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CHANGE?
I DON’T LIKE CHANGE
I actually like it. Mark mentioned retooling aspects of the site a while back. As someone who cut his teeth on Monkey Island, I think that screenshot was well over due for retirement. 😀
Hey hey, new logo! I like, I like! 😀
Can’t wait for the lunchtime game.
I thought it should have rotated with different insults at least
I was thinking the same but I like this new picture, it’s more eye catching and more easily recognisable than the last one
I actually like the new picture
Looks a bit Windows 8 now that I look at it again
I think the backdrop should change colour every week like the title card from the HBO show Girls. I always like that. 😀
Does mark have the MS paint skills to make it work but
RIOT?
RIOT!
Nerf Nidalee plsPls remove Yi. Rito pls nerf Zed. Pls giv OCE Tribunal. pls brng bak Yi. Plixxy Plox?
Rock is totally OP and should be nerfed ASAP. Paper is fine. Regards, Scissors.
Look behind you a three headed monkey!
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last night adventure game developer Jane Jensen responded to a tweet I was quite proud of. Haha!
I might’ve swooned, man. I might’ve swooned.
Look @sughly! Jane Jensen responded! Maybe you’ll understand what this means to me? XD
https://twitter.com/jensen_jane/status/455346043082014720
Cool beans
I’ll take it! *puts on cool guy glasses* 😛
Jane Jensen wants your free time?
Obvious flirt.
Yeah, finally that e-mail I wrote when I was sixteen resonated with her. 😛
DC gets all the girls ;D
If only it was that simple, man. 😛
Oh, I know 😛
That’s awesome. I love what she said too. Haha.
NIiiiiiiice.
You’ve officially been bumped up to a D-list Internet celebrity.
Is it just me or is that quite an aggressive shade of reddish-pinkish-whateverish…?
Magenta, the manliest pink of all (and not hot pink like others would lead you to believe.)
It’s the same colour as the logos and the links.
Yeah, I can see it matched the buttons / notification numbers but I never made the connection to the logo colour. Just goes to show how the concentration of a colour (more or less of) makes a difference to perceptions of it.
Its odd, the logo looks darker but drag it over and yeah its the same. I blame wizards!
It’s like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Grey_square_optical_illusion.PNG
A and B are the same color. 🙂
Whaaaaaat. No way. *headsplode*
Yeah dude, I opened it in MS Paint and checked the colors. It’s legit! RGB 120/120/120 for both!
I wonder if it would look more the same if the white parts were the same dark colour as the shadow in the logo.
Or even if the text had a similar shadow, just for visual consistency’s sake
I’m not convinced it’s the same colour as the logo. :\ Too lazy to prove.
AWMAGAWDDDDD it’s not. D: Off by a couple points on each RGB value (actually a lot on blue). OCD people are gonna flip.
I wasn’t too lazy. It’s not exact, but it’s damn close. Using GIMP’s Sample Average: Radius 3, I got the following:
TAY graphic: 241, 49, 88 (RGB)
Logo colour: 240, 49 88 (RGB) – (Edit, this was sampled from the bottom of the O. It varies a couple points up or down each way depending on where you sample)
Yeah, it’s close. I got 68 on B somewhere on the logo.
It’s a bit confronting in a larger format. 😛
Wow, I like the sound of this ‘TAY’. Tell me how to be one of these TAYbies please
Being a TAYbie is a state of mind, Sughly. A philosophy to live by.
I want to know where the bie in taybie came from, I feel we should do a History Of TAY to recollect on past moments
Sorry. It’s a no Sughlys club and we already have one.
That implies we’re starting with a degree of failure doesn’t it?
No Sughlys club. We’re allowed to have one.
What an incredibly linguistically pedantic point.
Well done!
Also simpsons reference I suppose but I prefer the pedantry
My eldest downloaded and has been listening to that Everything Is Awesome song and…… I think I’m getting too old. That song is a truly awful cacophony of random noise. The girls love it though.
I actually dig the song in a hyperactive way. I wouldn’t listen to away from Lego Movie but it fits the tone nice enough there.
Haven’t seen the movie yet (going today with eldest), could see how it could fit in the movie but not really a fan of the song on its own at all.
Here’s a Tegan and Sara song you might like!
No? Just me?
*listens to song for next three hours*
Better: http://youtube.com/watch?v=L0VPVawpN8E
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME
EVERYTHING IS COOL WHEN YOU ARE PART OF A TEAM
its pretty repetitive, but its catch as hell
This. It’s just a really catchy song. You hear it once and you find yourself singing it all day long. And I hear it multiple times a day at work. I’ll probably get sick of it eventually, but for now I like it.
Man, I’m a pretty big fan of Tegan and Sara, but that song is fucking awful. I’ve not seen the movie, so I don’t know how it fits in, but on it’s own it’s painful.
I’ve figured out the problem, they’ve given The Lonely Island their microphones back… What an utter shite excuse for a musical group.
AAARRRRRGH, why didn’t someone tell me that putting together an anthology meant I would have to engage with people? The tinfoil hat brigade seems convinced that my Kickstarter project is a scam. It’s… infuriating, to say the least.
That said, here’s the link, my stalwart TAYbies. *Awaits scam jokes* https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology/
<3 you all.
You are a flim flam man who travels the country side selling elixirs and tonics to the unsuspecting homesteaders. SHAME ON YOU!
We should rename him Nigel @Shane Dickens!
Back it and All The King’s Men will turn up on your doorstep to beat you up and take all your money.
The writers must be paid.
You know, I chant that very thing ten thousand times each night before I
go to sleepenter my hibernation tank.Beat them up, take their money?
“Beat them up, take their money. The writers must be paid.”
But are you really a writer? Or are you a creative wordsmith?
He draws funny pictures.
Mrs Shane: “good luck with your big people picture book today”
@shane
If we want to get really reductive it would be playing Barbie dolls on the computer right?
🙁
Yes.@shane atleast she doesn’t look at them and say “that’s a pretty picture you drew, let’s hang it on the fridge”
@coldcamv That would imply that she liked the picture at least 😛
Is it ironic that an anthology – in which you attempt to collect and “put together” something – is named after those whose own attempts were fruitless?
I’ll let you know on May 7.
Though I think my subconscious may be trying to cushion the blow, prepare me for the inevitable. 😛Where did you get tinfoiled?
http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/front-page-comic-news/81431-some-things-broken-just-cannot-fixed.html
but it’s…. pink!
Is that an Escape From Monkey Island reference? 😀
You’re damn right it is \o/
Pixel, shoehorning adventure games quotes since 1988
EDIT – i’m actually super excited someone picked up on that XD
Dude, adventure games are my life!
Learn to code in unity and you can help me make mine.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
That’s a pretty sick program. I think games like Deponia were made in that and they’re really good quality.
Nah, Deponia was Visionaire. Gemini Rue/Resonance/Blackwell games etc are AGS, though.
I only know about it because I think @sughly was using it. I’ve never touched it though.
Ah yes, Visionaire. I did check that one out too. A bit more pro looking than AGS.
I played around Visioniare for a bit wanting to make a game about a guy who’s trapped inside his own head. A trippy adventure game with lots of metaphors that had a very philosophical touch to it. Wrote a chunk of it but then like most things in life, I gave up. 😐 @dc @bdkiaf
Lots of engines! Try them all, or most likely dont http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-game-making-tools/
But then I’d have to be the one doing the majority of the work rather than just designing and writing it and telling @dc to hurry up
What’s the point of making an adventure if you’re not the one designing it. GEEEZ. 😛
@dc I’m designing and writing, you’d be the codemonkey. That’s the whole point, mate! I suppose I could let you have some creative input occasionally…
Coding is actually a pretty fun time. It’s the one time you get to collaborate with others on forums and such if youre not working hands on with people already. Many interesting* problem solving times to be had! (*sometimes interesting equates to not very fun)
@sughly I’ve done plenty of programming stuff over the years, its why I don’t want to do it.
Well I’d not mind doing it if I had an actual teacher to teach me one language start to finish and not be stuck with fragments of pretty much everything screwing up my expectations of what should work and making everything 3 times harder than it should be
@aliasalpha just try out a few engines, see which one you like, and self teach yourself the rest. Innernets full of useful info and people, dont need a teacher
@sughly I do need a teacher though, I suck at teaching myself. I’ve tried loads of times
How was everyone’s weekend?
Mine was okay. Talked to some people. Did some things. Pretty uneventful over all.
‘Twas aight my friend…
Saturday went to the Victorian markets and bought ALL THE MEAT…
Went and saw the new Captain America… Enjoyed it immensely, but don’t take that for anything because apparently i like even less then stellar movies XD
And on sunday i made a lamb roast on the spit, tasted AMAZING!!
And played a crapton of DoWII with @rize sunday night…
Ok, normally whenever somebody does the whole “I did X on saturday” thing I respond as a joke, but your reply genuinely confused me for a bit.
I’m tired.
Oh no, People being genuine on the internet! How do I respond?
…I think i’m tired too, that made me sound like a dick.
Anyway, Maybe from reading his post, you could get yourself a similar idea of something to do, or just be happy that he did something in comparison to the other guy who had an uneventful weekend. We can all learn from each other, together!
I’m confused. It’s just normally I act as if somebody were talking about me when they say something along the lines of “Well, Saturday, I went hiking,” whereas I would then reply “That’s nice, but why call me out?” In this case, I was so tired that I genuinely believed Pixel was talking about me buying a crapton of meat at a market (which, to be fair, is something I would do.)
dude we are all friends here.
dont be a dick
its the rules
saturday and pixel are friends so he wasnt being mean
friends? FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENDS
I think I finally understand how odd we must look to people not used to hanging around here, and who don’t supplement their TAY with Twitter. It must be pretty difficult to understand sometimes. My apologies, we don’t really mean to appear so obtuse to new potential friends.
So while your outburst was slightly odd, I can understand where you might have been confused so I’ll attempt to shed some light. The “other guy” actually did have an eventful weekend (a bunch of people from here met up in real life on Saturday night), and Saturday’s response to Pixel was part of a running joke whenever people mention “Saturday” the day.
P.S. We’re all genuine, here. You’ll find that out pretty quickly if you stick around. 🙂
I had sexy times on @saturday
I didn’t 🙁then who the hell were the couple on top of me last night?I took Saturday by the scruff of the neck, didn’t take it’s shit and kicked it straight in the n…..
I mean, not much.
better neck than crotch.
EDIT: Wait, no, something else important starts with N doesn’t it
Noggin.
Very important, that.
Ran a quiz with over 100 people there. It was for chairty, but still – drunken jock table full of loud rich doctors kids. Urgh. Won them over in the end by being a) passive agressive and b) shitty at them.
Then I went and did my usual Saturday morning archery. Was nice. Still a newbie at it, so the muscles scream on Sunday.
Then wrote 50 questions for my upcoming quiz on Tuesday night.
Remind me, what are these fan-dangled video game things people keep talking about, and how do you find time for them?
Family, work, sleep… all are impediments to the ultimate vocation.
your username suddenly makes a lot of sense
Could be better. The ex came over because she was feeling shit and her dad has cancer. Then she proceeds to tell me about her last, 2 month long relationship. Didn’t really need to know but if it helped her feel better talking, that’s the main thing.
I painted this on sat night (the bottom one) at a street fighter themed club night. Also destroyed many people at Marvel Vs Capcom 2 on the projector screen in between painting.
http://distilleryimage8.ak.instagram.com/161033eec2fb11e3a5e10002c9da449c_8.jpg
Didn’t do much on sunday as you can imagine, tired + hangover = blergh.
Whoa, that’s all kinds of cool, my friend.
Cheers man.
Sick! Show us some photos of them hanging on the wall. 🙂
They’re actually 2.4 m High X 3.6m Wide, so not really for hanging in your house. At Qbar, where they were painted, they usually keep them around, but sometimes they can be painted over.
There’ll be better photos up on weds so i’ll try and link them later in the week so people can see the whole wall.
Woooooooooooooooooooow.
Impressive!
Did you do your homework?
Mine was kind of uneventful, stupid arthritic thumbs were too sore for PS4ing so I spent most of the weekend listening to English radio shows on radio 4, some funny shit on there. Shows what radio can do if people do more than play shitty top 40 crap hour after hour…
Good and bad, simultaneously.
I went to IKEA and came away without any of the things I needed to get. Then I went to Officeworks and also came away without the things I needed to get.
And then I watched some anime
Mine was pretty shit, except for Saturday night when I caught up with a bunch of awesome TAYbies!
Watched my cousin in Phantom of the Opera, she played the lead and was absolutely amazing, she outshone the whole cast. Also after only seeing the movie a half dozen times i really enjoyed the live aspect of the music, it was soo nice to hear. Also i slept through a cyclone and then watched 13 episodes of house of cards S2 on the weekend, my dog got bored after 4 episodes though i dont think he liked Frank.
Pretty decent weekend even if i was a little lonely.
I was dreading seeing Phantom of the Opera when I was in New York but it was actually pretty okay. Cool gothic atmosphere.
there is a reason why its the longest running musical of all time.
The score is probably the best of any musical every written
except disney 😛
Your cousin is Emmy Rossum? OMG I’m in love with her.
So did Xbone and Ps4 both lie to us about loads of games in early days?
‘Cuz there still isn’t a grand list.
Depends what you mean by ‘loads’… and depends what you mean by ‘lie.’
I see a business-as-normal new console catalogue of releases. Give it time.
And what you mean by “early”.
Well, realistically for both consoles, by this time now, at least another 2-3 titles AAA titles, at least 1-2 more exclusives for each.
Yeah, I think the only must play on PS4 at the moment is inFamous: Second Son.
Launch “Window*”.
*It’s a very large window. May be multiple windows seamed together to make one big window.
To be fair, Nintendo started this bullshit first.
Also it was a spread out launch for the systems in general.
honestly its still early days, there isn’t a LOT of games but there are a few, enough to sustain constant use of either console? Maybe not but it is still early.
It’s 6 months in, average life of seven years so about 7% through. There’s what? About 20 games? So extrapolating on that there’s another 266 games to come in the next 6.5 years*.
*No basis in logic, maths, reality or sanity.
According to Wikipedia the 360 has 1119 games, I realize that a good amount of those would be Japan only games, but I dare say that once they stop producing 360 and PS3 games (I’m looking at you Gearbox) that we’ll see a serious boost in games coming out for this gen.
“a good amount of those would be Japan only games”
Unlikely, given how shitty the 360 did in Japan. Some of them will be but I doubt there’s more than 100 Japan-exclusive 360 games.
Yeah, but Trials is this week sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmvrooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!
Platform?
PS4, maaaaaaaaaan.
I’m a bit upset I won’t get to rage quit at your dot like I did in Evolution.
Laaaaaame
They didn’t lie I guess. At least 5 games got delayed I think.
I think both have more than the xbox had at this stage in its life, just that too many of them are multiplatform ports and XBLA size games
Well, I think they each had ‘dozens’, which included maybe 1-2 marquee titles per genre then nothing for months, which sucks if you only like a couple genres. The others on the ‘dozens’ list were the low-rent indie/arcade titles. So if you were looking for AAA-only and don’t like racing/sports, then yeah. There wasn’t much on offer. Not including delays, and ports of previous-gen titles.
You know, coming back from a week and a half of leave I thought I’d have more work built up. It’s only 9am and I’m already on TAY.
8;30 everyday and im waiting for it nowadays.
because im a productive member of this company.
I’m a productive member of this government department. \o/
Yesssssss. Then you might have time for this!
http://shanewsmith.com/works-in-progress/all-the-kings-men
The best part about it is that you can work in a Word document, which will seem all kinds of professional from a distance. Especially if you use code… “performance target” for “Padakan assassin” and so on 😛
I’ll try and work something in for that at some point but I really, really need to take care of some external certificate work and do the write-up for Numenera before tomorrow’s session. But I’ll get there.
Just a question for the anthology: would you prefer established settings to be used or try something a bit different?
DIFFERENT! \o/
Or established. Whatever, really. Wherever inspiration leads you.
Don’t work too hard on the pitch at this stage, because it might be a waste of time (book won’t go ahead if the Kickstarter doesn’t succeed), but if you could send a brief bio and any links you want to submissions.allthekingsmen@gmail.com, I’ll add you to the list as a potential contributor (only if you want)
Also, thanks for your pledge! But now there’s the awkward conflict of interest… 😛
Now that I’ve pledged it just makes me want to work harder and hope the campaign is succesful. 😀
After one week of leave at the end of March I DID have a load of work piled up. I still decided to visit TAY. For my mental health.
Yeah, I was focused sharp as a razor for a good long while many months back, when friends and family chastized me for turning into a robot and not playing games or shooting the shit on the internet. So, I came back. Good for sanity.
ugh, nearly every Monday morning the first thing that goes through my head when I wake up is “Bob Geldof – I Don’t Like Mondays”. I agree Bob I want to shoot the whole day down too.
fortunately because I’m replaying Ass Creed Pirates this is soon replaced by “Handy me boy so handy…..” or “Sally Brown she’s the gall for me boys…..” or “If I ever get fat I’ll marry little Sally waaay heeey heeey heeey bully in the alley”. 😀
I dreamed a dream the other night
loooooowands, loooooowands away me john….
I swear I’ve sailed hundreds of extra miles just so I can hear more of the shanties, sometimes a ship will attack me while I’m listening and interrupt the song, they soon learn not to interrupt someone while they’re in the middle of a ho-down as they sink down to Davy Jone’s Locker. Ya’harrr
and now I’ve had this in my head for an hour,
“Annnd bravely in her bosom fair
Loooooooooowlands, looooooooooowlands away…. “
It’s easily my favourite one, possibly the only sad sea shanty I’ve ever heard.
I’ve sailed around just listening to singing and creaking for an hour or so, easily one of the best time wasters in an open world game, the equal of just cruising with the radio on in GTA4
A poor old man came riding by,
And we say so, and we know so.
A poor old man came riding by,
A poor old man.
haha, they’re all so good, I want the job of singing shanties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Elementary_School_shooting_%28San_Diego%29
well, that guy doesn’t like mondays more than me. I was reading that thinking where is this going,
That’s a lie, that’s a lie, that’s a lie, lie, lie!
Slight case of passing out before the speeches at the wedding on Friday. Glad there were still two days of weekend after it 😀 Monday morning brings a big pile of work for taking Friday off…4 days til 4 day weekend XD
Saw The Muppets: Most Wanted yesterday, and I have to say.
Worst Muppet movie ever!
It just plain sucked. I’ve seen all of the Muppet Movies, except for The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, and Muppets In Space. Love them all, Including the last one, but this one was a real drag to sit through.
You…you haven’t seen the Muppet Christmas Carol?
That’s the best Muppet movie ever. EVER.
We’re Marley and Marley….. Whooooooa!
That was the speech?
It was dumb!
It was obvious!
It was pointless!
It was… short!
I loved it!
Muppets christmas carol is my FAVOURITE christmas movie of all timeTresure island is also one of my faves.
Big-Fat-Ugly-Bug-Face-Baby-Eating O’Brien!
This is absolutely true.
Are you, like, full old?
Because those are the Muppet movies from my childhood.
Which also happen to be the best ones as Rizzo is a major player.
And he is the, hands down, best Muppet.
He is just like you, i can see the attraction.
Statler and Waldorf would like to have a word with you about your contention for Rizzo as best Muppet.
Because, y’know, they are.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
You, Me. Behind the bike racks at lunch.
what you going to give him a BJ for being right???
Probs.
That comment was a real show-stopper.
Too bad it didn’t stop the show!
Ahhhhhahahahahahahahaha.
If you consider almost 40 old, then yeah I’m old 😉
As I said I loved the last one, so it’s not just that I only like the old ones. I’ve been meaning to watch those three, but I’ve just never got around to it. I reckon I’ll have to pick them up on DVD soon.
Also, I disagree, I like Rizzo, but my three favourites are The Swedish Chef, Animal and Beaker.
I can do a pretty mean Kermit impersonation too (so I’ve been told).
Check out Grandpa over here!
HEY GRAMPS, WHERE’S YOUR EAR HORN!?
-puts on blue & red 3D glasses, does kickflip-
Eh, what’s that! You’ll have to speak up I’m wearing a towel.
PINK!
“I’ve seen all The Muppet moves! …except for the best ones” – evilmonkey
Damn, I can’t remember the last time I had a reply fail.
I blame the new banner.
Lol. I’ve seen 5 of 8, that’s like 62.5%.
“”its been a while since ive had a reply fail”- Pow”- Rocketman
You’re funny.
Hola Tay
I had a busy Sat, quiet Sunday
Friday Night I went and saw the LEGO Movie with some friends from school (so people I’ve known for more than half my life at this point). It. Is. AWESOME! It’s just plain delightful. Afterwards, we crashed a maccas and reminisced, which was interesting.
Saturday, I gave platelets in the morning then caught up with some other friends, then I spent late Saturday and all of Sunday playing various METAL GEAR games- played some more of Peace Walker, then finished my replays of original MGS and MGS4. I’m planning to play the whole series over the next few weeks, including Metal Gear 1 and 2.
A Monday Morning Question: Now that LEGO is licensing so many films, what property needs to be Legofied? I’d love Hellboy Lego
Metal Lego Rising: Revengeance, cuz who doesn’t want to see lego pieces flying off when you’re chopping up the Lego Gear!
DISNEY!
Can you imagine classic animated films lego?
Or even Pixar – stuff like the Incredibles, Up, and if they really wanted a money cash-grab, Cars (which would be the easiest to do).
I also saw a Zelda project on Cuusoo, that was really cool and well-suited to the LEGO setting.
Dat LEGO car handling.
There was Cars LEGO.
http://thebricklife.com/cars-lego-set-guide-and-reviews/
They’re really bad. Perfect example of a cash grab 😛
Still, Incredibles, or Up Lego would be cool.
Red pandas
You planning on picking up the game? Transformers LEGO would be pretty neat I think.
THE LESSER EVIL LEGO PLEASE
PS: I saw the trailer for the LEGO movie, but it didn’t make me want to see the film at all. Did you see the trailer? Was it a decent representation of the movie? Everyone seems to LOVE the movie, and I’m wondering if the trailer was broken, or if it’s me…
It’s you. i saw that trailer and just went HI, I’LL HAVE ONE LEGO MOVIE THANKS
Okay, cool. Just saved ten bucks. Thanks!
Go on, take the kids
Ha! No, imagining them in a movie theatre… just, no.
Go ooooonnnnn
It’s delightful.
(plus I’ve forgotten how old your kids are. Isn’t one of them like 4?)
Yeah, but she gets scared at Sleeping Beauty, so I’m not sure an action movie is what she needs, even a kid-friendly one 😛
And the other one isn’t quite 2, and has never sat still for more than thirty consecutive seconds.
METAL GEAR?!
I also saw the Lego Movie recently. Relied on the whole ‘repeat joke x number of times’ shtick a bit too much, but otherwise I thought it was a excellent movie.
For your question, I say LEGO The Matrix. And I’m not kidding.
I’ve been trying to play through Ghost Babel, but I can’t find an emulator that’ll make it work past a specific section (when you go up the elevator in the tower near the start). It’s a shame because it seems really cool.
Also I’m replaying MGS4 at the moment on bog boss hard and breezing through it.
Ghost Babel is one I don’t have- I don’t think it’s canon anymore?
I’d got most of the way through MGS4 on normal a while back, and jumping back in I was a little disoriented so died more than I should have. 2 was really my jam- I used to know that one backwards and forwards.
Ghost Babel is one of the best GB games, no joke. It’s not canon however.
Yea GB isn’t canon, but still seems really fun. I had a quick look on ebay for an actual gameboy colur and game i’m looking at about $60 at least. Not sure about going that route…
I love MGS2, it is quite literally my favourite game of all time. I know it so well I think i’ll have to wait another 10 years until i play it again so by then maybe i’ll have forgotten a little bit and it’s somewhat a challenge!
I just picked up the HD versions- figure it’s probably been 10+ years since I played it.
Playing original MGS last year, i was surprised at how much I remembered about item placement and the like. Shadow Moses was also a lot smaller than I remembered.
WARHAMMER LEGO!
Little miniatures which you could get, and with interchangeable parts
and they could even leave them blank so you could paint them….
Because that doesn’t already exist at all right? RIGHT?!?
Red blocks would just fly everywhere instead of blood 😛
http://www.brothers-brick.com/tag/warhammer/ Like that you mean?
i would buy the shit out of that 😛
Fuck licensed, I want them to reissue some of the badass stuff from the Space, Castle and Pirates lines from the 90s since now that I’m a responsible adult I can actually afford them.
Lego Elder Scrolls: Dwemer structures could make an easy transition to lego. It’d be awesome to see the Ordinators from Vvardenfell, or a figure with full Aldimeri Dominion armour.
Lego Kill la Kill: Think of the potential!
Nui Harime’s limbs are already detachable. Aikuro Mikisugi could be fitted with pink LEDs, and he could get into a DTR as you please.I’ll think of more.
What is this? I think the editors are trying to get more people to become TAYbies, judging by the recognisable picture and a more detailed description!
Finally got a temporary screen recording software for the iPad – it’s called Reflector, it airplays the iPad to the computer, and the program has recording software (you have to record audio separately though). Weidrly, it has less lag then staming to the Apple TV (I think. Then again, I was looking more at the screen, but from what I could tell there was less lag).
this reflector????
Nah,
http://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/
By some group called the Air Squirrels.
knew what that was going to be before I clicked.
Was not disappointed.
BRB, playing Arcade Fire loud in the office
Heyooo. Had an early bday party thingie on Saturday. Went bowling and then asian dinner. Was fun, scored a 13x or something mediocre.
Had some things to do on the weekend, didn’t get anywhere near half completed due to a series of unfortunate events. E.g. gf’s flight cancelled by 1000km cyclone, friend almost getting in accident and finding out her license is suspended, friend getting my gf’s car impounded … D:
Also I start holiday on Tuesday afternoon. 😀 yeeeeeeee
Sorry I couldn’t make it man – Sick pregnant wifey needed looking after.
Ah yeah I saw the reply on Monica’s phone. No prob dude, that’s priority. 😛 Next time!
Oh shit. When I loaded up Firefox this morning, it didn’t take me to google. It took me to EasyLifeApp Search. I loaded up MalwareBytes, and searched my hard drive for malware. I turned up with… 42 results? I made sure to delete the malware from my computer, and restarted my computer. When I loaded Firefox up again, EasyLifeApp Search was still the default webpage.
EDIT: Fixed! Thanks Pixel!
You may have to manually set it back to google…. also i highly recommend to run Malwarebytes in safe mode, sometimes it can’t clean out certain files because they are “in use” when running windows in normal mode
You can edit that.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/change-your-default-search-engine-in-firefox-google-chrome-ie/
It’s the bit down the page with the about:config stuff. i had the issue with some shitty addon at some point too.
Sadly, I don’t think that addresses the root of my problems. When I load up Firefox, the first thing I see is EasyLifeApp.
Have you had a look through something like this? it would appear it’s a pretty common malware
Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you!
Well since you’ve already got it sorted, I guess I’ll advise you to try and figure out how you got it in the first place and not do it again
I think I accidentally clicked on a rollover banner ad. It sucks that I am punished for not using adblock. I try to help content creators, and it all bites me in the ass.
Glad i could help man… i’ve been there plenty of times XD
At some point, my entire job consisted of removing viruses from people’s machines (and holy crap the stuff people leave on their computers, i’m scarred for life!)
The only annoying thing is that my default webpage is google.com, rather than the Mozilla webpage that had a Google search bar. The sites are practically identical, except the mozilla one had a big ‘restore previous session’ button that I would use constantly. No I have to go through a menu like some kind of animal.
What was is this? NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR 4?
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Out of curiosity, what OS do you use and what AV solution are you running?
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. I uh… havenorealanti-virus
When I got my hard drive cloned, the technician had MalwareBytes Anti-Malware installed. So… that’s it.
Get ye to avast.com matey! They be havin top quality antivirus booty free for the plunderin’
I just downloaded the installer. I can’t tell whether to install avast to my tiny SSD or my 3TB HDD.
Well mine’s been running for probably a year and is 343MB so it doesn’t take up much space
I mean from a functionality perspective. Will installing it to the SSD halt protection to the HDD in any way? (Unlikely)
Nah it’s the same no matter where you install it
AV runs as a service and monitors file activity, so no, it should protect all the drives and where it’s installed is less of an issue. It’s better on the SSD though, because it will load up faster at boot time (which is where you will see a big loss of speed if your AV hasn’t been optimized for it)
That’s probably not the entire disk footprint, that’ll just be the program and maybe the current definitions. They’ll be using a ton of extra space in your AppData somewhere.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download
Free, lightweight, unobtrusive. I should know.
I work on itIf you were on Win8 then the first thing I was going to say is update to 8.1 – 8 has a lot of exploits which are patched in 8.1 so if you’re running raw 8, you’re not properly protected and also insane because 8.1 fixes so much stuff in the UI.
For 7, IMO Security Essentials is the best free AV. You may get marginally better protection from some paid products. It’s bundled in with 8.
My kid cried when I walked out the door this morning; I’m loved! \o/
So I went to the car, grabbed some stuff out the boot and brought it back inside. He stopped crying but then I left for real and he started again – It wasn’t a fluke! *manly tears of joy*
Parentin’ with Benny!
Taunting your children, just to check that they love you
@redartifice @f4ction @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
When I started planning for this I completely overlooked the fact that Monday next week (the 21st) is Easter Monday and while I don’t have any plans, you guys probably do. So our options are:
– Push it back a week to Monday the 28th;
– Do it the day after on Tuesday the 22nd; or
– Do it on Monday the 21st anyway if everyone is available.
Let me know how available you guys will be over the upcoming Easter and Anzac long weekends. I know it’s also school holidays so that might throw a spanner in the works as well. I’m still planning to hold it from around 8-10pm on Mondays every fortnight.
Also, if I can get an email from each of you to popdart10 at gmail dot com as I require your email addresses for the Google + and Roll20 stuff so that I have everyone’s details.
I’m free all of those dates, so I’m happy to go with the group.
Same, 21st/22nd/28th are all fine for me.
I should be right with any date, but I will double check tonight. Also, how do I roll my character again?
Hoping I get this right…….
4D6, drop lowest. If there are two or more 1s rolled, re-roll those until only one 1 remains.
I suppose you will still need to decide on what race you are going to be so follow the standard guidelines for rolling a character (roll 4d6 for characteristic scores and add them together, subtracting the lowest. Reroll 1s if you roll more than one 1). Any racial modifiers that are applicable will affect your stats and then fill in a character sheet from there with skills, equipment, and feats.
Email me about it if you have any concerns. I will double-check a few things and send you an email tonight about it.
Got MS Excel? http://yapcg.sourceforge.net/ is really good for doing all the bits and pieces for character generation. You’ll want to roll your stats separately though as they don’t support the particular algorithm we’re using.
I’m good for any of those days.
My Roll20 is the same as the email I’ve been using with you before, and my gmail is just that @gmail instead of @hotmail
I don’t think anything’s on for me on any night so I should be good to go anytime.
I’m free all those days including the 21st
Um, i just want to thank everyone on here who has been helping support me through tough times. It helps so much.
Any news on that?
My brother is still being a dick and trying to use my computer, but he is not allowed to. I will not be a door mat to him.
Good for you scree, you have to show him the boundaries.
i presume you’ve passworded it up?
Car battery attached to the chair…
Just saying
He could borrow my massage chair if he needs that 😛
Actually just an elaborate set of traps, similar to Home Alone, leading up to the computer should do the trick
Edit – Oh god, years of training as the tenacious little brother to a tyrannic older sister is coming back to me 😛
yup. He usually waits until it’s unattended and then jumps on. Won’t get off if I tell him too
Pull the fuse for that part of the house?
I’ve done that before XD
(don’t do that, it’d probably spark more conflict then necessary)
that’s why I won’t
Whenever my girlfriends little brother (I say little, but he’s 18 and 6″2′) won’t get off the xbox to come have dinner etc, we just turn the wifi off and he has to come out of his room 😀
Winkey + L locks the screen with a password. Get in the habit of doing it whenever you leave the machine.
Thank you! Super helpful
It can be a pain if you forget about it yourself but if you want to mess with him, you can always do the old IT trick of taking a screenshot of your desktop, making it your wallpaper and then deleting all the icons. You’d be amazed how long people spend trying to click what is just a picture and expecting a program to load.
The older intel video cards used to have fun keyboard shortcuts to flip the screen around, it was fun to just turn someone’s display upside down if they stepped away from their computer without locking it, they get back, everything was upside down and their mouse control was back to front.
IT students can be fun sometimes… in really nerdy ways
I had to learn this many years ago because when I was doing honors CompSci, the unspoken rule was that if you left your machine unlocked for any period of time and left the room, the other students were honor-bound to turn your desktop pink, place a photo of your thesis supervisor in the center, change your keyboard layout to dvorak and set your mouse to be left-handed.
What about us who haven’t offered anything other than sarcasm and wit?
Where is our thanks???
In all honesty scree, everyone cares about you and just wants you to be happy.
I’m sorry. D=
F4ction beating up people is always the answer.
he is kind enough to help but scary enough to get the job done.
Why does no one ever want my beating up services? Is there really so much focus on the target remaining alive afterwards?
Human authorities have been known to go nuts when that line is crossed… 😛
Far too touchy some folk… Don’t they know there’s a planetary overpopulation problem?
I KNOW RIGHT?!
And yet if you make even one targeted depopulation virus, suddenly you’re the bad guy!
I haven’t really done much, but if there’s anything Me or Eb can do, give a shoutout!
If you need to get away for a while (or even you and your mother) we always have an empty guest room (not really the best solution to be driven out of your own house but there it is)…
and yeah, anything… you have my number/email/steam 😛
It wasn’t just my brother, it was a few other things but I’m dealing
Sorry to hear and i must have missed it… well if you ever need to chat you know where to find me 🙂
This is TAY, we look after our own.
I’m damn proud of you standing up to your brother like that, it’s all too easy to capitulate to bullies to avoid confrontation, taking the better path takes a lot of courage, well done.
Of course it had to be a page get /o\
What the heck, I pressed reply. Ugh /o\
Reply fail to yourself? That’s a good one
I am that bad. /o\
I shouldn’t have brought it up <screeimpersonation>I’m sorry</screeimpersonation>
No, I’m sorry.
I’m sorriest! Nyah!
No, I’m sorriest, times infinity, + 1. =P
Gah, technically impossible but also unbeatable… you win this round!
Just to reignite the Blade Runner debate: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/22xh4j/i_am_harrison_harrison_ford_ama/cgrc3z6
nerdy admission time:
I still haven’t watched blade runnerI didn’t see it until I was at uni
I didn’t see it til I was out of uni.
I didn’t like it, either.I only watched it last year when the internet went out.
its pretty great, but i like hard scfi, if you dont it might be a little annoying for you.
I like sci fi and many, many iterations 😛
hell i even sat through the original “Judge Dredd” and while it had it’s flaws, still couldn’t help but enjoy and laugh at how utterly corny it was 😛
Robocop has a sweet spot in my heart as well, but that’s because AWESOME!
EDIT – seriously, who came up with the line “They’re firing 20 milimetre caseless fletcher rounds at 300 metres. The effective lethal range is 200 metres. You’re safe…”
I laughed so hard!
Me neither!
TAY BLADERUNNER MOVIE WATCHING MEAT!
Me neither.
Nor Total Recall, or The Godfather series, or Casino, or Schindlers List or… *list goes on and on for ever*Have watched Total Recall… but it’s been so long that i only remember it by name 😛
as for the rest, yep pretty much haven’t watched any of those 😛
I still haven’t seen schindler’s list
I’d probably watch it if it was on TV (in fact, it was on TV randomly when I was in Chile…dubbed) but I’m not sure I’d seek it out to watch, too heavy.
I wouldn’t watch it on TV. It already goes for three hours. Can’t imagine that blowing out to 4.5 hours with ads (as good as it is) O_O
Whenever there’s a movie aired on TV that I have on BD/DVD, the running joke is “Oh cool, I can watch it on BD/DVD, then come back and watch the last 45 minutes again when the TV channel catches up.”
I turned it off half an hour in. Felt like it was missing all of the interesting themes of the book in favour of slick scifi visuals.
IMO it’s wrong to consider it an adaption of Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep, there’s a lot of elements of that book which just wouldn’t have crossed over into film that well and there’s a lot of liberties taken along the way. It’s more of an ‘inspired by’.
You should fix that problem. The film’s dated pretty well and is worth it just for the visual aspect (the look of the film was incredibly influential) and the soundtrack which is still awesome.
This is the worst debate ever.
See? Harrison Ford gets it.
My housemates (who works at EB) facebook status:
Customer: “can I get GTA V For 360?”.
Me: -sees seven year old kid hiding behind- “is it for him?”
Customer: “yeah.”
Me:” just letting you know it’s rated R and not really suitable for children”.
Customer: “it’s fine , he’s mature for his age”
HE’S FUCKING SEVEN.
*head desk*
uuuuuuuuuuuuurgh parenting
Here’s what she should have said: “Just letting you know it’s rated R and we’re legally not allowed to provide R-rated material to minors. And you can be prosecuted for providing it to him.”
Edit: she
Unfortunately the usual response I’ve heard back to statements like that is something along the lines of “telling me how to raise my kid” etc. etc.
Argh, people. They really can be the worst.
If I was in a good mood, I’d say “I’m not telling you anything. The law says that this game is not suitable for your child, and this store is bound to uphold that law.”
If I was in a bad mood, I’d say “If you were raising your kid right, people wouldn’t need to tell you these things.”
Either way, I don’t think I’d last long in a job like that.
I once had a couple bring their 3 year old to see Dredd. I advised them that it was pretty violent and not appropriate. Their response “Oh, he’s seen 300, and he was fine with that”. Legally I can’t refuse them entry, but my first thought was, geez, that kid is going to grow up to be all kinds of fucked up .
Hang on, Dredd is MA15+. AFAIK you absolutely can prevent minors from entering a movie theater to see that film… I thought that was the whole point of the MA15+ vs the M rating. M is recommended for 15+, MA is legally restricted?
You CAN let them see it IF they go with a parent/guardian and they stay with them the entire time. It’s bullshit if you ask me, but that’s the law.
http://www.classification.gov.au/Industry/Documents/Understanding%20Classifications%20Cinema.pdf
The response there used to be “I’m sorry, maam, but it’s company policy and more than my job’s worth. Let me get the manager”
And that’s before we had an R18+ rating.
How about, “I could lose my job, so I ain’t sellin’ it to ya”
People are idiots.
1. How can the kid be so mature that he can deal with content meant for 18+ and
2. How can the parent be comfortable letting their kid play a game with content for 18+
I’d get it if they were 15 or 16 and “mature for their age” but 7? No. Just … No.
It falls back to the overly proud parent thing, I guess. Any chance to tell people that your little champion is somehow better than everyone else’s.
…that sounds really cynical. I don’t have a problem with parents being proud of their kids, just the ones that are adamant (to the point of ignorance) that their child is objectively better than other children.
Yeah, I hate that too. Because only one person (me) can be right when they make that claim.
Just out of interest, did he actually end up selling the game? Did anything happen after this exchange?
War were declared? 😛
and battle come down/
London calling to the underworld
Yeah she sold it to him. Not much she can do about it. The father could just leave and come back and be served by someone else.
Heh, a friend of mine talks about that kind of thing all the time. Though he more takes the stance of not giving a shit (helps that he’s good with his manager too I guess) and just refuses to sell it to them 😛
“Alright. But seriously, there’s a scene where you
act as a paparazzi, sneaking up on an actress to take photos of her getting ploughed good and hard from behind on some garden furniture. And then another character you control gets cut to ass-fucking a junkie in exchange for giving her some meth, then when her meth-head boyfriend comes to complain about it, you stomp his skull repeatedly until there’s brains on your shoe.”“This game allows you to hire prostitutes and then beat them to death after the act to get the cash back.”
It’s not necessarily entirely true, but shock tactics like that are going to work much better than “oh it’s adult-rated”.
@greenius how’s the cover letter going?
Oh weirrrrd! I was actually trying to see my notifications when I got my call. Well I guess I provided an update to this already 🙂
So the weekend was pretty great actually.
Scooted out of work early Friday and headed back bush. Had a sleep over with my nephew aka stole his bed and made him sleep on the floor.
Helped with the cake my sister was making which turned out awesome. pic.twitter.com/l4HVZezM7L
That was for the robot party so caught up with the immediate family. Got some gifts for Tiglet including a portacot which means that beds are pretty much sorted now. Then back home that night. Got home and played a little bit of amalamadingdong with Mrs Tigs.
Then Sunday I finally managed to 100% castlestorm. Played a little bit of co-op Sanctum 2.
Then we went out and listened to some blues/jazz and had some nice tapas.
Then got to work and put a good dint into cleaning up the nursery, so much stuff to sort through. While I was doing that i watched Paris Roubaix which was one of the best races I’ve seen in a long time. Well worth opening the bottle of special reserve that I drank.
Nice cake, and nice tapas + blues/jazz combo.
THE FINAL MICF PLUG BLOCK
@shane has a kickstarter, dunno if you’ve heard: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology
Melburnians! My Brother is involved in three shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival! He got a lovely review in the Herald Sun:
“…you’re left with the distinct impression his name and talents will become more familiar to wider audiences in the years to come..”
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
“…I want to say… Marcus? but I don’t think it is… He sounds like he’d be right up your alley”- @dkzeitgeist
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
I saw Blaghs on Saturday. BLAGHS.
@blaghman
Oh, they’re the same person? Maaaaan! If only I had’ve known! 😀
@saturday, mystery solved! @dc saw it.
D:
….
😀
The world didn’t explode when his awkward met your anxiety.
Colour me impressed
DID YOU LEAN ON THINGS????
I sat on the ground at one time! Sughly and Blaghs hugged. I guess Blaghs technically leaned to implement that hugging maneuver.
They almost came to fisticuffs over who was the worst. 😛
I feel so shit when i talk to blaghs because we each think each other is amazing yet we dont think it ourselves. Its like a constant game of one-up but we are trying to make each other feel better
That’s so sweet. <3
Mr Strange powered through Dark Souls II on the weekend. Probably helped by me either being out or in my sewing room all weekend. He’s up to the Shrine Of Amana but having trouble with the boss there so he’s now going back and exploring all the areas properly like he should have the first times he was in them. 😛
Ok, I’ve basically spent the last week plugged into pokemon. Racked up 63 hours, caught 219 of them, seen 343, and am up to Victory Road. FREEDOM IS NIGH?
How’s your team looking? (I’m presuming this is X/Y)
Colourful!
I had a weird moment last night that caused me to swap some Pokemon around…specifically because 3 of them were blue.
Chesnaught 77, Charizard 75, Hawlucha 75, Vivillion 69, Aegislash 66, Tyrantrum 64.
Then I’ve got an Azumarill 60 and Hawlucha 57 that get subbed in for HM duties whenever exploration needs it. Also lower-level hits when I need to catch stuff.
Solid team. I took on the Elite Four with nothing but a Miltank, a Swalot, and a Golduck. My nuzlocke run was hard on me but thankfully these three were all about 80-84 ish so I didn’t have too much trouble.
😀
Okay, you can be my friend now.
(Also: holy over-levelling!)
EDIT: Also, if you want something that’s good for catching. Try grabbing something like a Parasect or a Breloom (not sure if either of those are even in the Kalos Pokedex though…) – they can learn Spore and False Swipe for pure catch-o-rama!
(My Parasect also knows Thief so it can steal items all day :P)
Over-leveling? Dude, that’s under-levelled compared to what it could have been 😛
Early on my guys were getting too strong thanks to the EXP share, so I benched them for a bit and went on with a B team for a while. Then they started to get too strong so I subbed half of them, for a C team, before eventually getting my main lot together. And my top guys have hardly been in use over the last two gyms and their surrounding routes, because Doublade and Tyrantrum had been left behind in the box for the HM team too much so I was primarily using them so that they’d catch up with the others. So the top three guys have gone up maybe ten levels on EXP share alone, and that’s even with the top two spending time in the box when I needed HMs.
Lately I’ve been getting kind of ripped apart though, seems the later game’s been holding onto all the types that I’m no good against. Well, that and me being useless without a type chart by my side to reference.
Son, Pokemon isn’t about catching and seeing Pokemon.
It’s about the post-story meta-game, constructing a finely tuned team with carefully selected EVs, acceptable IVs, counters, and countering counters.
There is no escaping that.
or just get a dragon type legendary and pwn NoObs
Except the noobs now have a Fairy legendary to counter that.
also Ice type
This is bullshit, its like everything is weak to something
I do not recognise this language.
Don’t forget the box full of “failure” pokemon. Locked in the box never to see the light of day again because of how they are.
…
I have a feeling I would make a terrible parent.
I REGRET NOTHING
But with X/Y can’t you put them in that big trading thing? So even if you had some Pokémon with imperfect IV’s etc, you can still make someone’s day by putting an “imperfect” Charizard into the trade.
http://www.youtube.com/user/coachella
If any one’s interested Coachella is streaming live today on YouTube. Arcade Fire have a set in a few hours. 😀
TAY Pathfinder Prologue II by @beeawwb: Drewan enters the big wide world: http://taypathfinder.tumblr.com/post/82645276142/prologue-ii-the-fish-out-of-water
If anyone has anything else for the tumblr, let me know
Thanks for that!
I’ve got a very rough outline to take me from Nolania to Xondol, might even get there before our first session. 🙂
Very cool @beeawwb!
Cheers. I hope to do your home city justice in my next instalment. Will try and work in some references to Dem’nion where possible, just to add some extra flavour.
Well you can see my full backstory now on that tumblr so build on that what you will 🙂
Yep, that’s what I’m going from. Was thinking maybe an aversion to my claws from some of the locals (even though they’re non functional) or something. I have a couple ideas.
Yeah I was thinking along the lines of I left Nolania before you arrived so you would hear whispering about it, lots of rumours and suspicion in the Academy about me, yet you would probably get to Xondol before me (If you were going directly there after Nolania) as I wasn’t actually going in any specific direction after leaving my home at first.
Funnily enough my rough outline doesn’t actually have “why” I leave Nolania for Xondol. Just that I do. And I don’t know if I make any stops along the way, although I’m thinking probably not. Too much extra writing for stops. I’m thinking a Part 4 (letter from Nolania after around 3 months) and Part 5 (leaving Nolania?) then Part 6 arriving in Xondol.
Urgh. Got a lot to do. :p
That’s what you get for giving your character people to keep in contact with and reason to keep doing so! 😛
With me I’m keeping isolated so that I can’t be found easily as I know authorities would be looking for me, especially the human authorities, so letters back to my parents might not be the smartest idea. xD
@tech_knight Ahh, but that’s exactly the conundrum at the core of my character. From the moment I started rolling stats and looking at archetypes the only thing I could think was ‘why the hell would this guy want to be an adventurer?’ – and everything has sprung up from there. The only plausible reason I can think for a booksmart quasi-weakling to venture out is some cultural push, so he needed some mentor to get him out there.
It’s even affected my starting equipment, with him taking up precious weight space for ink, quills, paper, etc.
HEY @RIZE,
why is there a photo of you slouching on the Kotaku front page?
Han shot.. and that is all.
Do you realise that in three years time, Greedo will have shot first for longer than Han shot first?
You’re welcome.
Greedo never shot first…
You’re starting to sound like one of those people that are convinced there’s a Scrubs season 9.
Let’s blame George Lucas.
For a while now I’ve been seeing this game called “Conception II: Something something Stars” about to be released here, and didn’t care much for it until I read this little snippet from IGN: ” Conception II is basically a mix of RPG battling with high school simulation, with a peculiar focus on making babies.”
Which means… spreadsheets with character stats and inheritance!?
Colour me intrigued!
Babby Making Simulator 2014! \o/
Latest game for the kinect?
oh god i feel dirty even saying thatinteresting, sounds like Persona 4 meets Fire Emblem. Could be fun indeed.
The way it works is that you and a bunch of eligible ladies are transported to another dimension and have to fight some fantasy bad guy. And to do that you need to get more allies. So as I understand it you basically build up your relationship level with the various female characters and then at some point you can go to a magical babby factory where the two of you shove magic into a tube or something and out pops a STAR CHILD which is basically a quasi-adult dude ready to go questing and stuff.
So I guess it’s slightly like Fire Emblem? But not really. IMO closest comparison is probably Agarest, but without the pick-one-of-the-girls-to-mother-the-next-generation-hero thing going on.
Also Atlus are dickholes and they decided they couldn’t be bothered bring it over dual language so the whole game will have their usual shithouse dub job attached. 🙁 I still intend to pick it up and add it to the collection of Vita games I look at and then never play, along with all the others.
Mercenary Kings is an awesome local co-op game. Spent about 6 hours on it on Saturday night (until 3am) with a couple of friends on the PS4. And it’s currently free on PS+. Get on that, yo.
Stupid question but is local co-op on PS4 only with DS4s? I only have one controller so I guess there’s no local co-op for me 🙁
they should let us dual screen with the Vita and use it as the control, that would be awesome.
Not helping
They should!
Hmm, I don’t have time, but I have a USB pad. Don’t know if it’ll work.
No idea. I now have 4 DS4s, so we just used those. You can get the game on Steam, dunno if that supports multiple users per system. It also has online multiplayer, so there’s that…
Just a friendly reminder that board games are rad and that you should play them.
That is all.
Or is it? Yes. Yes it is.I’m hosting Board Games at mine Saturday. Excite!
Though depending how it goes we might pull out a tabletop RPG.
The FLGS around these parts does Monday night board games. We’re thinking of heading over this evening.
They also apparently do stuff most weekends but we didn’t go this time. I should probably pay attention to their Facebook page.
I think one of the ones in the city here does Board Game Saturdays, but if I was going in there I’d only probably go for Magic.
It seems to be a thing these day to do something like Friday Night Magic, Saturday afternoon Board Games and if they’re open on Sundays do another card game or MtG again.
Good Games in Sydney does a lot of YuGiOh stuff. Unfortunately, I never found a place that apparently did a lot of Android Netrunner, which is the card game I want to get into these days.
One of the ones here does an LCG night, where they run Netrunner, LOTR LCG and GoT.
I’m hoping that the Warhammer 40k LCG is a hit at this FLGS. I know there are a few TAYbies that are probably going to pick it up and any FLGS that sells Warhammer products is going to have it, so it’ll be very available.
