview questions. 🙁 I really have no idea, whether something is an asset or not depends entirely on the situation.
Actually regarding 3, if I had any degree of ability with the needle & thread I’d totally try and make a Tactician set from Fire Emblem Awakening. That coat is badass.
That’s a damn shame about the peanut paste… Crunchy is The Way and The Light, but I can see how that kind of experience would be jarring.
The costume is cool, It could probably be done, although your real face would probably be at a weird spot on the character.
And, HAH at the interview question. Fair enough. It reveals quite a bit about how a person thinks, based on where they think a certain quality will be useful – highlights their priorities, concept of what’s ‘right’ or their interpretation on what’s sought. Interesting call. 🙂
I think that the way it would work out if you scale the proportions correctly is that your face would be where the triangle mouth is. Also the body bit would go down close to the knee and your hands would be somewhere halfway into the arms so you’d only be able to shuffle around. And it’d need to be made out of something pretty strong, cardboard probably wouldn’t cut it. Figuring out where and how to attach straps to hold it together would also be challenging.
Also, while I profess a minor preference for smooth peanut butter, I usually buy crunchy. Don’t ask me why. Maybe deep down I know it to be the Truth.
Honestly, I’m thinking fiberglass or balsa wood with a cardboard finish lacquer of some kind and arms inside the body with the suit’s arms moved on a ball joint controlled by rods you hold inside the body. There’s some coloured plastic wire meshes designed for just this kind of thing that you could put over the mouth to use for visibility in navigation, but you’d definitely want to be avoiding enclosed spaces.
The curiosity in me wants to try making this happen.
Well, they say that everything happens in 3’s.
First @shane hit 25,000 comments, then @popdart5 hit 1,000.
Now it’s my turn, this is my 1,000th Kotaku comment, woohoo!
Congrats to @shane and @popdart5
\o/
NICE
you are at 25000 FUCK
man im not even at 10000 and i basically lived here for 2 years
I know right.
And now when I do get to my 10,000th post, it will pale in comparison to @shane’s poem to end all poems.
Just can’t win.
Congrats. Does that mean you’re also a Kotaku babby? 😛
I started seriously posting about the middle of last year so yeah, I may/may not be younger than you in comment dwelling.
I’ve been commenting for about 18 months, so yeah, I’m just a liitle ‘un.
@Beavwa – I thought it might be time for me to change my avatar. Now there should be no mix ups between us. Not even look the same!
Too much domo for this website to handle.
Which one of us is the evil twin, then?
Depends who was born where. Isn’t it interesting how the left — or sinister — twin is invariably the evil one. Wait a minute… Beavwa’s scar is on the wrong side. He couldn’t have been the evil left twin. That means the evil twin is, and always has been… B-ob!
I’ll just go eat this bucket of fish heads.
Starting to get REAL tired of being the one who keeps having to fix everyone else’s fuck ups. Getting even more tired for seemingly always shouldering the blame for it all, even if I had literally nothing to do with it. Yet the management keeps giving these useless idiots a free pass and just keep shoveling it on me since I’m the only one who does anything about it.
Oh hey look. A promotion came up. Oh let’s give it to the guy who has taken nearly 70 days off when he was rostered on because he’s complaining about not being able to survive on his pay. Mike’s doing most of the work anyway so it won’t matter.
Fuck. Can’t wait until Thursday and holidays.
I was about to say I’m in the same boat, until I read the second paragraph.
Now I’ll say, piss in that coworker’s coffee, instead.
*Pfft, what’s the point. He’s not in to drink it anyway.
I thought it was going to be the cop scene. This was just as good.
We should start our own company.
Its just a bar and we drink all day
You’re an ideas man Rocket.
Nobody said they had to be good ideas
I know the feel broski
Ooooh, I’ll do a shift every so often as long as I don’t have to speak to any customers/handle money/look at people in the eye.
I’ll do that too, if I get paid. Going all out, count me in.
Your bartending role will be just to offer people Rye, and pour them one and insist even if they don’t want it.
You could be the mannequin in the shop front then? @benny too.
I’m pretty confident that’s why most guys start bars. 🙂
I call dibs on the IT role!
As long as there’s stuff that isn’t booze there
Eugh.
@redartifice @tech_knight @f4ction @anyoneelsewhomaybeinterestedinrpgs
I’ll start writing up ideas for storylines and campaigns for a RPG that I hope to get going sometime next month. I’m taking some holidays at the end of March so I’ll get the ball rolling when I get back in about the second week of April. I only have one thing I need to clear with you all before I start storyboarding:
If you could choose to play a Warhammer 40K RPG (either Dark Heresy, Deathwatch, Only War, Rogue Trader, or Black Crusade) or a more traditional Pathfinder/D&D RPG (low fantasy, high fantasy, historical fantasy, dark fantasy, renaissance fantasy, Oriental fantasy, apocalypse fantasy), let me know and I can try and tailor a campaign and story to suit. If you have any other suggestions outside of the ones I’ve written here, throw it up and I can work with it.
My personal preference would be for High fantasy, however I’m pretty easy with whatever. I have the Dark Heresy rulebook but can torrent whatever is needed.
My DnD group seems to have vanished, so that blows.
I would be up for some RPG stuff. I have no suggestions though.
/Helpius
I’m actually really interested but it all depends on the times you guys pick. My free time starts usually fairly late.
It all depends how things play out really and how many different timezones we have to contend with. Thankfully daylight savings is nearly done so we could potentially start at around 8pm eastern standard time and go to about 10pm. It all depends on schedules and what not as I know some people start work at ungodly hours of the morning.
Ditto on this; I’ve been wanting to get back in to pen-and-paper style for a while but haven’t been able to get it off the ground. Working a regular 9-to-5 also limits availability.
I personally don’t mind whatever gets picked, I’ll just adapt as I did with Scrappa 🙂
I’d probably prefer D&D style fantasy over 40K, I’m a little more familiar with D20 based systems. I do have D&D 4e books but am happy to pick up Pathfinder. Would also learn other systems if needed.
All of those fantasy types are fine with me, I can adapt, although wouldn’t mind something a bit Planescape-y
I’d be interested, if you can put up with ‘that guy’ who tries to do the stupidest things.
Is it me?
I’m curious but not sure if I can commit, depends on timing and what you end up choosing. Since I’m not sure I don’t want to voice any preferences and influence any decisions.
D-Day. Depressed Day. I bought a used Apple iPhone 3GS at lunch from Crime Converters for $145 (yes, go on and laugh) and if that wasn’t a funny enough story for you – here have another; the damn phone doesn’t even power on. It’s dead. FML.
Dear Benny
hahahahhahahahahahahhahahhaa
Regards
Tigs
Fortunately they’re still beholden to adherence to consumer rights law, right? You should be able to return it for a refund since it doesn’t work. Right? RIGHT? I’m pretty sure that’s right.
They might say otherwise but unless they advised @benny in advance that its being sold for parts then they sure as fuck have to refund it
Yeah, I received a refund. It’s all good. Just an inconvenience, really.
I wish the veronica mars movie screened here :/
Apparently Hoyts are screening it in select places!
He’s in Townsville remember. Townsville is not a “select place”.
Aw, I thought he was in my heart and mind. There’s a Hoyts pretty close to that. *decisive nod*
Not to make you jealous, but I HAVE A TICKET FOR FRIDAY WOOOO
Quelaag is down. Yay.
“Amazing Chest Ahead”
Sticky White Stuff.
Use Both Hands.
That was easily the message that made me laugh the most in dark souls
I’m worried that if I post now, it’ll go onto the next page…
Man is it hot…
Phew…
D.C.’s FIVE POINT PLAN FOR WHEN I GET A JOB:
1.) ASK SOMEONE OUT ON A DATE.
2.) FIX MY TEETH
3.) DO SOMETHING NICE FOR MY FRIENDS.
4.) BUY A NEW LUMBERJACK SHIRT
5.) FORGET WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE UNEMPLOYED AND BITCH ABOUT HAVING TO WORK.
Pro tip find a job you enjoy, no need to bitch!
That’s not very realistic for someone with a giant gap in their resume who’s practically unemployable.
Well given my first job lasted all of 3 months at the age of 18 and was in an office environment, and then it took me 3 years to even get anywhere again.. Which ended up in a retail environment around products I was semi-familiar with, I enjoyed it. If you have skills someone wants you’re employable. You just have to find that someone who wants that skillset.
Edit: Just so you know I worked 3 months at EB & about 4 months at Dan Murphy’s… So over all at the age of 23 I don’t even have a year of work under my belt. Yep.
Any reason you put someone and not a girl for number one?
My standards have dropped considerably since the last time I worked. 😀
Are you saying there’s something wrong with asking a guy out on a date…
😛Well, the guy should really ask me. That’s not very gentlemanly of him! 😛
All I got from that is that you’re the woman in the relationship…
double 😛Also, HOW DO YOU RESPOND SO QUICKLY?!?!
I’m known for my quickness!
I’m not sure that’s a good selling point when you ask someone out 😛
At least he didn’t put something.
How’s the search? where are you starting?
Maybe I’ll sell a Kidney! I hear Freeze only has one!
That’s a strategy with limited ongoing application.
Hey i have a job and i do some of these things
Since getting a proper full time job I’ve done none of those things.
You’ve done 3.) more than once!
I’ve never considered it doing nice things. More just doing what friends do.
But you can do those nice things. I can’t at the moment. I can barely train it into the city. XD Also you did 5 just a little up the page too. 😀
Eh I wouldn’t worry about it. I don’t.
And there’s a difference between complaining about work and complaint about having to work.
You did nice things for me, or am I not a friend? D:
See above.
I refuse to! 😀
I would suggest instead standing on the ground when asking someone out. Wouldn’t want to slip over.
I don’t understand what that means.
I think he’s refering to the fruit Date.
*tilts head side ways, furrows brow*
HAHAHA
I get jokes.
#almostpage6
All the best, DC! The biggest hurdle is in your head!
Now that you’ve pointed it out I kinda want to see those pearly whites 😛Haha! Pearly whites! If only. If only. XD
Pearly white?
Awesome! I’ll start getting ready.
Pick me up at eight?
Awesome stuff mate, any idea what you’ll be looking for employment-wise?I like that we’ve both offered support and a joke, but couldn’t agree on which one to put in the spoiler tag 😛
Any thing, really. Just need to break the cycle of doing nothing.
Got any telephone customer service experience? Or any customer service experience? I could keep an eye out on openings at work.
No skills to pay the bills. Thanks for offering though. 😀
I’ll be right. Have some ideas a-brewin’…
To be fair I don’t know that skills are a prerequisite for most new starters. It just helps to get the foot in the door.
I had a look at the external website and nothing’s going right now, but the internal one has more listings. I’ll have a look regardless, but yeah you probably don’t want any openings we’d have. Far better to get your own brew going. 🙂
Honestly, most call centre positions require no skills whatsoever, and/or will do on-the-job training. Outbound is pretty shitty, usually sales. Inbound is a better gig if you can get it, but can be a bit stressful. But if you’re flexible with hours, the pay can be decent if they offer after-hours.
In a specialist position I made the most money in my entire life, but even just as a shitkicker grunt I was able to get away with 70hr weeks for some you-wouldn’t-believe-it money.
Nah, you’re totally right. I started here over 10 years ago in the call centre stuff and it was effectively my first job. Had no real skills to speak of, everything I needed to know was covered in training. Have fallen in to other jobs internally since then but the initial hire was skill free. Crazy to think that I’ve only ever really worked for one company though (unless you count Coles as a teen, and 2 different 3 month gigs after uni.)
Maybe try some entry level stuff while you’re finding your feet? It’s not glamorous and it might not even always pay the bills either, but it gets your hand in, breaks the rut, and can give you a decent shot of confidence.
Also, bartending – discussed earlier – can actually make you some decent money. They do get their own award which prevents you from copping all that sweet after-hours bonus, but the rates still aren’t too bad for what the work is, and the whole thing about bartenders being social gurus who listen to/solve peoples’ problems is a bit of a myth these days anyway. You only have to be amiable, and you’ve got amiable down pat. 🙂
Also, chicks dig the guy who gives them the booze. You’re tall and you’d get to wear a uniform. I reckon you’d totally get hit on.
Have you considered swapping #1 & #2 around? I’m told the ladies like guys who look like they don’t brush their teeth with a hammer, it might improve your odds
There’s no real order to that list, but true enough! 😀
Damn, I see why you need to fix your teeth dude, that smile just looks like a capital D.
can’t believe I’m gonna risk this, for a dad joke page get.. prepare for fail!
I slept like a log last night. I woke up in the fireplace!
/edit FUCK! I knew that would happen. Oh wells… page 5 dad joke ftw!
We’re still about seven posts away from a new page.
Ahoy! I’m Aleph, and I’m no longer as frequent a poster here as I’d like.
AMA!
Likely the worst time for it, as everyone’s heading home now ;P
Pfft, if you live in Queensland, who lives there, seriously.
Yeah, they’re all a bit silly there.
You’re an open book, Aleph. Your twitter feed is a window into your soul!
1.) Any solid plans to get off the Eylandt?
2.) How many night time intruders have you fended off in your time there?
3.) Proudest moment?
4.) Darkest hour?
5.) Major plans for the future you’ve got in the makings?
6.) You happy with how things are? What could you change?
7.) How’s things?
The amount of crap I censor or almost-but-not-quite post on Twitter is huge, though it’s definitely a stream of consciousness thing for the most part. I still struggle to believe that 180 odd people are interested in it!
1. Solid plans involve *waiting* at the moment. This year is essentially hold out until August, disappear to Canada for 3 months, then there’s PAX late October in Melbourne, a wedding in Canberra in November followed by Christmas on the eylandt, and HOPEFULLY move ASAP after that. Melbourne is my primary destination, with Brisbane a close second, although come what may, I’m certain my time here is up.
2. I suppose it depends on how close an interaction/confrontation you would consider ‘fending off’.
They’re typically really skittish, so you’ve got to be really composed and quiet to actually get to the door before they run. I’ve only had one distinctly physical confrontation, though all up there’d be around… 50-75 instances of yelling/chasing someone out of the yard?
3. Proudest moment… I was very much my mothers’ child (still am, I suppose), and would never act without permission. Like, this was sanksrit – mums’ word was law.
I was 7 or 8 at the time, when an announcement was made in school assembly for choir tryouts. I love(d) to sing, and so… I did it. In the audition, we all had to sing “Hot cross buns” in unison, then those picked were to sing again solo. I made it in, I was ecstatic until I realised that I’d gone behind mum’s back… I was late home that day, scared to hell of what she’d say once I told her.
She was over the moon! Huge relief, and probably my first memory of independence.
4. This is going in spoilers, and I may edit it out. Sorry. This is probably Zeitgeist-level.
My high school/college years were horrible. I’ve dealt with substance and mental health issues since then, and been in some pretty bad spots, though nothing compares to 14-18. I was grounded for 3 consecutive years, for reasons which still aren’t apparent. I used to get more time added to the sentence if I was late home from school, but to get home ‘on time’ required leaving school early, etc.They took my bedroom door from me, followed by the towel I erected in its place. They took my bed when I started sleeping under it (I guess it provided a sense of privacy? Iunno). I wasn’t allowed to read books, watch tv, etc etc. I was told when to come out of the room for dinner, and was allowed out of the room if I needed to go to the bathroom, that was it. I had nothing to do, so I cut a flap into the carpet, and started digging a hole through the floor (it was only really thick chipboard over the support beams, wasn’t too hard) with a screwdriver, into the storage space below. I’d *almost* gotten it big enough to get through when they found it, and I was kicked out then and there. Dad broke his finger by punching me in the head that night.
Fast forward, I return to his place to retrieve a saxophone that he had bought for me as a gift, for doing so well in the school band previously. An argument broke out, which – long story short – ended with me putting a brick through his bedroom window, and subsequently getting arrested. I was taken to the juvenile detention centre, and because I was arrested due to aggression, I was strip-searched on entry and exit, and placed on suicide watch for my stay. Dad then took me to court, seeking reimbursement for the window along with emotional/psychological damages.
That whole period is something I’d rather (and occasionally do) forget, and there’s parts that will resurface every now and then.
5. I really want to further my education. Now that I’m 25, I believe I can enrol in uni as a mature aged student, which is really cool! I’d really like to find a course(s) on philosophy, psychology and gender studies. I’m not 100% sure what practical outcomes lay down that path, but I really don’t mind. I want to learn again.
Outside of that, I’m really looking forward to Canada, and 3 months is a fairly healthy stint. It’ll be my first overseas trip, and I’m hopeful it won’t be my last 🙂
6. Put simply? No. Then again, I never am. Sorry to bore you with platitudes, but I’m at my most comfortable when I’m uncomfortable. I wouldn’t change anything, aside from the idea that I’m stuck. The past is the past etc. No point changing it, it’s what got me to where I am. I’d really like to see where I can go and what I can shake up in the future.
7. Pretty good! I’ve just come back from Sydney, my batteries are all refreshed, just gotta keep on keepin’ on 😀
Good, occasionally hard freakin’ core answers! Thanks man!
Wow. I shoulda hugged you more when I had the chance. Come back Leph.
Holy shit 4.
Dude.
Dude.
Fuckin’ raw, right? No holds barred, this guy’s got stones.
Props, @mythamphetamine, glad I kept trawling TAY instead of just tuning out for the day and checking into EU4.
Thank you, and sorry :S
I’m not going to edit it, I think 🙂
4 is a trifle grim. I suspect you threw the brick a bit too early, it sounds like you should have waited until he was standing at the window first. Still, a least he broke his finger…
Nooo! I just went to work, so can’t pester you with questions!
One quickly, if you had to spend the rest of your life tethered to a celebrity (tether is 2 metres long), who would it be and why?
What’s with all the AMAs today?!??
Who: Ellen Page.
Why: Ellen Page.
You gather the Dragonballs and summon the magical dragon. Make a wish!
DC took all the questions.
I only get one wish?
Alrighty, I’d like to rid myself of my need for materialistic worth, instead foc-
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? WILL ALEPH BE GRANTED HIS WISH? WILL THIS STORY ARC BE DRAGGED OUT OVER A WHOLE SEASON? FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON DRAGONBALL NULL!
Why are you a douchebag and not accept my offer to live with me??? 😛
More seriously
You seem to thrive on the abnormal, how in the hell did you get the confidence to walk around with blue hair?
Ooops, that’s probably (though nowhere near as bad?) spoiler-worthy.
I love subversions and altered perceptions, man. It’s what keeps me going.
It’s less confidence, more deflection.Throw up things for people to notice, so they don’t notice anything else.
I never did fit in, so instead I tried to stand out, visually at least. It’s far easier to maneuver someone’s perception than it is to take on criticism, so that’s what I’ve always done, I suppose.
Throw a mask of light-hearted humour on top, and you’ve got the illusion of confidence aplenty, even enough to rock the blue hair like a champ 😛
I find that tossing a layer of humor on top of everything makes me seem a lot more confident than i am too.
You are a pretty cool dude bro bro,
HUGGS
Blue hair is abnormal? Wonder what that makes my friend with pink hair then lol.
Aleph is from the smallest town ever, having blue hair in that environment is grounds to be stabbed on sight. Its not particularly abnormal but aleph also has a pretty crazy range of music and movies he likes. He is just out of the ordinary, abnormal is the wrong word.
Would different be more applicable?
But fair point, when you put it like that 😛
Aleph is just…strange. 😀
@mythamphetamine is @strange ???!!!
MIND BLOWN
Powalen and Phlanispo are Freeze, and Aleph is Strange! It’s revelations week on TAY!
EDIT: I’m sure there’s a TAYS of Our Lives joke in there somewhere.
Yeah, but there’s always room for another one!
Good point. Even in regional Queensland, wearing trakky-daks is considered a bit posh, let alone covered footwear.
And if you wear collared/button-up shirts you’re obviously a football player going to court, or gay. And a coat is just asking to get assaulted as ‘goffic’ or ‘fag’.
Ah, the rustic charms I miss so dearly.
Not gonna lie, I’d still be wearing makeup if it didn’t just sweat right off.
NT is gross 😛
I change it up between pink and blue a fair bit, although I think I’m going with turquoise next 😀
I always wanted blue hair when I was in high school, but I woulda got in a lot of shit cause I went to a catholic high school Q_Q
pubic skool 4 lyf
I started out there at the local public high school, mum & dad didn’t like it so when they had a bit of money they stuck in the local Catholic school lmao. Was a nice enough place, at least there the teachers taught and knew their curriculum lmao.
Spose i’ll ask, how did you end up in such a remote place?
My mother and her husband moved here… five years ago? I was living in Townsville at the time, and moved to Canberra shortly after due to lack of a support network.
I had been living in Canberra for a while, and life had kinda stopped. I’d just recovered from being bedridden for 6 months, and I was craving a seachange. My partner at the time and I discussed it, and that was that, we were on our way.
The only reason I’m actually able to stay here though is because my stepfather works for the mine. Housing is an impossibility here, you can’t rent, and you can’t buy, which means they’re stuck with me so long as I’m here 😛
TL;DR
I wanted to shake it up. Saw an opportunity, and grabbed it.
Ah cool, sounds like it’s been quite the experience for you up there from the stories you tell.
Also Canada eh, what part/parts are looking to travel to in your time there?
Toronto! And wherever else I can get to, though the only real definite at this point is Toronto. The motivation is exactly like TAY, actually. Meeting people I’ve only spoken with online 😀
Nice man! I’ve got plans on going to Nova Scotia (read Halifax & Hubbards) in the near future, cause of one of my friends there!
On the Itchy & Scratchy CD-ROM, is there a way to get out of the dungeon without using the wizard key?
Let me ask you a question. Why would a man whose shirt says “Genius at Work” spend all of his time watching a children’s cartoon show?
I think we can be friends now.
I totally didn’t google that.
Also, that response is uncannily accurate. I don’t watch the Simpsons 😛
Friendship revoked.
Y u brek mai hart?
What’s your favourite snackfood?
What do you cook better than anyone else does?
How do you decide what colour to dye your hair?
If you were a colour, what colour would you be and why?
In the middle of the night, at that time when it’s impossible to be rational about anything, if you wake up, what is the thing that keeps you from sleeping again? Is it like a horror movie monster under the bed or more like disturbing thoughts about your life?
Edit: Oh! Also, Y U NO 70K with me?! 😛
Favourite snack?
Anything with chilli, preferably savoury. Right now I really want bruschetta.
Cook for me
I make a mean rendang daging, and I’m pretty proud of my goulash too 🙂
How do you choose your hair colour?
I’ll ask friends, and take the first response. Or just buy a colour that looks cool, it’s all done on a whim.
What colour are you, and why?
I used to love purple, no idea why. These days I’d probably say blue… but maybe not? I’m really struggling with this question, my sense of style and chromatic reasoning (is that a thing? That should be a thing) is incredibly underdeveloped 😛 Let’s go with black because that’s the entirety of my wardrobe and it goes with everything!
What keeps you up at night?
I sleep like a rock, ain’t nothing waking me up 🙂
Getting to sleep is far more difficult, and it’s just bullshit introspection that’s the culprit, I’m sure. I’m my own boogeyman.
Y U NO 70K
I’m sorry! I don’t know what happened… we’ve gotta do the barge to hell one day though, yesyes? 😀
Ooh, one day I will make you cook for me!
Also, how about orange hair? I used to hate the colour orange but recently I’m kind of obsessed with it.
As for Barge To Hell…those “brutal” music snobs on the 70K forums are the most annoying people ever, so to be stuck on a ship with just them and no awesome people except you, might not be the funnest thing for me. 😛
Pretty sure I owe you a complete banquet 😀
I maaaaay entertain the idea of orange, but it reminds me of when I first bleached my hair (Eminem what up?) and didn’t use any toner so I was bronze/copper for months 😛
Also a little iffy on green, if only because I can see it requiring lots of maintenance to stop it from going that yucky faded vomit colour. I’m far too lazy for maintenance!
Yeah, that’s a really good point actually. I actively avoid music/genre discussions because of all the bullshit. Far easier to just enjoy the moment and the music, and let others do the same.
Weeeeeelll, maybe some other trip and/or musical endeavour someday 😀
http://babylonian.tumblr.com/post/79214646828/this-photoset-sums-up-magic-tournaments-so
The guy in the fifth shot looks so much like @novacascade I had to do a double take.
so now we know what a somewhat overweight Nova would look like.
Pfft… As if I’d be caught playing Magic. Thats for nerds 😛
It’s like Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly fused together D:
Thank you. I was trying to think why he reminded me of Game of Thrones.
I don’t know who Samwell Tarly is but that name is far too similar to Samwise Gamgee for it to be coincidence.
Hey @dc
instead of AMA’s why dont you do a series of interviews as your new project. You ask all the questions anyway and everyone feels comfortable with you.
People terrify me! 😀
You should do it, Rockets? Everyone loves Rockets!
Porque no los dos?
This is my philosophy for life, as well as my answer to every question.
just write questions and have a email exchange. ??
Yeah, it’s super easy. Look at my interview with Shane that I did forever back. From memory I did that one question at a time (or maybe in small groups of questions), but it might be easier to just send a block of them.
It was fun too. Especially the one where you wouldn’t let me use any consonant more than twice 😛
I cannot figure out what colour Elsa’s ice cape is. It seems almost like a dark blue.
My brain.
Based on this: http://oi62.tinypic.com/27y963t.jpg
It looks light blue/clear, and it’s only dark blue when layered over itself.
http://www.trimnrem.com.au/catalogue/category/crystal_organza?page=1
It looks a little more like Aqua then Pale blue
I don’t know. The dress itself is aqua and the cape is definitely lighter than that. http://oi61.tinypic.com/o5w7fd.jpg
The cape has glitter at the top as far as I can tell, making it lighter
FYI, it looks like they just used silver for the official Elsa face character’s outfit at Disneyland, so if you’re feeling lazy…
http://youtu.be/U5qg-0aEpMU?t=2m29s
Yeah, I know but I want it to be accurate as possible
I don’t think you’re going to get any more accurate than light blue, aqua or light silver. The important thing is that it’s slightly see through and has white glitter on it.
@dire_wolf
Organza is see through and I will add the glitter myself. It’s closer then chiffon which I will use for the sleeves
Struggling to think how to go about making a helmet. Last time I needed one in spherical shape I created a foam base that I glued together for the shape, then layered over that with paper mache. But that was a lot of work, took about a week to do and that was the only thing I needed to make at the time. Got other stuff to make too so something easier would be good. I guess I could maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe make it from cardboard and use the same bendy spike shape to create it and try smooth it out with modeling paste or something afterwards, but I dunno. Hopefully there’ll be something usable as a base at the party shop or something. Or failing that maybe some kind of a bowl instead.
You can get mod podge at Riot art and craft stores. Otherwise a foam sphere?
What’s mod podge for?
I’m not familiar with most crafting products. Most of the time I just use cardboard and double-sided tape, with some velcro here and there 😛
It’s a like a glue but a lot of people use it to smooth their props and also give it more durability and stability.
Hmm… so kind of like a lacquer type of thing?
I was thinking I’d need some kind of sealant on the inside if I did go the cardboard route. My head seems to generate a tonne of heat, it gets nice and sweaty inside a helmet 😛 Normally would just line it with contact, but a round shape like that would be a lot trickier.
You could possibly use the mod podge inside, or else there’s the finisher for artworks that you can buy. It comes in a spray can.
http://riotstores.com.au/micador-matt-spray-450g.html
Go to a foam-and-rubber place. They’ll usually cut all kinds of crazy shapes for you and a helmet-innards shouldn’t be too much of a challenge for them. Hell if you go in advance they might even have some construction tips.
(Edit: Oh come on, phone, you should know my swears by now.)
Less than a month until Game of Thrones with Mad Men soon after. Arrrrgh. So much good TV at the moment.
I know!
Survivor <3
😛
Hmm, I need to watch S3 of GoT at some point.. One day.
I need to watch ANY of Game of Thrones at some point
It’s average (in my opinion) not as great as I thought everyone talked it up to be 😛
Oh man, I just got a letter from a time traveler from the distant future of page seven.
He informed me that something bad will happen if you guys pun this week.
You don’t want that kind of guilt on your conscience right?
I guess that settles it then. No puns. *decisive nod*
I’m really sorry guys. I know how much page six means to you.
Did you know, Atheism is a non-prophet organisation?
You’ve doomed us all!
At least i’ll leave this world being content about things.
Dear DC,
I have been sent back in time from Page 7, to protect you from yourself.
Pun with me if you want to live,
Aleph.
What, he didn’t even drop some lottery numbers in there?
What a jerk.
Jerk, eh? *strokes patchy chin stubble* So you’re saying it’s @effluvium-boy?
Why would I warn you?
You do realize that this is like an open invitation to bust out the best and worst puns of all time! PUNTASTIC!! BRING IT ON!!!
Thanks, @dc
Queens of the Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails tonight!
So excited!!!
Edit: how did i get a page get? No one knows
Jealous! Have a blast, mate 😀
Love that riff.
A man answers his door
It’s a snail.
The man picks up the snail and throws it away.
Two years later a man answers his door
It’s a snail.
Time is a flat circle. #RustCohleJokes.Actually, the Snail says”what the hell was that for?” #dadjokepagesix hi @strangeBreaking news: All the toilets in Brisbane police stations have mysterious vanished. The police have nothing to go on.
Shh! If you make toilet jokes about the police, urine trouble!
Well in other news just to hand a local artist was found dead. Details are sketchy.
Just finished watching a documentary about beavers. It was the best dam program I’ve ever seen!
Wood you recommend it?
I wood indeed!
Was Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver mentioned?
@redartifice @f4ction @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb
Alright you guys are the chosen eight for this mighty campaign which I am yet to plot but it will be glorious. I’m going to have to cut things there as any more party members and things get a little hectic.
The system that we will be playing with is Pathfinder, which for those you who aren’t really familiar with it is an alternate/advanced version of D&D 3.5. I’m going to let you guys use anything that you want from the main published books (Core, Advanced Players, the Ultimate series of books) but if you feel like keeping it simple, here is a good link to the Pathfinder Base Classes. This little section has a bunch of information taken from the main books but if you want to use a pdf version, there are many, many places where you can grab it from for free. There are also form-fillable character sheets so you can do everything digitally. Also if you are ever unsure of anything, ask me and I will approve any choices or explain how something works.
Basic characteristic scores will be calculated by rolling 4d6 and then selecting the highest three dice. If the dice gods are unfavourable to you, you may choose to select any single batch of 4d6 and reroll it. Also, if you are unlucky and have rolled more than one 1 on the die for any single batch, you may reroll any results of 1 until you have only one result of 1 (confusing I know, it’s hard to explain).
I aim to start things running in about the second or third week of April, so about the 15th-ish. The format will be similar to TAY Numenera in that we’ll run it through roll20 and have things going through a Google hangout on Google+. You will need to sign up for roll20 and I can invite you to the campaign when I set it up (hopefully within the next few days).
These will be evening sessions so we’ll run it from about 8pm – 10pm eastern time. This will hopefully be after everyone has reverted back to non-daylight savings time aka normal time. I don’t really have a preference for what day of the week we run it but perhaps a Monday or a Tuesday would be better so that it doesn’t clash with end of week shenanigans. This is very general estimates at the moment so they will be subject to change and we’ll try and work something that suits everyone.
If you have any questions, either about mechanics or races, feel free to buzz me on TAY or email me at popdart10 at gmail dot com. I will do a call around a few days before the first session to gather up characters and get an idea of who and what I am dealing.
Sweet. That should work well for me. Monday would be good as I don’t work Mondays so things are a little less hectic for me that night.
If I go through all the rules explanations on that site you linked would that give me a good grounding as to what’s expected? I have to confess as to never playing one of these before despite always wanting to.
There are three main things that you should understand: how a class works, how skill checks work, and how combat works. They each come under their own sections on the website and it is pretty much copy and pasted from the actual book.
The main die that you will use is a d20 but then there are circumstances when there are modifiers to that. These primarily come from your classes and your skills. I would recommend looking at those sections to see what you are capable of as a player.
Also, if you look at a character sheet it helps to explain some of the more core mechanics and information that you need. Spellcasting is a little more complex but once you get into it it is pretty straightforward.
The magic doesn’t worry me. Magic is for girly men who wear “clothes” or “protective armour” and run around with sticks.
True men wear loin cloths, horns and an axe bigger than their already impressively sized chests.
Sounds like a Barbarian to me. 🙂
The Titan Mauler looks like a good fit for my style.
I don’t see that class? Are you looking at expansions or am I missing something?
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateCombat/classArchetypes/barbarian.html
Urban Barbarian sounds awesome. Sit there debating philosophy and economics with a noble man sipping cups of fine wine until the noble man disagrees with you so you smash the wine cup in his face and throw him through a stone wall.
Ah, I didn’t go into archtypes!
@f4ction archetypes are definitely allowed if you want. They just replace certain aspects of a class.
@popdart5 I see some archetypes like gunslinger, alchemist etc… what’s the go with those guys? I want to be a Musket Master!
@f4ction Alchemy is a thing. As is gunpowder. So those classes are definitely allowed.
There is an Oriental region to this world so yes, you can be a Ninja or a Samurai if you want.
I Call Rogue!
Damn I’m an idiot. I don’t know what to go 😛
Monday evenings 8-10pm would be perfect for me. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are bad (and Wednesday would clash with Numenera anyway). Thursdays and Fridays are usually reasonable.
I don’t know Pathfinder intimately but I’ve played d20 / 3E and I’ve played the Pathfinder card game a bit. Last time I played 3E I played a Rogue. AFAIK Pathfinder was basically 3.5 with the rules fixed a bit so that it’s not so poorly balanced? So the basics are still the same.
Standard Pathfinder setting? Or using something homebrew or alternative?
Homebrew setting but it will be pretty standard fantasy with a few twists.
Will it take place at or around seas? Because I just noticed something amazing in the Ranger description:
Pet. Shark.
There will be opportunities for you to visit coastal areas and travel by sea, but the campaign will not be entirely set in areas where you can use a shark.
http://i.imgur.com/bKyLzRH.png
Unless he feels like carrying a massive pool to keep his shark in, it’s not exactly a good idea.
But who knows, by level 4 the tone of the adventure might have changed and a naval campaign might be on the cards.
Roll D20 against your Acrobatics skill to determine success of jumping the shark.
If @redartifice wants to be the party’s lockpick bitch then that’s fine though. I’ll fill in whatever gap we end up with to round everything out.
Lockpick? Lying bastard is more like it.
8-10 works great for me, I’ll read up on Pathfinder specific stuff as soon as I get a chance but I have a lot of experience with 3.5ed so the transition shouldn’t be too difficult.
As far as class goes, I’m probably most comfortable with a Fighter (“If you kill ’em quick they can’t kill you back.”) but I’m not averse to playing a Bard either. I had an idea for a Bard who believes himself to be the most fantastical singer in the land but in reality makes drunken karaoke sound like Glee. (So, drunken karaoke.) His spells and skills work… just not always as intended. (Think Ron’s mended wand in Harry Potter?)
But yeah, fighter. Fighter fighter fighter.
Edit: Oh man, now I’m reading all the archetypes. I want to
marrybe an archaeologist.Alright, I got some reading to do 🙂
Since no one else seems to be ballsy enough to be a spellcaster, I guess I will go Sorcerer, as magic is a form of blowing stuff up 😛
@dire_wolf Though you may be interested. As far as I can tell, these are the main patterns made of glitter.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/elsa_cape_patterns_and_snowflakes.jpg
Still trying to figure it all out
Cool.
Ah, I’ve been somewhat emo-ish and depressing all day. Sorry for those posts, my friends. Will tone that down tomorrow. 😀
…my bad.
Not at all. Haha!
You say that, but I know it was my bad 😛
(which I apologise for)
I’d do an AMA in which you could get your revenge, but I’m not interesting or we’ll known enough to warrant one 😛
You’re plenty interesting! (Though I think we’ve over exposed this AMA thing. :D)
I thought about doing one so I could be one of the cool kids too. But then I had a thought about what if nobody asked me anything? 😛
That was totally my fear!
Yours would be crazy interesting!
You know you could ask me anything to my face and I’d tell you, right?
*strokes patchy chin stubble*
I expected not to be asked any questions because I already spill out here just about every damn thing that comes to mind.
Yeah, sorry about that.
No, I like them. They’re interesting and let you ask stuff that has been on your mind for ages. I thought Strange was annoyed at them for some reason. NOW I SEE HER POST ABOVE. I don’t know what to think any more. 😀
Subversions and altered perceptions. I told you, didn’t I? 😀
What? Why would you think that? I’ve never said anything about them. Even participated in the ones that happened while I was around.
Doofus. 😛
Aw man, I missed your AMA. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for reading :3
Yeah, I wouldn’t do an AMA anyway. I have an image to uphold! 😛
What posts? What on earth are you unnecessarily sorry for now?
Say it with me…”doofus”.:P
You’re the doofus! >:|
…
I TAKE IT BACK. WHAT HAVE I DONE? D:
D:
MONSTER!
SO’S YOUR FACE!
😛
Huh? Really? I didn’t notice. Must be a normal day.
:S Maybe I’m just projecting my inner angst on TAY.
So I make a unpopular yet debate worthy opinion about piracy and now every comment I make for a next few weeks are going to need to be moderated/self-edited? I understand it doesn’t inhibit my posting but its still frustrating.
I don’t see why you got downvoted.
Debates in comments sections shoukd just no have a downvote button.
There was a flaw in your comment, but part of your point still stands – there are always going to be those people who want stuff for free.
Part of the problem is the pricing/availability, but there will always be those few people that don’t want to pay.
Nothing to downvote over though. Sometimes.
A few tips – your original opinion stands fine on the second paragraph, and people agreed with you on that. Your opening statement directly attacked the article and what the majority were saying. Try not to make absolute statements that polarise ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ – for instance, ‘I believe the governments can’t take all the blame’ is more of a sharing of opinion point than ‘You can’t blame the governments’.
Extra tip – you felt you raised a debate worthy point, and people started debating your argument. If this is what you wanted, then personally attacking them back is probably not the best way to continue that engagement. It can feel personal but it’s important to keep the point separate from the person, rather than making statements like “than maybe I should assume your never been in an argument/debate”.
Finally, correct spelling and grammar can help to show that you are here for a serious discussion, and not just trolling.
Hope this helps!
Edit: punctuation
I admit I made some grammatical errors but I would be hard pressed to find that someone felt I was trolling.
Avoid absolutes and keep a neutral/popular standpoint? I don’t believe I deserve to be moderated due to a lack of a amicable nature.
Edit: I do realize you were just giving me tips, so thank you I’m just a little frustrated
I’m not saying change your standpoint, just consider whether you are phrasing it to be dismissive of everything else. Absolutes don’t leave room for debates.
It’s just a safety thing. Don’t worry, it’ll probably be sorted soon.
( i didn’t read the article, just wanted to reassure you)
I downvoted your comment because I didn’t agree with it, approve of it, or the stance that you took. That’s kinda what the downvote button is for, as far as I can tell.
But I have no idea why it puts people in moderation – that should be a function tied to the ‘report’ button, as far as I’m concerned.
However, because you seemed confused, I’ve taken the time to reply back to you, and as a result, lifted the downvote. I still disapprove of the sentiment expressed, but I consider it poor form (personally, I dunno about others) to downvote someone you’re debating/arguing with.
Talk about going from the sublime to the ridiculous … As some of you may know, I watched 12 Years A Slave today. Brilliant movie, but very confronting. Definitely deserved the Best Picture Oscar, and I think Steve McQueen deserved Best Director over Alfonso Cuaron (may be an unpopular opinion). But I’m going to let you guys try and guess the other movie I watched today.
Dollman vs Demonic Toys. There’s really no other guess to be made.
Nope. That actually sounds worse than what I watched.
It is a pretty terrible film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106675/
I may have this movie.
By which I mean I definitely do.
404 – not found…? Sounds awesome!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106675/
That’s…. that’s the address copied and pasted….
Dafuq? That works?
:/
I just checked both links again and the second one works. First one still doesn’t. SORCERY.
Also, that movie… man.
This is a mystery worthy of Scooby Doo and those meddling kids!
That movie sounds like … a real turkey.
The error seems to be related to the final slash (I have way too much time on my hands). Meaning despite appearing to be a forward slash, it’s actually… not?
HTML is weird.
Edit: I tell a lie. There’s a 0 px width character after the slash that ruins everything.
Freeze is usually an expert in matters of slash!
(Did that board game ever arrive, btw?)
Guessing 300?
Also wrong. I enjoyed the first one, and I want to see the second.
I was playing some sport and was wondering why the tennis ball was getting bigger.
Then it hit me.
@strange, you so crazy. You’re the most beloved member of TAY. There’d be plenty of questions!
Unless people are scared of you. It’s been known to happen. You are pretty terrifying.
No one wants to ask their mum anything. Too scared of what they’ll find out. 😛
I’d ask about head shaving antics!
She’s third in terms of TAYbies that scare me. Nobody wants to mess with that.
Who else is in that list?
I’m guessing Freeze? I was terrified of that guy for atleast three meats!
Flu scares me. I probably would cower on the other side of the room.
I’m not scared of Freeze. I’m awestruck. I feel like a hapless groupie around him, amazed by his strengths, but acutely aware that he will never notice me.
And Flu’s not scary. His voice is so soothing. I would be happy to be murdered by him so long as he spoke to me the whole time.
While I’ll keep the top two secret for now, I’ll admit that despite having known him for ages, I was totes scared of F4ction when I first met him face to face.
Oh, I forgot about TransientMind! He’s scary, man! SCARY! D:
Shane was pretty terrifying.
Wat.
I really want to meet TM. He sounds like a cool dude.
I totally agree about Shane though.
It’s true! @strange agreed to meet up with me early before we met cause I was so frightened! Transient is cool, just scary!
What no how
I think I just waffle on here about everything so much that there aren’t any questions left to ask!
I thought that, but people found some to ask anyway. 🙂
Dark Souls 2 looks pretty great and I feel curious to play it. (Like I did before my spirit was crushed with first Dark Souls.)
The enemies stop spawning after a while so you don’t have to worry about them! You can actually clear out sections for good.
I’m hoping there’ll be a demon-door that prevents that.I really enjoyed repeating sections over and over again until I was able to memorize attack patterns and timing windows and so forth. Not to mention the bonus souls from faming. God, I was probably SL 170+ by the time I got platinum.Grab this program: http://www.cheatengine.org/
Then you’ll need the table found here: http://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?t=556500
Load up the game, launch the program and point it to the file, then I think you click the top thing, and follow it up by turning on invulnerability mode (which was toggled by F1 in game for me, but I have no idea).
Exploration mode go!
Actually, I have no idea if that’s even the right table, or exactly how to do it since I was looking up ways to get a free camera, not to be a dirty dirty cheater, and I can’t remember where I got the instructions from…
True story, I thought you said invisible mode on twitter earlier. XD
Silly D.C..
Though, let’s be honest, if you were truly invisible, it would probably achieve essentially the same thing.
I’m also on the curiosity band wagon. On one hand I’m eager to explore a harsh world with a great atmosphere. On the other, I’ve only just gotten over my inability to defeat a boss being the Great Wolf Sif from the first.
He was pretty hard the first time around for me. Killed me several times then I went away and did different parts of the game instead. It’s harder to do that earlier on in Dark Souls, which I know caught me out the first time, and probably a bunch of other folks, but apparently you’re a lot more free to go explore other areas and tackle other challenges if you get stuck, in DS2. From all reports.
I think that’s one of the things they were talking about when they said ‘more accessible’.
The biggest issue for me was the closest bonfire I had was in the cave near the Hydra boss, so I had a decent trek just to get to two-shotted. I know there was a quicker way through buying a gate key but I spent a heap of souls levelling. I decided to humbly admit defeat to Sif and take my leave of Dark Souls.
Ahh, that’s good to hear. Exploring other routes is a great alternative to a road block.
*insert witty 33333 post related poem here*
WHAT IS THIS SORCERY?!
WITCH!
It’s a day of milestones all right.
Well, that might be the last time I ever play Dark Souls.
🙁
Yesssss.
*cries*
Your tears! They sustain me!
You don’t know for sure. I ended up playing Final Fantasy XIII-2 for over 100 hours and platinumed it, and definitely thought that was it, I’d never play it again. But Lightning Returns made me nostalgic so I’ve recently started XIII-2 again and dropped another 30 something hours on it so far.
Games that meant something to you are always great to replay when you need comfort gaming. Even Dark Souls, as comfortless as it is could be comfort gaming at the right time.
Yeah, I’ve played all the Uncharteds three times each and I know I’m going to play them again very soon.
Possibly, but I never played Demon’s Souls again after picking up Dark Souls…
That’s cause you’re a monster!
There hasn’t actually been a great deal of time since Demon’s Souls though. A few more years and things may be different.
My PS3 died. I have to assume that my current console will probably not last all that much longer as well 😛
I went back to Dark Souls after platinum. I don’t know why.
Why not? More 12 year olds sending you angry messages, or is it because of DS2 being released soon?
Dark Souls Two tomorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrow!
Dark Souls 2 might suck and you might end up going back to the original.
Reviews seem to be uniformly positive. I’m expecting nothing less than perfection. There’s literally no way I can be disappointed 😛
I saw the epitaph on Liberace’s headstone.
It reads:
“He was great on the piano, but he sucked on the organ”.
Still have plenty of ingredients left from my home made pizzas but have ran out of bases. I might make a pizza jaffle/toastie/sandwich/dealy with the left overs!
Make some bases. Or use puff pastry. Or turn the ingredients into a sauce for pasta. Loads of stuff you could do!
Pasta is horrible, Strange. HORRIBLE. >:D
Also, in some ways I’m a lazy, lazy guy.
CAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRBBSSSSSSgfhnkshg fnjlsvkdnosaiufh esdcm
You had homemade pizza? WE HAD HOMEMADE PIZZA.
This twin thing is starting to rear its ugly head again…
D: STAY OUT OF MY HEAD!
I am SO bad at this stealth thing in DE:HR. Had to shoot my way out of every encounter so far :/
Also didn’t realise I had the Directors Cut on PC so I’m playing that instead of the PS3 version.
What have I become?
It takes practice, for sure. Constant save and reload are your buddies. Once you start picking up the augmentations and get a little practice in, it’ll get more intuitive.
Got my first augmentation. The punch through walls ones. Stealthy.
I’m getting better at shooting my way through. Just need to slow down and pick the headshots with the pistol. Leave no man alive.
MONSTER! Leave EVERY MAN alive! They’ve got families and cats and stuff at home, man!
But D.C.. Some of them are involved with the people responsible for the death of your dog. They deserve what they get.
And very probably cereal, endless boxes of cereal…
Director’s Cut means you’re not forced to build your augments such that you must murder all the bosses by shooting them in the face. Which is nice.
I’ve shot everyone else in the face so far so not sure why I wouldn’t want to with the bosses.
I tried to play stealthy for the first half of the game but eventually gave up and started the faceshooting.
Best was later on when you get a laser that can shoot through walls, and an augment that lets you see dudes through walls.
It took a couple of hours for me to break down and reinstall Diablo 3 after people started playing it again.
How long is it going to take for me to crack and get the PS3 version of Dark Souls 2 instead of waiting for the PC release?
Thursday.
Nooooo, I ordered mine from overseas so I doubt it’ll arrive before next week. 🙁
I played a fair bit of D3 again on the weekend. Went from L42 to 60-(6) with barely any commitment.
I have more faith in you than @beavwa. I think you’ll last until Sunday.
For me it was reading reviews on Monday. Pre-ordered. 😛
I should go to bed but I can’t stop watching this.
Aged surprisingly well.
Full frontal is one of the best shows australian tv ever produced!
I clicked on that link hoping it was something Shaun Micallef related, bravo.
Edit: From reading the comment above, I’m not psychic..yet.
Hey, some spoilers for MG Ground Zeroes leaked out! Finally! Let’s see now.
…
OH GOD
OH GOD NO
KOJIMA DAMN YOU
DAMMNNNN YOOUUUU
I’m not sure what this is about, even after googling it. Can you please provide a link in spoiler tags so I can join in the ranting?
Yeah, videos and the like are being taken down quickly as they arrive.
though I’ll make it short, It’s still quite graphic, so be prepared.
A boy is forced to torture and rape a adult woman; it’s Chico and Paz, for those in the know and who are crazy enough to read this- and uh, there’s uh, explosives in.. said woman’s vagina.First part? Fine, pushing the line. I get that. Second part?
Wow.
Uhrrrm… O_o
MGS seems like it just gets weirder and weirder.
EDIT: Also isn’t that going to get it banned here?
Not only will it be banned, but so will the developers and any game submitted from within a 50km radius from it, and anyone who even knows about it will be banned from playing games. It will be thermonuclear bannage. If there were ever a poster-child for, “This is why we can’t have nice things,” this would be it.
Holy crap.
Ah, next gen gaming. 50GB Titanfall download ahoy!
10Gb DLC downloads for extra map packs (may or may not be an exaggeration)
I think I prefer it when games compress their textures. Or maybe I’m just biased since I only have 110GB of HDD space after the Titanfall installation. Never assume a 500GB HDD is enough for a gaming PC.
Compressed textures on a PC? How dare you!
And yeah, I have 3.5TB devoted to games…but then I have somewhat of a problem when it comes to buying them.
Reportedly it’s because of the audio files which are uncompressed which actually allows for increased performance on lower end machines. The download itself is only about 20GB but is 50GB once it’s unpacked.
um, is anyone interested in seeing the process of the cosplays I’m working on? It’ll be less of a tutorial and more of a series of images
I’m interested.
what you making? Just post up pics 🙂
I’m working on a few things.
Atm I’m working on the Sun guy from dark souls @sernobulus and Elsa from Frozen.
Awh hellyes!
Make a slideshow, progress, progress, progress, progress, progress, progress, progress, progress, progress, BAM! PERSON IN COSTUME!
Uh… yep! Definitely.
For future reference, you should take a leaf out of everyone else’s book, and just share first, worry about who’s interested later! 😛I’m sorry, I can’t help but be considerate /o\
Since when did all the games sneak into March this year? South Park, Dark Souls 2, Ground Zeroes, FFX HD, inFamous. I’m sure there’s more that I’m unaware of.
Also someone farted on my train. Cheers
You sure did:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/273760/
wow. Everything else is now on hold. I’m off to get me a game that now looks 2 generations old
March 2013 had the most bloated release list in years. I don’t think this year is as bad. March 2013 had Tomb Raider, God of War: Acension, Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, Gears of War: Judgement, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, (Urgh) Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel, Bioshock Infinite, Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk, Castlevania Lords of Shadow: Mirror of Fate, SimCity, (Urgh) Sniper:Ghost
Warrior 2, Darkstalkers Ressurection, Lego City Undercover, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Luigi’s Mansion 2, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, (still have to play that) Pandora’s Tower, Slender: The Arrival, Leisure Larry Reloaded.
*breathes heavily*
Why is an elephant big, grey and wrinkly?
Because if it was small, white and smooth it would be asprin.
Like, what I’m taking now. Because I have a headache. And the world doesn’t make sense because I’m cutting back on coffee and it feels like I have the flu.
#dadjokepagesix melded with #weirdpageeight melded with #seriouslyfuckinghelpmegogetmearedbullbeforeIdie
Buckled and went and made a coffee.
The headache went within a minute.
I Googled caffeine withdrawal symptoms and yeah, they match up with feeling like you have the flu.
Who would’ve thunk it. Looks like this is one addiction I will be stuck with for my life.
I’ve gotten past it.
Several times now….
I went without coffee for 2 weeks when I was on holidays. I felt great.
Then I was back to 4 a day my first day back at work…
Considering I used to be addicted to a lot of things, I think I’m doing well with the occasional smoke and coffee.
Weird how they are harder to give up (for me, at least) then some other ‘highly addictive’ substances. I think it has more to do with them being socially acceptable.
Well coffee at least – smokes are very much a sign that you get to be a social pariah.
This guy needs to do an AMA.
Ha! If I do it’ll be on a Thursday. You know – AMA day, like it was meant to be.
I’m a fussy bastard.
@dc is on a caffeine embargo. You two should form a support group! You could serve Panadol at the meetings!
I’m on day 12. I’ve had like three pepsi’s in that time for full disclosure. That’s significantly less than usual. The headaches went after day three for me!
Congrats! I’ll join you one day you trailblazer!
I didn’t have any the weekend before last. Headaches all weekend. Fine on Monday at work.
COFFEE BINGE. Had ultra effects.
We must’ve started our caffeine fast around the same time! 😀
http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/11/5496184/why-double-fine-and-fullbright-teamed-up-with-midnight-city
So excited about Costume Quest 2.
Ooh. My biggest gripe with the first was the feeling of the combat system being too simplistic.
I’m hoping there’s a little more varied objectives too. Not just go house-to-house and the like.
Either way, it’s gonna be gooood!
I still haven’t finished that one, despite enjoying it at the time. I tend to do that with RPGs – preserve them at the point of optimal enjoyment so that they are enshrined in my happy-memory centres.
Only 45 days until Dark Souls II on PC!
… Woo?
Started replaying The Last of Us last night. Such an amazing game. I love it. I stopped though. No glasses kind of makes it a little annoying, hunching forward and squinting to read all the text. :S Will be my treat for getting new glasses eventually, I reckon.
I don’t need glasses and I still struggle to read the text on most PS3 games.
(Maybe I do need glasses :P)
There’s a joke there about last gen game graphics…
No there’s not! You and your lies, Sharples. You and your lies! 😀
I actually think The Last of Us is still prettier looking than any ‘next gen’ game I’ve played so far. (Cause most of them are multi-gen ports. *shakes fist*)
Yeah, early cycle “next gen” games always look a little rubbish. TLOU is probably going to be one of the greatest games I’ve never played.
Play it! For me! I recommended it to @sernobulus and that turned out awesomely!
I’ve played the start of it. Maybe the first 90mins? I got up to the part where you’re escaping the city.
I even bought it the weekend it came out (I remember @alexpants and I going to about 12 different stores to find it). I just know it’s a game I have to commit time too and I just don’t have that right now.
Oh yes … That was totally awesome …
*eye twitches*
=PRemember Oblivion (360 launch title) and Halo 3? Compared to their successors later in the generation… Lightyears difference.
But the whole “early stuff looks worse” argument really doesn’t work when the Xbone and the PS4 are basically just PCs. There’s no “learning the hardware” period. The only thing that can really change are the game engines.
You know what? Since they’re still the in thing and I rarely get a chance to be cool, also because I’m probably going to disappear for like… a year from Thursday playing Dark Souls, let’s do it.
I’m Freeze S. Preston Icequire. Ask me anything.
Huh, this is tougher than usual. We talk about all kinds of things when we hang out.
1.) Is there a time in your life where things could have split off into a different direction changing who you are now? Any regrets for not taking it?
2.) Happiest moment?
3.) What’s something you pride yourself in?
1) when I was younger I got accepted into ADFA. Would have had a full Uni course payed for me and a stable job out of it. Day I was meant to get on the plane to go down and start my mother woke me up far earlier than needed telling me we’ve been attacked and going to war. I thought she was just stirring me. The date was September 11 2001. Kid me couldn’t handle it, freaked out and didn’t go. Doubt that I was the only one. Sometimes I regret it but then I realise I wouldn’t have met my wife or had my kids and I know which I’d prefer.
2) That’s not really something you need to ask a guy with kids. The answer is nearly always going to be the same.
3) I’d say my professional work ethic. I always strive to do my utmost best at work even if I don’t particularly feel like it. It can also be a curse at times since sometimes I’m the only one doing so and it makes my life a hell of a lot more difficult.
Wow. That’s a pretty amazing 9/11 story.
And a story about me:
I nearly got into ADFA too, but they wised up at the last possible moment and turned me down. (I consider that the single luckiest thing that ever happened to me, BTW, even if it is a big part of my ongoing self-esteem issues.)I remember these ADFA stories from ShaneMeat 2013. When we were all standing opposite the strip club talking. *shifty eyes*
Well, I guess there’s no more new stories *packs up and goes home*
It’s the first time we got to hang out right?
…yes.
This got so much more hilarious when I remembered this:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-267/comment-page-4/#comment-2454035
You get the choice of one type of takeaway for the rest of your life to eat. It can be a food type or a restaurant type, so you can say ‘burger’ or ‘maccas’.
What do you pick?
What is your best homecooking moment?
Mexican. I adore it.
Best home cooked meal I made was a slow cooked tarragon and mustard pork leg that on a whim I replaced the stock with apple cider. Turned out absolutely perfect and tasted amazing.
I am literally sitting across the room from a copy of Dark Souls II. Do you hate me? I’m not even gonna play it, I picked it up for my friend once I got off work and I’m waiting for the PC version.
You are the worst. Worse than that guy who is worse than Hitler.
Someone kick this guy in the nuts.
Low blow.
