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TAYget opportunity? Let’s hope it works …
I tried, but failed. Might’ve had a chance if my post wasn’t substantially longer than yours.
ontaygett? 😛
Hey folks! Hope you’re well! I had a pretty amazing weekend. Pretty real amazing.
Yesterday I went to the going away thing for my pals who are off to Canada, though. Felt extra strength emo on the way home. End of an era. :'(
Why is everyone moving to Canada!?
Exodus!
Cause it’s the Australia of North America, free health care and animals which will fuck you up and gun control..? 😛
No- No! No…
Oh dear god it all makes sense
Don’t fight it, just let it take you gently.. It will all be okay.
You forgot the important bit…. better Internet! xD
According to my friends there, only in the cities, go outside of a city and it’s like here, shit.
Morning all. How was your weekend? mine wasn’t too bad. Other than work and playing some Trials: Fusion here and there I replaced the fuel pump in my car and it actually works. took about an hour to do with the help of my father-in-law (who just happens to be a mechanic), would’ve been able to do it myself, but probably would’ve taken me about 4 or 5 times as long.
So what if he helped me, I still feel good about myself. I fixed something, hooray for me.
Reposting from Old TAY since it’s hard to see notifications at the moment:
@popdart5 I was talking with some friends about playing proper Pathfinder RPG while playing the card game adaption on Friday, and there were expressions of interest from several in trying it out.
Obviously our current group’s full but I’m thinking that the same approach, running it online might be workable. On the other hand, I’ve played a fair bit of pen & paper stuff but always as a player and not as a GM. Since the rest of them would be completely new to it (aside from one friend who played an introductory session at PAX apparently) I’d probably think I’d be best suited to GMing but I have no idea where to actually get started, what I’d need to do (and what I’d need to buy) and so on. Eying off Paizo’s adventure path stuff since that seems like it’d take away a bit of the stress in terms of coming up with a storyline and stuff, but are they any good?
Tips/advice appreciated. @redartifice as well since you also GM stuff (don’t know if you’ve GMed Pathfinder specifically?).
What about running a pre-made adventure? It’s a great way for new players to learn and as GM you’ll have a framework already set out so the conceptual side of things will already be taken care of. You’ll still need to think on your feet, moderate, guide the adventure and change it on the fly, but the basics will already be sorted.
That’ll also let the new players figure out if it’s really for them, and you can bookend a “personal” campaign off the conclusion, so only those players who want to invest the time need continue.
That’s mainly why I was interested in the Adventure Path stuff Paizo puts out. Basically a series of adventures that go from level 1 through to around 15 or higher, in 6 installments that they do one a month for six months. There’s also the possibility of grabbing a small pre-made scenario with a 2-3 encounters in a simple dungeon from somewhere for the first go at it too. I know there’s something like that in the Beginner’s Box, but the issue with that is that it’s stripped right down from the full rule set (eg only 4 classes) and I suspect my guys would find it too limiting.
The biggest problem I’ve personally found with pre-mades (noting that I’ve never GM’d Pathfinder, only D&D3.5 / 4) is that they focus too much on combat and not enough on problem solving. This is out of necessity. It’s much easier to script “here is a room full of Kobolds” than “talk your way out of this prison cell” for a guide.
Best suggestion would be to find a well written pre-made (Google around for reviews / modifications) and then make changes to it as part of your pre-work. So rather than writing then entire thing yourself, go through and edit. I remember running “Keep on the Shadowfell” (4th Ed) using an entire set of rewrites from the Internet.
Kotaku keeps eating my comments. I’ll keep this as a placeholder in the hope it gets through.
Basically, keep things simple to start off with and tailor the campaign to your players.
Edit: The core rulebook is pretty good for both GMs and players to start with and can be found at most FLGS for about $60-70. Alternatively you can grab the PDFs online for about $30 or free, depending on where you get it from. The bestiaries are pretty redundant in book or PDF form as the resource that we’ve been using as all of the bestiaries aside from Bestiary 4 so it has all of the generic monsters and creatures and then some.
The Rise of the Runelords adventure path is the only one that I see consistently in store so I don’t know if that’s the most recent or just the most popular but check it out. Paizo also has a bunch of other mini-campaigns and one-shot adventures but these are mostly set in Golarion IIRC and that setting can get a little weird at times. Have a look at what’s out there and either pick something that your players will like or come up with something yourself.
A lot of Pathfinder hinges on the mechanics and how things work so start off simple and then build into more complex dungeons and encounters for your players. Improvisation and dice-fudging are time-honoured traditions so don’t feel bad for mixing things up on the fly to create a more compelling story.
Kotaku is absolutely fucked right now. I think the speculation that the Too Fast error is looking at the last time *anyone* posted is correct. 😐
I’ve seen the Pathfinder core books in a few places, I think I will aim to get a dead tree copy. Maybe will look around online though, see if I can find cheaper. I feel like the places I’ve seen it have been a lot more than $70, but might have been other books. Seems like the sort of thing that will attract mad Australia Tax though.
As I understand it the Adventure Path stuff published by Paizo before 2009 is actually targeted at 3.5, not Pathfinder (which didn’t exist yet at that point) and most likely Rise of the Runelords is common because it’s the first adventure path they published and it has a re-release that fixes up some stuff and re-targets it to Pathfinder rules (where you need to do that manually for the others).
I don’t want to do Runelords if I can avoid it though, because we’ve been slowly working our way through the Pathfinder Card Game which is an adaption of that same campaign. Looking around, the post-Pathfinder Adventure Path that seems to consistently rate highly is Kingmaker, but I probably need to do some more research as this really only came up as a major possibility yesterday. I’m mainly interested in the Adventure Paths because there’s an existing plot progression there so I don’t need to think about it too much. I could probably think of a way to string together unrelated modules but having an overarching story is nice and I feel like it’d get my group more involved. Though maybe I should do that myself and go all the way in on some world building and stuff.
What’s weird about the Golarion setting aside from the way it seems to lack cohesion because it’s been added to by tons of different people without a huge amount of oversight? I haven’t looked deeply at it but it does feel a bit piecemeal where some of the better classic D&D settings don’t. Reminds me a bit of the Star Wars
EULegends. 😛Golarion is interesting in that it is different but kinda in a weird way. They’ve basically gone all out and said that the setting is still straight fantasy but with a lot of elements changed around from say Eberron or Forgotten Realms. For instance, Golarion is written as being one planet in a massive galaxy and they do have rules and settings written for interplanetary travel (because magic). A lot of the monsters take on a different feel as well as things get a bit darker for a lot of stuff, such as Goblins and Ogres (the fluff text for ogres is actually kind of terrifying).
Then we get to the point which you raised that has a whole bunch of stuff added in piecemeal without any real idea of how it all fits. So you now have a setting where, canonically, you have Jabberwockys and other Alice in Wonderland monsters running around with Cthulu monsters and Oni and Greek mythology titans and then really weird stuff like Worm-that-Walks and Giant freaking Amoebas. And this is before inter-planar travel and all of those crazy creatures.
I’m not warning you off it. I’m just letting you know that while Pathfinder does have a recognised and approved setting in Golarion, a quick look at the Bestiaries will let you know it starts to get a little weird. Play with the rules and structure it as you want as it is a remarkably fluid system that allows you to interchange a bunch of 3.5 rules as well if you prefer.
Yeah, that’s what I was meaning by feeling piecemeal and lacking cohesion compared to settings like Greyhawk or Ravenloft or even Forgotten Realms. Our group found it kind of weird in the card game for example that one of the enemies alongside the usual goblins and skeletons and stuff was a Bunyip. Did a double-take the first time it came out.
Whatever happened to the old AD&D settings anyway? Stuff like Planescape, Dragonlance, Dark Sun and so on. I remember them being super popular in the 90s but they seemed to all disappear when the transition to 3.0 happened. I know Greyhawk still has some support still but as I understand it the setting basically died when Gygax passed. Nowadays it seems the only big cohesive settings in D&D and derivatives are Eberron and Forgotten Realms. 🙁
I’ve not GMed Pathfinder specifically, but have GMed 4e.
My advice is get a pre-made adventure for starters- I’ve heard the Pathfinder ones are good. Let your players know that you’re going in with a pre-made- not to put them entirely on rails, but so they have the understanding that you’re learning and don’t try to subvert it too much.
The Pathfinder corebook is very good, I’d suggest grabbing that in dead-tree if you’re GMing.
In terms of resources, this is what’s in my standard GM kit:
– Dice! you should have at least two full sets of dice (2d6, d8, d10, d12, d20), one for GM use and one for player use. ideally each player should have their own set- if you want to do it on the cheap, buy them individually, most game store will sell them cheaply by themselves. Or they can just buy a Chessex set or similar. If your characters have a mini or picture of their character, that’s great too
– Paper for notes/scribbling
– counters + blu-tack for tracking effects- if something is
– minis! You don’t need to use minis for D&D, but it can help track proximities and spaces. While these days I tend to just go with “that monster is close/a way off/far away,” it helps if you have some way of showing that to players when starting out. You don’t need specific monsters- I still use plastic knights that I bought from Go-Lo for bits and pieces. LEGO men/ coloured bricks work well here too, or print off pogs that you can cut out. The Pathfinder beginner box has some too.
– a map board- a nice big sheet of clear plastic will do, something which you can draw dungeon maps on. My ex-girlfriend made me a whiz-bang one, but before that we had a bit of cardboard with an inch grid printed and laminated at officeworks that worked a charm.
I also second what @beeawwb said below- be aware that pre-gens are often combat focused. If that’s what your friends decide they like, great, but I personally find GMing pure combat to be tedious.
I was thinking of using Roll20 & Hangout the same way we did for TAY Pathfinder so can skip a lot of the extra supplies. Do think I’ll try and get some dead trees though. Maybe some dice as well, if only because it’s sometimes useful to do it that way. And we might end up playing in meatspace sometimes.
Morning all. I see Kotaku is still all screwy. What’s up with that?
I finally bought Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines when it was on sale the other day. I always mean to buy it whenever it’s on sale and now I finally have. It’s pretty alright. Not sure playing a Malkavian for my first character was the right choice as it’s made the story a bit hard to follow, but the dialogue options are great.
Malkavian, are they John Malkovic’s Vampire army? 😛
Lol, no.
Description from Wikipedia
Damn quote didn’t work the first time, fix your shit Kotaku.
Nooooo, Malkavians actually spoil the story through their ‘gift’. Re-roll and leave that char for another playthrough.
I’m way too far in for that. I’m having fun in any case. Telling a character it’s my job to make sure the stars stay in place; stay, good star. may be the best dialogue option I’ve ever had in an RPG.
For me, one of the best whole conversations was with the malk and started with the words “No, YOU stop”
How far are you into it so far?
I’ve always looked on Malk & Nosferatu as being the equivalent of a NewGame+ as you’ll have a harder time with the story with both, because of the former’s insanity (which gets worse as the game progresses) and the latter’s obvious lack of human appearance meaning you have to avoid most humans.
There’s nothing stopping you playing and enjoying either as a first character but I feel they’re better left till later, the Malk’s madness reveals a new perspective on the story you’d have already seen and the Nos is better for playing with the mechanics of the game and focussing on non-social skills.
I’m just nearing the end of the Hollywood stuff.
Ooo yeah that’s a hell of a long way in. Things will just have to make sense when you play a Toreador or something I guess
Yeah. I think I’m definitely going to play through again as another clan. I’ll let you know how that shapes up compared to playing a Malkavian.
Also, now I’m even madder that that World of Darkness MMO got canned.
It might be a blessing in disguise, may well have turned out soulless which would have been kind of appropriate but not fun.
Hey @DC what clan did you end up picking?
Toreador!
A pretty-boy, why am I not surprised?
@aliasalpha: And he’s seducing EVERYONE as well. Haha.
Well seduction is about the second most useful skill in the game, next to lockpicking.
You’re a pretty boy seducing everyone… you didn’t name your character @mrtaco did you?
@Kermitron I’d say stealth is probably the most useful skill in the game, and by useful I mean catastrophically overpowered. At least in 1.2, when you had your stealth close to full you could just crouch and be practically invisible, backstab everyone and ninja entire levels.
I have a few points in Stealth and just assumed I was super good at it. 😛
I’ve installed the unofficial patch (which is on iteration 8.9) so I really have no idea how the game plays normally. I didn’t read the entire changelog but apparently it puts back in a lot of unfinished content that was hidden in the source code?
As for ninja killing everyone, I tend to avoid that. If I don’t have to kill them I don’t, because I’m not sure how the game handles corpse discovery. For instance in the mission where you steal a suitcase for Fat Larry by sneaking through the vents and sneak out when the gunfight starts, there’s one guy I really wanted to shank because he was right in my way but I was worried other guys patrolling would raise the alarm so I agonised over it for about five minutes.
It’s been a long time since the peak of my VTM obsession but this game makes me long for another one just like it. The only think that will keep me for playing it over and over is that the story won’t change.
Also I wish there were more customisation options (hell, you don’t even get another change of clothes until 5 hours in when you finally go to Downtown!) but that’s a minor gripe since I’m only ever in third-person mode during combat anyway.
The WoD MMO looked like it was going to be EVE with vampires. A giant ‘must be in an Alliance to survive’ goonswarmed clusterfuck of non-consensual PVP and permadeath. Griefer’s paradise.
The IP is honestly better off with damn near anyone other than CCP.
Hard to disagree.
I feel like Bethesda could do a good adult VTM/WOD game but it might just turn into Fallout with (more) vampires.
Maybe CD Projekt could set their sights on it once they get Cyberpunk into the wild. The other problem is that the WOD isn’t VTM/Werewolf/Hunter/Wraith/Mummy anymore. They did Gehenna and the post-apocalyptic vampire stuff is part of why I lost interest in tabletop RPGing. I think it peaked in the Time of Thin Blood, tbh.
Yeah, I played on a couple MUSHes which let you focus far more on the role-playing/storytelling aspect, and they pretty much ignored the Gehenna thing. Wasn’t much of a fan of the setting OR rule-set for their ‘sell more books again’ self reinvention.
I dunno… I guess they figured that the prospect of impending doom loses a little of its bite when it’s eternally-impending and never happens.
I’m playing that too. Really digging it. Reminds me of Deus Ex in the best possible way. Cool hub, unique atmosphere. Awesome.
Yep, it’s still broken. The odd thing is the mobile site seems to be working properly.
But yeah, it’s kinda annoying right now that I can’t see notifications or anything.
I played as a Malk the first time through as well but I ran into some glitches on my pirated copy and never really got to enjoy it. I bought the legit steam version and decided to roll Brujah to follow the story, then I’ll do subsequent playthroughs as a Nosferatu, Malk, etc. for the different playstyles and experiences. I wonder if you can play as Tremere.
Yeah, they’re pretty good. I ran one of them in one of my many playthroughs of the game
repost from old Tay:
Spent some time messing with Infamous’ photo mode last night, really makes you appreciate the glorious visuals, I got on a bit of a theme “the last thing you’ll ever see” got a series of pics of what it looks like through the eyes of enemies as I smited them.
I’ve not played about with it yet, you start it by clicking the left stick don’t you? Is it something you can toggle off in the menu? I can imagine triggering it accidently quite frequently
yes, you have to toggle it on, it’s mostly pretty good, the camera does seems to be fixed to an orb around your character so you can only move around so much, is still really cool though, some of the textures are pretty impressive. Even being aware of the stick clicking I accidentally clicked dozens of times.
Bleh, the cool weather has well and truly come to Brisbane. I guess you could say that winter is… approaching.
And in the theme of a poor segue, time for a Monday morning game that I like to call Catchphrase Thesaurus. Take a recognisable quote and then trade out one or more words so that it has a similar meaning. For example:
“Make haste to the choppa!!!”
“It’s not a malignant cancer!”
In the environment of a vaccuum nobody can hear you scream
“To be perfectly honest, madam, I’m not bothered one way or the other”
“Blokes perish if they are slain.”
Alternatively,
“Chaps croak when they’re killed from losing blood!” – Mako Mankanshoku
Urg. Back at work after two weeks off.
Holiday tally: finished Dark Souls 2, rushed Pokémon Platinum to catch all 11 legendaries with Premier balls. That’s about it.
Back on the Monster Hunter bandwagon. Got accelerated to some G rank armour so I don’t have to run and hide as much for G rank multi.
Finished watching Sword Art Online on Saturday
Vg jnf cerggl bxnl, V rawblrq vg sbe gur svefg 16-vfu rcvfbqrf ohg ubyl fuvg gung raqvat jnf onq. Vg jnf arneyl n shyy ba encr fprar naq gura n oehgny zheqre.V qvqa’g yvxr gung ng nyy. Nyfb vg tbg irel “sna freivpl” irel dhvpxyl. Vg unq irel srj obbo be pebgpu fubgf naq gura fhqqrayl gurl jrer rireljurer. Fb fgenatr.
Also started watching a few other anime
I watch the first 2 episodes of “no game No life” It is pretty fucking creepy. However the characters are okay and the art style is pretty awesome. Music is pretty okay too
Log Horizon
It seems like a better version of Sword Art Online because the creators understand how MMO’s work.
Sounds like you had a lot of the same issues i had with SAO. Some pretty terrible character assassination in the second arc.
I think the other problem i had was Alfheim Online had so much potential to be expanded and explained , like the political landscape of all the tribes but instead they chose to fill it with weird crotch shots of his sister.
also also when kirito changed games and had the same stats pissed me off a fair bit.
Anyone who’s ever programmed anything remotely complicated would get annoyed by that.
I think *both* settings were way under-expanded in the anime. They probably got a better go in the novels.
I’ve been watching No Game No Life with my brother and we’re kinda digging it.
The number of new series that have come out in the last few years with borderline/outright incestuous sibling relationships is really aggravating, so it’s very refreshing to see a much
healthiersymbiotic (albeit co-dependent) one.Also, you’re probably right about SAO vs Log Horizon re: MMOs, but… I kinda wish there were MMOs that worked more like SAO. Seemed like some pretty cool systems being referenced.
Aincrad seemed like it played more like a Hunter game than a classic cooldown-based MMO. No healing classes, all the healing’s done through items. No classic tanking either, though some of the characters apparently spec toward having heavier armor to mitigate damage, but it doesn’t seem like the game had a proper taunt mechanic or anything, it was more about dodging and responding to the enemy tells and stuff.
Additionally I’m fairly sure the world had to be procedural. Small development team and an enormous game that took months (years?) for players to clear it halfway, and each level seemed like it was a fairly large world as well.
I’d be a pretty cool game to actually play if it existed, I think. And you weren’t trapped in it by a crazy guy who set the world to Hardcore Mode.
Unrelatedly, enjoying No Game No Life a lot as well.
For anyone that’s interested or doesn’t already have it Don’t Starve is 66% off (that’s $5.09USD) on Steam for the next 66 hours. Have at it.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/219740/
MORNING ALL!
Only 9 days to go. This is crunch time.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology
DARK SOULS 2 All Achievements Update
Guvf vf nyy V arrq gb svavfu gur npuvrirzragf.
URK
Ahzoarff (Ebggra AT+ fbhy genqr)
Pyvznk (Qnex Pbiranag Enax 3)
Yvsrqenva Cngpu (Qnexyhexre fbhy genqr)
ZVENPYR
Obhagvshy Fhayvtug (Oyhr Fragvary Enax 3 be Jryyntre AT++)
Jengu bs gur Tbqf (Oyhr Fragvary Enax 2 be Jryyntre AT++)
Oyvaqvat Obyg (Fgenvq fnyr va AT+)
CLEBZNAPL
Terng Punbf Sveronyy (Oebgureubbq bs Oybbq Enax 3 be Jryyntre AT++)
Punbf Fgbez (arrq gb svaq va Veba Xrrc)
Synzr Jrncba (Ybfg Fvaare AT+ fbhy genqr)
FBEPREL
Pelfgny Fbhyfcrne (Serwn AT+ fbhy genqr)
Uvqqra Jrncba (Oryy Xrrcref Enax 2)
Vg’f zber jbex guna vg ybbxf, gubhtu. V arrq gb trg gb Qenatyrvp va AT++, orpnhfr V qba’g guvax V’yy or enaxvat hc zber guna 1000 CiC xvyyf va gur Fragvaryf naq Oybbq Oebguref. Nyfb arrq gb gbccyr gur Qnex Punfzf, naq gurl ybbx GBHTU.
I haven’t de-rot13’d any of that, but the part that starts with URK amuses me.
See, even when offline, I ran with the Bell-keeper covenant for ages, not really knowing what it did (but pretty much suspecting it to be the new forest hunter’s) and managed to rank up without even realizing it. I think the NPC phantoms in Belfry Sol/Luna count. A few ascetics could see you getting that one.
Otherwise, I haven’t started any further on my achievement run. Darklurker wasn’t too bad, although definitely one of the harder fights in the entire game. (Ancient Dragon kept one-shotting me with fire-breath the two times I took it on, so to knock that one over I’m going to at least de-populate the run to it, which is annoying and exhausting.)
My brother’s been tying up the PS3 with Dynasty Warriors 8 and the media server for anime, so it’s likely you’ll get platinum before me. 🙂
I had a few goes at Darklurker, then decided I was done with Dark Souls 2 for a while. I had the wrong equipment / build / play style, so unless exceptionally blessed by the RNG gods, I wasn’t going to beat it without major changes.
My little boy is teething. I had almost no good sleep over the weekend. Mrs Quiz and I managed to play a bit of Mass Effect 3. I bought the Leviathan DLC for her playthrough, as I had never bought it myself.
Everything makes far more sense now, including the ending.
However (since TAY is apparently still a little screwy, Rot13’d)
Jura gur yrivnguna gnyxf nobhg ubj gur vagryyvtrapr perngrq gur erncref gb ybbx yvxr gurz orpnhfr gurl jrer gur ncrk yvsrsbez va gur havirefr fbzrguvat pyvpxrq. Va Znff Rssrpg 2, erzrzore ubj gur erncre ybbxrq uhzna? GUNG vf ubj zhpu bs n guerng gung gur vagryyvtrapr naq Uneovatre guvax lbh ner. Gurl abj guvax gung Uhznaf ner gur ncrk perngherf bs gur tnynkl, abg yrivngunaf. Ubyl fuvg.
Nyfb, “Rnpu uneirfg raqf jvgu gur ovegu bs n erncre”. Fb bar jvcr bhg bs yvsr va n 50,000 plpyr raqf jvgu bar erncre. Jr’ir xvyyrq gjb – Fbirervta naq Uneovatre. Jr jvcrq bhg 100,000 lrnef bs yvsr orsber gur svefg erncref ynaqrq ba Rnegu. Fb, pbafvqrevat ubj znal gurer ner…guvf plpyr unf orra tbvat sbe zvyyvbaf hcba zvyyvbaf bs lrnef.
Nyfb yrivngunaf ybbx xvaqn qhzo.
Been noticing a few posts with this seemingly gibberish language lately. Did I miss something?
Spoiler tags are broken. Before they were created, we used ROT13 to talk about spoilery things. It can be decoded at http://www.rot13.com
Since Kotaku is having difficulty with spoiler tags, we’ve been using a cypher called Rot13.
You can copy and paste gibberish into this website: http://rot13.com/ and vice versa – if you want to post a spoiler, you can put it there and it will cypher it.
We’re just being nice and protecting things from sensitive eyes. 🙂
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks to both you and @shane.
Gb or snve… lbh qba’g npghnyyl xvyy Uneovatre va ZR2, whfg uvf guenyyf.
Wait a second, I thought you did. Well, kinda.
Vs lbh oybj hc gur pbyyrpgbe onfr, V fjrne gur raq pvarzngvp unf Uneovatre qlvat.
Vg jnfa’g. Ur fnvq ng gur raq orsber gur ovt onat, “Eryrnfvat pbageby” naq lbh gura frr gur pbyyrpgbe orvat nyy pbashfrq naq qvfbevragrq.
Argh. You’re right.
Damnit.
1 down, 65 sqajillion to go.
Re: all your ROT13’d stuff? Yes. And yes, it did make the ending make a lot more sense.
I really don’t understand the Internet Hate for the ME3 ending.
