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2,633 responses to “Talk Amongst Yourselves”
I had to explain HAM to other people in the office today. Now they think I’m trying to make it happen. I’M NOT TRYING TO MAKE HAM HAPPEN.
also how about that Reaper of Souls eh
I dunno if it’s ham good, but it seems like a cool character
Wait… ham the meat product? Pork? What’s to explain about pork? Or is this some acronym for something I don’t know about yet?
I think he’s talking about this.
http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/H.A.M.
I didn’t know people were even playing Runescape. I mean, obviously there MUST be, but I’ve never known anyone who was playing it.
this arose because my housemate and I (after a few bottles of red) were thinking of other stupid acronyms and she came up with ‘B.A.C.O.N’ – bad and cool or NOTHIN
Ham is also the antonym to spam, in the realm of comments. Ham is a legit comment, spam is a … well, spam comment.
Ground Zeroes is awesome! 😀 The unlockable Deja Vu mission is pretty cool too.
Does anyone else still turn on their PS3 and see the title screen and think “hell yeah!”?
I know it’s uber old, but it still feels like a cool system to me. Can’t believe it’s now last gen.
I do like that horizontal glowy ribbon, and smooth, minimalist interface.
I liked the idea, I didn’t like the layout. It felt poorly organised, at least it should have let users modify things so they could create custom groupings
Or at least delete that fucking singstar thing I never bought, downloaded or agreed to own. But noooo… sony were all “Fuck you, you own this now!”, it was like a reverse mugging
Yeah the singstar thing made me swear off getting a PS4. Ads on the dash is total BS.
I don’t mind ads on the dash (well I do, but I’ll tolerate them because there’s no avoiding the fuckers and as long as they’re ads for game stuff on a game console they’re at least relevant), the thing that gets me is that it was in my games list as if I’d bought it. It’d be like steam putting all the free to play crap in your library by default, it’s bad enough when they put the free weekend stuff in
I hate them so much. It’s my console. I should be able to choose what I see on the dash.
The day they puts ads on my desktop I’m going back to XP.
Congratulations on staying true to the Master Race! 🙂
I mean hell, if you were going to go with consoles, the alternative was a Xbone, which… I dunno man. If ads on the dash of the PS3 (by which I mean one entry tucked away in a side-menu – GOD why couldn’t they let us delete that fucking singstar, seriously?! I STILL want it gone) torqued you off, well… heh. Be glad you never saw the x360 dashboard.
Yeah I never have. What’s the deal with it? Is it really full of ads?
They found a way to cram ads into every damn menu page. It was truly unbelievable, almost impressive.
(Edit: Several pages were nothing BUT ads, which you’d have to slide past to get to ‘settings’.)
The annoying thing is that you are paying $11.95 a month to be bombarded with ads. Pick ads or a subscription service, Microsoft! You can’t have both. It’s like how WoW has a built-in microtransaction store. @rowan
a 3 tiered thing would be fine; Silver, no MP, no ads, free. Gold, no ads, MP, paid. Tarnish, opt in ads in exchange for limited MP, free.
Paying for ads just seems so… foxtel…
I like the way it makes a sound like an orchestra tuning up when it starts. It’s classy. PS4 doesn’t have any start-up sound, just the beep when you turn it on 🙁
Yeah I like the sound too. I still clearly remember the feeling I had when I bought it. I can’t believe it was so long ago. I STILL have that feeling. It’s like …. “quality….” if that makes sense.
Really good console hey.
Bought cod ghosts limited edition from eb games December last year, the dlc that came with it is still not showing up or working 🙁
Is that Freefall or was there more?
Freefall suddenly started showing up in my map list the other day but not in the bonus map section. It’s strange.
Maybe try reaching out to PSN or Live via Twitter/email?
Freefall is free now… it think
Ohhhhhhhhh, I got it with a code and it just never showed up in my list.
I guess that would explain it.
Weekend gaming progress:
Pokemon Y: Don’t know why I went back to this, but I finished the National Dex (minus a few event legendaries) and got the shiny charm. Dabbled in a bit of GTS and got a few shinies.
Dark Souls 2: Level 50, 21 hrs, first primal fire lit – don’t even know what that means, still taking it slow. Last boss was a lagtastic nightmare, he kept sliding all over the place. Also funny how different summon fights can be compared to hosting thanks to lag – as a summon, the boss will hit where I was a second ago, but they can actually aim at me when I’m local. Eh. Having fun regardless.
Specific Dark Souls things and a question. I think I went the ‘wrong’ way:
Went straight from giant to pursuer to the three guys (farmed them for a bit, got really good at herding and dividing to help as a summon), then straight through to sinner guy. After one go at that I felt a little underpowered, so went back and did the tower of flame and piratey area until it linked through.One thing though – there were a bunch of locked doors in sinner’s rise, and unless the key was on the edge of that shaft I didn’t want to risk, I must have missed something. A guy I was summoned to help had the key so I’ve missed it somewhere.
I went the same way.
I think you’re ACTUALLY supposed to go through Heide’s Tower of Flame, though.I honestly cannot remember where you find that key.
And as @freezespreston pointed out, I now know the bit I missed.
Enter room, light bonfire, note two exits, warp back to town. Turn game off, resume the next day, warp back to bonfire facing one exit, forget all about the other one. Gah. My own silly fault.
Beat the Gargoyles in Belfry Luna.
OK. Haven’t even heard of that place yet so I’m assuming that’s further down the other path I haven’t tried yet (huntsman something?)
No, it’s in the Lost Bastille.
From the bonfire after the Ruin Sentinels go down the ladder and put a Lockstone in the face.OH. I forgot all about the ladder down. Yep, I sure missed a bit. Thanks!
At work on Friday I planned another mono-bug type team because I had no work to do. It was made to exploit Rain, so I had things like Rain Dancing Lead Accelgor, Hurricane Volcarona, etc.
Then I realised I don’t want to put the time in to get the team up and running 😛
Now I have a shiny charm, how much do I care about hunting for shinies? It was the main thing I wanted to gear towards – hunting legendaries then shinies rather than battling trainers, but effort…
Does the shiny charm work when hatching eggs? That would be cool if so (a shiny that doesn’t have optimal stats is just a waste :P)
I don’t really care too much about shinies. I think everybody hacking an entire team full of shinies has taken a lot of the appeal out of it. They’re good for bragging rights though.
It did in B2W2, I haven’t seen 100% confirmation either way for XY. Seen more ‘no’ than ‘yes’ though, which is sad.
Given the shiny egg hack that happened a while back (packet sniffing the details of an egg showed a trainer ID – if it matches the trainer on hatching, voila shiny), I don’t see how a shiny charm parameter would be easily implemented to affect this.
If there was one ‘mon you wanted a shiny of above all others, which would you pick?
I know what you’re trying to do! I don’t need a shiny! haha You’ve already found me a lot of stuff and I don’t play XY anymore 😛
Having said that, I’ve always liked Shiny Nincada 😛But really, you don’t need to find me anything! Not likely to play X again until the next game comes out (RS remakes or Z)
Morning people! How was everybody’s weekend? Mine was good in that I finally got my burrito!
Not a euphemism?
Not a euphemism, zambreroism
There was a lack of burritos? There should never be a lack of burritos at any time. If burritos are missing seek out and replenish burritos. So it is written, so it shall be done.
I tried but the only available burritos were Salsa’s burritos, till this weekend when I drove 20 mins to Zambrero’s and went to burrito land!
Ah, the Holy Pilgrimage of Zambrero. May burrito be with you.
May the meat always be in your favour
*flavour
Good save
DARK SOULS TWO
Currently planning my all-achievements run. Might not be a straight shot: some of the spells, miracles, pyros and hexes I need require me to level up in covenants. I should probably try to prioritise these so I don’t overlevel and find myself up against foes too formidable :\Do mobs scale with you a bit or something?
Bell Keeper covenant is PvP.
I’m going t do it the same way I did the first. Just go through enjoying the game an eventually go for the plat for a different challenge.Mine’s a similar approach, but it’s also keeping an eye out for things I might otherwise miss that people have pointed out, and I’ll do my research when I’m pretty much done with it and kick myself for the things that I missed.
Thanks to peoples’ advice about the inheritance stuff, I should hopefully be kicking myself a lot less than I otherwise would.
Inheritance stuff, is that the keep summons alive thing or something else?
Yeah, that stuff.
There are half a dozen of them. Two of them are related to keeping summons alive.
Edit: here is the best summary of the achievements guide I have found so far: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/693331-dark-souls-ii/68864506
Eh, Trophy collecting is not really my thing. Have not even looked at them.
I kind of like these extra little challenges. They add to the game, and encourage me to do stuff I probably wouldn’t be doing otherwise (PvP for instance). In terms of planning, it might be better to bowl these ones over before my SM passes 1 million, just because I don’t have a lot of hope of success against really experienced opponents. My gear isn’t bad for PvP, but it’s definitely tailored for PvE.One of the things I liked about the Dark Souls platinum was that all of the trophies were obtainable offline. Even covenant-specific spells that required ranking up with a PVP-only covenant still accepted tokens which could be farmed off mobs.
I checked out some of the spells provided by some of the PVP covenants in DS2, and they’re also obtainable through PVE, so ranking the covenant isn’t required for at least a couple. I haven’t had time to look at them all yet, but I’m hoping that’s true for ALL of them so I don’t have to worry about PVPing with folks who have the 4M soul memory I’d probably be matched with.
I think it is possible to level all the covenants without PvP.
Certainly the Bell Keeper’s covenant lets you farm the randomly-respawning phantom invader 10 times instead of getting 30 PvP kills.Collecting sunlight medals for Sunbros will be tricky, though…Fortunately, I think I’m almost rank 3 with sunbros already. 🙂
I think you actually get a medal from sunbroing with a surviving phantom… I was able to join the blue guardian dudes that way before I’d even gone online.
Mr. Strange finally started it last night. He went with the Swordsman guy. Whose starting damage is about double my hard-won current damage. I was so jealous I’m thinking of starting again. Again. 😛
My deprived has morphed into a fat heavy armour guy with a tower shield and a mace. I suspect that’s set the precedent for the rest of my playthrough.
I’m also thinking about maybe starting again, as a Sorcerer, or maybe the Swordsman.
Brisbane Roar won the premiership, Cambridge United won the FA Trophy, I won $45 on theGhostbusters pokie machine. Good weekend was good. Feeling like crap today though 🙁
I upvoted but then I saw you felt like crap so I un-upvoted. Hope you feel better soon!
I upvoted for the net win. 🙂 Feeling crappy is transitory. (Hopefully.)
I hate Brisbane Roar as much as it possible to hate a sporting club.
so you lose points there.
but still, hope you’re feeling better asap.
I let someone borrow my car this morning. Now my motorbike won’t start. That means I miss my entire IT fundamentals class for the week 😐
OOPS
Have you tried hill starting it? Does that even work on bikes?
The nearest hill to me is like… the You Yangs, so I think I’ll pass 😛
Did you call a mechanic?
I’m just not going to bother for now. Folks know what they’re doing, once my car gets returned it’ll get sorted.
http://www.wikihow.com/Push-Start-a-Motorcycle
Has it got one of those bright red ripcords you have to yank out to get it to go?
Realistically you’re probably not missing much in an IT fundamentals class unless you’re still at the stage where you think of a computer as a magic box
But it IS a magical box. With all of you people living inside of it!
No, it’s YOU people who live inside the box, I’m the real one
Rookie mistake, never lend your car to someone if you’re not going with them. I wouldn’t even loan $500 piece of junk to anyone but my parents.
Only bad things can come from loaned cars.
Seeing as I loaned it to my mum’s partner, I think that works 😛
Ah, that’s okay. 😛 I thought a random friend or something!
I loaned my car to my younger brother, seeing as I was living in the Valley and had no need for it.
He got run off the road by some fuckhead driving on the wrong side of the road, crashed the car. Flipped, rolled, flipped again, completely totalled the thing. Made me sick to look at it, but UNBELIEVABLY he walked out without a scratch. Not even whiplash.
Edit: Oh, the point though… car not insured. Buh-bye car.
NON-DARK SOULS TWO
Infamous and MGS are great. It’s nice to have games on the PS4.Also, I consumed half a box of oreos, a large coffee, and two red bulls before noon. I’m not sure how I’m still alive.
I’m eating for MGS to get cheaper still having fun with inFamous
Because Oreos are the source of life?
Last night was Orphaned Land night.
Had dinner at the Brat Haus in the Valley and got to have my favourite beer: Schenkerla smoked beer. 😀
Never been to The Rev before so that was kind of cool. Considering it used to be a church, it was much smaller than I expected it to be but nice and cosy. And perfect for a band like Orphaned Land.
Orsome Welles from Melbourne were the first support band and even though their name is cringeworthily lame,they were really quite impressive. The music had a dirty deserty sound like Kyuss’, which set off the prog-type singer’s vocals nicely. Probably played one or two songs too many though, by the end of their set they were sounding a bit samey.
Voyager were…Voyager. It was the best I’ve ever seen them but I wish that if they still feel like they need/want to do their stupid medley of cover songs that they’d do it at the end. It really broke the momentum of their show to just stick something so annoying in the middle of their mostly enjoyable originals.
Orphaned Land were awesome as usual. Did a great mix of songs including some I’d never heard live before which was fun. And the crowd was so nice, especially compared to last week’s Iced Earth crowd. Even when prompted to “Jump!” by the band, everyone was jumping…politely. 😀
Edit: Oh, and I cut my thumb pretty badly when attempting to cut an apple with a really blunt knife…so no Dark Souls for me for a few days. D:
Orsmoe Welles is a great name. Just great.
I thought you’d like it. The singer even asked the crowd a question and when they responded said “Awesome”. 😛
When you said “Orphaned Land” I assumed you were talking about Dark Souls…
Apparently AMAs on here are a thing? So why not join the crowd?
I am ShiggyNinty, 24 year old Sexual White Chocolate. Ask Me Anything.
who the fuck is this?
Ask your mum.
she said use more tongue next time, i think its code for something.
WTF are Nintendo doing?
How’s the course going?
Hi?
I have no idea what Nintendo are doing. Between moments of genius and utter stupidity, it’s hard to tell. All I know is I love them and they can keep having my money.
Course is going great. I feel like I’m really learning stuff and actually doing something worthwhile.
HELLO SIR.
Who’s this guy? 😛
I hear you’re doing some learnings now? Are you having fun?
What is your dream job?
What is your favourite snackfood?
Have you ever tried making your own bacon?
What is the song or album you always turn to if you need cheering up?
This guy’s a jerk. Trust me.
I am! Doing a Cert 4 in Interactive Digital Media. It is the best fun. Love it so much.
When I was a kid, my dream job was to work at Nintendo. It still is, but I’d also take firework tester and puppy dog patter.
Favourite snackfood would have to be Peanut Butter Cups and Dr Pepper. But I try not to eat it anymore and be a healthy lad. It’s hard though.
I haven’t! But I’ll have to add it to the bucketlist.
Man, it just depends on the mood. If I just wanna be cheered up I usually default to either some Nintendo music (Wind Waker and Animal Crossing stuff), if I want to get some anger and aggression out and not feel like shit I’ll take some Ramones and Rollins Era Black Flag.
Most embarrassing moment?
Dream(s) for the future?
Your doctor says you have four months to live (I checked). How do you spend it?
I got a few, but one that sticks out is uhhh….something a little intimate. Basically what happened was my brother use to be pretty terrible at reading situations. He use to not knock and just walk in on me and my old partner a lot and not realise what he walked into. One night he barges in because he needs help with some game, and he runs in and goes “Brendan! I…ummm…can you please come in when you’re ready?” It was incredibly awkward and embarrassing. But hey! You gotta laugh.
Dreams! Got a few. Would love to live overseas, specifically Japan. Want to just be happy. That’s really it. I figure that as long as I’m happy, I’ll feel fulfilled.
MY DOCTOR HASN’T TOLD ME THIS! OH JEEZ! I’d sell all my shit, take all the money and just travel. So many places I want to see, dying would give me a good excuse to go and actually do it. So yeah! I’d just travel the world.
What’s a diorama?
“Look, there’s Han…and Chewie!”
My regulars:
1. What’s your favourite memory?
2. What do you think is the best thing about yourself?
Bonus:
3. I can’t think of another question.
I got too many to choose from! But I always love my memories from Japan. That trip was a big step and change for me so I look on it fondly. There’s a lot that involves family and Heather too. I don’t know! This is a hard one!
Best thing about myself? I have a pretty good beard. So that I suppose!
BONUS: OK.
What’s the best thing going on in your life at the moment?
What’s something people don’t know about you?
Something you’ve wanted to post on TAY, but have held back?
It’s funny because the past few weeks had been shit for me. But I quickly realised that I shouldn’t let that stuff worry me. But the best things going on in my life? Everything man. Like, I got TAFE going on, my family is happy and healthy and my relationship is strong. I got plans and stuff working in the pipeline. It’s going real well.
Everyone already knows I’m the world’s greatest lover, but maybe that I really enjoy exercise. I work out almost everyday for at least an hour.
Yeah man, plenty of times. Most recent thing would be about how I think the games industry is shit and how I can’t even really come to care about it. But there’s been stuff where I’ve wanted to vent or just bitch about stuff but I don’t really like doing that stuff online.
Where’s my burrito?
“And I got this scar climbing under the door of a pay toilet!”
Where’s his burrito?
Where does your screen name derive from?
Indian or Mexican?
Fave game series?
Fave drink?
If @alexpants has 3 pairs of pants and gives @doc_what 2 pairs of pants how many times does alex get slapped with a trout for not giving you any pants?
Bonus Question!
If people became food what food would you be?
Shiggy comes from Shigeru Miyamoto. And Ninty is Nintendo! So put the two together and BAM! ShiggyNinty. I tried a few names before that like Captain Cataract and CutChemist, but ShiggyNinty works best.
Mexican. Every time.
I got a few, but apart from Zelda, I really love Mario, The Bit.Trip series, Animal Crossing, No More Heroes and anything Platinum works on. MGR and Wonderful 101 were the best games of last year and if you didn’t like em…”git gud”
Non alchoholic: Dr Pepper and coffee. Alcoholic: Asahi. Been pretty fond of this whisky lately called Yamazaki. $100 a bottle but man, delicious stuff.
Pants are annoying. If I could go without wearing them I would.
I’d be a big fuckin’ greasy strip of crispy bacon.
Anything you can share about your shady past?
Nothing really shady! I try to be as open and honest with everyone as possible due to an incident a few years back. May have told you already, but if you’re curious I can tell you! But yeah…nothing shady!
I don’t know any details, only allusions, so I just like to assume you were into drinking blood and regularly indulged in crazy blood-drinking orgies.
If it’s more boring than that then I’ll just stick with the blood orgy theory.
Ooooh, we’re curious! Tell us! 😀
Well only because you asked DC. Was in a long term relationship for about 4 years. Wasn’t honest with her and wasn’t faithful and after seeing the hurt my lies caused not just to me but everyone involved, I took it upon myself to make sure I was always honest with myself and my friends. Still not very proud of myself about it, but you learn from your mistakes.
Thanks for sharing, man. Sounds like you’re a better person now as a result from screwing up!
How do you respond to people who say that sexual white chocolate isn’t real sexual chocolate because it only contains cocoa butter and not cocoa solids?
They clearly haven’t had a taste of what I’ve got. Dey jus’ hatin’.
Ask-and-run quick questions:
1) Cats or dogs?
2) Crunchy or Smooth?
3) Who would you cosplay if physical limitations were not a factor? Who would you be best suited to play, if physique wasn’t a factor?
Dogs for sure. I don’t mind cats, but dogs are always so fucking happy to see you. Nothing is better than getting home and seeing those faces looking at you.
Oh man. Can I say both? Depends on my mood!
I’m gonna cosplay Ness at Supanova this year, but I’d love to cosplay as Kiyru from Yakuza, mainly because I get to wear a sick suit. Also Snake! Snake would be cool.
Well done, you achieved a passing grade. 2/3 questions correct. (Though only one of the questions didn’t have a right or wrong answer.)
Nooooooo! You did it when I wasn’t around! :'(
THAT’S NOT FAIR!!!!
I’m still gonna ask you stuff 😉
– Would you rather be deaf, blind or mute?
– What would you change about yourself?
– What movie best relates to your life?
– What three things could you not live without?
– Do you take your coffee black, or with milk?
– If you were an animal, what animal would you like to be and why?
– What’s your drink of choice?
– Why do I hardly ever see you around TAY?
– What two words would you use to describe yourself?
– What two words would your best friend use to describe you (bonus points for asking rather than guessing)?
Don’t worry, I’ll answer!
That’s tough. I feel like I’d rather be blind, because I love music and sounds. But then I can’t watch movies and games! Argh…how about dead? Then I don’t have to pick.
About myself? Umm…I dunno! Physically, I’d probably like to be a bit more muscular, in terms of skills and stuff, I want to learn a language.
The Wolverine, because I’m a fuckin’ beast mate.
Video games, my family and coffee.
I change all the bloody time. Some days it’s with milk, sometimes black. Just depends on my mood.
I’d love to be a turtle. They’re just so chill.
Drink of choice over everything would have to be a nice cold Asahi. Nothing relaxes me.
I don’t know! I’m usually busy and can’t keep up with the speed TAY moves sometimes. I’d like to jump on here more but sometimes life gets busy.
Alright maybe.
Probably decent. I’d ask but he never bloody responds to messages. He’s a dickhead. I love him.
I saw this, and I thought “I bet she’s giving a big middle finger to Shiggy”.
Oh wait that’s not a question.
Uh.
I saw this, and I thought “I bet she’s giving a big middle finger to Shiggy”?
I saw this and thought “reply fail?”
I never want to be one of those people who are like “You. You can’t be that. Don’t even try, go do something more worthwhile like a doctor or something.”
So that post right there?
That post can be whatever it wants to be.
Hey, it’s just my opinion. Doesn’t have to be the truth
Sometimes I let it out back so it can roam and be free range.
So hot. I don’t even care about the middle finger.
Good morning beautiful people.
So that date I had on the weekend went quite well, it was very interesting talking to a French lady. Having dinner this week 🙂
Must apologize to @benny and @redartifice , time escaped me and I neglected my Ps3 most of the weekend. I did have a chance to finish the tutorial and mini-prologue mission in Peace Walker though so I have a rough idea of how it controls.
That’s OK, I only played it a bit on Friday night (finished chapter 1)
Is this your first time playing it? I’m enjoying it so far, I really like the shaggy/haggard look of Snake/Big Boss in the cut scenes.
I found it strange they removed the ability to crawl and move along walls while pressed to it. But that may be chalked up to PSP limitations.
A personal gripe but I’m a bit sick of hearing about CQC from game to game
I played it on PSP up to the
LAV fightbut then got sick of the controls.
Don’t sweat it. I’m still struggling to get back into Peace Walker, despite the upgrade to HD. I’m not enjoying it as much as Ground Zeroes – which has been occupying much of my PS3 game-time.
That’s okay, I’m just playing through to get caught up to speed on what Big Boss has been up to. It’s making me want to play through Snake Eater, which might be my favourite game, ever. And I haven’t played it in HD yet. I might do that and wait for a Ground Zeroes/Phantom Pain combo 🙂
Glad to hear it went well.
Thank you 🙂
This weekend brought the fun.
Lion King was amazing. Especially because I haven’t seen the movie in years and all the songs came flooding back. Circle of Life is still the best though. Would recommend!
After Lion King and a long night time trek through strange and unusual suburbs, Blaghs and I went back to my place and promptly collapsed asleep. Then, the next day he forced me to play Dark Souls 2 while he silently (and sometimes vocally) judged me. I beat the No Mans Wharf boss on my first try /cool. I ran out of spells when he had 1 pixel of health left in his bar. Had to extremely carefully time a quick dagger poke. Was tense, man. Then, wanting to see if Blaghs was really all-that, I told him to play as the Cleric that I gave up on 2 hours in. Turns out he had a much better time with it than I did 😛
That night was Karaoke. Disappointed that the place didn’t have the Pokérap on their song list, I settled for just singing whatever other people picked. Barbie Girl was sung very loudly and with no shame. (Also, I told Shiggy I would sing Baby Got Back, but they didn’t have that either…). Alcohol was required. I also ordered a drink named the “Pokemon”, which I felt obliged to try. (It wasn’t great, but my inner fanboy is telling me to say it was amazing regardless)
The rest of the night was spent talking/arguing with Flu and Patience. They’re pretty cool.
Blaghs and I went back to my place afterwards and, again, collapsed asleep after walking in the door. Sunday morning was spent playing Dark Souls again. Then Resistance 3 co-op, where we concluded that Blaghs’ character was a figment of my imagination, because no NPCs would acknowledge him.
Overall a pretty fun weekend!
Hola Tay
I had a good weekend- hosted Board Games at mine on Saturday, and @trjn will be happy to know I got them all hooked on 7 wonders. Also played HANABI, because HANABI.
A Monday Morning Question: Which Video game character would have been best placed to save MH370?
some say Superman from Superman 64 is still flying through rings in the Indian ocean to rescue the plane.
Call of Duty Dog.
HANABI!
We did a six suit perfect game!
Kirby, just suck up the ocean
Dunno about saving but if you want someone to look underwater for moderately long periods, I’d suggest Guybrush Threepwood
Arceus. Because it’s literally god.
So I picked up a few Wes Anderson films over the weekend – Bottle Rocket, Royal Tenenbaums and Darjeerling Limited. I have only seen The Darjeerling Limited and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, which remains my favourite. I can’t wait to check out the others.
Though I’ve heard Royal Tenenbaums is the pick of the bunch here – I’ll likely start with that one.
Royal Tenenbaums is fantastic. Great cast, used note-perfectly.
Yeah, I’d heard Royal Tenenbaums is good too. I didn’t like it though 😛
Ha!
Finished inFamous: Second Son. Loved it so much. First must play exclusive on the PS4. (That I’ve played atleast.)
You’ve finished it already? God, I really need you to come by and finish some of the games on my Pile-of-Shame for me. 😀
I think @greenius is the man you’re looking for. He’s played 75 games or something this year. XD
(@benny)
Finished 29, played maybe 35ish or so? 😛
Just 100%’d inFAMOUS like 2 minutes ago!
I 100% too. WOOOOO!
WOOOOO!
I was doing paper trail stuff but my PS4 froze last night so I somehow lost progress and it’s all glitchy now 😛 (asking me to do stuff on the website I’ve already done). Hopefully re-doing it will allow me to continue cause it was kinda fun
Damn, That’s a good effort. Well done to you & @greenius.
Now you’ll be able to get back into Dark Souls II 😉
D.C. should try out more JRPGs!
Final Fantasy X HD? 😀
100% would imply you both have played at Hero & inFAMOUS and gotten to level 5 of each 😛 Since that’s what the game defines as that haha.
My save game percentage says 100%. *shrugs* Got all the collectibles, etc.
Hey did you do the paper trail missions, I can’t figure out where to find the first tracking code.
I know it has something to do with the Detective’s wallet and hacking into his account using his details, I just can’t work out where to go for the website (tried all kinds of variationsI think Greenius has done Paper Trail. I haven’t yet. I’ve signed up though. XD
Hints:
One of the clues in the wallet has a websiteFurther hints (past the hint above):
You’re not supposed to know his password, maybe you forgot it?____
Straight up solution:
The website is http://brunbergdetectiveagency.com/Hmm, I had figured it out but…
that is irritating, I found that and no matter how I tried to enter it into google or the address bar it just told me site not found. I got that i had to use his personal info to get access (not password, just couldn’t get onto the site. Made me stop playing the game out of frustrationI watched summer wars on the weekend, the animation was gorgeous and it had some nice moments, but in comparision to wolf children and the girl who leapt through time it was lacking. Too many characters not enough heart. It was very very pretty though.
I rewatched that not long ago too! Great movie.
I think I’d agree with that. It’s a great film and has some solid moments and some excellent animation but it’s not quite up to the par of Hosoda’s other films.
THIS PLUG AGAIN? HAVE YOU NO DECENCY?
Melburnians! My Brother is involved in three shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival which begins THIS WEEK
First up, his solo show: Angus Hodge in Finding my Rose-Coloured Glasses
‘A master of transition, seamlessly merging one story into another without batting an eyelid…’ -Rip it Up
Coming back for its encore Melbourne Season: Wolf Creek: The Musical
Hilarious and genuinely entertaining… I laughed, I cried, I laughed again. It’s the feel good torture porn show everyone will love.” Greg McLean, Director of Wolf Creek movie
and for those younger Taybies (or TAY people with kids/nephews/children they know and would take to things in a non creepy way: Mr Snot Bottom and The Curse of The Silly Stinky Zombie Babies
“Kiddy stand-up at its best. ★★★★” Adelaide Advertiser
Plugging like a champ
Erry Day I’m plugging.
Plus my brother owes me money so the more people see his show the quicker he’ll pay me back.
Oh Monday, you’re such a tease. Just when I think you’re being nice and all my data sets refresh nice and early (8am, instead of the usual 2 or 3pm) and I might just be able to get all my reports out on time for a change…
“Service Unavailable.”
Ugh someone’s been running a chainsaw or something that’s been constantly waking me up since 7:30 and now I feel like complete and utter shit.
There is a special place in hell for those people. My room mate was one of those until I locked him out of the house for doing so.
Yeah, but you’re awake all night and asleep during the day.
People actually do stuff during the day. Sometimes loud stuff. 😛
There’s plenty of day left after 10am!
I’m just being an arse. Though believe it or not, some councils allow for loud noises (such as mowing and whatnot) as early as 8am on a Saturday (9am on a Sunday). Like my local council.
I think my council has no set time for it as I’ve heard the neighbour mowing at 5am not before pumping the music at 4amwith real room shaking bass
Yeah, i used to be one of those annoying jerks, legally anything goes after 7am, always felt like a jerk if we were near houses but it paid the bills.
Hey, The Witch and the Hundred Knights is out this week. I’m not sure if anyone here besides @negative_zero and I cares though so…
*clears throat awkwardly*
How bout them VIDYA GAEMS?
@negativezero?
That’s the one…
My copy shipped last week and I’m looking forward to
playing itputting it on my shelf and never touching it.Awesome Mythbusters are coming to Australia to do a behind the myths thing. Totally think I should go.
Go disguised as a dropbear, plummet from a tree onto one of them, take a bite out of their leg and run away
I’d dropbear on to Kari Byron if y’know what I mean..
That makes no sense, but that’s the best I have..
* drop bare*
Now it makes sense, but it’s all kinds of wrong.
I think it’s all kinds of right, actually, given the intent of the original comment.
So yeah. Weekend was kind of a big one. Had that 21st on Friday, already mentioned the aftermath of that. Slept for 12 hours on Saturday and wasn’t even sure if I’d be able to make it out for karaoke. Some advil, a shower and another dose of my sleep deprivation fuel I’d been living on for preceding few days (iced coffee syrup + 3.5x large spoons Milo + milk) saw me good to go again 😛 Karaoke always seems so disappointing, they never have the bands or songs you want. Still, it was good. Ended up staying out real late, til nearly 3 I think. Everyone harassing that poor bartender 😛 Also I can’t believe how terribly bad at pool I am. I mean I know I suck, but I don’t think have quite as bad as I did then. Maybe I just needed to be more drunk, to be able to play at the level of the others.
Don’t think I ended up getting home til after 4. I have no idea what I did, but I ended up listening to that audio recording from Friday night. It was pretty hilarious, only had one part to it that I didn’t remember though. Disappointed that I didn’t take it with me into Oporto but left it in the car instead, although that does explain why I didn’t end up dropping it in the toilet so I guess that’s a plus. Then it was 6am and I finally slept, not arising til 3 in the afternoon 😛
Family had spent Saturday cleaning out my Nanna’s house, and brought back the rest of the stuff from there. Including a metric craptonne of alcohol. Apparently it was only about half of what was there, too. Kinda disappointed I didn’t get to go back up there one last time. I blame @cakesmith 😛 We ended up sitting around and taste-testing everything that was open, there’s some… interesting stuff there. Also for some reason I’ve ended up with a lot of it. Woo 😛
Oh yeah, that little project I was working on? Nothing gets by @dc: Super Sleuth.
Yesssssss. Looks awesome Gooky! 😀
OROKU SAKI!!!!!!!!!!! Good job dude 😀
That’s pretty impressive cosplay, I have to admit
That’s pretty boss right there.
(And props to @dc for the guess.)
Yeah…. it’s kinda trashed now 😛 Well, not entirely. Mainly the hand pieces. But it’ll need a lot of redoing if I’m to take it anywhere else, like PAX or something.
Aw crap. Reply-fail get!
PICTURES!
BOTTOM OF THE LAST PAGE!
But here 😛 Wish I had slightly better ones. I guess this one is actually kind of cool. And this one is kinda funny, “typically Gooky” or something 😛 Should bug my friend for the ones he took on his camera, see how they turned out.
In the second one, you look kind of disappointed, a look of “well that didn’t work out, I’ll just cover my face again”
I’m sorry I am busy and didn’t check it! /o\
They look awesome. Are you 80’s shredder?
There’s other Shredders?
😛
The newer ones.
I want to see a metal face plate before pax. I believe you can do it.
Heh. While looking around for source images, I found this thread talking about whether the face mask was metal or fabric, and it seems there were instances of both in the cartoon. I went with the fabric one since it would be easier to do and take less time than figuring out a solid one. Although in the end that turned out to not be so true…
The other issue with that would be breathing, and figuring out how to not get a mask full of condensation.
Also, I think I’d need to find a lighter material for the tunic. The only thing I could find in the right colour was cotton drill, and while it was great for providing a fairly rigid structure that kept its shape, god *damn* did it get toasty in there. Especially with the cape on top of it. If I wore it to PAX I think the whole thing would be one big gross sweat patch. I think the helmet kind of ended up a little too big, and ideally I’d remake it slightly smaller. Also get it actually finished so that it attaches to my head rather than just sits on loosely, as it is now it’s constantly in danger of just sliding right off. The decorative thing on the front of it too, I’d want that to be done properly instead of flat as it is now. That’d take a bunch more crafting to do. And the armour on my shins and forearms, attaching those didn’t really work too well, that’s something else to try and figure out too. Nothing would stick to the back of them, the velcro dots weren’t doing too great and none of the spikes did either.
So many issues 😛
You could make it with cardboard and put vents in it and then put fabric over the top. That way it will retain it’s shape but breath.
As for the tunic, you could find a poplin or something lighter, but use some iron on interfacing to get it to stiffen in particular areas.
As for the velcro, I would suggest sewing bit of fabric to the cardboard, then do a second layer that is the outside layer so people don’t see the stitches. That way you can sew the velcro to the fabric and it’ll be more likely to hold.
For the spikes, can you put some stiff wire in there just to give it a bit of extra help?
Hope some of this helped at all.
@scree Hmm, interesting idea. I was quite happy finding that material for the face mask, it was slightly shiny which gave it a near-metallic appearance, quite similar to how the rest of the helmet looked. Just giving it some kind of a frame to sit on could work quite well.
I dunno if it’s just my area or something, but greys seemed really troublesome to find. The drill was pretty much the only thing that had a variety of shades, the lighter homespun next to it that I used for nearly everything else only came in either black or this other grey that was way too light (which, incidentally, I brought home a small amount of because I wasn’t sure whether it’d be better for the face mask. It wasn’t :P). Mum asked why I didn’t just get some t-shirt material, but I’m not sure I even found any kind of t-shirt material at all let alone in the right colour. I guess I could also go back to the huge Spotlight near me and have a look at their stuff again, though they didn’t really seem to have a whole lot for me there either, from memory.
I was thinking of doing something like that double-layer thing actually, though just with the other kind of cardboard I was using. I figure if I sandwich the flaps for the spikes between the front and back panels, that could hold them in place. Plus, if I glued the whole thing down, I could use that to make them hold their curved shape more, rather than just relying on the tension from the velcro straps to hold them in. I think the shin pieces need to be a slightly different shape, because they don’t really seem to sit right against my legs. I had to pad them out with some rolled up socks just so they wouldn’t constantly fall off from the slightest movement. They might need a fainty s-shaped curve to the surface, rather than the straight up-and-down they have at the moment.
One thing I was thinking with the spikes was to just get some white plastic, like the stuff those thin chopping boards are made from. Polypropylene or something I think? It’d be flexible but a little tougher than cardboard, so less prone to damage. Only thing is that it’s apparently a bit of a pain to attach to things since it’s non-reactive, but mechanical attachment should be possible.
@gooky
Glad that helped!
You may have to try and find a lincraft or else you can purchase it online. Or even if a taybie gets it for you.
As for the spikes, there is thermoplastics like Worbla’s finest art, or art deco.
http://www.amcsupplies.com.au/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1304_1337 I’m not sure if you can get it in NSW. It would work well for the spikes as it has glue on one side. Try looking online for what prop makers use. Oh, or else there is EVA foam, which is available at spotlight. It’s cheap and flexible, but it can take adhesives okay. You can use it with the cardboard to stiffen it, or else use something like modge podge to stiffen it.
@scree Lincraft was where I got my stuff 😛 Noticed last night they actually give you a second docket with care instructions for all the different materials. Pretty cool. I actually forgot to check out the Lincraft at Parramatta when I was there searching for things, should probably head there and check it out sometime. I think I found a few things there that weren’t at the store I went to in the past.
Holy damn that Worbla stuff is pricey. Although I guess from one of those large sheets I could probably do the whole set of armour, especially with scraps being reusable. But still, cardboard seems like a much friendlier option, at least budget-wise 😛
I was vaguely thinking of using something like EVA foam for the bit on the front of the helmet. Something I could carve into shape would be easier than trying to deconstruct it into something I could cut out from cardboard then fold+join together.
@mrtaco
I find that if you can’t find it at Lincraft, it’s at spotlight and vice versa.
Yes Worblas is expensive, but if you go back to thermoplastics, there is wonderflex as well. The reason worblas is expensive is that only a few companies import it. It’s a pain to get. I have 2 of the large sheets which I need for several cosplays.
As for EVA foam, it’s super easy to use. Easy to cut and such. In fact, I’m using EVA foam with the worblas so I don’t waste worblas. In fact, the EVA might be good for the shins as it is more flexible then cardboard.
http://privateerpressforums.com/showthread.php?30253-Cosplay-Starting-point-Armor
@scree Hey that looks like a pretty good technique to use. Might have to investigate that path at some point. I know there’s a few plastics places not too far away from me too, it’d be great if they had the right kinds of things available.
@mrtaco
As long as this is helping and giving you ideas. That’s all I want to do.
Oh wow, I just googled “80s Shredder” and it comes up with a TONNE more results than anything else I used when looking for source images. Most of them image macros things.
Dammit why didn’t I think of doing this before.
I’m sorry, but you didn’t tell me what you were doing /o\
Yeah, this is all clearly your fault @mrtaco
I GET IT I’M A SCREW-UP *runs away crying*
So who’s the girl from shredder3? 😛
Apparently she was meant to be Daphne, from Scooby Doo.
Also, it seemed like nearly everyone I talked to at that party was 18. She was one of them 😛
Why the 😛 face?
;P
YOU STARTED IT
Well, is she one of the protagonists or not?? 😛 Or (yet another) random with interests leaning towards the Mr Taco?
@stickman Hahaha, I think it was just a bit part, photo-bombing when I went to get some pictures of my outfit completed 😛 Though did have a brief chat at some point I guess, can’t remember it being particularly extensive.
On the previous page.
REPLY FAIL! How are you , gooky?
Feeling much better now actually. How about you, red?
Good enough for a monday. I have two industry visits this afternoon that are super close to home so I’ll get an early minute, which is nice.
Hayyyy @dc are you going to get Massive Chalice? I can’t remember if you’re a fan of turn based strategy games (I think you liked new X-COM?) but the art style is super pretty in Massive Chalice so far!
@sughly – I’m nearly all caught up on the teamstreams. If it makes you feel better the last 4 or so haven’t had Anthony 😛
Haven’t really been following Massive Chalice, but probably since I love Double Fine. So. Damn. Much.
Andy Wood is the art director of it and they just revealed a map that was full of white birches 😛
XD Oh Andy, you scamp!
Yeah mang, watching #11 as I type this. Anthony just said something dumb, as I typed this also.
I skipped like 3 hours of 15 since it appeared to be all desktop streaming of Derek drawing with music on top (nothing wrong with that but a lot less interesting :P)
DOOOOUUUUUUBBBLLLEEEEEE FFFIIIIIIIIINNNNNNEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
I REALLY want to play Psychonauts but it keeps crashing and I have audio issues with it 🙁
FIX IT BEAVWAAAAA!
Run it in XP compatibility mode as administrator?
Running in compatibility/admin fixed the crashing but caused the audio issues. It seems to be fine now after messing around with some ini files and compatibility stuff 😛
I backed Massive Chalice because Brad Muir smiles a lot.
Haha! I love that guy!
Have you (and @beavwa) been watching the Team Streams?
I didn’t know they were a thing until recently but I’m nearly caught up and it’s all interesting stuff. A lot longer and not really edited like the DFA doco but still worth watching!
Yeah I second this. It’s been super great for background discussions while working on my own game, fueling the creativity and such
I’m hands-off on Kickstarter games stuff. I don’t give a shit what they’re doing, just give me my game when it’s done.
Wow haha, so harsh! Did a magician showing how his magic tricks work scorn you as a child or something?
No, I just don’t like this strange idea that the general public should be involved with major decisions in a game, because the general public don’t know anything about game design or anything else.
But the teamstreams arent influencing game development, its the various people involved in making discussing the progress each fortnight and what theyve done.
I don’t mind the whole “public development input from the public” thing but it’s not something I’m involved in. These streams/DFA doco eps are more like behind the scenes where they talk about the creative process and how they go about implementing each thing.
I think that public design stuff is all on the forums but the team streams are still good if you like watching how things are made/behind the scenes stuff.
@sughly @greenius: I realize that but because I have zero interest in being involved with these sorts of things, I’m not signed up on their forums or anything and their kickstarter messages are so long and wordy that I don’t have time to bother beyond skimming to see if there’s a problem, so I don’t ever see any notifications that stuff like that is even available.
I doubt I’d watch that sort of stuff even if I did know it was there, as an aside. I haven’t bothered getting hold of the DFA documentary either, even though it was part of the tier I backed the game at. They made it a complete pain to get hold of.
Not really hard to get of, you just need to be logged into your Double Fine account to watch them. But thats cool, to each their own.
@sughly: As I mentioned, I don’t have a Double Fine Account. Also I hate watching videos as streams inside browser windows unless they’re 5 mins or less. I assumed when I backed DFA I’d get a downloadable digital copy of that documentary.
@negativezero arg ok but if you want to see them, it takes like 30 seconds to sign up! Youre such a complainer sometimes neg!
Have not seen any of the team streams. Should be some sort of doco with the finished product if I don’t get around to them.
I assumed they would make similar episodes to the DFA but I think they’re just doing behind the scenes stuff. The streams have a lot of development discussions and showings of the latest build. They’re pretty long though! (about 2 hours each)
Well that was interesting. I set a new leg press record at the gym, 3 reps at 503kg. I can officially leg press half a tonne or 1.5t if combined. Hypothetically, if given 3 pushes which were somehow magically combined into one burst force, I could move a small car.
That’s rather gratifying psychologically.
Now you can kick Mother Nature in the face with your ENERGY LEGS!!
Oh I do that anyway, there’s a reason there’s a hole in the ozone layer you know. I just don’t know my own strength some days…
Ever thought of working for nasa? I hear they are looking for a new propulsion system
YOU’LL BE MOVING SO FAST MOTHER NATURE WILL BE LIKE “slooooow doownn” AND YOU’LL BE LIKE FUCK YOU AND KICK HER IN THE FACE WITH YOUR ENERGY LEGS
Haven’t watched that in so long now I feel I will never stop watching it
45 degree angle leg press?
Something close to, angled anyway. Technically that makes it easier which does take a bit of the edge off but fuck it, half a tonne!
Well no one can say you don’t skip leg day!
500kg, holy shit, are you He-Man ???
Well my head does squish alarmingly if you squeeze it between your fingers…
FFX is still awesome.
even though I got stuck & quit on it, I’m hoping for a FFXII HD release at some point.
hope the success of FFX HD encourages Square Enix to do it.
I think they said a while ago that they would do a FFXII HD if FFX/X-2 HD did well enough, but in Feb or so they said they had no plans for it 🙁
But it’s basically free money so hopefully they do it eventually.
I just hope they fix the audio stuff in a FFXII remaster because the sound quality of the voice acting was pretty low.
in XII? I cant remember the audio in that much.
as for X…. yeah… the voice acting is weird. always was. destroyed the rhythm of the lines trying to fit in with the Japanese lip movements.
Yeah oops, I meant XII. I just googled “XII voice” to find an example so I have no idea if what’s in this video is spoilery or not but you get the gist of it from the first couple of seconds
It’s just low quality and sounds a bit muffled and scratchy. I don’t know much about audio but I think they said something about the size limitations and compression due to the PS2’s discs (so I’m really hoping a HD remaster would address that). I just couldn’t take it seriously with the poor quality 🙁
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As for X the voice acting is still a bit here and there and the lip syncing does ruin it a bit (like you mentioned). I hoped they’d fix it in this one but they didn’t, but it’s not too bad since a lot of the game still looks dated anyway, so it kinda just fits the theme 😛
Howdy all, its been awhile… again, how be all the fine Taybies?
Recently I have gotten into Defiance, has anyone else on Tay played that?
I don’t remember there being much interest when it first came out so just curious if anyone here ever gave it a go.
Oh and because I know you have missed it so much…
SKYRIM!
It wasn’t a bad little game, not something I’d pay a subscription for but I had some fun tooling around and shooting things. The arkfall things were rather fun impromptu raids, a mad scramble to get to an event that might have loot and then some actual cooperation (or at least not random clusterfuck PvP) when you got there.
Yeah, I’m finding it to be a fun sci-fi shooter. Picked it up for $20 and, like yourself, certainly wouldn’t pay a subscription, but the random events are cool.
Definitely glad those arkfalls aren’t PVP, and I find it fun that some of the minor events will only have maybe one or two others turn up, but the major incursions will suddenly have 50 to 100 suddenly turn up, it turns out to be a good balance and still fun.
Oops, replyfail!
I do actually have stuff to say about Defiance, but later! Later already!
It’s later now…
OK, Defiance! First, a disclaimer: I only played up to just a bit past the first DLC. So maybe they’ve fixed the things I criticize.
I really enjoyed many bits of it. The shooting was a litte floaty and lag-affected for my liking, but there’s nothing really else out there quite like it, and it scratched an itch. Sniping was my favourite thing, but there’s nothing quite like the devastation a really good assault rifle can unleash. There’s some good, arcadey fun to be had there. It’s solid.
Grinding up ego points came a little slow, and the ‘dynamic content’ is an easily-seen-through illusion. It’s really only the same 1-3 types of event that always spawn very fequently in specifically-nominated nodes, so you actually learn which ones to hang around at if you want to farm specific things, and they really pad out the bits which should be story. You really get teased and strung along a LOT, which is maybe something it shares with the TV show?
Loot upgrades and weapon-levelling are the worst, with your favourite guns gaining exp (awesome!), your weapon skill gaining experience and levels (awesome!) but when you hit the gun-max, you no longer gain skill experience. (WORST. BAD. NO.) Meaning that your favourite guns in the world which handle like a dream are no longer usable if you want to continue the VERY LONG grind toward improving skill- which is much more important. And loot? Yeah, in their attempts to avoid vertical progression, they made higher-quality loot a real crapshoot. You basically have to do a circuit of all the vending machines and take a gamble on their hourly special, or just… play. Indefinitely. It’s the worst grind I can imagine because it’s so undirected. At least in regular MMOs if you have a specific upgrade in mind you don’t just roll a dice a few hundred thousand times, you only repeat the content that leads to it. So that aspect of loot upgrade is unimpressively ultra-grindy.
That’s sort of the point that I burned out at. I never maxed a character’s EGO rating, but didn’t feel I had to. The ‘war on verticality’ made everything pretty pointless, just rocking up to arkfalls and vending machines became about as interesting a poker-machine lever-pull.
I’m curious about taking another look-see, though. Another DLC pack came out, and they may have made some adjustments to other mechanics. Fixed up the god-awful console-centric UI and non-existent chat system, that kind of thing. The beauty of B2P means I can go take a look at any point. I’ll probably schedule it with trying to keep up on the TV show again. It wasn’t a series I considered worth following week by week, but I’ll probably cheerfully marathon it.
Cool, some very interesting points there.
I am thinking they must have fixed some issues with the lag, as there was a major incursion yesterday that had the screen filled with other players and I didn’t notice any performance issues at all.
Definitely get that whole scratches an itch, it just seems to fall perfectly into a place where there doesn’t seem to be much else like it… odd sentence but I can’t really explain it any better.
As it is early days for me I haven’t had any issues with the levelling system or equipment, but I can certainly understand that it would be a major turn off.
Dear god I hate the chat system, if I can work out a way to turn it off all together, I will be much happier.
What I think would make the game substantially better is a coherent and consistent team with voice chat so you can blather on about random crap while shooting things and take the piss when someone screws up. With a team of 4, you’d also have the right amount for the larger coop only missions
HUGO! *crashtacklehugs* 😀
I didn’t play Defiance but I quite liked the TV show. Did you watch the show?
STRANGE! *stands confident due to being an ex-crash test dummy, the things we do for money* 😀
Only got around to watching the first few episodes, I didn’t mind it. Wasn’t ground shaking but it certainly looked like it had great potential.
What did you think of it?
I thought it was okay at first but then I fell in love with the world and characters and starting really looking forward to each new episode and thinking about it when I wasn’t watching it.
I’m pretty sure that @f4ction played a bit, I’m not sure who else
It’s good to hear, as I had thought no one had had any interest in this game.
Probably the only one who really cares about this, but the upcoming Sword Art Online Vita game which looks fairly good is apparently going to have English & Chinese subtitles for the Taiwanese release in May.
Namco are fucking assholes about Vita games and haven’t released anything for the non-Asian Vita market since that atrocious Ridge Racer launch game, so we’re never going to get a proper English-language release of the game, but now I’m kind of thinking I might take a risk and grab that release.
From what I can gather by the barrage of complaints on the net, several Japanese publishers seem to not give a shit about any other market as a standard practice. In many cases it seems to be more exception than rule when something Japanese is localised for other countries. Wonder if it’s the same the other way around
In spite of the fact it looks a bit shit in places, I’d very probably buy Macross 30 if they did a version where I could actually understand anything that was a going on.
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDGE RACER!
Oh great, another good game for the VITA that the west will never see. What a surprise. ;_;
And then they’ll complain that it’s not selling well…
Yeah I saw that news, makes me question why they wouldn’t release it in the west, it was a pretty popular anime over here, so I can’t see it selling horribly.
also see “people with vitas want games”
It’s just Bandai being assholes. Seriously. They won’t release anything at all on Vita because their horrible attempt to add free to play mechanics to a broken version of a game that time already forgot didn’t sell very well at launch.
So as a result we miss out on stuff like Tales and God Eater 🙁
Heyyy I dont remember who played Phoenix Wright, but I finally fully finished the 3ds one with the dlc ep and want to discuss it with someone! Ah man, so much love for this series. Someone reply, please. So lonely…
@shane finished it a while back, pinkie-promised me a discussion and then never did. Whattajerk.
Shane’s known for his lies! Let’s get him!
Wonder if he’s really up for that award or not…
Did he really make those graphic novels? I mean sure, I have the kindle-for-pc version open as I speak, but it’ll take more evidence than that to sway me.
Well I’VE never seen proof of it
Admittedly I’ve never seen the graphic novels in question either but that’s hardly relevant.
Sooo… you finished it too then?
Of course!
cc @sughly
I’ll do it later. I promise. I loved the game though. Last case was awesome.
Facing off against Edgeworth in a ruined courtroom was all the nostalgia. Really highlighted how the characters have grown too. It was incredible. Got emotional. Getting emotional now.Is it me though or does…
Edgeworth’s 3d model look… off? Everyones looked really good… Apollo’s lost a little of his young doofus charm, looks a little too mature now, but that was slight. Edgeworth just looks too… feminie. Or something. His model never sat right with me. Wouldve been great to see Maya in 3deeee. Maybe in the next one? Here’s hoping…Oh! Oh!
The emotion thing was a great new feature! Loved it. Was great when the images would change in them too as you revealed their lies and such. Argh! I wish Apollo’s twitch zoom bracelet thing was used more though, thats always been a favourite of mine.I finished it the other week but haven’t played the DLC yet
Heyyy!
The finale of the proper game was a little lacklustre sadly, that whole mask removing sequence, erg. But overall it was pretty great. The reveal of Fullbright being the murderer was so so great, SO great. I think the final case had some great moments like that, but overall was one of the weakest. The one with the wrestling characters, and the university one were really great. The uni one was probably my fave, had a lot of interesting twists and turns.But you guys should totally get onto the dlc case, I probably enjoyed that more than any other case in the game. The ending is a little off – the final moments of using evidence doesnt really feel hard hitting, but the overall case is super great. Easily the funniest too! And I’m pretty sure it has more anime cutscenes than any other case – lots of work put into it. You even use anime cutscenes as evidence!
Spoilers for the final case
SO GREAT. I loved that Fulbright was the big bad the whole time. At first I was all grumpy because they replaced Gumshoe again, but I think it was a good move. I NEVER suspected him and then that little slip by Aura saying “The Detective told me to lower the ladder” I was just like :OOOOOOOOO and it all suddenly made sense. Best part of that case, I think.I completely agree about that mask-removal sequence though. Felt a little off.
I didn’t really like Case 4 though. I get that they had to set up for the finale, but I think I would’ve preferred it to just be one massive case or something. I dunno. Overall an excellent game. Loved the music! And Athena was a great new addition too, as a character. At first I didn’t like her design at all, but she grew on me.
Yeah, totally agree on Athena. I was like… ahhhh whos this stair tripping Maya/Trucy replacement!? But she grew on me too. On a related note, game needed way more Trucy. Way more!
(Also Athena has a lot of funny moments in the dlc case so you along with everyone else should play it)
Already played!
!! :O
DLC…
I loved this case to bits. Felt way more like classic Ace Attorney to me, especially comedy wise. Like Apollo getting dumped with cruddy officework all the time, and Athena getting all bummed about animals not liking her, was so great. So many culture references too which I love! Cross examining the Orca was so amazing. How could you not press on all the various ‘fweet fweet’s, oh man. I loled, numerous times. Anime cutscenes as evidence was so great! A little underutilised, but having it as a part of the finale was great – comparing the teeth of the orcas.As a side note on all cases in the new game though, they are becoming a little too hand holdy. There’s a lot of times when you figure stuff out ahead of time and feel really chuffed, but then when you need to present that finding, Phoenix kind of hand feeds the solution to you to a point anyway. Stop taking away my smart feelings!
DLC Spoilers
Yeah it was really good! I liked Rhymes’ (I think that was his name) breakdown animation too haha And yeah, a lot more comedy. I loved the writer character (that I can’t remember the name of for some reason), she was funny.Yeah I was going to say the game felt a bit more linear than past games. I think it was @shane who mentioned that there aren’t as many non-essential things you can examine now, which is a bit sad. Things like not being able to leave without finding all the evidence in the area is a bit silly (I don’t think every area did this though), but I can see why they did things that way.
@powalen yeah… as much as I hate admitting it, there were huge roadblocks at times in past games when you miss one detail in a background and spend ages backtracking and trying to find something
I found the last case really cool as it basically linked into other cases that happened, I agree the mask section was abit ergh and never truly finding out his identity was also annoying but when it pieces together and you find out it’s Fulbright I got shivers.Also got them from Athena’s flashbacks as well as the black soul locks, wish there was more soul locks in the game I feel in the final case everyone should of used their abilities in the court room at the end instead of just Apollo and Athena.
Can’t wait for when they make another one, currently my eyes are set on Layton v wright!
Yeah man, Layton v Wright! So excited now! Agreed on all points too ^^
@powalen @shane @coldcamv – wait wait… did you guys even know the original director of the series wasnt involved in this? It’s not really an obvious thing, but the fact that he is actually directing the next one, thats pretty cool.
There’s a next one?! 😀
Actually, yeah, this is the first I’ve heard of this 😛
For the 3DS I assume? Hopefully the sales of AA5 were good enough to get a localisation…
Yeah gais! In the makes, believe it was announced on a Japanese Ninty Direct http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/14/nintendo-direct-news-roundup-yoshi-3ds-xl-in-uk-new-ace-attorn/
cc @shane
My avatar may explain my love for PW
I will gladly Talk PW
first discussion: How badass is Apollo?