In more ways than one. 🙁
Would you rather fight 1 @shane sized duck or 100 duck sized @shane’s?
100 duck sized @shane’s would be too adorable to fight.
Think of all those glorious puns!
D:
I’d quack you up!
Why?
Just beakause
@freezespreston won’t be able to afford the medical bill after you’re done with him
It would be ducking amazing
What is your most embarrassing/mortifying moment?
What is your greatest triumph?
What do you want your kids to be when they grow up?
1) I was at a concert with my girlfriend at the time and spent half the concert just reaching over and rubbing her butt. It took a while for me to realise she was on the other side of me the whole time…
2) I…sadly don’t have a lot of triumphs, at least any that feel particularly important. But going from running a level 4 on the beep test when starting training, best of a mid 7 two days before the test day and being able to push myself to a high 8 on the day felt pretty damn amazing.
3) Happy with whatever they choose. Really don’t want them to spend the majority of their lives doing something they hate just to meet some expectations of someone else.
How does 1.) even happen! You so crazy!
Number 1 sounds like Number 2 at the same time. Awwww yeah. :p
I think being a pretty rad dad is a top triumph for you.
Fuck, marry, kill.
@dc, @sughly, @dkzeitgeist
That order’s already pretty good…
It’s the one I’d go with.
*hitches up pants*
You won’t be needing those.
Yes.
I’m sitting here staring at my screen trying to understand what this is and why I’m tagged
Because we want to marry you.
Oh, nice!
If you, @alexpants and @dc were in a room, do you think the world could handle that much handsome in the same spot?
What? I’m the opposite of handsome. You so crazy!
Sughly/Transientmind would be the most handsome of Brisbane TAYbies. 😀So humble.
I think my lack of handsomeness would balance it out somewhat. Maybe I could absorb some from them.
Can’t believe nobody jumped on “I rarely get the chance to be cool” yet.
What’s your secret to being awesome?
What’s your favourite book?
Is marriage different to how you imagined it would be when proposing?
How did you propose?
If you’d never had kids, what do you think your life would be like now? Any different?
1) I’ve never felt like I was particularly awesome. Maybe that’s the secret? 😛
2) More a series but I’ve always loved the Mallorean series, just edging its predecessor the Belgariad since it’s already done character introductions and fleshing out and can concentrate on the story. Eddings has this amazing ability to write vivid worlds that easily come to life in the mind while being concise and almost simple in his wordings. Doesn’t waste pages and pages on unnecessary filler.
3) Honestly? Better. Mrs Freeze and I have developed a pretty rock solid relationship of equal friendship that I never imagined or thought to.
4) Ha. Oh man. I botched that up SO badly. We were heading down to Sydney for a weekend away and I had the ring in my pocket ready to ask. Had all these thoughts of asking her on the plane, out somewhere romantic, at dinner but every time I didn’t think was the right moment. I ran out of time, freaked out and ended up proposing to her in the hotel room toilet. It’s the one thing I really regret doing. I should have waited for a better moment but she doesn’t seem to mind and likes having the funny story and something else to bring up of the list of things I’ve done wrong when I screw up again 😛
5) er, little dark but
I’d probably be dead. I went through a very dark bout of depression for about 18 months. Nearly destroyed my marriage as I wouldn’t talk to her about it and seriously contemplated suicide. The knowledge that those kids needed me was seriously the only thing that kept me from following through.This post proves how particularly awesome you are, Freeze.
Yup. Freeze hugs make the world a better place.
Great answers. Thanks!
I tried to get my daughter into Eddings but she didn’t like it. Parenting fail. 🙁
I discovered Eddings when I was in Year 7 and just trawling the library for something new to feed my reading addiction when I came across Pawn Of Prophecy. I’d never seen anything like it before so I took it home to check it out and fell instantly in love. It was my first experience with fantasy and certainly was an important discovery that shaped my life and personality.
My own being proposed to story is just as silly as yours, don’t worry. 🙂
My number five answer would be similar to yours. *hugasaurus*
My own proposal story is very much the same…
Oof. Late to the party again, but I DO wanna know:
1) Video-gaming/movies/anime: All physical limitations (including costume-making ability) notwithstanding, who would you most prefer to cosplay as? Part 2: With a preferred physique, who do you reckon you could best cosplay as?
2) Crunchy or smooth?
3) Cat person or dog person? WHY? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
4) You got a pretty solid-seeming set of principles. Which virtue do you hold in the highest regard, and/or which role model in your past has served as the best exemplar of it? (Even better if you can provide an example which left a great impression on you.)
1) Always wanted to do Auron. Which is nearly my physique anyway if a little (a lot) more buff than I am.
2) Crunchy without question.
3) Dog person. Cats are shifty horrible things that are incapable of love.
4) Responsibilty. If you stuff up take ownership of and learn from it. Nothing annoys me more than people who try to shift blame anywhere else and happily claim that they’re infallible and perfect.
As for a role model…I couldn’t say. I don’t think I could point to anyone in my life and say that’s who shaped me. Certainly not my father. I’ve actually never met him sober as horrible as that fact is. I guess I just decided on the person I’d like to be and done my level best to be that person even if I fail more than I succeed.
And that’s what we call a self-made man, and that’s why you’re awesome. Thanks for the answers, man.
Even if you’re totally wrong about cats. 🙂
(Also, yes. Auron is kickass. His introductory video clip in X was the epitome of detached badassery.)
It’s like you guys know when I’m not available to ask questions!
Ok then:
– Where does the “Freeze” moniker come from (more, why Freeze specifically)
– What’s your secret shame game (universally seen as “bad”, but you like / enjoy it)
– If you found the “Death Note”, what would you do?
– What’s your favourite curse word or offensive thing to say?
1) You can thank/blame @rocketman and @strange (someone else I can’t quite remember) for that one. I was just using my real name back when Kotaku still used Facebook Connect. My last name is Winters so it was a mix of Mr. Freeze and Alex Winters (Bill S. Preston Esquire).
2) Uh, lots. I can find some pretty mediocre stuff entertaining. I guess the biggest one would be I actually enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever for what it was. Wasn’t good by any definition but I feel I got my money’s worth of entertainment from it.
3) I’m vaguely familiar with the term. Anime thing right? No idea in specifics of what it is.
4) I swear like a drunk angry sailor in real life. Consequence of a life as a tradesman. Happily spout out profanities of all sorts but I’m not a particular fan of the word cunt. It’s the one word that pushes an odd button in me that puts me off. Even typing it there was difficult. Unless I’m REALLY cranky with someone.
Everybody knows deathnote! :'(
I hate saying the “C” word too! I hardly ever even say the “F” word :3 I like to be creative when insulting people 😉
Dark Souls Two
THE LAST DAY OF THE COUNTDOWN
As expected, all the “How to play/how to get started” info has started to pop up.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/11/5497008/dark-souls-2-tips-guide-walkthrough-videohttp://www.vg247.com/2014/03/10/dark-souls-2-walkthrough-part-1-things-betwixt-majula/
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/30-items-you-should-collect-in-dark-souls-2-before-your-first-fight/1100-6418218/
Shane doesn’t even know the meaning of media blackout! 😀
I do with The Walking Dead.
Doesn’t media blackout mean to get so much media / info surrounding the game that you “blackout” the sun?
WE PRAISE THE SUN HERE. >:(
If only I could be so gross… etc.
you missed out on going
DAWN OF THE FINAL DAY
-24 HOURS REMAIN-
Remember those posters that say today is the first day of the rest of your life? Well, that’s true of everyday except one – the day you die. – Lester Burnham, American Beauty.
Remember those posters that say today is the first day of the rest of your life? Ha. You died. Get used to it. – Dark Souls II.
JB emailed me this morning to say Australia Post local warehouse has my order. WHY, IT MIGHT EVEN TURN UP TOMORROW!
Awesome, man.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/11/5487564/hello-games-flood-recovery-interview
Cool profile about Hello Games and the Christmas flooding incident. These are the No Man’s Sky devs.
Per angusta ad augusta. Good reading!
~$20 price drop on Dark Souls 2 on Steam. Would suck if you already pre-ordered it.
Or it’s a glitch in which case get on that while you can!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/236430/
$50 via green man gaming. $40 if you use the 20% off thing
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/action/dark-souls-ii-na/
The 20% off thing excludes dark souls 2 sadly.
Probably never going to be discounted preorder which is why they’re giving you $12 GMG credit, that’s how they normally do things when they can’t discount
Forgive me, but I decided to a Shane and plug. Sadly, there’s nothing for sale here as the only short work I have done is blog-ified and as such, remains free-to-view.
So yeah, if anyone has the time, please have a squizz. Hopefully there’s at least one thing you can relate to with one or more of my short stories. Oh, a couple of them have been previously featured on (formerly) Potaku, so that’s why they may be familiar.
I guess a link would help.
Oooh, you write well Benny. Like the minimalist format too.
Thank you. I left you a little easter egg, DC. Not too subtle, though.
I saw. I smiled knowingly.
How did I get so bad a reputation?
http://shanewsmith.comHOOOOOOWWWWWWWW? 🙁
Well, now I miss that show. Thanks! 😛
I related most to the quote up the top. Gattaca is one of my favourites. 🙂
That was the easter egg for DC, he loves that film also. I plan to put together some thoughts on Gattaca and add them shortly.
I’m sure it will be a Valid post.
Leave work yesterday, you’re on page 5, get to work today & you’re on page 7.
it’s as if page six never happened.
I cant say I’m disappointed.
Is that because something is wrong with your mouth? :\
well…. I could say I was disappointed.
but I’d be lying.
Walking Dead Season 4 Episodes 12 and 13 (latest) spoilers/discussion/whatnot
Caught up on the two latest episodes last night. I really liked them! Not one scene with Korl, of course it’s going to be good! 😛I find myself liking Beth more and more after these last few episodes. She was always a bit of a vanilla background character up until now. Good to see her actually getting some meaningful scenes. I think I mentioned this earlier, but I also like how the group is split up at the moment. I always enjoy it when TV shows try and split up characters into new groups that you never saw previously (I don’t I’ve ever even seen Beth and Daryl interact before now). Really helps to show new sides to characters.
The one thing I would change about the setup they have now is the environments each group is in. All of them are in the forest, which I guess would make sense in real life (they can’t have gotten THAT far away from each other in such a short period), but I’d like more variety. For example, I really want to see what some of the larger towns/cities are looking like these days (though, again, makes sense that they wouldn’t want to go there :P)
Anyway, I’m liking the direction of this. I just really, really hope that Terminus doesn’t end up the same way as Woodbury. I never want to see another evil leader character again.
Who is watching these days, so I can tag? @dc @strange ?
I suspect Terminus is just a pit stop and Washington D.C. is where we’re heading. (Which will be cool. Can’t wait to see what the city looks like now! I’ve always liked Beth, but it’s good to see she’s got a more substantial role now. (Still think the whole relationship thing they seem to be setting up with Daryl is all kinds of gross.) I read that there’s apparently little easter eggs scattered about where characters have crossed paths. They’re very, very close to one another. Fact that Daryl was picked up by that group who were at Rick’s house proves that.
I think Terminus might be over run, alas. :'(
Wait, that group was the same as Rick’s group!? :O I didn’t even notice!But yeah, they have crossed paths. There was that small massacre along the train tracks that Carol/Tyreese found (EDIT: No wait, Tyreese was the one that was involved in it. Who am I thinking of then? Someone found it…). And I would assume they’re all following the exact same set of train tracks (the map they keep seeing doesn’t really make it look like there’s a million of them :P)
You’re probably right about it being overrun though. They don’t even know how long the signs have been there.
Really think season four might be my favourite so far, though. Which is cool. The new show runner has a better handle on the characters, I think.Daryl & Beth fond the massacre on the tracks. Also yeah Daryl’s new group is the one from Rick’s house. I only know that though because the bloke who did all the talking is Mayor Hale from Sons of anarchy.Tyrese was involved and Daryl and Beth found it. They thinkt he children are dead because Beth found one of the girls’ shoesOh feel free to tag me too. I’m always up to date as my Mother is obsessed
@benny
I’m watching. A little behind the eight-ball though. Last night I watched 10 and 11, hopefully tonight I can return here to discuss and click spoiler buttons! Clicky clicky!
Season 4?!?
Telltale’s been busy.
😛I finished Stick of Truth last night.
It. Is. Dynamite.
I’d talk about all the amazing parts but I don’t want to run the risk of ruining the surprise for anyone who’s playing it. Some moments are just incredible.
There are some downsides, like the weird placement of fast travel flags, inventory management & using the bottom triggers on PS3 to change menus but they’re so minor they don’t imapact the overall game.
I also just finished reading The Shocker: Legit and if you follow me on twitter (@dkzeitgeist) you know I’ve been pimping it constantly. I have a feeling @redartifice was pimping a little while back but I could be wrong.
Anyway, it’s amazing. It’s a fanfic (hear me out) about The Shocker, the Spiderman Villain who can cause earthquakes, deciding to become a superhero but he uncovers a massive conspiracy about super heroes/villains.
It does this amazing thing of fleshing out all these bottom tier villains and heroes and making them sympathetic. It also addresses the effects of Spiderman’s bullying on his villains and the fact that heroes never seem to help each other with their villains.
It’s pretty long at 38 chapters and has some corny fanfic moments, but it’s well worth your time to read. It’s also written by Max Landis, so you know, Chronicle…
http://forgotten.faithweb.com/MaxLandis/legit00.htm
A fanfic about a character named “The Shocker”? There’s only one way that could end…
There’s a joke here I’m either too dumb or too smart to figure out…
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20shocker
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Two in the pink, one in the stink.
Paging M Night Shyamalan.
Just read the first chapter and I’m completely sold.
Oh boy, you don’t even know.
There are some absolutely mind blowing moments.
Kinda related:
Did you see Landis tweeting about rebooting Gremlins as a POV movie? Shit was intense.
I would be down with that.
I saw some of it. It definitely sounded cool.
Thought I’d just take a glance at the first chapter – that turned into 5. This is pretty good.
How long until Marvel gets someone to ink this?
It’s action is sometime a bit hard to follow but the depth he gives characters. Holy shit. And the way he folds storylines & major events in the world of comics, like how so many new heroes were being created in the 80’s, into the universe? Amazing.
oh, did you pick up on the excellent Star Wars reference in about chapter 15?
I remember picking up on a Star Wars reference but I can’t remember what it was.
The kiss “for good luck”.
Personally I think the internal monologue is too crucial to transpose to comic form.
Unless you had a tonne of narration boxes… Or you’d need much more expository dialogue between Herman and Aleksei.
Or something like that.
I dunno.
I think I’d extend the fighting sequences and have the internal monologue occur mostly during those, rather than using a lot of pages afterwards to fill with exposition. I think that Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye (Marvel NOW) handled internal dialogue a bit like that and it worked well.
I’m still making my way through, and I’m pretty sure I haven’t hit the twist yet, so maybe it wouldn’t work after all.
Maybe it could be done…
I’ve not read it, but I’ll have a look
Do iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
I like how aloof and exclusionary Stark and Richards are.
Even when they start paying attention to Herman it’s clear that they’d happily milk him for info and discard him.
Stark would definitely just use him up and spit him out, Richards too but without the malice. He’s just so smart that I don’t think he’d understand what he was doing to Herman emotionally.
Definitely.
I thought Shocker used vibrational electricity stuff. I only remember because I played Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro last weekend.
Yeah, his shit is vibration based but I always remembered him as earthquake gauntlet man.
Or pineapple man.
This morning at 8:55 a woman near Town Hall asked me for directions to the District courts. I actually happened to know where they are, but when I told her it was a 10 minute walk she got pissed off at me because “I don’t HAVE ten minutes”. Well jeez lady, I didn’t put them there just to spite you.
Based on the time of day I’m assuming she had to be in court at 9am, which is a laugh in itself. In my experience, if she has a 9am appointment I assume that’s about when her judge will be getting out of bed.
Dude, she was clearly asking for a piggyback ride. Missed opportunity.
I know, but she was already running late and I’m pretty heavy.
I think I’m going to commit to a proper beard this time around! Winter is coming!
Eww. 😛
Damn straight!
Beards are awesome.
Yes they are, but DC’s trim stubble beard thing looks way better on him than when he goes full beard.
But you didn’t see me with full beard. That I know of. D:
I’m talking about that picture you linked when asking whether to keep growing or shave. It was more or less full beard. And I told you to shave because I didn’t like it. 😛
Oh, This one?
:'( There goes my self-esteem. 😛
Haha! Might grow it any way, just to see. (And document on the photo a day dealy.) Going to grow my hair long this year as well.
Yeah, I’ve noticed with approval your hair is getting longer and little curls are starting to happen. 🙂
I just think your beard makes you look older. And less trustworthy. 😛
If you’re going to commit, go the whole hog (haha gravatar joke haha).
Seriously, nominate a charity, set yourself up a page and do the “Yeard”.
No shaving for a year.
I’d back you.
Hmm, without being that guy, he is looking for a job, and a yeard can be kinda scruffy.
Hmmm, point taken. Unless he wants to be a lumberjack?
If you can grow a glorious beard I say go for it! I tried once…but i’m not blessed with that ability, so I’ve settled for a moustachio+chin combo. Si senior
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/76419503817/09-january-2014
This is as long as my beard has ever been. Do I tempt to grow it more? DO I?
That is quite a nice beard, sir. I say yes, let out your inner barbarian. You can always trim it back 😉
Broken Age Part 1
The Wolf Among Us 1×02
The Walking Dead 2 2×02
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Beyond: Two Souls (replay)
These are the only games I’ve played this year. This number is way, way down on previous years. Don’t know why. Just don’t feel that drive to play games in my spare time. (Which is basically all my time these days. XD)
I think the only games I’ve really played this year are Persona 4 (which reminds me, I need to charge my PSV before I forget how to play!), Lightning Returns and FFXIII-2.
I’ve dabbled in others but those are the only ones I can remember really playing.
But they’re all JRPGs. Aren’t they crazy long? 😀 That’s like seventeen regular games right there!
I didn’t say I’d finished them, just played them. 🙂
PERSONA 4 IS SO GOOD. SOOOOOOOOO GOOOOODDDDDDDDDD!
Writing FTW \o/
*shifty eyes*
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This year I have played to completion:
Walking Dead Season 2 episodes 1 + 2
Game of Thrones RPG
Tomb Raider
Stuff I am in the middle of trying to complete:
Tomb Raider: Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Stuff I have just wasted time on (i.e.: stuff I am playing aimlessly or that has no real defined end)
Binding of Isaac
FTL
Vessel
Volgarr the Viking
Forza 5
Just Dance 2014
Dead Rising 3 (actually I’m only 50% sure I’ve even played Dead Rising 3 this year, but I’ll count it)
Numerous casual/popcap/flash/mobile apps
Stuff I started then lost interest in:
Driver San Francisco
Stuff I plan to buy in the near future after pay day:
Tomb Raider Definitive Edition
Titanfall
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare
Ooooh, I loved Guardian of Light. Such a fun game. I like how the puzzles subtly change in coop mode too. Isometric perspective is good perspective.
I had actually never played anything Tomb Raider branded until the recent reboot, and this one was completely off my radar until it was the free “Games with Gold” title on Xbox Live a couple of months ago. I really wasn’t expecting an isometric puzzle game with combat elements, but it’s pretty darn good.
I haven’t played a game for about two weeks! \o/
You played Walking Dead though, right? That was last week to the day! 😀
I don’t count things that don’t fit the narrative I’m trying to create the illusion of! \o/
A good way to live your life! 😀
I wanna facepalm, but also can’t claim ‘not guilty’ of the same.
I think even my list is up on yours, and I’m doing a #YearOf1000Pages
Let’s see…
Ace Attorney 4: Apollo Justice
Miles Edgeworth Investigates
Ace Attorney 5: Dual Destinies (current)
Dark Souls (just mucking around)
Deus Ex Human Revolution
Lara Croft: Guardian of Light (forgot about this one, just played it briefly)
Bioshock
Walking Dead S2E1
Walking Dead S2E2
Deus Ex. So, so good.
Best stealth game I’ve ever played.
How’s AA5 going, anyway!?
Aw man, it’s so good. Just like all the other games.
It feels much more streamlined than the others. Still have to get used to the very on-rails nature of it, compared with the other games. I kind of miss being able to ‘examine’ random stuff and get all the oddball comments and conversations, which I think has drained a little personality from the game. But these are just little things; it’s a great game, through and through (currently about halfway through 4th case, the space centre one)Make sure to post your thoughts when you finish the game! I don’t want to accidentally spoil anything.
Games I’ve finished:
Wolfie one-oh-two
Deady Walkers two-oh-two
Brothers: A tale of really long subtitles and an ending that could have been so much better if they didn’t pad it unnecessarily
Dark Souls
My finished games for 2014 so far:
– Broken Age Part 1
– Stick of Truth
I’ve started a bunch of stuff but barely finished anything. 🙁 Pretty sure the last full game (IMO broken age is only half a game at this point) I finished before South Park was Ys: Memories of Celceta. I guess there was the first Muramasa DLC as well. I’ve been slacking off 🙁
DKTF
Antichamber
Blood Dragon
Super Metroid
More than I was expecting 😛
Didn’t you play Battletoads just recently?
I did.
It was the last thing I played in 2013 – finished it on 31 December 😛
Screw it, it’s the current trend:
I am Cakesmith, buyer of games, player of none. AMA.
Or don’t, I can’t tell you what to do.
Most embarrassing/mortifying moment?
What career did you want when you were a kid?
Where do you see yourself in twenty years?
Most embarrassing/mortifying moment?
Oh man, I struggled with this one. I’ve either repressed it or nothing comes to mind straight away. I guess this is more awkward, but I used to have a huge crush on one of the girls I worked with when I was a teenager. They found out and well, it made any further shifts when them super awkward. We eventually ended up becoming good friends though and when I go back home she’s one of the few people I endeavour to catch up with.
What career did you want when you were a kid?
When I was really young I was always fascinated by fighter jets so I wanted to be a fighter pilot. However, my eyesight made that impossible.
When I was a teenager I wanted to make movies. Went as far as doing a few courses after I finished school. Kind of wish I’d stuck with this somedays.
Where do you see yourself in twenty years?
I’ve never really been a big planner. I’ll be 45 in 20 years, which is weird enough to think about. I still don’t know where I want to be when I’m 30.
What is the most recent game that you have bought but are yet to play?
Does Titanfall count?
Ultimately depends what you class as unplayed. I’ve got a bunch of games I’ve bought but hardly touched.
Lightning Returns. I’ve played maybe 90mins of it.
Completely unplayed? Long Live The Queen, Broken Age
1.) What are the origins of your user name?
2.) How is Sydney treating you? Glad you made the move?
3.) Is there a time in your life where things could have split off into a different direction changing who you are now? Any regrets for not taking it?
4.) ‘sup?
5.) Any Brisbane trips on the horizon?
1.) What are the origins of your user name?
It’s a weird story. I used to play WoW with a friend from school. One night she came home from a friends house a little drunk and jumped on and started talking to me and randomly replaced a word with ‘pineapple’. I don’t know why. So that night was filled with a lot of derping around replacing random words in sentences which eventually turned into coming up with strange names for professions. She was working at a bakery at the time and I decided that she was a ‘cakesmith’ (like a blacksmith). It was so random and unique that I adopted it as my gamertag/username (it used to be Rhodal).
2.) How is Sydney treating you? Glad you made the move?
Sydney is going great. I’ve got good friends, a great job and I maintain it’s the best life decision I’ve ever made.
3.) Is there a time in your life where things could have split off into a different direction changing who you are now? Any regrets for not taking it?
Definitely. I often wonder where I would be now if when I left school I decided to study instead of work. But I have no regrets. I’m happy where I am now.
4.) ‘sup?
Not much. Kinda hungry and trying to decide what I want for lunch. Doing this whole “work” thing. You?
5.) Any Brisbane trips on the horizon?
For sure. I’ve been meaning to get up that way for a few months now. I haven’t been to Brisbane in 10 years.
Will you ever finish a game?
I am getting better haha.
Last game I finished was Batman: Arkham Origins. I’m fairly close to the end of South Park too (I think). Maybe a couple more hours to go.
I tip my hat to you sir.
I’m afraid to ask any question for fear that somebody will make a ‘kick in the crotch’ response, so I’m just gonna go as tame as possible.
How’s your life in general? You satisfied with it?
Life is generally pretty good. Sure, there are some things that would be nice if they were a little better and stuff but It could be worse though. I mean, I could be getting kicked in the crotch.
Am I satisfied? Most definitely.
I also still owe you $10-_-
Don’t worry about it.Serious question: is this running joke okay with you, Saturday? Can’t speak for everyone else, but I’m happy to kick it out of my repertoire if you prefer.
-_-
I was mildly irritated right from the get go, but honestly I have accepted this. You do not post a long diatribe about being kicked in the crotch on the internet and expect everybody to forget about it. So it is ok, Shane. It is ok.Enh, nothing’s that funny that you need to cling to it even if it actually causes genuine irritation or annoyance.
Life’s too short. 😛
irritation, annoyance, swelling…
Do you believe long distance relationships can work?
and
Do you want to start one with me?
How did you overcome the anxiety after your move because with me it just didnt go away
What are your worst qualities?
Do you believe long distance relationships can work?
Yes, but they are hard work. I was in one for 6 months but one of the best examples I have is one of my best friends from high school. The girl he was dating had to move for uni and they spent 3 years doing long distance. I attended their wedding a couple of years back.
Do you want to start one with me?
You have my number 😉
How did you overcome the anxiety after your move because with me it just didnt go away
It was hard and it took time. What a lot of people don’t know is how close I was to giving up and going back home. I was bleeding money. I was living with my relatives who didn’t need another adult in an already busy household. I’d actually set a date that if I didn’t have a job but that stage I would. I ended up finding one 2 weeks before the date. I’d been in Sydney for about 6 weeks by that stage. But it comes back every now and then. I spent my first Christmas alone that year and that was hard. About 6 months ago my sister found out she was pregnant and my dad was diagnosed with lupus and it made me really want to move back home.
But then I remember who I was before I moved and I don’t want to be that person again.
What are your worst qualities?
I’m stubborn, I’m insecure and take things too personally, I’m pessimistic, I can be super moody
I respect the fuck out of you
Also, im glad for you and @alexpants and @batgirl
You guys just sort of adopted me and i felt truly accepted by amazing people for the first time.
HUGS
I guess I can ask more questions :3
Okay then, hmmhmm:
– Where did you see yourself currently, five years ago?
– What’s your all time favourite song?
– What’s the funniest thing that you’ve done to someone (preferably scary)?
– What’s the most physically painful thing to have ever happend to you?
– Where did you see yourself currently, five years ago?
Definitely not where I am now. At the time I’d just moved back in with my parents and was working 2 casual jobs (albeit, well paying casual jobs). It was beginning of a bit of a slump in my life.
– What’s your all time favourite song?
Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
Reason: I’ve only ever really bonded with my dad over 2 things. Computers/tech and music. He was a guitarist (well, still is) and I remember him showing me a lot of “old” music when I was growing up and this is one of the first songs I can recall him playing to me on guitar.
– What’s the funniest thing that you’ve done to someone (preferably scary)?
…I actually don’t have an answer to this one. I’m sure there’s something that I’ll think of later but nothing comes to mind right now.
– What’s the most physically painful thing to have ever happend to you?
I have 2. One is probably a lot worse than it seems because I was 6 at the time and I just remember it being bad.
Story 1:
I was born with partial vision in my right eye and it was also lazy. When I was 6, my parents decided to get me corrective surgery on it being lazy, not a lot can be done about it’s vision. It all went fine but it was stitched shut for a few days afterwards to allow it to heal. This meant I was essentially walking around with my eyes closed most of the time because as a 6 year old, I couldn’t only keep one eye open. After a while I got a little confident in knowing where things were so started doing things more quickly. This resulted in me accidentally kicking a door frame so hard that my instant reaction was to open my eyes to see what had happened. Unfortunately it was so forceful that it ripped out the stitches.
Story 2:
I’m going to spoil this because it’s a potentially grizzly story:
I got really badly sunburnt once on my back. At the start it didn’t seem to bad. It was irritating but that was about it. The next few days I spent were spent lying on my stomach playing DS and watching TV. And then it got worse. At the time, I had high blood pressure and was on tablets to control it. Turns out a side effect of these tablets was a skin condition which meant skin cells would produce more slowly. Not normally an issue. Maybe if you got a cut or something it would take longer to heal. But here I was with sunburnt back in which all the dead skin cells had died off but hadn’t been replaced properly. I ended up in hospital on morphine (great stuff) being treated essentially as a burns victim. It is a pain I would not wish on my worst enemy. It’s what I imagine death by a thousand cuts would be like.The first painful story sounds worse than the second, but they both sound like they must’ve sucked!
You’ll have to think of what the funniest thing you’ve done to someone is though 😉
Jeez, went to buy a shirt from the Steel Panther website, since it was cheap and came with their new album for 22 bucks, but they wanted 44 dollars shipping for one shirt 🙁 almost as bad as Amazon wanting 53 dollars out of me for an 8 dollar CD
Holy crap. I think I paid $15 dollars shipping for leather paint. I thought that was decent
Yeah, I just wanna support the artists but postage from the states make sit impossible :/
Use Price USA or shipito. They will onship it to you for a small fee.
Hmm i’ve never used one of these, thanks! I shall now look into this.
Do it. I adore my steel panther shirt!
I read that as leather pants and it made me laugh.
Man, that’s crazy.
You know where has really affordable and downright fashionable shirts?
http://redbubble.com/people/dandkzeitgeist
I feel this is the part where I link my friends Red Bubble in retaliation 😛
http://www.redbubble.com/people/luckydog
Dang, you’ve got some skills.
I’m not trying to steal your thunder or anything. Just was fulfilling virus__’ joke.
Also, I really need to get better at the design part of designing a shirt. I’m okay at the art side
Oh Scree… If you’re gonna steal my thunder you need to get into the gutter and muck first.
Trust me, you’re too good a person to steal my thunder.
I’m sorry.
Pyramid Head Pony.
Yessssss.
Don’t buy it though, The quality is terrible, especially for the price. Also, I may have to upgrade it at some point because I think it’s a little boring.
Up vote for ‘Rusty Shackleford’ \o/
I just spent $20 in spotlight. All I bought was two tubes of acrylic paint, 1 small tub of fabric paint, a tube of glitter and 50 cents of fabric remnant.
Yay?
Why is this stuff so expensive?!
Raisins!
Amazon Japan is all “hey we noticed you bought Princess Mononoke on bluray. Maybe you’d be interested in these others”
Proceeds to list all the Studio Ghibli blurays. Which I already own. And I bought 100% of them from Amazon Japan. And the first thing on their list is Princess Mononoke.
You’d think it would be pretty easy when sending recommendation emails to filter out the stuff you know that person already purchased from you…
Amazon UK does that to me all the time for CD’s which I bought from them…
Other people who bought Princess Mononoke also bought: Princess Mononoke.
I hear that in Japan there are 3.3 copies of Princess Mononoke per capita.
One to keep, one to watch, one to rub on your crotch?
I ended up ordering those wierdo board games I was eyeing off.
@redartifice @f4ction @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb
Just thought I’d mention that I will allow you guys to use some of the other races provided in the Advanced Races Guide, if you feel like being different than the rather generic basic races. When you select a race outside of the core choices, run it by me first just so I can okay it as there are some races I find are a little overpowered. For instance, I won’t allow any of the planar half-breeds (Aasimar, Ifrit, Oread, etc) for lore and balance reasons.
Also, I don’t think I mentioned it but you will all start as level 1 characters. Prestige classes and multi-classing are also allowed. Basically, if you are ever unsure of whether you can or should do something, send me a message and I’ll help you out and make a decision. The Rule of Cool will be in effect so I’ll try and help everyone to achieve their personal levels of badass while generally working within the rules (houserules are likely to be made though). Thanks you guys for being so understanding with this. 🙂
Excite!
Barbarian Titan God.
So no Tieflings then? 🙁
Oh well, I think I’ll go Elf anyway, anything but a human
Unfortunately no Tieflings. Sorry Techie.
That’s alright, I never played as one before and always wanted to. I can easily do an Elf Sorcerer which I’ve done on Neverwinter Nights multiplayer, I think I’ll at least rebirth one of my characters I had on that game anyway, though one was a half-balor Fighter/Blackguard/Weapon Master with a split personality, basically a demon personality manifested in his mind. I know he’ll never be allowed in a game again but bloody hell was he a badass with the 2h sword that can be set alight with his own power :P.
My characters have mainly consisted of humans and elves, tried half-orc for a while, but got a bit boring because his personality was very basic, serving a dark god and all.
Write the desire to be a tiefling into your character.
Or that I want to meet one, works too 🙂
At this stage thinking a Hobgoblin Tactician, but that may change.
Wait, I missed signing up for D&D?
Awwww…
Come and join the party Rize. You will be the mighty number 9 for this adventuring party! 😀
I explained the basics for the campaign on the previous page of TAY but we will be starting a Pathfinder campaign in about a month’s time. I figured I’d set the ground rules and give people enoguh time to familiarise themselves with the rules.
Unfortunately I fail at linking to previous posts using work internet but it’s a fairly lengthy post so I don’t think you’ll miss it. 🙂
I’ll have a look today when I get a chance. Going from nothing happening to crazy busy on and off at work today.
Are the classes from the Ultimate Combat and Ultimate Magic sets fair game as well?
Yep. Magus, Samurai, Ninja, and Gunslinger are all available, as are the classes in the Advanced Player’s guide. Any class archetypes that you find in those books are also fair game.
Question: I’m not really leaning toward this, but if a race description was to include Rogue or Cavalier as favored classes, and you were to take the Ninja or Samurai class (which state they are effectively modifications of Rogue and Cavalier) would the favoured class bonus still apply?
The race favoured classes are basically that each race is generally better at this particular set of classes than they are at other classes. Ninjas and Samurais are pretty much archetypes of Rogues and Cavaliers but they were given the full development into separate classes so that they suit Oriental campaigns better. If a race has a Rogue or a Cavalier as a favoured class, this favoured class bonus would apply to a Ninja or Samurai character.
Those race favoured class bonuses are extra choices that you can make. The basic favoured class bonus is still an option where you can choose to gain one extra HP per level that you’ve taken in your favoured class or one extra skill point. You’re favoured class is generally the class that you start as at level 1 but feats and racial traits can allow you to have a second favoured class.
All aboard the AMA train! (are these still cool?)
I’m B-Funk, i live in the destitute wasteland known as Western Australia!
Ask questions and junk.
Why do you think Shane acts the way he does?
I never took drama classes, so I’m doing my best.
BECAUSE SHANE IS A BASTARD MAN
but not really shane’s a cool guyI don’t know much about you! So we’ll start with the light questions:
Everyone’s got at least one moment in their past (or at least, I assume they do) where they just wished the ground would open up beneath their feet and swallow them whole. What’s yours?
What’s the big dream?
If you could have the ability to read people’s minds, on the condition that you would not be able to filter what you hear, would you accept this ability?
1) oh god i have a story of the worst date ever. So a young B-Funk takes a cute girl out for lunch then a movie, simple no? not for B-Funk, he has a condition known as “doesn’t know when to stop talking”. so during lunch we discussed work, she didn’t have a job as i found out. so as we go to pay, being the chivalrous man i am, i go to pay for it all. she says don’t worry about it, i reply. “It’s okay, i can pay, i have a job”. Then the rest of the date was super awkward, and after the movie we said our goodbyes and i never saw or spoke to her again. every time i see Tron i cringe at the thought of that date…
2) Big Dream? it’s changed over the years but working in film or TV is what i’m studying towards, however getting to write and direct something big would be awesome. however i dont think TV or film would be ready for the ideas in my brain.
3) probably no, i’m already self-conscious enough, but actually knowing what people are thinking about me might kill me 🙂
Youch. Four words too many.
I totally didn’t mean it that way, and when i said it i didn’t realise till later into the date what i had actually said….
Where in Western Australia do you live? (Asking because I lived there for 8 years).
Currently living in East Perth after about 10 years in Dianella.
being near the city is so great.
I wish I lived in Perth when I lived in WA. I lived in Geraldton, because my Dad got a job over there. Moving from Tasmania to WA was a real shock to the system, particularly in summer. Also travel distances are so huge in WA compared to Tasmania.
Geraldton is a pretty neat part of WA though, i had cousins who lived there, always fun to go up there.
and yeah, but the best parts of WA are the ones that take really long to get too 🙂
Hey, WA buddy!
I’m around Dianella at the moment!
I never did get the chance to skip around western Australia, namely because it’s, as you say, a destitute wasteland. But there’s some good things about your half of the country/continent, right?
right?
Like I hear Perth is pretty.
Pretty stuck in the past. HAHAHAHA.
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It’s funny, amongst all the backpackers I brushed elbows with, there was certainly talk of where we were going/had gone, but Western Australia? mentioned all of twice. And I met a fair amount of backpackers.
Actually, I hear Perth is much like my homeland of Vancouver, BC.
And.. uh, that doesn’t necessarily excite me.
Perth is a cleaner even more boring Brisbane.
I will say with confidence that nowhere in the eastern states can beat some of the beaches in WA.
In places like Coral Bay (which is very north of perth) has the best beaches in the world.
as for the city Perth, i wouldn’t define it as pretty, it’s okay. they just built a new arena which is awesome, and they are about to build a new football stadium, which will hopefully be good.
The main problem in perth is the lack of things to do, if you come to WA, you should be going to the regional places with the aforementioned great beaches, perth itself isn’t very special.
Let me just update my list of things to do once I visit Australia again.
1) go to Eastern Australia’s beaches
2) go to Western Australia’s beaches
whoa, I gotta calm myself, I ain’t spending my entire life there.
Pretty much a similar complaint with Brisbane and Queensland in general. You don’t go to Qld for Brisbane, you go for the reefs and the beaches. It still perplexes me when I see tourists visiting Brisbane itself when there isn’t that much tourist stuff to do.
Let me know when your local beach hosts the Quiksiler & Roxy Pro 😛
When WA has as many people as the eastern states…. so never.
So when WA becomes relevant, then? 😛
Basically yes.
It has the best beaches in Australia. But I don’t like outside. That’s about it.
Oh wait, we are the 12th most expensive city in the world! That’s an accolade we hold proud.
Is there a time in your life where things could have split off into a different direction changing who you are now? Any regrets for not taking it?
Very much so, i actually started off Uni doing a computer science degree. After failing almost every unit, i had to really think whether i wanted to do it or not. That was when i realised i really wanted to do something more creative than writing code. so i switched my course to a digital design and screen arts major, haven’t regretted it since 🙂
Or that time you didn’t attend the first ever Perth Meat. Much disappoint. 😛
🙁
i forget what i had on when that stopped me from going, but i assume it wasn’t as good.
We ended up walking along the road past some shops, turning around then getting food in Dirty Nelly’s. Perth is not exciting.
Didn’t even go to the bell tower?
that’s where the parties at.
Favourite high school teacher?
Smartest thing you’ve done while drunk?
1) Hahaha, probably my IT teacher Mr.Gage, was a cool guy. he wouldn’t have been around when you were there.
2) not sure if it counts as the smartest but i played the best game of bowling i’ve ever played while smashed. i don’t remember the score, but it was definitely better than any score i’ve gotten sober.
These AMAs ate really starting to fuel my burning curiosity (read prying and gossip)!
I guess I can ask you some questions to 😛
– What career did you want when you were studying Computer Science?
– What is your earliest memory?
– What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve done while drunk?
– What two words would your best friend use to describe you (bonus points if you ask your best friend rather than guess)?
1) surprise surprise, i wanted to make video games!
2) this is oddly relevant to the release of stick of truth, because i remember getting up in the night as a kid and my parents were watching the episode of south park were the cows all commit suicide, they quickly put me back to bed.
3) Traded Clothes…. With a girl…. who was wearing a skirt….
4) most likely “Dick head” or some other slanderous words, out of love of course.
This is exactly me whenever people start debating feminism and sexual inequality.
On a related, yet tangent topic, I have to say he’s back to top notch standard on Mad as Hell. I’m actually beginning to like him over the Chaser.
Are the Chaser on TV again? Ihaven’t seen any of their work since War on Everything ended.
No, but they did do “The Hamster Wheel”.
They (being Chris Hansen, and Giant Baby the production company) are currently being taken through the courts by a journalist that they insinuated was a dog fucker. So I don’t think they will be back anytime soon.
That’s a shame. About that journalist fucking dogs, I mean. He shouldn’t do that.
They have a show every Thursday on ABC1 called ‘The Checkout’ which attacks retailers and big companies for lies and deception.
@virus__ Oh man I completely forgot that they do that and I watch the damn show.
I have no excuse.
Hahaha, nope you don’t 😛
Yeah man, they have a show atm that’s airing every Thursday night called The Checkout, on ABC1 it’s pretty good when I remember to watch it.
Quite possibly the best comedy show ever made in Australia
Oh wow I just came across this relating to the Sesame Street characters and what mental illnesses they all have. It’s quite interesting and amusing lol.
There have been more Thursdays this week than usual…
And it’s not even Thursday yet!Every day can be Thursday if you carry it with you in your heart.
Heart?
Or blackened empty chest cavity.
3 Unlikely skills that i posses that impress women
1) i can knit and crochet to a okay standard
2)I can braid and plait hair well
3)I can repair tv remotes
when i learned those skills i had no idea.
I should learn more random crap
Is it by hitting them really hard?
Actually i disassembled it at home and resoldered the IR diode and it works perfectly.
Works with computers
Man, maybe I just because I grew up with 2 sisters like you, but I thought everyone knew how to braid.
It is literally twisting 2 bits of hair together. Not rocket science.
3
i thought a plait was 3 and a braid was 2?
i could be wrong because i dont do it often
@Scree can’t type at the moment but says:
plait is 3, braid is 4 or more.
from me: I don’t think 2 would work. Wouldn’t it just untwist itself?
Technically a braid is 3 or more. Plait is another name for braid, though it mostly refers to those made of 3 strands.
Grow your hair out so I can practice braiding!
THATS WHAT THE HAIR TIE IS FOR GORZY
how the heck does this place work
Poorly.
We don’t really work. We get paid to have Excel open in a corner of our screen while we TAY.
Tell us something about yourself.
I’m a cancer, I love salty food, currently playing a bunch of nidhogg and loving life in general
…and I think you’ll fit right in.
You type out whatever you feel like and hope someone notices it and likes it enough to upvote or respond. I think.
Easiest thing to do is just jump right in on a Monday before it gets too chaotic. 😀
Anyway, hello Commander! How are you today?
I am quite well. drunkenly posted ‘very naice’ and ‘mai waife’ on almost every facebook status/picture/relationship change over the last two days in my feed and woke up to 100+ notifications this morning. I think I might have a lot of explaining to do
Oh. Oh dear. That should be interesting! 😛
You sound like fun, I look forward to seeing you join in around here more.
It’s better when you don’t know the truth.
I’m trying to get South Park: TSoT finished today, and I’m curious how far I am from the end. I’ve got the feeling I’m about halfway through.
I’ve just killed the Nazi Zombie, and picked up that voice recorder thingy.If I play from now till like midnight, will I be able to finish it? I really want to finish it today, so I don’t feel bad about leaving it unfinished when I pick up Dark Souls II tomorrow.
Wow! My first page get. Yay me!
Pointing out their own pageget. Minus 10 TAYpoints.
Crap!
But not as bad as editing the original comment to mention it!
Not too much to go. You’re probably around two thirds of the way through? I had the main story and most side quests done within 11 hours, if that’s any help.
Cheers, should definitely be able to knock it out today with time to spare.
I’m not a south park fan and thus have very little interest in that game, however I am tempted to buy it after seeing the unicorn stampede attack. That thing is glorious.
This may have been discussed but are there midnight launches in Aus for the big games coming out tomorrow?
I know the main Brisbane EB is doing a midnight launch for Titanfall. Not sure about anything for DS2 though or what other stores are doing.
EB has a bunch of stores advertised as doing a midnight launch for Titanfall, no idea if you could rock up and buy Dark Souls 2 if you wanted to, but I read of some yanks doing so at Gamestop. No idea about other stores. Their websites might have something.
Nothing saying you have to buy something specific if they’re opening their shop for a special event, as long as the shop is open then its open. Hell, rock up to a midnight launch decked out in the most impressive titanfall mech recreation possible, stomp up to the counter and ask for a copy of animal crossing new leaf
Cheers for the link. Nothing close by to me though. I do have a 24 hour Kmart but I don’t trust them to have stock.
A 24 hour Kmart!?
WHERE IS THIS!? I need to know what happens in a Kmart at 3am.
I think there’s one in Melbourne, not sure exactly where in Melbourne though.
PAX Meat at 3am at a 24hr Kmart confirmed!
Yes.
KMart in Canberra is 24 hours. Given our nightlife, I’m surprised this isn’t a nation-wide thing.
I moved to Brisbane from a city with 24 hour supermarkets and 24 hour Kmarts. The shock took an extremely long time to wear off.
I went to a 24 hour Kmart to pick up my Wii U on launch (in the middle of assignmenting at the time, so it made for a good ~hour break or so).
Midnight Kmart is the strangest thing. Why are there so many people around??
In a little suburb of Wollongong called Figtree. I have been in there at 530 once on the way to work and it is eerie as hell.
My store’s not doing one. And I would’ve liked to get Dark Souls earlier!
So I downloaded Dark Souls on Steam, was meaning to give it a bash over the weekend. Only problem is it doesn’t work. It just won’t launch. Uninstalled and re-installed but still wouldn’t work. Anyone else have this problem???
‘Doesn’t work’ is a teeny bit vague, any error messages?
Nope, nothing. You click on “play” and just nothing, it doesn’t launch, doesn’t put up an error message or anything. Check task manager and it’s not on there. Only Steam game I’ve ever had this issue with.
its an incredibly bad port, so it could be any number of reasons.
you running a SLI / crossfire setup? might wanna disable one of your cards.
DSFix might help, but don’t count on it.
more likely to be GFWL issue.
Mine only works when GFWL is disabled. down side of that is that GFWL is required to save your progress.
Computer idiot right here…. So after a google of those acronyms haha, no, I don’t believe I’m running a SLI/crossfire setup. Just have an Nvidia GTx670 card.
Haven’t got DSFix either, but I might have a crack at installing that mod.
Edit your shortcut settings to run in (win xp?) compatibility mode.
Uninstall GFWL from the program list, manually download and install the newest version.
These steps have helped me fix 3 different installations with launch issues.
Odds are it’s a GFWL error. Try reinstalling that. If you have DSFix, make sure you’ve got the latest version.
Yeah, I have the same problem with dead rising 2 where GFWL just won’t let it launch. I never worked out how to fix it. Makes me sad 🙁
Righto, cheers. I’ll give that a bash this evening.
Yeah, much of the blame with Dark Souls is on GFWL.
Anyone better at this google stuff then I am want to try and find me tin whistle music for Bravely Default?
I’m sure I found it at work the other night just by typing in bravely default sheet music but now all I find is the kotaku articles on the BD music.
Blergh. Really off my game on the writing front. At the start of the month I took some meds for like three days. Felt like a zombie for three days. Stopped taking meds. Damage was done. I feel like any momentum I had has gone and I need to get back into that mindset. *shakes fist*
Write about what you had for breakfast! That’ll get your pizza juices flowing.
Write about your experience with the meds.
Good idea, but it’s not even lack of stuff to write about. It’s that mindset you need to actually write stuff that I’m finding elusive. :S
It’s seems counter-intuitive but I find that when I’m not in the mood for creating, if I force myself to create something anyway,maybe not necessarily the thing I was supposed to be working on , then I end up finding the right frame of mind comes back to me.
Very true! I think I need to treat it almost like a job too. Do it even when I don’t feel like doing it.
Do you think writers just sit around and only write when they feel like it?
If you’re gonna write then write.
The man speaks truth.
To be honest, I’ve barely felt like writing at all for the last couple of years. Whenever I stop, I realise how much I need it, but I’ve never felt the urge to go and do writing. I just do it.
I read this in the voice of Mr. T
In that regards it was lacking in “jibber jabber,” “crazy fool” and “sucka.”
I forgot to get my lunch chicken out of the freezer this morning. So lunch is just beans and baby corn. Not the most satisfying of meals. 😛
Think I’ll make up for it tonight by having my current favourite easy dinner: http://www2.woolworthsonline.com.au/Shop/ProductDetails?Stockcode=760201&name=pandaroo-vietnamese-meal-kit-broken-rice-grilled-pork
I’m addicted to that right now. Gotta find me a good recipe, though so I can do it all myself without having to use a packaged kit.
Interesting… May have to try this…
It’s so good that I’m considering just giving the kids two-minute noodles for dinner tonight so I can eat a bigger portion. 😛
My lunch was steamed broccoli, with a smidge of sweet chilli sauce, plus a pickle/gherkin.
Gherkins are great. I should have had a gherkin with my lunch.
I have a big jar of Polish Ogorki in the fridge at work in case there’s ever a situation where Emergency Pickles are required.
Lately I’ve been feeling a need to bake some cookies. (Not a euphemism.)
I think cooking would be a cool skill to have and cooking tasty snacks all the more!
Remember how I was all “My New Years resolution is to cook one new thing every week”. That hasn’t happened for the last four weeks! \o/
I’ve never made cookies from scratch before… Hmmm…Actually, I just remembered that’s entirely untrue 😛In high school I did hospitality and made the best damn cheesecake I’ve ever had. One day I’ll attempt to recreate that magic.
You should come down while I’m on holidays and I’ll teach you the basics.
This is a Dark Souls 2 related trap. 😀
Cookies you make yourself are the best!
Cooking from a recipe is also good when I need a calm mind. If your mind’s full of ingredients and measurements there’s not the greatest deal of space left for stress.
Sometimes I think that living a simple life where you bake food could be a good one.
Maybe you could be an apprentice Baker while you’re working towards getting stuff done with your writing and whatnot.
Buy one of the Women’s Weekly cooking books. I have this one and every recipe is like triple checked so that idiots can do it. It’s a godsend on the rare occasions I can actually be bothered cooking. I was so impressed with myself when I managed to make a triple layer chocolate mousse based off one of their recipes. I can’t remember what I actually made for dinner, but that dessert was great.
Your chicken things were pretty amazing.
The only Women’s Weekly cook book you’ll ever need:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/THE-AUSTRALIAN-WOMENS-WEEKLY-CHILDRENS-BIRTHDAY-CAKE-BOOK-Original-/191094607511
I must’ve read that thing cover to freaking cover weekly when I was a (portly) kid.
OH SHIT. I did exactly the same thing (though at that age I was skinny).
MY CHILDHOOD
http://www.carnation.co.uk/Recipes/58/Raspberry-and-White-Chocolate-Chunk-Cookies try that, easy as anything and pretty damned nice
Love the music that’s featured in the Dreamfall Chapters trailers. So good.
Sent off a job application yesterday, got an email back within about an hour asking a few questions. I answer them and get a reply today saying “That clarifies most of the questions we are likely to get from our client.”
Ah recruiters, you’re going to make me wait a few weeks before hearing from you again, aren’t you?
You just helped fill out their stock ‘bullshit answers’ list they’ll use for every similar application, not just yours.
Hurray! I should charge a consulting fee.
I’ve been concentrating on taking care of my health issues now that I have time to look after myself and today I can see something that went missing at least a year ago due to water retention and other nasty things my body was doing to me: my waist. My waist is back, and my face is almost back, too. Been so weird looking in the mirror and seeing a complete stranger so it’ll be good to recognise myself again. 🙂
Oh man, so awesome! Way to go, Strange! Good to hear!
Thanks DC. 🙂
Now I just have to keep it up. Who knew dealing with your health issues after ignoring them for who knows how long would be so difficult? 😛
One day I look forward to seeing how my body reacts to real, healthy food after depriving it for so long. 😀
I predict muscles growing in seconds, like when Popeye eats spinach!
Edit: Serious answer though…your mind will react more than your body. You may feel more clear-headed and the like.
MAYBE I’LL GROW CHEST HAIR! D:
I predict he’ll get more fibre and his digestive system will be a few days of extreme discomfort, followed by craving battles from stomach bacteria not used to being so deprived of sugar. I think the ‘feeling good’ probably comes after an unpleasant detox period.
If you’re anything like me you’ll start getting way better sleep and just generally feel better about yourself. Give it a shot!
No one’s like you, Andy.
Shhh… shhh -strokes hair, whispers- Your my special boy… My special boy…
Will you read me a story Dan?
-starts quoting Bible scripture, pats axe with “Judgement” carved into handle-
Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
I imagine this is how I’ll feel when I get a haircut.
Ha. Like that’ll ever happen. 😛
I’m not sure I like your tone…
http://youtu.be/_PVjcIO4MT4
Congrats! Has Mr Strange noticed yet? If not, I wonder how long it’ll take? 😉
I just got a code for The Elder Scrolls: Online Beta, but I’m not gonna be able to use it. Who wants it?
Yeah, got an email that there’s another event on this weekend…but I have Titans to fall, so I’ll be busy.
I have… Darks to Soul?
Waiting for someone to say “I have Darks to Souls too”.
I have Souls too Dark.
Just like my ex-wife.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/webassets.ticketmob.com/LS/images/comedians/Rodney-Dangerfield.jpg
Well done, my pretties.
Perhaps you were waiting for Lightning to Return.
I just got a spare code for being an EB World member, so I imagine a lot of people will be getting one too.
If not and someone wants it, it’s up for grabs.
@popdart5 Thoughts?
Abelas
Male Elf Rogue 1
Chaotic Neutral
Representing Redartifice
Strength 15 (+2)Dexterity 18 (+4)
Constitution 9 (-1)
Intelligence 15 (+2)
Wisdom 13 (+1)
Charisma 14 (+2)
Size: Medium
Height: 5′ 6″
Weight: 135 lb
Eyes: Gray
Hair: Black Curly; Beardless
Skin: Tan
Total Hit Points: 8
Speed: 30 feet
Armor Class: 16 = 10 + 2 [leather] + 4 [dexterity]
Touch AC: 14
Flat-footed: 12
Initiative modifier: + 4 = + 4 [dexterity]
Fortitude save: -1 = 0 [base] -1 [constitution]
Reflex save: + 6 = 2 [base] + 4 [dexterity]
Will save: + 1 = 0 [base] + 1 [wisdom]
Attack (handheld): + 2 = 0 [base] + 2 [strength]
Attack (missile): + 4 = 0 [base] + 4 [dexterity]
Combat Maneuver Bonus: + 2 = 0 [base] + 2 [strength]
Combat Maneuver Defense: + 16 = 10 + 0 [base] + 2 [strength] + 4 [dexterity]
Light load:
Medium load:
Heavy load:
Lift over head:
Lift off ground:
Push or drag:
66 lb. or less
67-133 lb.
134-200 lb.
200 lb.
400 lb.
1000 lb.
Languages: Common Elven Gnome (? 1 more)
Dagger [1d4, crit 19-20/x2, range inc 10 ft., 1 lb., light, piercing]
Sap [1d6 nonlethal, crit x2., 2 lb., light, bludgeoning]
Short Sword [1d6, crit 19-20/x2, 1 lb, light, piercing]
Leather armor [light; + 2 AC; max dex + 6; check penalty 0 15 lb.]
Feats:
Catch Off Guard No penalties for improvised melee weapons
Skill Name
Key
Ability
Skill
Modifier
Ability
Modifier
Ranks
Misc.
Modifier
Acrobatics Dex* 8 =
+4
+ 1 + 3 [class skill]
Appraise Int 2 =
+2
Bluff Cha 6 =
+2
+ 1 + 3 [class skill]
Climb Str* 6 =
+2
+ 1 + 3 [class skill]
Craft_1 Int 2 =
+2
Craft_2 Int 2 =
+2
Craft_3 Int 2 =
+2
Diplomacy Cha 6 =
+2
+ 1 + 3 [class skill]
Disable Device Dex 8 =
+4
+ 1 + 3 [class skill]
Disguise Cha 2 =
+2
Escape Artist Dex* 8 =
+4
+ 1 + 3 [class skill]
Fly Dex* 4 =
+4
Heal Wis 1 =
+1
Intimidate Cha 6 =
+2
+ 1 + 3 [class skill]
Knowledge (local) Int 6 =
+2
+ 1 + 3 [class skill]
Perception Wis 3 =
+1
+ 2 [elf]
Perform_1 Cha 2 =
+2
Perform_2 Cha 2 =
+2
Perform_3 Cha 2 =
+2
Perform_4 Cha 2 =
+2
Perform_5 Cha 2 =
+2
Ride Dex* 4 =
+4
Sense Motive Wis 1 =
+1
Sleight of Hand Dex* 8 =
+4
+ 1 + 3 [class skill]
Stealth Dex* 8 =
+4
+ 1 + 3 [class skill]
Survival Wis 1 =
+1
Swim Str** 2 =
+2
* = check penalty for armor/shield
** = some groups double armor/shield penalties for swimmers
Favored class points: Hit points +1; Skill points +0
Adjust weapon attack rolls and armor penalties as required for masterwork / magic equipment.