So many people complain it was, ‘Pick a different colour’ with no different result, but that is the height of willful ignorance to think they were ‘the same’. In fact, it’s not just ignorance, it’s blind idiocy. I mean for fuck’s sake, when the results of your options are:
1) Gur ureb zretrf nyy ovbybtvpny yvsr jvgu flagurgvp yvsr npebff gur ragver tnynkl, jvgu nyy gur znff erynlf erfgberq va fubeg beqre naq n arj ntr bs crnpr naq haqrefgnaqvat naq qrirybczrag
if
2) N tnynkl-fcnaavat pvivyvmngvba vf oebxra – creuncf creznaragyl – vagb vfbyngrq cbpxrgf bs cynargf/flfgrzf, znal bs juvpu ner ABG vaqrcraqragyl fhfgnvanoyr, rkvfgvat cheryl sbe Erynl-onfrq ybtvfgvpf, jvgu gur ohyx bs fragvrag fcnprsnevat pragenyvmrq va bar erfbhepr-fpnepr flfgrz, qbbzrq gb snyy vagb enpvny senpgvbhfarff, rffragvnyyl xabpxvat tnynpgvp pvivyvmngvba onpx gb n eryngvir fgbar-ntr.
who in their right fucking mind could consider those two results anything even REMOTELY similar?
The ONLY thing these endings have in common was ALWAYS going to be the same by any reasonable expectations:
1) Gur pvgnqry jnf gevttrerq, oybjvat hc gur erynlf.
2) Gur erncref fgbccrq qrfgeblvat rirelguvat.
3) Furcneq qvrq, fb nf abg gb or hfnoyr va nal frdhryf.
People complained that ‘their choices didn’t matter’ which is part true, part bullshit. True, your choices don’t matter in the context of a life-span. If you get diagnosed with a terminal disease and are given three months to live, it doesn’t really matter what choices you make, in three months time you’re going to be in the same place in the same situation, no matter what you do.
If you wanna get nihilistic, ‘your choices don’t matter’ is the ultimate truth no-one wants to confront. No-one’s going to fucking remember you and your hopes and dreams and personality quirks in a hundred years let alone a thousand. Even the greatest minds or villains of history are relegated to a series of bullet-point facts and trivia pieces, we don’t actually know the dreams and feelings of those history-makers. You? You’ve got fucking Buckley’s. So no, your choices don’t matter, in that context.
But seriously? How could anyone play ME3 and not realize that the entire game is the end? 75% of the side-quests were pulled from your choices in 1 & 2, and how could anyone NOT complete those and see the invisible loose ends being tied up? If the entire trilogy is one story, ME1 is the beginning, ME2 is the middle, ME3 is the end. It’s so very clear and obvious.
Complaints about the ‘star child’ are so reminiscent of complaints about The Architect from The Matrix. People hated him, too, and thought his introduction was contrived, but in reality is the only reason so much of the previously-introduced elements make any kind of sense at all. They just felt blind-sided.
No. ME3’s ending was only ‘pick a card, any card’ if you didn’t give a shit about the galaxy, just which breed of Quarian/Turian hybrid babies you got to have, or the utterly naive idea that somehow they could ‘rah rah sentient powah!’ win the impossible final battle without the use of the macguffin by the sheer virtue of having pluck and courage. So fucking Hollywood, people can no longer accept any tastes other than poisonously saccharine.
Some people might not have liked that you could go back to a previous save and get a different result, feeling that their end-result should have been tailored exclusively to their paragon/renegade major choices with more than a few possible results, but I have a feeling that not being able to see a different ending without playing an entirely different way across a trilogy probably wouldn’t have play-tested very well or been well-received, either. To call those dramatically different endings ‘the same’ is as outright untrue as it’s possible for any statement to be.
What you said, 100%. The entire series is Lovecraftian. Lovecraftian (from H.P. Lovecraft, best known for Cthulhu) wasn’t about giant beasts/monters.
Lovecraftian horror was about mankind facing something so enormous, so powerful, so damn indifferent to their beliefs and dreams that hope is instantly vanquished.
That’s what made Shepard powerful. Shepard kept going, and going and going despite the overwhelming odds. Shepard got things done. At the end, Shepard is given one last choice. A chance to “get it done”. But courage, pluck, luck and planning had nothing to do with it. It was Shepard’s ability to keep on going that got him/her to the point where something could be done.
As far as sci-fi goes, the ending is fine. I agree about the Internet Hate. The journey is what mattered, not the outcome.
Morning errbody hope everyone’s long weekend was good and relaxing!
I ended up beating both inFamous second son and Professor Layton vs Ace Attourney (arguabley my handheld GOTY so far) also movies so many movies ended up seeing The Other Woman which is a very funny comedy I feel people should see as well as Devil Due which is not so funny, that ones more of a B rated horror using found footage style.
Other than that my weekend was filled with my girlfriend being super secretive planning something for my birthday this week, I only know that much because my brother let me know he couldn’t make it to it even though I had no idea anything was going on.
A question in the style of @redartifice what’s your favourite cake?
It’s too hard to choose between a huge gooey cheesecake or a rich chocolate mud cake.
Hopefully going to see The Other Woman with my wife this week, we’ve also got advance screenings of Bad Neighbours starting this weekend, pretty keen on seeing that too, it looks really funny.
Also, A Million Ways To Die In The West is coming out at the end of May which looks good. An interesting tidbit that you might not all know is that Christopher Lloyd is in it (not sure if it’s just a cameo) as wait for it… Dr. Emmett Brown.
Jealous of your advance screening of Bad Neighbours, that’s the Zac Efron Seth Rogan movie isn’t it?
I’m holding out for Million Ways To Die In The West
Orange and Poppy Seed.
All of them.
But if you could only have one which one
Don’t make me choose, it’s too hard.
Favourite?!
There can be only one
Cloud Cake.
It’s a heavy chocolate cake, so heavy that when you bake it it collapses in the middle.
THEN you whip up cream with Cointreu and chocolate and dump this giant mass of white orgasmic yumminess in the middle of the cake in the hole.
LOOK AT IT: http://assets.nigella.com/uploads/96ea6b2d_9f3b_4e9c_9969_c243469d0dff/main.jpg
EDIT: changed link because the one I provided didn’t have the white yumminess in the middle.
“assets.nigella”
I did work at a foodies house who makes her own cakes and asked us to try one of her recipes she made, Black Forest cloud cake the thing was delicious!
Beefcake. Nah, just kidding. It’s cherry slice.
Never had cherry slice, does it taste like cherry ripe?
Much, much more cherry-ish; a chocolate top layer, a biscuit crumb bottom layer and sometimes a sprinkling of coconut flakes. Heaven.
It sounds it will have to try it!
I’m not a giant fan of cakes, personally. Maybe it’s the American in me but I’ve always preferred pie (cherry, apple, key-lime, etc) to cake.
I think it’s more because pie is amazing and superior to cake.
I’m also reliably informed that it will put a smile on your face 10 miles wide, AND looks so good it will bring a tear to your eye.
That only applies to the cherry flavour.
I’d warrant you’re probably correct.
Cheesecake!
How do you feel about lemon & coconut? That’s the best cheesecake I make. That and raspberry & white chocolate but that one is fiddly as all hell to get just right
I don’t care for coconut at the best of times but I gots no problem with lemon. 😛
You don’t like coconut? MONSTER!
I just make cakes =P
I like sponge.
Your B-mo (I dunno if I even spelt that right) cake was delicious so your response still counts
Fruit cake
Haven’t had one in years, I think the last one I threw up from to he honest.
Side note how are the tigs going with the mini tig?
Gotta be either pavlova or tiramisu.
Edit: ooh, yeah. My Nanna made killer fruitcakes.
I make a mean tiramisu that has been known to make people become over the limit
Haha, I think my aunt’s tiramisu puts you over the limit just by breathing while near it. So good.
PL Vs PW is also my Portable GOTY so far. It’s story was brilliant, and the gameplay was just so brilliant 😀
When is Kotaku going to be fixed? The View Profile button just has Log In and there’s nothing in the Across Our Network section.
It’s across all Allure media sites, not just Kotaku.
Using the direct link http://www.kotaku.com.au/user/profile will let you into your profile to check notifications at least.
The plot synopsis for the Goosebumps movie has been revealed.
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/30241/fun-sounding-synopsis-for-the-goosebumps-movie-released
Probably the best way they could have done it.
Casting Jack Black is either going to make or break that movie for me.
Eh, I saw these books as more serious than comedic when I read them. (Then again, I also misread the tone of Maniac Mansion. :P) This movie isn’t for me any way, so I’m not going to get upset.
They were childrens horror imo & Jack Black can play a serious role IF need be. He can be quite good at it.
Yeah, that sounds great. I’ll probably go and watch it when it eventually comes out.
That actually does sound like fun. If they pull it off I might actually be interested in seeing it.
I never really got into the Goosebumps books, by the time they were popular they were aimed at a younger demographic to me.
Come to think of it, that almost sounds like a kids version of Cabin in the Woods …
To me it seems a little like the Scooby Doo movies and that ain’t a compliment, amplified exaggeration of what made the source material so good. 🙁
If anything, it’ll be great to see all the classic Goosebumps monsters again in one movie.
I suspect Slappy the dummy will make a big appearance. He always seemed to be the most popular character.
(Though I also kind of agree with DC in that it doesn’t sound much like a kids horror movie – but then I don’t know how they’re going to frame it. One of the big themes that I really hope they keep was the whole “my parents don’t believe me” angle which was really the main thing that made the stories scary for me as a kid :P)
Wait wait wait
There’s a Goosebumps movie??
Goosebumps…movie? I don’t know how to feel about this. Multiple thoughts:
-This reminds me that I never finished book #3, ‘the first one with the demon camera. I still have the book somewhere.
-I remember the Horrorland series was freaking amazing. Cramming all the villains into one universe was great.
-I wonder what villains they can cram in there? Slappy the doll? The Haunted Mask?
Double comment, stupid comment bugs…
The Walking Dead 2×03 achievements are viewable on Steam. Hopefully that means a release is imminent. 😀
I saw the achievements were up on Saturday and immediately jumped in. So disappointed the episode wasn’t up yet. 🙁
I’m glad that they seem to be getting episodes out sooner now. Or.. at least balancing them better between Wolf Among Us and Walking Dead so the wait doesn’t seem as long.
I told myself like three weeks ago to actually buy Wolf Among Us for exactly that reason, but for some reason I never did. I’ll have a word with me about that later.
Don’t be too hard on the guy!
If you’re getting it on PS3, hurry up while it’s on the Easter sale. I’m pretty sure that ends veryveryvery soon.
Morning, TAY!
I had a decent weekend. Even though I didn’t do anything. Polished off Dark Souls 2 and then immediately started a new game (not New Game Plus) with a melee character. Breezed through the first few areas and was feeling really good, then got to Lost Bastille and the Ruin Sentinels again and went “I’m not going through this again” and gave up. Done with it for now 😛
Dark Souls side note: I finally got my awesome-looking Poison Butterfly ‘armour’ before finishing the game. Makes you float around! And, as I discovered… poisons people close by. I accidentally killed the blacksmith while talking to him :\
So after that, I got the urge to start playing Zelda Skyward Sword again. Started up a new Hero Mode save file. Man, I love this game. Easily my favourite Zelda. Hero Mode is difficult too! Enemies take more hits and deal out stronger hits and there are no hearts laying around. Got to rely on potions/fairies. Actually makes it a lot harder than I thought! Can no longer heal in the middle of boss fights by just running around. The first boss kicked my ass. It’s actually quite similar to a Dark Souls boss fight in a lot of ways. you have to learn how to dodge each one of his attacks and learn his patterns. Can’t just fudge your way through it constantly healing yourself with hearts laying around 😛
Also: I broke my most-favourited, most-retweeted tweet record last night. I’m finally popular!
*yawn*
My insomnia / difficulty sleeping is almost at the point where I want to see a doctor about it. Like… after a 4th night in a row of barely any productive sleep (maybe 2 hours last night?) I lay there in bed with my alarm going off and thought “maybe today will be the day I see a doctor about this”
And then got up and went to work.
Aw, that ain’t good. I had a bout of insomnia last year and it’s the worst, man. Definitely see a doctor!
I’ve had difficulty sleeping for years. The biggest problem for me is that it’s cyclic so as soon as I get to the point where I’m falling over from exhaustion it self corrects and I’m fine for the next however long. In theory.
I’m also averse to anything seeing a doctor might do for me. I tend to be very “anti” medication and if possible I’d like to stay away from that path. We’ll see.
Sleeping pills aren’t that fun either. I had the weirdest thoughts when on sleeping pills and one time I woke up with a bloody lip and no explanation. Haha!
That’s one of my biggest worries actually! I know there’s a lot of side effects associate with things like that, and monkeying with brain chemistry just doesn’t sit right by me.
I’m sitting in the doctors waiting room now for that (amongst many others).
Proud of you, buddy!
Good man! Hat Trick!!
Unless it’s not for psych help. Then that’s still good but for different reasons
Ask the doctor if he can also cure Kotaku would you?
Hello TAY!
I had a pretty okay weekend. Helped my brother move house which was … something. Besides that, I played a bit of Kingdom Hearts re:Chain of Memories and decided I couldn’t deal with the padding anymore. I’m hoping that 358/2 days isn’t terrible!
Eeeeeee!
Defender Of The Crown is getting an Android port!
I’m going to catapult ALL the diseased dead horses!
Oh man that brings back so many memories of playing it on the ST when I was a kid.
It’s weird how jealous I was of people who had an ST because the keyboard was just so much more stylish. I always wanted to get an ST case and put my Amiga’s guts in it
Man, we totally had that ST pimped out. HARD DRIVE, oh yeah, that’s right. All 40MB worth. And I recall we even had a serial cable link up or some kind so we could play multiplayer on some stunt racing game across 2 STs.
My Dad was a technophile.
Stunt Car Racer? I always wanted to play that multiplayer but never had the cable. It was one of the few games that had cross-platform multiplayer too
Yeah, that’s the one!
All I did this weekend was watch season 5 of Archer and play Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.
My boss is back from a month-long holiday/overseas secondment and the entire team had quick 1 on 1 catch-ups with him. Since two people are leaving this week (one is taking a career break for family reasons, the other is a contractor who has taken a permanent role elsewhere) so his discussion with me was mainly “You’re not leaving? Great, it’s going to be a challenging few months” though his wording was more along the lines of “after EOFY renewals are out of the way there’s going to be opportunities for development”.
So if you know any experienced claims handlers in Sydney who might be suitable for a role in liability, I get a finder’s fee if I refer someone and they pass probation. 😛
Hola TAY
I had a good weekend- Pub Thursday night, went to a mates house for four PS3 gaming on Friday, then a quiet Saturday and Sunday. We played a bunch of Uncharted 3 MP, some Diablo 3 (works surprisingly well on PS3), some Last of Us and some Borderlands.
A Monday Morning Question: What game needs a (non-tacked-on) multiplayer? inb4 Fallout co-op
Xenoblade three player co-op!
@greenius @novacascade
Huh. Could probably work as an MMO.
I’d prefer a drop-in/drop-out system where the co-opers just take over as a party character. That way you can still have a great single player story progression without any MMO stuff 😛
Hopefully that’s what XenUblade on the WiiU turns out like.
Yeah, I was just thinking that a lot of the way the game is designed is kinda like a single player MMO already. Areas, quests, NPCs, monsters. Not as much as Amalur, but the framework is there.
Did you ever play Secret of Mana (Seiken Densetsu?) 3 on SNES? It had the same party system – Control a party of three one at a time The other two controlled by AI, but a second player (and third with a multitap) could take over and control them as well.
I found Xenoblade tabs/sheet music! I’ve been waiting years for someone to make them (I tried but failed :P).
Got Agniratha (Night) on piano and Those Who Bear the Name and Mechanical Rhythm guitar tabs 😀
I would kill for some more Portal 2-style coop instead of just being together as you kill waves of enemies kind of coop. True cooperation with puzzles that need both people to work out and talk through.
Kingdom Hearts
Ass Creed 4 should have had a multiplayer mode with ships, Naval combat was done right in that one.
Isn’t that what they have planned for unity/comet/whatever
A portal 2 style co-op version of mark of the ninja.
By that I mean entirely new levels that can’t be done alone, with all the objective, hidden objects and challenge objectives
Dark Souls.
What it does right now is NOT co-op. It’s ships passing in the night with strangers, MAYBE a friend if you get the planets to align/dick about with putting your signs in the right spot/maintain the same level ranges/join the right covenant/wear the right-god-customized ring. Unfortunately, with a friend handy I think you’d lose a lot of the sense of oppression that Dark Souls is so good at beating into you.
Dragon’s Dogma.
EPIC boss-fights, clambering all over four-storey-tall monsters would be so much better in a team (though I guess they already have Monster Hunter, which is co-op I think?) who didn’t suck like your pawns do, and can be given more direction than attack/run away/heal me.
The Elder Scrolls VI.
NOT the fucking MMO. That’s not a co-op multiplayer game, that’s a boring-ass same-as-fucking-every-other-MMO with a Skyrim coat of paint. No, I mean like… small-party, persistent shared world with the same freedom of exploration/levelling instead of that class-locked, can-only-loot-random-shit, twaddle.
Mass Effect / Dragon Age.
One of the best things about playing SWTOR with a regular co-op partner is that the stories are just so heavily enhanced by the presence and random input of another character with a different personality, sometimes even at odds. If any major, deep, rich RPG with a ME/DA cinematic, grand scope could handle and evolve that mechanic in depth, integral to the story rather than a tacked-on bonus co-op, it would be unprecedented. That’s what ‘social’ gaming should be, not ‘hassle your facebook friends to join this marketing program’.
Good Morning all! I hope you all had a good weekend.
ALSO WHY WONT THIS THING LET ME POST 🙁 OR SEE MY NOTIFICATIONS :(:(:(
POSTING TOO QUICKLY MY ASS THIS IS MY FIRST COMMENT IN OVER A WEEK!
edit: Spoilering out the website angst
oh yeah, and spoiler tags don’t work 😉
Because I cannot reply >:( Let’s see if this works.
@transientmind
Yeah, the Belfry phantoms count. There’s one who spawns randomly (but infinitely) in Belfry Sol. I’m not getting summoned for fights, so I’m just farming him offline (he spawns around 1 in 5 times, and is a fairly simple kill). By my estimation, I need to take him down about 8 more times.
Any tips for the Dark Covenant stuff? I’ve watched some Youtube vids of it, and it looks pretty brutal. Not much room for dodging, and facing multiple strong enemies at the same time.
I cleared the whole thing by kiting them one at a time, and smashing them with the pursuer’s greatsword since it always staggers them. But the Darklurker AOE dark magic pretty much one shot me every time it was fired, so I went back to Pokémon.
No reply, eh? Are you deleting the ‘s’ out of the default https the site gives you? It comes good for me after doing that, upvotes available, replies available, etc. Weird.
Anyway, re: Dark Covenant…
Two of the three areas I didn’t have many problems with taking on the phantoms + glowy thing. The glowy thing is actually a glass cannon, so taking it out early if you can risk exposing yourself to the phantoms? Worth doing. Otherwise, it’s pretty similar to any random PVP fight against multiple enemies, only they’re not as smart/using OP best-in-slot gear/combos. I think the only area that gave me trouble was the one in the castle proper. I left that one til last because it had the closest bonfire, so I could run back to the boss again after dying. In that area, the Havel Clone kept owning me completely for some reason, and I fell in to the holes a lot, when backing up. The only real solution was to bring a strong shield, plenty of stam, and be very, very, very, very patient. He didn’t use any of the attacks which leave him open for ages, so it was a ‘chip away’ fight. Poison arrows early on (IF YOU CAN LAND THEM) worked pretty well, but I found I was pretty gumby at putting the bow away/switching to sword&board, so it often wasn’t worth the risk. Poison and arrows worked really well on the chick closest to the fog gate, though. Headshot city, keep ’em staggered.
The boss… Hm. Gave me some trouble. It turns out the giant magic death orbs laugh at even Havel’s shield and are undodgeable. Just TRYING to dodge/sprint away is a bad idea, because if you get away from them, they will detonate with an AoE behind you, doing even more damage than if you’d blocked them head-on. Even a partial block can be bad if they get behind you, so it’s best to try and face them as head-on as possible. Also, I died at least once discovering that he can cast them behind himself, through his own body. So. Omnidirectional, too. Bring the highest magic-resist shield you can find, I think there’s a 100 one out there. The fire attack is easy enough to dodge if you run sideways, and is telegraphed early; it’s the magic you gotta worry about.
Staying close enough to bait him into using melee is pretty effective when he’s solo. Roll to behind/his right, don’t block – his melee is enhanced with magic attack as well, and has a grab/impale that ignores block, so rolling’s best if you can.
Eventually (I think it’s health-based, not time-based) he splits into two and it’s pain time.
Shared health bar, no individual kill (like the gargoyles) to make the fight easier. My ‘kill tactic’ was to equip a magic ring to get some powerful pyromancy (I had like… 4 att) then use that giant delayed explosion fireball when it started splitting. It does a lot of damage because of their shared bar – it hits both of them, so basically double damage, did like a third of the total bar’s damage, leaving me to only have to dodge/wear a few magic hits from one while I meleed the other to finish. Too slow to use twice, unless you’ve pumped up att, so timing is critical. Also, after splitting, they fly apart to put some distance between each other to double-team you from either side.
Even on my kill, I almost died thanks to the clone hitting me with melee after the ‘you are victorious’ message. Be careful.
I really had to rank up in player skill for that fight. Couldn’t afford to heal much – being in melee gives you practically no time at all, and being at range means you’re going to wear some magic damage, even if you block. And that was with the boosted estus speed of being at 50 dex/adp. So… good luck. You can probably make life easier for yourself by depopulating an easier-to-clear phantom fight instead of worrying about which area is closest to a bonfire.
Good advice, man.
Re: Kotaku, yep, took out the “s”, but still getting tonnes of failed comments. Seems to happen more often for replies. Work computers use IE8 so between Kotaku and here, it’s probably a perfect storm of circumstances for failure.
I’m currently investigating mage builds, and think I can create a real powerhouse sorcerer with not much extra effort (just need to upgrade some equipment and destroy a couple of ascetic bosses for additional items). Wisdom on the intertubes suggests this makes the area easier.
First day back at work after a week and a bit off and everything is just bleeeh…
Also, after playing a bit of Payday 2 in the last few days, I suddenly have the urge to play the hell out of it again.
I’ve been playing a bit lately with a few buds. I must say that Death Wish difficulty can go die in a hole as it is borderline impossible if you fail to stealth it.
Deathwish on the levels that don’t allow stealth is hilarious 😀
What’s this “stealth” you speak of?
I hear that’s one of our ps+ games next month, will have to give it a try, If anyone gets it on ps3 I’ll be keen 😀
I’ll get it and play for a bit. Perhaps my gf will join too.
Added you on PSN and nintendo too.
Rob all the banks! \o/
Week two of D.C.’s healthy cooking adventures!
This week I’m going to attempt tacos some time. Slow cooked mince and all that.
Gonna be good!
Do them on Tuesday or Thursday. Taco Tuesday / Taco Thursday is good things.
Alternatively Mexican Monday works well, as does Fajita Friday.
Sangria Sunday.
Every day can be sangria day.
Taco Tuesday? Beware the Kragle!
Google tells me this is a Lego Movie reference. Planning on taking the steps to see that this weekend. Being as I’m loathe to see kids movies on public holidays. Figure it should have died down enough to see it now. :p
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!!!
What? Mince? NO! Nononononononononononononononononononononono!
Don’t be a monster. Use chuck steak cut into cubes.
You don’t be a monster, Freeze. TAKE THAT!
The best tacos I made recently were prawn tacos. This was a while ago though. I should make that again.
That sounds horrible!
Granted I hate sea food, so there’s that. 😛
Seafood makes for good tacos. There’s a lot of good mexican seafood recipes out there too. You probably won’t like any of them if they’re not your thing, but it’s certainly part of the cuisine.