If your answer isn’t “very”, then you are wrong.
Extremely.
SO badass! I do like him in AA5, buuuut I feel like a little bit of his personality was lost in the 3d model. I guess it could be part of the notion that theyre making him come across like a more mature character now, but I miss the slightly goofy, amateur style he had in his game 🙁 That comes out a little more in the dlc case, which is so cool
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
WEDNESDAY 7:30 SA TIME
Having fled Charmonde fearing reprisal, the group has boarded a plant based airship headed Southwest. What further adventures await the group? Will Blaghs moon over his lady love?
@popdart5 updated the Tumblr: http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Also: We’d like to try STREAMING our play session if anyone (@dc? @f4ction? @gingerchris86?) would like to tune in
cc @mawt @tigerion @tech_knight @mythamphetamine @novacascade @blaghman
I would not like to tune in! 😀
But it could be fun! See an adventure?
Id like to just need to know the date and see if I’m free
Thankyou, just realised I hadn’t put a time in my post. 7:30 Wed SA time.
I would be interested in watching a stream.
Same!
Ditto
I’ll be there. I’m happy for it to be streamed too so people can witness some of the lunacy we manage to pull off 😀
Hopefully I won’t be sick on Wednesday, since I’m in a really bad state right now 🙁
All the pharmaceutical drugs you can throw money at
I’m running as much antivirus as I can muster, we’ll see what happens
@phlanispo
WHERE WERE YOU TWO DAYS AGO???
Lol, its currently a nightly ritual, I’ve just sent you an Origin & Steam Friend Request. PM me tonight!
Everyone Else, this is TITANFALL PC Related so feel free to join in! We can set a time if you guys want, or wing it.
I really want to finish the campaign to unlock the other two chassis… I’ll be home from around 7pm Sydney time if you’re keen. Pretty sure my Origin name is just MorkaiAU.
I’ll be keen to jump in tonight. We should try and get a full team.
@cakesmith @ynefel
theres two on my end, should we say 8pm ish, get dinner and stuff out of the way?
I don’t check TAY! Twitter me up, homes! Probably wouldn’t be much good anyway. Sucking at Titanfall last few days – really badly.
tried to add u but couldnt find u…. checked TAYNames, you’re not on there though?
Apologies, it’s Morkai_AU
i’d be interested in joining in if you guys have room still.
sure do! u on twitter?
Yeah although i’m not a regular checker, @Grandmastabfunk
I COULDN’T JOIN BECAUSE NOBODY PUTS THEIR DAMN ORIGIN ID ON TAYNAMES.
With that rant over, I would be happy to do something in Titanfall tonight. I missed the last MultiTAYer due to me not knowing anyone’s ID, and forgetting to covert the time to GMT+8.
What time is it on? (Please specify which timezone you are referring to)
On the topic of Titanfall, I tried to chat with @cakesmith using Origin to try and arrange something the other day. He didn’t respond. I tried multiple times to engage in conversation. I knew he was at his computer, because his profile said he was playing Titanfall. Cakesmith, do you hat me? Or is Origin chat that terrible?
Oh wow. I don’t usually care much about review scores but Eurogamer gave Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z a 2/10. That’s one of the lowest ratings I’ve ever seen them hand out in the last few years.
I wasn’t at all interested in that game but I expected it to be competent at least…
I played it at pax and really enjoyed it.
Yeah, me too. Surprised it’s getting such negative reaction.
I’m glad I’m not the only one. Because I encountered an error and the guy who worked on it was there with a translator. I had to ask for assistance, but he said to not worry about it. As I was playing, the translator asked me if I enjoyed it.
Aw, now I’m sad I didn’t get to talk to the guy 😛 Instead I just blatantly ignored the “no cameras” signs and took some pictures with my Game Boy Camera.
Actually, the game kinda reminded me a lot of MadWorld. Really similar vibe to it, along with the whole beat-em-up thing.
Well, I was the only person there and it broke so I had to tell them
List of things that Popdart5 should stop doing in a RPG:
Star Wars d20:
– piloting a speeder when he clearly does not know how to drive– hijacking a speeder when he reversed the last one into another speeder and set it on fire
– driving a speeder into an art gallery
– driving a speeder into an art gallery and forcing another player character to dodge out of the way
Only War 40K:
– engaging an armoured Ork Nob in melee combat– punching an armoured Nob with a power fist so hard that his ammo belts explode in my face
– engaging in melee combat with a Killer Kan
– engaging in melee combat with a Killer Kan that is equipped with a flamer
– punching the Killer Kan while I am on fire
– being in close range when the Killer Kan explodes thanks to pulse cannons
#rpgs4lyfe
That reminds me, I need to finish the background story for my character. I have already rolled all my stats and stuff like that.
All good. Send it to me when you’re ready and I’ll see where you fit in the world.
Will do! Hope you don’t mind that I decided on a Ninja class. I have probably jumped between 5 different classes but I’ve finally locked in a Ninja (still going to go with Alchemy multi class).
Ninjas and Alchemists synergise quite well so that’s perfectly fine with me. It means your smoke bombs will be super effective once you get enough levels. 😀
I believe @popdart5 characters story is nothing but yelling “come at me bro!”
In the Numenera game he’s pretty ruthless- which is funny because @tech_knight is trying to be nice-guy
Story-wise my character used to be a lot like Scrappa until I found a piece of Numenera technology (effectively a Gauntlet of Reverse Alignment) that made me homicidal and reckless in my actions.
So yeah, me and @tech_knight are going to continue having some issues for a while. >:D
My guy is more neutral than nice, if the enemy was forthcoming but really did nothing wrong, he’ll let him go or at least knock them out so they don’t alert to his presence. Any criminal (Save theft if items were returned) he’ll be brutal towards (Like that orange cloak threatening violence against him and his friends even when he tried to explain the situation) and he strictly keeps his deals, he never chooses to screw anybody over, as Scrappa’s trade was always sticking the deal agreed upon, hence what made him such a trustworthy and reliable repairman where he came from (Until Phetys of course lol).
Before or after I shot that orange cloak in the head with my crossbow? 😛
Why would you shoot an orange cloak in the head? Wait, better question, WHY DOES THE CLOAK HAVE A HEAD?!
My 40K guy is a prison planet guardsman who was chosen to become a Stormtrooper as a sort of canary/vanguard to soften things up before the main forces arrived. Turns out he is a bit better at it than people expected but he does get a bit too into things (he effectively rages out like a Barbarian while wielding a powerfist. Yeah it’s scary.).
My Star Wars character is a Trandoshan who is now a level 4 character and has multi-classed three times. He is utterly inept at a few skills but he still tries anyway but there are sometimes when he just absolutely dominates in his role. The lead up to the art gallery ramming was him clearing the roof of the gallery of all of the guards by sneaking up behind them and tossing them off the building, which he accomplished without being detected. Basically he has a lot of dumb luck and that explains why he was exiled from Dosh for losing his ancestral family sword (he has turned into a Jar Jar Binks like character).
In case you are wondering, the GM hates the bullshit that I somehow manage to pull off in Star Wars but the other GM for the 40K game has tried to kill me multiple times but failed because my Stormtrooper is a tough bastard of a character.
So basically your Star Wars character is Clone Wars-version Jar Jar Binks?
He’s a bumbling Trandoshan on Nar Shaddaa so it’s a miracle that he’s survived this long.
Have you watched any of the Clone Wars series? Jar Jar changed from being a complete annoyance to some kind of idiot savant that somehow manages to constantly fuck up in the luckiest possible ways. To the point that you almost wonder if he’s doing it deliberately and is actually some kind of genius.
I saw the episode on Ryloth where people thought Jar Jar was a Jedi and that was pretty ridiculous. I haven’t seen to many other episodes of the Clone Wars series that had Jar Jar in them so I can’t really say how similar my character is in terms of bullshit luck.
@popdart5: I’m pretty sure that was on Rodia. But whatever.
It’s fresh in my mind because I blasted through Season 1 of the show on Netflix over the weekend. Enjoyed it to the point that it’s redeemed some of the prequel characters for me and made me more interested in Star Wars again. I even briefly considered installing SWTOR and having another go at it before I remembered how boring it gets.
@negativezero Ah dang it, you are correct it was Rodia. That was when he made friends with a giant lake monster or something so just good old Jar Jar. Of the few episodes that I have seen, I’ve enjoyed it but not really enough to sit down and watch an entire story arc.
A Trandoshan with the Dunning Kruger effect?
Actually no. My Trandoshan tries because he wants to help, not because he thinks he can do it. Although he totally thought he could take a Rancor on in melee combat with nothing but a plasteel girder so maybe there is a little bit of the Dunning Kruger effect. 😛
Actually speaking of RPGs, can you give us any information about the starting location? Thinking of writing a prologue as to how Abelas got to that point if it’s OK
I’ll do a post up later today/tonight as I know where you will all be starting but I can’t recall the name of the city. It’s essentially going to be on the southern coast of the continent in a fairly cosmopolitan trading city. I’ll describe it in further detail when I do a separate post.
Southern- so wintry or warm?
Think southern France/Italy sort of weather. Pretty warm weather for most of the year but it can become quite cold. You guys will start the campaign in the summer months of the year.
OK, I’ll assume that the Half Orcs have shed their winter coat.
Because they’re hairy.
And that’s just Half Orc women.
Hiyooo
Was that all tabletop or online tabletop?
That was all tabletop. Pretty much the standard response from the other players was either “Stop dying”/”Stop failing”/”Stop being an idiot” but I like to think that the characters I play are pretty memorable. 🙂
They sound memorable, I was gonna say if it was online tabletop if be keen on some fisticuff 40k
Do you have an updated list of what everyone’s decided to roll for Pathfinder yet? I might aim to finalize my character later today / tonight.
I have pretty much everyone’s character choice aside from @sernobulus (who I believe ended up being a Paladin) and @rize (who I think was edging towards a Ranger??). Otherwise we have everyone as follows:
– @redartifice the Rogue
– @f4ction the Gunslinger
– @tech_knight the Sorcerer
– @freezespreston the Barbarian
– @steve-o_the_deve-o the Druid
– @beeawwb the Bard
If you’re still want to play as a Sorcerer Neg, go right ahead but feel free to change it if you want. We’re about 3-4 weeks away from the first session so there is still time to swap things out.
I’m a paddling? (paladin)
My bad, I didn’t see your post further up the page. You are indeed a Ninja and I can work with your backstory to determine how Ninjas fit into the world.
If you’re wondering, there is a fantasy Japan but you don’t have to be from fantasy Japan in order to be a Ninja.
Umm, I can change my class if you wish. I actually have 2 completed character sheets sitting on my computer. One a ranger, the other a Ninja. To be completely honest I want to play both. =P
Screw it, lock me down as a Ranger @popdart5
Can do. What type of Ranger are you looking to be? The up close and personal or the sniping Ranger? If you’re looking at combat styles as part of the Ranger class, the expanded books have a wider range of combat styles to choose from (Ultimate Magic also has the Trapper archetype for a Ranger if you are interested however that is a bit tricky as it doesn’t handle that well with combat you’re not prepared for).
Blind obedience to a lawful good alignment? That’s a paladin.
Awful name pun pronunciation?
That’s a paddlin’.
Random guy in bulky armour exorcising ghosts by stabbing them?
That’s a paddlin’.
Obnoxious righteousness?
That’s a paddlin’.
oh my god
you should role play as if jasper was a paladin
It’ll work best if we have to travel somewhere by canoe.
Little do you know that all of the elderly characters in the Simpsons play DnD all day in the retirement home. Moleman is clearly a Dwarf. 😛
Moleman Adventures presents: Goblin getting hit by a axe.
Still working on my backstory, FYI. Trying to avoid things being too trope-y. At one stage I had something along the lines of “The Governator” – an adept public speaker with a penchant for ass kicking.
That got thrown out quite quickly.
To be perfectly honest, I am intending this campaign to be a bit trope-y. At the moment, it’s drawing influences from Discworld, Warcraft, the Looking for Group and Goblins webcomics. Yeah, don’t worry about being trope-y. A character evolves and transcends the tropes that it is based on in nine out of ten cases.
Oh, well in that case… Prepare my suspenders and thick rimmed glasses, we’ve got some LEARNING to do.
Oh crap.
Yeah, I totally forgot to get back to you guys about that.
I’m working out the finer details, but I plan to be a “hit things a lot” class.
Zapp Brannigan. Has my reputation preceded me or was I too quick for it?
Oh… wait, you meant a different thing.
Nnn-…yes.
Totally different thing.
No need to stress too much about the time. I plan to start the campaign in about 3-4 weeks so take your time and get back to me.
There are a wide variety of “hitting things a lot” classes so take your pick. These range from the “axeing things in the face a lot” to “shooting them with arrows a lot” to the “trip and stomp on their face a lot”. Have fun. 🙂
I probably will play the sorcerer build I made earlier (ENCHANTMENT!) and we’ll just have to hope no one gets critically injured during our travels. Or you may need to tweak loot a bit so we can get some healing pots periodically.
Yeah that’s fine. Stashes of healing potions will be available as part of the general loots to be had and you guys always have the option to stock up when you need to. This is a distinctly higher fantasy setting so the only place where you might not be able to buy potions are tiny villages and things like that (Skyrim is a good comparison where everywhere has a potion shop).
If @sernobulus is an Alchemist dual-class he should be able to mix up some potions for us anyway right?
I’ve got Cure Light as a L1 Bard spell and once I hit level 2 I’ll be able to Take 10 on any heal checks. Should prove to be a suitable back-up if we’re in dire straits.
I must warn you that the Heal skill assists in emergency sort of medical treatment to stop people dying and also to help longer periods of rest and recovery. It doesn’t actually help recover immediate HP in the middle of a fight.
@popdart5 – I know, stabilise the dying would be the dire straits I was referring to.
Though, correct me if I’m wrong, do you need to use a Heal check before using a wand of cure light wounds? I’m very far behind on my knowledge of anything spell related. I was planning on, when we had enough cash (575gp, if my tables are right…) and getting a wand to help out in that regard.
@beeawwb Ah sorry about that, just wanted to clarify in case people thought the heal skill could be used to regain HP in emergencies.
In order to use a magic wand or a magic anything, they need to pass either a Spellcraft or a Use Magic Device skill check.
@popdart5 Cool, I knew there was some skill involved just wasn’t sure if it was related to the wand being used.
Use Magic Device… +8 – I think I’ll be ok. :p
Even if he’s not, there will be adequate availability of alternate sources of healing, including going to a church of healing and receiving treatment. It will cost you gold but if you have lost more HP than a few potions can restore, it is definitely handy.
Yeah I’m still doing my “Standoffish Elf that strives in blowing shit up that tried to start a fight with him” 🙂 so go right ahead. ENCHANTMENT!
This an online thing or actual tabletop?
Online through roll20 but using the Google + hangout version as it is a little clearer in terms of audio.
So I’m going to need a G+ account, hey?
Yeah. If you already have a gmail or Youtube account, I believe you can easily create a G+ account through that. You will also need to sign up to Roll20 (www.roll20.net if I recall correctly) in order to use the plug-in in the Google hangout.
No worries, I suppose I have a YouTube account so I can comment on things, and I’ll sign up for Roll20 when I get home. Good to get these things sorted out early. 🙂
How hard is that roll20 thing to learn? A mate of mine is often saying he wants something along those lines but he’s not exactly technical
@aliasalpha I’m familiar with it as a player but @redartifice is far more used to it as a GM. Ask him.
@aliasalpha it’s as complex as you want to make it- the level I use most of the time is drag and drop with a couple of custom tokens, but you can do things like program line of sight/lighting and more complex stats. Some features are for paying users only – I may subscribe soon just for the extra storage space
Has anyone with Windows 8/8.1 played Pyschonauts recently?
I’m still having issues with it and it’s making me sad :'(
It used to randomly crashed but I seem to have fixed that only to have the audio completely drop out after playing for a while. 🙁 booooo
was playing it yesterday greenman, ill pm you on steam tonight
I’ve had problems with my Steam and Humble Indie versions. Re-downloaded and re-installed the Steam one but nothing changed 🙁
EDIT: did you have to make any changes or did it work instantly?
I’m not sure whether it’s a Windows 8 issue or an issue on my end. Thanks!
EDIT2: I did something and it seems to be fine now! Happy daysssss
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?openal32
download that and replace the existing one in your Psychonauts folder
should be in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common
That should fix your audio problems….
as for the crashing, set Psychonauts.exe to always run in Windows 95 compatibility mode…
that should do it!
I messed around with the OpenAL file earlier but that didn’t seem to fix the issue (I think I got it from a different site though so it may have been an older/newer version). Kind of annoying that the official site for it no longer works so every link (including the official DF support thread) doesn’t work 😛
It seems to be working fine now though with Windows 7/admin compatibility and a few changes in the audio ini file. I think the Humble download has an older version of OpenAL so that might be helping compared to the Steam one.
I have issues with Windows 8./8.1 altogether. Win 7 is still way more stable.
But how can you not like your PC acting like a tablet with weird tiles and slide to unlock?
Uhh.. I hate it. I use 8 at work and I use 7 at home. I’m seriously not upgrading my home machine until big changes occur and glitches are ironed out.
I dislike it too 🙁
I should’ve stayed with 7!
Ugh! Power bills suck. It’s not huge, but it’s still a pain. Also having problems with my toilet, and my landlady’s away until tomorrow. Literally a crappy type of day today.
from feeling crap this morning, I’ve just picked up Ground Zeroes, inFamous and Sonic & SEGA Racing Transformed. Amazing how games can turn a day around XD
A weekend that should have been pretty great turned out to be average-at-best, leaning heavily into shitty territory at regular intervals. Didn’t do anything relaxing really. It also ended on a serious downer which I’m sure will extend the shittyness into this weekend and perhaps into the future going forward. Resulted in shitty thoughts, shitty feels, and shitty sleep. This morning I had a shitty meeting with gov. workers, where 18 months of planning is apparantly erased and going back to the (shitty) drawing board. Get to continue the shitty meeting at a shitty time of 4pm.
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How was your weekend?
Infamous is pretty alright and a decent guy.
you havent been trying to use @cufcfan616 ‘s shitty toilet have you? he’s having some shitty problems with it…
in all seriousness that sucks balls…
although I need a new toilet seat, I think you mean @ontargett 😛
ah shit!
Luckily no problems with my ‘waste’ disposal, sucks to be him right now. 🙁
Lifehacker featured content: Program and customise your vibrator with an arduino.
Lifehacker also ran stories on how to breathe and how to eat over the weekend so they’ve got all the bases covered!
I swear to god over the weekend the Lifehacker ‘hot stories’ pane looked like a spoof from The Onion.
As opposed to the serious content from The Onion?
some of my friends on facebook take The Onion seriously sometimes
Some days the onion is more serious than real media outlets.
It’s running 1gb of ram and windows vista
So much potential for multi-tasking.
OH GOD WHY AM I HERE WHY AM I NOT HOME DARK SOULS
Dark Souls 2: Bonfire Ascetic edition.
Trying to keep Lucatiel alive in the later summons is working pretty OK. Smelter demon fail because she didn’t even fucking walk through the fog gate, Flexile Sentry success. Now just need to do two others on the off-chance that my first Sentry wasn’t a success. (I’m pretty confident it was, but better safe than sorry – I just wasn’t paying attention.) So. Sinner and Rotten it is.No-Man’s Wharf:
Using the ascetic on the Wharf didn’t give any extra enemies until the very end, with the one red phantom on the boat. That dude was crazy hard, by the way. Has more HP than I do, and is very aggressive with an unfathomably high-damage twin-blade that has a shield-breaking ability. He’s harder than Lautrec and Havel combined, because he also uses a shield and has some pretty stupidly high poise. He leaves himself open every now and then but is best dodged/backstepped then backstabbed. Also, poison can take off around a third of his health over time if he’s hit with a poison arrow five times. He won’t chase you very far off the ship, so it’s possible to cheese him that way.Other interesting difference thanks to the Ascetic: Flexile Sentry now comes with additional enemies. There are three hyper-agile leap-crazy assassin-creature dudes who whip around like crazy trying to backstab you with dual daggers. They’re not very tough, but I had to flip and dodge a LOT to avoid getting smashed at the same time. Sentry has some deadly new moves, too, including a VERY sneaky surprise grab-type attack if you’re directly in front of the mace-handed side. Don’t be in front of it ever. Honestly, with my tanking agro ring on, Lucatiel did all the work on this guy.
Black Gulch:
So I used a bonfire ascetic on the first bonfire of the Gulch, the one with ‘mouth’ in its name. No extra enemies from the first bonfire to the Rotten, though I haven’t dropped down to pay a visit to the two giants yet. Funny thing… burning that ascetic at the first bonfire didn’t respawn the boss. You probably need to burn one at the 2nd bonfire. So after I’ve depopulated those cave-wall worms and creepy-as-fuck puddle-dweller eyeball/mouth/tentacle/hand/nightmare hybrids (for their sweet, sweet titanite chunks), I’m going to have to burn an ascetic at the 2nd bonfire. It’ll be interesting to see if it repopulates the rest of the area AGAIN. It’ll be even MORE interesting to see if it stacks with the first ascetic I burned such that NG+ becomes nightmarishly impossible. (Unlikely. If you do a run just smashing poison statues then back to the bonfire, the entire area becomes incredibly easy. Two large, static enemies that can barely hurt you, and a cluster of smaller, weak enemies – albeit with lethal grab attacks – who can, with some care, be pulled one at a time. Hardly ‘Dark Souls Hard’.) Either way, after I’m done re-de-populating the Gulch again tonight, I’ll find out.…A horrible thought occurred to me that part of the area covered by the first Gulch bonfire ascetic is actually area covered in The Gutter, which I hate. Oh goody.
I liked the gutter. It required you to play differently which is cool imo. But I also enjoyed the Shaded Forest for the same reason.
Not a reply to this, but keeping it all together…
DARKSOULSTALK
As I mentioned on the last page, I beat the No Mans Wharf boss over the weekend under @blaghman’s everlasting guidance. Kept going through to Lost Bastille and cannot beat the three bosses in there. I tried three times while Blaghs was watching, then another two times after he left and I just can’t lay a scratch on any of them. I can’t stay up on the ledge that you initially fall on, because the first guy’s reach is too long and I don’t use a shield… Falling down immediately causes all three to gang up on me. Can’t stay alive long enough 😛I’ll get there eventually! Just got to hope for a miracle. Or maybe I’ll try going to a different area and come back later when my spells do more damage.
I hear they give a lot of folks trouble. Try to go in with a summon. Rolling is actually your friend compared to a shield – they can do some fair stamina drain on shields with those swings. Ideally you want to spend most of the fight behind them at their right ankle. Roll on every swing if you can because I’m pretty confident those swings are 270 degree arcs. Try to roll to their right/behind as they swing the first time. You MAY get caught on their 2nd swing, so maybe roll a second time behind them heading toward their rear left (once you’re behind the rear right). If you can down the first one fast enough, a 2nd will jump up to meet you. Your summoned phantom will either jump down, or stay up leaving you free to jump down to separate them. You really need to separate them. Try to stay backed up in areas that have pillars, too, so that they aren’t tempted to use their massive spinning attack or shield-throws. They do those at range or in large, open spaces.Tips for the boss.
Use a strike weapon if you have one and stick close to the guy on the ledge, rolling aside/behind him when he attacks then hit him in the back.
Once he is down jump off and carefully kite the other two, making sure to keep them both in sight at all times.
I’ll have to level up more to get a new weapon. Hopefully not one that scales off of Strength. All I’ve got are my spells in one hand and a dagger in the other 😛
I’ll get there in the end!
I dropped an ascetic in Heide’s tower, it covered everything except the old dragonslayer bit (had to use the cathedral of blue one for that). There were a bunch more phantoms, and more of the big knights. Boss fight was still really easy though. Didn’t seem to change.
Oh…oh god, oh.
I stupidly looked at Gizmodo and the Turnbull article. Then I read the comments.
Oh my head. I need to go have a quiet lie down. The amount of vitriol in there is the equivalent of a One Direction covering a Justin Beiber YouTube video.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/03/malcolm-turnbull-wants-you-to-move-house-to-get-better-internet/
Thank you for your efforts, @stickman.
Holy shit -59 ?????
I’ll be honest, I kind of like seeing the Christmas colours light up a comment chain.
I made posts what were popular, so clearly I am internet hero. What do I win?
http://tinyurl.com/mdeoa36 Not ‘dignity’, I guess.(Apart from my ‘civil’
running battlediscussion with ZombieJesus.)http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/05/how-fast-is-the-nbn-versus-the-coalitions-broadband-plan-this-site-might-help/
Nice.
That was a colossally stupid statement.
Technically it is 74 downvotes – some is cancelled out by upvotes
Check the follow-up article, where Turnbull complains about getting beat up on Twitter and tries to pretend that he was sincerely trying to fact-find instead of being snarky at someone complaining to him about something that’s not his fault.
Did that tweet resonate a lord talking down to a peasant to anybody else or just me?
The language in Gizmodo comments is getting worse and worse.
I posted this on Twitter, but I’m not sure I like the changes of the Gabriel Knight HD version.
The scene composition in particular. :\
This is from the original game:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjdUHoOCcAAzdYS.jpg:large
And this is from the new version:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/screenshots/view/25448/42398
It’s not terrible but it doesn’t have the charm of the original. Not digging the change of perspective too. (Liked seeing masks, bookshelves on the frame of the scenes, etc.)
I suspect this is just the fanboy in me nitpicking, maybe…
Atleast the incredible design behind the graphics from the original should still be there.
This is my favourite adventure game series ever. So, so good.
You’re just mad because he moved into a new place which was exactly like his old place but has a window, so now you don’t feel as connected to him as he no longer lives your hermit-vampire lifestyle.
Which is fair enough because oh god the sunlight it burnsLooks pretty good to me 😛
But so did the Jurassic Park game. 😛
THERE IS NO JURASSIC PARK GAME.
I’ll fight you.
It didn’t really. Those shadows were the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen (probably just my PC :P)The prettiness of inFamous has me so damn excited to see what a next gen Gotham City looks like in Arkham Knight. 😀
DUDE! I SAID THE EXACT SAME THING!!!
FUCKING BATMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANANANANANANANANANANANANANANA!!!
Did someone call for Batmanana?
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9t3iwuE4Q1qcivxwo1_1280.jpg
7/10.
Would post on social media.
Beautiful, reminds me of the Vegetable Creeds:
http://i.imgur.com/wk17eZA.jpg
Like it’s waiting for a hero.
…what? No. I’m not trotting out that “Hero we deserve” bullshit. Batman is awesome. End of sentence.
It will be an orgasm for the eyes
In kind of sad. It’s a really really pretty game, but it still has all the hallmarks of last-gen post processing on its DoF and transparencies. It’s a stupid thing for me to complain about, but I was hoping the new gen would bring in a wonderful new age of flawless effects thanks to the power of magic.
Edit: But yeah, Batman should be rad.
You have to give devs time to work out what they can get away with.
Compare The Last of Us to Uncharted. Same team, same console but a few more years of experience.
Hell, remember the games that came out in the first year or two of the 360/PS3 era? They looked like balls.
It’ll be pretty cool for console users to witness the small-but-fancy effects that they’ve been missing out on for 7 years. Things like the smoke on decks of AC4, simply are not possible on last-gen. They do add to the atmosphere of the game.
Smoke, cannons and PhysX combined make AC4 on PC amazing.
I got 100% completion on AC4 on the PS3, and if/when I get a PS4, I will STILL play that again.
Did you redeem the digital upgrade token thing before the expiry date so you could buy it at $15?
If not, fear not, despite saying it expired at the end of January, my one worked 2 days ago. I now own 2 PS4 games… and no PS4…
Normally I force myself to wait until there’s at least 2 games I want for a console before buying it, this will be the first time I’ve actually owned the games in advance.
I did not! I figured I’ll just get the platinum edition when it comes out and be OK with paying the extra ten bucks or whatever.
You can redeem it on the playstation market thing on the web and it should just be available from your purchase history when you get the PS4. Then it’s just download the digital version, whack the PS3 disc in for validation and bob’s the guy knobbing your aunt. At least that’s the assumption I’ve staked $15 on.
…Bob’s your father? Huh.
Nah, my dad’s dead so he’s not knobbing anyone. Well, unless he’s gotten involved in the dustier subgenre of necrophilia… I assume wanking with a handful of someone’s ashes would technically count as necrophilia.
Well. MY father, since you were talking about my aunt.
In which case… actually, better to drop the joke, because now I have mental images I don’t want.
It’s not a good joke until you end up with minor psychological trauma!
That and The Witcher 3 are the 2 I’m looking forward to, plus the new AC once we see a bit more of it. I know there will still be flaws, but it’s early days.
Dragon Age: Inquisition for me. Gonna be gooood.
Isn’t it also coming to 360/PS3? It’s the only reason I didn’t add it to my list!
It’d better be coming to 360, that or have a tool released to upload all your saves so you can keep the decisions from previous games.
Definitely coming to gen 7, I’m hoping for an import tool anyway so I can get it on the bone.
One of the biggest downsides of having capped internet right now is that I’m going to miss the launch of the Diablo 3 expansion.
Admittedly. I was going to skip this. Then they patched the game to be non-terrible and everyone was playing it for a week. Then they stopped because there wasn’t any progress to be made until the expansion came out.
After the expansion comes out, people might only play for a week before moving on again and my net doesn’t get uncapped until a week after the expansion.
I blame everyone else but me.
If you have it patched it’ll be perfectly fine to play on capped internet, I reckon especially now Aussie servers are delivering <50ms pings. I used to play WoW on capped internet (telstras idea of capped was 256k) and I had a ping constantly of about 180ms on the US servers and never had an issue.
The problem is that installing the expansion will probably be a fairly hefty download, even if I get the disc version.
One of the reasons I used up so much of my downloads this month is because I reinstalled Diablo 3 from the disc. It was like 30gb of downloads.
Oh well that’s just bad planning, you should have used the dis… oh…
Realistically the launch version of the disc delivered expansion probably won’t have that big a supplementary download, it’d be a day one patch rather than a year or 2 worth of progressive updates & tinkering
The big patch for the DLC actually came out a few weeks ago. It’s why people started playing again.
So at least there’s that.
Realistically, if I want to play the expansion, I need to get someone who is playing on day one to copy everything onto a flash drive and post it to me. That is literally the fastest way for me to install the game.
Luckily, Blizzard games have always been good for copy/paste installs.
Did you patch it after installing it? Cause if so in Blizzard tradition you have the xpac already and anything will be a few mb patches if they can’t be hot fixed.
It’s how its been with WoW since at least Wrath (as far as I am aware) where you downloaded all the changes anywhere up to a month in advance. I’d be surprised if there’s a hlarge update come Wednesday morning for us.
I’m on the current patch less the hotfixes they pushed through the other day to address the experience farming people did.
Aw fuck, I was enjoying that farming of experience..
They just turned down the experience gain on trash mobs so that people couldn’t grind crypt of the ancients all day to get paragon levels.
Oh wait I was exploiting another way to get exp 😛 Doesn’t affect me that greatly then1
@virus__ Anything that relied on trash mobs won’t work. Being power leveled by someone is still okay though.
Yeah thats what I was doing, setting my level stuff to torment level 7.. 3000% exp was OP as shit. On top of that I had 5 pieces of gear that granted bonus xp & gold and a gem that gave 25% exp as well.. on top of the community buff that gave an extra 50% experience. Yeah,.. It was stupid.
dammit Lisa, stop trying to ruin all of your family’s dreams and plans by being a damned square
A dagger? Aw man, no wonder you are struggling. Get a sword or something at least.
A complete mage build is not really viable in Souls – often you just have to fight melee. Get your str /dex up enough to use a decent weapon.
@powalen
thanks. stupid phone.
Hm… okay. I’ll have to re-evaluate then I suppose! I’ve been doing semi-decently up until now with my soften-with-magic, poke-with-dagger-if-needed, dodge-everything strategy 😛 But if that’s not going to do well in the late game I’m going to have to hit the gym.
By the way, When you say “Str/Dex up”, do you mean Str OR Dex, or Str AND Dex?
EDIT: Oh, and thanks!
Both probably.
You do not need to pump lots of levels into them, just whatever you need to use whatever weapon you want to use.
Since it is not your main attack of choice something fast that you can easily use in a brawl without costing much stamina perhaps. A basic long or broad sword would probably suit but whatever feels good to you.
Do some experimenting – you can equip and use gear without the proper stats (just has a major damage penalty) so swing stuff around and see what you like then work towards that.
Also a shield. If you have got this far without one then I take my hat off to you – mad roll skills bro. But being able to block is so very handy in a melee. (Make sure it is a 100% Physical blocking shield)
But whatever floats your boat.
I’d like to take this moment to pimp the Halberd again but that’s just my preference.
DISC SALES $2
Started my weekend in the Iron Keep. The Smelter Demon gave me a bit of trouble, but eventually I go the hang of it. Went upstairs to his bonfire, came back down – oh shit the Pursuer is here well this can’t be to-DEAD.Ignored the Pursuer and went through the the Iron King. Wasn’t bad at all. His attacks were pretty telegraphed. After that I doubled back to take on the Executioner’s Chariot, which was fun because it was so different. Then went back to the path I earlier abandoned, the Doors of Pharros past Quelaag’s long-lost scorpion cousin. Giant rat demon that moves like Sif, okay. A whole clergy or communion in a chapel after that, also okay.
And then, the spiders.
Freja herself (or Freyjr) I took down on my first try, but that whole area was horrifying, mostly because I hate spiders, but also because of the whole bit with the Great Soul there and what the spiders did with it and AHHHH
Now heading under Majula. Feelin okay.
Waddaya sellin?
What’re you buyin’?
Heh! Waddya need that for? Huntin’ an elephant?
Miracles. Have you discovered the wonders of the First Flame? The Gods exhort you to show your devotion by buying miracles.
First flames are pretty wondrous. Mine’s still around actually, just had dinner with her the other night.
I understood about 10% of this.
Pursuer:
He’s not that bad if you have a greatshield and do Serrels’ thing of circling to the right. The only attack you’ll need to dodge is the blue-sword-curse-you attack. Take it one hit at a time. Took me a while to beat him (between five and ten minutes, which is long for a DS boss battle), but I did it first try without even taking damage.Serrel’s thing? I thought that’s what every melee build did.When he does the three hit combo that ends with a jump spin thing, I think you can get a hit or two in by going left instead.Basically sitting behind the left heel of any sword using boss seems to be an effective way to fight them if you’re focusing on dodging instead of shield tanking.Hah, you should have see the first time I beat O&S.
Was doing O last and I was doing it so carefully it took almost an hour.
I am now as of this useless comment 9 comments away from 15,000 on Kotaku.
EDIT: Actually 7. I hadn’t refreshed.
Woo, 7 off my 500 comments on Kotaku!
I feel so inadequate compared to you big guns.It’s not that bad I’m 1 comment off 1300
Countdown!
The final one or just a boring regular non-anthemic rock one?
Boring regular.
The movie.
The show.
3 comments off 1000 for me.
@negativezero
Played Caverna over the weekend. Nice game but lots and lots of parts. be prepared for the first game to go for ages, even playing the easy mode. Found it to be a fun game, although the arming of your dwarfs and adventuring is critical. Getting that moving really early is huge.
No body starved but considering it afterwards if the only penalty is a -3 points then rapid growth is also viable. Although we didn’t go into the details of those rules.
Game ended up dragging on way to long as I started to lose interest. I think the adventuring can slow the game down too much while people work out what they want to do. High level adventures with multiple rewards can take people ages to agree on (as you can fence, build, take stock or supplies as well as expand. We were playing a 6 person game so it was a bigger issue when the first 3 players were all doing it. Also could become less of an issue as people become familiar with strats and the rooms and other aspects.
My play was also affected as the strategy I was working on when a rule was explained afterwards and I had been breaking it the whole time. Stupid logic errors that agricola players understand. So I was trying not to follow that line of points as I had an unfair advantage. But it was fun and would certainly play again
Also the dodgiest tile I have ever seen in a game you can build a cuddle room
Provides room for 1 sheep per dwarf you haveI want to try it at some point but the price tag kind of frightened me off as well.
I’m getting the impression that you haven’t played much Agricola before playing this.
I already own Agricola, and rarely play it, so I’m finding it hard to justify considering Caverna.
Caverna seems to be Agricola with Dwarves and less of that bleak ending where your whole family starves to death because you fucked up somewhere in the third turn.
I haven’t played agricola but the people I played Caverna with are big fans
They are very similar and if you like one you will like the other. and vice versa.
Neg is right that starvation is a much smaller issue, you can generally always find a way to get the food you need, although it will cost you your turn and that will be it.
http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/blog/post/review-caverna/ this has the best representation of the cuddle room
Powalen’s Fun Time with Clients at Work! *jingle*
1. Client calls up two weeks ago reporting that their website calendar doesn’t work. “Can you fix it quickly, please?” Sure!
2. Discover existing calendar is broken. “Do you want us to replace it with this new, better, working calendar?”. No response. -1 week passes-
4. Do work on calendar anyway. “I’ve got the new calendar working perfectly. Do you want me to push the updates live?”. No response. -1 week passes-
5. I give up, I’ll just get them on the phone. “Hey, did you get those emails?”
6. “Oh yeah. Actually, I think we’re going to stay with what we’ve got.”
Note to self: Clients prefer old things that don’t even work anymore over paying for some new work to be done.
I would watch that show. So hard.
Sounds reminiscent of a quote from yahtzee’s latest podcast/letsplay thing “Here’s what fandoms want, something completely new that’s exactly the same”
People are fucking stupid. You need to help them continue their stupidity, otherwise they will implode at their self-realisation that they are worthless pieces of shit.
This message most-likely brought to you by a similar example witnessed 10min ago.
3. ???
Also you’re missing 7. Profit
I wish I could say I left it out as a test, but, no. I forgot three was a number.
I didnt realise that looking for and financing a new car is so exhausting.
And i was completely stunned at how my own bank did a terrible job of looking after me.
…I just wanted to play DS2 all day 🙁 I need to get unstuck.
Damn life.
dark souls etc
What the hell is up with this stupid forced multiplayer nonsense? I just got summoned into somebody else’s game, got immediately attacked by them, and had no way to leave. Disconnecting my console from the internet yet again. I’m so sick of this aspect of the game. It’s fine that it’s there, but not when it forces you to take part in it.
The first time I tried to reverse hollowing, I burned an effigy at the bonfire. It didn’t restore my humanity but it did appear to block multi for that area (counterproductive considering WHY I was trying to return to human)
There’s a finite number of those effigies though and I’d rather keep them for restoring humanity when I really need it.
From what I’ve seen, rather than completely blocking that area, it just sends you right to the bottom of the multiplayer queue (which I assume also involves appearances of guidance messages and white soapstone stuff).
It blocked me from using my own white soapstone, which is what made me think that it blocked all multi and not just invasions.
I burnt around 6 or 7 Human Effigies thinking that that was how you returned to Human and restored your health :'(
Stoopid, stoopid Liondrive 🙁
The disconnecty soapstone should work at letting you leave, though it’s probably a bit of a pain to try and use it in the middle of a fight with someone.
If a Rat Bastard summons you into their game, there isn’t any penalty for just dying. Anytime you’re summoned as a phantom, there is no penalty for death.
Also, the way to leave is by either killing them or by running the gauntlet and completing the area. There are only two places Rat Bastards can summon you in.
They are, at worst, a minor irritation.
I think it bugs me because there’s the absence of a fine line in the sand now. In the original it was a choice one way or the other, be human and summon/invade at the risk of being invaded and attacked, or be hollow and play alone but without any chance for assistance online. I liked having that clear divide, really.
Yeah, not really a fan. Why is there pvp in my singleplayer RPG dangit?!
The pvp happens less the more hollow you are tho so it is mostly an issue if you are human to try and summon peeps.
Waiting patiently for my new board games to show….
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GAHHHH WHY AM I STILL WAITING!
I bought Quantum and Space Cadets.Someone’s been watching SUSD.
Also you should bring Quantum to Dubbo if you ever find yourself heading in this direction.
Well maybe if someone hadnt been tempted to be addicted to it :p
Also yes
Are you doing PAX again this year? I’m thinking since it’ll be so close to my office (and car park) that I might cart a few of my embarrassing games along…
Got two three day passes booked.
That reminds me, I should probably update my address details on the PAX site… except it won’t load. Thanks capped interwebs.
SUSD is bad for wallets.
In other news, played my copy of Suburbia again on Saturday
Hat. Warranted hat.
Due to having a cold last week making it difficult to sleep my sleep patern is all out of whack again 🙁
So morning, everyone; I just got up.
I spent most of the weekend playing Diablo 3; running through on normal on a new character I’d recently created. Between the lack of lag, regularly getting usuable loot that was an upgrade and the buff to experience the game was actually fun. Bit sad that experience buff isn’t a permanent thing because leveling felt like it was moving at a good, fun pace.
If it helps any, the expansion is going to bring in higher level gems that will drop from level 61.
Get a high level ruby, pop it in a low level socketed helm and you’ll have a 40+% boost to exp that’ll do the trick quite neatly. Once you find a better helm, remove gem from socket and add to the new helm.
It’s what I was doing to speed up leveling before (I wasn’t using expansion gems, so I was getting ~30% bonus).
All this talk of Dark Souls 2 has gotten me interested in trying DS1 again, problem was that after 10 minutes and nearly getting my arse handed to me by a minor enemy, I got that old sense of frustration with the game again.
This time though I think I actually know why I quit the first time around. Despite having beaten several bosses and gotten new equipment, I never actually felt like my character was progressing at all.
The fact that I could still get whopped by a skeleton really frustrated me. I think I may have just been hung up on how other rpgs work.
You fight, you level up, you get stronger. Minor enemies become just a waste of time instead of a challenge. Now this may take place in DS1, but I don’t think I can expect it to work the same way as other games.
I think I will give DS1 another go, but will certainly have to work on how I approach the game, both on my expectations and how I concentrate on the stats and equipment of my character.
To the Dark Souls wiki I go!
Then after an hour I will probably go back to SKYRIM!
😛
Probably the most important thing to keep in mind when it comes to progressing in Dark Souls: gear > stats.
Early on, you are much better off having the bare minimum stats to wear your gear and then spend everything you have upgrading that gear to be more effective.
As you get better at the game, minor enemies will become trivial. Either because you can one shot them or because you know the area well enough to know how to safely run past them.
Mostly, you level up in Dark Souls by becoming better at the game. Mastery of mechanics trumps generating bigger numbers. Learning to dodge roll effectively, how to get the most out of your stamina, parrying, backstabbing, and all that nonsense. It’s very much not a JRPG.
Definitely good info here. Previously I had just been upgrading my stats and hadn’t really concentrated on my equipment at all. I was just waiting for a new and better set to come along, rather then try to make my current rig better.
The other thing was I think I had expected to just be able to tank my way through the game, what actually have to think and use inteller… skill… me brains!?! That’s unpossible!
I had learnt how to roll, but parrying and backstabbing just seemed beyond me.
Plus the fact my character was so weighted down with gear and moved like a snail, but could still get hurt, kinda threw me.
So not SKYRIM! still, I suppose it doesn’t hurt to try new things… well not too much I hope.
I’ve always found that mobility trumps tankiness. Later on, you’ll find some gear that is tanky enough that you can just sit in front of all enemies and wail on them but until at least midgame, it isn’t a viable strategy. Honestly, it only works once you have an obscene amount of endurance.
Not getting hit is almost always the best option.
Parrying only really works on humanoid enemies but is super effective if you learn the timings. Backstabbing is the same.
Urgh, does this mean I will actually have to learn how to play a game properly, instead of just walking up to something and bashing?
😛
Yes but once you learn to play properly, you get to walk up to things and bash them.
\o/
Shield and spear – you can poke them without lowering your guard.
Mmm, bashing with a spear… I suppose anything is possible.
I just have to think of it as an extra large club.
The most primal clubs you can picture remain ridiculously viable even into the end-game as they are some of the few weapons that scale well with strength. Though my favourite weapon was always the man-serpent greatsword (guess what kind of enemies it drops off/is found near), which looks like a giant slab of rough-hewn, blood-rusted metal that you more bash with than cut.
“looks like a giant slab of rough-hewn, blood-rusted metal that you more bash with than cut”
I think I am in love.
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130209225401/darksouls/images/6/68/Man_serpent_sword.jpg
She’s one of the highest strength-scaling weapons in the game, and while the base damage isn’t the highest, it’s amazingly comparable to the greataxes and greatclubs while being twice as fast, leaving you less exposed, wieldable one-handed with a shield, and uses up less stamina, meaning you can swing this monstrosity more often. Huge poise damage, I’ve been able to stunlock people with this thing because they underestimated it and thought blocking it would be a good idea.
Bunny speaks great wisdom, heed his words and you will soon be one of us.
(“One of us! One of us!”)
Also I have always said the two most important assets to have in Dark Souls are patience and a good shield. With those two things you can beat anything.
Well since my previous motto was “Have club, will bash” I am willing to try another tactic… as weird and unnatural as it may sound.
Shield, patience??? what a crazy world we live in.
😛
@greenius got my FFX/X2 HD remaster! 😛
Ask me to give it back!
The limited edition packaging is so pretty I don’t want to open it.
TRUE STORY: I don’t really like those boxes because whenever I try to open them I crease them somehow and while I was trying to be careful I somehow cut my thumb while opening it and it started bleeding (not on the box thankfully :P).
I also creased it anyway 😀
That Milkman stuff in Psychonauts is certainly something… 😛
I’m still having problems though :'(. I thought they were fixed the last time I played but then it started crashing and the audio started dropping out again… booo
@zetrox2k I tried using the file in the link you posted but it turns out that’s the same file I downloaded from another site earlier this morning which actually caused another error: “No supported sound playback device was found” which prevents the game from running at all (reverting back to the original file fixes this).
It seems to crash instantly, then the sound drops out and then after the third or fourth time it just starts working without problems except for the occasional stutter or freeze… odd :/
Since it seems to only work fine every now and then I’ve resorted to playing for as long as I can (rather than short bursts) and now my eyes hurt :P. I don’t like how the game forces you to obtain and use what seems to be optional items :(. Probably wouldn’t have figured that stuff out unless I referred to a guide (which is what I did because I am the worst)
Tim Schafer signed my Psychonauts poster with “My milk is delicious”
I wish I had cool Psychonauts posters 🙁
Emo no one wants to hear it stuff that I need to get off my chest (read: whining self pity)
I’m having a real bad day today. Spent all day in a black pit of depression, thinking that everyone hates me, I’m completely unlikeable and completely useless at everything I do. No matter what I do I can’t seem to pull myself out of it. Thinking its time I went and saw someone to try and get help but the thought of that is terrifying and makes me even more depressed that I’m unable to handle whatever it is that’s effecting me. Life can be… trying at times. Sometimes seems like it’s not worth it.Make the call, man. And kudos for the amount of time with no edit so far! *brofist*
You’ve had a pretty killer blow to the ego, recently. I don’t think there’s anyone could take a shot like that and not start to question themselves. The important thing is to let yourself believe the answers, as framed by family and friends – some even after only brief encounters – who for some reason actually give a shit about you. It wouldn’t be for no reason. The bad stuff has a way of amplifying itself, and part of it’s that old psychological dog of seeing what you expect to see or fear to see. But make a call somewhere to get the darker stuff off your chest. You might be surprised at how a stranger’s perspective can help when you know they have nothing to gain from lying to you, or preconceptions and attachments to soften their opinion. At the very least, it’ll help organize your thoughts, which is always a good step toward doing something about them.I can’t say much, as I’m coming from a similar spot at the moment, but you’re certainly someone I’ve the utmost respect for. Speak with someone if you can mate. It doesn’t need to be a professional, it might just be an extension of this post, but do verbalise it when you’re ready.I hope you’re ok. I hope these feelings pass quickly for you.
I hope you’re talking to someone as well mate
Not really. I live in a fishbowl, and word spreads quickly. Thanks, though. Really.Well fish are notorious gossips, its true. Feel free to open up whenever you need, only thing worse than feeling shit is feeling shit alone.
Well, okay, being on fire might be worse. So might being eaten by a shark… you know what I mean damnit.
There’s also bound to be online resources you can look up, the second last page of the last TAY had a few recommendations
You live in a fishbowl encased in an aquarium my friend, just because your bowl seems small doesn’t mean just outside it is a wise old turtle willing to listen or a seahorse willing to lend a hand!
This is going to turn into a cartoon musical isn’t it?
It’d better be metal, that’s all I’m saying.
Going to see someone about it is one of the hardest things to do. It’s not a sign of weakness, it’s incredibly brave. Swallow your fear and go speak to someone. What do you have to lose?
This a million and 1 times over, asking someone for help is hard and reaching out from a dark place even more so, but you need to take the leap and know friends and family will be there to catch you.
Yo, Freeze, I know that it might not help, but I want you to know that I think you’re a cool cat, even if you can’t remember who I am. I was going to say that you’re one of my favourite TAYbies, and while it’s true, it’s occurred to me that I really do like the greater majority of you that I’ve met, so I’m slightly worried of offending everyone because you’re all excellent (lolgay). But yeah, if you think you need to speak to someone, do so. It’s not unmanly or whatever to see a psych. It’s manly as shit to talk to someone about what’s wrong, and I do mean that without a hint of sarcasm.I love you, man. I had a great time finally getting to talk to you and getting to know things about you this weekend.
Hello.
So, one of the reasons I took 2 weeks off a few weeks back was because I was not in good shape. I told myself that I just need to recharge etc. About 3 days in I was worse than what I was when I started. I didn’t want to go anywhere, I didn’t want to do anything. I didn’t want to go see someone because I felt like I was failing myself. Eventually, I was talked into it by someone who was worried about me. And it was the best thing I did. It’s not a sign of weakness or defeat. If you can’t do it for yourself, do it for me and the other guys here and your family. You are a rad guy Freeze.Good stuff mate, hard as hell to do at the start but that’s just because everyone is stupid about mental illness. Really the pointless mental illness stigma is like abusing someone with a broken leg for getting it in plastered, fuck anyone who does it (not literally, it’d seem like a reward and really be a mixed message).
I’ve only really known you (kind of) for a few months and I already know you’re a good sort but even if I hadn’t, just look at the outpouring of love from the others, it’s even the kind you don’t have to wipe up with a tissue (though so far @dc hasn’t posted so who knows what might happen)! That alone should show you that you’re pretty great.
That said, I know how little external reinforcement helps when the enemy is inside, I could also say how much even seriously deciding to get help will improve things in the short term but sod that, I’m going to go a different way and try and trigger your competitive side! @Phlanispo has been in a similar place and decided to look into getting help, you don’t want to lose a psychological recovery competition to him do you? It’s a get-better-in-the-head race and he has a slight head start, get your running shoes on lad!
Game on, freeze.
@freezespreston
Freeze, I love you man. You’re my friend. Know that. Also, that doesn’t sound like a bad idea to see a doctor. I started meds again about ten days ago for what it’s worth. You’re not alone.Good post that. Sounds like you’re on the right track too.
Is it just my imagination or would it be faster to compile a list of people who don’t have a mental illness?
Freeze, know that there are people in way worse positions than yourself and myself. Sometimes it may be hard to give a crap about supposedly irrelevant things like that but just remember that you and I have had the opportunity to play awesome games over the years and as a result we gather and converse here to share that love – amongst other things. Some people don’t even have that.
It could always be worse – I often try to convince myself of that. It usually works. I don’t know your situation at all, so I cannot speak much more beyond that. Remember that most people here are more than willing to listen to your story, good or bad. It may get all quiet on the TAY front, though it doesn’t mean we’re not sitting, watching, reading. If need be, let it out. There are mature folk here who probably have some life-changing words of advice.
Cough. Transientmind, Strange, Aliasalpha. Cough.
Again, I don’t know your situation so please don’t take this as an insult.
MATURE!? You’d better watch what you say about me matey boy!
Code word for old.
Oh well then yes, that’s okay.
As long as you weren’t implying I was grown up and responsible, you big dumb poo face!
Hiya
While I can’t say I know what you’re going through, no one really can anyway because everyone experiences things a different way, but I can say I know what state your in. I was the same way last year when I got diagnosed with cancer, it felt like the world around me stopped. I didn’t want to talk to anyone or do anything, I felt outcast like I was someone no one wanted to talk to because of my condition ill never forget those days where at points it seemed near pointless to continue. But then I woke up, I remember looking out the window at the sunrise and thinking “why do I feel like this? I survived, Im still young and theres so much I want to do!” That’s when I reached out to you guys here on TAY you welcomed me with open arms and no amount of grattitude or thank you’s could repay what you guys did for me. So just know when the world feels its darkest, look at the sky how bright and alight it is. I garuntee you will find that same brightness in your friends and family when you talk to them and deep down you’ll know, you’re going to be ok. “Never be scared to ask for help when feeling down, because youll never know who will reach out their hand to pick you back up” That’s what I go byPraise the sun
Well SOMEONE was going to say it…
Ive always wondered if may Queens Of The Stone Age were fans of Dark Souls, My God Is The Sun just made alot more sense with that thought in mind!
Praise the sun!
You had a big dose of bad news recently. It’s understandable, man – it’d flatten anyone. I hope you seek some help if you need it, professional or otherwise.
At the risk of hazarding an unsolicited, unqualified guess, I’d say that there’s disconnect between emotion and rational thought right now, and that rationally, you recognise that you’re very well-liked and loved by a wide group of friends and family. Of course, that kind of reason doesn’t stand a chance against an irrational black mood.
Do what you gotta, man. If you need a pillow fort, take some more time off work, and hide out for a while longer. If there’s a change that can be made that’ll help, consider it. And if there’s anything I’m capable of helping with, I want you to feel like you are totally free to ask.
Hey Freeze, you don’t really know me much because I’m a newbie around these parts, but hey.
So I literally just came back from my Psychologists appointment. It always seemed big and scary before I started going, but it ended up being nice. I’ve not been in a good place for a long long time (part of an overarching medical issue) but took the first step seven years ago. Talking it out is awesome. The tricks and tactics they can give you to help is awesome. They don’t only just listen – they give you tools to help. And those tools stick around. I’m still using tactics I was taught seven years ago, and it helps. I won’t give you any tools myself, as I’m not qualified AND I’m not you so I don’t know what would work. But here’s a question: What is the risk in trying it once? Just once. Tell yourself that you won’t go back if you don’t feel any better by the end of the session. Be it counselor or Psychologist, just try it once. What’s the harm? The benefit may help far more than you realise. Also, since this is massively long I’d just like to say that you are in no way having a “whining self pity” – you are expressing how you feel. Peace out, may many hugs/beer/dark soul summoning come your way.Idle, rambly workthoughts!
So one of my team approaches me with a number, says this guy has been run around a bit and he wants to talk to me about it. The girl giving me the call notes that he’s really, really mad, and I should be warned in advance.
I know about the issue and I know it’s been fixed (‘know’ = believe, because it’s actually it’s still not, which makes it a damn good thing that I’m typically diplomatic as hell), so I’m ready to get right angry back if need be. Noop. Guy is timid as a mouse. Apologetic even, for reasons I can’t fathom. (Er. Although on reflection it may have been because at some point when he told me what the visiting tech had said, I growled like an animal in frustration). Complete turn-around. I look back to the girl. What the hell?
It’s a pretty common thing, though. Sometimes folks just change their tone completely just from talking to a new person. Reminded me of working in Telstra. We’d get that a lot. Tell them one thing, “That can’t possibly be true because I don’t like it!” Put them on to a supervisor who parrots your exact words to the letter, and it’s, “Oh! Well then, I’m sorry to take up your time.”
Say what you like about the virtues of the elderly, the Greatest Generation could be pretty damn discriminatory, too. At the first sign of hearing anything they didn’t like, anyone over 70 would often ask to speak to a man. Sometimes our girls would just eyeroll and pass to a male consultant because it was a huge no-no to make a big deal about it, but sometimes… heh.
One recalcitrant old dog wasn’t having any of this ‘woman’ stuff, and asked pretty quickly for her to put him on to her supervisor, “Put me on to someone who knows what he’s doing, Miss.” In this case, the supervisor was actually male, but when hearing the reason for being referred to, our team leader laughs and shakes his head, then wanders over to find one of the female supervisors. “Can you pretend to be her supervisor for a moment? This old bastard doesn’t want to talk to her because she’s a woman.”
The female supervisor got a darkly-pleased look and agreed with an evil grin.