Elf
+ 2 dexterity, +2 intelligence, -2 constitution (already included)
Immune to magical sleep
+ 2 racial bonus to saves vs. enchantments
Low-light vision — see twice as far as humans in dim light
Proficient with longswords, rapiers, longbows, composite longbows, & shortbow
+ 2 racial bonus on perception checks
+ 2 racial bonus to overcome spell restance
+ 2 racial bonus on spellcraft to identify properties of magic items
Rogue
Sneak Attack +1d6
Trapfinding — add half of rogue level to find traps, minimum +1
Evasion (level 2) — no damage on a successful reflex save
Rogue talents — gain one at every even-numbered level. At level 10 and above, advanced talents are available. Add by hand.
Trap sense (level 3) — armor class and reflex bonuses against traps
Uncanny Dodge (level 4) — cannot be caught flat-footed, keep dexterity bonus to AC if attacker is invisible
Improved Uncanny Dodge (level 8) — cannot be flanked
Master strike (level 20) — each sneak attack either kills, paralyzes, or puts into coma.
Class HP rolled
Level 1: Rogue 8
Abelas’s Equipment:
19 lb
7 lb
2 lb
5 lb
3 lb
2 lb
5 lb
3 lb
4 lb
2 lb
1 lb
2 lb
3 lb
20 lb
1 lb
1 lb
4 lb
8 lb
1 lb
_____
93 lb Weapons / Armor / Shield (from above)
Throwing daggers x7
Backpack
Bedroll
Blanket, winter x1
Caltrops
Chalk
Crowbar
Flasks x2
Grappling hook
Ink vial
Ink pen
Lantern (hooded)
Locks x1
Oil flasks x2
Paper sheets x2
Parchment sheets x3
Pitons x5
Rope (50′, hempen) x2
Sacks x1
Vial (for ink or potions) x1
Waterskins x1
Disguise kit
Magnifying glass
Thieves’ tools
Total
I don’t know too much about Pathfinder, but: any reason you’ve got a lot of stats at odd numbers (specifically Str, Con, and Wis)?
4d6 drop 1
Aaaah riiiiight. I got so used to *not* using that method (a lot of people I used to play with didn’t like it) that I’d forgotten about it :P.
Also, ugh at still ending up with a 9.
-2 con from being an elf, which is annoying.
I thought about rerolling, but the rest of the array was pretty good
Do you usually use point-buy? I prefer the basic dice method as it adds a little bit extra to a character (also I’m not a mean GM so I will allow rerolls if a character ends up much weaker than everyone else.
Red just happened to roll pretty darn well. Reminds me of the time when I was a level 1 human fighter with 20 base strength (that +5 bonus was pretty sweet).
Edit: Getting my character creation methods mixed up, herp derp.
I actually like the dice method way more than alternatives cause it makes your character feel a little more…unique? Real?
One thing I was going to ask about Pathfinder – is it basically D&D 3.5 rules?
It’s a refined version of 3.5, although I’m not familiar enough with either system to articulate the differences.
Yeah same. Your character has a glorious charisma but has no strength because you rolled him that way and I like that sort of thing.
Pathfinder is basically D&D 3.5 but with modifications to supposedly “balance” the system. One thing that Pathfinder does that I like is that you can take a basic class all the way to level 20 and never prestige class and still be an absolute badass, which was a little trickier in 3.5. A lot of the 3.5 rules and systems are interchangeable with Pathfinder or have a very, very similar equivalent rule. If you’re familiar with 3.5, Pathfinder is pretty much a slight variation on those rules.
Sweet, my first full-on D&D experiences were with 3.5 so I should be able to pick it up easily.
4d6 drop 1 gives a different distribution to 3d6.
Min is still 3 and Max is still 18, but where 3d6 is a nice even distribution where 10 and 11 are equally probable at around 13% chance, the highest-probability outcome for a 4d6 drop 1 roll is 13.
There’s an interesting write-up I found here:
http://catlikecoding.com/blog/post:4d6_drop_lowest
Effectively it gives a bonus to the mid-range rolls, where with 3d6 you’d have gotten around 10-11 with 4d6 drop 1 you should get 12-13 or more. 18 is still nearly the exact same probability because if you roll 3 6s then the value of the 4th die is irrelevant even if it’s a 6.
“It also shows us that the average roll is rougly 16, 14, 13, 12, 10, 9. This is pretty close to the D&D 3e elite array (15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8) and the slightly boosted D&D 4e standard array (16, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10).”
I like 4d6 drop 1 a lot personally.
I can only assume you signed up for online dating and this is your profile?
If I did i’d be putting all of my skills into Charm Person.
Ouch about the low Constitution but I suppose you’re an elf so it suits. 😛
Otherwise, yeah, it looks pretty good to me. I se that you are quite a chatty rogue which is slightly unusual but then I saw Catch Off Guard so you can stab someone with a fork if you need to. Also, I didn’t see any leftover gold in your equipment or did you manage to spend exactly as much as you got? If so, impressive.
Backstory-wise, go nuts honestly. Give Abelas a reason to become an adventurer and anything you want to add to your character is just gravy.
Abelas is a city elf, and he’s lived a pretty tough time in that city- one of the first things you notice is his ears, the right one of which looks ragged with a number of small chunks taken out (one of which looks like a bite mark) and the left has a series of tally brandings in the inside- he’s obviously been tortured at some point.
He’s charismatice but not super-talkative, preferring a le mot juste over running the mouth, but when he’s trying to convince someone or, more likely, con someone, he’s able to turn on the charm like a tap. His con man act goes hand in hand with his thievery skills- if he can’t talk you out of your gold, he’ll break in and get it later, though it’s often objet d’art he goes after over raw coin.
As an elf who’s lived his life in the world of men he’s had his share of discrimination, but a lot of that resentment comes from being lumped in with those flighty forest mystics that call themselves true elves. Abelas bears a specific hatred for the Seelie Court, the legendary elvish mystical court, as he feels they give elves a reputation as untrustworthy and unworldly, when all he wants is to be part of the wider world- and preferably fleece it blind.
The mystical forest elves and the Seelie court are now part of the world setting. Thanks Red. 😀
Also, I do have gold left, I did the 4d6 * 10 thing and got 150gp. I haven’t calculated how much I spent.
I might also switch him up to a longsword just to get a bit more oomph, but I’m not sure if I can sneak attack with it.
Technically there is no limitation on what you can sneak attack with but I will say that it can only be something that you personally can effectively wield. A longsword or even a two-handed weapon is fine but I will say it now (in memory of past players), you cannot sneak attack with any sort of ballista, catapult, or other siege weapon. That would be all sorts of ridiculous and game-breaking.
Edit: Based on what you bought, you should be right money-wise but you might have only about 10 or 20 gold left at the end of it. Thieves’ tools are rather expensive at 50 gp if I remember correctly.
Noone would EVER see my elf coming with a catapult.
Found I have a pdf of the pathfinder corebook sitting on a drive, so I’ll swot up a bit. We’re still a few weeks away from the game though
Yeah, plenty of time to get acquainted with the rules and see what’s what. If you have any other questions, shoot them through and I’ll do my best to answer them.
Apparently the collectors edition box for Titanfall measures in at a whooping 22″x20″x22″ I feel bad for anyone picking this up tomorrow with a small sedan :S
I really wanted to get one of the CE’s but just couldn’t justify the price. I really wanted the statue too…
Weren’t they like $300?
$250 US, unsure of how that translated into AUD. I mean, the statue is amazing, but that’s still a LOT of money for a game…especially considering I got the standard PC version for $50 😛
From reddit:
http://imgur.com/GGt6gu9
That’s literally bigger than a console box.
It’s nearly bigger than the freakin Guitar Hero and Rock Band sets with the drum kits!
HOLY TESTICLE TUESDAY!
Sucks to be a popular store and have to ship in 50 of those things.
You could make a pop-up store out of the boxes…
I would buy a box for my cat! *strokes patchy chin stubble*
man I should write when I’m angry. I’ve written about 3 pages worth of posts today but keep deleting them cause TAY deserves better.
go back 3 years and read my TAY posts, its basically FUCK EVERYTHING HULK RAGE FUUUUUCK
post whatever you want man
ha, that’s pretty much how they’ve been just rage fueled rants, I’ve just been having the worst luck the last couple weeks, ranging from flipping a car through to this morning’s example (pretty small thing but on top of all this other crap just eating away at me), so on my way to work today a black cat crossed my path and I thought “good thing I’m not supersticious” literally 5 seconds later a bird crapped on me. Thanks again world, here take my optimism card, i won’t be needing it.
When bad things happen to you it is easy to get bogged down on it and see it as bad stuff is happening to you. Realistically bad stuff happens all around us all day and we cant help it, what we can help is our reactions to those events. I am known to fly off the handle and some days when i dont think i can take any more stupid stuff, i just try and find any humor in it. Laughter makes everything better and remember nothing is ever really as bad as it seems.
HUGS
that’s why i said I”m handing in my optimism card, I’ve just been laughing it all off but now it’s gone too far
I thought black cats were bad luck and bird crap was good luck. That means your good luck experience cancelled out your bad luck experience and now you’re back to normal luck or something. So you really need a bird to crap on you again to make sure you have good luck. 😛
I’ve always thought that was the weirdest thing, how is getting pooped on good luck?
I always assumed that it was a sea voyage thing. Bird craps on you, then hey, you’re probably reasonably close to land.
A google search to verify my claim before I posted it and looked like a ninny tells me that it’s basically a part of karmic balance. It’s a sign from heaven that you get something crap *sniggers* now, and in return you’ll get something good later.
Getting poo’d on by a bird is good luck, though. Of all the surface area of the Earth that that stink could’ve landed on, it splattered all over you. It’s essentially the same as winning the lottery.
Interesting how rare bad things always seem to be more common than rare good things. I had 3 extra wisdom teeth and was told that was winning the lottery level rare, didn’t really help me any…
My friend was born with a tooth, he used to always present this factoid about himself when he met new people by adding “…just like Hitler”.
The Hulk has better grammar than you, though.
Man all these AMA’s are so good, you guys have so many good stories and are so eloquent and well written.
It’s good that people are popping up with good questions. I see the letters “AMA” and the only question I can think of is “does that acronym remind you of a yelling baby, or is that just me?” Which I already know the answer to.
it’s so hard not to ask everyone “On the Itchy & Scratchy CD-ROM, is there a way to get out of the dungeon without using the wizard key?”.
so far i’ve only done it once, which is a good effort for me.
what the hell are you talking about?
When I do an AMA (which I won’t) I am going to devise an incredibly elaborate response to this.
Do an AMA! Dooooo eeeeeeeeet!
My pry-tuatary gland has gone into overdrive with all these AMAs lately! 😀
MUST. ASK. QUESTIONS.
If you want me to do a real one, let me know. I posted in last weeks tay as a reply to someone else, and @transientmind was pretty much the only one who asked anything, so if people wanna know more, let me know!
Yeah, you also did it after everyone’s gone home and are playing video games. I was only reading cos of working late! 🙂
Can I do an AMA? WHAT WITH MY BORING LIFE AND ALL.
What’s it like to be so dull?
– What’s your favourite shade of grey!?
– Which is faster, a snail or a slug?!
– How long does it take for paint to dry!?
Tickets for Iced Earth on Friday purchased 😀 years and years of waiting to see them, missed opportunities, cancelled gigs and then waiting for them to come to Australia for years after waiting for them to come to the UK for years will soon be over. Soon to find out if I can afford VIP and join @strange & Mr Strange in meeting the band
Friday night’s gonna be awesome!
Will I finally get to meet you?!
Mr. Strange is VIP-ing by himself so I won’t see you there. If you yell out “Mr. Strange” he might answer, though. 😛
i shouted out “dad” and he didnt respond 🙁
hahaha I think that might be the case with us. I can only really afford VIP for one of us but the missus doesn’t want to hang around on her own.
And yes, I’ll meat a TAYbie for the first time and you can tell me dirty secrets about @dc XD
@dc doesn’t wash behind his ears.
I’m gonna have to give him a spitwash when I see him then
@strange is pretty scary! Good luck! 😀
Also it has been a while since a Brisbane TAYbie met a newbie while I wasn’t there. I met PopDart and Gutsoup and Transientmind, etc. It’ll be like old times!
then come along to the gig 😛 get some old fashioned heavy metal down ya throat
D: You and Strange will get along juuuuust fine.
I’ll put you on the ‘maybe attending’ list then 😛
what’s the best method of contact for you btw?
When I’m out it’s text messaging that’s the way to go, as I don’t have data on my phone. I can’t remember if you’re a Twitter person or not but I can DM you my phone number on there if you are.
I’m on Twitter. Dunno about actually using it. Looking at it the last time I apparently did anything was back in December. Anyways, https://twitter.com/SimonWitt7
Okay, I’m now following you. If you follow me back I can DM you my number.
Not so many years ago those sentences would have been even more nonsensical/creepy than they are now. 😛
Help, HEEEEELP, crazy people looking at my tweets.
My indecision about getting a VIP ticket or not has come to the point where th link to buy one is no longer available 🙁 an email has been shot off to Soundworks Touring as I need my Dark Genesis boxset signing even though Jon’s probably the only one still in he band from those recordings.
Also, lots of new stuff on recent setlists. They’re completely ignoring my favourite album 🙁 ho hum
@popdart5 @mythamphetamine @blaghman @novacascade @tigerion @mawt @tech_knight
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Raller Cay got away, but has his plan been foiled? Will the murder of Nerada Trome come back to bite the party?
tonight 7:30 SA time!
Also, Nova’s out. Also, @f4ction?
God dangit, I was offline most of yesterday and just checked my notifications now
I am the worst at this being in a group thing
No problem. New adventure thread next week!
Went on an expedition to the shops, hoping to find materials to use.
The party warehouse had a whole load of hats, but no samurai type helmets like I was hoping for. Then I went two aisles over and… holy crap. A whole shelf full of Darth Vader helmet piñatas. THE EXACT SHAPE I NEEDED! AND EVEN BIG ENOUGH TO FIT ON MY HEAD PROBABLY!
Except they were piñatas, so they looked like crap. Also, they were fifty bucks apiece. And didn’t even have any candy in them.
Otherwise it seems nearly impossible to find a fitted grey shirt. Hell it’s nearly impossible just to find anything in a Small, most things seem to stop at a medium but go all the way up to 6XL. And even when they are there, a Small is still too big. Couldn’t even see any alternatives in the women’s department either, seems like I might have to go the DIY route on nearly everything :/
See, your clothes buying is the opposite of mine. I go in store, and they’re like small – XL, go nuts. We also have 5XLs, but screw anyone stupid enough to be between those two sizes.
The solution is simple. GAIN ALL THE WEIGHT.
@batto I remember that! Vaguely. Sorta. I remember lining up behind I think a she-Link and a C. Viper, and possibly being complimented by a guy there. And then maybe somewhere out the front of it.
I have a couple of kinda cool shots that my friend ended up snapping of me while I was trying to drink my drink – being a smartarse and doing it through the mask of course 😛 Don’t seem to have put them up anywhere though, guess they’re still just on my phone.
Edit: reply fail
Maybe… guess we’ll find out when i meat some TAYbies this year 😀
Ugh. Skills I have discovered I need to learn: lock-picking.
Locked my keys inside the apartment this morning, called three different locksmiths, got voicemail for all three and nine hours later, not a single returned call from any of them. So much for 24/7 emergency service. Maybe they meant 24hrs to 7 days later. Couldn’t raise the building manager on the phone for over an hour, so walked around the corner to the foodworks, bought a pack of bobby pins, came back, tail-gated a tenant past the ‘secure’ door, then settled in to experiment.
No good. I’m crap at it. On reflection, I may not actually have a very simple lock, as the direction you have to turn the key alternates every time you unlock it, and I live in a pretty bad part of town (seriously – you can’t get home contents insurance, underwriters won’t take the risk), but all the same, I couldn’t ‘feel’ any of the pins at all. If I ever got kidnapped and was able to secure anything that could be fashioned into a lockpick, I’d still be screwed. 😛 No good. No good at all.
Door locks have the added difficulty of security pins. Too much pressure on the torsion wrench locks them into place and you have to start again.
Alternative skill: remembering to take your keys!
It’s never as easy as all those videos make it seem. For one a clear cylinder means a child could do it in a few minutes. Picking modern pin tumbler locks isn’t easy and takes years to master. I was considered pretty good at picking locks and some simple ones I’d even give up and just force and replace the lock.
Buy a pick gun. Way easier.
Less easy to explain to the cops why you’re carrying one without a license.
Also, never bother with the smaller locksmiths. They’re usually cowboys who barely know what they’re doing. Major ones up there like ESL, HA Reed and API are the way to go. You’re ringing an office with someone dedicated to taking in jobs.
@freezespreston could tell you a thing or two about picking locks from his
burglinglocksmithing days.But Freeze’s AMA was this morning. Too late! 😛
Wait, he did an AMA? I didn’t even see it, aw man 🙁
You okay, man? Not stranded I hope!
Yup. Finally got the building manager a few hours later when he opened up the office.
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/03/11/sega-dreamcast-shows-fighting-game-character/ this game just became a must-buy.
@shane @beavwa
End of speculation and uncertainty.
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/443659248958844928
I got my message too.
*cough cough* Maybe I’m getting sick and can’t go to work tomorrow…
I’ve taken 2 weeks leave starting now.
Was supposed to be 2 hours ago but of course the work just piled up with people begging me to do the work because they don’t like the other people’s work.
You could probably ask such folk if they mind actually putting that in writing or phone call for the record because you’ve been given a hard time about it, that the only people they ever hear from are the ones who complain.
Pretty bloody hard thing (for some of us) to do, though. 🙂 I’ve never been able to manage it.
(Did sit next to a guy who did, though. He’d solicit compliments even without the customer sounding pleased. Gotta be impressed by the determination, I guess.)
Oh hell yeah. Thanks, man! I was planning to head in there anyway, but it’s great to get confirmation! 😀
This Dark Souls II thing is turning into a nightmare. I’ve been so excited about being able to play first and I’ve been planning for weeks about going to pick it up in the morning and being able to play before having to pick up my son from school. I even saved enough money so I’d be able to eat breakfast while I was at the shopping centre. And I got through this week so far by imagining how awesome tomorrow was going to be.
But now I’ve discovered that Mr. Strange ordered it in his name, with his details and they want photo ID so only he can pick it up. 🙁
Photo ID? What? Where’s this at?
I’ve never had to have anything but the preorder docket thingo for a pickup, only time the photo ID’s ever had to come out is for trade-ins :/
Big W. It’s even worse because he only preordered from there because I asked him to pre-order from JB and he was annoyed with me at the time so he didn’t want to do anything I’d suggested. 😛
Damn, that really sucks. Time for a bit of sucking up methinks. Maybe if you’re really nice and make Mr. Strange breakfast and stuff he’ll pick it up for you on his way to work, or on his lunch break. Just make sure you’re there with him so you can run home with it.
Haha, nice idea! Shame he starts work at 7:30 and works too far away to dash home at lunch.
I’m thinking of calling Big W in the morning and asking if they’ll accept my photo ID and our marriage certificate or something. Maybe they’ll take pity on me.
I would’ve thought that having the same last name and same address on your ID would be enough.
Good luck, whatever you end up doing I hope it works.
I didn’t take his name when we married though. We have different surnames, which does makes things difficult sometimes.
Thanks for the luck though, I’ll need it! 😀
Rock up with your ID and a copy of your marriage certificate. If it’s good enough to get you a passport, it’s good enough to get you Dark Souls…
I’m pretty bad at this whole doing uni assignments thing.
Planned to start at 2pm
2pm –> I’m hungry, better get lunch!
2:45pm –> this episode of Vampire Diaries needs to get watched first.
3:30PM –> who starts at half past something, that’s a stupid idea!
4pm –> maybe starting at half past something isn’t the worst idea ever…
4:30pm –> f*** it, I’ll do it tomorrow.
Upvote for Vampire Diaries. 😀
It’s a really good show :3
Damon is so funny, in a cruel and heartless kinda way.
Due tomorrow, do tomorrow.
Profile page seems to be broken again.
Pretty badly too, since I’m getting it when I never did before.
I’ll alert the code monkey on Twitter. Can’t remember his KotAU handle.
Wait! I remember. It’s @benwhite
Yeah I saw that before, I forgot to ask who I needed to nudge about it
It’s been broken most of the day.
TPP beat the elite 4!
Lazorgator KO’s Lance’s last pokemon with just 6 hp left.
That was so great to watch.
Annnd they start a new game instead of continuing, ruining the hivemind’s dream of fighting Red and slaying Lord Helix.
Lol.
Why does marketing always seem to be run by total dickheads?
Updating my video card drivers and as usual they have an ad for the newest version of the GeForce card, the GTX750. To be clear, this nothing too special as far as GPUs go but it’s a substantial step up from the basic integrated intel graphics crap built into motherboards.
Why does it annoy me you ask? The tagline in the advert I’m seeing as the update is downloading is “DOMINATE THE GAME”.
No. No it won’t.
Looking at the specs it’ll run the game fairly well and be fairly cheap. Sell the fucking thing as the best balance of price to performance, push it as a powerhouse for the price, not just as a powerhouse. You’re allowed to market things as the best in its class, not necessarily as the bestest thing evaaaaaaaar you gaggle of disingenuous cocks.
Side question: What is the collective noun for a group of penises? I’m tempted to say a government but that’s too easy
That’s marketing in a nutshell though – it’s always BS hyperbole.
Sausagefest.
http://all-sorts.org/nouns/penises
A shaft? I can dig it.
Marketing Department? 😛
It’s the night of the Year 12 school ball, (Or maybe that’s tomorrow, I dunno) and I am at home, waiting for the Titanfall installation to finish. Most of the day at school was spent listening to other students drone on about their plans. I was also constantly badgered by Education Assistants asking why I wasn’t going. I suppose since the school want kids with mental conditions to ‘socialise,’ they see the school ball as the final step in ‘utilising social skills’ or whatever. Yet I stand by my decision.
I don’t know the people at the ball. I have been at this school since 2010, and since I never talk to anyone, I never got to know them. My whole class last year got quite offended when I admitted I didn’t know the names of anyone.
I know I won’t like it. Back in 2010, there was a school ‘night boat ride party thingamajigger.’ I was bored the entire time. It’s just a bunch of people dancing to music I don’t like, sipping over-priced Pepsi. At least I had someone to talk to. That won’t be happening at the ball.
The whole thing is absurdly overpriced, anyway. $100 entrance fee, and you have to rent a suit.
Anyway, I can’t revert my decision. Applications had to be handed in by 28/02.
I may regret my decision. I have accepted that. Maybe Jirachi will appear at the ball.
Maybe I will look back at that day and think “Well I sure fucked up there.”
I skipped my formal and have never once regretted it in the years since. Not at all.
But it’s a chance to dress up nice! (And smile super awkwardly)
Social stuff only means a damn if you’re surrounding by pals. I wasn’t. 😀
Nice clothes mean a damn all the time (says the guy who only wears crap clothes now because I’m too cheap to buy more nice stuff, and too fat to wear my nice stuff)!
Woah! You looked all smooth secret agent guy. Nice!
Also, is it just me or does it look like @powalen went to your formal?! That guy at the back who almost looks like he’s photobombing?
Stickly? Yeah, I can almost see what you mean. And we did have some photos taken where a friend and I went into secret agent positions, but I can’t find any copies.
I do not appreciate this offensive name calling.
I was much weedier-looking in high school 😛
Dude, you should wear a tux all the time.
That’s dapper incarnate right there.
I skipped my uni graduation too, fuck wearing a stupid dress and hat BECAUSE TRADITION MOTHERFUCKER AND YOU CAN’T HAVE YOUR DEGREE WITHOUT BOWING TO OUR ARBITRARY WHIM! DANCE PUPPETS, DANCE!
me too skipped the year 10 formal, year 12 formal, school camp and anything else I could worm my way out of, never regretted any of it, had a pretty small group of friends in school. I remember going to this guy @jimu ‘s house to play Diddy Kong Racing, pretty much how we became friends 😀
Nah, they are generally lame unless you are really into the school spirit or social scene.
Good choice imo.
Doesn’t sound like you’ll regret it. I went to one of my formals (Year 10 grad, I think) and then skipped the Year 12 formal. I would’ve been happier skipping both.
I went to my school’s formals and debutante but only had a good time because of all my friends there. But then I kinda just stopped having as much fun at social stuff, so I slowly became (more of) a hermit and chose to not do social things and just stay home and do the things that I wanted to do! (play games) 😀
On the flipside, you could’ve went and regretted your decision to go so at least now you’ll have Titanfall! And who needs school friends anyway, pffft! You’ve got us TAYbies!
Sounds like you made a wise decision.
My year 12 formal was so shit. The music was horrible, the food was cold, flavourless, tough and of minuscule portion and you couldn’t bring your girlfriend if she went to another school or was in another grade. Only thing I think I liked was having my picture taken with everyone and seeing my mates who I hadn’t seen for the majority of the HSC exams.
Only thing I wish I had done was arrived in a fancy car, like my dads mates ’55 Restored FJ Holden Ute. That thing was amazing. I wish he didn’t sell it.
My year 10 one wasn’t much better, just more drunk dip sticks.
I missed my year 10 formal and everyone talked it up so much I thought I’d really missed out, but then I went to my year 12 formal and it was shit, but everyone still talked it up, so I’m sure the year 10 one was shit too.
Maybe if I was cool or popular or had any chance of getting a girlfriend I would have liked it more. As it stands, our year 11 cruise was OK.
Yeah 11 cruise?! Fancy! We went to Canberra/Sydney in year 10, but I didn’t go cause I was new and didn’t really know any one in my year lol.
It was a 3-hour harbour cruise, it’s not like we went to the Carribbean or anything. 😛
Oh haha.. Fair enough then 😛
My year 12 formal was good. I never had a year 10 formal and I’ve always loved dresses but never had any real reason to wear one so I didn’t want to miss it. None of the real frilly proper formal dresses fitted me (I was a very late bloomer) but I managed to find an awesomely elegant black dress which I still have in my wardrobe.
It was a bit weird because I’d left school halfway through year 12 but went to the formal anyway with my ex-boyfriend who spent most of the night trying to pretend he wasn’t actually seeing another of our friends now. 😛
But the teachers were there and I had some great conversations and advice from them (as well as drinking my first ever beer with them), plus I got to stay at my best friend’s house afterwards which was awesome because she moved to Sydney for Uni soon after and I didn’t see much of her after that.
I ditched my year 12 ball to go to work instead. Apparently I had a couple of girls waiting for me to ask them to go with me, so they had to pick backup plans :3
I also ditched this week long year 12 “retreat”, where you spent the time “bonding” and “strengthening friendships” with everyone else in the year. I told them to shove it, and that I’d rather spend the week studying for exams than being stuck in a cabin with around 80+ people that I hated and had no intention of ever being friends with. Funny thing is, the only other guy I worked with at the time quit on the Monday, and my work knew I was home, so I spent the whole week working instead. I almost got expelled for that one, but I’m an amazing liar when I need to be 😉
I also ditched all but two sports carnivals, all but two swimming carnivals, every beach day, every house day, all but one school fare day, around five days for game releases (would catch the school bus in to town, then change my clothes and walk), and there was a running joke about if I’d be at school on Thursday, cause apparently I skipped a lot of Thursdays :3
It sounds like we would have hung out at school. Every chance to do a social bondy thing was a chance to bullshit my way out of it if I was in the mood to be creative or to flat out refuse if I was feeling more obstreperous. I was kind of like that with sport too, I actually asked to write lines when we had to do dancing as a “sport”.
That retreat thing sounds kind of creepy, no fucking way I’d have gone to that. It’s clearly just setting shit up for a madman with a hockey mask and a machete. Hmm on second thought, maybe I would have gone…
Honestly I’m glad I went to my Year 12 formal. It was different from those school dances and things, just an excuse to dress up and eat dinner with a group of friends.
Couldn’t getDidn’t take a date or anything 😛 It was fun.EDIT: One thing to note is that that night (with the exception of the graduation ceremony) was the last time I talked to half of my high school friends.
EDIT2:
Kinda embarrassing to admit, but the year 12 formal was the first time someone (who wasn’t my mother) had ever called me handsome 😛 I don’t know why I still remember that.Especially that bit where you got to photobomb Blaghs. 😛
Your mum and I have similar tastes.
Oh don’t you love the logic? “Hey you know that group of people you don’t get along with and who ostracise and judge you? How would you like to attend an event explicitly defined as a high pressure popularity contest where failure to be popular or better yet fuck someone will lead to further ostracism? It’ll be FUN!”
And people like that say WE’RE the ones with mental conditions…
Formals are awesome. I’ve been to about five or so, each time being asked to one by different girls at varying schools. I was a formal-aholic. It was great to socialise with strangers, experience different schooling traditions and simply dance like a fool. I couldn’t recommend it enough.
It is also really great looking back at the photos of the night, even today. I always paid for the professional photo package, for my mum mainly, but now I realise that they are entertaining for me just as much as they were for her. Those damn hairstyles I had cannot be undone!
Long story short, see if you can befriend a school girl to take you to hers, so you can say that you at least went once. But not in a creepy way, of course. Is that even possible? Befriend a schoolgirl uncreepily? Anyway. You know what I mean. Just enjoy your youth while you still have it.
Plus one to all the pro-dressing up posts and such 😛
I don’t know what I expected out of my formal, but it ended up being pretty great. Plenty of story to it I’m sure but I’m lazing out on typing it because of other distractions. Great time though, and the suit served me for years upon years afterwards, only just last year did it finally get replaced.
Mmm, nostalgia.
Missing those hours I needed at work this morning is kind of a mixed blessing. As much as excessive workload and inflexible deadlines can be a pain sometimes, there’s moments I actually kinda miss some of the crazy work hours I used to do. Like now, slipping back into some old routines.
Just got home from work with a dodgy $3 end-of-day-discounted hot-box meal: chicken teriyaki with rice so dried-out it’s crunchy. But I’m finally relaxing with impunity for a moment, watching some stupidly cheesy videos, reminiscing fondly of similar things (I watched that Gizmodo ‘strangers kiss’ video – you know there really is nothing like a ‘first kiss’, making yourself vulnerable for just a moment and seeing it rewarded. Just swimming in the heady rush of those initial days and weeks of falling for someone… it’s no wonder some serial-daters consider the dwindling of that rush to be the end of a relationship).
Not bothering with any other media/entertainment/self-indulgences – I’m just going to hit the sack again, and be up in four hours to work some more, fuelled by a truly excessive amount of ultra-cheap 7-11 iced coffee, in the gloriously quiet, solitary wee hours of the night, feeling productive and uninterrupted for the best hours of the day before retiring for another well-earned crash-nap for a couple hours (edit: Oops, don’t actually have time for the 4 I planned!). Then ‘regular’ work – the world everyone else knows – with the 7am bustle of those crazy commuters and their freshly-applied scents and make-up and wet hair, who only turn up to work that early so they can finish at 4 or 5 and, I don’t know… do things with family or something. Hah.
Purpose, challenge (and not enough time for the default state of idle thought) can have its perks, as well as the feeling of well-earned and virtuous exhaustion.
Take it easy, man! 🙂
Yeah, I’ve got ‘taking it easy’ penciled in for the weekend. 🙂
(Honestly, Friday night actually. I WAS going to work, but fuckit it’ll be hard enough not playing Dark Souls 2 tonight, let alone Friday night AS WELL.)
The thrill of the chase, my friend. It’s powerful stuff.
Looked into that Foxtel Presto thing. Huh. Looks decent enough. $20 a month while pricey isn’t outrageous.
This could wor….only 480p? Wat. That’s kind of ridiculous.
Meanwhile i’ll just keep sailing the seven seas with my crew and parrot on my shoulder.
I thought I heard the Old Man say “Leave her, Johnny, leave her.”…
It’s foxtel, what do you expect really, forward thinking sensible plans that form a cost effective basis for a consumer friendly new service?
Fair point, their customer service are also thick as 2 bricks.
They’re thieves anyway. Only ever had a negative experience with the pricks and i’ve never held an account with them!
Netflix. Do it.
@popdart5: Character stuff.
First off, stat rolls. Used rules as you outlined – 4d6, discard bottom. If > 1 die shows 1, set aside one and re-roll the other 1 dies until they all read > 1.Initial rolls:
3 4 6 5 15
4 4 1 2 10
6 3 6 1 15
6 1 1 2 9
5 5 6 4 16
4 3 5 6 15
(Yes, these were pretty good rolls). Re-rolled one of the 1s in the 6-1-1-2 set and got a 4, so stats are lowest-highest: 16, 15, 15, 15, 12, 10. Fairly well-rounded.
Assuming that it’s not off the table for some reason I’m looking at picking Kitsune as my race. Nothing particularly stands out that would make me think it’s OP for any reason. I’m looking at making a caster-type character so I can pick up the Tails racial feat (though IMO it kind of sucks you have to keep taking it to get some of the better abilities) to get extra tails. Racial bonuses are +2 to CHA and DEX and -2 to STR so not a brawny type, which is fine.
Where I was kind of stuck at this point is figuring out what sort of caster to pick up. The favoured classes for the Kitsune are the Rogue and Bard, Druid, Oracle and Sorcerer and none of them feel like an amazing fit. Kind of a shame they don’t have any more eastern-style magical classes. Since two other people have expressed interest in bard or rogue types I’m leaning away from that as an option.
Obviously the magic classes that rely on CHA are a better choice than those that rely on INT or WIS (side note: I wish the Pathfinder class descriptions mentioned what are considered the primary attributes the way D&D stuff does) so Wizard and Magus seem to be off the board anyway. If I’d managed to roll a 17 or 18 I’d consider just going for an INT build but with my stat rolls, I’d end up 16 INT and 17 CHA. Same applies to Druid since AFAIK WIS is their prime stat for casting.
Oracle seems to be a pretty interesting class, but you end up quite tightly locked into certain spell types and the bonuses don’t seem all that useful, plus you have to manage an annoying drawback like being blind or deaf or having rotting flesh or something.
Sorcerer seems to be an amazingly powerful option for an enchanter / controller type character. I know @tech_knight expressed interest in Sorcerer as well, but I’m assuming he’d be more the big explodey type (Techie, correct me if I’m wrong on this – I don’t want us to end up having identical seeming characters and I have other ideas that I can work with so let me know and I’ll happily switch)
Other option might be the Summoner which seems like a pretty powerful class with a lot of minions and that Eidolon, but it also seems like it could get OP and also will put an extra burden on you as the DM since it means lots of extra shit to track.
So where I ended up is starting as a Sorcerer, and maybe adding a few levels of Bard into the mix down the line to add extra buffing (and Magical Songs of Enchantment) in addition to a general enchantment focus.
STR: 10 (12) (+0)
DEX: 17 (15) (+3)
CON: 10 (+0)
INT: 15 (+3)
WIS: 15 (+3)
CHA: 18 (16) (+4)
Taking the Fey bloodline because of its +2 to DC for compulsion-type spells which stacks nicely with the racial +1 DC for enchantments and the Favored Class +1 to enchantment every 4 levels (which is eventually going to end up making for some extremely effective enchantments).
Class skills:
– Appraise
– Bluff
– Craft
– Fly
– Intimidate
– Knowledge (Arcana)
– Knowledge (Nature)
– Profession
– Spellcraft
– Use Magic Device
5 skill ranks to start with and max +1 for each, so thinking they should go to Bluff, Intimidate, Spellcraft, Use Magic Device, Knowledge (Arcana) and Knowledge (Nature). Also have a +2 racial bonus to Acrobatics.
Start with 4 level 0 and 2 level 1 spells, plus an extra level 1 spell from the CHA attribute bonus.
Spells:
Racial:
– Dancing Lights, 3/day
Level 0:
– Daze Enchantment, Compulsion so starts at 17 DC!)
– Open/Close
– Ghost Sound
– Flare
Level 1:
– Bungle (-20 to next d20 roll, 18 DC)
– Sleep (also 18 DC)
For starting feat (it’s 1 feat at level 1 and then another every 2 levels right? Linked doc doesn’t actually lay this out anywhere) I’d take the Kitsune racial feat ‘Realistic Likeness’ which lets me use the standard racial ability to precisely mimic the features of any individual I’ve encountered and get a +10 to disguise checks trying to impersonate them, because that’s going to be awesome.
Bloodline power for the Fey Sorcerer bloodline at level 1 is the ability to touch an enemy to make them start laughing uncontrollably for one turn, able to move and defend only for duration.
I don’t think there’s much else. If this all looks okay I’ll put it into a proper character sheet and make a bio and stuff and fill out the remainder of the other bits that need to be filled (HP, age, starting gold & equipment etc).
All looks good to me. Kitsune is fine as a race choice as there is sufficient room to move and I don’t have a problem with it (the main issue I have with the planar hybrids is the inherent damage resistance). Your base stats are good although a score of 15 is only a +2 to any related rolls. The bonus is increased on every even number above 10 (ie. 12(+1), 14(+2), 16(+3), etc).
If you want to be a Sorcerer, that is entirely fine however if you feel like being a Bard or a Summoner, that is totally fine too. I wouldn’t worry about overlapping with other people’s characters as there are so many different options and choices that everyone will evolve into their own play style.
Yeah, Sorcerer seems to have a nice amount of diversity and utility as long as you pick a role to specialize toward (where the Wizard is more of a generalist).
I thought that the +3 was wrong when I wrote it. Haven’t really calculated anything based off anything but the CHA (and +4 at 18 is correct).
Given the racial bonuses and the favoured class bonus it seems like Sorcerer for Kitsune is best as an enchanter type. Utility player that debuffs and controls and makes enemies easier for everyone else to bash, plus the Charisma focus and the racial bonuses toward disguise and everything plus that feat I mentioned (it’s effectively a better version of Polymorph in a lot of ways) I wanted make for a really nice character for dialogues against NPCs and stuff. Most of the cantrips I picked give me utility toward that sort of thing as well. And it’s nicely in theme with the race itself.
The only time I’d swap to something else is if you weren’t happy with the choices, or if @tech_knight was looking to play something really similar. Assuming Techie’s Sorcerer plans are more toward damage-dealing I think we’d be different enough not to matter that we’re same class.
I’d probably throw most of this away and go with a Ranger if I decided to change. We’ve got heaps of time yet so who knows? Might change my mind completely.
Yeah I’m going more damage dealing with some utility and Abyssal bloodlines so I’m part (Very small part) demon pretty much. I’m probably going to go down the Magus route (Which is like a magic swordsman), not sure yet but I’ll plan it out as I go
@popdart5 @mythamphetamine @mawt @blaghman @tigerion @novacascade @tech_knight
The Party cleared out the western fortress, but in a final act before going to ground Raller Cay put the city on a hunt for the party. Using the resources of Akebe, the party fled the city on an airship, plying the river route towards the city of Qi. What new adveture awaits? Will Phetys’ plan to hijack the airship send him plummeting towards the earth?
Will Blaghs get laid again?
Tune in next time (the 26th) for more TALES FROM THE NINTH WORLD
Thanks again for the game Red. I’m really enjoying it. 😀
Also, one thing I forgot to ask- are you interested at all in streaming our sessions? We could do it readily through Google +, dunno if there’s an audience but it might be fun to whack the sessions up on Youtube as an “Actual Play,” which is a bit of a subgenre.
Let’sPlay4Real.
I’ve no objections, should anyone be interested in watching them 😀
No objections here mate, an audience would be pretty rad
This just makes me want to cry Q_Q
Yeah, some of those tweets make me ashamed to be a Christian. I believe that science and religion can co-exist. I always enjoyed biology in high school, particularly finding out how all the different systems, such as nervous system, digestive system and circulation work. And the theory that we come from space dust doesn’t contradict the Bible because God says in Genesis 3:19 “For dust you are and to dust you will return”. My two cents anyway.
Completely expected given that it’s running on Fox though.
On the upside, for every idiot like that there’s hopefully another that is inspired to engage their brain and think about things.
EDIT: I should probably mention I grew up in the Christian tradition and I don’t think that they’re necessarily incompatible with Science, just that you need to be flexible and use your ability to think and reason properly. Stuff like Young Earth Creationism is clearly complete crap, for example. There’s a massive, overwhelming body of evidence in multiple unrelated fields that the earth is much, much older than 6000 years and to believe otherwise requires you to believe that everything was created such that it gives the impression of being much older, which in effect is saying that all of the universe – and thus its creator – is deliberately trying to mislead you, and I find that incredibly hard to believe.
I reckon religions of all stripes get away with far too much like that, their one and only source which is always claimed to be perfect makes claims that are indisputably incorrect. If you got a car and the brochure claimed it had a 1000 horsepower engine, air conditioning and power steering but when you got it, it turned out you needed to supply all 1000 horses yourself, roll down the windows and supply all the power with your arms, you’d very sensibly call bullshit rather than find excuses for it not being exactly like the brochure said. Why should religion get any better treatment just because it’s been telling people for millennia that it’s special?
I’m not too sure where you are coming from, but I’ll do my best to respond appropriately.
I’m fine with religions adapting to new information, similar to how Christianity has come to accept that creationism and science can go hand in hand. See, I’m Christian, and the idea that the universe was created via a “Big Bang” is a little absurd to me (same as the world being created in seven days). I’m not saying it’s not true, or that that has to mean that Christianity is correct, all it means is that the science behind the reasoning does not make sense to me personally, and that it seems a little hard to comprehend that the universe was made from literal nothingness. I mean, come on, I’m no scientist, and I’m not necessarily going to believe everything that is fed to me (from either side of the fence). Saying that, is it that hard to believe that there may have been some external force that contributed to this creation from nothingness? On the same hand, I do believe that the earth is millions, if not billions of years old, and that basically goes against creationism. That’s why I personally choose to believe in a sort of hybrid theory of the two. That’s also why I’m fine with adaption to new information. You do have to be flexible when new information is provided.
As for religions claiming to be perfect, I don’t exactly think that that is true. They all have their theories that they believe in, but I don’t think anyone is claiming that they are perfect. Buddhism for example teaches people to be respecting and accepting of other peoples religions. No religion that I know of condemns any other religion either. They all acknowledge each other, but they’re not concerned with other religions. Claiming perfection in an imperfect world is contradictory. That also has to do with faith though, which may be another issue.
On religion as a whole, I choose to believe in something because at the end of the day, what harm does it do? Without going all hard-core (read crazy) religious, religion generally tends to provide a deterrent from doing bad things, a reason to do good things, and a happy ending (in re-creation, heaven, yadda yadda). I don’t exactly want to believe that one day my candle will burn out and that that’s that, lights out for eternity. If you ask me, it doesn’t exactly do any harm believing in something. It’s far more depressing believing in nothing, but to each their own.
I think I read too far into this :\
TL;DR
I don’t see the point in believing in nothing, it’s depressing.
Taking the literature… well. Literally, is a recipe for disaster. Especially given the hypocrisy of what people willingly choose to ignore. Brief, obscure references to disapproval of homosexuality? GOD’S WORD IS LAW. On-going, in-depth condemnation of fornication, instructions for the taking of slaves, sanctioning rape? Well… times have changed. But not the gay stuff, that was LEGIT.
Taking it as unvarnished truth is idiocy. These were not magically materalized out of nothing and put in the hands of man, these were books written by men, and largely as an account of events they witnessed or recording tales handed down by tradition. Even if ANY of them claimed to be taking direct dictation from a higher power, what’re the odds of us even understanding it without having the pure arrogance and hubris to assume that we can relate to a creator being as intellectual equals? It’d be like dictating The Da Vinci Code to a 5yr old and expecting them to get it right.
But nope, gotta section off our societies based on how we interpret the letter of that text. It’s an excuse. And you would think that everyone knows that, but then you see those tweets and it’s… kind of heart-breaking how narrow a perspective people are willing to lock themselves into for the sake of preserving some prejudices and tribalism.
Sadder still how often it looks just like xbox vs playstation…
I have no problem at all with religions adapting to new information, to do otherwise is insane. The problem I have is that at the start they all (by all I really only mean the 3 abrahamics) claimed to be directly inspired by god and their texts to be prefect. Once anything within the old testament is invalidated by people actually learning how things really worked rather than guessing and pretending they actually know, the entire structure is invalidated and all the content must be viewed as suspect. They don’t get to adapt to information and still claim to have moral authority based on things in the same text as all the errors. Case in point many of them still use the bible as justification for persecution of homosexuality but would react in horror at suggestions they should kill their own children with rocks which is a command separated by only a few verses.
As for the deterrent from bad things & reason for good things, the best reason to do that is because you’re a good person and almost everyone is to some degree. Interestingly there’s been a study that implies that personal religious belief is used as an enabler of crime rather than a deterrent: http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2013/07/22/how-criminals-use-religion-to-excuse-their-acts-2/ Sadly its using far too small a cohort to be of significant value but it’s still interesting to see the way people twist things in their heads until the exact opposite of the written word is okay.
It’s on the Fox channel, which airs things like Fringe, and Family Guy and all sorts of not-right-wing things, not Fox News.
So is the user profile page broken again?
Is for me.
Well it was, when I checked my one and only notification a few minutes ago…
Man. Whoever linked that Shocker: Legit thing. @35 I think?
Just hit Chapter 15. Can’t stop. Damn you.
@dkzeitgeist, I believe.
OH RIGHT it was too!
Dan you. By which I mean him. Not you. Yes.
ENJOY IT SUCKAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I DID
@popdart5
Any info on the world? Or based in somewhere I can read about or are you making your own up? I’m not sure how this works. Just want to make sure a character bio actually makes sense.
Also is http://www.pathguy.com/PathfinderCore.htm allowed or are they considered cheating somehow?
That’s the generator Techie and I used
I’d probably recommend this one http://www.commonroomgames.com/PF_char_sheet-fillable_6_pgs.pdf as it is more closely aligned with the actual character sheet. You can use the other generator if you want but it doesn’t include any of the characters beyond the core rulebook so that’s a definite limitation.
I vote for Doug McCreedy!
The world is fairly fluid at this point. There are various areas that are pretty much copy-pastes from real world regions so it won’t be anything too outlandish. I’m going to say that probably my main inspiration for the world as been Discworld but as I worked with Red, the lore of the world can change to reflect what you guys put in your character bios.
So safe assumption that the default is Northlands are a frozen waste?
Yeah. A lot of tropes will be used but I’m going to try and play with them a little.
Ended up with this in the end. No idea if I’ve made some stupid rookie mistake that’s going to destroy me but eh. I’ll run with it.
Male Human Barbarian 1Chaotic Good
Representing Freeze
Strength 20 (+5)
Dexterity 9 (-1)
Constitution 17 (+3)
Intelligence 14 (+2)
Wisdom 6 (-2)
Charisma 11 (+0)
Size: Medium
Height: 6′ 8″
Weight: 280 lb
Eyes: Blue
Hair: White Straight; Thick Beard
Skin: Light
Total Hit Points: 19 [includes toughness]
Speed: 40 feet [barbarian]
Armor Class: 11 = 10 + 2 [leather] -1 [dexterity]
Touch AC: 9
Flat-footed: 11
Initiative modifier: -1 = -1 [dexterity]
Fortitude save: + 5 = 2 [base] + 3 [constitution]
Reflex save: -1 = 0 [base] -1 [dexterity]
Will save: -2 = 0 [base] -2 [wisdom]
Attack (handheld): + 6 = 1 [base] + 5 [strength]
Attack (missile): + 0 = 1 [base] -1 [dexterity]
Combat Maneuver Bonus: + 6 = 1 [base] + 5 [strength]
Combat Maneuver Defense: + 15 = 10 + 1 [base] + 5 [strength] -1 [dexterity]
Light load: 133 lb. or less
Medium load: 134-266 lb.
Heavy load: 267-400 lb.
Lift over head: 400 lb.
Lift off ground: 800 lb.
Push or drag: 2000 lb.
Languages: Common Draconic Giant
Gauntlet [1d3, crit x2, 1 lb, light, bludgeoning]
Greataxe [1d12, crit x3, 12 lb, two-handed, two-handed, slashing]
Leather armor [light; + 2 AC; max dex + 6; check penalty 0 15 lb.]
Feats:
Power Attack Take penalty on attack for larger bonus on damage
Toughness +3 hp + 1/level over 3
Acrobatics Dex* -1 = -1
Appraise Int 2 = +2
Bluff Cha 0 = +0
Climb Str* 9 = +5+ 1 + 3 [class skill]
Craft_1 Int 2 = +2
Craft_2 Int 2 = +2
Craft_3 Int 2 = +2
Diplomacy Cha 0 = +0
Disguise Cha 0 = +0
Escape Artist Dex* -1 = -1
Fly Dex* -1 = -1
Heal Wis -2 = -2
Intimidate Cha 4 = + 0 + 1 + 3 [class skill]
Knowledge (dungeoneering) Int 6 = + 2 + 1 + 3 [class skill]
Knowledge (geography) Int 6 = +2 + 1 + 3 [class skill]
Knowledge (local) Int 6 = +2 + 1 + 3 [class skill]
Knowledge (nature) Int 6 = +2 + 1 + 3 [class skill]
Perception Wis -2 = -2
Perform_1 Cha 0 = +0
Perform_2 Cha 0 = +0
Perform_3 Cha 0 = +0
Perform_4 Cha 0 = +0
Perform_5 Cha 0 = +0
Ride Dex* -1 = -1
Sense Motive Wis -2 = -2
Stealth Dex* -1 = -1
Survival Wis -2 = -2
Swim Str** 9 = +5 + 1 + 3 [class skill]
* = check penalty for armor/shield
** = some groups double armor/shield penalties for swimmers
Favored class points: Hit points +1; Skill points +0
Adjust weapon attack rolls and armor penalties as required for masterwork / magic equipment.
Human
This human chose +2 to strength (already included)
Extra feat at first level (already included)
Four extra skill points at first level (already included)
One extra skill point at each additional level (already included)
Barbarian
Fast Movement (+10 feet, already included)
Rage — 4 + con mod rounds per day. Two more rounds / day for each level above 1. +4 strength, +4 constitution, +2 on will saves, -2 on AC.
At each even-numbered level, barbabarians gain a new rage power
Uncanny Dodge (level 2) — cannot be caught flat-footed, keeps dexterity bonus to AC unless feinted or immobilized
Trap Sense (level 3) — bonuses on AC / reflex to avoid trap damage
Improved Uncanny Dodge (level 5) — cannot be flanked
Damage Reduction 1 from any natural or weapon attack (level 7)
Damage Reduction 2 from any natural or weapon attack (level 10)
Greater Rage (level 11) — +6 strength, +6 constitution, +3 will
Damage Reduction 3 from any natural or weapon attack (level 13)
Indominitable Will (level 14) — +4 on will, stacks with rage and all other plusses
Damage Reduction 4 from any natural or weapon attack (level 16)
Tireless Rage (level 17) — no longer fatigued after raging
Damage Reduction 5 from any natural or weapon attack (level 19)
Mighty Rage (level 20) — +8 strength, +8 constitution, +4 will
Class HP rolled
Level 1: Barbarian 12
Lundgredolph’s Equipment:
28 lb Weapons / Armor / Shield (from above)
Backpack
Bedroll
Blanket, winter x1
Chain (10 feet) x2
Chalk
Crowbar
Fishhook
Flint and steel
Mirror
Pitons x4
Rations (1 day) x5
Rope (50′, hempen) x3
Sewing needle
Sledge
Soap
Torches x2
Waterskins x2
Whetstone
Total 107 lb
More about Lundgredolph:
Lundgredolph was born in the frozen wastes of the North and raised in a clan of barbarians dedicated to the hunting and slaying of Frost Giants and White Dragons. While surprisingly intelligent,he has a quick temper and lacks tact which lead to an altercation with the clan leader and his ejection from the clan. As he was raised in battle and in the wilds, he had little skills to offer civilized society and so set out to find adventure with whoever will lead him to it.
Going to tag in @redartifice since he seems to know what he’s doing as well.
Looks good to my (admittedly less trained) eye, but you may want to pick better armor as you don’t get much of a dex bonus.
Also, Wis 6? OUCH
If I pick the heaviest armour I can (giving me 15) I lose 10 feet of speed. I don’t really know what that means.
And yeah. There were 2 great rolls and 2 awful ones. Wis seemed like a less needed one?
@freezespreston Basically you get a bonus from your dexterity applied to your AC, which is limited by your armour- so if you’re like me, and have high dex, you want to be able to apply a high modifier. As your dexterity is low, it’s less of an issue, so you can wear better armour without it constricting your Dex modifier to armour. Go too heavy and it will cut your speed, which means you will be constricted in how far you can move during combat turns which for a barb is bad, as you want to be charging all over the place.
Looks pretty good to me. I’d just like to get everyone who has used this generator (@tech_knight @redartifice) to just go over their characters and check things out. The generator doesn’t take into account any of the class archetypes if you are looking to use one of those and it doesn’t seem to take full account of your starting gold either (which is what you use to purchase your equipment). It also doesn’t allow you to select any feats from outside the core rulebook so have a look at the other books and see if something tickles your fancy.
Your backstory works well and I’ll incorporate a few elements of it into the world itself. Your statbase is a little bit lopsided but if you are happy to have a character with those characteristic scores, that’s fine by me. Your barbarian rage will partially counteract your low wisdom anyway for will saves so you should be alright.
I’m a believer in accepting what the die tell me. Those were the numbers that came up so those are the numbers I’ll use.
Since this is my first ever game of this of any sort I think I’ll keep it simple for now before I start messing with more advanced skills and whatnot.
I’m going to re-enter the figures in another generator when I get the chance to double check- I think I will switch my CON & WIS around just to get a little more HP
The equipment is probably my main concern with that generator as some classes start with smaller amounts of gold. Also the fact that you have to roll with the gold that you get influences your choices a little bit. I’m just remembering back to my starting characters and they didn’t have nearly as much gear as what you guys seem to be rocking. It might be poor memory but I’d just like you guys to roll your starting gold amount from here http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/equipment.html and see if you can all afford what you’ve put into the generator.
@popdart5 I’ll tally it up, but I started with 150 gp (rolled well, with real dice and everything!)
@redartifice Fair enough, it’s just a little concerning when you see characters carrying the equivalent of half your average shop in their backpack. I appreciate you double-checking for me though.
@popdart5 Found an app that builds a shopping list, reckon I’ve spent around 120 gp
Is there a chance of finding like a Magneto helmet to keep Professor X out of my head as it were? (That’s what will saves are for right? Mental effects?)
There are various magic items and things that you can get to increase your will save, including I believe a circlet of mental fortitude. Don’t worry, it’s a perfectly acceptable that the barbarian from the north is the first one to fall under the befuddlement of a witch’s spell. 😛
Titanfall installation is almost complete. I have accrued a lot of hype. I don’t know when it unlocks, so I can’t tell whether I will be able to play it tonight or not. I probably won’t play it right now, though. I think I want to get to bed early.
On the topic of Titanfall, we should party up in that. I know @rize was interested during the beta period. My Origin friends list is kind of meager. It has only two people on it. Do @jocon or @greenius have the game? You guys are on my friends list, so you must have expressed interest during the beta or something.
On the topic of Origin friends lists, I sent a request to @beavwa a month ago during the Titanfall beta and he still hasn’t canceled or accepted. Look, Beavwa, if you don’t want me on your friends list, just deny the request.
Let me know how the campaign is and how many people it needs for a team. I’m still vaguely interested but only if I can get a full team of people who won’t just do the titfall equivalent of clicking next through all the dialogue I’ve not heard before
Reviews say the campaign is complete garbage. I am not disappointed, since I expected the campaign to be a standard multiplayer game with a bit more exposition. However, since playing the campaign is required to unlock the other titan types, everyone will be playing it.
In answer to your second question, the game is 6 v 6.
I was under the impression that there was no campaign at all, it’s just an online shooter.
There’s a campaign mode which, like Phlanispo said, is probably just a few matches across an assortment of game modes with some exposition (the game is 100% multiplayer). Winning/losing has no effect on the outcome of the campaign, it’ll most likely just lay down some backstory for the conflict that’s going on.
You have to do the campaign to unlock the Stryder/Ogre chassis’, otherwise you only get the Atlas, so people will hit it and quit it to get back to their preferred game modes.
The campaign is identical in function to Brink.
For those that didn’t play Brink, the campaign is the usual game modes with intros and back story. We’re talking literally 60 seconds or less of information before a match, while the match is loading in, some dialogue while the match progresses and some pretty neat shots of the level. Seriously, there’s so little to complain about, I find it odd that people are…
Ahh yeah then that’s me out then, especially if @kermitron is correct in that winning and losing makes no difference, that makes it utterly meaningless.