Also: camarónes aya diablas. Muy delicioso.
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Went to the ANZAC dawn service. Got up at about 2.30am so I could drive in. Get back home around 10am, have a short nap. Back up at 11.30am, pick my uncle and drive to Liverpool to visit my other uncle in hospital. Eventually get home around 6 and go to pull my bin in from the night before…..nope no bin. Some jerk has stolen my bin. God dammit I hate where I live.
what is with bin stealing? When I lived in Albion we had ours stolen about 5 times in 2 or 3 years, you can get them free if you ring council jerks :|. Where do you live out of curiosity?
They’re handy for … mixing things … on a larger scale.
I live in Liberty Grove. It’s actually a closed suburb. We have gates and security driving around all the time. Didn’t stop anyone from stealing a tv from my driveway that was only there for 10 minutes (I was actually getting rid of it, but still…) and obviously didn’t stop someone from stealing my bin. It’s such a rude thing to do. If you want another bin you could easily just call the council and tell them you lost yours.
Oh and my housemate is a moron who upon finding no bin to put his rubbish, just dumped it where the bin should be. What if it rains between now and bin day (of which it’s currently forecasted)? Rubbish will end up all over our driveway. He didn’t even bother asking where the bin was.
I can’t wait to move out of here. Lease is almost up. I figured this would be a good place to live but all that glitters is not gold.
Guys, I’m actually really enjoying the Fargo TV series thus far. Which is surprising, given how much I love the film.
SBS has got the first ep showing Thursday night, I encourage you to check it out.
EDIT: FUCK YOU DAD I’M NOT POSTING TOO FAST
Looking forward to seeing it, thanks for the reminder!
Don’t you dare talk to your father like that!
Aaaaand, back at work today. 🙁 Sad panda.
Being back in Aus is also a humbling experience, it will take time to get used to.
@mrtaco can you send me your mail address so I can ship that cover to you? adr1k000@ teh googly mail
thanks for friend rerquest, added you. Did you fix up your TAYnames thingie?
Yeah I did, cheers.
Everything seems so expensive when you get back here 😛
Yep, we paid more for two coffee’s, omelette, and eggs benedict … than we did for any dinner while over there, which included beer.
Whoever says the Chocobo balloon racing in FFX is mostly skill is a tool bag. Spent hours on it. Just finally got a 0.0.0 and the trophy popped. Excited relief! And I get a turbo ether. I got exactly 0.0.0 and you need to beat it.
*brain breaks*
First try i fluked it massively and got 0:0.5 seconds…took me four hours to actually beat the damn thing. Angriest i’ve got in gaming for a long time, almost rage threw my controller instinctively, which is a problem considering i was playing it on the Vita.
I remember not having much trouble with that in OG FFX.
Those damn butterflies however…
ughh, those butterflies and dodging 200 lightning bolts were the killers for me,
Honestly, most of the minigames in FFX were shite.
Loved me some Blitzball, though.
Judging by Freeze’s tweets about Blitzball, he probably wants to strangle you now.
I’ll just take it as an aggressive hug and assume he loves Blitzball too.
I just cheesed my way through blitzball. I play brother in the midfield, and then just swim around in circles drawing in all the defenders, swim just out of their tackle range and then throw the ball to the open striker. Cheap but very effective…except against those damn guados.
No need to apologise, Apu.
I don’t remember Blitzball being even remotely difficult, I remember recruiting extra players you find in the world but I don’t know if I ever used them. There’s one guy (might have been Wakka but I don’t remember) that basically knocks out all the defenders, plus there’s Tidus’ special move which pretty much never misses.
I never managed to beat that. I’m not sure whether I hated it more or less than Blitzball but fuck me, the minigames in FFX were all awful. 🙁
Anyone know how to disable mobile view when on PC? I clicked it and now I don’t know how to get out of it.
bottom left. ‘switch to desktop’
Dang. My screen isn’t showing me that option.
Clear cookies.
Cheers StickMan. 🙂
This makes me realise I’m happy my boss is so hands off she doesn’t even pretend to know what I do in my job: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/apr/27/your-bosses-strictest-strangest-rules-segolene-royal
Damn, worst I’ve had is a boss who decided to call me fag for a month when I handed my notice in (I was 18 and let him get away with it, but looking back now I WISH I had taken him to a tribunal).
gold.
Kotaku is infuriating me right now. I can’t stand the constant reply fails. Seriously thinking about taking a TAY break for the first time in a while that’s not about my own whiny emo problems. XD
but if you go TAY might get sad and go emo 😛
Sounds like a plan. Cos I’m not sure if no one cares about me or they just can’t reply, or they are taking TAY break too.
Probably the first option.
ALL OF THE ABOVE! >:D
Nah, your posts are good, man. It’s just irritating being taken back to page one constantly. And being told to slow down. And just plain not working.
Page one, not so bad, just rehit reply and submit. Subsequent pages, gotta retype or copy/paste. So fiddly on mobile.
4th attempt on this one now.
I just hit Back and the post is still there. Just gotta wait for the page to reload so I can hit Reply and make it attach to the right post. But desktop I guess.
Works on mobile too. Thanks for the tip!
I saw the best minds of TAY destroyed by madness, starving hysterical reply fails…
good thing I’m not one of the best minds and already totally mad then.
You’re probably just dragging yourself through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.
Call me A-llen G-insburg. I’ll be here all week. :p
You mean noted NAMBLA member Allen Ginsberg?
That’s right, the North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes
And tell your dad to back off, man!
Just have to give up on any involved conversation until it’s all fixed 😛 (No Survivor discussion last week D:)
Or… Retreat to Twitter!
You’re posting too quickly! Slow down!
>:(
Its certainly getting on my nerves too. I’ve gotten into the habit of CTRL+A CTRL+C before I post because of the regularity of it fucking up
Some sort of Brisbane meat on Saturday! Or so the story goes!
I would put some tags here but they wouldn’t work any way. And also I know none of the details.
STRAAAAAANGE? 😛
It’s in my calendar as being at Brathaus in the Valley. I also for some reason have it put as a start time as 6pm. No idea where I got that time from.
6pm is probably as good a time as any. 6pm at Brathaus it is, then. 😀
Ummm, I might be busy that weekend. My brother said he was going to have a movie night at his old place (empty house + giant projector = win) buuuuut my brother is the worst at organising things so who knows.
Is your brother @blaghman? 😛
>:D
That’s a terrifying thought
…
I mean, HI BLAGHS!
D: This is why I told everyone about it over a month ago. TAYbies definite thing trumps indecisive brother. 😛
Freya and I will be in Sydney this weekend! I shall bring BOARD GAMES!
During the day, she’ll be honing her doctorly skills and I shall have nothing to do. Something should be organised and someone else should do it!
I have the Dark Souls 2 bug.
I’ve played Demon’s Souls & Dark Souls, but this is the first time I’ve ‘got it’.
only 3 bosses in, but it’s rad. about to head to No-Man’s Wharf….
but as always, I have no idea if I’m levelling up right.
picked a bandit class, using a Fire Sword +4, Falchion +3 & short bow +1
got 20 VIG, 11 STR & about 25 DEX.
from what I’ve been told, I should be putting a few points into adapatability…. but I’m not sure what that does.
still… it’s been ages since I’ve been so engrossed in a game. it’s a good feeling.
Adaptability gives you agility. Agility improves the speed of animations: your dodge is faster with more invincibility frames and you chug estus flasks faster. It also does other things but the important thing is CHUG CHUG CHUG!
Praise the fun!
Blergh. Anti depressants and counselling. Way to give up and rely on everyone else Freeze.
Dude, that isn’t even close to giving up. This is you taking some steps to clear your mind and make things better. It doesn’t have to be for the long haul either. It’s progress and you’ve done well. Proud of you, buddy.
You did good son.
Attempt #3 at posting this comment…
EDIT: Success! \o/
fuck that. you’ve done the right thing. never anything wrong with asking for help.
Im goddamn proud of you for having the balls to take that first step.
Fuck that. You’re doing what needs to be done. Doesn’t make you weak or less of a man. Admitting you need help is the best thing you can do.
Way to accept that there a resources that can help you you mean.
Counselling is the opposite of giving up and rely on everybody else. Going to counselling is like saying in a video game “I’m such a motherfucking tough nut that I’m going to kick this things arse, but I need to kit out my weapons and armour first so off I go to pick up some cool shit to kick arse.”
You wouldn’t go up against the Taurus Demon naked with your fists, would you?
*note: I actually have never played DS or DSII so if going up against it naked with your fists is a viable tactic, I apologise.
This is perhaps my favourite analogy for counselling that I’ve ever seen.
Here’s the thing, man. Too much information, maybe…
Last year I was very, very close to wanting to kill myself. Things weren’t good. I lost a lot of weight. I hadn’t slept in weeks. I wasn’t eating. Remember that panic attack thing at the Star Trek meat? Yeah! I went to my doctor partly due to insistence from you, Freeze. Got some anti-D’s and with it some distance from the dark place and now feel okay. In fact things with me are better than they’ve been in a long, long time. I’m glad you followed your own advice and went to the doctor!
I don’t believe in too much information when it comes to Mental Illness.
The more people understand that a lot of people can suffer from it, that all walks of life have it, that Mr Average Joe who sits at the desk next to you who shaves, puts on deodorant and does his work also can suffer from it, then I think a lot of the stigma will go away.
I like the metaphor of ‘getting some distance from the dark place’.
It’s distance, not something you ‘cure’ that comes back after a while. You can’t banish it, it’s not a ‘fixable problem’, not an on/off, distance from darkness just one of those things you have to maintain, like eating, sleeping, getting vitamins, and some exercise and sun.
It’s like Yoda living near that cave on Dagobah. He can stay away but if he goes in, he’ll only face what he takes with him
Since no one has said it, I’m glad you didn’t kill yourself
Thanks, buddy. Me too! XD
Needing help from other people isn’t a sign of weakness. Seeking help, I think, speaks to your strength, that you are willing to accept your shortcomings as something that you can’t overcome alone.
You’re a better man than I am in that regard (and probably most others, too).
Freeze, you are not giving up.
I am on anti-depressants and I have counselling. Do you think any less of me? I doubt it. So why are you thinking less of yourself? Everyone needs a little help sometimes and this is not giving up. Giving up is not doing anything about it. You’ve taken the first steps and it is incredibly hard. It will only get easier from here on out.
You are showing your kids that it is okay to get help and that mental illness is not something that should be hidden away. You are a great example and you should be proud.
This is such a great comment that I’d upvote it twice if I could.
In fact, given the current TAY screwiness, I probably can atm.
I will assume you are just venting but enough people have told you this isn’t a bad thing.
It might feel like you have given up or aren’t strong enough the in reality you have taken the hardest step already. I’ve seen people unable to face what you just have, to be man enough to say I need some support around me. One of them turned to drink as a way of coping and that didn’t end well for him or anybody around him. He couldn’t face it and took the easy way out, you dun good Freeze.
Might not hurt to remember that feeling like that is probably a symptom of the problem being treated.
^ pretty much what they all said. Good job. Big step. Takes guts. Proud. etc. Also e-hugs.
One thing I can suggest with my own recent experience with antidepressants is to try and keep a record of how well your brain is functioning, possibly some sort of mood diary or something (even if just tracking stuff like happiness and motivation on a 1-10 scale). I’m on my 3rd type now and the prior 2 pretty much turned me into a brain dead zombie, it was quite nice for a while since it didn’t hurt but then I eventually realised I couldn’t enjoy gaming which was a clear sign something was wrong as was the fact that my life became going to the gym , coming home & laying in bed staring blankly at the tv with nothing else happening.
I was initially on Escitalopram which was pretty damned bad, then was swapped over to Agomelatine which didn’t do much good either and now I’m on Citalopram which I was expecting poor results from assuming it’s much the same content as Escitalopram but it doesn’t hit me as hard and the brain deadening effects seem to be either not present or countered by the dexamphetamine that I’m also on.
Sometimes you need to rely on other people, no need to feel bad about that. You can’t possibly have the skills to fix everything yourself, if your car breaks, take it to a mechanic and if anyone gives you shit for taking your car to a mechanic, call them a clueless bellend because that’s clearly what they are.
You’re on the right path, that’s what matters, stay the course and things will get better.
Psych-buddy-bro-fist!
There’s a funny moment in Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines where you can ‘vent’ your problems to a bar tender with random conversation starters. Makes me laugh every time. 😀
what clan did you pick?
once did a playthrough as one of the crzy guys & had a conversation with a stop sign. good times.
Toreador! He makes all the people swoon!
You have made a powerful enemy today, Stop Sign.
Malkavians also get addressed directly by the radio and TV in the game.
Hahaha that’s so awesome.
Good news everyone!
The TeamSpeak server is up for renewal. I’m going to let it go through but if anyone wanted to chip in send an email to: a_sharples at [all of the hot males] and I will send you through some bank details.
EDIT: Should point out it only costs like $25 for 6 months.
I’ll chip in $5, an overused 80s catch-phrase, and a button.
Groovy.
SENT AN EMAIL TO ALL THE HOT MALES!
I think the inclusion of the word ‘nob’ got it picked up by the spam filter haha.
Either way, got it.
I was hoping for that. kinda. =P
But… but I didn’t get one.
Must have got lost in the mail. You know, the traffic this time of day.
I have a reluctant upvote gif saved somewhere but can’t find it and this makes me sad.
@redartifice – If you happen to see this, I’ve dumped around 3000 words in to the TAYPathfinder tumblr. Would be obliged if you could bump it up the queue (if there is a queue) so that it posts today? I’m going to be aiming for Monday deadlines on my Drewan recaps, so they’re a week out from each session.
I will really enjoy reading these recaps from multiple perspectives. I only wish my own writing was better that I could do my own. I keep re-reading Dem’nion’s backstory and I keep seeing parts that make me cringe, that I could’ve expanded on.
Eh, we’re in game now, retcon it.
For Abelas, I know maybe three things pre that prologue:
1. Born in Xondol into low society
2. Used to run with two partners, one human who got out
3. The other one, an elf, was killed in the same incident that lead to Abelas being tortured.
Beyond that, it’s all whatever I come up with on the spot.
This is close to what I did. Gave myself a couple of important factors, one of which is refusing to share said factors with others as part of my character’s behaviour.
I agree with Red. I’m treating things NaNoWriMo style: As few revisions as possible, just go with the flow. The important part is to be writing, not what that writing may be. If you feel like writing then pick up that [pencil/pen/keyboard] and get to it. 🙂
Edit: Fun fact along the lines of “it’s all whatever I come up with on the spot” – I didn’t realise Drewan hated Beorn until “he” “told” me as such. With apologies to @steve-o_the_deve-o 😛
Any PS4 people picking up Dying Light this week? I’m hyped for this one, but I was one of the mad folks who loved Dead Island. I’m gonna jump on so many zombies shoulders :D.
Edit: Craaap, I was confused, it’s Daylight this week, whimper
Also the Child of Light Deluxe Edition looks nice and pretty, only $30, I think I’ll have to grab that too 😀
That’s releasing this week?
I think you confused Dying Light for Daylight, trust me if dying light was being released there would be a hell of a lot of news about it.
aww, poop, I was confused, now I cry
Daylight looks interesting too though.
I normally don’t read GAF but this is fantastic: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=808111
Consoles are superior to PC because: F2P/MOBA/Koreans don’t count.
CHECKMATE.
Dammit Bunny, I’m meant to be working
I actually did get something out of this thread (aside from a lifetime’s supply of salt).
Most AAA titles only really care about the day 1 sales. There’s hype build up and then after the game is pushed out people move on to the Next Big Thing ™. On PC, there is a much longer tail. Steam sales and whatnot drive people to buy games weeks, months and even years after the initial release.
On top of that, the free to play and subscription based games rely on consistent income from a loyal player base.
That means that console focused games tend to require a much bigger upfront investment (particularly in the marketing push) to get the big splash they need to make moneys.
Gaming is weird.
Weird. http://www.kotaku.com.au/user/profile/ for anyone who’s having trouble with notifications. Login, then it should be fine. As long as you’re not on mobile. You’ll need to refresh the page if email notifications aren’t working for you (they are for me). The profile page is including both mentions and replies, to me. Manually remove the ‘s’ in https. Reply-fails seem to be fine if you hit back on browser, click ‘reply’ under the original subject, all your text SHOULD be saved, hit post again. (Copy-paste if paranoid.)
Doesn’t seem to work for me, still has the “Log In” button up the top.
Oh yeah, I still have the log in button forever as well. I only get to see the notifications through refreshing the profile page after getting an email.
For anyone interested, you can pick up Child of Light for PC on Greenmangaming for $12 ($15 with 20% voucher). For a game that looks absolutely stunning surely you can spare $12.
Steam sales tell me that no matter how stunning it is I should wait for $2.99 or under deal. I’m a bad bad man.
Hey, so I’ve tried looking through my history to find out who here on Tay got me onto Don McLean (through his song Vincent about Vincent Van Gough). I’d always written him off as the guy who wrote American Pie and that’s it.
He’s got some good stuff in his catalog, so thanks random person (I want to say Tigs, but I’m not 100% that’s right).
EDIT: It was @benny, who I shall now tag in my mind as “music guru”.
I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, she just smiled and turned awaaaay…
A long long time ago, in a gal’xy far away, Naboo was under an attack…..
It was me. Vincent is an amazingly beautiful song and American Pie is over-rated.
I like the sprawling nature of American Pie and the symbolism of the lyrics. 😀
Well it is a classic. For reasons.
@benny, thank you so much, I’m really starting to dig through and his humour and gentle songs about love and melancholy are just brilliant.
You’re welcome, mate. I remember bragging about that song, perhaps even mentioning that people often confused the title for, ‘Starry, Starry Night’ probably thinking ‘Bah – no one’s reading this crap that I write.’ I’ll help out and see if I can find that old comment for you.
I like that song. I don’t think it was me, though.
Edit: should’ve
gone to specsavershit refreshThis was the only one I could find! I could have sworn I talked that song up more though.. oh well.
Last night I watched a professional League of Legends match for the first time in a long while.
Both teams invaded the enemy jungle, stole the blue buff and then four man pushed down two towers in the closest lane. After one side completely stomped, they went for a near identical draft (only the top laners for each side were changed) and they did the same level one tactics except no towers fell over.
How the fuck do people play without TP scrolls and a courier? “We’ve just secured a huge advantage, time to all go home and do some shopping.”
Wards without cooldown? No high ground advantage? Trinkets?
To outsiders, there probably isn’t much difference between LoL and Dota 2. To someone that plays a lot of one, the other makes no goddamned sense.
Its kind of shitty LoL level 1 plays
Nobody gives a fuck about first blood and trinkets just mean invades either never happen or they do and after they invade jungle goes to the closest tower and pushes down two turrets. The enemy team always responds with doing the same thing in the opposite lane. Last patch i watched, there was no counterplay to this and it was nearly a standard thing across all metas.
It’s the new Alterac Valley!
Remember when Alterac Valley games would last a week? Good times
Best source of honour and rank outside of chain-steamrolling AB pugs with the pre-made Marshalls group to get those sweet grand marshall/warlord gear.
Heh. I saw someone still carrying one of those weapons in Zangarmarsh when BC landed, and when I queried, “Haven’t you found a better weapon yet?” the person sobbed, “Yeah but I worked SO HARD for this! I don’t WANT to let it go!”
But yeah, good old AV when you actually FOUGHT the enemy on an ever-shifting front-line, with squads heading behind enemy lines to capture graveyards and resources to generate battle-line-shifting NPC rushes. “DRUIDS ARE UP!” Truly epic in every sense of the word.
…Plus there always being that sad little hunter saying in /general, “Hey, does anyone wanna kill Korrak? I need the Ice-Barbed Spear…”
To me, the dumbest thing was the following draft.
When a Dota team loses, they tend to adjust their draft. There is also a significant difference between Dire and Radiant towards who you want to pick (Lycan is first pick/ban on Dire but something like <30% win on Radiant). In this case, both teams banned the top laner they used and the draft was otherwise identical.
That's fucking bizarre.
Also TP scrolls would completely invalidate the early push strat. It's funny how the lack of a mechanic changes things so completely.
Its mainly because some characters are just OP
Renekton and Shyvanna are 80% of top picks because they are arent mana-gated and have a good source of health regen early. Recently i have started to see dual AP comps with a top le-blanc or gragas to stop the early push with great wave clear early, but it is just ineffective late game when there is a 400 armour renek or shyvanna tearing up you ADC. The meta is quite stale, the only reason I have to watch is seeing people pull out funky champs to counter stuff. However 80% of the time that fails.
Ah, I remember the days of HoN when we were having a LAN. We pub-stomped the boss and all got bumped to level 3, then we stomped middle lane and a tower, then killed another 1-2 people on the way back to base.
We were level 5-6 by the time they weren’t even level 2, shit was so cash.
@mythamphetamine @novacascade @mawt @popdart5 @blaghman @tech_knight
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Eww, weird blind things on top of the train!
WEDNESDAY 7:30 SA TIME
Also streaming for any interested parties
Well the weekend involved a bit of work but wasn’t too bad.
Was in the office on Friday to create a new prototype for some software. Which if everything works out will bring in a new revenue stream. Then went home and watched a really odd game of sportsball. Spent Saturday morning looking at prams and the like, realised that we haven’t considered what we need to do re a bath so looked at those as well.
Then had lunch at schnitz. I am very impressed with that place, pan fried schnitzels in a burger joint format. Worth a try if you have considered it.
Then back into the office and found some code changes to be made on my desk. Did those then took a break and watched the end of the Giro Del Trentino. Great result.
That afternoon and sunday was spent relaxing or at least not working. A fair bit of house work and tidying up. Played a couple of games of Ascension with Mrs Tigs, slowly getting the hang of the energise option in this set.
In other gaming news I’ve been playing a fair bit of Guacamelee which I’m really enjoying. Up to what I assume is the final boss fight and getting slaughtered. Figure I’ll go and level up a bit to get more health before I try again. I also started Metro: Last light. I’m liking it so far and I have to say that I’m getting a lot more atmosphere since reading the novel, thanks Beavwa. Which is saying a lot as metro 2033 was the most atmospheric shooter I had played.
I also recently started on Deus Ex:HR but leveled the wrong thing so it’s all sort of mushy right now. Not that far in but don’t really want to restart so I’ll just muddle through i think.
Then last night I stayed up and watched Liège-Bastogne-Liège which was a really good race. As the last of the spring classics I’m glad I watched it.
Dammit, I forgot that the cycling gets interesting around this time of year.
Any notable grand tour riders put in a good performance?
EDIT: Just looked up the results. Hell fucking yes.
The Giro is looking rather interesting now, so many top riders all seem to be focusing on the tour.
Sky are in all sorts of trouble and sending a really low level squad in.
A bunch of teasm leaders didn’t even get out of the bus for LBL. Movistar look dangerous and the last I saw Quintana had decent form. Rodriguez had good early form but looked really bad at LBL, dropped on a fairly average climb when the group was still around 50 strong.
Cadel is looking in top form and beat Scarponi and Pozzovivo recently.
Rigoberto Uran didn’t race but could be a big challenger.
Then you have a bunch of 2nd stringers in Cunago, Basso, Rolland, Anker Sorenson , Hesjadel.
SCHNITZ!
http://taypathfinder.tumblr.com/post/84084414987/drewans-letters-home-the-adventurous-youth
TAY Pathfinder Session 1: Drewan writes home! Mystery! Intrigue! Fetch-quests! Ink Guzzling!
Starring:
@popdart5 as GM
@beeawwb as Drewan
@freezespreston as Lundgredolph
@negativezero as Izumi
@redartifice as Abelas
@rize as Narshak
@sernobulus as Karvurk
@steve-o_the_deve-o as Beorn the “Ink Guzzler”
@tech_knight as Dem’Nion
Read everything you’ve already seen before but from a slightly different point of view!
Also a reminder to people that if you want anything tumblred, let me know
Or alternatively let me know. Drewan posting things is totally cooler than Abelas posting things.
Brilliant write-up!