BTW, I just realised that the sentence “The FLGS sells The GoT and LOTR LCGS, MtG and RPGs” is wonderfully obtuse.
@redartifice But what about the Pathfinder ACG?
I went into our FLGS to see if the had the international tabletop day cards yet.
Walked out with Tokaido and drunken gnomes
I’d consider that an overall victory.
I’m going to be bored gaming this weekend \o/
Got to get my paste-ups for Heart of Crown done and added to the cards before then because I really want to try it out.
Starting a game of Civ5 G&K.
Overarching influence: Siam (Because it’s what I got in the tutorial, and I though I’d stick with it)
Leader Name: Kieth (The most terrifying of names)
Civilisation Name: [The] Kieth Dominion
Civilisation Short Name: Kiethland
Civilisation Adjective: Kiethlander
I have never really played a Civ game, so this should be interesting.
I expect you to name some city in the south Kiether’s Southernland.
By Kieth’s Hand, it will be done.
Praise be to Keith!
CIV!
I tend to give my religion names like Bob or John or Geoff. So it’s all like “JAKARTA CRIES OUT FOR GEOFF!”
Also, I haven’t managed to top renaming Marrakech to Marraketchup.
I usually end up with everyone worshipping Fully Sikhism.
At least it’s not Dysentery or something… “WASHINGTON CRIES OUT FOR DYSENTERY!”
Create a game as the US and create the religion “Obamacare”.
Now I kinda want to call a religion The Clap.
Urk. Game Of Thrones spoilers everywhere on Twitter. So glad I’ve read the books.
Why celebrities who rarely tweet but have gazillions of followers decide suddenly to tweet about GoT is beyond me. It’s a bit rude.
dick move really.
Damn You Stephen King! I haven’t even read anything you’ve written!
Though it’s no spoiler for me, read ASoIaF
Aside from his tweets, apparently.
I have unfollowed a couple of people who have posted spoilers. It’s their right to spoil things just like it’s my right to block them.
even joke spoilers, like “someone dies”
its not really funny and you are pissing people off.
I dont mind if people say “that episode was really solid”
anything more than that is just mean because you know people get angry at spoilers.
My default spoiler for everything is: rocks fall, everyone dies.
It’s coincidentally how the first chapter of a novel I tried to write for NaNoWriMo went.
its sad we have been friends long enough to remember a short story you tried to write 2 years ago.
Indeed. Who’d want to associate with me for that long?
i was more pointing to the fact that i know too much random trivia about you.
You’re just reading that from one of @dc’s files.
I tend to just avoid Twitter on days when important shows come out, at least until I’m caught up. I’ve only read the first two books but I believe I’ve beencomprehensively spoiled on the remainder of book three which I understand this season is mainly focused on. Some people have speculated this week would be the Purple Wedding, were they right?
Oooh, thanks for heads up! *closes twitter*
I don’t know if you browse the “Discover” section of Twitter but a lot of stuff shows up there. Even if someone favourites a random Tweet, it can show up there so it’s really easy to get spoiled.
The safest way is to just avoid EVERYONE and EVERYTHING 😛
ooh, I’m good at that.
Too good! I’m expecting to see you for dinner at the Brathaus in the Valley on May the 3rd, by the way.
what’s happening then? Is it a birthday meat? I’m terrible lately, I’ve only seen about 3 people (other than work jerks) in about a month. I think I’m not good company lately so avoiding human contact wherever possible. 😀
Bah! None of us are good company but we still bully people into hanging out with us! 😛
May 3rd is the Brisbane Gloryhammer show (which I also expect you to attend, by the way :P). We’re having a TAYbie Meat beforehand for dinner.
So what you’re saying is I should stay off Twitter?
Got it, chief ;D
Enjoy keeping your Ninty Direct hype to yourself then!
I don’t need twitter to get hype with my REAL INTERNET FRIENDS!
😮
:'(
I just managed to score a week off by saying
“hey we are slow can i have the rest of the week off unpaid”
he was like “you sure?”
Im not particularly cash strapped and i would rather spend time with my girlfriend and family than sit bored for a week.
I see how it is, you would rather spend your time with your loved ones rather then people on the internet.
*runs off crying*
dude arent you home, we can just go on teamspeak and laugh at working people.
People don’t go on Teamspeak during the day. That’s just crazy!
People don’t talk on TeamSpeak. That’s just crazy!
If you ever record TS conversations, 95% of the ones i am involved in is just me laughing idiotically and then sit quietly for 5 minutes
I just assume if im not on TS, nobody is talking. Thats why i just fill the silence with random crap.
random amazing crap, that’s what usually makes me laugh 😛
That reminds me, I should get on TS again sometime. I think I went on a couple of times to play LoL but that was months ago.
Following your advise i just tried the same but changed the approach a little bit:
“hey we are slow can i have the rest of the week off paid”
The answer was not as i was expecting… can you please clarify this otherwise amazing how-to guide plz?
😛Just out of curiosity, what happened to that job offer? You still thinking it over?
I asked if he could give me a bit to think it over as it would be a fairly big move. He said sure, so im just gonna mull on it for a while.
Its a great oppurtunity but i dont want to be alone again, that isolation drives me to bad thoughts and i only just feel like i got my head screwed on straight again.
I recall you saying that your lady friend was interested in moving? It could be a good opportunity even though you may have to be physically apart for a couple of months.
yeah it could be, shes away at the minute but when she gets back, i wanna have a discussion about it. Ill sort it out, Im not one to make up my mind quickly or efficiently.
Spent all weekend playing X-Com Enemy Within. The new missions they throw in with the Exalt organisation/covert ops are really engaging and really flesh out the game (instead of just padding it). Also that mission where the aliens invade your base are something I simultaneously missed about the original and dreaded having to do. I get the impression it’s a once-off event and I’m sort of glad for that.
I have to say this game more than any other has me questioning the blurring of the line between humanity and technology. You can turn soldiers into mech units (under the presumption those soldiers are “volunteering”, not that the digital meat puppets ever have a choice once I have selected them) which in fact replaced everything but their head with a metal skeleton which then slots into an armoured mech suit. Impressive capabilities but kind of unnerving whenever you see it in action. Then there’s the question of genetically modifying my human soldiers which I find less questionable since they’re only improved, but even so… it’s not the same as unlocking hidden talents like the essenial psionic abilities you unlock.
The game poses via exposition whether we will be consumed by this power to augment ourselves like the aliens (presumably) were, but I’m less worred around that than I am simply creeped out by the nature augments themselves. I imagine once the alien threat is dealt with there’s a button somewhere so I can cleanse the X-Com base with fire.
Of course they’re volunteering, they’re evolving into powerful machines of destruction.
Embrace the glorious metal evolution! \o/
Praise the omnissiah
\m/
I actually really struggled to decide if I wanted to mutilate one of my characters like that, even the ones with meaningless names. I don’t think I did, and then got distracted by other games.
Also, fuck the Exalt missions where they decide that you’re surrounded by 15 enemies in one turn. I really didn’t like them at all.
I do question the reasonableness of the reinforcements where waves of enemies suddenly surround your position, but at least they don’t ALSO get to fire.
I generally stay control the position I need to on about the third turn then it’s just a matter of keeping overone on overwatch/reloaded. I always run my best guys on extractions and they seldom miss so four guys run in and if they’re lucky there might be two heavily wounded guys left standing for me to clean up on my turn. If I need to move anyone I make sure the first one is my assault specialist with lightning reflexes to draw their fire.
I’ve got enough evidence to accuse a country of harbouring the Exalt HQ (I assume storming their HQ eliminates them as a threat so I can focus on the aliens) but there’s still three countries I haven’t eliminated and I have no idea what happens if i’m wrong so I’m going to wait it out.
For the record I gave converted two soldiers to MEC units. The first one I sent on that terrible mission where you have to call an air strike on the grounded tanker with the Chryssalid hive inside it. Unfortunately he didn’t make it – I had to sacrifice one team member to ensure the rest made it to extraction before the air strike and unfortunately he was the one with the most health and firepower. And also the lowest rank.
My second MEC unit has had a much more prosperous career, especially since I upgraded his suit and gave him a railgun. Can’t quite go toe-to-toe with a Sectopod though.
If you’re wrong about where Exalt is being harboured…
the country you accuse pitches a bitch fit and leaves the XCOM program. NO MOAR FUNDING FOR YOU.I figured mine out good and early, but ended up going for absolute certainty beyond a shadow of a doubt. My agent (I was using the one soldier for infiltration every time) ended up ranking up quite a bit from it. I rewarded her with a different coloured uniform on my otherwise black-and-white squad when Exalt was defeated.
Hah, I give all my dudes different colours. Ever since picking up the DLC I have like 32 tints to choose from.
It didn’t occur to me I could level characters by sending them on those covert ops, I’ve always been sending my top soldiers who have been Colonels most of the time.
As far as I can tell their rank/skills don’t have any bearing on the mission success/duration, just whether they’ll survive the firefight when you go to extract them.
But yeah, my squad’s usually a uniform colour. I just make sure all the hair colours/styles/voices are different.
I did that originally with my first playthrough (and also named them all after TAYbies) but this time around I can’t be bothered with the exception of one character I named for me, one I named for my wife, and one I named for my wife originally then renamed when she got made into the Assault class because my wife’s named character was assault class originally and she protested, insisting she should get to be a sniper. This character I renamed Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting and made blonde because it was the first female name that came to mind after catching up on The Big Bang Theory and also her hyphenated surname is kind of long and putting a long name in there amused me. Her default nickname of “Mustang” persists because I couldn’t think of anything more hilarious.
Other than that, I give them an armour tint that suits them and leave the names. I actually like building an attachment to my troops instead of artificially imposing one. Besides, if I named them after people I would probably feel compelled to spam everyone on Twitter informing them of their untimely demises like we were all doing a year ago. I killed Shiggy not once but twice because I felt bad he was wiped out so quickly with his girlfriend quickly became my best medic and gave him another try.
Eeep! I was browsing TAY while farming stuff in FFX and I got a call. Of course I’ve learnt my lesson and decided not to pick it up so dem interviewers don’t catch me off guard, so I just let it ring away.
They didn’t care enough to leave a voice mail, but they did call back later so s’all good. Seems like my re-worked Cover Letter is doing wonders 😉 @redartifice
This is an unpaid internship though but it’ll all help when getting a job. I did manage to get an interview with them though so I’m getting closer to a jerbbbb.
Although he did say on the phone “this was kind of just to see how to speak” hmm… subtle racism? Damn last name ruining my chances of getting a job! 😛
Not answering the phone is more likely ruining your chances of accepting a job!
Are unpaid internships legal in Australia? I’m not sure they are…
Edit: it’s tricky. If you’re getting trained and experience, it seems okay. If you’re doing work that benefits the employer, it’s illegal. http://www.fairwork.gov.au/Resources/fact-sheets/employer-obligations/Pages/internships-vocational-placements-and-unpaid-work
Fine line that’s easily abused.
No idea, but I’m literally doing nothing at the moment so anything to chuck on the Resume will help. I think it’s more a “get practical experience” kind of thing which seems to fit, but we’ll see.
In the long term it will help though. In the end the piece of paper you get from uni is just a formality. One of the biggest things employers look for is experience.
Change it to Tan-Smythe.
MR TAN
Yet some “Hotross” guy STILL didn’t know my ethnicity from that last name.
I just figured you were a cut Tarantino character.
Im sorry i dont look at the world through yellow coloured glasses
Man, you should have heard the things he said when he found out I wasn’t Caucasian.
He just needed to know if you spoke Asian. =P
Maybe he just thought it was a description?
Mr Australi-tan.
I think it was less likely to see if you spoke heavily accented or with poor english vocabulary but rather your general phone manner and engagement. I have a friend who my wife referred for a job at her company – she was still asleep when they called at 11am (which isn’t a huge problem, I mean, if it’s your day off whatever, right?) but she didn’t bother to make an effort once she realised what the call was about. Apparently (I’m hearing this third hand but this is what it sounded like) she lay in bed mumbling answers to the questions and hadn’t prepared any kind of response to fairly standard queries despite knowing she’d be called. In the end they didn’t offer her an interview and my wife actually got chewed out by the HR rep for such a lousy referral.
“How you speak” is unlikely to be connected with our surname and racial heritage, is what I’m saying.
He did say it kind of awkwardly though 😛
A pretty shitty HR person then. They know they need to be on the correct side of the law, so a decent HR person would never utter “how you speak”. They’d use the normal phrase “I wanted to see your phone manners” or something.
Change your last name to something like Blokeguy or Ausman and watch the jobs roll in.
Considering your True Name is not going to really tell people anything about your ethnicity, I would imagine that what he was trying to say is that they wanted to see how you handled yourself in a verbal context. i.e. a proper interview. That’s supposed to be the whole purpose of an interview – “will this person fit into the company and the role?”
Ooohhh. May 4th the cinemas are having a May the 4th be with you marathon. I might have to do that.
Well it is one day before my birthday. Not that I am suggesting anything.
…
*cough*
That could work.
And on May the 3rd they have the prequels!
You know, the ones with all the great characters, like Jar Jar Binks!
No? Anyone? D:
😛
Hot sauce loaded nachos and a can of Mother right before the movie starts?
I too like to live dangerously…
you are gonna have a great time in the theatre bathroom for the next hour buddy. But enjoy the ending of the movie, cause you arent seeing the start or the middle.
@cakesmith
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE
are you still around, i miss youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Facebook tells me he has been listening to music and watching movies.
THE POWER OF STALKER MEDIA
Windows Media Player has a “Fast playback” option. Sitting here blasting through the Stargazers album at awesome speeds. #MitigatingMonday
Do you mean Stargazers by the incredibly talented James Flamestar aka Pes from TAY fame?
you know the guy that also has Other Albums?
Is that the one?
Hope everybody had a pleasant weekend. Mine consisted mainly of more Doctor Who and Underworld movies. Kate Beckinsale, drooooool.
Currently tossing up between picking up Valkyria Chronicles or Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky.
Hmm, decisions.
Why not both?
Because seriously that’s a hard choice, both are fantastic games.
If I get both right now I wont finish either 🙁 Leaning more towards Valkyria Chronicles. The gameplay sounds fun and the watercoloured art style looks great.
VC, then. You can power through it at a moderate pace.
Having played Valkyria Chronicles I can give it a recommend. Not a strong one, as the gameplay is fun but has it’s flaws.
The watercolour thing does become annoying as you progress, mainly because the “Pencil etching.” That helps to give it it’s style is set as a parrallax background. Although this does not seem annoying in stills. When the scenes are animated it becomes frustrating and detracts from the art style. I’m mid way through it now, and that and some dodgy AI, would be my only gripes.
Interesting, thanks for the insight. Its only 20 something dollars at JB so I’ll pick it up this arvo 🙂
Kate Beckinsale is leader of one of the Elder Scrolls Online factions.
Just sayin’.
What!? Seriously?
Have you played any of the other Atelier games? As I understand it the general consensus is that Atelier Ayesha is the better of the two Dusk games so far, aside from the fact it’s dub-only and the dub only voices a fraction of what the JP release had voiced.
But yeah, if you’re going in completely new, you might not get what you expect from Atelier. They’re not JRPGs in the traditional sense, though they have those elements. And tonally they’re very light and wholesome.
Valkyria meanwhile is an amazing game that everyone should play. Including you. >:(
No I haven’t, truth be told the last JRPG I played was FFX, wow. I just watched a few videos from Ayesha but I think I like the look of Escha and Logy better. I like how ones more tailored to weapons while the other is more tailored to….something else (forgotten).
Do you know what they did better in Ayesha?
I don’t really know what to expect to be honest. I haven’t played a JRPG for years and I liked the slight steampunkishness this looked to have. I could do with something completely different. My attention span struggles with games these days :/
Valkyria should be coming in the mail shortly 🙂
Atelier games aren’t JRPGs in the strict sense. The setup is that the main character (who in every game except the Atelier Iris series and Escha & Logy is a girl) inherits an alchemy atelier and must run it. She usually has an epic personal quest as well which serves as motivation, for example, Ayesha is looking for her sister who disappeared one day, Totooria (Atelier Totori) is trying to reconnect with her mother by learning to be an alchemist, Meruru (Atelier Meruru) is a princess trying to turn the fortunes of her kingdom around through alchemy.
In Escha & Logy’s case, they’re both alchemists attached to an Alchemy Research & Development group in a small village near some ancient ruins, and they work together to try and improve the life of the village and explore said ruins and uncover its secrets. So that’s one of the reasons why people say it’s not quite as good – the driving plot element isn’t as strong at the outset. Also I have been told that the fact you pick one of the two protagonists at the start and they play differently (Escha by the way is pronounced Es-ka – ‘and’ in Japanese is ‘to’ so the game’s name is Escha to Logy no Atelier) kind of makes it feel a bit unfocused. Escha’s route plays like a traditional Atelier game and Logix’s route is a more combat-oriented JRPG style thing, along the lines of the Atelier Iris games.
The way the games work though is pretty simple. You’re given a series of milestones where you need to create some items. You usually don’t know the recipes for them, so you need to find the recipes. You also need to find the raw ingredients, which involves adventuring expeditions to gather those bits and pieces, either from specific spots, or from defeating monsters who drop them. The main character is usually physically weak but has some magic through alchemy, however you generally will hire companions to go adventuring with you to help with monsters and stuff.
Going on expeditions takes time – travelling to and from a zone may take a day or two. Additionally, sitting in your Atelier and crafting stuff takes time, and also costs HP so after crafting a bit you need to rest, which also takes time. As the calendar advances different events will happen, and you usually have a deadline by which you need to deliver certain items in a certain quantity and quality. As the games have gone on the time management element has gotten more relaxed but it’s still there. Also as you explore various locations and do various events as they unlock, the story will unfold and the characters will be developed.
I guess you could maybe compare the time management thing to Persona but they’re very different. Also tonally the Atelier games are a lot less dark and brooding and are a lot lighter and fluffier, though some of them have emotional bits. They’re also criminally ignored by the ‘no positive female characters in games’ brigade, because they always have strong female lead characters (even in the Iris games where there are two protagonists) who are written as actual girls and not unisex / men with boobies like a lot of female characters in games, and who are actually capable and talented, aren’t constantly the damsel in distress waiting to be bailed out of trouble by some dude, and aren’t constantly going moon-eyed over some pretty guy somewhere either.
I like them overall but I find the time management element kind of stressful and I like stronger plots, so Gust’s other series (Ar Tonelico & upcoming Ar no Surge) are much more my thing.
Hey, was there a SATAY meat? @benny ?? Did that all go down my friend?
No one could make it
Was a little short notice for me, am keen to try again though
IT WAS A GLORIOUS MEAT OF TWO! Jocon and I had beers, snags, played some Super Mario 3D World and that is all!
Sounds alright though! Keen if you try again some time with about a weeks notice! Heaps of public holidays coming up.
Anyone else considering getting this?
http://www.ozgameshop.com/3ds-games/harvest-moon-a-new-beginning-game-3ds
I love harvest moon and apparently you can trade with your friends in this one.
Maybe. I thought previous games looked good, but I never played one. If the reviews are good, I’ll consider getting it.
It’s kind of like animal crossing but with an actual stop point.
Oh thank goodness. In Animal Crossing I always get bored and my town gets overrun with weeds D:
At this stage i’m pretty sure the weeds have taken over and i’m kinda scared to open up the game 😛
Harvest moon has it’s own day system and doesn’t run on real time like animal crossing so this isn’t an issue.
… you’re making me want to spend money, yet i have no idea what the hell this game is about XD
Let me sell it to you.
Llamas. You have pet llamas.
@scree…. DAMN YOU!!!
lucky for me it’s my birthday soon \o/
Sorry D=
Hmm…might have to look into that at some point.
If I had a 3DS, for sure, although I did enjoy the Rune Factory branch of Harvest Moon more once I started playing it. Still, anything to scratch that farming itch, hey?
What do you mean I should see a doctor?
If you need to see a doctor, then what’s my solution?
I have quite a few harvest moons and rune factories. I frickin’ love it
Well they’re telling me there’s no such thing as a “farming itch” sooooooo…
But yeah, ever since I played Harvest Moon on SNES I was totally hooked. Even though they’re all the same they appeal to my sense of OCD. “MUST. MAXIMISE. PINEAPPLE. PROFITS.”
strawberries are where it’s at. yo.
I’m reaching back in the memory banks to Back To Nature (PS) where Pineapple got 7500 profit per bag. Strawberry were a measly 840 back then.
Strawberries have always been the most profitable of the normal fruits on the Nintendo based ones.
Pffft.
Golden Mayonnaise, makin’ this economy my bitch.
Oh, you’re one of those farmers. I see.
What? Lovingly cares for his chickens?
Trading? Turnips for all!
That’s literally all I know about those games
Turnips aren’t worth much. Plus I think with trading it may be to help others who may not be as acquainted with the game.
And there’s llamas.
When you see one, do you have to shout Look out, there are llamas!?
Um, no, you have to pet and feed them
Oh well I suppose that’s okay as long as you’re careful around their beak
If it doesn’t like it, it’ll make a sad face at you.
Now I want a llama
@aliasalpha Sorry
When I first arrived you were all such jerks, but now I’ve come to looooove your quirks.
Hey! @dc lied to us through song. I hate when people do that!
Drat, beaten to the punch.
He lied to us through song! I hate when people do that!
Maggie with her eyes so bright,
Marge with hair by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Lisa can philosiphise,
Bart’s adept at spinning lies
Homer’s a delightful fella,
Sorry ’bout the salmonella!
@dc with his eyes so bright
@blaghman with hair by Frank Lloyd Wright
@rocketman can philosophize
@shane’s adept at spinning lies
@sughly’s a delightful fella
Sorry ’bout the salmonella
Shane’s a liar? Is that how he pissed off the tinfoil hat brigade?
“Adept at spinning fiction” didn’t really fit.
Hotross gets by on looks,
Shane’s adept at selling books.
Or Freeze wants to beat up crooks.
If I was adept at lying, they wouldn’t have even known to get upset… maybe I’m a terrible liar 😛
I’ll take it
Is this some weird Arcade Fire reference?
So, Desolation of Smaug is out this week on BD, and I was also considering picking up either Lego: Hobbit or Lego: Marvel. I liked Lego: LOTR, but I’m not sure if DoS & Lego Hobbit together might be too much LOTR…
Lego: Marvel is really fun. My only real gripe with it is lack of online multiplayer.
Online multi would take it from good to amazing… but it is damn great as well, one of the few games the capture “dat superhero feel”… plus Iron Man Hulk Buster… that is all 😛
Flying around as regular Iron Man feels amazing. At least, until I unlocked Thor…
I still like swinging around as Spiderman… Might not be very quick but damn it’s entertaining… I am disappointed they didn’t incorporate Hulk’s long distance jumps into it
Remember back when we played Champions Online? You had the mega jump and kept outpacing my flying character…until I swapped to the grapple gun 😀
EDIT: I may take a look and see if my old characters still exits on that game…
…. DAMN… YOU… @RIZE ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
i was actually thinking about that game because i recently watched Avengers in preparation of Captain America: Winter Soldier… and now totally want to get back into itSERIOUSLY DAMN YOU, NO DOW2 TONIGHT BECAUSE I WILL BE TOO BUSY DOWNLOADING AND PATCHING THE CRAP OUT OF CHAMPIONS ONLINE 😛
Haaaaa!
@rize soooo…. What’re you doing tonight sailor? *wiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
Downloading Champs far, far too slowly.
Think I might just put this around TAY and see if anyone can help out. Hopefully some Haitaku participants are floating around.
I apologize on the vagary, but I’m trying to recall a text based game I played on the A500. It also featured pull down stills of the scenes throughout the story. As far as I recall you were an ex broker or sharetrader caught up in some sort of plot. I never progressed far in it and was hoping to have a crack at it again.
From memory you started in your office and your car was parked beneath the building. if you walked out of the carpark you were killed in a traffic accident. There was also a bomb in your car and I recall breaking into a suitcase with a scewdriver.
Any help would be appreciated!
Wait, I know this one. I played Haitaku. It’s The Dig!
Sorry, can’t help you. Sounds pretty cool though.
Touche Sir! One of these days I’ll actually have to play The Dig so that I know what you’re on about 🙂
Me too!
Ha!
I hope someone can remember this, I’m intrigued now!
What year? Roughly?
Also, calling @dc – between the two of us I reckon we can figure this one out.
Whew tough one. I would have plaved it somewhere between 88 and 92 at a guess. Obviously it may have been out beforehand. I also recall if you tried to walk into the trading floor, your character got a headache and wouldn’t stay in the room and you’d automatically wind up outside. The briefcase may have had some sort of papers in it and I’m almost sure it was in the glove box of the car.
GOT IT
“Corruption”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_(interactive_fiction)
http://www.giantbomb.com/corruption/3030-4573/
EDIT: Should say I love these search out missions I occasionally get from you questgivers here in TAY.
Bingo that’s it!!! Cheers mate, now to find out where I can acquire a copy
I thought Corporation may have been in the title but I know thats not right.
My other comment is being moderated, but just to let you know I found it – it’s called Corruption, released in 1988.
Damn boi! well done
Looks like my reply got caught up too. But thanks heaps mate it’s been driving me nuts. Off to find a copy somewhere!
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/corruption-fd
You are welcome! 🙂
Wow. This looks really awesome. I think I’m gonna have to get this. Thanks!
On the topic of Civ 5 and religion, when do I get to name my religion? I have decided to take my focus away from military, and go on to religion instead. I must spread the word of Kieth!
When you found it. You found a Pantheon first, then the religion, by generating Faith
I already have a Pantheon and about 19 faith. I chose the option that passively expands my borders faster.
Next great prophet you get will let you found
I played the original Civ V and fairly sure it wasn’t an option. Is it an expansion thing?
Yup, added in Gods & Kings.
Spent my Saturday finishing Fallout NV. Had a blast. Definitely one of my favourite games ever. Would love to go back and play things out differently, but it is a pretty big time commitment (I should have been smarter with my saves). The only faction I didn’t really explore was the White Glove society. Did I miss out on anything exciting?
Sunday I spent watching the entire series of The Inbetweeners. What a great British comedy. Both low brow and witty – it makes me wonder why it stopped at season 3 (+ a movie).
I should probably give Fallout NV a try… been sitting in my list for aaaages because i made the stupid mistake of thinking it’d be a good idea to finish Fallout 3 first for some reason
Do it! The graphics have aged a bit but still a damn great game. Definitely worth your time.
My Fallout NV playthrough had been halted by the fact that it stutters like a mofo after saving on PS3.
Will definitely work out a way to transfer my save across to PC at some point.
I attempted playing about a year or two ago and then all my saves corrupted and I could no longer get into the game. I tried about a hundred things with no love.
I decided to google to see if there were new patches or anything and I came across a post from a guy having the same problem as me who turned off autosave and always started a new game, and then loaded the other saves from there. Worked like a dream!
Fallout NV should be going for $15 on steam and should be much less during next sales. Maybe thats an alternative?
I probably will grab it, but my gaming slate is pretty full atm. And I have Skyrim 🙂
GOLD
The White Glove Society IIRC
is just a bunch of cannibals. There’s a mission where some cowboy in the casino sends you to look for his son who was supposedly kidnapped and being held for ransom. I think you rescue him from their meat locker then burst in on the dining room and expose them for serving human meat.It’s been a long time so I probably missed some details
They’re mostly former cannibals, but there’s a faction within them that are backsliding which you get the chance to assist or stymieThat actually sounds kind of awesome. Explains how that old dude in a cave I randomly came across was probably involved in.
I just updated and started a new character in Guild Wars 2. I blame @Rize
I need to get back into that, Thoruk needs to shoot and destroy some bad guys again!
I think @novacascade said it had Xenobladesque elements which has me interested :O
The power of the banado!
Reward for exploration was the biggest one
What race/class?
Currently my lvl 14 Human Mesmer is getting the most attention.
level 3 human Necro. Human was the only race I didn’t have. =P
That’ll work! Give me a shout if you wanna group up some time.
@sernobulus @rize Other people started playing this again? (!zomg!)
I may be interested in grouping up sometime … I think I have a char around similar levels… somewhere.
I’d like to pose a interesting question- don’t worry, it’s nothing that’ll make you go “oh saturday” or anything of the sort.
Oldest game you’ve had in your possession that you haven’t finished? (As in the game you’ve owned the longest without finishing.)
Mine would be.. Super Mario Land for the game boy. Might also be some point-n’-click adventure games for the PC that are older, but they elude me at the moment.
Deus Ex 2 for the PC.
But only because I regularly give away games from all other platforms.
But if I owned The Dig, the answer would be The Dig!
Whatever happened to that Dig running joke? Did it die out along with that other segment on here that I forget the name of?
Sort of.
I got lazy, and other people regularly guessed games of their choice, so it kind of died a little in a gone-but-not-forgotten type way.
You’ll dig it up eventually
Super Metroid.
hmmmm… Zelda Link’s Awakening… not because i didn’t want to or haven’t tried…
But (and this is going to fuel the jokes) my original game boy was bought on a holiday in Germany… and Germans had a weird thing for translating EVERY GOD DAMN GAME… hence my version of Link’s Awakening is in German… so i could never understand what to do or where to go :\ i think i completed up to dungeon 3?
Here is a translation.
Oh, Saturday.
I’m- I’m sorry, I’m not normally that quick, it’s just it’s been a long time and you’re so attractive..
Doom 3.
Console would have to be Shadow Hearts 3 on the PS2.
Kickin’ it old skool, I never finished Return to Zork.
Super mario Bros. on the NES. >_>
Duck Hunt on the NES… cuz I don’t think there was a “Finish” to begin with 😛
Ooh, interesting.
Battletoads was there for a long time, would’ve got that somewhere around 94 I think but didn’t beat it til 2010 or something. Super Mario Kart I would’ve got around a similar time actually, but didn’t even beat 100cc Star Cup til some time around when Super Circuit came out (2000?). But iirc I only got silver for it, and came back again years later to end up getting gold and unlocking 150cc, which I didn’t even know was in the game at all. I always thought it was a new addition to MK64. So then I went and fought my way through that too 😛 That would’ve only been a couple of years ago, maybe 2011. Actually I think Bubsy might be around the same too, got that again in the mid 90s but only beat it a few years back. I’d hit the last level before, but didn’t beat the boss. Also looking at my shelf, I’m not sure if I ever managed to beat Wario Blast, that was one of the first games I got with my Game Boy way back when but I might have only beaten that a few years back too.
God damn, the more I think about it the more the same kind of pattern pops up. I had Pinball Quest for NES since fairly early on, I only beat that a few years back too.
I think the standout from that lot though would have to be Twilight Princess. I haven’t played that since January 25, 2007. I restored the third light spirit at Lake Hylia, but then never got back to it at all. And still haven’t started Skyward Sword because of it. Oh and still need to get around to Spirit Tracks too, which I’ve had since it came out. Same with LBW 😛
Madden ’93. I own 14 copies. I haven’t finished any of them. Sooooooo 14 copies x owned for 10 years = 140 years of non-completion.
Well I still have a whole batch of atari 2600 games in my cupboard so one of those I guess
Apart from games that dynamically generate scenarios and therefore have no real end (e.g.: F117-A Stealth Fighter, Spy vs. Spy) or arcade coin-ops with killscreens and no real narrative (e.g.: Pacman, Missile Command, etc.) or games I rented (back when that was still a thing) the oldest game I’ve owned that never finished was probably Super Mario Bros. I never got past world 6, and I think most of the time I got THERE with Warp pipes.
Granted I never had an NES as a kid so the longest I ever spent playing it was maybe half and hour at a friend’s places up until I got a Wii and downloaded it from the virtual console eshop. Since I no longer own a Wii and didn’t own it back in the 80s on a real console, does that even still count?
So, no more cheating, no more waffling. The oldest game disc CURRENTLY on my actual shelf and not something I picked up from GOG or Steam for a dollar within the last year (like most of my PC library) that I have NEVER finished… Shenmue II (Xbox). I kept it because it’s compatible with the 360 but I never got around to playing it and probably never will. I got several hours into it but didn’t really “get it” so I barely remember the story behind it. The fact that there’ll never be a Shenmue III demotivates me from wanting to play it. If there ever is a Shenmue III they’ll probably do HD rereleases of Shenmue 1 & 2 since most people will have forgotten them by then and have no compatible working consoles to play them on. It’s not even in a nice case because my original copy I traded in before having regrets and picking up the only copy EB had really cheap a year later came in a generic case with no cover art or manual or bonus disc with the cutscenes explaining Shenmue I’s story (that I never watched with moy original anyway).
Sad really. I should bin it. It’s just taking up space, along with Voodoo Vince and Jet Set Radio Future.
I’m going to say Bugdom, because it was the first game I can remember asking for, and getting for I assume a birthday. Couldn’t bear the second last level because I sucked at the platforming, and despite using cheats to bypass that, I couldn’t beat the final boss. No idea if I still have any of the game I owned before it, since they would have mostly been Dad’s.
Crash Bandicoot.
It was my second game too if I recall.
I’ve always wanted to finish it, but my disc got scratched so never could, and these days I don’t have the time for it 🙁
Final Fantasy 12 maybe?Solar Striker on Gameboy
Goldeneye. N64.
Oldest game I’ve *had* in my possession that I’ve never finished that actually had an end state?
Dark Castle for Macintosh. We had earlier games but they were stuff like Airbourne where you just faced waves of enemies until you were overwhelmed, in true Cold War fashion.
EDIT: I just realized I’m wrong on this. We owned all the Zork games but I was about three years old when we got them so I didn’t start playing them until the early 90s when I could actually read. I’ve finished 1 and 2 but not 3, Zero or Beyond (though I came pretty close in Beyond Zork which was a rad game)
Probably a bunch of video games from my childhood. It would be either Croc for the Playstation1, or some gameboy clour game. I got close to beating Castlevania: Belmont’s Revenge for the GBC not too long ago. I’m not too sure whether I recieved my Playstation or my Game Boy Colour first.
Who’s the dude in the PAX day 3 cosplay article in the Half Life getup, why do I know his face?
@doc_what ?
Hahaha I was thinking the same thing. And what Greenius said 😛
Gordon Freeman.
“here is all the shirtless Zac Efron you could possibly want”
Oh popsugar there isnt enough digital media storage in the world
*click*
Oh god that Homeworld Remastered Collectors ed…. SO MUCH WANT
Guys guys! I just learnt to stop living rigidly by the rules and let my creative side flow!
Let’s all go and buy pre built sets with very specific instructions and pieces that aren’t any good for anything but that set YAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYyyyyyyyyy!!!!…… Wait.
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME
*head desk* and now that’s stuck
Everything is cool when you’re part of a team!
You can go buy lego that is just a series of different coloured and sized blocks.
I need to see the Lego Movie …
I identified with Emmett so much.
That said I would stab a man in the neck for one of those $1000 Millennium Falcon sets.
Actually the one in the movie is the slightly smaller version:http://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Millennium-Falcon-7965
which retails for about $249.99
The one you’re thinking of is the Ultimate Collectors (set 10179)
and because of it’s now rarity goes for anywhere from $4000 to $6000
Yeeeaaah i’m a LEGO nerd 😛
Edit – just realised i should have spoilered stuffs, SORRY
Linky to what i’m talking about
AND I WANT OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE
I’ll take one!
You pay for it.
It’s currently on my “fuck-the-world-i’m-buying-this-one-day” list… i’m half way there, i currently own one of these 😛
and one of these
They were on special when I was in target the other day. unfortunately they only had the droid one left.
@redartifice
That’s a shame cause they are pretty damn great 😛
I only have the Falcon and X-Wing for now, but will definitely pick up the Tie-Interceptor and Star Destroyer as well
Was this the version of the interceptor you were after? Pretty sure that’s the version a friend of mine has an unopened spare of
@aliasalpha… erhm nope, BUT ZOMGWTFBBQ that thing is COOL… i now want that as well XD
@aliasalpha god dammit I clicked the link then clicked the UCS link and found out they made a UCS B-Wing and now I’ll have to buy it. 🙁
FWIW, they’ve cut down the pieces that are specific to a set
So I think I’m about halfway through Act V of Diablo 3 and I must say the story is a bit better than the main plot. I still think the reliance on finding scraps and notes and having a quick audio log is a terrible way of driving a narrative.
I think the biggest improvement to the storytelling is that the incidental characters now have voice actors who aren’t comically bad. Them again, I eel like if you’re looking for story in Diablo then you’re probably looking in the wrong place.
i never fully understood what the issue was with D3… i mean yeah it’s not mindblowingly fantastic but it felt very “Diablo” in terms of lore…
I mean in D2 there was a boss that wasn’t even properly explained other then “OH by the way, this guy”
Act IIYeah I get the issue with the boss in D2 but I actually kind of prefer it that way rather then when the bad guys
taunt you incessantly and believe you so inferior that whatever you do could not possibly stop them. Azmodan was definitely the worst offender here but I felt that Diablo was much more terrifying in the build up in D2 because of his absence during all of Act IV. I agree that Diablo was never great in the game for the story but I’m a big believer in discovering story through the world rather than having it rammed in your face (demons and angels casually leaving their diaries behind is so stupid).Duriel kind of made sense as a boss to me because it was kind of like “hah, gotcha the bad guys are one step ahead and I’m here to slow you down.” I prefer that as opposed to a boss actually telling me that they’re there to slow me down while Diablo does his thing (Act IV in D3).
Fair points actually i can fully understand that… as i said i never felt like it was the GREATEST STORY EVAH!!!111one!!! but it wasn’t terrible… it just… was 😛
I never knew anyone had a beef with Duriel like that.
I just figured Diablo left him there to deal with any meddling good guys following him like you say.
I guess when you look at it, he was the odd boss out in D2. The rest of the bosses were consistently referenced throughout the quests in the various acts and you were given some pretty heavy forewarning about who was likely to be the end of act boss.
I personally had no issue but I guess some people were just “who is this no-name?” (Also doesn’t help that Blizzard lore in game is rather sparse and they tend to flesh it out in the books).
Diablo 3 vanilla:
Diablo 3 expansion:
You know what? After reading this, I’m convinced.
http://www.dorkly.com/article/61062/every-version-of-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-ruined-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles
Edit: Oh man, I remember that Coming Out Of Our Shells album. I owned it, in fact. I thought it was the greatest goddamned thing in the world.
Every version of the Turtles was terrible, even the original animated series. Tried watching it recently and it’s just so… 90’s. So hard to watch without cringing.
Still love it through my nostalgia goggles but man…
I still have big love for the original 1990 film, and some love for its sequel.
Haven’t seen anything TMNT after 1993 except for that CGI 2007 film… though that may have been a pretty good decision 😛
They are terrible but I can’t help but still love them, Shredder is the biggest whinging crybaby ever.
(I may own almost 60 hours of it on dvd :P)
This is why I’m not upset at them making a movie out of it the way I was about the Transformers stuff, since there are large elements of Transformers that are actually legitimately good.
PIZZA POWER!
“No, no. You can’t say that these days. Think of the childrens’ health! How about they say… ‘Pumpkin power!’ or ‘Pizza in moderation power!’ – that’s a better message.”
hey they were thinking of the children back then, that’s why Michaelangello got a shitty grappling hook for most of the 90s cartoon, cause kids in the UK had easy access to nunchuks and were hurting each other a lot.
Well, since pizza is classified as a vegetable, it must be healthy!
I have a Leonardo figure from 1990, so I guess that point about the merchandise was pretty accurate. Mind you, I’d love to check out those Image comics, I don’t mind a bit of dark.
By your powers combined, I am DONATELLO!
GOOOO TURTLES!
-Hums theme from X-Men TAS-
Erggh, I just started considering using maths to optimise my Kerbal Space Program stuff last night. Last night I dropped a set of fuel tanks from an orbital launch setup and found it went about 5% further. This isn’t how I play games though, surely I can solve everything by stepping bigger rockets to everything, right?
How complete is that game at this point? It’s currently still sitting on my list of “might buy it when it’s not early-access”.
I spent like $25 on it and it just refuses to run. Just white screens and stops. Tried looking for a solution and all I found were a bunch of people with the same problem.
You seem to have really shit luck with PC games.
It’s getting there. Way more features than when I last played it, has a career move now which is pretty cool, all about doing research to get science to unlock cooler stuff to do more research with. So assuming it runs I’d recommend it.
I told my friend that I don’t buy early access games so he gifted it to me
Tried out a little bit but rather complicated to get into. A number of tutorial missions now so working through them
After you turn 24 you get worse and worse at Video Games
http://www.geekosystem.com/24-worse-at-games/
Thats my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
I’ve found this is true of many things in life. What you were able to tackle with nothing more than exuberance and determination in your early-20s and earlier, you can no longer brute force the way you used to.
The trade-off is that wisdom and experience lend you a degree of finesse and cunning that youthful you simply couldn’t achieve. “Hahaha, too slow, gramps!” is the young man’s laugh. “Hahaha, and you thought you were being clever coming up with something new,” is the old man’s laugh.
And while you’re laughing at him he takes your job, woman and dignity and you are too old and slow to do anything about it.
Except be smug. Pretty much.
(Edit: Actually, the woman-stealing is usually the older man’s game. Younger women steal husbands.)
Bollocks to that, 39 in a fortnight and I’m better now at games than I ever have been
Isn’t 24 about the age most people start working full time?
Well I guess that would explain why I’ve continued to get better 😛
I used to think it was cos I got old, then I realized that games have just got shittier and less fun over the years. Complicated gameplay plus wankers online = not as much fun as jumping on some random quake server for a bash!
The only thing I got worse at after 24 was eating. I used to be able to eat a whole pizza, man. What happened to me?! 😛
GAH! For the 5th time today I clicked in the wrong image and ended up in last weeks tay… this may take some getting used to… damn you reflexes!
How was everyones weekend? I used my week between oncall weeks to get drunk, watch the lego movie and go to the easter show 🙂
And buy $80 of tea….
That’s an awfully small amount of money to spend on tea.
Did you only get a handful of different varieties?
3 jars of different teas.
I’m disappointed in you.
I, uh, don’t know what just happened. I had to go to the doctor’s office to view the results of my blood test and and stool sample. (Let’s all be mature about that) Apart from clocking a single point of hemoglobin in my blood than average, I’m completely fine. My mother deduced on the spot that my sickness was anxiety related. The doctor recommended therapy, and I agreed on the spot. My mother was a bit confused as to why I was suddenly so open to therapy with only a few seconds to process the idea. The doctor recommended this great website that no one has ever mentioned called headspace.
Holy shit, everything fell into place and I didn’t even do anything. I am stunned that this happened. I expected the process to be a tad more grueling.
I’m shocked that my mother reacted so well to the anxiety thing. I have yet to mention depression, but I’ll cross that hurdle when I get to it.
And now my mother has given me the home phone so that I may personally talk to headspace. This almost too much to process at once. I think I’ll need to prepare a speech first.
“I’d like to thank the academy for this tremendous honour…”
You better prepare another stool sample.
I called them, and the receptionist told me to await a call from them later this afternoon. I immediately thought of the “9 to 5” scene from The Simpsons episode “Homer vs New York.”
… SUCCESS \o/
seriously glad to hear it man!
Mental illnesses are not to be trivialised, so it’s good you’re finally on the right path
I am very happy to hear that you are on your first step to dealing with your issues.
Also hehehehehe stool sample
I gave a stool sample once, the doctor looked confused when I handed over a jar with some bits of wood in
Progress!
Hopefully you can now get the help you were after.
BTW, what’s your post-year 12 plan?
Go to TAFE, do a Certificate III and above. I plan to get into Computer Networking, but I’m keeping my options open in case that option falls through. In the waiting room of the doctor’s office, my mother asked if I plan to do full-time TAFE, or part-time TAFE + work. I’m leaning towards the former.
Not Uni? Also, just be aware that a Cert III for some IT stuff isn’t real high
When I was talking about being stressed about my studies, I made it seem like I was doing Stage 3 Ultra-Specialist Maths. But I’m doing the Stage 1 easy stuff because I’m not smart enough. 😛
I am fully aware that the Cert III isn’t worth jack, and plan to work up to a Diploma in I.T.
I don’t know if they offer it elsewhere but my TAFE & Uni had a merged program where TAFE stuff counted as uni credit so I pretty much started uni at the middle of second year.
If you have basic computer competence, you’d be right starting with a Cert IV, 3 is really noob level stuff
An associate’s degree, right? The thing with the Cert III is that I was doing it last year. I was in a school program where I would spend one day at work experience and one day at TAFE, working on a Cert III. The problem is, they cancelled the program last year, and I had to choose a lesser course. I was only able to do a few TAFE units last year. My current course is a school-based traineeship, where I work two days a week in pursuit of a Cert II. I was very angry by this turn of events, and I still am to this day. It makes sense to do the rest of the units after I finish school.
Not sure what the correct term for it is, I was doing the thing as it was being invented so it was just called a merged degree/diploma at the time.
It might be worth nipping down to TAFE with records of what subjects you did and ask what level of credit you get for them, some of the Cert IV stuff I did was very general things like introduction to databases/word processing etc that is probably in the III as well
Woo, treatment! Bonus points for not involving electrocution or yoghurt!
Most important tip though, 100% honesty at all times with a psych, even if its something that will piss off your mum and she’s sitting right there next to you, it’s the time it’s got to be said.
That’s real groovy.
It probably helps a LOT that she thinks it was her idea. This way you’re agreeing with her (in her mind).
It’s…SO…PINK!
I like it.Had an interesting weekend. Very interesting indeed.
Didn’t get to play as much FFX as I’d hoped, which is a shame, but hopefully this week will be better!
In early / late prep stage for going out on Wednesday. I want it to be a night to remember, ie lots of fun, lots of drinking, and two full hours of drag! 😀
Maybe looking at applying for a position at EB Games / JB Hi-Fi too, if anyone has any tips or tricks to get employed by them 😉
Oh, and this is my first time writing about my weekend, so apologies if it’s boring (which it is, but meh), but everyone else does it and I like to fit in, makes me feel more involved :3
Don’t go into EBgames or JB sounding like a nerd. sound like a confident customer service dude who knows games.
Also for JB you need to wear something ridiculous and/or have a fake sleeve tat.
Probably not do it while drunk and/or in drag…
Why does everyone think I do drag, haha?!?!
I’m going to a drag show, not doing drag! 😛
I don’t have the physique or bone structure for drag :'(
Hey, I respect your decision to crossdress, if that’s what you’re into, man.
Well you said 2 hours OF drag rather than 2 hours WATCHING drag, to me saying of in that context implies action rather than observation.
Nonetheless, I still suspect that EB or JB might be slightly less likely to employ you if you rock up dressed as RuPaul, especially if pissed at the time.
Both stores want sales. They don’t give a fuck about game knowledge mostly. Literally:
so what’s your experience? “Selling x, y, z, a, b, c.”
Anything else? “I also sold d, e, f. Sometimes g. I was the top seller in store of most of those”
Okay, now before we finish up, is there anything else you want to mention? “Yeah, I play video games and I’m pretty good at them, Mario is a pretty cool guy.”
That hasn’t been my experience with EB in a lot of cases, though I rarely go in. Possibly helps that I know what I’m looking for and the things I go there to do (pick up preordered game CEs) mark me as someone that’s probably not a Codblops dudebro that has no idea about anything else.
My post comes from having various friends work in both stores, as well. YMMV. 😛
Elvenking are pretty rad.
@dc Violins!
I just came across Nightcore on YouTube.
I…I don’t know what to think. So many conflicting thoughts of shame and awesomeness and self loathing.
Awfulsome.
Where did you get this word? Can I borrow it? Like… indefinitely? Until I actually think it’s mine, then get weirded out and indignant when you ask for it back?
Best. Oil Magnate. Ever.
Sometimes when I take a dump I pull a muscle in my leg. Right upper thigh, front. Nothing unbearable, just uncomfortable. Also, I don’t mind the new pinkTAY.
That is my Monday contribution.
This would’ve been a great pageget 🙁
Nah. I’ve had too many lately. 😛
@redartifice Do you want to do any Google Hangouts testing tonight prior to retrying tomorrow night for Numenera so if you do still have issues we can troubleshoot it? Or at least try to..?
Cheers, that’s a good idea. I might try to fire up a hangout and see if it will install the plugin first, and then if it won’t work after that I’ll try a call.
I’ll be on tonight to help you test if you’d like, just let me know if you need me.
So the liberals have decided that all pensions must be cut.
Why can’t they cut the baby bonus? I know it’s helpful, but if you can’t afford to have kids, you probably shouldn’t. The baby bonus is still a relatively new thing and it has encouraged a few people to have them simply for money. I don’t really know how they can do that.
The baby bonus has already been cut. It doesn’t exist any more… as of (I think) around 2 years ago.
Nowadays, there’s paid parental leave, which is salary maintenance for working women. Non-working women get nothing.
That I never understood. Hey you can easily afford it? Have some money. You’re struggling? Fuck off.
The fact the more you make the more you get bewilders me.
Still, how can they afford that, but not afford to help those who actually rely on them?
Things are hard enough as it is and they’re just going to get harder.
Oh right, I forgot that the liberals think that Gas and electricity prices will drop once the Carbon tax is scrapped. They have to be morons.
Oh, you know what else they should scrap? MP’s benefits. Put them on a pension like wage and maybe they’ll understand.
They also think privatising our, gas, water electricity, telecomms & god knows what else is the way to go to make everything cheaper :/
Not to mention improve quality through the magic of competition!!
Oh yeah, totally!
So competitive, so much so Origin Energy are the cheapest in my area! Along with every other shit provider heh.
Have you ever thought of changing your energy provider? You know, to one of the other ones who charge exactly the same?
Hahaha.. Yeah, and it appears NSW has one of the highest KWh rates too :/ It’s bs!
They definitely don’t think that. They think that by pulling the carbon tax they can get more kickbacks from the power and mining industries who will continue to raise their prices regardless.
In fairness, it’s less a matter of not being able to afford to and more a matter of not wanting to. They’d be just as happy if we all died so they could say they were spending less money and then save even more by sacking almost everyone at Centrelink (many of whom would also go on to die)
I was under the impression that the employer must pay the ma-/paternity leave, not the State.