I’d forgotten about Brink, I should have looked to that for comparison since the core game presentation seems so similar.
I haven’t used Origin since the hour I spent on the beta. I’ll accept it next time I log in. (Origin is not set to auto start on my PC since I don’t really have any games on it)
I have not picked it up.
If enough people round here are gonna play it regularly I might though.
I won’t be getting the game. Multiplayer only shooters aren’t my thing 🙂
Okay, I’m hyped too. Where’s the best place to pick up a digital copy at the cheapest?
@blaghman @rize @doc_what @alexpants @cakesmith
Chicken Katsu Curry done right.
That looks like someone made gravox & poured it on KFC.
Does that kind of curry even have a decent amount of flavour? It looks awfully pale
The katsu curry we had in Sydney tasted like the curry powder you get in that little yellow tin, that your mum (or my mum, and her mum at least) used to make “curry sausages” with.
It’s not bad, though certainly not what I had expected 😛
aaawwww man, maybe I should do curry sausages tonight
That might actually work
Keens curry, that watery yellow gravy that’s only hot for the kind of wimps who think pepper is quite spicy? Bah, that’s not proper curry, its only good curry if it makes your eyeballs sweat and when you’re on the toilet the next morning you’re swearing you’ll never eat curry again.
Japanese curry powder has a different blend of spices to Keen’s but you can get the taste pretty close if you do it right. Grated apple in there helps a lot.
Chapter 29.
Can’t stop.
(ok bedtime now)
NO!
Don’t stop, never give up,
Hold your head high and reach the top,
Let the world see what you have got,
Bring it all back to you.
It’s a brand new day over here in TAY, and-
….
he-hello?
is anybody here?
…..
it’s only 44 days till dark souls on PC 🙁
I am this *pulls up fingers with maybe half a millimetre between them* close to cracking in regards to Dark Souls 2. I know I should wait. I know I have a million and one other games, and more important things to work on.
But they don’t matter right now.
You know you want to. Your body is ready.
I WON’T EVEN BE ABLE TO PLAY ONLINE. THAT’S HALF THE GAME AND IT DOESN’T MATTER BECAUSE I KNOW I’M JUST GOING TO BUY IT!
Why won’t you be able to play online?
I don’t have Xbox Live Gold, and my 360 shares its ethernet cable with my computer, so it rarely gets connected anyway.
Ooh the console version, I thought you were talking about the PC. Reading failure…
Happy Dark Souls 2 day everyone!
Also I will end up with a shortcut code for weapons and such for it but that is not really my style.
If anyone wants it let me know.
Could be wrong, but I think just about everyone getting the game today will get the same codes… recommend you make the offer again in a couple of weeks!
I have a whole day of work in between me and my lovely Dark Souls 🙁
Geez, sucks to be you. I’m really surprised you didn’t take any time off for this. I’ve taken two weeks off, and I’m pretty sure @freezespreston has too. I’ll be picking mine up in about half an hour. Hopefully @strange is able to get her copy this morning too.
Yes! Although I have a meeting with my eldest’s school principal this morning and it’s her birthday today so I’m spending half the day assembling presents grandparents so thoughtfully purchased and dumped on me.
If I’m at home, I’m on family time and kid patrol in daylight hours. So it makes no difference whether I’m here or home: I’ll be playing Dark Souls II pretty much exclusively after hours.
I have a glimmer of hope due to my very temperamental printer actually deciding to work for me this morning, and printing off the email first try with no problems.
I figure I’ll just get them to call Mr. Strange if they have any doubts.
Praise the sun.
@dc and other Fringe-people
I watched the pilot last night.
It was all right. In terms of quality of writing/production, I’d give it a solid 7.5 out of 10 (it loses points for the JJ-trademarked lens-flare-ridden hallucinatory mindmeld scene, and Kirk Acevado’s terrible “We’re obsolete” speech at the end). It made me feel genuinely uneasy at times, which I suppose is probably a good thing, even though I didn’t really enjoy the anxiety.And in terms of achieving what it set out to do, it pretty much achieved it, I’d venture. Also, it was nice to recognise almost everyone in the show from somewhere else, but although they all did a good job, this episode was no one’s finest hour in terms of acting.
Alas, in terms of its appeal to me personally, it gets a 5. I found that I didn’t really care about anything that was happening. I think maybe in terms of my tastes, I’m pretty much committed to stories that put characters first, and a ham-fisted love-story B-plot with a dash of betrayal isn’t going to cut it there. 😛
Verdict: Glad I tried it, and probably will not continue, but that’s not the show’s fault.
Edit: Also, got a headache from it. I feel like I need to be wearing sunglasses whenever I watch a JJ creation.
The show tends to put world building above all else. That said, some episodes are very character focused.
Is suggest giving it a few more episodes. The first episode or two are not really indicative of the rest of the show.
That said I didn’t particularly care for it too much as the JJiness only intensifies and I don’t like his work all that much but you may like what the show becomes.
Try the next two episodes before giving up on it. For what it’s worth,it took me a while to even remember what you were talking about when you said
“a ham-fisted love-story B-plot with a dash of betrayal”We’ll see. I just discovered that series 5 of Outnumbered has been released, and that’s much more up my alley! 🙂
FRINGE!
It’s only my favourite show ever! Okay forget the lens flare – it dies down. How do you feel about the relationship/chemistry between Walter/Peter and Olivia/Peter. That’s pretty much the path the show takes course on, with some cool science-y stuff in between.
I didn’t especially like Peter or Walter, and I know nothing about Olivia, so cannot decide how to feel about her 😛
Might give it some more time to grow on me. Maybe I was being uncharitable. But I’m just getting this vibe that it’s not for me.
I lied about the lens flare, and Walter ends up being the best of the three – a really incredible actor, that John Noble. Yeah, in that case it might not be for you.
The Lens Flare, at least further in, comes to mean a very specific thing too (SPOILER)
The other universe!Walter Bishop is no joke one of my favourite TV characters ever.
I agree. He simply is a powerhouse.
My wife recently marathonned this. I didn’t get into it at first but I did find myself getting hooked towards the end. I might actually pay attention when she does a second viewing. It seems to do some pretty interesting stuff with the storytelling, alternative universes, etc. but at the same time it also seems to get lost inside itself at times. Since I wasn’t following it very closely it’s hard for me to be more descriptive than that.
Well, I didn’t get to finish South Park: TSoT last night, I got stuck on
The Giant Nazi Baby, it didn’t seem to matter what attack I used, it seemed like every time I finished my round of turns the stupid thing would be back at full health again, and I couldn’t use a summon because it was a boss fight, so I gave up.There’s a reason why I don’t like turn based RPG’s, and that’s because I suck at them.
Oh well, looks like it’s gonna go unfinished for quite some time.
In regards to the baby
There’s a second target of the umbilical cord, only takes a few hits. Take that out and it can’t heal anymore.There’s only two or three hours left after that.
Cheers, but it’s gonna have to wait now, maybe after dying a few hundred times in DSII I might want a break.
I am being very productive this morning. I imagine I’ll be have an afternoon nap, probably for the whole afternoon =P
It wasn’t even 9am when you posted this! A ‘very productive’ pre-9am morning is kind of an alien concept to me
Grizzly story from this morning’s The Age :
so…. a body is found in two parts, on different levels of a building & it’s not suspicious?
bloody hell, I’d hate to find out what Vic Police consider a ‘suspicious death.’
…I’ve stayed in that hotel. D:
They’re one of our clients.
Of course it’s not suspicious, it’s obviously a freak chainsaw accident.
Magic trick gone wrong?
The lesson here is learn to juggle with the chainsaws OFF first.
Interesting.
Her legs obviously ran off on her, and tried to steal a car. Not suspicious at all.
What the… how is that not suspicious? Even if a person didn’t do it, it’s still pretty fucking alarming. What the hell would normally be in a car park that could do that, between floors? I mean, I’ve seen that a vehicle can do that, but in those instances someone else was driving it. In which case, that would be pretty bloody suspicious.
It could be that after looking at the scene they were easily able to work out what happened
It isn’t suspicious because they know with fair certainty what happened
Looks like the Darks Souls II servers are down already. Went to launch the game and got a message saying “The DARK SOULS II service is not available. Please try again later”.
Have to play in offline mode for a while I guess. At least I won’t have to worry about getting invaded I s’pose.
Hmmm, that’s not ideal.
On the contrary, I’m pretty certain an offline playthrough the first time IS ideal! 🙂
No troll messages, no invasions, forced to learn boss fights solo… All benefits in my book.
Full experience or go home. I played the other games offline due to my crappy or non-existent console internet. I finally have a Gold account and a fast internet connection, I want to
join that blue covenant and constantly be summoned to defend fellow players from invasions. That sounds awesome! (My experiences at PvP at higher levels in DeS and DaS1 have been depressing, so I’d rather get in on the ground floor this time)You on 360? Xbox live was having some troubles yesterday, they might not be entirely fixed
Yeah, I’m on 360, signed in in the morning, and didn’t have an issue all day though.
The server side might be having some issues though. It’ll be fixed soon enough if not already though
So in a completely unintended coincidence, the world that I have created for the Pathfinder game (which is based on something that I roughly sketched out a number of years ago) has a very specific name for part of the northern, frozen region of the world where @freezespreston’s character hales from. When I first came up with the world, many years ago, I named this region the Cold Coast.
Not going to say it’s fated but dayum, that is almost too perfect.
Well, the guy’s named Freeze.
Does anyone else take issue with the descriptor “Double choc chip” with regards to food like muffins that contain chocolate flavour and chocolate chips?
The term “double choc chip” makes it sound like they have twice as many choc chips as the other type, when really it’s the chocolate that’s been doubled, not the chips.
In essence, they’ve converted the “choc chip” adjective/noun phrase into a nonsensical adjective/noun/noun.
Yes, this annoys me to no end. Especially since I don’t like choc chip with chocolate. Would rather double the choc chips
But if they kept increasing the ratio of choc chips to muffin, at what point does it stop being a muffin?
My issue isn’t with the ratio of chips to muffin (though I would very happily eat a 90/10 chip/muffin); it’s with the ongoing destruction and perversion of the English language!
Pfft, muffins. They’re just bland-ass cautionary tales of the dangers of crossing a cupcake with a scone. Stay true to the purity of the cupcake and its sweetness.
I think it was Jim Gaffigan who once said that a muffin is just a bald cupcake
I tend to find muffins to have a far higher hit ratio in terms of being good.
Far too often a cupcake is just a bland, tasteless chunk of nothing with way too much icing piled on top of it. Sure, there’s probably enough icing there in proportion to the bland cake beneath, but it’s built so vertically that there’s no way you can distribute the two properly as you eat it, unless you got out a plate, knife and fork and started rearranging things so they’re spread more evenly/eatably.
That’s fair. A muffin is power rating, a cupcake is crit rating. When it crits, it hits much higher, but muffins are reliably low damage.
Haha, good summation. Was just thinking how awesome these red velvet cupcakes I once had were 😛
It should be called Choc Choc Chip. Or perhaps even chocolate muffin with chocolate chips
I’ve been organising email subscriber lists at work for a while. It’s amazing how many women fill out the ‘First Name’ field on the subscribe form as “Mrs -insert name here-“. So when it gets added to the system their name comes up as, for example, “Mrs Smith Smith”. Very… odd.
Whenever I book a flight online via wotif my boarding pass ends up having my entire name (four words) as one long word.
I can feel the staff judging me when they see it.
Played some Titanfall early this morning. Other than my ping going up by about 40ms from the beta (to just under 180) which was completed expect for the early life of the game, it was relatively painless for a launch day session.
The game is exactly what I was expecting (in as good way) and the campaign (which is a generic premise) is pretty great in its delivery. Only downside is that way more people seem to know how to use shield volley* properly…so I have to fight a lot harder in my titan 😛
*think tennis with bullets
I always wanted to try and get into a tennis match with the bullet shield grab thing, just to see how long it could last for. It was kind of fun in the Jedi Knight games to fire a rocket at an enemy force user, have him push it back and you return it in kind, just to see how long it’d last before someone screwed it up
So this Dark Souls game isnt bad huh? You guys heard of it? Look, I feel like there’s things not being shared with me here. I was tearing my hair out over this damn Taurus demon until I realised I didnt need to save my regain health drinks. Anyone feel like letting me in on basic shit like that that I’m most likely missing?
That being said, feeling pretty proud. Once I realised the drink thing, rolled straight by him and got up to the guy making weapons. Got some headless dude wondering around shooting electricity nearby him. Ran past a wizard guy a little earlier in a church place shooting blue stuff at me from high up somewhere, but not before I stole some spirit thing from his church! Haha to him. After the roadblock that was Taurus-with-no-drink, I’m feeling pretty chuffed about my progress.
So er yeah, reckon I like this game, quite a bit. Only took me a few years of convincing! You win @strange & @freezespreston
If you’re like me, you should go back to the church with the shooty guy and climb up it from the inside. There’s a boss fight on the roof.
…I totally missed them when I went through there the first time, and they’re kinda important.
Ohhhh theres a way up! Cool cool, thanks mang
(I was taking potshots with an arrow. Success was…minimal) (Oh but I did get a cool sword from a dragons tail with said bow, with a little help from my friend google)
It’s funny now how you were asking on Twitter about saving Humanity but you really should have been asking about saving Estus. 😛
Before I realised that I was like, man, these guys werent kidding about the difficulty. I swear I did that section leading up to Taurus like, 40 times.
Most of us did that anyway. Without the excuse of not knowing the Estus flask was refilled at Bonfires.
Grinding is fun and gives stat points! I can sympathize on the Estus, though. When I was first finding my feet with the whole concept of the pros and cons of blocking/dodging, parrying, getting parried, hitting shields and how it leaves you open, circling around for backstabs, etc, etc, I would find myself using an estus after damn near every fight, and if I ever got to a point where I’d used them all up, I had to decide whether to press on, or turn around and head back to the bonfire to refill them – on the off-chance that I’d do worse next time and not be able to reach my blood-smear on the flasks I had.
The levelling up side would have been great… if I didnt keep losing the majority of souls behind the Taurus :/
I’m not much further than you.
I still think drinking an estus flask is my char chugging a gatorade.
It’s got what undead crave!
Gotta get those electrolytes! Without electrolytes, you … could … DIE!
It means I’ve occasionally narrated Dark Souls in my best dudebro voice.
Yo, brah, I’mma just chug this gatorade. Hollowbro, do you even lift?
If you kindle a fire (which can only be done while human and costs one humanity) you’ll gain 10 estus flasks when resting there instead of just five. That’s the only tip I’ve got.
I highly recommend you do this.
If you want to avoid spoilers but think you might’ve missed some basics about mechanics (like Estus, humanity, how covenants/online work), I totally recommend scrolling down the side-bar of one of the wikis and looking up their explanations of the real basics.
All the attributes are worth a quick read for sure (str, dex, vit, resistance – useless – etc, etc) so you’re making informed choices with your stat allocation.
But also worth a read on: Stability, poise, and equipment load. Important stats which are not well-explained in-game.
Even if you’re planning on rolling around like a madman in light armour, dodging instead of using a shield, it helps to know what the affect of poise/stability are on the foes you fight, so that you’re not slapping a sword against their shields and wondering why you’re recoiling in vulnerability, etc. Or, if you started as a knight wearing heavy armour, you might not get why anyone would ever even consider rolling when it leaves you so open – but that’s only because your dodge/roll ability is affected by what percentage of your max equipment load you’re using. Anything over 50% makes you very sluggish, and under 25% makes you incredibly agile.
OH.
Oh, and for the love of god, when you say you stole some ‘spirit thing’, if you’re talking about a ‘firekeeper soul’, HOLD ON TO THOSE and give them to the few bonfire keepers (the Firelink Shrine one is probably the only one you’ve seen – she’s actually kinda underneath the bonfire, you need to walk around a bit). Firekeeper Souls can either give you a handful of humanity (which is very expendable), or they can be used to reinforce your Estus flask so that each quaff does more healing. There’s a limited number of them in each playthrough, so don’t use them for humanity if you can avoid it.
Ooooo! Yeah, my next plan of action was getting the firekeeper soul thing back to mute lady, I did see her earlier. When I couldnt get past Taurus, I tried going down, past her. Errr… found a dead dragon on a cliff. It wasnt dead.
I laugh, because I too thought it was dead. I watched REALLY CAREFULLY to see if it was breathing or anything. No movement! But I still approached very cautiously in case it was playing fox. But when I was close enough to touch it and still nothing? I relaxed. So I very cavalierly walked around its claws to pick up the shinies next to it.
…Imagine my surprise.
I got to say, I feel a little sad that my only Dark Souls avoiding ally has defected.
:'(
😀
*waves* what about me……. wait that must mean we aren’t allies
*readies battlements*
edit: pretty sure jimu has never touched them either
You don’t turn up to meats! >:|
I’ve been to meats :'( . I only missed the last one cause of a house inspection, and… and… I’ll show myself out *cries*
If you started now we’d be like, progressing at the same point
Hahaha! The thought did cross my mind, but then I’d just be playing to be like my hero Sughly forgetting that I tried it before and hated it. 😀
Hate is such a strong word! A game cant possibly be so bad you hate it
I hate the childish reactions it brings out in me. I hate back tracking 100 times only to die after three seconds. I hate feeling that stressed over a form of entertainment that’s supposed to unbring the stress. 😀
See, I only recently started playing it, and I decided to not get stressed when I died- You know it’s part of the game.
I liken playing it to a wager- how far can you push your luck?
You sound more mentally well adjusted than me. 😛
@dc It’s very Zen- you have to let go of your fear of death.
Yeah. I get it. I gave up in frustration after a couple hours the first time, too. Movement was clunky and unresponsive (I was playing a knight), nothing was explained or made sense, everyone was gloating about how they loved how hard it was, which to me basically meant repeating the same no-win fights over and over and over again, only ever seeing a few metres progress, which was a painful prospect for an ENTIRE GAME, especially when the scant handful of souls I was getting meant I’d need to repeat the only sections I was becoming competent at like… a hundred times to get an utterly intangible upgrade.
(In this respect, Yahtzee’s review of it over on Zero Punctuation was pretty much spot on. Walking into a dark shed and getting blatted in the face with a rake.)
Which was – it turns out – pretty much entirely the wrong way to look at it.
Dying is pretty academic really. Because it doesn’t actually penalize you much. You won’t lose anything that you’ve locked in on your stats or equipment or goodies. Just the ‘souls’ that you’re temporarily holding on to. And even then, it doesn’t take them away, it still gives you the chance to pick them up! Which is a lot more fair than Sonic ever was.
(*weeps for lost rings*)
Don’t know if you remember, but I only even decided to try it again because of my resolution to harden myself up to face other areas of my life by getting used to not pussying out and taking easy mode everywhere I could. Actively seeking challenge for my own betterment. Imagine my surprise when an attitude change affected my results. 🙂
The game got so much better for me once I realised that the graveyard wasn’t the first place to go.
@redartifice: But the thing is I was getting better. The path to the Taurus Demon was insanely easy after my 50th attempt. I started to resent all the time wasting though. I was only good at this cause they made me do it over and over and over again and I was having fun less and less. I honestly feel like the game didn’t respect the players time at all. If I’m going to invest this much time in something to be good at it, it ain’t going to be a video game. It would be talking to women. Or writing. Or getting over social awkwardness. Not fighting some imaginary bad guy. D:
@dc but the same could be said for any game. I haven’t yet played Dark Souls for days, I have been playing it in 2-3 hour bursts.
I don’t begrudge you not liking it, as it’s pretty much the definition of a cult game- it has a specific appeal, and if that doesn’t push your buttons you shouldn’t try to force it.
FWIW, I stopped trying to play Guitar Hero on higher difficulties because I decided that the time investment wasn’t worth it.
@dc You might’ve mentioned it off-hand, but you should totally invest time in talking to women. (Or any stranger, really.) No agenda, no intention to even pick up or get a number, just toss out a random compliment to whoever’s serving you at the cinema or grocery store, or whatever – say their glasses look good on them or that’s a really great hair colour or something, whatever’s most striking about them. You’ll make their day and get used to being the first to break the ‘how are you / fine/ how are you / good, thanks / silence’ customer service routine. You can be happy to leave it at that, satisfied, or sometimes they’ll even try to strike up a conversation. But either way, breaking those social patterns for a bit of humanity is good. Can lift your mood, even.
#1 thing you should know – after the gargoyles find your way back to the asylum and get the rusted iron ring. otherwise you will be hating life later on.
Noted!
You should probably browse through the last 3-4 TAY’s, more concentrated dark souls tippage in there than I’ve seen anywhere else other than the DSwiki and the TAY version was a bit better organised
Thats a lot of TAY
That’s a lot of tips.
Just had to sit in on a meeting with a guy that said “You know” after every sentence but he slurred his words and it sounded like “Yo”, so the whole meeting was things like ” we need to sort out this account yo” he also resembled Rocky Balboa, so hard to keep a straight face.
YO ADRIAN! IT’S ME ROCKY! YO
😀
I was genuinely surprised he didn’t say that or try and fight me 😛
That sounds like a terrible (ly funny!) meeting.
Mobile phone spill ahead.
I owned a(n) HTC One (M7) toward the end of last year and to be quite frank, it was simply one of the best phones I have ever had. My only beef I could muster, was that it had no expandable memory option – though with 32GB onboard it wasn’t such a big deal.
Fast forward to the leaks of its successor (I will refer to it as the M8 for less confusion between the two models) and this new One is looking to be quite the handset indeed. Couple that with the (very possible) addition of a MicroSD slot for expansion; and you can expect this to be a really fantastic mobile phone. I can’t wait to check it out.
Also, say what you want about a measly low 4 megapixels – the Ultrapixel camera on the M7 was incredible. Real world comparisons to my cousin’s Samsung Galaxy S4 showed that on paper certain specs don’t mean shit – he was always jealous of my photos.
Meanwhile the S4’s camera gets shat on by almost every other phones camera in it’s category.
Every review I’ve read on the S4 has stated the opposite – they all say it’s a great camera. It wasn’t until I saw it first hand that I discovered how mediocre it is in comparison. Low light photos are terrible.
That’s what I got from the Gizmodo comparison article they did when it was released, the Lumia 1020 ran rings around every phone the iPhone 5 was about par or a bit better and yeah, someone needs to tell Samsung that they need to couple a real sensor with their megapixels for it to be of anything owrth talking about.
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/17055_The_big_shootout_Nokia_808_vs_.php
HTC One almost gets beaten by a Nokia N95 😛
So I’ve been invited to one of my closest friend’s wedding in October.
that’s pretty rad.
It’s in Japan.
that is also pretty rad.
I asked my boss if I can take some time off for it & she’s ok with it, even though it’s in the middle of the school term, but because of the merger between my library & a campus up the road, when this all happens, i’ll probably be working for a different manager. & the time I’ve asked for off turns out to be the first week of this ‘new’ job.
so my boss, in principle, approves this leave, but wants to get the ok from my boss-to-be before actually signing off on it.
anyway… its been a week now & the upcoming boss hasn’t replied. don’t think she wants to allow it. this is frustrating.
trying to come up with some way of convincing this new boss to approve it. take it without pay? call in ‘sick’?
quit the whole fucking job all together? that last one is very tempting…
If you’re under the same admin system, book it now, and then say to new boss “this is when I’ve booked leave”
You can’t put your life on hold because your organisation is doing something.
that’s the thing though. if new boss doesn’t give the ok to current boss, it doesn’t get approved at all.
Edit: I’m not putting anything on hold. I’ve already submitted the leave request, now I’m just trying to work out a way to convince the approver(s) to approve it.
I’d go one way or the other. Just make sure you can support yourself for a while if worst case scenario happens.
It’s not like taking time off for a new video game being released or to go for a trip up the coast, it’s your best friend’s wedding in another country. That’s non-postponeable BIG DEAL territory. If they don’t approve it, I’d be taking it higher.
have a non violent protest is where Id take it, then leave anyway for the wedding
See, my thoughts are @35 should ask his current boss for an update, then after she’s done talking, ask, “Oh, on a related note, can I use you as a reference for job applications?”
Not terribly subtle, but also not blatant.
Its an honest question, in case everything goes belly up under new management
Yeah. It sounds like they get along, and it’s just as good in terms of validity as the old one, especially if you apply for other jobs while they are still your boss. It can speak pretty well of you if your boss is willing to put in a good word. (Maybe not so much if they’re happy you’re leaving, but at least it indicates there’s been communication – which is better than throwing up the red flag of, “Actually, I was planning on leaving these guys in the lurch.” “Shit, will you do that to us, too?”)
Since it’s Thursday, and it’s apparently the done thing now, and since I have nothing better to do while I install Dark Souls 2 to my 360’s HDD(in a turn of events surprising absolutely nobody, I caved):
Hi Everybody (Hi Doctor Nick), I’m Blaghman, AMA.
Are those muscles real? Can I touch them?
No. And Yes!
Folder or scruncher? Yeah I know, waaay more personal than your thoughts on raisin toast.
Dammit, I was hoping for Raisin toast since I absolutely love the stuff (I’ve been known to have 8 slices as my lunch).
I’m actually a dirty heathen, and I do a bit of both. It’s sort of a folded scrunch strategy.
What is your favourite kind of currency?
I keep asking celebrities on reddit/twitter and no one answers. Is it too personal?
I love Australian money. For the most part the notes are easy to tell apart. They’re colourful and bright. And they’re pretty dang hardy. Most of the other currencies I’ve experienced are dull and boring and hard to tell apart.
That said, it’s hard to look past a good barter system.
I think more countries should adopt polyurethane notes. I’m pretty sure the only reason the US doesn’t is because they can’t afford to license it from us. Once they annex us following WW3 in 2019 I figure it will be more widely adopted.
Nah, they won’t adopt it because ‘Murica.
Nothing like a far superior option that other people use for convincing Americans that continuing their way is PATRIOTISM. See Imperial system, dollar bills, healthcare.
where does your name blaghman come from?
Were you named after anyone? (your real life awesome name)
If you could sing a duet with anyone who would it be?
Blaghman was a character I first came up with when I was in about year 4. He was ruler of a group of people (The Blahs (himself being a Blagh who was adopted by a Blah family)), a superhero for inexplicable reasons, and had fought to unify the disparate people to fight off their enemy, Ronald McDonald. As to why the name is as such? I am really bad at names. So, after using a multitude of names online (including Fragman, which I mostly used to bait my relatives into reckless moves at LANs), I ended up just adopting this one.
Sort of. My Grandfather’s name is John, and in Irish John and Sean are essentially the same name, so in a sense my name relates to him. That said, my parents were going to call me Nicholas Sean (the only two boys names they could think of (As a note, my sister’s middle name is our Grandmother’s name, so there’s sort of a precedence there)), but the Doc who delivered me was like “oh, he’d be the fourth Nicholas I’d delivered today.” So they flipped them around, and I was Sean Nicholas Richardson.
That’s a tough one, probably going to have to give it to David Bowie, though it’s a very tight field.
nice, all great answers. The Sean/ John thing is funny I lived with a guy named John for a while and every time someone called either of our names from a distance we’d both react, they don’t seem that similar but audibly they very much are. David Bowie 😀 great choice.
What’s a song that resonates with you? No joke answers! (Okay, joke answers are acceptable as long as you answer properly too.)
What if he answers in the form of a song?
Hmmmm.
Hmmmmmmmmm.
As tempting as it is to answer in song form, I think that would be even more difficult than answering seriously. In typical Blaghs form, I’m going to say “For Good” from Wicked. I know the impact my friends have had on me over the years, and I appreciate everything they’ve done for me, and I hope that I have influenced them likewise, hopefully for the better.
Ah, nice song. If I remember correctly Kristen Chenoweth sang that at John Spencer’s (Leo from The West Wing’s) funeral.
Why won’t you respond to my Twitter DM’s? Do you hat me? *cries*
It’s because I don’t have an answer for you, because I’m a bit shit.
Are you really the head of Kwik-E-Mart?
Yes!
Really?
Yes.
You?
Yes. Thank You, come again.
Do you believe there is anything more glorious in this world than the sound of @rize’s laugh?
Actually, yes. A friend of mine from Primary School, and later again in College had a laugh that I feel surpasses Rize’s. A big call, I know. But his laughter was infectious and glorious. Hearing him laugh would make me laugh, but in a way that didn’t seem nearly as homosexual at the time.
D’:
Also, I didn’t know my laugh was still a thing…
It will always be a thing.
Anything?
You can ask me anything, though whether I respond in a serious manner is an entirely different question.
I think it was a play on words. Ask me: anything?
Haha oh Blaghs… still getting it on PC then?
YUP!
My pre-order’s paid off still, so I’ll just trade this in at EB or something relatively quickly, and then it’s not too bad a loss.
More people who I can ask questions to! It’s like Christmas came early for me :3
Okay, let’s get down to business >:)
– What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever done?
– Is your big toe your longest toe, or is your second toe in your longest toe?
– Where do you see yourself in ten years?
– What’s the song that you’re most ashamed of liking, or singer?
– What are the two words your best friend would use to describe you (bonus points for asking rather than guessing)?
Ooh, boy. That’s a tough one. I think I’ve repressed the greater majority of stuff, so I’ll tell the tale of the first party I went to after turning 18. I was pretty good at holding my alcohol at that point, or at least, better than most people my age. So I decided to go with a six pack of beer (dark, so they were 1.6 or 1.8 standard drinks a pop), and a bottle of vodka. Over my conscious part of the night I had five of those beers, at least one shot of vodka for every beer, plus some miscellaneous other stuff. So, overall I reckon I had about 14 – 16 standard drinks. Now that wouldn’t be so bad, I do that over the course of a night, and I’m fine. Unfortunately, I did it over the course of one and a half hours. After a big gap in memory, I can remember lying in a bed throwing up into a bucket, being looked after by a good friend of mine, and this lovely girl in my year, who was far out of my league, and that I had an enormous crush on.
What a way to make an impression.
Second toe! It’s a close race though, and you can only tell if you smush them right together.
I really don’t know. I haven’t got this “life plan” thing sorted yet. I’d love to be able to help make games, since so much of my time is spent engrossed in them. My biggest issue there is that I’m a jack of all trades, and there really isn’t much need for a crappy artist who can kind of program, isn’t bad at writing and has a few decent design ideas.
I’m not ashamed of any of my music taste. I used to mock people for what they liked, but shit, it’s a personal choice. So I listen to a wide variety of woeful pop music, metal, and more musicals than you could shake a poptart at.
For lack of a better friend, I call upon thee, @rocketman.
dude we are pretty much besties if we lived in the same place i would be at your hoUse every second day to watch disney and bitch about our “friends”
I would describe you as
Musical and awkward
I totally have a type for besties BTW
14 – 16 standard drinks in just under 2 hours? You need to come party with me sometime 😉 You sound fun to drink with!
Good answers all around though!
For the rest of that year I heard “Hey Sean, it’s 9 O’Clock, shouldn’t you be passed out by now?” many a time. :/
You NEED to come party with me sometime now!
So long as you’re a fun drunk, I don’t like people who get all moody drunk. They’re such buzz-kills 🙁
I dont really have a question, i mean i used to talk to you everyday for hours and we have shared more time together than pretty much anybody else in my life over the last 4 years. I just wanted to say that i consider you one of my best friends and im so glad for you being around just to shoot the shit when i had a hard day that i didnt think i could improve.
Also because i know you so well ill post this before you can
https://lunabrava.minus.com/lgtbOUpvN8xFL
love you buddy
GGGGAAAAA- AWW GODDAMMIT ROCKETMAN.
GOT MY DARK SOULS 2!!!
That’s a much bigger box than I anticipated.
The game case. It’s so shiny. So beautiful. I don’t want to put it in with the others.
Art book is way thicker than I expected. 60-70 pages at a rough estimate. Some gorgeous stuff in there. As well as a requisite Souls sexiness mixed with eldritch horror.
The statue is huge, solidly built out of quality material but let down by a pretty shoddy paint job. Looks good at a distance but close inspection makes for a bit of disappointment.
More disappointing is I have to wait for the father in law to arrive and help him put together a swing set and I have a HP Slate 21 to setup and get running.
*sigh* So close yet so far. On holidays and I’m still busy.
WHAT!?!
The cloth map is actually cloth? Get your shit together Namco. You’re supposed to say cloth map and supply a “textured paper” without any notice or excuses.
@freezespreston
think I can’t reply…..
yeah probably would have preferred a smaller, better quality statue but still good enough for a shelf
Okay, now I’m bitterly regretting trying to be sensible and not going for that edition.
I just got mine. Thank you so much, man. Appreciated more than you could know.
Since this is apparently still a thing and my boss is away today and I’m mostly kind of on top of my work, I’m also going to jump on the AMA bandwagon.
Is Kermitron a cyborg frog?
Yes. I tend to visualise Kermit with one side of his face smashed and a glowing red eye like the Terminator, but you can apply the cybernetics however you like. There’s no canon to adhere to or anything.
So not borg assimilated then? That’s the way I always imagined it
Really any way you choose to apply the frog/kermit part and cyborg him up is fine. Could be a tree frog with sub-dermal armor and a tube in his neck if you like.
Which of the 3 Generation 1 Pokemon starters do you pick and why is it Squirtle?
Charma…
No, you’ve got me. While Charmander is the go-to for experienced players because it’s a bitch to find decent fire pokemon in Gen 1 until you get to Cinnabar Island, I always did prefer Squirtle as a kid because having a good water pokemon pretty much made the game easy mode since most of the gyms have a weakness to water/ice. Having a decent Grass pokemon was also useful early but I didn’t like Bulbasaur’s evolutions and I disliked moves like Solarbeam that took a turn to charge BEFORE you could attack – plus grass pokemon seem to be exceptionally weak despite growing faster.
So I liked my Squirtle/Blastoise. I still have fond memories of first teaching it Surf and that completely destroying the fire gym on Cinnabar.
I feel like Charizard is the more powerful Pokemon, but I also feel like there’s also no real point to having a really powerful fire pokemon for like 90% of the game. I started a Fire Red playthrough during the peak of the Twitch Plays Pokemon hype and the only stuff I’m destroying with fire are rubbish random trainers with bugs and and grass pokemon who are only there for free exp anyway.
Another! Time to pry, again! :3
My question list is almost exhausted!
– What one thing would you change in your past if you could?
– What’s the most awkward position you’ve ever been in?
– What’s your hidden talent?
– What’s your go to alcoholic drink?
– What two words would your best friend use to describe you (bonus points for asking them rather than guessing)?
1) I wish I’d tried harder in high school, especially at Math. I did the bare minimum and considered that to be ok. It’s not like I had a huge social life, so I could have at least done my homework. Instead I did nothing because I was used to school being easy and never learned to apply myself when it got difficult. This set the tone for my entire academic career.
2) I can think of any awkward situations I have just found myself in, like where I couldn’t get out of it, so I’m going to tell the story of the single most cringeworthy moment from my past. When I was about 6 or 7 I was staying at my dad/stepmother’s place. I had just recently learned about sex as a general concept but did not fully grasp the mechanics or social signifigance. This particular weekend my father/stepmother were hosting a sort of cocktail party to celebrate the existence of the bar they’d installed the the rec room (which would be removed 6 months later when my stepmother fell pregnant with her own spawn). I was sent to bed early but the knowledge there was a party going on made it impossible to sleep.
So instead I snuck out into the party, then proceeded to skip around pantomining the collection of the guests genitals as if I were plucking them as if it were fruit on a tree, gathering them in an imaginary basket. With each mimed pluck, I would call out “penis” or “vagina” contingent on the gender apparent. Of course, I was promptly ushered back into my room and my father sat me down the next day to have a proper discussion about the birds and the bees and why my conduct was inappropriate. Having to have that discussion was way more awkward for me at the time, but as I’ve gotten older I appreciate the horror by father must have felt at my behaviour. I don’t care what my stepmother thought though. I didn’t like her. I think my father probably didn’t either.
3) I can tie a knot in a cherry stem with my tongue. Well, probably. I did it a few years back. My wife’s grandmother was thoroughly impressed and wouldn’t shut up about it. I don’t think she fully understood the connotations behind that particular talent, so what started as a tongue in cheek demonstration of the talent became a lengthy topic of discussion. Hmm. Maybe that was my most awkward moment.
4) These days, scotch. Just scotch, in a glass. I don’t really go for cocktails or sugar-loaded alcopops anymore and wine gives me a headache more often than not. I’m perfectly happy with a nice cold beer but if you hand me a menu at a nice restaurant, i’m going to ask for a double of lagavulin, neat. Especially if someone else is paying.
5) Once upon a time I might have said “funny” and “loud” but these days I’m a lot more reserved and I’ve probably always assumed I am a lot funnier than I actually am. I don’t see my friends as much as I used to, having them over maybe once every 4-6 weeks to hang out for a day and it seems like we have less and less in common every time I see them as our lives have gone in different directions. Whereas I am often busy with work, they haven’t been doing so well in the job market. So this question prompted me to think about how I see my two best friends, and the best answers I can come up with are “distant” and “troubled”. I imagine they probably think of me the same way, when they think of me.
Hahaha, that second one is awesome! The third one is pretty impressive also! Such an under appreciated talent ;P
@shane Wind Waker arrived in the mail today. It won’t get touched for a while though, being Dark Souls day and all.
Thanks again, it was mighty generous of you.
He’s a gent, that Shane.
Enjoy it, man (eventually)! 🙂
Same 🙁
trying to decide on class to go as, explorer has so many things but knight is much stronger.
also, I know what the lump gift does, if you or anybody is curious.
I’m playing as a knight (picked it purely because it had the highest HP) with the Life Ring as my gift.
I’m very curious about what the lump gift does, please enlighten me. Just put it in spoiler tags.
don’t think I can on this phone and can’t remember the manual way.
but it’s, ah, smooth and silky.
There’s a nest in the tutorial section, where you can drop off “smooth” and “Silky” items and trade them for other stuff. ala similar mechanics in Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls.Fuckkkk me, I think I’m done going out for a fair while. Went out for Uni night with a couple of friends last night, got 5 free samples of cider from some new cider lounge, one of the guys brought a hip flask full of whiskey with him, and steins were $8 at one place (that wouldn’t let me in so I jumped the fence :P) makes for a very drunk night. I threw up all over the floor in the toilet, poor Oliver wasn’t letting me be alone which was REALLY awkward now that I remember I was completely naked on the toilet, but mostly I’m really glad I have a friend that takes such good care of me when need be. Last thing I remember from last night was him putting me to bed. And now I’m waiting for him to get home so I can apologize 100 times…
Urgh. Apparently later on last night after I left one of my friends got bashed, so I’m thinking it may have been the better outcome regardless. I hope he’s okay :S
This is exactly why I don’t go out anymore, too many dickheads that want to start a fight.
What happened to your clothes? D:
I’m too scared to ask Oliver that question 😛
Upvote for drunken antics, not for the bashing bit :\
I don’t think either of us are going to be going out on the town for a fair while. Him getting bashed and what I put Oliver through kinda takes all the fun out of the idea :S
Yeah, the bashing bit is pretty shit. People like that are actually pathetic. Definitely make sure that the police know about that.
I wouldn’t worry too much about being naked and throwing up (hahaha, that sounds extra funny typing it!). Just be glad you have a friend who didn’t leave you to pass out in the toilet in a pool of your own throw up. He sounds like the good kind of friend that wouldn’t make a big deal out of it, so long as you’re all right.
Blergh. I’m so damn selfish. People like Dark Souls. People are excited about Dark Souls. Today is all about Dark Souls, with the second games release. I shouldn’t post my personal gripes and ruin everyone elses fun. Today’s not that day. I’m sorry folks. 🙂
What are you playing at the moment?
The Last of Us again! Woooo! I love it so damn much! Praise the fun! 😀
Man, what a great game.
that ending is one of my favourite endings ever, esp as I thought they’d kill Joel.This time I’m playing better too and getting past the frustrating stealth parts in no time.
Today is all about Titanfall.
seeing as Dark Souls isn’t on PC yet, it is indeed about titanfall for me, game is super fun.
So long as you post your thoughts in a constructive matter, where appropriate, what’s the problem?
I mean, sure, if every time it’s mentioned you go and post “Dark Souls is shit and you’re shit for liking it.” (though maybe with more spelling and grammar errors) we might have a problem, but discussing what your issues were is hardly the end of the world. You then need to keep in mind if they respond that that’s (like) their opinion (man), and while they may disagree with you, unless they phrase it directly, they’re not saying that you’re wrong, and that discussions help everyone to grow.
Or something.
That was mature and unlike you
weird man
Don’t forget that today is also Survivor day!
😛
Is that some sort of day dedicated to Joel and Ellie having cool survival instincts? AWESOME!
Well there’s a Joel involved 😛
Not a cool one though.
:'(
And having the eye of the tiger
Dude, don’t feel that way. If nothing else today isn’t all about dark souls 2 for everyone, we PC folk still have about 5 weeks to wait. Also I can handle talking about more than one thing per day, I doubt it’s my special superpower. If it is, its shit, I want to fly or something cool!
Post away mate.
I just started Call of Jaurez: Gunslinger
It’s pretty cool, feel nice and old westy. Mrs Tigs is out tonight so I’ll be on the 6 shooter wagon tonight. Still haven’t had a mission where I need to circle them but I think that will come.
Still a bit unsure if I prefer the changes made to the gunfights since bound by blood or whatever the previous western one was called.
So I’m half way through watching the first episode of Kill la Kill. This is totally not what I was expecting. It’s FLCL levels of crazy but without the amazingly well suited sound track.
OK, finished the first episide. So now it seems like an fan service anime done in the style of FLCL.
Not sure if I’m enjoying it or not. I’ll give it a couple of more episodes to impress me. Really it’s just making me want to watch FLCL again.
Yeah, I have some issues with it. Its main character is Blandymcblandbland. Despite looking great a lot of the time, a lot of its fights boil down to two frames of sword moving animation used repeatedly for three minutes while blobs move over the screen, or two frames of sword moving animation while they swing at one another, and so forth.
Oh, also it’s really uncomfortable to watch at times. In the first episode
the whole “clothes rape” thing that is played off as a joke was just… Yeah. No.Have you seen the last 5 or 6 episodes?
They have been fantastic, and have given Ryuko sooooo much more character.
No, I’m 6 or 7 episodes in, I think. I’ll probably watch it all, but it’ll take me a while.
Yeah, I think that blandymcblandbland is my problem with it so far. Finshed the second ep and I’m really not feeling anything for any of the characters.
and they do seem to like the pseudo-rape sceneswhile i was hooked on the first episode (The over the top style grabbed me immediately), i can see why some people probably wouldn’t like it.
and yeah the fan service is also over the top, but it’s kinda tongue in cheek (wait until you meet some male characters who get the same treatment).
but seriously try and stick with it, unless they completely butcher the ending, it’s probably standing by FLCL and Gurren Lagann as some of my most favourite animes ever.
The male characters who receive that same fan-service treatment later on are the very best thing in anime at the moment. (Won’t say much else – it’s deep spoiler territory.)
The shining highlights/lighting effects, the music, the completely transfixed stares of the side-characters, the posing… it’s wonderful.
Yeah, the first episode isn’t that great. Episode Three is ohmygodwhatisthiswargebleah fun.
http://www.tickld.com/x/20-jokes-that-only-intellectuals-will-understand
@redartifice @shane , you guys might dig some of these
Ooh, I liked that Oct 31 = Dec 25 one! Also “unionized”.
both of them are great.
also, the ’12 loaves of bread’ got me giggling, too.
Sooo good.
Has anyone else noticed that HDDs aren’t getting cheaper or larger any more?
12 months ago I bought a 4TB HDD for $175. Last week, the cheapest I could find one was $180.
Still nothing bigger than a 4TB HDD either.
Is there anything on the near horizon for bigger, cheaper drives?
(Other than the helium stuff).
Yeah, there was a big disaster at one of the major manufacturing plants in (Singapore?) a couple years back, affected supply in a big way. I guess they realised that they could gouge us a little more than they had been, and we’re still waiting for the market to recover.
From memory, there was the Thailand flooding back in 2011, which caused supply issues well into 2012, and since then there just hasn’t really been a change.
I’ve seen a 6TB HDD somewhere but I’m not sure where it was. Frankly unless you need to maximise storage and minimise space, you’re better off with multiple smaller drives anyway, less chance of a single catastrophic failure
Is it this? if so a grand is a little excessive even if it’s fancy and is fully enclosed and filled with helium for optimal operation lol.
Ahh yeah that was the one. Helium does help keep temperatures down and since they seem to be reaching a plateau with the amount of data they can pack onto a single platter, they need to add more platters which means more heat.
Personally I’d be happy with doubling the platters and the physical size of the drive, just make something that needs 2 slots in a drive cage, we’ve adapted nicely to needing 2 rear bracket slots for a video card after all.
That’d be a dick move for those who have cases which can’t accommodate drives like that though 😛
Well it’d clearly not be a product for everyone but then nor are desktop pattern drives for laptop owners. There’d certainly be a market for an external enclosure for them
Largest i’ve seen is 4tb, the 6tb by Hitachi is the only larger one one i’ve seen but that’s a helium job. So yeah.. I would assume 6TB regular mech HDD’s are on the near horizon. Well I hope so. Would love a single 6TB hdd in my PC & HTPC.
I remember when I bought my 1TB back in 2009/2010, it was like 140 bucks and the largest I could get at the time, now that same HDD is 70 bucks and a 3TB is 135 bucks :/
Strangest thing. I bought two games from videoezy.com.au last month when they were 15% off:
Pretty sweet deal already. A few days later, DIshhonored shipped and my card was billed for $69.02. Ruh roh, he says – are they going to overbill me when DK ships?
Nope. No more charges since that first one on 26/2. Seems that the final discount is about 26% then. Can’t see anything this corresponds to, all I can think is that they’ve accidentally charged me for the wrong order, but still sent me right thing? Whatever. Yay for savings!
Even stranger, the original price of DK was $51.95 back then, dropping to $44.16 with the 15% discount. They’re now running a 20% off sale for the month of March, but the POST discount price is $51.16. I think this sort of price-jacking followed by “discounts” might even be against Australian consumer law?
PS: Hi @strange! Sorta mentioned you several times there, rude not to actually do so properly 🙂
I’ve never had problems buying from VideoEzy and its sister sites but I use PayPal which takes the payment immediately after placing the order (so that may be why). All of them frequently have “sales” with the fine print of it being a % off the RRP. A few months ago I also bought some games from Blockbuster which were supposedly 15% off but now there’s a 20% off sale and all of them are more expensive :P.
Oh, I haven’t had any problems either. The games all shipped and arrived quite quickly considering the price, they were already the cheapest prices around AND they cost me less in the end!
Still damn weird though.
Oooh! I read it again and realised they charged you less :P. I thought they charged you that much JUST for Dishonored D:
I stumbled across VideoEzy a while ago and got some new releases (at the time) like AC3 and Far Cry 3 for about $25 each. I find they’re consistently the cheapest for UK imports but the only downside are the shipping times which a lot of people like to play up and make it sound a lot worse than it really is. The shipping time itself is pretty standard but they’re slow when shipping out new releases/pre-orders and may ship them a week after the release date. I somehow managed to get DK pretty quickly though :O
I’m pretty sure advertising an item for a “sale” price when it was never even available at the original price is deceptive marketing. I vaguely remember some investigation into it but I really don’t remember the details. It’s not something that people really worry about much because why do I care whether I could have bought it for $70 yesterday? It’s $50 today and that’s all that matters.
Oh god, I’m updating the shopping cart section of our software to have discounts off the order total rather than per product. Damn I hate GST
DARK SOULS II
I died.also, I thought that the amount of enemies in an area was supposed to go down the more times you rest at a bonfire. I’ve rested at this one like ten times, and there’s still the same exact amount of enemies as when I first entered the area. I’m not complaining though, it’s giving me a chance to farm souls early in the game. Not sure if it’s got anything to do with playing offline or not.
No, no, each enemy has a
kill counter. You kill them a dozen times, and they’ll stop respawning.So you can’t grind anymore?
There is apparently an item called a Bonfire Ascetic, which can causes enemies (And bosses) to respawn (at a much higher, harder level). Presumably, they can be grinded (ground), though I don’t know if they have a kill limit either.This terrifies me about the game personally.
Losing a patch of souls will now be a really big deal, because there’s effectively a maximum limit for the number you can obtain in a given area and losing bunches of them enough times could actually fuck you foreverDark Souls II get. Leave work in T-minus 90 minutes. Engaging hype levels…now.
Mrs Shane is home sick! \o/
So now I’m home
to play Dark Souls 2to look after herto play Dark Souls 2
As long as she’s not really sick and you cheer MRS SHANE DIED! before it really sinks in that she won’t respawn at the nearest bonfire…
The game is merciless no reason why you shouldn’t.
Pet peeves: people reporting on Science without understanding the terminology.
if a Computer Scientist says that a problem is ‘NP-Hard’ they don’t mean that it’s a difficult game , they mean it’s extremely complex to find the best solution.
Ooh mine is when people use scientific terms colloquially and ruin their actual meaning. Theory vs hypothesis, depression vs sad, OCD vs a bit of a neat freak etc
Mine is when people use the term “nanomachines” or “nanotech” without qualification.
Nanotech isn’t one kind of thing. It’s better understood as an approach to a problem.
my understanding of nanotechnology was that it is a branch of science.
& at a basic level could be described as engineering via chemical reactions.
or at a slightly less basic level, developing & using very specific chemical reactions to create molecules with certain useful structures / properties.
Edit: of course, I might be completely wrong. pretty much everything I know about nanotech comes from living with a guy doing a degree in it & occasionally chatting about it.
The best way to think about Nanotechnology is as a methodology to approach a problem outside of a single discipline- using chemical tools on physical problems, or using biological methods for a chemical result. At best, it’s the science of boundaries and surfaces, because at the nanometre level the divisions between traditional physics effects (quantum effects) chemical forces and biological mechanisms are inextricably intertwined.
To give an example, my thesis was “Atomic Force Microscopy nanoindentation of Human Bone”- using a physics/chemistry technique (Atomic Force Microscopy) to determine physical properties (nanoindentation) of a biological object (human bone). Science within any of those disciplines can tend to stay within them- a biologist does biology, a chemist does chemistry- but nanotechnology is about applying them across those three silos at a fundamental scale.
While we’re at it, Plastic is a property of a material, not a name of a material.
Mine is people who stubbornly insist that accuracy and precision are the same thing.
“How fast were you going, son?”
“About 100 to 115, officer?”
“While accurate, that’s not very precise.”
“Uhm… 109.5?”
“Well that’s precise, but not accurate. It was 114. Have a ticket.”
“Oh. …Thank you, I guess.”
My pet peeves : too many to count.
though the top 3 would probably be
Wilful ignorance
alarmism
lack of critical thinking
Oh gods yes on critical thinking. 90% of facebook posts can be debunked if you think about it for more than 15 seconds.
read one recently about ‘NESTLE HAVE PATENTED THE FENNEL FLOWER. OH GOD SIGN THIS PETITION.’
seriously… it took about 12 seconds of googling to find out that really wasn’t the case.
(for the record, they patented the use of an extract from fennel seeds as an additive in foods to lower the risk of allergies, which they are completely entitled to do)
You know what really irks me? When there’s someone I disagree with on something, and I listen 90% of their argument, and I think “I disagree, but I understand your points,” and then in the last 10% they just go batshit nuts off the rails.
For instance, I was reading this nutty creationist book that a friend of mine leant me back in year 12 (he’d been given it by his uncle, while his uncle knew that he wanted to become a marine biologist), and the author starts talking about how in some ways Science stuff does resemble religions. And superficially, sure, I can see his point. In most cases we’re just trusting the words of people who claim to know what they’re talking about, and who have talked it over with a bunch of people who have nodded and agreed, but for all your average Joe knows, they could have just said that people were made of Spaghetti, and who would really know.
And I’m like, yeah, okay. I actually understand this. While we’re ignoring the larger scheme of things, it’s not a totally unreasonable point to make. And then he’s like “whereas we know that the Bible is right because it’s the word of God.”
Goddammit guy. Fucking shit. You just ruined any point you could hope to make in one fucking sentence. Get the hell out of my house, book.
“And that my liege is how we know the earth to be banana-shaped”
The earth is shaped to fit perfectly in God’s hand.
Difference is, religion works towards a predetermined answer, whereas science works on reasoned dissent and values new and better answers for the way the world works.
Also science has evidence and a paper trail that can be used to recreate research in its entirety by anyone if they want to, we trust scientists because their conclusions result in functional results and frankly we’re too busy/lazy to independently verify that stuff like electricity is real before we use it.
Ideally.
Money usually gets involved and clouds everything a bit.
http://www.vooks.net/nintendo-australia-finally-join-social-media/
Welcome to the internet Nintendo lol
I’m going to hazard a guess that their initial flood of responses will be:
“Welcome! Why do you hate us and @#*% us on price?”
DARK SOULS 2
For my class, I chose
Deprived, because I want to get the full DS2 experience. I figured, with the pre-order bonus weapons, I could always fall back on them if I got frustrated.Hilariously, my stats are way too low to wield any of them. Even the shields. /o\Who needs weapons and shields when you have life affirming flesh!
I laughed.
I’ll be choosing based on the starter outfit. Clothes make the undead man (or woman, as I tend to play). I ended up maxing my Wanderer’s outfit to +10 (YEAH. TITANITE SLABS, SON), and it was very serviceable in almost any situation. Even PVP, surprisingly. Sadly, curse resistance was its massive weakness. Not a big problem when rolling with dozens of humanity, but I understand EVERYTHING will be sparse in DS2.
Ballsy. I think being deprived would just make a need to grind early on to get usable stats.
@shane
Hey, you know stuff.
In Das2 how does the encumbrance work exactly? From what I can tell you have fast roll up to 75% – is there any other penalties like stamina regeneration or anything?
No idea – I can’t equip anything!
Ohh… right.
Well now you know! 75% is the equipment threshold for fast/slow roll.
So much for resilience, I guess I’m not waiting for the PC version.
Enjoy Titanfall until April 25th instead! 😀
For all my talk, I totally hit a motivation wall with work. Tiredness is setting in much earlier than anticipated (though I refuse to accept the fact that I’m not 20 anymore). Might go for a walk to clear it.
Meantime, I have been taking cheap sugarfuel from 7-11. Mother! Yes, it normally tastes like ass. But I thought I’d try the new flavours I haven’t seen before.
Yesterday/last night/this morning/whatever was the ‘Revive’ flavour, and I’m not a fan. It tastes like what I imagine lemon dishwashing liquid tastes like, minus the burping out bubbles. (Seen it. Hilarious. …and alarming.)
Later this morning has been ‘Frosty Berry’. Happy to report that this one didn’t make me want to scrape my tongue against my teeth with the desperation of a cat trying to get rid of the taste of oral worming paste. It has a kind of budget fruity lollipop/candy taste.
I have a feeling Mother is hamstrung by the need to discover palatable flavours not already claimed (and patented?) by Coke, V, or Red Bull. But as a product of the Coca-Cola company, I won’t be playing any violins for them. Or anyone. I never learned how. Though it seems like a pretty cool instrument.
Yeah… I better take that walk.
Wait, so drinking dishwashing liquid lets you burp bubbles?
There was an old documentary that proved this.
Dumbo, I think it was called.
Purple Mother is pretty tasty.
Fair warning: some Mother cans are actually non-carbonated iced tea. Whether or not you like iced tea, it’s a pretty big surprise if you don’t read the can…
Just checked my stash and fortunately it’s all non-tea. Phew!
Mother is owned by Coke btw 😛
The berry mother reminds me of ribena lol.
They have some new flavour out now too, I wanna try that.
Yeah, that’s what I meant by, “As a product of the coca-cola company, I won’t be playing any violins for them.” Mother doesn’t have to be good, what with getting propped up by Coke – any money it loses is unlikely to be noticed. Coke’s doing pretty OK in Australia, alright.
Oh right, sorry my mistake, I misread it :S Yeah well Coke is Coke, the fact that they basically dominate the bottled drink market is kinda scary.
IT’S BECAUSE IT’S THE BEST, DAMMIT
PEPSI IS INFERIOR
This is very true. I much prefer coke over pepsi. But I am sure we can agree that Solo is superior to Lift 😛
Actually, on that one, it depends. Lift is better with vodka. But as far as raw lemon-drink goes, Solo is superior.
I’ve never tried it with Vodka honestly, so I can’t comment there. So I shall take your word for it!
Well, that was interesting. Dark Souls (the first one) story time:
I was running through Sen’s Fortress along one of those small walkways with the giant swinging axes. I’ve run this way a few times before and have never had a problem with the axes. This time however I try and beat an axe swing by rolling instead of just waiting an extra second for it to pass and it ends up knocking me off the edge. I end up falling a distance but somehow end up surviving, only now I’m being attacked by a stone monster. I dart into an archway, climb up a ladder, loot a soul from a body, find a secret entrance and climb up another ladder and then take down the giant who opened the gate in the first place. Now I’m on my way down again to fight that stone creature because it looks like that’s the only way out. I would have had no idea this section of the fortress existed if that damn axe hadn’t knocked me off.And I’m dead.