Ended up being asked to escalate again, with the manager pulling the same trick, before the old bigot either gave up or had a stroke at the state the world was coming to. We didn’t especially care which.
Women! In charge of things?! UNBELIEVABLE.
Even in the role I was in last year, there were instances of this kind of thinking – from internal clients within government, not just your average Joe Bigot from Bogan Central.
My supervisor at one point was both female and Indian – not technically Indian, actually an Australian citizen for 40yrs, just genetically, with trips back to India every 6 months, so she kept the accent. When I hear news reports about how Australia is considered racist by immigrants, I don’t like hearing it, and intuitively don’t entirely want to believe it, either. But then I only have to think back to that look on my supervisor’s face as she has to hand a call to me from someone who doesn’t believe her, only to repeat the same thing from the position of authority that comes from nothing more than being an Aussie male with a deep’ish voice.
My operations manager and boss are both female. Neither are technically minded, nor know anything about computers. Feel my pain.
also lol @ Bogan Central! Glad I’m not the only person who calls it that! When I don’t still call it Woodridge anyway. Doesn’t matter what you change the damn name to, it’ll still always be Woodridge!
@transientmind
http://www.bogan.nsw.gov.au/
About 2hrs drive for me to get there. Lives up to it’s name, but then again pretty much everywhere out here has it’s fair helping of bogans!
Australians are racist as fuck, more openly than other cultures. BUT, this is only a certain subset of the population – the same subset that is heavily against gays, women, etc. Pretty much a ‘redneck’. Unfortunately, outside of capital cities you’re gonna get a ton of rednecks.
Source: immigrant who was harassed at school by students/staff/principal.
I dunno about ‘more openly’ though. Maybe more openly TO the person they’re racist about?
See, I did some travelling around Asia. And while the folks there weren’t as openly racist to me, one of the things which surprised me is holy crap are they racist about each other – and completely unashamed of it. And we’re talking active discrimination, even, not just talking shit. Indonesian, India, Pakistan, Thai, Malay, Singaporean, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Hong Kong… in Australia that would be just ‘Asian’, but in Asia? It’s a clusterfuck of hatred, distrust, and long, long histories of tribalism. My new relatives over there warned me about things to expect from the countries who hate, hate, hate Australians. And that I’d never know it from talking to them, but might experience it in other ways.
Also, it’s weird how some societies handle racism. Like, my brother visits Japan every now and then, but he has to get friends locally arrange all his affairs for him because there are places that will straight-up refuse service or gouge for triple the local rates or higher, just because he’s a foreigner. If you got caught doing that in Australia, you’d be named and shamed and very likely up for prosecution or a lawsuit, but it’s routine in Japan. That’s why I say that I don’t really want to believe it, and can actually manage it to a degree – because we have laws against that kind of shit, even if the racist attitudes prevail, we don’t let it affect anything that ‘matters.’ Like your employment or rent. (IF that’s your definition of what matters.) Other places? Not so much.
Tricky subject. Lot of moving parts and comparing apples and oranges. Which is worse? Japanese smiling to your face then taking you for a ride and thinking racist thoughts anyway, or Australians spitting in your face and making you feel unwanted, but protecting legal equality? In such cases your definition of ‘worse’ is going to come down to how you feel about things… what you value.
Its is better to be a weasely dishonest shitheel or a straight up honest cockbag? One way or another you get people being arseholes so I’d prefer the honest one personally. At least you know where they stand and can hate them for it rather than be fooled into thinking they might be okay.
One of my friends is from Malaysia but of Chinese descent and from what she’s told me that’s a rather unpopular combination with a notable number of people
Well, I think that’s probably the prevailing atittitude here, which is not shared elsewhere, which is why we’re judged harshly. Because we’re not the same kind of racist they are, and that doesn’t sit right. Shrug.
Yeah, Malaysia’s got a big Indian/Chinese divide. Muslim vs everyone else, too, is apparently a current ‘thing’. Dad lives there half the year now with his new wife, and some of the stories are pretty intense. Racism within the country against their own people is insanely intense compared to here.
Discrimination based on holding the wrong kind of racism? That’s very meta. We don’t take kindly to YOUR type of racist around here… I suppose if that keeps going it could end up as distillation down into the most essential form of othering, “not me”.
So I saw the original Spiderman movie (from 2002) for the first time on Saturday, and I’m cringing as I watch Peter Parker’s performance. The actor is just really bad at acting.
Then I go to the reception part on wikipedia, thinking, surely everyone else thought he was a bad actor…
“The casting is often cited as one of the main points”.
Really?
They were talking exclusively about Willem Dafoe.
*Bruce Campbell
He may not be a great actor, but his personality is very on par with what I’ve always imagined spiderman to be. Perhaps a little too much on the “dumb” side of things in his portrayal, but the rest did suit spidey
I agree that his personality was right, but the way he said his lines…
But yes, he is what I thought Peter Parker would be like.
yeah. some line delivery just didn’t feel like his heart was in it. hence the dumb.. it’s kinda like he wasn’t sure which was was the best. you can read his face as he questions himself “did I do that right?” 😛
I think it got better through the movie though. I’m hoping it’ll be a lot better in number 2.
Spider-man 2 is awesome.
Although, Spiderman 2 has its moments of silliness, it’s the best of the original trilogy by a loooong shot. Actually, since I’m sick, I might just re-watch it.
Well, he was a good Peter Parker but he was a terrible Spidey.
Spidey is meant to sling insults as well as he slings webs. That just wasn’t there at all.
Probably because Bruce Campbell is in it, we all know that’s what made the casting ever so great.
You think he’s bad in number one, wait till you get to number 3.
15,000.
Apparently my first (at least first tracked) was on April 19, 2009. Interestingly enough that is exactly 1800 days ago. Funny how that happens. This means I puke out my stupidity into the comment field on this site 8.3 times a day on average.
Technically it’s probably more during the weekdays when I’m slacking off at work and less during the weekends, but whatever.
All the same… 🙂
Haha, somehow I knew it would be that comic.
I get to slack off even more often because I work on our cluster which means submitting jobs to it, waiting 10-15 minutes and then examining the result.
Jeez the frontman of GWAR was found dead, that sucks. I always liked watching interviews he did. He will be missed amongst the community.
Yeah I just came here to post this…
http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/report-gwar-frontman-dave-brockie-found-dead/
Rest in piece you magnificent bastard!
He was a real down to earth bloke who didn’t buy into bullshit, and I really liked that about him. Also his interviews in character were amazing. Was never into the bands music but I loved their antics on stage and in interviews.
Them doing a rather mental billy ocean cover
Oh god that cover of Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas is just epic.
Holy shit, GWAR playing dance central! I’ve never seen this one
Game things i did on the weekend.
Learnt how to play LoL.
Found out that TowerFall is the best PS4 game! @dc @virus__
If you have 2 or more people playing it 😛Haha. What is this game anyway?
Uhhhh. Sorta like 2D Smash Bros. Except with archery i guess.
One of those games you play with 3 mates over and you all sit within punching distance of each other 🙂
Hmm, don’t think the bloke who commented on my post on Jetstars Facebook page realised I knew what I was commenting about was infact a scam.. Cause he felt the need to tell me it’s a scam. I really wonder why I would be pointing out a fake page to Jetstar that is there to datamine anyone who likes the page, which gives them access to their public info easier.
Also the fact 2 friends who I know to be smarter than this, buy into it depsite me pointing out half a dozen reasons why it’s a fake page with nothing to do with Jetstar :/
Really any page that uses the alpha symbol in place for the letter A, when the brand actually doesn’t, is suspect.
@redartifice @f4ction @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
To give you guys some background, you will all be starting in the merchant port city of Xondol on the southern coast of the continent of Idris. The climate of this city is roughly equivalent to the climate of the Mediterranean around the southern coast of France and most of Italy. The campaign will start in the middle of summer but it won’t be too uncomfortable.
Local government wise, Xondol is run by a combined Merchants and Traders Association (MATA) and most people don’t really have too many problems with how the city is run. Xondol is a hive of activity and opportunity with many magical colleges and engineering schools and various guilds training the youth of tomorrow for the tasks that society needs.
Xondol is prosperous thanks to its overland trade routes to the cities of Vinks and Kralnaact and it being conveniently positioned between a number of the various sea ports around the Talar Sea. It also serves as a melting pot for a number of the different races and cultures for all over Idris, including (but not limited to) Elves, Gnomes, Dwarves, Halflings, Orcs, Goblins, Hobgoblins, and Humans.
I hope that gives you all an idea of how part of the world works and some of the other lore for where you will be starting out.
I’m going to set up a campaign log tumblr – once people have stuff they want to add, let me know
So one of the people on my trip uploaded some photos from it, and I’ve learned something very important. I don’t actually know how to smile.
Oh, also, the Party Beanie was the best thing ever (I even made up a song about it), and the fact that I lost it on the train makes me more or less the worst person ever.
Wait, I take back everything I said, clearly I have the best smile in the world.
…
This is why I don’t like photos. Yet I love shame enough to post them here.
Go figure.
Damn, I scrolled down to this message and didn’t initially see the one above, I was going to complement you on your lovely lilac hat but seeing the other pictures ruined the joke.
Holy crap, Robot Arena 2 is a ton of fun!
Do I even need to put a header on this? You know what’s coming.
Spent tonight clearing the Belfry Sol, trawling the Earthen Peak for items (and interactions) I missed, and unlocking the final bonfire in Iron Keep (even though I’ve already beaten the boss, learning that I’d missed a bonfire rankled… badly). While I was there, I co-opped the Iron King a bunch of times. Co-op gives 10,000 souls each success, and it’s a fun battle.So after all that, I didn’t really have time to play Dark Souls 2 tonight.Yeah, I didn’t have a lot of time to play either tonight. Hell, I only got started at midnight.
And meanwhile, in my Bonfire Ascetic project! Black Gulch.
1st bonfire:
So it turns out there’s no new enemies with your first ascetic burn in Black Gulch. The enemies get a TEENSY bit more health, such that giants take 3x poisonings to die and the creepy shit takes a couple heavy strikes instead of R1s, but there’s nothing more than that. I DID feel like the drop rate on titanite chunks was much, much lower this time around, though. But that could’ve been random chance – 12x full clears isn’t enough to tell, I guess. Interestingly, I got the Soul of a Giant again, which I was not expecting.2nd bonfire:
Does NOTHING to the rest of the area, only respawns the boss. That’s it. Also: Unlike Flexile Sentry in the Wharf, the Rotten does nothing new that I could tell. He does seem to use his charge-up dark attacks a lot more than he did the first time around, but no adds or anything. Interestingly, this time I noticed an additional summon – a hunter guy who used a bow and arrow. I brought both him and Lucatiel, and both survived quite well with me using the tanking ring. I am well on my way to a confirmed 3rd kill with Lucatiel. Just need to hit up the Sinner… A final point on the Rotten. He dropped his regular soul, but also… a NEW soul. An, “Old Dead One Soul,” with some curiously cryptic flavour text.Next stop: Sinner’s Rise. I am not looking forward to burning an ascetic there, the man-scorpion mutants, exploding hollows, and clusters of crossbowmen/greatswords were bad enough the first time around such that I did actually de-populate that area before attempting the boss. If there are red phantoms and the enemies are harder and more aggressive, this could be… challenging.
Follow-up: So, Sinner’s Rise Bonfire Ascetic. Are there red phantoms?
Why yes, yes there are. What type do you think they are? Yes.…
Actually it’s not so bad, there’s only one exploder, the others are the pyromancer halberd mummies.I’ll be honest… I kinda wanna burn ascetics at ALL the bonfires now.
They’re pretty rare in the world, I believe… unless there’s some near-end-game content where they drop. I really want to experiment with ascetics, but I have only one in my inventory :\
I’ll be able to get all the bosses done at least, because I know I can purchase about 20 more. But after that… I’ll be hard-pressed. Would have to make sure I first hit the areas where I know they’re dropped/found.
Bonfire ascetics effectively NG+ the area, which means all the items respawn as well. Apparently there’s a late game area that has multiple bonfire ascetics therefore infinite bonfire ascetics!Yessssssssssssss
Normally, I’d be asleep, but I slept from 5pm til 7:30pm… so I’m really not that tired at the moment…
Actually, scratch that, I’m off to bed.
Night.
*wanders the abandoned streets of TAY*
Hellooooooo?
OH MY GOD
DC WAS RIGHT
POST APOCALYPTIC TAYTHREAD DECAY
BRB STOCKPILING NUKA COLA AND BATTERIES
I NEED BOTTLECAPS!!
My former housemate has a whole vase filled with bottlecaps. I asked him if he thinks they’ll be currency and he just held it close to his chest
One day he will be rich, one day..
I hope he’s not vital to the plot, because I want his vase of bottlecaps.
Don’t forget the tuuuuunes.
*waves* Hi DC. What is happening?
Oooooh! Two people! The makings of a militia/fortified township/cautionary tale!
HEY MAN!
You left out the potential for romance and the ironic difficulties of rebuilding the human race with two gentlemen.
That would fit under the cautionary tale subheading. 😛
Quiet Shane. Let him dream.
Popdart and DC stared sensually into one another’s eyes, but @dc turned away
“It can never work, Popdart, we’re two males”
Popdart reached over, placing his finger on DC’s lips
“shhhhhh. Shhhhhhhh.”
Ehhh, it’s not so difficult once you know what you’re doing. Take two gametes from the different males, ensuring that at most only one of them is a y sperm, and combine them in an egg-like cell you’ve already made to create a zygote. Then it’s just a matter of providing a safe growing environment for it, ensuring that it’s fed, watered, and all that jazz. Boom, too easy. You have a child.
Rinse and repeat for more children.
Realise that the only way for humanity to continue is to have your children breed with one another.
Cry.
Ain’t that a kick in the head!
That doesn’t sound nearly as fun as the traditional method (where someone else does all the real work) 😛
Have you been watching Red Dwarf? You’ll end up with a world full of Rimmers
Oh god a BANDIT! GET IT @dc
I ain’t taking on super mutants! Not yet, anyways!
*tumble weed rolls by closely followed by me*
Waaaaaaait! Someone stop that tumbleweed!
Now I’m imagining you rolling after the tumbleweed in a tumble-like fashion.
Heh.
Let it go man. Tumbleweed are evil.
The tumbleweeds never bothered Nobs anyway.
Alright let me just run after it..and it’s GONE!
I’m learning how to use Visio. I hate it.
Who goes there, friend or foe?
And who on earth would answer Foe??
Six Feet Under is such an amazing show. Rewatching it is a decision that can never be regretted!
Help, Shane has done it again. He has been here many times before.
Looks like he gave up on Fringe.
Lens flares give me headaches.
They all look so young!
It’s kind of crazy – when I started watching this show, I wasn’t much older than Claire. Now I’m almost David’s age. Completely changes the feeling of the show.
Yeah, Nate got old. (On Parenthood. XD)
DECK SOLOS
Ran through Nito 2.0 last night. FOURTH GREAT SOUL EMBRACED.DARK SOULS 2 – post your stats (if you can remember them):
Here’s mine – kind of approximate, but I’m pretty sure they’re all in this vicinity:
SL: 95ish
Jack-of-all-trades, master of none
Vigor (health): 12
Endurance (stamina): 15
Vitality (equip load): 20
Attunement: 10
Strength: 30
Dexterity: 19
Adaptability: 20
Intelligence: 10
Faith: 10
I’ve got a couple of soul vessels now and a bunch of wicked spells, so I’m considering respeccing as a glass cannon mage and just seeing what that’s like.I can’t say that I can recall my long list of stat numbers 😛
From memory I’m 160ish.40 Dex
35 Str
~30 Adp, End, Vit, Vig
And I’m playing sword and board, I’ve used a spell once, and purely for defensive reasons.
Soul level 50Health 11
Endurance 13
Vitality 13
Strength 30
Dexterity 12
Currently wearing the heaviest armour available and wielding mace and tower shield.
I’m considering levelling out all my stats to make use of a mundane stone and seeing how that goes. At SL 175’ish, I’ve got a few points.
Vital stats:
Vigor around 30’ish
End around 35’ish
Str 50
Dex 25’ish
Adaptability 35ish
Loser magic-user stats:
Att 4
Int 3
Faith 6
I am starting to enter ‘getting invaded more’ territory in soul levels, I think. There are less folks taking up my sunbro offers and more invading. Shrine of Amawhatever has been particularly bad for it, it must be the new PVP zone or something, possibly because it has complete asshole NPC enemies the invaders can hide behind.
It’s also possibly because of my win:loss record, which is pretty high. I’ve only been killed once, and it was when I was up and about getting a drink and left myself standing by the bonfire. I was sitting back down on the couch as the guy was attacking and I could’ve fought back but I decided ‘enh fuckit’ and let him have it. I haven’t won many honest fights, though. I’ve been cheaper than a Thai hooker. Everyone who died in Shrine of Amanawhatsit ended up falling to their deaths – some before they even got anywhere near me, others I’ve had sunbros with me about to take a boss, and we’ve triple-teamed them.
All the same, it means I’m doing these ascetic/inheritance runs offline. I died while holding half a million souls the other day when first encountering that pretty hard red phantom with the twin-blade (his shield-break took me by surprise and he hits HARD). I logged out pretty much immediately to go retrieve them, because there’s no fucking way I was going to risk getting invaded and killed on the way to go get them.
Soul Level 55VGR – 7
END – 10
VIT – 12
ATN – 13
STR – 11
DEX – 20
ADP – 10
INT – 6
FTH – 19
Starting class: Deprived
Currently using a falchion and tower shield with medium armour, holding out for a katana and some good light armour. Going for a sought of cleric-ninja build I guess :S
Soul Level: 54Vigor: 15
Endurance: 16
Vitality: 12
Attunement: 4
Strength: 28
Dexterity: 14
Adaptability: 9
Intelligence: 3
Faith: 6
His isolation is confirmation of his desperation for human hugs.
So true, Frozen. So true. :'(
😀
Now regretting not hugging you in Brisbane 😛
I didn’t know. I didn’t knoooooow. I hadn’t seen Frozen! 😛
No one had, Shane. It was a different time.
*Manly man hugs*?
Is there any other kind?
Big pillowly Meatloaf hugs?
When you say meatloaf, is this the food or the singer?
Maybe both. Probably just one of them.
if you want a man hug man, just ask for it 😛
*hugs*
*more hugs*
*awkward moment*
*takes 3 steps back*
I’d give you a big man hug if I could 😛 I’ve been told I give good hugs!
Had an AWESOME time playing Titanfall with @Phlanispo @Rize @Cakesmith @morkai and my brother in law, UnLoyaL with some GOLDEN moments.
So this enemy pilot, thinking he’s in the clear, decides its a good idea to drop his Titan. Meanwhile, @Rize, UnLoyaL, and I are coming from around the corner looking at this pilot running up to his Titan.
So while this guy is getting into his Titan, weve all surrounded him in a circle, barely 2 metres away from him, preparing to unleash hell on him.
we waited for the titans drop shield to deactivate, and without over exagerrating, the guys Titan lasted barely ONE SECOND. I have NEVER seen a Titan go down so fast….
I can imagine his face the moment his screen came online, looking at 4 titans surrounding him…
Still laughing about it 12 hours later \o/
Thanks for the games guys, jumping back on tonight for whoever is interested! It was awesome having a full team.
@Phlanispo you totally need a mic, i felt terrible neglecting you in the chat cause we were all on TeamSpeak!
Was this PC or the one?
Master race.
I support this
all hail the MASTER RACE.
He should get a mic and not use it like this other guy I know…
does he live on various reflective surface and appears to always be there to greet you???
also did any that dll solve your Psychonuts woes?
Nope :(. Turns out I downloaded that same file earlier yesterday from another site and that actually causes an error message to pop up which stops the game from launching.
It seems to work once every 7 or so times I open it so I just keep restarting it until it doesn’t crash and play for as long as I can (although it gets progressively worse the more I keep playing) :(.
I think I’m about 65% through the main story anyway so hopefully I’ll be able to finish it.
There were many memorable moments. Remember when I punched that titan off a cliff? Good times. A shame I didn’t activate shadowplay. I was unable to capture my victories, but I was able to capture my horrible, horrible losses.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1jkn00_titanfall-the-building-jumped-in-front-of-me-officer_videogames
I thought it was wise to walk straight into 2 Titans, Wisdom is a funny thing. I thought I was able to salvage my loss. I was almost right. Alas, it was not meant to be. That accursed building, accomplice to the IMC, foiled my plans of redemption.
The first Phlanispo video I elected to not keep private!
This is the kind of thing shadowplay was made for everyone run it damnit!
If you’re interested @phlanispo, I have a Logitech usb clearchat headset sitting here gathering dust since I bought myself a set of steelseries 7h’s (which have a shit mic so I may be replacing those too). I’m probably never going to use them again if you want them.
I don’t think I can accept. This same message applies to @crazyguy1990, after he offered me a USB sound card. After the Skullgirls situation, I don’t think I can accept any gifts from TAYbies. Since aliasalpha probably doesn’t understand/remember what I am referring to:
Crazyguy1990 gifted me Skullgirls, and my mother freaked out. She was worried that I was receiving stuff from random people over the internet. I tried to explain what TAY was, but I probably didn’t do a good job. I sent her a link to TAY so she could look at it herself, but she probably ignored it, as she never brought it up again. I know that if I get anything from TAYbies, I am probably in for an awkward conversation.
The other reason I can’t accept your gifts is my own sense of guilt. If I receive a gift, I am going to feel indebted. I will not be able to shake it off my conscience.
Also, crazyguy1990, I don’t even know what a USB sound card is 😛
Ooh yes I remember you mentioning that now.
If you can afford it these phones would be a hell of a good buy for the price. A few days ago I had a quick go of the PC360s which are a model or two up and they’re simply spectacular.
The Logitech G130s on the same site would be a good cheaper set, $40 for ones that have a pretty good rep
A USB sound card is basically just a thumbdrive with a mic in and speaker out, works as a sound card in much the same way an internal card does
The card I’m trying to get rid of is a PCI (Internal) Card.
A USB one would be like a PCI card, but connects externally via USB, rather than require opening up the computer and inserting a card into the PCI-Express slot.
METAL GEAR DISCUSSION!!!
So I played through the Ground Zeroes mission of Ground Zeroes and have come to the following, non spoiler conclusions.
Hayter is gone. 100%. If he comes back, it won’t be a big Kojima’d moment, it’ll be because Sutherland doesn’t stand out enough. Don’t take that as me saying Sutherland is bad, the opposite, it’s just that every other voice actor is a veteran of the series so they’re doing the usual over dramatic delivery while Sutherland is, you know, just acting. And it sounds odd.
If Kojima wanted Sutherland to bring subtlety to the series, he needs to replace his entire cast because it didn’t work.
The story is the usual Metal Gear nonsense and the ending is dumb. Like, super dumb. The entire end cut scene is basically a lets play of what could’ve been a really fun piece of gameplay. But then there’s a moment where something is heavily insinuated that is just completely unnecessary. It’s like no one reads the scripts before it’s too late because a small tweak to one line, while not making it any less silly, would’ve made it a lot more… mature? I guess?
Look, here’s what I mean
Paz wakes up and is like. “Snake! There’s a bomb!” And Sutherland subtly replies, “Don’t worry Paz, we got it.” She then says, “No. There’s another one… in… my…” and then jumps out door of the helicopter. She meant vagina, right? It’s like Kojima watched the Snook episode of South Park and was all, “Dang, that’d make a good plot device for a video game.” And the solution was so simple. Just have Paz say “Snake… There were two…” HOLY SHIT! SO MUCH BETTER! And talk about subtle!When there is gameplay, though, it’s wonderful. But that shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone. Some odd things are missing (or I just couldn’t figure them out) like sticking to cover, knocking on walls (!) and being able to crawl to an edge and then hang.
There’s heaps more I wanna talk about but I’ve got an uber amount of work to do.
Love,
Dan
P.S. It sounds like I didn’t like it but I did. A whole heap.
Your second paragraph made me all 🙁
Who’s gonna hold the True Believer line with me now?
He’s gotta be gone, man. I just can’t see how it’s gonna work story-wise. Unless he pulls some La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo shit on us and is all “Lol, Ground Zeroes is a training program!”
I hope I’m proven wrong because Sutherland has proven he’s too good to be in Metal Gear.
You’re probably right, but I can remain firmly in denial by not playing this game. Logical or not, right or not, I’m still expecting “Kept you waiting, huh?” to be one of the first lines in Phantom Pain.
Haha, it’s the first line in Ground Zeroes!
NO KIEFER, YOU DID NOT KEEP ME WAITING >:(
If I had to guess, Hayter could return as Solid Snake. But how old does that make him in 1984? Too young perhaps?
Shit, he’s twelve. There goes that.
And now I’m imagining a twelve year old saying Metal Gear?!
Don’t forget the rapid aging of the clones.
I thought that was FOX-DIE related?
Me too.
They’re aged rapidly from birth. Werner Syndrome, or whatever. I dunno, but I’m pretty sure they reach adulthood early so they can defend themselves or something.
Actually it’s explained in MSG4 that
When Snake was being created by the Patriots, they wrote accelerated aging into his genes as a fail-safe against him falling into enemy hands or turning against them (which he ended up doing).Interesting. I haven’t played 4 yet, but I seem to recall something about them reaching adulthood early, but maybe I’ve got my wires crossed.
So he wouldn’t have even been born in 1984… would that be right?
First Metal Gear is set in 1995, and Snake is the Rookie of the FOXHOUND unit- but it’s still special forces. At a guess, he’d be somewhere early-to-mid 20s.
Looked it up. Apparently his official birthday is somewhere around 1972.
I’ll be honest. Sutherland has a great voice. Really great. He should have been Big Boss from the get go – like MGS3 get go.
But I still don’t think he would’ve fit.
It’s unfair to single out Hayter as being the weak link when the entire supporting cast is as, or in the case of people like Raiden, more over the top.
The part at the end where Miller is screaming “Wake up, bitch! Dammit, bitch! Wake up you damn, bitch.” was laughable.
Yeah that bit was pretty out of place. Hayter is not the weak link at all – he embodies Solid Snake for me personally. It’s just the Metal Gear story has kinda transitioned away from Solid Snake and is now about Big Boss’ endeavors.
Ending cutscene:
“THEY PLAYED US LIKE A FIDDLE!!!” :/ – I also picked up the controller again hoping we’d at least be able to take control of that shootout but apparently not…I still really enjoyed it though and the other missions added a decent amount of game time.
I couldn’t believe we didn’t get to play that ending.
It’s funny, we got Sutherland, who’s meant to be a subdued hayter, opposite Kaz, who’s performance in the MGS series is the most cheesiest and heated I’ve seen his voice actor Robin Atkin Downes (And dude has had a lot of roles, including over-the-top assassin Travis Touchdown.) I still like Sutherland in the end, though.
Also there was rape. I mean, not in the game directly, but if you read through the logs you collect through the game, hoo hoo hoo hoo boy.Wait, are you saying they removed the alert tone to ‘!’ ?
Ha, I literally learnt who Paz was a few days ago when starting Peacewalker but wow…cant really make sense of that.
No, no, the (!) is still there but the ability to knock on walls is gone.
Yeah, the whole Paz thing is weird.
Oh whew, I would have been gutted if both Hayter and the ! was gone…might as well have been another game.
I’m hoping Kojima is sitting behind his desk chuckling like a diabolic fiend and that this is all part of his plan to will blow us out of the water with Phantom Pain. But the direction and themes I’ve heard about are confusing me.
Mainly the snuke in Paz’s sniz and mentions of rape.Dearest Tay, may i please have some dark souls 2 help?
I have no idea where to go next….
Spoilers beware if youre not too far in.
I beat the old iron king and lit the third bonfire… now i have no idea where to go. Any suggestions would be amazing.DOGS MOLES
Where’s that? 😛
As I understand it, the four great souls are:
1. Iron Keep (I’ve done this one)2. Just past the Lost Bastille (done this one too)
3. Under the well in town
4. Through the Shaded Wood, the entrance to which is right near the Things Betwixt/Majula entrance, to Brightstone Cove Tseldora
MAP:
http://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/file/view/DS2map1.jpgI forgot about the well!
thankyou!
SELECT, RIGHT, RIGHT, A *BOW*
Have you gone through the Shaded Woods yet? Should have a fragrant branch by now to de-petrify the statue chick standing in the way of the door lever there. That’ll take you to some fun places.
Actual spoiler, advance warning for if/when you do this:
Heads-up: Don’t open the door next to her until you’ve exhausted her dialogue and reset things so that she leaves. Monsters pop out of cupboards and murder her if you open the door while she’s still there.Oh god….
I may have got her murdered.Oops. If it helps,
I’ve read that you can resurrect her as a ghost somehow. Not sure how or where, but that should apparently give you access to her services. But makes her a very folorn little spirit.Now that i remember it, when i went that way…
She just stood there like a doofus while i got pummeled. shes still alive and kicking in the shitty armour i gave her. 😀Man, today is incredibly slow on TAY.
LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
For The First Time in Forever — Frozen OST
An Innocent Man – Billy Joel
Uh.. Let Me Put My Love into You – AC/DC.
Let me put my love into you, DC.
Human contact! Yessssss! 😀
The World Has Turned And Left Me Here – Weezer
Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl- Broken Social Scene
Jonathan Coulton – Je Suis Rick Springfield
Get Lucky [Ft. Pharrell Williams] – Daft Punk
I love how Daft Punk had Nile Rogers to play on the song, too. He’s a great player. I mostly know about him from his work with Bowie in the 80’s.
Lets Dance is a great album. Bowie’s last good 80s album.
I’m inclined to agree with that, because I feel that is very true. Even if Bowie released some good songs after that album, but not an entire good album. & Cat People is one of my favourite Bowie songs, I always loved how Tarantino used it in Inglorious Basterds.
To be fair, Tonight and especially Never Let Me Down are Bowie’s hands-down worst. Even he hates them.
Dear Science – Seth Sentry
Alien Girl-Kendrick Lamar.
CVRCHES – Lies.
I’m working my way through the latest JJJ Hottest 100 youtube playlist.
Except for the Kanye West stuff. No-ping and skipping those.
Gwar’s gloriously mental cover of Kansas’ “Carry On Wayward Son”
RIP Oderus… The world is darker and less funny for your passing.
Solid Air – Nero
I’d link to it cause its a really good song, but I can’t, so look it up!
Well, my computer speakers have officially stopped working. The headphone jack on my computer doesn’t seem to work, and hasn’t for months. I am officially screwed.
EDIT: Grammar
No wait, I just had the computer set to mute. But seriously, my speakers have been slowly dying since January. This scare brought to light how screwed I would be if they were to fail.
I’m glad we all got through this… together. 😀
Time to buy some new speakers in preparation for that dark day
I’m guessing this is possibly a laptop, so that may be an invalid point you’re making there 😛
No, a full gaming PC.
Oh, that sucks..
Is it? I would have thought it’s a bit of a relief. At least he can do something about it 😛
Could get a USB soundcard!
I have an old sound card that I no longer need, in full working condition.
It’s yours if you want it.
Ladies and Gentlemen… how not to HTML:
http://www.sewingandembroiderywarehouse.com/embtrb.htm
WHAT.
Right-click > View Source.
*starts to faint*
*just before I black out* …. is…. is that… Microsoft Front Page 5.0 … ?
*thud*
I remember making one of my first websites in frontpage.. What a glorious piece of shit that program was!
When HTML was new, one of the families in town decided to make a burgeoning startup designing web-pages (which no-one knew to access or had the ability to access) for local businesses to improve their web-presence. Which, in those days, no-one knew they needed to have. (Or actually needed to have.)
So this mother and father taught all of us kids in their daughter’s circle of friends how to code in HTML, and earn cash by designing web-sites, taking photos and scanning them, graphic editing, etc.
In those days, Frontpage was some glorious new beacon of advanced technology to those of us who’d been writing our HTML code by hand, but I never liked the amount of useless meta in their pages.
HTML has had the single best tool for editing since it was invented, notepad.exe!
It’s no Notepad++ 😛
This is true but at its heart, notepad++ is just notepad taken to its natural apex of awesome.
Hahaha, awesome. The last thing I was able to read (at 25% zoom) was “have to use”
This is fantastic. They know doing that fine needle work hurts your eyes so the longer it goes they make it easier to read.
My poor eyes.
Yikes.
THIS IS WHY WE CLOSE TAGS PEOPLE
I love how everything just gradually gets bigger.. I’d like to think this was done as a joke..
Welcome to my life. It seems next to nobody in the sewing and quilting world knows how to make a website. I’m lucky if any of the shops have a website or an online store, and even luckier if the store actually is usable or readable. Late last year I was trying to find out if any of the Brisbane stores sell Aurifil thread and actually had to resort to using the phone. D:
When I was planning my recent Miami trip I tried to find patchwork shops to visit but nobody had websites for their stores and even lists I found of top stores in the area included ones that had been shut for years. I took a cab to what was supposed to be the location of one of the best but it was very obviously not there and the cab driver refused to let me get out and look because the area was so bad.
Edit: shame that page is so horrifically messed up, it’s solid advice.
Well, once you get your site up…
The worst offender is (small) restaurants. I want to look at your menu before I go somewhere new, people!
Manufacturing companies are a mixed bag, but when they’re bad, they’re bad.
It looks okay in IE8.
#smug?
At least it’s responsive for mobiles?
Until the font gets too big to display on the screen, anyway…
If you hold down the page down key long enough, it begins to mimic the ye-olde-start of a movie countdown thing.
…ok, I don’t know what I’m saying, but do it and you’ll understand.
Hooray! The Aurochs win the tournament! I’d just about given up on it but apparently Wakka is much better at Bitzball then Tidus.
Nobody’s better than Tidus once he masters the Jecht Shot.
I didn’t managed to get him to level 3 so he couldn’t use it 🙁
Make sure you recruit Biggs and Wedge- the guards outside the stadium. They’re great.
I remember restarting my game so I could recruit those two amigos 😉
Hooray! I went back and they are still there. How does this work exactly? should I just hire them for as many games as I can afford?
Ohh nice, i wish i could tell you mate, it’s been too long since I’ve played 🙁
Hit square?
They get really good- from memory one becomes a shit-hot goalie.
I’m wishing I’d read this earlier.
OMG! I was doing this too earlier this morning. I’ve never won that game in all my plays but I was determined to win this time. It took a few restarts though which kinda takes away from the legitimacy of my win but… WHATEVS! I WON!
In mine the other team scored a goal without as soon as the game started me having any chance to stop it…
stupid blitzball
Yeah that happened to me as well… so unfair when they start with the ball then immediately shoot and score… WTF! (luckily it just tied up my game but forced the overtime D: )
I managed to win in my original. I got lucky and got Tidus close to their goal really early with no defense near by. Then just kept passing the ball around my team playing keep away for the next four and a half minutes or so.
This time I was loosing horribly with them scoring right off the bat and then holding the ball most of the first half. I managed to get their main player to level 6 and each one of his stats became better then the best stat of any single one of my characters.
Wakka scored with about 20 seconds to go and tied the score 1-1 and then I managed to win in overtime.
😐 I just got linked to a cover of Carry On Wayward Son originally by Kansas, the band covering it was apparently a Christian Metal band, the part I found horrible was the autotune used on the vocals. What I can guess was used to attempt to achieve the harmony the original song had, that was different..
GWAR is better
I thought I’d share this story with TAY:
My sister and my mother got into an argument yesterday. She confiscated her phone. The thing is, her phone was her alarm. She woke up an hour later than usual. I have gotten into the annoying habit of relying upon other people to wake me up rather than setting my own alarm. At 0822h, my sister woke me up. I remember waking up, looking at my clock, and saying, and I quote; “Are you serious!? Is that the time?”
A rational human being would hastily get ready, in the hope of getting to session (period) 2 in time. My sister adopted the attitude of “since I’m already going to be late, I may as well go later.”
My sister called my mother in an angry fit. She recommended going to school just in time for recess. My mother then said I had to go to school at the same time as my sister. I could’ve got to school in time for mathematics, but my sister wanted to go later, so I was forced to agree.
I am rather pissed off. I am in year 12. I can’t afford to miss any classes. If I get sick for a day, the rest of week is spent struggling to keep up.
Sucks man. If it’s any consolation, there are supplementary classes you can do in school holidays to bed year 12 stuff down- helped me get my Euler’s law stuff down.
Also, FWIW, first semester university mathematics is a retread of year 12.
Totally.
Also, if you have a history oral relating to the 1960’s and you “forgot” to write it, just get up and confidently talk about Scooby-Doo and how it was a brilliant deconstruction of the youth movement and teenage discovery of the era.
Worked for me.
Man, I winged so many presentations at both HS and Uni.
Being on the debating team was a wonderful skill to learn.
I can’t believe the shit I got away with thanks to skills like that.
Even today I can construct an argument and self reference it on the fly.
I was on the debating team too, but I couldn’t wing anything.
I once had to present some work I’d done, and figured I could just talk off the cuff. Despite actually having done the work, my ‘presentation’ almost caused me to fail the entire class 😛
I got good at HS, I got better at Uni. My last two years I co-coached the debating team at Uni Hall.
I want to hear more about this.
Dude, I can barely remember what I said.
But it went down a treat.
There is no way I’d be going to school if I was told “Just go at recess.”
Also recess? What happened to little lunch? You kids and your eagerness to grow up…
Might be a state thing, but it’s recess at every school I ever went to.
Also, it’s reception, not prep.
State of mind, maybe.
Little Lunch For Life!!!
It was little lunch when I was in primary school, recess when I was in high school.
Around here one of the schools abolished recess in favour for lunch at like 11 or something for an hour then a small 20 min break at like 2 for the kids.. My mate who worked there said it worked well for the kids apparently.
It was Morning Tea for me in Brissy, Recess in the ACT.
Also, what the hell are either reception, or prep?
Students in the year after kindergarten and before year 1. First year of school.
That’s Kindergarten.
The thing you do before you’re at school is Preschool.
You can imagine my confusion from when I went to Kindergarten when I was little in Brisbane, then went to Preschool there, and had one and three-quarter years at school (so I was most of the way through Year 2), moved down to Canberra to be in Grade 1, where I was a year older than the Kindy kids.
You mean pre-primary?
Prep is QLD’s equivalent of NSW’s Kindergarten.
Probably should set your own alarm, huh?
Yeah…
http://alarm.en.softonic.com/ I used to use that before I transitioned over to using a phone with an annoying noise (the down side of this being needing to have your PC on but newer versions might be able to wake it from standby). The best part is that that program lets you play any MP3 as an alarm sound. I used to use the Diablo song The Preacher, that damn sure woke me up.
My morning routine started with AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT????? Oh it’s kick arse metal! AWESOME!
I wonder just how many people still use a clock radio for an alarm…
It’s probably just me.
I use one for when I ignore the three alarms on my phone and an going to be late.
Funny, I use my phone alarm (which uses a recording of the DS alarm – only alarm sound guaranteed to penetrate the sleep barrier for me) as a backup for the radio when I absolutely need to get up 😛
Metal Gear people- I know the HD collection had Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 on it, are they part of the MGS3 HD release or are they seperately on the disc? Thinking of going back and playing them and I want to know if I have to go buy the physical disc or if I can just get 3 HD off the PSN
Via MGS3, I believe.
Sweet. METAL GEAR!
I think it’s physical release only unfortunately.
Checked it on the PS store, product description says it’s in 🙂
God dammit don’t tell me that!
I’m on a Metal Gear kick. Once I finish PW and GZ, I’m going to finish my runs on original MGS and MGS 4.
Coincidentally, I’m in the room where you fight RAY in both of them- fighting RAY in one and all of the Gekkos in the other.
If you have a NES I have Snakes Revenge, I think I read somewhere that it was made after Metal Gear but isn’t the true sequel.
yeah, that’s the bastard stepchild of the series made without Kojima.
I don’t have a NES- never owned a Nintendo plug-in-to-the-TV console 🙂
How do you live?? D:
@mrtaco playing Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid, duh.
We didn’t get a PSX till I was 13.
If you call that living 😛
@mrtaco shut up and get Twitter already >:|
😛So Diablo RoS is out today. I reckon that along with the original collector’s, these two games have arguably the best packaging that I’m aware of.
Every Blizzard game has epic packaging. Their boxes are always nice.
I still have my Warcraft 2, Diablo 1 & 2 boxes. And manuals. OH GOD THE MANUALS.
I swear to God a huge part of how I learned how to draw is thanks to the concept scribbles in those manuals by Metzen and Samwise.
Jesus Christ, you can draw too? Is there anything you can’t do?
Edit: Wait, I might have known this. Gotta Go Fast competition…? Guess I’d suppressed it for some emotionally healthy reason.Not to mention the post-it drawings that his work mates steal cause they’re art. ART.
I don’t remember any ‘Gotta Go Fast’ competition. I won some competitions in school, and did some commissions, but the only one of national note was probably the ‘Australia Remembers’ ones, where I did the line-art design which was to be used as a template for some big schools-based colouring competition. 50th anniversary in 1995 I think. Apparently a poem too, though I can’t for the life of me find it. Mum’s probably got it stowed somewhere at her place.
Man… when I was a kid, I was always out there ‘accomplishing’ shit. Can barely remember any of it now. Haven’t done anything particularly special or of note, since. Kind of the definition of wasted potential, I guess. 🙂
Yeah, I should have trusted my first instinct. It wasn’t you in the Gotta Go Fast comp 😛
MANUALS! I think the last WoW xpac I bought had those things!
Oh man, same. I remember trying to draw the rogue from the Diablo 1 manual. What an awesome drawing.
The one I loved best was the hooded angel with the sword.
I honestly routinely consider getting that as a tattoo on my right deltoid.
Oh oh oh and these came with art books. ART BOOKS! 😀
I love art books. The Witcher 2 had arguably the best one (that came with a game) and the Mass Effect one was awesome.
Do you have some online work you can link us to?
Not in any organized fashion, but if you jump into an old dump folder of mine at http://www.urbanstray.com/images/ you’ll find a bunch of doodles, arts, photos, and things I liked stored.
You want to talk manuals?
Infocom had the best manuals and pack-in stuff. The Zork games especially Zork Zero were hilarious, and I still remember some of the bad jokes from the multiple choice questionnaire for joining the Stellar Patrol from Planetfall.
(I suspect this will appeal to @shane)
2nd page: http://gallery.guetech.org/planetfall/stellar9.jpg
“Do you smoke?”
* Never looked.
That whole thing is awesome! Thanks for the tag.
Bravely Default’s CE had really really nice packaging. I don’t get a lot of CEs any more so can’t think of anything else specifically that was nice, but in general Squenix does a good job.
I have a vague recollection of having or seeing something from Japan that had amazingly good packaging but I can’t remember what it was at all.
but in general Squenix does a good jobThe FF XIII was the worst collector’s I ever got. Mega overpriced and the content was crap. 🙁
I had that one too. Emphasis on had.
I don’t think I could pay someone to take if off my hands. Biggest waste of $140… and I won’t even mention my disappointment in that game.
$140…!
I paid $19 for my FFXIII CE just three months after release… and I still felt a little disappointed 😛
Worst game purchase I ever made. Ever.
I’ve made worse purchases, myself.
I actually quite enjoyed the combat. The story was pretty much balls, though 😛
if it makes you feel better, for some retarded reason I decided to get COD: Ghosts CE with the stupid not Go Pro sniper scope camera on PS4 for like a billion monies, I’ve played about an hour of the game and hated every second of the putrid pile of puke that they’re passing off as a game.
I also got the spensive FF XIII CE but at least i put in a lot of time and got a platinum.
XIII-2’s was good though. The proper one at least. Came with the complete soundtrack on 4 CDs among other things.
All you needed to say.
This isn’t bad. It’s missing the Witcher 2 though which was cool and a bunch of other nice ones:
http://www.cheatcc.com/extra/worstandbest_collectorseditions2.html
The original Witcher CE came with an incredibly well-done artbook in an age where artbook pack-ins were unheard of, let alone good ones.
I saw the Bravely Default CE at Jimu’s on Friday night and nearly exploded, holy hell that thing is amazing, what a champion @blaghman is for letting jimu have his.
What is wrong with people who flat out refuse to use a Mac (RUNNING WINDOWS) just because it’s Apple? The amount of times I hear smug snickers and laughs every time somebody even so much as suggests the slight possibility of using a Mac here at uni is ridiculous. Get over it, please. :/
Urgh. I want nothing more than to drop computing for business. I cannot stand being round computing students.
I remember there was a time when using the alternative Mac was the cool and edgy thing to do. XD
It probably would still be in any other department at uni 😛
You can tell that their justifications for MAC-hatred are worth shit if they refuse to use the hardware running Windows. …Although the Magic Mouse is total trash, but usable for short periods I guess.
They even have Microsoft mice hooked up to them! 😛 (Which is actually kinda annoying in the Mac labs actually running OSX and not Windows)
Wait it is? I haven’t used a Mac with a physical mouse in about 6 years, but when I did a normal mouse was far superior to the apple mighty mouse of the time.
Yeah, I’m interested to see how a normal mouse can be annoying on OSX too.
I can’t for the life of me get the pointer speed to go anywhere near as high as I’d like it to on the crappy mice they have hooked up to them in OSX. Nothing wrong with it other than that.
The mouse would have to have a DPI of like 200 to be that pathetic & Microsoft mice are actually pretty awesome when we had them in school they were easily the most solidly built mouse and always worked and tracked great. You sure the settings aren’t turned down in OSX? 😛
No chiclet keyboards for me thx.
The one time I bought my Macbook to work for something, I was told to get that ‘traitorous piece of filth’ out of the building.
I think the person who said that was joking though. There’s very little on the market that is as well-built and well-speced as a good Macbook Pro. Everyone compromises on something. Only thing that seems on par is the new Razer Blade 14.
https://twitter.com/dkzeitgeist/status/446556999384190976
Yeah I got no words for people like that. A windows based laptop still has the same (or similar components) they’re all PC’s in the end anyway. People are dicks.
Actually, after poking at the folder myself… Hey! Any TAYbies want a fun exercise, guess the ten movies the stills in the http://www.urbanstray.com/images/scene-it/ folder are from. Some of them have multiple images for the movie on account of proving too difficult to guess at the time. Some are definite soft-balls.
Edit: Actually, 11 movies. They go from 0 to 10. 😛
I got
Flight of the Navigator, Taken, Scott Pilgrim and CollateralWell done! You would be correct on those four. 🙂
I got
none of them! \o/Not even the soft-balls.
🙁We do Friday trivia at work, I was thinking of grabbing a few more like these and using it for this week’s. 😛 But now…
You still should! My two weaknesses (my only weaknesses) are trivia and experience with movies.
Oh man, that was bad. Looking at the first three I was just like “I KNOW THESE BUT I DON’T KNOW THESE. Thankfully 5a made it super obvious (Easy A), and 9 is Chronicle, I assume.Yes. 5 is the best movie of all time. And 9 was NOT in fact Chronicle! I’ll post the answers when I get home tonight and tag ye. 🙂
Man, I loved Easy A. Was so much better than I was expecting.
00 is incredibly familiar to me but I can’t place it. Pretty sure it’s from a late 70s or 80s SF film. I initially wanted to say Logan’s Run but that’s not right.NFI on the others except 02 is Flight of the Navigator.
I don’t watch many films 🙁
Really far off on the first, spot on for the other. 🙂
I know I’m miles off on the first because I know I recognize it but I don’t know where I recognize it from.
I’m not sure of any of them, sadly.
\o
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o/*\o
I’m so bad at this game.
That first one reminds me 2001: A Space Odyssey & its sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact. No idea why though.
I got:
Toys
Uh… I should know this, but I don’t. Footloose?
Flight of the Navigator (AKA One of the greatest films of all time)
Taken
I don’t know… Have I seen that? Fanboys?
Easy A
No idea
Red
Dunno
Hancock? Chronicle? Hancock.
Collateral
Well done! Most of them! Answers are further down the page.
Damn, I only got
Toys. But that one with the eye is annoyingly familiar too. And the frying pan one made me think Lord of War for some reason, but I have no idea if that’s right.Answers are further down the page. 🙂
Help, I’ve fallen down a hole and can’t get out:
http://strategyandtacticsmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ST274-p22-27.pdf
We’re sending our love down the well
(DOWN THAT WELL…!)
Dark Souls 2
I think I’ve accidently stooped into the ideal pvp level, anyone realize when you reach around 150SL the invasions start to pick up?DERB SOOMS
@transientmind noticed a similar thing, I think.
Yerp. I started getting invaded more probably around the 155 mark. Some of it was in between chaining jolly cooperations, but the majority of it was while making my way through enemy-infested areas to kill those areas’ bosses. So they were mighty inconvenient, and I would immediately go run and hide or find somewhere truly evil to get to and snipe them with the greatbow or heavy crossbow to knock them off things or poison them, while hiding behind a 92% resist-magic havel-shield. Because I’m kind of an asshole like that and red phantoms can [REDACTED – wow. I disgusted even myself there] for all I care.
I was cool with the occasional interruption to keep things interesting, but it’s definitely stepped up as I’ve hit the 170 mark. So I’ve gone offline again, because I only have so much patience for people breaking my flow because they want to PVP even if I don’t. Kinda like going out with people who always choose the restaurant you hate, you stop hanging out with them after a while because seriously, fuck those guys, what about what I want?
Yeah, once I get into NG+ I’m probably just gonna unplug my ps3.
What platform are people getting Trials Fusion on?
I’ll probably be going for PC but one of my favourite aspects of Trials Evolution was being able to compete against like 40 TAYbies when the game first launched on 360. I wasn’t particularly good at Trials HD, but seeing all those names just ahead of me in the Evolution leaderboards was a great motivator for me to get better… and I did 🙂
Stupid @sughly and @fatshadylive were out of my reach but I did manage to beat @markserrels and secure a high spot on the TAY leaderboards 😀
Since this one is launching multiplatform most of that thrill will be gone which is a huge bummer for me :(, but at least more people get to experience Trials 😀
Tree siddy! Means I’m going to have to get gold sub again I guess
PS4 for this cool dude.
Also I will be getting it on PS4.
You thought I was the cool dude?
That’s sweet but no…
(Taggin’ @sughly so he doesn’t miss my humorous jokes)
PEE SEE!
(Elitist master race etc…)
Ill have it on everything I believe
At least pc and xbone. Will get a ps4 shortly. Not sure what ill play most?
First part of my Canadian Visa has been approved. Good news for me, eh?
🙂
Canada seems to be TAY’s favourite country.
Bacon, pancakes, and an excuse to stay indoors. Of course it is!
Bacon pancakes, now that’s an idea.
not in the pancakes.
WITH the pancakes. And with a hash brown and some scrambled eggs
Dude, bacon strips IN pancakes is boss. You also top it with maple syrup.
BRB, buying Bacon.
No seriously, thinking of Bacon something for tea.
Bacon wrapped chicken thighs stuffed with semi dried tomatoes and basil with grilled asparagus on the side with garlic butter.
Now I want that for dinner :'(
@liondrive going Bacon, zucchini and Lemon pasta.
….is it breakfast yet?
Corn & bacon pancakes are awesome, mix corn into pancake batter, rough chop bacon & fry it in a pan, separate the pieces into a few groups and pour batter over them.
That sound like something i must try.
Cheese is a good addition but can get a bit sloppy if you use too much, onion also works but the more solid bits you add the weaker the pancake structure becomes. Dried onion flakes might work better than diced onion
Along with maple syrup & a sport so violent it could cut your throat! Plus Canadian wimmins are pretty gorgeous from my experience.
I finish at 4 today cause i started early, i was gonna pick up Diablo expansion and play but i start at 4;30 tomorrow morning so probably a bad idea. I haven’t played many games this last 2 months. Ever since i unistalled LoL i haven’t really had the urge to game. I guess i played some vita for a while but i havent played a game on my PC for ages. sigh
Grab it anyway, just set a timer and actually make sure you abide by it
Ugh. I woke at 12:30, but somehow/for some reason fell straight back to sleep, and only just now woke after a series of increasingly ridiculous/intense dreams and now I feel completely exhausted and like total crap. Why.
*slump*
I get those vivid dreams time to time as well. I remember there was one dream where I was running away from zombies and I woke up feeling like I’d run a few kilometres. 🙁
I know how that feels, I’ve had some crazy introspective dreams, and dreams of past horrible relationships. I need sleep and I dont want to at the same time. I hope those dreams get better man 🙂
This one had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys in it. I don’t know that they can get much better.
in that case, thats a pretty awesome 🙂
Eat less cheese before sleeping.
*scribbles notes* Learn to throw up/produce cheese before bed… got it.
Produce cheese? Are you lactating?
Not yet, but I’ll have to if I’m going to have a negative cheese consumption.
Awh man, I totally expected these to be blitzed inside ten minutes. OK,
@redartifice, @shane, @blaghman, @negativezero, @powalen, @benny @virus__ – the answers to what the movies were in http://urbanstray.com/images/scene-it/
Pic 0: TOYS (1992) The ‘fake vomit’ scene. Seriously high-tech business, that.
Pic 1: MacGruber (2010) Not getting this is worthy of respect.
Pic 2: Flight of the Navigator (1986) Not surprised folks were able to get this.
Pic 3: Taken (2008) Dad with his carefully-selected gift for his baby girl. …Not a pony.
Pic 4: 17 Again (2009) Multiple shots because obviously no-one else in the world saw this but me.
Pic 5: Easy A (2010) Best movie ever, and the parents are a big part of that. I love this guy, he’s rad.
Pic 6: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) Dude lost in the woods. Surely not many movies do their woods as cardboard pop-up cutouts, right?
Pic 7: Red (2010) BRUCE WILLIS DAMMIT! The bullets in the frying pan? Come on!
Pic 8: Scott Pilgrim vs the World (2010) Don’t think I’d have gone through quite as much for that chick, but she was definitely pretty worthy.
Pic 9: Hancock (2008) A good example of why no-one really wants superheroes. I would still totally be That Guy.
Pic 10: Collateral (2004) Yo homie, is that my briefcase? One of my top ten movie scenes of all time. Tom Cruise is my role model in this.
Ah, I’ve only seen two of those
Taken and Collateral.That would be why.I’m happy that other than Red I got all the ones I’ve seen.
And Collateral is the bomb. Tom Cruise’s finest work.
Kind of surprised I missed #8, but other than that I think I got every one I’ve seen.
Unless I’ve seen #4 and can’t remember…
Edit: Probably would have missed #7 if it hadn’t been on TV the other day.
Hmm, I haven’t actually seen 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, or 10, so I’m okay with not getting them (seen bits from most though).
Completely forgot about that happening in 9.
Dude, Collateral.
dude.
That movie had the best lines. Vincent was just so, so right on so many points. Could’ve been tempered with a little humanity, but the logic is sound.
Funny part is, for all his talk about improvisation, it’s his adherence to drilled process that gets him killed.I DO THIS FOR A LIVING, MAX.
Ugh. I used to watch the hell out of Flight of the Navigator. Have also seen Taken, Red, Scott Pilgrim and Hancock, but nope. At least with Taken, I blame it on the small resolution. Thought the guy was Nathan Fillion than Liam Neeson 😛
Guess you didn’t watch it enough, Scuzzbucket.
It was just a very very very long time ago 🙁
Saw Toys at the movies with my high-school boyfriend. I loved it from the first second but he didn’t get it. In hindsight I should have recognised that blaring signal that we weren’t as compatible as I’d thought. 😛
To be fair, that movie is completely bonkers. Something I mustn’t have been completely aware of when I first saw it, because when I watched it again, years later, it was pretty mind-bending.
Also, I now have this song stuck in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9geCS0v7w8
I do not mind.
I’ve only seen 0, 8, and 10… and those, only once apiece. I had no chance 😛
Damn it’s moving slow this week.
Anyone got some cool things to share?
Alright, well, I was saving this for an especially slow occasion, but here’s a thrilling tid-bit from my life…
Last night while cleaning, I noticed that my bedroom door’s hinges were slightly uneven. They’re balanced and weighted, so I took some time out to fix them. They must’ve been broken for the entire 2+ years that I’ve been here, because now? Now, my door swings closed automatically, and clicks fully shut – no pressure required.
It’s most unnerving.
Nice life hack, sir.
I just checked my mail and noticed i got a letter from a Mr Rick Grimes :/
Fitting.
Knighthoods are coming back, so I’ve changed my username to fit?
Sir Artifice the Red would be better surely?
Probably, but I’ve had the business cards printed now.
I won tickets to a Captain america Preview next week! \o/
Take me! Take me! I put out on first dates if I have to. Wink.