Isn’t that the model the Liberals & National Party live by though..? No tax breaks until a certain point in your income and then give all the easy earner high rollers a nice tax break cause they’re doing it rough and can’t get that new BMW, Mercedes or something more luxurious every year? :/
My old boss & his partner were Liberal supporters for this exact reason, and it really pissed me off cause they thought the people under them deserved to be taxed more and have to pay more for every day essentials..
They would have a completely different opinion if they had to live on Welfare.
We have to save up for stuff. For example, the gas heater we had stopped working and was only realsing gas. It was dangerous, so we have to use a small heater that doesn’t really work. Our kitchen cupboards are falling apart and we can’t afford to fix them, even though they really need replacing. Even though we have to pay house payment son the mortgage, we are doing okay. There are people out there that can’t even afford to buy meat any more.
Agreed Scree, it’s hard living on welfare especially when some necessity’s are just so expensive. Like power, water & phone.. Ugh. If they were all gov’t controlled like they all once were i’m sure we wouldn’t be paying anywhere upto 4 or 5 times more like we are now. Was only less than 10 years ago our power bill was a quarter of what it is now.. and about 20% of what we pay quarterly now is made up with GST & service fees, it’s unfair and unnecessary. There was once a time we were told things like power would never incur GST, now they do, funny how things are never how they are.
There was once a time when we were told the GST was dead, gone scrapped and would never ever be part of liberal policies ever again…
Ha yes, or how about the one where we were told we would never have a goods & services tax.. or maybe I am thinking that is the same thing..?
@virus__
Probably the exact same thing, this one: john howard warning
Yeah that’s what I am thinking of 😛 Eugh, what a jerk that guy is.
There are at least some rules to it. If you earned over $150,000 last financial year then you’re not eligible. Doesn’t help the people who are only part time or unemployed, but at least it’s not at the full escalation of wealth that their pre-election proposed leave had (payment based on what you earned, not the minimum wage).
Oh, and @scree, the government can afford paid parental leave because they don’t pay it (mostly). It’s paid by your employer.
Then take away the Pollies benefits then D=
I’m all for this, but it wouldn’t solve anything. It might be worth about $1 to each person in the country 😛
Also gotta remember some of the pollies (the ones who seem to have any power) are worth millions as well, so it’s not like it’s hurting them that greatly *sigh*
That dollar would be very helpful. It can go towards the bills!
Don’t mind me, I’m just a little worried about it.
Because they can blame labor for it?
I bet government pensions don’t get cut.
You would spit your chips if you found out what some people I know in the tax office are gonna retire on.
edit: that said, retiring the pension thing was always the plan – that’s what superannuation is for, as a replacement.
Yes, but not everyone will make enough for super. Mum has none left as she came down quite sick in her 30’s and so wasn’t able to work for 5 years and even when she could, it was only a small amount. She became ill again and I had to become her sole carer. Because I can’t work, I got a carer’s pension for looking after her.
Edit because I am a retard
Ah carer’s pension.
Yeah that’s not cool.
As is often the case, Star Trek is showing the future…
So stoked, where I am currently doing work for the dole (local Salvo’s) was browsing the mens clothes racks and came across two pairs of Dickies work pants brand new with the labels and tags on them, $2.50 a pair.. It doesn’t seem right, but hey that’s how much all clothing is atm store wide.
Hey all.
It was my birthday on Saturday. I am now 22 years old. I feel so old and like the best years are behind me :/
More important than that though, I now have a PS4. It’s pretty cool. The power button freaks me out a bit. My finger barely touches it and it turns on. The controller is pretty great. I hadn’t realised the touchpad thing was also an actual button you could press.
I got Second Son and AssPirates on it. Haven’t played Black Flag yet, but Second Son is fun. It’s a bit disappointing there aren’t as many side missions and stuff as the last games though. Still a cool game.
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Get off my lawn you damn kids.
inFAMOUS has really awesome uses f the DS4’s features. I also discovered that both sides of the touch pad on the DS4 act as different buttons (hitting the left side opens up a different menu than hitting the right in Ground Zeroes)
Happy late birthday, old man!
Though I gots seven years on you. You’re a young’n next to ‘ol man D.C.
Wait you’re 29?! I swear I thought you just turned 26 o.o
Then again I always think everyone is younger than they actually are >_>
I’ve got 10 years on you, whippersnapper
The paper trail mission in Infamous is pretty cool. I think you need to have unlocked the second island to get it though
Happy late birthday! I know the feeling but, my birthday is in 17 days and im turning 23…too old to hit the clubs now!!!
Happy Birthday for Saturday buddy! Hope you had fun and don’t worry about the old. I am also old.
The fingertip sensor on my xbox 360 always and still to this day bothers me. It’s okay on the power button because it’s concave, but the eject button? The eject button would be hit constantly.
Woo Mad Men tonight! @dc @sughly @idkwhoelsewatchesthisshow..
Upset it’s coming to an end this season 🙁 But I hope they end it on a good note, as in the ending it deserves and not leaving it semi open to potentially bring it back like other shows did recently, i’m looking at you Dexter >_>
On Dexter, I know they’ve discussed bringing it back, but during the final scenes it never occurred to me that there was potential for it to continue. I would be happy if it stays like it does, with the viewers assuming
that he’s continuing his work in Canada somewhere, probably at the same sawmill that Wolverine worked at.Haha yeah, I guess him living an alt life somewhere else and not being fond out for who he is kinda gives it that non-closure, I ever so wanted. Burn Notice had the perfect send off, and ending that the series deserved.I just wasn’t a fan when I read that Showtime & the writers were ending it with the potential of it being brought back if they ever so wished, I just thought “Ugh, why? It shouldn’t end like that, it needs closure!” I always wanted Miami Metro to find out who Dexter Morgan truly was 🙁 But Dexter as lumberjack in Canada or Alaska is cool I guess heh. But it’s highly unlikely it’ll return given how the ending was received, season 8 was going okay until those last few episodes imo :/
I don’t think Metro could’ve handled the truth, finding out after all these years that a close friend was a mass murderer? Definitely worse for them than thinking he died in the hurricane. I am curious as to what they think happened to Deb though, since her body went AWOL.Whilst true, I still would’ve liked to have seen such an ending 😛 or at least he was blood brothers with the Ice Truck Killer heh.Don’t read unless you’ve seen the ending of Breaking Bad.
I thought Breaking Bad did it well when Hank & everyone found out Walt was infact Heisenberg and a meth cook genius. That was brilliant and how everyone was terrified of him. The ending however wasn’t my most favourite 😛The depths I have sunk to.
I thought I was pretty savvy with genres… but what the hell is nightcore? This is just sped up.
Is this a thing now? I don’t get it :S
EDIT: Apparently it’s happy hardcore by any other name. How did this not die 10 years ago?
As far as I can tell it’s meant to be super fast trancey remixes with sped up chipmunk voices. The quality seems to vary tremendously. Some (like above) are just sped up versions of the songs. Some like this and this are genuinely different.
It’s bizarrely fascinating.
Apparently originated from a duo in Norway early 00s? I’m curious, “happy hardcore” was what I knew the sound as back then, a la Celebrate the summer – DJ Cammy.
The sound itself doesn’t seem to have changed so much, why the change in descriptor?
Norwegian summers are measured by the minute, I suppose they have to celebrate as fast as possible
It’s an unfortunately catchy song that.
I’m gonna say it.. I like Katy Perry’s music.. The Chipmunk effect is err different 😛
So like… it’s the soundtrack to DDR?
Went to EB and saw that they had a Pokémon promotion on. X owners get Magmar, and Y owners get Electabuzz. They’re holding their trading items though, so they evolve when they’re sent to you. I already have a massively overpowered fire pokémon in the form of Torchic, but I figured a Magmortar can’t hurt, so I picked one up. It’s a shame because I think I need an electric Pokémon, but ah well 😛
Heliolisk is the best electric type anyway! Get one of them! (It can learn Surf!)
Because pokemon logic
So Ass Creed 4 & Tomb Raider for PS4 are $79 & $69 at EB currently, think i’ll pick up Tomb Raider tomorrow 😀
Age of Empires is coming to mobile!
KILL IT WITH FIRE!
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what?
Comments on the Gizmodo article about the google glass-wearer getting assaulted make me wish they’d really hurry up with that tech that lets us punch people through the internet.
…Also reminds me I haven’t been to the gym since getting sick.
You lost something that you had that I didn’t therefore you are the worst and deserved it?
Today I received the first of five Warbotron WB-01 transforming toys.
Which is to say, I got the first of the third party Masterpiece-style Combaticons.
Blast OffAir Burst is a pretty badass space shuttle with missile pods.Height-wise standing up straight he’d probably reach somewhere around armpit to shoulder height against Masterpiece Soundwave. I feel like this is roughly about the right size from what I recall – Onslaught was the same size as the bigger Decepticons like Soundwave or Starscream, and the rest were a bit smaller than him. Transformation isn’t as perfect as some of the MP figures but it’s pretty decent, you do need to detach a couple of parts and re-attach them to a different spot. I feel like this might be an issue limited to Totally-Not-Blast-Off because he’s got a tricky shape to deal with. Build quality’s pretty good, and unlike a lot of third party stuff they nailed the look of it – he looks exactly like the comics and cartoon, with an accurately designed head and everything. Build is all plastic and doesn’t feel quite as solid as the two MPs I have, though at least he wasn’t missing fingers like Starscream! Very poseable though he lacks an independent ankle and his feet are a bit weird, so ends up a bit less stable than some.
Next one off the ranks should I think be I Can’t Believe It’s Not Swindle. FYI the Combaticons were my favourite gestalt team in Transformers and I still have the old G1-reissue toys somewhere so I’m hyped to get this and even more hyped that he met expectations.
The last few months have been awesome for Transformers toys. By the time August rolls around I will have gotten Soundwave, the Combaticons and then Wheeljack (who is the best character) in one 12-month period.
https://twitter.com/Atomstrawberry/status/455653558621196288/photo/1
If anyone’s seen it already, I have a quick question about the new Game of Thrones ep’s opening scene (not really spoilery)
Who’s that “Miranda” girl with Ramsay and Reek? I don’t recall her from the books so I assume she’s new in the show?She was one of the pair of girls from the castration scene, I think.Oh. I haven’t re-watched Season 3 yet so I guess I forgot. Most of the torture stuff is show exclusive anyway so I assume she’s just one of his peeps. Thanks!After looking at suggestions made a few weeks ago, currently looking at this:
Intel Core i5 4670K Haswell 3.4GHz 6MB Retail Box
ASRock Z87 Extreme4 LGA1150 ATX Motherboard
Corsair 16GB Kit (2x8GB) DDR3 Vengeance C9 1600MHz
Crucial M500 2.5″ 7mm 240GB SSD
WD Green WD20EZRX 3.5″ 2TB 64MB Intellipower Desktop HDD
Gigabyte GeForce GTX780 OC 3GB 2xDVI HDMI DisplayPort
Samsung SH-224DB 24x Black OEM SATA DVD Writer
Fractal Design ARC Midi R2 Black Mid Tower Case w/Side Panel Window
Corsair HX650v2 650W 80PLUS Gold Semi-Modular Power Supply
BitFenix Alchemy Connect 600mm 30LED Blue Lighting Strip
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium OEM 64Bit
Asus PB278Q 27″ WQHD IPS WS 5MS Height Adjustable LED Monitor
Razer BlackWidow Tournament Edition (MX Blue) Mechanical Keyboard
Power Shield ZapGuard 6 Way Surge Board Black
12 Month PLE Return to Base Labour Warranty
PLE Professional Assembly and Testing
Standard Build 5 Working Days
for $2968
Any thoughts before I go ahead?
Thanks again, guys.
I’d go windows 8, but stacks up nicely. can’t comment on price without more research, but it’s a solid rig
Ta.
Windows 8.1. Win7 is old and 8.1 will give you better performance with that hardware.
Also if you’re building this yourself, make sure the case has enough clearance for the GPU, x80 is often quite a long card.
Getting it built, probably going to go in-store just to make sure it’s all good.
Ta.
The 2TB HDD you picked is a GREEN variant, which means they are typically slower because they run in ‘eco’ mode. 240GB isn’t very many Steam games at a time. Perhaps pick up a 1TB drive now/later to use as a dedicated Steam drive.
That PSU is probably on the edge of GTX780OC requirements, and below what you’d need for two GPU’s. I’d bump it up to a 750W at least. ..Considering you have expensive mobo and OC-able CPU.
Dunno about price. Seems okay.
Ensure you have enough case fans – 1x intake, 1x back exhaust, 1x top exhaust, at minimum. Be prepared to sometime buy a CPU cooler.
Win8 is probably the best to get, since MS is actually listening and getting rid of metro in an upcoming update.
Report back when you get the PC, cos you’ll need to change the location of your libraries.
Cool, thanks for the info.
As you can see, I know barely anything about this stuff 😛
@transientmind
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/04/i-was-assaulted-for-wearing-google-glass-in-the-wrong-part-of-san-francisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2409452
This totally happened to you didn’t it? 😛
Hah, no. I’ve been all kinds of places and not even pick-pocketed, let alone mugged. (Honestly in the parts of Asia where I expected it most, I was a little disappointed. I actually bought a decoy wallet with paper in it and put it conspicuously in my back pocket and everything. Never got lifted.)
I think it helps to look like you’d be more trouble than it’s worth. Which I strongly suspect the author doesn’t.
Erm… so… what’s the deal with Black Rock Shooter.
It makes sense, but at the same time, it doesn’t.
BRS is weird. They got this stupid idea that they should set it in the mundane world and have an annoying lead character and stuff. What was so appealing about the original vocaloid video was huke’s awesome dark art style with all the chains and the checkered floors and everything, combined with the way it teases and hints at something really great behind the quick stuff that they honestly probably pulled out of nowhere.
Then they did the OVA. And the bits in the BRS world were cool, but the other stuff was shit. So they said ‘we should make a TV series around the shit part of this’. 🙁
The PSP game is completely different. It’s a kind of dumb post-apocalyptic universe and she’s supposed to be some kind of clone or robot or something and there’s other ones like her that all have pretty cool designs that are a bit more mechanical in nature and they’re evil or something and maybe work for White Rock Shooter who is like an evil inverted version of BRS. I didn’t play enough of the game to find out more. Also unlike the anime where she’s mute, BRS is voiced in the game.
Anyway the reason it’s all over the place is because there literally was nothing but some interesting pictures from a video originally.
Just watched the first ep of Rick & Morty.
Lolwut.
That was great.
Also what the hell?
http://www.9news.com/story/life/food/2014/04/13/kfc-chicken-corsage/7668977/
chicken corsage….. *tilts head* nope, no matter how you look at it it is still f%$*ing bizzare
yes, awesome show, they get better too.
Top show.
RED’S RUNNING AND EXERCISE RAMPAGE!
WEEK 2
1 @wilbur 7,759
2 @Bish 2,806
3 @aliasalpha 2,690
4 @NegativeZero 2,550
5 @Redartifice 1,950
6 @Nomad 1,409
7 @Batto 996
8 @NovaCascade 748
9 @blaghman 492
10 @gingerchris86 448
11 @Morkai 425
12 @ontargett 114
Another massive showing from Wilbur, but a new challenger appears in the form of Bish!
I haven’t added a couple of workouts from last week I think.
I seem to have been doing low reward stuff lately, that or just slacking off
Starting to fall behind, not good. Will need to do a lot over these long weekends. Everyone else go out and laze about while I catch up 🙂
Also I feel like there a lot of just general day exercise that I’m not bothering to add, or maybe I’m just making excuses *shrug*
Oh yeah I meant to get going on that ladder thing someone posted. Think I got through like two days before forgetting about it. Oops >_>
What is this ladder you speak of? Is it the Trials ladder?
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/03/lifetime-ladder-is-a-free-no-equipment-fitness-plan-anyone-can-start/
I’m doing that!
I hate the running on the spot bit. I remember in the brief time I was playing Wii Fit, I hated it on there too. Running on the spot seems to make your feet hurt so much more than if you’re actually running around.
That’s the part I’m the worst on :P. I think my feet and legs will hurt either way but easing into this gave me less pain than randomly jogging for 15 minutes or so the last time I tried exercising. So much pain!
I hurt my shoulder, so I’ve been unable to do most of my exercises, which makes me too lazy to do any. So slack.
Fitocracy creeps me the hell out because strangers keep giving me “Props”.
Who are you people
Ooo Easter sale! Metal Gear Solid HD collection for Vita which includes MGS2, 3, Metal Gear 1 and 2 for $14! Don’t mind if I do!
Grabbed it for PS3. SO MUCH METAL GEAR
I already own it for 360, and don’t even have a Vita, but “!” that’s a good enough price to tempt me anyway.
Earlier while playing Civ5, I founded my own religion. It is the Kieth Fellowship. It is truth. It’s symbol is
ripped offborrowed from the symbol of Tao – because Kieth black and white, the sun and the stars, the embodiment of all that makes humanity great. May he be in your hearts and mind, for he is everything.Praise Kieth!
Damn, I missed an opportunity to make a Sunbro cult.
THERE IS ONLY BANJO!
How do I get my missionaries to spread the word of Kieth? I want to convert the nearest city-state, dammit.
Finally figured it out. The Civopedia did not help at all.
Watched Captain America at the movies tonight. Man, credits are boring. The second credit-scene was so not worth waiting around forever for.
I’m also pretty cranky that Hoyts are now as bad as Event in the whole ads before the movie department. 30 minutes of crap before the movie started, and I’m not even exaggerating. It’s so disrespectful of my time. I’m just glad I have my parents to babysit because screw paying a babysitter if the movies are going to waste that much of my time. >:|
Edit: My review of winter Soldier: better than the first, but not as good as Thor 2.
I wouldn’t mind so much if it was a full 30 minutes of trailers (and those trailers were of movies that would actually be released in Australia) but when its 20 minutes of second rate tv ads and then a couple of trailers only vaguely similar to whatever it is you’re about to watch… yeah, not so much.
That may be because Hoyts are now partnered (from what I am told by my mate who used to work for them) with Event and Event will be taking over in the end..
That doesn’t sound right. Surely the ACCC would have something to say about that,
I know, but apparently Hoyts have been in a lot of financial issues in recent and Event offered to help I was told.. Plus the ACCC did let Foxtel take over Austar, which imo wasn’t right either 😛
They used to have a couple of JV cinemas, but they’ve been divested of that for a long time.
Hmm, interesting. But all I know is apparently someone has been pouring money into my local Hoyts recently when the company themselves apparently didn’t have it, and my mate who worked there for years believed it was Event, likewise both my managers at EB also told me the same. Would like to know the actual story behind it.
The owners of Hoyts are possibly looking at selling the company off.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/dataroom/companies-faith-in-ipos-fades/story-fnjw8txa-1226880356150
I smashed the crap out of my knee at climbing and now there is a lump. Also it hurts. Ow.
OK TAYbies… I need TAYopinions!
Some interesting titles on the PS store:
Tales of Graces, Tales of Xillia, Atelier Ayesha, Dragon’s Dogma.
So I’m going to do due diligence with reviews and let’s play videos, but what’s the TAY opinion on these titles?
Edit: If I’m only going to get TWO, which two should they be?
I have played Tales Of Graces and some of Dragon’s Dogma out of those and recommend both. Loved Tales Of Graces, but that may have been because I was in the right frame of mind when I began it. Loved what I played of Dragon’s Dogma but got sidetracked by other games and keep forgetting to go back to it.
Well if you’re going to get two, get Dragon’s Dogma and one of the others because the other three are similar to each other.
The Dig! \o/
I dunno, but I do know Dragon’s Dogma is really quite cheap to get on disc, so if the others are only on sale for a limited time, I’d look at those first.
Thanks for responses!
Though it turns out Let’s Play videos are a god-send for the wary shopper. On watching review videos and let’s plays, I decided on Dragon’s Dogma only. (@shane The price for DD is $16 on PSN, whereas I could only find it for ~$37’ish in stores. Disc doesn’t hold much weight for me, so it seems like a decent price. Might be something wrong with my store version, I’m thinking they’ve forgotten to fuck me for the Australia-Tax or something. I grabbed Dynasty Warriors 8 for some ludicrously low price too, around $40’ish where I’ve only been able to find physical copies around $70-80.)
@strange – we have very different tastes! On watching let’s play videos I realized that for a while I actually owned Tales of Graces and returned it out of boredom/annoyance with the characters.
Atelier looks like it has the systems I’d enjoy most, but with character voicing that had me wanting to drive nails into my ear-drums after only a couple minutes. Can’t imagine playing it for hours. Xillia seems like the closest to being palatable in terms of aesthetics/story, not a huge fan of the systems, watched way too much boring-ass gather-grinding on the videos.
Yeah, Atelier Ayesha being dub-only was the worst possible thing. The JP dub is great but the english one is incomplete and awful 🙁
I think those games give a different impression about their content than the experience of actually playing them.
From only a couple minutes of listening, it sounded like an adult woman pretending to have the voice of a child/teen. A cutesy, ditzy one. Like nails on a blackboard. Bad voice-acting is one of the things which inspires me to enter the industry sometimes. Just to try and improve the standards.
I actually played Graces. Owned it for a while. Kind of… hated it. Combat was ‘meh’ – serviceable enough. But the story/characters/themes/tone were kind of puking rainbows and puppies. I have a real hard time playing games where the protagonist is a small child. For all of its whimsy I just couldn’t really get into Ni No Kuni for that reason – barely made it past the first few towns/main quests before putting it away due to saccharine overdose. Xillia seems like it has more mature story/characters, so if I give any of them a shot it’ll probably be that one first. But there’s just way too much on my list of things I’m actually enthusiastic about to spend too much time in ‘force it down and hope it gets better’ territory.
(Mind you, I’ve been wrong about that before. That was my intial impression of Dark Souls until I gave it another go in a different frame of mind, then it became the very first game I’ve ever got a platinum trophy for. Well. I probably would’ve got platinum on AC4 if they hadn’t put fucking bullshit multiplayer achievements in there. But still.)
New game plus of Graces has an important feature added – being able to skip the opening section with the kids.
That said, would probably recommend Xillia over Graces (even though I haven’t played it yet).
Symphonia is going for a reasonable price on PSN too…
Graces has awesome gameplay and some great story beats but the characters remain frustratingly static with literally zero character development and is pretty juvenile. However it hooked me much better than Xillia did. Xillia’s characters are pretty shit, the voicing is really bad and the plot takes ages to go anywhere and way too long to establish the party (the character that glues the dynamic together is the last one to be added!). The world is all open spaces with no overworld, and those open spaces are an empty uninteresting grind. There’s almost zero sidequests because they didn’t have time & interest in doing any, and there’s no unlockable costumes or anything, all for pay.
Xillia 2 is apparently even worse. The main character’s a silent protagonist because that’s always a great idea in a JRPG 😐
Vesperia’s still by far the best overall Tales game. It has a cast of great characters & Karol, the gameplay’s good, the plot is good and gets you interested early. The party’s nice and varied. Now if only they’d localized the good version instead of the Xbox 360 beta version so I could get my Patty the Pirate. 🙁
I’m not sure I’d recommend Symphonia either. The HD release is poor. You do get a few benefits since it’s a port of the JP PS2 release, but it visually looks like an up-rezzed PS2 game and I don’t think it’s dated very well for a newcomer. Fine for people that played it on the Gamecube and have nostalgia for it.
Mm. Sounds like a miss. I actually have Vesperia, never got around to finishing it – got bored, I think.
I think I have a problem.
The problem of liking the idea of JRPGs more than the actual implementation. I haven’t really enjoyed most of the JRPGs I’ve tried in the last decade. Hell, I think the last one I really enjoyed was Lost Odyssey.
I mean… I hated FF13, couldn’t get past the kids of Tales of Graces, don’t remember ANYTHING about Vesperia other than that it seemed decent quality. Lost the taste for Ni No Kuni. Last Remnant and Folklore had some interesting and appealing new mechanics to play with, but damned if I could muster any enthusiasm for the story and characters. Got bored with Eternal Sonata, Magna Carta 2, was generally uninterested and unimpressed with Resonance of Fate…
It’s like I want to like them, but I always run into issues of loathing the characters or wishing the story would move faster or at least be interesting or different enough that I can fucking remember it a year later.
(Stop me if you’ve played this one before: A dark power rises and monsters are attacking villagers, a brash young boy happens upon a maiden who is actually super important princess/mystical key to everything, he volunteers his aid to right the wrongs/avenge, and the pair journey across a fantasy world collecting a bunch of wacky/tortured companions in their quest to collect the pieces of/activate nodes of whatever in a race against time as the Big Bad gathers the forces of darkness and moves to exploit an ancient magic/the spirit of gaia (go go environmentalist overtones) for Ultimate Power.)
It seems like the only Japanese games I’ve enjoyed in the last ten years have been in other genres, and mostly arcadey/adventure. Loved Valkyria Chronicles, owned every Dynasty Warriors, loved Dark Souls 1 & 2 once I actually spent time with them. LOVED Zone of the Enders: 2nd runner (Dingo was a much better character), Ace Combat 6 (not so much Assault Horizon)… there’s probably more I can think of, but none of them JRPGs.
I may have to throw in the towel and stop poking at them, looking for them to be something other than what they are.
There hasn’t been a truly good JRPG this generation except for Xenoblade, and Xenoblade doesn’t have a lot of JRPG left in its systems in a lot of ways.
IMO JRPGs are all about the characters, not the plot, so I don’t mind a weak plot if the characters and their interactions are entertaining. But I do think the biggest problem the genre has is bloat. Everything is spread out and so slow and assumes you’re a teenager with unlimited time. I recently got into Ys, and I massively enjoyed Seven and Celceta both because they had all the things I want from a JRPG – okay plot, fun combat, interesting characters – but I knocked the whole game out in 15-20 hours instead of 60-80 hours.
Yeah the opening where they’re kids was so terrible I almost didn’t continue. Once you get past that though, it was a world I was really happy to be in.
Game of Thrones S04E02 discussion:
I’m talking about book stuff, but not referencing anything outside this episode:
Awww Yissssssss, been waiting for this for so long.I think the choice to basically just remove Ilyn Payne by making Jaime train with Bronn is a good one from a humour standpoint, not like it alters anything that much, but I did like the idea of Jaime training with the only person he could trust not to talk, rather than someone paid not to talk.
Also, bit of a change at the wedding. I mean, there were a shiteload of changes, most of them inconsequential and reasonable, but unless my memory is lying to me, Margaery and Joffrey drink from that big-ass cup that they’re given, and it certainly leads to much more interesting theories relating to the “how” than a quick shot of a character looking at a cup. Still, cool times, cool times.
Agreeed, Bronn and Jaime will have some great interactions. I think that bringing Jaime back early for the wedding was a good idea. It will help create the contempt that Cersei starts to feel towards Jaime having Joff die while he was supposed to be protecting him. I’m happy seeing Jaime and Tyrion in the same scenes too.Haha looks like two envelopes from centrelink. They’re probably wondering if I died or something. I don’t wanna open them.
Call Nintendo!Open them!Civilisation 5 – The Fellowship of Kieth
I was in a tricky situation for a while. I was allies with the Iroquois and Carthage. The Iriquoi leader wanted to go to war against Carthage, and asked for my help. I told him I’d sleep on it. My civ is centered around religion, and my military is piss-weak. I tried desperately to build a not-shit military. I knew I’d get my royal ass handed to me if I tried to go to war. Deciding that Carthage was a more important ally than the Iriquois, I tried to buy my nearest ally, Byzantium, into going to war for me. Byzantium refused my offers. I then proceeded to venture to Carthage and the Iriquois, trying to get them to stop the war. Fretting about what to do. I decided to ignore the problem, and hope it would go away. It did.
And then I found ten dollars.
Ibn Battuta compiled a list of the world’s most wonderful people. Kiethland topped the list by spades, crushing the competition. The Almighty Kiethland scored 6. The closest civ scored 4. In your face, unmet civilisation!
And now I have a Golden Age! 80 gold per turn and I’m still in the medieval era!
All praise to Kieth!
Civilisation 5 – The Fellowship of Kieth
Holy shit, Kieth got all the bling. I have about 3000 gold, and generate 70 gold per turn. I ckecked my allies’s pockets, and they all have less than 100 gold to their name. I was shocked to find that during a trade deal with Byantium, they had 7 gold. I was negotiating a defence policy, and added an extra 20 gold to the deal out of pity.
And now Byzantium wants money from me! I hope I will get to see the money again, plus 20% interest. *evil smile*
I am officially Takarada from Kill la Kill. Where’s my machine gun that shoots money?
You just have to…
Wop it out!
Note to self: Stay away from Kendo staves.
Goodnight, everybody!
Civilisation 5 – The Fellowship of Kieth
The tables have turned. Since the beginning of the game, I was allies with Byzantine. They were always better that poor Kieth. Now, I have 3,000 gold to my name, and Byzantine is wallowing in debt. My advisors have told me that my army is stronger than there’s, despite not having upgraded it for about 1500 years. Recently, I converted the major city of Byzantine to the Kieth Fellowship, and dear Byzantine wasn’t happy about that. I told them to sod off. Their leader is disturbed by my zealotry. Good. I shall plot to take you down, Byzantine! Even if things go bad for me, I can still rely on my pile of infinite money to convince another ally to take up arms against you. *evil laugh*
Money beats all! la vie est drôle, non?
Oh, you’re going to publicly denounce me, Byzantine? You know what I think of that? I will crush your empire like the ants you are! Your kin shall live to worship me for the god I am! You will quaver in fear! You shall beg for the mercy that will never come! Your remains shall adorn my wall!
…tomorrow. I’m kinda tired.
NOTE: I’m getting way too invested in this persona I’ve created.
For the glory of Keith.
All hail Keith!
Our Keith, who art in Keithvan, hallowed be thy name. Thy Keithdom come, thy will be done, on Keith as it is in Keithvan.
Akeith
No, I think you are playing it correctly
Sony announced localizations for three of their vita games:
– Soul Sacrifice Delta – re-release of SPINE SWORD with a bunch of extra stuff included. Our classification board kind of leaked this a few weeks ago
– Freedom Wars – interesting looking hunter game with a SF setting rather than the standard Fantasy of most hunters. Since Namco are assholes and won’t release God Eater 2 this is probably the next best thing
– Oreshika 2 / Over My Dead Body 2 – rad looking RPG where you take command of a samurai clan where the members of the clan are cursed with a really short lifespan and you have to guide the development of the clan to make each generation more powerful. The original was one of those awesome late-era PSP games we never got in English so this is cool to see being localized.
Over my Dead Body 2 sounds really interesting, will have to keep an eye out for that. Just watched a trailer, I think I have to get that 😀
Yeah it looks pretty cool. Art reminds me of Okami and that alone is enough to get my attention
any idea when we’ll see it over here?
Hey trials people is Urban Trials freestyle on the Vita a good game to judge whether you would like trials or not with. Interested in Trials on PS4 but wanna make sure it’s something I’ll enjoy.
I’ve heard its a bit wonky and not great.
so probably not a great one to judge the series on then.
Pretty sure it’s a clone by different people so no. Not at all.
aha, yep it’s a ripp off, that’s pretty blatant, I thought they were by the same people, well that’s good I guess cause what I played of Urban Trials I didn’t enjoy much. thanks for the heads up. How do games that are shameless clones like this exist and then there are ridiculous legal battles over things like including the word “saga” in your title.
It’s not a clone per se I believe red lynx had a hand in it but they weren’t the main developer of it another studio was, no different to Bioshock 2 or the new borderlands pre-sequel
the internet lied to me and said it was a total rip off. Granted I did about 10 seconds of research.
Nah I think Cam is just wrong. Pretty sure RedLynx had nothing to do with it. No idea if it’ll be a good indicator for Trials though, but @coldCamv should know since he recently got into proper Trials!
How’s that going btw?
@greenius I think you might be right just reread the name and urban trial is different to just trials which it guess is right that it’s weird that it’s allowed.
Also trials is good gonna get fusion and keep competing in frontier
I’mma kick your ass so bad in Fusion! 😛
Most likely! but atleast ill try, then watch you get your ass kicked by @fatshady
I will really focus my efforts on the extreme tracks so there is every chance you will get me on the beginner to medium stuff (and any track for that matter, it’s not like I claim to be a Trials expert or anything )
BUT if anyone openly mocks me via social media (yes I am going to take that balancing act back!) then i will have at anything. In the early days beating your best isn’t that hard so the competition early will be crazy and im looking forward to it.
Im playing on Xbox One now and will get PS4 at some point ni the future. PC arrives ni a week or so and I am going to be busy.
EDIT: DAMN this isn’t my real account! @FatShadyLive is me, now I have to wait for stupid moderation like a commoner!
It’s like Trials and not at the same time.
Trials has better physics and controls and level design but it’s the same basic principle: Ride to the end of a 2D course as quick as possible without falling off.
Trials definitely plays better but if you don’t like trying and failing over and over, it’s not for you.
isn’t trying and failing half the fun? I think I’ll grab it I need something different,
Yesssssssssssssssssss!!!
are you getting it on PS4? You can look at how much you’re kicking my butt on those leaderboards, which I”m sure you will since I’m a Trials nooooooooooooooob
Yeah man, I’ll be on PS4.
I’m pretty average, too, so we can suck together!
we can compete for the most average scores 😛
Add as many people as you can.
I was pretty average at Trials HD (barely played it) but as soon as Evolution came out I had about 50 TAYbies on the leaderboards and hands down the best aspect was trying really hard to JUST beat the guy ahead of me on the leaderboards. Worked on it slowly and I ended up becoming pretty darn good and even beat some FatShady scores!
Trials is so gooood
sweet, yeah i get a bit competitive with gaming, If I like it I’ll be trying pretty hard to beat people.
I don’t know why but I’ve always refused to be impressed by glitch based speed runs. They’re not amazing. You’re just cheating. Play the game damn it. Show some real skills.
Agreed… exploiting glitches to get a better speed run always puts me off them.
Yeah I just watched that half life one and wasn’t impressed, don’t get me wrong it was good and well done to the team that did it but for me if your doing a speed run don’t use extra hacks and save cheats without showing it because it’s just stupid
Whoa, just looked at the notes for that one. Yeah, it’s just cheating. Might as well just mod it to go straight to the end and call that beating the game.
No clip to the end
The most disappointing speed run I ever saw was a Minecraft speed run – specific map so they knew exactly where to dig, and an old version with item duplication exploits through quitting and reloading the game. Kinda defeated the entire purpose of the game.
..How do you finish minecraft?
Ender dragon
yeah glitching is stupid, it’s like how Mario Kart on the Wii ended up with heaps of the lap times under 10 seconds and when you watched their replays they were all glitched, put me off even trying.
I think there are some that are still impressive. The Dark Souls speedruns that exploit the Kiln glitch are still mostly impressive for how efficient they are. Granted, I’d rather see a complete speedrun, but there’s still plenty of impressive content.
I think that entirely depends on the game. Stuff where the glitches require precise timing or skill to be able to execute properly and so on are fine. Also things like if your character walks faster backward or something. Basically if the glitch makes the run more interesting or amusing, I think it’s okay. If it’s entirely to sequence break or similar then yeah, that’s just cheating.
Oh backwards running and stuff is fine. That’s just taking advantage of the mechanics. If you weren’t running diagonally in Goldeneye you were playing it wrong.
Ever seen the let’s play the Giant Bomb guys did of Bioforge? Turns out if you walk backwards everywhere you move faster AND look like you’re doing the moonwalk everywhere.
remember how all the best Goldeneye players ran at a 45 degree angle cause you’d move like 150% faster, that was always kinda funny
ha, took too long, freeze beat me 😛
I watch a lot of speed runs and I reckon that glitched runs are really interesting. Especially if you know the amount of time put in practising a game. Most speed runners need to get movement down to the absolute perfect frame or else the glitch will not work. In some games, glitched runs are more difficult then normal runs.
I dunno, I do feel that way a little bit. But within their own bubble, they’re fine really. I mean it’s not right for a glitcher to laud his ridiculously short time over someone who played the game “properly”, but to compare two glitch runs? Sure. That Super Mario 64 in 20 minutes run was cool, and even made me want to try doing the tricks he did. Ended up getting it done in 25 minutes myself, which I was pretty happy with.
Glitch runs are still way more impressive than TAS ones though 😛 Well, mostly. Some of the stuff they come up with is pretty ridiculous.
Finally had my first successful Zoltan run on FTL! \o/
…On easy… /o\
Take the win and bask in the glory \o/ even if it was on easy
Yes and this was also Advanced Edition, managed to beat the Flagship without crew teleporters installed. Also, charge weapons are bloody incredible. 🙂
I won recently with Slug Cruisers A and B on normal. You’d have thought it would have been from exploiting the ships strengths, but the only reason I succeeded was because I lucked out and found bulk flak cannons (4 on A and 3 on B). Flak cannons are stupid good against the flagship.
I also had a funny occurrence a while ago with the Mantis ship. I had teleported my entire crew across to take out the enemy, and just before I killed the last enemy crew-member, they launched a missile. The victory message appeared, I clicked continue – and the missile still hit my ship….Right in the teleporter. So I was stuck – I hadn’t technically lost, but my men were stuck in the enemy ship with no way to repair the teleporter to bring them home.
LOL oh wow what a way to end it! Too bad you can’t commandeer the enemy ship you’ve boarded (Which should really be in the game). I mean how crazy would it be, when you’re under attack from another ship, you take so much damage and you know your ship won’t last, so you make a last ditch effort by boarding their ship with your entire crew, win the fight even after your ship explodes and you end up piloting that ship now, like a true pirate!
2 flak 1s are enough to get the job done, fer christ’s sake. But what you know what is both overpowered and hilariously fun to use?
Vulcan chain lasers. Get one and you’re gold, get two and you’re just hilariously shredding ships to pieces without even intentionally damaging their shields. 4 shields? 5? ppppffttt.
Hey guuuuys. I’m making mince and cheese pies for breakfast cause that’s just how I roll.
Today marks the first day of a wave of great, great adventure games. Jane Jensen’s Moebius is released today, Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect and The Blackwell Epiphany next week. Who said this genre was dead? 😀
Not this guy!
Is that the What Could Go Wrong? guy? And the guy I didn’t like from the White Birch Amnesia Fortnight thing?
It is! Also Broken Age, The Cave and Massive Chalice animator.
But… but are they any good? The adventure games, that is, not the pies.
There’s no way those could not be delicious. I kinda want some now… kinda hungry. (Not having anything to eat on account of dentist visit later today. Funfunfun.)
Moebius looks visually kind of terrible, but Jane Jensen has never actually designed a bad game. Her last release was incredibly rough and dodgily implemented but still an amazing game beneath it. I’m hoping the same’s true for this new one. (Which she has more creative control over.) Still frustrates me she went with that lazy visual style when there’s so many talented artists out there.
Tex Murphy looks to be shaping up nicely too. There’s a demo on Steam if you’re interested.
I will let you know how they play, Transient. I got them all pre-ordered. (Not to mention Broken Sword 5 Part 2.)
Man. Things aren’t going well for you, eh? Sick last week! Dentist this week! Geeeez! Feel better.
Write a detailed Snacktaku!
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The end.
TLDR
I’m disappointed that that Moebius is nothing to do with Moebius.
Well now, so I am. Thanks for ruining it with that picture, Red. :'(
😛
Moebius (the artist) is one of the big inspirations for Numenera.
Screw you Hearthstone and your neverending Priest decks.
Also, I just can’t seem to beat the Warlock and Shaman classes. I still haven’t unlocked them.
I lose about 66% of the time and yet I’m still in love.
What sorcery is this?
…Warlock and Shaman sorcery?
I hated the fact you had to beat other deck types to play with them. I hate the basic starting Mage class, it’s like playing M:TG without the fun, and I don’t want to have to play with it for hours to have a chance to try out some other deck types 🙁
On the flipside, Mage is awesome to learn the ropes and I literally unlocked three other classes within 30 minutes after the tutorial.
Oddly, I’m finding Warrior and Hunter the two I enjoy the most (and am the best at) – just like real WoW. Probably says more about me than about the mechanics of the game.
Yeah except I played Magic: The Gathering for most of high school, I already know how to play because it’s the same game.
Of course it’s not the same game. There’s different pictures and…
and…
….
DIFFERENT PICTURES MAN!
It’s different in that:
– There’s no land cards tying up space in your deck, the game assumes you play a new land card every turn
– You don’t have a fixed 20 points of health, it depends on which class you’re playing
– You always have an ability of some description based on your character
So basically it’s magic without the land and with a card you play at the start that describes your dude and which your opponent is trying to beat, rather than trying to beat *you*.
Really loved the season premiere of Mad Men. Like how this show reinvents itself slightly every season. Lots of things happening on a lot of fronts. Particularly like the:
… Storylines on both coasts. I’m impressed Don and Megan are still together, to be honest. Haha!Such a good episode. I have good feelings about this *sigh* final season. But that means a blu-ray boxset when it’s done woo!
I see Don hasn’t changed his womanising ways & I doubt he ever will, he’s the character I love to hate and hate to love at times, but he’s really changed from the Don Draper we knew in season 1. I do kind of miss the way he was and how passionate he was for his work as opposed to now, but I guess he has Peggy to take up that role now since she seems to be where Don was once upon a time.Haha! @Sughly and I are talking Mad Men in the Game of Thrones spoiler thread for some reason.
Loved the scene on the plane. Went against expectations. He was super self-aware of who he was, shitty husband, etc. Liked that him and Megan are still together and she seems happier than ever. Was worried he would crush her spirit but in some ways she’s redeeming his? MAAAAN, THat sounded way wanky. XD I see him as just as passionate for his work. The fact he’s building up Freddy, etc.Lol, good work, gotta have a bit of diversity 😛
Hmm fair point, I didn’t think of it like that. He’s a bit more laid back and mellowed out a bit which is I guess what you’d expect as someone grows older lol.I really wish you wouldnt always call intepretations wanky, it just downplays all the ideas and subtext that the people making the show are setting up for us
The subtext isn’t wanky, just me trying to articulate them. Don’t get me wrong.
It’s also my way of saying I don’t trust my interpretation. I give myself an ‘out’ if people think it’s stupid. Haha!
Don’t mean to offend you or any thing, man. Mainly just criticizing myself.
Noooo I knowww, but dont, no more. Or at least not when youre linking me and I will see it!
Haha! Okay then! It is decided!
*sigh* Thought I could replace a broken part on the tonneau cover for my ute. Turns out it’s worse than I thought and the whole thing replaced is the only way. Nearly $1000 is the cheapest I can find.
Oh man! D:
Urk. That stinks.
PS: Feel free to take down your pledge for All The King’s Men, dude. Doesn’t sound like you need any more expenses.
Not gonna do that.
Offer still stands. So if it comes to it, just do it 🙂
It feels a bit odd when you talk publicly about individual people’s pledges to your kickstarter. I mean, it’s kind of weird enough for people that you know exactly how much they’ve pledged but on top of that you’re not being discrete about it. I dunno, maybe it’s just me.
Yeah, I’ve been telling everyone I’m a $100 backer but I only put up a lower one and now I’ve told everyone oops SHUT UP RED
Actually (probably badly), I never really thought about it. Freeze said on Facebook that he backed it, so I guess I just assumed it wasn’t something I needed to treat with discretion. But if that makes people uncomfortable, I can definitely adopt that policy.
It just feels a bit unprofessional. But like I said, it might be just me. 🙂
If it was anywhere else I’d agree but here isn’t exactly a professional environment.
Sorry, man. It won’t happen again.
What? No, I was saying here’s no problem. We’re all friends here and nearly anything goes which is great as it makes for a fairly relaxed environment where no one is stressed to much about being PC.
@strange, @transientmind:
I think it’s time to get the Dreamfall Chapters hype train a-movin’…
http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/26228
Oh man, I’m a doofus. I clicked on that link despite never having finished Dreamfall.
Oooooh, I’m sorry Strange. Just assumed you had. Arrrgh! This is the second time this has happened. Linked Sughly a Tex Murphy trailer that spoiled Overseer for him.
Got to step away from my enthusiasm from time to time and think these things out.
Like I said, I’m a doofus. Not your fault at all. 🙂
You should really play it. It’s pretty great. (Flawed, for sure compared to The Longest Journey but still great.) This new one looks like it’s shaping up to have the best of TLJ and Dreamfall.
Well now I know how it ends,maybe I can just skip straight to Chapters. 😛
*shakes fist*
My curiosity is growing for this game. I own both Dreamfall and TLJ on steam but it’s apart of my pile of shame list. My only real experience with point and click is ‘I have no mouth and I must scream’.
Although these type of adventure games with amazing stories could tickle my fancy.
I played The Longest Journey for the first time in 2002. Remember rushing home from high school every day just so I could play it. Consumed my thoughts until I finished it. Was a thing of beauty. Visually a little dated now, but just as captivating as ever. Dreamfall plays like a Quantic Dream game almost.
Hmm, you know what, imma give it a go tonight.
@vonsack: Let me know what you think!
@mawt @tech_knight @popdart5 @tigerion @blaghman @mythamphetamine @novacascade
NUMENERA!
I tested my Google+ hangouts last night, seemed to be working, so we should be god for 7:30 SA Time!
And for the rest of you, we’ll hopefully have a stream going too!
Awesome, hopefully it goes off without a hitch this time! 🙂
Hopefully, last time was bloody frustrating.
Well crap. Sorry Red, I didn’t manage to get the recap up in time. I’ll do a double whammy and get both the previous session and tonight’s recap up lickety split over the long weekend.
Nice use of the term lickety split. *nods with approval*
No rush buddy! I’m personally glad you didn’t really miss anything in the long run while you’ve been away 🙂
The fact that so many viewers of Game of Thrones can’t keep spoilers to themselves is a good example of why ASoIaF readers are better than them.
/arrogant
Yeah, I appreciate that you guys can keep a secret. That we can even talk Game of Thrones in person and you won’t give stuff away. Lots of the Brisbane folks have read the books and have never spoiled me once. Always mindful when I’m around and all that. Appreciated more than they know!
This is awesome that you can acknowledge this. It can be a struggle at times!
I’m just glad that as a species, we have our priorities right.
OK SPOILERS JEEZ
I’m glad to see Joffrey go (knew it was coming, read the books) but I’m sad to see Jack Gleeson, who played him, go. He was utterly fearless in making Joffrey one of the most memorable douchebags ever. Apparently he’s retiring from acting too.Probably for the best. One of those roles that pretty much typecast you forever.Also
Ooooohhhhhh. Is that what Ep 2 is. Could have sworn it was still a ways off.He has said that he’s done “Acting”, but in actual fact he’s done with “Hollywood acting”.He’s running his own theatre/production company (in Edinburgh I believe) and will continue working there.
Hmm, there are some roles that are more indelible than others. dude’s not that old, and with enough time and variation people can jump out of typecasting. Remember when Leonardo di Caprio was the pretty guy in titanic?Leonardo Decaprio will always be Gilbert Grape’s brother to me, also Jack Gleeson was in Batman Begins, surely he can get away from type casting.
MATCH IN THE GAS CAN BOOM BOOM
HA!
Took Leo a long time to shake that image though.But it can be done.
Surely you mean Romeo and Juliet?
It’s about where it should be book wiseDidn’t he get a letter for G R R Martin saying “Congratulations, everybody hates you”Lemme guess, someone died?
I’d be more spoilered if I found out someone DIDN’T die* in an episode for once honestly..
*I haven’t watched past season 2 😛 I did however watch The Red Wedding scene cause my mate insisted I had to, lol..
Well even the age is kinda spoilery and I’m not sure how I feel
Game of Thrones : wedding has us seeing purpleNow I can see why they use that even without having seen the episode. But not sure if it gives anything away to somebody why hasn’t seen it. I could see somebody like Mrs Tigs getting upset by it. She has read the books but not for years so isn’t going to remember specific things but with something like that is could remind her.
If she’s read them, she’ll remember this.
As @phlaiman says she will remember but not precisely when
She will probably remember it happening at a feast or ball. If she specifically remembers that it is at the wedding is not as certainI’m in the same boat as Mrs Tigs. I read the books a long long time ago. I knew this was coming but wasn’t sure when – that particular title left me no room for doubt.
Lol, I did however see one reader of the book series apparently go and message everyone who spoiled last nights episode on Imgur with the spoilers for the next little while on who dies etc.. I found it amusing 😛
hahahahaha I had a dream like that once
I almost did that to a friend once with some show, cause he wouldn’t stop bitching at me for having an open opinion about something.. Though if I had done that I would’ve not heard the end of even more bitching 😛
Hrmmm….9am meeting …
Ooh, what’s this?? Hm, someone left behind a plate of complimentary mints …
They won’t be needing those anymore. 😀
Breakfast of Champions.
I need some help with Pokemon GBC cartridges and Gameboys, if anyone knows anything.
Spoilered for wall of text, no actual spoilers.
There’s one silver cart I’m after, but I think it’s American because it has an ESRB rating on the left hand side. Because if this rating, the seal of quality or whatever the Nintendo thing is is slightly stretched, so it’s more of an oval. Does this mean that the cart is fake, or is it still real?
This is a picture of the cart with the ESRB rating: http://gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_Game_Boy_Color/Cart/big/Pokemon-_Silver_Version_-_2000_-_Nintendo.jpg
Here’s one without: https://webshop.cashconverters.com.au/thumbnail/850×520/1628661-game-cartridge-nintendo-pokemon-silver-version-0.jpg
Also, with the limited edition pokemon gameboys, which are considered rarer? The silver Pikachu editions (http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/K0MAAOxygj5SgugF/$_35.JPG) Or the pokemon Yellow Version ones (http://xmedia.ex.ac.uk/wp/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/pikachu-gameboy-color.jpg)? From what I’ve seen online, the silver one was rarer, as it was a Toys R Us exclusive, but the Yellow Version retailed for more.
The Nintendo seal can be a circle or an oval, so that’s not really something you can use to spot a fake. The best way to spot fakes are to make sure the cart is moulded correctly (has “Nintendo GAMEBOY tm” along the top) and that the screws on the back are the correct shape (they have unique sorta-dome shape things, not regular screws) – other than that it’s just common sense with colours and label quality.
Thanks. I just wasn’t sure because others had a circle. I’ll check out those other things when I go pick it up. You wouldn’t happen to know anything about the Gameboys, would you?
Not much, never really dabbled in collector rarity stuff 😛 Personally I’ve seen more of the blue/yellow ones in the wild than the silver ones, but that’s just my experience.