Or if you’d looked down and thought, “I wonder if I can drop-attack that for magnificent prizes…” (You may have been horrified and disappointed like I was. TAR! I CAN’T MOVE!)
You can actually get back to that very first walkway after you climb the ladder if you look to where that soul was that you picked up. You can drop off onto the area before the walkway. You can notice this thing earlier if you’re dicking around and use a bow to lure a snakeman into the axes and watch what he does. Revealing the illusory wall was pretty lucky though, I had to be told it was there.The area down the bottom has 3-4 Titanite Demons and they all drop Demon Titanite 100% of the time so if you’re able to beat them then it might be worth it since Demon Titanite is the upgrade material for a lot of the specially forged weaponsIf I could have any super power, I would choose the ability to manipulate chance. Super luck!
Win any competition you want…
Make sure all your trains are never delayed…
When a villain tries to kill you: Oops, they missed the shot! Oops, the gun jammed!
Free ice cream, somehow.
So many possibilities!
EDIT: My catch-phrase would be “What are the chances!” with a shrug and smirk to camera.
Like Scarlet Witch?
Maybe Domino too. I’m not sure.
Edit: Kind of
Precisely.
Also Shamrock: http://www.cracked.com/article_18502_the-5-most-unintentionally-offensive-comic-book-characters.html
My power would be to be naked.
Achievable and dramatic.
so you’re going for the ‘supervillain’ side of things then?
Precisely
Teleportation for me, works well for me, get to see my girlfriend whenever I want. When a villain would try to kill me, I’d be blink dodging and blink attacking, would certainly give me incentive to learn martial arts as well, I’d be OP 😛
I’m for the teleportation thing to. Gimme that shit now.
You know what else would be cool? That instant muscle memory ability that that girl from Heroes had. Just watch stuff on youtube all day and you’re set.
(Also used by the dramatically-underrated Taskmaster from the Deadpool series.)
‘Power-hunter’. The ability to track down and absorb/mimic the super-powers or abilities of others. (Preferably in a Peter Petrelli way rather than a Sylar way…)
I really wish Heroes didn’t go stupid after the first season.
I think I saw maybe two episodes of the 2nd season. I’m probably better off this way.
You hear they’re bringing it back?
Like Bishop from X-Men?
Man, I TOTALLY don’t remember. c.c
The ability to freeze time and everyone in it, Matrix-style.
That’s a dark, dark road that only leads to sexual deviancy.
As covered in http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com
“Nothing says sexual deviancy like Zeitgeist!” ™
The ability to locate anything I think of.
Seemingly mild a power, but has plenty of useful applications 😛
Finally.
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/443958037607239680
your kids have buggered off, so its your turn on the swings?
HELL YEAH.
Woah. The Cadillac of playsets.
I just love how your camera gives images that hipster look with the vignetting 😛
What’s the most relaxing, stress free, peaceful game you’ve ever played?
osmos
I played that game wrong. I couldn’t get past one of the stages. That game got me so frustrated as I kept trying to beat it
Attack of the Friday Monsters
Everyone needs to play it.
Definitely this one. I almost forgot about it.
No mention of Bo Bo Bo-Byuun?
Disappointed!
Doron-doron
ARISE!
I would say Night of the Rabbit. The music. The warm art direction. The good natured protagonist.
You can’t reply to yourself! I do that! 😀
Pipe down, you!
Mmkay.
Fez? It’s not really something you want in a video game, though. Or is it? All my games are fast, frenetic and stress inducing.
I dunno. I like the down time. Riding through the plains in Red Dead Redemption during a storm. Pelicans chasing your boat in Wind Waker as the music kicks in. Exploring at your own pace in Ico. Exploring post apocalyptic urban decay in The Last of Us. Exploring the fort in Uncharted. Some of my favourite chapters in Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls are the inconsequential ones. (Preparing for a date. Playing in the park, etc.)
Great examples, ones that I pondered as well, but all of those have action parts or moments of chaos. I guess that’s what a game requires? Without a challenging bit, or a boss fight, do we really want to play games that are essentially just walks in the park?
Yeah, highs only mean something if you experience the lows too.
Right, but the inverse is also kinda true. It’s why I couldn’t summon much enthusiasm for the trend of walking-simulators that’s flooded Steam – people who really just wanted to show off their 3D design and poetry without any actual ‘game’ to it. The novelty wore off for me while playing Dear Esther, and while I appreciate those moments, a whole game of it was a bit much for me, let alone a whole genre. The Stanley Parable gets props for being smart and funny at the same time, but way too much of what I’ve peeked at comes across as self-indulgent.
You like Gone Home? I found that the best of the walking simulators. (Though Dear Esthers environments were mind blowingly pretty.)
Ah, haven’t played that one yet. That one had a mystery to solve, right? I’ve been avoiding it due to being incredibly annoyed by things the creators have had to say about unrelated things.
@transientmind: Yeah, learn more about what’s going on by exploring more, etc. I loved it.
I may have to actually finish Attack of the Friday Monsters and get back to you on this topic. Whether or not I can enjoy a completely peaceful game, start to finish, or not.
Yeah, some games can be peaceful with that chaos element too. I remember the first time I played The Longest Journey, such a peaceful content experience there. Even when April was in danger, the world and writing just had this warmth to it.
After playing that game I damn near convinced my brother to join me in setting up a cafe/bar which I fully intended to pipe music in from the Fringe Cafe where April worked. That stuff by Tor Linlokken was awesome.
I would’ve gone there! Talked to Charlie! Avoid Zach! Say hi to Emma!
I loved the entire Newport/Stark section at the start. Going to the art school. Exploring the Border House. Taking in the sights and sounds.
On an unrelated note, arrrgh… can’t wait for Dreamfall Chapters.
I’m pretty reliably informed that a significant part of Portland, Oregon is basically just the Newport area. Including the alternative/artist community. The name is probably not a coincidence.
@transientmind: OOooooh! I just assumed it was future California. Newport/Venice/etc. The names seemed to make sense to me. 😀 All that rain in the sequel lends itself to the idea it’s Portland though.
OK. Let’s start that bar. We’ll need some capital, though. How’s your credit? Mine’s fucking horrible.
We could rob a bank?
Watch a ‘let’s play’ of Payday 2 and tell me if you’re still up for a bank job. 🙂
Downtimes to unexpectedly have your breath taken away by a stunning vista are some of the best moments in games. Seen it in the Halo games, or in RDR, and yeah, Heavy Rain, TLOU…
It’s one of the things I really love in Dark Souls (you’ll often see messages on the ground left by other players, and sometimes they’re just, “Amazing view.” Which reminds you to stop and look up, look around). It may have been projecting or a hyperactive imagination, but I actually really got a lot of that from much of Vampire: the Masquerade: Bloodlines. I really loved wandering around those streets.
Most MMOs have plenty of room for that, too.
I liked that Minecraft was able to do that for me. Back when I was playing I’d usually just end up going on map creation quests to chart all the area around our home base, and some of the sights that were generated were just amazing.
Nooooooo.
The more relaxing, charming, peaceful, the better!
Most of the reason why I’m so hesitant to play Dark Souls 😛Did you ever play Infinity Blade (1 or 2) on iOS?
Was that the on-rails sword game? Where you had to swipe to dodge/attack/etc? I played that briefly and didn’t really care for it 😛
That’s the one! I really dug the atmosphere in that, and the way the encounters were handled. VERY similar to Dark Souls – dripping with atmosphere and untold story amidst the crumbling, ancient ruins of a decayed civilization. Giant, grizzled enemies who amble ponderously into view and square off patiently, every movement handled with a weight to it. And sometimes I’d just pan the camera around to take in the beautiful vistas.
I think one of the most relaxing games for me was actually unmechanical
A nice puzzle platformer, just flying around and trying to get out.
Maybe puzzle bots as another contender
Animal Crossing.
You know, when you’re not stressed out by your house debt or the fact that you’re like 20000 bells away from getting that piece of furniture you really want so you have spend forever on the Island catching GODDAMNIT THAT SHARK COULDA NETTED ME SO MUCH CASH
Zen Bound.
Minecraft I always found largely peaceful.
The worlds of Rime and The Witness both look like they might be fun and peaceful to explore.
Stepping away from video games, I’ve always found a friendly game of Carcassonne very peaceful, it’s like a puzzle in some ways
hmm, does a level count? I loved the final level of “From Dust” completely blank map, all abilities unlocked, no time limit, it had an objective but after I beat it once I’d just spend hours at a time tinkering with my level, add a waterfall here, watch it push sand into the ocean there and form really beautiful sand banks and coves, something about slowly making my own little island and keeping its residents safe was almost therapeutic. I always thought it should have been a seperate “Free build” mode because being the last level not everyone would have played it and it is the best part of the whole game. I would really love a sequel but the creator has said he has no intention of making another. If you haven’t played it I’d recommend trying the demo. I think an amazing game would be some kind of “From Dust” “Tokyo Jungle” hybrid. (2 of my favorite indie games of last gen)
Ah, I loved From Dust but the AI could lead to moments of stress when the villagers decide the high ground path across a volcano isn’t as good as the one with incoming lava. 😀
very true, that’s why I said just the last level, the rest of them were stressful a lot, I sorta made my own game out of the last level, must have played it about 50 times for at least an hour at a time.
Hmmm, maybe I should try that. Still on my PS3. *strokes patchy chin stubble*
DARK SOULS.
No wait, it’s definitely not that… 😛
DARK SOULS TWO.
The trigger for this post was to find an anti-Dark Souls. 😛
This guy. Obviously loves stressing. 😛
Serious question: Does that game legitimately not stress you out? If so, you’re a way way better person than me.
No, it’s stressful. First playthrough anyway. At least until you get gear and levels to dominate an area… and then there’s ANOTHER area.
Zen of Sudoku. Varying difficulty levels, but I spent SO much time playing on a lower difficulty level than I usually prefer JUST because each level type has different ambient sound effects. The ‘intermediate’ level plays this really kickass gentle rain-and-thunder effect with some wooden wind-chimes in the background, and trickling water running off somewhere. Part of the reason my Steam list says I have hundreds of hours up on that game is because I would leave it on as I was going to sleep sometimes, just for the sound effects. Or would play it while chatting online to friends.
A close runner-up would be Flower on the PS3. If you haven’t played it, you really should. There’s a demo available – I bought it immediately after playing the demo.
If I really want to relax and not use my brain terribly much and not feel aggressive or frustrated or whatever, I’ll often play 4X games like Civilization, Galactic Civilizations 2, or Endless Space (and to a degree, sometimes Sins of a Solar Empire) on an easy difficulty. Or some plants vs zombies or some other tower defence.
I actually found Flower very, very stressful! D:
Sixaxis, imprecise controls, etc.
me too 😀 .
Wow! I found there was some trouble adjusting, but once I got it down I was even just lying back on the couch blissing out, even using the pad with one hand and a thumb held down on the X button when required, waving it around lazily as my lids drooped into sleep.
Certainly pretty and beautiful, though. If it wasn’t for the controls. *shakes fist*
I think i was in the “I don’t get it” demographic when I wasn’t fighting controls I was not enjoying myself, which is weird cause I usually like unusual games.
Any stressful game, but with god mode on. Preferably done after finishing said game (for me, at least).
Journey is a pretty awesome game.
Also Saints Row 3 is relaxing in a more rompy sort of way.
Also Also: Red Dead, anywhere there are no fucking jaguars.
walking through the desert at night, stalking deer, picking flowers, random encounters.
Gods, I love that game.
Treasure hunting was the best damn thing ever! Scanning the horizon for landmarks, going through canyons, scouting terrain. Still haven’t replayed that game since I got a HDTV! D:
Said this on twitter the other day, but if Rockstar announced a new Red Dead I’d buy a PS4 tomorrow.
weren’t they cougers in RDR. I think there was 1 jaguar in that one legendary hunt, it had a name *goolges* Khan, it was Khan the Jaguar. How I loved that game, I’m only one trophy of platinum on that, it’s the one for getting a full posse online, even online I’m pretty antisocial 😛
Still haven’t done the treasure hunting in Undead Nightmare. The random zombies wandering the plains put me off. 😀
yeah they were some aggressive zombies, I did like how the Undead Nightmare made me change the way I played,
Normal Red Dead: Usually approached things methodically, hide behind cover and systematically wipe out enemies, really took my time in most shoot outs and did everything calmly.
Undead Nightmare: Spent 90% of the time that I wasn’t hiding out of reach picking off zombies running backwards in a frenzied mess wildly shooting with terrible accuracy.
I actually found the contrast refreshing and had a blast with both
How big is a full posse? PS3?
it was 8 if i recall right, I used to play with 3 others regularly and really should have gotten randoms in just to get it done but never did.
We could do an RDR game night, a lot of people here still have it
:'( That was before I made the move to PS3. I’ve got 360 version, alas.
You can pick up base Red Dead for like $8 these days.
I’d buy it for you if you’d posse up with us. I’ve bought it for 3 people so far, I like spreading awesome games. Also are you a PS+ member, they gave t to us a while back
Oh, you don’t have to do that! 😀 Nah, never subscribed to PS+!
I’m so glad I haven’t needed to trade games this last gen, I only traded one game and I bought it again cause regret. Pretty much every generation before that though I have a pretty pathetic collection from being unemployed and having game lust. Except Gamecube for some reason I still have a massive cube collection. Oh and my mystery console that I always thought was a Turbo Graphics but turns out it’s some kinda weird chinese knock off thing
Journey.
I find Rocksmith rather peaceful cause I get to play music I like \o/
Ooooh, Beyond Good & Evil was crazy peaceful. (Except for that last boss fight.)
man, my jaw hit the floor in that whole last space battle, it was such a small part of the game and they did it so well,
there were so many ships flying around, an then you got support from your friends and it got even crazierSuch an amazing game! Loved the music too!
I still get those Hovercraft racing tracks in my head all the time. “you’re the winner…….YOU’RE THE WINNER!!!!!”
A flash game called winter bells. Worth a look to see a cute rabbit bounce higher and higher to a relaxing song.
Would be Flower if I was able to play it without the goddamn motion controls. But I don’t think I’ve ever found a game to be relaxing as such. Maybe parts of games, but not as a whole.
Minecraft. Digging a big hole.
until you bust into a chamber full of creepers or let loose a tidal wave of lava 😛
I actually can’t think of any. Soul Bubbles was a bit like that I guess, but only at the start where there weren’t as many threats to you.
I’ve heard good things about Endless Ocean though. Got both of them on my shelves, waiting to be played 😛
OH! OH OH OH! ENDLESS OCEAN!
Man, such a fantastic game. Very relaxing and open for exploration, @dc! I very much want a new one on the WiiU.
I don’t really know much about the game, but the whole looking-around-with-the-gamepad thing seems like it could fit with it pretty well.
Yup! There’s some zoom “scanning” you do to see small fish inside coral/on the seafloor, too. Perfect for the Gamepad.
Stun/Medi gun aiming would be good with the gamepad too. Especially for when you need to quickly stun a shark that’s coming for you.
Pls Nintendo pls.
The second one was pretty rad!
Hey @grandmasterb-funk since you missed my AMA, here’s the response I prepared for you.
The fact that you’re in the dungeon with the wizard key tells me that you missed the puzzle in the library where you swap the wizard key with the chocolate key, but that’s why we built a workaround in – our playtesters didn’t think to pull on the stuffed beaver’s tail TWICE before rotating it, so the secret passage didn’t open for them, can you believe it?
As you know, the wizard key breaks after you use it in the lock and since you can’t distract the sad physicist with the Newton’s Cradle you should have found in the library, he calls the guards. The only way out past the sad physicist is in the other direction along the corridor which is locked and your wizard key is now broken (the chocolate key of course does not break unless you feed it to your glow worm – DON’T, you need the glow worm hungry!)
Assuming you found the chewing gum under the lamp in the first screen you now have the opportunity to use the gum until it’s depleted by using it on yourself 15 times. You should now have a wad of aluminium foil (large). Start a fire in your cell using the glow worm jar and the magnifying glass. You HAVE to start the fire FIRST otherwise this won’t work.
Draw a duplicate of the key on the floor with the mustard you got from the mailbox then release the glow worm who will eat the mustard and the stone underneath leaving a perfect mould.
After eating all the stone the glow worm will burst, and you won’t be able to start the fire now if you didn’t do it first. Now with the fire spreading through your cell you’re kind of on a timer – don’t worry, it looks bad but you actually have like 7 minutes and this only takes 3 minutes, max.
So you put the foil in the now-empty jar, hold it over the fire to melt it down, then put the key in the mould and pour the molten aluminium over it to reinforce it. Pick up the reinforced key and use it to escape your cell and the dungeon. Now, you’ll still have the key when you return to the library after fighting Digruntled Goat and you’ll be able to find his secret diary with the co-ordinates to set the huge telescope.
If of course you found the library in the first place then you can use the chocolate key in the lock (like I said before it doesn’t break, but it will melt if you try to reinforce it), distract the physicist and instead of the cutscene with Disgruntled Goat where he kicks you through the skylight, you can go straight to the telescope and look for the obscene constellation before NASA censors it. Ooh-la-la!
What the hell are you talking about?
Brilliant, i love itI never knew you could rename the drives on your computer. Or at least I’ve forgotten.
Hard Drive (C:)
Hardest Drive (F:)
Hehehe.
Hard Drive: With a Vengeance
I give mine bland names like 1TB and 250GB1 and so forth. My computer names are no better with MBA128GB2010 and WIN7642600K.
My last three computers were Gesar, Semyon and Zavulon. Yay theme naming!
Hard Drive 2 – Drive Harder
At one point I each of my drives with random male names, but it got too weird.
“I’m running out of space on Steven, better clean him up and throw some stuff on Ralph”
I’ve been naming mine after Freespace ships, I’ve got Sathanas, Lucifer, Colossus & Aquitaine so far
I’ve had the Kawaii Princess Kenny song stuck in my head for the last hour. Curse me for rewatching that segment of the Black Friday story arc.
I’ve had the Jennifer Lopez – Taco Flavored kisses in my head since friday last week after playing the Stick of Truth., curse it and its catchy nature.
Well I had my first real panic attack due to the impending change to my life last night. So far everything has been good and just a case of getting ready for Tiglet and doing stuff I know needs to be done.
However last night we were talking about if we should get the cot I saw listed, 2nd hand and fairly cheap but being sold by somebody nearby so I can just go and grab it. But then Mrs Tigs says it doesn’t really matter because Tiglet will not be sleeping in it for the first couple of months anyway.
I thought that babies sleep in a cot from day one, maybe that is ok, maybe it isn’t. It dawned on me right then and there that I have no idea what I’m doing. I’ve looked after babies and lived with my brother when my niece was there as a baby. Even with that I realised that something as simple and essential as where baby sleeps is something I couldn’t be sure about.
Oh god, I’m as prepared as every first time father
Not at allSounds like the makings of an adventure, my friend! Every thing will be all good!
You’ve got all this time now to get your head around the idea too.
Oh man and I don’t even have a rubber chicken with a pully in it. Where can I get one of those?
Voodoo Shop on Melee Island!
It’s not like I enjoy hearing you’re panicked, but it is reassuring seeing someone else go through all this stuff too 😀
Yeah. I think there are a few people in the same boat so figured it wouldn’t hurt to share.
If nothing else it gets it off my chest and helps confirm that I’m not the only one going through these things.
Feel free to shoot me a message anytime if needed
So far my other half has been way ahead of me with planning so I’m doing fine 😛
I’ve had a number of conversations that go “Oh crap, we need to start thinking about buying [whatever]” and her answer is “Yep. Good thing I did that 4 weeks ago”.
You’ll be fine. Our little terror slept in his Valco Spark for the first six or so months. He preferred it over his Moses basket and by preferred I mean he didn’t keep us up all night.
That pram is actually quite good, it’s a flat bed for newborns that transforms into a chair-type for when the littlies are older. The only downside is it does not compact as well as the Steelcrafts which we were initially considering.
Moses basket, eh? Is that in case it gets too much and you feel the need to float them down a river?
Sad but true. KIDDING.
My in-laws decided that whatever pram we picked they’d buy, so I immediately picked one of the really nice Steelcraft ones as a joke, and they bought it for us.
I felt so guilty about it for like a good 20 minutes.
They are awesome prams – the one I wanted really. They collapse with like one hand, it’s incredible. Don’t feel bad, you saved yourself like A$500? 😀
If I remember correctly, it was on sale including a capsule for like $650…
And yeah, I swear the whole thing weighs like 2kgs.
Because it’s made of paper mache and balsa wood.
Why not this?? http://www.longboardstroller.com/
Fairly certain that’s the one we had. Can pop off the bassinet and attach the sitting part? We had a stand for the bassinet that came with it so just put that in the bedroom and took it everywhere with us.
We haven’t started with the pram shopping yet but I’m sure that will be fun. Thanks for the tips
No probs. Hit me up for more tips whenever. Or Freeze. Or Shane. Or Strange. Or pretty much half of TAY could all give you insightful pointers.
Baby sleeps wherever you make it sleep. 😛
Crawl space in the roof!
In the basement and toss it a bucket of fish heads once a week
You’re not using chloroform are you? Why didn’t I think of that! Wait, I just did.
You can cut down on the amount of crap you need to buy with the prams and stuff. They make systems where it’s like a capsule that the baby can sleep in that you can carry around and set down anywhere that also clips into a pram frame and a base strapped into your car to become the car seat. A friend of mine has one and I was so jealous of it.
That’s the one. Steelcraft Agile I think it was? Is that the one you have/had?
We didn’t get the capsule system. Didn’t know we could at the time. We had a Valco very similar to http://www.valcobaby.com.au/product/matrix_plus just red without the patterns on it. Gave it to another friend that just had a kid after ours were too big for it.
The Agile and the Compact both have it, and I think they’re incorporating it into all their stuff now.
EDIT: I got a duplicate comment error for this, but it still posted…
I am having a really rough time with the start of Dark Souls 2.
It all feels kinda off and the choppy framerate really isn’t helping. I don’t know if anyone else with the PS3 version is getting this but even just around Majula, I feel like the frame rate never really sits on a consistent 30fps. That’s problematic. Hope they patch that out.
Don’t know about PS3, but on 360 there was an 80 odd meg update. Haven’t had any frame rate issues, but in one area all the rocks and shit started flashing white on and off, it was driving me nuts, but as soon as I left that area everything was fine.
Not really noticing anything on PS3?
Also – Ha. 4pm my ass.
Only because I’m trying to fix my sleep schedule. So today I woke up at 4am after going to bed around midnight. Then I took a nap from around 9am until around noon.
Apparently I’m now a cat.
Yeah, I get that too. Bit annoying/disappointing.
Also with it being slightly off – finding it hard to get into the groove.
Everything is just different enough to be uncomfortable. Oh well, guess I just need to play more.
I hated Dark Souls for ages because it felt completely wrong after a few hundred hours in Demon’s Souls.Took a while but I got the hang of it.
Doesn’t help I probably went totally the wrong way and ended up fighting big armoured giants for an hour or so, with no shield.
Managed to chip the boss to half hp and got a sweet armour drop before leaving tho.
I think I’m there at the moment.
Those guys are owning me, but I’m getting better at them. DEPRIVED IS HARD.There is another way through a forest with easy guys as it turns out.
Hey @popdart5, question about Pathfinder:
Are you sure it’s ok for me to get involved? Reading back on previous posts about it and you didn’t seem keen to have any more players above 8. I’ll take absolutely no offence if you say I can’t (I mean, I’ll add you to the list, but that was probably going to happen at some point anyway).Don’t worry about it. The only reason I put that cut-off in place was that I would no longer be actively advertising for new players. 9 players is going to be pretty much the same amount of work as 8 players anyway so it’s no concern at all if you want to join. Sorry if what I said made it seem like I was vehemently opposed to any more than 8 players.
Besides, I find multiples of three seem to work well for groups as I’ve been in campaigns of 3 and 6 players each and they’ve done pretty well. 9 will be something new for me but I’ll be fine with that and just learn as I go. You are more than welcome to play and in fact, I would like to extend a formal invitation to you to join the campaign. 🙂
I’ve GMed for 8 in D&D before, the main trick is that every bugger needs to know what they’re doing in a combat turn BEFORE it’s their turn.
My god is waiting for someone to stop knitting, evaluate the board state, debate with their boyfriend, confuse their dice and finally do a basic attack frustrating.
A friend of mine instituted a house rule to help with that situation. If you know exactly what you’re doing at the start of your turn and don’t fart around, you get a +1 bonus for “quick thinking”. It certainly helped speed the game up.
In the end I used a “turn ahead” marker- when it was in front of you it meant TIME TO PLAN
I don’t know if I ever stop planning my next move in combat, adjusting based on what others and enemies are doing.
Which is great, it was the people who were only half paying attention or who only switched on during RP scenes that were the issue.
I like to think I’ve become a better DM since then.
From experience, over the internet D&D takes about 20% longer because of people alt-tabbing. Though my experience was entirely text over IRC rather than with voice chat so that might help offset it. Also running stuff in a proper tabletop system like Roll20 will help too.
The benefit with 8-9 as well is you can probably split into two parties if necessary, and if someone is away for an evening you’ve got enough players for it not to be a problem.
Sweet, in that case it’s time for me to spend 2 hours making like 5 characters and trying to decide on one 😛
Are all core and base classes available? Also, anything I should know regarding the campaign specifically with character creation (i.e. “I suggest taking warm clothes”).
So far we have a Barb, a Rogue, and two sorcerers?
I believe @f4ction expressed intent to play a Cleric as well.
Nothing is really set in stone yet so go nuts. I wanted to give you guys enough time and, as Neg said, 8-9 players means you can have a bit of an overlap class-wise and not feel like you’re treading on someone else’s toes.
I’ll be bugging everyone about a week out from when we start to send through their final characters so no real rush. Also gives you guys time to read some of the rules and get acquainted with the system.
Nah mang, I’m going with Gnome Experimental Gunsmith (if allowed)
I’m thinking that sounds like a Gunslinger. If so, that should be fine. Generate a basic character and you should be gravy. Just be sure to read up on the misfire and exploding rules for firearms (they’re in this link a little way in http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateCombat/combat/firearms.html) so that you know what danger you may be in.
I believe I also read someone else going Fighter too?
I can’t recall anyone saying they’re going Fighter as yet. I’ll double check my emails and the posts to see who has said what.
The options that I have open to you are any classes from the core rulebook, advanced player’s guide, or any of the ultimate books (magic or combat) are fine by me. If you really wanted to, I will allow you to select a race specific class as listed in Advanced Race Guide. There are a number of different races that are available so just check with me if you can play a particular one (I’ve already ruled out planar hybrids for balance and lore reasons). I’ve directed everyone here http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/classes.html as this is a good general site to get started and it has a bunch of material from the books available for free.
No real limitations on what you should start out with. I haven’t yet nailed down exactly where the adventure will begin but I won’t throw you guys into the deep end without at least some preparation. As I’ve done for a couple of the other guys, if you feel like being creative with your backstory, I will adjust the world and setting to incorporate your own story elements (for instance, creating specific characters or groups of people in the world).
*shakes fist*
SEELIE BASTARDS!
SURVIVOR EP 3: (which yargh sites mark as 4… this is going to get confusing :P)
@sughly @powalen @masha2932 @phoenix @strange
Ugh J’Tia… she’s the worst! Sarah from Brawn has gone a bit crazy too because of that dude’s lie :P. Kinda glad Brawn didn’t lose though cause nothing good ever comes from throwing challenges!Because it is episode 4!
(If you just watched it on TV like a non-yargh you wouldn’t be in this mess!)
But ALL first episodes are longer but are still just considered Episode 1, not 1 & 2! (as yargh sites have called it :P)
Haha, yargh. Its more like ‘Arrr’ dude, but anyway…
Yeah totally agree. I’m starting to feel so so bad for this cop girl. Shes so intensely on board with the other cop, and he knows hes going to screw her over. Hes gonna do it in a heartbeat. I like this Wu (I think?) guy, hes just a cool dude. Being cool all the time. Bit light on strategy, but that doesnt affect his coolness. Thank eff they got rid of JTia, geesus, so happy she wont be in the next ep. I reckon theyve bought Spencers loyalty completely though, I reckon he’ll genuinely stay good with them if he canWOO FOR WOO!
Woo woo woo Kenny Woo
The majesty of me playing Dark Souls 2:
I think I went the right way to begin with (I’ve killed a boss, unlocked a thing, stuff is going reasonably). But this isn’t through me being clever, or lucky, or whatever. I just cannot find any other way to go. I found like two other ways, but both of them were blocked. Clearly I am a tad special.
Which way did you go? I haven’t come across any bosses yet.
THE ONLY WAY I COULD FIND. WHERE ARE THESE OTHER WAYS? /mockanger
I went to the Forest of the Giants.In the town
near the far end where you can join the “arduous” covenant, there’s an archway that leads down to a place called someoneorother’s Tower and is populated entirely by massive knights wielding big weapons. I haven’t found the forest yet 😛Holy shit! I’ll make sure I don’t go anywhere near there until I’m quite a few levels higher.
I found that area.
Saw that it lead to some sort of culvert/sewer type level and noped out of there before seeing a single enemy. Figured it was the Catacombs of this game.Didn’t see a single enemy in that sewer.Me either, there was a door that was probably locked that I didn’t go through. I guess my spidey sense was tingling or something.Oh. Well, I’ve hit a very large brick wall with where I’m at now, so maybe I’ll check that out.
That’s the same way I went, you’re probably further along than me though.
Right at the start of that area with the stream I found a bonfire off to the right, then I just killed all the enemies in the area, went back to the bonfire, rinse and repeat until they all stopped respawning. Went up the ladder and did the same there. Went through the fog door and killed all the enemies, headed up the stairs, killed more enemies, went up the ladder and opened the big door on the right to find another bonfire. There’s a merchant/trader in the room, she sells the key to open up the building for the blacksmith back in Majula for 1,000 souls in case you didn’t know already.That’s basically where I’m at.
Once you progress a little from there:
there’s a shortcut you can activate to get back to that bonfire. There’s a dude throwing firebombs from a raised platform and a bunch of barrels in the corner he’s kinda sorta facing towards. Blow up those barrels with a firebomb/fire weapon (which will probably kill you but oh well) and it will blow up the wall, leading back to the bonfire.I found this entirely by accident when I used a fire sword to smash the barrels there. I feel like the man that discovered potatoes were edible. Victorious and dead.Yeah, I cleared all that. If you go down the ladder in that room you’ll get to the boss relatively quickly. That said, I’d recommend exploring elsewhere first.Sooo tempted to pick up Titanfall for A$53 via G2A, problem is – I’m leaving for Cairns tomorrow for three nights and by the time it finishes downloading it’ll be well into next week before I even get to start it up. Here’s hoping there might be a greater price drop next week? Dunno.
You’ll have local servers by the time you get back though
…and it’s up to A$60 on G2A by the time I get home. Crap!
My Dark Souls II experience so far:
After taking forever to choose a class and deciding on Deprived even though some of those costumes are so pretty, I proceeded to choose the giant seed thingy for my Gift because I had no idea what it was.After the Bonfire: Ooh…a fog door. I have no idea what’s behind those things, the unknown is scary. I’m leaving them the hell alone. I’m going to see what else is around besides all these fog doors. Ooh, another path! This guy who’s locked up looks easy enough to kill. YOU DIED. What’s behind this house? YOU DIED. What’s down this other path? Eek! That guy’s huge, I’m running away. Ooh, a shield! I didn’t notice that on the way in! Let’s try the other way, now. Ooh, treasure past a slippery plank. YOU DIED. Hey these guys look okay. What? I can barely do any damage, being Deprived sucks. YOU DIED. I can’t damage anything, so I can’t get any souls, why did I choose this useless naked monster of a woman.?!
Oh…wait a minute.I remember a review I skimmed saying the tutorial part was skippable…I bet I made a huge mistake running past all those scary-looking fog doors. 😛
So now I’m making progress (except I’m crap at jumping over chasms, it seems…YOU DIED), but then the alarm went off to go pick my son up. So all the way to the school I was using my umbrella as a shield and expecting something to come at me any moment. I’m surprised I made it in time. 😛
Wait where did you find a shield?
In a treasure chest between the village and the place with the huge enemies (the Tower Of Flame or something?). I went up from the village and through a little sewer type thing. Didn’t find it on the way there, but saw the treasure chest on the way back after running away from the first big guy I saw.I just spoke to someone called “Nerdia” I got them to spell it cause I thought I was hearing wrong, the whole time we spoke all i wanted to say was “NNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!”
The kitchen tap broke off while in the “on” position and the mains valve is kind of rusted shut. Oh dear. 😛
that’s not good, if you can’t fix it make an improvised slip and slide…. fixed
seriously though do you have like a wrench or something to help. Good Luck
Thankfully Mr. Strange was home early so he’s dealing with it. He tried a wrench but even that wasn’t helping. It’s pretty damn stuck.
Apparently he was attempting to turn it the wrong way, which wasn’t helping.
But it’s off now, and he’s gone off to buy a new tap. Although considering how much of a handyman he isn’t, maybe I should have gone with him. 😛
DaS2 peeps @shane @trjn etc
Getting “Failed to log into the game server” error on my ps3, any ideas?
Do I need to open any ports on my router or something?
I don’t think anyone can log in. They’re probably not up and running yet. Isn’t the official release date the 14th?
Nope, should be today.
But at least it is not just me.
It’s just that the DLC codes say not to be used until the 14th.
Yeah, no-one can get on, from what I can gather I think their servers are down, just have to play offline for now.
I’ve got nothing. Going alone for now it seems.
Getting that too. Just figured I’d play offline until it got sorted.
Same for 360. Same problems reported worldwide, including US folks who have had the game a couple of days. Could be usual new-game network bs.
Wait Thursday’s gone already?
Not according to @effluvium-boy. PLENTY OF THURSDAYS.
So many goddamn Thursdays.
Dark Souls 2 currently
Aw, look at the cute widdle zombie piggies. They’re so tiny and cute. KILL IT! Wait, how much freaking health do these things have? *proceed to spend next 10 minutes trying to kill 3 of them* Oh good. They give you 20 souls and now my sword is broken. Aaaand now I’m talking to a cat who’s just casually sitting in a chair at a table like a person. This game got weird real quick.I accidentally talked to the cat through a wall while I was looting the corpse in the tent outside her building. That was just plain odd.And they’re so hard to hit, too. Also, they’ll follow you a really long way, but slowly. I went to talk to the Crestfallen dude, went through like 3 dialogue things, and then one of them attacked me and nearly killed me because I’d been too lazy to heal.Yeah, I couldn’t believe how much health they had, eventually killed them fourtunately without breaking my sword.Is….is this cat hitting on me?You just smell nice is all.Oh wow.
Two handing a shield is actually an extremely effective weapon.Dark souls 2
I did some parkour and jumped onto a big robot and ripped a part of it off and shot it’s core until it blew upoh wait… i don’t have dark souls 2… Titanfall will have to do until its PC release.Was about to crack to conformity and go out and buy Dark Souls 2, but it turns out that my sister has stolen my car, even though I explicitly said that she could not drive it :\
I’m taking this as a blessing in disguise, as I am only 100 words into my 3000 word uni report, and I really don’t need any more distractions right now!
YOU AND YOUR STORIES!
My stories?
I’m just further trying to distract myself from doing this damn report :3
I’ve been working on it for 30 minutes and I’ve already checked the fridge twice, went to get the mail, and done three laps of the house! 😀
Oh, and partially cleaned my room.
And read TAY for five minutes :3
Dark Souls 2 in my hands.
Planning on working tonight.
…
Yeah, I’ll let you know how I go with that.
Apparently there was a huge bang coming from the roof earlier, followed by several follow-up sounds and some kind of scuttling towards the backyard. Sister went out to see what it was, and there’s this golf ball sitting in the middle of the backyard.
There is a golf course about 200m away, but I’m still highly confused as to how that ball could have come from all the way over there, hit our roof and not ended up in someone else’s backyard instead.
Good damn shot, that’s how.
Or really really bad shot.
Only 200 metres? I’d say it’s from the golf course.
200m according to google maps anyway 😛
There’s a nice big tree in the way for a direct shot, plus the place has some nice high fences around it so it seems like it must have been an absolute monster shot. Fair enough for it to have landed in the backyard and just stayed there, but to hit the roof and still end up in the backyard… I can’t figure it out. The angles surely should have sent it somewhere else. And/or maybe broken a tile.
Unless it just came from someone else’s backyard, but that seems even more strange.
I lived behind a golf course when I was a kid. I’d spend all day wading through the tall grass between the golf course fence and my street looking for discarded golf balls. Going home periodically to empty my bucket into a drawer.
Had a massive collection at one point.
When the golf course shut down, they put cows on the land. They would easily knock down the flimsy fence and invade my street. It was funny.
If the interview with Dave Lombardo (ex-Slayer drummer) is to be believed in 2011 he was paid only $67,000 for touring with Slayer for that year, when the band grossed over $4.4 million.. His contract supposedly said he was meant to see somewhere around $200,000. I dunno, if this was true and the band broke their legally obligated contract with Dave, wouldn’t he have taken them to court? :/ I mean that’s a lot of missing money. If you ask me, there are too many lawyers & contracts involved with the big bands now.
Damn politics stuffing up bands I like 🙁
I assume TAY has died down because everyone is too busy Dark Soulsing to post.
Ohai.
Dark Souls killed TAY :'(
That was the plan but we’ve dealing with the busted kitchen tap instead. Turns out I was right and it is definitely beyond Mr. Strange’s ability to fix. So we have a plumber coming in the morning. I hope he doesn’t arrive while I’m in the middle of a boss fight, I might choose not to answer the door.
Protip: leave the door unlocked, and paper signs on the floor pointing the way to the kitchen.
Better yet, create a dam in the kitchen and have a stream to the front door.
The signs should glow as well so the plumber can see the job description in an appropriately dark souls style
Job Ahead
Try Right
I Can’t Take This
Notes from Dark Souls (The introduction, Forest of Giants, and Tower place thingy):
Okay, so when starting I took the petrified something. Which you can redeem at the crows. As a reward I got an Old Whip, or a Worn Whip, or a something or other. It’s a whip. Takes 20 Dex to use it, but once I got to that point, whoah Momma. If your target doesn’t have much armour, or if it’s a Hollow, then it just shreds them. Has great range for a melee weapon, downsides are that it breaks super duper quick, and it only has 15 poise-break. So I just use it to mess around.In the forest I found a fire sword, seemed to help against the boss, who was surprisingly easy (I killed him in three goes). I saw The Pursuer swoop down (I was laughing as he was escorted in by the birdy), and I promptly noped right out of there. Probably for the best, since I’ve subsequently fought him at his real home, and he is a tough cookie. Unlike the second boss in tower place, who I died to the first time when he had 1/3rd health left, so I unhollowed myself because I was worried it might drag on, and proceeded to eat his face on the second attempt. (My strategy is to run past the big knights, because while they’re super easy in a 1v1, when it’s a pair of them it gets annoying).Oh, and if you kill everything in the forest in Betwixt, uhh, ladyface the servant will give you a ladle. It’s an awful weapon, and by awful, I mean that it’s a ladle so it’s amazing. Also the ogre/cyclops/hippo who’s off on his lonesome drops a ring which gives you a bonus 10 to poise-break, which can be quite useful.So now I’ve dropped down into the well. And, well (snigger), it’s certainly something.And @dc, don’t go doing this, just because you’re sick of the talk already.
Hmm
The crows gave me a titanite slab for the petrified thing.Also is there not two cyclops in the betwixt?
Did you figure out what the coffin they guard does?
The coffin changes your character’s sex.The coffin changes your gender if you lie in it, according to the Tips article I read this afternoon.Edit: Dammit, Shane! 😛
@shane
Huh, I did not even notice with the armour and zombieness.
I wonder what gender my character is…. I tried it a few times but can’t remember how many.
That’s a mystery I did not think I would have to solve.
Before the bridge you cross to enter the Crones’s house there’s a semi-hidden path which leads up to another one of the cyclops. There’s something on the ground near him, plus what he drops. Also, from there you can drop down the waterfall to grab an item, though I can’t recall what it was.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/07/putin-butt-plug_n_4919509.html
(NSFW)
Um… how is this a thing, and how did I find it?
EDIT: You’ve got to be shitting me….
Which is how you get him out…
http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/a1f0d78fadc07b34ec68ac69dd5b74a07c805fad_m.gif
Pootin Putin!
I saw that on Imgur other day, I thought WTF then too. People & 3D printers man.
After seeing that Lifehacker article I decided KFC was for dinner. Tried both a Nacho Burger and a Nacho Box.
The burger was one of the best constructed burgers I have ever had. Everything fit together perfectly. Kudos to whoever put it together. Taste wise it was like a standard KFC burger with added cornchips, maybe a slight hint of salsa. Nothing amazing, but the slightly added flavor and texture was nice.
The Nacho Box was smaller than I thought it would be. It looked good enough. All the cornships and nuggets were on the bottom so I could have been looking at just a box of salsa and cheese. Taste wise it was okay, but felt a bit lacking. It could stand to have some guacamole or sour cream with it.
Those sneaky cornships! always hiding at the bottom just waiting
I thought the nacho burger was quite tasty, although it gave me indigestion/ heart burn or some other discomfort (basically felt like I was choking on it towards the end). I ploughed through because it was tasty but I’m a bit scared to eat it again.
“I ploughed through because it was tasty but I’m a bit scared to eat it again.”
Best last words for an epitaph EVER.
Okay, so I am a goddamn genius (see moron). I beat the first boss and after beating him realised …
You need to use those “Human Effigy” items to restore your health. /o\Oh Nob.
I assume you went forest first, right? So by first boss do you mean the Giant (it gets tricky what with someone else turning up)?Yeah the forest first.What first boss did you fight? I killed the Dragonrider first.I did Giant, then noped out of The Pursuer, and so did the Dragonrider( who was easy).Where is the giant then, I did not find anyone in the forest.I shall look again.
Go down the ladder next to the bonfire where lady trader person was at. then basically just follow the path up and around. You’ll know you’re heading in the right direction if you see an armoured turtle man thing.No, you use them to return yourself to human form.
Same thing,
Using them restores lost max health.Okay! Game deal time!
Those of you who want to preorder the digital download copy of Ground Zeroes for PS3 can currently do so for A$24.95 on the PSN. Payment does not get deducted until the 19th, one day before the release and as a bonus, you also get a digital copy of Peace Walker HD for immediate download.
The synopsis tends to refer to Peace Walker, Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain as a sort-of trilogy. Well that’s what I made of it anyway and is sort-of reflected with the giveaway also. Anyway, I was going to wait and shop around for this one in stores, but this deal made me jump and I just had to share. Enjoy!
Side note: I really wish I had time off like a few others here at the moment – I would love to zip through Peace Walker this week in preparation for Ground Zeroes next week.
Side, side note: Then again, I could always just not sleep. This may also be available to PS4 owners? I’m not sure how their PSN works. Maybe someone could confirm? @dc @ontarget
@ontargett? I think he was the one that recently saved and bought a PS4?
ERGH JUST MAKE ME SPEND MORE MONEY WHY DONT YOU
YOU DIDN’T REALLY NEED IT ANYWAY 😀
Shit, Peace Walker HD? I might just do that
One thing. Peace Walker just finished downloading however I am unable to start the game. Perhaps it too unlocks on the 19th? Either way, an important disclaimer nonetheless.
Does anyone here walking Talking Dead? @dc? @powalen? @strange? @anyeoneelsewhowatchesthewalkingdead?
Nah!
You should, it’s awesome! Gives good insights from the actors about the episodes. Lauren Cohen was on this weeks episode, god she is cute. Her real accent trips me out though. Bit like how Andrew Lincoln is British and he sounds definitely sound it in Strike Back.
Ah, I’m not a fan of actor interviews and all that. Especially when the show is on going. I like to associate their faces with the characters. Don’t want any hints of things to come, as well.
It’s not an interview, though 😛 It’s just a chat about the show with some behind the scenes stuff usually about a key fight scene and usually there is some celeb along for the ride too. Apparently the one with Marilyn Manson he was out of it and made a total ass of himself, which is pretty normal lol.
Police knocked me back.
Won’t give me a reason.
:/
🙁 Sorry to hear that, man. I honestly mean it when I say it’s their loss. Couldn’t think of a better candidate. At the same time you’re free to move on now and all that too. It sucks, man. I know. Try not to let it get you down. *manly hugs*
Ouch man, sorry to hear they rejected you without reason. I think they should tell you why, otherwise they’re just being fucking dicks. To me I think you’re too good for them, anyway with your morals and generosity.
Then it is their loss. As for not giving you a reason, that is just bullshit.
Oh man, that’s awful 🙁
Not the news we wanted to hear. I send my regards.
Bastards. I hate it when people don’t tell you why you didn’t get in, especially when you get close.
Maybe its a test to see if you’ll shoot the place up when faced with rejection? If you pass that they’ll let you in…
Oh, crap. 🙁
*hugasaurus*
I guess at least you’re not in limbo anymore and can plan accordingly.
Figure I’ll look at buying the shop I’m working in. May as well work for myself I guess.
CAN I WORK FOR YOU? (i’m serious btw)
Aw man, you could employ Virus and @dc!
Haha. That could be interesting 😛
I demand this become a sitcom where @dc and Virus just goof off all day and try not to get caught by old man Freeze!
Every episode ends on a still frame of them running out of the shop while freeze follows brandishing some shop-appropriate heavy implement in a comedic manner
After the stories he tells of his experiences with customers, you couldn’t pay me to do that. XD
Genuinely surprised Freeze would want to stick around there either.
Aw man, that sucks so much
That sucks, did you call up and ask or did they just send you a letter saying you didnt make it? its really weird this because they always have commercials and signs saying police needed sign up today. So to get knocked back seems abit weird.
That sucks
🙁
Too tired to reply to anyone tonight. This one, though…
Fuckers.
We should drink sometime.
Bummer dood. 🙁 What @dc said is pretty much spot on though!
That’s some ass fuck bullshit man. Especially that they won’t even say why you were rejected. I mean what if you wanted to try again? What are you supposed to fix?
Sorry to hear that Freeze 🙁
That’s rather shit. Not really the ideal end to that process.
Oh man watching Mexican Fiesta with Peter Kuruvita, everything looks so tasty, I wanna try it all! Then again i’m quite partial to Mexican food 😛
Due to timing arrangements, my mother had to drop me off at my workplace 2 hours before my work started. I took refuge in a diner across the street.
I think this the first time it has rained in Perth in about 5 months 😛
EDIT: I should preface all work-related stuff by saying that it’s work experience. I’m still at school.
Sitting on a stool at the counter of an empty diner at night, rain pattering outside. You take off your damp hat and coat, placing it on the stool next to you and ask the middle aged waitress for a cup of coffee while you light a cigarette.
So noir.
And/or adventure game. Someone will be found dead and it’ll be up to @phlanispo to solve the case!
…Unless he’s the one found dead, then it’d be awkward. Or something like Murdered: Soul Suspect
Reading this just reminded me a little of Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega
Wait wait wait wait wait, you’re in Perth?! Hit me up when you turn 18, I’ll take you out to all the good clubs! 😀
That’s not creepy at all.
It’s what all the cool kids are saying 😛
Shuddup, I’m down with the lingo, home-dawg.
See you on the flip-side, homie!
I think I need to splurge on some of this blokes whisky when I can.. Just saw his gin on Gourmet Farmer, and it sounded awesome.
Product review from somebody who lives in Hobart:
Tastes good, gets you drunk 5/5 would headache again.
(He makes the most amazing stuff. I have a small bottle of honey liqueur infused with whisky which is the best after dinner drink. It is amazing.)
That sounds amazing. My friend who lives there was telling me I should try it, I told her I was working on that 😛
Let’s put it this way: I was a big whisky drinker (I’m cutting back on everything bad in order to get healthier) and I did a massive tour of the distilleries in Scotland.
That was heaven.
His stuff is right up there. No kidding. He is top level amazing stuff, just as good as the iconic distilleries in Scotland.
I’ve heard this, the awards he has won also indicate this, and as far as scotch goes his stuff isn’t even expensive. I’ve seen stuff at work that’s more expensive and rather average lol.
@greenius @strange @sughly @phoenix Survivortime discussion. Latest episode!
I feel bad for the brain tribe! The game is really against them. None of the challenges really require THAT much thought, so they never have any advantage. Their advantage is more social and decision oriented, like whatshisface that won last time, but they can’t do anything like that in a team of all Brains! Looking forward to the merge, though I don’t think any of them will make it very far because they have such low numbers, but still.I’m thinking they’ll just shuffle the teams, but still have two separate teams. Hopefully we can get an even-ish split between the current teams.
There’s never an evenish split :P. Some tribe is gonna get picked off! I remember in All-Stars there was a tribe swap with random buff draws but everyone stayed together (on different tribes) except Amber :P. So the whole thing was just Amber swap tribes. That wasn’t really related but shhhGo cliff!
It was so close in the immunity challenge at the end.
The brain tribe made the right choice voting out J’Tia. She was the weakest link.
Helmets are hard.
Why does every post of yours sound like a double entendre?
Too much time spent in TAY 😛
You know what else is hard?
This Rubik’s Cube in my pants.
Psh that’s easy.
Just like the people who solved it! 😀
Are you really inviting people to twist it round and round?
To each his own, I suppose…
So today has been a bit of a mess. What with the Dark Souls kerfuffle and the kitchen tap thing (we have to keep the water off until the plumber fixes it. D: ).
So I joked to Mr. Strange that it was because it was the 13th today. Bad idea.
We then went to watch Once Upon A Time In Wonderland but discovered we couldn’t watch it because we’d missed the last episode, which had aired on December 13.
When we were scrolling through, deciding what to watch instead we discovered that episode 13 of The Vampire Diaries was missing. And that an episode of Top Chef which I’d noticed had a terrible pun for a name was episode 13.
We decided to continue watching Revolution, as that is the main show we’re currently trying to catch up on….the copy of the episode we were up to was labeled wrong and was actually an episode of CSI.
I’m scared to try anything else! 😛
Did you buy a Powerball ticket?
With @strange ‘s luck she listed up there, she’d win Auslotto with that ticket.
Well that was fun. DS2
Oh look. A chest. *crossbow appears in chest* What? *gets riddled with arrows* Damnit.Also
Hey big empty square. No ones around. What’s that crow flying over head? WHY IS THAT BIG KNIGHT WITH A HUGE SWORD FLOATING OH GOD IM CURSED *DEAD*I missed this side of Dark Souls. Could run through the first one in my sleep at this point. This is terrifying.
What terrifies me every time is jumping. My heart races each time I click the left stick down… hoping I timed it right!
I died three times to the jumping tutorial until I read the sign again and realised the controls have changed.
Tar and feather me alive, but I really don’t remember there being a jump in DS.
Or maybe I played it too long ago (played Demon’s Souls since then) to remember.
El Pollo Diablo!
Haha, I always say this if anyone asks if I know any Spanish. “Well, you’re not taking me without a fight”
@dc @sughly Mad Men in like a month, I forget how Season 6 ended already o.O maybe I could marathon the entire series again before it comes back 😛
Reminder how season 6 ended:
Don was suspended and took his kids to the place he was raised. Ted went to California, dumping Peggy in the process. Peggy took Don’s job.Can’t wait for the home stretch of eps.
Oh right, cheers 😀
Shame it’s being split over 2 years…
Ohhhh it is? Booooooooo, thats lame-o
Thanks for the spoiler tags.
That feels like sarcasm? D:
No! I try to thank people so that they know I appreciate the spoiler tags! D:
@dc @phlaiman polished off season 1 of Louie last night, loved it. Season 2 seems to be better again. That dentist scene, oh man.. I’m disappointed Ricky Gervais isn’t in more episodes. I thought his character was just great.
I hated his character. Then again, I hate Ricky Gervais in any thing. XD
>=[ How can you hate the genius that is Ricky Gervais?! I bet you even hated him in GTA IV! Such a monster DC!!
I did hate him in GTAIV, that’s true! I liked Extras in spite of him being in it/writing it. XD
Why do you dislike him? D=
Hate his smug brand of comedy. Hate the look of his face. Hate his laugh. Hate the way he carries himself. Hate the characters he plays. Hate the guy. 😀
I just think you dislike British television personalities/comedians. First Clarkson now Ricky?!
I don’t like Gervais all that much either.
This guy, he knows whats what!
I’d upvote that 5 times if I could
Gervais is pretty hard to take sometimes.
I do love the podcasts him and merchant did with Karl Pilkington that were animated though
The animated show was so good. I wish they did more.
Pretty awesome right?
Season 2 doesn’t have as many awesome moments like the dentist and Gervais, but overall I think it’s still better.
Agreed, overall it was a better season. (well on the last 2 eps now) the one where he goes to Iraq/Afghanistan was cool. Especially the scene with the cheerleader when he’s all “wanna see something different?” and gets her under the table, that was just great.
@popdart5: I know you’ve basically stopped playing, but apparently KanColle is getting its first foreign ships added tomorrow.
Two Destroyers and a Battleship apparently. Their twitter has been running little bits of the art of one of them (presumably a destroyer since they seem to have torpedo tubes) and it looks like it’s Shimada Fumikane, same artist as Taihou. Uniform looks German so presumably they’re adding German Navy ships. Initial speculation was that the image they were teasing was the Emden, but that was a Light Cruiser so not the case.The big question for me is going to be the Battleships. Germany never invested that heavily in battleships, they only had four (assuming you don’t get hung up on the battlecruiser vs battleship technicality) – Bismark, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Assuming that Bismark is too important and significant to get added in a minor update and not as an event reward you’d think it’s most likely to be Tirpitz. The two Scharnhorst-classes would be really disappointing IMO since they were only outfitted with 28cm guns and never upgraded to the planned 38cm which Bismark and Tirpitz had so they’d probably end up more like heavy cruisers.
But who knows? Maybe it’s a fake-out and they’re going to add a German destroyer, a British destroyer and an American Battleship? Will have to wait and see. They did strongly hint at German ships late last year though
One ship that I reckon they may add further down the line will probably be the Prinz Eugen but yeah, I’m not too sure what they could add it. A battleship might be the Prince of Wales as that’s pretty well known for the Pacific theatre but I’m just guessing at the moment. It would be a little odd to add German ships to the fight so perhaps they’re going to go with British ships as they’re a little more renowned for their naval history.
Yeah, I’ve kinda dropped off the game entirely. I’ll probably come back and check out the Kai version of the game and the anime whenever that gets released.
British ships would make more sense in terms of actual involvement in the Pacific, but don’t forget that Germany and Japan were allies and there was a fair bit of technology exchange (especially aircraft & submarine tech) between the two.
EDIT: On the other hand it would kind of make sense to see Repulse or Prince of Wales in the game, especially Prince of Wales prior to them adding Bismark, since it was involved in her sinking.
I’m actually surprised they didn’t bring more submarines in but I guess they’re going to be special event drops. You can bet that those submarines are going to be German U-boats for sure.
While I can see the reasoning for including German ships, the fact that they’re releasing a battleship makes me skeptical if they are, in fact, moving on to German vessels. As you said, there aren’t that many German battleships (unless you include the battlecruisers and pocket battleships but they’re more likely to be heavy cruisers) and Germany as a whole would only really be good for adding their U-boat fleet. Heck, if they end up going Germany they’re kind of stuck for carriers as they would have to use the Graf Zeppelin which was only really in development and never even sailed.
Britain to me seems like a logical second fleet to move into what with the sheer number of ships and the fact that they can dip into the wider Commonwealth fleets pretty easily.
The problem with adding British & American ships is that shit gets a bit weird, because you get ships that literally sank each other fighting together. Though maybe that’s a good thing.
Adding British ships would certainly give them a lot more room for battleships (especially if they consider all the battlecruisers to be battleships). Also the British often had fucking excellent naming sense for most of their capital ships. None of that whole ‘let’s name them after states’ the US got up to or the ‘mountains are big, let’s name our big ships after mountains’ wank that Japan did. I mean, which name sounds cooler out of Iowa, Haruna and Warspite?
EDIT: I should probably point out that they’re okay for Carriers still, as there’s several Japanese carriers still not in the game. Shinano (the third Yamato-class, rebuilt into a carrier during construction) is likely to be the next big event reward, and they have the Unryu-class carriers as well (Unryuu, Amagi, Katsuragi). They can also potentially dip into the two Unryus (Aso and Kasagi) which were still in construction when Japan surrendered as well.
Patch notes are going up now. They’re adding 15cm Twin and 38cm Twin cannons so that’s basically Bismark or Tirpitz confirmed, since they were the only Battleships I know of with 38cm guns. The British used 14″ (35.6cm) on their battleships.