Ellen Page is gay. In every sense of the word.
I have a cool magic trick you can try on someone.
Get two glasses of water, filled to the brim, then get your volunteer to place their hands palms down on a flat surface. Next you take both cups of water, balance them on the backs of each of the volunteers hands, then walk off. This works best with a bit of showman ship and in an area that the volunteer (now read victim) can’t spill water in.
Best magic tricks.
You know what would make me feel better? Buying games and nostalgia. I have money in my wallet, let’s go buy FFX HD.
*EB is closed till Thursday and nowhere else sells it in the centre*
Okay, I’ll just sit in the corner and keep crying softly to myself.
Also it seems ridiculous that 2001 is considered nostalgia. It wasn’t that long ago!
Kids born then are in high school.
Whaaaaat D:
Now I feel old and I’m one of the “younger” TAYbies
Why is EB closed? You should come to Tweed to buy it and see your old pal Virus, also Anieka at EB Tweed City would love to see you I am sure.
They’re moving stores.
And I would but I can’t really get down there with work and all.
Ah well that explains all..
Oh I thought you were on holidays, still my bad :/
*hugasaurus*
Digital Distribution saves the day?
I tried forcing $20 notes into my Vita but it doesn’t seem to be doing a whole lot.
Additionally I like having a box on the shelf.
I felt that way and then I got a 64gb memory card and put nearly all my games on it and suddenly I realize the convenience of digital is worth not having the boxes.
Got my ear syringed today. The doctor said it’d probably be a bit painful and uncomfortable but omg it felt so good. And now I have like super-hearing out of my right ear.
And I’ve eaten way too much Maccas this past week. I think I’ve been 5 times in the past 7 days. The cheesy bbq meal for $3.95 is pretty great. Went there today for lunch, then when Oliver picked me up from the doctors he’d bought me Maccas too. So much Maccas regret.
I tried a cheesy BBQ burger once and it was the best burger I’d ever had from McDonalds. So I never had another one because I didn’t want to ruin that perfect memory.
They’re the only burger they can make successfully in my experience too lol. They’re always as good as the first time you have ’em too!
They’ve been pretty consistently good actually! Had a few of them now, no complaints.
Once you get past the feeling of some much water/liquid in your ear, it is pretty darn enjoyable. Plus you can hear clearly now the wax is gone. 😛
Almost finished inFAMOUS: Second Son, got a little bit of the mainstory to go, otherwise i’ve done everything else 🙁
@dc @greenius you know that large electrified tower that’s in control by the DUP? There’s a shard like out front of it, on my map it’s there but I cannot locate it anywhere. You guys know anything about this?
I did however manage to find all the secret agents 😛 They just showed up real easy after yesterday, was weird.
The story will take you to that tower. Can’t get it before then.
Ah, right, I thought my game was actually bugged xD
I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE when sandbox games do that. GTA, Prototype, Infamous, Crackdown, alla them. I hate it so much. LET ME COLLECT THE COLLECTIBLES.
It’s one collectable, I already have have the rest and way more than I need to max out my powers which i’ve done. I just want the silly trophy 😀
So i got held up at Bunnings today because I was asking about casters for my gaming cabinet. The guy I was asking about for the casters aisle also had a large game collection.
Then I couldn’t even get the sort of colour paint I really wanted, so I got something close. Hope it’s okay.
At first when you said “held up” I thought you meant robbed. Like at gunpoint or knifepoint or something. D:
Oh, I probably should have clarified that.
Atleast the mugger and Scree bonded over their game collections!
Did you at least find $10?
Mum won $10 if that helps
Ugh, this afternoon just turned into a big pile of “fuck this shit”. So many things that can be going smoothly, but NOPE.
Cool? 😛
My Terrible Secret: I didn’t mind that movie. It was terrible and stupid but I was entertained.
Note: I knew nothing about Mario aside from that he was a fat plumber who wore red. The first time I played a Mario game it was NSMB on the DS. It is also the only Mario game I have ever played.
It’s not a secret for me – I love that movie and always end up jumping to its defence whenever an article about it comes up on here and the US writers take the opportunity to try and shit on it as much as possible 😛
YES. I love that movie. It’s not really Mario, but it’s kind of good, brainless fun.
Mario Mario. Luigi Mario. 😀
So how many Marios between you?
Three!
Sounds like a good time.
Some basic Q&A about childbirth and pregnancy with some really insightful answers that people should look at.
http://i.imgur.com/dkF0DDW.jpg
Really good advice.
Especially that last one.
I remember Mr. Strange talking to his sister-in-law while I was pregnant and saying he was looking forward to the birth because he “just wanted his girlfriend back” (we weren’t married at the time). I looked at her and we both just cracked up laughing. Poor old Mr. Strange had no idea, no matter how many times we warned him. 😛
🙁
Moral of the story: don’t have sex cos you’ll die.
So my Steel Panther album got shipped today \o/
JB has a stream of it on their spotify knock off ‘JB Now’ which i’ve been listening to today, though I shouldn’t be surprised when this band does a ballad that it’s just gonna be messed up and sexualised to hell. Bukkake Tears & Gang Bang At The Old Folks Home prove this.
The music is fucking awesome though, really digging Satchels playing, he’s stepped it up with some real Eddie Van Halen shit in a few songs, there’s some Mötley Crüe influence there too with the playing too.
I know it wouldn’t be Steel Panther with out all the sex songs, but would like to see more songs like Death To All But Metal; It’s Burden Being Wonderful, Party Like Tomorrow Is The End Of The World & Hell’s On Fire, cause whilst still fun it proves that they don’t need to rely on their schtick of sex.
Still an awesome band so moot point really, I guess.
I’ve been playing some more Psychonauts and it’s great! I wish I played more of it back in the day because parts of it are pretty dated/simple compared to today’s standards.
I love anything with a certain “style” to it and I think that’s why I love Schafer’s games so much. Most of them have their own little world and characters all within this style and theme and omgIwanttoplayGrimFandangoagain (I won’t though – not until a proper re-release :P)
A while ago, I watched the first season of Parks and Recreation knowing that the show was lucky to get renewed but got better.
Now I’ve finally got around to watching the second season. It’s a pretty rad show.
And then it gets crappy again and then slightly better and then worse 😛
I’m currently at the point where they clearly have a writers’ room making some effort, as opposed to a bunch of comedians doing imitations of characters from The Office.
If It has Andy, April & Ron in the episode it is a good episode. Also Larry is always welcomed. Needs more Chris I love him. He takes everything so literally.
My dog was outside, barking at the rain. Or maybe it’s the wind.
Fascinating. 🙂
Sid does that to the thunder.
“YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE LOUDER THEN ME! I WILL KEEP TELLING YOU OFF UNTIL YOU SHUT UP!” Or at least, that’;s what I imagine him to be saying
Sounds like what I imagine my sister to be thinking whenever she talks.
Also my aunt.
My Rosella does that sometimes, scary thing is that he occasionally gets close to drowning it out. It’s astonishing how much noise can come out of such a small bird
Rosella’s and lorikeets are incredibly noisy birds
Adorable though, ear splittingly so…
My dog does that too, except he’ll run around the backyard jumping at the lightning trying to bite it, and bark when he’s waiting for the next lightning to come.
He’s super cute :3
My dog chases bubbles it’s rather amusing 😛
Also when on walks and she see’s a puddle she has to walk through it and lap it up.
Sid is scared of bubbles. It is pretty hilarious.
Today I woke up and then I had a piece of toast and then I sat on the couch watching The Simpsons.
Sounds like my day. But with a desk and TAY.
What episode?
One does not simply watch one Simpsons episode…
apparently this is scary, I don’t think so. It’s well done I think, but it’s far from scary (well what I deem scary anyhow)
DANK ROLLS II
I still can’t move my thumb properly so I’m having to content myself with watching Mr. Strange play. It’s not very relaxing because rather than naming his character “Wesley” as he did, he should have named him “Gung Ho”. 😛Upvote for DANK ROLLS, possibly my favourite bastardisation of that title yet.
I’ve had a few Dank Rolls, never go to bakers delight near the close of business
Ahh, I have just discovered why I have been so lethargic lately: no music player in my work car means a chronic lack of metal in my diet.
Sorry neighbours, doctors orders \m/
Metal Deficiency Disorder is one of the most crippling conditions in our modern age. Remember kids, be sure you have you 5 serves of Thrash or Death a day.
Downloading large files from PSN suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccckkkssss.
“From PSN” or just “In Australia”?
Both
Just PSN. Steam likes to deliver my files to me as fast as I can handle them. A game can be a dozen gig and I barely have time to watch an episode of anime before it’s already finished. 😛
Are you using a LAN cable?
I wish. House runs on WiFi as it’s not ideally setup for cabling. I’d run some through the walls but the roof is full of fibreglass insulation and fuck that.
Itchy.
Tasty.
Trials Evolution PC peoples!
Was the port a good one? I never played it on PC so just wonderinnnn
I play it on PC and as far as I can tell it’s exactly the same as Xbox 360 version. At least I’ve not noticed any difference. It might be a bit sharper graphically maybe? I’m probably the wrong person to ask. FPS and P’s don’t mean a whole heap to me.
#helping
I’d love to tell you but I can’t actually get it to work cos yay Uplay!
(for the brief 30 minutes I did get it to work it seemed pretty good though!)
It seems to be a… lazy port? I don’t actually know what goes into it, so can’t say for sure.
The game itself is fine, just as you’d expect (which is a good thing), although there’s no DLC which is a shame. Evo Gold contains HD and Evo, and that’s it.
The other big disappointment is the uPlay overlay (this isn’t just anti-Ubi bullshit, stay with me here) in that trying to get a multiplayer session with friends going is damn near impossible. It’s frustrating as hell, and requires forming a party in-game, *then* forming a second party in uplay, and confirming *both* parties to play. Frustrating as all hell, and doesn’t seem to work half the time.
There’s also some really weird scoring anomalies in MP, which if you’re actually feeling competitive will really leave something to be desired.
BUT! As a single player game, it’s still amazing, and I’ve worn my thumbs down to bloody nubs. It’s still the same old Trials, and it’s great.
For the MOST part it’s fantastic and quite a bit prettier. It does have an occasional weird problem with slowdown when you restart a track, all you need to do to fix it is quickly open and close the menu or quick-restart the track again. No idea what the deal is or why it’s not been fixed but it’s something that can be worked around pretty quickly.
The last time I used it though, the track replay recording thing was pretty awful when you put the quality up, like lots of dropped frames and sometimes the video can be up to twice as long for no reason awful. If you have some sort of capture solution of your own or don’t care about that, then it’s great. Obviously controller is better than keyboard & mouse for a game requiring such fine controls.
As @mythamphetamine said, no DLC sucks but having Trials HD tracks with the dramatically better physics of Evo almost makes up for it. Seriously, I tried to play HD again after playing Evo and I just couldn’t, way too bouncy and unpredictable but with the Evo physics… lovely
HEY YOU!
So Trials Gold on PC has the HD tracks remade in Evo’s engine? I also tried going back to HD after playing Evo (and it was too hard). I assumed it just threw in HD but if they remade it with Evo’s physics then I’ve gotta buy that ASAP
Yup, the entirety of HD has been ported to Evo Gold, that was the primary reason I bought it once all the usual master race stuff had been considered.
Shame you weren’t thinking about this last week, it was on sale on GMG for $5 last weekend
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
(it’ll go on sale again so I’m not too fussed :P)
I’m a master on Xbox though ;D
Definitely worth using the 360 controller on PC. I did a keyboard vs controller comparison vid but it was on one of the earliest tracks so the difference was negligible at best since you really didn’t need much skill for it
This is one of the greatest and most childish videos I’ve ever watched. I aspire to be like the guy who made this 😛
That was stupid and I feel stupid 😛
You’re now the new Lambo when it comes to video links!
__
Oh god I just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPSCVAYr4LI
That one is creepy 😛 A lot of his videos are pretty great though. He’s been making them for over 10 years!
They have a serious talent for the repetitive earworm
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Amazing+Horse/
I raise you with this.^
@benj
https://twitter.com/SirPatStew/status/395960502083276801/photo/1
Set phasers to lobster.
@popdart5 Here’s part one of Abelas’ prologue, let us know if you want me to change things to fit the details. Will probably be 3-4 parts 🙂
http://taypathfinder.tumblr.com/post/80668845996/prologue-part-one-a-proposal-from-grabo-lady-yasbeth
Now I feel inadequate as mine was 2 sentences in its entirety.
I’m going to try and write the game log in Abelas’ voice, so I’m getting in some practice 🙂
Also, if you wanted to add anything to the blog, let me know and I can make you a co-contibutor. It’s great to build up a resource and record of the campaign. Let us know if you have a picture of your character and I’ll add that too.
I feel like I should draw my own picture. And expanding the backstory could be fun.
If you feel like doing that, go right ahead. I find that when I play a character, it tends to evolve over the course of a campaign and your original motivations for being an adventurer might change. So if you feel like you don’t have enough detail or backstory for your character, don’t worry about it. Improvisation and spotaneity is a roleplayer’s (and a GM’s) best friend.
Nice. I’ll see if I can squeeze reading it between my work today but it’s cool to see someone else’s take on what I’ve provided so far. Hopefully I’m not promising more than I can deliver. 🙂
@negativezero Remember all those reviews for Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z?
Totalbiscuit liked it. Totalbiscuit called it ‘the best game that Spark Unlimited has ever made.’ However, he was referring to Spark Unlimited there, and Spark Unlimited is Spark Unlimited. This might just be a case where the PC version is way, way better, however, as the PC version does not suffer from the framerate and camera issues that the console version suffers from. Apparently it is pretty fun if you keep in mind that Yaiba is a spinoff and not Ninja Gaiden 4. If you can pretend to ignore the blatant misogyny, that is. I do think the aesthetic is amazing. I’m not sure how this game got a 2/10. I should read some of the reviews.
The only Ninja Gaiden I have played is Dragon Sword on DS (which was pretty rad btw), so my only point of reference for Yaiba is that when playing it it reminds me of MadWorld and I enjoyed that.
Dragon Sword was a great game. It was also IIRC the last game before Itagaki got kicked out of Team Ninja and Tecmo and the current crop took over. 🙁
Man I loved Dragon Sword although I’m pretty sure that was the game that severely scratched my DS screen (no screen protector D:).
Something I just read:
So hilariously true 😛
DORK SKOALS
Haven’t played for about 3 or 4 days, but finally de-populated No-Man’s Wharf, levelled up a bit more, and summoned Lucatiel. Beat the boss on the first try (second, if you count my solo attempt). Was pretty easy coz the boss was concentrating on her, so I was just attacking from behind with my Ultra Greatsword +2.Just entered The Lost Bastille, and feelin’ pretty good about myself, so rather than keep going and probably die again pretty soon, I decided to end it on a high note and turn it off for the night.My first comment on Kotaku. My first comment was correcting a factual error. It was the first comment of many. Or the first of a couple when compared to Shane or D.C.
In true Phlanispo fashion, my second comment was about how Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Time has the best soundtrack to any thing ever.
My first comment on TAY was about how I wanted there to be a crossover episode of doctor who where the Doctor goes to the planet from Gears of War. My explanation as to why I wanted this to happen? “Because of reasons.”
TAY rapidly became more than a place to talk about dem games. It became a sanctuary.
It was the first place where I fit in. Or, at the very least, I had convinced myself I fit in. TAY was the first place I ever admitted my depression. TAY has been the origin of many landmarks.
I have tiptoed around the point. TAY is awesome. May it continue to be awesome.
I LOVE YOU ALL!
*hugs*
My first one was talking about the arsehole “ending” of Strider. All these years later and that still pissed me off…
My 4th comment was in a thread where they were asking for questions for bungie, I asked for Halo 1 & 2 to be remade with the then contemporary engine so in a way I’m 100% responsible for Halo & Halo 2 anniversary. Of course if they’d actually listened properly they’d have heard it when I said they should be DLC and all on the one platform…
Gaaaaay.
Does anyone else remember the Catz/Dogz/Oddballz games?
Also, I searched for the origin of the phrase “piss like a racehorse”, and I’ll give you three guesses as to what video I found.
Cat videos.
My verandah is cracking, thinking of applying some DECK SEALS 2.
Looking for ideas. Any good greatswords early on? I’m just up to the giant boss I think (6hrs in) and have been running with the knights starter equipment. Bought the great shield from Majula, still need to up my strength. I’m a little disappointed that tanking isn’t as easy without shields blocking 100% physical attacks.Would the bastard sword be better than Drangleic? They’re found reasonably close to each other I think?
The Old Knight Greatsword is an enemy drop in Heide’s Tower Of Flame. There’s also a Greatsword in a chest about halfway through No Man’s Wharf, not sure if there are any earlier in the game or not.I’m still tweaking stats and things, but for my money the bastard sword’s amazing value – better than the drangleic. Yes, the Drangleic has a thrust attack in its move-set where the Bastard doesn’t, but on raw damage, stat scaling, weight, durability, and stamina use, the bastard sword wins. Also, it has a default downward strike attack which is the only thing that usually hits crystal lizards and downed opponents who are just starting to get up. Great reach, great speed, can be spammed with a decent stamina bar, the bastard sword is my new favourite of Dark Souls 2. I still haven’t found a man-serpent greatsword equivalent and I suspect one doesn’t exist, but this works. There are some decent weapons out there but anything under 60 durability just can’t be used for clearing your way to a boss without having to replace it, so I’ve largely ignored the Old Knight equipment. Mastodon sword is probably better for end-game, but you put some upgrades on the bastard sword and treat her right and she’ll do you right.& @evilmonkey
Thanks guys, much appreciated. The broadsword (+4) has been serving me fine for now, but I want to see how a greatsword works in the game too.85%
It keeps alternating between ~1.5Mb/s and ~50Kb/s.
I hate the Internet here. If only I didn’t like the area so much.
Time for bed.
Goodnight.
Just made chocolate cookies an hour ago. Well, they sorta turned out like mini cakes but they’re soooo good. I used a block of Old Gold 70% cocoa in the mixture which I think was a much better choice than normal dark chocolate 😛
But ugh. I ate 3 of them and now I feel really sick. And I still have like 2/3 of the batter left in the fridge :S
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I could quite easily just eat the batter, it has the consistency of fudge 😛
Oh my god, I’ve just hit 8000 comments!
D:
Erm… what’s the best way to put this…
Ivan Milat and a backpacker were walking through the bush late one stormy
night. The backpacker looks at Ivan and says “Its dark and i’m scared” Ivan
looks at her and says “Your scared! I have to walk back through here alone!”
Whoa. Only just read that Unreal Engine 4 has come out on a subscription model a few days back? Why didn’t I see anything about this on the front page. Only like $20 a month, and you can cancel it and still use it?? You just don’t get access to the updates or the asset store any more, or publish etc. Holy shit.
Plus royalties, I believe.
Yeah but it’s just 5%. That’s like… who-gives-a-fuck amounts 😛 Way less than the cut Steam would be taking.
But if you sell the resulting game on steam…
Well there’s no real getting around that in the end 😛 Pretty much have to get on there for the exposure. But there’s other avenues around. Using the Humble widget on your site, they only take 5% that way. Though using the Humble Store is something like 15% I think, with the extra 10 going towards charity.
Either way, if you’re at the point where you need to pay thousands for UE4, you’re doing pretty well for yourself. Why not pay for the dev tools you used? Just having such easy and affordable access to a commercial-grade engine like that is pretty amazing, I think. And pretty much eliminates the need to even consider fucking Unity any more 😛
Heh you’re really not a unity fan are you?
Talking about it with my college friend and bringing up that part, he responded with “unity is a stupid [gent] and now I never have to use it again.”
All big fans here 😛
SPARK POLES
Went back and cleaned up the side area last night. Belfry something?Got invaded for the first time and insta killed by a large burst of magic.
HOLY FUCK WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GARGOYLES?
Also met the first NPC invader, so many dogs.
Depetrified a vendor, thinking I’ll start swapping boss souls for shields. Pursuer’s shield is looking tempting
You need 38 STR for the Pursuer’s Shield, and it’s quite heavy. It does look real purdy, though.I’ve already got a strength heavy build so it’s sounding like just the thing for me. I also need a better magic resistant shield for those pesky invaders.
And people were actually excited for the Oculus Rift…
I think the reaction has been a bit over the top. I think this ensures that something might actually come from it. If it was just limited to a niche thing then it might not catch on, but applications outside of gaming and the like hopefully will make it mainstream. 😀
It’s Facebook. They’re not interested in making games or the future. They’re interested in the business of data. Your data.
Yeah, but Sony is also making one for PS4. And if this is popular for social stuff it can be popular for gaming stuff and real world stuff and all that. 😀
Chances are excellent that they’ll ruin it but I’ll wait & see. I think the most optimistic scenario we can hope for is that they steal amazon’s business model for the kindle and sell you a more expensive one that’s device only with no shit attached and just let you use it and rope in the rubes with a cheap version that’s ad supported, requires accounts and will shout your personal data to whoever gives facebook $5.
Of course, I have almost no hope that will come to pass.
I’d love to believe they’ve made the purchase as a future investment and plan to just let it develop as it was going to and reap the benefits but…honestly, I’m struggling.
Yeah, but even if that’s the case. Success of this thing even without gaming applications on the Rift front will be good for gaming in the long run.
Definitely true!
The only thing Facebook has contributed to gaming is micro transactions, social media integration and data mining. And that’s all they’re interested in.
They purchased this thing to exploit it, not to advance anything. Advances cost money and that’s not what Facebook does.
You’re blindly expecting a company to not do the single thing the company does.
But Facebook is popular, if everyone who likes Facebook has a Rift then everyone who has a Rift has access to whatever gaming applications exist for it that’s developed outside of Facebooook. XD
I’m not talking about how Facebook plan to develop it but the implications of it being successful as a result of Facebook connection.
It’s like Tablets, man. One company made one that was crazy successful and now tablets are fully integrated into society instead of a niche thing. There’s a variety of them that can do different things, but probably wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for it going mainstream.
You think it will remain open source?
Cute.
Arrrrgh, you’re making assumptions about what I think based on nothing. :\
I think that Sony has the gaming applications covered if Rift abandon them and that familiarity with VR in mainstream society can only be good for gaming even if the Rift itself doesn’t use it.
I don’t want to talk about this any more. XD
*flees*
Edit: You’re awesome, Freeze. Just cause we disagree here doesn’t mean I’m riled up at you or any thing. 🙂
Unless they change the specifications pretty radically, development kits are already in the wild.
If the tech is out there and gets some purchase, people will make knockoffs or variants that may well manage to be good devices without needing to violate your privacy and just letting you use good tech for the sake of good tech.
6 months later “We regretfully inform that we have terminated the Oculus Project. It wasn’t upto the level of development and polish that we at Facebook strive for. We wish the best to those who worked on the Oculus in their future endeavours.” – Future Mark Zuckerberg
Imagine how hi-res we can get farmville now!
What on Earth are you….
AH FER FARKS SAKE.
And now we wait for Sony to announce their collaboration with Twitter.
Under Facebook’s control I can see the Rift becoming more like a Google Glass type of device than a gaming device. Even if that does happen it could still spell good things for gaming.
I was thinking something like what Ed’s goggles in Cowboy Bebop.
Part of me is feeling like that dev kit is more attractive now, since I have less hype for the consumer version.
Yeah, has gone from being a day 1 purchase to I’ll wait a year and see how bad it is.
Was so looking forward to it too.
Hey, it’s been really cold in the US, did you hear about the guy who got frozen to absolute zero?
It’s fine, he was 0K #dadjokepagesix hi @strange!Hey people who know stuff:
Does Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright have a completely separate and new story? Nothing linked to AA5 or Layton 5/6?
I was going to wait until I finished those 3 before I picked up the game (I figured it would be separate but just wanted to finish off the series) but Big W have it for $48 at launch which is an awesome price and I can’t say no to that 🙂
It’s nice to see Australian retailers having very reasonable prices at launch.
Whuh?! I was unaware that they were bringing it to the West so soon. When is the launch date?
Also, as far as I recall with the story it is separate but tied to the other games in a limited fashion. I imagine it will have a tonne of references and cameos for the fans but probably no real continuation of the plotlines of either franchise.
Releases this Saturday I think!
completely separate story.
I’m happy for you guys. really. let’s see when it’ll come out for NA..
“To be announced”
fantastic.
Curiosity surrounding Ground Zeroes got the better of me last night so I watched the end sequence surrounding Paz and listened to a few of Chico’s audio tapes.
I can handle Paz lying on her back with her intestine sticking out but those few tapes left a bad taste in my mouth. I love Metal Gear but ughck.What were the tape numbers exactly? I only have 1 and 3.
I think I started listening from 3 onwards, when Chico is taken to Paz.
When it became hard to distinguish whether she was being whipped or raped I stopped listening.So @cakesmith gifted me South Park: The Stick of Truth for my birthday and I’ve gotta say, as someone who is an average sort of fan of the show – it’s bloody amazing 😀
I need to play that more. How funny is the part where you put in your name? Douchebag. I couldn’t stop laughing. I’m expecting the whole thing to be quite hilarious.
DARN SEELS
I’ve… hit a bit of a wall. Can’t seem to progress anywhere. Can’t beat the trio of tall pike guys in Lost Bastille and can’t beat the Pursuer in the Forest 😛Decided to go on a grind fest in the hopes of maybe levelling up. Ended up going back through the Giants Forest and finding a new area with a bunch of turtle armour guys. Managed to get enough Souls to upgrade from my Dagger to a brand spanking new Falchion (it was either that, or the Rapier – solely because they both give off an awesome Fire Emblem vibe :P). Went with the Falchion in the end because the Rapier was useless against enemies that run around quickly, like those darn rats in Lost Bastille. Reinforced it up to +5 and now I can actually hit over 100 damage! \o/ Also bought a shield I could hold too.
So my strategy at the moment is to soften the enemy with magic from a distance, drawing aggro. Then swap my staff for my shield and go into melee mode. Seems to work alright against the grunts… we’ll see if it’s effective against bigger things. (I gotta say, being able to block attacks is a lot easier than dodging everything :P)
Also at some point I got invaded for the first time and got killed swiftly, dropping 8000 souls I was grinding for…
Co-op. Drop a white summon down in the areas you’re struggling in, and get some risk-free practice against bosses.
You also have the benefit of randomly turning human again after successful co-ops (apparently a bug, but use it!), which will allow you in turn to summon for help.Also, as soon as you get a Ring of Life Protection, never take that sucker off. You can stay human, and keep your souls when you die (as long as you remember to repair it for 3000 souls after each death)
That’s a bug? I thought it was a reward! I’d been dropping my sign for jolly cooperation every time I needed to build up to a boss for a while there, just because I didn’t want to waste effigies!
I figured it must be a bug when I got it for being disconnected from the host after about half a second.
FROM confirmed it some time back. I assumed it was a feature, too! 😛
I read a statement from them, but can’t find it now. This thread references said statement though, so it’s not just my word 😛 http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/693331-dark-souls-ii/68830854?page=1
What @shane said
Drop your summon in the hallway to the boss, you normally get called pretty fast. After a few times summoned on the trio, I had it down to an art – take out the first quickly as a group, then drop down and try to aggro one away from the other (or keep circling and herding if I get both aggro). Divide and conquer. A bloody big shield certainly helps, so I suspect I had the perfect build for this boss fight.Pursuer – summons can help a lot – whoever doesn’t have aggro can go man the ballistae, just make sure you don’t catch any friendly fire if you’re dancing with the boss in front of it. I learned that one the hard way.
To make sure you don’t get hit by the individual Ruin Sentinels when fighting one-on-one, watch for their swings – roll to their right, your left. A lot of folks advocate rolling to their left, but that only works on every second swing.Ruin sentinels do two types of sideways/diagonal swings – one is a double-swing, the other is a single-swing.
If you roll to their left, the single swing WILL catch you in the back and send you flying.
If you roll to their left you will be free and clear for the double-swing.
However.
If you roll to their right, you will be free-and-clear for the single swing, AND on the double-swing you’ll be missed by the first stroke, but get clipped by the back-stroke. If you bring your shield up after rolling, that clipped end of the second swing does negligible stam-damage, so it’s the much, much, much safer way to roll. Roll-and-block.
Don’t get greedy with your attacks exploiting their recovery time – I can usually only manage one, maybe two swings, before I have to get rolling again. Every couple of those you’ll probably need to just roll to avoid then do absolutely nothing at all while you wait for stam to recharge. That’s the famous Dark Souls patience.
The other melee attacks (overhead smash/pulled-back thrust) are pretty heavily telegraphed and can be avoided with a roll or block pretty much any way you like and have a longer recovery, which is good. Keep them penned in where possible so they don’t feel like they have enough room or need to use their ranged attacks – the shield-toss or whirlwind.
Pursuer is a real test of patience and your ability to read his moves in advance. With a good, solid shield, it should be pretty easy, though. What you need to spend most of the fight doing is slowly increasing the distance between you, thus baiting him into that long-ranged charge move he does that leaves him really wide open. Everything else you should be blocking or dodging. If you can lure him into a 3-strike attack and AREN’T left reeling from blocking the shield-bash (brutal on your stamina – dodge shield-bashes, don’t block them) or the final sword-smash, you can probably get a few hits in, but it’s risky.The safest option is always: bait into a long-range charge, roll to his right/your left for the swing, turn around and slash/stab, roll away and back away slowly, blocking all his attacks as you try to increase the distance again.
It’s a long game, playing that way, but ultimately the safest. It also means his blue-glowy-damn-near-instakill impalement attack will usually be completely avoided. (If in doubt, roll sideways when he thrusts, not backward. It has a deceptively long reach.)
Dude killed me probably a dozen times when the only boss I had under my belt was old giant. When I came back and had the re-match in the Smelter Demon’s chamber? I spanked him so hard using that tactic.
Do you have the stone ring? I found combined with a weapon with high poise damage you can just roll behind the sentinels and stagger them.
Oh! Page 6! I’m home.
So my sister is getting married in Melbourne this weekend. Dad and I were talking about what we were wearing and we remembered that we have the same shoe size.
Dad said we were obviously sole mates.
AND THAT IS HOW YOU DO A (terrible, shitty) 500th POST, PEOPLE!
Sole mates. I like it. Achievement unlocked: Page 6 initiation completed!
So that inFamous guy is pretty good, hey?
Pretty real good. XD
I’ve 100%ed and still turn my PS4 on everyday to mosey about this city a little. 😀
100%? Like… Platinum trophy?
Wasn’t it only released a few days ago?
100% in-game completion (me and D.C. got it around the same time) which is just story/collectables/side-missions on one playthrough.
Platinum could probably be done in about 20ish hours though. The story is relatively short but I assume D.C. is also saving his evil playthrough for some other time
Okie dokie.
I can’t bring myself to do evil playthroughs evah.
I feel bad every time I do a mad bomb-diggity drop attack thing, and some poor sap happens to be walking a little too close.
Now I want a game where you play as a civilian trying to survive in a world of superheroes.
It would be like I Wanna Be The Guy. One wrong move, and bam. Death.
Have you read the book Steelheart? You should.
Haha! Yeah or when you blow up a DUP truck all satisfied like and the resulting explosion takes out people. Aw maaaaaaan!
Papertrail’d yet? 😀
Have done the first two parts but haven’t done the website drone thingy yet.
It’s reasonably okay, isn’t it? 🙂
Ehhhh, I just want more ingame content. XD
Sorry, which Dark Souls 2 NPC are you talking about…?
Must be a hidden invader. I’ll have to crawl over the entire game-world on foot again just to find him.
How could you not have heard about him?
He’s infamous.
*leaves*
What, everyones finished that and shelved, damn it pants 😛
It’s okay. Kinda got me a little mad last night at the 2008-era mechanics.
I don’t often read the comments section but when I do @puck always says some pretty awesome things.
I remember one time he tried to give me free games but I already had them all, whatta guy! 😛
*Looks at display picture*
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
He probably said the same thing at yours
😀
Thanks man! I try to be as reasonable, thoughtful and polite as I can.
I have this idea that in the future the search algorithms will be so powerful that anybody will be able to instantly catalogue everything you’ve ever written on the internet, and I don’t want future me to be ashamed of something I wrote today.
I STILL have Saints Row 3 sitting in my steam inventory, if ANYBODY wants it, please, please take it.
I really don’t like how everyone is trusting the value of Facebook shares. It really, really concerns me. If I were to put on my tinfoil hat, I’d probably be saying something like:
Triple M Classic Rock are broadcasting all of the remaining English Premier League games!
Go Chelsea!
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME
Having fled Charmonde fearing reprisal, the group has boarded a plant based airship headed Southwest. What further adventures await the group? Will Blaghs moon over his lady love?
@popdart5 updated the Tumblr: http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Also: We’d like to try STREAMING our play session if anyone would like to tune in. I’ll try post a link here but watching my twitter will probably be the better bet.
cc @mawt @tigerion @tech_knight @mythamphetamine @novacascade @blaghman
Kinda related but not really …
This reminds me I need to finish off my character. What class was everyone rolling again? I was thinking a “shoot guys with arrows & spells” arcane archer.
So basically a ranger.
Ranger is pretty much it however there is an actual prestige class you can go into down the track called an Arcane Archer. Unfortunately you can’t go straight from a Ranger to an Arcane Archer as one of the prerequisites is the ability to cast arcane spells (Ranger’s spells are divine in nature). If you were curious, you could multi-class to an arcane spellcaster and then jump across for super magical arrows.
I’ve been reading up on the Arcane archer, just a quick question. Some people seems to say you must be an elf (or half-elf) to be an arcane archer even though it doesn’t list it as a requirement in the rule book. Do I have to be an elf? We seem to already have a few in our party. (Although now that I think about it I could probably go a Drow).
Ah yeah, that confusion seems to stem from the fact that Arcane Archer was a D&D 3.5 prestige class where it was restricted to Elves only. Pathfinder has no hard restriction on what race you are although the fluff does heavily indicate it requires Elven skills. For the purposes of this campaign, you are not required to be an Elf to be an Arcane Archer.
A ranged character will work well as the party is pretty set for melee dps and is looking okay on the tank front. Rangers can also (eventually) pick up healing spells too so they have a bit of utility too.
I think I’ll be sitting out of this one as I’m still not well, unless you’re okay with snuffling, a croaky voice and rare coughing whenever I try to speak
No prob man, if you feel up to it join in but if you’re not don’t force yourself
My senses are fine as I’m on the mend, I’ll just mute myself more often when I’m not talking and I think I’ll be good for it 🙂
Might be a bit late tonight. Another training night at work, rebranding = new systems to learn :/
In theory should get home about 7:30 NSW time, so I should be on time, but who knows how long it will actually run for. Will get there as soon as possible.
ergh, sick. Again.
It’s probably all this stress that’s making you sick. Just try and relax for a bit, M’kay?
Drugs will help M’kay
I’d say you need a Magical Healing Desk Lamp 😛
Get better soon!
It’s all overcast and still outside. Perfect atmosphere for playing some of those souls that are not bright.
Think as I’m still not up to full use of my thumb I might actually start again. And with someone who does lots of damage straight away. So definitely not another Deprived!
Any suggestions of which class?
Not Cleric 😛
@blaghman
Yeah.
Cleric is woeful at the start, but becomes useful once you hit 16 or so, and if you spec right, downright brutal at 25.
But in a very Deprived like manner, you start the game only able to use the broken sword (though you can get good damage through dagger backstabs, since they don’t seem to scale negatively into strength, or something).
And if you rush Dragonrider you can get lightning spear, which is just silly.
DARK SOULS! \o/
Go Deprived again! Doooo eeeeeeeet!
It’s not so bad with a two handed dagger, and you can wear the robes you have at the start of the game for a bit of defence, rather than walk around naked :3
Also it gives you focus on what to level up (in order to actually use gear)!
Other than that I vote the duel wieldy one, cause duel wielding.
I don’t need another Deprived, mine is there when I need her. 🙂
Thought about the dual-wield Swordsman but I love my shields, plus that’s the character I’ve been watching Mr. Strange play.
Considering the Barbarian. Anyone used that one yet?
Edit: Oops, I meant Bandit. He dresses like a barbarian though! 😛
Guess I’ll just have to decide for myself, then. Geez, the things you people make me do. 😛
The warrior has a decent spread of stats but the starting equip is not quite adequate.
Knight is pretty good imo. Especially if you have the black armour DLC, can use the wooden shield with it. Broadsword is a pretty solid weapon.
Knight. After playing Forest of Fallen Giants as a Deprived, when I rolled a Knight because of the concern about loss of souls/levels, it was like being Neo in the fucking Matrix.
Knight. Real good starting gear.
Terrible intelligence though if you like sorcery.
First the first time in my history of playing Souls games I’ve hit a roadblock. The Giant Lord in the Memory of Jeigh is proving pretty much impossible for me to fight. It wouldn’t be so bad if he didn’t one shot me regardless of shield or armour, seem to be able to adjust his swing at the final moment making rolling useless and having two giants and exploding spots before him that wipe out the NPC summons which are the only ones allowed.
Ave on and finally checked the Internet who’s advice is use magic, if not *shrug* Dunno, try to get close and don’t die? Gee thanks.
Can you take out the explody spots and giants before facing him, and then go back and summon?
Explody spots? No. They actually get worse and more constant once you engage the boss.
I thought I could lure him into them and let them take him out like I did the giants but he doesn’t take damage from them. Yay.
The last hint on this page suggests he can be beaten without even drawing aggro:
http://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/Giant+Lord#.UzIi7U1WGUk
Failing that, have you seen this? http://www.gamesradar.com/how-to-beat-giant-lord-dark-souls-2/
Trying not to 😛
My strategy was to be a jerky mcjerk, so I killed him on my third actual attempt (died many times on the area beforehand, and quite a few times I’d get to him, smoke would be everywhere, and he’d kill me while I couldn’t see).
So if you can get into an actual fight with him, run up the stairs, he’s almost guaranteed to do a big sweeping attack, so roll off the platform, hit him a coupla times in the legs, he’ll probably do his stomp thingy, but so long as you’re watching you can dodge whatever it is, go back up the stairs, bait the move, rinse and repeat.I watched a couple videos of that, they seemed to drag him to some spot that doesn’t get any explosions in it. Then just stayed glued to one of his ankles, WITH the shield up because apparently his sword swings go like… a 270 degree arc or something. Not looking forward to it. 😛
I woke to two messages on my phone:
lol 😛
Mainly just confused. Like… why? Also kinda funny that I only just finally started catching up on Rift news last night. The Reddit should be pretty interesting now.
Two things I’m worried about but it could be just my paranoia program acting up again:
1. Periodic ads taking a small corner of my view to kill my immersion while playing.
Or worse.
2. Reminding you to sign into facebook every hour if you haven’t already.
So mainly, worried about popups in my Oculus Rift games, which is making really wary about buying it one day now…
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/03/25/hatsune-miku-project-diva-f-2nd-coming-to-ps3-vita-in-n-america/
“SEGA is proud to announce that we will be bringing Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd to the West later this year!”
\o/ Looks like I won’t need to double-dip and buy the JP release this time \o/
Now if Sega could just stop being dicks and do the same for Yakuza 5 and Yakuza Ishin…
Relevant Gif
I literally just ordered my japanese copy yesterday…
i guess i’ll just buy it in english on ps3…
Damn them, i only got it yesterday because they announced Kagerou Days is in it 🙁
They had a Sega dude on a podcast I listen to recently – I forget what it was – and he basically said that Miku had done really well for them so far, so I was fairly sure we’d get 2.
I was kind of interested in Diva F 2nd but mainly because of the Supercell stuff they’re redoing from older games (World is Mine and Melt). Haven’t kept up with the latest stuff. Will definitely get it in English though, and they’re doing physical releases for both this time as well and even hinting at a CE.
What I really want from them is Project Mirai 2. I’m a big Nendoroid collector already and have many of the Nendos in that game, plus the song mix is more toward what I like and it has Mitchie M in the track list and he’d probably be my favourite of the major artists that use Miku, plus he uses her more effectively than most of them (eg ryo / supercell stuff is amazingly well-written but he puts no effort into filtering or improving on the quality of her actual vocals so she sounds like KK Slider)
If there’s a CE without a doubt i’ll buy it again.
But yeah, i’m a fan of Jin’s work, especially the KagePro stuff (Mekkaku City Actors anime hype!) and kagerou days is a really good song, so i got so excited i bought it straight away haha.
Just got these best 18 bucks i’ve spent on eBay..
I just finished Psychonauts and now I want MORE. Psychonauts 2?!
That makes it the 30th game I’ve finished this year and the 3rd Double Fine game. I’m still planning on finishing Stacking and starting Iron Brigade. Massive Chalice, Broken Age, Hack ‘n Slash and Costume Quest 2 will be out by the end of the year as well.
THE YEAR OF THE DOUBLE FINE!
How are you finishing 10 games a month?!?
I think he’s just confused and means buying games. Buying ten games a month, that makes sense to me. Playing? Hahahahaha-No. Finishing? Bizarro-world or opposite day or something.
No idea…
I’ve had less time than usual as well since I worked during Dec-Feb when I’d usually be doing nothing on holidays.
Here’s the list with estimated hours in brackets:
• Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag and Aveline DLC (15?)
• Attack of the Friday Monsters (2)
• BioShock Infinite (9)
• BIT.TRIP Presents Runner 2 (4)
• Bravely Default (40)***
• Broken Age Act 1 (5)
• Costume Quest (4)
• Dark Souls (15)
• Dragon’s Crown (12)
• Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (10?)
• FEZ (5)***
• Fire Emblem: Awakening (25)***
• Flower (2?)
• Gears of War: Judgment (5)
• Guacamelee (5)
• inFAMOUS: Second Son (15?)
• Kid Icarus: Uprising (12)***
• La-Mulana (20)
• LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes (8)
• Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (40)
• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (6)
• Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (2)
• Octodad: Dadliest Catch (2?)
• Psychonauts (10)
• Resogun (1)
• Rogue Legacy (15)
• South Park: The Stick of Truth (9)
• SteamWorld Dig (4)
• Tomb Raider (10)
• Ys: Memories of Celceta (25)***
Some are pretty short and others were just carried over from last year***
Look at this guy, he even alphabetized his list!
I’m curious about how much of those games you’ve 100% completed, though.
Yeah, that’s the other thing :P. I did most sidequests and stuff in games but didn’t really go for 100% (it’s mostly just collectables). The only one I actually 100%’d was inFAMOUS but I was pretty close in Lightning Returns doing all the sidequests I could do on a first playthrough (there’s a few you have to do a NG+ for)
Unemployment? I think I recall Greenius being a member of the Job Hunt Assemble team.
I work for a marketing company and that campaign ended in Feb. They’ve asked me to do a few since then but I turned them down since I’m looking for full-time graduate work now (GET ME A JOB, BEN), but that also means I’m kinda on holidays and have plenty of free time 😀
Trust me, you don’t really want a job. Or responsibilities. From the sounds of it, you’re having a blast with ALL THE GAEMS anyway. On a serious note, best of luck with the hunting. The only advice I have is that recruitment agencies can be helpful.
Yeah I don’t, but money is nice 😛
PSYCHONAUTS. MEAT CIRCUS.
I just got my double fine psychonauts figures, I really should get a photo of them all sometime.
Someone help me… I Clicked this link… cant stop…
http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/
Oh goddamnit.
I’m in there too now.
Woo! Company!
Woo! Yousonofabitch.
Best is 1668 so far.
3188!
I kept trying to get a high score, then I realised the aim was to make ONE square equal 2048.
…bugger.
5416!
You can get over 3000 just by pressing the arrow keys in clockwise order
hahaha, 3044. Amazing.
6864!
I never got this the first time I was shown, but just now I got 6816.
Dammit.
Holy… shit.
Send help.
My black boots are falling apart in a few places, which is a shame because they’re really, really expensive and very decent quality. But I guess several years of continuous wear will do that. I guess I could try take them to a cobbler, get them repaired… I just need to make sure they stock some DARK SOLES.
Final Bonfire Ascetic for Lucatiel: Sinner’s Rise.
Took out the Lost Sinner with the bonfire ascetic. Drops an ‘Old Witch Soul’. That was my third paying attention to it Lucatiel kill (and survival), so I was finally free to continue onward to Aldia estate, where – sure enough – I met up with her pretty much immediately and finished the quest chain. Much sadness.FINALLY, moving on from repeating old content to something new: Aldia.
I explored the Aldia estate some, and all I can say is 1) that place is kinda fucked up, and 2) there are orange soapstone messages scrawled all over the floor from an NPC, which I directly ignored/disobeyed and consequently fucked up a quest chain. Hooray. Go me. If I’d known it would lock out a rewarding quest chain, I wouldn’t have done it, but instead I thought the messages were just dramatic effect warning about something that would probably kill me – which I would’ve been totally OK with.The place isn’t very hard, has some fun surprises in it, but advancing with extreme caution and attention to your surroundings meant all the traps and surprises were well-anticipated and accounted for. Looking forward to going back and exploring some more tonight.
Soul Level 186: Jolly cooperation?
No more jolly cooperation at Drangleic castle anymore, though from 100-150 it was freakin’ co-op MECCA. I wanted to max out my sunbro rep and don’t know how many more tokens I need, but since I’m rank 2, and rank 3 is max, I’m just trying for ten. Only… in several hours last night I was only able to get three. I’m getting invaded all the time, now. Still haven’t been beaten by one though – every time I get a message that my summoning sign has disappeared, I know I’m going to get invaded in a moment. So I run around looking for summon signs. I was lucky enough to find some in both Castle Drangleic and in Aldia estate, so thankfully everywhere I’ve been invaded I’ve been able to triple-team the hapless invader. Because fuck invaders, I have no shame in how cheap I’ll go to kill them. It’s actually so effective a tactic that it’s got to the point that I’ve stopped dropping my own sign but just walk around with the soapstone selected and when it goes dark, I know to backtrack to the nearest summoning sign I saw.Titanite slab farming:
While waiting for co-op outside the first Drangleic castle bonfire, fighting the stone soldiers? Guys, they drop titanite slabs. And they never de-populate. Seriously, I picked up three. Slabs are now easier to come by than chunks. So messed up. 😛
What’s the NPC quest? I’m asking for a friend.
Look up: Royal Sorcerer Navlaan. Pulling the lever with all the warnings around it in Aldia’s Estate (which I think the guy put there himself) apparently opened a cage that had this dude in it, who starts sobbing at you (if you’re human), “Oh god, you set him free… what’ve you done? You’ll never escape him now!” If you’re hollow he laughs and mocks and invades you later, and apparently if you’re hollow but he’s still trapped, his ‘dark’ personality tries to convince you to run around killing NPCs in Majula and elsewhere.Ah yep, cool, I was aware of this one. Good to know I’ll have warning not to pull the lever.Got pics of these boots?
I have no pics, but they are a tactical boot by Magnum – StealthForce 8 or something, I think. I got them after doing a bit of research on hard-wearing urban boots, and it’s one of the type unofficially preferred by ambos and cops. Retailers usually give a deep discount for licenced security/emergency services.
Do you know if there is a good level to stop levelling at? Like how in DS 1 it was at SL 120 for the best coop / invading.
Also, WHY YOU SO CRUEL TO INVADERS?!
Getting triple teamed suuuuuuuuuucks (atleast it did in DS 1), though I don’t think there is a “righteous” invading covenant in DS 2 is there (like Darkmoon Blades)? :'(
I am mean to invaders because if they win, I go hollow and have to waste a precious rare effigy getting back to human. If THEY die, they don’t lose shit. It’s all take, no give. It’s a huge fuck-you, so fuck them right back.
If they wanted honourable PVP there is actually a covenant that allows them to be summoned for duels (dragon remnants), and a red soapstone from another covenant which allows the same thing. Ratbros which summon you to fight them are annoying, but at least if they kill my summoned phantom, I don’t get hollowed out of it; they’re the ones at risk, not me, which is fair enough and I can’t hold a grudge. And if someone wanted consensual PVP, they only have to go be blue sentinels or bell-keepers and protect people as spirits of vengeance or invade people at a known location for it where you are given plenty of warning, rather than anytime anywhere someone happens to be trying to do something.
Nope. Random red invasion for no reason is about as dickish and unfair as it’s possible to be in Dark Souls, and as a result I want nothing more from such people than for them to choke to death on my [REDACTED].
EDIT: Also, apparently you can’t ‘stop levelling’. The invasions aren’t based on your soul level anymore as much as they are how many souls you’ve earned. So even if you bank them all and don’t spend them, you’re still getting matched higher. The only way would be to not earn souls. 😛
I never do red-phantom invading, only ever the invading that is caused by something (ie sinning ala Darkmoon Blade).
The only bad thing about honourable invading (being summoned to invade / red soapstone invading) is that, purely in my experience, the people who summon you aren’t honourable, in that there’ll be two or three of them there that’ll kill you as soon as you appear, which is super not fun. That’s why I stick to surprise invasions. I’ll prolly go Dragon Remenants or Bell Keepers in DS 2 as soon as I get to it though, for lack of a better covenant.
And yes, I know invading is generally frowned upon here in TAY, but I find it surprisingly fun :3
I’ve done it a few times. It is fun. I ran out of Red Eye Orbs pretty quickly, though 😛
If I see you on the field of battle I will run and hide on a difficult-to-get-to ledge and snipe you with poison great-arrows until you fall to your death or get killed by my summons. 🙂
Poison arrows are MY CHEAP TACTIC (for a***hole people who fight dirty)!!! >:(
I’ll have to rely on my Sunlight blade + Power Within + Bleeding katana build again, as soon as I get it up and running :3
I’ve delt with two summons before with a similar build, I’ll fight my way to you 😉
Though considering you’re SL 186 and I’m SL 55 I don’t think I’m gonna be invading you any time soon, haha!
With regards to not levelling, APPARENTLY the formula is different in NG+ than NG, and it does depend upon SL.
You need to farm for slabs? I’ve got 11 without even looking. Desperately need chunks however.
Join the Bell Keeper’s. They give chunks for every successful invasion.I would but it’s become gank city by this point.
Well, I haven’t actually needed to yet, but I also hadn’t been swimming in an abundance – I had like, five all up, all of which I’ve used. But chunks… so low. I’m not interested in doing the bell-keeper thing, so most of mine came from de-populating Black Gulch twice.
http://imgur.com/gallery/46TEQRd
How the hell did I end up here?
Let the days go by, let the water hold me down..
YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF LIVING IN A SHOTGUN SHACK
I am a doofus for not picking a Bandit to begin with.
I thought carefully about which one’s progression was closest to what I would have done and that and the axe sold me. Axes are my thing which is also why I was being really stupid passing on the Bandit just because the outfit looked ridiculous. 😛
I’m making progress really quickly and having a great deal of fun.
Bandit is one of the most ridiculous outfits there is. But you can just wear the starter rags and they look baws. Even if they are way too heavy for the protection they offer.
It also turns out the female bandit looks way less ridiculous than the male outfit. Win/win. 😀
If I hadn’t chosen deprived then bandit was my next choice, because axe. Good to know that – it might be my second character.
I’ve just made so much progress without dying it’s like a whole different game.
I just realised I’ve done almost everything I did with my previous characters in all those attempts, in just one sitting, without even dying yet. Given that I hadn’t attempted any bosses with my previous character yet it’s not the greatest of achievements but still pretty cool.
And here I was thinking I just really sucked. I still suck, but nowhere near as badly as I’d been thinking. 😛
I spent almost five hours with my deprived character. In an hour with my knight guy, I’d made up all that time.
I went from Deprived to Explorer, which I thought was a huge leap at the time. But even from Explorer to Bandit? It’s like night and day. I was struggling so badly before and now it’s just fun again. So happy I hurt my thumb, or I would have continued struggling. 😀
Hey, there’s talks of a oculus rift version of minecraft-
cancelled because Notch said OR being obtained by Facebook is creepy.
….
well hokay.
A little more wordy:
http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-the-world/
Any suggestions on what PC game I should play next?
I’m asking because… who makes their own decisions these days 😛 and mainly because you may suggest some hidden gem I might have otherwise overlooked or ignored 😀
Here’s what I’m thinking/have installed
• Antichamber• Batman Arkham Origins
• Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons
• Call of Juarez Gunslinger
• Chaos on Deponia
• Crysis
• Darkness II
• Deus Ex: HR DC
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Iron Brigade
• Kingdoms of Amalur
• Max Payne 3
• Metro 2033
• Saints Row 4
• Shogun 2
• Stacking
• The Stanley Parable
• The Witcher
All of them are new to me except Crysis (played about 30 minutes), DX:HR (a couple of hours on the original release), Stacking (I got near the end), Dragon Age (played a couple of hours) and The Witcher (played about an hour) but this was about two years ago, so I forgot most things. Brothers seems short so I’ll be playing that but I’ll need suggestions for stuff after it.
Others? http://steamcommunity.com/id/Greenius/games/?tab=all&sort=name
Thankssss!
Xantichamber.
And Deus X.
Play the Stanley Parable just because it isn’t very long but it’s totally worth your time.
I’d save Witcher for later in the year so you can blast through 1 & 2 and get extreme hype for 3 when it comes out next year. Out of the rest of the list, I’ve heard good things about Kingdoms of Amalur but also bad things so take that with a grain of salt.
I thing with marathon’n games in the same series is that I might get sick of them. I might not get Witcher 3 on launch but I’ve heard nothing but good things about the series and I’ve been wanting to get into it for agesss
Dragon Age. It’s a full length RPG so takes some time, but it’s totally worth it.
http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/
STOP THAT YOU’LL KILL US ALL
he did ask for a pc game! What else was I going to suggest? :p
1304! :O
First try 1716.. what have you done?!
Deus Ex & Max Payne 3.
Xenoblade! \o/
Am I doing it right?
Endless Ocean 2!
…what? You can technically play it on PC!
YOU DON’T GET SUGGESTIONS!
Play a game!
Ser Helpulus! \o/The Sitting-and-deciding-what-game-to-play Game is quite popular on Steam these days.
I choose Toukiden with Ser Nobulus!
Oh… what do you mean he can’t connect to PSN? 🙁
>:(
Metro 2033
Minesweeper.
I don’t think Windows 8 comes with it? (or at least I couldn’t find it)
Worst day ever.
Classic.
Thanks again dudes and dudettes:
Shortlist:
Indies
• Antichamber
• Stanley Parable
RPGS
• Dragon Age
• Deus Ex: HR DC
Shooty shooters shoot
• Max Payne 3
• Metro 2033
It’s game timeeeee
Oh man, Max Payne 3 is sooo good.
Damn you @gingerchris86! You’ve doomed us all.
http://ov3y.github.io/2048-AI/
So I’ve finished Weapon Shop de Omasse on the 3DS and it was quite enjoyable. Now I’m in the predicament of figuring out what to play next on my long public transport rides home. I’m thinking I’ll pick up Bravely Default or Mario & Luigi: Dream Team for my next game. Anyone have any other suggestions?
If you haven’t played Fire Emblem, that.
Done and finished. Twas good but I didn’t bother with all of the babbies.
Bravely Default.
One of the 3 picross e’s.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Time!
I did some stuff in <1hr that I’ve been told can’t be done by numerous methods, by the expert in the area. I’m not expert in the area, and I don’t have full permissions, but I did the thing.
Seems to be a common occurence. I seriously don’t get paid enough for this shit.
Looks like @shane has branched out into doing voice over work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-dXlwgW6zs
Not my best work, but I’m proud enough of it.
Oh God.
I just tried to hit up in my twitter feed to collapse the tweets down so I could generate a new tweet below it.
@GINGERCHRIS86 WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME
Home from work early \o/
…now to sit here and do nothing productive with my time :S
We’re gamers. It’s what we do by definition.
I’d write a fight-song, but ehh.
Doing nothing is productive!
Well technically its not but its not destructive so it could be worse
Out of curiosity how much tech does the Morpheus share with Oculus Rift? Now that Facebook owns the Oculus Rift and any patents it owned is there anything to stop them attempting to shut down any competition?
Sony most likely owns patents long before Oculus was a thought bubble.
RPS had some hands on time with Alien Isolation & wrote up a preview
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/23/preview-alien-isolation-horror-game
John Carmack works for Facebook. Think about that for a minute.
http://tinyurl.com/lgjmhvu
I said it in the Rift article comments, I’ll say it again here… I do not want to know what horrible shit I would be prepared to do for that kind of money.
I’m sure working for facebook is fine.
Well. I’ve worked for Telstra for much less.
Has your anus recovered yet?