Thanks for all your help!
I probably wouldn’t be interested in the collector gameboys either, but I’m trying ti have a complete collection and it would just make it seem nicer, especially if I decide to sell it down the track 😛
The oval seal of quality is just a US thing, it’s how it appears on all the American gear. EU and AU stuff has a circle. And actually says “seal of quality” on it, the US one sometimes just says “seal” I think.
Rage-deleted X-com last night. I’d already beaten several sectopods but I faced one last night that soaked damage from plasma and explosives from my entire team for two turns (two of which have the HEAT ammo skill that confers extra damage to robotic enemies) then and destroyed two squad members with it’s stupid super cannon that it can for some reason fire twice a turn.
If there’s a mod to take those OP pieces of shit out of the game I’ll play it again, but right now it’s on my shit list.
I think I might have what you’re looking for. Remember when I said I hated those Exalt missions? Well, I hit a point where it was either rage-quit permanently, or cheat. I ended up editing all basic Exalt soldiers to 3 health instead of (I think it was ) 5, until those missions buggered off.
I’ll track down the info when I’m at home tonight.
I don’t like to cheat (and I haven’t had the same difficulties with Exalt that you have) I just think Sectopods are cheap pieces of shit. I’ll happily mod them down to no health just so their presence becomes negligible.
High crit sniper with a plasma sniper rifle and squad sight seems to be the consensus on how to deal with them.
Yep, that’s my primary soldier on every mission. With the right armour, it’s hilariously OP.
Yeah. Try two of those somehow failing to get criticals with a 95% chance and only doing 3 damage apiece. :/
Hahaha. That’s just shitty luck.
After that I had the rest of my squad unleash rockets and grenades. In retrospect I suppose I should have started carrying grenades other than the default but for the most part I treat them as shortcuts rather than weapons so they got overlooked by my engineers.
For me it was a choice of mod via cheats or literally stop playing the game and not go back. Also, I have no qualms about cheating in single player games, especially if it adds to the fun (like Just Cause 2 and the unbreakable tether).
I had not heard of the unbreakable tether (didn’t have much interest in multiplay, so tuned out when people were talking about it), but thinking about it and remembering my first playthrough, that sounds like the most amazing thing ever.
Any word? I’ve been looking for mods that don’t involve me having to hexedit shit and no luck.
I’m not sure if it’s been mentioned, but I did a quick check on the similarity of the new magenta colour used in the pictures and the kotaku logo. Clearly they are meant to be in line however…the two are off by a very slight amount (just using colour picker in paint.) This grinds my gears a little bit. I don’t even dare now check the difference between each of the different magenta backgrounds (TAY, SongTaku, WYWS.)
On another note, I’ve been having a hell of a lot of apocalyptic themed dreams lately for no apparent reason. I don’t play any zombie games and don’t watch any of the TV shows although I hear about them all. Pretty weird.
On a similar note…I had a lucid dream yesterday morning. My first ever and it happened by accident. I didn’t take full advantage of it and it only lasted around 10 minutes. It was a real experience though and I am going to try make it happen again.
Eh, I doubt as a species Zombies will get us.
Number One candidate atm is climate change
number 2 candidate Boston Dynamics
We just can’t help ourselves. We want to build that robot who wants to kill us. XD
All this has happened before…
It’s all written in the scrolls of Pythia
time to start hoarding EMPs
I’ve been doing that for years, newbie! 😛
Hello 🙂
We need to teach Tech Knight why we cry and then lower him slowly into a pit of lava while he gives us the thumbs up. XD
It IS the only logical conclusion.
Molecular nano weapons.
You’re just putting that to get a rise (@rize?) from me. Not gonna bite.
Pretty much 😛
I accidently put zombies by default, although that hasn’t always been the case. It’s been zombies, people gaining superpowers through enhancements of some sort, alien races and sometimes no reason at all, just an empty world I can’t make sense of.
Heh. One of my recurring ones is a darkened, ravaged world where humans scurry between shelters in fear of the crows. The crows which rule the skies. Anyone who strays out of shelter too far or for too long is descended upon by the ever-present swarms, and torn to pieces. Apocalypses come in all sorts of flavours!
Woah that’s dark! Kinda reminds me of Gears of War and what happens when you stray to far in to the shadows.
So you’ve been to Wagga then?
Ever seen the movie Take Shelter. MAYBE THE DREAMS MEEEEAN SOMETHING. 😀
I’ve been having a fair amount of apocalyptic dreams too, but I do watch lots of zombie stuff. And the urban decay is always a freakin’ sight to behold, my friend. XD
Haven’t seen it, but reviews look good, will watch! Yeah the urban decay is definitely a sight to behold and a big reason I remember the dreams quite clearly. This mornings ended in a dilapidated supermarket.
So as some of you would know, I am working on a few cosplays. Yesterday Sid decided that the material I was using for Gorzy’s cosplay was where he was going to lay, every single time I left it unattended for a few minutes.
@sernobulus found it amusing, but I didn’t D=
To be fair, it was pretty hilarious.
Its the dog variant of the ‘cat laying on the exact bit of the newspaper you want to read’ trick
No, Wondermutt! Use your powers for good, not evil!
I can’t decide whether to call your dog Wondermutt or Sid the Wonder Dog.
So @rize and I decided to pick up and play Champions Online again last night… according to my account it had only been 647 days since last login…
Apart from a few lag issues on a mission we did (raaaaaaaaaaaaaaage) it still is a fantastic game, especially for F2P… well to put it in context, i’ve apparently put nearly 60 hours into it, and haven’t paid a cent… plus Mecha-Dude-Bot is the greatest hero eva! except for when he isn’t…
Unfortunately i won’t have time to jump on tonight @rize, it’s kinda my partners birthday and i’m pretty sure there will be a man-hunt if i decide to go near the computer 😛
I made a char for that once called Professor Laceration.
He was a professor who cuts people with a sword!
I am the worst Stan Lee.
Well there was a guy in there, that was all metal skin called “Hank the Tank”…
I like it when people try to be original… it’s a hell of a lot better then all the 100’s of Iron Man, Superman, Batman, and Goku ripoffs that get around…
I heard that manhunt game was gory but it did rate reasonably well. I always thought it was just cashing in on controversy but have fun playing that tonight
Alas i fear it will be a live-reenactment of the games, rather then actually a playthrough… Starring my partner as the protagonist and me as every victim ever 😛
It’s so sweet you guys play games together. You should upload a let’s play
Actually don’t, snuff films are illegalManhunt was actually a pretty solid near-stealth game, for its time.
The end-game devolved into a cover-based shooter unfortunately, but before then it was really pretty great.
Sounds like my sex-life HEY-OOooo
*starts crying*
…
eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwThat’s fine, I’ll just cry myself to sleep tonight.
Just means we probably will have to play this Thursday night… with gratuitous amounts of alcohol in our systems to cancel out the lag
Deal.
@redartifice @f4ction @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
Pathfinder session planning is almost complete. I just need to add lootables and double check the enemies and we’re all set.
Thinking back to what I was discussing with Neg on the weekend, I’m curious to know what motivates your individual characters to go on this grand adventure. I’ve got a sense from the various backstories that you have each sent me (which are great by the way) but I’d like to hear it directly from you guys. I guess what I’m asking is if each of you can sum up your character’s motivations and goals as an adventurer in a couple of sentences or so. I like to create memorable stories and if I can create the feeling that you are actually on a journey rather than just carving your way through monsters.
Also, sorry to call you guys out but I haven’t heard back from F4ction, Freeze, or Nob about if you guys are available for next Monday night for the first session. As the majority of people can make it, I kinda want to get the ball rolling.
Yes.
Thanks Freeze. 😀
Actually in addition to that it would be pretty cool if we could just get a quick list of the characters everyone’s actually playing – race & class. Since I’m still not sure what the group actually looks like, eg should I go through with the idea to change to a healer or not.
Human Barbarian.
This is the list that I currently have which should be correct unless I took someone’s information wrong (apologies if I did).
– @redartifice the Elven Rogue (Abelas)
– @f4ction the Gnome Gunslinger (Character name unknown)
– @tech_knight the Elven Sorcerer (Dem’nion)
– @freezespreston the Human Barbarian (Lundgredolph)
– @sernobulus the Catfolk Magus (Character name unknown)
– @negativezero the Kitsune Sorcerer (Izumi) [I know this is a reply to you but I thought I’d throw it up for everyone else]
– @steve-o_the_deve-o the Human?? Druid (Character name unknown) [Did you end up deciding what race you were going to be?]
– @beeawwb the Catfolk Bard (Drewan)
– @Rize the Half-Orc Ranger (Character name unknown)
Is it cool if I switch to a Hobgoblin? I made some tweaks to my story.
Hobgoblin is fine. 🙂
Oh shit.
This should be interesting.
We are going to be the strangest looking party imaginable 😛
An absolutely cosmopolitan and multicultural party. An equal opportunity, no discrimination party even. 😛
I think @steve-o_the_deve-o needs to be something other than human. We’re a bit xenophilic at the moment. :p
@popdart5
Yep, I agree. Absolutely no discrimination against everyone who isn’t a filthy goblin.
@popdart5 Actually the hilarious thing about that is that the most likely person Dem’nion will have the biggest problems with will be the ONLY OTHER elf in the party!
Also the weirdest balanced. Heaps of offensive casters and smooth-talking rogue-types and then two dudes with pointy bits of metal.
Make sure you select hobgoblins as your favoured enemy for added tension 😛
You say that like you think I haven’t already…
😀
Lundgredolph is probably the best name ever.
Is it just me, or do we have a straight up lack of melee / fighter types? If I’m reading things correctly (and @f4ction has dropped out, all good!) then @freezespreston is our only true fighting build as a Barbarian?
Rangers can go melee rather than ranged quite well and Druids can too if they decide to wild shape a lot. So you’re not too sparse on the melee front but Freez is going to be the healthiest and probably tankiest character by far.
Actually just doing a little supplementary reading and if @sernobulus is a Magus that’s pretty combat oriented as well. Neato. 🙂
Yeah, my class can switch between melee and ranged. Basically what ever is needed. Also if I recall I think @rize said he was going to be a two weapon ranger? Or did I just imagine that?
Nope, I’m going TWF Ranger, bow as supplement.
Probably to get the hell out of dodge and lay low, plus seeking fortune. Breaking Jean de Clamerie’s hand might not have been the greatest survival strategy.
Well Dem’nion being the elf driven from his home, but still being the Academy student, wanting to learn about the world. So being self-exiled has given him both a gift and a curse, the curse being he can no longer go home and he’s currently being hunted on suspicion back home, but the gift that he has now got the chance to go out and see the world and all of its secrets. But of course to do that, he will need money to live (Being a noble-born, he’s not good at living off the wild alone obviously), and the adventuring will be his “day-job” basically. He doesn’t really seem to care what the job is, so long as it doesn’t put a price on his head, or tip balance of power in a nation (Even if it is for the better).
Edit: For Neg’s benefit. I’m playing as Dem’nion, the Elf Abyssal Sorcerer
I am terribly sorry but at the moment I have to pull out! My DnD group is finally getting its shit together and I may actually have some shifts at work for a change.
SORRY AMIGO 🙁
Ah that’s all good. I’m glad to hear that your regular group is actually doing stuff again. Thanks for letting me know so that I can scale down the monsters a little. 🙂
Religion is playing a far greater part in my story than I realised. As you’ll see in Parts 4 / 5 / 6 of my backstory (which will all be done by Monday), and the already posted parts. Drewan is on a quest to gain knowledge in service of Irori.
But as he’s coming to realise (in the part I’m writing currently) there’s more to gaining knowledge than reading books. He’s spent his whole life as a loner – studying alone, meditating alone, he was ditched (so he feels) when he embarked on Iter and washed up in Nolania alone and with only the clothes on his back. Now he’s working alone, and writing home to the one person he thinks cares.
Not the actions of a guy with 19 Cha, am I right? What Drewan will come to realise is that the purpose of Iter is not just to gain knowledge, but to gain support, gain friends, and spread the word of Irori throughout the land. Knowledge enables all of us to be the best person we can be, and if we achieve perfection of mind we too can become demigods.
From what you’re saying it sounds like the study and worship or Irori is of great importance to your character. Do you reckon this is more like a way of life that you observe under the guidance of the priests and priestesses of Irori or do you worship and give prayer to Irori personally and call upon Irori to assist your quest for knowledge? Is your limited magic a result of your natural ability or has Irori granted you the gift of magic?
The only reason I ask this is because it is unusual to have a Bard character be so heavily invested in religion. That role is more suited to clerics and paladins and occasionally monks. I had quick look around and found that the Sensei Monk archetype (Ultimate Combat) and the Cloistered Cleric archetype (Ultimate Magic) may provide an alternative way of doing things but I have no issue with a religious Bard running around. I just thought I’d throw it out there as something that might be a different way of doing things.
Out of curiosity, what is your performance skill as an Archivist? (I don’t have access to your character sheet at the moment sorry).
Oratory performance. The way I’m taking it is that (from the Archivist type) “Some bards greatly prefer academic pursuits to the drama (and sometimes melodrama) of their artistic brethren.” so for Drewan religion isn’t so much a form of worship as simply a way of looking at the world. His pursuit of study and academia is, to him, a path.
From the Irori wiki entry, “Each must follow their own slightly different path to enlightenment” so the elders of Purint would be seen as the Priests and mentors of the group, and Iter is a journey once equipped to face the world and find their own path to enlightenment. The way I read it followers of Irori aren’t so much worshipping him as attempting to follow in his footsteps. He was once mortal and achieved perfection and so became a God. There’s many ways to pursue perfection.
Truth be told magic is the one aspect I’m yet to reconcile in my head / story. I think magic, at least for Drewan, would be the application of years of study. Understanding the physical world (his near encyclopaedic knowledge of nature, for example) has allowed him to learn ways of manipulating and understanding the fabric of reality.
Ah okay. Yeah I just read the wiki for Irori and you are effectively following in the teachings and footsteps of fantasy Buddha. So yeah, a Bard is perfectly understandable as Irori is still an ascended being and a god but it is probably one of the least religion-like religions.
If you’re familiar with the bardic performance ability, you can see how you are effectively buffing/debuffing people and creatures around you with your performance. I’m just imagining that your oratory performance in battle would be calling out things like “This beast is known to have a slightly weaker carapace on it’s belly. I suggest you strike there” or “Your sword-style is reminiscent of the Dashing Bladesman style perfected by Brugor Halmak in 425 ER. I suggest twisting your blade after you lunge to better enhance your technique.”
Magic as a Bard always seems kind of weird but you can play that off as a combination of natural aptitude and studious learning of the principles of magic. You’re not as naturally talented as a Sorcerer or as singularly focused on magic as a Wizard but you can still cast spells.
Yep, that’s exactly how I saw the bardic performance working, and why I chose Oratory as my perform skill. It’s less singing/dancing/playing and more “Did you know that Hobgoblins have a propensity to weakened knees? If you strike there we have a good chance of inflicting extra damage and we’ll get out of this fight sooner” – especially since my Naturalist skill requires companions receiving the buff to be in auditory range and able to understand what I’m saying to them.
@beeawwb: a Lore Oracle might be an interesting thing to consider as well. The Lore mystery has a lot of knowledge & study-flavoured things in it:
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/oracle/mysteries/paizo—oracle-mysteries/lore
Some of the cool things you can take from the Mystery are Sidestep Secret, where you can add your CHA modifier to your AC because you understand the universe so well you can predict things right before they happen and step out of the way, Whirlwind Lesson where you can read through books and absorb their knowledge in just 8 hours instead of 48 over a 6-day period, the ability to cast pre-prepared wizard and sorcerer spells in addition to cleric stuff and the ability to use your CHA bonus instead of INT on knowledge checks. If you get to level 20 you get to always take a natural 20 on all knowledge rolls and can cast Wish once a day.
Very interesting! Hadn’t considered Oracle before, and reading through it sounds like it could be very powerful. I’m not sure if it’s the right class for me (I’ve always shied away from magical classes, playing a Bard (Archivist) is the first real step I’ve taken in that direction) but I could certainly see others in Purint being Oracles. Just not sure if Drewan would be.
In my mind, if I’m combining tropes, I initially envisioned Drewan to be something of Indiana Jones (I even have a whip) meets Sheldon Cooper. The backstory as I’m writing it is diverging from that initial thought but it’s still where I see things playing out.
I’m going to probably ditch my entire concept for my character and start over. No changes to stats or anything, just background and stuff. I can’t make what I have work, it just doesn’t fit. I’m still kind of stuck on motivating factors as
I need some reason for her to be in Xondol in the first place, something that she’s doing in the town the bulk of the time, and some reason that she’d give up doing that in order to join a group and go adventuring.Going to start over with those questions answered first and then work backward, rather than trying to start at the beginning and go forward. Ended up in a corner where the character was too specific.
First attempt I ended up with an enormously elaborate backstory that got me as far as explaining why she’d be in Xondol and might have the initial personality I was aiming at, but that didn’t feel like it gave any motivation for being in a group.
Second attempt I had something that would maybe work in a group and the adventuring reason was kind of maybe answered, but couldn’t find a justifiable reason for her to actually be in Xondol in the first place that didn’t feel stupid. At least, not as a sorcerer focused on enchantments. My ulterior motive in finding out what everyone else is playing was actually deciding whether I should keep the character but try a different class that be easier to think through. I really like that whole disguise and shapeshift thing but I was thinking it might work better as a Rogue or a Ninja or something that could use it better, but getting a look at party composition we’re already pretty heavy on those sorts so that’d be a bad idea.
Hopefully third time lucky. Otherwise you’re getting my Oracle. The oracle concept is super easy if I was to go that way. Clouded Vision curse, so effectively she’s blind but gets some limited vision through magic. Wants to find a cure and hopes maybe some buried magic will help, and if not, treasure can be put toward further travels to try and find a cure. Doesn’t like channeling her power because it’s scary and/or painful and hard to control and she doesn’t know what she’s really tapping into, so prefers to find a diplomatic solution and/or bop things on the head. My main issue is I don’t know if that’s actually a character I’ll enjoy playing, even if it’s easy to work in.
Once I make it to Xondol I need some reason to be joining the group specifically, or at least one of the characters. I’ll have vague knowledge of Dem’nion from having spent time in Nolania, but that’s not enough to make me join a group with him. In fact I see it as a source of early conflict (which is a good thing) or something.
What sort of personality are you going for as the Sorcere[r/ss]? Wondering if we might be able to cross paths in some respect. Catfolk would be interested in Kitsune culture I suspect, and with my knowledge perhaps I was able to see through your shapeshift and guess your true form. This might not be something you’re too keen on others knowing.
I’m just rambling ideas though.
All I can really say is that pick a class and character that you want to play. Sometimes you pick the race first and then everything else or you pick the class first and sort everything out from there.
The Rogue is actually a surprisingly versatile class as I think it has one of the most expansive list of archetypes. You can pick and choose things at your leisure and build a character that can be jack-of-all-trades or incredibly (and perhaps lethally) skilled. Again though it all comes down to what you want to play as your role. It’s the standard MMO concern: tank, healer, or dps. The good thing is that there are plenty of options and you are far less stuck in your role thanks to multi-classing.
Obviously there are situations where certain combinations of races and classes are better than others but don’t let that be a problem. Heck, I’ve made some pretty stupid characters over the years including a Dwarf Ninja and a Halfling Barbarian but it all comes down to if you enjoy the character that you’re playing. Also, there is no other feeling quite like super-speccing to such a degree that your character is 90% useless most of the time but absolutely dominate 10% of the time, and then trying to shoehorn that 10% excellence into all circumstances. Like trying to sneak attack with a siege catapault. Or taking Improved Dirty Trick and delivering groin attacks with every blow. 😛
Improved Dirty Trick groin attacks: That was your Dwarf Ninja, wasn’t it.
In my mind he’s called Kraft, since he makes a good nut butter.
Actually no. The Dwarf Ninja was all about wrestling and graplling and just “happening” to kill people in the wrestle. The Dirty Trick stuff was actually an Anti-Paladin because nothing is more evil than getting kicked in the nuts.
Fun story: I actually made a Monk character in a game where we were told many times before that the primary enemy would be wights. So I punched those wights in the face and at level 1 I was always one hit away from negative levels and becoming a wight myself. The best part of it all was that he survived the longest out of all of the characters in the group before having to reroll a new one. 😀
I guess he did allwight in the end.
I’ve previously only ever really had success with damage-dealing roles. Rogues, Fighters, Rangers. One Paladin. Also I briefly played 4e and there’s one class in there that I played that was kind of strange, I can’t remember what it was called but you basically were a melee fighter that had some healing abilities but they were like, pep talks to make people feel better? And you had orders that you could “control the flow of the battle” which were kind of useless.
When we finished the introductory bit of the campaign I ditched him for a rogue that I tweaked the hell out of to make into an absolute monster for burst damage in flanking positions with sneak attack.
Maybe I should keep the shape-changing Kitsune element and seriously re-think the class I’ve chosen. EDIT: Or you know what? Maybe my problem is trying to build around that concept and maybe I need a fresh look again.
EDIT: the 4e class I was thinking of is the Warlord and it’s shit.
That 4E class was Tactician. There were a few builds that could work but you’re right, most of those “control” abilities were next to useless.
Ha. Open up Facebook and it’s chock full of GoT spoilers, mostly from promoted posts by HBO and the official GoT page.
Last night, my sister who has read the book kept on insisting that we watch right now. That we don’t wait. That I should watch immediately. Apparently she was worried I would get spoiled like the Red Wedding all over again.I had last night’s ep spoiled for me about halfway through last season , was waiting for that to happen so was really surprised by the red wedding. Now as long as I avoid more spoilers I have no idea what is coming, whooI haven’t watched it yet (takes me about 30 hours to download an episode, stupid Internet) but luckily I vaguely knew what was coming. Too bad for everyone else that doesn’t. Eg: my wife.
Blergh. So irritating when stuff like that happens. Some people can’t grasp why others are pissed too. Story and all that might stand on its own and be good watching even when knowing what happens, but that adds another element that everyone should experience themselves unspoiled.
Likes Dark Souls, tries to protect you from spoilers. I like your sister. How did she avoid the MONSTER gene? 😛
I was exposed to the monster gene in an unrelated lab accident!
You must’ve been around those labs on that very day. YOU MONSTER. 😛
Yeah, and why isn’t she on TAY @dc? 🙂
What, HBO themselves spoiler it? When Australians have only one method to watch it? What fuckers.
Or maybe it’s a ploy to increase the peoples’ subs so they get it ASAP. Ironically, it’ll just increase the piracy …
This is also why I don’t subscribe to facebook pages of a TV series that’s still going. Anyone that posts spoilers on my feed (Which so far as been never) will be instantly unfriended as I delete it from my memory banks.
Well we have two options in theory.
Also yeah plenty of Facebook pages do this, I saw AMC do it for Breaking Bad & The Walking Dead, i’ve seen FX do it for Sons of Anarchy, i’ve seen USA do it for Burn Notice, Showtime did it for Dexter, i’ve seen Discovery do it for many of their ‘reality’ shows. It’s really shitty when they know they have global fans that haven’t seen the latest episode.
Sons of Anarchy are real bad at it. Even the official Australian page (where the actual airing is considerably behind) spoils the latest from the US. Bunch of big dummies.
Oh god, YES. Also the official unofficial one, is really bad at it too, it is also full of bigoted people full of hatred, it disgusted me so much how they’d voice personal attack opinions on minorities (and political attack opinions) on such a page.
HBO US spoils it, or people who like “Game of Thrones” do.
So apparently my actions at DnD on Sunday were pretty fucked up, yet still in-character.
We’ve been told that we’re in a town for around 4 months before we go on the next adventure, so DM asks us all what kinda stuff we’ve been up to. So I look at my character sheet and items list …
“Yes, well, I am a Rogue and part of Thieve’s and Rogue Guild, so I’d like to use my contacts to see if there’s an underground black market for human body parts.”
*DM blinks*
“I have a steady supply of parts, over the four months I’ll have 10 arms and 20 legs. How much gold can I get for this?”
I had a ‘Ring of Regeneration’ that gives me HP and regenerates any body part in 1d6 days. 😛
If I was your GM I’d let you do that, but remember how Wizards need part of your body to do the terrible juju on you?
Yeah, now every wizard in the Kingdom is testing their curses on you buddy boy.
Luckily I never specified which human body I obtained the limbs from. 😛
Sometimes I think our group isn’t prepared for the outside-the-box ideas I have in DnD lol.
That is hilariously twisted. It is also a prime example of you can never quite know exactly how off the beaten track RPG players can get. 😛
I remember fondly my time as a Halfling Rogue.
The DM said to us we have a year where we go and do what we want, separately, before coming back together to track down a once-a-year dungeon (which we failed the first time around).
I said that I would become the criminal kingpin of the city we were in.
He made me roll about 15 times for different things. Managed to pass them all.
I rock up and buy everyone equipment with my ill-gotten gains. GOOD equipment. Things that they can’t pass up.
But, of course, I also happen to let the Paladin’s circle know about me buying the equipment for their holier-than-thou annoying as hell idiot Paladin in our group.
He was de-sanctified and kicked out for bringing their group into disrepute.
Best gold I ever spent.
…until he eventually died and came back as a zombie. Our DM was quite imaginative.
There was a guy in one of my old groups, did one of the most vengeful, spiteful acts I’d been part of.
We’d been playing with this new guy and he really didn’t fit in to the group dynamic. Kept trying to do stupid things, steer the group in silly directions, dick about and just generally make a fool of himself. Eventually we arrive at a kobold lair, and the group decides to make camp for the night before exploring the area. See, we as players knew the lair was probably behind the waterfall but that doesn’t mean our characters knew this.
Well, new player decides to run in to the waterfall screaming to try and gain surprise. None of us saw him do it (in character) so our meta knowledge wouldn’t allow us to go after him. By the time we entered the lair he’d been captured and was on a sacrificial alter unconscious.
We defeat the Kobolds when our artificer (who was Chaotic Neutral) decides… fuck it. Dude has been messing with us for days, and so redirects the sacrifice to his own God and completes it, removing any chance of resurrection. None of us tried to stop him (we just watched and laughed), so the DM made us all take a down-shift in alignment.
Stupid thing is? We let the guy re-roll a new character and instead of taking a lesson in “maybe playing with the group instead of against them might be a good idea” he just went back to his dickish ways and got written out of the story.
I’ve got Kerbal Space Program multiplayer server running (I hope, I need someone to come test it outside of my network). I am curious to see how it runs. From what I saw it doesn’t share actual launches but if you establish something in orbit or on a base etc it becomes fixed for all players (so you can group make a giant space station/base etc.
Calling it right now… there’ll be a giant wang space station in orbit by the end of the month. 😛
end of the day*
Well if Minecraft is anything to go by… yes, yes there will be 😛
I call it… “The Osprey” 😛
…ok, I’m probably going to buy it soon.
I really should buy this game, as it looks pretty damn great… sooo how long till the next steam sale? 😛
SHOOOOOM http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=249434012
God dammit i have to get this game 😛
I watched Reckless Kelly last night. Anyone remember that movie? Comedy version of Ned Kelly with Yahoo Serious in the title role. I watched it as a kid but I couldn’t really remember it (maybe my brain blocked the memories of it for self preservation). It’s a completely stupid movie, and there’s a cultural cringe factor to it, but it entertained me and I enjoyed it for what it was. Now I want to watch Young Einstein again.
Oh Yahoo Serious, you were big for about ten seconds.
Hmmm. Wonder what he’s been up to. Let me quickly look at his Wikipedia page.
Oh hells no.
I’m a bit concerned they can’t even spell the title right…
Just a heads up, there’s vague but not-so-vague-that-you-can-probably-predict-what-happens Game of Thrones picture spoilers from POPSUGAR at the bottom of the page. Best avoid looking at those little squares if you haven’t seen the latest episode yet :/
EDIT: and they seem to be gone now? Well if you see Pharrell and his hat then the spoilers were underneath that 😛
EDIT2: annnnnd it’s back again. If you see this, don’t scroll down further 😛
#pharrellshat saves the day again.
Pharrell shat?
Sharted
#susanalbumparty
oh man, that cracked me up so much the first time, still hilarious now 😀
Hey guys,
I know some of you probably remember last year I helped a good friend of mine put together a website for her photography which I poured my heart & soul into (and still do) which both her & I are proud of and she’s been actively growing her phtohraphy library since and I think it’s looking better than before!
Now she’s had this idea to have a go with a Kickstarter to help fund moving forward with the photography side of things, so she is able to do more of it, there’s some pretty awesome reward tiers in my opinion. It would mean the world to her (& myself) if you could have a look at it and if you feel so pledge, but also if you could share it that would be even better so we could get some more exposure.
I could be wrong, but it doesn’t strike me as being entirely legal to sell prints of bands without permission, which I assume she doesn’t have.
This is definitely worth investigating, @virus__.
Certainly, if non-celebrities were the focus of a photo, she would need to obtain written clearance before selling prints of them…
Hmm, someone more knowledgeable about the law than me can chime in, but if you’re not using it to endorse a product (or passing off) you could be OK
http://www.artslaw.com.au/info-sheets/info-sheet/street-photographers-rights/
The page makes a distinction between taking photos and selling photos. Even though this section doesn’t specifically mention selling prints, it doesn’t restrict the category of ‘commercial purpose’ and selling prints would definitely fit into that.
But that’s all moot, because it’s Australian law. It’s UK law that Kat needs to concern herself with.
You also need to consider if a reward for a donation counts as selling a print
While there is an exchange of funds and a product there isn’t a direct transaction of money for product.
Complicated!
Mhm, thanks for pointing out for me Shane.
No worries. Like I said, though, she’ll need to check UK law.
Sorry, not sure if I’m just reading it wrong, but is there an actual project or is it just “more of?”
Both.. It came from a recent survey she did, and the results pointed toward people wanting a) prints of her work b) more scenery style photos.
Hmm, just be careful, as kickstarter has an issue with “fund my life” projects- without a clear end product it’s tricky to argue.
Kickstarter vet every project before it commences, so it’s passed their checks. I am also a little unclear on the specific product being produced by this money, though.
I’m also wondering- why kickstarter?
if it’s prints, why not just use a POD print service? Can’t imagine it’s better cost wise to do it this way
@virus__ I suggest that you advise Kat to add a short section to her Kickstarter.
I would also advise that she prepare and upload a video. Even if it’s just her talking to camera for one minute. Some visuals, embedded photos, etc. There’s just no grab that I can find, nothing to get me hooked.
Honestly, if I was reading this and it was someone I had no connection to, I just would gloss over it totally within moments. There’s no clear direction, no hook, no sample photos, no pitch video, no budget.
It’s just full of red flags… and I would definitely be considering the possibility that it’s just a lazy cash grab, rather than a meticulously planned and executed campaign to get people excited.
Sorry, man. But if she addresses these, her campaign will be MUCH stronger.
Edit: Thought: if she’s just selling prints, she should just sell them. Charge enough to cover photo paper, ink, shipping, and the artistic portion would be the profit. If she’s using the Kickstarter campaign as a shopfront, then she’s going to lose almost ten per cent of all pledges (Kickstarter fees) for no reason.
I agree with that point about the prints- if there’s no sunk cost you need to make (equipment, publishing rights, paying creators) it’s probably much more lucrative to do it as an on-demand thing.
Will do, thanks man 🙂 She’s been trying to go a bit more in the direction she wants & people have been wanting more from it, like prints which is doable, but i’m not sure how she wants to do that.
All I can say is I blame Shawn Crahan from Slipknot for all this, since it was HIS idea when she was showing him her work not long back that she puts it on show on a website lol. I think that’s fair I blame him for all this 😛
Civilisation 5 – The Fellowship of Kieth
I readied my units for war with Byzantium. I talked to my allies, Carthage and the Iriquois. I bought them to go to war. Quite cheaply, too. Carthage caved at the sight of 900 gold, and the Iroquois sold out for a measly 800 gold.
Also it’s 1774, and I have entered the Renaissance era.
#Progress
I suggest constructing the Kiethtine Chapel.
how do you tell someone in IT support his fly is undone?
“you’ve got Windows on your laptop”#ShitJokePageSix
Reminds me of an actual issue I’ve personally seen at work;
Keyboard error. Press F1 to continue.
Still think the best thing i’ve ever done on the phone to someone as IT Support:
Client: “Yeah hi, my keyboard stopped working”
Me: “Okay, is it plugged in?”
Client: “I don’t know, i can’t see where it plugs in”
Me: “Okay, can i get you to pick up the keyboard”
Client: “sure”
Me: “take a step back”
Client: “…ok”
Me: “keep walking backwards… Did the cable come with you?”
Client: “…..yes….”
Me: “Okay, well we need to get the keyboard plugged in, and then it should work”
Morale of the story? i have no idea, i just wanted to tell it to someone 😛
My personal favourite is:
“Windows keeps telling me it cannot find the printer. I don’t understand, I’ve moved the printer right in front of the computer and it still can’t find it?”
Years ago, when CRTs were still a thing, I once asked a staff member to send me their computer back for repairs and lo and behold I received.. you guessed it. The CRT monitor.
Two cats, an English cat and a French Cat, are competing to see who would win in a race swimming across the English Channel. The cats’ names are One-Two-Three Cat and Un-Deux-Trois Cat. Who won?
The English cat won because Un-Deux-Trois-Quatre-Cinq. #dadjokespagesix #saychowdahfrenchie hi @strange!That reminds me about the eating habits of Frenchmen. Why do they only have one egg for breakfast?
Because in France one egg is un oeuf.I’m probably behind the times, but thought this was worth posting with all the lego stuff out recently. some NSFW language but Eddie Izzards Death Star Canteen link below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw
That video will never be behind the times.
I remember seeing that years ago.
If you take a cigarette out of a packet, what does the packet become?
A cigarette lighter.
JUSTICE
What does Batman mix with his scotch?
Jeopardy jokes!
Why did the bicycle fall over?
It was two-tired.#PageSixMeansNeverApologise
Minecraft should really make a movie already.
It’s a guaranteed blockbuster.
Arnie got asked to upgrade his Windows but he replied “I still love Vista, baby.”
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Urgh.
I’m assuming you’ll be back with better.
A D&D player frustrated with how often their DM was throwing mythical creatures at his party that his character was very close to death trying to desperately get back to the nearest town and get healed up.
The DM simply responded:
“You’ll just have deal with it and dragon to the next town, I can’t play favourites”
Dragons sleep during the day, because they fight knights.
Ahahahahahaha
Not in the Numenera game, because you’re all good roleplayers and int he spirit of it, but GMs certainly play favourites. I’ve fudged rolls for players both for and against depending on how much they’re pissing me off at the time- the guy who’s a superior roleplayer but just can’t catch a break gets the for, the arsehole who’s been attempting to backstab the party and arguing for the sake of arguing has a rough time of it.
I don’t often wear the viking hat, but when I do, I do.
I’d argue it’s specifically the GM/DMs job to play unfair. You need to fudge things for the sake of action and drama, keeping the players constantly on their feet and at the edge of peril – nothing too easy and nothing impossibly hard.
Depends what I’m GMing really
For something like Numenera, it’s all about the best story, and what makes narrative sense a little more. If I’m just running a straight-out-of-the-book dungeon crawl in D&D, it’s the mechanics and rolls that need to be in a little more focus, esp if the players are the combat type.
Yeah, that’s fair. I’ve only ever DM’d D&D so some of my thoughts can sometimes get a bit mechanical.
One of the reasons I’ve gone off D&D a bit is the technical aspect of it- too much to track, and it encourages players to think with their character sheet too much.
One thing I’m really enjoying about GMing Numenera is the solutions players come up with- for example, @mythamphetamine using a cloak to snare a floating robot and smash it into another one. In D&D, that’d probabl be some sort of grapple, some sort of opposed check, then some sort of strength check, then damage rolls. In Numenera, I can say it’ll be about this difficult to do this, he makes one roll, and it happens.
That actually does sound pretty cool, and to be honest some of the most fun / best times I’ve had DMing have been the bits that don’t require rolls and are reacting to the players thinking on their feet, or traps that require logic rather than skill checks to disarm.
Anecdote:
E.g. The door that had a persistent Mage Hand cast near it. The door wasn’t locked (so you couldn’t pick it), was free to open (so you couldn’t bypass it) and the trap was actually cast from inside the hallway and out of range. When the door was opened the Mage Hand would push the players back, grab the door and slam it shut, while a deep voice would ask “Who goes there!?” Defeat the trap by knocking on the door. Knock Knock. Who’s there?NUMENERA PLAYERS DO NOT LOOK AT THE LITTLE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN
See, I knew you’d look. Rot13. V tnir zl cynlref na bcra raqrq tbny nf n tvsg sbe n orvat pnyyrq gur Pnagunek- gurl unq gb cerfrag uvz jvgu “n zrzbel bs yvtug.” V unq n pbhcyr bs vqrnf V’q npprcg ohg ab fvatyr nafjre, ohg gur cynlref pnzr hc jvgu n pbby fbyhgvba vaibyivat yvirfgernzvat n fhafrg, vapyhqvat na rynobengr cyna gb chyy vg bss. Gurer jnf ab jnl V jnf tbvat gb unir gur Pnagunek erwrpg gung, vg jnf whfg gbb pbby@redartifice Curse your dastardly ROT13 sneakiness. I am too lazy to go translate it and it must be important somehow so I won’t ruin it.
@redartifice Hahaha I totally looked behind the curtain 😛
I noticed that you’ve been cutting back on outright stating the difficulty level of things and just letting us roll and go with it. I think its working better that way 🙂
It depends. Some things I’m happy to tell you a difficulty, especially if it’s a task that you can plan out beforehand. Other things- like if you’re in a situation where you don’t know all the info- it makes more sense to see how you go with the roll and narrate from that.
If it’s something trivial or with no unknowns, I’ll give you the target as it just makes it quicker to do the check, and you can make an informed decision about whether to apply effort.
Yeah then I get paranoid on using Effort 😛
Well, I just received the call from headspace. The appointment is booked for Friday. Yep, that happened. Holy shit. This is kind of scary.
EDIT: Rescheduled to Wednesday the 23rd.
Good luck man
Break a leg
Not yours
This is good. It’s totally normal to be nervous about it, but it’s all good.
My sentiments exactly.
It is really awesome man!
And yeah, nervousness is normal, however they will ease you into it trust me…
Also you should give yourself a pat on the back for realising that you need help! many people are too stubborn or stupid to realise it and lead a crap life because if it…
so give yourself some credit, because it is something worth acknowledging
Nailed it.
Getting anxious to see someone about your anxiety. Anxietception.
Psychiatrist-phobia must be a thing but who would they see about it?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/02/08 – Imagine my surprise.
Best of luck with it.
Good stuff mate
Hang on, isn’t Friday a public holiday?
Yes. They called me later to inform me it is scheduled on Wednesday the 23rd.
Went to my FLGS last night to play some BOARD GAMES.
Ended up playing something called Colosseum. The idea is that you are running games at a local colosseum and need to collect things like gladiators, actors, lions and urns to put on shows. The better your show, the more points you get. The highest scoring show you put on is the only one that matters for final scoring.
There’s auctions and trading too.
My first show scored a paltry seven points. My final show scored a more respectable 74 points. Somehow I won by a point.
I don’t know if I want to play that game again. Next time I think I’ll have to convince people to try something like Village. Nothing beats a game that ends when the cemetery overflows.
Wow… Dubbo has one of those? – Awesome!
I backed Among the stars this morning… And am seriously considering Gravwell…
And then there’s this
http://www.cryptozoic.com/games/archer-danger-zone-board-game
Cryptozoic make lazy licensed games. Don’t bother with Archer.
And yes, Dubbo somehow has a FLGS. I was pretty surprised to find out about it too.
Yeah I know, thats why I’m letting other people buy it for me for my birthday :p
but still. I live in hope…
I’ve never heard of this Against Me band but apparently their ex-drummer is now the new drummer of Slipknot, what’s even more interesting is he’s only my age. He’s got some big shoes to fill is all I can say.
Whoa, waitup. Joey Jordison quit?
It’s not clear, I think he voided a contract with Roadrunner & the band and was subsequently fired. But he claims he didn’t quit. So now he’s trying ever so hard to make Scar The Martyr work, but his singer just quit so that’s working out well for him it appears..
Slipknot were fired from Roadrunner!?
I would’ve thought they’d be one of their most precious bands.
Got any links to stories etc?
Nah, sorry bout that, I meant Jordison possibly voided his contract he has with the band and label and he got thrown out for whatever reasons. It’s been err 5 months since this happened and the band has said squat on the situation.. Oh well. –
So what’s the go with Songtaku thingy? Is it like that Spicks & Specks game where someone sings a song with different lyrics, but with video game songs (I assume?)
Yup. And then we all go pester @dc with mentions in comments until he tells us what it is
Fairly sure that a few of us have his phone number…
Peer pressure. The best kind of pressure!
Isn’t that how pirates get you to join their crew? Pier pressure?
#StillPage6
Ha. I get puns. 😛
So I started watching hat Archer show, it’s not bad. Definitely something I think needs to be watched when I am more alert though & not when I am falling asleep.
You think this is a game?
You better call Kenny Loggins. ‘Cause you’re in the danger zone.
Civilisation 5 – The Fellowship of Kieth
Aargh! I was engaged in a bloody war with Byzantine for about150 years. I recieved numerous requests for a peace treaty, but I rejected them all. Just when I was closing in for the kill, Byzantine requested another treaty. I accidentally hit accept. It’ll take 10 turns before I can attack again, and her army will have rebuilt itself by then…
On the plus side…
Dude, get you some nukes. The most useless gold in Civ is gold sitting in the bank.
As Day[9] would say: micro your macro. Or something like that.
Seriously in most strategy games, resources in the bank are resources not doing anything for you.
Dido? Like… the singer?
Ohhhh, the Queen of Carthage. I am an uncultured, uneducated slob.
So the royal trio are headed to Elizabeth, Adelaide but not Melbourne? Say what you will.
Well, it’s named after his Grandmother.
We already know that, Red! I was hinting at other things! Gosh.
I’M SORRY BENNY BUT PEOPLE FROM THE LESSER, SHIT STATES WHO AREN’T BEING GRACED WITH HIS HIGHNESS’ PRESENCE MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT ELIZABETH
Haha, yeah I figured that too; a bit of a pointless ramble then. So how about them nanomachines hey?
IIRC it’s the Mount Druitt of Adelaide.
Or maybe it was Gawler that was the Mount Druitt, and Elizabeth was the Penrith.
It’s been too long.
Yeah, probably an apt comparison, though Elizabeth was slowly gentrifying. Holden closing will hurt a lot though
@mrtaco so whatever happened to the whole Nintendo thing?
I got my broken 3DS sent back and they didn’t bother charging for the assessment fee, and then I never chased it up further. Also went out and bought an XL with exploitable firmware and made a solderless hardware mod to run backups of it so I can rollback to the old firmware and run the exploit on it down the track if need be. Although since then it seems that some exploits have come about for 6.3, so that’s good I guess.
\o/?
Unsure. I’m still pissed about it and also need to get my eShop stuff back. And still think that the whole nonreplacement thing was bullshit. Probably should have followed up on it but I don’t have that kind of backbone when I feel like I’m out of my depth.
I’ve learned a lot about self-esteem and failure today. And you can too!
http://mentalpod.libsyn.com/mini-episode-165-low-self-esteem
http://mentalpod.libsyn.com/mini-ep-167-failure-wdr-guy-winch
My trick is have absolutely no self-esteem so that anything competent I do is instantly elevated in my eyes thus giving me all the self-esteem I need.
Self-esteem is just an emotion created by Hallmark to sell greeting cards.
Hour long listening?
Why can’t I just reeeeeeeeeead.
Sorry, man! I know you’re disappointed.
Hmmmmmmm. HMMMMMMMMM.
If I had a moustache or a goatee I would be stroking it right now. Dem GM goodies I have in store. >:D
And here is where Popdart reveals he is the protege of George R.R Martin and he’s going to kill off at least one PC per session to keep everyone on their toes 😛
Well, maybe not dead but some of you might wish you were. >:D
I’ve just been thinking of plotlines and I know of a few ways to royally screw things up in the world. It will be awesome but that won’t happen for a while. Epic stuff doesn’t happen when you’re 1st level. 😛
Edit: I probably should mention that my sessions tend to result in at least one party member getting knocked unconscious. Occasionally more but that only happens every other session. 😛
That will just end up in me being more on my toes. Given that we don’t have someone who can heal the party I wouldn’t be surprised if we get royally flogged time and time again :P. Depending on what happens with Dem’nion will also influence the spells he will learn 😉
I guess I should scrap the note I wrote earlier today saying “Knock at least one player/NPC out in first session”.
You can keep the NPC part if you like. 🙂
Deal!
I’m actually starting to stress about it as taking things seriously isn’t really in my nature and everyone seems to be REALLY into it and I’m worried I’m going to upset everyone.
I’m sure you’ll do fine Freeze 🙂
Honestly, I think everyone will get a feel for how everyone plays other the first few sessions and a group dynamic will develop. I know I play silly characters from time to time and it infuriates the people I play with but thankfully there is a good balance between annoying and silly.
There won’t be anything in the first session that will be like “Oh you did something wrong, you are now instantly dead.” There will be things that could lead to your eventual death but that would take a series of bad rolls. I’ll try and be gentle for the first few sessions so everyone can find their feet and figure out how everyone plays together as a party. Who knows, interesting plotlines and stories could arise from the banter between players.
Does that mean you’re going to employ the Bonds system between players (Like RollPlay Dark Heresy on youtube?) or you keeping that out?
I’m keeping out the Bonds system as that seemed to get a little contrived at times but I’m considering incorporating the Objectives system that they were using to ensure that everyone has a chance to get a little bonus EXP. I use a very informal system myself in my other games so I’m just looking to tighten things up and formalise it a bit.
Alright awesome. I always love those little things to add in that encourage interactions between PCs, makes the RP experience feel more active.
This is perhaps the first time I’ve ever taken a character seriously. What happened to the guy who played Zapp Brannigan!? What happened to tactician who used “Ride of the Valkyries” as a battle cry?
He’s dead man, and no amount of rolling will stabilise this corpse. :'(
I think you’ll be fine.
If your character is a smartarse who doesn’t take things seriously, play that character.
He’s the backup character that everyone has. When the GM kills your first character, your backup is one that completely shits on the story and insults all of the NPCs. Purely to spite to GM, of course.
Didn’t you see the part where I was stockpiling racial slurs?
You have a week to grow a moustache and/or goatee.
Greenmangaing are doing a 7 days of deals thing, some decent discounts for todays ones and if I recall correctly the newsletter said the 20% off voucher they’ve got going also applies to the stuff on sale so that’s an extra bonus.
http://www.greenmangaming.com/hot-deals/
Sooo effin cheap. But I need my money!
Alright thank you, I think I’m done with the Internet.
SFW, put headphones in and be prepared to explain why to anybody watching.
O_o
I’ve been asked by a customer to engrave the most realistic penis I can onto something.
Best day ever!
It’ll just be like you’re playing any multiplayer game ever made!
Bollocks! Are you taking the piss? Shafting us? Hosing us? Jerking us around? Give us a glans at the final product a head of time… or is that just a dick move?
One last Page 6 hurrah before the get.
I think it goes without saying that we’ll need to see the finished product to critique it.
I was going to go with “Pics or it didn’t happen” but sure, we can be all MATURE about it then, jeez.
I’m reminded of that dick drawing scene from Superbad.
Yessss.
My old neighbours played country music all day. It wasn’t good. My new neighbours play Jeff Buckley.
I can tolerate this. 😀
And I’ve killed page six? THIS IS A GOOD DAY.
MONSTER 😛
Don’t blame me, blame the monster gene and an unfortunate lab accident. (Hooray for running jokes! cc. @strange.)
But… “Monster” is already a running joke. This is like a running ‘running joke’ joke.
I like Jeff Buckley, therefore I like you DC. We can now be friends again and forget this whole enemy thingo.
Yeah, we can’t let our differences tear us apart. :'(
When we reply each other’s comments, I immediately go and check out your tumblr image of the day and it feels like we’re chatting in person. Creepy much? 😀
And I look at the nearest Buble picture I have opened for some reason. *shifty eyes* Haha! Just updated Tumblr, btw. GOOD TIMING.
Dude what a Creepius.
I was totally going to say that, but then remembered you haven’t been creepius in a while! 😀
I’ve never been Creepius 😛
You mean that he has levelled his stealth skill
Or at the very least learned not to talk openly about all matters creep.
Best and worst thing i ever bought for my desk was a coffee plunger… SO MUCH COFFEE AND SO GOD DAMN TASTY…
4 cups down, and half way through my day \o/
Apparently, you can see through time if you get seven cups down in an hour.
…mustdrinkfaster
that’d explain my recently acquired soothsaying abilities.
@rize @shane
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/455931712153726977
Probs NSFW. And not what I wanted to do. Too damn small.
As usual.
That is the most amazing thing i’ve seen in a while 😛
What’s NSFW about a spaceship?
It’s always good when you get paid to do what you love.
ps. Actual serious question: Is this sort of thing a buy-before-you-try sort of deal? So you’re not left with an engraving that only a handful of TAYbies would want? 😛
Huh? I had a customer bring the tool in and ask for that to be engraved into it.
No, you had a customer ask for a tool to be engraved. 😉
Ohh. Makes more sense. Your first post made it seem like they came in and asked you to engrave whatever you had on hand.
(Spot the hidden joke!)Yeah so work was utter shit today. I still have a job, but sooo tempted to quit. That is all.
damn dude that sux, I know the feeling, I seem to have a knack at getting jobs that just keep piling more duties on me until I hit breaking point and quit. Hope your situation improves or you can find a job that treats you better.
I hear that. I had my letter typed yesterday. It was only the fear of losing the comfort of a constant pay check that made me back flip. Im pretty disappointed in myself actually..
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-04-14/tales-of-hearts-r-briefly-listed-by-u.s-retailer-gamestop !!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear Letter-Writing Page 7,
I hope this message reaches you well.
Today I went to work, and then to the dentist. It was mostly uneventful except for…
I go to catch a bus to get home in time for dentist appointment.
Insufficient funds on go-card.
Oops. I totally should have seen that, my bad. Sorry driver, I’ll go top-er up and catch the next one, there’s heaps of time.