Vrasubatburuk ug butharubatgruiuk. (An Orcish equivalent of “Cheers”)
😉
Weird weekend. Good weird weekend overall, I think? So many unexpected things happened that I’m still trying to wrap my head around all of it to be honest.
Like, as soon as something good happend, something bad would happen, then when something bad happend, something good would happen.
I think there was more good then bad, so I’m going with good weekend overall.
In gaming news, I’m finding FFX to be a lot easier than I remember. Almost at the end of everyone’s main spheregrid path and I’m not even at Zanarkand yet :S
Gonna go celestial hunting as soon as I get the airship. Not looking forward to the butterfly bit, since I can hardly tell the red ones from the blue ones at a glance :S
Still hating Wakka 😉
My life is like that
Car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and im stranded for 5 hours
Get towed to a garage where the hot chick working on my car asks me to dinner
find out she is a lesbian when she rocks up with her girlfriend
I just ride the rollercoaster, the day i win the lottery will be the day before i am brutally murdered on the street. I am sure.
You know that whole orientation thing isn’t always absolute, right… I’ve had quite a few girlfriends who were out-and-proud lesbians. You probably passed up a three-way. 🙂
Kinsey would say that sexuality is fluid and changes, only able to be defined at the point at which it is being defined. Just because you’re a 0 (exclusively heterosexual) or a 6 (exclusively homosexual) right now doesn’t mean you’re not subject to change throughout life.
DAMN IT
This knowledge can now provide the counterpoint for another good thing to happen to you 🙂
Wakka is John DiMaggio and therefore loved by all.
LOVED BY AAAAAAAALL.
Bite my shiny metal blitzball.
Talk amongst yourselves? More like attempt-to-post-and-get-three-errors-then-a-blank-white-tab-and-randomly-log-out amongst yourselves, amirite?
True, that.
OH WTF THE REPLY ACTUALLY WORKED!
I could live with all the other broken shit on the site right now if the Posting Too Fast error would just fuck off and die.
YOU’RE ALL DRUNK.
It’s after 12pm, what’s your point?
I stared at the reply box for a few minutes before realising, I don’t have a point.
Boy, I’d really resent that if I weren’t so drunk.
Edit: It took six attempts to post this. It totally wasn’t worth it.
Want some Rye?
(totally mentioned because it was mentioned earlier on Twitter by some Taybies)
Mentioned because, ‘course ya do.
How many unionized dwarves does it take to dig up a piece of illuminite?
Damn few.
‘N they’re aaaaaall dead.
You need to brush up on your Return to Zork.
Correct answer: “Fifteen. You got a problem with that?”
I knew I didn’t know the answer. So I went with more rye humour.
I also liked “How many implementors does it take to screw in a lightbulb?”
…
“That’s a hardware problem”
I met a buddy of @freezespreston’s yesterday, who’s friends with my buddy, whose had production work done by @dkzeitgeist who works with Karl who went to uni with Freeze’s buddy who also knows Dan!
I should also say my friends know @Shane as well. :\
…
Some might say Brisbane’s a small town.
And that is how I ended up talking to a stranger about all the mutual background we have.
We even discussed Zeitgeist. Haha!
Those people would be damned liars! LIARS!
…Or just people with a different perspective. WHICH IS TEH SAEM THING.
Adelaide is down to 1.5 degrees of separation.
*Looks around Hobart, Tasmania*
*laughs*
…*cries*
*Looks around Launceston, Tasmania*
*laughs even harder*
…*cries even harder*
/copycat
*Looks around wagga*
*realise I live in wagga*
*kill self*
for a hermit you are quite the socialite.
Don’t worry, I sat in the corner by myself like a pro for most of the night and left super early so uni friends wouldn’t feel sorry for me. Haha!
The Padonis is a pretty great guy.
Ooooh, Freeze totally is known to him by another nickname! 😀
He’s a good guy, though. You make the best pals! 😛
Damn hipsters! 😉
Hey @gutsoup – have you finished Pokémon yet? If so, I need to catch you online at some point to find out if you have the best safari of them all (ditto).
I didn’t, dunno why, planned on playing only 3ds games this weekend but didn’t touch it, *quickly googles pokemon safari* I see, we can like do stuff together, interesting,.
You’re the only Pokémon owning Normal in my friend safari list, so there’s a chance you could let me catch dittos, which would make breeding for anything serious exponentially easier.
Pokemon owning Normal?
Everyone on my friends list gets a safari, regardless of whether they own the game. That safari has a type and up to 3 Pokémon. The third only appears once you’ve seen them online after they’ve beaten the elite 4. A caught Pokémon may also have its hidden ability if the safari person is online when you’re in and catching their Pokémon.
Two people on my friends list have generated a Normal safari, and you have the game, the other doesn’t. Ditto can only be #3 in a safari set. So, you’re my only hope – it’s a massively in demand safari so anyone with it on forums can pick and choose friends to get what they want.
(Most of my safari time has been getting decent magnetons from Shane’s Steel safari, but I did also get Powalen’s shiny nincada from fled’s Ground safari)
I’m gonna have to look into this, I don’t get it, where is the Safari if it’s not in the game? I hate working so much, I used to everything about all the games, now I’m either in the dark or misinformed most of the time:P
It’s a side area in the city you get to access after beating the elite 4.
Important thing about it is that everything you catch there will have at least 2 perfect IVs.
Hey guys, I um, may have accidentally volunteered to write some cosplay articles.
I’m doing an A to Z on cosplay but I don’t really have much as yet.
A- Armour
Arrows
Accessories
B- Bow (to go with the arrow)
Bows
Belts
C- Capes
Coloured Contacts
D- Deco art
E- Ears
Eyebrows
EVA foam
F- Fabric
Fabric paint
G- Guns
H- Horns
Hems
I-
J-
K-
L-
M- Masks
Make up
Material
N-
O-
P- Paint
Patterns
Q-
R-
S- Sewing
Shoes
T-
U-
V-
W- Wigs
Worblas
Wonderflex
X-
Y-
Z-
X-citement? 😛
Maybe a few topics on the research / design stage?
Edit: Things like (not coming up with lettered things, but concepts that may trigger ideas)
– Concept art
– Screenshots
– In game renders
– Source material
– Matching real world materials
I think that sou;d be better for a separate article. I know what you mean though
C – Cardboard
D – double-sided tape
V – velcro
The essentials 😛
A: Accessories, the little touches that make an okay cosplay into a great one.
B: Basics, the general things that you must nail.
C: Character, what to consider when deciding who to cosplay.
D: Drag, when cosplaying someone of the opposite gender is just rad.
I know nothing about cosplay.
What is the target audience, if it is Australian based you could potentially do a quick run down of the different cosplay cons and things about. “M is for Manifest”
Another option could be the different genre of cosplay “J is for Jrpg” and list out some ideas of characters and important points
C is for comfort
L is for leggings, L is for Low budget
T is for tracing
H is for hats
K is for kids
C is for couples, P is for partners
L – Lining
I- Ink
K – Key features- get these right first to get the real effect
Z – Zippers- make sure you can get out of the costume for practical things like toilet breaks
H – Hollywood tape. I have a friend who swears her dignity by it.
I’ll think of more when work isn’t so busy.
Y – Yummy props (fake blood is actually tasty).
N – Nico pen
Q – Quasi material (it’s so good I can’t believe it’s not blank!)
haha, my fake blood isn’t tasty but will give you a buzz (it’s loaded with coffee)
D is for DIY
E, which comes afterward, is for giving up and going on eBay instead.
I – Insignia
J – Jewellery
K – K-9 companion
L – Lapel
x – Xyston (type of pike)
x – Xyster (could use if cosplaying a surgeon)
x – Xiphoid (sword shaped)
Dammit @gutsoup!
what did I do? Did I do bad? *raises shield*
I’ll look forward to your fabric paint article! Will be looking into that more now that PAX is getting a bit closer.
Don’t wait for the article, just contact me directly =P
Oh I will, don’t you worry!
I:
* Imprints. (I dunno. What’s involved there?)
* Ideas/Inspiration/Imitation (best sources, providing credit for ideas on solving tough problems in capturing a look)
* Improvising (repairs, on-the-spot cosplay with materials at hand, how to react to other players who want to ‘spar’ or pose)
J:
* Jeggings! (NO. NO.)
* Cosplay Jokes. (A lighthearted reprieve section of jokes only Cosplayers will really appreciate.)
K:
* Knitting (knitted alternatives, types of fabric/designs best for knitting)
* Kids (what’s appropriate/SAFE to dress them in, how to handle event-wandering safety, awareness with organizers where appropriate, having them in photos/having photos taken of them, more durable and kid-tolerant materials/techiniques to wear the beating handed by a little person prone to randomly falling over for no reason.)
L:
*Legs/leggings (mobility/safety/techniques for tanning/covering/storage/transport. How to achieve certain looks with what is typically a more fragile material in the case of stockings.)
O:
* Original Designs. (What’s their place in cosplay, how to get started, examples of good ones – eg, Hello Kitty vs Gears of War mash-ups.)
* Ownership. (Rights to representative works and profits from, or the creation/sale of outfits relating to others’ IP.)
P:
* Photography. (This one’s a biggie – multiple topics. Handling requests from people to take your phot, having a photographer of your own, laws about where and when you can/can’t legally object to being photographed and how to handle it, comparison of ‘reasonable’ rates for newbies who might not know how to handle having a professional take their portfolio).
* Portfolio (how to best keep one, incl/outside of DeviantArt, how to present it, the use of business cards, the role and possiblities for professionals/paid cosplay)
* Pornography (see: X. Hey. Cosplay porn is a Thing.)
R:
* Requests (How to delegate/politely refuse/maintain and juggle the number of requests you’ll have, how to engage in a dialogue that creates a costume that both fits AND sets and meets expectations, or a contact list for people willing to take requests from locals, etc.)
* Repairs (the kit you’ll need to keep in your bag to tackle the most common spot-repairs needed in the field)
U:
* Uniforms (Rules about military/combat outfits and impersonation laws, things that can get you shot by police on the street, lists of common/popular uniforms represented in anime/games, or real-world second-hand uniforms which work very well to be adapted to fictional uniforms.)
V:
ACCORDING TO MY BRAIN THERE IS NOW ONLY ONE WORD IN THE ENTIRE ENGLISH LANGUAGE STARTING WITH V. GOD DAMMIT.
X: X-gender/rule63, X-rated cosplay (legals)
Van?
Vulva
Vaminos.
Verisimilitude.
you on holiday, or is work THAT boring today? 😉
THAT boring. …I gotta do something when on hold. 🙂 The alternative is intricate doodles.
PENIS
How about X for Xeno: Specialising in cosplaying as aliens?
Had loads of time at home alone over the weekend, so I ended up playing a craptonne of music. Now I’ve kinda got the bug again and just want to keep playing. Should do something about that.
Spoiler: V jba’g.
Man, if I could play an instrument I’d make so much of my own music. Instead I have to wait for my guitarist to write something before I can do anything. You real musicians have it good.
Real musician? Sorry, I think you must have me confused with someone else. I can’t write anything 😛
Though would desperately love to.
My happy place.
Has better production values than most Australian TV shows. XD
I like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qXUmZpwOLU
cc @rize
Let’s play a game called “How Big of a Monster Are You?”
Honest answer: if someone you know dies, and you find out it was because they chose to drink and drive (no other mitigating factors i.e. mental illness) does your reaction diminish or stay the same?
Depends if they took anyone else out with them.
Depends on how much I like the guy 😛
Is it possible for apathy to diminish? #BiggestMonster
…
Though seriously, I think the revelation would probably cause my grief to lessen unless I was particularly close to them (wife/kids, etc).
Depends on how close I am too them, and if there was anyone else involved in the crash, etc.
Either way, my reaction would diminish, just more or less depending on circumstances.
Unless this was a rhetoric question…
I would say that it would change not diminish, I would probably get angry at them
Mine would diminish TBH… if someone I knew got killed crossing the train tracks by car or on foot, not only were they breaking the law, they were being reckless and impatient. Their deaths were 100% avoidable, not accidents.
Loss is still loss even if it’s self-inflicted. If they were close to me I would feel the loss regardless. Lament the choices they made. Be mad at them like Tigs said.
As someone who has gone through it, this is the right answer.
This’d be the third time for me.
Shit situation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qXUmZpwOLU
Aw man, sorry to hear this. 🙁
I think the true answer is you’re gonna feel what ever you’re gonna feel. You’re not a monster no matter what’s going through your head.
I guess it’s just nice to get some validation that (put simply) my reaction is pretty common/normal.
I HAVE THE MOST AMAZING DINNER IDEA… I AM TOTALLY DOING THIS TONIGHT…
*** incoming heart attack/tears of joy ***
STEP 1:
I am going to make some fresh angus burgers, out of angus beef, egg, spicy tomato paste, a drop of nandos lemon and herb, onions, parsley, salt, pepper and bread crumbs. Then cook them.
STEP 2:
Lightly cook a TON of bacon.
STEP 3:
Grate some cheddar.
STEP 4:
Make some fresh bread dough
STEP 5:
Roll out some dough. Spread a bit of chutney. add burger, cheese, bacon. Add mustard, tomato sauce,
STEP 6:
Seal of each burger in the thin dough.
STEP 7:
Bake in oven for about 5-10 minutes…. till brown..
STEP 8: PROFIT
Step 9: Call ambulance
Step 10: Give baked ZetroxBurgers™ to the ambos. You’re not ill. They’re just so good the ambulance service needs to try them. Yummy!
I’ll take ten. Very nice of you to offer to cook.
if you want to make the trip, gladly!
I’m a bit disappointed you don’t offer a delivery service… :\
technically if i dough it up, freeze it and pack it properly then ship on overnight express, you should still be good to throw that straight into the oven!!!
Sounds good. I shall await it with saliva glands on simmer.
im crazy enough to ACTUALLY WHACK ONE IN THE POST!!
I used to do something vaguely comparable with pizza, all the usual ingredients with dough rolled thinner, then carefully roll up one side and keep rolling until you’ve got a single cylinder then bake that. Bam, pizza roll.
Right, my English report is finally done. 5,871 words, (not including references) 24 pages, 41 references, (some of which aren’t from Wikipedia!) and roughly 20 hours of work.
Many thanks to @trjn and @shane for giving me good advice on the conclusion. It now sucks less than it used to, and contains less half-baked philosophy about the meaning of death.
I put a tonne of work into this, but I suspect all that work was completely unnecessary. My classmates probably had a 700 word count, and 4 hours of work.
Much of the hardship came from the fact that my report was on capital punishment. I’m firmly anti-death penalty, so writing the report from a neutral perspective wasn’t easy. I also had to provide detailed descriptions of all the forms of executions, and that was about as fun as you’d expect. I had to take frequent breaks to avoid being sick everywhere. There were a few executions that I just skipped because I didn’t want to think about them.
IT’S DONE!
6000 words … dude.
Quick question: what’s the word limit for this assignment? In my experience, you get marked down just as hard for going over the word limit as you do for going under…
PS: Sounds like an intense writing process. Glad it’s over!
I can’t remember the last time I wrote 6000 words on anything that wasn’t a short story. Okay, maybe board games but that was over several thousand tweets and comments.
Part of good writing is boiling things down to the crux. It’s a hard trick to learn and I definitely haven’t mastered it.
EDIT: Don’t read this as us trying to pile in on you @phlanispo. It’s a common mistake.
But you need to explain the crux and validate it with supporting arguments. That’s what a report is.
This is X.
This is how X works.
Here is an example of X.
This is an argument for/against X relating to the previous example.
That was X.
I once wrote 7,000 words for a 1,500 word creative writing assignment in high school. The teacher referred to it as a “tome” when handing it back, but didn’t mark me down because it didn’t bore her.
THIS
i wrote 3000 words over the limit on a chemistry lab report on why coke and Mentos react, i got marked down a shit tonne because it went too far.
You had word limits on your chemistry lab reports? That’s complete shit.
I used to get marked *up* in Chemistry because I would spend a lot of time discussing the results and their implications, suggesting areas where there may be bias, error or other issues and possible ways that the experiment could be re-run to gain more accurate results and whether the result could be trusted or not based on the quality of the trial. Most of my reports would be 5-6 pages, sometimes as many as 8-10.
Yeah, this. Anyone can ramble on for page after page and not really make a point. Gotta be concise.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
That’s why @effluvium-boy gets all the effluvium girls!
Nope.
And teachers are people who actually have to read 30 or so of these too. Don’t think they’ll be super psyched to see 6,000 words. 😀
6000 and 700 words is a huge difference. Once of you will be screwed.
Although it’s high-school with retards marking you, so if you were friendly with the teech’s I wouldn’t discount you getting a Nobel Prize nomination for it.
You’re clearly going to be set for uni, you’re doing 3rd year levels of writing already
Hey, it is Monday, so time for a Monday TAYste test!
3 tips for Curries!
1) buy spices from a specialist supermarket- go to an indian supermarket (insert local ethnicities as they apply) to buy spices. Not only are they cheaper, there’s a much greater range. One of the best things in terms of mixtures is Garam Masala, which is in a lot of indian curries. Plus, grinding your own spices in a mortar and pestle (also avail from indian supermarkets) is win.
2) Just vegetables works- curries can be more than just a meat in sauce type deal. Try stuff like Aloo Gobi (Cauliflower, v. simple) and Saag Paneer (Spinach and paneer, very mild indian cheese), both of which are easy to cook and taste great. Also, Fish curries with Panch Phoron (a readliy available spice mix) are great.
3) Don’t overcook- if you’re slow-cooking your curry, I find it better to leave it for no more than 5-6 hours (on low), otherwise some of the spices lose a bit of their flavour. The temptation with slow cooking is always just to chuck it on and leave it forever, but a little less time makes a better curry.
Also: 3 good accompaniments for curry!
1) Roti Parathas; Indian flatbread, you can buy packs of them from your indian supermarket and keep them in the freezer, then you just chuck them frozen in a non-stick pan for a few seconds each side
2) Raita- yoghurt mixture good for taking any heat out of curries and just great anyway. Chop Mint & Coriander leaves (about a half-handful of each) and mix that with a half teaspoon of sugar and garam masala into some greek yoghurt
3) Pickles/Chutneys- available at supermarkets, a good lime pickle or Mango Chutney just adds a great extra flavour on the side
Regarding the first second point: CHICKPEAS!
Dhaaaaaaaaaaaal *drools*
And EGGPLANT!
Or normal peas and paneer.
Nonono.
CHICKPEAS!
Not disagreeing with you as chickpeas are totally rad. But Matter Paneer is also pretty nice.
I actually have a recipe I’m going to make later this week for potato, lentil & chickpea curry.
Honestly I only replied to you because you were the last reply to me.
I’m being a dick. All of the above are delicious, I just have chickpeas on the mind.
http://www.theppk.com/2010/11/doublebatch-chickpea-cutlets/
I just put a Jamaican Chicken Stew into the slow cooker. So much curry powder and all spice. Over 2kgs of drumsticks. Enough for everyone! \o/
Also, just quietly, masala just means spice mix (like salsa only means sauce and can be anything.). Garam is good but has limited real uses. Look up some masala mixes and go nuts with the spices. Real easy and you can usually have a heap left over to store in a jar and end up with a variety of them.
So I seen some peeps playing Gw2 again and think I might give it another shot.
Is anyone playing regularly? At what levels?
I’m playing it fairly regularly (gotta atleast get the daily). The character I’m currently playing is my level 70 Warrior.
Yep, been putting a lot of time into a new character so I’m mostly a level 26 Thief.
Hmm, I have a 45 Necro and a 10 Mesmer.
Would you want either of those running around with you?
And I dunno if you would know which would be better in the late game/ dungeons? (not that I will probably get there)
Sure, if you want, and yeah I have no idea 😛
Level 36 Charr Engineer, I play whenever I’m not playing LoL 🙂
So… never?
I stopped by my local EB during lunch to grab one of those Pokemon codes for X and Y and shock horror – they’ve run out. Are you kidding me? The promotion goes for like a month and it’s only halfway in. Lucky for me there was no JB or Target nearby either.
Benny! The cushions are sewn up and I’ll try to send them as soon as I can afford it
Haha, thanks Scree. You’re the best. I mean seriously, where else was I going to get Zelda cushions huh. Nowhere! 😀
Um, the internet?
That place is scary.
Want me to get you one? I’ve got a few places I could try for a spare code. (Already got mine)
Take 2 for posting too fast
Thanks, hopefully my wife grabs me one today otherwise I may take you up on the offer. Cheers.
Two takes for me. 😛
Not really missing much anyway. Just GTS trade for one 😛
I want the fancy pictured card that the code comes printed on. 😀 I know, I’m preparing to be disappointed.
It was bad anyway, it doesn’t evolve when you get it, even though it’s holidng the item D:
That stuff above about concise writing reminded me that I’ve been meaning to read some George Orwell essays for a while.
Project Gutenberg is a rad resource.
On a more general note, I took a business writing course a little while ago. One of the key points I took away from it is that in order to write well, you have to know what good writing looks like.
Another thing that came up a lot is that writing is simply speech. When you write something, it should sound like something you say. Fluffing up the text with purposeless pomp adds nothing. If someone tried to speak to you like that, you’d make a wanking motion with your hand and move on. Why would anyone think that suddenly that’s a great idea just because you’re using ink instead of your voice?
I need to start writing again.
Purposeless pomp at its absolute finest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYz_A_1xRqc
I can still be a pompous bastard as long as it has a purpose though, right? That’s kind of my whole personality
I think the main purpose of pomp is to show how purposeless it is :p
But I’m just a random dude on the internet, why listen to me?
I took creative writing as a degree in uni and the thing that I came away with is that you need to write for your audience. Different styles and genres of writing exist because different people want to read different things at different times. I would wager that some people enjoy writing and/or reading purposeless pomp and fluffy text because they want to vividly imagine a world and escape into it. If there’s a market for it, people will write for it.
Poppycock!
All people must strictly adhere to the same rules, like the same things and act exactly as I do!
I probably should have mentioned that this is mostly related to reports, essays and suchlike. Even then it isn’t a hard and fast rule.
Right now I’m at work and wishing I was at home playing more Demon Gaze. I still haven’t beaten either of the first two bosses but I’ve been reading up and apparently the reason I was steamrolled by Mars is partially because I need another level or two for everyone in the party so far and maybe some better gear to knock her adds down faster, but mainly because my tank was wearing leather armor and linen undies that are apparently all super flammable which is bad when you’re up against a fire-based enemy.
The game does a piss poor job of explaining what you’re supposed to be doing and how its mechanics work and stuff but it’s still pretty fun once you actually get established. Scratches the same itch that stuff like Etrian Odyssey does for me. Oldschool punishing difficulty dungeon crawling. I hadn’t even realized I missed games like that.
They must be pretty cheap to develop too, actually.
So. Last night I was flipping through the PSN store to see what couch co-op games we could get direct downloaded after my brother bought a second controller for the PS3. I looked at the Scott Pilgrim game and noted that the movie was pretty boss, so the game should hopefully be handled with similar humour… and he said he hadn’t seen the movie.
I stared at him in horror, told him to go get some maccas and when he got back, we’d be watching the movie.
When I explained to him that the lead was Michael Cera, he said he didn’t know who that was, and I explained, “George Michael from Arrested Development.”
“I’ve never seen or heard of that.”
“…”
GUESS WHAT WE’RE DOING FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK?
Maeby you’re going too far?
Marry me.
ANUSTART is probably going too far.
Start with SHEMALE and work up from there 😛
Okay-ish PS3 couch co-op games I can think of off the top of my head:
– Dragon’s Crown
– Rayman Oranges & Rayman Lemons
– Army of Two
– Borderlands & Borderlands 2
– Pretty much any Dynasty Warriors
– Resident Evil 5 and 6
– All the Tales games have couch co-op battle options.
He bought the extra control pad because of Dynasty Warriors. 🙂
I grabbed Army of Two, Driver: San Francisco, and the Tales games for the co-op, and because they were on sale.
If bro’s in the city, I’ve told him to get Earth Defense Force 2025.
We’ve pretty much played out Borderlands so won’t do that again. Not into platformers/beat-em-ups, so Injustice/Dragon’s Crown/Rayman are out.