…I try not to talk about it. 😛
Start a facebook account, then we’ll all hear about it sooner or later
boooooooo I’m already teetering on the axes of, “Well, this might speed things along a bit I guess,” vs “OH MY GOD, BEST THING EVER FOR THE FUTURE IS NOW COMPLETELY FUCKING RUINED MOTHERFUCKER THE SKY IS FALLING“
@transientmind It’s not really a post by me unless I screw someone’s head up at least a little. That’s the Aliasalpha seal of quality!
SKY. FALLING. MOTHERFUCKER.
Or it could be the revolution VR needs the way Internet didn’t become vital until corporations realized it was a FANTASTIC way to sell things.
I’m so conflicted and complex.
Yeah but they only got $400 mil cash. $1.6 bil is stocks that they effectively can’t touch.
He’ll finally be able to afford that Ferrari he wanted.
Titanfall really doesn’t like you alt+tabbing, huh?
Games that do not handle alt+tabbing will be some of the first up before the firing squads when I rule the world.
As will be people who point out that you can’t execute games before firing squads.
You disappoint me, master-racer! Do you not understand why some games fuck up on alt+tab? (Gonna explain here for others anyway, cos YOLO and SWAG.)
Basically it’s a thing called ‘exclusive mode’. Most games run in exclusive mode by default, which means that the game starts in a full-screen overlay type thing, meaning there’s no Windows GUI to render at that point. This results in optimal performance.
Some games allow you to switch to full-screen windowed mode, which must render the GUI behind it constantly, because you can alt-tab all you want and there’s no problem. Slight performance hit in this mode.
Some games take a really long time to re-render and sync back to exclusive mode if you force them out of it by any means, alt+tab included. I’m not sure if it’s the graphics driver and/or the application that has the problem with it, but it’s pretty much a given that most graphically-heavy games have a problem with this.
I expect optimal performance AND utility. SUCH IS THE POWAH OF MY RIG.
Touche, sir.
You can if you use a railgun.
Now that I’ve been reading the words Oculus Rift all day, it still is a stupid name for a product.
yeah, pretty much translates to ‘broken eyes’
I was thinking “division between the eyes” which actually makes sense given what it does.
true, but that’s less funny.
I NEED A VOLUNTEER.
pretty much just so I can fill a selection criteria for a job that says ‘experience managing volunteers’I VOLUNTEER FOR THE TRIBUTE
ok. my management of you is to suggest you carry on with whatever you were doing.
SELECTION CRITERIA MET.
Oh God, you’ve seen it too. Or maybe just the trailer.
Just the trailer.
Heard it’s actually OK
I watched a late night showing of The Hunger Games before the midnight early-screening premiere of the sequel. Wasn’t bad, actually.
Too cheesy for me, personally. I found I was the only one laughing in the cinemas at certain parts of the first, so I won’t bother with the sequel.
I had gone in well-prepared by having seen the CinemaSins tally and the ‘HISHE’ videos in advance. 🙂
:/ didn’t qualify for that traineeship in networking, all because I don’t have a drivers license, which I asked why wasn’t it stated in the original ad when I applied last Thursday, which was met with a “i’m not sure” and since then i’ve seen seen 2 variants of the ad. Oh well I guess.
Job ad initially stated it was permanent here in Tweed Heads and a cert 4 in IT would need to be obtained whilst carrying it out.
Edit: also I find it a little insulting I am told I am perfect for the job apart from one aspect which can be changed. Bums me out man, I just wanna move on & up with my life.
Well, a lot of jobs assume you have a license, especially if it’s on-site work.
Problem was with the job it was in one place here in town 35 hours a week. That’s also what I was told on the phone, the lady thought it was stupid. But hey, the Tweed Council demand an open license for every job I see advertised. Next they’ll be asking everyone have the appropriate license so they can drive a 16 tonne semi at a drop of a hat 😛
If I was presented two identical candidates, one with a license, one without, I’d go the former.
You see to me that’s what could be seen as discrimination, especially when it’s for a job that does not require a license, which it was presented as, a job based solely in town here. Then again they also want applicants for apprenticeships to have open licenses and minimum year 10 qualifications. I feel they just apply this to any job description without actually thinking.
I also experienced similar with Aldi, they told me they couldn’t progress cause I didn’t have a current drivers license. To which their employment agency could not give a solid reason as to why it was needed since it was for a full time position at their local store, which I live less than 1km from… This wasn’t an issue for Dan Murphy’s or EB Games, EB even offered me work at other stores in recent too, which unfortunately can’t happen anyway, even though I was keen to take up work at that store.
Ahh yes… the old “what am I going to need a licence for, just in case my desk sprouts wheels?” thing…
Being a networking job, there is a high possibility that site work would be required. If not, it’s likely that they require someone with a licence to drive around and pick up stock or stuff like that. It’s not uncommon to find in technical positions like that. They usually base it on a worst case scenario. My role is a workshop role, but even I was asked during the interview if I had an open manual licence, as there may occasionally be a need for me to pick people up, or go to the post office etc. It may seem a bit discriminatory, but it all depends on how their business is structured. Having said that, being that it’s a traineeship, chances are that if you ever did go out on site for jobs, you’d be going with someone else, so my guess is they probably want someone to be able to get about and pick up stock, or drop things off at other places.
Sucks to hear you missed out, but at least you know it wasn’t because of your skillset related to the job. I’m sure you’ll eventually find something!
It’s not discriminatory. It’s an expectation that if needed you could drive somewhere- to do a pick-up or delivery, pick up a part, see a client.
You’ll find its so if you need to go to another site for whatever reason during the day they can actually send you.
You should do whatever you can to get your license. You don’t want to end up like me and be old and not be able to just drive places.
I second this for sure, but further to this, get a manual licence, cos having automatic quite often is enough to give someone with a manual that little edge. Manuals are generally cheaper to buy/maintain, so business vehicles are more often than not, manual.
Vast majority of jobs will demand a driver’s license. It’s a reliability thing that is just expected so it’s more a tacit requirement.
Why don’t you just get your license?
I’ve been wanting to, I just can’t afford it currently, I have to get them by May anyway since I ain’t renewing my ID card then heh.
Definitely worth getting a licence. Don’t even need to have a car, but the licence’ll get you a lot more options.
Thing is, I don’t know but from discussions with coworkers who have kids going for licences, now, I hear there’s a SHITLOAD of hoop-jumping more than there was in my day. Like keeping a driving-journal or something and a higher mandated number of required ‘official’ lessons, and a longer learner-period, which requires a full-licence-holder in the car at all times, which makes getting that journal/log hours up kinda tricky without someone else’s cooperation… Maybe that’s only just for reckless young people?
He’s in NSW so it’s always been retarded down there.
I remember mine was do a written multiple choice test for my L’s, six months later do a practical test for my P’s and 3 years later you have your Opens (buying a 5 year license meant your Open was actually on the card with the relevant dates). No logs or changes in between.
Very very retarded. Tho at least unlike Qld you don’t have to hold your L’s for a minimum of 2 years from what I heard from friends over that way..
It’s been a while so I wouldn’t know.
All the same, despite all the bullshit fuckery, it’s probably still worth doing.
You had a test to get P’s! Really glad I got mine when I did! Held my L’s for 6months, then full licence, open after 3 years! No test, no bullshit! Just went in and they printed me a new one! w00t!
Well that’s part of the problem, the 120 hours, the 20 minimum hours night driving which would never happen, the fact now that NSW believes an hour with instructors is worth 3 log book hours and there was talk of making that mandatory not long back.
When I turned 16 or whatever when it was the age to get your L’s it was 50 hours & 6 months, wanted to get them then but I didn’t have my birth certificate and it took far too long to actually make my father help obtain it since he was the one who needed to do all the paperwork. But by the time I was 17 they had jacked up all the stupid rules & regulations making it harder for people to obtain a license. None of which has put better drivers on the roads around here mind you.
Yeah, if I remember correctly if you’re over 25 you don’t have to do all of the logbook stuff.
Hold L’s for 6 months pass test, pretty much all you have to do.
Its only for young people, I only got mine 3-4 years ago and I didn’t have to keep a logbook or anything, hypothetically because I’m older than cars, I could have gotten my L’s and immediately booked my Ps test.
Must check to see when I can go for my full now that I think of it, probably been eligible for months now
If you’re over 21 whilst on your L’s, you don’t have to do the 120 hours.
At least that’s how it is in Victoria.
Nah NSW isn’t that kind 😛 plus they’re trying to encourage everyone to get something like upto 10 lessons with instructors around here, the very same ones who teach their students to creep along in the gutters and stop in driveways. Our street is very popular with all of the driving companies around here heh. There was also talk of having every person do a defensive driving course before getting their P’s as well..
Man I’m glad I got my licence when I did. The shit they have to go through now, logging 100hours of practice and stuff.. omg! Only requirement for me was to have 5-10 lessons with an instructor, and hold the learners permit for 6 months!
My grandad’s first car was a model T Ford that he built himself from scrap/donated parts.
His driver’s licence was given to him by the local cop, with the test consisting of the cop saying, “Yeah, I’ve seen you driving that shit around. You didn’t crash, so here you go.”
Different times.
(Edit: At that time Grandad was like… fifteen.)
hahah yeah. they sure are. I might be old, but I dun think I’d want it any other way 😉
That moment when you realise the amount of money that you’ve spent on tabletop RPG books is probably worth more than your car. #rpgs4lyfe
Jaysus.
I’ve probably spent more in aggregate on games across my lifespan than I’ve spent on my car too. Same or close on stupid plastic figures. But I don’t regret either. Well, not much at least.
Pfft, I probably spent a car’s worth on c64 games
Well, I probably HAD more than a car’s worth of value of c64 games…
Eh, I spent more on a pinball machine than I did my first car- even after buying out my sister for her half of it when she got her own 😛
Geez, the gaming collection’s probably cost me more than my current car, adding in petrol and rego and all that on top too >_>
Dental treatment on a single tooth will cost be $4K+
One of the shitty chairs here that make your ass numb after 15 mins costs $300.
A single bottle of pills can cost $10K.
Everything is relative.
Oh my god, me too!
i don’t have a carSo I fit a stereotype apparently, which is classic over-spender :S blew 75% of my allocated clothes money on one top :S
Ended up going 50% over budget, which is a shame, cause that was gonna be my inFamous money 🙁
Looks like I’m waiting a few more weeks before I get my mits on Second Son :'(
Haha! Last time I went clothes shopping I bought four shirts for twenty bucks. *decisive nod*
You must’ve bought the best damn lumberjack shirt evah.
;:O
4 for $20?!?!
That’s less than I spent on 1 pair of undies!!! :'(
Thats around the same amount I spent on socks!!!
waahaahaahhh!!! D’:
I have a problem!!! :'(
To be fair, they were just plain t-shirts of a non-brand name kind. Usually I get two lumberjack shirts for $75 at Jeans West or something.
I stockpiled on jeans at DFO a whiles back and they’ve lasted me a while. 😀
I spent double that on one shirt, by accident, I didn’t realise it was so expensive until I got to the register, and the guy was being super helpful and I was the only one there so I had to buy it cause it was really nice and I felt sorry for him :'(
THEN I WENT AND BOUGHT MATCHING UNDIES, SOCKS AND PANTS CAUSE IT WAS A REALLY NICE SHIRT!!! D’:
Must be nice if you anticipate people will be seeing your underwear when wearing this shirt. 😛
Well, I am going out Saturday 😉
At least when I do that its because I can’t buy clothes in a shop that doesn’t feature the words “Big” or “Tall” in the name
I started overspending when I got a full-time job. I used to buy clothes for like <$10, $2 shorts etc. That shit costs $40-50+ normally, but my parents are awesome at scoping out deals lol.
This is why I sell people the world
Salar de Uyuni is really like that, it’s amazing.
The Waitomo glowworm caves aren’t anywhere near as nice as that photo makes out.
I imagine a lot of them are like that, can’t deny it looks amazing though
Not so much in the entrance where you walk in but get the wetsuit on and go deeper in its very much like that.
Well, the experience of them that 90+% of people going into those caves isn’t going to involve wetsuits. The usual tourist tours are pretty crap. I did it once in the mid 90s and the most memorable thing about it was my sister getting motion sickness in the boat ride at the end of the tour.
There are so many more impressive places to visit in New Zealand than the Waikato area.
For free? 😀
Xenoblade buddy discounts? 😀
How have I never heard of Lake Hillier?
Top score 6888… damn it @gingerchris86
7064 >_<
TRIALS EVOLUTION PC PEOPLESSS:
Is all the leaderboard stuff done through Steam friends or Uplay friends? It looks like buying Fusion through Steam will run Steam AND Uplay, so I may as well just buy it separately for Uplay unless it has Steam friend integration (I have no Uplay friends :'( )
Thanks!
@freezespreston @mythamphetamine @aliasalpha
Completely through UPlay. I have 1 friend who’s score I can see and that’s @mythamphetamine. #foreveralone
#leavingfreezebehind
Your dot stresses me out man.
Well you lot can add me, Aliasalpha001
Consider it done! I just followed you on Twitter too, after Fatshady retweeted you.
Ahhh that puts pressure on me to actually say stuff now!
Wait, you’re on Twitter? Can I follow you, too?
Follow first, ask later (on Twitter, not real life :P)
EVERYONE FLOOD HIM WITH FOLLOWS
OI!
I predict @liondrive would be awesome on Twitter. Let’s make him join too via peer pressure!
@dc
Someone took the twitter name liondrive, so I refuse to use Twitter for the time being.
Remember that guy who was all “I’ll never use Twitter!” then got one and uses it so much now?
@dc 😉
@greenius Peer pressure! IT TOTALLY WORKS!
@liondrive What about LionCarpools?
@dc
Doesn’t have the same ring to it 😛
It has to have Lion in it somewhere though, preferably with drive in there as well, but drive can be replaced :'(
@liondrive liondriven! LIONDRIVEN!
@dc
Hmmm, not atually bad. I’ll check availability of that, or similar. Maybe even DrivenLion. that has a better ring to it I reckon. or theDrivenLion. Hold on, i’mma check :3
Easiest peer pressure evah. XD
I really don’t post anything, just respond to people
I don’t get to spend too much time here, and Twitter has very much become an ad-hoc TAY for me.
Or rather, it started out as such. It’ll get its claws in you, don’t you worry.
uplay friends only I think, if you buy it on steam you launch it there but its still going to run through uplay so you might as well save some cash & just buy it on GMG (which just sends you a uplay code) with the 20% off coupon they have on
Yeah, this is what I was thinking. No point paying extra and going through 2 DRMs
I’m foreveralone and need some Uplay friends!
I’m GreenGreenius. I added @aliasalpha but the Uplay column is lacking in TAYnames 😛
MikeyW2009 I think from memory.
Added.
Also, was no one able to get their usual name? :P. Greenius was taken and searches for FreezeSPreston and Mythamphetamine turned up nothing
That’s ‘cos I’m Aleph-Null
I searched Aleph! But I think I needed to be more specific 😛
Added.
NegativeZero1
EDIT: Pretty sure anyone that created their Uplay account back with Assassin’s Creed II on X360 will have their Uplay account name == their Xbox Live Gamertag btw.
“When Slash was in the GnR” oh YouTube comments..
Man, I haven’t read any good webcomics in a while, but I just got started on the archives of strongfemaleprotagonist.com and damn if I can’t put it down.
Starts slow and potentially crappy you-go-grrl ‘day in the life of’ superhero trying to live a normal life deal in a world where supers are a known thing, but escalates pretty quickly, hits some really good topics.
Someone mentioned Order of the Stick a while ago (@popdart5 or @redartifice I’m guessing) and I’ve been working through that.
Check out Crossed if you get a chance. Not funny, kind of full on at times but is pretty well done.
I’d mention Oglaf but you already follow that…right?
Uh… I don’t follow Oglaf… though I’ve read some. Obliterated the archives a couple times over the years.
Fuck.
I just read all the archives of this one, too. Now I have to wait. God… DAMMIT. I hate when that happens.
oots is very cool, I’m so behind on it though.
And just a thing I read like.. just right now which I’m loving, is a flashback to the Mom talking to the protag who is being a little bitch/bully in a soccer game about team-mates who aren’t doing as well.
“What has gotten into you? The way you’re behaving is atrocious, you’re acting like a bully!”
“Mom, I’m not being a bully! It’s not fair! I come to all the practices, I work extra hard, I actually WATCH the videos that coach asks us to watch! And it’s like… just cut me some slack, OK? I get better grades than anyone, I’m the best player on the team, and I just want people to try as hard as I’m trying!”
“They are trying!”
“No they’re not! If they were actually trying they’d be as good as me, and they’re not!”
“Sweetheart… do you think everyone can do what you can do? Because they can’t. You know that, right? You are very smart. You have a lot of talents and skills that other people don’t have. If you expect everybody to do the things that you can do, you’re going to be very lonely in life.”
“What, so I’m just better than everyone else? Is that it?”
“Who said anything about better? A person’s worth is never determined by their abilities. Consider that your teammates might be trying harder than you, and accomplishing less. Can you imagine how that would feel? Do you think your derision and scorn would help that situation in any way?”
Cut to shot of looking over at despondent-looking team-mate she chewed out earlier.
“Well?”
http://timecowboy.tumblr.com/post/79930096808/a-while-ago-i-made-a-superhero-comic-called-star
A friend did a thing, I haven’t checked it out yet but I assume it’s good 😛
Here are some I recommend (Chuck the names into Google):
Pawn (NSFW) – A scholar and demon try to find their way out of a cave whilst pursued by a skull-monster. A fair bit of nudity.
Blaster Nation (SFW) – After spending a year in the army, Matt Palmer returns to his friends apartment only to find his spot handed to a fiery red-headed slacker.
Menage a 3 (NSFW) – A 29 year old virgin returns home to find out his room-mate is gay, and is moving out with his partner, forcing him to find new room-mates for the apartment. Hijinks ensue.
Think “40 Year Old Virgin” in webcomic form.
Oh Joy Sex Toy (NSFW) – A weekly comic dedicated to everything sex and sex-toy related.
The Meek (NSFW) – A young girl, sent on a quest to save the world, must decide if it is truly worth saving.
Also, it’s not a webcomic, but someone here speaks highly of The Lesser Evil, which is apparently up for some award or something…
I think it’s @bdkiaf that talks about it? or someone?
No, no, it’s the other Canberran, @rize.
I think I might just have to beat the expansion content of Diablo 3 on something other than a ridiculously high difficulty. I want access to the stuff you get after beating it more than I want to grind up items to be able to beat the game.
Hang on, turns out that Bug types are super effective against Grass. Going to catch a caterpie right now.
EDIT: Second TAY Pageget. The first was about Pokémon as well. I’m detecting a theme here.
EDIT 2: Turns out Caterpie only have a 5% chance of appearing in the Viridian Forest in Red, so I’m going to get a Weedle instead.
That’s also where Pikachu spawn, the only useful pokemon you’ll find in the wild before you have Surf and can visit the power plant!
In red version, Caterpie and its evolutions will never learn a bug type move. Ever.
Don’t Stop Believin’…
One day you’ll watch Survivor… one day…
EVERYONE FOLLOW @THEDRIVENLION on twitter! 😀
@liondrive: TAYnames should help you find TAY folk.
Oi, I never said I was gonna make one! And how did you know I went with theDrivenLion?!?!?!
AND WHY AM I CONFORMING?!?!?!?!
The answer to all those questions is yes! I’m @hermitdc!
What’s a slizzard? XD DC. Sees. All.
I keep changing it cause I’m not happy with that bit :3
And “slizzard” is drunk, hahaha!
“poppin’ bottles in the ice, like a blizzard
when we drink we do it right, gettin’ slizzard”
Like a G6 – Far East Movement ft the Cataract and Devs
Do you not listen to pop songs? 😛
I think it’s pretty obvious that I don’t!
I think your music is scarier than @strange’s music! D:
Preferred the D&D version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54VJWHL2K3I
SHEEPLE
Because you’re not cool enough
*hair flick*
Gooky is our next target for peer pressure!
What if I was to tell you that we’re all friends with Sketchbook girl and talk about you on Twitter.
You should probably join to read what she’s saying about you…
You’re awesome at this social manipulation thing! You should be in marketing!
I hear @dc convinced oculus rift to sell to facebook
That’s even more reason to stay away. I don’t want to see any of that!
Join us gooky
join us
Not cool enough not to conform? Is that why you still don’t have a gravatar? 😛
All the cool kids are conformists these days, being rebellious is so 2000 and 8 Gooky, get with the times 😛
Gooky don’t even Steam.
He’ll submit or perish when I rule the world. Which is a little sad (you gotta
punishadmire that kind ofdementiaprincipled determination), but ultimately for his own good.Not if I rule it first!
…I just realised that by having a shaven head , I’m not conforming to the image of a hair-flicking hipster.
Jesus christ.
I was going to suggest LionDriver because it could have so many meanings; you’ve converted a lion into a car, you’re a pervert shagging lions, you’re forcing lions to do your bidding or you’re using a lion as a golf club.
DRINK SOUP TOO
(bit of a rant, feel free to ignore)
I think I am getting bored.It is just seeming to drag on a bit you know? Too many annoying, cheap trash mob encounters, not enough epic fun boss fights.
The whole 4th wall breaking – do a level, fight boss, onto next level, repeat – style of set up, complete with hub area, doesn’t help.
I don’t feel like a cursed hero on an epic quest across a dark land, I feel like a sadist’s take on Mario.
It makes me want to just power-game it, burn through the game just to finish it. Which makes it even more frustrating when I get shot in the back by archers for the tenth time or invaded by some arsehole.
Sigh. Maybe I just need a break.
No I agree. The world isn’t quite as cohesive or polished as the first game. I believe they’ll get the balance right with combat and such though. First game was ridiculously hard originally and some stuff was nearly impossible to get. Check out the list of early patch changes.
The combat balance is not really my beef, it’s more the overall design being basically lazy.It’s like instead of careful tweaking to make things difficult they said “fuck it, lets just throw in more trash mobs.” And instead of taking the time to make a cohesive world they just give the player a fucking level select screen.
And sure, overt narrative is not a Souls thing but there is practically no reason why you are doing this. “Oooh you are cursed and drawn to this land! Now go kill everything.” :/
The level select thing is balls. It really does break the fun of learning the world. I know Lordran better than the suburb I live. As far as the story goes, I’m not sure how far in you are but it really picks up in the final third. Have zero idea why they waited so long and they never explain the first 2/3. There’s no reason to collect the Four Souls and it just sort of says “oh you got them, you should head over there now” without any justification as to why. What I really hate however is when you shoot a single enemy to draw it’s attention and half the enemies in the area, even ones who couldn’t possibly have noticed come charging towards you. Yet the guy sitting next to the one you shot just stands there.Yeah, just recently got to Drangleic Castle and have no idea what the point of the last 45 hours was, narratively.Indeed, the aggroing is a bit off, though it could be intentional.
You know what annoyed me most though? The Lost Sinner Bonfire being camped by a pack of archers. I lost a ton of souls there because I forgot that that one bonfire breaks the rule of bonfires being safe zones and went to take a leak after dying to the boss.
At least make the mechanics consistent.
It’s definitely not as fluid as the first. I get almost a kind of ‘returning to the Normandy’ vibe to Majula, only without any of the rewarding conversations that made that particular activity the entire fucking point of Mass Effect 2 & 3.I’ve been lucky in that during my ‘exploration mode’ of play (as opposed to my ‘This is my objective, I will do it now’ mode with Lucatiel) I’ve been able to fend off and otherwise frustrate invaders, but as they ramp up and I draw closer to the end-game, for the sake of gameplay flow I’m probably going to go back offline at the cost of all the fun of messages and bro-op. I’m just too high a level and surrounded by too many assholes who just want to invade because I don’t know, they’re bored but don’t want to engage in honourable or consensual PVP for some reason. I’m going to assume it’s because of deep character flaws. Gone from ‘online is pretty cool now!’ to ‘online isn’t fun anymore’, and probably another another few hours without a single co-op but maybe a half-dozen invasions from, ‘fuck this, online is doing nothing but piss me off now’, which is where the plug comes back out of the PS3.
The struggle is also lessened now, so I’m basically exploring and ticking items off a laundry list. I’ve hit that tipping point where I now know how to acquire whatever I really want in terms of gear, but already have what is probably the best there is to have. All that’s really left is achievement-hunting completionism, min-maxing/theory-crafting, and the resolution of the story proper. At 80+ hours, I shouldn’t be surprised, but I suspect I may hit that same boredom point anytime now.
Hay, does the bonfire astetics respawn npc’s or just enemies?
Haven’t seen it personally, but the wiki advises me: just enemies, not NPCs.
8076!
SDFKJHSFDIUYSLEUHLIS&DVSER!
10308!
I had a 1024 block!
Dammit!
#NoContextTaco 😛
(but I still somehow know what you’re talking about half the time…)
It’s provided by the Mindlink 🙂
My sister got to the 2048, so I have given up all hope.
NUMENERA! STREAMING NOW! http://youtu.be/RyarbSp6vls
I tuned in just in time for the “anything fishy” pun… worth it 🙂
My eye got replaced (Thanks Techie!), and I got a tail. Awesome.
For my next trick, I shall actually fix something instead of breaking it, baby steps 😛
Oh, it won’t be a tail, I’ll show you a picture next time… after we see if @Novacascade and @blaghman are joining you.
I only caught the last 15 minutes. I don’t know why I was even there, as I have no idea what the story was up to that point.
A sick part of me wanted nova to accidentally amputate Blaghman.
I must say, it’s weird to be able to put a face to TAYbies, since I only know them by their gravatars.
Well, it would have been fitting, given I had amputated someone on our airship earlier.
Twice.
Because I got the wrong leg the first time.
Were you trying to help with the amputation? Medical things gone wrong are the funniest RPG failures. I was once disintegrated by our party cleric because of a bad card being drawn, the GM ruled he put so much energy into trying to resurrect me that my body exploded
Here’s the amputation attempt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyarbSp6vls&feature=share&t=1h22m26s You can’t see his roll, but it’s a six,and he had to hit a 12
Heh nice
In my case it was a card based dragonlance thing, the cleric drew a special card that had a huge outcome but then drew a 1 for the actual effect so was ruled a catastrophic failure and pop goes the ranger…
I’d say that was gold, but that would be a disservice to @blaghman’s ineptitude. Platinum, them.
@Blaghman is great in combat, but some of his out of combat rolls have been awful. Last session he tried to flex to impress a lady and tripped over the doorstep.
Shit goes full alien around the 1:48:00 mark, its pretty hilarious and full on
If Nova hadn’t done two really great rolls in a row, that would have been much worse.
Hey Red just FYI I heard from Nob (One of our lovely viewers) that they were only able to see our webcams, not the Roll20 board so they couldn’t see things like roll results.
Yeah, saw that on the video playback, will see what I can do
In the interim we can easily just announce our roll results until we figure it out (And by “we” I of course mean “you”) 😉 Still really happy we got an audience! \o/
Apparently apps don’t show in hangouts, but you can screen share to show it, so I’ll try that.
We can easily just run a small test sometime next week or something just so we get the format right for next time.
I’d also like to use the Lower Third plugin, we can put character names and the “I am an X Y who Zs” description in. :http://newraycom.com/how-to-set-up-google-hangout-lower-third/
Ah yes I think I saw that used on a Youtube video before by Adam Sessler when he was talking with several journalists and TotalBiscuit. That would certainly be a good start.
WHo is the dude at 5 sec mark. So many memes could be made from this face. 😛
Of the total video? @tech_knight
Humans from work have told me I do a great trollface, so you could be on to something here 😛
Hrmm, I am in a state of total apathy right now. For the last 20 minutes, I have been staring at my steam list or youtube page. I usually look at a game, somewhat excited to play it, then lose all my enthusiasm moments before launching the game. It’s the same with youtube videos.
Ahh… the chaser’s solve everything.
Play something that isn’t trying to be a AAA videogame in 2014. AKA something not total trash.
Grab a good game you can chill to with a pumping music track. Racing games, Quake, Bulletstorm … ?
And finally in the good news stories… Just pretend it happened recently and not nine or ten years ago. (Has it really been that long?)
Ahhh this is why events need to make a comeback as much as trends do…
I have not seen Christian Slater for ages. Brilliant.
Touch wood that he never returns
I’ve got some really DARK MOLES, y’all should take a look.
http://imgur.com/FxVwkjT
I have the same thing, I think there’s a cream for that.
So Karen Gillan did an AMA today…This question was interesting:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/21c0lh/my_name_is_karen_gillan_im_an_actress_ask_me/cgbkysx
Question: “The year is 1998. Do you choose N64 or Playstation?”
Her Reply: “Playstation all the way”
Dead to me.
ILL FITE YOU, CRAZYGUY
*@crazyguy1990
Dammit.
In the blue corner is @crazyguy1990 standing at an impressive 8008 (lol) comments, and in the red corner we have @mrtaco standing at an equally impressive 7602 comments.
This should be a pretty close fight folks.
LLLLLETS GET READY TO RUMBLLLLLLLLE!
Is this No DQ?
Cause I’ll break out the barbed wire and nut-shots if necessary.
Hey man. Be cool.
You asked for the fight.
*bell rings*
*grabs barbed-wire wrapped cricket bat*
Let’s fucking do this!
😛Sure, why not, it’ll make it more exciting.
Flaming Tables!
Is anyone else today playing Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare on 360, bought it today but when you go to start it, it attempts to download something called the “Garden Variety Pack” which gets to 99% and then fails giving you the message “Can’t Download Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare Garden Variety Pack” the first time I’ve seen the words “Can’t Download” in six years of owning the xbox!
I’ve got it on both Xbone and 360. Played it on 360 the other day with no issues. Apparently some people have been having problems since the DLC was released. According to Justin Wiebe’s (Creative Director of PvZ: GW) Twitter they’ve been working on a patch which should be going live sometime in the next 24 hours.
https://twitter.com/JA_Wiebe
Hope it gets sorted soon so you can get into it, it’s a lot of fun.
Me too – my son was very disappointed and I’ve been hanging to play it since I saw it during last year’s E3!!
Maybe this will help you?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/03/plants-vs-zombies-garden-warfare-unplayable-for-some-after-recent-update/
Well they’ve released an updated update that’s actually about half a MB smaller (perhaps accounting for the failure at the 98% mark!) and that’s fixed it – it now works!
Good to hear, enjoy.
NUMENERA
So Phetys has been infested witha mysterious symbiote! Will Nova and Blaghs escape the same fate? Will Ranger wake up?
Tune in next time for more tales from the ninth world! And thanks to all of our stream viewers!
I sent you an email with my updated character sheet. Also I said it in the email but I won’t be available for the next one in two weeks.
No problem!
And for those who missed the stream, the story begins here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyarbSp6vls&feature=share&t=18m28s
Oh hey a letter. Telling me about how my car insurance stopped on Friday night.
Oops.
The perfect crime.
DANK SINKS
I DID IT! I BEAT THE PURSUER! 😀\o/
You know, I think the PC community for Titanfall might be a lot smaller since release. I can’t find games in Last Titan Standing or CTF. This forces me to play Attrition.
One of the criticisms of Titanfall was that there might not be enough content to keep people interested for very long. There are a lot of maps, but few weapon types. I still have a lot of fun 30 hours in, but that might not be the case for the majority of players.
@evilmonkey brought up the possibility that Titanfall didn’t sell all that well. I could understand it not selling too well on the Xbone, as few people own it, but PC? I wouldn’t mind seeing some hard data on the sales figures of the title.
Not sure if that’s the case or not, I don’t think they’ve released any official sales figures yet (possibly because it didn’t perform as well as they thought it would).
You can get UK statistics, and Titanfall was the top seller on PC last week and the week before (from memory these stats don’t include digital, but I could very well be wrong), and was third last week (behind Infamous and Metal Gear) and first the week before in overall sales.
Hmm, there might be NPD data out, though I can’t remember if that’s still a thing, but if it’s there you could get a decent look at US sales.
Yeah, but the US and the UK…
@phlanispo it might be the time you’re playing at?
The Americans and British players might be playing while we are all asleep 🙁
But don’t we have our own Aussie servers? So he should be getting matched with other Aussies.
The Battlefield series is the premier shooter for PC if you’re talking AAA. Titanfall simply doesn’t appeal to PC users: 6 v 6 only, stupid AI is forced, and as you said stale types of matches and hardly any weapons.
Unfortunately, BF4 left a sour taste in peoples’ mouths, so now everyone is scattered over BF4, BF3, BFBC2 (yep), and other stuff like DayZ and CS.
I think I somewhat disagree with you there. Titanfall is practically an arena shooter, due to the pace. Watch a battle between two people with EVA-8 Shotguns. It’s pretty much a rocket match from Quake. They will most likely be jumping around like lunatics, trying to avoid being one-shot.
Why would the AI discourage people? The grunts are basically creeps in a MOBA. You kill them to get your Titan earlier. I don’t see what about the grunts alienates PC users.
I never said the matches were stale. There just might not be enough content to keep people playing months down the line.
I tried to Dark Souls…
But I’m lost!
D:
Oh-ow! Brace yourself for a flood of incoming advice, tips and tricks!
For clarity purpose, did you try and Dark Souls 1 or 2?
Might not recieve the tips and charity as he didn’t include spoiler tags or a bolded underlined heading spelt wrong but sounding similar
PARK DROLL’S
That should do somethingDark Souls 1.
I’m past the first part where you run away from the Asylum Demon.Still in the Asylum?
Run around the hallways opening all the doors you can and climbing stairs etc. You’ll eventually find yourself up above the Asylum Demon, and you’ll have an opportunity to land on his head, dealing massive damage. Then you pretty much plant your face in his bum and roll every time he swings his weapon, then stab him a few times then wait for your energy to come back, and repeat. (And pretty much every other boss fight in the game will go along similar lines.) Then you’ll get to leave the Asylum and be free! Free to die a lot.Once you’re out of the Asylum and get to Firelink Shrine (the sort-of hub place for the game) don’t go down into the scary dark cave with the skeletons. Go up the cliff with the zombies instead! 🙂
Good advice.
And whatever you do DON’T try and fight the guy at Firelink Shrine, he’s one tough customer. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t respawn either.Also, he’s a good guy. Sort of. Though I guess that doesn’t really count for much in Dark Souls.He ends up like everyone else, eventually.PORK SPOILS TOO
Just made it to the Ruin Sentinels, got my arse handed to me within 5 seconds. Time to call it a night I think.PANTS SOIL (NUMBER TWO)
I finished off the entire Shaded Wood leg of the game today. Skipped past the Royal Rat Authority boss though, because that guy destroyed me about ten times. Did everything else though. I was useless against the massive spider, because it took me ages to realise my hits against the side of its body were doing zero damage *headmeetdesk*. My summon ended up doing pretty much all the heavy lifting. After victory, he tried to stab me. Think he was annoyed :\Also,
Pate and Creighton never showed up in Brightstone. ANNOYED. Pretty sure I’d done all aspects of the quest up to then……… Might go and investigate Earthen Peak again, make sure Pate moved on from there :\Popsugar is just so strange and alien to me. I appreciate the occasional pretty face down on that screen down there (well – maybe not right now. I mean… if Kristen Stewart was a chick, I’d do her, but sometimes they put models/actresses/celebrities-for-no-reason down there which is nice, I guess? I recognize practically none of the names), but by and large the words escape me.
Adblock?
Well, I do like seeing the other Kotaku/Giz/LH ones, so nah, not at home. At work, definitely.
It’s just a strange thing, is all. Not bad, or good, just… so very, very different.
I have a confession.
I ventured into Popsugar once and stayed there for over half an hour cause I liked it 🙁
I still occasionally venture over there 🙁
Oh man, I totes use the Sugars as my source of celebrity goss.
Though I’m no longer allowed in a 3 block radius of the Sugar Girls.
Hey! It’s that guy from twitter! Hey guy from twitter!
You’re so proud you got me on Twitter aren’t you? 😛
Maaaaaybe.
Yes.Why am I not asleep?
:\
I’m going to try and sleep.
Goodnight.
…sleep? Is that what you’re meant to do when you’re not playing video games?
I guess there’s also the option of marathoning a TV show.
Did you marathon another tv show?
Parks and Recreation seasons two and three.
I’d do seasons four, five and six but I kind of didn’t download them yet but it’s going to happen.
When your internet finally comes back I’m guessing
In a bit under a week!
I miss Youtube.
LARK GOALS CHEW
Got invaded, so I went and stood in a narrow area with my big shield up. After a while the invader came and found me, and went running straight back into an area full of enemies. Nope, I’m not playing that game.So I waited.
Eventually when it got to the business end of things, I got back stabbed from in front. Yay for crap internet and lag. Luckily I’m wearing the heaviest armour available, so that was only half my health. Worked out how to use the lag to my favour and started swinging for the hills with my heavy attack. Result: dead invader. Piss off, I’m trying to explore a new area here.
Also got the Dragonrider shield and Pursuer’s shield, got the strength for the first and switched, but it’s not really different from my tower shield. 2 more levels until I start using the big shiny shield now.
For the record, just in the process of clearing through the Huntsman’s place thingy. No longer just carrying a mace, now I have a mace and a magic mace.
incase the regular mace doesn’t cut itFairly certain the “Magic Mace” he had is for the ladies.Ladies…
that’s why I call my club the “Magic Stick”for the ladiesI like my mace but it doesn’t have the durability to clear an entire area. So this seems to be the best solution to thatJust found out that there’s gonna be a Collector’s Edition for Wolfenstein: The New Order (is anyone really surprised). It’s limited to 5,000 pieces worldwide, and is called the Panzerhund Edition.
I think it can only be ordered from the Bethesda Store. Here’s the link if anyone’s interested, but beware, it costs $100 and shipping to Australia is $75 and it DOES NOT INCLUDE A COPY OF THE GAME.
http://store.bethsoft.com/brands/wolfenstein/wolfenstein-the-new-order-panzerhund-edition.html
Loving the fact that it’s truly a limited collector’s edition though.
How can it be an ‘edition’ at all if it doesn’t include the game?
This is their reasoning behind the decision to not include the game.
From the store page
Edit: I agree, it is pretty stupid to call it an “edition” when it doesn’t even include the game. Without the game it’s just a box of collectibles.
That’s what I was thinking, it’s a collectors box, game sold separately.
It even comes with a steelbook…and yet no game.
But the steel book contains postcards! That the post office won’t actually accept
I agree. Encouraging people to keep their existing pre-orders, they’re double-dipping into the wallets of their fans. Pretty lousy practice, I think.
I love Wolfenstein, but not that much. The game is going to be rad, though.
To be honest, I’d love that steelbook. But that is it! 😀
If you order the game from Mightyape you get a free t-shirt, but only with the Xbone, PS4, and PC versions.
http://www.mightyape.com.au/search?i=All&prev=&s=Wolfenstein&SearchButton=Search
EB Games have such shit preorder bonuses. Seriously.
Reminded me that I need to put a pre order down on the game..
Dark Souls 2
So I defeated Velstadt, and now killing the leydia apostles for infinite souls I’m already 220+ SL unsure how long I’ll keep this up for, regardless I see much easier times ahead with me in the power bracket.haha, man I have not even cracked 100 yet.
Me either, I’m only at 57, only just got up to the Ruin Sentinels though.
I wonder if it’s still possible for me to throw down a sign and be summoned to help you? I’m a pretty similar level (but souls collected might be a bit different)
I’m partway through Drangleic castle, probably close to where Distantdrop is 😀
maybe I should do some levelling, or eat some of my pile of boss souls or something.
I’m only 120 and and near the end. It’s still very much gear/skill > stats. Except for Stamina. You can never have too much Stamina. GIVE ME MOAR STAMINA!
I honestly have not bothered with that stat.
I want more stamina but at only 2 points per level it seems a massive level sink for not much gain.
I would need about 12 level into it just for one more swing. If I want to be able to roll or block afterwards that’s another 20 odd levels.
I was going to save all my boss souls to trade in for weapons, but according to the guide
my Greatsword will do 400 damage once it’s fully levelled up to +10, so I might just stick with that and consume all my boss souls.Most of them are not too great.
But might as well hold onto them – souls are easy to come by.
I can’t shake the mindset that I need to collect all rare weapons ala Dark Souls 1. I’m keeping hold of them until I’m sure I can’t trade them for a hex or spell or pyro or miracle. Then I’ll probably just get the weapons, because they don’t give you that many souls…
You’ll love these Leydia apostles =) they die in one hit give 900 souls and spawn infinitely every 5 seconds with 3+ to rotate around.
It must be like 40k+ souls every 5 mins.
Where is that at?
Theirs several places to farm them, best spot I found is right outside velstadts boss room in undead crypt, if you plan to farm them you might want to consider respecing magic to increase the speed too farm them.
Haha! Boy, people come up with some funny rhyming names.
I wonder if you can buy large containers of opal iridescent superfine glitter. I need more glitter. Always more glitter =P
Someone’s making a glitter bomb! It’s okay, I’ve reported you to the FBI!
Weren’t there guys who got pulled up on bioterrorism charges because of glitter?
All the glitter! Arts stores?
@sernobulus is going to be the prettiest man at the fair!
Glitterbro! \o/
My eyes cannot handle the fabulousity.
PRAISE THE GLITTER! \o/
IT’S IN MY EYES YOU MANIAC WHY WOULD YOU THROW THAT AROUND
*\o/*
Edit: Damnit Red!
Also, if you’re throwing glitter around, maybe it should be *\o/*
it can be done =P
and take some of the glitter away from you. I wouldn’t dare. =P
I don’t mind =P
The EB has opened up today in front if me. 20% off store wide today.
Hmmm.
HMMMMM!
Oh man I should totally come over there.. and we could use my staff discount on top of that, another 15% off 😀
Price-match plus 20% off? Either way, I’m sure you’d get some okay deals even for 20%.
I so wish that worked same with staff discounts working on price matching haha.
So Wolfmother have a stream of their new album up on their Bandcamp, i’ve never really listened to them apart from what singles I heard like Joker & The Thief etc.. Since I never could really get into Stockdales voice, but this album is pretty decent.
Ian Peres is an old school friend of mine.
That’s cool. Wait no that’s cooler than that actually..
..ice cold?
Page 6 is thattaway *points*
Alright, alright, alright.
He was actually the schools biggest nerd. Borderline pocket protector type. Amazing on the piano though.
He looks so different nowadays.
Haha, wow. Sounds like quite the change.
I think my mate claims to be his friend, actually, since I recall him saying something a year or two back about being mates with the keyboard player in Wolfmother, just I don’t believe him cause he thinks he knows all the local musicians who make it big, he’s so full of shit.
I thought they disbanded?
I guess not since this new album debuted 4 days ago haha.
Haha, yeah I guess not hey.
I think from memory they did before their second album from memory then Andrew Stockdale went out on his own carrying on the Wolfmother name. I think it was around then their second album came out and he appeared on Slash’s first solo album.
I can post! I’ve spent all morning unable to log on, even as a guest.
It was HELL.
Who’s this guy?
Dirk Shoales II, at your service. *Low bow*
My, that sun is certainly praiseworthy
Praiseworthy? I’d call it grossly incandescent
Also, Why is DARK SOULS II not your username already?
Because self-promotion is still my top priority 😛
I got told there was a problem with the security certificate when I loaded this morning
TAYlist today, who want’s their song on the TAYlist?
White Room – Cream
I Want It All – Queen. (If you don’t have that one, pick any other Queen song.)
Me, me, I do!
But on the off-chance you can’t play that (because you prefer to avoid lawsuits for example, or have a moral objection to terrible singing), I’ll request someone else’s song instead.
No Sleep – Cardigans
A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying – Bloodhound Gang
Or
Beat It – Michael Jackson
Digging In The Dirt – Peter Gabriel
Wooo! Peter Gabriel!!!
Anything by the beatles for me today
The Chimera – Smashing Pumpkins
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones
Hero of War – Rise Against
Awesome choice, I am now in love with you
How do I feel about this?
Flattered.
Great song though right? I love just about all their works.
Same. I cant wait for the next album 🙂
December 4th- Jay-Z
or
Touch The Sky- Kanye West
It’s Raining Men!
Who’s this guy? 😛
Love you, man, though you could expand your taste in music.
Gay Bar – Electric Six
or
Fineshrine – Purity ring
Mz. Hyde by Halestorm
if no Halestorm, then Rise Today by Alter Bridge
Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Ray (Cedric Gervais remix)
Or
Beam Me Up – Cazzette
If they’re too pop then…
Addicted to Bass – Puretone
Alternate suggestion
God Given (Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert Remix) – Nine Inch Nails (on Y34RZ3r0r3mix3d)
Electric Avenue – Eddy Grant
HIPSTER REQUEST :
Rodrigo y Gabriela – Hanuman
SERIOUS REQUEST :
Xavier Rudd – Fortune Teller
Ooo, I like your hipster request! Such great guitarists, that duo.
hell yes. for two people just sitting down playing guitar, they manage to do an awesome live show too.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Either Relax or Two Tribes, both are awesome
On the off chance you have neither, something more obscure
Re-Flex: The Politics Of Dancing
Requests closed, thank you.
I think Deception IV has had a last minute delay for next Thursday, not that anyone cares.
That’s twice I’ve had to fill out redundancy forms. The feeling has been the same both times.
The feeling of dread & regret, “What have I don’t with my life?” etc… The slow horrible walk up to the person in HR’s desk but then, the feeling changes to wanting to moonwalk out of the persons office followed by doing a couple of cartwheels / backflips after handing it in.
… Feelings are weird.
His lord the Duke of Soulsbury humbly requests you send him your bank details so he can bestow his $2 million inheritance upon you.
Slow but steady progress last night, did a couple of summons for the last giant before taking him on myself. Then spent a whole in the ironclad bonfire farming (with my shiny new Bastard Sword +5)Made my way to the pursuer and did a few more summons. The first was unfortunate, I managed to impale my fellow summon the some massive bolts. In my own fight with him was cursed, but still claimed victory. Travelled to the lost Bastille via raven, picked up a few items and spoke to the npc in the tower, before heading back to Majula for some sweet star raising. Called it a night then, will make my way to the tower of flame tonight.
Awesome, man.
I found the Tower an amazing place for early game co-op. Hope it’s still that.Don’t miss the early bonfire, though. I did, the first few times I attempted it.
I was reading last night that I’ve been doing illusory walls wrong? Apparently hitting them doesn’t work now, that right? If so, I’ve missed quite a few!Yeah. There are a bunch of different types now.
1. Pharros Lockstone walls. You need to use a Lockstone, and then you hit the wall where the device tells you to. You can’t do this until you’ve spent the stone, even if you know where the wall is.2. Normal illusory walls. Pressing A is what opens them.
3. Some cracked stone or wooden walls and doors can be smashed through with weapons or explosions.
Ah sweet, I’ve definitely hit a weak door, and opened one pharros door which got me the stamina regen ring. Going to have to find a list of the illusory walls I’ve already passed and try them now!wait until you find one and some dick has put a message directly in front of it so you can’t activate it.Yep, that’s pretty frustrating! Some of it’s gotta be deliberate trolling.
I saw a great one the other day.
At the end of the Iron Keep, just before the boss, someone has put a sign saying “illusory wall ahead” on the wall of that building. I saw a bunch of ghostly phantoms while I stood there, and all of them are just wailing on this unbreakable, unbudgeable wall.Excellent!
I wondered if it was a fake message or if it was preventing that when I found one of those. Bloody annoying.
Can’t you just press Y (or Triangle on PS3 to toggle the action?Nope.
The game won’t tell you it’s a hidden wall until you interact with it, so there’s no alternate action to switch toWell that sucks.
Mr. Strange summoned help for each of those first two bosses in the Tower Of Flame last night. First time either of us co-oped. He was scared but I made him do it just so I could see what it’s like without having to do it myself yet. 😛
First guy was pretty useless, he was a magic user and I think because of lag he was just missing with every single spell, as the boss was fast and never stays still. Did manage to redeem himself in the end though, and get the last shot in just as Mr. Strange was struggling with his stamina and health.
Second guy (for the fatter boss) was a badass. He could take out the big knights on the way there in about two hits. I really don’t think Mr.Strange would have survived the boss without his help. Dude was just taking all the damage, as well as dishing it out.
Where’s the sign for the NPC summon I heard was hanging around there? Think I might try with a game person before a real person.
Just before the fatty’s fog gate, there’s a broken bit of stone jutting out to the right (not the bit with the chest on it: over closer to the fog gate). He’s over there.
Ah. Thank-you. 🙂
I’ve turned pretty damn tanky with my maxed-out knight-captain allone armour, so when I co-op now, the first thing I do is switch my item-drop ring for the aggro-pulling ring, and my item-drop jester hat for the heide knight helmet.
Not only do the glowy red eyes look badass, but tanking bosses with that amazing Havel’s shield usually keeps the host alive. It’s always pretty annoying to get sent back to where you were because the host died.
Uh. …For them too, I imagine.
The number of times I’ve been summoned to fight the Iron King and the host has died before I even make it in the fog gate is crazy.
I think they’re just rolling into that hole in the ground, the pool of lava. They must be, to die so fast.HEY TAY!!!!!
Movie recommendation time.
SNOWPIERCER.
A South Korean science fiction action film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob & Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette.[2] The film is directed by Bong Joon-ho. It stars Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris, John Hurt and a heap of other people you will *not* recognise. Infact, when I looked on IMDB and read the main character was Chris Evans, I did a double take. In no way does he even *look* or sound like Chris Evans. Yet, there you go.
Plot: The world has frozen over, there’s one train constantly circling it, with the apparent last survivors, all in their own little ‘class carriages’. The low class citizens in the tail, eventually get sick and tired of being treated like scum, being killed off slowly and revolt, setting forth on a truly epic quest to get to the nose of the train. The train is as much of a character as any actor is in the movie, with each carriage being completely different from the next.
From SWAT style troopers trying to suppress the revolt with axes in a bloody free for all fight in the dark with nightvision, to a brutal, bloody showdown in a sauna area, this movie is just stunningly visceral.
The movie is surreal in the best possibly ways, evoking memories of movies such as Delicatessan and Brazil. Highly recommended to watch. Hope you catch it. Buy it when you can because it deserves to be bought, but see it by whatever means necessary because this is brilliant cinema that’s scared the hollywood machine with the Weinsteins holding it off for 2 years debating what they could cut to make it ‘more appealing to the masses’…
You don’t cut a thing, it’s amazing as is.
Noted.
More Macross! \o/
Ooh I predict giant robots, a singer and a love triangle!
Given that Macross has always reflected the styles of music that are popular at the time the shows are made, I expect this time rather than one or two specific singers we’ll see an idol group. :\
or that baby metal thing
It’s not usually as specific as that.
I don’t like how it’s 2014, a new console generation is out, and we’re still using game mechanics and design from 2005. There was a really good article floating around years ago, something like “What Needs To Change in Games – Listen, Devs!”. Can’t find it now, but every point was good. Unfortunately AAA people didn’t listen.
That’s why when I play a “shiny new next-gen title” I still have to restrain myself from smashing my valuable purchase into smithereens.
#NotGoodFeels
Masta..
But yes, agreed. I’m still undecided in purchasing a PS4.
Not trying to post flamebait, but master race is suffering because of these decisions too. :'(
Regarding PS4: unless you have money to spare and really like the 1080p-ness, no point. Pick it up later when cheaper and in a bundle, no compelling reason to purchase it on a whim.
Edit: although, if you’re a master-racer, there’s pretty much no reason to pick it up ever. There’s so many good games out on PC that you have enough to play forever. If anything, get a Nintendo product for the quirky Ninty-only releases.
Hehe.
1080 penis.
I really don’t understand this perspective. What are you expecting? New generation so everyone throws out everything they’ve learned over the last 30+ years developing games and starts from scratch? What would constitute a ‘next gen’ game design or game mechanic? New game mechanics don’t suddenly miraculously spring into being by magic when new hardware appears. They always build on what was already done before.
If you look at the last generation, there wasn’t really that many new mechanics or ideas introduced. Online multiplayer first hit consoles the generation before. The first major new gameplay idea was probably when Gears of War introduced the over-the-shoulder camera perspective and cover mechanics that are now tired and overused. And that came out a year into the X360’s lifespan. The only other thing I can think of was the seamless multiplayer integration with background matchmaking in stuff like Journey and Dark Souls. Even then, Demon’s Souls for example was a few new ideas layered on top of what was effectively just another iteration of King’s Field.
Now if your issue is that AAA is still doing some stuff that’s dumb or unimaginative then that’s probably true, but I’d argue that’s not an issue of them still using ‘last generation ideas’.
Also bear in mind that every game currently releasing on PS4 and Xbox One would have taken 18-24 months to develop and possibly more than that in pre-production and initial design. When they started the wouldn’t have even known what the hardware was going to be beyond educated guesses, and the XB1 hardware wasn’t even finalized until about August last year.
If you want to take away anything from the opening rounds of the generation, it’s that Sony at least has absolutely nailed their developer support and their development toolchains. Look at the vast swathe of indie devs releasing games in the next 3-6 months. PS3 was an utter dog to develop for for years because the tools were just not up to snuff. It was why Microsoft got a good head start – they know how to make good developer tools. This time the hardware is familiar and the tools are good, so there’s a lot more time to iterate on and develop new ideas and we should see some innovative stuff happening a lot sooner IMO.
I’m not defining the game design choices as an attachment of console generations. I threw in the “next-gen is out” statement because the tired excuse of “eh, we don’t have enough CPU power” isn’t as much of an excuse any more with the new consoles. It’s also a great time to mix things up, because people are expecting new things.
It kinda feels like I’m just babbling shit without the article to back me up, but a quick search proved fruitless. But things like:
– AI being shit.
– You must step on this tile, otherwise things won’t progress.
– To drift (car racing), hold down the direction key.
– Damage-sponge enemies.
etc
Everything is still using the same shitty concepts from the stone age. Some things age well, but most 3D game elements from the early conception do not. There’s better ways to do things these days, but no one is doing them.
Specific examples:
– NFS Rivals you stay in the drift unless you purposely exit it.
– Cheating AI to this day.
– Infamous using a janky jump animation from #1. The game is an expansion pack for #1. No changes at all in the couple hours that I’ve played.
– Assassin Creed 4 being yet another expansion pack, with exactly the same flaws as all of the 25 previous AssCreed games.
– The same restrictions in games from 10+ years ago. Back then you couldn’t render hands waving while moving character, so you stayed put. 2014, we’re still doing the same shit. Why?
Games being released today are struggling to obtain the ‘average’ rating. But for some reason everyone looks at the better visuals and particle effect, and suddenly the game is the best evar. Like that damn article I can’t find, we need to be more critical of games and make devs get the freaking picture – we don’t want shit.
There’s actually quite a bit of changes in InFamous but I bet it’s been long enough since 1 you’ve lost your reference point.
Agree on AI, though I should point out that smarter AI doesn’t necessarily mean more fun AI. Writing AI that’s fun to play with is super tricky and hardly anyone does it well. Bungie are very good at fun, interesting and dynamic AI but they’re the only studio I think I can call out specifically.
Assassin’s Creed definitely needs to re-do its core systems in a lot of places. It sounds like Unity (the upcoming PS4 / Xbone / PC one) has completely redone the traversal so I’m sure they’re aware of the issues they have too. That yearly cycle must make fixing issues tricky.
I don’t understand the hand waving point. There’s been massive improvements in animation fidelity and stuff in recent last-gen and current-gen games. The Last of Us for example is incredibly well-animated. I think the facial stuff and performance capture work in InFamous is awesome too. The way they do it though is having a separate ‘Cinematics’ engine and ‘Gameplay’ engine they switch between. IMO this will go away in the next iteration of games for the new systems. Again, remember that stuff releasing now is either cross-generation (and thus held up by the old systems) or was designed at least 2 years ago before anyone knew what the hardware would look like.
Hand waving – e.g. in inFamous, when charging powers the character stands still.
From a technical standpoint:
Character stands still, swap to an animation-cycle that is the same every time. Add in animation effects which are the same every time.
That’s understandable 5-10 years ago, where they can’t have many things going on at once. But in 2014, devs are either lazy as fuck, or someone made the decision that this is a good idea.
While it’s personal opinion, would it not be better to have a more realistic option? E.g. absorb powers and run around at the same time, or even shoot stuff yet remain planted? Small things like that stand out to me.
Dark Souls II as a game is old as dirt. The animations are janky, the audio effects are terrible and unvaried. But everyone looks past this because it “plays really well” or something, which is probably true. But I can’t forgive them for using that as an excuse to release such an old and unpolished game.
There is always some element in the game that is terribly half-assed, but people have come to think of them as normal.