Alright, there’s the ticketing machine, this was past due anyway.
“THIS MACHINE DOES NOT TAKE EFTPOS.”
Sure, TODAY it doesn’t, unlike every other fucking day when it HAS. Guh. Whatever.
OK. Fine. Mangageable. I’ll go to the ATM across the road, get some cash. Running a little behind my plan, but I left myself wiggle room, it’ll be fine.
Let’s just pull out a hundred for safety’s sake – let’s not get caught without cash this week, eh?
“INSUFFICIENT FUNDS.”
Wut? I only asked for a hundred. I put hundreds of dollars in that account this morning. It registered and everything. I did calculations on this shit, ordered groceries! Paid bills! This is the wiggle room account! Nothind direct debits out of it so there can’t be any surprises! THAT’S WHY I HAVE IT. That shit is always and always has been instant. How much do YOU think is in there, ATM?
EIGHTEEN DOLLARS?! What the FUCK?
OK, I’ll just call the bank, get this straightened out, see if it’s a quick fix.
Call failure.
WHY? THERE ARE FOUR BARS, MOTHERFUCKER. What, is it ENGAGED? Why do you speak in riddles, iphone? Let’s check the netbank app. NO SERVICE? Resist. Urge. To. Smash. Phone.
OK. Running low on time, but this is still manageable. Eighteen bucks will be enough to get me a cab ride back home, I can use my PC to netbank there, it’ll be fine. I make it clear to him up-front I’m skating by on the 18 bucks in the account – not a problem, we can deal, he’ll put it through as 15 and the ATM charge will make it 16, plenty of wiggle room.
Good ride in cab, good chat. Let’s just use up the last of that card-money then deal with putting more back into it when I get back to my PC and–
CARD DECLINED?
CHOKE TO DEATH ON MY ENORMOUS @#*% YOU @#%^*@#^ @#%**&!. No, no… OK, no, let’s just try that again.
Four times. It has to be an error. No? OK, here buddy… this is my driver’s licence. You hold onto that as collateral to make sure I’m coming back, then I just gotta get into the building and transfer money, then hit the ATM.
Netbank says… the money is totally there. What the fuck was that other ATM/card-reader’s problem? Did transfers made this morning not get processed or something? I’ll do another one just to be sure. OK, to the ATM.
WHY ARE THERE FORTY PEOPLE QUEUED IN FRONT OF THE ATM?
Well, it is lunch-time. And everyone is storming off with ‘insufficient funds’ errors and calling the bank. OK, so something’s fucked up here.
Phew. My transaction five minutes ago must’ve taken, because now I have monies. Let’s go pay the cabbie, then get to that dentist appointment with mere minutes to spare. I can fill in those forms fast enough I’m sure.
WHERE DID THE CAB GO?
Oh my god. Really? REALLY? Great. There goes my licence because I didn’t even get the cab’s number because I’m a bone-head. Well, there’s one parked there still… oh good, he got the cab number. Alright. Let’s pencil that in for ‘some other time’ because FUCKING APPOINTMENT.
Hm. That’s odd. Bank card, medicare card, cinebuzz card, library card… huh.
My health fund card doesn’t seem to be in my wallet.
Well, I do still have the letter it came with, can you guys use the member num– oh, you need to swipe. Nothing you can do.
Guess I can’t make the appointment.
Step outside.
Walk to corner, contemplating next move.
Take a deep breath.
Yell in a three-octaves-lower-thanks-to-sickness rumbling roar, “IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT CAN GO WRONG? BRING IT ON GOD, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE.“
Pause. Stare back at a nearby looky-loo and growl, “It’s a bad day,” staring til they look away.
Breathe some more and think. I KNOW it was in there.
Check wallet.
Yep. Stuck to the medicare card I pulled out. Ahh, wallet-ass-sweat. Let’s run back into the surgery and see if it’s not too late.
OK, that part wasn’t too bad. Upper-right tooth pain is probably sinus-related or a side-effect of the antibiotics, because everything in the teeth x-rays just fine, no work needs to be done. Just a clean and we’re home free. Health fund covers it. Take some painkillers and try to accept the fact that you are still sick.
OK, back on track. Let’s call the cab company, exchange that money and licence. Oh? He put it in my mailbox, apparently? I’ll check. Nope, not there.
Let’s get him here so I can pay him and find out what he oh my god I know what he did.
My licence has my OLD address on the front, my NEW address on the sticker on the back.
GENIUS POLICY, QLD TRANSPORT. The driver has slipped my licence into a stranger’s mailbox which is behind a secure door with no building manager.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
And that was my day.
Warm regards,
Transientmind.
…. hug?
*hug*
Dear Transientmind
Fuck, that was one hell of a day, surely it can only get better from here. Hopefully you have no more commitments today and can just wind down for a few hours.
All the Best
Gutsoup
*hug*
Wow, I’ve had bad days before, but that…
Wow.
Glad to hear your day was uneventful, man.
I didn’t click your spoiler tag, because… you know, spoilers.
Click it, you know you want to. Also, it’s a great read.
Psst: Of course I read it 😛
Damn dood. Sounds like you got it even worse than me today :\ I’m not gonna bother with details for my day, cos I’d be here forever, but suffice to say it wasn’t as epic as that! Hopefully someone will do the right thing and hand it in somewhere for ya!
Oh yes! I went there, tail-gated a couple through the secure door, knocked on the door and roused the occupant from slumber to open the letterbox for me.
He was incredibly wary and maybe a tad frightened, asking several times who I was and not really wanting to open the door past the chain. It probably does not help that he was maybe 5′ tall.
Eftpos is down everywhere. It’s friggen annoying and I keep having to tell customer to go find an ATM.
This is SKYnet going self-aware! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, @redartifice? (He works at Cyberdine Systems in case you didn’t know!)
Oh, didn’t you know? Red is the new T-2000 model that Cyberdyne have let loose into the public – they’re trialing robotic integration into modern society. He comes complete with implanted false memories, personality and even likes and dislikes!
Well, I was at an antenna company this afternoon…
There were a LOT of people getting turned away for ‘insufficient funds’ even at the ATM I went to. What a clusterfuck. It mustn’t just be affecting my bank, because I did overhear a coworker complaining about her netbanking being down when she was trying to check it at work, and I know she’s with a different bank.
I wonder if there’s some heartbleed-paranoia-related security-checking going on.
I know Commonwealth is down nearly completely. Even their call center is down.
That would explain the phone and internet banking apps not working on my phone when regular calls did.
Yeah dude, almost the entirety of CBA was unavailable for more than half the day… It’s not much fun, I’ve worked for CBA previously when this has happened…
That…. Wow. Just…. Beer?
Heh. Well. Pringles and sleep, I think. Still recovering from some lung infection type thing.
Like, pleurisy style?
No idea. Heavy gunk, coughing/sniffles, nasal drip, plenty of yellow-green goo.
Probably not pleurisy then. That’s an infection around the lung area but more specifically the muscles.
Get better soon regardless!
pours when it rains. I did read CBA was down today, noticed my lunch I paid for hasn’t come out og my bank yet.
You’re lucky the taxi driver dropped your licence off at all though. I’ve had a couple of times left a wallet or my missus’ bag in a taxi, ring up the lost and found and they never get dropped off there.
Advice; chalk off today and continue tomorrow like Tuesday never happened
Dear Transient
I’m glad you had a nice uneventful day
Still spoiler free
Tigs
Hang on, where was the funny and/or heartwarming denouement that involves an attractive lady?
I wish. 🙁
Heh… I think the interview went alright but the internship and place sound a bit dodgy so I don’t think I’ll accept it (if they ask). It’s basically “go find potential leads and sales for us for free” which isn’t at all like the listed description (Financial Planning).
Woooooaaaaaaah, that’s totally illegal.
Thanks for posting the stuff yesterday but I hope others don’t get suckered into this kinda work :(. They said after the initial 2 weeks there’s a chance to make it go commission based but still…
Shit yeah. Unless I’m mistaken, that’s exactly what you’re not allowed make unpaid interns do.
Run. Now.
Oh shit! I forgot to exercise today…
Thanks for the reminder!
Document everything they ask you to do, it’ll be handy for the lawsuit
Dear TAY.
Now I have a can of pringles. Life is pretty awesome.
– Transientmind
And you’ve got an edgy street musician instrument too, cause once you pop you just can’t stop!
Street musicians do not deserve pringles.
They deserve: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/03/21/combuskible
(Bonus Infamous: Second Son reference.)
I had a can of Roast Chicken Pringles the other day. They were surprisingly yumm!
and then you found ten dollars?
My arm no longer fits in an empty Pringles can so I can’t pretend I’m half cyborg anymore 🙁
Hey @popdart5, I just re-read my Abyssal bloodlines part of Sorc and I realised there’s “Bonus feats” listed. Do I get them automatically or do I need to wait till I can spend the feat points on levelling?
So therefore you will only be able to select up to three bonus feats by the time you reach level 20.
Ah okay so no additions needed for level 1. Didn’t see that bit, thanks for clarifying.
The FLGS here in Dubbo seems to be pretty into Magic: the Gathering. There were piles of cards just lying on the tables while we played board games last night and the usual boxes upon boxes of cards from recent expansions in plain sight.
This seems like a perfect opportunity to get some people into Android: Netrunner. So I spent a good chunk of this afternoon (okay, like an hour) sorting and resleeving my cards so I could try introducing people with the base game. Doing this online definitely didn’t work but I figure meatspace will be more accommodating.
If this fails, there’s always the Warhammer 40k LCG coming out soon. I know there are people around here that are going to pick it up and a few more who might with some convincing. Hopefully that means I’ll get something to scratch my card playing itch, even if I can’t get people at my local FLGS to play anything with me.
For the record, I’m expressly forbidden from getting back into Magic and Hearthstone just kinda sucks.
Urgh. Made appointment to see a doctor to get something started. My regular doctor I’ve seen for nearly 10 years and knows everything about me has decided to move to New Zealand meaning I have to go see some stranger and admit there’s something wrong with me mentally.
Great. The chances of me following through have dropped significantly.
Follow through, man. I was in a similar mindset last year, but the doctor I went to was awesome and kind and reassuring and had my best interests in mind. The thing is there’s something wrong with any one who goes to the doctor either health or mental. That’s what they’re for, Freeeeeze. Do it. Or I’ll fight you.
Freeze, a doctor’s job is not to judge you, they’re there to help.
If you don’t get help, your family will slowly lose the man they love. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
We’re all here for you. There is nothing unmanly about admitting to having depression. Admitting is really the wrong word because it take a hell of a lot more balls to face up to a problem, then ignoring it and hoping it’ll go away. I’m sure your wife will agree. When you go to the doctors, you have the support of us all behind you.
I wish you all the courage and luck.
I see you’ve never been into a doctor’s surgery with a cold or similar, had them notice you’re overweight and start measuring your blood pressure.
You’re undermining my encouragement here D=
Heh unfortunately accurate
It’s super shit if your blood pressure is usually in the normal range but you find going to a doctor ultra stressful (often because you’re worried they’ll want to check your BP!) and also because you’re fucking sick and probably running a fever / higher than normal BP.
I had that judgemental thing when the psych sent me to get a heart test before he put me on amphetamines. The cardiologist took one look at me and assumed all manner of things, kind of obvious from her reactions but I guess understandable since I was in for a heart exam, I was 186kg and my dad died of a heart attack.
A few minutes on the treadmill rapidly cured her of those assumptions, as much as losing weight would give me confidence, I got a hell of a boost from her looking at the results in surprise, probably thinking “shit, his heart is in better condition than mine!”
Making the appointment is the hard part
Now you just have to go and in a way that is easier than having to pick up the phone and cancel
Think of the advantage, a stranger has no personal history to judge you on, it’s one of the times being a statistic is an advantage.
This is an important thing to do and the hesitation it’s just your brain trying to find an excuse to chicken out.
Continue on, you wouldn’t want me to beat you in the race to get mental help, right?
@shane,
I can now confirm that consuming a high amount of coffee within a given time does not give the expected super powers of looking through time.
I have however gained the ability to urinate like a racehorse,
I will use my new found powers for good i swear…
now to find some snow
I meant seven cups per hour for a sustained period of eleven hours. Sorry, man. Try again tomorrow.
Roger that, will report with tomorrows findings.
Stand by
As someone who is not a doctor, but used to own a lab coat, can confirm.
InFamous: Split Second Stream?
Alas this is something only the greatest of great, @chuloopa is yet to achieve…
There will be experimentations today, but there’s a risk, much like when Bruce Banner got caught in the Gamma Ray experiment, that things can go horribly wrong
What’s the best ISP for a saucy webcam babe? Huh? Good ol’ Lifehacker.
Well, better click it, so I can make sure my Sauciness has the right upload speed.
That’s gravy
The Secret to a Happy Marriage: Eat More Sugar.
Hahaha, oh wow.. Interesting piece. I mean if Russia & other parts of eastern europe can have cam girls with good connections why can’t ours!
Bleh, went to buy a leather jacket today since Just Jeans have some really nice ones for $129 currently, pick out the XXL and try it on, turns out it was really small across the shoulders, so much so it was pulling them back D= also turned out this other mens fashion store Connor had similar leather jackets, their XXXL was smaller again than the one at Just Jeans and was constricting on my forearms.. It’s a total joke when all my shirts are between XL & XXXL, I wish there was a standard size for all these not what manufacturers think is the right size :/
Oh well ended up buying Tomb Raider on PS4 for 60 bucks from EB, so not all was lost!
I’ve been wanting a leather jacket but it’s too hot for me to ever wear one and I can’t find a long one I actually like. Not to mention that my boots that I loved died a death a little while ago by falling apart at the seams 🙁 my favourite gig boots gone without realising it 🙁
but yeah, clothes shopping is a pain for someone with broader shoulders 🙁 it’s also nigh on impossible to buy baggy-ish jeans anymore. Not nu-metal baggy, but loose. Seems everywhere wants me to wear skinny jeans and cut off the bloodflow to my manhood :-/
Yeah I want one but can’t really justify one here on the Gold Coast, but I thought it’d make sense when i’m off down south for a couple of weeks in June, water proof AND warm, winning combination in my books! Ouch, that sucks. Sucks when a favourite piece of clothing dies D=
Oh man skinny jeans are such a stupid idea! Straight cut ftw. Reminds me only I only currently own one decent pair of jeans now bleh. Need to fix that problem 😛
Best and Less Bad Boy jeans still have the loose fit. Good price too.
My local Best & less don’t worst shop evar D=
Hey therr Mana Bar, haven’t seen you in ages. No I’m not going in, just waiting for the bus outside.
Has anyone been to the Mana Bar in Brisbane and thought that for a cocktail bar their cocktails are quite expensive and a bit crap to boot?
Cocktails are expensive everywhere imo. Then again I think beer is way over priced >_>
We almost went there on Saturday, but someone might have accidentally talked the group out of it. SORRY @sughly! :'(
was the right decision 😛
Walk past it semi-frequently on the way to Ltd. Espresso. Would not go past it otherwise. Not interested.
Oh ya, don’cha know that knew Fargo show is on the TeeVee soon.
I’m a little excited thar, you betcha.
Yah.
I actually watched that film earlier this year for the first time and OMG do they say yah all the time.
oh yah. Great flick, yes siree
I’m going to be honest and admit i have absolutely 100% no idea what you guys are talking about 😛
I honestly expected more pirates from the way you were talking XD
But that is now on my to-watch list
Put it on the top of your list, buddy.
It’s a great little flick, no fooling.
And it’d gonna be one of those fancy cable teevee shows, you betcha. With that Martin Freeman fella.
Now that’s something I’d be interested in watching, that’s fer sure.
God damn people. If you need your shoes fixed before your 6am flight, why the crap would you bring them in to be done at 5:30pm the night before?
Because 5:30 the night after would just be silly.
I’d be more inclined to be amused if I didn’t have to work 45mins overtime completely unpaid.
…really?
That’s shit :/
OOOOHHH!! OHHHHHHHH!!! OOOHHHH!!
@strange!
Final season of Warehouse 13 has started! Episode 1 is up now.
I’m simultaneously excited and sad.
I’ve been meaning to watch this. I assume it’s worthwhile?
I really enjoy it. Not a serious, deep and meaningful show but it’s a lot of fun.
Basically SCP: The TV Series.
Just watched it. Felt good to have it back.
I have no idea how that chick who played DaVinci’s granddaughter gets work. She’s one of the worst actresses I’ve ever seen. First she ruined Once Upon A Time and now Warehouse 13. Urk.My favourite part was Pete’s “URANUS!”. 😀Almost forgot, my new favourite teefury/riptapparel shirt arrived yesterday. GRIMZILLA 😀
http://www.redbubble.com/people/brinkerhoff/works/11519010-grimzilla?p=t-shirt&SSAID=292008
I keep clicking on the wrong TAY in the most viewed tab.
You’ve changed TAY, you used to be blue.
MAGENTA! ALL THE MAGENTA!
There’s a bit of white too
But mostly magenta!
So apparently Malcolm Young is incredibly sick and AC/DC are going to be calling it a day due to this, that really sucks. Especially since they were set to record their 16th studio album this year :/
They had a pretty good run
Agreed, not every band can say they’ve been around for 41 years, unless you’re The Rolling Stones lol.
Keith Richards is going to outlive civilisation at this point.
My mate said the exact same thing..
Judas Priest \o/
Wait, AC/DC is still around? I thought they broke up 35 years ago.
It shows how much I know about music.
Oh you..
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Starts in 25 Minutes! Link Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0CTK-EACXA
I’m watching it for education purposes.
Will someone tell Funimation to hurry up and release their dub of Battle of Gods. The Japanese version sounds so very very wrong to me.
Think it has something to do with Fox having the rights to Dragonball movies, which this technically is.
Managed to progress some more in Dark Souls 2 again. Downed two bosses (without help, both times just going in to see what the boss’ patterns were like and ended up defeating them) and am now in the first part of Iron Keep.
I only played today because I asked my son whether I should work or play Dark Souls and he chose Dark Souls. 😛
*drums fingers*
What to play…
What to play…
Video games
Dunno which one, though. 🙁
What are the choices?
Gaming or Bed.
Simple, gaming in bed.
Tried that on Sunday night/Monday morning.
Barely got any sleep, listened to the soccer (Chelsea vs Swansea), Played FIFA 14 on my tablet.
Was a wreck during Monday.
Set a time to stop playing
Game while in bed?
See above.
I just found out about Twine. It’s an open source tool that basically lets you build choose your own adventure-style games and publish them to HTML pages.
Potential TAY adventure game?
DC has found his calling.
I found my calling. The wild.
*wanders into woods*
Wait! what about the wagons!
All you need to make this thing work is the ability to write, apparently. Maybe a bit of organizational skills if you end up with something large.
I wonder if there’s scope for some kind of group thing where people sign up and take the source file and add to it for a week or two then publish the result and the next person takes it and does the same.
I am great at coming up with vague stories and not being able to clarify anything!
I don’t see why it couldn’t be done purely via email. Actually sounds like a blast.
Well, because the output when you build it is a pile of HTML pages, so you need to upload those somewhere for people to play the latest version!
Too bad we don’t write @transientmind fan fiction any more. This would have been epic. 😛
Oh well, I’ll just have to work on my D.C. simulator.
I give you permission to write DC fan fiction! 😀
But that ruins all my illicit fun.
Speak for yourself.
@DC was moseying around London with his best girl…
…And after combining two seemingly random items, he solved the puzzle and lived happily ever after
Well I know what I’m doing this week.
Kotaku Chronicles’ potential return? \o/
I’d forgotten just how much I love FFX. I’m noticing a lot more this time around too, like how Lulu’s hair pins are all different, and the pattern on Wakka’s bandanna. I can’t remember if they were in the original or not :S
The only thing I’d forgotten about is how vague Kimahri’s upgrade path is. It’s urking me not having a clear path or outcome for him, unlike everyone else. I’m slowly working him towards Triple Foul anyway, since no one else is heading there.
And I totally won the Luca cup 😀
I’d never managed to do that before! Very happy with my blitzball skillz 😉
Hey Liondrive! How goes the drag shows!
Postponed :'(
Gives me an extra week to tone up though, so that’s alright. I’m determined to look my best so that my chances for successful flirting are higher 😉
Dude, be yourself. No need to change for other people. If someone likes you they’ll flirt regardless. Don’t need fake tans and waxing and toning up. *shakes fist at kids these days*
(And I say this as the recipient of some unexpected flirting lately. Haha!)
Oh my god, I sound so gay… 🙁
And it was hair removal cream, not waxing 😛
The hair just falls off*!!!
*with mild to severe burning sensations.
Blergh. I’ve done that once.
Never again.
Sounds like there’s a story here!
ONE I DON’T WANT TO KNOW. *flees*
I’ve done it a few times, prefer it over waxing due to no pain, but the smell it releases is knockout worthy!
Try having it all over your body from the neck down. Not a good time between the smell and the pain :S
@liondrive you know your not meant to get that stuff on your junk right? That’s why people get waxed there and shave/hair removal cream everywhere else haha
Yeah, I saw that on the directions, but figured “How bad can it be?”.
The answer is pretty bad, although I found nipples were worse (since you’re not meant to use it there either).
@liondrive well now you know for next time..and I won’t try it I just shaved around the nips as waxing leaves bumps and kills!
All I’m saying is if someone likes you cause of that and only that you’ll have to keep doing it constantly week after week. Is it worth that?
It’s only about a first impression. You don’t wear makeup every day (and the sentence ends there) because you wore it for the first few dates with someone.
I mean, pretending that you’re a ScienceWizard with six degrees, an annual income of 6 million dollars and a 9 incher is probably a bad idea, but a little change isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
I get that, but I wouldn’t mind being toned anyway, so that’s not bad.
Also, hmmm, how do I say this without sounding like a slut…
If flirting is successful, I don’t plan on seeing them again anyway, cause I’m not after a relationship, if you get what I’m saying…
…One night stand.Lulu’s boobs are much rounder and fuller now.
And I’m with you on Kimarhi. So damn useless. If I didn’t have to get some levels in him for Mt. Gagazet I’d forget about him.
Send him down Rikkus path. He becomes a powerhouse with the speed of Tidus and the strength of Auron. Once finished, send him down Wakka. And then Auron.
Don’t bother with Lulus path. He’s an alright black mage but he’s always behind Lulu and therefore useless.
I really like him, as a character, but he sucks to use cause he doesn’t have a proper role like everyone else. I guess he falls kinda under red mage, but he’s not useful enough as a red mage, and I don’t wanna double-up classes :S
Hopefully I can find something useful for him :S
I got him Haste then took him down Auron’s path and he ended up getting more STR than Auron at some point. It was useful to have another Haster until I got Hastega.
People also suggest getting him Steal/Use and then going down Auron’s.
They jiggle too. I don’t know if they did that in the original 😛
They kind of did a big heavy bounce or two in her sweeping victory animation. I remember it well.
Kimahri is the most useless vestigial character who really has no bearing at all on the plot and feels completely surplus. I never used him because there was literally nothing he could do another character wasn’t better at.
Blitz strategy I typed up the other day
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-271/comment-page-15/#comment-2537284
Might be helpful!
Hi guys,
Yes still alive but absent because reasons!
That’s all I’ve really got to say.
Hope all is well, man. If you ever need to talk or whatever?
dp[hypen]clarke[at]outlook[dot]comHope everything is OK man!
COME BACK TO UUUUSSS
But Lorde.
Don’t worry. That is still a thing. The tickets actually arrived the other day and I’ve been meaning to let you know!
You’ll never be Royals, Alex.
But we’re on each other’s Team.
So your not on the same team then?
Busy filming Episode VII? We get it.
Hey it’s that guy. Something to do with pastries or something?
…
Hullo!
Right, well, I’ve decided I’m completely and utterly done with Dark Souls… I’ve been trying to play for months now, and I keep mashing my face against the wall that is the Capra Demon, and it’s no longer fun, or even “I know it’s difficult, but I’ll just push through” enjoyable anymore… I’ve also gone and requested GMG cancel my PC pre-order for DS2.
I lay myself at the mercy of the TAY SunBros and Bro-ettes.
Meh. Dark Souls 2 killed my enthusiasm for Dark Souls.
I still haven’t finished Dark Souls 2, got way too frustrated and just quit.
This is my first run of Dark Souls… When I originally bought it on 360, I got up to the armoured pig at the beginning of the Parish, died a few times and bailed. This time, I got it on PC, and as mentioned, got up to the Capra Demon (through an inordinate number of walkthrough videos and wiki visits) and I’m just fucking done with this series.
NUMENERA: Tales of the Ninth World!
The players head deeper into the underground chambers beneath the manor= but what lives down there?
WATCH as the players encounter the mysterious DEVONA!
LISTEN as @mythamphetamine tries to understand a multi-dimensional being!
GET CHILLS as creatures attack the party!
LAUGH as @blaghman tries to impress said multidimensional being through flexing!
Thanks once again for playing guys!
cc @novacascade @popdart5 @tech_knight and also @mawt!
Oh cool, that centrelink letter was about Newstart being cancelled because I haven’t been reporting. Oops 😛
Yeah I got one of those, except I wasn’t reporting because I had managed to get a job (absolutely no thanks to Centrelink or their useless job training cronies) and could not afford 45+ minutes out of my day to sit on the phone and wait for them to pick up so I could tell them I wouldn’t be reporting…
I wasn’t reporting because I just kind of forgot about it and wasn’t doing anything about it >_>
FFXHD people (@greenius, @cakesmith, @sernobulus and perhaps @liondrive)
Am I the only one struggling with timings on the PS3 version? Like lightning dodging and Tidus’ overdrive, I just cannot do it on the PS3 and fail every time. Yet every time on the Vita I have no problem. Annoying the bejesus out of me.
I’ve only played it on Vita, but I cannot get the overdrive time for Tidus right. I’ve managed it once, and failed a million times.
Maybe I’m just special.
I’m not super far, but I’ve noticed that Tidus’ overdrive gauge starts quite early, so you kinda have to prepare for that. I haven’t missed yet, but it does start really quickly (this is only for spiral cut), and I can see how it is easy to miss. I’m nowhere near the lightning part yet, but so far I’m not having any difficulties with Tidus’ overdrive. Input timing seems fine to me :S
In the case of lightning dodging I’ve read online that it’s actually harder now because it’s HD. Something about the display on HD TVs and lag or something. Definitely not uncommon from what I’ve read.
I can’t really compare it to the original since I never bothered with it then, but I definitely struggled to dodge lightning in this version. The timing just seemed way off and almost impossible, and I’m usually good at timing/rhythm games.
If you’re going for the trophy/sigil here’s an easy technique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNjKL7aZY4E
@popdart5 in case you check here first, came up with a good pathfinder concept (I think it’s good at least) and sent you an email about it.
Long, rambling, barely coherent thoughts:
You know, I’m weird with music. Usually any music that has lyrics I instantly hate these days. There are few exceptions, but most are in the vein of ‘What is Love’
Having watched Kill la Kill, I have come to the realisation that I cannot truly like a piece of music if I have an emotional attachment to it. The music in Kill la Kill is not something I would listen to if I hadn’t watched the anime. Yet I find myself listening to the soundtrack constantly. Ragyo’s theme became the new Let it Go for a period of about three days. I even attempted to burn the full german lyrics into my head. Ira Gamagoori’s theme is hardcore metal, a genre that I generally dislike. I want To Know is a folk acoustic song.
When I listen to music, it mostly from video games that I have already played. I can hum Lance’s theme from Pokemon Gold perfectly. (kind of) I consider the Primal Dialga theme from Mystery Dungeon to be the best final boss music ever. But why? It’s just a flute and a synth.
A while back I tried to uncover why this piece of music resonates so much with me. The answer is simple; emotional investment. Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness is one of my all-time favourite games, so my mind naturally elevates the song from ‘Kinda good,’ to ‘God.’
I suppose another element is context. Those songs in Kill la Kill that have lyrics are made all the more meaningful by context. They are even better when you delve in and try to uncover the true meaning of the songs; find the true meaning of the lyrics, who is singing the song and who you might think the song is directed at.
For those that are still reading; a test. Here is the final boss music from mystery dungeon. Since only one other TAYbie has played the game, I want you to tell me your feelings toward the song with no context. What emotions does the song evoke, if any?
flicked through it. Sounds like Japanese game music. Going for a semi- victory is nigh feel, not very menacing.
It sounds like running in front of a continuously scrolling background. Possibly while credits are rolling.
Hate to say it but it’s, uh, kind of bland.
Which I guess proves your point about emotional investment.
I suppose that does prove my point. The comments on the video are nothing but fans saying how great the song is, and the emotions behind it. There are a bunch of comments dedicated to trying to put to text how the song is the embodiment of every emotion the story built
I suppose after everyone has had their chance to comment, I will provide a spoiler-filled summary about the emotions the song evokes in me, to offer a bit of comparison.
Ah, sod it, I can’t be bothered explaining.
The song you linked is conjuring to mind images of a young anime kid going on some sort of adventure. It’s an okay tune, but nothing really special.
I almost never pay attention to the lyrics in songs. To me singing is basically another instrument in the song and trying to pick out all the words is like trying to pick out the chords of an individual instrument instead of listening to the song as a whole.
I’m also weird when it comes to music, but in a completely different way. To me, the idea of keeping up with album releases; of being excited for album releases and listening to complete albums in the same way you’d play through a game or watch a movie and actually being able to name a lot of albums off the top of your head is just utterly bizarre.
Man I’m so glad to see you say that bit about singing. And I think it was @beavwa that said similar the other week? I’d never heard anyone else say that it was like that for them too before, glad to finally find others 😛
Same here with the the music on all counts.
Tho I do tend to learn the lyrics to my favourite songs.
“DON’T LOSE YOUR WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Always followed by an awesome scene.
@shane, since you liked the last Achievement Hunter GTA heist, here is the new one. This heist is led by Gavin, the British one. They plan to do a new one for every member. Thoughts on there being more? I look forward to the Ryan one.
Yesssssss. Thanks, man!
Hahahaha, that execution was so amazing.
It’s so funny just how badly these things go.Ryan’s “heist” will just be an elaborate plot to herd everyone into a the end of an alley so he can crash a plane into them or something.
Big AH fan here too, and anything involving Gav usually ends up in chaos and funny.
@Phlanispo Ryan’s will be expectedly violent and creepy at the same time.
Also;
I WANT MY TRIALS.
Yes, the Trials Let’s Plays were pretty good. There are so many games that they should revisit.
Oh, I meant I want Trials Fusion already :p
I generally enjoy and watch most of their stuff, hope some of lads come to PAX this year. Would love to have a bev with ’em.
Geoff said on AHWU that they had a Trials Fusion Let’s Play out Wednesday. So, tomorrow.
We got Family Feud instead. I support this decision.
@dc
Diddy is confirmed in Mario Kart 8! I call Luigi!
…go away Toad.
YESSSSSSS.
Well I don’t think it’s official but there’s leaked screenshots and articles that have him!
Dry Bones?
Doesn’t look like it :(. There’s a few ? characters though so maybe he’s one of them.
http://www.ibtimes.com/mario-kart-8-release-date-may-diddy-kong-confirmed-playable-character-1571887
http://www.gamnesia.com/news/diddy-kong-confirmed-for-mario-kart-8?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed#.U02xr_mSxil
Hmm well this one is saying his inclusion in the article is a mistake 😛
*folds arms and stamps foot* hrrrrmphh
YESSSSSS x2
MAYBE NOT?!
But Luigi is there, so all is good in the world.
Stop messing with me, Greenius!
*runs off crying*
But now I’m reading that the same magazine accidentally leaked Pokemon evolutions so it could still be true!
I look forward to playing mutliplayer with D.C. again. Remember that one time in Borderlands 2? Good times.
Donkey Kong Jr. never gets any love.
Donkey Kong Jnr IS Donkey Kong, original Donkey Kong was Cranky. TRUE STORY.
I think. I might’ve misinterpreted the clues. XD
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Cranky kept on hinting at that stuff in DKC, if I recall. It’s a mystery. 😀
Also the Rare logo with the original scaffolding stuff with Cranky and then new kid DK comes in with his boom box. XD
So Donkey is a title rather than a name?
OMG ITS A MONKEY MAFIA!!!!
I call Koopa Troopa!
Yeah, it’s kinda sad really.
Agreed.
The constant reply fails? Yeah. Kind of.
😛
Why do I have the theme tune from the original Test Drive in my head? I also woke up with Golden Axe’s Turtle Village tune in my head. How do I even remember them?
Looks like I’ll be in Canberra this afternoon (and tomorrow morning). Freya’s friend had a baby so we’re going to head over there, poke the baby and be all “yup, that’s a baby”.
I thought the agreed upon response to someone having a baby was to avoid talking to them for the next twenty-one years. Get with the program, Bunbun.
It’s like people just ignore my advice. /o\
It’s only 3 hours to sydney, and awesome boardgames with awesome people 😛
So you’re saying I should drive five hours from a place five hours away from Sydney to get three hours away from Sydney so that we can get to Sydney?
That’s confusing.
It’s always good to make sure.
You’re putting an ageing childless woman in a relationship in proximity of a newborn?
Brave man.
Excuse me while I find a safe place to hide from Freya for a year or ten.DUUUUUDE
i hope you a ready for death, she may be small but she fights dirty.
I feel that possibly you are a braver man by expressing your feelings on this matter.
Odd. I suddenly don’t feel very brave at all.
If it makes you feel any better she was on team-speak the other night discussing pictures of dead bodies. She said they were for medical studies, but I’m not so sure.
Playing with cadavers is one of the perks of being a doctor that they try not to advertise in case it attracts weirdos.
Now I’m imagining @Freya with a mad gleam in her eye, a needle and thread in hand and occasionally giggling maniacally while singing under her breath “the leg bone’s connected to the… skull bone“
I once had the displeasure of knowing a girl who had an obsession with the dead and when she got angry at me and my mate she’d send pictures off dead/decapitated/mutilated people to us saying she wished they were us.. Charming lass..
Do you happen to still have her number? Sounds like my type of lady
Nah, she lives somewhere near Christchurch in New Zealand, all I recall is her name was Ingrid 😛 off ya trot I guess haha.
I should mention to everyone for the Pathfinder game that you shouldn’t feel like I’ve given you any special consideration as I’ve done that for pretty much all of the players. You’re all special in your own way. 😛
Also, juicy, juicy backgrounds aplenty from you guys. Oh boy. *rubs hands together maniacally*
The hype.. it’s building rapidly for this
Juicy backgrounds like this? http://goo.gl/MDt52U
I’m “special”
That is a glorious wallpaper. 😛
Speaking of glorious, I’m thinking that Drewan might not be zealous enough. Thinking about re-rolling a new character. Keith Keithington, a wandering Monk of Keith who travels the land spreading the good word of Keith and performing miracles in His holy name.
That’s cool, right @phlanispo ?
Our Keith, who art in that house down the road, you know the one…
Maybe he’s from Keith?
This pleases Kieth. If you want your character to be a native Kiethlander, note that the current cities in the Kieth Dominion are Kiethistan and Kiethistan Jr.
Funny story actually. A while back we had a strange data corruption issue going on with some of our infrastructure. Basically a big dump of info about various files we’re looking at. We key the data with a SHA hash of the file, and that’s where the data corruption happened. A memory leak or something somewhere was filling the hash field with random stuff.
I first noticed it when I discovered a file that had the hash ‘Keith’.
Keith works in mysterious ways.
I should get some time to finish my character this weekend. As for the simple details – Beorn, the Human Druid. Hailing from the wild-lands of Waterloo, where he couldn’t escape if he wanted to.
Man holidays where you just play games and do nothing are so foreign to me. Usually when i take holidays i jetset around the country and have a amazing time with friends trying new stuff and generally being awesome.
Other thing, my family are all going away for the long weekend. Except me. Im staying home alone. Even without my dog who is usually my favourite company. Ah loneliness my familiar friend. When im alone i want company, when im around people i want to be alone. There is definitely a song lyric in there somewhere.
So what you’re saying is that you’re going to spend the whole long weekend hanging out with your eighth best bud on TS. Right? Right, good plan.
It’s the best way to have the opposite of an awesome time.
4th best bud
get it right
So is that some EPIC sessions of JC2MP coming up? \o/
YOU! I WANNA TAKE YOU TO THE TAYBAR! I WANNA TAKE YOU TO THE TAYBAR! I WANNA TAKE YOU TO THE TAYBAR, TAYBAR! WOOO!
Is this a sign that Taybar is back on? because it probably should
So turns out Gary’s mod is loads of fun at a LAN… who knew??? On a side note, Starting to feel really old, its depressing.
Let me guess, your “really old” is about 30?
Whippersnappers…
Off lawn…
*snores*
@freezespreston: If you’re worried about people playing D&D seriously, just remember this: Vin Diesel tried to get Dame Judi Dench to play D&D. We’ll never reach that level of gravitas. Ever.
Coming to Theatres this Summer: Dame Judi Dench is… The Goblin Queen.
Judi Dench would definitely play Barbarian
The Best Exotic Barbarian Hotel
Have you seen what she cross-stitches in-between movie takes?
That lady is a barbarian, through and through.
Hola. Holidays have started. 😀 Travel has begun.
How go you working peasants?
I stink like a peasant, dress like a peasant and am on fire like a peasant.
We’re busy working. On coming up with cool musings to post on TAY, of course.
Yeah, I got nothing atm. 🙁
Slow TAY. How on Earth am I supposed to procrastinate here if nobody has anything to say?! 😛
I’m scared to.
Start talking with the people in your mind. Mine aren’t great conversationalists, they mostly just insult me, but maybe yours are less jerky.
Hi Strange. Did you end up purchasing that mobile phone yet?
No, I haven’t been able to afford it yet as growing kids and a change of season means buying the kids whole new wardrobes of clothes.
I had a scare yesterday with my current phone though. I went to unlock it, but the screen just faded away and it wouldn’t turn on or off or anything anymore. It was just dead. I removed the battery and put it back in and the phone lives again, but I live in constant uncertainty now. I just need it to hold on for one more month!
It was a proper question, actually, because I personally went and bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 mini in the mean time as well. It’s fantastic! You should get one too! If you haven’t already purchased that Sony or LG or whatever it was. DWI Digital currently have them for $294 outright. Bargain.
I have absolutely nothing worthwhile to add, so i’m just lurking… quietly in the corner
FARSCAPE. Oh man, I love this show. Even enjoyed rewatching Jeremiah Crichton, even though it’s totally silly.
Up next:
Chiana’s first episode \o/Hmm. I keep thinking I may need to check this one out.
Oh man, I’ve watched Farscape four times and from the second time I just skipped Jeremiah Crichton. So painful.
I’m glad you’re liking it. I found my most recent playthrough kind of ruined it all for me.
I remember watching it the first time it aired on Channel 9. I remember emailing the station multiple times when they took 18 months off between seasons, and I remember scouring the TV guide every week to see if they were going to be airing any season 2 episodes at 5pm, 10:30pm, or anytime in between. After fifteen years, and who knows how many watchthrus, I’m not even sure the quality of the show even matters anymore 😛
Pretty disappointed in Barry today =/
If he just said he had received the wine and forgotten to record it, he probably could have rode this out. $3K wine alone shouldn’t be career ending.
It may have been the tip of the iceberg, and he didn’t want the real truth out.
You’re right of course. Small gifts like these usually indicate there is something far more insidious happening and this basically drives the entire reason icac takes these so seriously. I doubt anyone would really be upset about receiving a $3K bottle of wine no matter who its from – but there must be something more going on. I guess I’m just hoping there isn’t something more going on. Bleh. Thought he was one of the good ones.
As things are generally with politics, it’s not so much the reality but the perception. He’s been tainted by this whole thing despite the actual wine being a small drop (pardon the pun) in the overall scandal. I can’t imagine him resigning but he’ll probably be pressured into standing aside if things snowball out of control.
Edit: Ah, I missed the news about him already resigning.
Wine shouldn’t be, lying to a corruption commission damned sure should be though. Also cause for criminal prosecution.
I’ve got a bunch of random YouTube videos book marked and I might as well watch them… BUT WHICH ONE(S)?!
The Smash Brothers doco
That DOTA 2 doco
The Making of The Last of Us
Some David Blaine special
Those Rooster Teeth GTAV Heists
…others?
Smash Brothers doco is pretty good. Definitely worth watching.
The GTAV heists are hysterical. The planning is lengthy, and the execution is just unbelievably funny
I don’t watch a lot of Rooster Teeth stuff but do people like Michael? Every time he says something it’s just ugh! His only redeeming factor is that he kinda looks like hotross 😛
Micheal can be pretty annoying at times, but he is really good when he is in his element. There was a really annoying period of about three months where he kept making the same ‘You busta’ joke over and over again, but on the whole I like him. Gavin and Micheal (also know as Team NiceDynamite) have a really nice chemistry together.
If you are talking about people that the community don’t like, Jack gets an insane amount of hate in the comments.
Also if you want to watch more Achievement Hunter stuff, their Minecraft stuff is almost always amazing. The GTA IV videos are really good, particularly the Cops n’ Crooks series.
Dammit, why can’t I talk about Achievement Hunter without going on a plugging rampage?
I feel responsible for the two documentaries being there. So definitely the Smash bros one because its like 5 hours of content.
http://gematsu.com/2014/04/new-lancarse-rpg-in-the-works-for-ps3-ps-vita
I shouldn’t find the Lancarse logo funny, but I do. I wonder if they even know? They’ve even capitalized the A in there, so it’s LancArse.
But the game itself sounds maybe interesting.
I’m bored so I went on a bit of a TV Tropes cruise for a bit. I discovered that David Tennant was in a Harry Potter movie and that Christian Bale was the English voice actor for Howl in Howl’s Moving Castle.
I like to think my time was better spent doing that rather than working.
Yeah, Tennant was Barty Crouch Junior
I’m pretty sure I saw Order of the Phoenix after I saw Tennant’s Doctor Who years and still didn’t pick it for some reason until I rewatched the movies recently. My wife didn’t either and she prides herself on noticing that kind of thing (though she’s terrible at remembering names of characters for some reason).
He’s not actually in it that long, and mostly in flashback.
His main bit is
After Harry returns from the maze and is taken by “Moody” to his office, and then Dumbledore comes and Moody turns back into Crouch … That’s his speaking role, for about 5 minutesI’m pretty sure every British actor ever was in either Harry Potter, Doctor Who or both 🙂
Watch Empire of the Sun.
Christian Bale is the main star.
He’s about 10 years old.
That was Christian Bale. (Movie bout a about who gets separated from family in Hong Kong WW2)
Er… yes?
Boy* was the missing word. Sorry typed on my iPhone which lags several letters behind my input on TAY.
Howl’s Moving Castle is brilliant and I am ashamed to say that I fell asleep in the cinema for it when it screened here. I was on a date actually, with this beautiful Asian woman that I had just met and was hoping to start a relationship with. However it was not to be, I was sooo tired that day and suffice to say, the snooze didn’t go down well with the pretty lady. She never called me again. But the film was awesome when I re-watched it again later!
Wait a second.
You went on TV Tropes “for a bit”?
How did you manage this magic? When I go there I’m stuck for hours.
When I say a bit, it was really more like an hour. For TV Tropes, that’s pretty short.
PANDEMONIUM ON PLATFORM ONE
Man’s primal instincts revealed on intercity peak hour train
Walking to the train station at precisely 8:32 on a sunny Wednesday morning, young Powalen had no idea of the mayhem that await him. As he shuffled towards the platform he noticed an unusually long line of people waiting for a bus on the other side of the road. ‘Hm, the bus must be late or something,’ he figured, thinking nothing more of it. It was, however, a sign of things to come.
As he rounded the corner and descended the stairs, he found no one. Not a single person on the platform. “Are there no trains or something?” he asked a young woman who strolled in behind him. A slight shrug and a turn on her feet, she walked to the ticket booth to ask the guard.
“No trains to the city!” The man exclaimed, “Catch a bus!” He sounded frustrated.
With that our Powalen crossed the road and joined the end of the continually growing queue at the bus stop, where he waited. He waited for ten minutes, watching a pacing dark-haired woman become increasingly agitated and loud. He couldn’t see the train tracks from where he was standing, not that there was much point.
Suddenly, a man at the very end of the street took off, darting across the road with bag flailing in the wind behind him. On-lookers at the front of the line confused, a second person ran towards the station. Then a third. “The train!” a man in a suit excitedly said to his partner as they too started to jog. Those two words struck something within the crowd as everybody barrelled across the road, leaving behind all sense of civility. A car stopped in place as swarms of bodies circled it. Seeing the train parked, people threw themselves down the stairs as they raced. Powalen, being towards the back never even got to feel the air conditioning before the train doors were slammed shut and it departed to many angry and amused faces.
As the crowd began to calm, a single bus nonchalantly pulled up across the street. “We’re going to kill you!” screamed the dark-haired woman at the guard as she bolted back across the road. In a repeat of a few minutes ago, the crowd once again stampeded back through traffic to board the bus.
Young Powalen, traumatised by the morning’s events somehow arrived at work only 10 minutes late.
THE END
Needs more Thunderdome.
I think our quota of heroes is filled at the moment, probably don’t need another one.
@powalen has always been my hero.
Does he know the way home?
*facepalm*
I need more caffeine.
You’re welcome to your caffeine. All we want is life beyond…… Thunderdome.
I liked the WE’RE GOING TO KILL YOU part.
That part had no embellishment either. She actually yelled that 😛
Wow.
I like how she included everyone in the killing with the “We’re”. Easy to shift the blame to another when the court hearing begins.
Sounds like the kids in that video where they fall over when hearing the ice cream truck handled themselves better than this mob.
I don’t get the whole getting frustrated at things out of your control though. Yeah maybe issue a compaint if you’re really put out by something, but what’s pushing, shoving and shouting going to solve?
Humans…
Also, in my mind I read that last part as Young Padawan.
Welcome to the big city?
@kermitron Totally forgot to look up that Enemy Within info for you 😐
I believe it did involve some hex editing, but it’s easy as.
I found a hack that involved hexediting a string that would allow you to open the dev console, but the info I found seems to be outdated and doesn’t work now that Enemy Within is out. I might look into it again then and try harder this time. I really just don’t want to deal with this damn Sectopod!
Actually, it might have even been with Cheat Engine…if you’re bored and have time, check it out.
Ooh, cheat engine didn’t occur to me. I’ve used it before but only on games that I run windowed.
That program is always in the back of my mind, because I know a few people who used it to cheat in multiplayer games convinced they’d never get caught (and subsequently got caught). Serves them right, too.
Ugh, I didn’t think it’d even work in a multiplayer game.
People who cheat in multiplayer should be fired. Out of a cannon. Into the sun.
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I don’t watch a lot of Rooster Teeth stuff but do people like Michael? Every time he says something it’s just ugh. I dunno, he just seems annoying and rude :P.
His only redeeming factor is that he kinda looks like hotross…
Yeah, I didn’t at first, but I guess he’s grown on me. His Let’s Plays with Gavin are excellent.
I heart Michael the most.
I do, but for one specific reason. I use this mod in L4D2 (NSFW Audio):
It took me about 2 minutes to realise the sound was coming from the Boomer, not the player.
Everyone has their ups and downs but I never really have a problem with anyone (cme close with Jack’s whiny bitch phase though). I liked Rage Quit and his transition over to proper Let’s Plays as part of the AH crew has been well received. I basically don’t have a reason not to like him. I briefly got uncomfortable about the way he talks to Lindsey sometimes (he called her a bitch pretty excessively) but I guess that the pseudo-abusiveness is just a running joke between them and she gives as good as she gets now that she’s in front of the camera more.
(Is it weird that as a long running Rooster Teeth fan I see Michael and Lindsey as being Geoff and Griffon 2.0?)
Cheers dudes. I wasn’t sure if it was an unpopular opinion or not.
I’ve barely seen any Rooster Teeth stuff and only recognise a few of them from other things (like Gavin from the Slow Mo stuff), so it’s probably just a first impressions thing and not really liking his loudness/excessive swearing.
GTAV heist thing was pretty awesome though! I’m looking forward to Gavin’s one…
You should really watch the Surgeon Simulator and Octodad Let’s Play videos where Michael and Gavin share the controls. (Fun fact – some of the stuff from their original Surgeon Simulator video is referenced in the full version of the game).
For you sir; Gavin’s Heist.
Also, Mogar for life!
Hmm. Quitting over a single bottle of wine. Seems a bit extreme. Perhaps doesn’t want anyone looking any further? #myhatistinfoil
Well, it was a bottle of Penfolds Grange. Not like it’s your standard bottle of plonk.
$3000 still seems hilariously small for this situation, but ultimately I don’t care that he’s gone.
In the mean time, he’s been accused of corruption, quit because of it, and Tony Abbot is talking about him like he’s a national hero.
Just imagine if Jay Weatherall had been undone the same way. imagine how Abbott would speak of him.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-272/comment-page-8/#comment-2545182
If I’m ever on time for the party there’s something seriously wrong.
I’m reading TAY backwards, so this is newer to me!
Well, if so it’s just gonna get worse for him now. Really put his foot in it, no sympathy from me however.
Another thought. Resigning on his own terms probably means he gets a big old piece of that lifetime pension. Getting impeached and kicked out… probably not. #TINFOILHATBRIGADE #gravytrain
What the hell is everyone talking about?
EDIT: I heard mention of the name Barry. I presume we are talking about Barry Mannilow?
I refuse to watch that ‘Everything wrong with The Matrix’ video – it is indeed a perfect film. I do not want my memory of it tarnished, even if it may have dated poorly.
The lobby scene is one of the greatest in the history of film.
It’s one of the very last big action scenes made that used pyrotechnics, charges and stuntwork rather than going full CGI. There are so disappointingly few of those left.
Farscape Peacekeeper Wars is one of the only other examples I can think of at the moment (they proudly boasted that they’d actually used all the pyrotechnics that were available in Australia at the time – literally cleaned the country out of them)
It still wows me when I Youtube it, even today.
Based on the comments in the article the video is a sad attempt at comedy by pointing out nitpicks and calling them cinematic flaws. I can’t watch videos at work but I’ll avoid it in principle now.
The entire series is that. It’s a tongue in cheek comedy series that people get WAY too worked up over.