Resident Evil games seem like they’d be OK to co-op, but I’ve played them on the 360 and there’s no way in hell I’m playing PSN prices for them, so that’ll be a ‘if it’s ultra-cheap preowned’.
Others I was looking at were Metal Slug games (didn’t know Mercenary Kings had made it to PS3, so that’d be good too). Diablo 3, Child of Light, Resistance 3…
Honestly though, I need to just get a second 360 gamepad. I have so many more co-op titles on 360. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 & 2, 99 Nights, Castle Crashers, Resident Evil, Every Halo Ever, more Army of Two, Gears of War, Fable, Ghost Recon, Magic
Diablo 3 works pretty well. Splinter Cell blacklist has fun co-op missions
Diablo 3 has couch co-op?
Apparently!
I’ve forgotten the name but there’s a new one which is basically a Metal Slug clone with a bunch of RPG elements added in and it’s pretty great.
Edit: Mercenary Kings?
Same developer as the Scott Pilgrim brawler actually.
Also @transientmind if you have PS+ this is the free game of the month until the PSN updates which will happen in the next couple of days.
Wait… which is the free game of the month? I logged into the PS+ exclusives page and grabbed all the free ones I could see, but they were basically just Sly Cooper, Uncharted 3, XCOM, Hotline Miami, Soccer/kart racing, and other stuff I wasn’t enthused about. Am I accidentally not set to Australia or something? I didn’t see Mercenary Kings anywhere, only Metal Slug 1 & 2, which were paid downloads.
Oh, I assumed it was on PS3 as well but it turns out it’s only PS4 and PC and (upcoming) Vita.
And apparently the next lot includes Payday 2, which (I think) has local co op on Playstation.
Yes for Europe. I don’t think the US PS+ lineup for May is announced yet.
When I checked the store page, Payday 2 was only 1 player local, 2-4 network. But if it’s free, I’ll find out if that’s wrong, anyway, when I go to play with TAYbies. 😉
I got the Scott Pilgrim game, it’s like a Double Dragon type brawler side-scrolling. Brutally hard too. Pretty cool visuals, chiptunes, and various items etc.
Approaching 60 hours in my Dark Souls 2 playthrough. Even though I’ve technically finished the game, I’m at work poring over wikis and forums, trying to plan for my run through to NG++ and my 2nd ever 1000G.
The obsession… it is back!
I think it took me 80+ hours to beat the final boss and do nothing else after 😛
EDIT: Actually I don’t think I ever checked how many times I died…
If you “talk” to the crestfallen warrior in Majula after 100 deaths, he gives you an item. I haven’t gotten that item yet. Think I’m doing all right! 😛
…He gave me that Defence buffing ring because I was terrible? D:
He gave me that AGES ago too! D:
I just got it today.
60?
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/460656408417935360
I have to say, I was a little surprised that there weren’t actually that many achievements for the platinum. Just lots of stuff rolled into single achievements rather than lots of individual ones.
True enough, but on the other hand, there’s still 38 achievements. It’s not an insanely low number.
I guess it feels like the Xbox 1000 gamerscore curse – I got most of them without really going out of my way on my first playthrough.
But to apply a bit of self perspective, I went back and looked up the list for Demon’s Souls. 38 trophies, half of them from killing bosses as the game progresses. Not really sure what I expected, looks fairly normal.
It’s interesting that once I’ve looked into the requirements, I figure I could do the whole list on a single playthrough (with a few aesthetics) forearmed with the knowledge of what to do. My own playthrough is stuffed because I released a certain mage though. Stupid obvious game generated ground messages, you can’t tell me what to do!
You can’t really get the achievements on a single NG unless you intend to spend months of your life leveling up in the Brotherhood of Blood covenant (you need to win 500 more invasions or duels than you lose), and the Blue Sentinel covenant (500 victorious duels or successful invader banishing). The alternative is to get to Drangleic Castle in NG++ (not ascetics) and buy the reward spells from Chancellor Wellager.
Yeah, that did seem faster than maxing those covenants.
I guess the biggest omission is any sort of get all armour / weapons / shields / special boss souls items. Means I just burned the boss souls on spells first (after getting a few things I wanted) since that advanced one of the causes.
Man, when I released him (also ignoring messages) and realized what I’d done, I ran around farming up as many souls as I could without triggering a bonfire or dying, then ran back to buy all of his stuff while he was still there. Then I murdered him.
Honestly, I thought all those messages were simply warning that a boss would squish me or something, which I was totally prepared to wear.
I went that way to the lever first, so I had no idea what I’d done until I looked things up later. Wondered why some specific NPC kept invading but just dealt with it.
@beeawwb – Kings Quest 3, 4 & 5 arrived yet? should be arriving today or tomorrow…
Nah, nothing yet. Got the tracking number but in typical AusPost style it doesn’t do much. Personally I wouldn’t expect to see til tomorrow / Wednesday. 🙂
Treasure them… with your life.
Sometimes, Internet, you do things right. Like an entire comment thread in the style of Ace Attorney.
http://superopinionated.com/post/84089201561/ingthing-beamkatanachronicles
EDIT: Well look at that, Kotaku goes and runs a story on it 7 minutes after I post it. HOW AM I MEANT TO COMPETE WITH THAT?
Edit edit: oh shit there’s a big spider in my office and it’s crawling near my hand. This is not coo.. I’m too scared to actually move.
2nd edit was the best. 🙂
(Has a kind of ‘please send help’ vibe.)
That’s because it does have please send help vibes.
Plus I can’t see it now. It’s crawled down a crack in my desk before I could kill I mean nicely take it outside for scones and tea in the sunshine.
Suspected Translation: “I CAN’T SEE IT NOW. THIS IS TOTALLY WORSE BECAUSE NOW IT COULD BE ANYWHERE. IT COULD BE ON ME. OH GOD IS IT ON ME OH GOD OH GOD”
BETWEEN YOU AND @powalen I AM NOW EXPERIENCING PARANOIA ON A GRAND SCALE. WELL DONE PEOPLE. I SHALL BATHE IN AEROGUARD TONIGHT.
Yesssss. Amazing.
The warranty for the Projector we have in the office ran out yesterday.
The Projector we have in the office stopped working today.
Clearly the only appropriate response is to set everything on fire and start over.
This works as a response to ANYTHING.
That’s how I got to where I am today, your Honour.
Some day… some day I am going to be in a very serious court situation and some utter prick is going to dig all this shit up and I will be utterly fucked in the future for a cheap laugh now. 😛
Clearly the only appropriate response is to set everything on fire and start over.
You could probably get it covered regardless. Probably as a claim of reasonable expectation of quality, but most brands will (when pushed) just do it anyway as a good customer relations move. This is all assuming it’s a brand-name projector.
(Not my projector, not my issue. *goes back to not doing work*)
I’m probably jinxing myself here but I haven’t had the posting too fast error in a while…
And… there it is again 🙁
I just came up with the best game to add to the Nintendo trivia that me and my friends usually end up doing at our gaming meetups. Usually there’s a section where various game themes would be played and you just have to recognise them, but I’ve been thinking it’d probably be fun to incorporate some Spicks and Specks style games into it, to change things up a little. Then while mucking around on the piano just now, thought up a new one. All the songs that are usually in a major key get changed to be minor instead, then have to be recognised from a snippet of that. It even comes with the best name too – Minor Improvement 😛
So From Software is now owned by Kadokawa Games.
For those playing at home, From Software are the wonderful people who make Dark Souls. Kadokawa meanwhile are behind a ton of shitty anime games and Kantai Collection.
Dark Souls 3 to feature twisted hybrids of man and battleship?
Kingdom Hearts beat them to it
Meet fellow Hollows. Date them.
Can you find love before your hollow high school friends do?
Coming next fall: Dark Souls: Love lost edition.
All of the NPCs are now inexplicably female and you can date Quelaag’s Sister?
Prepare to … On second thoughts, I’m just going to leave it there.
Man this posting too fast crap is getting really annoying. 5 times in 15mins I’ve tried to reply to one comment, and it says I’m too fast. Usually it works after the first error 😐
/edit seems that making my own post first was the medicine it needed!
That’s what she said.
So I forgot to cancel it and that means I have the domain pileofshame.net for another year. What should I do with this, TAY?
Wallow in your shame.
I already do that. 🙁
Sell it.Nowait.Create a support group for Steam addicts.Nowait.Porn site.
Yeah. You know what it’ll be about.
Nude pics of you lounging seductively on a pile of videogame cases.
The real question is: why did you buy it in the first place?
I had an ill-fated idea to set up a pile of shame management site which would allow you to track shared or personal goals against the games you have and help choose which games to focus on, decide when to give up etc.
Create a new pile of shame for unfinished websites. 🙂
I had m4sherman.tk and redirected it to a Twitter account of an M4 Sherman Tank tweeting such things like “relaxing on the beach” and “boom boom, POW!”.
Just dumped onto Wingman a whole pile of pent-up thoughts and various other brainstuffs that have been brewing and plaguing my head over the last… well, I don’t know, but they’ve been getting worse over the last week or so. Nothing particularly achieved by it, but feeling slightly better for having unloaded. That’ll do.
So you revealed yourself to be sensitive and vulnerable and being Gooky, that means she wants to sleep with you as well.
Quick, go to a psychiatrist tomorrow, after me, @phlanispo & @freezespreston that could be 4 days in a row! Only one more for a full week!
Baby steps.
You ruined the streak! I have to call my psych today to ask for the prescription I forgot to but it’s not the same thing
If you go as a group do you get a discount? If so i’ll come..
Day 26. Yes, this is most likely China. It was only a normal weekend here. Easter and the ANZACs are considered myths made up to instil *insert something anti Chinese here* blah blah etc.
That said I didn’t get to bed on Friday till 7am Saturday. I had my first conversation entirely in Chinese with a stranger/taxi driver. And this morning at 2am I sat on a dirty street corner and had food from some people with a hot plate on a bike. It was one of the best meals I’ve had in a long time. Will go again.
Also might be battling with a slight new found smoking habit. But it’s like a hand shake here. Please help!!
Street food is one of the best things about China! Street vendor lamb sticks are the BEST!
Risky as fuck though, lol.
Depends on what you get. Most of the time you’re pretty safe, cos they cook it right in front of you. No way I’d eat pre-cooked stuff though!
If you feel you are developing a smoking habit, knock that shit on the head. It’s going to get a lot harder to quit if you don’t now.
The page is…still weird…
No we’re only halfway there.
Woah-oh livin on a prayer?
At least the comments seem to be working properly today.
Forgot to get the damn Sun Crest and Zanarkand destruction sphere >:(
Oh well, I’ll just get trusty Yojimbo to cut dark Bahamut in half I guess. Takes a bit of the fun out of it, but I want that crest!
This game is getting me super pumped for FFXV also! I might even go back and play through FFXIII again after I finish FFX and X-2 if I have nothing else to play. They really need to remaster XII though, that is my favourite one! 😀
Upvote for XII being favourite (it’s my favourite as well). 😀
DARK SOULS TWO
I respecced as a faith build. Total glass cannon. Starting to realise how much I depended on my heavy armor and greatshield – definitely missing those. But doing huge damage.
This is infuriating. I’ve been trying to find an article on the Soul Calibur V preview event that was held at Namco’s offices in Redfern in January 2012, but they seem to have fallen off the internet. I swear there was one on capsule computers that had a whole bunch of photos, but nothing’s turning up at all. No mentions of it anywhere, even though there used to be a few around. The only thing I’ve been able to find is some gamespot-hosted tournament that took place at George Street cinemas around the same time, but that definitely wasn’t it.
There’s a small chance it may be saved and/or bookmarked on the laptop I was using at the time, but trying to fire up and use that is even worse of a pain in the arse. Damn thing takes a good fifteen minutes just to settle after powering. Minimum.
Could always try searching the Wayback Machine by date?
(http://archive.org/web/)
Seems like their only screenshot from around then was on Feb 12, I think the event was on something like 25 Jan so it’d be well off the front page by then. Still it doesn’t make sense why they’d still have all their articles from around that time but not this one, and I can’t think of any other site that it might have been instead.
That’s what the waybackmachine is for. 🙂 Stuff that gets taken down.
https://www.futurecompetitions.com/scv/Default.asp?
SEE I’M NOT CRAZY IT HAPPENED
Man, this house is going to fall apart soon without any women around. It’s just us 2 guys here for the week and well… when both of those 2 boys have the combined mentality of a single 12 year old when they’re together, not a lot gets done, evidently 😛 It is kinda nice having a lazy, boyish week. Although there’s no way I’d want it to last I don’t think.
In my experience, all-female share-houses can quickly turn much the same way (or perhaps worse – an all-female bathroom can be a frightening thing to behold. So many little bottles).
Bobby pins errywhere.
Hair everywhere.
Oh god. This. The HAIR. Cleaning out the shower drain… *shudder*
Hell. When share-housing, MORE than one time I would wake up and find a strand of my roomie’s distinctively long (seriously, like… damn near a metre), black hair wrapped around my junk. I have no idea how it even got there because we hadn’t been seeing each other romantically since I’d moved in. With a girlfriend visiting I could understand, but from an off-limits? Inexplicable. (That was one of the conditions of moving in: no-one ‘gets any’ unless everyone gets some. A sort of, “Did you bring enough for the class?” situation.) So yeah, the hair? It gets EVERYWHERE. Places it should not be. (I’m pretty sure it was from the washing machine/dryer and hairs clinging via static electricity to the interior of my boxers, not secretive nocturnal violations.)
One of my batches of cousins is a family with four girls (twins, no less) and a boy. (He’s the youngest. So I guess they finally stopped when they got the full set.) We were commiserating at a party about the trials and tribulations of living with women.
Remembering this rogue strand of frisky hair, I mentioned hair, and tried to avoid giving specific details, but when I said I’d too often found some wrapped around somewhere it definitely should not be and stared meaningfully at my cousin, he totally got it. I could see it in his expression, and because he cracked up into laughing uncontrollably. The female cousins were sympathetic, but didn’t quite get why it was that funny, suggesting laughingly, “What, like your toothbrush?” I @ pokerfaced and agreed, which only made the youngest cousin laugh harder, knowing full well that’s NOT what I meant. It’s not exactly the kind of thing you complain to your sisters about.
So yeah. Living with women with long hair all too often means lengths of hair in all kinds of places. Probably most disturbing when it’s in your food.
I too shared with a girl that had ridiculously long hair (maybe not a metre long but it went all the way from head to belt) and it just got everywhere. I refused to clean the shower drain and the vacuum cleaner was always getting clogged. I never had the “hair-in-unfortunate-places” situation because it seems my washing machine was good at capturing lint and hair and stuff. Still didn’t help to food issue *shudder*.
My sister has really long hair and every couple of weeks I have to fish giant wads of it out of the shower and sink drains because she won’t and if I don’t it clogs stuff up.
Also have never had the wrapped-around-my-bits problem though.
Never share a place with me mate, I seem to shed hair like a cat in moulting season. Every few months I have to flip my computer chair over and spend an hour or 2 with tweezers getting hair out of the castors or the wheels will never move again
5 fucking attempts at replying to this…
I always get complaints from mum that our bathroom sink is so gross or whatever. But it only happens when my sister is home, the damn bottles all over the place and somehow they all seem to have leaked their goop EVERYWHERE. And yeah, the whole place is covered in her hair.
It’s so nice when she ends up spending 80% of her time at the boyfriend’s place. Or they both go overseas for a good month or so 😛
Aaaand after another sleepless night I’ve finally bitten the bullet and made a doctors appointment to discuss insomnia. Just got to stay functioning for another 2 hours.
Upvote for making doctor’s appointment. You’ve done good, kid.
Cheers, it’s partially TAY inspiring me to take action.
Oxazepam for the next ~week it is. :S
I spent most of yesterday re-doing the snowflakes for Elsa’s cape. I can’t leave things along D=
Anyway, I know it’s taking my ages to work on the pattern, but I know once it’s done it’ll save me a lot of grief.
I hope.
If people are getting sick of my complaining, let me know.
What was wrong with it last time?
They weren’t close enough to the design for me to relax =P
Hehe keep going down that road and you’ll chuck it all in with an exasperated cry of “Ahh I’m not animated anyway, what’s the point?”
It’s not for me anyway, it’s for someone else. Scree seal of quality means It should be passable, right?
Have you got a proper seal of quality? That’d be cool!
Not that i know of, but @sernobulus, @lucifer9783 and @gorzilla think I do.
Sorry, I pressed confirm and then I realised I’d only written half a message
Question about shiny Pokeymans, I have never seen one in any of the games I’ve played ever, have people just randomly bumped into them or do you go out of your way and do the chaining thing?
I remember seeing a shiny Voltorb in Silph Co in original Red. Then it used self-destruct. D:
no shinies in the originals
Must have been FireRed then. My bad.
ha, at least you’ve seen one and know it’s real. I’ve played through 3 of the games, probably put like 50 hours into each and never ever come across one, I’m always worried that because I’ve never seen one that I won’t realize when I do, are they pretty obvious? I know their colours are off so it should be.
That’s the only one I’ve seen and it was pretty distinct because it had the shiny-noise effect that sounded like a drawn out dazzling anime teeth shine noise. It’s quite similar to the noise that Red Gyarados makes in Silver/Gold/Crystal.
They do a whole sparkly animation/sound at the start of the battle (though if you’re not really paying attention it is possible to miss) – like this! https://twitter.com/PowalenAU/status/452276765583372288
oh cool, I don’t think I’ll miss it.
Most, the colours are completely different and it’s pretty obvious.
My better half caught a shiny pikachu early in X and didn’t realise it until she sent it to me as trade fodder and I pointed it out. I nabbed a nice pink silly ice cream thing from the GTS to give her to make up for it.
They’re mostly just a luck / vanity thing. As an extra goal, if I can be bothered following through, I’m eventually aiming for a shiny of every mega. Just cos.
You got a favourite Pokémon you’d like a shiny of? I look around a fair bit so I might be able to find something for you.
I’ve bumped into one in my life. In the first few hours of Pokemon Silver I found a shiny Bellsprout, tackled once to take it to 2/3 health, tackled it again and crit killed it. I nearly openly Weepinbell’d.
ok cool, so I’m not just unlucky. I was reading up on chaining to improve your odds, just sounds like a colossal pain in the backside.
I caught a shiny gyrados in silver.
Me too!
Have played hundreds of hours each in Silver, Ruby, Diamond, Platinum, White, White 2 and Y and only came across my first shiny in the Friend Safari in Y (thanks @greenius). Its a stupidly small chance to come across them (like 1/8192 or something), and the Friend Safari has a better chance than the wild I think
My go-to shiny story is encountering a Shiny Poochyena in Pokemon Ruby.
The Poochyena that you encounter as part of the story at the very beginning of the game. And is impossible to catch. And must kill to progress. D:
well that’s just a kick in the crotch right there.
Only one in hundreds of hours across blue / silver / leaf green / sapphire / pearl was a shiny meowth in silver. Died when the battery in the game cart died.
Stupidly low chance of ever seeing one in previous games, but the rates have been improved in X/Y – there appears to be a reasonable chance of one in a playthrough.
If you complete the pokedex you get a shiny charm that doubles your chances, if you breed Pokeys from different regions it improves the odds too (but that’s generally measured at an average rate of 300-1000 eggs to get one).
Theoretically friend safari might have a better rate too, there’s some data mining / statistical crowd projects out there to try to work the rates out.
Horde battles kind of have an increased chance of finding a shiny, too (simply because you’re encountering five Pokemon at once instead of one).
I have a friend who hunts the fuck out of them. Like, she’s spent over 3.5k hours on the game by now, and has at least three boxes full of shinies.
She is insane.
Ohhh, LG Gflex phone and phablet are released in Japan too. Using the thing is pretty neat as all pixels are the same distance from your eyes. But I don’t see the point, since the curve is going the wrong way to fit into pants pockets..
PREDICTION:
Coming soon: manly curved belt clips. Or curved belt pouches. Or LG is about to release its own line of phone-compatible clothing.
*Starts bashing face into table*
Go man go!! how many strikes will it take to break through.
Seriously though you ok?
yeah just sick of idiot developers.
Yeah that sux dude, hope things improve. Nothing worse than idiots messing your day up.
I tried out Dead Island Epidemic and it’s actually pretty good and definitely one of the better cash-in MOBAs. I’m a big sucker for interesting PVP and it has that in spades. 4v4v4vZombies is quite fun.
So, I decided to give Agents of SHIELD another chance. Definitely picked up (just watched the train episode) but it’s still a bit problematic. I think I definitely went in with too high expectations though.
Captain America Winter Soldier spoiliers:
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SHIELD spoiler:
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The plots of Winter Soldier and SHIELD follow each other. It’s kind of cool. I’ve been watching SHIELD and it’s been getting better all the time.. It’s not exactly the best show ever but it’s certainly enjoyable.
Important question:
Who has the better collection of films?
Universal or Warner Bros or Paramount?
Hmm
Paramount has Indy and Star Trek
Warner has Matrix, the DC films, and some real classics
Universal has Monster movies? And Serenity?
Probably Warner on the balance.
Actually, no, Warner has Space Jam. They win.
Universal
Clicked that link with expectations.
Was not disappointed.
Disney.
Now they have Marvel and Star Wars, yes.
I’m holding off on any hype for Star Wars since Abrams is yet to make anything I’ve actually liked.
Didn’t like Super 8? That was an awesome movie.
Not really. Like everything he’s done it falls apart 2/3 of the way through. The guy is great at coming up with ideas but is never sure of what to do with them.
Fair enough, each to their own 😛 Only thing of his I have liked haha.
Universal has Scarface so i’m sold on them.. They also have Blues Brothers & Back to the Future trilogy… Which I am quite fond of. But Warner Bros has Stanley Kubricks collection, TOUGH CHOICE MAN.
Wow tough one
Paramount
Top gun
Rango
How to train your dragon
Indy
Ironman, thor, Cap
Coach Carter
Star trek
Braveheart
Adams Family
The Perfect Weapon
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Universal
Jurassic Park
Riddick
Despicable Me
Bourne
Hot Fuzz / Shaun of the dead
Gladiator
Blues brothers
Major Payne
Schindler’s List
Back to the future
*batteries not included
The Wizard
Warner Bros
Hobbit
Pacific Rim
Harry Potter
V for Vendetta
Matrix
Terminator
The Whole Nine Yards
The Iron Giant
Under Siege
The Power of One
Memphis Belle
Full Metal Jacket
The NeverEnding Story
Mad Max
Really tough, Maybe universal by a bees privates
Based solely on your list Universal barely edges out Warner Bros.
Yeah that was what I thought. But that was a quick scroll and adding what took my fancy from the different catalogues. Sure there is major things I’m missing but they were the big ones for me.
It was BTTF and JP that did it for me, with Shaun of the Dead and Despicable Me icing on the cake.
And Riddick for me, I love that character
I know the ‘Riddick’ movies were total head-up-own-ass vanity projects, but I don’t care I like them anyway.
Dark Souls 2 peeps!
Did anyone experiment with bonfire ascetics in Huntsman Copse? That’s where I’m up to at the moment. It’s pretty brutal:
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Bar va sebag, bar oruvaq.
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#NjrfbzbFxvyym
They were there in the beta. Pain in the ass.
Literally, if you don’t notice the one coming up behind you 😛
I watched Mr. Strange do that part in NG+. So not fair.
Because I’m such a coward, when I saw the one ahead of me, I panicked and ran away, hoping to find some more secure ground, and pretty much slammed head first into the second one coming the other way. Totally lost my shit, and rolled into the empty air off to the side. He chased me right off the cliff and we both died.
I guess that’s about as good as I could hope for 😛
Should have expected it, I guess. Dark Souls 2 is full of such bastardry. Gone are the good old days where we could wax lyrical on the fairness of Dark Souls. 😛
Once I got over the shock, I kind of thought it was a cool challenge, and definitely in the spirit of progressing to NG+.
In some ways, I almost wish that back one hadn’t followed me off the cliff, because I want to try it again, try some different tactics, see if anything works. Was never really angry about it.