That is probably a deliberate design decision. In what I believe was an interview with the DND Online devs, one of the developers claimed that they deliberately forced your character to stand still during spells, as it gives more weight to the combat.
Well yeah, as I said it’s a decision by the devs. But the initial reasons for doing this were “can’t do it from a technical standpoint”, and then the excuses started leaning more towards “this is a conscious game design decision, we did it because of xyz, we feel it is best for players”. Of course, this can’t be true in 100% of cases, but it’s the excuse used in 100% of cases …
…getting errors about the profile page being untrusted?
Me too! o/
Edit: not anymore….
I dunno if I should reciprocate. What if I can’t trust you!
Edit: Ok good \o
You most definitely cannot trust me.
Edit: though maybe you shouldn’t take my word for that… 😛
I knew you couldn’t be trusted.
It’s always seemed a bit shifty to me. There have been a few times the pretty mask has fallen off and it looked quite different, what else is it hiding??
So uh there might be Last of Us for PS4. Enhanced graphics + DLC.
Will double-dip happily.
Oh duck yes, my only complaints regarding the graphics were that some of the grass was kind of meh, that the shadow maps were a bit low res, and that 720p was not enough to show off how good it looked. So if they fix 2 of those, then I’m in.
And I’m sure this will be the game to convince Nob that he needs a PS4. >.>
Wrap it all up in a 60 fps bow and we got something that’ll even make the master race feel envy*
*for one whole second
Pshh, art direction tops graphics nine times out of ten. The Witcher 2 looked better on 360 than on PC despite being technically inferior in every way. If they can show me a game that looks better on my hardware than The Last of Us, then I will eat my own hat. Which doesn’t exist. So actually I’ll just say “sweet, that looks rad.”
Master Race exclusionists should feel envy because they missed out on a great (if somewhat flawed) game. Same as they should over Red Dead Redemption.
I might finally get to play that game, then. Eventually, if/when finances permit a new console!
Will trade my non played PS3 version in for a PS4 version…
Cool, I’d pick that up for sure.
Add in believable stealth and it’d be a possible repurchase for me. If Ellie’s pathfinding leads her to literally bump into enemies while shifting cover and they don’t react at all, it’ll still feel lazy & immersion shattering.
I get why they did it that way, so the AI didn’t screw your stealth up and piss you off through no fault of your own but could they not have done that by making the AI… I don’t know… good?
Lol, what is this, good game design? YOUR SO SILLEH.
I’d buy that for a dollar.
Just realised I can go see movies during the day now. \o/
But they have to be close to home and ones Mr. Strange doesn’t want to see.
Check Garden City’s movies and the only thing fitting that criteria is something called “Are we officially dating?”. /o\
“Are we officially dating?”
that’s not a film title. that’s a 13 year old’s text message.
To which the response is “Iunno? What does Facebook say?”
“WE BOUGHT THE OCULUS RIFT! WE’RE POWERED BY THE TEARS OF GAMERS!!!! MWAHAHAHAHA”?
Or, ‘I think I love you.’
Years ago I was seeing a Spanish girl who always wrote Iunno, I had no idea what the frack it meant. I just figured it was some sort of Spanish word. I looked quite the fool asking the question again.
Man, you sure date a lot of international ladies. How’d lunch go with French girl? (That was you, wasn’t it?)
Don’t you keep up? They’re seeing each other again, I believe.
Your filing system must need an update.
Correcto friendo! We had dinner last night. She wants me to introduce her to a few Aussie stand up comedians so things are looking good.
The lunch was great @dc thanks for asking 🙂
Oooh, well done Riley! 😀
Haven’t been following TAY as closely, alas. Haha!
Also been taking my crazy pills again which makes me sort of zombie like. Braaaaains.
Kelly takes zombie-making pills for migraines and other stuff.
They’re not great. 🙁 But better than migraines, I guess…
I wish we knew how all this shit worked and could tweak it reliably. Life’s hard and unfair enough as it is.
The Wind Rises!
It’s not playing anywhere I can get to and from in time to pick up my son from school, unfortunately.
… yarrr?
Well the point is to actually be able to go out and see a movie, which has become a novelty after parenthood. That and I feel weird about doing that with movies. I don’t know why, as I’m fine with TV shows.
Right there with you, Strange. I can’t do it.
I have played a lot of Diablo 3 today/last night.
About three hours of that was getting my Crusader from level 1 to level 28. Admittedly, having a Hellfire Ring (end game item with no level requirements) that has a good amount of vitality and does over 1000 damage to anyone that attacks me helped get through the boring early levels.
Went and did the bounties for acts 1-4 and killed Diablo with this character. Definitely a much more interesting way to play than just doing the campaign again.
I’ll probably get this character up to 70 in a day or so. Shouldn’t be too hard from here.
I’m getting very tempted by the shiny new clicky clicky
I played a few hours as Crusader and I’m still hitting the exact same feeling I did with the 1.0 version. It feels lifeless and uninteresting and utterly lacking in depth. 🙁
If you’re running a new character through the campaign, then yeah, that’ll happen. Pretty much all of the fixes are for people who have already beaten the game. Adventure mode only unlocks after you clear act 5.
Seeing as Adventure mode is pretty much what Diablo is meant to be (none of this rigid quest progression nonsense), it’s a shame that the real game is locked away.
It takes something like 20 levels to get a range of skills and another 20 levels to have any real choice in what skills to use. The game really opens up at 60 once you have all skills unlocked and then at 70 you now get the end game gear.
Really, the best thing to do would be to rush through the campaign on normal (maybe get someone to rush you) and then just muck about in adventure mode.
I think the leveling curve is better? I got to level 10 just getting as far as getting the crown in Act 1. Pretty sure at that point on my others I was 8-9. Better gear already too but that might be luck.
Better gear is because they changed the loot system. It’s now “smart loot” which means that you either get a mighty belt or something that’s relevant to your class. That tends to mean the you get frequent upgrades now.
Been watching Cosmos. It’s captivating and awe inspiring and beautiful and incredibly produced.
Been playing Bonza. It’s captivating and addictive and fun and incredibly produced.
Been refreshing TAY. It’s pretty okay.
Hey, I’m pretty awe inspiring.
Your NPC voices are, that’s true! XD
How much of your Numenera story is plotted out?
Going to put this in spoilers, suggest players don’t click
Out of the session last night, only the part in the mansion was concretely plotted, I’m working off of a pre-written adventure there because it’s cool. Before that, everything the party did in Charmonde was off of rough notes (like this: http://instagram.com/p/luPzfxib6F/). Last night, the whole section in Boreg was totally improvised and you may have noticed them completely ignore two adventure hooks from the bald man with the manicured eyebrows and the missing crops, I definitely laid it on too thick with eyebrow guy. Of course, i customised the pre-written stuff- the written adventure is set somewhere else entirelyI’d be more captivating but I’ve been watching Arma videos, working on my application for joining an Arma team and downloading the beta of Trials Fusion (WOOOOOOO!!!!)
I get tempted to use hints but I don’t because that’ll ruin the fun! 😀
PARK GOALS II
Ok, I’m in The Lost Bastille, in the room where you speak to Lucatiel there’s a door on the right that you can’t open. If you go outside you can throw a fire bomb to blow up the barrels blocking the door so you can open it. After you go through this door and fight an Undead Jailer apparently straight ahead from there is a bonfire, but the path is blocked. Does anyone know how the hell you get to this bloody bonfire, the guide doesn’t tell you.I found it out by accident last night! 😀
You have to beat the Pursuer in the Forest first. There’s a warpy thing.Down the stairs?
Roll the explosive barrel down the stairs, blow up the wall. Or come back when you have the key to the door.edit: I may be thinking left, not right. I’ll have to go back and check.
Ah, no, that’s a different part. Good advice, but a different part.
I found out that secret by accident too 😛
Good thing I’m so clueless!
That’s not the bonfire I was talking about. Already been to that one.
You’re meant to access that area from the nest behind the Pursuer fight in the Forest. (Really.) You get picked up by that eagle thing and flown to that part of the LB.OH. This is approaching from the other way. I see where I got confused because I first entered the area from where @evilmonkey is now trying to get to. Confusion!
What if you didn’t fight The Pursuer? I never even saw him. When I went up there to kill the bomb throwing guy I did hear the bird fly overhead, but then the bomb guy killed me and I never saw The Pursuer up there again.Ah.
The Pursuer fight (the real fight) is further on in the Forest. After you beat the Last Giant, and get his key, you go back up the elevator from the boss battle, and out into that area that has the gigantic sword sticking out over a bottomless pit. There’s a locked door in that room that leads (eventually) to the Pursuer’s real fight.Right. After I defeat him there will I get taken to that bonfire?Yes.
Just after the battle, there are a few choices. Definitely recommend dropping down the hole once, carefully, to get some great early-game armour, and then walking back up, collecting all the items, etc… and then hopping in the nest.Cheers, I’ll give that a go tonight.
Woah woah woah, there was armour near the pursuer fight? Shit. What set was it?You put me on the spot.
Drangelic armour, I think. And a sword. There’s a hole hanging over the room that has the massive sword sticking out over a bottomless pit, and a ledge halfway down that can be dropped onto. That has the armour.I missed that too. Looks like it’s backtracking time.
@shane @beavwa
If it is Drangleic, that’s the set I was looking forward to trying out!That set served me so very well until I eventually cobbled together a full set of knight-captain armour. THAT shit is the bomb.
(Not related to your problem, just hopping in to talk about the game instead of starting a new conversation.)
I died for the first time with this new character.
It was to the Last Giant boss. Almost had him but got cocky and died. And of course when I went straight back to try again I died almost immediately. 😛But at least now that I’ve died the stakes aren’t as high anymore. I was on a really good roll but it had to end sometime and now I won’t stress as much.Pretty awesome boss to open the game with. Pure, simple dark souls mechanics.
Yeah, except I was cross with him after that so I ran away to the Tower and beat a boss there instead. 😛
My first Dark Souls 2 ‘Victory Achieved’! Not quite as cool as a “You Defeated”, but I’ll take it nonetheless. 😀
I am loving my new character. She’s wielding a +4 mace thing and taking down those giant guys at Hiede’s Tower with 3 hits. Managed to get a few of them extinctified to make the run to the bosses easier, as well.
Edit: Oh, I did something really stupid, too. Cleared that area of enemies with 3 estus still remaining. And fell off the cliff on the way to the boss. 😛
I like my mace so much, I have two equipped in case durability runs low.
The Goat Simulator Launch Trailer takes the absolute piss out of the Dead Island trailer and had me cackling like a maniac.
Nice avatar.
You and I have very different ideas of ‘nice’
Just trying to be nice.
But whose definition of nice are you trying to be?
*hands Benny eleven hundred burgers*
Having met Steve-O, I can confirm it’s pretty accurate.
I want to know where the hell he got a picture of me
Do you remember that meat when @dc got really drunk and had to apologise to everyone.
Well that was when @steve-o_the_deve-o managed what was thought to be impossible and got access the “The list”. Much was revealed that day, the image of you was just the tip of the iceberg
It’s like Edward Snowden and Wikileaks COMBINED!
But I’ve never met any of you lot, I see why people thought it was impossible…
The list knows all
Wait. I think I’m meant to be going skydiving tomorrow?
The weather seems so awful though.
What could go wrong?
A lightning-themed accident gives him superpowers that electrify the ladies…
Oh wait, maybe that happened already.
Maybe the fellas too, then?
Or maybe I’ll lose my powers then have to learn to cope with life as a “normal” person? D:
Sounds a bit inFamous to me
That @dc he’s not just famous, he’s In-Famous.
Nothing. Nothing whatsoever.
Nothing will go wrong.
If anything goes wrong bring back the blood…could’ve been a cool prototype to play 😛
Indeed!
If you go sky-diving in the rain you won’t get wet because you’re falling in pace with the raindrops!
Right? Right.
SCIENCE
For it to be true science, there’d be something about relative mass and drag, and stuff, I’m sure.
Like a fat uncle in a dress.EPIP6 😀
$900+ insurance, $800+ registration + CTP, upcoming ~$280 service …
Upcoming up-to-$3000 dentist, upcoming two pairs of glasses ~$500+…
YAY, LIFE.
Why 2 pairs of glasses?
$3000 dentist… wisdom op?
Maybe he has two heads.
@stickman is from Tasmania? 😉
Oi! He’s not thank you very much.
Otherwise I’d probably be related to him. And that would just be awkward.
Or a turn onYou need two pairs so that when you lose one pair, you can always see well enough to find them 😛
Don’t worry, wisdom will be nerfed in the next update.
Dentist is root canal treatment and crown (already up to $1500 or so). Glasses is 1x with transitions, and a second pair will be prescription sunnies.
Ooh sunglasses, can you not get those trendy flip down ones? You know the kind the cool kids were wearing in the 90s
I’m not looking forward to seeing a dentist, I havent been in a while… and it’s not going to be pretty
Got Infamous Second Son and FFXHD for the PS3 for $110 all up.
Decent.
That’s a dangerously decent EB you’ve got there (I’m assuming it’s EB you just got those from)
Yeah, it’s only for today though. They just moved to a new store and having a “Grand Opening” with 20% off the entire store just for today.
There was about 5 people buying Xbones and PS4’s in there just when I was there.
$110 off a new PS4 is certainly nothing to sneeze at. Wow. That’s a real sale, not just an EB sale.
Damn, $439 for a PS4 console?
Man… that’s tempting. Not that I’m in a position or location to take advantage of it 😛
Yep, I’m wavering again.
They were $450 at Dick Smith with delivery a few weeks ago 🙁
But yeah, these sale seem one offish. It’ll be a while before it’s down to that price range again :O
Hnngh. I really want ACIV & Tomb Raider on PS4, that’s tempting to come get, but I have priorities sadly.
Mmmmmm that limited edition Final Fantasy XIV PS4 *drools*
Inspired by an AskReddit thread: Take a movie title, remove one letter – describe the new movie.
To get you going (not mine):
Jaw- a biopic about a dentist
Tar Wars- about the fight to control canada’s Tar Sands
X-Men: First Lass: The previously all-male X-men deal with the addition of the first female team member, shenanigans ensue
Damn, I was going to say Tar Wars 😛
Mine would be “Itch Black” – the story of a new outbreak of the bubonic plague, where victims keep itching until their skin becomes black. Only Brad Pitt can cure it – but it’s a race against time…
Children of Me – a touching family drama with the ultimate revelation that parenthood is something that transcends the biological bond.
He Castle – a comedy about life in a frontier fort with no women.
Loverfield – Attack of the 50 foot porn stars.
Schindler’s Lit
Liam Neeson gets high for 3 hours
“Woah, man, did you just, like, see a girl in a red dress?”
“…I think?”
A mature aged student, struggling with his English Literature degree, gets help from the most unexpected of places…
No, that’s a different Nazi movie, He Reader.
Jurassic Ark – a tale of dinosaurs that built an escape from the cataclysm, and now they’ve returned. Essentially Dinosaucers: The Movie.
Lick. Adam Sandler stars in a film about a man who has an oral fixation.
Tree Kings. George Clooney is the greetest Lumberjack
Inker Tailor Soldier Spy: The story of MI-6’s secret tattoo artist.
Owl’s Moving Castle – the latest Winnie the Pooh movie focuses on Owl and his constant moving to get away from a stalkerish ex in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Toy Tory: the adventures of a conservative action figure.
Panic Roo
Jodie Foster and a young Kirsten Stewart are trapped in room after their pet roo goes crazy and panics.
A documentary, with a really racially insensitive name, about the extras in Godzilla movies.
Toy – A pixar take on the Illiad
The god, the bad and the ugly – An avenger spin off where Hiemdall gets drunk and accidentally sends Thor to the old west
WALL – In the distant future, a small wall inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
A clockwork range – In a futuristic Britain a delinquent sets out to cover a park in clocks
2 monkeys – A low budget remake of the Brad Pitt film
Raiders of the OST ark – an epic quest on the trail of an elusive soundtrack composer.
A Few Goo Men – claymation war movie
Tar Trek – a post apocalyptic journey in search of the world’s last untapped oil well
For Vendetta – a teen drama about a girl named Vendetta and her mysterious penpal
Lien: Sigourney Weaver enters a financial arrangement
Liens: “THEY’RE COMING OUT OF OUR ASSETS”
2 Angry Men: gay couples counselling takes a turn for the legal reconciliation.
Snake on a plane – not the disaster it could have been.
Snakes on a Plan – Rob the architect thought he had it all. Then one day snakes invaded his place of business…
Snaks on a plane – essentially Flying High.
The Ever-ending story: 90 minutes of people revealing plot twists from movies.
The Able Guy: a poor taste comedy about a man abusing the disabled.
ha, the Able Guy made me laugh so much, I’m not a nice person 😛
Alen – a touching coming of age story
Alens – the well-received sequel in which Alen grows up and builds a family
Alen: Resurrection – the sequel that should never have existed. After dying suddenly, Alen comes back to life and attempts to crash on his family’s couch… with hilarious consequences.
Roocop – Part man. Part marsupial. All cop. The future of outback law enforcement.
Roboco- a company makes robots!
My original thought 😛
Obocop – Life’s not easy for the sole woodwind member of the police orchestra.
Roboco looks more like something they’d call a girl-robot in Japan.
The Simpsons Move – goodbye Springfield, forever
The Matri – there is no spaghetti
The Jungle Boo – Nobody knows why this sub-chapter from an unreleased Paper Mario game got turned into a feature film.
The One Ranger- about that ranger, you know, that guy?
Ocky – classic underdog tale, set to a surfing theme.
50 Fist Dates: a romantic comedy that turns into (censored)
Edit: I’ll show myself out 😛
Cream – a survival horror series in which the hapless victims are forced to gorge on fatty snacks until only one remainds.
The Power of On – a culture-shock film in which a young boy from an African tribe finds himself recruited by a high-tech start-up in a hilarious case of mistaken identity.
Alternatively, Cream – a horror film in which a bunch of teenagers are hunted down and brutally murdered by Eric Clapton
Well, Clapton does kinda support the national front, so I could see that if the teenagers were immigrants.
Trading Laces: Two children in primary school trade shoelaces because springy laces are the best. The best.
Tor: the first superhero that’s also a mountain
The Blues Bothers: a man goes on a quest to shut down the blues club that has set up nextdoor
Loan’s Run – When it comes time to repay your debt, you will pay with your life.
The Dis – a light-hearted insult leads to consequences that no one could have predicted.
Over the Edge – a family comedy about a bunch of animals who awaken from hibernation to find that their once lush home has eroded away and is now perched precariously on the edge of a cliff
Smrt People – no explanation needed
Men: First Class – I don’t know what it’s about but it sounds pretty misogynistic.
Onan the Destroyer – He destroys thousands of (potential) lives repeatedly in just about every scene.
Harry Otter – An otter becomes a magician, with the help of his weasel friend.
Harry Potter and the ALF-blood Prince – Harry’s story takes a drastic turn when he encounters the bastard son of 80s sitcom alien ALF and must help him return to his home planet of Melmac in order to be crowned king.
I would watch that last one.
Onan made me actually laugh out loud and have to explain myself to the office.
Sadly, no-one knows who he was. So there was MORE explaining.
Goodfella – the sequel to the classic original. Aptly named as all the characters bar one were killed off.
Changing LANs – a story about two guys who realise to their horror that localised multiplayer is dead and gone
TMNT III – Turtles in Tim – for @freezespreston
Citizen Can – An unplanned sequel to the Wizard of Oz. Dorothy returns to Oz to fight for Tin Man’s right to vote.
Attention, Attention, Rule breach in aisle 3
Shhh. It was an honest mistace.
City Lickers – Attack of the 50ft tongues
The Kin of Kong – a documentary on Donkey and his lineage
Fro Russia with Love – 007 is back, with a brand new hairstyle
Beauty and the Beat – insert generic dance film plot here (@blaghman)
Indian Jones – A Bollywood remake
His is the end – a sex crazed woman finally finds her perfect friend with benefits
He girl next door – the same plot, but at the end it’s revealed to be a dude in make up
Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom would be culturally interesting.
Monty Python and the Holy Rail – *stock footage of train entering tunnel*
I could actually imagine the Monty Python crew thinking this was a pretty amusing joke and actually doing that.
Is it bad that I would watch this?
Well based on the drink Monty python and the holy
grAil I would agreeI actually have a bottle of that.
I keep meaning to try it but I only notice places have it after I have ordered
Dumb – The poor elephant thought they were only laughing at his ears
Lie is Beautiful – honestly, I don’t think you’d need to change the original one bit.
The Ladiator – a film about @mrtaco
Plane of the Apes – Things get hairy for Samuel L Jackson once again
Monty Python’s Life of Bran: a Terry Gilliam animated look at this staple foodstuff.
Ocean’s 1: Danny Ocean realises no-one likes him.
City Lickers: Adam Sandler’s oral fixation ropes in Billy Crystal
Ineption – A group of people get into others’ dreams to try and make them become really, really bad at things.
Hahaha oh man these are all great.
Requiem for a Ream – Similar to the original, only THAT scene gets a lot more focus.
CONTROVERSIAL:
It’s a Wonderful Lie –
Black and white christmas favourite. A suicidal man is visited by ‘angel’ pranksters who convince him that God is real.The Expendable: The chilling true story of the Starfleet ensign of Rigel 7 fame. What really happened that left this redshirt the sole survivor? What dark force obliterated the rest of her starship’s entire chain of command?
Alternately:
The Expendable: Low-budget documentary following Sylvester Stallone’s university lecture speaking tour. The documentary shows his struggle to get across the message of how his recent blockbusters were actually commentaries on the generic nature of Hollywood’s hard men and the absurd self-competition of the explosions industry. A struggle impeded by the horny coeds throwing themselves at him, and by his crippling speech impediment.The Passion of the Chris: Chris Hemsworth plays himself, in the based-on-a-true-story buddy comedy/thriller of his race against time to help an awkward scientist discover why women keep falling pregnant due to his mere presence.
Alternately:
The Passion of the Chris: A touching documentary following the quest of one of Chris Rock’s illegitimate children, and her desire to connect with her illegitimate siblings to obtain the child support they deserve.School of Rok
A tale about two kids trying to become soldiers in the Republic of Korea. But they have to study first!
The Ark Knight – The tale of Noah.
That’s not your style? how about;
The Dark Night – It’s a really dark night guys. Starring Steven Seagal and Oprah Winfrey. Not to be confused with the sequel;
The Dark Night Rises – The end of the Epic Duology. Stars Jim Carrey as the sun,
Forrest Gum – A tale about a piece of gum that is spat out in the Amazon. Eventually, he conquers the wilderness, and goes for revenge against his owner.
Rave Little Toaster – A toaster pursues his rap career in the clubs of Los Angeles.
The Lan Before Time – An old man tell his grandchildren stories of his LAN parties. The grandchildren
leave halfway through to play CoD over Xbox Live.
Fun and Fancy Fee – A man accepts a loan payment with several hidden costs and fees.
Ear and Loathing in Las Vegas – A man gets an ear infection in Las Vegas, and is very unhappy about it.
Eyes Wide Hut – The story of a unlicensed optometrist operating out of a shack.
Close Encounters of the Third Kid. Arnold Schwarzenegger has to keep his illegitimate daughter secret.
Met the Parents – The interquel between meet the parents and meet the fockers, Nothing much happens.
Miser – A tale about some stingy old bastard and his quest to save money.
Plans – It’s about some guy. A guy that’s got a lot of plans. Yep.
Fee Willy – The kid wants to see the orca, but it costs too much to enter.
The Incredible – Mr Incredible does a much better job at keeping his work with Mirage secret.
That’s all I can think of.
Just watching this by Guitar Centre with James Hetfield talking about his life and rising to fame with Metallica. He’s a really cool & interesting bloke.
FYI.
PS Vita plus Killzone/LBP is $199 at DSE. Or $169 for console-only.
That’s pretty damn good.
wow, that is good,
do you know if they are 3G or Wifi, are they the new non oled ones?
I already own a Vita, just curious
3G models, yes. LED models aren’t released in Australia yet.
shows what I know 😛
Hm…
HMMMM…
EDIT: On second thought, I’d still have to buy a memory card and subscribe to PS+. I’ll wait until the non-OLED version comes out 😛
LBP bundle includes a 4GB card.
Are you talking about the memory card with 10x games, bundle? LBP is indeed part of those ten games. Comes with 16GB card now, $65.
I just bought a 64GB card so you can have my 32GB card
#Helping
I’m tempted by the offer, and if I went for it would buy your spare card but…I dunno, it still feels like I wouldn’t get enough use out of it.
I’ve started using mine a hell of a lot recently.
Hmm… do I finally get the Persona Machine, and maybe with FFX/X-2…
Dammit Stickman, I’m supposed to be saving
😛
No pressure.
Although you’ll be evicted from certain social circles if you don’t get one…. your choice ……….😛
TAYlist for the 27th of March 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by the return of @rimmyDaryl Braithwaighte – The Horses
Peter Gabriel – Digging In The Dirt (Requested by @strange)
The Weather Girls – It’s Raining Men (Requested by @rimmy)
Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Powderfinger – Burn Your Name
Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal
Michael Jackson – Beat It (Requested by @freezespreston)
Joe Jackson – Is She Really Going Out With Him?
INXS – Never Tear Us Apart
Axiom – Little Ray Of Sunshine
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Relax (Requested by @aliasalpha)
Queen – I Want It All (Requested by @ontargett)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Learning To Fly
Beatles – Help (@scree wanted Beatles, and here it is)
Rolling Stones – Satisfaction (Requested by @bdkiaf)
Cream – White Room (Requested by @redartifice)
B52’s – Love Shack
John Farnham – Age Of Reason
Five For Fighting – Superman (It’s Not Easy)
Wolfmother – Joker & The Theif
So cold and rainy in Brisbane today. Best weather. 😀
Winter is coming. Gonna be gooood.
This post is brought to you by HBO and Game of Thrones season four!
April 7th! Showcase! Two hours after it airs in the U.S.!
*decisive nod*
*flies jolly roger*
It is the worst.
Hoodies! Beanies! Jackets! Covering scrawny arms! AWESOME! 😀
Those things are all terrible.
Well, covering scrawny arms is ok I guess 😛
Your face is terrible! >:|
I know but people keep telling me otherwise for some reason!
…
Sorry, what were you saying? I got lost in your eyes!
Covering scrawny arms is the best.
The talk of the town is that you have arms like Skeletor!
I get so hyped every time I see a GoT reference that it must be unhealthy.
Winter is fantastic, I can’t wait.
And damn I love this weather. There’s a crispness to the air, a hint of chill, and it’s filled with the mist of rain. It’s almost like being on the sea, the only thing missing is that tingle you get before the storm. I swear there’s something to that old wive’s tale about your scars acting as human barometers – and by my rent and sundered shoulder muscles (there’s a reason my right shoulder hangs looser than the other), I tell you: we won’t have storms just yet, but we’re GOING to get rain. Such rain.
You can smell it.
God I want that chill. The blast of crisp, wet air on your face, flushing your blood around to your extremeties, leaving you that contrast between cool cheeks and furnace-like body.
It all comes served with a side of grey. I swear, if white is the purity of the heavenly and pitch black is the colour of the denizens of the abyss, then grey is the tone of God’s great grandfather, above both their petty squabbles – Other.
I really don’t know why I never became a sailor, something that pitches you out into the power of the ocean, where it rains all the time…
Freezing weather, warm blankets and another warm body with you.
Best.
Even if she’s going to be Freezing under the blankets as well ifyoucatchmydrifthighfiveHIYO!
Ohyeah. That’s why I never became a sailor.
Nothing to say you wouldn’t have any of those as a sailor…
That’s what I meant. 🙂
Way hey and up she rises ear-lie in the morning…
I only just now realize those sailors were singing about morning wood.
By that logic, I presume “Put him in the brig until he’s sober” is maritime code for “Dude, go into the masturbatorium and get it out of your system”
My naval mates report a fascination with jacking it, in the service. Whatever the name of the marshalls were who’d rouse the cadets from their bunks, apparently there’s a traditional holler of, “Wakey, wakey, hand off snakey, out of yer mates and into yer eights!” (Eights being a term for the uniform.)
I’ve heard the British analogue “Hands off cocks, hands on socks”. It seems that penis references and rhyme are essential cadet management skills.
I always thought that it was the early morning hangover technicolor yawn
Winter is made of win! Says so right in the name! WINter!
Repost cos new page and it really is a great deal.
Shit, that is good.
but I have other, better things to buy, and if it’s that now it will be again 🙂
All of this has happened before and will happen again.
There must be some kind of way out of here…
The problem is, that when OLED stock sells out we will be left with the LED model only. Which I am willing to bet will be $240RRP.
I can’t find the Killzone one online?
http://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/62400/21769/image.jpg
Also, I see the wifi-only + LBP + 4GB card deal now. That’s all I see. Orginal deal was 3G model plus game, no 4GB card.
Ah, now click and collect only and all my local stores are sold out.
Try Mackay QLD 4740, the miners here don’t know what a Vita is. That is, if you’re okay with me picking up and mailing it. 🙂
Thanks for the generosity, but I’ve spent far too much on gaming this week.
Ha, alright. 🙂 Next time!
I was looking for Buried At Sea Episode 2 using the in-game Season Pass store, was not there, but it was available on the actual PSN store, I feel stupid.
Ah, I shouldn’t make promises to grow proper beards for real this time.
*looks at clean shaven face in mirror*
:'(
Are you happy now, @strange? ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? XD
Beards are too itchy anyway.
Yes. Yes I am.
But then, I’m almost always happy. 😛
Nooooooooooo!
Eww, beards are nasty! 😛
Only lumberjacks can pull beards off successfully (in my opinion) 😉
Slight – Moderate stubble is good though!
Just no beards! >:P
@beardymcmuttonchops aint no lumberjack afaik, but his beard is glorious! Wish I could grow one even half that epic. 35 and I still only shave once a week… 😐
Anyone with sufficient grip and arm strength can pull off a beard but it will probably cause some complaint from the owner of the beard
GET OUT!
Shouldn’t be too hard dc http://imgur.com/vsQ1ZOn
I did it, finally. 20980. Now I can leave it alone.
cc @gingerchris86
FULL LIGHT COLOUR SPECTRUM ABSORBING – HEARTFELT JAZZ MUSIC 2!!!
I’m about two more attempts at The Last Sinner from rage quitting until I have internet again >:( Luciatel is the most pathetic NPC in a Souls game to date!She died twice on the way to the boss, both times by falling in the water! I had already cleared all those goddamn exploding mummy things, just for the stupid AI to first walk her where the elevator wasn’t, right into the hole, and then the very next summon, make her walk off the stairs into the water >:(
She can’t even take a hit, or give a hit against The Last Sinner!
Also, my current build is made for quick weak – mid powered hits, hence why I’m struggling against this f***ing fast, hard hitting boss >:(
I’ve done everything else up to this point, so this is the only progression I can make!
Side note, is there anywhere to farm titanium shards offline before The Lost Bastille? Having improved equipment might make it a bit easier.
Overall not enjoying this game as much as the first. Where Dark Souls felt cruel but fair, this one kinda seems like it’s attempting to just be cruel and a huge arsehole.
Yeah, that boss was the first real struggle with frustration for me.
You’ve done everything else? Been to the Huntsman place?
Hmm, maybe not. I’ve been through:
– Forest of the Fallen Giants– The Lost Bastille
– Luna Belfry
– Heides Tower of Flame
– The Blue Cathedral
– No-Man’s Wharf, and
– Sinners Rise
I couldn’t see anywhere else to go (trying not to use wikis). Hmm, maybe I’ll look around a bit more, cause my gear isn’t great, and my stats are probably slightly sub-par too.
If you can, maybe try a tanky build. Plenty of stamina, 100% physical shield, maybe skimp on the armour a little, enough so that you have low encumbrance so your stam comes back fast.
Save up to buy the red-eyethingey ring from the cat in Mejula. You can use it to hold aggro on the boss – then she should attack you exclusively and as long as you can dodge and block well enough and keep her largely pointed away from Lucatiel, Lucatiel should be able to do enough damage to finish her off.
Tanky builds aren’t my thing unfortunately 🙁 I’ve only got 7 Vigor and 12 Strength :S
I’ve got 22 Dexterity and 20 Faith though! 😀
(seriously, that lightning storm miracle devastates the Belfry Gargoyles).
I’m going for a ninja-cleric hybrid :3
I’ll try the ring next time I play, but Luciatel is actually pathetic (I also have no interest in her side quest, so don’t care if she dies).
Also, drinking estus takes so f***ing long! And switching to double-handing takes far too long also!
There’s a really good reason I pumped Adaptability up to 35. ESTUS, BICHIZ. If an invader goes on a swinging frenzy that I can block-stagger them on or roll away from (I NEVER go over 70% weight), that’s usually enough time for me to chug estus. A lot of boss fights it gets pretty damn tight. I admit that for my bonfire ascetic run of Sinner, I switched to the much faster radiant lifegems I’d been stockpiling but not using during clears.
She doesn’t do a huge amount of shield damage except for the 3rd-hit of 3-hit combos, though, (which you should roll away from) so even a parry/strike shield with low stability but 100% phys should still be useful. The Drangleic shield you can pick up for free after beating the Pursuer and it only needs 16 STR, and there’s the Tower Shield from beating Dragonslayer in Heide’s Tower, but I imagine its requirements are higher.
Adaptability is one of the things I will pump up eventually, but at the moment it’s sitting on 10 :S I’m only SL 56 after all.
The Drangleic shield puts me over weight unfortunately :S My Eagle Shield is pretty good though, and my armour is the best I can wear.
I tend to roll into her on the ends of her combos. Still avoids the hit, but gets me close enough for an attack. My playstyle / build just means that the brief moment that I can hit her I can only do roughly 100 damage, due to an emphasis on damage-per-second rather than damage-per-attack, and that it only takes two hits for her to kill me. Miracles are out of the question aswell due to (very) large charge times, which is my backup style 🙁
A good shield trumps armour. I would recommend stripping down till you can use a 100% physical blocking shield. That way you have all the time you need to time your attacks just right instead of taking risks.
Also there are a couple of other ways you can go.
Talk to miracle lady in tower of flame till she moves to Majula, then talk to her again till she offers to move the path so you can go that way.Or jump down the well.
Don’t jump down the well.The problem is, cause I started out as deprived, most of my stats except the ones I pumped (read DEX and FTH) are low, meaning that most of the shields that offer 100% Physical protection require too much strength for me to wield effectively, such as the Drangleic shield :S
My current shield has around 95% Physical protection anyway, it’s just that my little dude can’t take a hit, and can only give hits moderately fast with medium damage.
With The Lost Sinner, you only really have time for one attack at a time, meaning that instead of me being able to deal around 400 damage in 2 seconds (as is my usual), I can only deal 100 damage to her cause she moves too fast :S
I might have to talk to miracle lady some more me thinks, or drop down the well 😛
@redartifice re RPG session creation. I read your little summary of last night’s session on one of the previous pages (I’m a terrible person) and I reckon this quote from Darths & Droids is appropriate.
“Roleplaying has been excellent in developing my improvisation. I can’t even begin to plan for all of the shit my players pull.”
I do pretty much the same thing when I GM so yeah, it’s nice to see how another GM works their magic.
The biggest surprise you guys pulled on me when @mawt accosted a guy in the crowd in Charmonde. Suddenly, undercover cop!
There was one session for a group of mine where I prepared stats on three different camps of potential enemies because I had a player who was notorious for picking a fight with anyone. In the end, they killed and skinned a giant, became chums with a herd of centaurs, and insulted and humiliated a barbarian chieftain before forcing the entire tribe to join civilisation.
This was of course, after the session where they practically enslaved a man, cut out his tongue, killed him, and then dumped him in the sea thus pissing off the God of the Sea. Dem players man, they test you so much.
You’ve never dealt with my creative side yet have you? Are you in for a treat.
I am eagerly anticipating Lundgredolph’s shenanigans. 😀
Abelas likes this.
“laboratory animals, under controlled conditions, do what they damn well please”
Same applies to PCs
It was definitely one of those situations where I’ve just gone for literally the first thing that came to mind in an attempt to pull an ally out of a sticky situation, that ends up being a veritable rabbit’s hole. I hadn’t really planned on the guy talking back, or following along with my story, or end up being actually somehow useful. I guess it worked out OK in the end.
I’m glad we weren’t using the webcams then, because you would have seen me frantically scrambling to think something up 🙂 Once I got the undercover cop idea it worked out OK
Me trying to figure out what to have for dinner:
“Last night’s chilli was awesome, what should I make today to keep up the awesome streak?” “Hmm…I spent two days on that chilli, can’t be bothered putting that much effort in again so soon.”
“Nothing would be as awesome as that chilli anyway. Why did I put the rest in the freezer?!!”
“Aww, screw it. Let’s just have McDonalds. The kids will think we’re heroes.” 😛
Chilli? Did you use the chilli’s I gave you? Any feedback regarding them yet?
They’re still in the freezer. I have a hot sauce recipe I want to use them in but keep forgetting. 🙁
lol fair enough!
NegativeZero’s boring and uninteresting Kantai Collection update for the week:
Still puttering away at the game. Nothing amazing happening, just been doing my dailies when I can and running expeditions to build my resources up.I did a fair bit of grinding of the new World 1-5 submarines map which is a bit terrible because you need to take a BBV and a CVL and can only use 4 slots. I found that Yamashiro (my highest-level BBV) loaded with floatplanes instead of guns is actually half effective against submarines, though nowhere near as viable as a destroyer or cruiser loaded with sonar and depth charges. Been grinding the map with the same team I would bring in for fighting sub fleets in PVP – Kiso as flagship to get the XP bonus as I’m still hoping to raise her to 65, currently she’s at 60 and Shigure loaded with depth charges. In PVP I usually also bring Yuudachi in (though with her special 12.7cm cannons instead of extra anti-sub in the third slot, no need to nerf her best attribute) but instead I was finding that it was better to leave her out and use the final slot for Hiyou, who is my best CVL. Unfortunately she’s still really shit at damaging subs even if I pull all her fighters and only include bombers.
My reason for grinding 1-5 was to try and get I-8. Hachi hates me though and she refuses to drop from building (3 weeks trying now) and from 1-5. I did get a second I-58 and I haven’t used her for modernization scrap yet because she’s so hard to get hold of normally, same deal as my I-19.
Meanwhile my sub fleet is running expeditions for questing – when I log in next they should have completed Expedition 30 for the 4th time which will get me a second Ju-87C which will be useful as I’m finding getting rarer torpedo and dive bombers is tricky. The game loves to give me Suiseis, but all my carriers have Suisui in their dive bomber slot already and I have a ton left over. Meanwhile some of my carriers are still running Type-97 torpedo bombers because the game won’t give me enough Tenzans or Ryuuseis. 🙁
One of my next goals will be to clear Expedition 31 in order to get the first of the three German ships and unlock the ability to build the others. To do that I need a lead sub at level 60 and the total level of all the subs needs to be 200, meaning on average they need to be about 45 each. That’s going to require a lot of grinding. Imuya is my highest-level sub at 58 so she’ll be taking the lead position and I’ll be attempting to grind her to 60 first. My Iku, Goya and Shioi are at 36, 23 and 14 respectively so I have a long way to go to get them to usable state, especially when they rarely can get MVP in a match due to only participating in torpedo rounds and being vastly inferior at torpedoes than the Kuma CLT sisters.
My other current goals are to continue working on Shokaku. I really like her and want to make her my primary carrier but she’s not even at Kai yet, still only at 23/30 required for that upgrade. I’m also planning to try and get Kaga up to Kai at 30 as well, just for having the extra option, but I think Shokaku will be my main one for a long time once I get her high enough and modernized enough to be effective. Right now my primary is Hiryuu who is still my top level ship at 85 (but the Torpedo sisters are both right behind at 84 now) and the next one down is Soryuu (45) but the *ryuu sisters are the worst of the CVs. Lowest consumption but also the least effective. 🙁
I am also slowly pushing Kongou forward to her Kai-2 remodel. At one point Kongou was actually my lowest-level Kongou-class and I had Hiei and Haruna as my primaries, but I decided I should stop using Haruna because Kongou has a Kai-2 remodel that puts her in line power-wise with Nagato and Mutsu. Currently 3 levels away from hitting that milestone. Tomorrow’s maintenance is going to add a Kai-2 for Kirishima and assuming the threshold for upgrading is at 75 like her sisters I’ll probably have to work on her next (she’s down in the high 40s!) unless the Kai-2 art is really bad, in which case I’ll wait and see. A bit disappointing that Goddess Haruna is left for last, but I think that’s probably because she’s the most popular of the four.
I should probably be working on bringing Mutsu and Nagato up to high level range as well, especially Nagato, but since I got Yamato so close to the Nagato-class pairs I’ve ended up with a situation that Yamato does everything the other two do but hits far harder. Consumption is obviously a lot worse but I only use her in PVP anyway. Can’t find a niche in my fleet where they’d make sense, which is a shame. Sort of at least.
My longer-term plans are to subsequently concentrate my work on any ships that have Kai or Kai-2 remodels that have new artwork that I haven’t got. For now off the top of my head that means Kinugasa, Isuzu, Chiyoda, Chitose, Jintsuu, Naka, Suzuya and Zuihou. I’m also going to try and raise some of my heavy cruisers (probably Atago and Takao) and one of my CAVs (Suzuya probably) to the 40s so I can try and clear out world 3 and 4 finally, as I think I basically have everything else I need to clear them.
Finally, I had a rush of blood to the head on Tuesday and decided I had spare resources so should do a LSC attempt and see what drops out, expecting the usual outcome of a Fusou or Ise-class battleship. Instead, it turned out that I got Yahagi. Yahagi is the rarest and generally most sought-after of the three Agano-class sisters that were added in the last major event and she was a pain in the ass to get apparently. So that’s nice. I can’t really see a point using her though, beyond the artwork. As a light cruiser she’s outstatted by the Kai-2s (Naka, Isuzu, Jintsuu, Kiso all are better) and despite having the best stats of the Aganos, she’s not going to be as effective as Isuzu (high stats) or Yubari (4 equipment slots) at anti-sub warfare either, plus the Agano-class have very high fuel and ammo consumption for cruisers, so it’s hard to see a reason to spend much time with them unless you really like them. Also with her obtained and two spare subs kicking around I’m at the point that I’ve only got two open slots left. Even if I clear out the two spare subs, if I was to obtain Z1, Z3, Bismark and Taihou for example I’d be out of space completely. Looks like I’ll be hating some money again soon to buy 10-20 extra slots. Might also buy another couple of construction docks too, stops me from wasting blowtorches doing the construction daily.
I’ve always assumed this game is some sort of military based eroge thing and looking at screenshots of the game isn’t doing much to dissuade that notion.
It’s not an eroge, at least. Though there’s no shortage of Rule 34 images on the internet if that floats your boat (hah). It’s basically a light RPG where all the characters are moe personifications of WW2-era warships. No longer limited to the IJN as last week’s update added two German destroyers and the Bismark, but the bulk of ships are from the Japanese Navy.
Spoilered for WALL OF TEXT:
You basically build up a fleet of ships (actually Kanmusu, lit Shipdaughters or Shipgirls) of various types. Destroyers are fast and light and very effective against submarines but poor against bigger ships and have low armor. Light cruisers are good against all light ships and some of them can evolve to Torpedo Cruisers that launch torpedoes during the opening phase of battle which can be devastating. Heavy Cruisers are balanced ships with okay offense and defense but are deadly during night battles. Battleships are heavily armored, have enormous health pools and are extremely powerful but are expensive to run. Light, Standard and Armored Carriers are able to launch pre-emptive airstrikes during the opening phase of battles and if set up right are strong against everything, but physically are weak and if damaged beyond half HP (or in the Armored Carrier Taihou’s case, below 25%) they can’t launch aircraft. Submarines are super weak and fragile but do pre-emptive torpedo attacks, are super strong at night, very very cheap to run, and can only be attacked by seaplanes, aircraft off light carriers and depth charges from light cruisers and destroyers.
You start the game with a single destroyer picked from a set of four. I believe I started with Isonami, and they start in the 1st fleet. Each fleet holds up to six ships and you can have four fleets, unlocked by completing various quests. Additionally you have 100 slots for your other ships. The quest system allows you to track up to 5 quests at once and gives you rewards of resources and various consumable items for finishing them. The four resources are fuel, ammo, steel and aluminium (for some reason aluminium is ‘bauxite’ in the game which is the raw ore that you get aluminium from). The resources regenerate over time to a cap that depends on your personal level, but you can go past that cap by gathering resources other ways.
You use the resources to build new ships and equipment. Depending on how many resources of each type you put in, there are various ships that will drop out from a pool of possibilities, so it’s randomly decided. The minimum amount will usually get you a Destroyer but might get a Light cruiser. You need to spend more Bauxite for carriers, more steel and ammo for Battleships and so on. Each construction ties up a construction dock, and you get two docks (expandable to 4 for real money) and each construction takes a set amount of real-world time, but you can instantly finish construction using an item obtained from quests and expeditions and sorties, not for pay.
With your fleet assembled you can send them off on a Sortie. There’s three possible things that you can do there – you can send fleets 2, 3 and 4 on expeditions, which basically commits them for a certain time period and if they were the right level and the fleet was the right composition they’ll return with items and resources for you after that time elapses. You can send any fleet to engage in PVP – every 12 hours a set of five other player’s first fleets will be sent to you and you can battle each of their fleets for really high XP. Finally you can send the fleet on a combat mission. There’s five worlds, each with 4 maps (except world 1 and world 5 which have a bonus map as of last week) and each map has multiple nodes on it. You start in a specific point and then whenever there is a branch where you could go multiple directions, the game decides semi-randomly. In some cases there are specific rules for the way branches work, eg one of the maps of World 3 will only send you a certain direction if your fleet is entirely Destroyers.
At each node on the map you either will get some resources or encounter an enemy fleet. When encountering the enemy, you choose a formation for your fleet – Line Ahead, Line Abreast, Double Line, Echelon, Diamond – and the enemy fleet will pick a formation as well. Depending on various factors the combination of the two formations confers bonuses and drawbacks, for example if you pick Line Ahead then you get a big defense bonus but lose attack, but if your opponent went Line Abreast and they had the initiative due to scouting, they’ll ‘Cross the T’ and get a big attack bonus on you and stuff. The battle then plays out, first with an air attack if there’s aircraft carriers, then torpedo attack from subs & torpedo cruisers, then shelling phase where each ship attacks, second shelling phase if a battleship is present, then a final torpedo phase where any torpedo-equipped ship (Subs, Destroyers, Cruisers) takes another shot. After that you can choose to end the battle or if there are enemy ships remaining you can do a night attack phase, where every non-carrier ship that’s not critically damaged will attack, with some special rules for doing bonus attacks. Then you choose to either continue to the next node on the map or go home.
Once you clear an end point node in the map you also go home. One of the end points is a boss battle, and if you clear this battle with a victory (do more damage than the enemy) you will clear the map and unlock the next map or possibly the next world if all the maps to unlock the next world are cleared. Later on, some boss battles have to be cleared more than once and by sinking the enemy flagship in order to beat the map.
Each battle node when you clear it with a victory has a chance to drop a ship. The available drops vary per map so eg the first map only drops Destroyers and some Light Cruisers. The better you do, the better the chance of a drop and the better the quality of the drop. The ships are divided roughly into rarity levels – common, uncommon, rare, ultra-rare, holographic – but Rarity doesn’t necessarily inform stats or anything. Each ship gets a fixed amount of XP per map. The Flagship gets a 25% XP bonus, and the MVP ship (which did the most damage overall) gets about a 40% bonus. As they get XP they level up which increases some secondary stats like accuracy and dodge chance. Primary stats (Firepower, Armor, Anti-air, Torpedo) are increased by fusing other ships to them for a chance at a stat bonus (modernization). At certain points when a ship reaches a certain level they can Remodel, which gives them better equipment, higher maximum statistics and so on. All ships have one Remodel level, where they become ‘Kai’ (‘Improved’). A rare handful of Kai-level remodels change the ship’s artwork. Additionally some ships have multiple Remodels – Isuzu for example has a Kai-II level where her artwork changes and she becomes the best ship in the game in terms of stats for anti-submarine warfare. Some of the ships actually change their ship class and gain new abilities through Remodeling – Fusou and Ise class battleships become Aviation Battleships with a small flight deck at the back which can launch aircraft, and Kitakami, Ooi and Kiso all become Torpedo Cruisers. Chitose and Chiyoda have the most remodels – they start as seaplane tenders, then become improved tenders, then midget sub tenders, then finally end up as the best light aircraft carriers in the game.
If a ship is damaged in battle they can be repaired by sending them to the repair dock for a rest. The more damage and the bigger the ship the longer they have to slack off – a badly damaged carrier or battleship might need 8-9 hours to be repaired to full. You can repair any ship instantly using an instant-repair item (looks like a bucket) which is again obtained through quests and expeditions. Repairing costs fuel and steel. If a ship reaches 0 HP (hard to do. have to enter battle at high damage) during a battle she will sink and be lost forever. This is absolutely fucking heartbreaking. I fucked up early on and lost my Shiratsuyu and I felt like shit all day 🙁 And I have never obtained another one 🙁 Also, ships have a built-in morale system. Returning from an expedition reduces their morale and if it gets too low they will get an orange sad face or a red very sad face on their portrait. When that happens they don’t perform well in battle, have a higher chance of being hit and sunk and generally it’s bad. When that happens you need to let them rest for 20-30 minutes to replenish their morale, or send them for a rest in the dock which always resets them to normal. They can also gain high morale from getting MVP repeatedly and this makes them sparkly and they hit even harder, dodge better and so on.
Each ship has a bunch of voice lines reacting to various events in the game. They have a few lines when you enter the HQ, when they make an attack, enter battle, take damage, go into the docks and so on. They also have some artwork, they have a standard artwork and a damaged version which appears when they go below 50% HP. The artwork depends on the artist but they may get significantly ripped clothes, broken guns or armor pieces or the like. Some of the damaged versions are quite a minor difference, some of them are pretty revealing. The ship that is set in the Flagship slot of the first fleet is your Secretary. When in the HQ, she will stand at the side of the area and greet you with a few lines when you log in and when you go into the HQ area, Some of them have special lines where they will say things if you leave them idle for too long, and some of them also announce the time every hour with a unique line. The voice acting and lines give them each a personality. While they re-use the same actresses, they’ve picked ladies that can do a wide range of voices and accents. This really adds a lot because each of the ships has various personality traits and stuff. Often this is informed by elements of their namesake ship’s service record or points about their history, for example Kongou (designed and laid down in Britain in the 1910s) has random interjections in English, including amusingly yelling BURNING LOVE periodically when firing her cannons, has slightly accented Japanese and talks about drinking tea a lot. Fusou will agree she probably needs a lot of it when you modernize her (spent a long time in remodeling due to defective design) and if you enter night battles with her she’ll talk about how scary they are (Fusou was attacked by a group of four US battleships in a night battle in the Leyte Gulf campaign and the attack is said to have broken her literally in half). Shimakaze is obsessed with going really fast constantly and complains everyone else is slow, because she was fitted with an experimental turbine that made her incredibly fast compared to the ships of the day. Elements of the designs also tie into this sort of stuff – Yamashiro and Fusou both have little hats in the shape of the ships ridiculous pagoda masts. Shigure’s Kai-2 form has a hair accessory that looks like it was part of the larger one that Fusou wears (Shigure was the only member of that fleet to survive the Leyte Gulf).
The various ship classes have different appearances as well – most of the destroyers are small and cute and wear sailor uniforms depending on their ship class, with most of the same class having the same basic appearance. The battleships are festooned with enormous cannons and bits of armor and generally have clothes that are derived from traditional shrine maiden outfits. The carriers generally wear traditional archery armor and clothes and carry bows.
Anyway, that all combines to make certain ships more desirable simply because they’re more appealing. I mentioned in my update that I want to get Shokaku up in level so I can use her as my primary carrier. This has little to do with her combat ability – Zuikaku is basically identical stats-wise, and is higher level – but her design is really appealing. I use Yamato as my main flagship because she’s voiced by Ayana Taketatsu, who has a nice voice. Also because hardly anyone else has her so I get to show her off in PVP and all the Japanese admirals silently hate me.
Side note: if you want to take a ship to level 100+ you have to marry them. The first marriage certificate is free from a quest but subsequent ones cost 700 yen. I don’t have any ships at close to 99 yet so haven’t had to make that agonizing choice (spoiler: probably Yamato). The only difference is they get extra lines and some minor resource consumption reduction.
Well that was fun.
I just discovered my blizzard account is banned.
I was one of the people who wasn’t hugely impressed with diablo III.
I played through the first difficulty after launch and then a little more before I got bored. I haven’t touched it since then until today. Hearing people plaing it on TS again I thought I’d fire it up just to see if there was any interest there and discovered I’d been banned for hacking. Which I’ve never done. About 3 months ago. When I wasn’t even playing any Blizzard games.
I raised a ticked with support. I suspect by the time this is sorted out though my interest will once again be at 0. Though I did like starcraft 2 and this will have blocked my account for that. I was intending to pick the expansion up for that at some point so if they decide to say “too bad so sad” I won’t be able to do that.
That sucks man.
Finally got a minute to read the entirety of QuizB’s movie-titles-minus-one-letter thread.
You people are fucking hilarious and a credit to your various demographics.
Toy Tory was my favourite.
Ha! My head office sent us an email urging us to visit a webpage they’ve
thrown money at, paid for advertising, sponsoredcollaboratively written and want us to push it to customers.http://www.popsugar.com.au/fashion/How-Care-Leather-Handbag-34449958#comments
Had a giggle when I saw the site.
How To Pad Out Your Article With Huge Images With This One Weird Trick.
If I click on an ad of theirs does it cost them money?
I feel bad that I can’t really contribute lately. Hopefully if progress I can annoy you all with cosplay images
I enjoyed your post about washing the walls. 🙂
I made a joke about washing the walls with a dog, good times
wall. There are 3 more to go
Wait? you didn’t do it all? But you had to get your cousin down to do the bits you can’t reach. Are you doing it a wall at a time Just so you’ve got an excuse to keep inviting him down?
no I’m doing a wall at a time because paint is expensive and I can only afford sample pots
What colour are you painting the walls? I’m sure I’ve got some paint cans floating around in the garage somewhere from painting jobs
One wall is violet and the rest is light, almost white, purple
Oh wow that sounds cool 🙂
I think the only colour close to that I know I have is like a burgandy conlour unfortunately 🙁
How big is the room?
@coldcamv
It’s quite small, so sample pots are fine
<_<
I just spent like 3 hours trying to complete the last two Extreme DLC tracks for Trials Evolution that I never ended up finishing. It’s been like a year since I’ve played the game but I managed to complete one (Magic Marker) but I’m still struggling with the last one >:(
Stupid Sughly and Serrels and their stupidness
Magic Marker is easily the hardest thing I’ve ever fucking finished (and really creative track), over a hundred faults and I still took it because just finishing an extreme track is an achievement in itself.
Another reason I wish they’d port the DLC to the PC version, I’m way better on PC
Annnnnd done!
Stupid pipes and vertical wall in the Great Fire level *shakes fist*
@strange
You really gotta watch Survivor while there’s still discussions and its still airing. But I’m sure you’ve reached that point where you just don’t wanna watch it though 😛
🙁
It’s been a really good season so far though! (there may be other men to stare at to take Malcolm’s place!)
@sughly @powalen @phoenix @masha2932
LATEST EPISODES:
SURVIVOR:
Wowee! I don’t think Orange would’ve done as well if Lindsay was still there. The thing with the fake immunity clue sharing was pretty smart by Tony but he also made some really stupid mistakes like revealing he lied and saying that whole “top 5” stuff. I thought they would’ve gone with Alexis over Jeremiah but I felt bad for her at the end :'(. I have a feeling Sarah might switch D:
And my prediction for the merged tribe: red or black 😛
AMAZING RACE:
It sucks when someone comes last just because of flight stuff :(. Go Afghanimals! 😀SURVIVORTIME
Haha, poor Jeremiah. He’s telling the truth the entire time and they’re just like “How can I trust you when you don’t stop lying!” 😛 I’m glad they didn’t vote him out. Alexis was clearly the better choice considering what they knew. Though now that it’s merging, maybe not.I really don’t like Baldy though. There’s always one dude who thinks he’s all-that and I always dislike them 😛
Funny Lindsey leaving though! I mean seriously, it can’t have been THAT bad… Surely?