And there’s today’s lesson in not reading the comments, I suppose. Since the giz article posted it in the context of pointing out actual flaws instead of a comedy piece, I guess I should have watched it before forming an opinion.
It’s definitely nitpicking, but a lot of the points are logically valid. Not my kind of thing, but I don’t mind that it exists.
…unless one ever exists for The Lesser Evil, because that would make me kill myself.
I think that you wouldn’t care, because the Lesser Evil would have had ti have been adapted into a movie for this to exist, meaning that you’d probably be busy adapting your works for other movies, and not be bothered by it.
That’s my idea anyway,
Today driving to work with the windows down (it was a balmy 8.5C in Hobart, beautiful weather) I passed a couple arguing on the side of the street. Just as I drive past I hear the lady say “What do you mean you MIGHT have killed someone?”
Oh, you two. *chuckles*.
0_o
*slowly rolls window up*
Plot twist: Quiz B was the one killed and it’s just his ghost attached to the killer.
Bravely Default is a pretty cool game. Finished it last night, the very last cutscene was awesome.
Last boss spoilers:
I like how it showed all your Mii Friends and their worlds… get blown up 😀That scene was quite epic …but I died on the first turn right after it D:
I’m still only about 20 hours in but I feel there is so much to this game. I hope it gets to be my first 100+ hour game on 3DS.
You’ll definitely get a lot of hours out of this. It’s pretty much a full Final Fantasy game.
So much fun maxing out most of the jobs and figuring out good job combinations.
Sword master with knight combo is awesome. Full guard my party and counter. (Haven’t finished game only just got to Eda’s country)
So the rest of my week is now going to be taken up with cleaning up other people in my team’s messes cuz they can’t follow simple instructions -.-… this is just depressing cuz of how bad this one person screwed up and I’m going to have to spend so long to fix it… and once again I’ll be the one holding the bag when the customer yells at us.
I’ve just been given a ‘project plan’ that consists of a single sentence with some notes written around it for client request that was received in January. Apparently no-one thought to follow it up until today even though they were given a delivery date of the 22nd. With Friday being a holiday, it gives me 2 and a half days to complete it, even though no-one can even tell me what the bloody hell they requested in the first place.
Yeah.. I’ve been having to try to fix this product that was launched while I was still doing process testing (Which is before technical testing even started) so of course we’re finding so many issues at the customers’ expense… not cool
And when you – despite all laws of physics, rationality, and workplace relations – succeed against all odds, the ‘project planner’ will be the one to get a, “Planned successful project!” doggie treat and line on their resume. 🙂
this ones for you!
Lunch time question: Does a salad roll contain cold meat?
Yes
I assume that the good ones do.
“She came in for a hamburger with the lot, no meat. ‘Hey, that’s a salad roll,’ I said and we started going out.”
*bed springs creaking*
I’d call it a Ham roll with salad.
Or a Roast Beef roll with Salad.
It can. It doesn’t have to. Assuming this has to do with ordering food: normally, the description will identify what, if any, meat is in there. If there’s no mention of meat, assume none will accompany your roll.
I never gamble with the meats. In fact, recently I saw our downstairs cafe had made some really sweet-ass vegetarian gourmet sandwiches with some really fresh, nice ingredients, including roasted pumpkin, sweet potato, feta and spinach and all good vegie shit.
One of the vegetarian coworkers had just ordered one and looked incredibly smug. “Doesn’t that look fantastic? All vegetarian.”
I sort of drooled and said, “Damn. You’re right. That’s almost worth going vegetarian for. In fact…”
The vegetarian perked up.
“Hey, can I have one of those?”
The vegetarian beamed with pride.
“Sure! Toasted?”
“Absolutely. But can you add some shaved ham, bacon, salami, and another layer of bacon?”
“Can do!”
“Fuckyes. This is going to be SO great.”
The vegetarian looked horrified. And a little indignant, like ‘no fair, that was supposed to be MY thing you were jealous of, for once!’ That could be my imagination. (But probably not.)
It was fucking delicious.
Hell no.
Anybody worried about spoilers should avoid the who cares about spoilers comments
At least GoT has spoilers in there and that was about 3 comments in
Yeah. But at least that one’s not legit (at least if the show is vaguely following the books).
That said, avoiding the comments is still a good idea, because it’s especially irritating.
Blatant spoiler for recent episode
Joffrey dies in the latest episode.Doesn’t get much more spoilerific than that
@dc you got me curious so I did some Googling. According to some Wiki it’s like you said, Cranky Kong is the original Donkey Kong but Donkey Kong Jr. is his son, and Donkey Kong Jr.’s son is rumoured to be our current Donkey Kong.
Crazy!
😛
It’s rich and intriguing mythology to be sure!
And also makes sense that Pauline was the one to be rescued and not Peach and why Mario and the current DK have a workable relationship now. (Instead of barrel throwing. :P)
Seems odd that the monkeys age, but the plumber doesn’t. Some of that evil mushroom magic at work there.
Who’s to say Mario isn’t an ancestor of the original guy! Forever locked in a battle to protect the ones he loves from lumbering oafs.
I think it’s a subliminal message from Nintendo, a global attempt to drive kids away from fruit and into drugs.
I think it’s a hazard of being functionally immortal thanks to rampant abuse of 1ups.
It’s probably why he doesn’t bear a grudge against Bowser anyway, since the odds are pretty good that without being murdered every year, he wouldn’t be starting over in fresh, healthy clone bodies.
Speaking of Pauline, why hasn’t she made it into Mario Kart yet?
Cut stupid characters like Metal Mario and Diddy and welcome Pauline!
Oh no you didant!
I’m content to hate all Kongs until they bring back Lanky and Chunky.
Funky is where it’s at. 😛
Lanky, thank you, i was racking my brain trying to remember the Orangutan’s name. He made the best sounds and walked on his freaking hands better than most kongs manage on their feet.
But then, what happened to Donkey Kong Jr? Did he die or has he become something like Darthey Kong?
In the answer to that question lies the origin of Cranky Kong. (probably)
Ran off with Pauline breaking Cranky AND Mario’s heart.
Ew, Gorilla Bestiality.
Wait, there’s a new bloodbowl game coming out?
Colour me nostalgically excited.
Oh yeah! I’ve spent many a time on old Blood Bowl and I can’t wait to actually have a fully functional game. It’s just a shame that they’ve heavily curtailed the initial team rosters and they’ll probably charge for the new ones as DLC.
I prefer that to the current model of releasing new games with expanded rosters making you buy a whole new game if you want the new teams
If they get rid of the annoyingly repetitious commentary I’ll be keen. If I hear one more reference to Griff and the reikland reavers I’ll go spare. How can it be so hard to get such a simple game right???
I’ve actually always wondered about sports commentary in Video Games. How difficult it would be to meld all the separate elements together. I remember playing an old Tiger Woods on PS2 where they didn’t get it right.
“What a perfect Drive here on the EIGHTEENTH hole. I tell you Jim, ….
…
…
…
…
TIGER
…
…
must be proud.”
Hi everyone! I know that some of you have tentative plans to send in some delicious cashish for the All The King’s Men Kickstarter. There’s no pressure to contribute, and no rush (still three weeks until deadline), but I just thought I’d let you know that there are only three more slots in the Newsbot tier, where you can get your name or likeness into one of the stories.
If that’s the one you want, maybe consider acting sooner than later.
I was considering grabbing that but I figured someone else probably wanted it more than me. My likeness is pretty generic as is my name so I’m sure someone with more interesting features will stand out. 😛
I’ve already had my likeness in a story, getting my ideas ripped off by a Shane W. Smith Mary-Sue.
😛Haha. I really want to go back to that one of these days. It was a lot of fun, even if the quality wasn’t great.
PS: That’ll be $100 please.
Take it out of my Tube royalties.
All right. Your royalties come to zero, so you owe me…
*taps calculator*
Huh.
It came to BOOBIES.
This always happens when I use a calculator.
Mmm delicious cashish..
Very tempting, I wonder how I would be portrayed in this universe if I did 😛
You remember that sketch I did in the front of your books when I came to Melbourne? Picture that, but (probably) done by a more talented artist.
I was trying to decide if I should go with that one, but decided I should let someone else go for it considering I’m in Stargazers 😛
That should make you want it even more 🙁
hmm, I think my likeness would only suit a villain.
Isn’t it what you’ve always wanted for yourself?
My god. My hat could be in a book.
Righto then, a Wednesday hypothetical to keep you all awake:
If you had to enact a plot to destroy the world, how would you do it?
That would be telling…
Contagion. An uncontrollable, easily transmittable virus that affects all. Something like ebola, I would think.
Rainbow Six (the novel, not the games) style had it best, I reckon. Genetically engineered from Ebola, disperse at the Olympics through a water cooling system. If only those damn meddling Rainbow kids hadn’t gotten in the way!
Haven’t you played Plague Inc? Start is low symptom and transmissible, then get to the weeping black blood
Allow me to elaborate.
Something legitimately scary, terrifying. Something unseen, yet the direct onslaught aftermath is clearly visible. Something almost-entirely unfathomable to most. Something that causes mass panic as a result of uncertainty. Something not easily contained, yet easily spread. Something airborne. Something with no known vaccine. Something monstrous like..
*unzips*
MUHAHAHAHAHA!
Spongebob underpants?
Molecular nan….
Uh, climate change?
Pasta.
Is that the Great Spaghetti Monster’s version of Armageddon?
I’d break the seven circles of hell and then summon Cthulu to have him and Satan fight it out for ultimate dominance of Earth.
If I was being realistic about it, I’d start up a conglomeration and develop electricity companies all over the world. I’d build a tonne of nuclear power plants and then set them to all go catastrophically into meltdown which would hopefully initiate nuclear winter.
Christianity.
Yeah, I went there.
Via a mixture of time travel and manipulation of social media.
The goal? To spoil every single plot point and death of Game of Thrones (both the show and the book) unknown to us all.
Funny enough, the first time I attempted to post this Kotaku had the whole “Cannot connect to database” so I assume this plan is evil enough for the site itself to object.
Otherwise I’d go ahead with Project Arcturus. Take over the east coast, for a start.
I would just take all the money I have making a hypothetical doomsday weapon and use it to build a self sufficient space station. Humans are doing a pretty good job at fucking up the planet anyway.
Us crab people are almost there anyway.
Well, destroying humanity at least.
*chants*
“Craaaaab peo-ple, craaaaab peo-ple “
Taste like crab, talk like people.
Sit back and watch. Foolproof.
Introduce a new social medium. Call it Bieberface or Wondirection.
sMiley.
KardASShian.
Bingle. Oh shit, that’s an insurer that exists. And I’m a member of!
Okay. First thing you need to do is pacify the population. So get some cronies into governments to run a mandatory vaccination program to make everyone autistic so they’re not concerned with what you’re doing.
Second thing you need is money. Best way would be to sign a blood pact with the English Royals and the One World Bank to carry out their plan of global genocide of 2 in 3 people on Earth so profits for the bank will go through the roof.
Thirdly, we need to destabilise the Earth itself. That’s where the Mole and Lizard people come in handy. As world leaders they can cut all renewable energy and keep making factories that don’t produce anything but pollution.
After that it’s a clear and easy run.
It doesn’t count as your idea if you just cut and paste it off your facebook feed
Who needs a hypothetical plot when we’re doing perfectly well at that goal already?
Take all the money I need, make a “global sending of the best and brightest to colonise Mars” using 50+ space rockets launched in different countries around the world, but they’re really powerful nuclear warheads and detonate them within the atmosphere after launching simultaneously, causing a slow death of the survivors due to radiation poisoning, all the rest killing each other over the chaos after.
That photo of the tagged 5m Great White monster is really creeping me out, so I’ll also go with: Flying sharks.
Land sharks are close enough, right?
De-orbit the moon. Fuck this war, disease or monster outbreak, lets go out with a bang!
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It’s pretty scary to think about, if someone were organized enough to be able to pull that off, how things could snowball and humanity would eagerly and rabidly destroy ITSELF with precious little else to push it.
Aaaaaaaaalmost makes me wonder if this big brother bullshit we complain about is worth it if it helps catch anyone stupid enough to type this kind of thing up and put it on the Inter…
…oh.
BACKSPACEBACKSPACEBACKSPACEBACKSPACE
Any opinions on the Kerbal Space Program? It definitely seems like something that would appeal to me and the videos look great, but just wanted to get some opinions…. Been meaning hob onboard, just waiting for a decent sale…
I believe @blaghman, @Rize, @rocketman and @f4ction are playing it. Sounds like a lot of fun, I will probably cave soon and buy it.
I bought it yesterday and ended up putting like 3 hours into it. It’s really fun and I can see getting value for money especially as it was less than $30.
The one tip I can offer, if you do get it, is to do then in-game tutorials AND watch at least one Youtube clip on the basics of construction. The tutorials are useful for very limited and specific stuff and are otherwise useless.
Its really good, its exactly the construction game you can get into, its simple enough to slap rockets to shit and it works but complex enough for you to plan space station orbits and land on the moon. Ive been having a ball with it.
I would introduce a societal system based entirely on a currency. I would make sure everything is measured – including time – on how much things would ‘cost’, thereby eventually making a lot of pesky uncontrollable human stuff like raising a family, helping out your fellow man or even chasing your dream nigh on impossible due to how much it would ‘cost’. Eventually, this societal structure would cause those who have power to deem their time as ‘worth more’, so they will slowly make sure they are paid more than somebody else who does a ‘lesser’ job. Within a few generations, even those who lead the country will be so fixated on how much things ‘cost’ that they will remove things that cost too much, even if they assist those who need them most such as charity or support services. Because everybody will believe that the world runs on this money, they will not say or do a damn thing while those who need help are shunted off to the side – until, eventually, the next level of people who ‘need it most’ and THEN shunted aside.
Slowly but surely the entirety of society will be re-organised to benefit those who have the most money, and stacked against those who don’t. Even leaders who claim to be on the side of the most vulnerable in society will, once gaining power, realise how much of this ‘money’ they can make by listening to the people who HAVE the most ‘money’ already.
Within a century or two, the entire world will be ripe to be ruined and the best thing is I won’t have to lift a finger. They’ll do it to themselves.
What? You said hypothetical. Sheesh.
EFFING REPLY FAIL. DAMNIT KOTAKU, you ate my first comment, and now you won’t let me post this up above for @redartifice.
But you never answered the real question? Who is John Galt?
Yessss. Really digging Jane Jensen’s new game Moebius. Exactly what I suspected, dodgy implementation with an excellent design behind it. Has Jane’s special brand of integrating real world history with fiction too. Enjoying it a whole lot. Four chapters in now.
But how are the baked beans!?
Baked Beans of the Year!
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Add a single, straight line and turn that zig zag into a word.
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MAN
Perfect. Looks like I need to come up with something a little more difficult.
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\o/
Well done, both of you.
I hatched a plot to destroy the world AND solved this before he simply solved it 😛
Machines! \o/
Professor Benny
*puts on herringbone sports coat*
#benlyf
*groan*
Just been listening to music and editing photos most of the day. Its very relaxing and it lets my brain sort of rest. Its nice. Very peaceful.
Just got a couple more horde encounters that I missed left to round up, then I think I’ve caught just about everything I can before hitting up Victory Road. Now to settle in for the long wrestle with the RNG 😛
I found the game to be quite relaxed until I took on the Elite Four, personally.
Its really annoying as someone who hates using revives.
Incoming rant…
So just had a house inspection… I couldnt fucking believe the crap they were nitpicking on…LL: ” what is that 4cm crack in the plaster near the corner? ”
ME: “its a structural crack. the house is new, it is still setting. That has nothing to do with us.”
LL: “it wasnt there before.”
LL: “There is a bit of dust on the corner of the stove”
ME: “we are getting things ready for easter, told you it was a bad time.”
ME (In my head): “ARE YOU FOR FUCKING REAL?!?”
LL: “The grass is too long”
ME: “I dont see, how condidering it was mowed Thursday last week. I wouldnt even clip half a cm off it if i ran the mower over it.”
LL: “One of the pavers on the side is cracked.,”
ME: “Ive already bought 3 spares just in case and replaced them.”
LL: “But the old one is broken.”
LL: “theres a dent in the plaster”
ME: (I lean forward and slide my finger over it) “Its a spec of dust.”
LL: “That shouldnt be there”
FOR FUCKS SAKE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE????
Sounds about right. House inspections are a pain. I have mine next Tuesday.
hope for your sake they come equipped with some common sense…
Is this an agent or the landlord themselves? Assuming it’s the actual landlord, they sound like an absolute dickhead.
landlord… could have sworn he had something dangling from his head…
Ooooohhhhh. One of those guys.
Yeah. You won’t be getting your bond back without a fight.
Yep. Expect to be going to a tribunal hearing.
At least your bond goes to a government body, because that’s the kind of asshole that would spend the bond then try and get out of repaying it because they can’t.
the irony is that 6 months ago on the previous inspection, everything was ok….
yeah… to make it worse they have another $1000 pet bond on top of the $1500…
Lesson to everyone: when you move in, and I’m talking the day you move in, take photos of EVERYTHING. Record it all on the condition report. It’s all coming back to bite someone in the ass… don’t let it be you.
My real estate office told me repeatedly to do this when I moved in. I guess it saves them as many headaches as it does me 😛
I haven’t been home for any of my inspections. The agent could’ve been inspecting a lot more than my flat for all I know…
(Maybe that’s why they never tell me anything is wrong with the place)
crap id never let them go through the place without me home… as far as im concerned whilst im paying for it, i have some sort of rights.
Mine is an actual real estate agent though, so I guess it’s a little different 😛
I’ve only found two hidden cameras after inspections as well so it’s been pretty good.
the advantage of renting through the missus’ parents rears its head. All you can really do is take pictures of everything and report anything like cracks straight away
I am so glad to have stopped renting, it is just all kinds of BS.
Sounds like someone’s looking for an excuse.
Going to go through something similar myself when I have inspections/showings to new tenants in another month or so and then move out.
That fanboy article is great. Some of the most one eyed spittle spraying ragers I’ve seen on this site all come together and nod about how above it all they are.
That’s why I didn’t end up saying anything 😛
Soooo close to the FFX Platinum! Hngh!
I’m assuming this will be one of my rarest Platinums since most people probably can’t be bothered going for it, and most of my other ones were really easy Platinums. It’s been a long ride my friend, 10+ years in the making!
What have you got left?
Perfect Sphere Grid and the last 2 story trophies.
Perfect Sphere Grid. Took me about 7 hours to get it :/
I was only using 3 characters or so, so I had to grind and level up the others and I also went around and cleared all the Luck nodes and replaced them with MP/Magic Defence ones since they’re easier to activate.
Got it now 😀
oh man, I can’t even begin to think about that yet 😛
It wasn’t too bad! I used a fair few tips ‘n tricks, so I got the Platinum in about 110 hours. I never did the extra stuff on PS2 so I was motivated to get it done this time.
Gloryhammer tickets for Brisbane bought 😀 Is anyone else other than me and @strange actually going to the gig? 😛 Brathaus and Drunken heavy metal singing about unicorns and dragons. What better way is there to spend a Saturday night?
I bought Freeze a ticket. Hopefully he can make it. I don’t understand why everyone isn’t going! Gonna be so much fun. 😀
I’m 1300km away, give me a break!
Come to the Bald Faced Stag show and I’ll go 😛
I would if I could afford it! I used to live in Newcastle so I was contemplating trying to make it that show, but then I realised everyone I used to know from there has moved away. 😛
I have my reasons none of them make me happy D=
Oh, I thought I’d be seeing you at least at the Gold Coast show! D:
Tickets are $25 for that one, I think.
I was hoping to as well, especially since my mate said I could crash at his and all, but things are a bit hectic for me at the moment and it being a Thursday when I do one of my days for work for the dole stuff and I finish lateish it leaves me with little room to get up there in time 🙁
As someone who is growing tired of X-Men films, I’ll admit that Days of Future Past is only looking INCREDIBLE! This one could indeed become my favourite of the lot. I’ll just have to wait and see.
despite the fact there’ll be like seventeen hundred characters to keep track of?
I’m only interested in Wolvie battling Sentinels, really.
Pretty sure Hugh Jackman will be in X-Men 16 at this rate.
If only he had Wolverine’s healing factor to prevent aging.
Edit: No. To hell with Hugh Jackman. If only I had Wolverine’s healing factor. To, uh… prevent aging. And not assist in lucrative crime. No sir.
Quicksilver looks pretty gross I reckon, which is a shame 🙁 The rest of it looks awesome so far though!
I think the Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch in Age of Ultron will look better. Also, there was that image where the two of them looked, like, fifteen that was really weird.
After credit spoilers for Captain America 2:
They showed Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver there, and they both looked awesome (IMO).That was one of my favourite parts of the movie to be honest :3
I just don’t get his design in DoFP. He looks too young, and too, gadget-y(?). And the goggles are fugly, but I can understand the need for them though.
Hopefully he looks better in action though, rather than in pictures.
You’re not alone. A lot of people think his look in X-Men is rather lame.
Deep Down, I just buy Blizzard games for the notepads.
An entire day of being productive and making up for lost time at work, and when I get home do I have the energy to catch-up? Nope. BEDTIEMS.
*thud*
I’m looking forward to the long weekend so I can sleep for like 14 hours at least one night.
It was, however, a LIE. I am at least catching up on some TAY while I finish dinner. Just not those fifty articles I opened in new tabs.
I start with the intention of getting home and doing some housework, cooking dinner, and starting on grinding down my list of games to get through but first internet takes up 2-3 hours before it will let me do anything. DAMN YOU INTERWEBZ *shakes fist*
http://static.funpic.hu/_files/pictures/630/97/5/40597.jpg
In a nutshell. Half an hour already gone by since I posted that and all I’ve done is order some thai. Ho hum
hmmm I have an assessment center thingy for a pretty big company tomorrow D:
D:
this is gonna be interesting…
Here, have a good luck hug.
*hugasaurus*
Oh, and I bought a suit on the weekend. It’s basically Phoenix Wright’s suit. Red tie and all 😀
And since my neck is so fat I have to wear larger shirts since they’re the only ones whose top buttons don’t choke me 😛
Are you going to shout “Objection” and “Hold It” for the whole thing?
Pics or it didn’t happen!
Good luck, man. I’m sure you’ll do well!
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/04/why-fat-and-fit-is-a-dangerous-myth/
Weeeeeee! The comments in there are fun!
I hate the people on both sides of the argument.
Oh god, i can literally feel my brain cells dying an agonising death the more i read… IT HURTS, MAKE IT STOP
I was following that through the day. Most entertaining!
That should have been enough of a warning, but of course I went and checked it out. WHHHYYYYY
STOP BREAKING THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS
So China is going well I guess, but I’m only on my 3rd week and there is stuff I miss so much that I don’t know what to do about it when I realise I’m still probably two months away from returning.
Too much free time (kongr in Chinese :D) would prolly be better if I could atleast get on my usual TeamSpeak channels but as I’ve mentioned before (I think) my hotel doesn’t have wifi only cable I didn’t bring anything with an Ethernet port.
Oh well, overall I’m glad I came.
Have you thought of buying a cheap ass wifi router?
Yeah it could be worth a look. How would I set one up without a computer to plug it into?
Uh yeah probably, it’s been so long but i’d say it’s plausible!
I say a sign needs to be erected on the border of Qld & NSW that reads “Now entering New South Wales: Corruption-free for [0] days.”
The same would read for the sign welcoming people to QLD though
Heh.
Kmart really is a disgusting place these days. Went there tonight for god knows why. At least 99% of the people there were wearing trakkies and/or (mostly and) uggies. No respect for anyone else. Throwing toys and easter eggs around everywhere, people swearing their heads off at each other, all for cheap and nasty shit.
I remember when Kmart used to be okay. Now it’s almost all their own branded stuff, and the prices for the most part aren’t even that good. Even their easter egg selection is probably 50% their own stuff now. It’s the cheapest, nastiest, grubbiest store in Australia now IMO. They need to hire an army of people in every store just to follow the bogans around putting stuff back where it’s meant to be, instead of having half their stock residing on the ground.
Fucking hell. Luckily they still sell the AC decadent cookies. I still miss AC cola too after all these years 🙁
Funny, I generally find Kmart to be a little better and more Target that’s grubby and horrible 😛
24 hour Kmarts though… they’re a strange place to be.
I thought that was just Tasmania in general?
Ooooooo, dems fighting words!
Well… Yeah 😛
I aren’t dead! Just on leave from work, catching up on games.
Finished Dark Souls 2!
Didn’t realise I was, just went for another boss fight, beat it, and roll credits. But you end up back in town, not forced straight into NG+, so that’s good.Played with the aesthetics a little. Kinda like new area plus, and now the whole game design with more bonfires, depopulation, all that good stuff, has fallen into place. Re-ran the Pursuer, now I have his sword and his shield. Quite a handy sword. Also took down the king, only major optional thing left is the dragon.
Still pokeymanning. Don’t ask why, I’ve stopped questioning my insanity. No train trips at the moment means less play time though.
Guess I should start thinking about the next game on my short list to knock over. Not quite feeling done with Dark Souls yet though.
@strange I’ve done part of the cape with the practise material. Mind if I post an image of the cape, the pattern and the reference image?
I’m about to go to bed but I’ll take a look in the morning if you want me to. Not sure how helpful I can be, though. I’m sure if you feel like it’s good then it is. 🙂
I’ll upload it in the morning, or the afternoon. I’ve taken the photo, but I’m not happy with it.
The test piece.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/Mobile%20Uploads/20140416_222900.jpg
It’s only half of the widest bit. I think I have a vague idea of how to get it to sit properly.
What the cape looks like in the movie
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/Elsa/Elsacape01.jpg
So you’re worried it’s not sitting right? Remember when you do it in the proper fabric it will have a different drape. If you’re happy with the shape, you should be fine as you can manipulate the drape.
I think perhaps it’s too wide. But I’m not happy with the drape. Thanks for this help
Here’s the biggest tip I can give you as a fellow maker: trust yourself.
Seriously, if you think it’s too wide you’re probably right, so fix it now so later on you don’t find yourself wishing you’d done it.
I think I have an idea of how to fix it. I’ll do that and show you the pattern.
Alright, I have redone the longest part of the cape and I think it’ll work. I will probably have to alter the rest to accommodate, but I don’t mind. The short bit is the part that folds back and the join will be hidden in the crease
I FORGOT TO ADD THE LINK! /o\
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/cape_longest_02.jpg
Garbage bins hate me. Didn’t get Banette last Thursday, didn’t get Rotom this Tuesday, and still yet to find a Garbador at all. Gotta try again for Banette after midnight.
Other than that though, caught every wild pokemon possible so far \o/
I bet all the pokemon you’ve caught are female.
They probably wanted you to catch them 😛
I take what I can get 😛
Hahahaha and a Hydreigon finally showed up. And it was a girl. And I caught it with the first pokeball.
Thanks for the positive jinx 😛
@rize Cheat Engine success! God I hate Sectopods.
Nice bait piece by SBS “Murder down under: is Australia a dangerous place to visit?” the comments on the article over on Facebook make me hang my head in shame. People actually think Australia is one of the most dangerous country’s to visit.. I guess i’ll just go to a third world country that is constantly in a state of war or something, I should be safer there by these remarks.
Of course it’s safer there – they don’t have to deal with drop bears.
Sounds like anywhere’s safer than Facebook. 😛
Hahaha, oh so true.
Go on then.
I’ll just go fetch my passport then!
Huh. Looking through the Easter sale on PSN and there’s actually some good prices there. What is this?
And I have absolutely no idea why I’m downloading PES2014 as I have no interest in sportsball games or soccer but hey, it was free.
Don’t judge all soccer (sic) games on Pro Evo 2014. I’m finding it horrendous, although it does look nice. I’ve hated football games ever since EA and Konami decided that ultra-realism makes for a better playing experience than actual fun gameplay. Same reason why GT5 sucked balls as well
That’s the PS+ effect. Download everything even if you don’t particularly like the genre.
I’m a football(soccer) fan so it’s nice that there’s finally a football game on PS+ . I was a Pro Evo guy during the PS2 era but the last few years I’ve been playing FIFA. This is a nice opportunity to see where the Pro Evo games are at the moment.
First impressions: This game is so plain compared to FIFA. Invest a bit in presentation Konami!!
My thoughts exactly. Free’s free.
Free as in PS+ or free as in proper free?
I think something has gone wrong with the PSN store. I got Dragon’s Dogma + expansion for $16. Wolf Among Us season pass for like… $10. Dynasty Warriors was somewhere around $40, and the JRPGs I was checking out the other night were all around $25-30.
That’s… that’s NOT Australian pricing. I mean…. normal Australian pricing. But it’s sure as hell the Australian store. I don’t understand.
Which Dynasty Warriors was that?!?!
Please tell me, I don’t have (proper) internet, so can’t check!!! D’:
Dynasty Warriors 8. The newest one. 🙂
Thankyou! Might have to find somewhere with internet to plug my TV and Playstation in at now!
So… Trials HD… that’s addictive. Good thing there aren’t any other games in this series.
Sales update! LEGO Marvel Super Heroes is down to $4.99 on the Steam store.
Or buy it in-stores for consoles for $74! 😀
that’s ridiculous. Really fun game too.
Does it have co-op support?
it sure does, Local only i think though.
Yeah, local only unfortunately. Still, it’s a hell of a lot of fun solo.
that it is, I didn’t stop till i had everything and got the platinum trophy, whoop.
There is a burger place in Canberra that used to be run out of a dodgy van. There were local newspaper articles about it until they got shut down for reasons. Petitions were signed, things happened.
Now it’s a real restaurant and the newspaper articles and petitions decorate the walls.
My sister’s signature is clearly visible on the ceiling and the burgers are fantastic.
Canberra is weird.
Which burger place is this?
Brodburger.
It’s really good.
If you don’t mind waiting 90 minutes for a burger, yep, it’s fantastic.
Yeah, if I go I make it on the same day as the bus depot markets so I can order and then walk around the markets until my food is ready. I don’t know how anyone could go there for a lunch break though.
40 minutes last night!
You didn’t get the full Canberra experience, then.
Anyone played Strike Suit Zero? Thoughts? Worth getting on PS4?
also is Trials Fusion up on the PSN today, if so how much?
Yeah, I just bought it this morning. I think it was $54 for the deluxe edition. Standard was about $30 on Xbone, so I assume it’s the same.
yeah something crazy was going on with the psn just after midnight first it only had the free ps+ dlc, i clicked it and when I backed out there was the season pass for $28 I clicked it and when I backed out there was the dlc, the season pass & the game each with a price tag of $28 (even the free dlc). I exited the store and went back in and they were all gone.
I was pretty excited for it on the PC, but it ended up being a bit clunky to control and a lot of the UI/design decisions turned me off to the point of apathy. The shift from plane to mech is awkward and they seem to have implemented some kind of combo mechanic or something… it’s basically… I dunno. Instead of giving you a toy and letting you play with it, you get forced into playing a specific way. It feels a little heavy-handed at times. Since I wasn’t a huge fan of how they were trying to force me to play, I just shrugged and let it sit til I get some random moment of not-knowing-what-I-want-to-play boredom.
It certainly doesn’t have the arcade elegance of Zone of the Enders combat, nor the tight responsiveness of any other space-flight sim. Good idea disappointingly executed, but only by my tastes.
damn, looked like there was some good potential there, oh well, Trials Black flag and Pokeymans for the long weekend then, thanks for the heads up (i may still cave and get it cause it’s only $20)
Well, that was possibly a disappointment factor. It probably wouldn’t be too hard to find a demo (or a ‘demo’) on PC to give it a whirl for informed purchasing. And since it’s PS4, who knows… maybe the controls work better when customized for a gamepad.
Hmmmmmm, the Dell UltraSharp U2414H 23.8″ monitor currently 30% off ($286) is making me seriously reconsider my current 30″ PLP (20+30+20) setup. As much as I love having a giant 30″ main monitor the support for PLP gaming just doesn’t exist so I’m left with 2 side productivity monitors.
Nor am I pursuing my photography hobby as much since I’ve moved away from Perth (no WAFL games to photograph) so I could keep the 30″ and plug it in when I need to do photo editing, or alternatively I’m considering an upgrade so could just do a second system from the discarded parts solely for photos.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Dell do make some really nice monitors…I’m tempted to upgrade mine, even though there’s nothing really wrong with it 😛
Yeah, I’ve currently got Dell UltraSharps for my current setup (1x U3011 and 2x 2008FP) which are fantastic, and absolutely nothing wrong with them. I won’t like switching down to a 1920×1080 main monitor from a 2560×1600, but I really like the small bezels on the U2414H. Plus what I’d lose in main monitor resolution I’d gain in surround (4096000 pixel main monitor -> 6220800 over 3 monitors)
Which would mean upgrading the PC as I’ve planned all along.
But, at the same time I’m also putting money away for a trip to Thailand at the end of the year, I really should wait until I get back from that.
U2414H isn’t that great a monitor though. Their really good good 24″ is still in the $600-700 range I think.
Dell make nice monitors. I have their 27″ at home and before that had one of their first high-end 24″ ones.
Yeah, the ones without letters on the end (U2413 is the current 24 “high end”) are generally the ones with ‘PremierColor’ / better specs. Letter on the end = gimped in some way. (Not always, but some of the time. E.g. the UP2414Q is the 24″ UltraHD.)
Man, getting up in the morning and changing your youngest’s nappy only to find there’s no poo in it is the best thing ever. #smallvictories #dadlife
Haha.
I so hope this was followed by a victory pose
It did involve a high five and a fist bump.
That’ll do
Got woken up at 3am this morning with a phone call telling me my Canadian brother (not @saturday…this time) has just welcomed his second child into the world.
Babbies. Babbies everywhere.
Yep… I’m an uncle to another child this week
I know it’s Dorkly, but it’s still an interesting view of mobile games in general:
http://www.dorkly.com/comic/61795/candy-crush-saga-for-xtreme-g4m3r5-only-pause-more-like-pwnly
Yep, this one’s going straight to Ms B-ob who is addicted to Candy Crush.
Wow. That is a tad depressing.
Hey @dc !
I’ve left my mouse at a friends house so I haven’t been able to play any of The Longest Journey 🙁
In the mean time I fired up Machinarium on the PS3 to scratch the itch. Charming little game it is ^^
Man. Screw Machinarium. Stupid game makes me feel even stupider.
I try to think of it as brain training, it quickly turns to unfortunate realisations about my intellect.
I couldn’t beat the stupid connect 4 type game, I tried about 30 times. It made me feel dumb too 😛
I often leave my mouse at my friends house!
…
Wait a second. That hasn’t happened once. I’m onto you! *shifty eyes*
Macharium is charming, but the puzzles warped my fragile psyche.
Leaving a mouse at a friend’s house annoys the spouse.
I can explain! I took my laptop over to his house to fiddle about with Mixcraft, a music maker thingo. I could use the laptops touch pad but I cant be arsed adjusting to it.
Oh they get like that do they? I didn’t get too far, I spent most of the time making the robots hover on the menu screen.
Nah, it’s a very cool game. Beautiful art direction. Just gets tough, but tough ain’t a criticism.
Last day before the long weekend!
Wooooo…wait. I’m working Saturday.
Why you gotta be like that Pow?
I’m not a nice person.
After today, I’ve got 10 days off! \o/
The loooooooong weekend!
Same!
First time I’m taking time off since my weeding.
Yep!
Broken Sword 5 is fully released now. Both episodes.
BUT I’M STILL PLAYING MOEBIUS AND WILL BE OUT A GOOD CHUNK OF THE WEEKEND. D: D: D:
I’ve been going through some old stuff that I wrote back in high school and I must say, going back and looking at handwritten documents is pretty neat. The paper has faded slightly and started to yellow and it really gives it a nice feeling to read. It makes me slighlty sad that computer-generated documents are so prevalent as they won’t have nearly the same feeling of personality as handwritten stuff.
Funny, normally I look back at stuff that I wrote in High School and it just makes me want to punch my younger self in the face.
I just wonder what was wrong with me. Everything was so hyper violent. Surprised the teachers didn’t force me into some sort of program.
I handwrote my latest novel just so I could look over its prettiness. That was an extra-strength crazy thing to do though, because it took months to transcribe it into digital format 😛
I hope I can do something like that in the future. The best I’ve done so far was write a short story across about 30 pages or so. When I finally transferred it to a Word document, it was only about 10 pages because my handwriting is kind of large. 😛
I plan on keeping my ideas notebook so that I can look back on it and see my insane leaps of logic and crazy ideas for stories.
That just seems so weird to me. 🙂
Like… I type at 120wpm. When I have a stream-of-consciousness thing going, I’m just trying to get words out as fast as I possibly can, get every nuance of the vision out into the realspace before I run the risk of forgetting it. Every angle, every result, possible consequences as much as possible onto a page. Better able to trim it, chop it, move bits about where they fit, copy-paste. The volume of raw wordage I can pump out in an hour of typing utterly dwarfs what my clumsy ham-fisted claw is capable of.
For some reason Kelly loves having hand-written letters, and years ago I tried writing a few. It drove me to distraction. I ended up typing them up, then transcribing by hand. (And tossing entire pages multiple times when I’d fucked something up. The point that she later told me she almost accused me of cheating and using a hand-writing font.)
That said, anytime I move house, I make damn sure those letters I got back are in a safe, easily-accessible place.
I think it’s actually an entirely different thought process that occurs when you’re handwriting. It’s hard to explain, but this book I wrote… I could never have typed it.
It’s definitely a greater time investment, but it has the added benefit of being a portable endeavour. I wrote it entirely on the commute to and from work over about eight months.
I can’t hold a pen for extended periods anymore, had a 3 hour uni exam where some fuckwit decided that a 3 hour exam meant it should have 3 hours of writing. My hand hasn’t been the same since.
Worst part being that I’m left handed so not only has it compromised my ability to make subtle movements in controller driven games but it’s put my sex life at risk!
This endeavour actually, I think, did some permanent damage to my hand. I have to wear an arthritis-support glove on my right hand whenever I’m gaming or using a mouse.
Does it actually help? I’ve been thinking about getting some since both my hands are fucked up (the left is just worse thanks to that fucking exam [didn’t even fucking pass after all of that]). Do they restrict movement to any major degree?
It doesn’t really restrict movement (I game in it, so that should help to understand how little it restricts mobility), and it provides really good relief. I have no idea how it works, but it’s a goddamned miracle thing.
it anyone is interested, Mum got her money!
Edit: Mum wants you to know that one of her sisters was reimbursed an extra $4k. The other got 5k and my uncle also got 5k on top of the settlement. We got no extra.
And you guys never spoke to extended family ever again. The end. 😀
Good to hear, Scree!
That’s awesome! Finally some good news!
Yessssssssss. Party at scree’s house!
Re: the extra, that’s pretty shitty, but at least you got a piece without having to go to court or wait for years. That’s a good win, if I’ve been reading the situation correctly.
The extra is bullshit, but not sure if it’s enough to trouble the solicitor with from scratch or to have the existing one ask some very pointed questions about. The executor isn’t meant to ‘decide’ shit, and if they’re trying to trot out that ‘you didn’t pay the bills’ argument, then I’m preeeeetty sure that’s horse-shit because I’m pretty sure that maintenance of properties held by the estate is exclusively the responsibility of the executor of the will.
It certainly would be interesting to find out why 3/4 of the people got a bonus and 1/4 didn’t. It’s not a huge amount in the grand scheme of things and might be worth soaking the loss to just get the shit over and done with but then that might be the exact attitude they’re counting on to get away with a final rip off…
The solicitor went with it. The reimbursement was for petrol and general maintenance of the house. A lot of it was petrol costs.
Ugh. That’s supposed to come out before any split. I’m guessing they paid those costs out of pocket and were getting reimbursed by the estate. 14 grand of power costs and fuel travelling to and from a vacant house is pretty fucking absurd, but whatever. Whatever.
they got it before the split. Like, they removed it before they split the rest of the money.
We just don’t care anymore
Wooo! With luck your aunts are going to use the money to build some sort of wall around themselves so they’ll never trouble you again
TAYlist requests, anyone? What’s a song that you think I should play on-air today?
Bad Reputation — Joan Jett
That or:
Father & Son – Cat Stevens
Father and Son Is actually by Harry ChapinNo wait– that’s Cat’s in the Cradle
PEACE TRAIN
Wild World – Mr. Big
I like this, this is good, but if we don’t have Mr. Big, would you mind I substitute Cat Stevens?
I would mind. Substitute with other Mr. Big if possible. 🙂
*writes in notebook*
Strange hates Cat Stevens.
No I don’t! I just like Mr Big’s version of Wild World better. 🙂
I honestly think I’ve only ever heard the Cat Stevens version, so I’ll need to make a comparison.
West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys
Come On, Do It, Do It, Come On, Come On, Kill Me, Do It Now – Austrian Death Machine
Or if your station is lame and doesn’t have that:
Taxman – The Beatles
Also, Like A Prayer – Madonna.
Gimme Some Truth – Lennon?
Is that a tentative Lennon, or a tentative request?
Tentative request.
He’s dead.
Truth.
Well played. It was actually your Taxman suggestion that made me realise that I indeed feel like listening to some Lennon.
The Pretender – Foo Fighters
Faith No More – Evidence
Goldfrapp – Ooh La La
Paperback Writer – The Beatles
Baby – Rudimental ft. MNEK and Sinead Harnett
Or
Countdown – Beyonce
Midnight City-m83
Get Back – The Beatles.
Oh snap theres already a Beatles song requested.
FINE! Natural Mystic – Bob Marely.
I’m in a hip-hop mood today. & my shitty requests shall reflect this.
HIPSTER REQUEST :
Emicida – 9 círculos
SERIOUS REQUEST :
Something by The Beastie Boys – ‘So What’cha Want’ if you’ve got it, or whatever else if you don’t.
SABOTAGE
as much as I think Sabotage is one of the most dick-kickingest tracks ever made, its more from their punk side. All about the hip hop today.
true, now im on a beastie boys binge. how good is License to Ill????
very.
God damn do I love the Beastie Boys.
Bukkake Tears – Steel Panther
or
Houdini – Foster the People
Oh man, I love Houdini. Mostly for SSX related reasons, but they’re reasons all the same.
Anything by Steely Dan. Because Steely Dan.
Requests are closed, thanks, everybody for the awesome music.
Not very likely but do you have Rainbow’s Stargazer? Radio needs more Dio
DC disowned me as his father.
Who am I going to teach to ride a bicycle now.
I’ve never been taught how to ride a bicycle! Can I be your new kid from the past future?
Okay!
Man now I have to get presents for my grandkids from the past future. THIS IS DIFFICULT
Have you ever read Robert Heinlein’s ‘All You Zombies’? It’s a short story involving a crazy time paradox where
all the main characters are the same person, and that person is his own mother AND father.I haven’t but now I’m intrigued…
See also: The Man who folded himself
Kids these days.
I blame video games!
You can teach me!
The Kickstarter for Super Dungeon Explore’s new expansion is at $1.11 million with 2 hours to go. Their goal was $75k.
This might be the most successful board gaming Kickstarter I’ve seen.
EDIT: Checked and it’s only the 10th most funded Tabletop project. Wow.
So i had this online key-seller recommended to me by a friend…
http://www.kinguin.com.au/
Great prices, catch is that its like an ebay marketplace for keys and steam gifts… Sounds a little shady but there is some peace of mind offered:
The site accepts Paypal, and the seller does not get paid till they send you the key/gift. if there are anyissues, ie a fraudulent seller, you are covered by a Paypal guarantee.
Was browsing for about half an hour, and there facebook page seems very positive, and the site itself makes it fairly easy to pickout the highly recommended sellers with the risky ones…
to give you an idea of pricing, i just bought Kerbal Space Program for AUD$17.70 from a seller with over 2200 successful transactions and 100% positive feedback…
Id assume keys/gifts may sometimes take a day or 2 tgo get, as the process of delivery isnt automated, the seller needs to be notified of your purchase to deliver the goods, but it did list Express Delivery.
Let me know if you are curious below, and ill tag you when it gets delivered and let you guys know if it all goes smoothly.
DAMN!
Game arrived in 7 minutes from time of order… Thats not bad at all….
Was incredibly smooth… logged back into my kinguin account to view my game, clicked the link to redeem gift through the steam website.
logged in to my account and game was added to my library.
The problem with key sites isn’t usually whether they deliver, but how they get the keys and what the keys are. Valve generally takes a very dim view of people reselling keys released for Russia (where the games are a lot cheaper so people buy shipments of physical copies, sell the keys from them and dispose of the games, often by reselling them without the key for pirates) and if you activate a lot of games like that they’ll ban you.
Which is why I prefer buying through semi-reputable sites like GMG or similar. Sometimes have to resort to key sites for some stuff (eg Nintendo credit vouchers for US 3DS store)
its a very fine line between sites like GMG and various other key sites. I agree a lot of sites do resell russian game keys. Its not as though GMG is an official steam partner either… how does anyone really know what happens behind the scenes?
Some nice prices on there, but I’m fairly paranoid with sites like that.
$40 for ESO is tempting, but I’ve only just recommitted to Guild Wars 2 and Champions Online. No room for subscription MMOs right now.
Champions \o/
Also have half a mind to start up The Old Republic again 😛
GUILD.WARS.2
But but, money!
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/mmos/guild-wars-2-digital-edition-na/
Just sayin’.
unfortunately my point still stands 😛
I’m sad to be in a position where i can’t even justify spending $10 on lunch let alone $40 on a game unless it’s planned months in advance 😛Watching the Clone Wars series recently has gotten me mighty tempted to take up TOR again too.
Wow. A dentist purchased John Lennon’s tooth at auction and is using it to clone Lennon and raise him as his own son.
There is something insanely uncomfortable about that.
Edit: Thinking on it, if it was my daughters or brother or parents that had died tragically and some whacko got hold of their DNA to clone them and claim them as their own I’d be beyond upset to say the least.
Apparently you can buy john lennons love, you just have to clone him first.
But love is all you need.
That’s … something.
//O-O\\
I wonder what sort of legal options are available for his relatives should they want to stop it (and I assume they would). It seems like a really, really tricky situation. Also crazy.
Technically speaking there wouldn’t be any and I’d be seriously opposed if someone tried to implement it, it’d render people as posthumous property which would lead to all manner of weird shit going on and quite probably fuck up things like organ donations.
Better to simply ban full human cloning but make it fine to clone components like kidneys for medical purposes (and the occasional pie if you’re weird enough to eat kidneys)
No argument on the crazy though, it’s basic level cult of personality bullshit
Cannibal pie! \o/
Human cloning? Not sure we’re proper there yet.
Yeah, I was going to say: I’m not sure what they taught this dentist at medical school… but I kind of suspect he’s just overindulged on the happy gas.
I hope his customer base keeps track of this stuff, and start to think twice about letting him diddle around in their mouths.
It’s more the thought rather than the capability.
I’m listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival. These guys, man. These guys.
do do do looking out my backdoor
Im listening to beastie boys and outkast.
I believe I will join you in this endeavour.
Together we can solve the mystery of Who’ll Stop the Rain!
My favourite uncle absolutely loves Proud Mary; apparently when I was a baby I would dance to Down on the Corner; these days I would say Bad Moon Rising is my favourite.
I like Who’ll Stop the Rain the best. And then Have You Ever Seen the Rain. Maybe I have a thing for rain. XD
Sounds like it.
Fortunate Son is pretty great too, but everybody loves that. Proud Mary too. XD
Like The Dude says; Fuck the Eagles, Man.
that song really helped me get through Nam
😛This guy! THIS GUY!
Heavy rain?
Is there any other kind?
ALL THE KINDS! I have them on an app that I play when I go to sleep sometimes. Because rain is the best.
Blergh. I don’t get along with my extended family. At all. I don’t particularly like them and the same can be said for my uncle. Don’t like him. But mum just told me he’s got cancer. Fuuuuuuck. No one deserves that. It’s so, so horrible. Even though I’m not his greatest fan, no one deserves that. 🙁
Apparently they caught it early though. So that’s reassuring. Hope the guy will be okay.
Edit: Also, this is just a stream of thought thing. In no way am I trying to make this about myself. Just trying to process some complex emotions. :\
Cancer sucks. My favourite auntie has a nasty cancer that just keeps coming back. Original prognosis made last Christmas unlikely, but she’s still going.
Geeeeeez, horrible, man. Hope she’ll be okay too!
What kind was it? Many of them are pretty easily treatable if they’re in fairly accessible places
Money, please.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology
I’ll… try harder tomorrow.
No, I feel too guilty.
Here’s a better pitch.
I preferred the ‘Money, please.’ Concise and direct.
I’ve always said, you’d make a great salesman, Shane. 😛
You couldn’t have cut me more deeply if you’d used a chainsaw, man.
Haha, sorry mate. Tongue in cheek, of course. As always.
Me too! JokeBros!
Hey, that’s jumped a bit since I last looked
Yep. Just an hour or so ago, a pledge came in for the Chancellor Tier…
‘Kay.
Woah.
What about a reverse Fry?
“SHUT UP AND GIVE ME MONEY.”
Well, now tomorrow’s effort won’t be a surprise anymore >:|
It’s really great to see the list of contributors growing over time. Also, I still can’t decide on tier, other than the fact that’s gunna contain a paperback copy because paperback.
I’m pretty amazed by it, actually. Had a bit of a coup the other day getting a submission from a guy who’s won Hollywood awards for a screenplay, and now resides in Canberra. I really hope I get to work with these people – it’d be a fantastic experience.
@negativezero was the one who encouraged me to open submissions early, so I credit him with this development.
It was a very good idea. Definitely lends credibility.
I think now what you need is some publicity. Friends & family mentions will only get you so far, Unless you’re kickstarting something which is an extremely easy sell (eg. Deluxe version of / Extra content for a product many people already own and love) getting listed on a big news site of an appropriate viewership is what you need.
I’ve seen this happen many times. Small-time games kickstarter gets featured on Kotaku and suddenly there’s a huge flood of backers. Meanwhile some other, more interesting games kickstarter doesn’t get featured and doesn’t make the cut as a result.
And flipping it around, for a recent example I backed the kickstarter for the card game Barbarossa. Cracked.com posted an article on it describing it as (paraphrasing) sick Japanese filth and possibly Nazi propaganda (you play as the German army, but in a parallel universe where everyone in the army up is a cute anime girl with a no sense of propriety or shame). As a result of that article about $20k was put onto the kickstarter from new backers coming in in the space of about 3-4 days and they smashed through all the stretch goals to the point that the localization company decided to commission new cards with new artwork to act as extra promo materials because they’d run out of stretch goals.