If I ever bonfire ascetic or NG+ that place I’m going to attempt run away to open the skellington shortcut before they kill me so I never have to deal with them again. I hate those guys even at the best of times. 😀
If you bonfire ascetic, the shortcut should stay open. Stupid me never opened it in my first playthrough though 😛
Fun story to get your day going
http://torontosun.com/2014/04/25/driver-that-struck-teen-suing-dead-boys-family
PS: slow TAY is slow.
Freeze I think we need to have a talk about the kinds of “fun” you’re having.
When I got to the end of the article, there’s an offhand comment that the family is also suing the driver. It’s not really clear who busted out the lawyers first.
Not sure what’s wrong with them doing that even if it was first.
It sounds like a counterclaim to make them drop their lawsuit. There were no police charges on the driver so to me that would indicate a lack of fault. The article is very one sided, when it looks to me like both sides are deploying ridiculous levels of lawyering at 50 paces.
Probably the most disturbing part after the whole ‘having the gall to sue a child you killed’ is that practically no investigation was conducted. No breathalyzer taken – which should be fucking routine after any kind of accident let alone one causing hospitalization and DEATH – because… I dunno. She’s a reputable character, being the wife of a cop?
That just reeks of inappropriate conduct. ‘Lack of charges’ seems less like lack of fault and more like gross corruption.
Unfortunately further information I could gleam came from diving into the comments… There’s definitely the possibility of it being that way, or it could all be clear cut and just lawyers being lawyers. Not enough facts, too much telling the reader which side they should be on. Reminds me of the courier mail, could be a similar standard of newspaper.
Doesn’t matter the reason or how it’s spun, suing the family of a kid you killed is a dick move.
I thought going over the speed limit was automatic grounds for reckless driving, maybe even vehicular manslaughter. I’m no lawyer, but if the info in the article is complete and correct (haha), then there’s something pretty screwy going on here.
Not only that, but I’m pretty sure speeding in wet weather in poor visibility (1:30am) is kind of textbook reckless driving, which would totally fuck you up in a manslaughter case, especially if you’d been reported to be driving home from a bar at 1:30am and no breathalyzer test was taken because your spouse is a cop.
Well. In Australia it would. Maybe that’s just how they play things in Canada.
Well Canada does have a tendency to do things differently, rob ford is still mayor of Toronto for example…
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Third attempt to post the comment…
EDIT: Wasn’t worth it.
Righto then, a Tuesday Morning Question: How would you adapt your favourite TV series to a game? Who would make it, what style? Go!
Firefly.
The game would be a cross between Mass Effect’s RPG/ground-combat and Privateer/Star Citizen’s space-trading/smuggling.
Made by a revamped Bioware riding high on the success of the 4th Dragon Age game. Only possible after EA acquires Chris Roberts’ team following the failure of Star Citizen, and buys out the Firefly IP from Fox.
*Screen broken due to money being thrown*
Not sure I would. Most TV shows wouldn’t translate all that well outside of a Telltale style adventure game.
If pressed I’d guess that Supernatural would be the likely.
Supernatural as a ghost story / arkham horror style board game could work
Either Sons of Anarchy or Burn Notice… Rockstar would have to do them imo, and they’d have to be an open world GTA-esque style game. That’s how I think they’d work best. And especially since Rockstar has experience with California & Miami scenery when it comes to games, so that’s a plus.
Burn notice would be cool, though Westen is more of a guile Hero than action hero
That is a good point.
Burn Notice
Hitman / Dishonored style sandbox puzzler with complete (best outcome) non lethal options.
No idea who could successfully do that properly, maybe Arkane studios but with oversight from some key Rockstar people for getting characters / settings right.
His fighting style, now you point it out & I think about being mostly non lethal is an interesting factor. Also as Red pointed out he’s a hero who’s motived politically & likes to manipulate his target, which made him a great spy I dare say.
I really would love to see a prequel to Burn Notice about Michael, his days with Larry mostly, they sounded very interesting.
Actually, a “big, limited area” with multiple ways to reach the objective a la dishonored would be a great take on Burn Notice.
CHRIST THE POSTING TOO MUCH ERROR NEEDS TO FUCKING DIE. I JUST WANT TO TALK TO PEOPLE IN A CONVERSATIONAL MANNER FFS
Haven’t played Dishonoured (I think I have it though) but that sounds amazing. Having a few different ways to complete or fail the objective would be cool too.
Stargate, though sadly I think Universe would make a better game if you cut out every character in that awful show’s existence. SG-1 and Atlantis would both be kinda off, even for FPS style.
This game would be FTL-style, but you would also require to go down to planets to get supplies to keep your ship going, your crew both fed and well taken care of in terms of well being. It would be very rogue-light where the star systems are randomly generated and unknown dangers from outside and potentially within. The focus is more on sending expeditions through the gate to the planets in the ship’s range per jump and seeing what you can find that will benefit the ship (Maybe a power source) or the crew (fresh fruits to improve the crew’s morale). It’s less about upgrading your ship and more about your crew, and seeing how far you and your crew can go before you finally cop it.
SG1 as a squad based FPS in the vein of ghost recon could work. Throw in an improved version of teh star wars commando command system. Each mission is fairly self contained, go through gate, reach world X and proceed with objective A
Or XCOM: Goa’uld Unknown 😛
Maybe, but I kinda see it as spur of the moment, oh shit do something, rather than a highly tactical and strategic concept
ooohhhhhhh or as a 4 player co-op campaign, you and your friends controlling an SG team.
Six Feet Under would make a terrible game, so I think I’d just take the money and run.
Funeral Home Manager 2014
Play as Kroehner or the Fishers in
head-to-headdead-to-dead battles with your friends!Buy extra “Cadaver Credits” to speed up the production of your Coffins!
Offer lucrative contracts to rival embalmers to make their skills yours!
But beware of annoying your existing employees with pay disparity…
So I bought some clothes from Dickies in the US last night for 2 pairs of shorts, 2 pairs of jeans, 2 shirts & extremely warm winter jacket it cost me 120 bucks.. Had to go through one of them fancy pants shipping companies since Dickies US don’t ship internationally. But damn I priced how much it would cost me here to buy the same stuff and it was a little over 500 bucks :S
Really loving Archer, up to the finale of season 4 atm. I love Krieger & Carol (or is it Cheryl?) they’re just awesome, I wish they had more lines in the show, especially Krieger he’s just all kinds of awesome.
Gonna have to watch Frisky Dingo when i’m done with Archer.
If you’ve already seen it, that’s cool, but just be warned that Frisky Dingo is not as good as Archer. Similar, just… lacks some of that chemistry.
And yes. Krieger and Carol/Cheryl (she changed her name to whatever Archer was calling her) are fantastic.
Favourite quote:
“Jesus Krieger, are you still recording hobo death-matches?”
“Oh no, no. Now I’m into something… darker.”
Kristal. It’s what black men like to drink.
He’s just full of so much sass & dark humour.
Yeah I had fried rice with beef and fresh cucumber. Really good.
It’d be nice to get a status update or something about progress fixing up all the problems on the Allure sites. Even if all we got at the moment was a ‘we’re still working on it’.
I hear they’ve tried several times but were always told they’re posting too fast
@popdart5: I ended up ordering copies of the Pathfinder core rulebook and GM guide from Book
SuppositoryDespository for about $90 which is a good deal cheaper than buying locally. Did some digging around and apparently their GM guide is excellent and filled with generally good advice that’s applicable to everything and not just Pathfinder which sounds useful.Have you got paper copies of any of the other core books (Advanced Player’s Guide, Ultimate Campaign etc?) and if so would you recommend picking them up in print? It looked like the bulk of their content is the class / race / gear info which is available online for free so I’m thinking probably not worth it?
Ah heh heh. I own a lot of the Paizo published main books including Bestiaries 1, 2, and 3, the entire Ultimate set aside from Campaign (that’s Magic, Combat, Equipment), a GM Screen, Core Rulebook, Gamemastery Guide, and Advanced Player’s Guide. I concur that the GM guide is pretty darn good particularly with some rather nice tidbits on generic NPCs, building and mapping dungeons, and fleshing out environments and cities. Ultimate Campaign does that as well but on a much larger scale (think kingdom and empire sizes) and I’ve looked at it but don’t really think it’s worthwhile for the way I play/GM Pathfinder. I don’t have Mythic Adventures either as that’s a very specific style of campaign that I’m curious about but haven’t got around to looking at the mechanics. I don’t have Advanced Race Guide as that’s mostly online as well. For the most part, what you can find online for free is pretty good to get the gist (and in some cases most of the content) of what’s in the book.
The main reason I got a lot of the books is because I like offering everyone choices and options in how to create and play characters. By saying that all of the core books are open allows for some rather unusual character development paths and particularly feat selection. Ultimate Combat is handy if you want to try some alternative rulesets (the firearms rules and the vehicle combat is fun as heck) and Ultimate Magic has some more magic variations like rituals, spell duels, and magical phenomena. Advanced Player’s Guide brings in a bunch of character classes which are nice but they also bring in traits which I personally don’t like because they feel a bit gimicky.
I would say that of all the books that are most useful as a GM, Ultimate Equipment is the best choice. It provides basically an index for all of the different equipment brought in across all of the Ultimate books as well as a list of all of the magic items that have been introduced. What I found most useful was the loot generation tables which I don’t think are available online. These tables provide so much more flair to finding loot than just saying it’s a chest of gold and gems. Now you can actually say what gems specifically and you can roll randomly for magic items as well. I would recommend that book before anything else but check it out and see if it’s worthwhile for you.
The note I’d make about RPGs is this: If you’re playing with first-time players and as a first time GM, KISS principle applies.
Or as the politically correct would say, just KIS.
Keep It Sexy.
Yeah, I’m thinking limit to core classes and races is fine for first go for example.
Yeah. My other suggestion for inexperienced roleplayers is to keep it tropey, and get each of your players to pick an actor/character as a starting point- makes it easier for people if they can go “my guy looks like Steve Buscemi”
Rolled a 3 for Charisma? 😛
Buscemi has all of his points in Charisma, it’s what his career is based on.
Well, and Skill: Firefighting.
Having major problems with Vodafone. Paid $200 for the bill owing.They reverse the charge and say we now owe $400 as they don’t want to accept BPay any more from us, only credit card. Then they cut off our service.Try to talk to a supervisor as all we’re getting is poorly spoken bullshit but Vodafone only let you escalate if your on their premium “Red” plan.
Utter utter bullshit.
Telecommunications ombudsman.
Out contracts are up in 14 days so just gonna pay what was agreed upon, ignore the bullshit and go somewhere else. Our ISP has mobile plans for unlimited calls and text with 2.5Gb of data for $45 per month and we’ve never had an issue with them for going on 6 years. Plus they can offer 4G in our area. Only negative is they don’t offer phones. Need to get your own.
Red’s right mate, not allowing an escalation is a flat out load of shit. It’s outright refusal of customer service and I’m damned sure that’s against the TIO regs, even if you’re leaving them, lodge a complaint so other people don’t have to deal with the same shit
Nexus devices, yeeee.
I would lodge a dispute, get the reference number (insist on one and request an employee identifier if refused one), then contact the TIO.
Even if they’re technically covered (and probably are), the attention of the TIO will send them bending over backwards to offer solutions and/or credits. It’s worth it.
What kind of company doesn’t let you escalate? That’s insane.
Even weirder, the terms and conditions on other countries’ Vodafone pages specifically state that escalation is possible, you just have to ask for it.
Advise you check yours: http://www.vodafone.com.au/aboutvodafone/legal/standardformsofagreement
You can as long as you pay a premium each month. There’s another premium on top of that that let’s you talk to an Australian call center.
Vodafone is a terrible terrible company.
How can that possibly be legal?
What does your contract with them say? http://www.vodafone.com.au/aboutvodafone/legal/standardformsofagreement
Edit: nvm, just saw 14 days bit. Easier to just let it slide.
that is really shit, I hope I never have to deal with their crap. I was with 3 but Vodafone took over so now I’m with them too.
That’s what happened to us. Bills soared almost triple after being told the plan was the same too. Fuck Vodafone.
f*&% that, how can they even…..
I’ve been lucky in that my plan has stayed the same. I hope things get worked out for you, what jerks.
That’s well beyond dodgy. I didn’t know Vodafone had fallen that far.
2nd attempt
I think they’ve fed you a line of bollocks so you’ll just pay up.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/08/vodafone-red-plans-everything-you-need-to-know/
Nope. Just that dodgy.
Priority is fine (well, no its not but not illegal), not letting you talk to a supervisor is crossing the line, I’m certain of that
Oh man, there’s an article asking questions about spoilers at a time when spoilertags are broken. I’m so not clicking that!
It does make me wonder if they even know exactly how broken commenting is at the moment. Has anyone actually reported the issues using that button thingy or just complained about it on here? I know I haven’t because I foolishy just assumed others had done so. I just don’t understand how an article like that could be submitted if it was known that the tags aren’t working.
Maybe that button is broken too…
The article and comments have been pretty safe so far, just a discussion about etiquette around spoilers, not any spoilers themselves. At least one comment wondering if the broken spoiler button was done just for the article.
There’s no spoilers, just best avoid it anyway..
So, I’m going to be in Sydney from the 8th to the 12th of May. The only problem is I’m not sure if I’ll have the time for a meat.
As we’re driving from Melbourne to Sydney on the 8th, I may be too tired to do anything that night. Friday’s out as I have a wedding to go to that day.
Saturday night may be feasible, but I think we’re planning on doing something as a family that day as my sister is over and the Sunday is Mother’s Day.
Sunday night is also feasible, but it would have to be after the Dragons-Bulldogs NRL game, as I’m going to it. I think we’re planning on heading back to Melbourne on the Monday afternoon, so I doubt I’ll be able to do anything on Monday.
Any thoughts?
Best way to plan something like this is to decide what time is best for you, then tell us it!
TV show watching update – finished Season 3 of (new) Doctor Who on the weekend.
I found this season to be vastly better than the previous one. Immediately started watching season 4. (In contrast, after slogging through the second half of season two, had no desire to watch any more for a while)
Martha’s my favourite companion whose name isn’t Rory, and I really like the Martha year.
Season 4 has a lot of the best episodes of new Who, but I dislike it overall though my vitriolic dislike of Donna.
I had a vitriolic dislike of Catherine Tate, but I liked Donna.
Donna was great in certain episodes! Like that one where she barely appeared.
(But seriously, I liked Donna too. And Midnight is one of my favourite episodes)
Midnight is one of the best episodes, so minimal and its really amazing how they can make that much fear from nothing. Great acting.
Davies best work.
Spoiled for Beavwa’s sake: Jung’f fb pyrire nobhg gung rc vf vg gheaf rirelguvat gung hfhnyyl znxrf gur qbpgbe fgnaq bhg- ur gnxrf punetr, ur’f gur fznegrfg thl va gur ebbz, ur’f zlfgrevbhf- naq gheaf vg ntnvafg uvz.
I especially love the final three lines.
Gur Qbpgbe: Zbygb orar.
Qbaan: Zbygb orar.
Gur Qbpgbe: Ab, qba’g qb gung. Qba’g…. Qba’g.
Appreciated. Given that we’re halfway through the season, probably won’t be that long until I come back and decode that.
I didn’t know who Tate was until she appeared on Doctor Who.
How I wish I had never learned.
Dont get me started on why she sucks.
i wont ever stop.
Stay well clear of The Catherine Tate show then 😛
It was on after something or other we watched on ABC, so would usually end up on for a bit before someone changed the channel/while waiting for the other channels to stop running late. Ugh.
I like the regular season Donna a lot more than the Christmas Special Donna.
That level of dislike – it gets directed at Martha around these parts. I don’t get it, I liked her a lot more than the previous one. I expected to hate Donna from her introduction, but don’t (so far)
Martha was supposed to be a med student but she was always too stupid for that to be believable, plus her always making moony eyes at the Doctor was really annoying. Her character was just really badly done.
Edit: I hated Rose as well. So damn annoying. Love Donna though. She seems more ‘real’ as a character than the previous two.
Oh. The new York episode. Seemed so much like a dusty ‘insert doctor here’ and ‘insert companion here’ script off the shelf that could have been any of the first 3 seasons.
I agree with every point you raise. I guess less time with Martha made her less annoying than Rose.
Seems like it’s an improvement every time they chop and change so far though, I hope this pattern continues.
3rd post attempt
It basically is! The current assistant is the best.
See, I think Clara is a wonderful companion, but she’s so underutilised by the writers. She’s had like, 3 good moments in an entire season (plus one episode), which is just a waste.
Gotta admit… yeah. 😛 Hopefully she gets better scenes next season.
EDIT: Five attempts to post this. New record!
Martha was rebound girl. Fans of the first two seasons as it aired were really…intense
Donna is my favourite of the first three. I like Rory and Amy a lot too.
Ah. That explains it. Looks like I live with one of those fans.
Plus everybody knows that Martha was the worst assistant.
So I’m thinking of trying to write something for this: http://www.topsecretgames.net/blog/first-ever-two-page-tabletop-competition/
It says you need to provide a setting in those two pages, so my current idea is this- You know Orson Welles’ famous 1937 broadcast of the War of the Worlds? It was real, the aliens came and died quickly. Now we have just started to have access to tripod technology, we know we’re not alone, and war in Europe is imminent…
What do people think of that as a hook?
That is a fantastic radio broadcast
I like the hook but was there really that much tripod technology. I guess you can just make it all up. Besides the tripods, the death ray and the red moss stuff there wasn’t a lot of technology discussed.
What’s the imminent war, assuming we are talking a retconn of WWII.
Any issues with copyright issues if the aim to get get it published?
War of the Worlds is public domain, so i should be good. The script to the broadcast is copyrighted, but I don’t need to refer to that.
Just a random though so figured I would toss it up.
What is the basis of the story. I like the setting or at least the potential of it. But right now it is just 1930s England (Europe?) with potentially some additional tech. Whop am I and what am i doing. Can I be a butcher drafted into infantry service or the RAF ace. Is the war not a big part of the story and I’m the sly thief or a parisian playboy.
I guess from what I have there I don’t really know what sort of game I would be getting into.
The aim is to head into Hellboyish pulpy pre-atomic science- Nazi crazies, black market technology, Saboteurs using mind-control. Haven’t got to character jobs yet, but I know that you’ll have a die of a certain size in 4 categories- Moxie, Grunt, Smarts, and Hoodoo, which will be your stats.
Have you worked out what the basis of the party is. Is it that you are agents of a hellboyish BPRD with an alien tilt rather than paranormal. From what you are reading I am not so worried about exactly who my character is but would want some more idea about the start and what they are doing. That lets me start imagining the different sorts of characters I could play which is what can really get me hooked on a world or concept
Your character might be
– An agent of the FBI newly re-assigned to an alien activities division
– A working class joe who was at ground zero for the tripod attacks
– A Frontline reporter who covered the invasion first hand, and is now a correspondent for the rapidly changing European political situation
– A scientist dead set on using Tripod technology for your own purposes, nefarious or otherwise
FBI newly re-assigned would be a good character however if its set in Europe might I suggest either CIA or MI7?
Also working class joe I want to know this mans backstory!
@coldcamv given I’m going off the welles broadcast, America can be part of the setting. Also, CIA isn’t a thing in 1937!
But this is a pre atomic quasi state where history has changed and morphed so why couldn’t the ground work of the CIA be in place for this exact reason Central Intelligence of Alien life – CIA or CIAL – like it’s an occult thing.
War of the Worlds itself was published in 1897 so should be public domain. Referencing the broadcast itself is factual (i.e. the broadcast happened, the public reaction happened) rather than using the broadcast itself so copyright shouldn’t apply.
H.G. Wells was an incredibly important science fiction author specifically because he approached his writing from a scientific perspective. He was a trained biologist and a science teacher, and he would always be reading the latest science and technology news, incorporating them into his works. You’re talking about a guy who read the first publications on the nuclear decay of Radium and then wrote a book about nuclear bombs.
If there’s not a lot of technology explicitly referenced in War of the Worlds, it’s because he wrote it in 1897. Also, technology wasn’t the real thing he was writing about in the book – he was trying to explain Darwinism and Natural Selection. There’s two very concrete examples, the Martian Red Weed that spreads over England (compare to the introduction of Kudzu to the US) and obviously the fact that the martians are set up as being a dominant species over the earth, only to be wiped out by bacteria that they had no immunity to.
So an actual post-War of the Worlds setting? The Red Weed is spreading across the countryside, maybe causing huge ecological problems? People are fighting over the remaining un-weeded places?
Perhaps a few isolated groups of Martians have managed to avoid contamination or have developed immunity?
You could incorporate some of Wells other works into it as well. He predicted nuclear weapons for example, after reading publications about Rutherford’s splitting of the atom and the radioactive decay of Radium. In his case the book he wrote involved a device which caused radium to decay completely in a few seconds instead of over hundreds of thousands of years, causing massive energy release.
I think the response to red weed would be to Agent Orange it, so probably some large areas defoliated and constant containment
I’m not going for post-apocalyptic
So Martians did land and panic everyone, then died off thanks to the 30s equivalent of swine flu leaving their tech for the americans to scavenge? Sounds like it has a good bridge between contemporary and retro with enough sci-fi thrown in to keep it fresh.
Questions I’d suggest you consider:
America in the 30s wasn’t as imperialistic as they are nowdays but does having access to advanced tech change that?
Is the tech used as is and non-replicable (ie: humans driving the only tripods they scavenged which are lost forever when destroyed) or have they successfully reverse engineered the tech and are fitting death rays on warships?
Did the Martians have any personal weapons/armour or will human characters be jumping out of a Martian war machine while holding a STEN or Thompson SMG and basic combat fatigues?
Did the Martians land anywhere else giving other powers access to the tech?
Were there any strains of the red weed that persisted beyond the death of the Martians and is it useful, hazardous or a mix of both (like Tiberium)?
Overall, good idea though.
My thoughts is the martians landed everywhere, and they have slowly begun to reverse engineer it. There’s been a general military buildup focused on space and how can countries retaliate. Some of the tech has been stolen, and there was enough of it that it’s not inconceivable for weird artefacts to end up in private hands through the black market/ mobsters.
The red weed is generally controlled and exterminated on sight, but there were some losses- Scotland is nearly entirely defoliated, and the Sahara is mostly red.
What I’d like to do is give just enough so that a GM who picked this up could tilt it however they preferred.
Just have to say, damn that is a tricky proposition to create a tabletop. I am curious to see what comes out of it though.
It’s an interesting premise but can you pitch a few scenarios for groups to play through?
Sure
– Mysterious reports out of the docks have stirred reports that some of the dockworkers are being mind-controlled into sabotaging ships bound for Britain
– Deep within an area believed lost to the red weed, the military has received a mysterious radio signal claiming that martians are still alive
– A mob controlled warehouse in Chicago was found blasted to pieces by a heat ray- has one of the rival Capos got his hands on a death ray?
hmm, had a falling out with another friend of about 15 years, completely their fault & decision. I’m already a hermit and this crap isn’t helping 😛
Some things happen for a reason – perhaps things are for the better?
Anyway – alcohol and games time!
it’s always games time 😀
If it’s their fault/decision. Let them have it.
You don’t need it. Stay with us rather sociable hermits on here
We can get you a nice cave right next to @dc
I’d like a Chuck Norris style bunker, no one gets in or out.
Hermits prefer their caves and minefields miles apart!
There’s a meat on Saturday. LET US BE YOUR NEW FRIENDS.
Also, sorry ’bout that man. That ain’t good. 🙁
Powalen’s Client Relations! *jingle*
Some people seem to have trouble differentiating between us, the people who provide support for their website, and some generic tech support company.
I don’t know how to set up your printer!
hey can you help me with my fax machine.
Hey, can you help me understand why @gutsoup still has a fax machine?
It’s retarded, heaps of companies will only accept certain documents via fax, no idea why, It’s next to the telegraph, near where we keep the horses for the pony express.
The hilarious part is the vast majority of them receive the fax as an email. But emails aren’t acceptable.
I hope you told them to put the printer in front of the monitor so the computer could see it.
My favourite one I get asked when I tell people where I work.