EDIT: More survivor spoilers
About what’s-her-face switching back to her old Brawn tribe… I think that’s highly likely. It doesn’t seem like she’s forged that much of a bond on the new tribe yet, she’ll just flip back and vote off whatever the Brawns decide I think.Yeah, and then be voted out 6th 😛Maybe. Not necessarily.
Hahaha, “shutup Jeremiah”. It would help if he wasnt so bad at explaining himself.WTH Lidsay? Oh well.I like that the reward challenge was basically an analogue version of Johann Sebastian’s Joust.
Ha ha, I love how sneaky Tony was by implicating Jeremiah but he ruined it by getting emotional and opening up to his tribe members. Like LJ said, he is now being seen as a liar.
Another dumb decision: why did he shout, ‘Top five’ after the immunity challenge.
What is with all these blindsides? Geez!! It was kind of sad that Alexis was crying at the end.
Survivor
Hahaha, I thought of you playing JSJ during that challenge! I liked the tactic of ‘throw your thing into the air while running to get theirs’. It only failed when people (cough Trish cough) didnt throw theirs high enough. Anyways…Lindsey is a dumbass, srsly. Just deal with Trish, stay away from her, make it clear you want to not talk at all. Anywayyyy… Baldy is screwing himself over big time this ep. He was having so many things going right and hes throwing it all away with his big proud mouth, hes an idiot. I really like LJ, I think hes calm and smart enough to get far. Cop girl is totally flipping, which is hilarious because she was the least discussed of the three non brains.
Alexis going was strategically smart (she wouldve flipped, for sure), but she was so prettyyyyy T_Tcc @greenius @powalen
oh and Amazing Race…
yeah like I said to greenius, I reaaaaally wanted Margery to catch up and blitz the sewing, that wouldve been such a great comeback. Ah well. I really liked that team too dangit.@masha2932 @greenius @phoenix
Survivor
Yeah I think LJ will get far as well. Doesn’t stand out too much and still has his immunity. The Brains also because they’re probably the tightest group. If one of them can win the immunity and sway the first vote after the merge to send home a Brawn, they’ll be in a very good position. The Beauties are all wildcards at the moment, they don’t seem to be too concerned with sticking together so I think they’ll hop around as they please.Man, Baldy though. I couldn’t stop laughing at the “I’m actually a cop” line, like that would suddenly make everyone start trusting him haha
The reward challenge too, Morgan vs Baldy and someone goes “Just keep looking at her eyes” haha Would’ve liked to see her beat him.
Amazing Race
I never get to the who goes home on Amazing race because it always runs a few minutes late and overlaps with Survivor 😛Wait, what? They don’t show who goes home in Amazing Race at all? That’s kinda stupid 😛
I had my bets on LJ or Brains going far but this potential Sarah flip may screw up the brains (and they don’t have idols on their side). Tony is definitely getting blindsided. The way he revealed his “secrets” was so casual and stupid as well “hahahaheheheh I’m a cop and I’ve been lying the whole time! I was gonna swear on my fake son teheheheh” :P. He might even slip up about his idol…Yeeeep.
They do, I just have to change the channel to watch Survivortime before it happens 😛
Oooh different channels! Gotcha.
😛
Survivor @sughly @phoenix @masha2932
Do you mean he might slip up about NOT having the idol? Because LJ already found that idol! Unless this is another new one? It’s the same clue so I assume it’s not?Your comment confuses me! But Tony/Baldy got the idol from his tribe beach (Brawn), LJ has the idol from his (Beauty) and Poker Player guy had the idol from Brains but got voted out with itSurvivor
Wait… now I’m confused. I must’ve forgotten that Tony already had an idol (before this episode). I can’t remember. All I thought was that LJ had the Beauty camp idol, and Tony got the clue this episode for the Beauty camp idolNEVERMIND
@strange
SEE WHAT YOU’RE MISSING OUT ON!
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I’ve come to terms with it. Maybe I’ll just click all those spoilertags and I won’t need to watch it. 😛
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Has anyone here used Airbnb before? The site looks pretty great, but I’d like the word of friends, too 😀
This guy did.
http://gizmodo.com/airbnb-no-thanks-for-the-xxx-freak-fest-you-brought-1545054802
Sounds like a plan.
A sexy plan..
We’ll never reach page 18 ever again…
On the plus side, it sounds like when one of the ‘worst’ (DON’T JUDGE ME) things possible could happen, did, they made it right best as is possible.
@mythamphetamine
Better late than never… right?
My girlfriend and I stayed in about 11 different places over a 6 month trip around the world. 5 countries. Never had any issues.
Or are you talking about hosting?
Thanks! Exactly what I needed to hear.
It seems like the most viable solution for my trip this year.
HOMETIME, SUCKAS!
I’m gonna sleep so hard tonight. Like… I’m’a wreck that bed. You know how we do. Eight hours. Dat’s right.
Eight hours every night, my friend. 11pm-7am for me. You need it.
Well. Four is what you NEED if you wanna function the next day. Anything after is a bonus. 🙂
Eww! Only four? Really?
When I was doing the polyphasic sleeping, if I ever missed some sleep sessions (which is really, really bad) then my body would do like… a ‘hard reset’, and the next time I slept I couldn’t be woken by man, heaven, or hell until my body got what it thought it needed. Once happened during a fire drill in my apartment building with the alert speaker directly outside my apartment. The time was always 4hrs. On the dot. No alarms, just the body, saying, “4hrs. Need dis.” It’s been a good number to go by, since.
Weekends are for sleep catch-up! Unless I’m working, like this weekend. So it’s probably a good thing I took some time last night. (Though I played some Dark Souls, so it ended up 7hrs instead.)
Doubt anyone else here watches Gourmet Farmer (TV series about ex-food critic Matthew Evans who went and bought a farm in Tassie and is getting into the boutique food market) but damn, the stuff they do on this show, is not only mouth watering but makes me wish I could follow a similar thing at times.
That’s the one that did the hotdog caravan and the smokehouse isn’t it? I don’t really watch it but I hear it on the TV sometimes. Pretty sure I’ve seen only those two eps though, and twice each.
Yeah that’s the one haha.
Ahahaha reminds me of the time I could’ve made it onto that show. He was in Launceston for Festivale, I was there rather drunk with my friends. They didn’t include me walking past the camera 🙁
Wow, can I get your autograph?
Got my phone backed up, got a fresh Wii remote wrist strap attached to it. Now I just gotta get them to let me strap it to my wrist and try take some awesome pictures from the sky 😛
Got the “Meet 5 female Mii’s in a row” Streetpass Achievement. *cool guy glasses*
I hear they call that one “The Gooky”.
Don’t get cocky, kid.
Don’t listen to him, @mrtaco – stay cocky. 😉
I mean sure, expect to have everyone take you down a peg as is their right, but cockiness is how it’s done.
Is there a male equivalent? It’s hilarious to me, but SEXISM AND ALL DAT.
Yeah, there is a ‘Meet 5 Male Miis in a row’ achievement.
Here’s a statement I never thought I’d make:
I’m starting to dislike Dark Souls.
The late game is just a boring, uninspired slog that fails to be any sort of fun. There’s no challenge of figuring out patterns or strategy, just bosses that consist of multiple enemies they’ve made “hard” by just making their attacks ignore your shield and make you fight them in tiny areas where dodging is near useless.
I just want it to be over so I can move on.
Hearing a lot of people feeling burned out on it. Not completely surprised – was always worried when they announced it was a different team handling it to the previous two games. It’s hard enough to explain what makes the games good, let alone design another game like them.
Well, that sounds annoying :\
Funny, that sounds kinda like the wall I hit with the first one. Stopped playing for 3 months, then when I came back the patches had nerfed most of the problems, and it was a cakewalk to the end.
You might not have heard but they made a sequel. Maybe try dark souls 2 if you are struggling with dark souls 😉
Just watched Through The Never, the movie Metallica made.. My only gripe is the song Through The Never was NOT in the movie, I thought they would’ve included that honestly 😛
Otherwise it’s pretty awesome honestly.
Is it more concept film or concert?
It’s really both.. Though i’m disappointed in the Q&A on the bluray they said there would be the full Vancouver concert without Trips journey & there was also gonna be Trips journey without the concert, neither are on it 🙁
DARK HOLES TOO…?
Had a very productive evening in Dark Souls 2.
The final big soul I need is down the well. (sending our love down the well…) In preparation for that descent, I decided to join the rat covenant, maybe make the journey a little easier.But wait, to do that, I had to take on the Royal Rat Authority. So I flung my hollowed body at his a few times, and eventually he gave up and died. Then I warped to Earthen Peak and spoke with Pate (who was still chilling there), and followed him to Brightstone, where I killed both him and Creighton (only after getting Creighton’s gear, and the key). Then I trekked through the entire level to open all the previously locked doors, and get some pretty swish new gear.
I could have joined the Rat Covenant now, but I decided to max out my Sunbro covenant first. That meant four more co-op battles. Warp to Iron Keep, and take down the Old Iron King four times. I swear one of them was a NG+ battle, because the boss was in a whole new spot from normal, but I don’t think he did much (if any) extra damage, or gave more souls, so perhaps it wasn’t.
Travel to Poison Lake Central to deposit my 30 Sunlight Medals. Ergh, I have to give them ONE AT A TIME. Still, Dark Souls? Still? Got an achievement, a weapon and a miracle. Discovered that covenants can be abandoned at any time without penalty or loss of rank.
Joined Ratbros. Tomorrow, the Dark Hole.
Was going to send you a message last night, which heides boss did you have heaps on coop on? I couldn’t get a single session of fatty, maybe 5 of ornstein? Cleared no man’s wharf in one run without dying though, only stuff. Haven’t checked there is the ship and my knight isn’t smart enough to talk to the npc there, so I’ll have to level up a bit before moving on.It really depends on level.
But early on, I got tonnes of co-op in HEide’s Tower, with a relatively even split between fatty and Ornstein-2. I can’t get any love there now, though, because my level (or soul memory, or whatever) is too high. I get all my action in the Iron Keep these days.What the hell? How is TAY not in either of the most viewed or most commented stories sidebar? It’s all oculus rift buyout stuff
DOES FACEBOOK’S EVIL KNOW NO BOUNDS???
Oh wait, I kind of answered my own question there
That is… have we even seen that before? Wow.
Although TAY seems rather slow this week. Guess they just got lucky.
Taybies, I require your aid.
I’m after 5 balls of wool, called Liquide, colour silver. I need them for @sernobulus cosplay and am running out. Only spotlight sells them and well, they’ve been less then helpful.
If you could ring up your local spotlight and find out if they have them, if you’re able to get them for me, I would be super grateful and will reimburse all costs.
Article: 80249447
Description: LIQUIDE, SILVER, 50G
EAN/UPC: 9341222635429
I’m going into Spotlight tomorrow. I’ll check for you then. 🙂
Thanks Strange
You’re in luck! The guy fixing our roof got a dozen off the roof the other day!Ahh…
If you haven’t had any luck by Sunday, I could probably try the South Morang store.
Thanks Beavwa. I used an order form, but no spotlight stores have gotten back to me
Finished watching season 3 of Game of Thrones last night. Between all the dark caves, fire and talk of a lord of light I could almost imagine I was watching Dark Souls: The TV Show.
I thought the show was up to where I left off in the book, but then stuff was happening and not happening and I couldn’t tell if I was just misremembering the book or if they’d changed stuff so I grabbed it off the shelf, had a quick flick through it and realised they’ve still go a bit to go before they reach where I left. I think I’m going to have to reread it because there’s some stuff I forgot and the show’s different enough from the book that I don’t think I can jump into the next book without finding myself a bit lost.
Red wedding!
I was actually a bit disappointed with that. I don’t know how I was expecting them to do it, but what we got felt a bit lame. I’m not really sure how they could have done it any different though. In the end I think it’s a scene that’s better left being read about and imagined than actually seeing take place.
I haven’t read the books so that episode was quite surprising to me. Though I didn’t scream out like other peoples on the internets did. Just felt a bit like, ‘Poor Starks, yet again. When will they ever catch a break?’ You know?
That’s what you get for being related to Sean Bean.Haha! Good call.
From memory season three ends part way in the beginning of book three part two, if that makes sense 🙂
Yep. I just seem to remember the red wedding happening towards the end of one of the books for some reason.
I think Book Three was split into two parts in some markets… I could be wrong about that, though. I’ve only ever owned the full-size version.
I tried out the new Diablo 3 expansion last night. It seems pretty cool, oh and by “try out new expansion” I mean I totally crashed @mawt’s game.
Don’t worry D3 now insists my graphics card cannot run the game at all and refuses to launch. THANKS OBAMA.
Last year Obama claimed to be 51.
This year he claims to be 52.
WHICH IS IT, OBAMA?
Good job?
Pays the bills, I guess.
Good job. =P
That was a reply fail to you =P
Wait, are you having a shot at me because I’m finally redundant at work after today? That’s so cruel, why would you do that? D=
=PShe’s known for her monster-like behaviours.
We used to spam “Good Job!” in Monster Hunter all the time…
Good Job!
Good Job!
Good Job!
Maybe she’s congratulating you on your newfound job of “24/7 Diablo and Dark Souls player.”
Well, that is a good job I suppose.
Toukiden as well pls
No job. Thanks for reminding me!
*runs off crying*
Good thing I’m used to it (and too lazy to run at the moment, or ever) or I’d be doing the same…
You’re a full time jerk.
Takes one to know one, jerk face!
Started watching DBZ from Episode 1. It has not aged nearly as badly as I expected!
Wait until you get to the 5th episode in a row of Goku going “HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”. Also, kinda related, has anyone watched Dragon Ball Kai? I kept meaning to watch it but never got around to it.
I’ve watched snippets but I didn’t like the voice over work :/ I prefer the funimation seasons over it.
EDIT: I think Kai does use a lot of the same voice actors from the funimation dub, it’s just too strange for me hearing Goku’s more matured voice in the earlier seasons. Personal gripe.
I started downloading it FROM A LEGAL SOURCE literally last night. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Kai is my preferred version. It looks better and is WAY better paced. Vegeta sounds wrong however and it stops after Cell which is disappointing.
They’re actually re-doing the Buu Saga as well to air this year, if I remember correctly.
Starts airing next weekend in Japan. 😛
The Vegeta voice is what put me off for ages, but the idea of a DBZ that has appropriate pacing is why I’m getting it now.
It’s so smooth and scholarly.
I have all of the episodes but never been in the mood to actually watch it 😛
Are you watching the uncensored eps? Season One is one of my favourite things ever!
I’m not sure. What’s usually censored?
With the Radditz fight, Piccolo’s mangled arm, Goku’s ribs breaking, the hole in both Radditz and Goku is clearly visible and both cough up blood.
Tien is a lot more badass during the Nappa fight. And the brawl between Vegeta and Goku is pretty brutal, its my favourite fight of the series.
They swear on the odd occasion too, generally there is just a bit more blood and grunt.
It didn’t show Piccolos mangled arm, just that he lost it (and then that he grew one back). The hole in Goku and Radditz was clearly visible, Goku does spit up blood and I’m not sure about Goku’s broken rib. Maybe it’s the semi-censored version.
Sounds like it. I think with Piccolo you just see him holding the wound with blood dripping through his fingers.
Goku get utterly destroyed by Vegata in his monkey form, you’ll know when you reach that part 🙂
I tried doing that with original Dragon Ball. It has aged pretty terribly.
Out of curiosity, which dubbing are you watching? Funimation, Ocean, or the Kai “upgraded” version?
No idea but the file says it is “Remastered”. It looks and sounds pretty good.
I started that a few years back – currently stuck at the Cell saga. I have the rips which include triple audio tracks, the Funimation one is by far the best one.
I also have the Kai blurays but am yet to watch. Time eludes me.
Dragon, Dragon; Rock the Dragon.
@rize Sorry to pester you but did you end up deciding what class you were going to play in the Pathfinder game?
Oh shit, I keep forgetting to roll my class. Also, I found a class that meshes well with the Arcane archer. Going to go the Myrmidarch (Magus Archtype). Also, in regards to races, basically anything is available excluding all the 1/2 elemental beings right?
A Myrmidarch is fine and I’ll be interested to see how it goes (I’ve never been in a campaign with a Magus before). If you end up changing your mind and wanting to go back to a Ranger, that’s also fine.
Pretty much all races are available except for the 1/2 elemental hybrids. If you are looking at one of the more outlandish or unusual races, drop me a message or an email and run it by me. Chances are I’ll okay it but I just like to know in advance so I can fit the races into the world. My email is popdart10 at gmail dot com in case you need it.
That’s cool, I was thinking either an elf or a Catfolk. Probably leaning towards catfolk seeing as we already have a couple of elves.
I’m fairly certain that @beeawwb is playing as a Catfolk Archivist (Bard archetype) so that should fit in well. I’ll be providing some more background info on the campaign later today to give everyone more of an idea how they relate to the world.
Yep, I’m a Catfolk Archivist. Current version of the backstory has me as some form of diplomat so that could be one way for me (Drewan) to know the other Catfolk played by @sernobulus ?
Craaaap. I was supposed to make a decision at the start of the week and let you know 😐
It’s going to be a nimble Half-Orc Ranger specialising in TWF or a stereotypical Dwarven Fighter with a big hammer.
Either of those are good. I will let you know that if you choose a Half-Orc, the setting is going to be less prejudicial to Half-Orcs than standard fantasy settings. This is primarily because the Orcs themselves are borderline civilised (although civilised may be a stretch for the more snooty in society).
When I saw you mentioned there were Goblinoids and Orcs everywhere I had a laugh cause the Dwarf is a true racial stereotype, and the Half-Orc hates his own people (due to back story, which I’ll send with the character sheet).
Here’s a question for you regarding TWF – do you treat the Orc double-axe as two separate weapons, or as two separate weapons + the 2 hand strength modifier? I only found out recently that this is apparently a point of contention.
The way I play with double weapons (such as the Orc double-axe, quarterstaff, etc) is that you can use it as either of the following: a single, 2-handed weapon and gain the 2-handed strength modifier (1.5 times your strength bonus) however you can only use one end of the weapon (ie. the Orc double-axe turns into a 1d8 + (1.5 x Str) weapon; or a double weapon which uses the TWF rules which grant full strength bonus on the first strike and half strength bonus on the second strike, along with all of the other attack penalties TWF imposes. This means that for an Orc double-axe, it is a 1d8 + Str/1d8 + (0.5 x Str) weapon.
I believe the discussion revolves around the rules as written (RAW) and the rules as intended (RAI). In this instance, I will say that if you use a double weapon, you incur the TWF attack and damage penalties as if you were wielding two separate weapons. Alternatively, use it as a normal 2-handed weapon with the 2-handed bonus to damage but lose the extra attack.
Yep, sounds good. I don’t understand the justification of calling it a 2 hander for the purposes of the Str bonus, but with any rule that can cause arguments I almost always defer to house rules.
I think to keep things moving I’ll just say I’m playing as the Half-Orc. I’ll make sure my character sheet etc is good to go and send it to your gmail if you like?
Yep gmail is fine for the character sheet. Regarding the 2-handed bonus, in effect it grants you the overall Str bonus (x1.5) that you would gain if you were using two separate weapons (x1 on the main hand and x0.5 on the offhand). By declining to take advantage of the fact you have a second end on your double weapon, you gain the benefit of wielding it as a 2-handed weapon as you still need two hands to use it (as it falls under the 2-handed category).
I hope that makes sense and justifies the ruling a little bit.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear on what I meant 😛
What I mean is, I don’t get the argument between RAW and RAI for 2H TWF weapons. To me, it’s a flat TWF weapon and the 2H Str bonus doesn’t come into play unless you ignore one end of it (as you said). It sounds like someone deliberately misunderstanding to get an advantage, and this grew over time.
Just wanting to double check is my inventory all good or am I missing some day-to-day essentials that I could spend my spare gold on? For example are we using some sort of food and water system on characters or something?
There are things such as waterskins and trail rations and things like that. Those items will be important if you travel for extended periods of time but if you’re mostly in a city you will need spare gold for lodgings and things like that. Although don’t do what I did with one of my characters and wander around with a purse of 100 gp that got stolen in the marketplace.
My advice: buy some rations and waterskins and have enough gold to spare for a few nights in a tavern or something like that. Other than that, the rest of your inventory looks good to me.
Alright I’ll spend time updating my character sheet tonight and update you when I finish up on it. Also waterskins? I don’t remember seeing those…
Sorry for the late response. Kotaku decided to herpa derp and keep logging me out everytime I refreshed the page.
Anyway, waterskins are 1 gp each. The spreadsheet you used to build your character may not have had the entire inventory list but that is definitely available.
I kept meaning to ask about rations. My current load is (I think) a weeks worth of rations and a waterskin in my backpack. Good enough? Too much? Or should I assume you’re going with the usual GM approach of “take as much as you think you need” 😀
Haha, don’t do like me an get everything within 1lb of your “Encumbered” load and then realise you’ve forgotten ammo for your crossbow. :p
Had to get rid of my Parade Armor. 🙁
I was tossing up between a strong Half-Orc and a strong Dwarf, so quickly realised I didn’t have enough money to encumber myself 😛
I’m not used to playing these weakling characters! I had to drop my Con just to be able to carry stuff. Still, makes for an interesting and new challenge which is exactly the point of me trying this out.
Have retooled things (yet again) and I’m currently at 55.9lbs, with an Enc of 58. Got weapons, ammo, armor, clothes, food, and all my diplomatic gear. I reckon that’s about set.
If I remember correctly, my light encumbered was like 100 😛
Take as much as you need. If you feel like supplementing your supplies, I will be running the “do a survival check to see how much food/water you can scavenge” when you are travelling out in the wilderness.
Hey, I’m going to do more of that prologue I was writing over the weekend, was the first bit OK?
The first bit was very good Red. It certainly has prompted me to flesh out Xondol a bit more and how society functions as well.
Also considered your Tumblr followed. 🙂
Cheers, I’ll get up at least one more part over the weekend.
I need to email you about some finer points around my character. Mainly minor RP things, not mechanical stuff. I won’t post here because it likely won’t be interesting to anyone else. Expect my character sheet along with said questions ideally tonight.
Cheers Neg. Looking forward to it.
All this talk about his stuff has got me mildly interested.
Is there free spots? What sorta schedule? Would having never played any sort of DnD thing be a problem? Do you like coconut?
Unfortunately we’re pretty full up so I won’t be able to squeeze you in. Sorry about that Jo.
All good!
If it says “fragile,” it’s getting thrown harder. If it’s says this side up, it’s going to be upside down. We have to fit freight and 100+ bags in a cargo pit. It has to fit how it’s going to fit…I will tell you that when we see “I heart baggage handlers” bag tags…We take special care of your shit.
Just some important advice for anyone travelling.
Whenever I see a box with fragile I immediately think of this
Same. That scene was great. 🙂
I am reminded of this: http://www.jokeoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ups-delivery-procedure.jpg
I don’t know if you’re speaking from experience as a bag handler, and I don’t know if I should downvote you ………..
I’m not a bag handler, but this is a quote from one.
So should we use reverse psychology? For sending glassware we should put on a label that says “INDESTRUCTIBLE, HA!”?
I get magazines sent and they always write DO NOT BEND on them.
For a long time at my old place, the postman would roll the package up and put it in the newspaper slot because they were too wide to fit in our normal mail slot. I started deliberately leaving a shitty old newspaper in the hole to stop him doing it and he once or twice folded the things in half. 🙁 Once completely destroyed a CD that was inside by doing it.
I got my revenge though. When I added a second magazine to my subscription and asked the company to send them both together, the packages got too fat to effectively bend and he had to get off his bike and walk the 3 paces to my door to leave it there. Hah.
Side note: the only times I’ve ever had issues with packages being mishandled it was stuff sent via sea mail or the cheapest possible shipping which would take months and months. I found there was a high probability if the package went through Malmo in Sweden that it would arrive damaged. I once had a box of DVDs arrive in such shocking condition that it wasn’t even a box any more. Australia Post left a card for it instead of delivering so I had to go down and get it, and they had taped it all back together with a bunch of tape and told me that they had received it in that condition. There was even a giant boot mark on the box. Amazingly all the DVDs inside were completely undamaged despite a couple having come off the spindle, and even the cases were intact.
A little while ago, Freya found out that John Cleese was doing some sort of event thingy at Taronga Zoo here in Dubbo. We bought tickets and the thing is coming up on Monday.
I still have no real idea what’s going on but there will be African drums, canapes and John Cleese. Overall, that means it should be something, right?
Sounds interesting, I’d totally check it out.
It sold out surprisingly fast.
My best guess is that this will be like his recent tours, where he puts on a bit of a Q&A about being John Cleese.
Just googled this. Looks fun!
Unless he’s fallen into that celebrity trap of absolutely loathing the fact that he has to do those appearances. Which, given that it’s John Cleese, would still probably be pretty damn great.
“So how’d it go?”
“He was full of seething resentment, poorly concealed behind British manners! You couldn’t tell if he was full of sarcasm or genuine contempt!”
“Wow!”
“I know, right? He even spat on my face!”
“I am so jelly.”
“Yeah, I’m never washing this face again.”
It’s pretty much win/win.
This rainy weather in combination with Dark Souls 2 is dangerous. It would be so easy to just sit around all day and play like yesterday but I probably shouldn’t do that two days in a row. 😛
@scree, I changed my mind and I’m going to Spotlight today instead. Hopefully I can find what you’re looking for. I’ll let you know how I go sometime this afternoon. 🙂 I’m also hoping they have what I need. I bought every skein of a particular colour of embroidery thread a while ago, so I hope they’ve had time to restock.
Play all day. Doo eeet. If I had the option, that would basically be my life’s dream. SEIZE THE DAY!
Well, I am planning on playing all night as my reward for taking one for the team and staying home with the kids while Mr. Strange goes to see Dark Tranquility tonight. Good enough? 😀
I’m dog-sitting this weekend, so I brought my PS3 to work with me (don’t tell anyone) so I can play it ALL weekend and occasionally feed the dog.
Had a new ‘cosplay’ idea last night for PAX, for our group of 5-8 people. I use apostrophe’s because I don’t know if it’s a legit cosplay, but alas … 😛
The Fancy Slendermen.
Morphsuit, vest, bow-tie/tie, suit jacket/pants, fancy hat. All in different colours. E.g. for myself: blue morphsuit, bright orange vest, bright pink suit, orange bowtie, some kinda hat, optional red angry bird backpack.
😀
i r slightly excited
I know I joked about this last year, but if there’s a group cosplay I’m going to insist on everyone going as
omg great idea
I know, right?
I may have originally linked to a picture and the hotlink may have not worked.
My post, as it currently stands, is a much better idea.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/Carcassonne-meeple.jpg
I’d love to go as
Yeah, but you didn’t make an error with a hotlink. 😛 You just didn’t finish the sentence!
Says who!
The source code. 😛
The Slenderman at PAX was fantastic, especially when playing Johann Sebastian joust.
It would be pretty funny and easier to find each other if you stand out like that.
Also if everyone grouped together people would probably think your a gang of some sort
Ha, yeah, that’s the plan! Things have a bigger impact if there’s 5+ of you dressed in-theme. 😀
Just get 10 and do a The Warriors pose. Also everyone must walk in a straight horizontal line no matter what never break the line
Never. Break. The line
Just a friendly reminder that Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright is $48 at Big W tomorrow! That’s cheaper than importing 😀
WAIT IT COMES OUT TOMORROW?!?!?
HOW DID I FORGET THAT
Waahh!?
Why isn’t there a Big W in the Sydney CBD!?
EB price match? Depends on the store though, but sometimes they won’t let you unless there’s one in the same center/closeby.
I think it’s also the online price too
Oh, online with delivery? I’LL DO THAT.
Not in a rush to play it anyway.
Neither but I can’t say no at that price!
(well I can, but it’s good to support them :P)
have fun.
I ain’t jealous.
I’m pretty jelly.Helpius! Bargainius? 😀
That’s a meeee~~~!! ♫
Why does the shit crossover game get a physical release but the actual good Ace Attorney game is digital only? 🙁
Because people just want to see the world burn
Following on from my crazy run of finishing games properly (new and old), I’ve finished South Park: The Stick of Truth, and I’m up to the Elite 4 in Pokemon X.
No idea why I’m suddenly finishing all these games (and enjoying it too) but it’s a nice change of pace.
Finishing games is pretty rad! @dc inspired me with his “List of games you’ve finished in 2013” posts, and I set myself a goal of 52 this year (new and old).
@masha2932 set the same goal too 😀
But we’ve got more spare time than most 😛
How are you going with that. I’ve only done 7 this year so far
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-269/comment-page-6/#comment-2491189
😛 (30)
You’re in luck: After the Elite Four there’s basically nothing else to do in the game 😛
Ooh, I need to be online the same time as you once you beat the elite four to get the third friend safari ‘mon of yours.
End game, yeah, there’s not that much. A few legendaries, some battling locations, the hunt for the rest of the mega stones between 8 and 9pm. A small side story thing in the main city too.
I’m back playing because I hate myself, and I’ve started shiny hunting.
I’ve mostly been playing away from home, so no online, but I’ll shoot you a message on Twitter or something when I’ve beaten them and am at home if you like.
What’s your team?
I keep mixing things up (which slows me down a lot) but I believe I have Chesnaught, Charizard, Whiscash (want to swap it out but trying to push through with what I have), Golurk, Xerneas (temporarily, to try it out), and Crobat.
Does anyone else get a high from reading TAY? No? It must be just me and those codeine tablets I’m taking then. Best analgesic ever – only because morphine makes me itch.
For the record, I’m not really taking codeine or morphine and I’m not addicted. I did take them for two weeks however, back in 2012 for the after-pain of a major surgery I had undertaken and it was a great feeling. It is very easy to see how one could become addicted to these painkillers. I joke about it now when I say things like I would love to get my hands on another twenty pack of Endone – but I won’t.
Codeine doesn’t even make me drowsy. Them again I’m ridiculously drug resistant. Doctor was amazed at it when I was put onto Warfarin. Most people apparently take 2-5mg at most to get their INR to 2.5. I was taking 37mg doses to get 1.9.
Completely unrelated, but am I the only person who thinks that INR is a stupid name?
It stands for International Normalised Ratio. That doesn’t mean anything by itself. Yeah, sure, if a doc’s talking about it, you’re gonna know what they mean, but Christ it’s a silly name.
Fun fact: Warfarin was originally (and still is) used as rodent poison.
Don’t breed with rodents, @freezespreston. That last thing we need is for you to pass on your immunity.
You’ve dashed Freeze’s fantasy involving Capybaras.
NOW you tell me.
Codeine always makes me feel completely shit. Utterly spaced out and off the planet, drowsy, crazy vertigo and dizziness, weird lucid dreams. Also gives me the runs. Last time I was on them I couldn’t wait to get off them, I actually stopped using it and swapped to Panadol earlier than I was supposed to, I’d rather have pain than feel like that.
Our addictive personalities.
Watched the last episode of Kill la Kill (no subs, because who needs it with finales like these?) It was a good ride, although I’m of the opinion that it wasn’t super-amazing-ANIME-IS-SAVED tier.
Still, it was a good ride. Not sure if anything soon can provide equal amounts of entertainment.
….
NAH FUCK IT WE ON THE JOJO HYPE TRAIN NOW
I hope that gg fansub Jojo again, their work on the first season was amazing. Not particularly accurate but the over the top flamboyance of the way they translated everything with the alliteration and everything I felt really added a lot to the show. Plus it kind of fit since it’s an insane show.
I still love the names. There is something in me that finds the idea of The Cars, AC/DC and Wham being evil monsters from a past era incredibly amusing. And Jojo teaming up with Robert E.O. Speedwagon to defeat Dio. And everything else.
Also it’s adapting Stardust Crusaders which is the best arc of the manga. Hype \o/
(Note: secretly I am most hyped that we’re finally getting more Mushishi)
The forefather of all manly anime/manga, but no one since has been able to replicate such fabulously manly brand of bizarre that only Jojo can provide. It sucks that the Stands in part 3 are mostly tarot card-themed for their names, because we need people shouting out “KILLER QUEEN!” and “DIRTY DEEDS DONE CHEAP” and goddamn Jojo villains have the best names for their stands.
(I am also really hyped for Mushishi)
It’s finally finished? I can finally watch the second half!
Once again, Sega proving it doesn’t know what to do by patching in Twitch integration for Rome 2 and ignoring the fact that it is still a buggy mess.
DM, HS
(Doesn’t matter, has streaming.)
Maybe they’re trying to get live documentation of just how buggy the game is so they know what to fix…
Maybe some marketing asshole rolled in on his scooter with one leg flicked up, tossed his scarf over his shoulder and rolled his eyes at enough random meetings of people while saying, “Guh. I can’t believe you guys aren’t streaming on twitch yet. Get with like – yesterday, already.”
Woo, officially at the halfway mark saving for my PS4. Some day soon I’ll actually be able to play that copy of Infamous: Second Son that’s on my shelf…
Dr. Nerdlove really irritates me. Change yourself and pretend to be what you’re not to force a relationship no one will be happy in because BEING IN A RELATIONSHIP IS ALL THAT IS IMPORTANT! Friendship, trust, intimacy and compatibility don’t matter. Just follow these rules to
trickwin over the girl because they’re all vapid and shallow and only care about how you approach them.Doctor Freezelove counterpoint
Put a salami in your underpants and fatten your wallet with money printed from your computer.
Oooooh that explains a lot, I’ve been putting fake money in my underpants and shoving a salami in my wallet
And bread in your microwave?
Well I did zap a naan with my rogan josh for lunch yesterday
But Bread is meant to be stored in the washing machine? My microwave is full of socks.
Yeah, lots of his advice definitely seems to be more of a miss than a hit.
Hopefully people actually have the common sense not to follow the clearly bad advice he gives :\
Are you talking about the actual post from today. Seemed spot on to me.
These are people saying they want to be in a relationship, saying how do I make that happen. He is answering a request for how to be in a relationship.
Met on dating site, had casual meeting, what should I do if I want to become more romantically involved. Ask the damn girl out already.
If you want something and you’re not getting it, you have to change to increase the odd of you getting it. It applies to all things in life.
Or you could ‘be yourself’ and get things if/when they come to you, or you eventually luck out.
Dr Nerdlove is giving good advice to people who are actively asking for help.
Changing yourself for the sake of a prize relationship is literally the dumbest possible decision you could ever make.
Nerdlove’s advice is generally ridiculous and only good or a long string of broken and unsatisfying relationships. His goal is just a relationship, meaningful or not. He’s pretty much on the same level as those predatory pick up artists.
But he always has the context of “reader asked this”. It’s republished for the public to see, because they may have similar questions. To me, it’s an open Q/A from someone who wants to help nerds with their love ‘problems’.
I don’t see it as a “you must do this” kinda thing.
In the context of meeting someone from an online dating site, I’d say being able to sack up and make your romantic intentions clear is pretty damn useful and honest to both parties.
It’s funny because Nerdlove usually pisses me off for the opposite reason, being way too PC. 😛
Although, I definitely found the most recent title really annoying – ‘become boyfriend material’. No, don’t BECOME anything, just ask out some people until you find one who will hang around and VOILA YOU ARE NOW A BOYFRIEND.
Otherwise, the most recent article itself had some spot-on advice.
About nerds who constantly avoid making approaches or overtly romantic moves because they’re scared of rejection or they’re looking for a 100% certain sign that their moves will be welcome, or whatever else bullshit keeps people from just… manning up and making a move. I see so many guys who are desperately oversensitive to the idea that they might not be welcome in making a move, so they don’t. They end up being ONLY ‘friends’, and when they DO eventually get tired of hearing about her asshole boyfriends for years and make a move themselves, she wrinkles her nose in a mixture of disgust and pity because that’s not what you expect from your comfortably-labelled ‘guy friend’.
I’ve just seen it over and over and over again too often to NOT want to just shake people who start falling into it out of some weird belief that you have to do the whole ‘friend’ thing first before you can find a physical lover, like there’s some sort of moral high ground to taking the months and years necessary to properly gauge someone’s personality and hobbies and other points of compatibility BEFORE the literally 2-second superficial evaluation of, “Do they make me schwing?” That kind of moralizing is the sort of shit that makes people settle for folks who don’t even really turn them on. Yes, out of phsyical attraction and mental/emotional compatibility, point 2 is absolutely more important. But you can filter out point 1 within seconds. You owe it to yourself – and them – to do that first, so that you know you can have BOTH, not just one or the other. It’s not an either/or scenario, and you should absolutely start with the physical because it’s faster and sets the framing very clearly.
“I want to be your boyfriend, but I’ll settle for being your friend first and not saying anything about my boyfriend aspirations until I’m certain that you’ll be receptive to them,” is the worst habit geeks have in sabotaging their efforts at romance. That’s the real deception, right there – as well-intentioned or ‘noble’ as it may be.
The only time any trickery should come into the equation is whatever it takes to trick yourself into believing you’re the ‘kind of person’ who is actually ABLE to go talk to a stranger with a modicum of confidence and the kind of relaxed humour that would otherwise take you several meetings to grow comfortable with. Which is the kind of trickery that every person everywhere should always be using on themselves when they wake up and look in the mirror until they no longer need it because it came true.
There’s so much fear and anxiety in the world, causing so much disappointment from people in themselves and their efforts, I cannot support it for any perceived morality – even that about being ‘true to yourself’.
The worst part is that I can sort of see the first part of that being a good thing to actually say, right up until the word ‘and’.
“I’ll settle…”
“Okay see ya! I’m going to go bang these other dudes!”
The whole ‘take it easy and see where it goes’ only works for a small amount of people where both have the same opinion. Ergo, you “get what you’re given”.
If you’re:
– On a dating site.
– At bars trying to talk to girls.
– Contemplating asking out the cute Gamestop girl.
..you’re already on the way to NOT “get what you’re given”. You’re on the road to taking a stance, making names, and obtaining those things you think are important to you.
Dr Nerdlove then comes in and helps those people who get half-way and chicken out or are unsure what to do.
Maybe it’s my odd way of processing things that I can’t even conceive of the idea of being in a relationship with someone before I know if I’ll actually like them or not.
Then again, I can’t even conceive of the idea of being in a relationship with someone at all ever so I’m probably an extremely poor judge of these things.
I see your point. But there’s a period of time between ‘strangers’ and ‘officially going out, like it’s even on FB and all’. Announcing that you intend to make it last just puts you both on the path towards ‘being in a relationship’.
Shit’s difficult, but there are definitely steps between ‘going out for coffee’ and ‘going out’.
Well that is what the asking somebody out on a date is for. They seem interesting and you might want a relationship. So you date and work out if you actually do have the connection for a relationship. It’s just dating so you aren’t in a relationship you are working out if you want to be in one
To be honest, “I want to be your boyfriend, but I’ll settle for being your friend,” is also kind of sad. ‘Almost’ a good thing in that it’s kind of noble, I guess? But it’s not really a good thing.
It’s a disparity of purpose if your desire is still there. And if it’s still early days, then MUCH better to simply move on.
I have friends because they are people I want to be friends with. I enjoy their company, AND I don’t want more from them than that. But if I did want more from them, and they either couldn’t or didn’t want to provide that, that’s not fair to me. And if they KNOW that and have to live with that knowledge whenever we meet, then that’s not really fair to them, either. There’s no virtue whatsoever in coupling up the fun of good company with the pain and discomfort of unrequited longing.
I haven’t said it often, but one girl who I was hung up on did want to try and be friends a few months after the rawness of the break-up. I told her I wasn’t interested in being friends. We can be friendly, but a) friends don’t do [what she did to me], to each other. And b) I don’t want to fuck my friends, have kids with them, whatever. That’s how I felt about her and until that changed within me, we couldn’t (can’t) be friends.
Which is sad to not have that person in your life, I guess?
But not nearly as sad as living a life of unfulfilled longing.
Whatever virtue that kind of self-flagellation has is the virtue of a martyr without a cause.
Important thing to note is that I included the word “first” in my quote which does rather change the tone.
Still, it’s nearly as alien a concept to me as breathing methane so I’ll trust he judgement of people who’ve had some experience
Mm, I totally missed the emphasis on the ‘first’ part.
Which, y’know… I’m still leery of, because it rings with the idea that boyfriend is the next step, that you’re going to convince the unwilling through persistence alone.
But whatever, life is rich and varied and broad, maybe that kind of thing isn’t weird to other people and is how the human race is actually MEANT to go about the business of companionship and shrinking the population.
Edit: And yeah, I sound bitter.
It just… it kills me, it really breaks my fucking heart that we have all this bullshit moralization and conditions placed on the basic act of approaching a stranger with romantic intentions and making those intentions known very clearly, so you can embark on that weird experiment that is a romantic relationship without the intervention of kismet and other Hollywood bullshit like bumping hands with someone then locking eyes in a moment of chemistry, or the slow-dawning realization that your good friend is actually the one for you.
That ‘perfect meeting’ is just as much a fucking fabrication as the concept of marriage equalling the end, happily ever after, instead of something challenging that you have to work at which occasionally isn’t much fun at all. Life is harder and messier and more awkward than that, and actually going through the contrived feeling of working at something you want shouldn’t be put down just because a few lucky folks manage those bizarre quirks or desperately wish to believe that something so perfect could happen to them. My own youngest brother – too proud and stubborn to ask for help in any way ever – actually in a quiet moment asked me how he could meet women and get a girlfriend. People are lonely and they don’t have to be and it KILLS ME that we are so godamn ready to stand in the way of fixing that because our idea of how it should be done is different to what’s actually going to succeed.
It’s not necessarily about cultivating a friendship over time first. I mean more strike up a conversation with a girl and if you have a few laughs and get along well, hey we should totally do this again and soon, say dinner next Friday?
Isn’t that what mostly happens in the advice of Dr Nerdlove? “If you wanna make it happen, ask her out.” ? I didn’t read the second part in today’s, so maybe that’s what you’re talking about.
Like @stickman, that’s totally what I was reading into the article…
And similarly, I also completely glossed over the second letter because that looked like an unwinnable clusterfuck. Serial long-distance relationships without meeting, due to being in a small town where being transgender is unpopular. There’s no fix for that I can think of outside of, “Move.”
See, you seem like the kinda guy who would find their girlfriend (assumptions, here) through mutual friends and after a decent time hanging out and being friendly together. Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
But there’s nothing wrong with wanting to get a gf that’s a hottie, and actively pursuing anyone that fits the bill.
Two different types of people, all perfectly okay.
Normally I’d say it’s a valid assumption but given that it’s never going to happen thanks to the lack of even mutual friends…
Bleh, the sooner I disabuse myself of the foolish notion that something might one day happen by what could only be magic, eliminate the need for external validation and accept and be remotely content with soul crushing loneliness the better off I’ll be.
Just cos you’re by yourself doesn’t mean you’re alone. 🙂
Without even seeing you, I’m pretty confident you could still manage it.
You’d be surprised how far ‘funny and smart’ goes with women, and given your commenting history, you tick both boxes.
Magic happens, but hardly ever and you just can’t and shouldn’t count on it because statistically it just won’t happen.
@transientmind still have to meet (which I define as being able to recognise and know the name of) more than 0 new people in a year which was my 2013 record.
@popdart Okay, I’ve basically completed my character’s backstory and stuff. All I need is the name of the town that we start at.
@popdart5
city of Xondol
Cool, I will post a general backstory shortly!
If @popdart5 OK’s it, I can post it on the campaign tumblr I’m setting up if you’d like: http://taypathfinder.tumblr.com/
Yep that’s sweet. You guys can put anything you want on the tumblr without running it by me as it is a player-driven thing. Unless you want to keep something hidden from the other players, go nuts. 😛
I just meant OK lore-wise 🙂
Lore-wise I’ll try and work with whatever you guys throw at me. There are a bunch of blank spots in the world that are just waiting to be filled in. 🙂
Oh man I really need to step my game up. I know what I’ll be doing this weekend!
On the southern coast of the continent of Idris.
I’ll have to also look at the map when I get home so I can come up with a hometown for my Elf. Mainly somewhere with Elven nobles.
I thought we were in a custom setting?
This is a custom setting but I do have a map rather crudely drawn up. I’ll post it around on the weekend as part of a campaign primer.
Oh okay so I can just make up my hometown and you’ll pretty much fill it in wherever you can or something along those lines?
Pretty much. It’s a fluid world so not a lot is set in stone and you can create your own towns and societies that I can fit into the world.
Can you tell us some stuff about the town and the continent? General things. I want to figure out why my character would be there, let alone in a party with all these thieves and scoundrels.
I’m going to leave why you are all in a party up to you guys. It may be because you need money, or you’re previously associated with only one or two of the other guys and just tagged along. I’m going to write up a campaign primer with all of the introductory details and give that out either this weekend or on Monday.
I posted about it a while back (can’t permalink on work internet sorry) so I’ll just briefly summarise what I wrote and include it in the primer as well. The city of Xondol is on the southern coast of the continent of Idris and it is a bustling merchant city. It’s climate is roughly equivalent to southern France or Italy and it lies on the coastline of the Talar Sea. The wealth of Xondol is built on its bustling trade connections with a number of different ports throughout the Talar Sea and its overland trade routes with the northern city of Vinks and the city of Kraalnact to the north-east.
Thanks to its wealth, Xondol has developed quite a number of magical colleges, engineering schools, and various guilds for tradesmen and adventurers alike. Xondol is overseen by the Merchants and Traders Association (MATA) and most people live comfortably under their rule.
I think I’ve mentioned it previously but I’m drawing inspiration from a number of different sources including but limited to, Warcraft, Discworld, traditional D&D, Order of the Stick webcomic, and Goblins webcomic. I intend for this campaign to be trope-heavy but also trope-parodying to a certain extent. It will hopefully be equal parts serious, satirical, and slaughterfest.
Braaaaaaaaaains.
Graaaaaaaaaains.
Traaaaaaaaaaaains?
Plaaaaaaaaaaaanes
AutomobiiiiiiiiiiiiilesRaaaaaaaaaaaains.
Down in Aaaaaaaaaafrica
Chaaaaaaaaaaaaains
Xenoblade is going a lot better the second time around. I’ve just reached the Nopon Village and Makna Forest (play time is around 25 hours). Only a couple more areas before I am back to where I was up to last time. The advantage of being able to play a bit more each day is that the story is sticking in my head a lot more. There are some cut scenes I’d completely forgotten having seen. A few more questions that need to be answered.
Knowing a bit more of the mechanics has really helped too. Some people’s Arts that I previously had no idea of their use are now a lot clearer, including some of the Monado Arts. Gem Crafting is now clearer as well. And I’m not making the mistake of selling off all my collectibles for extra cash, when I know that so many quests and the rebuilding of Colony 6 need them, saves me having to go off to re-collect them all again. And because I am completing quests a lot faster, I’m a bit over levelled. Whole party is around level 37/38 when the regular enemies in that area are around the 31-33 mark. Makes the boss fights and the Unique Monster fights a lot easier.
@greenius @powalen
Uh oh. Last time Xenoblade was discussed while I was at work, I ended up listening to the soundtrack for the whole day…
It’s starting…
I still had to just stop and stare the first time it turned to night in the Satorl Marsh…
Side note, what party did you usually go with?
I swapped between Shulk and Melia as my mains, Riki (swapped with Sharla if I needed dedicated healing) and any third person (would swap constantly to build everyones relationships)
I went Shulk main, Dunban tank and Sharla healer.
It’s simple but works well enough. Sometimes I played as Riki or Melia for funsies
I’ve been trying this combo for the last 10 or so hours, but Dunban just doesn’t seem to draw enough aggro. Reyn seems to be much better at that.
It’s a pretty boring party :P. I swapped around when messing around with sidequests/exploring and when trying to build relationships.
Yeah now I’m pretty much exclusively using Sharla and Melia now to build their affinity since that bratty kid in Colony 9 wants me to prove that girls can be friends too
If Dunban isn’t drawing aggro you’ve geared him wrong. He shouldn’t be built as a tank like Reyn, stacking up HP and toughness. You need him with a mix of lots of Agility (for dodge and a bit of damage) and Strength (for damage). He has a bunch of taunt moves that draw aggro to him so make sure he’s got those available and enabled as well, but generally if you build him as a damage dealer he’ll hold aggro pretty well, plus his higher damage output and more varied skill should mean enemies go down faster.
Early game: Shulk (controlled, DPS), Reyn (Tank), Carna (Heal)
Mid game: Shulk (controlled, DPS), Dunban (Tank), Carna (Heal)
Late game: Melia (controlled, DPS), Spoiler Character (Tank) or Shulk (DPS against certain enemies that need a specific debuff), Carna (Heal)
@trjn @freya
Don’t know if you guys have heard, but the cinema in dubbo is shutting down at the end of April. Costs them too much to lease apparently.
THE cinema? So there’s currently one, and it’s soon to be zero?
That sucks. @trjn I hope you’re bumping your internet to a higher download limit after this month.
Hah, welcome to country towns. Closest one where I grew up was a twin cinema 30km away, and by country standards that was close
Dubbo is about 80kms from my place and I consider that close. Although I’ve discovered that my version of close is a lot longer than most people out here because of work.
Country towns: Where a Maccas run is an epic trek.
Unless you drive, in which case ten minutes in any direction will put you outside city limits, unlike in the big smoke where that’ll get you to the first set of lights on the nearest main road.
Of course you drive! To walk to the closest McDonalds from my town would take you… 8 hours? Maybe?
On a good run, I can get to “country” from my close-to-the city suburb in 25 minutes.
In that case, your town doesn’t have a maccas. You just need to wait patiently a few decades for it to get one. 🙂 Or move to the next shire over.
@transientmind Shire?
Kapunda is never getting a Maccas. A slightly closer large town (Nuriootpa) refused them planning approval. Closest one is Gawler.
That scenario could almost be a comedy.
@transientmind ?
It’s kinda farcical.
Since when does one town get to decide when another town gets planning approval for a McDonalds? It just sounds so absurd. I almost can’t even think of the kinds of arguments a comedy show would write for the town meeting scene.
“Because without the McDonalds in OUR town being the only one for an hour, no-one passing through on the highway will ever stop, and our town will DIE.”
Or worse, “We want to prevent other people from eating your crap because we don’t want our kids eating all your crap, because we might have to confront the reality that we don’t have as much control over them as we think they do or that our morals haven’t stuck to them as well as we hoped they would.”
So very strange.
@transientmind sorry, realised how that read.
Kapunda won’t get a McDonalds as it is too small. Nuriootpa, a large nearby town, refused a McDonalds looking to set up there on the grounds that the Barossa Valley is a tourist region predicated on wine and fine food, and McDonalds runs counter to that.
Now, I disagree, as they were going to build it on the highway and I think the impact is overblown (it’s also hypocritical, as there was a Red Rooster and is a Subway), but it’s not like Nuri is getting in the way of Maccas Kapunda- they’re in different council regions.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
That makes more sense. Apart from the whole hypocrisy thing pointed out.
Oh yeah, has 5 projectors. You forget that Dubbo isn’t very big in the scale of things 😛
Yeah, I guess the part I’m struggling with is how rent can make running it infeasible. Making them close will earn the landlord less rent than charging a smaller rent, and that should be bloody obvious when it’s THE cinema.
Assuming people go to THE cinema, and it’s got the bells and whistles. Otherwise they may go elsewhere (don’t know where the nearest one is) and 5 screens is a big building.
On the topic of big buildings, every roller skating rink I went to as a kid that went the way of the dodo (thanks to rent shenanigans) got turned into a car yard. Not really an improvement for the community.
I am aware this is the nature of the free market in our society, but it still saddens me.
Edit: Struck with sudden curiosity, I went on a Google maps trip to see what happened to the old Mermaid Beach cinemas. It’s a medical centre (although the angle I have at the moment hasn’t stitched the image properly, so it’s the Mermaideach medical entre. Good thing Sizzler is still next door for mains)
Now I’m getting strange ideas about how to repurposed a cinema into some sort of examination or imaging room.
Obviously Roller Derby wasn’t yet a thing
I’m quite amazed that the roller skating rink 2min away from me is still around. Seems to have been turned into more of a community centre type place now than just exclusively roller skating, but still cool to see it there at all especially considering it seems a bit of a strange fit for the area.
I think the nearest would be orange, which is about 150kms further south. As I said above though, I’ve no idea how busy it is consistently.
Yeah it’s stupid, I read that the company are going to try and find a cheaper premises, but I don’t know how long that would take them.
Not sure what sort of traffic the get either.
I heard, but apparently they might have had another offer for an alternative company.
@scree No go, unfortunately. My Spotlight didn’t even have a space where that wool should have been, nothing with that name at all. 🙁
No go in South Melbourne either @scree
Speaking to one of the girls there she said that it has been discountinued and would have been put on super cheap discount table and snapped up almost right away.
Your best bet apparently is, if you have a spotlight card, go onto the website and there is a service to buy it there. Here exact words were “There might be some out in the middle of nowhere, like the darwin store”
@scree South Morang wasn’t ‘middle of nowhere’ enough either. They advised that particular wool is discontinued, best bet to find it will be by ringing the national customer care number, because they can check every store in Australia from there to see if it’s still around.
I did it via mail order, but they haven’t got in touch at all. Thanks for trying everyone
Anyone heard of the comic mini series Ordinary? It’s an interesting premise about everyone on Earth getting super powers from a plague, except for one guy. I’ve ordered it from my local comic book place and I’m looking forward to reading it.
Hooray! Blizzard unblocked my account. They seem to have worked out when my account was hacked and rolled back everything to then as well because everything seems to be right where I left it.
I fell.
In love again?
Yes.
With the adrenaline rush of a complete and total freefall.
Pics, kgo.
Didn’t get to take my camera up 🙁 In that it was too wet for me to want to risk ruining it. But Mum sprang for the DVD packages for the both of us, so we’ve got those to check out afterwards.
Skydiving? Rad.
Bought my first PS4 game today, Infamous: Second Son. Now all I have to do is buy a PS4 (hopefully be able to afford one next month).
If anyone I s looking at getting it it’s still 65 bucks at DSE. Also picked up a steering wheel for my PS3 for $38.
Customer comes in with a “Do you change batteries in things?”
“Yes. Yes I do.”
Customer then hands me a Pokemon Silver cart.
They’re not all that easy to get apart.
Yes they are, Hammer and chisel works fine.
It’s the getting them back together again that is the issue
Hammer AND a chisel? Whoa, steady on Mr. Technical.
Wow. Is it just like… a regular battery?
I doubt it’s a tiny voltorb.
Yeah, for something like that you would need an Electrode or two.
Yeah, just a CR2025 with two solder tacks.
Countdown to the fucker coming back to you and whining that his save games are gone (the battery is there to keep the save game memory working)
I’m be guessing the battery has probably died which is why he may have come to Freeze here in the first place.
I already asked him about that. Apparently they’re long gone already.
I see you have learned the ancient maneuver of Cover Your Ass 😛
The talk around town is to use a hollowed out Bic pen as a makeshift screwdriver. You have to soften the tip over a flame and squash it onto the screw so that it forms the shape. Apparently works pretty well though I’ve never tried.
(If you do get it open an easier way, tell me how :P)
The needle nose pliers on my Leatherman worked a treat.
*cautiously googles “Leatherman”*
http://th06.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2010/285/7/8/leather_man_by_kjngrafix-d30lv0r.jpg
I’m glad that everybody had gone home before I blindly clicked on this link.
SAFE SEARCH SAFE SEARCH
*don’t ask me how I know to warn about this.
I’m guessing it’s from knowing TAY. It’s pretty much exactly what I expected to see and I know what the actual tool is
Brice?
I’ve heard that advice before. And tried it. Totally didn’t work, at all.
I just sprang for some security bits on eBay, found a decently priced pair with both the smaller ones for the game carts and the larger one for consoles. Needed it to fix my Virtual Boy 😛
How can you fix something that was always broken?
😛
With a soldering iron!
Welp, that settles it, Kill La Kill has officially joined my “most favourite animes of all time” list.
The series as a whole was amazing, but god damn the last quarter of the show is fucking brilliant.
I’m not even ten minutes through the last episode, and I’m in total agreement.
Did you notice
the back of Ryuko’s jacket had the Gurren Lagaan logo?I saw it as well, paused it and went back, it’s not exactly the gurren-dan logo, but it’s too similar for it too be a coincidenceHowever, Gamagoori’s persona unleashed form was straight up a Gunmen from Gurren LagannI had a lot of fun with it. In the first few episodes I was rolling my eyes at the fan-service, but then Nudist Beach was a thing and the male teacher fanservice cracks me up. He’s just… so into it.
NUUDIIIISTTTOO BEEEAAACCCCHHH
I read that as Nintendo beach
I would go there
I probably would too
I wouldn’t. Shit would constantly be getting wrecked by crabs and cataquacks.