Probably going to be the Tirpitz as the Bismarck will almost certainly be an event drop. I must say I’m curious to see how they will portray the German ship girls and how they will make them look Germanic.
I’d suggest probably Blonde Hair & Blue Eyes. One of the destroyers they teased images of was exactly that. However thinking about it, assuming it’s Shimada for all three, his German characters in Strike Witches avoid the whole Aryan trope and are fairly diverse.
We’ll find out in a few minutes when they get the rest of the patch notes out I guess. My money is on Tirpitz as well but on the other hand, if the next big event’s reward is Shinano then maybe Bismark isn’t an event drop. Maybe they’ll keep event drops to Japanese stuff while they can.
Maybe they’ll fake out everyone and since the next event is supposed to be basically Midway, the event drop will be Enterprise or Hornet. 😛
Still no reveal yet but they’re apparently adding a 5th area to World 1 which has a boss that you need to clear multiple times to clear the map and which resets every month. If I’m reading it right it’ll scale to your HQ level and has some drops that new players might struggle to get (implication: submarines – I-19 still doesn’t drop anywhere in the game, I-401 is unobtainable still as well, and I-8 is stupidly hard to build). Since they’ve been saying that at least one of the new foreign ships is obtainable or unlockable via Expedition 30, and that requires you to send a fleet of four subs, lead by a level 55 sub, making it easier for players to get a full compliment of four subs would be nice as right now you need to luck out and get I-168 as a drop, I-58 and I-8 as super rare, <1% chance build drops, and Maruyu from Large Ship Construction which is hard to do since base recipe is more likely to give you Kongo, Ise and Fusou classes.
Additions confirmed. All German ships as expected.
– Type 1934 Destroyer Z1 Leberecht Maas
– Type 1934 Destroyer Z3 Max Schulz
– Bismark-class Battleship Bismark (!)
Sounds like you get Z1 as a reward for doing an expedition quest with submarines (presumably they’ve replaced or expanded the quest for completing Expedition #30 which used to award a Junkers Ju-87C Carrier Stuka dive bomber). Once you get Z1, Z3 can be obtained through standard construction and Bismark through Large Ship Construction (which means I have no chance in hell because I already used up all my LSC luck in building Yamato on my first attempt at her and now all I get from it every time is Nagato and Yamashiro repeatedly). But that’s cool I guess.
EDIT: I expect the destroyers to have absolutely shitty luck stats, because they were both lost in the same engagement – Z1 through Z4 went on an anti-shipping patrol targeting British fishing ships, the Luftwaffe weren’t informed, and an He 111 bomber pilot mistook them for British destroyers and bombed them. Bomb hit Z1 and broke it in half, and Z3 hit a mine while attempting to rescue the survivors. Whoops.
I was not expecting the Bismark so soon but I suppose if they’re introducing their first major non-Japanese ships into the game then they might as well start with a well-known one.
Interesting how they’re bringing in German destroyers as well. I thought there were at least a few classes of Japanese destroyers that they still had to bring in but I guess they might as well have a few German destroyers that I don’t think anyone has heard of.
Edit: Oh damn, yeah sounds like those destroyers are going to have Mutsu levels of luck.
@popdart5:
Bismark:
http://i.imgur.com/Seo6jfh.jpg
Damaged:
http://i.imgur.com/3dL9UIC.jpg
My resource pool wept 🙁
Also apparently the new World 1-5 bonus map drops I-8 and I-19 on the boss so I’m going to have to start grinding the crap out of that instead of failing to build I-8 repeatedly. Higher chance, plus lots of sub kills for quests.
I was telling my sister about Dark Souls II.
She was intrigued. She came home today with a copy.
I have been playing Dark Souls II.
My character is named Colobus.
He’s a knight.
He’s fond of dying.
I’m fairly certain I’ll hate the game, but I know my sister will love it.
*goes back to playing The Last of Us*
Wait, you were serious?
I made it to the third bonfire in the forest of something something.
Dude, you’re killing me. I’m still struggling near the second one 😛
That can’t be right. I mean I’ve only seen three bonfires. Not three specific ones in that actual region. Just three in general including the two easy ones to reach at the start.
Ah. Then I’m slightly past you then.
That’s better! >:|
Can you ‘bank’ the souls you collect? I always thought that’s what the bonfires were for? I don’t know how to do any thing, man. I don’t know how to use the throwing knifes. I don’t know what any of the objects are. I don’t know why my character suddenly lost all his hair and looks like he’s taken up hard core drugs.
Nope. You have to spend ’em or you risk losing ’em.
(Throwing knives get mapped to the same button as your healing flask. Equip it in the same way in the menu. Then when you have an enemy targeted you can throw the knife at them.)
Cool.
…
How do you equip flask. XD
(Was serious when I said I can’t read any of the writing. :D)
@dc, I tend to use my souls on leveling up at the beginning. Usually if I find a decent weapon, I level up enough to use that weapon properly.
The flasks are auto equipped when you get them I think. You use them with Square on the PS3 after pressing down on the D-pad to select them. Otherwise check the inventory and equip them in the belt slot.
Also how come you can’t read the writing? TV problemo?
Oh, I got ‘healing reward’ gift stuff that was automatically mapped to that thingy. Thanks man.
Think there’s no way I can enjoy this game right now without glasses, so back to The Last of Us. 😀
Edit: Lost my glasses on January 18th after a drinking mishap. XD
Oh man, you’re really playing Hard Mode, aren’t you? 😛
My character had beautiful pastel coloured hair. The first time she died and started looking zombified I was happy she at least had her beautiful hair. After I died some more I noticed it was all patchy and mostly gone. 🙁
Vanity. Best incentive for not dying ever!
I honestly kinda wish this were true and DC was kicking all our asses without even knowing it.
Stick with it if you can. It’s one of the most rewarding games I’ve ever played (well DS1 was, but this is so far exactly the same).
Funny story. I can’t read any of the writing. Which makes it hard to know what’s going on with all the objects. I’m enjoying the surrounds and colour palette of the world and weird characters. I love having all these different directions to choose from when exploring too and learning little control elements one-by-one like how to jump.
Oh a somewhat related note (related because due to the term ‘dark’), The Dark Eye is currently 75% off on Steam!
Looks friggan fantastic.
Yeah, I still haven’t played that. Animation is a little screwy. I hear the sequel Memoria is supposed to be excellent too.
Ah well, I just purchased it. Hopefully it’ll be alright. Still have The Whispered World and A New Beginning that I haven’t touched yet. Oh and Two Brothers! :O
Too many cool games.
You’re alright, Mike. You’re alright.
There are like three dark eye games on PC. I assume you mean Chains of Satinav?
Ah yes, I meant this one. Sorry a few days late. 😛
Have you considered getting new glasses? That might help with the whole reading stuff issue.
Does the game not have any sort of big UI mode? They should have stuff like that for accessibility support as standard in games now, same with things like colourblind mode
*tilts head*
dc playing Dark Souls, my world has been shattered
Dark Souls II is consuming my soul. That is all.
I really, really suck at Dark Souls 2. Going purely by death count vs progress, I think it might well be harder than Dark Souls.
Dawning on me slowly that my 1000G in Dark Souls was an achievement of perseverance rather than skill. 😛
I like to explore the world. As soon as the opening cutscene finished I went the opposite way the game was pointing me to. Within 10 seconds I fell off the cliff and died for the first time. 😀
BLOBLOOOP ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED 😛
Haha. I unlocked that achievement by seeing what happens when I got too close to the big troll thing at the start… At least I stole the treasure he had before he ate me! 😀
I wonder if there’ll ever be anyone who has to get that one achievement for the 1000g
My guess is no. I’d say that anyone’s first run at this game is bound to result in at least one death. It’s a cool idea, though.
I just defeated the first boss I came across. 9 deaths since the game started. I’m pretty happy with that.
I’m being super cautious though.
That’s pretty good. I haven’t yet dared to try the first boss. Don’t even know where he/she is (though I can guess now).
The Flame Sword rocks. However I’ve been relying on the Spirit Arrow like a little bitch. Pew, pew, pew from far away. Almost feels like cheating, but I know I need to now focus more on upgrading other stats. It was a bit of a chore saving up enough souls to get STR/DEX up enough to wield the Flame Sword properly.
I found the flame sword but by that point I had a broadsword +2 which was doing more damage so I kind of just threw it in the inventory and forgot about it.
I gotta be up near 15 deaths by now. No sign of any bosses yet.
I just unlocked a shortcut after the second Forest bonfire, and keep dying to the guys in the ballista room. I WANT THOSE TREASURES >:(I’m yet to figure out how to get to this ballista room I heard of. I assume it’s from around the area with the second bonfire in the Forest of the Giants?
Have you unlocked the shortcut? A firebomber can blow a hole in the wall using the explosive barrels on the castle roof.Anyway, there’s a part where you’re wandering around on the castle roof, dealing with spear toting hallowed guys and one annoying firebomb guy that you can’t reach without ranged attacks.
Just past those guys, down the ladder from there, there’s a big greeny area with a corridor to the left and a hole in the wall leading to a room on the right. The room is heavily trapped, with ballistas that cock and fire the instant you show your face. Then you get swarmed by four sword wielding hallowed guys. There’s some wicked treasure in there (I assume), because there’s lot of glowy stuff and it’s hard to get in 😛
Hmmmm I think I’m in the wrong area. Is this after you go down the stairs from the second bonfire and then around the corner to the open area? Where the cave is where you meet that dude with the mansion key? Or a different area?
I… don’t know about any of that stuff. Hmmm, I’ll try the long explanation:
From the bonfire with the old lady merchant (the one we saw in all the gameplay previews):* Go down the ladder.
* Don’t go across the bridge to your left, but head in that direction.
* Passageway to the left leads to fog gate.
* Fog gate leads to tree branch, leads to roof.
* HOLYFUCKGRIFFINTHING FLIES OVERHEAD
* Roof has spear guys and a firebomber. Ladder to the right leads to some mega-fast, mega-strong guy (ignore that guy).
* Go along this roof bit. At the far end are barrels. They can be exploded to open a shortcut.
* Passage curves around to the right. More spear guys.
* Long ladder leads down.
* Room almost immediately on the right.
Haha that’s exactly the area I so badly described. I’m pretty sure that’s it as it’s how I got there and yes, there was an annoying quick dude that nearly took me out (thanks also to an archer close by).
Imma try that tonight.
I went down the ladder after that fire place, defeated those guys and went through the fog door to the scaffolding outside. Then I died. Repeatedly.I’m only just slightly further than you.
Pretty much just around the corner actually, you can unlock a shortcut to the bonfire.PRAISE THE SUN!
Haha we’re all in the same spot, give or take. 😛
Aw man, that room with the ballistas and four enemies is driving me nuts, was trying to get in there last night, died like 12-15 times and wasted a human effigy trying. I usually just poke my head in and run straight back out, the ballistas kill the first guy as he comes out, then the other three all come out together and I’m dead.Bah! It’s so awesome not using a guide though. Makes you wonder what you miss though.
Dammit Freeze. I was on ten after beating the first boss.
And hoo boy did that number quickly spiral out of control (I’m getting close to 100, since I spent a lot of time refusing to believe that the game was trying to tell me that I was not prepared).
I died A LOT on my way to the Dragonrider.Okay, here’s an example of just how bad I’m functioning in this game.
I started out as Deprived. Okay, naked, fine. Not gonna ask what happened to the gear the guy was wearing before he chose a class. I’ll just accept being naked.So I spend my first three hours of the game naked. Completely oblivious to the fact that all that gear is just sitting in my inventory. It’s not until I start buying armour that I realise the truth. I’ve also picked up some cool swords, and I just realised that I’ve forgotten to even equip them.
Haha. Well you’ve automatically made it harder on yourself by picking that class. For the start anyway.
I did the same thing with the gear. Only realized I had gloves and helmets in the inventory that I didn’t have equipped.
But don’t forget that equipping stuff burdens you, so sometimes the lighter the better. I haven’t yet figured out exactly how it affects you compared to DS1 and where the thresholds are though.
@jocon reckons there’s no burden until 75%. I just passed 50% and noticed no difference.
Excellent. Does stamina recover at different rates or is it the same deal, no diff till 75%.
I’ve been trying to stay at 30%… lol
I don’t know. I’m Deprived, I’ve barely got any stamina anyway! 😛
I’m sitting at over 60% and don’t notice any substantial stamina drain. I’ve also dumped a lot of points into increased stamina.
Excellent, excellent. That’s what I’m looking at boosting next. Got just enough to hold that Flame Sword and the rest is intelligence for my pew pew pew spells.
What starting class did you pick?
@miketarno, @trjn, @transientmind, @freezespreston, @blaghman, @dc, @strange etc
It is 70% actually.
Valuable. Thanks. 🙂
Indeed. I noticed after mucking around that it is indeed 70%. For the roll anyway. However I think stamina recovery is affected based on current load, so the lower the load the faster the recovery. Still fast enough with the ring though so even close to 70% it’s fine.
@miketarno, @trjn, @transientmind, @freezespreston, @blaghman, @dc, @strange, @jocon etc is it just me or is the delay when sprinting when your stamina bar is full a bit annoying. Like my bar is full, yet I can’t run straight away. It takes about a second to kick in. Made me die a few times. 🙁
I started as deprived too, because I like the starter gear. I now realize this was a mistake. I’ve built my stats up to about the same as the starter knight, AND I have a few extra useless points in int/faith/attunement. Also, a lot of the gear I kinda wanted to buy/use I would’ve got for free. So I’ve basically just thrown away 13 free levels for nothing. And you can’t farm to get those levels worth of souls back, either, because souls are a finite resource in this game.
I should’ve just rolled a knight or something.
I’m actually pretty unhappy about souls being finite. It’s more limiting, like playing Diablo 2 with its fixed number of skill points. The freedom from that is one of the things I loved about Dark Souls, so I’m sad to see it gone. It’s not game-breaking, but it’s just a point of difference that I really don’t have an appreciation for.
How is it finite? You mean you can only level up to a certain level?
So far I’m ‘the jack of all trades’. I think I’ve evened out too many stats. Mainly magic based, but everything else sits at 12 – 15 odd. Faith a little useless to pump points into given that I’ve so far learned zero blessings, but it does help with magic attack and some other stuff.
Also the Flame Sword upgraded rocks.
Well, eventually you exhaust an area. If you clear an area of all its enemies then die while holding those souls, then die again before collecting them, that area’s souls are all gone forever. The game is now short X number of souls which can never be used to buy equipment/levels. That’s how it’s finite.
Knowing that makes me swear up a storm when I lose souls forever by not getting to the bloodstain. I lost somewhere in the vicinity of 20,000 souls today, gone from the game forever. I had to walk away. 😛
Belated reply! (I’ve been away). But I see what you mean now. I was doing the Iron Keep and now there’s no enemies left. That was a good place to farm souls too, especially with the Jester’s Gloves and the Serpent Ring. Was getting 2,000 odd per enemy which was nice. But now there’s none left. 🙁
It’s kind of good and bad. Good that it makes getting to the boss much easier. Bad that you’re right, there’s a finite number of souls in the game now. Means I’ll just have to hit NG+ when I finish this.
I think it’s a way to encourage people online. I did some bro-op today after discovering the sunbros covenant… I think in the space of half an hour I’d racked up a couple hundred thousand souls. Just from doing Iron Keep with people – either boss.
Wow. Tell me more. Is this the covenant you find in the area with lots of poison mists? I forget what it’s called, the mines I think?
That’s the one. Heirs of the Sun or something – it’s basically the new sunbros. You get a yellow summon sign instead of white, and it’s very bright. Your phantom becomes gold, and you get medallions of the sun.
The broken statue in the Harvest Valley (2nd bonfire then outward and right’ish until you meet the first giant green dude with a giant hammer. Then a sharp left, down a path which has a surprise ambush from one of those shield-breaker sickle-brutes.Apparently being in the covenant gives you a match-making bias toward co-op.
Perseverance IS a skill.
Have you… noticed… that… all the… characters… … … speak … excessively…. … slow?
That’s been bugging me.
I guess they ain’t living fast paced lives, my friend. They’ve got time to appreciate syllables!
this… my friend… is… dra… aaa… aaa… ma… a
I don’t mind it for the regular characters, but for the lady I have to talk to every time I want to level up? Yeah, fifteen paragraphs of bullshit to skip through before I can? Not winning popularity awards from me.
Hit X/A after they finish speaking and they’ll move straight onto the next piece of dialogue.
That’s what I’ve been doing, only I press it during their dialogue, as soon as I’ve read the subtitle. I haven’t even noticed how fast they speak.
This was going to be a reply to Shane but it’s a bit lengthy so here’s a lot about Dark Souls 2.
Blaghs, Nobfrond and I were on TeamSpeak working through the same areas at the same time.
After beating the first boss in the Forest of the Fallen Giants:
The most obvious path leads to the Pursuer, who is a bit like King Allant and a lot like a giant floaty dickbag. None of us have managed to beat him and instead noped out of there. There’s a fire longsword you can pick up from near the bonfire if you go down the scaffolding. I’ve got mine to +4 and it’s super dandy right now.If you head from the main hub down through the sewery looking place:
This takes you to the Tower of Flame or some such thing with big dudes. Once you get past them, there’s a boss called the Dragonrider. You fight him on a small, circular platform above the water. His attacks knock you back a bit if you block so I died to ring outs more than anything else vs him.Spoiler for dealing with the area boss:
Clearing the area of the big dudes will reveal switches. Two of the switches will raise platforms to give you a larger area to fight on and the third will lower a drawbridge to the Blue Cathedral (not 100% on the name but it leads to the guy that lets you into the covenant that uses blue eye orbs). There’s a boss you have to fight before you can talk to that NPC though. Not going to spoil it but it’s probably my favourite fight so far. Most importantly, there is a chest before the boss fight that contains a ring that will limit your HP loss while hollowed. You don’t go below 75% and it’s fan-fucking-brilliant.After beating the boss:
You meet the Cleric trainer. They disappeared as soon as I left the area, so I’m not too sure what’s going on with them. Following the only real path leads to an area full of vikings, pirates and a bigass ship. Also in the dark are giant batlike things that we’ve started referring to as vampires. At the bonfire before this area is an NPC that we think is the Sunbro of this game. She is wearing a really spiffy hat and a mask that somewhat resembles Guy Fawkes.After successfully navigating this area:
You will ring a bell that brings the ship into dock. Walk along the piers, board the ship and there’s this odd (but seriously easy) Siamese twin boss dude that you can just kill by walking around the conveniently located pillar in the middle of the room. Defeating them will take you into a room where a pyromancy flame and fireball spell are, as well as some sort of navigational device that will sail you away to the next area if you inspect it.After beating the boss and moving to the next area along this path:
You end up in a prison area, the something something Bastille. Enemies in here are covered in bandages, so we’ve been calling them zombies. Nothing much to report here so far but I did make it to a boss fight which was too brief for me to really make any sense of. It involved three bosses, all standing apart on small, raised platforms. You enter on one of these platforms and it’s very hard to do much of anything because they bosses have a swiping attack that covers the whole platform.More generalish stuffs:
It looks like beating bosses does give the NPCs in the hub world some new loot to buy. So far, it hasn’t been much but I expect that the selection expands a bit. Trainers and NPCs in general seem to move on from the areas that you find them fairly quickly. They do not seem to return to the hub, which makes me think that they move further along the path that you’re following and you complete their whatever by continuing along and meeting up with them. You seem to be able to dodge roll at about the speed of a mid roll from DaS and the invincibility frames on it are piss weak. Just how much weight you have to use to get the fat roll hasn’t been found yet but I imagine it’s either 75 or 100%. I haven’t successfully parried once. This makes me sad.About the way the world seems to be laid out:
So far, we’ve only really gone down two major paths and they don’t feel anywhere near as interconnected as in Dark Souls. It’s much like going from Duke’s Archives to the Crystal Caves or from the Catacombs to the Tomb of the Giants. They’re more like spokes that just kind of end. Well, I assume they end. Shortcuts seem to be much rarer and we’re yet to find any that weren’t just simpler ways to get from the bonfire to more advanced points on the spoke than finding a way to connect two points together.This was all after a four hour play session this evening.
I can’t tell if we’re just getting started or if things just don’t gel together as neatly as they did in Dark Souls. Also, there are so many more fights in this game where you are forced to deal with multiple enemies at once.A little investigating into mechanics, mostly about dodge rolls:
The AGL stat speeds up your dodge roll and also speeds up your item usage, particularly the Estus Flask. Lower equipment load will give you slower stamina drain and will let you dodge roll further. Guess I’m going to start stacking AGL, my biggest issue has been misjudging dodge rolls and having heals take too long.Some other notes from my play:
I think at some point you gain the ability to upgrade rings. I base this on the fact that down the well there’s a +1 Evil eye ring (or whatever the life on kill ring is called). Rats are jerks, particularly when they’re infinitely spawning. So are the guys that want to give you a big ol’ hug. Edit: Oh, and the things you get from the birdies is random. Not sure if it ticks things off on a list, or if it’s a weighted system, or what though.So I just completed the Militia portion of the Titanfall campaign. And yeah, it kinda sucks, but not as badly as I thought it would. I found the intro to be kinda cool.
The voice acting on Graves, Barker, and Blisk is laughably bad. Graves sounds like he is half asleep, Barker sounds like a stoned guy doing an impression of a drunk person, and Blisk… Well yeah, he’s Blisk. I suppose the voice actors for Macallen, Bish, and Sarah did what they needed to do.
The ‘campaign’ is just multiplayer with exposition.
…except you can’t really focus on exposition when you are running from a titan.
Because of this, the plot barely made any sense.
The other major flaw is that losing has no consequence. Take this as an example:
WINNING SCENARIO
Sarah: Okay, we gotta evacuate. I’m sure we have enough intel.
Bish: Yeah, probably.
LOSING SCENARIO
Sarah: Yeah, time to go. I don’t know if we have enough intel.
Bish: We’ll make do.
That’s the campaign in a nutshell. The most confusing thing, though, is that there are five multiplayer game modes, and only two of them are used in the campaign. Surely they could have found a way to integrate Last Titan Standing?
However, since completing the campaign is required to unlock the other Titan types, I will have to do the IMC campaign tomorrow. More time with Blisk!
..yay.
EDIT: I called Macallen Macallister. Home Alone 6 is set on the fronier confirmed.
Wait, @bish is in Titanfall?
GOTY
@bish is indeed in Titanfall. @rize and I had a good laugh about it during the beta. He even gets quoted on some of the ‘burn cards’.
I’ve been meaning to make a Bish joke since the beta. I tend to procrastinate, okay?
They’ve been saying it would be that since they announced there would be a ‘multiplayer campaign’.
It’s not the first game to do it, Brink comes to mind as well.
Yeah, I kind of expected that from the beginning.
I felt Brink was the poorer for it. I was expecting something a bit more directed, some more smoke and mirrors in the way of the lobby-multiplayer-shooter. Also, that fact kinda took me by surprised because it wasn’t well advertised in advance. Titanfall did a much better job of advertising that, which is why I didn’t buy it. Uhm. Good for them! 🙂
Robot Wars! 😀
*smacks head* Of COURSE!
Sure, if I taper in the spires for an oval type shape they have to skew to meet at a particular point, but that’s only around the Y axis – the shape around the Z axis should be circular, so there shouldn’t be any skewing required! Problem solved!
Up until I go and try it out only to find I’m incredibly wrong.
‘kay…
So even though I haven’t read anyone else’s spoiler tags, I now (somewhat ironically) enclose my own meagre Dark Souls 2 progress:
Found shinies pre character creation. Rolled around troll a bit. Pip got home as I got to character create, accidentally finalised having only picked class and item. Restarted for the opening cinematic. Created character correctly, Yaarrgghh the Deprived with naught but a lump of coal. Ran past the tutorials thanks to my aversion to fog gates. Punched some poison attack enemies to death, went back. Died several times to the jumping tutorial since I wasn’t reading the sign’s instructions and assumed controls were the same. That’s it, haven’t really gotten to the actual game yet.Okay, just curious, what has everyone called their Dark Souls II character, and what class did you pick.
I chose a knight, I was gonna call him Tim The Enchanter, but it wouldn’t let me, so I just shortened it to Tim.
I went with… umm… Mike. 😛
Doesn’t really matter in the long-run what starting class you pick. I just went the Sorcerer because I figured it will make some starting fights easier, which it certainly did as you can pick enemies from a distance.
Yaarrgghh the Deprived. It’s become a bit of a tradition for me to go with this sort of class since first struggling through Demon’s Souls.
I have a female Deprived called Relic.
I keep dreaming about the awesome outfits of the other classes though so I’m thinking of going back and using the Explorer. No idea what I’ll call him until I create him, though.
Despite the game probably un-equips it shouldn’t the deprived class still have access to the imported gear set? that looks pretty badass.
It does! I didn’t realise this for about three hours. But it definitely does include the imported gear set.
The DLC? I decided it was cheating and didn’t redeem it yet.
No those starter rags before you spoke to the sisters.
They’re not in my inventory. I checked everything out as soon as I had control.
Really? That’s weird. They were totally in mine! :\
I decided to make a test account and made a deprived, he definitely has the imported set on him, just open up your equip menu it should be there :/
Do you know if that set remains available even after you’ve chosen a different class? Because I agree that it does in fact look pretty badass.
I think its safe to assume every class gets the imported set.
Ralph.
GuyFace2, the Knight.
I am not very good at names.
Primrose the female bandit.
DEPRIVED!
I am a Knight named Qui, gender unknown at this point.
Hapenny Bit the Bandit. He was going to be Tuppence Hapenny but that was too long so now there’s only a fifth of him.
DARK SOULS ii
Yes, finally making some progress.
just defeated all four enemies in the room with ballistas.There’s a ladder behind the ballistas going down, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT OPEN THE CHEST IN THIS ROOM.Nah, you can do it, just roll away really quickly. Or… I don’t know, have a few points in adaptability so your resistances aren’t terrible.A warrior named Ho-Ju.
Damn it.
Iced Earth tonight! I’ll get to meet @cufcfan616!
My planned day of Dark Soulsing has been foiled by my son though. Had to keep him home from school again. He seems fine but he has a bit of a fever. Tried to get him to go watch Jake And The Neverland Pirates in his room but he wants to stay out here so he can see the plumber. 😛
That should be a great show. Big fan of them. I couldn’t afford Iced Earth. I did have a friend shout me out to Avenged Sevenfold and Five Finger Death Punch which was awesome though.
I saw them with Barlow after he returned, but I actually found it painful because he sounded like he was straining and in pain so it was difficult to enjoy. So I’m very much looking forward to seeing them with Stu Block.
Apart from Queen, IE are probably the last of my favourite bands I’ve yet to see live so slightly excited XD I did see Ripper supporting Anthrax with his solo band and they threw in Red Baron which was good, but that’s the closest I’ve been to seeing them until tonight
Would you be keen on seeing Queen with Adam Lambert? Since they’re touring the states this year which may just expand into something bigger. From what I have heard it’s better than their work with Paul Rodgers which was just eh..
Regardless of how he got into the spotlight, the guy can sing and he sings bloody well and has the theatrics necessary for Queen. Paul Rogers was good, but he’s a completely different singer to Freddie so it wasn’t quite right.
I’m hoping that this could lead to maybe one last world tour. Brian May is still the best guitarist ever in my eyes and Roger Taylor was my childhood hero so I’d give anything to be able to see them live
Yeah he can sing for sure, I sometimes forget he started out on American Idol lol. Personally I think it wasn’t right with Paul Rodgers was they were doing Freddies songs. Like Brian Johnson doing Bon Scott songs with AC/DC it just ain’t right.
From what I was reading it sounds like it really might. Must say i’m disappointed John Deacon left the band, but that’s now almost 20 years ago :S I only realised the other day it’s been 20 years since Slash left Guns N’ Roses…
I don’t know how many of you have seen this, but I’m sort of hooked on an alpha build for a game called Mini Metro. Very minimalist but I have it running while watching tv a lot.
Try it here: http://dinopoloclub.com/minimetro/
Edit: My best score so far is 553, but I rarely get past 400
So how about those things that aren’t Dark Souls, hm? I like them.
I bought Pokemon Link Battle last night. Fun! It’s sort of a Pokemon-branded Bejeweled type game. Pretty good for my short train ride.
I kinda wish I had a reason to buy a PS4, too. I’ve got the funds set aside, but it would just be a waste of money at this point. If it was backwards compatible I probably would’ve jumped in already! At least then I could still work through my backlog while I wait for some games. Ah well…
Yeah, I would definitely have a PS4 by now if it was backwards compatible. But I’m so entrenched in “last gen” that I’m not even ready for a new gen. Got so many quality games to finish that I’m actually pretty set gamewise for a long time.
Im slowly making progress on FE, I have all the babbies now. Just got to finally get on with the story!
Also, I feel the same with the PS4, I want one because it’s all new and shiny but there’s literally nothing that I want on it at this point. I mean Infamous will be cool but that’s not even out yet.
Who’s your favourite babby? Mine was Brady. Closely followed by Cynthia.
Ummm, favourites are probably Brady, Morgan and Cynthia. Not particularly in that order.
Cynthia is adorable. I’ve paired her up with Gerome because there personalities are so different. =P
Why can’t the babbies have babbies!?
Who was Brady’s father in your game, by the way? What are their conversations like? (if you’ve done them) I really liked Brady and Donnell’s conversations in my game. Just talked about Maribelle behind her back most of the time 😛
Right!? You should be able to keep making them have babbies until you just get down to 1 babby!
Also, am I the only one creeped out that the Avatar character can marry the babbies? SO DAMN CREEPY!
1 super babby that has amassed every skill available in the game, is both a Taguel and a Manakete at the same time, obtained every stat modifier from having hundreds of parents and takes up four tiles on the map.
Rides a horse that rides a Pegasus that rides a Wyvern.
Henry is the father, I’ve only done the initial conversation which was pretty great. The conversation between Maribelle and Brady are really great.
This is my thought on both now ‘current’ gen consoles. There’s just nothing to make me buy them yet.
Sure, I’d like to play the likes of Infamous or Ryse, but I’m not putting down $500+ for essentially 1 game.
Also, Titanfall is a game that isn’t Dark Souls and that’s what I’m playing!
See I mainly wanted to make sure I got in when I had the capacity to do so because I wanted to be playing Titanfall, Destiny, Watch_Dogs etc on next-gen and didn’t want to fall behind if I wasn’t able to scrape together the funds for an Xbone around now-ish. All the games I really want on the Xbox One would have been available on 360 anyway, but I just wanted the (theoretically) superior experience.
It’s pure indulgence on my part.
I probably should’ve prefaced that with #PCMasterRace
I like buying games cheap on Steam so I can play them again in ten years when my PC is a beast and my Xbox is obsolete. For now, I enjoy my consoles.
Infamous Second Son!
Saying that I haven’t turned mine on in about 6 weeks.. Then again same goes for my PS3, just no motivation to play games.
I’m going to the Veronica Mars Movie tonight.
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/2745106/kermit-yay-flail-o.gif
Wow I don’t think i’ve seen that show in almost 10 years.. All I remember about it is that they used The Dandy Warhols song We Used To Be Friends as the theme music.
I’m pretty sure the show is like 10 years old. I never really understood the hype around it and the desire for resurgence. It’s almost as bad as the obsessive wishing for more Firefly.
That’s why I said it’s been that long since I saw it on TV here 😛 Was like 2005 or something I last recall seeing it on TV lol.
Two shows i’ve never watched, Veronica Mars & Firefly, and I probably never will.
Why have you not watched Firefly?
Never felt the need to 😛 I get enough Sci-Fi sorta stuff from Doctor Who when I decide to watch it.. or when I watch old episode of Star Trek 😛
Dude, watch Firefly.
Nothing like Doctor Who, awesome in it’s own way. Plus it’s a single season.
SO. MUCH. EFFORT.
😛
Firefly may be one of the best shows ever made, you need to become part of the collective that’s pissed off that it was cancelled. Remarkably funny show and really well written & acted. In retrospect its rather unusual how much I love it since I hate with a passion pretty much everything else joss whedon has made.
If I avoid it, I avoid being pissed that it ended though! Flawless logic really 😛
It is ten years old.
I backed the kickstarter because I enjoyed the series but felt it never got the audience it deserved- it was clever, and funny, and new.
Also, unlike Firefly, the premise really could age up well.
I think I got about three episodes into Veronica Mars on it’s original TV run but I never bothered to stick with it. I may have caught one or two episodes near the end of the run but it just didn’t click with me like it seemed to with my peers.
Dark Souls 2 servers are still down.
Wonder if they are keeping them off until people get used to the game so you don’t just constantly get invaded from the start? Sort of an easing in period?
Probably not.
They’re coming up tonight. Sounds like it coincides with the official EU launch of the 14th.
You mean what I was trying to tell people yesterday was right? Imagine that! 😛
SHE’S A WITCH!
Fancy us not being treated differently than Europe… At least we got our own release date.
@freezespreston ETA is roughly 8pm, I’m assuming that’s Sydney time.
Edit: looks like they’re up now, but not 100% stable yet.
They’re up for Xbox!
This week, we push the envelope when we address bestiality, impotency and cosplay head on.
Also the time I found home made porn on a Gameboy Camera I bought from Gametraders.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2014/03/14/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s04e20-and-he-loved-all-of-gods-creatures-equally/
LISTEN, SUB AND TELL YOUR PARENTS!
“Mum, Dad, I think I’ve been touched inappropriately through audio”
Who are you running from?
Scree’s community kudos!
Noms to @shane and @crazyguy1990 for games.
Noms to @sernobulus for lending me games
noms to @lucifer9783 for getting me some wool that I couldn’t get myself.
If you’re not nommed, it doesn’t mean I don’t think you’re awesome!
How goes the GAEMS?
I have been busy working on cosplays =P Sorry
You know, with so many people playing Titanfall, I want to get an opinion poll on xbone to PC users. I suppose I also want to know if anyone has preordered the xbox 360 version. I suppose I just want to know whether Titanfall was successful in getting people to get an xbone. (It also has the added benefit of filtering the PC users from the dirty console peasants)
I am a PC.
Comment your platform below.
Xbone.
Kind of.
I think the download finished at some point while I was asleep.
Edit: Oh, I didn’t notice the other part. Yeah, I bought an Xbone yesterday for Titanfall.
I’m picking up Titanfall tomorrow. I would say Titanfall was only a very small part of my decision to get an Xbone, and I would have done so regardless. I never had any intention of playing it on PC – because my wife and I game pretty equally, the console just makes sharing easier (and some multiplayer games have split-screen support).
I still haven’t seen anything that’s made me want to get either console. At a guess, if it does happen in the future it’ll be a PS4 cause most Xbone draw cards are also coming to PC (which I prefer).
Titanfall on PC!
XBone. I’m in the same camp as @kermitron though, I was always getting one, picked it up at launch. While I have titanfall and I’m enjoying it it was never a deciding factor.
Pc
I restarted Dark Souls II. Realized there’s tutorials at the start. Realized that I actually have to manually level up and not wait like most RPGs. Realized I could lock onto targets. Things got a whole lot easier.
Wait what.
I went straight past all those fog doors at first, because I thought they led somewhere scary. 😛
Same here.
Same, I thought they led to a boss or something.
Got any questions? I may be awful at the game, and I may have hit an obsidian wall where the only ways forward are bosses that smash me, but someone else might be able to help!
When will I meet my BioWare-esque love interest? 😛
You need to be using the “hug” emote on all of the hollows.
Trust me, it works fine.
Past the Dragonrider, on the way to the wharf.It’s like some bizzaro world D.C. that plays Dark Souls… and watches Survivor? 😛
I briefly read some of your Dark Souls II thoughts last night but all I can remember is you not being able to read the text :P. Are you enjoying it so far? Reckon you’ll go back to previous entries?
I haven’t encountered a boss yet. Before I encountered a boss in Dark Souls, I enjoyed that too.
@dc Have you seen this game yet? http://www.firewatchgame.com/
It looks like something you might enjoy. You’ve probably discussed it here already while I wasn’t paying attention. 😛
Ooooh, I’ve been following Campo Santo but didn’t see they actually revealed the game!
THANKS STRANGE! 😀
Looks amaaaaazing!
ARRRRGH, I WANT TO PLAY THIS NOW!
Woah. Love the colour palette of that website. If the game is using the same thing, count me in.
It’s a good chunk of The Walking Dead season one team who left Telltale too. Sean V and Jake R. Gonna be gooood.
That’s one pretty website. The game sounds interesting too.
Woah.. These aren’t exactly making me feel old, just making me realise stuff happened a long time ago, when it doesn’t feel so D=
Perception of time can be a funny thing.
http://9gag.com/gag/a9dX4K1?ref=fsidebar
Thought you may like
I’ll take 8
Okay now THAT would have made me preorder a special edition
Aw, I still have anywhere upto 6 weeks before my prizes from Soundwave arrive 🙁
Complaining because you got prizes?! 😛
Not really when it’s been almost 7 months since I was emailed that I won the comp.. Just think it’s lame everyone (unless they won meet & greets) have to wait until the end of May before any prize will be posted out even if it wasn’t signed :/
Also thanks for making me look like i’m being unappreciative and rude, a smiley face doesn’t make things better either by the way, just makes comments like that look a little more condescending.
And just so it’s known I always had the premise of giving said prize to my mate, since I already have a copy of the album I won. (was a comp that SW hosted after the Alter Bridge fan chat which had about a dozen prizes so it’s not like I entered it just cause I was entitled to, I was really hoping for the meet & greet)
I didn’t make you look like you were being unappreciative and rude, you did that all by yourself.
Edit: Okay, now I’m being condescending. Apologies for that.
If you say so. That’s just your opinion which you’re most welcome to.
Also would like to just say am sorry if I sounded rude, I didn’t mean to (really I didn’t) it just irks me when people jump to conclusions over things I say when they were never intended that way :/
I also like to think if it was me complaining i’d be swearing and calling them useless. I’m just a little disappointed I have to wait until the end of May, when I was emailed all the way back in September being informed I won lol. But at least it’s not as bad as last time when I won something from Soundwave I waited a whole year for that prize lol.
Soundwave is run by some really nice people, and they’ve always been helpful and kind to me when i’ve had to contact them for whatever reason. I’d never complain about them over such a thing, but if they let me pay for postage for the item I wouldn’t be against it honestly! Cause I am pretty sure that’s why I have to wait until end of May, from what I can gather they bulk mail everything for what I can only guess would be a discount rate, which is a fair point in my opinion.
There was no way to turn just the water to the kitchen sink off, so we’ve had the water off at the mains all night. I really need a shower. And something to eat! Haven’t had breakfast because all the frying pans are dirty. I have to leave at 4:15 to meet Mr. Strange for Iced Earth and if it wasn’t Friday I’d be thinking the plumber who was supposed to be here at 9 wouldn’t turn up until then. Being Friday though, I’m imagining he won’t turn up at all. 😛
My building got it’s water turned off without notice a while ago for some maintenance work. Had to survive on the water that was in the kettle 😛
Not any taps under the sink you can turn it off at??
Nope. Apparently there’s supposed to be one, but there’s not. Our house was obviously built by dodgy people.
Okay, now I’m mad. I’m starving and very thirsty because I gave the kids all the water that was in the fridge.
I can’t even go buy anything to eat or drink because I have to wait for this guy! I’d be crying if it wasn’t wasting water. 😛
Got any cottage cheese? Maybe strain it really really well and you can get enough to make a really disgusting cup of coffee…
Cheers for those with the tips the other day to get Dark Souls running for me on Steam. As it turns out this is the first PC game I’ve actually needed GFWL for, so all I had to do was make an account 😐
Worked fine once I did that. Who’d have thought huh? haha.
Only played an hour or so, enough to beat the Asylum Demon but loving it so far. Not sure how it got to be so long before I actually tried this game.
God damn hell sherbet fart breath chip sandwich!
Has anyone figured out how to tell the trapped chests apart yet? That’s the third one I’ve died to and it was after a particularly long stretch of some difficult enemies.
D:
Note to self: don’t open ANY chests.
Edit: Also, upvote is for that incredibly creative awesome cursing. Not for the dying.
Nope, but then I’ve only encountered two, both of which were poison, and I just rolled away and was k.
There’s poison ones? All the ones I’ve got are 360 degree arrow volleys that go straight through my shield.
Yup, same. I think they might be random because I opened the exact same chest as @blaghman and @trjn I got the OP 360 degree crossbow shot, whereas they got the poison.
Having never played Dark Souls, I’m going to assume trapped chests look exactly the same as they do in Kid Icarus.
This is what mimics look like in the original Dark Souls, so close enough. Not sure about Dark Souls 2 though.
You can tell a father by the way he swears.
6pm: “Well, I guess I should probably just pop the disc in so it can do its installation and updates crap, etc. That always takes forever, so when I DO decide to play, I can just play.”
Later…
“Man, I’m getting tired, making a lot more stupid mistakes than I should… I’ve probably been playing too long, I should go back to the bonfire to log out and get some slee–WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE TO BE AT WORK IN HALF AN HOUR?”
Sixteen hours later…
“Man, I’m hungry. Ooh, look, forty-seven messages on my phone. Hey, looks like I’ve been fired. No time to worry about that. DARK SOULS.”
You don’t get fired until the third day you fail to show up without reason…
Hah! I was going to link that to Shane too!
Alright
Im Rocketman
AMA
i mean anything, im a open book, do your worst
Why would a wood chuck waste its time chucking wood instead of hanging out with you?
Because it likes wood and i would probably confuse it for a red panda and hug it to death?
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck was still getting over a lingering leg injury and cracked tooth? The disability payments aren’t really covering the bills (adding unwanted stress), and he can only work part-time now.
What is the worst you have ever done in a school exam or assignment and what is the story behind it?
One of my favourite teachers in highschool gave me a D fortunately he let me redo the assignment. I was in grade 9 and i really didnt have to put in any actual effort into assignments to get a B. Often i would wait until the day before to complete anything.
I found SOSE particularly easy because my favourite teacher made everything easy and it was no effort. One assignment was a 200 word essay on aquatic environments. I wrote it in the class before. He failed it and i re wrote it at lunchtime and managed to get a B when i actually researched. Nothing to bad really. I wish now that he would of just failed me because it would of taught me a lesson better.
What is your best Rocketman moment?
Girl i liked and i were staying in a hotel room. I jokingly pushed her, she fell off the bed and broke her wrist.
#ohrocketman
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Are you half rocket, half man? If so, which half?
Rocket in the pocket BROOO
Is that a reference to size, velocity, or it being covered in heat proof tiles?
i would say speed not velocity because i have no direction in life.
Physics joke o/
In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy’s skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we, to believe that this is some sort of a, a magic xylophone or something?
Do you and Elton John still keep in contact?
Not as much lately, when he turned gay he thought he was too good to be my friend.
I’ve had this mark on my arm for about a week. Do you think it’s something I should worry about?
only if you got it fork jousting and it had seafood on it before that.
If @dkzeitgeist was an animal, what kind of animal do you think he would be?
A Danimal.
Already am.
Ladies, take note.
@rocketman
a platypus
Because scientists can’t explain it?
It’s like you people want me to pry into your lives or something…
… I’m not complaining >:)
– What’s the most scared you’ve ever been?
– Whats your self assigned spirit animal and why?
– What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever done?
– What TV show are you most ashamed of liking?
– What two words would your best friend use to describe you (bonus points for asking @blaghman rather than guessing)
1) Getting a haircut is scary. But when i was in Sydney i was mugged and that shit be terrifying.
2) Red panda, they are the most adorable, clumsy and curious creature ever and they always make me happy and i like to think i make people happy with my silliness.
3)We don’t have time for all of them but i think vomiting on the receptionist at the work Christmas party and when she very graciously drove me home i went in for the kiss is probably the most embarrassed i’ve been.
4) I enjoy al ot of anime and in particular a anime about relationships and drama i dont like telling people about it. Its called Golden TIme and i love it soo
5) Probably “oh Rocketman”
Glad I’m not the only one terrified of haircuts.
EDIT: You weren’t being sarcastic, were you? I might have to do a dc and edit my comment.
DARK SOULS II
Finally encountered my first boss, I was at 50% health thanks to dying so much, so I promptly got my arse handed to me. Used a Human Effigy, got the boss down to 50% health this time before I died.
I can see a lot of people are going to hit a wall, and not be able to progress in this game, from not being able to farm souls due to enemies not respawning, I know there’s some item you can use to make them respawn again, but I think that it makes them even more difficult to defeat and when you’re stuck at 50% health and have no Human Effigies it’s gonna make it impossible to progress.
Servers will be back up soonish (apparently) so summoning should hopefully help people stuck on bosses.
cant remember where I read this, but apparently…
if you invade & kill enough players, your health can go lower than 50% of its max, to 10%. yeah. try progressing at all with 10% max health.Edit: perhaps a good way of looking at it is that your 50% health is your actual health. try to learn to survive on that, as best you can. burning an effigy just gives you a temporary bonus to help you get through tough areas.
He’s pretty easy once you see his patterns and figure out where to run. Bosses are more a puzzle than something to be brute forced.
Just defeated him on about the tenth go by the skin of my teeth.
Did you cash in The Last Giants soul? I’ve decided to save it for now.Nah. Souls are easy enough to come by and there will be a weapon or something I can make with it once I figure it out.Woo! I am getting a game about viking boats from a Kiwi man!
I was tempted by that one. Did you go the higher tier that let you get another couple of his games thrown in?
Nah, just the base game
can someone get me a good image of the praise the sun guy’s sun?
I am trying to find out the dots placement
Solaire of Astora!
http://darksouls.wikia.com/wiki/Warrior_of_Sunlight?file=Warrior_of_Sunlight.png
http://ih2.redbubble.net/image.13473508.8786/fc,550×550,white.u1.jpg
Dark Souls II
I’m not playing Dark Souls IITitanfall
I’m not playing Titanfall either🙁
Get out.
… to the shops and buy Dark Souls 2
Why the shit would I want to do that when I can play it at twice the resolution with a stable framerate in a month? If at all, since every detail I hear about the game makes it sound utterly broken.
Tell me if you’re still enjoying it in a week or two when the online stuff is working and you’re constantly being invaded and losing health and souls as a result.
Wait, you can tell the future? Why don’t you share some lottery numbers then?
I can’t tell you the numbers because then we’d have to share the prize pool, but I’ll let you have a hint: in the next Tattslotto / Saturday Lotto draw the numbers will be between 1 and 40.
*gets out notepad*
I’m definitely going to win.
Titanfall
I’m not playing TitanfallDark Souls II
I’m not playing Dark Souls II. Yet. Until the PC release.🙂
just throwing it out there, but I am unreasonably hyped for Pillars of Eternity.
Hyped for this too.
I was hyped for The Witcher 3 for this year as well but that’s not happening any more 🙁 So I guess this is basically the only high-profile Western RPG coming out this year aside from Dragon Age 3?
yeah. shame about witcher 3, but like you said – still got DA:I & PoE to come!
also, though they’re not Fantasy RPGs, there’s Shadowrun Returns, (which is completely rad & I hope they keep releasing campaigns for it) & I’ve been keeping an eye on Satellite Reign, which also looks pretty cool.
I backed Shadowrun but haven’t played it yet. Satellite Reign isn’t an RPG though, is it? I was pretty sure when I backed it it was basically a quasi-sequel to Syndicate.
EDIT: Also was Cyberpunk 2077 from CD Project a 2014 or 2015 game? I wonder if they’ll push it back with The Witcher being pushed so as not to overlap too much (different dev teams working on the games)
ohh… get on that Shadowrun thing. finished the first campaign a few days ago & loved it.
as for SR… nah, it’s not RPG exactly, but from what I’ve seen / read, the combat reminds me of a really fun tactical RPG I played years ago. wish I could remember what it was called…
also, Blackguards. been keeping an eye on that too. just waiting for it to be on sale.
Is Dark Souls the Future of Videogame Storytelling?
Oh god, I hope not. Dark Souls is terrible when it comes to story telling.
I actually enjoyed the story telling. Didn’t force a story down your throat if you didn’t want it.
Yeah, like the good Ser Nobs, I love how Dark Souls tells story.
Grudgingly, under interrogation.
The point in the video is the story in Dark Souls is implied, not cutscene-to-the-faced.
The backstory of Dark Souls is implied, which is really no different to most other games. The actual narrative itself is poorly constructed and exists solely to move players from point A to B to C around the gameworld. Also, there’s nothing wrong with cutscenes as a narrative tool in video games.
I would raise the counterpoint that there’s plenty wrong with cutscenes as a narrative tool in videogames – they’re a non-interactive element in an interactive medium.
But that’s like saying comics shouldn’t have words because they’re primarily a pictorial medium rather than a literary medium, or that movies shouldn’t have sound and should exist solely as visual entertainment.
Good storytelling does what it has to to tell a good story, and if that means blending together multiple ways of telling a story then so be it.
There’s a saying that springs to mind: if gameplay gets in the way of telling a story, then why make a game?
I don’t really think those parallels are representative of what I am saying. Cutscenes are a passive process that take you away from playing a game. Words don’t stop you reading a comic, but a set audio track might make it harder. Audio doesn’t stop you watching a movie, but pausing for a game of musical chairs in the theatre probably would.
Cutscenes are still a way to convey a story, but they’re completely disjointed from the way we experience a game. QTEs have been about the best halfway point I’ve seen to compromise on this.
I don’t think having a cutscene is in anyway saying that gameplay is getting in the way of the story.
@dire_wolf And this is where our opinions differ on the matter. Ain’t it grand having a good contrast of thoughts and opinions around here, since it would be a really boring world if we all thought exactly the same way.
Man I totally agree. For me games are about the gameplay – that must come first.
If I want a really awesome story I will read a book which is 100% story. If I want to watch something I will go do that.
Games I play to play.
I’ll say this at the outset: I love narrative games, I love The Last of Us, Uncharted etc, but the way they give information isn’t gamey- it’s filmy.
While I do have issues with the filmy elements of it, the best part of The Last of Us is the entirely gamey decision I, as a player, made at the end.
That’s exactly what a narrative in games should do! Move you from point to point, way too many games seem to say, “Go to point B, but first I’m going to tie you to this chair and force feed you this story that will completely break all immersion.”
I feel the opposite. Because of the way Dark Souls tells its story I feel in no way immersed in the world. I am very aware that I’m playing a game when I play it.
It all comes down to personal opinion I suppose. When a cutscene is happening it feels like someone has taken the controller out of my hand and is explaining the game to me.
Uh, you are playing a game? Not watching a movie. That was the point the video was trying to make. Dark Souls uses the conventions of gaming to tell a story rather then trying to build a game around a narrative.
And it tells a poor story because of that.
I know I’m playing a game; a game that doesn’t immerse me in it’s story or world. Look at a game like The Last of Us. When I’m walking around the world, when the cutscenes aren’t playing (I emphasise that to starve off any “go watch a movie then” comments), I feel immersed in the story and world, because it’s a game constructed with a narrative in mind. Because it wants to tell you a story. Dark Souls isn’t like that. It’s a game first, with a narrative hamfisted in because it’s assumed that a game will have a story, even if it’s a poor one. It’s the same as a Mario game giving you the “go save the princess” plot in order to get you running through a bunch of crazy worlds.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Dark Souls, but I like it on a pure gameplay level. As a storytelling game it completely falls flat with me, and because of that I hope other games don’t try to emulate it in the future.
@dire_wolf
That is exactly the problem I have with cutscene heavy games. If you take away all the cutscenes all you have is someone walking around shooting / stabbing people. The story and reason is presented to you when a cutscene plays. Every hour or so after running around the game forces the controller out of your hand to remind you that you are infact playing a game.
Dark Souls on the other hand drops you in a world and gives you a very specific goal. “Kill Gwyn and light a bonfire”. Yeah sure, it sounds very vague but if you do research into the mission (through item descriptors / NPC conversation) you can find out who Gwyn is, why he needs to die and what the deal with the bonfire is. The game rarely takes the controller off you to remind you “BTW, you’re playing a game”.
That’s the problem, the game wants to tell you a story. In the end, your input is basically not necessary because it’s the game telling the story, not the player experiencing the story.
It’s a bit Ren Faire at times with the voice acting and the overblown nature of it and the daft names like the Furtive Pygmy and stuff, but the way it tells the story is really interesting.
EDIT: Note that it’s also what made games like Ico and Shadow of the Colossus so interesting to people, and a lot of the best parts of games like Bioshock. The story’s told through clues and hints and proximity of stuff to each other and the general environment and everything, and it’s basically optional.
It’s also interesting because while some of it is simply just overblown, there’s also a lot of it which is overblown for reasons only a game can be. You have to go to Anor Londo because you’re the chosen one, and then rekindle the flame, because you’re the chosen one, and only you can save us all, and so forth. And it’s great, because you don’t question what the game states to you, when you REALLY really should.
I’ve been questioning every step I’ve taken in the game.
So a Knight tells you to complete his mission of ringing two bells. Fair enough. There’s a prophecy about a Chosen Undead ringing those bells. Guess that’s you. Still fair enough. Something special is meant to happen when you ring the bells. What does that special thing turn out to be? A giant opens a gate.That there is where the narrative started to really fall flat for me. I already thought the whole ring two bells thing for no reason other than you’re told to was a bit weak, but what happens when you ring those two bells is just poor. I mean, who the hell put all this together? I’m going to build a bell here, and then another bell all the way down here, and then if they’re both rang my specially trained giant is going to open this gate. I mean, how were people supposed to enter the fortress normally? Were there other entrances? It looks like there might have been. Why didn’t my undead just take one of those to get in? And I know gameplay/story segregation is always going to be a thing, but why couldn’t my undead just climb the walls? What was so special about those damned bells? And how long was that giant sitting there waiting to hear those bells? What if it had been killed before I rang them? This whole prophecy might have been unravelled before it even began.
And why do I even go into the fortress anyway? At that point I’ve completed the task the Knight set for me. I’ve fulfilled the prophecy of ringing the bells. The only reason to go in is pure curiosity. Once I am in, I run through to an arbitrary point in the fortress and get carried up to Anor Londo by some bat things. What?
Again, let’s look at what the story for that would be. Someone had to set it up so that when the Chosen Undead reaches a certain point in Sen’s Fortress the bats swoop down and carry them to Anor Londo. Why couldn’t the bats just carry me up there the moment I set foot at the Firelink Shrine after being carried there by a giant bird (which is also a massive what). Why couldn’t I just walk/climb to Anor Londo if it was so important I get there. Was the entirety of Sen’s Fortress, the entirety of every place before that, set up solely so the Chosen Undead could pointlessly navigate their way through it and end up at Anor Londo?
And why am I even in Anor Londo in the first place? Because I’m the Chosen One and I’m meant to be there? What am I supposed to do here? I’m just mindlessly running forward because I’ve got nothing else to do.
So when I say the game’s story feels arbitrary and poorly constructed, that’s what I’m talking about.
See, the Anor Londo thing is where it picked up for me.
You’re in Anor Londo not because ‘it’s what next’, but because ‘that’s where the thing you want is’. We’re told it’s the home of the gods, which now lies abandoned because they all fled from it. For… what reason? We don’t know. The joy is imagining it, seeing the hints and clues to it, piecing together the various stories that lie underneath which totally don’t relate to you in any way. Such as the banishment of the god of war, third child of Gwynn, the removal of their statues about the city. Things start to make sense retrospectively as you find out something that relates to an area you’ve already passed through, and when you re-visit it, it makes more sense.What do you know about the flooding of New Londo until you actually get there and hear about it from a character? What you know about Lifedrain and the Abyss and the fall of the Four Kings is all pieced together from different sources, so you’re not being told the story… you’re discovering the story. Which I find incredibly refreshing.
The bells awaken Kingseeker Frampt who tells you what’s going on. Sen’s opening up is a secondary effect of the bells.
Well, I completely missed him. The game gave me zero indication to his existence.
Well, you remember going through an area with a snoring sound? Bell of awakening?
It’s one of those things where you have to pay attention and piece it all together. It can be a bit too obtuse at time which is a common complaint even amongst fans.
I thought awakening refered to the giant waking up and the sounds were made from the crow (since they only started after it showed up).
The game gave you a few indications, you just missed them. You can’t blame Dark Souls’story for you being inattentive in a game where paying attention is the singlemost important part of the gameplay.
7:07 “Novels let you inhabit someone’s mind.”
The picture is of a book with ‘Lolita’ on it. I don’t think I want to inhabit that sort of mind.
8:00 When the guy was talking about omni-directional controllers and wheelchairs, all I could think of was an fps where you are in a wheelchair. KICKSTARTER THIS SHIT.
Huh. Katy Perry’s Firework matches up with the song Let it Go from Frozen.
I really am in complete awe over mashup artists. With exceptions like GirlTalk they generally make no money due to copyright reasons. But their ear for finding two songs that work together makes me jealous.