Have you mentioned your kickstarter to @markserrels?
He’s tweeted about it \o/
It’s not really gaming or gaming-culture related though, so I don’t expect any kind of action on the main site here.
It did feature on Bleeding Cool a few days ago, but that resulted in more submissions than pledges 😛
It got retweeted by Greg Capullo and Tom Taylor yesterday, but that (as far as I can tell) had no effect.
But you are, of course, entirely correct: publicity is key.
Try io9, more SF focused.
How about just a picture of you as a highwayman with a caption saying “Stand and deliver” which links to the kickstarter?
I can do that.
I’ve seen some pretty disturbing music videos *cough Tool cough* but one of the earliest ones I was ever subjected to was Jackie Wilson’s Reet Petite. Oh God, the horror. I’m referring to the version where he rolls his head along his arms, too. And those lips. Nightmare inducing.
Windowlicker by Aphex Twin.
I was a 15 year old boy, up late, watching Rage.
I just sat in shocked, stunned silence.
Windowlicker was (and still is) far more disturbing to me then his other one which is considered one of the most disturbing (can’t remember the name, scared to google it at work).
One of the first times I got high my ‘friend’ showed me that clip, arsehole.
Come to Daddy
THAT’S IT
Sorry but Windowlicker got me more then Come to Daddy.
Oh god, me too.
yeah, Come to Daddy is just scarey, Windowlicker is freaking creepy, I do love Richard D. James though, he is awesome & mad.
Most disturbing one I can think of that I’ve seen would easily go to Nine Inch Nails “Happiness in Slavery” the testicle stuff is more than cringe worthy.
NiN do have a good run of weird clips
I like most of their stuff and clips, not Happiness in Slavery through uh uh, no thank you, keep your torture porn to yourself, also “Pinion” is pretty wrong (only like 50 seconds long but still able to be disturbing)
Oh God, testicles? I don’t think I can go there.
Oh it’s just a horror movie, nothing to get worked up about.
You should watch some of the Gwar movies. Technically they’re more funny and awful than disturbing but well worth it
Im just gonna say this
easter eggs suck. They are all air. I’m just gonna buy a bunch of ferrero rochers and pig out.
I find chocolate tastes better to me when it’s thinner, which is why I love easter eggs. And those Cadbury Furry Friends chocolates. 😀
This is also true of ham, which is why the thinnest-shaved ham tastes the best.
Bite the top of the egg and stuff it with Ferrero Rochers!
This is one reason why I like Marshmallow eggs. There’s stuff inside!
Also creme eggs but recently (last 3-4 years) Cadbury changed the fondant filling in them to make them incredibly sickly sweet and less smooth and I don’t like them as much any more. Also they have the calorie count of a four-course dinner which doesn’t help.
EDIT: You should just get kinder surprises. The egg might be hollow but inside there’s a rad toy!
not reallyOne of my mum’s cousins requested that their parents spend the same amount on chocolate as they normally would, but just buy regular blocks rather than eggs. They got like three times as much chocolate as anyone else.
That said, I’m not going to knock eggs, because a lady asked a receptionist to give an egg to the “lovely boy at the back” and since nobody fit that that bill it went to me.
Kinder Surprises are not bad. Well, the chocolate, anyways.
As someone who is on a diet and refuses to pay the ridiculous prices for a giant paper-thin shell full of disappointment, the only easter chocolate I will have this year is the Lindt gold bunny that appeared on everyone’s desks at work this morning. I mean like, the one allocated to me. Not everyone’s. I don’t want diabetes. That’s why I’m modifying my diet.
I wish they’d port Journey to PS4. I still haven’t played it and I want to but now I’m really struggling to even turn my PS3 on because of how old it feels. 🙁
I haven’t played it because I’m lazy and haven’t bought it, and think I’ve mostly missed the chance for multi.
I just saw that article with the Journey picture and had the same thought. I never played it on PS3, and now it’s unlikely I ever will.
Just 3 more….hours… til 10 days holiday, slowest day ever. Most time I’ve had off in the last 4 years o.O
I was going to say “clearly you work too hard” but you’re currently on TAY, so now I don’t know what to think.
He goes to work too often is about all we can say with any certainty.
Life of a sys admin 🙁
I cannot wait until today is over. In the office at 8am for a meeting that just as I arrived was rescheduled to 11am 🙁
FOUND A BANETTE LAST NGHT YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Mega Banette is pretty cool looking.
I found a twenty cent coin on the floor in the shower.
What’s a banette? Is it worth more than twenty cents?
Are you currently in prison? That might be foreplay
That’s not a nice way to think about the family home.
But yes.Or the opening of a negotiation.
“But officer, I paid him in advance!”
Idk it was in a rubbish bin so probably not.
And now Poliwrath.
That just leaves Garbador and Rotom left to find, and that’s every wild pokemon caught.
Also, I don’t like that Victory Road requires me to surf across the lake at the end here. I don’t want to have to take my Azumarill with me, that’s Vivillion’s spot!
Do you even Pokemon?
Hey guys, remember Bloodrayne? Yeah, me neither. But apparently Arc System Works (BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, Guilty Gear etc) have the rights to it and they’re teasing a new game in the franchise.
Moving to a Japanese developer that has a background in doing amazingly well-animated 2D fighting games? Seems like it has potential. Apparently the side-scrolling platformer from a few years back wasn’t too bad but I never played it. If they’re doing more of that then I’m interested.
Is Boodrayne anything like BloodRayne?
similar but with more Boods
I’m more of an Aff man than a Bood man.
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
I’m watching you *shifty eyes*
😛Must have been a gitch in the matrx.
It was odd. The parts it did well it did really well.
The rest was crap.
But the universe as a 2D fighting game I could, hesitantly, get behind. Good characters, nice setting – might work if they show enough creative flair.
Even if it’s not a fighter, I’m curious to see a Japanese take on the franchise.
Hell, you could almost consider Hellsing to be a take on the franchise. 😛
Empires/secret societies with pet vampires who ‘clandestinely’ murder hundreds and hundreds of normals… I’m sure there’s been more than a couple anime series with the theme.
If Hellsing wasn’t a big influence on BloodRayne I’d be stunned. The original manga and anime started about a year and a half before the first BloodRayne came out and they were super popular. And also involved Nazi vampires and stuff.
Bloodrayne was actually a very serviceable 3rd-person action game. A bit shlocky/grindhousey with a nubile vampire chick fighting nazis, but it really worked pretty well. Good puzzles, good platforming, solid combat, satisfying aesthetic. It probably turns up on Steam for a buck or two.
Had a pretty fair sequel and a really horrible movie made.
I hate fighting games, so it’d be a shame if that’s all they do with it.
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
I’m tagging you guys again to remind you that if you haven’t already, please send me an email at popdart10 at gmail dot com with your email address for Roll20 and Google+. I can’t actually invite you guys into the hangout for the first session unless I have some sort of detail to contact you through the Roll20 application. I know a bunch of you have already done so but I’d just like to get everything down pat in advance.
And in case anyone was curious how the final party was shaping up (this is more or less confirmed by everyone):
– Redartifice the Elven Rogue (Abelas)
– Tech_Knight the Eleven Sorcerer (Dem’nion)
– Freeze the Human Barbarian (Lundgredolph)
– Nobulus the Hobgoblin Magus (Name Pending)
– Negative Zero the Kitsune Sorcerer (Izumi)
– Steve-O the Human Druid (Beorn)
– B-ob the Catfolk Bard (Drewan)
– Rize the Half-Orc Ranger (Name Pending)
All aboard the hype train, have your tickets ready for inspection.
Our hype train of magic and adventure, great hoards of treasure to loot, and monsters to slay.
Fun for all the family.
FTFY Popdart 🙂
Well I won’t say it’s a goal per se, but I won’t be terribly disheartened if something befalls your characters. 😛
Roll for protection against evil GM.
Critical failure? :O
Let us begin.
I go to sleep for the night.
Roll for save vs demon decapitating you in your sleep.
But I’m at an inn!
Roll for save vs innkeeper being a demon.
@beeawwb Don’t worry. This is Pathfinder not Warhammer or Cthulu. Those type of situations don’t happen.
Much. >:D
Phew, that’s a relief.
*head falls off and rolls away, a final shocked expression on its lifeless face, in to a nearby gutter.*
Roll for save vs one of your companions being an axe murderer
HE’S PUT ON THE VIKING HAT! RUN!
Does your roll20 address and google+ address have to coincide?
I signed up for Roll20 with my main address for Numenera way back, but I don’t use Google+ on that account, I have a separate Google+ address with my True Name on it.
It’s mainly for him to link them together in his campaign so when we use the Roll20 application through Google Hangouts, it logs you in automatically as your Roll20 account
Edit: They don’t have to match, my Roll20 is one email and my google+ is another
Edit answered my question. So are we on a hangout separately or what? I dropped out of Numenera before all this fancy-pants google+ stuff happened.
The hangout is bundled in with the Roll20 application as it can work within the hangout itself. I will be initially launching it from the Roll20 site but I can always add people to the hangout using your Google+ IDs if there is an issue.
I’m kind of confused because my atomicstrawberry at the gmails account which I used to sign up for Roll20 AFAIK doesn’t have Google+ unless Google created one without my consent. Which would be quite typical and I guess I should check.
Every gmail account kinda gets an “unconfigured” Google+ account IIRC. When you next login to gmail you should have a + on the top right of the page, click that to go to your google+ account.
Nope, my main email definitely doesn’t have a Google+ account, if I go to there it’s like ‘Create an Account?’ and I’m like no.
I think that it’s sort of halfway there in the system because it’s linked to my youtube account.
@negativezero Okay that sounds right… basically designed for easy adoption using your current gmail account I guess.
@tech_knight: I don’t want Google+ anywhere near my primary email account. It creeps me out enough that google knows all the sites I visit and sign up to without that being potentially surfaced to everyone else!
@negativezero Yeah, fair enough
I probably need to update my weight as my lack of understanding of lbs… I think I’ve set an anorexic weight number xD
2.2lb to 1kg.
Personally I just hit the “average” weight for my race / height. As determined by YAPCG.
Yep.. I set it as anorexic lol!
I’ll have to fix that tonight, give him extra 40 lbs or so 😛
Dem’nion casts “Protein Shake”!
I shall follow a new god named “Beefcake” 😛
Follow your dreams, you can reach your goal. I’m living proof. Beefcaaaaake.
YAPCG is pretty awesome.
Do it randomly. Elf height for a male is 5’4″ + 2d8 inches so 5’6″ to 6’8″, weight is 110lbs + 2d8 x 5 lbs, so 120-190lbs. Best thing to do is to use the same 2d8 for both, so your weight and height correspond, and then if you want to tweak to be fatter or skinnier than average for your weight, modify by 10-20lbs up or down.
Yeah Dem’nion is 5’11, so I will need to update it. I think he’s currently at 115lbs, which is a fair bit light for that height xD
How tall did you end up making your character?
The general rule is that for every inch over 5′ 4″ for an Elf male, add three pounds to your starting weight of 100 lbs.
I think it’s 5’11” and 115lbs I set
Slightly underweight but not too bad. Elves aren’t as muscly or fat as Humans so they’re not as heavy (hence why they look a little waifish now and then).
Hm.. slightly underweight I think I’ll keep then as it fits his character: A noble-born suddenly having to live on his own out in the wilderness, that kinds does things to one’s diet, which also coincides with his low Strength
Email sent!
I get the impression that I never sent through my character sheet…did you still need a copy of it?
I never did receive your character sheet. If you are able to send it through, that would be great as I just want an idea on what abilities that everyone can bring to the table. This will allow me to tailor the adventures accordingly and give everyone their time to shine.
I’ve literally set myself an alarm to do this at 6:30 tonight.
I just had the thought: did you end up going as a dual-wield combat style ranger or did you select on of the other styles or archetypes? I’m legitimately curious because I’ve tinkered with rangers before and they’ve mostly been archers.
Same, which is why I’m going TWF this time. I also specifically chose half-orc because I never go half-orc 😛
Did you see the expanded combat styles for Rangers? They can basically get a combat style in any weapon type.
I’m quite interested to see how the build will turn out, too familiar with the tropey rangers – will be good to see something outside the norm. 🙂
TWF is pretty standard for melee rangers, way back since AD&D when they could fight with two weapons without any penalties (which was pretty OP) so I assume you mean the Half-Orc bit?
@negativezero More just a personal thing. In every group I’ve ever been part of or led Rangers have always been ranged, and I can’t ever recall looking in to them for melee / TWF.
But, that said, I think combining it with a Half-Orc is also interesting. So yes, I am looking forward to seeing that play out as well.
Edit: *digs out AD&D Players handbook* Pg 40, “When wearing studded leather or lighter armor, a ranger can fight two-handed with no penalty to his attack rolls.”
Yep. Been way too long since I’ve played anything approaching TWF.
@beeawwb: I played a TWF-based Ranger in AD&D once and she was an absolute beast in melee. It was insanely OP until you encountered a caster and then you were fucked.
I also did the same thing through BG and BG2, which implemented simplified AD&D rules. Throne of Bhaal added some 3.0-style feat-ish things like Whirlwind Attack that made the class feel slightly less left behind at higher levels. Also racial enemy against Vampires was very useful in BG2. 😛
But you’re right, half-orc is a more rare race. They seem to be a lot more common in Pathfinder stuff from what I’ve seen.
Natural Weapons ranger seemed pretty cool when I was checking out the new combat styles.
The only drawback is that it suits one of the more bestial races like Tengu or Catfolk and it is pretty reliant catered to the Shapeshifter archetype to get the most bang for your buck. But hey, min-maxing is an honoured tradition in RPGs so that’s all good.
Haha, yeah. I was stressing for hours how to Min-Max a class by going a certain race and skills but then I thought, “Screw it, I’m gonna go something different!”
@sernobulus My personal opinion for tabletop RPGs is that the best way to min-max is to not do it at all. Just make the decisions you want to, and challenge yourself to make them work.
That’s GM code for “notice no one in the group has any ability with healing at all and therefore make sure every enemy inflicts poison” right?
Shhhhhhhhhhuuuuuuut uppppp. You’ll give him ideas!
He’s the DM. He doesn’t need help coming up with ideas to screw with us, that’s his job.
Email sent!
You should have mine 🙂
oh man, my lack of sleeping is catching up to me, I’ve hit the delirious point where everything is hilarious………………. it’s great. Really looking forward to some days off I’m gonna surround myself with gaming devices and caffeinated products and descend into madness, the likes of which you have never seen, it’s gonna be awesome. If anyone is up for some multiplayer something in the next few days let me know, my girlfriend works most of the weekend so I’ll be alone for most of it
*runs to coffee machine giggling about nothing in particular*
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps4-company-sony-to-sell-its-entire-stake-in-square-enix-valued-at-around-47-million/1100-6419024/
Jeez, Sony really is in a lot of financial trouble. It’s surprising how few people recognise it. At least Sony are doing the responsible thing and getting rid of its unprofitable departments. I wonder how Sony would be doing if the PS4 wasn’t doing amazingly well right now. Their game division is te only thing keeping them afloat.
They did the right thing by cutting off their computers business and they’re gearing up to do the same thing for TVs. I think with those massive lead weights no longer tying them down they’ve got a good chance to get things all back to a working state again.
Also don’t forget they have extremely lucrative movies and music groups.
Does anyone want to be a hero and send me a copy of Disgaea D2?
Not keen on spending $60 for it. I’m open to a game swap or even buying a game for you on Steam for $20, or working something else out.
Also, if you know of a place that sells Disgaea D2 for $20, please let me know.
Mates rates, hey. You’re doing it wrong.
Woo, beat the Elite Morethanfour!
Dammit now that means there’s all those post-game mons available to catch…
How many tries? It took me three or four I think.
Just one.
Couldn’t have done it without a type chart next to me 😛 Also almost got undone on the dragon one, knew that’d happen though so left it til last.
Ah, no type chart for me.
There’s way too many for me to figure it out. Like, the basic ones are ok. The fire/water/grass circle, etc. And I remember some of the other ones like the ghost/normal/fighting immunities, and dragon v dragon. But then there’s some that follow expected logic (eg electricity weak to ground), but others that don’t (I would have thought ghost would be weak to steel, since the whole folklore surrounding iron etc). And I always forget which way around psychic vs fighting goes.
It’s just too hard 😛
You won the tournament war but you’ll never get the same rush as before.
what version are you playing? I’m gonna try the elite 4 some time this weekend in X
Y
because I wanna know
😛
hey we should be 3ds pals, we can trade for the ones that are in eachother’s versions if you haven’t already.
I haven’t done any trading, my 3DS hasn’t been online yet. Haven’t even exited the game since I started, today was only my second time seeing the title screen because it took me there after the credits 😛
eh fair enough, if you wanna though I’ll be around. I did a random trade the other day and got some crazy ant pokemon at lvl 61 and they’d obviously trained it in super training cause it’s stats are insane compared to my team, made me feel bad that I sent a pretty low level Litleo, i really was expecting some crappy thing not the Lord of Ants. Sorry random japanese dude.
Are you on my friends list? I can traaaaaade…
Yo @strange and any one else here cooking inclined. Do you guys have any good recipes for a cooking novice? Websites you go to? Substantial meals and all that. I got no skills at all on this front but think it’s time to learn!
@redartifice
3?
I know, right?
It was the first “i” that fucked me.
Step 1: Get a slow cooker.
Best book to get.
http://www.stephaniealexander.com.au/books/the-cook%E2%80%99s-companion/
Start simple IMO. Can you cook eggs properly? Scramble, Boil, Poach, Fry – if you know your eggs and can do a good job with them then they’re extremely cheap, versatile and healthy protein sources. Also easy.
Once you’re past the really basic skills it’s just a case of finding good recipes. What do you want to eat? Find recipe, make recipe. Learn your herbs and spices and learn what flavours are good together and if you know that you can usually put together a nice tasty meal with random stuff without a recipe and have it turn out good. But the starting point is a good recipe book.
I can’t make any thing, man. Literally.
I’m thinking variations on stir fry might be a good start. Different combination of ingredients.
Truth @dc.
Same is true of learning to cook different types of meat using different tools. Pan, grill, oven. They’ll give different results. You can experiment with them or just set a list, and once you know how they work, you just combine them with the other things you figure out how to work.
Like vegetables. (Boil in water, place in a steamer above boiling water, fry in a wok or pan, coat in oil and roast in the oven… So many options.)
Then you just find tastes you like and whack them together. Meat & 3 veg is a pretty traditional thing.
This really seems like great advice for starters. I should start as I literally have NFI how to cook. Up until now it’s been; someone has cooked for me for free or I’ve paid someone to cook for me.
This is my best recipe:
http://www.mccormick.com.au/Keens/Recipes/KEENS-Curry/Classic-Curried-Sausages.aspx
It takes about an hour, but it’s pretty simple and easy to follow, and EXTREMELY satisfying.
Upvote because any curried sausages is amazing
It SO is.
Mi Goreng only needs one ingredient: Mi Goreng!
But the Mi Goreng i got has 3 seasoning packets… THREE!!!!!
I honestly don’t know what that is. Haha!
A slightly better class of two minute noodles that students live off.
Prod to say I’ve not touched the stuff since leaving uni. Good hangover cure though.
But you need boiled water!
HOW TO BOIL WATER!?
*runs away screaming*
The microwave boils the water for me!
Why can’t they invent a Mi Goreng packet with the seasoning already open inside? Then I could be even lazier.
In all honesty, google is your friend 😛
I’m slowly learning now, made an AMAZING lamb roast on the weekend on a spit…
There were a few things i wasn’t clear on (tying the roast, seasoning etc) and a couple of youtube videos sorted the techniques…
A mixture of google and youtube, and you will be a master cook in no time 😛
Also I should say cooking stuff where there’d be leftovers I could reheat for breakfast/lunch through out the week would be ideal too. 😀
As I said. Slow cooker. Doesn’t take any major skills (cut up ingredients and add to pot) and you always end up with plenty of stuff that freezes well.
Stews, casseroles, curries, soups and slow cooked roast cuts are incredible.
Another great option is to stay at Freeze’s place.
I ate soooo well while I was there.
(Eggs, as @negativezero mentioned, are a great way to learn. They’re a lazy-person staple, because they’re so damned easy/quick to cook and go well with anything.
Also, I still maintain that you can cook anything on a sandwich press if you really want. By far the best kitchen purchase (outside of good knives) I’ve ever made.)
I’m gonna get one! Thanks maaaaan!
Slow cooker means you can do pork spare ribs too, best thing ever
I read a slow cooker chicken recipe and it says that the chicken needs to be cooked before going in the slower cooker. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose? Is that normal? 😀
Seems odd but then I suppose the spare ribs I make are double cooked, slow cooker for a few hours then baked to finish off
Fried rice is easy as hell, might be a good one to find a recipe for
BOOM. Hand to Mouth.
How about the traditional curry of my people?*
*My people is Seychellois. I know of two Seychellois families who make curry this way, so therefore it’s traditional.
It’s actually really easy, no skill involved. If you can chop stuff, and stir stuff, that’s all you need to do.
Recipe here. Tagged for space.
Ingredients: No fixed quantities. Just suggestions.Oil – Tablespoon-ish
1 or 2 Onion – chopped
Garlic – to taste (minimum 1 clove/teaspoon) – I use a fair bit more than this. Probably around 1TBsp.
Ginger – to taste (minimum 5mm fresh or 1 teaspoon) – I use a lot more than this. I grate a couple cm of fresh ginger.
1 or 2 Tomato – chopped (just roughly, they’ll blend in to the sauce)
4 teaspoon Curry powder, best flavour by using 3 – 4 different types and mix to combine.
Soy Sauce (You’re going to end up using a lot, so get a bottle of homebrand / cheapest you can find.)
Ketchup (I’ve never made it using tomato sauce. I always use ketchup. No idea what difference it would make but the ingredients in ketchup ARE different.)
Chicken (thighs work best) – approx 500gdiced
Potatoes – approx 3 diced – I try to keep a 1 to 1 ratio of potato / root vegetables (e.g. parsnip) to chicken. So for 1 kg chicken, use around 1kg of potato/parsnip/carrot. The quantities above should scale from 500gm chicken, adjust accordingly.
Method.
Heat pot on medium heat and add onions, sautee until translucent.
Add Garlic and Ginger, stir.
Add Curry powders, stir and cook for 1 – 2 mins until fragrant
Add tomato, stir.
Add soy – approx enough to almost cover tomato. (Can be up to or more than a cup. Just guess.)
Add a few squeezes of ketchup and stir. (Whatever you feel like)
Add potatoes, mix through. Cover and cook for 5 mins, stirring once.
Taste – add more soy or ketchup at this point to your liking.
Add chicken and cover, bring to a simmer then reduce heat.
Allow to cook until potato is cooked through. Simmer for as long as you want. I tend to simmer it for around an hour, the chicken becomes super tender and falls apart. Add water if required to thin out the curry, if it’s too watery un-cover while simmering to reduce the sauce. Personal preferences here.
YOINK!
Could you use a Masala in place of the curry powder?
Totally. Where it says “curry powder” it really just wants a random mix of spices. I currently use Keens Hot, Clives of India, something that comes in a can that I forget the name of, something else in a can from my local Asian grocer, and a Vindaloo blend from Gewurzhaus
Just mix and match, whatever spices you like make that predominant.
Best way to buy Soy Sauce: go to an Asian grocer and pick up a massive bottle (like, 2L or so) and it’ll be about a quarter the price of supermarkets and actually be a reasonable brand like Kikkoman or similar and that shit will last you for months.
I was looking to do this the other night; was picking up some spices from Asian grocer and looked at the soy sauces. I have plenty at home so I don’t need to pick any up but next time I go I’ll be grabbing a big bottle (after doing a suitable price comparison. At Woolies it was $0.26 p/100ml, just have to beat that and I’ll be happy.
Thanks man! 🙂
No worries. If you do try it let me know how you go. I’m always interested in other people’s experience making a recipe that’s part of my heritage.*
*Not really
Seychellois?
Woo another African Taybie \o/
I’m from Kenya, your neighbour to the west across the Indian Ocean. 🙂
Half Seychellois, at least. \o-
My Mum is Seychellois (though born in Tanzania) but my Dad is French-Canadian (emphasis on the French).
We can learn together!
I’ve just been googling things like “easy recipes for x y z ingredients that I already have” – seems to work okay 😛
Those ‘4 Ingredients’ books/apps are also pretty simple too, just because you only have to worry about 4 things 😛 Or you can be a cheapo like me and never buy any of their books and just cook the featured recipe on their website whenever it changes http://www.4ingredients.com.au/
I’m gonna buy you so many cookbooks for your birthday.
But I already have too many that I don’t use!
YOU NEED MORE.
Also, these guys have a lot of simple recipes that are easy and cheap to make. If you watch the “Hand To Mouth” video series they’ll show you a lot of basic techniques. Go to it!
http://brokeeats.com/
Seriously, just trawl through taste.com.au, lots of good simple recipes.
The book I use a lot is Donna Hay’s fast. Fresh. Simple, which has great stuff.
The Jamie Oliver cookbooks at also good for beginners. I have one of his other ones (save with Jamie) that I need to dive in more with.
Failing all that, hit me up on twitter and I can give you tips.
Ok, someone else was also talking about learning to cook recently. So we should make a Tay Cookbook Thread. How about every Monday, people share recipes?
I’ll get the ball rolling next week.
I think Friday would be a better day! That way I can try things over the weekend!
Ok done, but I don’t think I have anything to show for tomorrow. Need to prepare man, need to prepare!
Well now I feel silly, I left the TAYlist at the station :/
There a two outcomes, come next thursday, 1. I find it and post it around 12:20 on the 24th. Or 2. I don’t find it and there will be no TAYlist for the 17th
As long as you played Austrian Death Machine it’s all good.
Well…. about that…
The list was ALL Austrian Death Machine?
Any of mine make it do you recall, or do I need to suggest less pop songs next time? 😛
I like how everybody thinks I’m an expert on fax machines because I’m the closest one to it. They can’t get it to work, crack the shits, then look at me like I know all the answers. I’ve barely ever used it people!
1.5 more hours. 1.5 more hours.
Ahhh great page-get..
Fax machines are still a thing? What in the name of fuck for? We have email!
For official stuff we don’t really accept emails but we do accept faxes. But I work for the government so minus 5 years in this workplace for technology.
So soon it’ll be changing to homing pigeon?
Speckled Jim? 😀
I share your civil service pain…
same here, lots of places will only accept certain forms through fax, annoying but our printer/ copier / scanner / fax is the same machine so it’s not too inconvenient.
Preaching to the choir friend.
I frequently get a coffee or some food from the cafe downstairs. This is my primary source of celebrity gossip – the shop has a magazine stand with various tabloid rags. I swear that staring at the covers of those magazines is like watching a tv-series by only seeing the ads. You get to see relationships start and end in some sort of memory-based time-lapse via magazine-cover.
I had to laugh at the most recent one I saw. It was like flip-book predictability: for nearly a godamn year there’s been months and months of, “Miley’s a slut! So shameful!” with the girl poking her tongue out, and today I saw Miley huddled up in tears and sad because she’s “Pregnant and scared.” Jesus christ. Never change, humanity. Never change. We gotta earn that extinction.
(Idle rumination: Bloody hell, child. What did you THINK sex was? A deluxe multiplayer version of every teenager’s favourite game, or a free publicity button?)
As long as they keep it in the magazines I couldn’t care less… I’m looking at you Channel 7 news!
I have to watch that crap cuz my parents do during dinner, and some of the stories they run… geez!
In fairness, she’s from the south of America, with the state of the educational system there it’s a coin flip as to whether she was taught anything about sex at all
My sole source of celebrity gossip: The occasional sideways glance at the Popsugar “Across Our Network” when I accidentally scroll too low.
Sounds to be like she has an
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(⌐■_■)
Achy breaky heart
YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
pfft, if it’s in a tabloid they probably caught her vaguely watery eyed once.
Ahhh, see, I think I’ve found your problem.
The thing with magazine covers is that they have no bearing whatsoever on the real world.
Miley isn’t pregnant. Ellen hasn’t been having an affair with a male broadway star (who, it should go without saying, is also gay). And Jennifer Aniston didn’t start a cat fight in a restaurant because blah-de-blah relationships whatever.
About the only thing you can guarantee from magazines is that Take 5 is the worst one available in regular stores. I mean seriously, what the fuck is that shit?
The cover girl is pretty, at least.
You will never leave.
The scary thing is I cant tell if that’s a mock cover or not..
You will never know, since you’ll never leave me.
O.o
…
That cover almost gave me an aneurysm. Please, no more, I cant take it!
So I won’t show you the one that was actually in my work’s tea room: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlJw3YuCMAAEyXT.jpg
That last one actually blew me away, Blaghs.
I still looked at it, shame on me.
These are bloody awesome.
The smiles kind of remind me of the ones in your avatar
@rocketman:
I am bored and have to be at work for several more hours while I wait for the stupid build system to reject my changes again I thought I should elucidate you on my feelings regarding Sword Art Online.
Mild-spoilers, setting-related stuff based around the very first episode or two:
The basic premise of the series is that people are using Oculus Rift 4.0 to jack their brains into the matrix, and that the antagonist dude at the start has set stuff up so that they can’t log out from the game and if they are physically removed their brains will be irradiated fatally. There are a huge number of problems with this on a purely technical level:
1. Who the fuck designs a full-immersion VR system that you have to manually log out of inside the experience itself and there’s no other way out short of yanking the plug? How do you get disengaged if you have a heart attack or a stroke or something?
2. The amount of radiation or electricity you would need to emit to fry someone’s brain fatally is pretty significant. Given that taking a helmet off someone would be literally seconds, so you’re talking an enormous amount of power going into their head. Most likely this would trip the household circuit breaker before you could actually get harmed.
3. Corollary to above, what happens if there’s a power outage? It’s shown to be a wired device. Even if it had a battery backup in it, that thing would have to be enormous to be able to fry a brain in seconds. Also municipal power supplies fluctuate a bit all the time. Would a momentary power dip be fatal?
4. What happens if the game client crashes? You die because someone put a bug in the game? 😐
5. What happens if you hit a latency spike and you ping out? Does that kill you too? :\
The game as presented doesn’t seem like any game that would or could ever exist in reality:
1. They present the game and the technology as having been made by one guy. One single guy. MMOs are probably the most resource and people-intensive game types out there, teams on current stuff go up into the hundreds or even thousands. Even if we assume the game content was largely procedural, there’s an enormous amount of asset creation work and stuff, and at one point Kirito meets a random guy who says he worked for the company that made SAO, so clearly there were other employees. No one else noticed that one checkin that disables logout and kills everyone? Hard to believe.
2. The game launches with only 30,000 players which is a ridiculously low number for what must have been an astoundingly high budget game since it involved developing the headset to go with it. and it has an incredible amount of content.
3. The amount of content in the game is crazily unrealistic. Even assuming that it’s procedural, it’d described as if there is 100 ‘levels’ and it seems that each level is basically a small world with a town and a bunch of areas for questing and a dungeon and the progression guilds have to clear one dungeon to open the next level at which point people can move to the hub town at that level. Given that there’s only 30,000 players at the launch and a whole bunch of them die in the opening few hours, that’s an astoundingly large amount of area for so few players.
4. It starts to take months to clear some of the levels. I realize the stakes are much higher in SAO, but remember that current MMOs people are hitting level cap and finishing all the content in the game within *hours* of release. Seems strange that given that the game involves enforced poopsocking, it still takes so long to get through the game.
Spoilers for second story arc (mid-series onward):
I have massive issues with the sudden shift in Asuna in the time between the two arcs. In the Aincrad arc, Asuna is strong, capable and powerful. She kicks ass, pulls Kirito’s shitty arse out of the fire multiple times and is very much on an even footing with the hero. And then suddenly she’s pathetic rape-bait that can’t do anything and sits around moping and waiting to be rescued and stuff. I guess because Kirito already completed that conquest and moved onto his sister/cousin/whatever she is waifu by then. The first arc was great and had a great conclusion and it really would have been better to end there. 🙁Alfheim Online is built off the same engine as Aincrad was so Kirito can load up his character as-is? Just by logging in with that name? THAT IS NOT HOW DATA FILES AND LOADING WORKS.
No one can do a traceroute on one of the kids that didn’t wake up after Aincrad finished and realize that those people have somehow been transferred to another game while no one was looking?
Spoilers for the end:
Kirito discovers open source! One engine that people can use to make any MMO they want?! OMG WHAT A REVOLUTIONARY CONCEPT THAT DIKU NEVER THOUGHT OF IN 1990.They’re all pretty minor issues aside from the personality one and they didn’t really bother me that much once I turned my brain off and learned to just roll with it even if it seemed dumb, but it did reduce my enjoyment a little. It’s very well made and I’ll still watch season 2 in July though.
And besides, a lot of anime tends to come apart at the seams if you pick at the loose threads a bit.
But if you want an anime that feels like it’s really set in an MMO, Log Horizon is vastly better at capturing that feel.
BTW I am sorry if this ruins or diminishes the experience for you and you can always not read it. It’s also kind of odd that I had issues like that when I will happily accept other stuff like ‘realistic’ mecha shows, genocidal aliens being defeated by the power of pop music, shows about girls who are literally assault rifles, shows about competitive tank battles as an inter-school sport…
I love the short descriptions of Anime (both yours here, and the ones on the round ups and whatever).
Like “The story of a brother and sister who begin attending a magical-technology school.” Or “A boy discovers that his perverted nature can power a giant robot.” Or my personal favourite of the recent ones “In a world where Japan never opened to foreign trade thanks to their ancient giant robot (and has thus remained isolated from the rest of the world), a young man laments his virginity.”
How about the one about an all-girl squadron of pilots who fly airships that literally draw their power from the magic of their lesbian passion for each other?
Because that was actually a thing.
wait what? 0.o
Exactly what I said. I can’t explain it better. In like the first 2 minutes of the first episode it basically opens with the various pairs of girls snogging and then magic and then the airships are flying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simoun_(anime)
There’s a lot more to it and it’s actually quite a good show with some really interesting elements, but that initial WTFness never went away.
… I… i got nothing 😛
Due to the WTFness i now have to try and watch it 😛
Also that last one sounds familiar (it sounds like Hyakka Ryouran) except for the giant robot bit – with that in there I haven’t got a clue what it could be unless it’s something from the season that just started.
I’m actually kind of behind, haven’t seen a lot of the new stuff yet as a result of last week being wall-to-wall meetings killing my patience and this week I’m just exhausted and have been more interested in sleeping
It’s Fuuun Ishin Dai Shogun, which yeah, is from the new season.
Oh right. That explains it. I turned it off about 5 mins in. 😛 Way too much new stuff this season and I have less spare time so I’m being a bit more careful with what I invest myself into and it didn’t even remotely make the cut.
The one that I was really disappointed with was Knights of Sidonia. Leading up to release I thought it’d be one of if not the show of the season. Adapted from a manga by the guy who did Blame. Great staff, great cast.
Then it turned out the whole show is CG. The characters are all CG models, they’re nearly impossible to tell apart from each other because of the bad CG and the poorly differentiated character designs, and the worst part is the character movements are janky as fuck. Jerky, stilted keyframed animation straight out of the mid-90s. It’s not the first to do it – Apeggio of Blue Steel did it last year – but it does it really badly for what should be a high-budget show. I found it unwatchable. 🙁
But it’s okay because there’s more Jojo, Mushishi and Fairy Tail running.
Perhaps the greatest story ever told. (Honestly that’s brilliant id watch the pilot and then pretend I hadn’t.)
Did someone mention EBA?
Enterprise Bargaining Agreements?
EDIT: this was a reference to Macross by the way.
I get all the complaints you have with it. A few of the ones you have said started popping up for me early. Im 5 episodes in now and besides the very first episode do they mention food or water and why the hell did they mention it once and not refer to it afterwards. But so far i am enjoying it. At the very least its a very pretty anime and i dont hate any of the characters yet. If i watch 4-5 episodes of a anime i will usually watch it all the way through.
also also i havent ever used crunchyroll before today, its pretty okay. Im surpised i don’t get any stream lag actually considering I’m using wifi
Crunchyroll is a pretty cool guy except for the way they lock so many streams away from dirty Australians.
SAO has a lot of self-wankery, but it’s world building is actually quite decent (for everything involving Sword Art Online, anyway. From the second arc onwards..)
Of course, I’ve read the LNs, and they actually do address a lot of the things you talk about. It’s been said that the reason the anime has suffered is because it simply doesn’t have the info the LN has.
I’m not entirely sure if I should bother defending any of the points, though, because, as you said, you’re picking it apart to a point where suspension of disbelief is supposed to kick in. And to get to that point, you gotta chip at the material with a jackhammer. That said, let me see if I remember a few things from the LNs..
1) One didn’t always have to press log off to, ah, log off. Simply taking off the helmet would do so.2) Yeah the radiation explanation was whack.
3) NERVgears had backup batteries. This is also the reason everybody was able to be transported to medical facilities without dying instantly the plug was turned off.
4) Lack of bugs were explained by the all-seeing AI system known as the Cardinal System which continuously monitored everyone and everything always, which is where Yui came from. it was said to be continuously patching bugs in the background. So.. yeah. It was weird.
5) Hah, they never did bring up connection issues. Who knows, maybe this is the future where Google Fibre goes to Japan.
6) Kayaba had (at least one) associates who knew of his plans and who helped him develop SAO. But yeah, he was the wonder boy who magically came up with the revolutionary technology known as the Gundam- I mean, SAO.
7) The clearing was slow because of deaths and general unwillingness by the majority of players to help clear the front lines. Why only 30,000 players were chosen to clear out 100 floors? Because Kayaba’s a dick.
8) Asuna really gets some character assassination in, it’s a shame.
9) Ok, why Kirito is able to transfer characters is somewhat explained and I don’t really remember that well. Alf. Online is pretty much a direct ripoff of SAO, just with a different pretty skin, so that mean for the most part Alf. Online contains SAO’s resources? I believe Cardinal being designed to be open source has something to do with it, I’m pretty unsure about this one.
EDIT: Ok, a google search reveals something I half-remembered. Kirito is able to transfer accounts because the system all the VR MMOs are based on (which is never exactly named) is designed to do so. It’s not a one-time fluke, it’ll probably be dressed in the second season when he transfers accounts *again.*
*shrugs* People love to hate on SAO, but for all it’s flaws it has a moment or two of genuinely interesting material.
Maybe spoiler tags before someone yells at you?
Alf. Online isn’t just a skin. The characters have different skills which would be tracked differently. They have different gear. The world is much smaller (and honestly more realistic as a game world!) and there are races and magic and all sorts to track. The underlying engine is the same but the data should be way different – it’s like saying you should be able to import your saved games from Gears of War into Mass Effect because they both used Unreal 3.thanks.
again, this is all off of memory, but Alf.Online was *directly* ripped from SAO. It wasn’t same engine, different infrastructure- Alf. Online literally took SAO’s stuff and just built on it. Also, as said before, the MMOs are designed to have some form of rudimentary cross-game account system. So Kirito was able to port his account in on that alone, then figured out Alf. Online had ripped off SAO’s resources.Also as I said, it’s still an entertaining show despite having some dodgy elements which mainly derive from the fact that it started out as fanfiction, it was never intended originally to be as long as it is, and it’s distributed as a Light Novel so it has all the tropes and flaws that light novel stuff tends to have.
EDIT: And despite everything I have the upcoming Vita game preordered. One of the Asian releases has JP dub, english subs.
LNs are infodumps, yet their anime counterparts are infinitely less so. So are the way of adaptations. I know one popular LN conversation this season (Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei) is a dense piece of fiction, and will probably not translate into a show very well.
I remember reading that the author attempted to get his shit together recently and started from the beginning (not a full reboot, but just a reprint of the first arc with numerous chapters set in SAO to provide a lot more background info.)
Can’t fix Kirito, though. Gary Stu through and through.
EDIT: For clarification, I’m not defending SAO, it’s not the best series, i just feel like since I’ve read the LNs and some supplementary work I can clear up a few things.
YEAH SATURDAY MAYBE SPOILER TAGS BEFORE ROCKETMAN READS THE PLOT OF THE WHOLE SHOW
😛
just as a point, i dont give a damn about spoilers, i am one of the few people who really dont give a care. My enjoyment of a show or movie or novel doesnt come from story points. so never fear.
hmm, I believe it’s more of the length of my post that might bother people than anything, hence the need of tags. I don’t *believe* anything I posted is spoiler-worthy.
I don’t really care either, but just because we don’t doesn’t mean no one here does.
@quiz_b:
Also, if it’s going to be a regular TAY thing… it HAS to have a punny name. That’s the rule. Like… TAYste Test. Or better yet, something clever!
From Kitchen to Tayble.
More than PoTAYto chips.
Pla-Tay? (or something to do with plates?)
I actually like Tayste Test.
Soup, EnTAY and Main Course?
SATAY surprise.
What about spaghetTAY and meatballs?
GastroenTAYritis.
TAYste Test gets my vote, suitably punny.
@dc where’s our damned snack/mealtaku already? We need this.
One of these days, I’ll do a legit Snacktaku in the vein of what I did with those ice cream bars a long time ago. I know a local place nearby that sells Tim Tams..
Yesssss.
Wait, you can get Tim Tams in Canada? Sweet, I won’t have to bring any with me 😀
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Never said you didn’t have to bring any.
But what types of Tim Tam? If it’s only normal, that’s totally fine, but there’s a whole world of glorious occasional snacks there.
Has anyone played that latest Star Trek shooter? I was tempted to pick it up from the PSN, it’s down to around ten dollars but the reviews of it are pretty shocking.
I mean scathing, not shocking.
The zero punctuation one is the best.
No Bones about it (YES), it’s almost universally regarded as pretty fucking horrible.
This thing is brilliant 😛
Yes.
Despite the fact that I DO actually use that word, without the slightest hint of irony or remorse.
I’d be remiss in my duties not to post a link to the video runthrough a mate and I are currently putting up on youtube: Mission 1 (he’s put up I think 4-5 videos so far but we’ve finished the game, just down to editing now)
In short, he and I each paid $3.75 for it from GMG a few weeks ago and it might just have been worth that much. It’s one of those games where it’s only playable with a friend and you’ll get more fun taking the piss than playing the game. Some of the bugs are awful but one of them was fucking hilarious and more than made me feel like I got my moneys worth.
The worst part of it is, I get the feeling it was made by people who liked real star trek rather than the lens flary bullshit that hack hack abrams turned it into. There’s moments where it feels like it could become proper star trek but then you hit the obvious “emulate the movie, gotta have explosions!!!!” and “we told you that you only have 6 days to make this game, why are you having a coffee break, get back to work!” moments. It’s a monument to an idea and its potential being squandered by the idiots with the money, in a way making it the perfect contemporary star trek game
PSA:
EB Games are offering a bundle with the PS Vita, 16 gb memory card and 6 Lego games (Harry Potter, Batman, Batman 2, Star Wars 3, Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean) for $199. Limited stock and the deal expires on the 27th.
Seems like a reasonable deal and might be one of the last bundles we see with the old OLED Vita.
That’s the exact same one I bought at JB the other week. Great deal.
That IS pretty good.
How much does PS+ cost these days?
Depends on region I think. US is $50? And I think AU is $70-80?
Man I hate shit that’s really intrusive. Got 15-20 notifications about Despicable Me Minion Rush in the last 5 minutes. Uninstalled.
I’m trying to find things to watch. Mum and I love things like Mysteries at the museum and hotels secrets and legends. Does anyone know of any shows I could get that is similar to these?
There’s a spinoff for Hotel Secrets & Legends called Castle Secrets & Legends, maybe that would work?
EDIT: and for the mysteries at the museum kind of stuff maybe some of the Pawn shop shows might be similar? Haven’t watched so speculating here, but it’s usually people bringing in strange stuff and then they talk a bit about it and give it a price. Antiques Roadshow is a bit the same but a lot stuffier – my sister and I enjoy watching it periodically though.
There’s also Church secrets and legends. We’ve seen them all.
Is the interesting part about it the history of the place, or the place itself? Because there’s a ton of good history documentaries out there. But otherwise it seems kind of specific and there might not be a huge amount else like that.
You could always just watch Cosmos.
I think it’s the history. Stuff you don’t really know.
So i’m kinda freaked out.. Just had a girl message me on Facebook that removed me from her life close to 18 months for reasons I still have no idea why.. Asking if I tried to add her a few weeks back on Facebook. Well I kinda couldn’t since she blocked me and I didn’t really want to communicate with her so not really sure why i’d bother, especially when it was her who burned the bridge of our 7 year friendship.
So it seems either she’s making it up (I doubt it honestly, since she was never one to lie) or someone is prancing about Facebook utilising my name (which isn’t common) with no profile picture or any info on the account I am told. So upon searching my name on Facebook I get 4 hits; myself, a bloke in Canada whom is a graphic designer & 2 blank profiles. So hmm. I dunno that’s just fucken weird if you ask me.
Maybe it is just a round about way of her planting the idea of adding her again on facebook in your head because she wants to try to rebuild things but she won’t just outright suggest it because then she would loose face.
Sounds convoluted but some people work that way.
Maybe so, hadn’t thought of that one, good thinking. But even if so I’ve been much happier since that friendship ended honestly!
4 days off! 2 of which I will earn money for, for doing whatever the hell I want! oGM! I just…. wow! Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!
http://www.itsartmag.com/features/infamous-second-son-the-art-of-levi-hopkins/
QUESTIONS, THOUGHTS, WORDS, BORED
Anyone have the HTC One M8 (M7 too I guess)? Thoughts?. I currently have an iPhone 4S but the screen is getting a bit too small and I think it’s time for an upgrade. I’ve been thinking about upgrading for a while, but I dunnae. At the moment it’s probably the M8, new Nexus or maybe the next iPhone (depends if I’m patient enough to wait for news on them). I really dig the front facing speakers on the M8 though and I’m not sure why other phones don’t have it.
Android users, how easy is it to mess around with things, especially the firmware? Is it easy to install stock Android on devices? I’ve only owned iOS devices but I really like the look of stock Android and I don’t think they sell “Google Play” editions of phones here in Australia. Would there be any chance of permanently screwing up the phone?
I’ve been reading into a lot of A Song of Ice and Fire theories lately and wooow! the stuff I never realised D: ! It’s a bit harder to come up with and discuss theories when watching the show since most things are explicitly shown (it is visual after all!) but a lot of these seem likely to be true. Awesome series 😀
Is anyone still getting Trials Fusion on PC? This wait is gonna suck!
@trjn – saw 2 eps of The Smash Brothers. Interesting stuff! Do they ever go into Brawl or is it just focusing on Melee? But I also hate you because now I really want to play Smash Bros 4 but I can’t… ugh, worst.
Get the nexus, on par specs wise, but much cheaper. I bought it straight from Google play.
As for messing with Android stuff, I’m still mentally locked down from using a windows phone, so I haven’t even tried to change anything yet. So lazy.
I know it’s a lower end phone compared to the M8 but I heard about it having a not so great battery life, camera and speakers. Its price is really good though but I think those other aspects are just an improvement over my iPhone 4S but I’m looking for a bigger improvement (which I’m hoping a “Nexus 6” might have).
If messing around ends up too troublesome then I might just wait for the next Nexus. I don’t really like the look of all the other Android skins (Samsung’s, HTC etc.) so it’s safer just going stock Android.
Ugh, now you’re making me want a Nexus again! 😛
How did the jerb thingy go today?
It was alright. They said about 1000 people applied and 140 got shortlisted to the assessment centres. There was maybe 40 people who applied for the same stream as me but they’re only taking in a whopping 2 for that stream and 12 graduates overall.
If successful there’s still interviews, then second round interviews after that and then offers are made :/. Pretty intense process and it’s all a bit too competitive to be honest. I’ll probably just shift my focus to smaller companies or scab a “21st Birthday Present” holiday from my parents (good idea @blaghman! :P)
I’m getting trials on PC, won’t be till next Thursday but I have the beta until then
Have scores reset since that one time? You goin downnnnnnnnnnn!
Scores have reset heaps of times, my best score I think was world 8th on the balancing act skill game.
New The Amazing Race:
Wooo! The teams I like are still in. Pretty crazy with all the first to last, last to first kind of things :ONew Survivor:
Tony is too paranoid :P. I liked LJ a bit less because he didn’t really do anything and just sat there, he had an opportunity with Tasha and did nothing! It was still a bummer to see him go but I’d rather him than Spencer. I thought Tony would’ve stuck to the plan so I thought Spencer would’ve played his idol but luckily he didn’t. I’m still going for Spencer to win since he’s actually done stuff. I feel like a lot of the “majority alliance” people haven’t really done anything.tagssssssss
@sughly @powalen @masha2932
(Sugs are you getting Trials on PC?!)
Yep!
You’re the best!
I know
…
dammit I stuffed this up
You’re not the best (at replying).
Survivortime @sughly @masha2932
Bit of an eh episode. Nothing spectacular happened. So glad Tasha won immunity over LJ\Tony though.The vote was pretty straightforward. LJ is stupid for not talking a bit more, though at least he was smart enough to see through Tony at the beginning. And now that LJ is gone, everybody is going to know that Tony was the mastermind and he’ll be gone next, I’m sure of it. Trish will 100% flip now and Jefra could be close behind. It’s really the minority’s time to start playing!
Also, Woo is just dumb 😛 believes everything the leader says and just blindly follows. Same thing happened when the basketball dude was around and it’s happening again. Tony will drag him along, not doing much until one of them is out (Tony is more likely than Woo at the moment)
Yeeeep on last point lol
I know (oops, wrong reply nooo I stuffed this up!)