No it’d be like mario party and stuff
So we’d all be yelling at each other and getting into fights? 😛
i couldn’t finish watching it. I got about 8 episodes in so I gave it a decent chance.
I ate a cookie and it was delicious.
Subway Cookie?
How did you guess? 😛
Their white-choc/macadamia is to
die forkill forget enthusiastic about.Yeah boiiiiiii.
So ENFUSED!
Got some tickets to see Ella Hooper next week. Should be interesting – last time I saw her perform with Killing Heidi was Big Day Out when I was 16 (also being one of the first live on stage music acts I ever saw up close)
I bet you saw a lot of other things up close..
I have no shame, no shame at all.Random story
Funny thing – my sister had a friend who was big on talk (mostly bullshit) about how she was ‘in’ with bands like the black eyed peas (so groupie I assume). I put the challenge down to get me a chance to meet Ella Hooper (I think they were a support act for something Dreamworld related at the time, maybe D&D ball?). She never came through but I never had to listen to the bragging again.Haha, that’s awesome. Sure showed her.
I have a similar story actually heh
I have a mate who does similar sort of shit, like he claims he’s a drum teacher at some music store in Melbourne these days when I know for a fact he couldn’t even get When I Come Around by Green Day down pat or On My Mind by Powerfinger.. He also claims he is mates with the keyboardist in Wolfmother, he thinks I can’t see through his bullshit but I can. I’ve known/interacted with more famous musicians than he has.. and it’s nothing exciting or amazing, just random dumb luck and saying the right things in on social media or being in the right place at the right time heh.His best one i’ve heard in recent was he worked for Soundwave in 2013 cause this music store he supposedly works at (he works for Target in Melbourne) was supplying gear to the bands and got to hang out with Metallica HAHAHAHA. There was never any proof or endless bragging at the time, because who in their right mind a) woudn’t brag & b) wouldn’t get a picture with the band?!
That’s pretty full on to say the least.
The most I’ve met was
Lupe Fiasco by chance at BDO he was walking around checking out other acts and I bumped into him in the V must tunnel.And
Flo Rida who was doing a minor gig nearby at a hotel where few not so big acts go through, a girl I know works there as head of entertainment so got to meet him backstage before his show and after, granted it was for like half an hour tops of which he barely spoke bit still got to shake his oversized hand atleastHe’s a bit of a tit my mate, he’s a good mate just he tells some outrageous stories that you know are just not true.
I’ve always wanted to run into someone big like that at a festival, my friend does it all the time with Corey Taylor, to the point he’ll go up to her and just hang out. Last time she helped him pick out this horrible horrible jacket for the Stone Sour gig the following night in Bournemouth, such a hideous jacket, a jacket i’ve seen him wearing in interviews since hahaha.
I dunno isn’t Flo Rida some kind of big deal? I’m not sure since i’m not into whatever music he does haha.
But that’s pretty awesome I gotta say, best i’ve got is running into Angel & Virus from Dope few years back, cause me & my mate got to the club way too early (like 5 hours before doors opened early) so we chilled out the front for ages and they were having soundcheck or something I guess inside and all of a sudden Virus came out went to this shitty kebab place next door, me being the chicken shit I was at the time couldn’t even work up the courage to go say hi, even though he knew we knew who he was, also thought he should just enjoy the horrible food he just bought in peace 😛 Then was like 30 mins later Angel & Virus emerged again along with the 2 support acts (SOiL & MM9) came out and I actually had enough courage this time to say hi and high five Angel 😛 Was disappointed Edsel the singer wasn’t present, and neither was Tripp the bass player but turns out his visa was denied LOL.. I think he had some kind of convictions that didn’t allow him into the country.
That is a horrible horrible jacket.
I think it was just before he got big, it was he was here then left and came back a month later and did stadium shows all across aus.
That’s still cool but atleast you know yours aren’t made up haha
The funniest part is Corey loves it.. Which I find rather amusing.
Ah right, that’s interesting he got that big that quick, but then again it kinda makes sense if you penetrate right the market and get the right people to talk about you or feature in your song etc lol. I think that’s one reason how Justin Bieber got a good start having Ludacris (wasn’t it?) feature in his first big hit.
Yeah, i’ve had a few chances to meet others IF I was persistant and hang around after gigs. I kinda wish I did that when I went to The Living Ends retrospective tour, but getting to chat with them on twitter the other week when they took over Soundwaves account was fun, and the fact Scott said if I could steal the big prawn or big mango The Living End would come play a gig for me, still haven’t figured out how to steal a 9 tonne prawn yet though 😛
I used to play magic the gathering with her brother. She went to a different high school so I never knew her. Was very cool when Killing Heidi got there break though
I’m not one to agree with bands re-recording parts for live albums, but Metallica just did it so well with Through The Never, I guess their version of recording every night they played the arena where it was shot in Vancouver isn’t really cheating though, unlike Motley Crue who overdubbed in the studio for Carnival of Sins.
Also the fact that movie had 128 audio channels for a 4 piece band was pretty fucking impressive. Was nice they included that look at how it was all mixed.
Okay this is now a must buy – I swear you keep talking it up just for me. 😛
Haha, it really is good, it sounds awesome too. If anything Metallica know how to record live, since they’ve been recording every concert they’ve ever done for the good part of 15+ years and made them available in lossless & mp3 for the fans to buy to help recoup the loss it takes to mix & master them and such, I like they choose not to make a profit on the live recordings, but choose to break even.
Shadowrun’s getting a new game!
YAY!
It’s an MMO!
Y..yaay?
It’s a combat-focused PVP game!
…god dammit.
I can’t be too bitter, Shadowrun Returns is pretty excellent. The games can’t ALL be tailor-made to my wants and desires.
Not until I am ruler of the world, anyway. Let’s just see how this Crimean thing shakes out first. Baby steps.
You can be bitter. Us old people need to be bitter sometimes. With the older generation dying out, who’s gonna be left to write all those damning letters to people telling them how shit things are today compared to when we were young!
Hey… I do that! It can be me!
Get off my lawn!
Have you tried the Berlin DLC for SRR yet? I’ve been thinking of grabbing it but have been so madly focussed on PS4 saving that I’ve not wanted to divert even a small amount just in case I come up with a reason to divert a larger amount and suddenly have no money
Actually, I haven’t tried it yet. I’m waiting for a special if for no other reason than that I haven’t actually finished the main campaign yet. I put it away before what I’m pretty confident is the final mission.
The last mission is a bit of a bastard as I recall, one of those ones where the difficulty spikes quite a bit
So I came across this I really want to believe none of them are true, but sadly I have seen a fair few of them confirmed over the years in the media..
What, some of them don’t even make sense. I think we gotta take it with a gran of salt, since it’s mostly related to USA. Like #2 is a valid point (to have a talk with parents about it, that’s it).
Edit: yeah, it’s all stupid USA shit. Keep moving.
Nah man, there was Canada & England in there too!
Hey Brissy TAYbies (do your magic, @dc ), I’m going to be in town on Saturday the 12th of April (I was going to be free on the 13th all day, but my sister went and changed my ticket :/), and I’ll probably be free at lunch time, and in the evening (we haven’t worked out exact details for this thing I’m going to), and was wondering if anyone felt like meating (I’d assume for lunch in… a place? or drinks in… somewhere?).
Probably the worst time to ask this, 6pm on a Friday, but pshhh.
Edit: Okay, we don’t know exact details because my family are as slack as I am, but I should land Brisbane at around 10:30, and this family thing will be at some point in the afternoon probably, and most likely in South Bank, though I’m happy to public transport around to where’s easiest for people.
I’ll likely be up for that! Hopefully they don’t decide to meet in the CBD, but no matter what, I’ll see what I can do! GET HYPE!
I say we meet up in the most sketchy part of Brisbane, and then get arrested on the anti-association act, fun for everyone \o/ 😛
I hear Woodridge is a good contender! or alternatively we could go hang out at the Hyperdome like all the cool kids do! 😀
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Thanks Delsin/Cole!
That name worked better in my mind.
I note that you don’t have an enthusiastic comment about how much you want to meat me. 😛
I’m two weeks into meds, man. I feel no highs or lows about any thing at the moment. 😀 Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaains. Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaains.
Then it’s the perfect time for me to insult you gently, since you won’t mind!
Wait.
I might be a terrible person, I’ll need to consult the jury on this one.
Keeeeeeen!
I have a wedding the day before (not mine) but should be back in Brisbane if there’s something happening
I’m trying to figure out if I’m in town or not. Pretty sure that I’m back by the Saturday, so put me in as a tentative Yes.
Heyooo! Havent seen you since camping! I’ll be there
Oh man, sneaky. I thought I had a notification from DC but it was really from Blaghs! D:
😛
I may be able to do something, I’ll let you know closer to the date.
In.
I want to meat 😀
@stickman Rather than posting it out there 😛
http://image.worldcosplay.net/uploads/75463/e68577c1fa98c0f064460c8e0c1c77a17dc27a0c-740.jpg
She seems to have done alright, really.
Dark Souls 2
Fun with Ascetics Edition
From getting myself bored from farming Leydia Apostles I decided to go use some ascetics to get all my +2 rings and my Moonlight Greatsword, which means I killed NG+ Velstadt, Skeletal Lords, Executioner Chariot and Freja now I’m contemplating whether or not I should use ascetics at the Shrine of Amana to farm more twinkling titanite.I’m on the +2 ring hunt at the moment.
Busily de-populating the entire bastille and belfry just so I can figure out which bonfire ascetic respawns which bosses/critters. I’m very interested to see if there’s any overlap, and which areas are affected by servant quarters vs blacksmith vs belfry vs tower apart.
Ugh. Trying to set up the old router to use with some old WFC games before they get shut down. But I have no idea how to access the new router, and the plastic sleeve with all the network info in it isn’t where it’s supposed to be. Nor does it appear to be anywhere else at all. Rage building.
Finally found it. Mum had taken it, and taken the papers all out of the plastic sleeve and they were hidden away under other stuff on her desk instead of being put back.
But now all I have is the password, and no idea what the username is. And Dad can’t remember what it is either, nothing works.
Tempted to just change it to admin/admin once this shit’s sorted, so this doesn’t happen again.
Load web browser
Go to 192.168.1.1
Username: Administrator (or admin)
Password: password (or occasionally admin)
Works for most toy routers these days. Failing that, every manufacturer has a list of defaults on their website, just put the model number into google with the words “default configuration” and it’ll tell you.
Also, change the default username & password while you’re in there, that shit’s as secure as leaving your keys in the door of your car with a sign saying “Please don’t steal”.
If you’ve already done that and it’s your new info that you’re missing, there’s a little button that you can hold which resets to factory spec
Yeah… turns out the username and password WERE default shit like that. Not the thing that was written down as being the password.
Also I kind of turned off the DHCP thing on the old router, so I couldn’t access it any more to change settings and had to use the reset button on it.
Can’t seem to get it to work as an extra wireless access point though. I can connect to it wirelessly with my phone and access the settings menu. But I can’t get through it to any internets. And on this computer, I’m wired into the old router (10.1.1.1) and used that to change its settings. But then I plugged the old router into the new router (192.168.0.1), and I can now get internets on here and access the new router’s settings menu, but can’t get to 10.1.1.1 any more.
Woo, fixed it!
Hooray! What’d you have to do, just give it the right gateway address?
Yeah, had to change the old one’s IP over to something in the 192,168 range, then disable the DHCP and it started working. Way less of a headache when you do things in the right order 😛
Oh is that all, they were just in different networks
Also the instructions I was reading from talked about “switching it from gateway mode to router mode”, when there was no such option. Just kinda had to piece it together from bits of other things they said.
Yeah F**K you Lost Sinner you dead B***H!!!
Hahahahahaha! Finally killed her, and kept Luciatel alive somehow!!! >:D
Well done. 🙂
I assume you are referring to Dark Souls, and not real life?
Sure, Dark Souls, why not…
😛
@phlanispo
http://www.dicksmith.com.au/computer-accessories/logitech-g130-gaming-headset-dsau-yg10094
Might be worth considering if your budget runs to it and if your speakers are indeed on the way out
woah.
What the hell.
In my workplace, one of the lights was not working, and hasn’t for several months. It’s one of those super lights that has the diameter of your average chair. The light is about 8m off the ground, so reaching it to replace it could be considered a tough task by most. So head office sent a guy to replace the light,
He put a palette on a forklift, and stood on it. He told an employee to send him up. The employee had no experience with forklifts, but it’s okay, the guy on the palette 7m up in the air has a forklift license. Anyway, he still couldn’t reach the light. He told the employee to lower him down. Apparently he couldn’t wait, and jumped off a metre off the ground, He then proceeded to put a ladder on the palette, and told the employee to lift him up again.
The ladder swayed a couple of times when he was on it, 8 METRES OFF THE FLOOR. It’s been a while since I’ve been so terrified for someone else’s safety.
Eventually, he installed the light. He walked off, totally nonchalant. I know he breached about 20 OSH laws, but don’t worry, he’s the son of the C.E.O, it’s fine.
And since this light is even brighter than the other lights, it’s causing a lot of eye strain. Was it worth it?
Wear sunglasses.
Not sure if intentional or accidental, but hilarious.
Eh, we’ve done that at work, it’s safe enough. Even if Klaus here shows us otherwise why it is a bad idea.. Their problem is they didn’t put the forks through the pallet, they simply rested the pallet on the forks, which makes it very unstable 😛
The ladder however I think is a bad idea, even if he secured it first… Which by the sounds he didn’t.
Oh my god… that video….
I love it. I remember when I first saw it, my teacher (who later become my boss who ran an OH&S company) showed me. It’s just amazing.
And people claim Germans don’t have a sense of humour…
I think you have to after having someone like Hitler as your leader that did what he did… The Germans are really nice people with a really weird sense of humour this is a fine example of that humour that only Gemans understand heh.
Okay that’s bloody good. Might be made by the same company that made my speakers, they’re branded “Genius” but they’ve put the nameplate on upside down…
Anyone who really thinks Germans don’t have a sense of humour have never watched Henning Wehn
Haha, oh those crazy Germans.
I made comment to my mate who didn’t understand it, it was for refilling your plasma telly from the plasma truck 😛
Should of taken a photo for later incase blackmail
Urgh. Spent the last couple of hours trying to work on an assignment for my secure web programming class trying to add things to a database through PHP. Easy enough, when they actually give you the right permissions to do it how we’ve been shown how to do it. I finally figured out how to access the server by myself though, after about an hour.
That and I have to actually work on the files via VPN on my Mac and test the files on my PC. It’s really annoying :/ I finally have a working account creation form though!
Try maybe useful, therefore download?
(P. sure you can get equiv rollouts on whatever OS.)
Mostly suppressed rant…
I really hope people don’t still teach (mysql) db access in PHP via ext/mysql. D: *eye twitch*We’re being taught to do it with mysqli, which I hope is a bit better but I don’t have that much of an idea about that stuff 😛
@phlanispo
Just wondering how things are going
Good… I guess? If your asking about Dr Yapp situation, it hasn’t been brought up again. That’s probably a good thing. However, I still have not told my father about it. I spent a while trying to figure out if telling him would be a good idea. I get the feeling that telling him will make him very angry, and that will lead to my mother and father fighting again. Hell, they had a big argument over whether my dad should be giving me driving lessons, (I should explain the circumstances behind that at some point) I think my mother wanting to take me to Melbourne to see a quack doctor will set him off. However, telling him about my problems with my mother has worked in the past. Once. I counted. On the whole, it seems best to pretend this never happened. If this is a scam, I want my cousin to get out now, but after the shit she said, I can’t muster any will to help her.
This whole thing has caused a lot of stress, and I think the stress has made me feel sick over the past couple of days. I am really glad the weekend is finally here. I plan for the trip to the city thing to happen tomorrow, as stuff popped up last Sunday.
After having to take Wednesday off from school, I’m probably a bit behind. I just realised I have an assignment due next week that I’m not prepared for. Dammit.
So yeah, my initial assessment that “I’m good” has been disproven and found invalid.
I agree that perhaps it’s best left alone. As for your cousin, it sounds like no amount of evidence will convince them. Remember if things get too stressful, you can always call headspace or other places like it. They have free counseling services.
I agree it’s best to let it go. Try not to stress out about it too much.
For trying to convince your cousin, maybe just to take the stress off do it in written form.
Work on a few sentences here and there when the mood takes you so you can handle the job in a manageable series of tasks rather than as one big single effort. It’ll also allow you to refine ideas and make sure they’re good ones.
Even if you ultimately decide to go for a verbal discussion, it can be the template you work from and keep you from getting distracted.
Nope, wait. It’s cancelled due to possibility of rain. I’ll try Sunday.
I’d suggest go to dick smiths and look for those headphones while they’re on special
Oh man. Manos: The Hands of Fate is on TVS at 10:30. Sorta wanna watch.
But then, Wild Things 2 is on 7mate at 11. So much homoeroticism to choose from…
ALSO BATMAN/SUPERMAN: APOCALYPSE IS ON YET AGAIN I SWEAR THAT’S AT LEAST THE FOURTH TIME THIS YEAR HOW IS THAT TAPE NOT COMPLETELY WORN OUT YET
Well, this is certainly impressive as all hell
Serenity done in Lego
Including interiors.
It’s one of those days where I just feel shit and feel like I don’t amount to much if anything. Saying that went and had a word to my boss at Dan Murphy’s, can’t get any hours currently sadly and the new store is still at least 3 months away from being open which is just eugh, but he did tell me HR wants him to hire a perm part time & full time come new store, to which I said I am happy to put my hand up for. But I will be getting hours at the new store either way which is great.
Not work today but work tomorrow? Better than nothing mate, a lot better than nothing.
I got nothin’ for 3 months 😛 Haven’t had work in 2, been looking ever since. Damn casual position and things being quiet >=[
Heh I know that feeling mate, I’m only qualified in IT and live in wagga. I’ve only ever had casual work and damned little of that
Ouch man, I know that one, I got these web, general IT & other related skills going to waste simply because well IT here in my town is drying up it seems, for some reason. I think our last real computer store closed down just end of last year, which was one of the longest operating ones around here, and I don’t think even the Russian dude who was operating the newest one is still there, but he was strictly AMD, hated Intel & Nvidia with a passion, so I never went back to him 😛
I can ‘t remember where I read this, but is it true that if you play Red on a GBC it’ll have some colour elements (not full-on colour, but a sort-of tinge)?
I guess so.
if it did it on Yellow, then why not?
I thought it was the super gameboy that did that, can’t remember if GBC did as well.
it works with all old gb games as far as I remember
Sorta. The GBC let you choose the base colour palette of any game based on what button combination you use during startup, but Red and Blue did default to the red and blue colour settings on that. While I think Yellow (and some other carts like DK 94) had kind of a low-level colour mode inbuilt for the Super Game Boy (as mentioned by @beavwa), which also worked on the GBC. Not sure if Red and Blue did their thing with the Super Game Boy or not.
Yep, everything is red tinted. (Same as blue for Blue version). Yellow version had unique colours for each area that corresponded to the colour the cities are named after. Was pretty nifty!
Someone thought it would be a good idea to combine 14-year old JPop stars with heavy metal.
Enjoy the death of metal, @strange and @cufcfan616.
This is just so.. Japan, I feel violated every time I watch it lol.
Why does everyone keep linking me this? 😛
Metal will never die. You’ll learn, youngling. \m/
http://static.neatoshop.com/prodimg/Death-Metal-Grandma.jpg
A death metal nanna would have to have one of those wheeled walking frame things in black, belching fire, wrapped in barbed wire with chariot spikes on the wheels
Had the shittiest week, but hopefully tomorrow makes up for it!
Pre-apologies for any drunk TAY-ing tomorrow night, I plan on getting pretty annihilated (read slizzard), and I can’t control what drunk me does 😉
Drunk personas can be fun, if difficult to decipher.
My god, between me, aleph, and you, Drunk TAY is going to become a thing, isn’t it?
HOPEFULLY!!! 😀
Is there some sort of drunk-translation wheel that we can develop to help decipher you, @Saturday and @mythamphetamine? Something like the Amiga era copy protection for stuff like Monkey Island
Okay so it’s Liondrive, he sounds fairly drunk and it’s Saturday night… line the wheels up… It looks like “ikjnboiusfghsiouh” means “Hooray, just found $20 on the footpath!”
I’d rig it so everything I say translates to “Drink your ovaltine.”
It’s that time?
Goodnight.
Bahaha I forgot how stupidly loud the DS rumble pak is.
http://www.steamprices.com/au
Weekend TAY!
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Weekend TAY boredom to the max.
Bah I was trying to turn it into YMCA, hard to make a C looking thing with ascii
WELL I BROKE IT.
>:|
You’ve spoiled the village people tribute act, now I’ll never be a camp motorcycle cop!!!
Just one more day until Sunday TAY! I can’t wait!
Out of curiosity, has anyone who wanted to get Dark Souls II on PC still not have the game yet? :P. It seems like everyone who was going to wait, just got the game anyway 😀
I nearly broke on the first week but that was more because I just needed something new to play 😛
I loved Dark Souls but I just didn’t feel that hype for Dark Souls II for some reason, so that made waiting a bit easier. Heck, I even forgot about the game for a while despite all the TAY talk (I think it was people typing anything but “Dark Souls II” in their posts :P) but I’m sure I’ll feel the hype soon 😀
I haven’t looked in to acquiring the game yet, but PC would be my chosen platform when the time comes.
Only 26 more days to wait.
This will make your decision easier:
I recommend you play Dark Souls 2!
*cancels pre-order and requests refund*
I’m waiting. I don’t care about being on the bleeding edge and finding out stuff myself so waiting for a month suits me as I can consult a FAQ when I get stuck, and every time I turn my PS3 on (my 360 isn’t even connected any more, haven’t bought a new game for it since Halo 4) i feel like I’m stepping back in time a decade or so, so PC all the way.
I’m only getting it on PC for sure. Not sure if I’ll get it as soon as it comes out, I’ll have my PS4 sometime around then and have a psych bill I think on DS2’s release day so it might depend on how distracted I am with shiny new consoles and if I can afford things after not having my brain explode.
I feel I should make an effort to finish #1 first.
Then again, I never did make the effort to finish Demons’ before getting Dark…
I’m probably going to get it on PC at some point when I replace my graphics card. 🙂
I have an 8400GS just sitting here if you want it.
😛Well that’s mighty kind of you. 🙂 All the same, I think I’ll stick with my plans for a GTX somethingorother.
Hey, if you want to pass up a chance to play Half Life 1 at 1280×720 at a sweet 18fps that’s your loss.
Since you don’t want that bitchin’ 8400GS, I have a stuffed XFX (when they made Nvidia cards! so it’s a collectable) 8800GTS overclocked 640mb model, all yours 😛
Apparently Clarkson used a racist word in the Top Gear Burma special, I guess I must’ve missed it cause I was too busy enjoying the show and not nit picking for supposedly racist phrases.
Clarkson has form for being an insensitive arse.
This is widely known, does he care? No not really. But from what I read and I found this strange was Hammond apparently followed up Jeremy’s remark with similar comment but no one batted an eyelid it appears. Just found that odd, but then again it’s never been popular to publicly attack Richard Hammond like it has Jeremy Clarkson. Mean while James May is probably still in Burma wondering how he’s gonna get home 😛
I’ll be honest I don’t actually recall Jeremy saying what he supposedly said, I do however remember the scene in the episode sure, but I don’t recall any racist remarks about Asians, like what the news article implies.
Just found out that this is a thing. $550 is a bit much for basically a monitor in a case though.
Hmmm, I wonder if you could make your own with an old laptop screen.
It’d be pretty difficult. Laptop screens don’t have standard connectors that would easily hook up to anything except directly to a motherboard. Not to say it wouldn’t be possible, but you’d need to heavily modify the cable.
For a laptop screen you’d need an inverter board I think they’re called, something specifically designed for that model of display. You’d be better off getting a decent quality monitor and ripping the screen out of the housing. They’d already have HDMI ins.
Where does the console PSU go though?
Actually scratch that, where does the console heat go?
You don’t NEED one. It depends on the screen. Most have the inverter built in these days, but sometimes you’ll find some bigger screens need one externally, but they still tend to come with the screen, just attached by a couple of wires.
Really? I thought laptop ones all needed one because they were so compact, might have just been ones I was looking at. I was only really researching it at all because I was thinking of ripping the guts out of my sister in law’s dead netbook & repurposing the monitor for some raspberry pi based project
well as I said, they usually come as part of the screen these days, so technically, you do need one, but generally you don’t need to get it as a separate component anymore.
Guys.
Holy shit.
You guys.
Seriously.
The Raid 2.
Holy shit.
Pretty rare to be short of breath after a movie but god damn was that an unrelenting ride of brutality.
Even rarer is for myself to agree with @sughly and @dkzeitgeist on a movie. But unanimously agreed that was amazing.
The Raid?
The Raid?
The fact that i live in none of the cities showing it deeply saddens me 🙁
But then again, road trips are always fun… 🙂
It’s so worth it.
Better than the first?
It’s been a while since I watched the first, but I reckon yes
Hipster…
Ooh the first one was awesome, shall have to check it out.
I BEAT THE RUIN SENTINELS AHHHHHHH
It took me 5 hours and countless attempts and I finally did it.
I got them first go in about 5 mins.
When you have to
fight six at a time in the one tiny roomis when it gets difficult.I just ran away from that encounter. 😛
My curiosity over those chests got the better of me and I had to know.
Geez… I still have so far to go… 😛
You can always
Fight them one at a time… I don’t know why everyone I co-oped that area with kept pulling fucking everything. The stone guys activate a loooong way before you’re close to the sentinel’s door, then you can edge towards a door and the opposite-side sentinel will emerge to chase you. Fight out of line of sight, then edge close again and actually pull the one you want… easy clear. Slower but easier than trying to tackle 6 ruin sentinels at once plus friends. 😛Oh, also…
If you do pull too many at once, you can head back to the bonfire room and they won’t follow you. Reset, voila.STORK DOILIES
Powered through Drangleic Castle last night. Disconnected my console from the internet for the Looking Glass Knight (I REALLY don’t like online play) so there wasn’t anything of a real hassle there. The Shrine of Amana this morning was pretty tough. I’m not really equipped for magic resistance so all the homing soul arrows and the like became grating very quickly. The Demon of Song OHKO’d me on my first try, but after that he was really easy to bait into attacking with the same move over and over. The bells in the Undead Crypt were annoying, so I basically ran through the end of that level up to Velstadt. Halfway through the fight with him he bends down and uses some kind of magic but I couldn’t figure out what it did differently because he died pretty quickly after that. Went into the next room, stole the ring and bailed from what was in there because nnnnnope.PROGRESS!
Hee. I was all, “nnnnnooop,” first time in there, too, but I went back upstairs and saw that
the Queen was STILL all like, “You must kill the king,” and shit, so I went back down there and tried to attack him. He wouldn’t respond, no matter how hard I hit him. So. There’s that.Really? I whacked him twice and his health bar popped up and he started attacking me. He’s ridiculously easy, just has A TONNE of health and will one shot you if he connects.Huh. The first time you grabbed the ring? I totally couldn’t agro him. I was ready for a nasty fight, but just… nothin’. I heard you can get him later after you get the heart thing that unlocks all the Memories. I haven’t done that yet.
Yeah, he’s a special one that king. He takes more damage when you have more Souls of Giants, and while I should have done a decent whack when I faced him with three of them, he just took no damage, for like 12 attacks. So I went off elsewhere.Maaaan, I wish I paid as much attention to my new car before it became mine.
Part two of my TAY pathfinder prologue: http://taypathfinder.tumblr.com/post/81041454356/prologue-part-two-the-ambassadors-reception-and-a
Very nice.
Went to 2 Big W’s today, neither of them had PW v. PL :/
I didn’t have proof either, so I didn’t price match at EB. Got 2 PS3 controllers for $40 though (from EB)!
That’s because it’s “PL vs PW”! 😛
You can view Big W’s catalogue online but I don’t know if they’ll accept that as proof enough.
That normally won’t work, policy is they have to have it in stock for it to be price matched. Not saying it won’t, really depends on the manager honestly. If it’s not in stock there’s really no point in price matching cause it’s not like you can go get it for cheaper right that second.
Also if your EB is good they actually have Big W, Kmart, JB, DSE etc in their store phone so they can ring them and ask if it’s in stock and ask how much it is, so you don’t have to provide proof heh.
Profess or Layton vs. Phoenix Wright is pretty cool. I’ve only played an hour or so (which has just been Professor Layton type of gameplay) but it’s fun and bringing back memories of both series :D. It’s been years since I’ve played games from either series so I’m thinking I should start and finish off Layton 5/6 and AA5 after this.
Speaking of AA5, since it’s been like… 5 years since I’ve played the games, is there anywhere where I can view/read a quick summary of the series’ main story? The stuff I’ve found on Wikis go into depth about each of the cases and everything that happens in them but I’m after something more streamlined.
Thanksss
@shane did you ever play Trials Evolution? (or other entries)
Nope! But I do own the original Trials on my Xbox. I should play it one of these days.
Yes you should, you’re in for a real treat.
Walking in to work at 7am this morning I was kicking myself when I realized I’d forgotten my towel and had to dry myself with a spare change of jeans. (Surprisingly effective, though.) Especially when – since there’s no ventilation in the change room – I walked out I was sweating like a pig again anyway.
But I think it was probably worth it. I ate nothing but sugar and salt all godamn day, 7.5hrs straight. I was starting to feel kinda sickly until striding up a sweat the 45min back home. Tired, but feel much better. I think exercise does something to the awful crap in your body sometimes. 🙂 (Like maybe, I dunno…. burn a part of the literally thousands of calories which would otherwise be getting converted into fat…)
All the same: too tired to Dork Sworls. Might just have to sleep.
Whenever you go to work, don’t forget to bring a towel!
I’m having the same problem with tired tonight. Trying to decide if I’m too tired to make dinner or not!
Oh, that reminds me, hope you’ve got something in the tank for movies next week. I think I can swing an advance screening of Captain America if that’s of interest.
ooo cool! keen to see that! let me know when it’s playing and when’s good for you, and I’ll reserve some time!
Jesus christ. Another day of not waking up properly.
But not getting up til 6? Fucking ridiculous.
It sounds like you desperately need to reset your body clock.
Go back to bed then get up at 7am tomorrow.
Can’t I just stay up until 7? That’s much easier 😛
I dunno, I just seem to get stuck in this upper level of sleep where I can only get awake enough to see the time briefly before falling back to restless sleep again, then do the same thing an hour or two later. Like a spacecraft bouncing back off the atmosphere instead of making re-entry, or something.
You sound like my mate, stays awake till 5am or whatever doesn’t get up until like 12 hours later. How can y’all do that D= I can’t sleep past like 9am these days Q_Q
Only difference is he constantly moans about being tired, I told him it’s his shit diet, of bacon, toast, pizza, maccas, cordial & I think pork chops. Then throw in random junk foods like ice creams & chips.. I swear if he put a bit of effort in and ate some healthier stuff he’d be more happy and not be as tired, I also reckon he oversleeps heh.
I got the ‘This Is Your Life’ a tribute to Ronnie James Dio today, it’s a pretty sweet bunch of covers.
Some personal favourites would have to be; Straight Through The Heart by Halestorm, Neon Knights by Anthrax, The Temple of the King by The Scorpions, Man on the Silver Mountain by Rob Halford, Catch The Rainbow by Glenn Hughes.
Edit: Ronnie Rising Medley (Featuring A Light In The Black, Tarot Woman, Stargazer, Kill The King) by Metallica is also awesome..
It’s a pretty awesome tribute to Ronnie. Just a bit disappointed Black Sabbath or didn’t contribute that would’ve been perfect in my opinion.
Did it have the Killswitch Engage cover of Holy Diver>?
Yeah, it does! Not a huge fan of it personally. The bloke screaming like he is trying to force one out doesn’t do it for me lol.
Edit: I remember hearing their version would be going on like 7 or 8 years ago now, wow..
Metallica AND Tenacious D on the same album? Yes, please.
Haha, their cover is actually really epic. I was so pleased when Dio was in the Pick of Destiny.
It gets a really bad rap from critics, but it’s one of the funniest films I have ever seen. I’ve seen it about five times too and the jokes don’t get old IMO.
I don’t see how, it’s got Meatloaf, Dio, Ben Stiller & Dave Grohl in it, and then there’s the epic songs that are in it. Pfft people just don’t appreciate a good comedy musical when they see one!
Metallica and Lou Reed on the same album? HELL NO!
You know what’s funny, I actually ended up liking Iced Honey & that I am the table song.. They were actually pretty good live, the album versions sucked so much for some reason.
@redartifice @f4ction @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
I just responded to a bunch of your emails so I hope it helps you guys out. I just want to let you all know that I’m going away on holiday mid-next week so if you have any questions about character creation or world stuff, send me an email or message and I’ll answer it. I’m going to be solidly offline while on holiday until Friday the 11th and I’m planning on having the first session on about Monday the 21st. If you can all get your characters sorted and send your character sheets to me before next Wednesday, that would be swell.
In world building, have a look at this map of the continent of Idris. You will be starting your adventure in the city of Xondol which is close to the center of the map.
Marvel at my crappy drawing skills and get excited. Apologies for not adding in the locations of your various important background locations as my skills are nowhere near good enough for that sort of detail.
Cool! I’ve got time set aside tomorrow to sit down and properly write out my backstory. Should we assume if it’s labelled on the map that it’s a significant area or can we just plop our settings down in existing locations?
I ask because I need a mountainous region and the mountains near Vinks (Kator Horde) seem pretty ominous. Was thinking if I stick some mountains off to the East past Fes[t/i]meer, as the source of one of the Asin River tributaries it would suit me pretty well.
Yeah that’s a good assumption. A lot of the areas that are named are important in some way.
If you need a mountainous region, I can simply invent a mountainous region and plonk it down on the map. There are some mountains out past the Asin River so that’s a fine place to put it.
And yeah, sorry about the quality of the map. The city is called Fesimeer so you were pretty close.
Pretty cool! Just downloaded a copy as I couldn’t seem to view it on its own. Dem’nion is a long way from home 🙂
The Land of Grog sounds like an exciting place.
Carmagedon:Reincarnation!
It looks so awesome, but I’ll have to wait til next week… 🙁
I played it a bit this morning! It’s pretty fun considering it’s not even in alpha! Hopefully they’ll throw in a way to change the controls soon though.
I read about some Final Fantasy X solo character challenges today and they sound interesting and challenging, but I highly doubt I’d ever do one 😛
I remember reading about them when I first finished FFX before FFXIII came out. I thought I’d be able to do similar challenges in XIII but haha… XIII… ha… aww.. :(. There’s not enough games that allow for these self imposed challenges. I’ve always wanted to do a monotype or single Pokemon run as well but the single save slot makes that difficult. At least Dark Souls is one of the more recent games that lets you do this. Maybe I’ll be a Onebro some day…
I saw the LEGO movie this afternoon.
It was a fundraiser preview for my son’s school so we saw it with people from the school. And I was completely creeped out when as the end credits began, so many people like some kind of hivemind began clapping in time to the music. Cree-hee-heee-PY!
How was it?
*shudder* wholesome family funtime.. I bet they all go to church on sundays
And that’s when Strange learned that she has been inadvertently sending her child to a cult!
Not fair, I haven’t seen it yet and I work at a cinema. None of us can watch it, no matter how much we want to as it’s locked till Wednesday.
Kill la Kill episode one:
What the hell did I just watch?It’ll make more sense as you go on, trust me.
Yeah, the pilot isn’t the greatest, and it’s a bit too tame as compared to the rest of the episodes.
By the power of meat and starches, and tall, frosty glasses of milk, I am revived!
And first order of business for the night was to get cracking on those bonfires.
SHARK SHOALS 2
Belfry bonfire ascetic edition
After completely de-populating the entire lost bastille and attached belfry, I set the belfry luna bonfire up for level 2 intensity. You know the one… that doesn’t fucking go anywhere except that phantom and the dogs? Well, the dogs and phantom respawned. Phantom wasn’t really any harder than the first time, though the dogs had a lot more health. There are TWO red phantoms spawned out of hitting up that bonfire – and they’re tucked away hidden underneath the staircase you drop down to to get to the bonfire. Also, yes. Kindling the Belfry bonfire resets the gargoyles. They didn’t seem any harder or different this time around, murdered them pretty easily when I stopped trying to dick around with rolling and just put up good ol’ havel’s shield. Seriously, that thing is so rock solid I can barely tell if I’ve lost any stamina when it gets hit. Anyway, the black phantoms and red bellkeeper phantom also respawned, a lot tougher than before, but otherwise no more aggressive or intelligent, so no real challenge.Brightstone Cove, Tseldora – bonfire ascetic
Time to start doing runs with bluesword mcwhatsisface of Jugo. I depopulated the area from 1st to 2nd bonfire in Brightstone Cove, Tseldora – peasants and spiders, dat’s it. Plus cute piggies, I guess. Burning an ascetic at the first bonfire didn’t do much to that run at all, except added one red phantom (some kinda ineffectual priest type thing) up the stairs near the congregation, and two surprising additions just outside the bonfire proper. ENORMOUS GIANT DEMON PIGGIES. Like… unarmoured versions of the mecha-piggies from DS1. They both dropped divine blessings, but didn’t respawn. I am afraid they were one-offs. The congregation wasn’t much harder, except that I underestimated it AND ACTUALLY DIED the first time around thanks to a 1-2 combo of lightning spears that obliterated 85% of my health, with a dark-blast follow-up. Shield up on entering, people. Or be ready to dodge fast. Other than that, I don’t think there was anything new.Next order of business… resetting the Executioner’s Chariot. SUCH FUN.
I’m stuck trying to drop down into the Gutter area. I keep missing what should just be an easy drop. It’s incredibly frustrating because it’s always my own damn fault 😛Edit: this isn’t a direct reply. I just made so little DS2 progress today that it wasn’t worth starting a new post 😛
I kept murdering myself because I had clothes on. Try taking your clothes off!
…Yeah, that won’t look weird in my future court appearances.
I’m on top of that, don’t you worry.
My mind is already in the Gutter. 😛Just keep missing the jump from the final coffin to the walkway. For no reason.http://www.pm.gov.au/media/2014-03-28/remarks-reception-following-swearing-26th-governor-general-australia-parliament
……………………………………..
Oh, wow.
Fuck this government with a spike bat, I say.
Those are exactly my sentimonies.
I thought that was some cute snarky paraphrasing til I visited the site proper. Direct quote… the fuck?
Shorter government: Grovel peasants and if your genuflections please me, I may allow you the honour of sucking my cock!
I love this government so much. They just keep proving to me every day how unimportant we all actually are and just gives us more reason to be hopefully voting them out in 2 years & 6 months time.
Call a snap election and get them out sooner!
Some how I have a feeling it wouldn’t happen, they’re too stubborn, even with backlash I reckon.
Even better, storm parliament house and physically remove the whole damn lot of them.
Only one week to the Aurealis Awards.
Owwwwwwowwowow, my childhood
To be honest, I still have no goddamned idea what to expect from this movie. Though it looks like it won’t be a G or PG-rated adventure for the turtles this time around…I’m liking the look of it tbh.
But then I enjoyed all the Transformers movies too.
I’ve made this joke before, and I’ll make it agian:
I refer to the new turtles as T.A.I.N.T. Teenage Alien Invader New Turtles.
Although the trailer makes it seem like the turtles are mutants rather than aliens.
Unlike Transformers, I have no real attachment to TMNT as a franchise. The cartoons were fun (until I was banned from watching them, long story) but there wasn’t really a lot there. The previous movies were largely complete shit and the only TMNT stuff that was well done really was the Turtles in Time arcade brawler.
That being said, this actually doesn’t look terrible at all. It seems reasonable and honestly if I’m going to a TMNT film I’m going to see a bunch of mutant turtle-men blow shit up. And if there’s one thing that Michael Bay is actually good at, it’s making things explode.
In no way do I expect it to be good, but I think it’ll be entertaining and won’t make me upset. Then again, I should also probably admit I liked the GI Joe movie so my taste in films is likely very suspect.
Oh right, I do have something Dark Souls 2 to say.
Experiment results:
For those of you who haven’t kept pace with my game, I joined the Rat Covenant while in the Doors of Pharros, to see if it made my trip through the Grave of Saints any easier.It did. Nothing attacked me while I was in there… not even the scripted NPC invasion. I still had to fight the Rat boss fight, though, and those rats did attack. The Rat King didn’t give his own ass about it, though.Cheap perfume doing wvweuvehyete!!!! Took a midnight training!!! Sooooooooooo gooood like veggies you alllllll!!!!nnnnn to
Ggofmufhy ealp of yeah?!!!! Love you Llu!!! Even thesis I’m ride too!!!! Love you all the sane!!! See you tomorrow!!!! Weekend Tay better be busier then isualuabbbb!!!!
@Phlanispo better look forward to this 😉
Whoa! Nail’d the @ tag!
You somehow spelt my name correctly in that state. That is quite the achievement. 😛
Where. Is errbodu?!?! I firs a bucking. Probs!!!! You skills all co clubbing!!!! Went do one!!!!
Qhyvwont taxis stop door me?’?’ I’m gorgeous!!! Stop for my pretty face!!!!!
We have a winner!
Bioshock, it’s been a great ride over the last 7 years. From falling in love with Rapture on the first preview I saw of it, getting one of the few collectors editions I own for the first game, getting amused at seeing Bioshock 2 ads on tv for the multiplayer, buying another special edition for Inifinite and now Burial At Sea. Now I can replay the first game again with a new perspective over the characters and story. I’d hope for more one day, but it’s really been Ken Levine’s story and I wouldn’t want anyone else to write it with no input from him.
Also, I’ll have whatever @liondrive has been having
It was an amazing series and I don’t know how I’d feel if/when they reboot the series to keep it running.
@liondrive is so plastered a local tradie tried to sand him back and give him a coat of paint, hence the pretty face
@liondrive Love the evening posts buddy!
We now return to your regularly scheduled Dark Souls news.
Got up to Earthen Peak boss, didn’t remove the poison first so I died pretty early.Decided to grab Havel’s Set. It was a grueling couple of hours slowly making my way down the Pit to get there, then slowly moving forward through the poison to get it. Now to drastically increase my carry weight!
Well said, @liondrive. Well said.
Couldn’t have said it any better myself.
Dark Souls
Everything from Shrine of Amana and beyond is seemingly torture.Everything I’ve read about people playing the latter parts of the game just sounds so anti-Dark Souls to me. Just unfair, false and padded difficulty. Maybe when I get up to those bits I’ll just go back and finish the first one. 😛
I am considering quitting and going back to Onebroing NG+ because that will be more fun.
Next zone is also pretty damn painful. I just sulk quit about 30 mins ago.
Not gonna lie, feeling a little disappointed. But not hopeless… There’s still time!
Ok Shrine of Amana officially wins the most BS Dark Souls 2 area award.
Getting shot at by homing souls arrows from enemies so far away the game cannot even render them? Really?
Makes me wonder what the long range bows are supposed to be for. I can apparently hit things basically up to the apparent draw distance with my 35 range bow, so what is the point of bows with 50+ range?
Even with that kinda range, you’ve still gotta stick your head out long enough to fire. I kneeled to heal and my foot stuck out and i got ravaged for it.
In Shrine of Amana though you have time to get 2 arrows off comfortably before you have to duck back into cover, and I found that there was only one place where there’d be two attacking you, and one was easily melee-able.
Don’t worry. The BS just keeps going p from there. The fun stopped once you hit Drangelic Castle.
Shrine took me a while to master. Lots of rolling and straight-up assassinating those bitches who shoot the magic – like run, run, roll, run, SMASH. Pulling Archdrake mace dudes into blind spots where you can’t get reamed by magic. Arrows for the skulkers in the water to draw them out.
The hardest fights for me have been in Dragon Shrine (those two greatsword dudes, ow – also, anytime the mace-guy bugs out and decides ‘stamina? What’s that?’ and swings infinitely) and the memories, which I only just got to. I like to fight slow and careful by default, but the memories are really pushing me to go fast.
I decided to watch the credits for Titanfall out my own free will, and I noticed that Insomniac Games and Naughty Dog were listed under “Thanks.” My mind immediately jumped to the conclusion that Titanfall was inspired by Spyro and Crash Bandicoot. Because that’s a logical leap if I ever saw one.
Damn, now I want there to a mod for Titanfall that has you play all the levels from Crash Bandicoot 3. Come on, Respawn, release the mod tools already.
Also, Nolan North has a minor voice role in Titanfall. Of course he does.
A lot of devs have a friendly working relationship. For example, Randy Pitchford from Gearbox played through Bioshock Infinite before release and gave notes
Based on Gearbox’s track record for anything not starting with “Border” and ending with “lands 2” I’d consider his advice a negative aspect more than anything else.
Aliens: Colonial Marines is a massive outlier and that’s probably because the majority of the development was outsourced to other studios. They’ve got a lot of good games under their belt, especially for a studio that started life developing expansion packs and doing port work.
Was it an outlier compared to Duke Nukem? 😛
I really dislike the first Borderlands, and I’ve never played a Brothers in Arms game, so I can’t comment in that regard, but what I’ve played of theirs have always sucked as shooters, and Borderlands 2 was only good thanks to occasionally good writing combined with the fun of multiplayer, which can save almost anything.
It’s hard to tell how much they actually did of Duke Nukem and how much was the pieces that 3D Realms had already made.
I was browsing Crunchyroll, and noticed there was an anime call Wizard Barristers. There’s no way that could be bad.
It’s kind of bad though. Fantastic animation however – same director & character designer as Kite and Mezzo. Brilliant action animator.
aww…
I was disappointed too. I went into it hoping we’d basically get some kind of unholy union of Phoenix Wright and Harry Potter. Alas, the show is barely even coherent 🙁 I dropped it about halfway in because while I appreciate it on a technical level, it’s not even the best animated show of the season despite its pedigree. Though to be fair, it’s pretty hard for anyone to compete on a technical level in a season where both Kyoto Animation and PA Works have a show running.
So someone I know just posted they’re now in a relationship on Facebook, since he just finalised his divorce the other month I thought good for him..
Then he went on to state it was with a new instrument he got recently… To which he said;
Uh fair enough I guess?
It wasn’t drunk @liondrive was it?
“Youre my favourite inshtroooment, I luv yooooooo”
If he’s a 60 year old hippie/musician/it teacher/believer in aliens then sure 😛
I’m expecting something like this.
http://i.imgur.com/63QXx5B.jpg
Add grey hair and goatee and you’re there.
Two people invading at once. Dead.
Respawn, another two people invade at the same time. Dead.
Yeah… WiFi off.
But how are we going to send messages?
Oooh… I see how it is…
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/03/watch-this-awesome-dad-turn-his-son-into-a-superhero/
This is awesome!
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On an unrelated note:
To the people who have finished/played a significant amount of Dark Souls II, do you like it better than Dark Souls and/or Demon’s Souls?
I haven’t played Dark Souls II yet so please keep it spoiler free! I just wanted to get a general gist of whether it’s actually better/worse/as good as the original
I’m gonna predict that most people are going to say worse.
The end’s a slog, though I was indifferent towards it when compared with the vitriolic hate it seems to be receiving from others (honestly it’s not that different from how Dark Souls becomes a boring chore after Anor Londo). A lot of its bosses are uninspired, and it seems to lack the… class? Refinement? Elegance? Yeah, seems to lack the elegance of character/creature design that a lot of Dark Souls had.
I’d say slightly worse, but only slightly, but it’s best to go into it expecting a New Souls Game, rather than Dark Souls 2.
I don’t hate it. Just pretty disappointed. Feels more like they over reached and spread it too thin. The game would have been much better if they reduced the scope somewhat.
One of the things that blew my mind playing the first game is how the areas are all interconnected. And it’s not faked or anything, you can use portals and stuff to give the impression that zones are connected when there’s no physical way for them to do so without overlapping. Dark Souls’ world (with the exception of the Painted World which is separate) all interconnects for real. It makes the whole thing feel so tight and well-built. That feeling when you knock the ladder off from the bridge in Undead Burg and find yourself back at the old bonfire, or when you ring the first bell and then realize the elevator in the cathedral leads back down to Firelink and everything. The way you can open up a grate or a door or something and find yourself back in a place you thought you were miles away from is awesome.
I think they kind of lost that when they decided to make the world in DS2 a sprawl and give you effectively a level select at the start.
For me, the ‘oh wow’ moments were when you stared at various imposing landmarks in the distance, and later, you went there. And when you looked back at them on returning to the other areas, you realized how it all fit together and yeah… I was impressed.
That’s probably why it bugs me so much. They should have made it a completely new Souls game instead of a sorta sequel to Dark. They would have had more creative freedom that way too.
Especially with a new team/director doing it.
Dark Souls was a big hit for a mid-budget game, calling it Dark Souls II is just straight up good marketing.
Hmmm, there are things I like more, and things I like less. It sounds like everything starts to go waaaaay downhill after about where I’m up to. And I haven’t had a boss battle nearly as cool as Ornstein + Smough, or the Gaping Dragon just yet.
The game doesn’t feel as flexible with playstyles as DS1, though – definitely get the feeling that those Soul Vessels are required equipment for some areas…
There are many cool new things in 2 and it has some fun areas but in general I would rate them Dark Souls > Demon’s Souls > Dark souls 2.
DS2 seems to have lost a lot of the “hard but fair” vibe that it’s predecessors had. The way in which it is designed and is difficult lacks a certain balance and finesse that made the others so enjoyable.
It’s more of a brute force kinda hard than requiring an elegant mastery hard.
And yeah, trading the interconnected world of DS1 for a level select screen is lame and the areas and enemies, including the bosses lack… depth of character if that makes sense. Everything is just sorta there solely for you to traverse and kill, it does not really feel like a place like Lordran did.
2 is not a terrible game by any means, just does not live up to it’s predecessor imo.
I think this whole ‘depth of character’ to bosses is probably because there’s so fucking many of them, and most of them of little consequence or build-up.
Indeed, but most also seem to lack a certain something. They feel less like an epic duel with a powerful foe and more like a boss fight.
Their attacks have less variety that needs to be studied and planned for and most are highly telegraphed – you can tell exactly what their deal is within a couple of minutes. When you die it’s because you got hasty or messed up, not because you misread an attack or they surprised you.
Compare that to Artorias or O & S or even the Black Knights that required a bit of thought and trial and error to fight.
What?! It’s back to level select? I loved the interconnectedness of Dark Souls (as many of us did). Do the levels at least allow for some degree of exploration (outside of shortcuts). That’s a bummer :(, I had no idea.
It’s still possible to play through the game without resting at a bonfire (in fact, there are unique rewards for a no-death playthrough, and for a no-bonfire playthrough), but the world doesn’t loop back on itself like in Dark Souls – it follows a bunch of really lengthy branches instead.
That’s lame(r) 🙁
This is what pre-apologies are for, cause I have no idea how to explain any of that (even I can only partially translate bits and pieces of it even).
It was pretty amusing, buddy. Don’t worry ’bout it. 😀
2 and 4 are easy to translate, but I’m having difficulties with parts of 1 and 3.
Kudos to Trion Worlds. Although I think some of the legalese was a little too cryptic. 😛
Hey, I need some advice. I was riding home today at 5pm when I felt a sharp pain on my hip. I turned around in time to see a green kool fruit bounce on the ground. A black sedan was driving past. It hit me hard enough to leave a mark.
The thing that worries me is what if these arseholes try to do this to a kid? I wish I had more details, because even though it’s something small, I would still like to get them charged with assault.
Oh and where it hit me, it’s actually come up in a lump.
Definitely report it, there is absolutely no reason not to. You are exactly right about if they do it to someone else.
At least by reporting it there is a chance of them being caught, which is better than nothing.
I’ll report it tomorrow. I think they thought I was a teenager as I look 16. People are often shocked when I tell them I am 26
Woo, made it to the end of FTL! Unlocked the Rock vessel last night, so I was trying to use that. Kept dying to death though. Stupid missiles, always running out. Got there in the end though, and just after unlocking the Mantis ship too, so now I have something else to do.
That only leaves the Crystal ship (…and all alt layouts other than Zoltan). Sigh.
Dying to death!
The follow up song Lemmy wrote to Killed by Death 😛
I’m planning on getting it when it gets its iPad port next week 😀
Why doesn’t the iPad have transparent picture support? Why Apple, Why?
Apple aren’t known for their transparency? =D
The top of the page is a sea of green and it’s awesome.
Yeahhhhhhhhhh!!
Everyone should just upvote every comment on this page so it can be completely green!
Pshh. Green’s the worst colour. Nobody likes it. Nobody.
Anybody who wants it is a dirty commie.
So, we should downvote everybody’s comments and have a christmas tree instead?
Well, if it was all red we wouldn’t have a christmas tree, but a glorious communist agenda.
Well, no.
And I’m fairly sure downvoting everybody would not be a good idea, as then we’d all go into moderation and next week’s TAY will be a boring, slow place.
Yeah, red is a much more unique and non-conforming colour, I agree.
Aw dammit. Managed to get the Crystal dude on my first run with the Mantis ship, had a choice of two separate branches to take each with one red dot on the path. Just got to mine and… nope, Rebel space, not Rock homeworld. Poop.
…but that’s ok because Mantis ship B get plus victory!
Oh wow. Quad-unit teleportation bay. Gee I wonder what this ship’s geared towards.
FTL!
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Man I just had the craziest escape. I got caught at a dead end going to a store that must have just been a pixel out of range of where I planned to go, instead having to jump through four spaces of rebel fleet, the last three of which I only had two health left. And the only weapons I had on board were Ion Blast 2, a Boarding Drone and a Crew Teleporter.
BUT I MADE IT. I AM A WIZARD.
Have you finished the game yet? Did you play on Easy or Normal?
I’ve finished it with all A ships except the Zoltan. Have finished it with the Zoltan B though (and just now *just* missed finishing it with Mantis B). Still got the Crystal ship to unlock, as well as all other B ships.
Still yet to beat it on Normal with anything. Easy is hard enough as it is 😛
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Moar bonfire ascetics!
Executioner’s Chariot:
I boosted the bonfire which you get access to in the Undead Purgatory AFTER the chariot, and yes – it respawned the chariot. Only, you can’t go into the fog gate from within the purgatory, you have to go back outside to the Copse. And yes, those dudes who perch on the pillars? They’re back! So that was fun. No real difference in the chariot fight. Everything has more health, that’s about it. No new red phantoms, just the guy in front of the Purgatory itself, just like before.Mytha – Earthen Rise:
Again, I boosted the bonfire closest to the boss door, which happens to be that hidden door one, directly above the entrance to the boss room. Practically nothing respawned at all – just the three wardens who stand in front of the door. Boss was no different to before, either. Brought the jester pyromancer and held her attention while he dropped her like an ugly baby.I watched BrutalMoose’s video on “Top 5 Time Consuming Games.” One of the choices was the elder scrolls series. This reminded me that I hadn’t played Morrowind in about six months, and I should pick it up again. I realised as soon as I launched the game that I had homework that I needed to do. Ignoring the fact that the series was listed on “Top 5 Time-Consuming Games,” I told myself that I would keep the play session short.
When I launched the game, I told myself “Right, you dilly-dallied too much last time you played. Join the Mage’s Guild already.”
I joined the Mage’s Guild and set to exploring the guild. I noticed that on a bookshelf were all 5 volumes of “Brief History of the Empire.”
It is unusual to see the entire set at once, so I decided to read all of them on the spot.
I spent an hour reading the entire history of the Imperial Empire.
I know all the rulers, from Tiber to Kintyra II to Pelagius III to Katariah to Uriel VI. The confusing thing is trying to figure out where TESO fits in the timeline. There was no mention of the Daggerfall Covenant, the Ebonheart Pact, or even the Aldimeri Dominion. (That last one is surprising. Also, I am really
ashamedproud that I was able to list the three factions off the top of my head) Is TESO really abandoning all their lore? Did they really have to make a war up? Couldn’t they have set it during the War of the Red Diamond, or the rise of the Camora Usurper?One of the volumes hinted briefly about the war started by the Camora Usurper. It sounds very interesting, but the blasted book teases you by saying “Some awesome stuff happened, but that is all contained in our next book The Camora Usurper. Long story short, he is defeated in a really unexpected way. You’ll have to get the book to find out!”
It seems the only way to retrieve this book is to scour all of Morrowind for it. And so begins:
BOOK QUEST
Oh, yeah, I forgot about homework.
TESTING SHUTUP DON’T LOOK AT ME
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