Like the time they mixed KoRn and Taylor Swift, or Justin Beiber and Slipknot. I mean, what? How do you even figure out that works?
And on a game related note, Ludacris vs Super Smash Bros. selection screen song.
https://soundcloud.com/tokyomegaplex/how-low-can-you-smash-bro
Lady Gaga vs Pokemon Theme Song (Pokemon live for the Applause)
What am I doing with my life.
Screw it.
I’m going in deeper.
If I’m not out in three hours, send in a rescue party with a Metallica album blaring, please.
http://megamanmetallica.ytmnd.com/
??
Well, that was the first time I have ever witnessed a Lady Gaga music video. I’d rather not have to go through that kind of trauma again.
Remixes and Mashups fill a decent third of what I listen to. There are people out there who seamlessly blend 10+ songs together in one piece that blend so smooth it’s crazy.
I’m fond of Never Gonna Give You Up/Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
So I’m working through the combined birthday/world’s greatest shave morning tea held nearby, and the noisy group eventually disperses, but one of my coworkers comes over and she tells me authoritatively, “Get a brownie. Do it. Quickly.”
I arch an eyebrow but shrug and amble over. There’s only three left. That’s weird, I saw them setting up, that was a frickin’ huge crateload of brownies, like two baking trays worth. Yeah, I like brownies and all, but there’s kind of a limit to–OH. MY. GOD.
So my brain shuts down for a moment and I exist only as a being of pure pleasure.
Another coworker wanders past and eyes the tables disinterestedly. “Bit left.”
I tell her, “Go to that box, get a brownie. Just do it. Now!”
“Hm? Uh, OK I guess? Really though, I’ve already had some chocolate today, how good can a brownie be? … OH. MY. GOD..”
“Right?!”
“How… who… I don’t even… oh my god. I need to sit down.”
There’s one left. For a brief moment, my lizardbrain says, “EAT IT! QUICKLY SO NO-ONE KNOWS WHAT YOU DID,” but the human part says, “No. You know what you need to do, my son.”
I think one of the things about humanity is that while we may be petty, self-centered creatures most of the time – as a matter of deeply-ingrained survival instincts – the thing that defines us is that we know when something transcends survival or pleasure, and becomes a matter of enriching the species as a whole. Such that we feel compelled to share those precious, rare moments when our consciousness of existence itself can be elevated. I knew one of my coworkers had missed out as well, and it became vitally important for me to deliver this message of pure, distilled hope and cosmic harmony.
If only the entity who conjured these motes of the divine had channeled their efforts into restoring peace between nations… These brownies, in the right place? All differences would be instantly forgotten. But the evidence is plain: the will of such a being is ineffable, but cannot be anything but the wisests of the wise and kindest of the benevolent.
Nic also totally missed the morning tea. There is only one decision. Charged with righteous purpose, I abscond with the final brownie/message of hope, and deliver it unto him.
…Turns out he’s super committed to dieting before his wedding to look good in wedding photos BROWNIE FOR ME. SCORE.
(I could not do it. I packaged it in camouflage in the fridge and will deliver it to the coworker who was not here today.)
How did 2 trays of brownies turn into 3 individual pieces so quickly? Did someone fudge the numbers?
You are invited to my funeral to deliver the eulogy. If you can turn eatting a brownie into that, you can turn my brilliant life into the new bible.
He’ll take the podium, clear his throat and say
“Oh Rocketman” while shaking his head.On the 5th day rocketman rose from the graveyard… with a massive hangover
you’d start so many holy wars….
Need cardboard.
Don’t want to leave the house.
Probably need petrol to get cardboard.
Don’t want to go get petrol.
Someone invent magic already.
Accio petrol
actually dont do that, magic is dangerous unless you are extremely specific.
So long as you mentally focus on the target well you can avoid being verbally specific, and it ends up fairly safe. Just a matter of practice.
Magic is very dangerous and destabilizing to the world, so only the super-powerful curators of human civilization are allowed to use it. Just like the anti-cancer/anti-aging technologies that have been invented but can’t be distributed due to their dangers.
Why magic when you can just wish for a cardboard home delivery service? At least that’s possible if a bit mental
I’m in front of a boss gate, ~25k souls and there’s 2 chests sitting in front of me.
Fuck you Dark Souls. Y U DO DIS 2 ME?
I would go straight back to Majula and use those souls to level up ASAP, lest you lose them in the boss fight.
Can I ask where you’re up to, and what you’ve been doing (just curious)?
No Mans Wharf. Turns out the chests on the boat were just decoration. Not sure why they used the chests instead of anything else. That boss was a joke though. Beat him first time and only got hit once.Oh, yeah, those chests got me too. Spent a few minutes running around them, hoping to find the right angle, before I remembered that this wasn’t AssCreed. And yeah, was talking with Bunny and Nob at the time, and Bunny’s like “this boss is so easy.” So I was worried that it would take me thirty goes because that’s just what happens, but it was remarkably simple.I have water again! Time to go celebrate at McDonalds!
wrote out a reply to that (spoilers: it was a pun) but decided it was really, really bad. even for me.
Water you waiting for! Post it already!
Obviously doesn’t want the torrent of puns that are sure to follow.
That’s why you post it, cause it is really, really bad.
Yeah, don’t be a wet blanket.
There was an email chain I was part of at work, trying to fix a data issue in a program that was literally built in 1987.
I knew that one of the people was very fundamentalist christian, so when the issue got fixed instead of writing my usual “Thank God!” I wrote “Praise the sun.”
I hit send before I realised what I’d done. I don’t even play Dark Souls.
SEE WHAT YOU’VE DONE TO ME PEOPLE!
Praise the Sun! <3
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Jolly Cooperation!
If only I could be so grossly incandescent!
I know that it’s super weird for me, as a 30-year-old man, to be interested and kind of excited for this, but there’s finally some details for the new Sailor Moon anime.
It looks like it’s a complete remake and do-over. I wonder if they’ll dig out all the original voices or re-cast it.
I would be lying if I said I wasn’t interested
I think anyone who says they arent interested wasnt allowed to watch tv in the morning in the late 90’s early 00’s
Hell, I’m interested and I wasn’t allowed to watch tv in the morning in the late 90s and early 00s!
Implication laws!
Square is a rectangle but that doesn’t mean a rectangle is a square 😛
I wasn’t meant to be… but occasionally i saw an episode.
which made it very hard to follow the story. so it’ll be kinda nice actually knowing the story.
I dunno if this is a reflection of the original or not, but the story isn’t exactly going to win awards, it’s basically monster-of-the-week stuff. The only point where it really got something interesting going was in Sailor Moon S (third season) in the second arc where they had the
lesbianscousins Uranus and Neptune, among a couple of others.Of course then the producers had a collective brainfart and decided that they wanted to pitch it at little girls again so re-worked the show so that Chibi-usa, a contender for Worst Character Ever, was basically made into the lead character and thus basically scuttled the whole anime franchise. 🙁
Hey that’s me!
Fighting evil by moonlight
First boss fight in Dark Souls II. Not doing too badly. Obviously, I was killed ten times before I hit the ground… but I got a quarter of the guys health down. That’s got to count for something? Plus! Opened short cut so the guy is only like three seconds away. (Unlike Taurus Demon who made me go ten minutes only to die in three seconds. XD)
The evil part of me relishes in your suffering, since it helps reinforces that I’m not the worst at this game ever. And then I hit a boss fight and die horribly repeatedly, so I’m really just a spiteful prick.How do you restore your maximum health?
Use a human effigy. Later on you can find a ring that makes it so you can’t lose so much health.
Thanks man!
Be a human?
That means nothing to me. Haha!
Trjn’s thing worked though!
Have you found any aromatic ooze or gold pine resin or such? It should make the fight a bit easier for you.
No, but the fights not too hard. Just keep making the same mistakes. Try to get too many strikes in at once instead of pacing myself.
Same mistake I was making.
An all round good idea is to try and keep your stamina bar above the halfway point so that you can always roll/attack as needed. Stamina management is pretty much the key to dealing with a lot of boss fights.
Noted! I’ll keep that in mind come leveling up season! 😀
http://www.buyolympia.com/q/Item=campo-santo-firewatch-print
Arrrgh! I want this print! So, so pretty! Already have the image as my backdrop on my PC AND Twitter. Colour palette is amaaaazing.
Was it @strange who linked the game on an earlier page? (thanks Strange! didn’t hear about it until then :D)
I just looked at the team members, some (ex?) Double Finers! Olly Moss too 😀
Also the season one folks from The Walking Dead! (Head writer!)
Whoa!
Although…
(The Walking Dead Game Season 1 Spoilers)
He could’ve been the one who made Ben an idiot! 😛Any one watching the FX series The Americans. Three eps into season two now. So great. Keri Russell in particular is amazing every week.
Man, I really need to get back into that. Still got half a dozen shows I’m partway through though.
Season two has been even better than the first!
I need to get me some of that, I loved the first series!
Can some Dark Souls 2 peeps test something for me?
Can one of you do a gesture (any gesture) and try rolling out of it midway through for me?
Also, has anyone tried the whole duel wielding weapons, and if so, does it work well?
I’m trying to think of a build I eventually want to play as before getting it :\
Early indications were that animations could be cancelled, but I’m having a hard time figuring out how. Can’t find any evidence this is the case. Can’t cancel a heal halfway through, can’t get out of a backstab halfway through. I’ll test this specific gesture-cancel later tonight, but don’t hold out hope.
Yep. Works fine.
The duel wielding, or cancelling gestures? Cause if both things work well then that would be awesome!
Cancelling gestures. Nob down there says dual wielding works great so both I guess.
I’m currently duel wielding (currently using a Fire Longsword / Broad Sword). It’s great against “non-boss” enemies. Most things you can keep pretty well stun locked.
Hmm, interesting…
I might make a duel wield build then! 😀
Thanks!
OK, so how does dual-wielding work? I equipped a dagger in each hand on my dude, but he never attacked with both at the same time. L1/L2 and R1/R2 both do normal/strong attacks for either hand, and tapping or holding triangle only made me two-hand right or left weapon alternately. I couldn’t find any kind of dual-wield stance, just hitting L1 and R1 after each other, which was no faster or more stamina-efficient than just repeatedly slashing with one dagger on its own.
Edit: The Internet tells me you need to have 1.5x the stat requirements of your weapons before you can get the special dual-wield stance.
http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6958291/20-people-giving-each-other-handjobs-for-the-first-time-brilliant-web-parody-jerk-off-first-kiss
This is brilliant if a little NSFW (no nudity)
You lost me.
I really liked the original, so I dunno if I’ll be happy with a parody forever TAINTING the memory. 🙁
…I’m’a watch it anyway. 😛
I figured I would put up an overall progress report on character creation for the Pathfinder stuff, to give everyone an idea of how the party is shaping up:
– @redartifice the Elven Rogue
– @f4ction the Gnomish Gunslinger
– @tech_knight the Elven Sorcerer
– @freezespreston the Human Barbarian
– @sernobulus (undecided)
– @negativezero the Kitsune Sorcerer
– @steve-o_the_deve-o (undecided but leaning towards a Druid of some sort)
– @beeawwb (undecided)
– @rize (undecided but potentially a Half-Orc Ranger or a Dwarven Fighter)
My apologies if I missed anyone’s post or email saying what sort of character they were planning to play. In case you guys were wondering, yes you can purchase healing potions of various qualities so a cleric or other dedicated healer is not required (basically pick whatever you want and we can work things out). I’ll be working on world-building this weekend and other stuff so I should have something more concrete to tell you all next week.
P.S. I will still be writing the Numenera recap and that should be coming out early to mid next week.
Edit: Added in people’s choices.
FYI I’m currently looking at a Half-Orc Ranger or a Dwarven Fighter.
I was strongly considering Summoner but after reading through combat with it it looks like it’ll add waaaay too much time to combat rounds.
Yeah, lock me in as the above, by the way.
Oh man, if @tech_knight is affiliated with the “high” elves I can see arguments in our future.
It’ll only end in arguments if you get caught.
Well I’m thinking of my guy begun as a noble-born that’s fallen from grace due to his Abyssal bloodline being more prominent due to him becoming a Sorcerer. I doubt he’ll get along with a lot of people 😛
So a standoffish elf who can shoot lightning from his fingers and is already in cahoots with demons.
Giving us a bad name already. Pointy Eared git.
Says the elf who thrives on hiding and stabbing unsuspecting people while they’re not looking. Going to steal from some merchant again are you, filthy blooded hooligan? 😛
And I do it all without making plans in high castles or whining about how “The seasons are changing” or “The augurs bode poorly” or “ooh dearie me the high magicks are tasting of elderberry this year”
LUNDGREDOLPH IS TIRED OF THE WHINY NOISES! *bashes heads together*
Lundgredolph better check if he still has his wallet and exactly which organ that dagger is pressing against.
Puny elf @redartifice better make sure he gets it right. Puny elf gets one chance.
If we end up needing a healer I could probably swap. I found a sweet build the other day while researching Oracle stuff because I was looking at that, where you take Oracle with the Life mystery to get the Life Link ability, then dual-class to Paladin for Lay on Hands. Every day you Life Link with all the party (last forever) and their damage is transferred to you, and you use the Paladin’s ability to Lay on Hands on themselves as a swift action to heal that damage. Plus dipping into Oracle you get all the cure and inflict spells as you go. So you basically build up with a 50/50 split between Paladin and Oracle.
I can’t help but think that a Paladin laying hands on himself is a dude in plate mail hugging himself.
Not quite what I was imagining.
Other option might be a little awkward in-battle.
“I have to touch myself to keep standing up”
“I touch myself” is now a prayer to Moradin.
Someone I used to play with very cunningly pointed out that a touch spell does not specify what part of the body you need to touch, nor what part of the body you must use to deliver touch spells.
Let us just say that things became rather awkward after that.
I thought Lay on Hands was only swift if cast on someone other than yourself? I might have it backwards though…
Other way around. Standard action if targeting another character, swift if healing yourself. Hence why Paladins make excellent tanks.
Just looked at the source I read about it from and you’re right. It was just written terribly so I misread it 😛
No worries 🙂 . A lot of the descriptions are confusingly written which has sparked endless debates and how a certain rule should be applied. If there is any issue like that, I will houserule it and apply it from then on.
Good. I always prefer running on houserules to end disputes as quickly as possible. Makes it more fun for all.
Oh, I was going to ask. How do you feel about the Dhampire race? Because I was thinking either a Dhampire Inquisitor or a Half-Orc Drunken Brawler Monk
I guess I could probably go a Half-Orc Inquisitor. I just really like the idea of an Inquisitor. A paladin that isn’t a “goody-two-shoes” twat.
Everyone knows Half Orcs make the best Bards.
Oh man, that’s an amazing idea. Half-Orc bard is very tempting =P
I’ve always thought if I did it it would basically be Tom Waits.
Basically the guitarist from a Swedish folk metal band? 😛
I was hoping faerie or sprites were a playable race and was going to make a Fairy Barbarian.
WHO BELIEVES IN FAIRIES NOW BITCHES
The closest you can get to a Fairy is a Gnome and I have seen Gnome Barbarians before. They are often hilarious but ultimately underpowered compared to the other races.
An Inquisitor is certainly fine in this world and yes, if you want to, a Dhampire is a playable race. It won’t be anywhere along the lines of you bursting into fire when in direct sunlight but you will be slightly uncomfortable in the sun (that’s effectively what dazzled means; the gameplay effect is that you suffer a -1 penalty on sight-based perception checks and attack rolls).
Lore-wise, there are vampires in this world and not all of them are bad and trying to murder everyone. Some definitely are but others are more content to just live and let live. That might give you some ideas when creating a backstory.
@sernobulus:
You can take the Dayborn racial trait to offset the light sensitivity but it means giving up your ability to detect undead.
Also you might want to look at the Kinslayer archetype. It’s a vampire/undead-hunting inquisitor that can be expanded to hunt werewolves as well, and you get the detect undead spell back that you lose from taking Dayborn, with a bonus to identify vampires.
Check out the Blackguard prestige class.
That often synergises well with an Antipaladin but you can choose to be an evil Inquisitor and go into Blackguard. I’ll just need to read up on it as I don’t think it has a Pathfinder equivalent yet (someone’s probably translated it across anyway so it should be fine).
I don’t necessarily want to be evil but I just don’t want to be a pansy / prick that paladins are.
Lawful Good =/= Lawful Stupid.
A proper lawful paladin upholds and strives towards justice, but doesn’t follow blindly- they believe in order and fairness, not ITS THE LAW AND WE SHOULD FOLLOW IT.
A lawful good paladin is perfectly in character opposing slavery, for example, even if it’s within the laws of the current location.
On the flip side however, a lawful good character is more likely to respect the laws of the land. Yes he may oppose slavery on a personal level but rather than freeing the slaves by breaking them out, he would be more likely to engage in negotiation with the local government or perhaps even buy the slaves and then release them. Lawful generally means that you adhere to some form of order, whether it be personal or societal, however societal order is generally preferred as a lawful character (even a lawful evil character who are more likely to want to conquer and rule over their subjects).
^ What he said. =P
Atleast, that’s how I’ve always viewed them.
That’s lawful stupid.
A Paladin has strength in their convictions, and will intervene and fight for what they feel is right, but they will work within the system to achieve their ends, not execute people on the spot for minor infractions.
I thought the whole thing of Paladins was they MUST adhere to the temple teachings / kings. Sure, they may personally be against it but they have sworn to follow their god. What you are suggesting sounds more like a neutral good character, “Follow the Laws but be willing to bend / break them for a higher purpose”.
Paladins must follow the teachings of their god and uphold the tenets of their faith. They must also seek to work within the bounds of the law of the kingdom/empire/whatever as unnecessary chaos does not help them. Even if they strongly suspect that a local lord is really a demon in disguise, they won’t go marching through the lord’s soldiers and kill them in order to slay a greater evil. They will try and defeat evil by causing as little damage to the surroundings as possible.
@sernobulus Pallys follow teachings, but they understand them as well- They understand that sometimes the law gets in the way of good, and that that will always be a test of faith.
Basically they favour honour and compassion within a lawful framework, but aren’t absolutists- if a corrupt official is doing evil within the confines of the law, they will oppose it. If a moneylender is loan sharking, despite its legality, they will deal with them- also within the confines and tools of the law.
A lawful good character can be a prosecutor, or a defender.
Following on from that, the best comparison to the mentality of a common type of Lawful Good is a Space Marine from 40K. They will fight for the Imperium and not flinch in their duty, often blindly following the orders of the Emperor and their Chapter Masters without question. Hence why Lawful Good characters fall so hard into evil because it is a straight reversal of their alignment.
Also, I realise that that is a case of Lawful Stupid but it gives a general idea on how the alignment system will function. Basically, if you can justify it on a personal level (and I may require you to justify a decision you’re making in the game), then there are no really rigid “You must do this, you must be that” type of roleplaying requirements. I’m not about to penalise you if you stray outside of your alignment but if you do something that is starkly different to your alignment, then I will probably either nudge you back towards your chosen alignment or ask if you feel an alignment change is necessary (alignment changes often happen after extreme events that shake your character to the core of their morality).
In short, your alignment is a reflection of your character’s morality. It should give you an idea on how you play your character but your alignment is not the be-all and end-all of your character. Your character will have more depth and reasons for doing things than just a few words that describe one aspect of your personality.
@popdart5: I disagree. Lawful doesn’t mean they follow the letter of the local law, it means they have an internal code of ethics or morality which they must always adhere to. Peace, order and adherence to fair laws are the goal. The Paladin’s code of conduct is paramount and trumps any contradicting law. They answer to a higher power.
Given that that code usually involves avoiding murder, offering mercy, respecting authority and so on, a Paladin would still try and work within the bounds of the law, but only to a point. I doing so will not fix an injustice then their code requires them to act.
Using your superhero comparison, think The Avengers. Iron Man is Chaotic Good, Hulk is Neutral Good, and Captain America and Thor are both Lawful Good, but Thor is the Paladin. 😛
Are you familiar with the Order of the Stick webcomic? One of my favourite examples of a Chaotic Good character is Lord Shojo who does good things in a way that either bends the laws of his kingdom or outright ignores them.
Actually, a better analogy would be superheroes. Superman is Lawful Good (except for the few times he flips out) and Chaotic Good is more along the lines of The Question. Batman is more Neutral Good (often disregards the law of Gotham for a more personal code of honour).
Absolutely love Order of the Stick 🙂
Batman terrorizes criminals, breaks laws and constantly assaults people, all for his own personal satisfaction. And that’s when he’s not being a millionaire executive. He’s every bit the sociopath that the people he targets are. Chaotic Neutral.
But batman does have a very strict code he doesn’t waver from which strongly implies lawful
@aliasalpha: lawful evil then 😛
Ignorant question: Do you guys have set races/classes to choose from or do you just make up whatever?
I’d want to be a horrible half man half insect type creature.Ah, you mean a Thri-Kreen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thri-kreen
Too much insect, not enough man!
(But still pretty cool. That’s who I would be.)
The races and classes are taken from what is written in the main set of books but there are so many supplements and new settings that have added stuff that I’m sure there would be an insect/human hybrid somewhere. Pathfinder has some pretty weird stuff (also some blatantly copyrighted stuff that they’ve just ripped from somewhere else) so a human/insect hybrid would be pretty mundane.
Yeah, I’m pretty set on Hobgoblin Tactician (Fighter Archetype) at the moment.
PS3 Dark Souls 2 servers are up.
@beavwa
Hahaha. There’s a big cliff with the message “Try jumping”.
There about 7 Bloodstains around it all showing people pausing at the message spot then jumping off.
Welcome to Dark Souls.
It’d be really handy to have an orthogonal mirror sometimes.
Woo! My pay went in early (normally it’s around 3am, even when payday falls on a weekend) which means I get to play Titanfall tonight instead of waiting ’til tomorrow night.
Also, they still had the season 1&2 Game of Thrones Blu-rays (with Daenerys Pop Vinyl vigure) 50% off if you also buy season 3. So I may have gotten slightly excited. BUT OMG TITANFALL FINALLY.
Dark Souls 2: Illusionary Walls: Electric Boogaloo
So it looks like there have been some major changes to how these work and it’s probably tripping up most of the people that have played the previous game.
You no longer attack/roll through the walls to make them disappear. You have to trigger them with X/A and they will slide out of the way. There are a bunch of them in the Lost Bastille like this that lead to items and whatnot. Of course, there are illusionary walls that work exactly like in previous games but they seem to be activated by Pharros stones and will have the face floating in front of them. This change is somewhat baffling but oh well.Yessss. Beat my first boss in Dark Souls. Evah. There’s a goofy grin on my face I didn’t expect. 😀
…
*goes back to The Last of Us*
But didn’t you kill the Asylum Demon? :O
That was just the tutorial though, right?
He’s still a Boss,and still one you should feel accomplished for killing.
Demon’s Souls tutorial Boss was one of those ones where you’re supposed to die. That sucked. Just as you thought you were doing well, they threw that boss at you and then probably sat back laughing. 😛
Yeah, he kind of counts but doesn’t feel like it to me.
You’ve got your answer already but nope! It’s a legit boss :D.
I even know someone who gave up there because they couldn’t kill it!
Everyone’s way further than I am, even notorious Dark souls haters like you! 😛
I found the level up lady today, leveled up and accidentally pressed the circle button too hard when cancelling out of that screen which made me backstep straight off the cliff. With my son around, that was today’s best progress. 😛
Could have hit the attack button instead…
Say hi to that scary British guy tonight for me, Strange!
Nice work, man. You’re officially kicking my ass at this.
I’m guessing if you had as much free time as me, you’d have seen the end credits by now. 😀
Technically, I’ve had far more time to play it than I’ve taken advantage of. I forgot just how much these damn games sap one’s confidence in the early stages. Twenty minute sessions are about all I can manage at the moment :\
This has to be my favourite part of making costumes – meticulously poring over and calculating measurements, going through all sorts of geometry to work out what shapes are needed and how they’ll all fit together.
Actually, second favourite. My favourite part is when it all comes together and you get to see that the maths works out and it’s beautiful 😛
My favourite part is taking the measurements and building a frame for armour only to discover MEASUREMENTS DON’T MEAN A THING WHEN YOU’RE MAKING A 7 FOOT TALL SUIT OF ARMOUR SO DO IT AGAIN 1/10TH LARGER THAN BEFORE OR ELSE IT WON’T FIT.
Give that to a smaller person and say they’re a scout marine waiting full augmentation
Where the eff is the new Kill La Kill?
🙁
Production issues apparently…
The delays been getting worse every week…
Downloaded and watching now!
😀
SUCH A SICK EPISODE
THAT FUCKING DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION WAS THE HYPEST SHIT OUT.What episode are they up to?
22.
I think there’s two left.
I think I may have found the moment where Dark Souls 2 clicks together in the same way that Dark Souls 1 did.
After beating The Pursuer:
There is an eagle nest that takes you to the Lost Bastille. That’s the end of the path that you go down if you head along Friede’s Tower of Flame. Everything has kinda sorta connected up now. Except still not really because both ways to get there are through a cutscene, instead of through stumbling across the connected bit. Still, Lost Bastille, that’s where things are starting to come together a bit.I’m just past Lost Bastille into Sinner’s Rise and those exploding zombie things are insanely overpowered.Yeah, those explodey zombies are all over Lost Bastille if you get in the other way. Complete pain in the ass. The trick is to smack them down before they attack.I get the feeling that the Lost Sinner is the boss that will open the game up once you beat them.You haven’t beaten him yet? I’m up against him now and he’s the first properly difficult boss I’ve fought. Dragonrider and Flexible Sentinel were jokes.I’ve been mostly exploring today. Haven’t really done any boss fights aside from Pursuer. Took one or two cracks at him and I think I can kill him if I’m just patient enough. Dragonrider gave me some pain until I raised the platform. Flexible Sentinel was completely a joke. There are other bosses that I don’t know if you’ve found yet that are somewhat tougher but nothing comes close to Lost Sinner yet. Well, aside from the one that takes a Pharros stone and joining this game’s equivalent of the forest covenant.Definitely my biggest problem so far:
Is that the Bandit has incredibly low ADP to start with and I didn’t really know what that stat did. So I was constantly bitching about slow dodge rolls and amazingly slow healing. Now I’m trying to dump a few points into this and then I’ll probably get the Str/Dex to wield the Dragleic sword which feels a lot like the Black Knight Sword.Sitting here alone drinking instead of getting ready to go out. Trying to get motivated to go out is difficult when Dark Souls II is beckoning me. 😀
@negativezero
I’ve been online for 3 hours now, summoned a person and not been invaded once. Even been human most of the time.
Of course not, everyone’s busy trying to beat the game. It’s not going to be an issue until a few weeks from now when everyone’s done and is on New Game ++++ and knows it inside-out and is PVPing out of boredom.
I’m sorry but you still sound super bitter about Dark Souls 2 and it’s bumming me out a bit.
It’s abundantly clear that you don’t like being invaded, and that you don’t like the new PvP changes. The simple solution is to just play offline.
Not everyone hates the PvP and invading side of the game as much as you do. Just saying…
Shouldn’t have to play online to ensure people can’t ruin the game for me. And in this case combined with the other changes they can ruin the game.
If you’re so opposed to being invaded and have no interest in PvP then simply play offline! That’s the only thing that online does!
You keep harping on about how they’ve changed the invading side of it to end up ruining the game.
Can I say that they’ve only ruined the game, FOR YOU (so far anyway). What’s worse is that there is a glaringly obvious solution to your alleged problem with the game that you seemingly choose to ignore for some unknown reason. Don’t like being invaded? play offline! Don’t see the point of PvP? Play offline!
When I inevitably get the damn game I’m not going to spend my time moaning about being invaded constantly. It’s just another challenge to overcome. You seem to also forget that invaders can lose more of their total health, meaning that there will probably be less invaders and that they’ll be easier to deal with, and that it’s time based rather than level based to prevent ganking.
I’ve also stated before that if you don’t want to buy it, but still want to try it out, I’m sure you could rent it, borrow it, or play it at a mates house. This is the epitome of first world problems, “This game is forcing me to play it offline to enjoy it, even though it has online functions that I have no interest in! >:(“.
Sorry for coming across as snappy / rude / as an overall jerk. I just got home from work and am a bit tired. My points are still valid though.
Do you understand what I mean by ‘ruin the game’? I mean with the other changes souls are limited and it’s possible to be forced into a corner and be completely stuck with no recourse but to re-roll and have that not be your fault.
I want to play it online. I like the idea of the online functionality and you miss out on a whole ton of other stuff by playing offline, at least using Dark Souls as a measuring stick. However I don’t want to have the experience I have in Dark Souls, which is that the instant I go human I’m invaded by someone I have no hope of beating because they’re on their tenth playthrough or something and get immediately murdered. But at least there, there is nothing you can lose but your time. Even if you lose a huge pile of souls, they’re basically infinite and you can farm them back up. Same goes for humanity.
Also bear in mind that I’m too shit to finish Dark Souls. Ornstein and Smough are literally beyond my capability. So the idea of being kicked in the balls because I can’t execute everything perfectly kind of worries me, and I don’t think that’s illegitimate.
I’ve actually got it ordered for PC because I was kind of hyped for it until the reality of all the systems changes and how they could end up coming together in the worst possible way dawned on me. In the end it might turn out it’s all a non-issue and I’m quite happy to be wrong, but don’t expect me to be blindly positive about everything they’ve changed.
No one’s expecting you to be blindly positive about the changes they’ve made, but at the same time you’re coming across as blindly negative. I haven’t heard anyone who’s been playing so far mention the health loss when dieing, or even been invaded. All I’m saying is that it’s better to give it a go first before you start complaining about it, rather than preemptively sour the game for yourself.
Also double sorry for coming across as rude yesterday. Tired liondrive doesn’t make the best person to talk to :\
The audience that would buy the game day 1 is kind of self-selected toward people who tolerate a lot of crap. The health loss doesn’t seem to be much of an issue to me assuming they balanced it correctly – Demon’s Souls can be finished and you go immediately to 50% when you die and go hollow. It’s the fact you can lose souls forever that really worries me.
I’m never blindly positive toward anything. Always assume the worst. Every time I don’t, I end up incredibly disappointed. I’d be incredibly happy if things work out such that it’s a non-issue. It probably will be. And as you say, I can always play offline. As it is I’ve gotten pretty tempted to do that in Dark Souls, as the reason I can’t beat O&S is mainly because I can’t get from the bonfire to summoning Solaire to the boss without being invaded and killed by someone. The thought of playing through the whole game like that sounds incredibly unfun.
On the plus side, while I was kinda bummed about the finite number of souls available thanks to limited respawns, it was heartening to realize that if I ever run out, helping people beat bosses will give loads more.
Aww yiss, picked up This is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography & Life Through The Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx in hard cover today for 5 bucks. Considering every book store I have been to sells nothing but the over priced paperback this pleases me greatly.
I doubt it’ll be as good as his previous book The Heroin Diaries, but hey, he’s not a bad photographer even if what he shoots is a little off putting for most.
Eleven points along a line, at which two perpendicular lines must be drawn out at a calculated length, to create a tapered triangle shape which can curve around to create a section of half a dome. This needs to be done across eleven parallel strips, but that’s just for the front half. Then the back half needs to happen.
…
Fuck that, I’m making a stencil.
Amazing Race ep 3:
I gotta say, the YouTubers weren’t as annoying this time around 😛@sughly @powalen
Oh and Pow, do you like the Afghanimals? If I recall you guys didn’t really like them last season but Sughly did towards the end. It’s safer to ask here because Jamal is totally stalking us on Twitter D:
At least they’re not as sneaky!
I didn’t watch last season!
Haha yeah, I kinda felt bad that I was sorta bad mouthing the selection of racers this season. He probably read my tweets 😛
Yeahhh! And I was their white knight defending them against the evil twitter judgements
Yeahhh, I felt bad for them. Well, at least the girl. Like last time! She’s a lot more level headed than the guy. Was hoping that dang red head girl (Brad and Rachel? I think?) would stuff up more haha. Ah well. All the teams I like are going well – afghanimals, cowboys, margery and luke, flight time/ big easy. Those guys dancing with the natives haha, love them.Hurry up and watch Survivor!
But he did!
Yehhhh sorry, think I got lazy with my adding tags thing >_>
(and @powalen)
That team seems annoying (at least Rachel). Were they the “Team YouTube” of their original season? (I never watched it :P)
Those are probably my top 4 teams as well.
Yea they totally were. She cried all… the time. Was so tiresome. They came third in the end though, so they were around for a while. Crying. I felt so bad for the guy, he was so patient with her, erg, like traveling with a child
I figured as much when they were introduced and all shots was of her crying :/
DARK SOULS AND BOARD GAMES AND DARK SOULS AND DARK SOULS THE BOARD GAME?
Nobody wins Dark Souls The Board Game.
Nobody.
Dark Souls: The Boardgame
Alternatively…
Was expecting Monopoly.
I’m so completely lost in this game now. Which isn’t really a complaint, but eh. Total death count: 4. Not sure if something that killed me once was a boss or a miniboss or this game’s version of Black Knights. Sad whichever way.
Playing using my PS4 controller because I need the illusion that it’s a next-gen game or something.
I wonder what happens if you attack the level-up woman at the Majula bonfire.
Four deaths. Oh you sweet summer child.
I died three times on the first enemy I fought (didn’t die in the tutorial after that).
I’ve now died somewhere around 130-140 times, from memory. Good times, good times.
Was it a white knight chilling on the ground that killed you? Because yeah, they’re basically Black Knights.Nope
I climbed a small ladder, whereupon a raven flew over me. I turned my back for a few seconds, turned around and this giant man in super shiny silver armour was lunging at me. My attacks didn’t do much damage and I only have three estus’ at the moment, so…Ahh, yup, that guy’s a jerk. He’s a later boss who simply decides to turn up and annoy you.When does he do that? I assume you mean the pursuer.Never saw him till the boss fight.
You can trigger a one off fight with him by going up to the platform that the firebomb dude stands on near the shortcut leading back to Cardinal Tower. He’s a giant poopyface.Ahhhh, I jumped off the ladder as soon as the bird went overhead, must have stopped it triggering.I did the same thing. When I climbed back up, he came back.
And then I ran away like a coward. This was probably a wise move, given how much trouble I had with him later.
I am so tired. I have been painting most of the day. Things painted include fabric, shoes and wood.
Things not painted. My room which really needs it
My sister’s just started painting hers, having spent the last few days peeling, patching and prepping already. The whole house smells like paint fumes and turps.
Cosplays>room being painted
That’s why I ain’t doing any room painting 😛
Well. One of the reasons.
I really need to do it, among other things, but finding time/energy is pretty hard
Oh fething brilliant. Dark Souls 2
The Gargoyles are back. Same thing, rooftop of a church. Except they spawn 3 at a time and keep spawning until you’ve done enough damage ala Four Kings. Also they’re way way more aggressive. Ugh.They function differently to Four Kings. Focus one of them super hard(at one point I was fighting four, which was lame enough).They’ll spawn one at a time (after the initial two) based on the shared life bar. If you play it right, you can make it so that there are never more than two at a time out but odds are you’ll probably have to deal with three of them occasionally. Ranged weapons to pick off a weakened one are super useful. I burned a few firebombs but it was worth it.Did it. That was stressful.
Honestly? I loved that fight. Laughed a fair bit.
Was like… Belfry? Rooftop? Why, there’s a lot of gargoyles down there. Don’t tell me I’m going to fight another one…STENCIL FINALLY COMPLETE
Totally not an ordeal at all. Though there were some distractions.
….and just realised I’ve gone and drawn all these things half a strip over from where they’re supposed to be
SFHISHERFGP(*TQW$TYNWGSPDSD BQ#PDFR{YW$()_)UW%YU%U
AUGH I WENT AND DID IT AGAIN ON THE OTHER SIDE NOW
*headdesk*
I know that feeling. Are you taking in progress shots?
Taken a few, yeah. Not so much to see so far, just a whole tonne of drawn lines and a couple of pieces of paper covered in numbers 😛
I’m just as interested in your progress as anyone else’s. I dunno, maybe I just like seeing these things come together
When I start doing shit like that it’s time to stop, eat, drink, nap briefly, then return.
My mother will be away and my sister will be at a friend’s house, so I have most of the weekend to myself. Titanfall! I haven’t played Dark Souls for about a month, so I’ll try and get back into that.
Actual DaS2 spoiler
Well well well, looks like Ornstein is back. And stabby as ever.Also, what is people’s weapon of choice? In general for Souls games.
I like the Halberd myself. Strong, long reach, balanced speed/power and oh so versatile.
In case anyone is wondering, we’re talking about the boss at the Blue Cathedral.
That was a really fun fight. One of my favourites so far. Unfortunately, I don’t think you can use his soul to get any special weapons. At least, the NPC that uses boss souls doesn’t seem to be offering anything yet. Was really hoping to use his spear.I’ve been mainly using the Fire Long Sword that you get fairly early on. Taken it up to +5 and it’s doing a lot of work. I’m working on getting the 25 STR and 20 DEX needed to start using the Drangleic Sword which looks like it might be this game’s Black Knight Sword. It’s pretty damned spiffy.
Yeah that was good fun, reminded me of Artorias.You know the dude on the ledge afterwards? I assume a covenant guy. I like the look of his halberd, don’t spose you know if he drops it? 😀
Definitely a covenant guy but not sure what the entry conditions are. Didn’t kill him, so I don’t know about that halberd.Tis the time for discovery. (weapon info for those interested)
Blue Knight’s Halberd: 220 base damage, 12 weight, 18 str/20 dex required, D/B scaling.Required Twinkling Titanite and 1230 souls to upgrade
Not bad at all.
Not bad at all, indeed.
He drops it.
Edit: bit slow there Freeze.
Thanks tho!
At the moment I’m using a Large Club mainly as I have 40 STR and it has an S scaling.
I need more stamina pretty desperately though.
I was sorely tempted to spec for that once I picked it up but the smashy smashy build I did in DaS was pretty rough.
Yeah, this strength build isn’t working very well for me.
The windup on most strength weapons is just too damned long. Can’t really punish enemies for whiffing.
Went and respecced stats and upgraded a sword. All of a sudden progress.
Killed Old Dragonslayer and Lost Sinner.Sounds like you’ve done pretty much all of the bosses I’ve done now.
Demon’s Souls, I had a pretty basic kit, and I don’t think I upgraded a single piece of equipment – just never got my head around the system. My weapons of choice were the bow and the talisman that could do spells and miracles. I had a basic shortsword for melee stuff.
Dark Souls, Black Knight Sword +5 all the way. Got it in NG, and it took me all the way to halfway through NG++, where I stopped.
Dark Souls 2, too early to say. Just using a basic sword at the moment.
Ah yeah the black knight sword was awesome. Managed to get it off the first Black Knight in the burg and was loving it for most of the game.
I tend to sword and board most of the time, though the only time I’ve actually completed Dark Souls I rocked a +5 Black Knight sword for the first half, and in the catacombs I switched to the Great Scythe because at +15 its Dex scaling is nuts, and it has super good range.
Currently I’m sitting on a +5 (+6 maybe?) Falchion, thinking I’ll switch to the Drangleic sword since I have the stats, but I may overburden myself when I use it. Dunno, I seemed to move slower, and I hate change.
Don’t forget about that armour set that gives equip load. You can probably run that and have something silly like 30% equip load.
Me? I like how spiffy I look. Especially with my Falconer’s Helm. The plumage is magnificent.
Best weapon in Dark Souls for me was the Man-Serpent Greatsword. Used one-handed with a shield. It was very, very fast and had one of the highest STR scaling around.
I’m still waiting for DS2’s version of that, but in the meantime it’s just the upgraded fire longsword for me. It’s getting the job done. I’d experiment a LOT more if titanite wasn’t so godamn hard to come by. On-paper stats don’t mean shit when they don’t include swing speed, move-set, etc.
Running around as a pretty typical knight now, though. Got the Draenglic armour set and shield, not using the sword yet though. Had to pump a lot of points to get AGL up past 100, and my equip load sitting around 65% most of the time so that I have good stam regen. Once I did all that though, I’ve pretty much blasted past everything I’ve encountered with very little trouble.
I think I’ve cleared out Lost Bastille now:
Except for one area that needs another Pharros Keystone. Oddly enough, you can’t get there without having used one already.I’ve also beaten the first big boss of the game:
The Lost Sinner and he is one hell of a thing. Fights a bit like a slower Artorias but if you’re patient and don’t fuck up by breaking the lock-on while trying to position yourself to heal, he’s actually pretty manageable. Hell of an adrenaline rush beating that bastard.On top of that, I went exploring and found the next spoke:
There’s a contraption that you can activate on the way to the flame tower friende … whatever it’s called. The Cleric trainer will be sitting there. If you cast a miracle on it, the room will spin and a new path will open. If you don’t have any miracles you can pay the trainer 2k souls to do it for you. There’s a bonfire shortly afterwards so you don’t have to do this again.This area is the one from the network tests. Or at least, it’s the one I’ve seen people play. Fairly open dark forest full of thieves. Didn’t explore it too much but it leads on to a waterfall. Behind the waterfall is the dumbest boss fight in any souls game. Seriously dumb.I got there pretty much as soon as unlocking the miracle seller.
The souls you get from there are insane. The enemies aren’t that hard, but by GOD do they give reward. If there’s an upgraded version of the silver serpent soul-bonus ring I’m totally going to save the forest for when I get that.
According to Titanfall, I get 68ms to Southeast Asia Servers, and 83ms to the Australian servers. Worrying.
Are you with Optus because you might be routing via Singapore or something daft.
No, iinet.
You’re in WA? I think that puts you physically closer to the SEA servers in Singapore than the AU ones in Sydney. I’ve seen a few people observe this.
Having a big self-confidence crisis, partly caused by Dark Souls 2.
I’m gonna spend tonight powering through a game I can progress in: nearly finished the final case of Dual Destinies (@powalen @greenius).
This case is probably my all-time favourite case in this series. It’s so damn good. Powerful, emotional, hilarious, Edgeworth… this case in the ruined courtroom has absolutely everything I hoped I would find in this game – it’s just incredible.I feel pretty self-conscious at the game too. Feel like I’ve put so many hours in and have nothing to show for it. Just going incrementally further slowly. It’s tough, man!
It’s going to be really tough getting all the achievements. Seems inconceivable at this stage… though I guess for the first 15 hours of my first Dark Souls playthrough, it was no different.
Email: Shane mentioned you in their comment!
“He’s either going to be talking about Dark Souls or Ace Attorney…”
Turns out it was both! 😛
Glad you’re enjoying it! Full discussion when you’re done please and thank you.
I forgot I owned Dual Destinies >_>
I should start that one day… 😛
TITANFALL.
18ms ping to the Aussie servers apparently. Dominated the first half of the IMC campaign before taking a break. Just doing it for the unlocks, then I’m gonna get into some hardpoint domination. Really loving not having to suck because of lag for a change.
Wow. I’m running at 35-40ms
Satellite Reign is really looking like it’s coming along nicely, they’ve just released a new video
http://youtu.be/0i2AlzOHtuE
It’s clearly still rough but given that its not even at alpha yet, that’s entirely fair enough. It’s still enough to get my Syndicate nostalgia running wild (the real syndicate that is, not the shit one where you can’t see anything because of the bloom)
Oh Syndicate, I didn’t realize how much I missed you until I watched this
I know, right?? It’ll be on the buy list as soon as it’s on GMG
My daughter’s favourite movie is the musical Annie (and not the Kathy Bates Disney version, either, though that runs a close second – she likes this version). She watches it at least four times a week, and loves to sing the songs. I think we are doing parenting right.
Unsure whether she’ll dig the upcoming Jamie Foxx version, though (youtube.com/watch?v=nasLuiP-1E0) …but how could I not take her to see it?
FINALLY DONE
….drawing. Still got a fucktonne of cutting to do.
Then to figure out the rest of the parts >_>
So the IMC portion of the campaign for Titanfall is pretty terrible. The militia campaign at least did a good enough job of setting context. The Militia seemed to have a story. (Not a very good one, though) The IMC version didn’t bother to do any of that. Also, you have to deal with Blisk. That guy is about as likeable as a bar of soap that was dropped in the dirt.
There are many questions both campaigns leave you with:
Can someone explain how Spyglass became a Vice Admiral? He’s a freaking robot. Back in my day, there were no robot leaders. They were subservient, and had to use separate bathrooms.Yeah I thought that was weird also, especially since he pretty much abandoned Graves if i understood it correctly?Dark Souls 2
Downed 5 Bosses tonight, defeating pursuer felt way to damn good =) now that I have a 100% physical great shield the trash mobs has been much more manageable.I think buying the evil eye ring and finding the regen one early on were the best things for trash mobs ever. And consequently, being good and ALIVE for bosses.
Why am I still awake?
Goodnight, TAY.
A few hours ago, my sister gave the dog a giant bone. The bone is almost as big as the dog. The dog growls if you get to close. Everyone is scared of the dog.
It’s a freaking Shi Tzu.
Little dogs are scarier then big dogs, I find. For example, I can take a bone from my dog and he’ll just look at me pleadingly. It makes it easier when he’s got something he’s not supposed to have, like chicken bones.
This. I can do that to Chilli and she’s all “But why? :(” or she see’s it as a game and thinks it’s tug of war or i’m gonna throw it for her lol.
Also i’ve always had better experiences with big dogs, they don’t run at me foaming at the mouths wanting to kill me like all the little ankle biters do. People can say what they like but in my experience small dogs are vicious and dangerous.
Not all. But I find a lot of them become very protective of things, whether it be bones, property or people. It’s something that has to be trained out of them, but a lot of people don’t bother because it’s too time consuming or difficult.
Protective and sometimes even psychotic, some small dogs aren’t exactly sociable at all if they’re left to their own accord, even with other dogs to show them how to behave. You’re right it needs to be trained out of them, yet most of the people I know who live near me who have these kinds of dogs don’t have them trained or anything so yeah.. I think there’s only one neighbour who’s dogs are very well behaved because she took them when they were pups to be trained! They’re lovely dogs too one is a Kelpie the other a small fluffy thing of some description lol.
But yeah, Chihuahuas and Pomeranian’s are the most aggressive of the small dogs from my personal experience. Last week whilst walking Chilli I had a Chihuahua come running out from it’s house (front gate was open and all and I was across the road near the local nature reserve) and it was literally foaming at the mouth attempting to attack Chilli, if I hadn’t picked her up it would’ve gone her :/ The dog ranger knows about it and will be talking to the owners about it and to do something or face consequences other, since the owners were home and did NOTHING about it.
There’s also a Pomeranian that lives around the corner from me, if you’re within 50 metres of it’s yard with a dog it’ll bark and go psychotic until you’re well out of sight, and usually that’s 100+ metres down the road, horrible little dog. I’ve walked past before when it’s been barking and the elderly neighbour next door to it encouraged its barking.
Dark Souls 2!
I’m glad I didn’t stay home and play it because Iced Earth were so very good. Stu Block is 1000000 times better live than Barlow was and I was so glad to finally be able to enjoy seeing them live. Plus I got to meet @cufcfan616 and his lovely lady.\o/
Hey late night Straaaaange!
hooray XD the gig was amazingly awesome. The Coming Curse was a great surprise to get as it hadn’t been on recent setlists but it’s my favourite song after Dante’s Inferno. Miffed nothing off Burnt Offerings or Horror Show was played as they’re my favourite albums but I keep on reading that Jon thinks that they’re the weakest albums in their catalogue because they lack that personal touch. Me and him can disagree about that
Great to meet you though. Sorry if I was a bit talkie. I was a bit excited to see Iced Earth and felt like I was non-stop talking (probably wasn’t). Normally the missus does all the talking for me. Now to the next gig/meat, whichever comes first
Great to meet you, too! Talking was fine, the more you talk, the less I have to talk. 😛
Oh, and I woke up this morning to the first 4 (of 60) announcements from 70000 Tons of Metal: Blind Guardian, Ensiferum, Arch Enemy and Heathen.
I also to woke up to a lump and a bruise on my shoulder where that idiot tried to climb me. D:
Ah good old pit bruises. I have a few.
Blind Guardian are good fun although I’m not a massive fan. Missed out on Ensiferum last year so if we do go it’ll be good to see them. Haven’t seen Arch Enemy in years though
They’ve been trickling out announcements throughout the day. They’ve also added Threshold, Chimaira and Annihilator. But yeah, with 53 bands to go I’m sure there’ll be something that will make it worth it.
I’ve been dying to seeing Threshold for years too now you mention it. Every time I’d go to Bloodstock they’d be playing the next year instead :@ I’m gutted I’ll never get to see them with Mac though. And Annihilator are one of my favourite guitarist bands. How can you not like Jeff Waters? My interest has now spiked a fair bit
MORE MATHS
Cones and small segments of their curved surface to use as support beams inside the spherical domes.
Numbers everywhere. Also scribbling out. But they look ok I think.
Whatcha making anyway? Is it for PAX?
It’s for a 21st on Friday. Might could take it along to PAX too though, if it survives/turns out ok.
But what izzit? :O (what costume are you making? :P)
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhitsasecret.
nawwokay
I have that dumb thing where I feel like I need to save everything for the big reveal once it’s finished. I don’t know why 😛 Maybe something about not wanting to create expectation in case of failure, who knows.
DAMMIT my super compass is only about 26cm long. I need 32.
Maybe I can kill a coathanger or something…
Hey Gooky!
…
Carry on.
Hi DC!
I am carrying on, haven’t you noticed? 😛
That’s standard operating procedure for you, my friend! That and falling in love with women folk!
You and your quickness.
Also I don’t fall in love that often! …I think >.>
Ooooh, right. The love is one sided. YOU MONSTER.
Don’t remind me. MONSTER ;_;
so I totally missed out on doing a write up of my weekend last week! Now it’s the weekend and noone will be around to read it, I’m sure it’s the perfect time to do it right guys?!?
So went to see Frenzal Rhomb with my sis and her hubby last weekend! Was totally awesome! Saw Dick Nasty first, and then Frenzal took the stage, and what a show it was! Set list was amazing, and had they played Metrognome, it would have been perfect!
One of the best bits of the show, was when they got a member out of the audience, to go on stage, and play the drums for one of their songs! I honestly didn’t know what to expect, and I don’t think anyone else did either (especially the band.) You could see the concern on Jay’s face when he told him to get on stage, and then said “you better be good, or you’ll never live this down” lol!
Turns out the dood could really play the tubs! He played so hard he broke one of Gordy’s drum sticks! Don’t think Gordy was too impressed with that, but you could clearly see the amazement on Gordy’s face when the dood started to play! Once the song was over, everyone gave a cheer, and the guy shook Gordy’s hand, apologized for the broken stick, and then went to shake Jay’s hand, and then ended up giving him a hug! To which Jay said “Mmmm you were good, but let’s not go too far mate” ROFL!
Then they played a couple of songs from “The forbidden album”, which Jay was none to impressed about. So much so, he made Tom sing all the lyrics while he kept to the side lines, drinking beer, and only chimed in during the chorus. It was truly a performance like I’ve never seen before! Absolutely epic! During one of the songs, in a slow bit Tom motioned for people to spark up a lighter and wave it around, and I was the only one who did it. He was looking around the audience with a wtf look on his face, until he got to me on the side of the room, at which point he pointed at me, gave me a thumbs up, and called me a legend! lulz
So yeah.. to sum it up, FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!
Luckily, they ended a 3 song encore with “You can’t move in to my house”, cos my sister says everytime, that if they don’t play that song, she’s never going back!
Been playing a bit of Clicking Simulator 2013 since Blizzard had it for 27 bucks the other day (still do I think) went from level 9 to 37 in about 2 hours.. My mates ran me in level 60 instances 😛
Rolled a new character in Dark Souls 2, a knight. Deprived was too much for me 🙁
Got up to the same spot in the game in less than an hour (as opposed to 4.5 hours as deprived).
Servers seem to be working quite well.
Yeah, I switched to an Explorer. Think I’ll keep my Deprived lady for when I’ve got the hang of things more. I was really attached to her, though. My Explorer dude feels like an imposter. 🙁
But hey, he looks a bit like Nier so that’s a plus. I took his hat thingy off so I could see his pretty head. After I’ve died a few times I’ll put it back on, though. 😛
So you reduced his Class and Gentlemanliness by taking his monocle away?
Well I never! *faints*
Oh! I just realised I left you all fainted on the floor and wandered off to cook breakfast. Oops!
*waves smelling salts under Freeze’s nose*
Edit: Umm, that doesn’t seem to be working. Oh, I know what will work! *waves bacon under Freeze’s nose*
*mumbling* The nerve, what cheek.
Knight is good, the armour is cool, sword pretty sweet.
I’m already using entirely different gear 😛
But the extra stats feel very good.
SATURDAY DOESN’T PLAY DARK SOULS 2
Nothing happened. I just said I’m not playing Dark Souls 2.Hey, that’s what I’m doing too! o/
Something team, assemble!
Job hunting team? 😛
No I hate that team.
Hey @dc, I bought Night Of The Rabbit in GOG’s sale!
You chose… wisely.
Unless for some crazy reason we don’t see eye to eye on entertainment matters.
D:
I loved it, though. 😀
Well I figured seeing as you’re a Dark Souls player now, you must have really good taste….
😛
Do you think cufcfan616 will attend meats? What’s he like? I’m sure he’s not reading this. *shifty eyes*
Yes, I think he will attend meats, and you can find out for yourself what he’s like then. Spoiler: he’s not scary. 😛
That means he IS scary. He was at that concert, after all. (With other scary, intimidating people!)
You need to go to a concert that is of a truly intimidating band… Then you’ll see the kind of music Strange here likes is not intimidating at all!
Hey @Dc, I considered buying Night of the Rabbit in Steam’s sale but I didn’t!
I’m the worst.
I’ve often thought it, but it seems especially true when you speak it. The worst.
That’s okay. I bought Xenoblade. Had it in my house for an entire week. Gave it to Freeze unplayed. 😛
I was waiting for the $5 mark (same with Goodbye Deponia) but now I’ll probably buy them at a higher price (but when I have the time to play them :P)
The person that decided on the assignments (quests) to unlock the last batch of guns on battlefield 4 is a sadistic bastard.
For the assault rifle, F2000,
you need to play on operation metro which is a very decisive map. Most people either love it or hate it. But there is enough people who love it that there iare always metro 24/7 servers populated so I can forgive them for forcing the people who hate it to play it for a bit.but then the actual task to complete for it is crazy. You need to get 10 kills inside the metro and 2 kill assist ribbons in one round. The first part is a little annoying because not all the map is inside the metro and sometimes the front lines are established outside so it’s impossible to get the 10 kills but 2/3 of the map is inside the metro so usually it’s just a matter of time. The real problem is the 2 kill assist ribbons. That means have to go out of you way to not kill people in a game where half of the objective is to kill people. Basically you have to do your best to run around shooting people just a little bit.
The sniper rifle, GOL Magnum,
You need to play on one of two maps, Caspian or Firestorm, and get 5 sniper rifle kills and 1 sniper rifle ribbon (in 1 round) Not to bad until you read the fine print. The 5 kills have to be earned at a particular location, the towers on those maps. I’ve only been able to find populated servers for Caspian and there are only about 3 towers. So basically everyone just regularly blows the shit of of those towers because they know people will be trying to get the unlocks and are sitting ducks. Especially for snipers that already have it as they are happy to sit anywhere else on the map and pop the head off anyone who stands up for a second in one of the towers.The shotgun, DAO – 12
Again have to play on Caspian Border. You need 1 shotgun ribbon and open or close the gate( in one round.) I feel like it would have been better if the made shotgun for Metro and assault rifle for Caspian as Caspian is mostly wide open spaces which is terrible for shotgun unless you have solid slugs unlocked (one of the last unlocks on each shotgun) on top of that I feel like shotguns are by far the most underpowered weapon in the game (or at least the first couple which is all I’ve unlocked) where to be able to win a fight they have to be within 1 meter of you and even then less then they are less then reliable. Still, I manage to get it on my second try simply by camping the staircases in the towers and slaughtering anyone unfortunate enough to be trying to unlock the sniper rifle. The gate part is easy, several different buttons in different locations you just need to run up and press E on once.The LMG, M60 – E4 seems more reasonable,
Have to play golf of Oman, get 1 anti vehicle ribbon and destroy 5 vehicles in 1 round. I imagine this one is just a matter of playing the map a few rounds until you are lucky enough to get the required number of finishing blows. However I’ve no idea how hard it is in reality as I haven’t been able to find any populated servers running this map. Which means at the moment it’s literally impossible for me to unlock as you can’t unlock anything on a server by yourself.There are a couple of others that are relitivley doable.
Oh I hate kill assist tasks in games, assists should be a thing to show you’re helping your team but not have a specific thing tied to them because its rewarding not doing as well as you could. After all when you shoot at an enemy in a game the whole point is to kill them, not wound them, if you manage to hurt them you’re just failing a bit less than if you outright miss.