@masha2932 @greenius
yeahhh, I thought LJ shouldve been more wary than that. Like you said, he even clued onto Tony earlier, then when he was frantic hes like ‘yeah we’re all cool as a six whatever’. Was a bit dumb, shouldve seen the signs and known tony would eb out for making moves. But yeah, Tony ousted himself, no more alliance… or if he does try and recoup the alliance like he said, will Jethra and Kass go with Spencer and co instead? Wouldnt blame them. Interesting to see what the outcome of this will be…Amazing race: AHH this ep was so cool! Rome! Was the first time I watched amazing race and was like “I’ve been there! And there! And there!” ^^ Even the spanish steps challenge, I have a photo of myself there, was pretty coooool. Anyway…
was glad it was mr blonde and ladyfriend that went, was pretty impartial to them. That guys a bit of an idiot. So many good teams! Except the blonde girls, always riding on peoples coattails! Erg, so annoying. Begone with you! Rest of the teams are going to make for super close legs. Finale for this season will be a good one i think. Foot race to the end was cool! Probably wouldve ran harder if they knew it was for lastI have a HTC One! It’s pretty great.
What didya upgrade from?
HTC Desire 😛
:P!
They mention it as a thing during the Mew2King focused episode. Overall, nobody in the competitive scene really stuck with Brawl.
So I just found out that the bottom screen in Pokemon is used for more than just displaying a message about how I should turn my wireless on (which it has been doing for the entire 78 hours I’ve played so far).
I knew of Super Training and Amie as features, but the only thing I found of them in the game was two NPCs that made passing mention of them. Nothing about where they are or how to use them, I figured I just hadn’t come across them yet. NOPE, just hidden right in front of you from the start.
Oh yeah and apparently that’s where the O-power stuff went too, another thing that only seemed to come up when that creepy pink guy appeared.
This game is dumb.
Middle aged man meeting a preteen in a hotel room to teach him O powers.
Nothing suss!
It was my fave new feature.
The bottom screen message does kind of tell you to go online the entire game, though 😛
But there was no reason to turn the wireless on, since there was nothing for it to connect to >_>
Better to save the battery power.
Tried a KFC Mighty Burger tonight.
Quite possibly the foulest (fowlest?) thing I’ve ever tasted. That chicken abomination they call a hybrid fillet is disgusting.
Hybrid fillet? The hell is that, does it run on petrol and electricity?
Nah, cooked in diesel AND used vegetable oils!
It’s thigh and breast meat somehow made into a single fillet.
“meat” 😀
Semi colon is on the wrong side there.
Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t!
I LOVE me some KFC, but even I draw the line at that… thing. I don’t even wanna try one. It looks absolutely disgusting.
I got about 3 or 4 bites in before giving up. The meats a bit gelatinous and the whole thing is super greasy and rubbery.
MONSTER HUNTER. THE SKILL SETS TRANSFER FROM DARK SOULS, BUT THE BUTTON ASSIGNMENTS DON’T.
MONSTER HUNTER!!!!!
Good job!
Aww, Wingman found and put up a video she took of us all at graduation.
Hilarious part that we didn’t really notice at the time where one guy (with a thing for Sketchbook) tried to stop me catching the taxi with them, but instantly both girls jumped in and said nah it’d be fine. Haaaaaaaaaaaa…
I miss college.
I wish I could go back to college, in college you know who you are,
I’d sit in the quad, and think “Oh my god, I am totally gonna go far!”
There’s a musical reference for everything.
I didn’t know who I was. Then again no one else knew either. I was only there for a few subjects a week and didn’t really talk to anyone.
Find a song for that!
The latter part of your comment also relates a little to “I wish I could go back to College” from Avenue Q, but only a little.
From a writing standpoint, Through The Looking Glass is an absolutely brilliant episode of Farscape. It just ticks all the boxes, and the metaphors are genius.
So after class today I went over to the super fancy super mall that never has anyone in it cause average Chinese people don’t have that kind f disposable income mall. Cause it has a cool super market.
Bought what is supposedly a caramel macchiato in a can, some strawberry juice (in a bottle that makes it looks like a sauce but shows a picture of it in a wine glass) and some nice looking cookies. I expect to only enjoy te cookies but I’m bored and it all only cost $8 Australian.
Also they have cucumber flavour Pringles in China. Have not tried them yet.
Do they still have peanut butter Oreos? Everyone loved them back in the day.
Maybe at TESCO but I haven’t seen anyway.
Can someone help me make sense of this? That can’t be 65k a year salary for a 20 hour a week job, right? Since it’s pro rata you’d be paid accordingly to a full time job of the same credentials, right?
I think the 65k is the annual salary for a 40 hour week but pro rata means you’re getting the percentage of that depending on what you work, so on 20 hours you’d actually be on 35k + whatever the extra bonuses they’re talking is (usually super, leave, sick etc).
Sneaky way of advertising a higher wage to attract better applicants without actually having to pay for it.
I could be completely wrong but I think that’s how it works.
Edit: $32,806 + entitlements based on some back of the book calculations.
Yeah that’s what I made of it, when I first saw it I thought it sounded too good to be a full time salary 😛
I think you’re right there tbh.
@popdart5
What do you need from me. I’m sitting here and I think I’ve signed up to anything but no idea what to do with these accounts.
I just need you to send me an email to popdart10 at gmail dot com with the email address that you use for Google+ and Roll20. Then I can invite you into the campaign with no problems.
Done.
Interesting fact:
Every 3 months you swallow and digest your own body weight of your own body material (ie: yourself).
Presumably this happens a lot faster for people who literally have their heads up their own arses
Went fossil hunting and revived all those ‘mons, had that done just in time for Mega Stone O’clock so swept up all of those, then picked up Mewtwo and Zygarde. 274 caught, 395 seen, now I’ve just got Articuno, as well as stupid Garbador and Rotom left to hunt for. 82:22.
Almost done 😛
Today I went back and defeated two Dark Souls 2 Bosses I’d forgotten I hadn’t fought yet.
Dragonslayer and Ruin Sentinels. Defeated the Old Dragonslayer on my own but summoned a very handy Sunbro for the Ruin Sentinels and defeated them first attempt. Then I got invaded by two BellKeeper guys at once in Belfry Luna so after they got me (I was a whisker away from taking one of them down, dammit) I decided to investigate the Gutter for the first time. Got through there without dying and am now in the Black Gulch which is pretty because green but OMG something ate me! 😛Edit:
Oh, between killing those two bosses I also did the Shaded Woods for the first time. Killed all the Lion bastards and tried to speak to giant scorpion man but forgot I hadn’t bought the necessary ring yet. *facepalm*I played Dark Souls 2 tonight as well!
Drangleic Castle
Tried summoning, but I got trolled by two separate summons, who went and woke up all the stone guys and then ran away, leaving me to deal with them. The second one came and killed them all, taking extra care to kill them as far away from the golem as possible, just to mess with me. Fuckers.But I got through. Beat the Looking Glass Knight (completing Benhart’s first battle event… but only just), and then went back and co-opped that battle about six times, wearing the RedEye ring whenever Benhart was one of the summons. Makes the battle crazy easy if I’m tanking all the attacks, and everyone else is just wailing on him from behind.
Next up: Shrine of Amana. Yay?
Yay? Yay. It sounds pretty in there, at least.
Indeed.
Origin users,
Dead Space is free to download until May 9.
Once you download it, it’s yours forever.
Where’d you see the thing ends on May 9th? Any indication what’s replacing it then? The page implied it was going to be more than just a one off thing
Read it on the Origin store.
Initially it said it would finish May 9th, now it says On The House specials “will appear and disappear at any time.”
Passed MGS Peace Walker. Pretty good, but the final chapter is padded in the worst possible way.
Man that legendary
birdgoose chase is a pain in the arse. Got my Articuno though! First “there’s only one” battle that I’ve failed though, Aegislash hit it with a critical on the second go and took him out. First time I had to reset the game and try again. Lame 😛 Bastard then went and ate all my pokeballs too…3:12am internet is boring
6:18am internet is still boring
6:46 Contemplated googling the word ‘vaginoplasty’ to see what happens. Decided against it. Internet is still boring.
Finished off Second Son last night. It’s a pretty good game. Not sure if I’ll do an evil playthrough or not. After playing through as good Delsin I think I’d just feel like a complete jerk playing as evil Delsin. Also, if the paper trail missions don’t end with me getting paper powers I’m going to be disappointed (though I guess it doesn’t really matter since I’ve finished the game).
I wonder how they’d end up scaling the paper powers since you use all the blast shards on the others, it’ll be a bit of a letdown if you just get them all at full strength at once (it’ll be a replay of how it was wen I got concrete since I was methodical about collecting shards and had them all)
That was how it was for me with pretty much every power. I collected pretty much every blast shard I could before advancing in the story so when I gained a new power type I could already unlock pretty much everything in it. I think smoke was the only power that I leveled as I played.
Maybe they’ll tie paper into some sort of DLC release? A new area with its own blast shards for you to collect.
That’d be nice, a new sub-area with 20 odd shards as the last part of the paper trail. Ooh it’d be really cool if it was that curden cay prison but I guess since it’s fate is altered significantly by the plot of the game it really wouldn’t be practical.
So Durante, the man who pretty much fixed up Dark Souls for the PC, gives his verdict for DS2 on the PC.
It’s looking good. Literally.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/04/17/dark-souls-2-pc-port-mod-god-durantes-verdict/
ONE WEEK GUYS.
It’s raining…
And there’s a new HTTYD 2 preview!
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Sure is quiet in here.
Almost like people are off doing things, probably with families or motorbike games that aren’t out on PC yet, bastards.
Biggest bastards of all!
I had to give mum a lift to the station before, and the roads are all weirdly empty too. It’s like apocalypse day or something.
Best stop by a servo and loot some petrol to be on the safe side
Don’t forgive those lovable scamps playing adventure games!
Oh they’re grand though
I’m in the process of making some translation inserts for a card game I imported from Japan a while back named Heart of Crown and need some external advice.
One of the cards is a special one representing a Fairy Queen. Directly transliterating, her name is Eruruun, spelled in Katakana so it’s a Japanification of a foreign name.
I’m trying to figure out if I should leave this as a direct romanization of the characters, or try and pretty it up a bit. For reference, there are other cards from an earlier set, Rurunasaika and Raoriri, which were prettified up to Lulunasaika and Laolily by someone else so there’s already precedent for fixing this up.
Japanese doesn’t have an ‘l’ and their ‘r’ is more rolled so halfway between an english ‘r’ and ‘l’. Trying to figure out the best way to pretty-up the name is tricky though, because Eluluun looks even worse. Sounding it out, I’m thinking Elurune or Erulune are probably not too bad. The first ‘ru’ is a short one so Elrune or Erlune might also work.
Elrune sounds/looks okay.
Long names with lots of repeating letters always look rather silly to me. They remind me too much of poorly named MMO characters. The sorts of names people are forced to go with because all the good ones were already taken.
Edith.
That’s my Grandmother’s name!
Call her Hotdogs.
My guess is the original name was Alraune
Anyone ever had their sinuses drained? Well I assume someone somewhere has in the past but I mean someone here.
Apparently both my maxillary sinuses and my left frontal are quite swollen and the way the GP describes it I’ve got a swelling in the right frontal the size of a cricket ball. I’d not be surprised if it ends up needing surgery, can anyone give me some perspective on what’s involved & any ideas on how horrifyingly expensive it’ll be?
Hey @redartifice – I just made a mis-click on the TAYPathfinder tumblr (was trying to open up @tech_knight ‘s post about Dem’nion) and discovered that Part 4 of Drewan’s backstory got posted to the Redartifice page instead.
Anyway, working on Part 5 at the moment. Should have it done today, and got a good idea on what’s going to get me from Nolania to Xondol, so Part 6 will likely follow sometime this weekend just in time to play on Monday!
I really have to stop playing Trials Frontier. I don’t even like it but I keep playing it because it’s the closest thing to a new Trials game I’ll have until Fusion comes out on PC :P.
If anyone hasn’t heard of it, Trials Frontier is a spin off on iOS (ugh!) which poses a few problems. Touch controls makes it harder to control the game since there’s no level of sensitivity. It’s either full acceleration or none at all. And like most mobile games it’s a “free to play” one which is terrible for Trials. You’re really limited in what you can do before you have to “pay to win” or wait a decent amount of time before you’re able to do anything again. But the biggest thing I hate about Frontier is the way the bikes handle. There’s no longer set bikes with set stats that get unlocked as you progress throughout the story. Now each bike has certain parts that can be upgraded. Sounds good, right? WRONG. This means it’s no longer about who’s the most skilled, or who knows the track the best, but who’s played (spent) the most to upgrade their bike to have significantly better stats than everyone else. Poop.
There’s quests and missions which are interesting enough but the whole “free to play” thing really ruins what could’ve been great :(.
OH GOD THE COMMENTS ARE DOWN WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW
Weep.
Aw man spoiler tags don’t work :/ Oh well doesn’t matter then I guess.
For the fourth time…?
Are the comments up?
EDIT: Success!
Lol..
Is it possible to remote play from a PS3 to a PS Vita using different accounts?
The scenario is that I’d buy PSOne classics, download them to the PS3, switch back to my main account, and then remote play to the Vita. Should this work?
If it would, would I be better creating a new account or a sub-account?
Well, I’ve finally figured out how to successfully FTP games to my original Xbox!
\o/
Free to Play or File Transfer Protocol?
File Transfer Protocol.
Though that probably doesn’t cost you anything…
Well what a shitty Record Store Day… Look up the participating stores, closest to me was at least 50km away 🙁 I wanted the re-release of the clear vinyl of Vol. 3 The Subliminal Verses by Slipknot.. Also Green Day’s new album which was comprised entirely of demo’s was meant to be released today specifically for RSD JB were meant to have it, nope 🙁
I try to support the music I like and retailers sometimes make it hard :/
Holy crap my comment before actually went through? Dammit I should’ve just launched all the other ones
Friday, 7:20pm – Hmm. Just tried this Cheeky Rascal vanilla bean apple cider. It’s… strange. Not the flavour I was expecting to get. Not that it’s bad though. And the more I’ve had, the more I like it. You kind of need to stop and think about the taste. Oh wow, it’s strong too. 8%. Pretty good, would try again.
8:05pm – Going to this mead from that cider is weird. It’s like, completely the opposite flavour. The other one was low and deep, while this one’s high and sharp.
My sister thinks I’m weird for describing taste like I would music. But I don’t know how else to do it, that’s just how it is to me.
9:10pm – Hahahaha Wingman invited… uh, I forget if I had a name for her. Talkative Girl? Anyway another one from college along to the thing tomorrow. So she’s probably coming too.
THE WHOLE CAST!
Edit: Aww she got called in to work. Jerks.
Double edit: But she’s gonna try come see us anyway!
9:35 – Just started Link Between Worlds. GRINNING LIKE AN IDIOT ALREADY.
How the hell does it look so damn good? It looked so crappy on youtube etc in the leadup, but man. It’s pretty.
You could’ve posted on Twitter TAY!
If a TAYbie makes his 10,000th comment on a weekend Tay, does it make a sound?
Let’s see
Yes!
I think I did my 5000th one on a weekend and it took me a good while to notice so I guess that was a silent but deadly
So today was pretty good. Went into the city with my sister first, she helped me pick out a new pair of climbing shoes, which I kinda desperately needed since the old ones have holes in the front bigger than a five cent piece. The whole thing went by much faster than when she helped me get the last (my first) pair, three years ago 😛
Went down to Market City afterwards and met up with all the others for lunch. Pillowmaker brought (delayed) Christmas presents for me and Wingman! She got an Adventure Time tea set, and I got the fucking devil’s version of Rubik’s cube. This one spins around the middle pieces on each edge, and can displaces pieces to stick out of the usual cube shape. After some googling, it seems to be called “Curvy Copter”. Can’t figure out how the damn thing works, it’s friggen hard 😛
We got the deal at the arcade where you get an hour of freeplay, a laser tag match and two bumper car rides. Started out screwing around with the hammer strength tester dealie (*totally beat the others *flex*), then spent maybe 15mins on Time Crisis before getting bored of it, and went down to find all the others at the ticket redemption machines. The whole lot of us just kept chaining those and taking it in turns to get around the timed/consecutive lockout that would stop us playing the same machine repeatedly or swiping too frequently, and ended up racking up over 1700 tickets that we all piled together to let my friend spend at the shop, since it was his birthday the other day. Had enough for a large vinyl Luigi figurine. Sadly not enough for either of the Totoro things they had, but we still did pretty well I think.
Laser tag was pretty good, but god damn my legs always end up so worn out afterwards. Way too much time spent crouched down, quads just turn to jelly. I totally kicked arse though we did it split into two teams of six, I came first on 6501 with second and third on 5001 and 5000. And 41% accuracy too, next best was 12th place on 29%. Double flex 😛 Bumper cars were fun too, but none of us felt like using our second turn so we just gave all our cards to some mum with a family and told her that they all had one more ride left on them.
I think we then ended up spending like 45 minutes in the Asian IGA downstairs there. The girls got stuck looking at all the teapot stuff, then we got caught up on weird foreign drinks before they got caught up on tea. I had some grape drink that was like liquid Hubba Bubba. It was pretty great.
And that was my day now I am super tired.
Do you have limited ammo in laser tag? Or different types of guns?
Nah, unlimited. Fire as much as you like, but when someone shoots you you’re dead for four seconds and can’t fire. They can still shoot you while you’re dead though, which resets the counter til your gun reactivates.
There’s also supposed to be some kind of thing where you can earn like rapid fire or something, and I think some places do different kind of guns as powerups like that. But I don’t know how it works. This one had some mention of powerups like invincibility and stuff that you could earn, nfi how it was supposed to happen. I was fine enough taking my single shots 😛
ALL THE KING’S MEN.
You’ll get rewards even if the campaign isn’t successful, because I’m a terrible businessperson. But only if you pledge by 2nd May.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology
Quick Question (I’ve never used Kickstarter before):
If you back, and the campaign fails for whatever reason, does the money still go through (I’m guessing in your case it will because you’re giving us rewards) but in general does the money not go through if it’s unsuccessful?
The money only gets taken out of your account when the the timeframe given ends and only if the endeavour has met its funding goal by then. You only get your rewards if the campaign is successful.
Looks like Shane is being extra generous and will be handing out some rewards regardless of whether he gets funded or not.
I love you Shane, but that’s just stupid. 😛
Kreator and Death Angel: One absolutely awesome night of thrash metal. Not familiar with Death Angel but they were just amazing. Kreator, exactly what you want from a band that’s been like Slayer all their career except they’re better than Slayer XD Metalhead TAYbies, if you missed out on this tour you missed out good 😛
On another note I get an evening to myself tomorrow 😀 I might try and start Rome 2 again as well as continuing my rerun of New Vegas and hopefully finish off the newer seasons of Red Dwarf.
On a final note, I noticed a snake trying to hide in my front garden bush that I was trimming back with a hedge trimmer. I promptly slipped on the rock I was standing on (clearly observing health and safety protocols) and it feels like my right buttcheek is now bruised. There’s an image for all of you 😛
Happy Easter peeps
Why did I wake up at this time?
Why did I wake up at *this* time?
Thinking I might get my dog a backpack. I don’t have to carry his water and he’ll lose some weight in the process!
I wanna do this with Chilli, she totally needs little saddle bags & a cart 😛
I’ll let you know if I’m succesful
Yeah! 😀
So far it seems like the local pet stores and vets don’t sell them, so it appears online is the way to go.
Make your own saddle bags with canvas and bitchin’ designs? 😛
I’m not ready to move into making stuff for dogs yet.
However, this site has a dog toy I want to get for Sid. They also sell a decent range of backpacks.
http://waggle.com.au/dog-backpacks-c22
So awesome, but so expensive D=
@virus__
Yes, but they wear out the dog faster. Dog stuff is always more expensive but at least these seem to be great quaility
Agreed 😛
All he needs now is a set of goggles and he’d be like a Torchlight 2 pet 🙂
not sure if he’d wear them =P
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
I’ve sent you all invites by email to the Roll20 campaign. Let me know if you didn’t receive one and get back to me either here, by email or Twitter. I’ll be getting things together and setting up a bit early tomorrow night from about 7:30 so if you want any to ask any more questions or just want to make sure things work, I’ll be there.
Introduction-wise, how long has our party been associated? Long enough for me to know what languages everybody else speaks?
I want to ask / know, but I don’t want that knowledge to be something outside of what I’d normally know.
You’ll basically be meeting everyone else’s characters and forming the party at the start of the session. So you won’t really have any idea what people speak aside from the standard Common.
In my case, the answer to a question like that is very likely to be “it’s a secret” (get used to that!) and you won’t know unless she wants you to know.
I don’t want to speak for @popdart5 here but I imagine that the start of the campaign will probably involve us mas a group to meet a client for a job (presumably in a tavern somewhere because the quest in all good Fantasy RPGs starts in one) and we probably haven’t worked together as a group before that point and have our own agendas and motivations for responding to that job request. The group’s so weirdly diverse that it’s hard to see a way for them to have come together outside of expedience.
EDIT: Beaten
Yeah, that’s what I figured. Just didn’t want to presume some otherwise written agenda. 🙂
I’m in.
EDIT: Also regarding the character background and everything I mentioned to you last night, I’ll be updating my character sheet and send you some extra details soon. Do you intend to put the character sheets somewhere where everyone can see them or keep them between player & GM? Need to know how detailed my sheet should be since there’s some details which are OMG SECRET.
Everything that I receive from you guys will be secret and confidential so there is no risk of me revealing special stuff/background by making it public. You guys can talk to each other and share whatever information you want.
Cool,. that’s what I assumed but wanted to be sure.
Got it Popdart, and accepted, thanks!
So, I found out that two of the drag racing games I’ve been playing were made by Bethesda, as in “Elder Scrolls and Dishonored” Bethesda.
The games are Burnout: Championship Drag Racing (1998 – PC) and IHRA Drag Racing 2004 (Xbox)
Yay, TAY is back again!
Also, while TAY was gone Bandai Namco stopped being jerks and announced a localization for Tales of Hearts R on the Vita \o/
Yay for TAY!
Bandai must read TAY so much that they can’t get any Vita games done.
Oh yeah, I saw that at like 5am but decided not to tweet you then 😛
I hope that this means they’re testing the waters for other PSV releases since Bandai’s been ignoring the platform since launch. I’d really love to see them localize God Eater 2.
Ooooh, when?
“Winter 2014” I think they said. So end of the year, and also probably keeping it well clear of Tales of Xillia 2 which is mid-year.
Trials Fusion \o/
So far I’ve zero fault golded the first four locations and the first 4 tracks in the fifth.
Ps4 trials people should add me… I need some times to beat. Psn: batto61
Edit: okay then, the 6th location is significantly harder than the previous 5 :/
yeah, was the same, cruising through 0 faulting, thinking, this is fun yet challenging got to the 6th area and realized, oh I’m not that good at this then am I. The jump in difficulty is huge,
Some stuff happened on the weekend. I went to my grandparents place for most of Friday. At some point in the day my mother decides to tell me that my grandparents are going to Melbourne for a week, and they leave tomorrow. This had been arranged weeks beforehand, and I received no prior warning.
An hour later, my mother informs me that we are taking care of my grandparent’s dog for a week whilst my grandparents are away. This had been arranged weeks beforehand, and I received no prior warning. Now I have had to deal with two Maltese Shi Tzus in my house for the past couple of days.
This reminds me of the time my mother got our current dog:
My previous dog was a maniac. He was always full with a manic energy, and it was unbearable to be around him. Eventually, my mother caved and gave the dog away. May Arceus have mercy on the poor sods who have to deal with the dog now.
Things continued as usual for a few months. One day, my sister and my mother left the house under the pretense of grocery shopping or whatever.
I distinctly remember the scene. I was playing the original Dead Space. I hear the car returning home. I was still playing Dead Space when my sister entered the room. Thinking that she was just entering the room to say hi, and bid her welcome without tearing my eyes from the game. As any gentleman would do. My sister moves closer. There is some weird shape in the corner of my peripheral vision. I turn my head.
Suddenly I’m staring at a puppy that is less than 20 centimetres from my face. I freak out.
I start interrogating my sister. She responded with:
“It’s a puppy! We’re hanging on to it for a friend!”
Initially, I just assumed that my sister’s friend was hanging out, and her friend would show up and say “just kidding!”
My sister’s friend was not present. I tried to get more answers out of my mother. Her answers were suspiciously obtuse. She claimed that a family friend that I’d never met before was going on a six-month cruise, and that we would take care of their new puppy so that they wouldn’t have to give it away.
This story was littered with plot holes and made no logical sense. I did not believe the story, but I forced myself to accept it as fact, as it was the path of least resistance. Three days later, my mother confessed that the story was about as real as the gold in Al Capone’s vault.
My sister and my mother had gone behind my back and bought a dog. This had been arranged weeks beforehand, and I received no prior warning.
So things that are arranged weeks beforehand and aren’t mentioned tend to be weird, has your mum actually sold your grandparents to someone in Melbourne? Hopefully not that yoghurt-lamp quack
It’s not like it’s a big deal though or anything.
Like, it’s not exactly important to mention to you that your grandparents are going to Melbourne, more just a passing subject (it seems, anyway).
And who needs warning to look after a puppy? It’s a puppy! It’s automatically adorable, and you should be happy you get to look after it! 😀
And if all else fails, there’s bound to be a kebab shop nearby in need of “lamb”
Me. Animals smell and I much prefer a household without them 😛
But, but, PUPPY!!!
If it smells then wash it 😛
ADORABLE WET PUPPY!!! 😀
And they’re fun, and cute, and good company, and cute, and warm, and cute, and I really need a pet :'(
I just don’t understand animals. Especially dogs. Whenever I’m at friends’ places they always come up to me and I just kind of stare at them until they go away. And then get annoyed that my clothes are now covered n in fur which will be showing up all over my car and room and everything for weeks to come.
Have you ever had your own pet?
Like, your your pet, or even a family pet (birds and fish don’t count :P)?
A fair few. When I was around 5, we had a pair of rabbits. They died in the December heat. At 10 or so, we got a pair of guinea pigs. Ended up finding another one abandoned in a carpark, so we kind of adopted him too. It got to the point where we weren’t really looking after them too much, so we gave them away. Also had loads of fish, though it was just Dad that took care of them. His parents used to breed cockatiels and have had a few corellas too, one of them’s been around for the last 30 or 40 years or so. We got a cockatiel from them for my other grandparents, my cousins also had one from elsewhere (though he was a vicious little shit. But he was a vicious little shit that taught the others to talk, so that was cool :P). My sister ended up getting one too, had him for nearly 14 years I think til he died earlier this year.
They’re not like, friendly pets though. Birds and fish and guinea pigs and animals like that are more like pet pets, where as cats and dogs kinda become more like family. Not that the other animals aren’t still great or anything though!
I’ve always had either a cat or dog (or both!) growing up, so I kinda miss having a cat or dog around, since I only get to see my puppy when I visit my mother, which isn’t often :'(
@liondrive You should’ve met my Nanna’s bird then. Joey was the friendliest and the familiest 😛
I used to always really want a cat when I was a kid, but both my mum and sister are allergic so it was out of the question. Nowadays, eh. One more thing for me to not take care of properly.
You should get a cat! Cats are pretty independent too, so you won’t need to worry too much about him, so long as you feed him and love him 😛 You can call him Taco, after your tag! 😀 You’ll love having a cat 😉 Cats are my favourite animal 😀 And they’re very affectionate, without being all up in your face about it like dogs 😛 You’ll love your cat, and he’ll love you! 😀
My God I really need a pet :S
@liondrive Maybe you should get a cat 😛
Animals are scary. They’re like people that you can’t understand or communicate with. And people that you can understand and communicate with are hard enough.
…so I guess they’re a lot like girls *badum-tish*
I just want to say, that’s not entirely true. I understand my dog and they’re quite complex animals. In fact, dogs are a great wingman for girls. I would try for a smart dog that doesn’t need too much exercise, for you.
Also, last night I was upset after having my brother berate me. Sid come up to me to find out what was wrong and stayed with me until I felt better.
http://imgur.com/a/H8Ynb
my dog
@scree damn how long is his tongue??
Also how open to misinterpretation is that considering who I’m actually replying to in order to ask you that?
@scree Oh, I can appreciate that. I guess even though I kept saying “you”, I really just meant “me” 😛
PUPPY!
Anyone up for some multiplayer?
Whatcha playin?
Tossing up between Civ V, XCOM, and Pool Nation.
Anyone else got comment notifications stuck on? I apparently have 2 new ones and no replies in my profile page
I have the opposite problem – not getting any notifications even though I’m getting replies and such 😛
TAY’s being weird. Any time I click through to it I’m getting an unformatted page like when the profile page gets broken. So there’s no upvotes available, and if I try to click Reply it looks like it’ll start a new conversation. But then if from that screen I click Back, the page gets formatted right and there’s all the happy javascript stuff that makes it work properly again. Only ever on clicking Back though.
Yeah, I have a little pink “1” perpetually attached to my name.
So last night Oliver and I watched Trainspotting cos it’s his favourite movie of all time and I’d never seen it (and he gets annoyed when I don’t get his references :P). Wow, that was a pretty great movie. It’s probably up there as one of my favourite movies now.
Fuck the worst toilet in Scotland though. That was grossss. It’s a little hard to understand in places, but well worth it.
That was all chocolate that fecal matter.. Tasty tasty chocolate.
Yeah the cultural references certainly don’t transfer well to us, my friend in the UK who suggested I watch it said that I probably wouldn’t get all the references, which she was right.
Also the writer of the novel the movie is based on has a new movie out called Filth, it looks amazingly hilarious.
New page so I might as well ask for help again.
I’m planning on picking up a few PSOne classics in the PSN sale, but I’d need to create an American account. I’m planning on using remote play to play them on my Vita, so would I be better off creating a sub-account under my current one that is US, or creating a new account, then switching? (Assuming this workaround works with Remote Play)
I don’t even know if sub-accounts can be from a different region. You might as well just create a whole new US Master Account.
Sub-accounts have a lot of features disabled so there’s really no point 🙁 (this guy was stupid enough to make his main account a sub-account so I can’t even use half the things on PSN!)
Thanks. If I did, would it be easy to change the account while keeping all the games?
That stinks about your account. You’d think Sony would have an option to make it a master account.
Damn TAY and broken replies! (I didn’t see your reply D:)
Neg answered your question below but yeah, it’s super easy to change accounts and play purchased content from others on PS4 and PS3. A lot harder on Vita since it only allows one account at a time.
Many people have complained about the whole sub-account thing (since many of them are now over 18) but I’m not really missing out on much. Only stuff like PS4 share but it’s something I wouldn’t have bothered doing anyway 😛
You can’t use more than one account on the Vita.
Also sub-accounts are single region and their region is locked to one location. However every account on the PS3 (and every one on a PS4 if the PS4 is the account’s ‘primary system’) can access all the content downloaded by any of the other accounts. So e.g. I can buy a US store game (eg get it from PS+) then log into my AU account and play it.
I’ve adopted my US account as my primary one now though, the prices are better and the selection of stuff available esp. for Vita is far better.
Thanks!
MP
SS
FR
or
DS?
FR for Pokémon Firered.
Wait, this is the game you are playing, right?
EDIT: Wasn’t talking about Pokémon, was talking about the game where you want us to choose.
lol you’re both wrong! this is a decision to determine dinner! :p
Just put of interest what were your options?
Meat Pies, Sea Shanties, Fried Rice and Dim Sum
Still FR for Fried Rice 🙂
Metroid Prime \o/
MP
Well even though Metroid Prime was way off, since I got another MP, I’ll go with that! Meat Pies it is! More precisely, Chunky Angus meat pies!
@tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize @popdart5
Hi All
The final installment of Drewan’s letters home will go up tomorrow morning- let us know if you want a character brief on the tumblr
Also, if you could let me know your char’s Race and Class at least so I can update the Dramatis Personae at least that would be great.
http://taypathfinder.tumblr.com/
My favourite part is where @tech_knight is listed as “Dem’nion, Pointy Eared Git”
Also apologies to you @tech_knight if my depictions of Nolania don’t quite match what happened in your head. A lot of time has passed and some memories may have become fuzzy with the passing of time. 😉
You did change a bit, but I can work around that no problem. There wasn’t supposed to be constant conflict between our people and the Orcs after the major push that got us to retake Nolania but it can easily be just skirmishes. Again, it’s fine 🙂
Feel free to put me down as Izumi. And human, at least at the moment. The reality is a secret. 😛
What’s your class- Oracle?
That would be telling. 😛
EDIT: Spoiler tags are broken? 🙁
SPOILER: I’m a sorcerer.
I can change it to Enigma if you’d like
An enigma wrapped in a sorcerer wrapped in a burrito.
I’m playing a kitsune sorcerer. But your characters shouldn’t know the Kitsune part unless I really arse up a Disguise roll at some point. The sorcerer part is less of a secret since it’ll be pretty obvious once we get going.
New, original art! Queued up for tomorrow, but for those who want a sneak peak of Drewan as imagined by my partner (the first one) and myself (coloured by my partner, the second one) here’s a link. 😀
http://tmblr.co/ZMLnzn1Dg9D-D
The Sly Cooper games are a lot more unforgiving than I thought they would be.
God dammit. Just got talked into buying a copy of Path of Radiance. All because it was an AU copy and going for a good price and the others were goading me into it.
At least it’s still under three figures.
Is that the wii game?
Nah, the GameCube one.
Do you have the wii one?
I never picked up any of the Fire Emblem games. Not that I even saw any of them around the place, I think I saw Sacred Stones maybe once or twice but it was too expensive for me to grab at the time so I left it. I think I’ve only seen Radiant Dawn in the shops maybe once.
Had a brief go of the one they gave you in the ambassador lot, it seemed pretty cool.
I think that was sacred stones.
Why did you get the GC one then?
Because I’m an impressionable and/or opportunistic fool 😛
It was in good condition, it was a good price, it was an AU copy, it’s a GameCube game I was interested in but didn’t have yet, and it comes pretty highly recommended too. Friends I was talking with at the time weren’t helping either…
Happy Easter everyone! I hope you are all having a relaxed, extended weekend.
So. Much. Chocolate. Mmm. I spoiled everyone with Kinders yesterday. Oh. My. Gawd. Best chocolate ever and the family and I feasted like Kings from Game of Thrones. Minus any decapitations, stabbings or poisonings, of course. Saturday night I took my wife to the Shen Yun 2014 ancient Chinese dance spectacular at the Festival Theatre and it was amazing. Vibrantly coloured outfits coupled with acrobatic flips and tumbles filled the stage. There was also a take on the classic Journey to the West story which was very cool. The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!
I’ve gone back and started Final Fantasy V for the first time. Currently grinding which is a bit ugh. When done, I then plan to get into VI as these are the two of the retro FFs that I’m really keen on.
In the wise word of Zack Fair: Laters.
I feel like working on the Wii pile of shame some time.
I’ve played and finished most things but these are probably the top games (in no particular order):
– Zak and Wiki
– Metroid Prime Trilogy
– DKCR
– Pandora’s Tower (unplayed)
– Super Paper Mario (unplayed)
– Resident Evil (unplayed)
– RE4
I’m thinking Prime Trilogy first then I dunno… I hope marathoning all 3 games in a row won’t make me sick of them 😛
There’s other stuff like A Boy and his Blob and Endless Ocean 2 which I enjoyed but I don’t know if I can go back to them. Goldeneye remains unplayed and I doubt I’d ever play it, but it was totally worth it to complete my Gold remote set 😀
oops! I was supposed to ask for suggestions/thoughts! ;D
I guess I figured I wouldn’t be buying any new Wii games and by the time I wrote my “top” list, that was everything I intended to play anyway :P. There’s still some Wii stuff I want to play like Kirby’s Epic Yarn and Fire Emblem but I guess I can acquire them through… other means 😛
Since I have played none of them, I think I should suggest… uhh… crying. Yeah, that sounds good. Cry.
I’ve never played any of them, but I would play the Metroid Trilogy, interspersed with Paper Mario (e.g. After completing the first I would play a bit or all of mario, then play number 2) then another game. Can’t help you out much though.
😀
What do you mean come back to? Is that to say you haven’t finished it? D:
I got close! I really liked it too but I dunno how easy it’ll be to get back into it…
Also… http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/12/which-kotaku-readers-give-the-best-hugs/
:3
I feel so old remembering that competition. So much time back in ’09, too nervous to enter those things. Now I know that the secret is stupidity, and we never have them anymore.
Oh wow, ancient history 😛
How close? Did you see that part?
I’m going to say no 😛
(I have no idea what you’re taking about!)
Then you must press on!
I was gonna ask your opinions on some 3DS games too. I have a bunch of unplayed stuff 😛
Top of the list is probably
– Layton 5, 6
– AA5
– Mario and Weegee
– StarFox
– Shinobi (it’s not really on the top but I think you’ve played it and can probably tell me whether it’s worthwhile :P)
– Virtue’s Last Reward (still need to finish 999 🙁 )
…others I’m forgetting
You seem to like those niche hidden gems so maybe you can help 😀
Layton and AA, I can’t speak for since I’ve only played the first Ace Attorney. But they have their fans, so they must be alright 😛
I’ve heard good things about Dream Team. Haven’t finished Partners in Time yet, or started Bowser’s Inside Story but I’m sure it’s good 😛 A friend rated it quite highly.
Star Fox is rad. It’s still mostly just Lylat Wars, but the new lick of paint is great and there’s a couple of little things added to keep you occupied. I’m a little iffy on the circle pad because of this game, I feel like I can’t aim as well as with the N64’s control stick.
SHINOBI IS AWESOME AND TOTALLY WORTH YOUR WHILE
I have sold at least two other friends on this game and they agreed with me 😛
Virtue’s Last Reward… I haven’t even opened 999 yet >_>
Steel Diver and Ghost Recon are also in my list of niche titles that nobody else seemed to enjoy/pay attention to 😛
Hehe, StarFox and Shinobi was what I mainly wanted your input on :P. I’ve finished Layton 1-4 and AA 1-4, played a decent amount of M&L games too.
I wanted Ghost Recon when it was like $4 but no local stores had it :(. Maybe one day!
First time in years I’ve gotten sick and it has to be on a long weekend that a mate and I specifically set aside for heaps of coop. I wake up the other day with a bastard of a sore throat and having basically lost my voice making talking while playing impossible. Bloody typical…
Get to the taaaaank!
Man I love those videos, also the cooking show where he’s advertising the “Choppa” .
Slow TAYday. Wonder if @dc knows it’s back yet?!
They didn’t have a new one, and most people aren’t at work.
Alrighty, finally planned out my Kimahri for FFX after realising that Wakka is heading for Triple Foul :S
Gonna get him off Lulu’s path and take him a bit through Wakka’s, then through a bit of Auron’s then back through Tidus’.
Hopefully I’ll end up with a pretty quick, pretty accurate, pretty strong Kimahri who’s also a backup black mage :S
Still prefer Kimahri to Wakka. Wakka is just so damn useless and annoying!
I also like Kimahri, but that’s because the voice acting is god awful and Kimahri talks the least.
I didn’t think the voice acting was that bad :S
Lip-syncing is constantly out, which is understandable, but I like the voices :S
Kimahri is my second favourite after Auron, but he’s just not super useful which is annoying.
Why didn’t my twitter pic helpppppp
ser hatulus
Wakka is the strongest character in the game! His Attack overdrive can do just under 1.2 million damage D:
Yeah, but he’s annoying 😛
Stoopid hair, stoopid personality, stoopid weapon, stoopid face 😛
Give me Kimahri any day! 😀
But Wakka and Kimahri have the same voice actor, that’s gotta count for something riiiight?
You’d think so, but nope 😛
Wakka = Worst FFX character.
Fact*.
*not fact, just opinion.
There is no Easter in China. Only rice.
Apparently there’s no Shen Yun performers in China, as well. Or so they said.
*performances
Bought those US games today, and while the PSOne games couldn’t transfer to the Vita, remote play worked fine.
Here’s a list of the games I got:
Braid, Crash Bandicoot 1, Crash 2, Crash 3, Crash Racing, Spyro, Spyro 2, Spyro 3, Tokyo Jungle, Back to the Future: The Game
I only got Back to the Future because I could get one more game and it seemed like a good choice. My other chocies were PvZ (have already on iOS), Gotham Imposters (free on PC), Jurassic Park (didn’t hear good things about it), or Tales of Monkey Island (I thought it was the original games, but on closer inspection it was revealed too be the Telltale games, and since I haven’t played the originals, I gave it a miss).
So yay for US and their sales.
EDIT: Spoilers don’t work, so made the games in a sentence
Oh yeah, I just remembered that some PS1 games can’t be played on Vita. I think the US Spyro and Crash games are some of the unplayable ones 🙁
(PAL Spyro works fine though)
Yeah, I knew that, it’s just the US games were cheap (buying both trilogys here would have cost me double what I payed in the sale) and it would have been a bonus to have them on Vita, but remote play works just fine, so I’m happy 🙂
Man, sometimes it really does feel like everyone knows everyone somehow in Tassie…
Do you know Aimee?
I know an Aimee. She’s my neighbours cousin.
Of course I know Aimee
Not sure if serious, but Aimee Clarke? 😛
Well, there are supposedly only 6 degrees of separation in the world. This means that there is only 6 people stopping you from knowing every single person in the world.
But it’s just a theory.
It’s interesting to think about though.
I need some help guys. Does this pattern look similar to the black part of the other link I post?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/Elsa/cape_longest_031.jpg Please look at the links side by side
Separated by birth =P just kidding
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/Elsacape_02.jpg
Well the colours are all wrong in the first one but otherwise it looks pretty damn close
Thanks!
@popdart5 I might be running a little late due to the parents decided to cook dinner later than usual since they came back from their trip. Hopefully I jump on in time.
All good. Still aiming to start at 8pm eastern time.
oh right! Should be good then! 🙂
@benj
Do you still watch Tosh.0?
Nah. I watched the first episode this season, decided “yep, this show has well and truly run its course” and haven’t watched it since 😛 I kinda got over it when The Jezelnik Offensive started, but that was canned fairly quickly 🙁
Are you still watching it?
Nope! Stopped ages ago.
Hi5 to us for stopping 😛
(How good was that Workaholics season finale?!)
I’ve fallen a couple of episodes behind of Workaholics. I’ll make a note of catching up on it tomorrow!
Workaholics is definitely tight butt-hole.
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
The link for the Google Hangout is https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/7ecpinp9uhb7hv08rl5do9hlp8 and I’m on pretty far in advance to make sure everything is running smoothly. Come on at your leisure but we will be starting at 8pm.
Rain smells different in China. It shouldn’t but it does. Believe me!!
I guess it’s something to do with the amount of pollution in the air..?
Guys… the Putt-Putt and Freddi Fish games are on Steam…
I feel so old right now.
I got Putt-Putt joins the Parade in primary school.
That was over a decade ago, and the game is twenty years old.
O_O
Freddi Fish! Yesssssss
I hope everyone enjoyed themselves for TAY Pathfinder and I’m glad to see everyone getting into the spirit of it. 😀 Don’t forget the next session will be in two weeks on Monday the 5th of May at the same time.
It was fun, thanks for DMing man
Cheers for the game, can’t wait for the next session. Great to meet everyone else as well. 😀
Still have no idea what I’m doing and unsure of where to RP and where not to. But it was fun even though I failed nearly every check.
I felt pretty useless seeing as I am geared more towards combat,
Also, yelling at people.
I know the feeling. There’ll be plenty of opportunities next session for you to apply your expertise as this session was just getting the dungeon feeling down and seeing how everyone worked together as a group.
I’m pretty much geared toward lying to people so basically dead weight for everyone to carry \o/
I’m sure we’ll get our opportunities to use our plus heaps in bluff at some point
Cripes a lot of us got point in Bluff didn’t we? 😛
Very limited set of class skills to choose from. and once you eliminate Spellcraft and Use Magic Device which you’re crazy not to get as a sorcerer, Bluff becomes kind of attractive since you get that +3 bonus for ranks, plus it’s CHA-based and Sorcery is all about the Charisma. RP-wise it works for the build I have as well, but a single rank in it was enough to boost me from +4 to +8 so felt like that was worth it. 🙂
For some reason Bluff and Intimidate were class skills for me but neither class nor race made diplomacy a class skill. Does that mean my lies are more convincing than the truth? 😛
Which is mainly why D&D stuff is run in parties, everyone has their uses. Abelas work out all the traps and Drewan and I could work out any magic at work in any dungeon we come across but when we stumble upon a whole bunch of skeleton warriors within that dungeon, that’s your time to shine as my combat expertise isn’t anywhere near close as amazing. 🙂
I hope we don’t run into skeleton warriors first up. All my offensive spells are mind-affecting and IIRC Skeletons are mindless. 🙁
I can tell you what the magic is, but until I’ve got a rank in Spellcraft it’s useless to me. Unless it’s actually using a magic device. I’m good for that.
RP-wise, go nuts. I think @steve-o_the_deve-o showed that I work with whatever you guys throw at me so do whatever you think feels natural.
RP as much as you feel like it- if you’re not comfortable with the idea, let us know and we can give you tips.
As always it’s a lot of fun RPing with you guys. Thanks for DMing it Popdart!
Oh, by the way was my voice coming in clearly and at decent volume? The headset I have had an accident a while back where the volume knob got run over by a chair at work and cracked, and when I would use it for calls at work sometimes I got complaints that it was too quiet. I never really trusted the particular co-worker that would complain about it though since their line was always awful since I think they were taking conference calls on their phone while on the train.
You were a tiny bit quiet but other than that I didn’t see any issues with your mic.
I think I should probably aim to replace the headset before next time then. Or get a separate mic and use my good headphones.
Has anyone else got issues with the Notifications counter up the top there being out of sync after the downtime on Friday & Saturday? All my notifications are cleared but it’s still telling me I have 4.
Yep, I have 1 up there
The ‘posting too quickly, slow down’ error seems to have a bug too, seems like it complains randomly or maybe the timeout between posts is at 5-10 mins now or something. 🙁
EDIT: Also spoilers are broken.
Apparently so
The posting too quickly thing has been random for as long as I can remember
Ditto…
Nope.
I’m not getting any notifications. No favicons any more either. And all article pages look like the broken profile page unless I use Forward or Back to get to them, and that seems to be the only way I can reply to posts too. Or vote etc.
Haven’t seen spoiler tags yet.
Something something test.
Huh. At least quotes still seem to work.
And code?
Switch from https to http. The page displays all mucked up if you access it via https.
So irony of all ironies.
My mate is a devout anti-christian. Good on him.
He rags on christians on facebook all the time, he’s what I call a zealot, always posting things about how god is imaginary etc, how christians are idiots for their imaginary beliefs… personally, I may not be a believer but I believe in a live and let live policy. I don’t deny anyone their beliefs. But, he has the opinion noone should ‘believe’. He says it’s all fake, noone should believe, it’s wrong, there is no God…
SO. Today SALEM starts on TV. A show about Witches. I tell him and his Mrs to watch it, it’s kinda cool, it’s a decent watch. But then he and his wife get offended Witches aren’t represented ‘realistically’ on it…
WHAT THE F*#K?????????????????
People are mental. I’m firmly of the belief that everyone is nuts and the only reason some people appear otherwise is that their madness manifests quietly
Actually, the issue with Salem that I hear is that it portrays the women of Salem as actual witches, not the victims of mob mentality that they were.
Well, given the fact it’s a horror show about Witches and it’s not trying to be historically accurate (if it were, there wouldn’t be any supernatural element), there’s definitely characters in there that are defending the ladies AND the men who are accused of witchcraft who become the victims of mob mentality. Seems sexism is at the forefront for people to forget that men were actually accused in that day and age too. I don’t think it’s really an issue… but for a spoiler…
(spoiler to come, tags dont seem to be working???)
Ok putting it backwards ffs.
DO NOT READ IF YOU DONT WANT A VERY MINOR SPOILER.
I PUT IT BACKWARDS SO ITS HARDER TO NOTICE
nemow eht tsuj ton s’ti
BETWEEN THESE LINES IS A MINOR SPOILER SO DONT LOOK IF YOU DONT WANT TO BE SPOILED
He sounds like someone who is offended by everything. People like him are just as bad as people who force their religion on you. The sooner he realizes that, the better.
Indeed. I believe in a live and let live policy like I said. Believe or don’t believe, just do your own thing and don’t impose your beliefs on me and we’ll all get along. Let me formulate my own as I have. But damn, when I read those words ‘They haven’t portrayed witchcraft accurately’ lol. Holy crap that made me nearly spit my cranberry juice across the keyboard…
All I know is that Goody Proctor is a witch.
noooo, four day weekend……. come back …… I miss you 🙁
It’s ok, this weekend is the Threequel!
That does ease the pain a little, just so unmotivated today, I just wanna sloth about.
And it feels like Monday which is totally throwing my work mojo. Stuff that happens on Tuesday is happening NOW. ARGH.
No new TAY? Hmmm. It’s not often we get a two-week TAY so I guess we’re going to hit the lofty page 18.
Oooooh when it gets to 18 it’s legal!
Does anyone on here have Solar panels? I’m just wondering if the benefits outweigh the expensive cost
It depends on how much your quarterly electricity expenses are. I pay around $200 quarterly, give or take, so it’s definitely not worth it for me.
I know in Queensland they’ve cut the feed-in tariff that you receive for contributing excess solar power to the network so it’s made things a little less beneficial. I do know of a few people who still have a credit balance on their electricity bills but they have the whole shebang, solar panels and solar hot water, and their house gets pretty good direct sunlight too.
It still cost them a few thousand to install but it seems it was worth it for them.
It’s different everywhere. We got in here in the ACT just before they cut the commitment to maintain high rates for solar energy, so we get a locked-in high rate for something like 20 years. Ultimately, it pays around half our energy bill. Five years on, we haven’t broken even yet, but we will soon enough.
Don’t know what’s happening in Victoria. It’s the kind of thing you need to research. It’s the kind of thing that’ll take a long time to break even on, regardless of whatever schemes are operating.
Yay for more quiet days of work this week, I might finally be able to get some work done!
*Looks at inbox, over 50 emails about firewall issues*
/o\… *cries in a corner*
MQFT cause I’m in a dillema :S
G or F?
G
HI EVERYONE.
Dark Souls 2 beat. 33/38 achievements by the time the final boss fell. Still need all spells, hexes, pyros and miracles, and to beat Vendrick. Have made an Excel spreadsheet with the insane amount of grinding that needs to happen to get these achievements. Kind of uninspired to start on it now. I might wait for the inevitable 1.05 or 1.06 patch that reduces covenant requirements 😛
Play time: around 53 hours. This includes around 15 hours spent solely in Heide’s Tower jolly co-opping.
Pssst, there’s a new TAY up 😉