“Hey, do you know *person X*? S/he works in your office.”
Yeah hold on, let me just double check and find that one person in a department of 20,000 people. Oh they work in this building? That narrows it down to about 1,000. Oh they used to work here a few years ago? Do I look like freaking HR?!
I actually had to explain to a customer how resetting a linux root password via recovery boot process doesn’t somehow delete all of their databases after they accused us of deleting it all. They left an easy password on their server and they didn’t think even once that maybe.. just maybe they got hacked…
I had a good one today, went into a retail store to service half a dozen computers, had to reboot the managers PC, and got to the windows log in screen. Didn’t have the password, so went to track her down…
“What’s the password for your windows account?”
“Oh, it’s just P…”
“Yep”
“A…”
“Yep” *sense of foreboding building*
“S…”
*headdesk*
I walk into other stores like Kmart, Coles or even Bunnings and people start asking me where things are.
I’ve had that a few times. 😛
I had that a while back, granted I had previously worked at that store, but at the time I was asked I hadn’t for over two years, and the store had undergone a refurbishment since then.
It usually made me wonder if I have to change my wardrobe. 😛
Solar Eclipse starts in about half an hour FYI. I’ve been told not to directly stare in to the sun so I’m hoping that taking photos with my smartphone pointing in the sun’s general direction wields some pretty pictured results.
blacken a bottle with fire then look through it, works sorta ok.
So in reality the dim, cloudy day will get darker for a few minutes here. Ah well.
Yeah but with a cool crescent sun!
Sun?
Uh.. praise the?
*looks outside and sees nothing but rain*
I’m going to miss it entirely :'(
I’m taking four pictures over an hour and a half. If any are good, I’ll post and link them here and we can all share the moment together!
https://twitter.com/CannonFodderJnr/status/461025471522545664
Man this pill is making me feel weird. Took one just before dinner last night. I fell asleep over dinner and my wife had to drag me to bed. Could barely get up in the morning and I’ve been incredibly blunt with customers today. Even told one who said I was charging too much to change a battery that she wasn’t doing because she had no clue how and she was devaluing my expertise just to be a tight arse. Which is very much not like me in person. Not sure if medication or side effect from the drowsiness.
I found the drowsiness didn’t hit until week two, I had insomnia for first week. D:
Everything should level out though.
He sounds like a new man already! 😀 Uh..
And so began his life of supervillainy 😛
He gave me these ones because of the drowsy effect they have to counteract the insomnia. They’re a little too effective.
It does take a while for the brain to adapt to a different chemical layout, it sort of makes you all weird but then when you level out it’s better than it was. Normally anyway, if they’re the right meds for your brain. That’s why it’s good to keep a record of these things so you can show the doctor when you go back
Agreed. 1st tablets I took were brilliant, for about two weeks.
Then I started getting anxious and shaking a lot.
2nd tablets I took were crap for about two to three weeks.
Then I had…well, let’s leave it at “an episode” and walk away from talking anymore about that.
3rd tablets? Felt like crap for a month. Slept all the time.
Then…click. Woke up one morning a new person. Just brilliant. Still on those tablets.
Give it time, Freeze but do document everything and don’t be afraid to go back if they are still having dodgy side effects in a couple of days.
5th time trying to post…
Yeah I’m not sure if my 3rd set are working by themselves or working in concert with the amphetamines but they’ve kept my brain relatively stable for a good 3 weeks straight now.
I kind of miss the extreme peaks (I still have them, just not quite as sharp) but I sure as fuck don’t miss the troughs one bit.
My tablets made me anxious for the first 2 weeks. See how it goes. Tell your doctor about the side effects though. Remember that things like depression is part chemical inbalance.
K’s been on a constantly changing rotation of conflicting/gradually-tolerated meds the last couple years. ‘Trying to think through a fog’, zombification, lack of enthusiasm or any other really strong emotions at all, lethargy, irritability, paranoia, intentionally picking fights, anxiety, deep, deep remorse and self-loathing, all different side effects turned up. Some good. (Like… really good.) Most bad. Some neutral. That’s the sweet spot.
I wouldn’t expect quite as dramatic a shift as that, though… a brain tumor embedded in the pituitary is a very, very, very different kettle of fish to a normal brain with some minor imbalances.
I’m taking pills occasionally ATM. Idk what they are and I got them from a dude up a ladder on the streets of Hong Kong. But they remind me of Dr Mario so they must be ok.
Hey, if you don’t mind me asking, what was the whole process like getting on the medication?
Did you just go to your GP or did you need to see a phyc? Was it sorta a big deal and need to spill your life story or more “righto, take these pills and talk to me if you need to.”?
More the latter. Went to the GP, told him I haven’t been feeling good and he ran through a few questions, gave me a script and organised some counselling sessions on Medicare for free.
Fair enough. Was the counselling sessions a requirement or something you chose to do?
Asked me if I thought they would help or not. I said I didn’t know and he just said to go to one or two and see if I thought it was going to help me.
Thanks man.
oh man these phishing scams make me laugh!
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also goodf to see the Microsoft Privacy team using the oppositions email servers @gmail.
Why pay for the bandwidth on your servers when you can use the competitions for free?
Edit: cause I answered my own question. So how about that local sportsball team then.
@beeawwb – did you get the delivery yet? its scheduled for today according to aust post!
@beeawwb
@beeawwb
You ra…
Never mind.
Don’t make me go changing my gravatar back. I still have it saved. 😛
@beeawwb
lol its a @beeawwb chain!
@beeawwb !
I’ll be back at work tomorrow, will let you know. 🙂
Freya and I are going to be in Sydney from Thursday evening until Sunday afternoon.
I need things to do. @gingerchris86 is conveniently aging, so that sorts out one chunk of time. The rest of the weekend so far can be summed up as: buy things. Anyone want to meet up at Kino on Saturday afternoon, maybe do some things somewhere?
Isn’t @blaghman having a dinner on Friday night?
@ontargett is around too I think.
I have no idea what’s going on. It’s a bit hard to keep up with things at the moment.
I don’t have a plan, particularly. I just figured that since I was in Sydney we should do something.
And Ontargett’s the week after.
I see how it is. CJ is gone let’s go back and have fun without him.
My solar eclipse photos are crap.
I think they’re stellar.
My bastard of a best friend just dropped in a slightly late birthday present. He’s only gone and bought me some Sennheiser PC360 headphones, some of the best you can get as well as being bloody expensive.
I need to plot elaborate revenge now.
I can’t afford fancy things, so I just make cakes
He’s really not that much of a cake kind of guy, just one more way he’s deliberately inconvenient. We had some on the weekend but he only had half a slice.
I might have to buy a lotto ticket and if I win, buy him the house next door, if nothing else it’d be convenient for me.
A cake isn’t fancy since when???
nothing like a personalized cake on your birthday, my Mum used to bake the best ones for my birthday (tasty, not fancy looking like yours) but she’s moved 900klms away late last year so I had my first birthday with no cake last year. I’ll have to make myself one this year but it’ll never be as good.
Ugh! What the…
I uninstalled the Trials Fusion Beta earlier and then went to play the main game but it wouldn’t launch. An error message popped up saying something about the game not being installed properly. I go to the install folder and it’s missing :/. I assume deleting the Beta had something to do with it but it shouldn’t since both were completely separate downloads and appeared as two different games in Uplay.
Anyone else experience anything similar? Just a warning if you plan on deleting the beta…
Hopefully my saves and times are fine (can someone please confirm if my times are still showing?), but if not then I’m done with the game. Lame…
Who’s buying tickets to see the original Star Wars trilogy at Hoyts on May 4th?
THIS GUY.
Life-long dream to see the trilogy on the big screen.
I would be all over that if it was the Indiana Jones trilogy. 😛
Quadrilogy? 😛
NO. >:(
Really want to. If no one will come thinking of going by myself.
I’m going by myself. It may be the hermit in me, but I maintain it’s the best way to see movies.
Says that on an internet site full of gaming & pop culture enthusiasts, I am sure you’re on your own there 😛
The original trilogy or the “Han Shoots Second” remastered trilogy?
Honestly, I don’t care that much. I’d prefer the original originals, but it’s probably not going to be them.
I considered doing it too, but then I realized they’d be showing the fucking ruined special edition with all the bad late-90s CG, stupid edits and cuts and terrible changes to the dynamic range of the film that changes colors to make Vader’s lightsaber bright pink in Cloud City and stuff.
If they were showing the early 90s THX remaster with all the original effects and everything I’d be there the previous day to queue up. 🙁
hmm, I should look into that, that’s me and my girlfriend’s 12 Year anniversary (sorta we aren’t married) and we’re both pretty big fans, one of our first dates was Episode 2 at the movies :D.
Anyone keen on Penny Dreadful? Looks interesting and kind of fun.
Full time employees, I have a question.
Do you get paid for public holidays? Fro what I understand full time (or part time, just not casual ’cause they don’t get holiday pay) should be paid for public holidays if they don’t work them because it’s a holiday, not a don’t bother going to work day. That’s why you get paid double time and a half if you work it because you are coming in on your holiday.
My work is refusing to pay it. I looked it up in the award and, I may me reading it wrong but, I’m confident they are supposed to.
I think it depends if it’s a day you’re usually rostered on or not? Maybe?
This is where it gets really confusing and why I’ve not brought it up before because I heard something like this. My roster is all over the place and whilst it generally follows a loose pattern I can (and often am) work any day and any time.
From what I understand of the award now I’ve had a read of it there are two types of full time shift workers. 5 day or 7 day shift worker. This is determined by weather or not a person is likely to work on a weekend during a roster cycle or not. I work at least 1 weekend in every two week cycle. So I figure that means I’m a 7 day shift worker which from my reading of the award I think means I’m supposed to be paid for any public holidays that I don’t work. 5 day shift workers would only get paid for public holidays that fall on week days.
From what I understand, you are reading it correctly. If you regularly work ordinary hours on a weekend (I think 13 or more weekends in a 52 week period is the threshold, but entirely unsure on that), I’m relatively sure you’re considered a 7-day shift worker.
Yup, you are supposed to get paid for it if it is a day you would normally work.
Check your industry award (and/or any contracts or agreements you may have entered into) to be sure, though the general rule is yes, full-time employment consists of paid public holidays, or double-time and one half (this again varies, I believe) if worked.
If you’ve brought the issue up with your employer and they’re being problematic, and you’re all clear in terms of award and/or contractual agreements, definitely give the ombudsman a call.
Oftentimes even mentioning the ombudsman will see a change, let alone getting them involved.
Thank you, I think I will have to get the ombudsman involved because I think it’s been brought up by someone else before and they basically just kept telling them they were waiting to hear back from someone until the person forgot about it. I’m going to have another read of the award tonight though to make sure I’m not miss interpenetrating it.
I think it will depend a lot on the individual situation. I’m a ‘full time’ employee but I’m salaried. And yes, paid for all public holidays.
You should be paid for public holidays.
Best thing you can do is call fair work australia. One of our tech’s had a TOIL day which fell on a public holiday, and they weren’t going to move it for him, but turns out they have to. There may be a clause in your contract that works around it, but it’s a tricky one. Best bet would be to check. That’s why places like that exist!
Just to add more about the contract bit, there are situations where you wont get penalty rates for public holidays. My dad for instance. He’s a truck driver atm, and he gets a higher hourly rate than other drivers for everyday work, but due to that, he doesn’t get penalty rates on public holidays. Which is fine, because he’s compensated for it by the extra he makes on normal days, but as @negativezero said, it’ll really depend on your specific situation, and what’s in the paperwork you signed when you took up the position. Under most standard awards, you have to be paid normal rates to not work, or penalty rates if you do.
I actually ran into that TOIL thing when I was looking into my issue and my awards says the same thing, they have to move it if it falls on a public holiday.
Tons of advice already… but I feel some is missed.
‘Full time‘ means squat. The technical term is full-time equivalent (FTE), and all that means is that over a certain time period (probably a calendar week, could not be) you work the number of hours that is considered full-time – i.e. 38hrs per week.
Next comes how those hours are arranged. If you’re on a roster, things get complicated as your employer can probably change your roster on-the-fly with maybe 48-24hrs notice. Therefore, they could have just scheduled no-one to work the public holiday. However technically worded, your award will have to define this somewhere, which is where Ombudsman or a helpline is a good call.
A ‘salary’ person who gets $xx/p.a. as defined by their contract usually works a pre-defined number of hours every week. They do have an hourly rate, which is calculated from hours worked and annual income, and it’s used to pay overtime and sick leave etc. A salary person with a defined work week does get paid public holidays.
It seems to me that you’re a ‘full time’ person with a contract for >35hrs per week, wage set at an hourly rate, working a roster. Refer to my 3rd paragraph, on why this can be messy. Pretty sure I got public holidays when I worked FTE at Woolwoorths, if that makes any difference.
aaargh!!!!11111!!!!one
I just accidentally negotiated peace against my enemy in Civ 5 Elder Scrolls mod.
I was beating the crap out of him, and he knew it. I negotiated peace as a joke. I offered to spare him if he gave me 7000 gold. He had been poor the whole game, and I assumed he only had 100 gold to his name. He accepted the offer! Where’d he get the money? I assume I must have offered him the gold, rather than demanded it from him, seeing as how the game said he had 13,000 gold after the negotiation.
70 minutes of progress gone. Damn Argonians.
Well if Hitler had gone up to Churchill during the battle of Britain and said “Please stop being attacked by me, I’ll give you a shitload of money!”, Winston would probably have said yes.
I dunno.. Winston had a secret weapon that I don’t think Hitler knew about! Dr Who! TV Told me! It can’t be a lie!
BOARD GAME PEOPLES!
I’m normally not one for Kickstarter, especially as a pre-order service. Except Gingerchris pointed me in the direction of this Among the Stars kickstarter.
Among the Stars is a card drafting/civ building game that I heard of a little while back and then forgot the name of. It looks like a cross between 7 Wonders and Suburbia. So in terms of ticking all of the right boxes to get my interest, the only thing this game does wrong is have square cards.
Unless I can find the game for <$60, getting it and all of the new content for $120 seems pretty damned rad to me.
I'm conflicted. On one hand, BOARD GAMES! On the other hand, Kickstarter.
I dropped >$1000 on board game kickstarters last month (backed one for a friend and myself both at a high addon tier).
This looks pretty cool though. Proper drafting games are rare, especially ones that are actually also good. Probably will pass though, wait and get it normally.
The base game has been out for a while and is well reviewed. You can go pick it up whenever you please (although it’s probably between print runs).
The kickstarter is for the expansion content and it just happens to be good value.
Aww, my poor wallet…
I’d apologise, But BOARD GAMES!!! \o/
Looks pretty cool. I won’t personally pick it up but I wouldn’t be averse to playing it if somebody else did. :p
So we had a house inspection scheduled for yesterday, but we completely forgot and got it moved to Friday. Between rescheduling (yesterday) and now, 2 of the door handles have broken (including the front door. Can’t get in or out!), and the kitchen tap’s started leaking.
We’re doing well.
Yu… YOLO?
http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=QC-YOLO&Category_Code=QC
Link either takin too long or sites banned in china.
A MultiTAYer was conducted on Monday. Fun times were had.
Coach looks low on health, and it would be cruel to let him suffer. We did the only logical thing. We all emerged with a greater sense of team spirit and improved teamwork skills. We learned the true power of friendship.
Through the magic of Nvidia Shadowplay, we may look upon this video as a guide.
Left 4 Dead 2 – Teamwork Time with Coach
@scree @lucifer9783 @rize
But I wasn’t playing D=
You were now!
You were a guest voice actor in the video, then.
I was?
Starting the morning with peaches. 🙂
Nature’s candy in your hand. Or can. Or pie.
I don’t know what that was but it wasn’t the PotUSA I was expecting.
Only have one ep left of Hannibal until I’m caught up. Man, Bryan Fuller makes great TV. 😀
Ugh curse you Melbourne and your dreary rain, I’m meant to be outside building a deck but I just feel in a glump due to this weather, I wanna be wrapped up and warm drinking a hot chocolate not outside getting soaked trying not to hurt myself.
I guess I’m just feeling abit down because tomorrow I’m no longer 22, I hate getting older I look back and go “well what the heck did I do with my year?” Then I remember I spent half of the year coming to terms with cancer (the dark part of the year) and the other half was making heaps of new friends here in TAY and making memories (the bright side of the year) it’s been a crazy year but tomorrow I turn 23 and a few days later it will be 1 year since I was diagnosed.
Happy birthday for tomorrow, my friend. Hope it’s a good one. You’re an excellent addition to TAY as well. Sounds like a tough year though.
It should be going out to dinner with family, it was but everyone here made it easier for me being welcoming and kind and I couldn’t be happier.
Dude, how long, why didn’t you tell us? Maybe you did and I just missed it.
Getting older isn’t a bad thing though. You get wiser!
It was honestly one of the first things I ever brought up on here haha. It will be a year cancer free as of the 20th I think, but basically they just said May is a year from when you were diagnosed (it was diagnosed 3 days after my birthday)
I badgered you about it for a solid month until I realized I was probably making you uncomfortable.
…
Sometimes. Late at night. I still feel like badgering you. 😛
Feel so happy for you that you’re doing good, man. 🙂
Badger all you want I have nothing to hide, I’m not sensitive to the situation just a weird feeling knowing it was a year ago is all
Is that what the long people call late night visitations these days. Feeling old again
You’re in remission? Great news! \o/ I will have to make cakes next meat in celebration!
Sorry I missed it all. It’s a pity that it’s marred your birthday in a way, but at least it’s easy to remember. A lot of doctors will ask when you were diagnosed. Happens to Mum every outpatient clinic.
Maybe we should have a meat soon as a late birthday party or something?
It’s not so much remission as being testicular it’s one of the very few cancers that can be cured so at this point it’s as if I never had cancer, but there’s a %20 chance it will come back.
That’s alright haha you know now 🙂
Any reason for a meat is a good reason to meat 🙂
Keep an eye on it anyway. 20% is a small chance, but it’s still a chance. The earlier you get it, the better it is for you.
Yeah I’m not taking any risks so I get monthly blood tests
Any outpatients appointments? Mum has them every 4 months at the moment. That’s just one of the 3 clinics she goes to.
Wait, what?
You had/have cancer!?
Had cancer, testicular, but the doctors say I’m healthy and it’s all gone so that’s good, didn’t even need chemo
Fuck. Yes.
Although I still have to get checks, I have a hate hate relationship with the CT machine, I hate that thing
Good to know they got the bastard, you didn’t have to lose one for it did you? Small price to pay if so.
I’m a mono-baller now, it was the only way they could do it otherwise the risk was too great not to do it
Small price to pay for health, man. You did good.
I don’t remember it, local anesthetic kicks in like crazy!
LOCAL? Not general? You were awake for it?
I get the two confused I was out like a light
Local is just numbing the local area, general knocks out everything
Glad it was that way, get neutered while awake would be horrible, even if you couldn’t feel any pain
Well Hitler only had one ball and he turned out… hmm, perhaps not the best example.
Medically speaking, ease of removal is a distinct gender advantage (and hypothetically you can only be in half as much pain as @Saturday when one of his “friends” says hello). My sister had uterine cancer and it was far too hard to just whip the whole thing out so they tried killing it with chemo but it’s like sand in the carpet, you think you get it all out and then before you know it, the little leftover bits spread to your other organs and kill you.
Sand does do that, doesn’t it?
Ovarian and uterine cancer are horrible. No early detection test makes it awkward to catch.
And missing even a little bit can be pretty devastating. Kind of like the borg, just one can potentially rebuild the entire collective
HEY BIRTHDAY TWINS!!! *high-Fives* Which means May day baby!!!!
The main thing I can say is just try and have a good day.
*big hugs*
*high-five!* first Time I heard someone call me a mayday baby I took it as an insult before learning about May Day now I’m learned haha. That’s the game plan I just wish the weather was better!
23 so oooooooooooold… Man I wish I could be turning 23 again 😛
Child of Light is out tomorrow. I really, really can’t wait to play this. Just sprawl out on the couch and take in the prettiness.
Rayman of LightLet me know how it is.
I’m hoping my local retailer has special editions left tomorrow after work, are you getting physical copy or just going digital?
I think even if you buy physical you get download code so probably digital. 😀
but the Special one is so shiny & pretty & only $30
See, I don’t care about art books for a game I haven’t even experienced yet though. Haha! I’ll probably have regret I didn’t get it afterwards, but whatevs. 😛
don’t have regret, go pick up 2 copies and I’ll pay the difference between the digital and special edition…….. everyone wins 😀
for realz @dc , you should totally get the physical one with art books just cause the game is so pretty.
I am serious though, I’ll pay the difference, @dc (I’m secretly also trying to avoid going to a shop :P)
Woo! I’m keen to play it! Such a pretty game!
SO.DAMN.PRETTY!
I wanna buy it because $30, but I also have massive backlog and PvZ …… :'(
Dark Souls 2 – 25% off voucher \o/
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/action/dark-souls-ii-na/
J4XXU2-JTFTLL-8ENDXZ
‘Dark Souls ii na’ in the link there.
Interesting since our console versions and retail PC versions are locked to EU servers, I wonder if that one is locked to US servers?
i was certain i read somewhere that they would be using global servers…
Global as in other side of the globe?
https://twitter.com/BandaiNamcoAU/status/456612879098056704
I’m still going to wait for a Steam sale, they will hopefully have it cheaper.
Doubt it. It’s $50 on GMG at normal price, and Steam is $21 higher due to Australia tax. Even a 50% off would barely make a difference 😐
Ah Autumn, a time of thinking about lost loves.
I remember one girl, she was only a whiskey maker, but I loved her still.
#dadjokepagesix.
Ah, Page Six.
Thank-you for reminding me I need to go do some work. 😀
Loved her still?
Past and present tense to one subject is hurting my brain.
#idontgetit #ordoI
Still as in “in spite of” not “on a continuing basis”
I thought it was still as in “an apparatus for distilling alcoholic drinks such as whisky.”
Puns are funny because of the intentional ambiguity of a certain word; the subverted expectations create a temporary dissonance in the recipient’s mind, and when resolved, the feeling of relief gives rise to humour. I read once this is similar to how when babies are surprised or see the unexpected, they take a breath to prepare to cry or scream, but on realizing there is no danger, the exhalation comes out as a laugh. So you are correct, but for the joke to function correctly, the alternative also has to be correct enough to allow for a moment of uncertainty.
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Upvoted for extremely long response.
There really needs to be an web standard “Sarcasm” font. :p
Similarly, I was hamming it up for dramatic effect.
*Comedy-five!*
So what I’m getting from this is that the appropriate response to puns start out as screams, and upon realising there’s little/no danger, it devolves into a long groan, right?
I restarted Tales Of Xillia as the boy. Feel way less thrown into the deep end now. I don’t know why people keep complaining about the girl’s voice acting though, the boy’s as bad if not worse.
Edit: It’s funny how the first comment of the day is always the one that takes forever before the ‘Posting Too Fast’ error will let it through. 😛
Jude gets better rapidly. Milla gets worse. They’re both bad. Also the main issue is that the actual recording quality on Milla’s voice is really bad. It’s highly compressed and clipped and very muddy so it often sounds like she has a lisp.
Since we can’t tag, start of the page might be a good time to remind people that there’s a meat on Saturday in Brisbane!
TAKE IT AWAY, STRANGE.
I’ll tag everyone just in case too:
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Page 6, I don’t think we will see @Strange for a while. =P
This meat, man. This meat. Probably the most planned out one in ages and I’m still flailing. XD
I will be there with sausages on.
… My plate.
Everyone’s planning all these meats, while little Ol’Liondrive is just sitting in Perth like, “yep”.
There’s quite a few TAYbies in Perth, but each one is more anti-social than the last. 😛
I used to be in Perth and I was quite anti-social. Except for Settlers of Catan once a month. And sometimes a writing group.
It’s less anti-social, more an unwritten Perth law where every Perth person hates every other Perth person (until you know them that is).