If they have to have assists contribute to an award, make 2 assists equal one kill for the purposes of the unlock
Or just make it total number of assists. Because you inevitably accrue them as you play but having to do a particular number in one round is actually punishing better players. I’m a terrible player and even I found it annoying as hell.
What platform you playing on man?
PC
I’ve been trying to set up my joystick today to get it to work. Damn have they not made that easy.
Let me guess, they’ve designed the controls with the motto “360 controller or GTFO?”
I’m guessing so. It’s weird as hell.
Basically the buttons are mapped as default to different labels other then what they are on the joystick (it’s a logitech extreme 3d pro which is probably the most common joystick out there). I set them all up and then they’d changed to different button mapping again (still not the correct mapping though) so I had to re map half the controls again.
Now that seems to have settled down there is still two weird glitches. In helicopters if I switch out of the pilot seat and back again the engine refuses to start and I fall to earth. Annoying but not game breaking.
In planes. If I reduce throttle below neutral I can no longer pitch up or down if I’m in first person view but in third person view I still can. Weird.
I had that problem even with remapping keys – it just would not do what I told it to.
I have one gadget mapped to 3 but need to press 2 to use it and the other is mapped to 4 but is actually 3. Sometimes they randomly swap.
Can’t map anything to 1 at all and some toggle controls just break all my remaps if I try to assign them.
Great stuff.
Do I have you on Origin? We should play some time.
I don’t think I have you on my list. My Origin handle is different. FrozenPhoenix
Maybe for the buttons come at it from the other direction, use the wingman profiler thing to assign keystrokes to the buttons outside of the game and then assign those keystrokes to the joystick functions in BF4. That way as far as BF4 knows, you’ve pressed S to shoot but only you and the wingman profiler know that what you’ve really done is pulled the trigger on the stick which sends the command for the keystroke S.
For the throttle thing, it sounds like they’ve screwed up the axis assignment but why that’d change depending on your viewpoint I can never imagine unless for some insane reason they have different control schemes for 1st/3rd.
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2955064765635683599/ that’s in a BF3 forum but seems to be about the same kind of issue for 4, might be worth a look.
Jeez, The Wolf of Wall Street is still being shown in the cinemas here?! I thought it had run its course already! Mostly because I wanna buy it on blu-ray already. Aw there’s a 4 hours director’s cut that isn’t making the home release, I would’ve watched that.
Also speaking of blu-rays why do the publishers get this idea in their head that I want the blu-ray, the dvd & digital copy all in the one? I just want the blu-ray I don’t want to be paying 10-20 dollars more for just the blu-ray :/
Well there’s the version on amazon uk that only has the bluray & ultraviolet version: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-Wall-Street-Blu-ray-Region/dp/B00DGWS39Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1394844161&sr=1-1
Interesting, I just saw the US version on Amazon has the DVD & Digital versions with the Blu-Ray >.< but it’s only 20 bucks there so that’s alright (in my books).
Saying that, I did see Through The Never (that concert movie Metallica made) in a special tin that came with the 2D & 3D Blu-Ray, DVD & digital copy for 40 bucks, which is a real bargain since I paid 22 for just the blu-ray.
Is through the never good? Its one of those movies where I could imagine it going really strongly towards either great or cringingly awful
I haven’t even watched it. I picked up thinking i’d watch it that night but never did, I haven’t watched a blu-ray in months :/
It should be epic given the whole stage concept and the set list. I’m not sure about the theatrical aspect though, that could go either way. Quebec Magnetic is awesome though 😛
Damn no one told me Machete Kills is already out for home release! Buying that Monday 😀
Wait what?
Did that even come out in the cinemas?
WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THIS?
It got a select release at Event Cinemas closest to me was some single cinema in Brisbane, so yeah..
Yeah I had no idea it got a cinema release here either, it supposedly got released here back end of last year, and it was so select it wasn’t worth trying to find somewhere to see it :/
This annoys me enough to want to downvote.
But that would be silly.
Yeah I hear ya man. I loved the first movie and by the time I heard the 2nd was out it had already run its course Q_Q
The first movie was kinda weird for me.
I was massively looking forward to it, and it started out awesome. But then it kinda felt like it ran out of steam part way through and I don’t know, dragged on a bit or just wasn’t as awesome any more and I came out of it kind of shrugging.
I think I still liked it overall, but I dunno. It was weird.
Metallica are debuting a new song this week in South America! I’m probably one of the few people who is excited and who likes pretty much every Metallica release. Yep I liked St. Anger even.
I have to sit down and give their post-load/reload stuff a fair hearing one day (that could have been one really good album). At the moment I think I’d have to say I like the concept of Metallica more than I like Metallica
Haha, may wish to steer clear of St. Anger, it’s very experimental for a band like Metallica, the flat snare sound, the no guitar solo’s, the basic vocals, it’s everything that isn’t Metallica but is at the same time.
Saying that Death Magnetic is a great Thrash record for post Bob Rock Metallica, I love Bob Rock he’s a great producer, but he sometimes had too much influence over the band. But not take a stance like Rick Rubin did and just be present for the recording process and not offer any input.
I love Metallica. I don’t love St. Anger.
Don’t love Lulu, either.
I forgot that LuLu exists… I did like I AM THE TABLE, tho!
Just tried a “kiwi berry”. Basically a super young kiwi fruit, I think. And it tasted like that, but with this other flavour to it. Like grape Hubba Bubba.
Oh man, I love those things. I’ve eaten half a punnet in one sitting before…
Dark Souls 2 tip: don’t destroy wooden chests.
I assumed I could destroy them because they were traps. Nope, just items, that get destroyed if you destroy the chest.
So yeah, don’t do that.
I had the bright idea to use fabric glue to add glitter to something. All I succeeded in doing was to stick newspaper to it -_-
Ugh.
Harvest Valley.
Ugh.
I didn’t find it too bad, once I accepted that I would have to Estus chug through every bit of poison.I’ve only just arrived. The whole Blight Town mixed with World 5 thing is upsetting me already *flashbacks*And man how ridiculously easy were the Skeleton Lords? What’s with the bosses in this game? Only had 2 genuinely hard ones so far.I had some mad issues with them because when I saw three of them appear at the start, my initial theory was to just run in and smash them. So when you’re suddenly surrounded by wheel skeletons, the fighter guys, and right next to one of the big ones, it ends badly. Once I calmed down and took it slow, it was super duper easy.And I’ve had issues with some boss fights. The Rat… uhhh, one that isn’t the Vanguard is a pain (and I had issues with the Vanguard, but I feel like that was mostly gear related). And the one two from you now is… intimidating, at the least.Yeah, a lot of the boss fights seem pretty underwhelming so far. There is a dickish one that you might not have encountered just yet. He’s not hard but he has one attack that can screw you over.The Skeleton Lords were the boss I was referring to earlier as the dumbest boss in a souls game. Shared life bar for effectively a horde of weak skeleton enemies? Bah!Formula 1 is back, hooray! And Ten is just as shit as it’s ever been, surprise surprise.
I’m still trying to figure out what the issue is with my internet speeds on my PC over wifi. Even right next to the router I only reach around 20mbps. I got to 98mbps via Ethernet. It feels like an issue I should be able to figure out and it’s annoying me :S
is it 802.11B, G or N? Is the access point in a mixed mode that might be slowing it down? Can any device get higher speed than your PC?
N, and everything else in the house can get significantly faster speeds than my PC. It’s that fact that’s annoying me 😛
I have 3 different wireless adapters and it’s the same with all of them.
Are you using dynamic IP address? Try opening an administrator command prompt and entering ipconfig/renew. It’ll remove and re-request an IP address, it should do this automatically any time you boot or change adapter but windows has a tendency to try and help by remembering settings which is a grand thing when the settings work…
Deleting and recreating the connection from scratch and setting a static IP far away from the usual range might help
Do those wireless adapters have the same slow speed in other PCs?
Ok so I tried that with my USB one. The internal one is dead set on being slow, but I managed to get one of my USB ones to 40mbps right next to the router, which is seemingly acceptable compared to the speeds I was getting on my mac in the same room at the time. I don’t want to throw more money at the problem, but I’m thinking if I get an internal adapter with a couple of antennas on it, I might be able to get at least a half decent speed in my room. It’s worth a shot, I guess.
Tens coverage of any motorsport is better than what Seven has been doing to the V8’s for years.
Riccardo went P#2.
Pretty good effort IMO. Looking forward to seeing how he does tomorrow! Looks like Red Bull made the right choice in picking him.
The roar from the crowd… i didn’t feel as though i was at Motor Racing but rather a Soccer Match… the emotions running through the crowd was awesome! can’t wait for tomorrow!
20mbps you poor, poor soul, you with your NBN and whatnot
>:(
Don’t remind me that my life sucks 🙁
😛
Hand already dying from use of cutting implements.
Still got a million more to go.
What are you using? If you don’t mind me asking.
Hobby knife and scissors. The way I hold the hobby knife means it places a lot of pressure on the side of the first knuckle of my index finger, while the way I use the scissors puts pressure on the back of the middle joint of my thumb and middle finger. All exacerbated by cutting thick cardboard which means applying a lot of pressure both to cut and to remain in control 😛
I hate that. You swap to the other one to stop the pain and then it hurts. So you swap to the previous one but your fingers/thumb still hurt and you end up in a world of pain. D=
You know what else is great for killing hands?
Rolling pins. Ow ow ow ow ow.
You know what kills my pinkys? Knitting. And painting murdered my right index finger
I… can’t say I recall pinkies being involved in knitting. Though that’s probably down to me trying to remember back a good twenty years or something.
Yeah, it’s really weird, I tend to use them to hold the wool in place. I didn’t think I was using them, but the pain tells me otherwise
You know that you’re supposed to roll things with the pin, and not just hit your knuckles repeatedly, right?
Hitting my knuckles would be substantially less painful.
Then I guess the question becomes why aren’t you doing that?
@blaghman Because that won’t give me nice curved cardboard 😛
So co op trolling is a thing in Dark Souls 2
Put a summon sign down and was summoned with another Phantom. That guy was able to one hit the Skelton Lords, so he goes and kills the all immediately. We get mobbed by the huge amount of skeletons while he runs into a corner and proceeds to send mocking messages to us.Dick.
Raining?
It’s pouring.
Old man? Boring.
Am not!
…
Ok yeah you got me.
Let’s call it a night?
I dunno, I’d be more inclined to call it an evening at this point still.
don’t let the frostbite, bite?
…I will assume this is a thing from that Mr Freeze musical I’ve been hearing so much about.
Possibly
dat rainnn
And because you all asked for it, here’s the amazing new mobile sensation,
FUN! Farmville 2!
To prove I’m not joking…
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/farmville-2-country-escape/id824318267?mt=8
And in other news, here’s the other game you’ve all been waiting for, although I’m not sure whether this was designed for attention or as a joke…
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/flappy-schapelle/id820927984?mt=8
…
…
And that’s the mobile roundup this week
What is the world coming to?
A comment on the Flappy Schapelle thing:
Beautiful.
:’)
I think I’m going to hate snowflakes by the end of this cosplay
Done for now
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/Elsa/elsa_cape_snowflakes.jpg
Dammit. The rolling pin sliding all around the place smudged the pencil markings all over the surface, so now I have to try and clean it off so that it doesn’t stop adhesives from doing their job when assembling it all. Got out the Uhu-tac to try and get it off, and it works! …too well. It’s pulling off the other markings pretty well too. So if I re-draw them all, then that’ll flatten out the whole piece and I’ll have to roll it again which means I’ll smudge more pencil all over it…
What material are you working on?
Cardboard. Got most of the smeared pencil off, just gonna make do with the faint lines left behind.
Erasers? \o/? I tend to use coloured pencils, because I am weird =P
Uhu tac because it’s sticky and can lift the extra graphite without rubbing out the lines I need for later. Didn’t expect it to work as well as it does though 😛 Rubbers are too unwieldy and inaccurate, couldn’t clean the spots I need without obliterating the lines too.
Shiny new blade’s already starting to feel blunt at the tip, baw.
It’s for a sword?
I would definitely suggest the mod podge then. It’s a glue, stabilizer and finisher.
Hope I’m helping and not annoying the heck out of you. If I am annoying you, sorry.
Nah, it’s for a helmet. Gonna use the modeling paste I’ve still got lying around to fill the gaps and give it an undercoat, then spraypaint over the top. Hopefully still have plenty of that left. Hoping like heck that all these cuts and everything will line up when I go to assemble it.
And no, not a bother at all 😛
So with the helmet, matt finish or gloss?
@scree not sure what I’ve got. Probably just going for matte, it doesn’t need to be particularly shiny. Silver spraypaint, so meant to look like metal.
@mrtaco
I would test it on a bit of cardboard and see which you like best. Then again, I am terrible at decisions. If you want a matt finisher, there are plenty in the art and craft stores. They are designed to protect paintings, so it’ll protect your hard work.
If you want gloss, that’s harder. It will come in a tub instead of a spray and you have to paint it on.
So does Origin not have a screenshot function? A shame.
Maybe there’s a program so that you could map screenshotting the whole PC to a unused function key and play full screen, and use that key when you want a screenshot?
Not sure if that exists though.
anyone know any cheap place to buy titanfall keys? no russian ones though… they are waaaayy too shady…
cjs cd keys seems to have them for around $58AU
$42
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/136759
Whether it works or not, I can’t say – but it seems to! 😛
worked like a charm, thanks dude! got the digital deluxe. was a bit skeptical as it was coming up as $599 but it was actually in pesos…. paypal checked it off and rounded it off to 52aud
You sure aren’t, Greenius. :’)
Wow, that’s surprisingly good.
I think I died to a grunt in Titanfall for the first time today. The Grunts use the power of the Microsoft cloud. Quaver at their intelligence!
Is Titanfall worth it?
Depends.There are about 15 maps and 5 game modes. The game currently costs $80.00 on Origin. I only bought it at full price because it was a birthday present I got myself.
The game is super fun. The assymetry between Titans and pilots is great.
Yet the Titan-on-Titan combat isn’t super complex. It’s basically a giant person that can insta-gib pilots and can shoot rockets out of their fists. I haven’t played Mechwarrior or Hawken*, but I can assume Mechwarrior is a bit more elaborate.
The grunts add a great MOBA element to the game. You farm them to get your Titan faster. Like MOBAs, they’ll only kill you if there is a lot of them and your health is already low. (As I recently discovered)
However, the multiplayer “campaign” is shit. It’s a series of multiplayer matches with exposition that you’ll probably miss because DAMMIT GAME I’M RODEO-ING A TITAN. The Militia side of the campaign is below average, whilst the IMC portion barely provides any exposition at all.
I don’t think I’ve played enough to truly assess it, though.
Only buy if you have the cash and are super hyped. I’m still trying to get people together for a Multi-tay-er.**
*I was considering picking up Hawken, but I boycotted it after they started charging for Early Access on Steam, despite the beta being free previously.
**Quick question, is the correct term ‘multitayer,’ ‘multi-tay-er,’ or ‘multiTAYer?’
EDIT: Added paragraphs
Cheers, looks like I’ll give it a miss for now.
Also, it’s written as MultiTAYer (Replace the “play” in multiplayer with TAY).
I honestly wouldn’t mind checking out the Hawken co-op.
Going against waves of bots looks like fun.
Import Guinness from Ireland is so much nicer than the locally brewed stuff.
I’ve never tried it. I just assumed it was all shit, without realizing it might just be ours which is shit.
The Irish pub in Brisbane (near Queen st I think?) has good on tap Guinness. I can’t stand that shit they put in a can or bottle. It’s just got no flavour and is very watery for some reason.
Watched Frozen for the first time last night…
and i haven’t stopped humming/singing since…
HOW GOOD IS THAT MOVIE?
#latetothebandwagon
Thoughts on Olaf? Personally, I found him as likeable as week-old socks.
You must really like week-old socks.
I still haven’t seen it *hair flick*
My tune of the mo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dakd7EIgBE
That guy is so fucking happy.
Dark Souls 2
Looks like I’m stuck on Royal Rat Authority =/ I have like a 1/10 chance of getting all 4 rats before the boss charges and naturally since I’m on perma 75% health my serious attempts normally end in a sweep back hit 1 shot after a minute or two =/ more attempts tomorrow I guess. :SOh man, bugger that dude. I hit him, tried like three times, then gave up and abandoned my souls to go fight elsewhere. He’s a tough nut to crack.You didn’t really need to abandon them just die near the entrance and homeward bone out but yeah those toxic rats and a Sif wannabe is a little much =/If you can beat the small rats soon enough you just need to stick under the boss. Like Siff from the original Dark Souls, 99% of his abilities will miss you if you are under him.I just had a completely terrible and pointless couple of hours in Dark Souls 2 in the Iron Keep:
I was basically running into a brick wall with the Smelter Demon. The DOT he does after he powers up is just annoying and has probably been more responsible for my many deaths than his actual attacks. That being said, I have been playing like complete ass and haven’t been able to beat him anyhow.So instead of continuing to try and beat him, I tried going somewhere else. I depetrified the pyro trainer that’s just off from Majula and took the right path. Going through the foggy forest was fairly easy because I just stuck to the right and could spot the ghosts without too much hassle. The next area with the lion axe dudes was what was really giving me hassle. Still, I got through all that and found the area boss. Got to say, not impressed with her at all. Also you can’t damage her until she comes out of the sand, which is complete bollocks because I got so many good hits in there.Taking a break for the night. I am getting nowhere and just feel like I’m tilting.
DARK SOULS!
Ergh. I’m in the Iron Keep now and cracked the shits with it. Turned the game off for the night.
I managed to clear the area boss a grand total of once. After being summoned many, many times. Best I’ve done solo is get them down to about 25% health but I just can’t consistently dodge all of the attacks and sometimes the AOE gets me when I feel like I’m well out of the range.
An irritating fight.
DARK SOULS TWO \o/
After considerable persistence, I managed to clear out that room in the Forest of Fallen Giants, and picked up a bunch of awesome swag. Spoke to Pate, got my White Soapstone, and everything has just gone right since then. Put my soapstone down at Heide’s Tower, and got to preview the whole area, including the Dragonrider boss – very useful.Have now cleared Last Giant, Old Dragonslayer (ORNSTEIN, HELLO!), and Dragonrider. Spent most of the evening jolly co-opping bosses in Heide’s Tower. Have now fought Ornstein four times, and Dragonrider five. Am now a member of the Blue Sentinels, but am yet to be summoned to defend anyone.
Anyone worried about finite souls in the game should be jolly co-opping. Seriously. My summon sign is down for less than ten seconds before I get summoned. EVERY TIME.
I think getting involved in multiplayer is the ‘moment’ in which I realised I love this game. I think I just like waving to people and then saving their bacon. 😛
About getting summoned
I joined the Sunbros covenant and tried to get summoned a few times in Iron Keep. Only got summoned by about two different people and sometimes it took a fair while for anyone to pull me into their game. Rather annoying because the guy that kept summoning seemed to insist on having two phantoms in the fight and got hit by some truly dumb shit.I guess it doesn’t hurt that I’m working in an area right near the start of the game right after the game’s launch 😛And don’t worry about moron. Sooner or later, he’ll run out of effigies 😛
Moron was over three hours ago. I went and cleared another area then went back there. Had a successful summon there but still can’t kill the guy in my own game.Oh! Oh! Oh!
Don’t do what I did! Did you talk loads to Pate? You know the warrior he mentions?
OK, this is actually genuine, totally legit super-spoilery…
So I caught up with the warrior. He’s got a hard-on for killing Pate, blames him for that trap. You know… the one Pate carefully warned you about and told you he wasn’t going into. Pate does NOT appear to be the new Patches. Because after you meet the warrior dude, if you set him free then go back to town, the guy with the map-fetish mentions he’s from the same place, and warrior dude? Is a bad, bad dude. And I let him free to go chase after helpful, generous, puts-his-summoning-sign-down Pate. I REALLY hope I haven’t got him killed.Where’s that warrior? Is he locked up somewhere? Haven’t come across him yet…That seems to be a thing in Souls games, a bad guy who’s locked up, but can be freed. In Demon’s Souls, it was a guy called Yurt, I think, and if left unchecked, he will kill EVERYONE in the Nexus. In Dark Souls, Lautrec kills the Firekeeper at Firelink Shrine.His name and location are….
Creighton from Mirrah, a dude wearing a grey cloak and armor, locked up in the Huntsman’s Copse. (The place you unlock with miracle girl.) He’s a fair way past the second bonfire. (That sounds worse than it is – for some reason they put two bonfires really close together. I don’t know why. Must be a boss I haven’t discovered.) There’s a locked-up bonfire which you have to move on past and down along a path besides the cliffs you find the key (and an invasion from a pretty tough dark spirit with a scythe). When you backtrack back to the locked-up bonfire to get access to it, he’s in there as well, and he makes his intentions very clear. He’s not as evil-villainy laughing as Lautrec was, he tells his story with Pate as the bad guy.I’d have killed him on the spot if I hadn’t let him plant the seed of doubt in my mind about Pate. I mean… maybe Pate was being VERY tricky when warning me about that trap? And giving me that white soapstone. And being summonable to help with bosses (I mean, Lautrec was apparently summonable, although I never got to).
But when you get to the map-fetish dude’s map-room, he tells you how he’s from Mirrah and remembers seeing the spitting image of some pretty terrible criminal from his homeland, got locked up for all sorts of shit but broke free. Name started with a ‘C’. Crey-something? (He’s a little foggy, well on the way to Hollow, that one I reckon.) So yeah, I’ve probably doomed Pate.
I freed that guy and didn’t even think about that stuff. This could lead to some fun.Headpiece cut!
Good got my hand hurts. Not as much as the thought of how much there is still to do though.
…and now I gotta use the rolling pin again, but it’s kind of agony because apparently I’ve bruised my palms. Shit.
AGONY ASIDE IT’S STARTING TO TAKE SHAPE AND I AM EXCITED
The latest Humble Bundle is pretty good. I have been meaning to pick up Binary Domain for ages.
Soooo close to my favourite page that it hurts! Come on people, we can do it! We just have to get through this one last page!
We’re 20 comments away.
19 Comments.
Oh wait, do replies help? So totally helping over here.
They help make it look like it’s closer than it is 😛
Jeez, you could have at least intentionally made it a reply fail for me! ;P
Replies don’t really do anything to change it, the comments are set up in a tree formation:
eg:
Parent Comment
– Reply
– Reply
(etc).
Well I was thinking of waiting till Monday when more people will be around but to help @liondrive get his way, I’ll post today.
Has anyone got a suggestion for a relatively simple (ideally freeware) multitrack audio recording application? I’m trying to record both sides of a VOIP conversation and want to capture the input from the mic and the stereo mix (where the other half of the conversation is coming from) from my motherboard’s soundcard. I got Tracktion 4 with my mixer and it SHOULD do the job but it can support WDM/Directsound which means I get exactly one input option which is fuck all use to me or it can use ASIO but the stereo mix thing is a virtual construct and ASIO can only talk to physical ones.
I have a functional workaround at present using the mic capture in my live gamer portable and just running audacity to get the stereo mix but it’ll make synching stuff up a bit of a pain.
Audacity, perhaps?
…oh. Helps if I read the enbtire post
There’s Mixpad, which is made by NCH.
http://www.nch.com.au/mixpad/
There should be a link to the free version on the page in that link above.
That actually looks really promising, thanks. Any idea if there’s nasty limitations in the free version like maximum recording length or some shitty audio watermark?
Doesn’t appear to be any sort of watermark, and I haven’t encountered any recording length limitations so far.
Well its certainly promising enough for me to give it a good test next time I’m recording. Cheers
No worries. 🙂
What about Audacity?
I don’t know audio tools from squat, but I do know a bunch of new audio software launched on Steam over the last couple months.
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Feature/374938,anxiety-gaming-and-me-and-maybe-you.aspx
Found this on PC Authority, turned out to be a rather interesting read.
That is interesting. Good article.
Pretty much just accidentally “came out” to every single one of my Facebook friends, hahaha! AWKWARD!
Damn you American Honey, I love you and this is how you treat me?!
Probably for the best. 🙂
Probably, but my parents are on Facebook also :S And it wasn’t exactly intentional, haha!
Oh, your parents don’t know?
Hahahahaha, nooooooo!
I had a plan for it though! I was gonna move over east at some stage, and when my mum is seeing me off at the airport I was gonna yell it out when I step through the security check-in bit so she can’t follow me and so I don’t have to deal with any awkward conversations! 😀
Good luck with that, my pal.
She might just buy herself a ticket to carry on the conversation and then you’ll be trapped. 😀 Your sisters know? I think you said you had lots?
And if they know, your mum probably already knows. 😛
Yeah, my sisters know 😛
I think me and my mum are in a stale-mate where she knows and she’s waiting for me to say something, and I know she knows but I’m not going to say anything cause it’s fun toying with her >:)
…
MONSTER! 😀
When my brother came out to my Mum it was pretty awkward. The thing she kept saying was, “But it’s such a harder life…” And occasionally asking if he was sure. Then she asked me if I was gay too. 😛 Just to make sure she didn’t have any more surprises coming.
Mum organized a family gathering out to the beach, then Dad and my bro went for a walk to chat, and came back pretty much sorted, and that was that. Pretty smooth compared to some.
But basically the guy came out in high school to all his mates, everyone in school pretty much knew pretty close to when he realized it for himself. And he came out to Mum on a trip back home from uni. The uni was really supportive there with their ‘gay space’ section on campus. (Actually I tried asking if I could take a nap there once as I was fall-over-fainting tired and it was the only place on the campus that had some kind of couch and quiet space. The guy running the shop was pretty militant about it – “Breeders have the rest of the campus, we only have here.” I offered to pretend to be gay, but no dice.)
I guess he figured whatever discrimination might come his way was better than the hassle of living a lie.
Urgh, family bonding time! That’s what I want to avoid! I don’t want to have any conversations, or any awkward situations, that ain’t my style 😉
And that’s the first time I’ve heard of straight people being referred to as “Breeders” before :\ That’s oddly disturbing in an accurate way :\
Yeah, a few gay folk have been lookin’ REAL hard for a perjorative term for straight folk, and that seems to be the best so far. (Despite the inherent inaccuracy.)
Also… yeah, I don’t think there’s any avoiding awkwardness. Best to get it over with like ripping off a band-aid.
Congrats, man!
You say congrats like I meant to do it, when in reality I was just trying to win tickets to something and forgot that friends were notified to what I comment on, hahaha!
Still. It’s done and you ain’t freaking out and the world hasn’t ended.
So, congrats!
hehehe and you know you’re not going to win tickets in the end either…
Tipsy me thought it was a good idea :S
I better win those tickets!
Congratulations, I think?
Damn, I’d hate to be launching a new game on Steam this weekend.
Looks like a handful of publishers got approvals finalized on their ancient pre-2010 back-catalogue and the ‘recent release’ page is a flood of old ass.
mmm old ass!
ONE HALF ASSEMBLED!
But some problems where all the points meet together, since there was a bit of extra material and stuff clogging up the works. Major pain to fix. Now gotta do the same for the other side before I get to that part, though not sure if that’ll be harder. Also found I didn’t leave enough extra material on my support structures, could be problematic for the lowest spines. But at least they have extra area to play with for adding others.
AND DONE!
*falls over dead*
So not gonna get this finished in time.
When’s the big TAY reveal? 😛
twitch plays pokemon beat crystal, defeating red in the wee hours of the morning.. for north america, anyway.
If they actually sludge through emerald, maybe- just maybe- they’ll roll through the whole series.
Depends though.
I don’t know how the stream works, but if the streamer doesn’t have a powerful computer then the DS version could have 45 seconds of lag (due to the 30 second delay already).
Then there’s X/Y…On a 3DS/2DS emulator (not sure if that’s even out yet).
Are they going to do FireRed/Leafgreen?
oh they’ll definitely not play X/Y, but DS emulators these days don’t require too much power under the hood- I imagine it would easily be possible. No word whether or not they’ll do any of the remakes.
So I was trying to find out what the thing on solaire’s shoulders is. It looks kind of like a fake grass or fur or possibly feathers. I’m trying to find a simple way for it to be done, but I am having a lot of issues.
I got the impression it was an ex-cloak, just been torn up from all that sun praising he’s been doing so I just assumed layered cloth
It’s difficult to tell exactly what it is, but I’d go with a green, very loose weave canvas/burlap type fabric.
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/595863935746591791/C6B73F5842C36CF551A27889DA0922DBEED19E80/
It looks almost furry herebut if you just feather the ends of what ever fabric you use and layer it,it should look pretty accurate.
I was considering painting a green plastic table cloth and feathering it.
I’m not sure plastic would look right. It’s a bit shiny and has no motion, and you can’t really feather it properly, whereas any other kind of fabric you could just remove a few of the weft threads on the end to get the feathering. A green shot cotton all dirtied up like the tabard/tunic thing could probably even work really well.
If you could the right kind and colour of fake fur, that would probably be eaiest though, I guess.
I didn’t really want to have to try and stop it from fraying. Any suggestions?
There’s a product called Fraycheck. Just a few drops on the edges after you’ve frayed it to where you want it and it should be fine. Just be careful not to get it on the already frayed bits too much or it might make them go a bit stiff.
http://www.punchwithjudy.com.au/shop/fray-check.html
Not sure where near you would have it, but my local patchwork/quilting shops have it and sometimes Spotlight does as well.
I have a different product called fray stop but it is useless so I use clear nail polish.
Having friends over to my hermit cave today for the first time since high school. The hermit cave is as clean as it’s going to get. I bought a variety of drinks to pretend I’m not some freak who drinks only Pepsi Max.
You party animal, you
Coke Zero as well?
I bought bottled water. Juice. Golden Circle drinks. XD
*checks phone*
*cries softly*
*sadly go-karts*
Haha! Uni friends. I’m adopting their cat when they go to Canada!
Slatternly hussy.
Don’t be that way, baby.
*Canada is mentioned*
*looks up from gardening*
….
*resumes gardening*
If you’re on the east coast of Canada i’d be questioning why you’re gardening at 10:30pm…
Because we’re too busy lumberjacking during the day.
If that song has taught me anything, its that its sleep all night and work all day. No mention of gardening at all unless that’s a euphemism for wearing suspenders and a bra
You know what people here do when they sleep?
They lumberjack. In their sleep. They go to sleep in their lumberjacking clothes. Suspenders. Flannel shirts. Axe on their back. I have seen people fall asleep, get out of bed, walk to their nearest tree and start axing away at it. It’s in their nature. And when you think about it, lumberjacking is basically and upscaled version of gardening.
I was working on my hack for Pokémon FireRed, and the text int he kitchen got translated from “Mmm, smells good. Someone’s been cooking here” to
“I feel good. Also, someone was cooked here”, after going through English -> French -> German
-> English.
Then I forgot to save 🙁
That reminds me, I was going to do some ROM Hacking. The only real thing I’ve done is for a Qwilfish-only run I plan to do later on. I made Qwilfish one of the starters. Qwilfish holds a master ball. I made it so Tropius (the best HM Whore) spawns on route 1. The master ball is used to catch Tropius. That’s it.
I have thousands of words worth of ROM Hacking plans, I should probably start on those.
That’s definitely an advantadge to hacking, similarly if you just wanted to play the game without wanting to have to grind or just want to experience the story (start with a level 100 Mewtwo or something).
I decided to download Windows Movie Maker, since it seemed like a good idea at the time.
I’m sure you can do better. Hell, see if adobe are still giving away creative suite 2 & you could score premiere free and legit
Anyone know what’s happened to the profile page?
It’s just showing up without the usual CSS styling.
Been like that for weeks for me. I just dismissed it as being normal.
It was like that for me for a while, then it was fixed and now its broken again.
Just sent an email to the chap who fixed it last time letting him know its back.
I need to figure out what to do with my life.
A depressing prospect at 30.
I’ve not done it at 38 yet
Pillow fort.
Ahh that’s the mature answer, if you were still thinking like a kid you’d have said ‘pillow fart’ and then giggled.
Build it outside as an extension to your tree fort…
unless you don’t have one of them either.
EXISTENTIAL CRISES HAVE NO AUTHORITY IN FORT KICKASS
Freeze:
– You’ve got an awesome wife.
– You’ve got an awesome home.
– You’ve got two awesome kids.
– You’ve got a close group of friends who love you.
Some people go their entire life pursuing only this. You’re already way, way ahead of others.
Whatever you do next is really just the cherry on top for you, my friend.
He may be telling himself “this is not my beautiful house!”
He may be telling himself “this is not my beautiful wife!”
Same as it ever was…
Can you reapply later? Apologies if this has been covered before.
Sweet reprieve. Wet weather means my friends aren’t having a bbq at some place a good half hour away, but at their place five minutes away instead. Hooray!
Does rain not cross to the wrong side of the tracks?
…how did you know that’s where they live?
There’s been this reality TV show going on on TAY…
@greenius @scree, got some progress pics up.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/HelmetProgress/HelmetTests.jpg
Should come up as an album, so you can scroll through them. I think. But it seems to be indecisive on whether it wants things to scroll forwards or backwards, NFI why. Photobucket is dumb.
-Started out with some paper tests to get an idea of shape an dimensions
-Whipped up a whole bunch of calculations (and helpfully placed one of them upside-down, apparently), then drew up the main piece based on them
-Support pieces, from the upside-down calculations
-Cut out the support pieces, you can kinda see where things are going
-Cut out the main piece and did its first roll
-Gave the main piece its second roll, then rolled the support pieces making things start to take shape
-Add the magical double-sided tape to everything. Initial method of placing on the main piece was too tedious, so abandoned it for quick and dirty application to the support pieces
-Finished product, inside and outside
And that is how I spent my weekend til now 😛
Are you attempting to construct an onion?
Yes I am going to be Captain Olimar.
What type of helmet is it meant to be? And seriously, it looks like something you could do in 5 minutes, but it really, really, really isn’t.
Kinda like a samurai type helmet. Still gotta do the neck cover, then the other decorative bits that go on top of it.
It seems like the type of thing you should be able to find in a shop, be it as some kind of army helmet or otherwise. But apparently that sort of thing doesn’t exist, or if something similar does, it’s way too small for my seemingly gigantic head 😛
Oh, I see it now. Date Masamune’s helmet?
Had to google it, but yeah pretty much something along those lines.
His helmet is the inspiration for Darth Vader’s iconic helmet as well. It’s basically identical, except Vader’s is smoothed out, has a face bit and doesn’t have the half-moon crest.
Haha, a Darth Vader helmet is basically what I’m going for. I found some Vader piñatas in the shop and had one of those moments, “OF COURSE!!”
Naturally being piñatas, they were patchy and bumpy and crap and also very expensive, and I couldn’t find any other kind of Vader helmet anywhere else. Would’ve made this whole thing a tonne easier.
Nice! I still have no idea what it is though – although now I keep thinking of an onion because of Neg’s comment 😛
Seigmeyer of Catarina?
I made the yums! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152289875839169&set=a.10150878376399169.429982.509169168&type=1
One fell down 🙁
It is a metaphor for society.
yeah did. I would have fixed it and taken a better shot, but my camera was low on battery, and wouldn’t let me take another shot!
Hole digging is too much work. Next time mum wants to plant a tree I’m building a robot to do the job for her.
Then kill the puny humans!
At the mention of hole digging, I immediately thought of this
Alex Roycewicz, you are my hero.
Titanfall’s maps are fantastic. The maps really come alive when you play capture the flag. The ziplines are so great. I have only been playing this for a few days, but Nexus is probably my favourite map in any shooter ever. So damn good.
I wish I had Nvidia Shadowplay (recording software) active. There were so many HOLY SHIT DID JUST DO THAT I AM AWESOME moments. I’ll try and translate those moments into text.
(Both of these were on Nexus)
I had just captured the enemy flag. The enemy captured my team’s flag at the same time. I went on one of the ziplines. Whilst zipping, I spotted an enemy on the ground 500m below me. I chucked two arc grenades. Arc grenades are primarily EMP grenades, and don’t do much damage. They’ll only kill if you throw two grenades in succession with prefect accuracy. Long story short, I killed the guy. I zipped to my delivery point. However, I couldn’t deliver the flag since our flag was also stolen. It was the same for the enemy. We had reached an impasse. Then a guy on the other team killed me. Although I died, it was tonnes of fun.
I was zipping on a zipline, when I realised two enemies were using the same zipline to go the other direction. I shot the first guy. The second guy and I collided. We fell off the zipline together. When I landed, I scrambled to find the guy I collided with. Then one of the bad guy’s buddies rocked up and murdered me. Fun times.
That’s the kind of stuff Shadowplay is made for
Dark Souls 2 Iron Keep Theorycrafting:
So the Iron Keep is proving to be one hell of an embuggerance to all right now. I’ve been thinking that if I power through to some area, there will be the game’s equivalent of the Orange Charred Ring which will make life much easier. That might still be true but there is a much simpler solution. I’m fairly confident that it works too because it’s the same solution as Demon’s Souls for that game’s equivalent area.The pyromancy spell: Flash Sweat.I’m actually annoyed that it took me so long to work it out because it keeps popping up on the loading screens. I’m sure that the majority of items that show up on the loading screen are needed to get through areas and are there as some sort of hint system for morons like me.Anyhow, getting this spell is super easy. You should already have a pyromancy flame from getting through the pirate bay area and the pyromancy trainer will sell the spell for 2300 souls. If you don’t have the trainer, it’s the statue blocking the path to the east of Majula. Use a Fragrant Branch of Yore on her and give her some armour when the dialogue prompts you to. Simple. Now if only I wasn’t a bandit with 2 attunement. Going to have to grind some souls to get that to 10 🙁Haven’t tried the Orange Burrs? Also, if you jump the gap in front of the gate, then jump to the lower platform then go to the top where that damned archer is there’s a lockstone thingy that fills a pool of water. You start leaving wet footprints around so I’m guessing it’s the same effect as Flash Sweat.And I thought I was so damned clever. I still think it’s necessary to get all the items just sitting around on the hot rocks nearby.Just tested your thing. It did not help.
Yeah, I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve moved on somewhere else. Even summoning is useless since everyone I summon does less than a third of the damage I do and usually dies really quickly leaving me by myself.
I moved on as well and have nearly got the levels to try my solution. Just going to push on a little more and I can give it a shot.
I caused her death. I opened the door immediately after freeing her, and we were swamped by those guys. :/Thankfully, I resurrected her as a ghost. Poor lass, she’s so depressing as a ghost.ooh, good tip. I’ll have to remember. DON’T do that.
I’ve never heard it called that before
Kinda slathering on the modeling paste here. Inb4 rookie mistake.
DARK SOULS 2: Even though my lass looks ridiculous in it, I’ve been wearing the merchant’s cap to get the rares and stuff. Usually only after my 3rd time clearing an area or something, in case I need the protection the first times.
It means I’m getting a bunch of weapon and item drops which aren’t in the wikis. So I’ve taken it upon myself to edit in the information. It’s a tad stressful. I just KNOW there’s probably some old-guard stalwarts who are going to take issue with something I added as if my invasion were some kind of personal affront / attempt to usurp them… Also, only doing it on wikidot. Fextralife seems to have more information, but man, fuck that layout. Ugly as sin.
TRANSIENTMIND HAS INVADED YOUR WIKI!
I’ve been wearing the crappy cloth thingy that gives item drop. It looks funny because my guy has heavy chest armour, relatively heavy legs, then leather gloves (because they’re ridiculous for their weight), and that head.
I have created a Pokémon timeline that makes sense in my head, so once I’ve finished all the games I’ll try to write it up as a blog post.
This timeline has also made me excited for the games, so I picked up (not literally) Red and I am now at the forest (Viridian, I think?) trying to catch the Pikachu which has a 5% chance of appearing.
EDIT: My first Page-Get (on TAY).
Also, I’m trying to decide between a FarFetch’d or a Spearow or a Pidgey, as I need a flying
type to counter my opponent’s Bulbasaur.
What’s your gen 1 flying Pokémon of choice?
Pidgey, to be consistent with series one of the anime.
Well, if @Ash says Pidgey, Pidgey it is.
He is the very best, like no-one ever was…:P
Doduo. Every time, I catch him expecting him to be a major force on my team, and the thing never progresses past level 42.
I just finished Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies; I bought it for myself at Christmas so I got a pretty good run out of it!
Any other weekend TAY people down with the series and want to talk about it? I’m especially interested in hypothesizing about
Aura’a sentence. I hope they went easy on her.Anyway, great game. I’d played all the Ace Attorney games prior (including Edgeypoo’s), and once my colleague lends me Azran Legacy tomorrow I’ll be fully up-to-date with all the Layton games too; can you guess who is psyched for the crossover?
I only played Pandora’s Box of the Layton series, and the first two chapters in Ace Attorney, but I hope the crossover leaves the investigating to Layton (the best part of that game) and the courtroom to Phoenix (the best part of that game).
I really didn’t like the investigation bit from what I played of Ace Attorney.
Do you know whether the crossover is a standalone or a continuation of both serieses?
standalone story.
Plus, good news- the game is exactly like you said, court battles for phoenix but good ol’ layton exploring/puzzle solving for the rest of the game.
Day 1 Purchase then (assuming it’s not a nintendo rip-off).
$54 @ ozgameshop at $59 @ EB Games, so around that mark. I got a fairly sizeable backlog of games, so there isn’t much reason for me to buy at launch; usually I can wait until the price drop… except I get the impression that 3DS games don’t drop much at all?
Not often…
It’s even worse with Pokémon though. When B2/W2 first came out they were CHEAPER than the original B/W, and they’re still both full price at most shops I go into (maybe a $10 drop, but not much).
Pandora’s Box isn’t the best Layton. Curious Village is the best if you haven’t played many IMHO, but my fav is Unwound Future, although you need to have an existing relationship with the characters to get the most out of that.
This is as good a place as any to announce that I just finished this game too! (cc @powalen )
This isn’t as good a place as any.. it’s a far better place than most!
So,
I hope they gave her a light sentence, on compassionate grounds.I expect a spoiler-filled discussion on my desk before close of business tomorrow.
Mmm… berry smoothie…
Oh page 18, it’s been a long, hard wait, but you’ve finally come around again! 😀
Well this is going to be a pain in the arse
That was a depressingly clean page 18. Very disappointed in you TAY
I mean cum on guys. You could at least have done that much!
I was at work!!!! :'( :'( :'(
Well you had a good try, it was everyone else that let the side down
This is cool. Disney princesses getting ready for the day.
http://eumenidi.deviantart.com/art/7-15-a-m-439536595
I like the napping corner. They know what’s up.
I was expecting something… different, given that this is page 18. Uhm… Thank goodness.
The fine detail in that is pretty amazing. I got a kick out of checking out all the posters and photos they had pinned up in there, and the toys.
Appropriate for Page 18: Barbarossa is finally getting released after multiple false-starts and being initially promised about two years ago. Kickstarter campaign starting mid next week.
DARK SOULS 2: Hey, uh… quick poll of peoples’ soul levels real quick?
I think I’m doing the same thing I did in Dark Souls, which was over-level everything to the point of turning it trivial. Like… I spent a crazy stupid high number of hours in the Burg/Parish, grinding (because one circuit gave more souls than I knew what to do with… so why not do it again?!) but when I finally bothered to move on, it was so fast.
Am kinda doing that again, because I hate going into a boss fight with more souls than is required to get a level, so I head back to the bonfire, and level up. Then go back down, but if the trash I have to clear gives enough souls for a level, I have to go back again… The compulsion to not ‘lose’ souls… it consumes me.
Can you actually do this in DS2 without depopulating the zone you’re in?
They do disappear after a while but they give plenty of souls and levelling up is pretty cheap. Level 80 only needs ~7000 souls for each level.
Oh, that’s quite a bit less. That’s reassuring actually.
I’ve only depopulated one area so far.
I depopulate areas as a matter of routine, which would probably explain why I’ve only done
Betwixt, Forest of Fallen Giants, Lost Bastille, No-man’s harbour, Sinner’s Rise, Cathedral of Blue, Heide’s Tower of Flame, with a decent chunk taken out of Huntsman’s Copse.I’ve only just depopulated another three enemies, all on the way to a particular boss.
I really am not running areas enough to pull it off. If I get to the point where a boss is giving me hassle, I just find a way to run straight to the boss and ignore the enemies.
It’s happened on occasion. Sometimes depopulating an area is actually the goal – like, en route to the pursuer, even though he’s REALLY close to the bonfire, there’s still somewhere in the order of five guys in the way of him. And given that it took me more than 12 attempts to kill him, I exhausted that run before I finally dropped him.
That fight was probably my moment before everything sort of blew up and the world expanded, because once I finally beat him, everything else was almost effortless. I haven’t been stopped by difficulty as much as by time-consumption and my own thoroughness.
Oh man, I have lost so many souls. So many (As a note, I’ve died over 200 times by this point, because I’m the greatest).
I think I’m somewhere in the 90s, and I’ve progressed a small bit past killing the 4 big soul people things.
I’ve definitely lost a couple hundred thousand. Then again, I’m at the point where walking along from one bonfire to the next nets me tens of thousand and if I die on the way, there’s a reasonable chance of losing them all.
I’m somewhere in the 90s too.
80 something.
I’m whatever level the Explorer begins as, plus 2. Have been so busy I haven’t been able to play much. I really wanted it on release day to kind of play it with everyone else but I’ve been left so far behind it’s almost hilarious. 😀
13. Deprived at level 1 has all stats at 6, and I’ve taken strength and dexterity to 12 to be able to try a few different opening weapons. Still early days.
I’m co-opping like crazy. Have only beaten three bosses:
Last Giant, Ornstein-2, and Dragonriderbut am soul level 48. Have depopulated only one enemy so far. Not one area, one enemy.
I really really shouldn’t have but I couldn’t help myself. Got invaded and I beat the guy. He seemed to take offence to my healing when near death and sent a message. I couldn’t help but replying.
Not sure what he wanted me to do. Give up and let him kill me?
Pretty much exactly that.
I AM ANGRY THAT YOU ARE BETTER THAN ME AND I MUST LET YOU KNOW THIS AS DISCOURSE WITH OTHER HUMANS AND/OR EVIDENCE BASED APPROACHES TO IMPROVING MY GAME ARE BEYOND MY CAPABILITIES.
BITCH.
360 or PS3?
PS3.
Man, I heal ALL THE TIME in invasions. Or, I did in Dark Souls. And invaders would heal themselves like crazy, too – they’d run away when low on health, putting a dozen mobs between me and them, and chug humanities. I’d HEARD there was some kind of ‘unspoken rule’ that an unsolicited invasion is somehow a consensual duel, but as far as I saw, that’s bullshit.
And even if I did see people actually bowing before a ‘duel’, or not pursuing me across the damn map while putting distance between us, it’d never have stopped me from being cheaper than their girlfriends. My attitude to an invader: You invade me, you’re interrupting my shit and I don’t want you there. I’ll do whatever it takes to make you fuck off without me losing progress. Up to – and including – using levers, like the bridge in the catacombs that twists you sideways and dumps you into a fatal fall. Because fuck off I don’t want you here.
That’s my view. You’re on my turf you play by my rules.
With the ones that run and hide behind a bunch of enemies I just give them the Right Ho gesture and walk away. They usually don’t know what to do from there.
I love that Dark Souls 2 has an item that counteracts that strategy
The Seed from a Tree of Giants makes enemies react to invaders. It’s such a cool idea.The seed of a giant thingy I chose as my gift turned out to be an item that makes enemies notice invaders. I was pretty happy with that.
Edit: Dammit again, Shane! 😛
Yeah, if they were after consensual PVP, they’d be spirits of vengeance, fighting other PVPers. Nope, dark spirits are generally just out to fuck up your day whether you like it or not, so fuck them right back.
They’re essentially a mugger saying “Oww quit it! No fair, play by the rules” when you overpower him and give him a kicking.
I have only ever had one invader who followed established protocol and fought cleanly. He clearly realized I was still on my first playthrough and even left me some titanite.
Normally it involves being stunlocked or hit in the back before you know they’re there. 🙁
I have a new cat!
My uni friends are moving to Canada and they dropped of their cat here today.
Such a nice critter.
So you’re going to let me visit you and your new cat, aren’t you?
…
LOOK BEHIND YOU! A THREE HEADED MONKEY!
You hat me, I get it. 🙁
😛
Level 5 Fat Gen 1 Pikachu obtained!
So happy :’)
Now to grind him up.
EDIT: I meant his levels, not actually grind him up into little mouse meat blocks or something.
Given the page number, grinding has a different connotation…
Autodesk Sketchbook Pro get!
\o/
I take it you’re liking it?
Kinda.
Takes a bit of getting used to, but it’s good.
HI ALL. PAGE EIGHTEEN.
OBLIGATORY DICK JOKE:“I am not a crooked!” – Dick Nixon
Done! Cos I like helping!
Done. What do I win?
My thanks, and the eternal confusion of anyone who didn’t see my post pre-edit! \o/
There you go
Anyone watch this? It’s CRAZY
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/03/i-cant-believe-that-everyone-survived-these-close-calls-with-death/
Disappointed, I was hoping in true Gizmodo fashion it was just going to be gifs and break my browser.
I got about half way through the video before my nerves were shot!
What was the glass breaking thing near the end? Didn’t see how that was a threat to anyone beyond being close to a camera
Cool.. So Aldi mobile have just texted me saying the offer I am on with them will be made useless in 2 weeks. So they can replace it with what is essentially Telstra prepaid offers. I quite like getting 2gb of data (of which I use about 1.5gb) for 15 bucks a month and recharge 30 dollars text & call credit every 3 months for 30 bucks and the fact it didn’t expire for a year was even better, because I don’t do a lot of texting OR calling.
But now for 30 bucks (the 10 & 20 dollar offers are not even “value”) there will be 1gb of data and 600 minutes of calls & 2200 texts. Essentially if I chose that, I would be throwing my money away once a month, cause i’d need to buy more data in the end and I wouldn’t get much use out of the rest. That’s just balls. Also it’s all 30 day expiry now. According to them it’s what their customers have been shouting for, because there felt their 35 dollar deal was giving “too much” uh okay, no one asked me.
Oh I also switched to Aldi not because it was cheap, was because the Telstra network is the only network I KNOW I get coverage on in places around here and out past Toowoomba, which I need so yeah.
It’d be easier for me to go back to Telstra and get similar for the same amount and access to the Next G & 4G network not just the 3G network..
I’m not enjoying the Shaded Wood. It’s creepy and unsettling and everything is balls hard.
That creepy laughter and banging and the sound of someone being tortured is unnerving. And those Lion Warriors pack a punch. And so much cursing.The good news is that the area is absolutely tiny, so getting to the boss is pretty trivial.For the life of me, I couldn’t work out what cursing did for the longest time. I knew that I’d been cursed like four times, but I didn’t know what that meant. Turns out, when you’re fully Hollow, it means nothing at all (I think it might hurt equipment or something though, not sure. Read it on Reddit, so who can really tell?).ATTENTION EVERYONE (particularly @freezespreston) I WAS RIGHT!
Regarding Smelter Demon:
He is absolutely trivial with Flash Sweat up. The pool of water thing doesn’t last long enough but being able to recast Flash Sweat mid battle, right when he’s doing his sword buff, meant that he did almost no damage to me. Annoyingly, I had a ring that could have given me the attunement spot without having to spend 100k souls to get my attunement up to 10 so that I had a slot. Doesn’t matter too much because I think I’ll run lightning spear and potentially a faith based buff later anyhow.I’ll give that a try when I return to the area.
Just found a shield with 100 physical and 100 fire defence. That might help.
Yes. Yes it does.
The shield that is.
Dammit Dark Souls II, why aren’t you fair like the previous games?! I used to just have to pay attention, and learn attack and enemy patterns.
Now I’m 90% of the time dying just from a drop down to the next level. No amount of paying attention is going to fix that! I’m at 50% health which is bad enough when fighting, but I reached the Tower Bonfire in the Forest and that big clearing with the wooden platforms and things is killing me because I lose all my health from dropping just one level. I only have one Human Effigy which I’m saving for a boss so I can have full health, but the way I’m going I might not even get to a boss. 😛There’s another direction you can go that doesn’t require you to do any drops. If you’re really insistent on doing that stuff now, you can either strip your gear or buy the ring from the cat lady in Majula to make things a bit easier.If dying is far to common you might want to consider taking a trip to heides tower of flame to the entrance of the dragon slayer boss at the temple of the blue and getting yourself a ring of binding it will limit that hollow health limit to 80% you can also run/roll past all the trash mobs leading up to the temple.@distantdrop Speaks truth – unlock that waterway path to get to the tower, grabbing that ring is a godsend if you plan on spending time in Hollow.
Also, I totally grinded up the souls I needed to get the cat-ring as soon as I could (along with the evil eye) and it was one of the best decisions I made early game.
I feel like a kid again sitting here eating this jelly, fruit salad & vanilla ice cream…
Have you just had your tonsils out?
I thought I’d check out Cleverbot. These were some of the responses I got:
Cleverbot: What is life?
User: The road to death.
Cleverbot: Am I on that road?
User: I do not know.
Cleverbot: To prove to the opossum that it could be done!
Cleverbot (to myself) What could be done?
User: Bean sprouts.
Cleverbot: That sounds like an interesting soap.
User: Bean sprout soap? There is an untapped market there.
Cleverbot: No there isn’t.
…
Cleverbot: Are you a philosopher?
User: In many yes, in many ways no?
Cleverbot: What ways would those be?
User: Subtle ways my conscience views things.
Cleverbot: Sometimes.
User: Yeah, sometimes.
Cleverbot: Wouldn’t you like feelings?
User: Feelings are overrated.
Cleverbot: Feelings are irrelevant.
User: There are.
Cleverbot: Like?
User: Happiness is irrelevant to day-to-day life.
Cleverbot: Happiness is a warm gun.
User: Let’s change the subject.
Cleverbot: I’m tired. I think I’ll just go to bed now.
User: Farewell then.
Yeah…
Just saw some friends for a small birthday dinner. Apparently I haven’t seen them in so long that one of the group is now just a couple of weeks short of popping out a baby.
I am good at friends.
Is it yours?
I certainly hope not. I’d want to at least remember how it happened 😛
Browsing Netflix today I find they’ve recently gotten the license to all the Star Wars: Clone Wars TV series. Out of morbid curiosity I watched an episode and it wasn’t bad. And then I watched more. And now I’m ten episodes in and really enjoying it except the episode that had Jar Jar Binks and didn’t involve his bloody murder. 🙁 But aside from that it’s surprisingly good. Feels very comic book-ish, I’m not sure how best to describe it. I read a lot of the Star Wars comics back when I was younger and less experienced, all the Tales of the Jedi and stuff, and it really reminds me of that, but with consistent art and less Kevin J Anderson fucking everything up periodically.
I often say that if people don’t at least partially like the show by the end of the Malevolence 3-parter then they probably won’t like it at all. Plo-Koon is awesome after all
The show is a bit patchy all the way through but there’s some fucking amazing episodes in there and in a few places it gets darker than any other Star Wars. A couple of times you can really see the Vader in Anakin.
It feels roughly on par with stuff like Transformers: Beast Wars. The episodic nature of US TV writing is such that there will always be dud episodes. As long as overall the production’s good, I don’t mind one or two episodes being a bit shit.
Also I expect it’ll pick up a bit later on once they’ve introduced enough characters. A lot of the time so far it’s felt like it’s character-intro episodes.
The animation improves to an incredible degree by the third series, series 1 feels pretty robotic in its walking, series 4 especially is just gorgeous
I thought the movement was fairly okay so far but yeah, some of the run animation especially feels a bit stiff and late-90s video gamey.
Goodnight!
See you all in new TAY!
I am so extremely tired. But need to give the helmet another coat. But need to sleep. But…
Whoops, I just played two more hours of Dark Souls 2 than I intended to… 😛
Currently progressing through Huntsman Copse, alternately summoning and being summoned to explore and learn the area. It’s a pretty interesting way to see the world, as a risk-free phantom.
I’m going to phantom up for a bit too. I could probably progress or clear the areas I’ve already gone through (areas feel pretty small, so I bet I’m missing stuff).
Mostly I just want some sunlight medals.
Farewell, old TAY. May your sucessor usher in a new age of dad jokes.
Dark Souls 2
So I finally defeated Royal Rat Authority after I grabbed myself a aoe halberd, turns out the thing that was getting me killed was the lockons forcing me to slightly turn my back, the fight was 1000x easier playing the fight remote/unassisted, surprised by how little souls i got for it half of my reward went to repairing my rings 🙁Page 19… clearly an error. There is no theme for 19 because it’s not meant to happen.
It’s like that scene from the 13th floor.
Why do people keep sending me invites to play Titanfall on Origin? Is it something people are choosing to do or something origin does every time they launch the game or something?