It is, the way of Perth…
At least there ARE other TAYbies in Perth, here in Wagga it’s all rolling tumbleweeds and dust
Stoopid broken stuffs. *grumble grumble*
But yes, Saturday night Meat. Brathaus in the valley. 6/6:30 pm. Eventually Freeze, CUFCFan and I and whoever else wants to attend the Gloryhammer gig (and really, I have no idea who wouldn’t want to have fun! :P) will be moseying on to that.
By the way, Freeze. The Gloryhammer show on the Gold Coast Thursday night is now a free show if you want to attend that too. I’m still not even sure if you wanted to attend any of them, I just bought you a ticket because you confuzzled me. 😀
Thanks Straaaaaange!
Hmmm, The Valley? I will need to think this over.
Think softly and carry a large stick.
No that’s Surfers Paradise and the rest of the Gold Coast you need to apply that tactic too 😛
I prefer hanging out in West End personally. Except for Coffee. Then it’s just up from Brathaus. (Ltd. Espresso)
West End is a’ight. I personally like The Valley cause it has everything I like there. I’m different 😛
Yeah, I used to prefer the Valley because of The Bowery but then Cobbler opened in West End. <3 Cobbler.
Here’s something to help you think: http://brathaus.com.au/menu/ 😀
What’s wrong with the Valley?
Oh wait. Saturday night in the Valley. Well, as long as it’s early it’ll be kinda quiet. Most of the freaks and animals don’t come out to prey until 8:30-9’ish.
What free?! UGH. If only I was free tomorrow night. FML.
The Byron Bay one was free as well. The Gold Coast one was not originally free and we bought tickets. But they said they could refund us in merch so it means we don’t have to allocate money for that anymore and can drink more alcohols. 😛
I saw that, was also busy that evening 🙁 lol
That’s pretty cool, basically you get a free shirt which is awesome!
Ooo I’ll get to meat more Brisbane TAYbies. Moar people to Gloryhammer.
Gotta think about what German delicacy I desire. Last time I had the meatloaf. It was good but not great.
Sidenote – Damn you Kotaku, I am not posting comments too quickly
Awww Saturdayyyyyy!? Got plans, a friend is having me over for dinner :/
Aw, that’s too bad, Sughly. Although after watching Hannibal and hearing friend having you over for dinner I feel compelled to tell you to ruuuuun! 😛
You’ll be missed.
I’m not going to be here :'(
I havent seen a TAYbie in the flesh for like 4 months. im dying inside
But Feb 1 we hung out? I THOUGHT THAT MEANT SOMETHING!
That’s not quite four months. 😛
okay i havent seen a taybie in 2 months
i still am dying
I HAVEN’T SEEN TAYBIES SINCE THE BLAGHMAN MEAT AND I MISS YOU GUYS TOO. :'(
I haven’t seen TAYbies ever. I’m dying in the sense that every second is one second closer to the end.
Lucky!
when was your birthday meat? I haven’t been anywhere since that. Except jimu’s one night but I got drunk and fell asleep early 🙁
January 19. Haha!
damn, that was a while ago.
Are you coming out on Saturday night with us? Pleeeeease?
Come down to Mackay for a weekend – I’m sure I can organise some stuff to do.
Day 2 of THE PILL®™ Pty. Ltd. LLC
Still feel tired/foggy but only a fraction of what I did yesterday. Didn’t stop me falling asleep inside 20 minutes of taking it last night. Probably wouldn’t be so immediate if they weren’t the dissolve on your tongue type. At least I waited until 11:00pm unlike the 7:30pm night before.
I am under the impression it takes a while for your brain chemistry to adjust to the dosage. So just keep on keeping on till it evens out.
HUGS
What type are you on?
Mirtazepine.
Not one I’ve encountered before, it sounds like a pretty strong one (and oddly also used on cats), hopefully it’ll do you some good.
If it feels like it’s getting too strong, grab a pill cutter (basically just a box with a razor blade in it that you close onto a pill to chop it in half) from the chemists and try a half dose
I always want to respond to these posts of yours but by the time I see them everyone has said what I wanted to and usually more eloquently, at that.
So just, *hugasaurus*.
DARK SOULS II
1000GALL CHEEVOS UPDATEYriryrq hc gb Enax 2 va Oryyoebf naq tbg gur fcryy. Arire arrq gb tb onpx gurer ntnva.
Fynzzrq gur Fxryyl Ybeqf naq Fpbecvbarff va nfprgvp’q nernf gb trg gur nznmvat zntr-ohvyq evatf gurl qebc. Grafr svtugf gb qb jvgu n fdhvful zntr jvgu ab cbvfr. Bar zvfgnxr vf hfhnyyl nyy vg gnxrf.
Abj V’ir ortha jbexvat guebhtu gur Cvytevzf bs Qnex. Terng Yvtugavat Fcrne’q zl jnl guebhtu gur svefg bar, gur bar haqre Oynpx Thypu. V xabj vg’f Rnfl Zbqr, ohg V’z fgvyy cerggl cyrnfrq jvgu ubj vg jrag.
Zl purpxyvfg:
* Cvytevzf bs Qnex 2 haqre Funqrq Jbbqf* Cvytevzf bs Qnex 3 haqre Qenatyrvp Pnfgyr
* Qnexyhexre obff
* Svaq Punbf Fgbez va Veba Xrrc
* Serwn ba AT+
* Ybfg Fvaare ba AT+
* Oyvgm guebhtu gb Qenatyrvp Pnfgyr va AT++
* Guebj tnzr qbja va n ivpgbel fcvxr, naq arire cvpx vg hc ntnva
I read that as “1000GB Update” D:
Almost tricked me into wanting to play it again to see these massive changes.
Yeah I thought the same thing. 1000GB? THE FREAKING GAME ISN’T EVEN THAT BIG!
You crazy @shane, you crazy
I started the game all set to go for platinum but didn’t enjoy it near enough to be bothered.
I’m finding I don’t really care that I haven’t played it in a while. I’m feeling more like I’d rather go back and play Dark Souls instead. I miss that game and think about it when I’m not playing it, unlike DS2. Very glad I didn’t splash out on the special edition, now.
Would Dark Souls 1 be hard to go back to if I’ve only played Dark Souls 2?
No. The mechanics are slightly different in a lot of ways, but most of them are changes rather than improvements. Dark Souls 1 is still totally playable (and actually is still favoured by many).
UPDATE TWO
I am now Master of all Hexes. Darklurker defeated, Pilgrims of Dark maxed out.
I don’t know what I’m gonna do with the 70 Human Effigies I had ready to do this with. I only used three :\
Gung obff vf vafnaryl jrnx gb yvtugavat. Fvk Terng Yvtugavat Fcrnef naq gur onggyr jnf bire. Juvyr vg jnf fcyvggvat V uvg vg bapr, naq nsgre vg unq fcyvg, uvg vg jvgu bar ynfg obyg, naq gur svtug jnf bire orsber V rira unq gb snpr gjb ba bar…
Also, why do the Lannisters have such large bedrooms?
Orpnhfr gurl chfu gjb gjvaf gbtrgure gb znxr n xvat.
#page6 #cntr6
ha, brilliant 😀
Ahh the RIAA, ever willing to stand up for their artists.
Appropriate that it’s on page 6 because they’re a fucking joke
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SHAQ-FU-Nintendo-Game-Boy-1995-NEW-FACTORY-SEALED-RARE-/261374313268
Wait THERE WAS A GAMEBOY VERSION!?
yup, also Amiga and Game Gear versions.
CAN SOMEONE SAVE ME FROM MY BOREDOM
Fine lets play a game
Give me a plot to a tv show, short film, anime, radioplay anything that you have invented
Pitch to me and my creative genius
A person is bored and asks the internet to pitch him a tv show, short film, anime, radioplay.
Genius, Will Ferrell can play the bored character
Will Ferrell should play EVERY CHARACTER
Okay, so there’s this paranoid hermit who went to film school and refuses to share his ideas with any one on the off chance he’ll still make it some day. This thing just writes itself! 😛
I see it more as a cautionary tale rather than TV or film. Something told to scare children!
Sitting, alone as always. I stare at the bright white glow of my computer screen. Music is softly humming into my ears from the cheap headphones that i found on the floor of my sisters room. The melody takes hold of me for just a second and i allow myself to give in to the music for just a moment. I sing out allowed my favourite line of the song
‘Now I’m ready to start”
the song ends and I place it on repeat, It wont be changed for the rest of the day. The white noise comforts me in my loneliness. I browse through the gaming forum that i frequent,My only source of human intereraction for the day is just a bunch of nerds repeating memes about pokemon. I don’t care, they are the best friends i have.
I spy one of the most annoying people is posting up a storm again. Yes your life sucks guy, i can tell from the fact that you have a job and a girlfriend, what a ass. He asks for ideas that we have for any medium. I could show him some of the stories i have worked on. NO, he would just laugh at them. Ill post something witty though just to let him know im clever.
I lean on my keyboard until just the right amount of sarcasm flows from my fingers
“Okay, so there’s this paranoid hermit who went to film school and refuses to share his ideas with any one on the off chance he’ll still make it some day. This thing just writes itself! 😛
I see it more as a cautionary tale rather than TV or film. Something told to scare children”
“haha”
i think to myself, he will get a kick out of that. I keep scrolling as the familiar sound of Arcade fire hums in my ear as the bright white of my computer screen lights up my face. Alone, as always.
You forgot to end on the inevitable bullet to the head. 😛
Jesus christ man.
thats not funny 🙁
Black humour is the best humour
OK then.
He’s an author who writes action novels
She’s a scientist who invented a time travel device
Together they fight crime throughout history and have romantic tension.
Suggested title: “The Previous Chapter”
That sounds like doctor who mixed with castle
You say it like that’s a bad thing?
Both super popular shows.
So you’re saying we’ll make millions?
A one season long television show. It won’t go above one season.
The opening shot is of an office at night. You can see lights through the windows. The sounds of a party can be heard.
Then, gunshots and screaming.
Opening credits.
The words come up “Three months earlier”
Then the season plays out, about a group of people working in an office. You know one snaps by the end of the season and goes on a shooting spree. But who? Until then, we learn about person x having their first kid, person y’s constant dating problems, the manager who is trying to keep the team together and avoid job cuts because she cares about her team…
Nothing is revealed until the last 10 minutes of the final episode. But slowly, people are caving to stress.
Then, we find out who the shooter is.
End.
No more seasons.
The shot came from the street outside, and was just a car backfiring!
#whatatwist
The shot just ends up being a party popper.
#whatatwist
The shot sound was actually all five characters shooting at exactly the same time, each happening to kill one other person in the room.
#notreallyatwistbutunexpected!
Sounds like something the BBC would produce 6 brilliant episodes of.
That sounds really cool bro, i like that very much.
Too self conscious around all these creative types.
Might post again if I ever flesh it more out :S
NOICE
The story needs (a lot) of work, but it seemed interesting in my head.
I have all the mechanics, look, and style all figured out.
I’m sure I’ve pitched this before but here it is again.
In the not too distant future a dimensional rift opens up in the middle of Australia. Everything imaginable comes spilling into our world. Vampires, Zombies, Dragons, Sentient Lawn Gnomes, Aliens that are so small they domesticate dragonflies as a means of transportaiton, superheroes, basically anything you can think of.
The Government didn’t know what to do, so they constructed a wall separating the coast of Australia from the “dead centre”. The only way to be admitted to the centre is to obtain a monster hunters license.
20 or so years after the wall’s construction, life is pretty normal. Everything’s pretty chilled and the two sides of the wall don’t really bother each other.
And a small, indie band called Venetian Venetian is starting to make it big, so big that their manager has booked them on their first rural tour. Their licenses have just arrived in the post.
i love that sooooooo much.
Also that is nearly identical to the plot of josie and the pussycats FYI
This is more so we can fuck with genre/TV tropes.
ie Changing actors midway through a season only to reveal 6 episodes down the line that the new actor is actually a warlock who has the original actor locked in a trunk and is slowly draining his essence to appear to the rest of the characters like the original actor so he can get across the wall.
Also cheap jokes ie: they have to find an escaped unicorn from a father & daughter ranch. The father explains that they need to take his daughter as only virgins can see unicorns and none of the band are virgins. At least that’s what they thought until one of them catches the unicorn.
Sold.
You could probably even make a tabletop rpg scenario out of that.
Concept for a game:
Building sim where you build and manage a winery. Have to manage the front end (cellar door) and back end (vines, tanks, storage) through the different seasons. Rely on weather to water the vines, or install artificial irrigations. Different soil types will produce different results from different grapes. Hire the best winemaker in the country or learn as you go and increase your skills. Manage multiple fields in multiple locations to achieve the best results / crops.
Working title: “WineOS”
Holy shit, would play.
I actually did a bit of pre-work on the concept, spoke to a winemaker about what activities take place in each season (i.e. if the year was divided in to 4 seasons of 90 days each, what would you be doing in each season?) and started putting together some basic Drake style equations (e.g. Wine = Grapes + soil + water + sun – disease + fertilizer + winemaker skill + demand +/- random factors) but stopped when I found I had difficulty learning to use Unity.
I need to get into Unity. Any good recommendations?
Nope, I got nowhere with it. My programming skill is stuck at VBA levels.
Movie. I had it in a dream a few nights ago, surprisingly vivid and I can remember a decent chunk of it (In said dream I was watching this movie, except that for whatever reason I thought I was watching Paranormal Activities (which I’ve never seen), and I spent the whole time thinking “wow, this is way better than I thought it would be.”).
In my dream it starred Joel McHale, but awake me knows that that’s a terrible idea.
Starts off as a horror movie, family in a house, creepy things going on. Wife tries to kill husband.
Transitions to a black comedy, where the wife wants to kill him, but only so that they can cast a spell to make him live forever. Oh, and she wants him to kill his best friend, since doing so makes him stronger in undeath. So you get conversations with an offended second best friend about whether or not he should do it.
Oh, and then, just before they can do this ritual, it turns out that a lot of the creepy goings on at the start weren’t his wife, and it’s back to being a horror movie, except with the hook that three out of four characters involved can’t die, but they’re still scared silly.
It seemed genius at 7am.
I once had a dream about a world where instead of paths along the sides of the road, there were waterslides.
Someone make a movie out of that please.
A black and white noir style short film of a fish flopping about weakly on a street corner.
As long as it had incomprehensible French narration over the top, you would win awards.
A newly undead individual attempts to hide his status from family, friends and co-workers, all the while trying to figure out his place in the world, coach his kids’ soccer team, and reconcile his vegetarian morals with his insatiable hunger for living flesh.
It’s called A Matter Of and every episode’s title follows the same format. The pilot is called “A Matter of Life and Death”; the second episode is called “A Matter of Trust”; the third “A Matter of Opinion”; the fourth “A Matter of Course”; the fifth “A Matter of the Flesh”; the sixth “A Matter of Record”; the seventh “A Matter of Justice” and the season finale is called “A Matter of Time.”
It’s a lighthearted family comedy with undertones of horrific gore.
Edit: You know what? If I get desperate to get noticed, I’m going to write this comic and start making money.
Edit 2: Goddamn, I actually do want to write this now. Argh. Zombies with a twist was something I swore I would never sink to. NEVERRRRRR.
Argh, fuck, I can’t get this out of my head. I just keep thinking about all these different episodic stories I could write for it.
Edit 3: I’m writing the first issue of this comic now /o\
I’d back that kickstarter.
Seconded
genius
Post the first issue’s script somewhere and I’ll at the very least do some storyboarding and art for a few pages and fling it to some arty people I know. 😉
Awesome. Thanks!
Boobs.
Best one yet.
Freeze you are a ideas man
dont you mean “breast one yet”?
I wrote a thing using ‘hollywood voice’ in a parodic bit that stole the boobs idea, added asses and noted that the ‘legs demo is totally popping’, but over-use of the word babe from one man to another in my own hand triggered a mild rage-aneurysm and after the deleting was done I am now left only with my shame.
A couple’s story is seemingly told through different settings- as married assassins working for a shadowy group, as pilots of futuristic aircraft, even knights wielding magic in a distant past. The stories are all different between each setting, but it’s mostly a slice-of-life affair focusing on the couple’s relationship. Unfortunately, their relationship is pretty shitty, for as much as they are a good couple they are a volatile one, prone to explosive arguments and the particularly shitty habit of getting back together even after loud and messy break-ups, most of which involve their 3 friends, who serve as reoccurring characters throughout each story.
PLOT TWEEST. Turns out the friends in the background have been sick of this for quite some while, and each ‘setting’ and ‘story’ are actually part of a radical couple’s therapy program on a island retreat that the friends have shunted the poor couple unwillingly into. The 3 friends and the couple live in the far-flung future, where hologram and hypnotism are easily available and are in full use here. Meant to create bonds and provide introspection through living in fantasy scenarios, the couple’s therapy program is maintained in the background by the trio of friends, who each contribute a scenario of their own design. However, these three scenarios (every day is allocated to one of the three programs, which wipes the couple’s mind at midnight and starts up the next one) lead to be largely ineffective, as the couple’s relationship begins to deteriorate in all three stories. Exasperated and becoming personally affected by watching over this dysfunctional couple, the three friends begin to twist the scenario for their own designs, such as designing the couple’s life as to what their own personal version of what love is or perhaps to satisfy a ‘what-if’ in lieu of a rejected confession.
Just as the stories become more and more twisted and the couple’s relationship is on a breaking point, the more level-headed of the couple becomes privy to the experiment, whose argument with the three friends results in the breaking of the systems overseeing the whole experiment. The partner still stuck unaware of the experiment becomes stuck on “Madly jealous to the point where I’m going to stab you with this pointy object” mode, with the bonus effect of having the 3 friends stranded on a part of the island where their scenario is permanently locked in. Pretty chuffed at all this, the level-headed partner sets out to retrieve ther friends, destroy the central system producing the overeager holograms (with safety locks turned off!,) and hopefully make amends with their partner, who is continuously switching characters but is still stuck on “kill the boyfriend/girlfriend” mode.
I’d like to compare it to a sci-fi Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but I’m no ideas man.
A JRPG farming simulator in an cross between FF7 and Harvest Moon, where your ‘attacks’ are basically tilling the fields, tending crops, pruning/removing rot, fending off pests, harvesting, and transporting. Growing from a youth to a man/woman, dealing with social issues, vague rumours of epic but distant wars in a kingdom that has nothing to do with your sheltered little valley. Part dating sim, where your most challenging activity is learning to read. Really build and expand your farm with crafting and trading minigames. A few bits and pieces of ominous tidings as restless young men who would normally head to the city to ‘make something of themselves’ before returning, instead enlist in the military, and don’t return. Or traders’ wares get more limited based on war rationing, and you start seeing more visits from the tax collectors who’d always seemed to have pretty much forgotten by the village.
Right up until the endgame, when the war sweeps through the valley and everyone you care about gets murdered, and you can either attempt to rebuild, move on, or go seek vengeance and get killed or whatever in the process, but either way, that’s the end. Best ending ever.
So basically the game ends just as another game starts, one of those ones with the hero’s village being destroyed by the big bad when the hero is just a child then has to escape to grow up in a training montage
An anime where a sword master of the Meiji era is
Transported to modern times and works as an assassin and starts a family and the story starts with it being 20 years since he arrived in modern times and he’s training his son to follow in his footsteps, we open to both of them standing on the roof of a sky scraper with the friendly challenge of who can get to the bottom first without using the stairs or the lift. Basically a high octane anime that uses modern elements with ancient styles. While the dad sticks to his trusty katana the son has mixed his style with 2 swords and a pistol hand crafted.
Okay, game idea.
Survival horror set in the Australian Outback in the 1850s when lots of the country was still unknown. The PC is part of an expedition investigating towns they’ve lost contact with over the last few months. They get attacked by mysterious creatures and the PC is separated, lost and low on supplies and being hunted by bloodthirsty packs of bunyips. You have to scavenge supplies from deserted, bunyip ravaged country towns, obtain water from rivers and hunt animals which may or may not be poisonous to eat and/or venomous if they bite you. The objective is to get back to whatever passes for civilisation.
Also, if you want something to actually do rather than just read stuff, listen to this: http://youtu.be/mv2YyHBlBsk
New hit anime written by B-Funk
Gun Guy (as in, his first name is Gun, last name is Guy) is a guy well known for his gun, it’s really big and kills all the bad guys. however Gun Guy has a secret, he is actually really passionate about pottery. so he ends up quitting the killing people industry to follow his dream to became the champion potterer.
Life is going well until Gun Guy’s rival shows up, and the rival can’t believe the guy who was the best killer of people using guns was also the best potterer in the world. seeing this, the rival ends up trying to become the new pottery champion as well, just to be better than Gun Guy.
After they get into a fight, Gun Guy and Ry Val (thats the rivals name) end up having to go to the student council (did i mention they are high school age?) and they meet the beautiful head of the student council, who for some reason or other decides to make both of them the vice president.
Hijinks ensue as Gun Guy tries to become the boyfriend of student council president-senpai while Ry Val, who was also Gun Guy’s childhood friend, gets really jealous because she (Ry Val is a girl, duh) is actually in love with Gun Guy, she such a tsundere.
So begins the adventures of Gun Guy on his quest to become a master potterer and win the heart of student council president-senpai. A nice slice-of-life romantic comedy with hardcore violent action scenes. Episode 6 they go to the hot springs, episode 12 they go to the beach.
i’ll accept any awards now.
I think I pitched this before, but whatever.
Codename: Dark Rainbow. (Game)
Story
They say that if you catch a leprechaun, you will get one wish. Arthur Antagonist of Luxembourg, 8, was the first human to catch a leprechaun. He wished for himself to be the head of a Luxembourgian Empire.
The Luxembourgian Empire spread across the globe. To escape Arthur Antagonist and his unstoppable army, many countries fled to the moon. 3 years later, the Luxembourgian Empire landed on the moon, with the intent to conquer all.
It is the year 20xyz, and you are Proh Tagonist, a new recruit to the Moon Defence Force. This is your story.
You battle the Luxembourgian Empire, and it ends with a battle with the now 11-year old Arthur Antagonist. You can’t beat him, and just when you think all hope is lost, you catch a leprechaun somehow (moon rainbows?). You wish for more power. You defeat Arthur Antagonist, crushing the Luxembourgian Empire and saving the moon. You take off your space armour, and reveal yourself to be a woman in a bikini, metroid style. You then die because you are on the moon without a spacesuit.
Fin.
Gameplay
The gameplay will be a Serious Sam-style FPS where you can dual-wield all weapons. Want to shoot with a shotgun and machine gun? Want to akimbo a rocket launcher and a crossbow? Ever wanted to dual-wield a death laser and a solar-powered minigun? Now you can.
The game also features Serious Sam-style dickery; every health pickup spawns an enemy.
Since the game is set on the moon, gravity will be reduced. You will be encouraged to move and jump, as standing still will make the crosshair larger.
Enemies will include bears trained to carry guns, giraffes with head-mounted miniguns, rainbow demons, and an Allosaurus carrying multiple katanas. As you can see, the Luxembourg Empire is well equipped.
Tiny hamster eating tiny burritos at a tiny table. That’s all that needs to be said.
Great, so a hamster can stuff a whole burrito in it’s mouth and it’s “cute”… I do it, and I get dirty looks from people in the food court…
Solution: We go to food court and make a video of you stuffing a burrito in to your mouth while dressed as a hamster. Post it at a reply to the hamster burrito. ???. Profit.
On the one hand, “GOD DAMMIT WEBSITE I AM NOT POSTING TOO FAST STOP SHOWING ME THAT GIANT ACCUSATORY RED BAR.”
On the other hand, I get to see @Shane repeatedly telling me, “Good advice.” <3
@shane should edit that comment to say something like “Your comment is fast and you should feel fast. ” so that we can get some extra chastising out of post fails.
Noooooooooooooooooo
“LAST EDITED APRIL 30, 2014 11:29 AM”
But it looks the same. WHAT DID YOU DO, @shane !?
I’ll bet he changed it temporarily, then changed it back.
I felt guilty.
There’s your problem, havin’ feelings. We can have ’em out in 3 weeks, if I schedule the procedure today. Which I won’t.
The woman on the Google Analytics website creeps me out http://i.imgur.com/4hS7S2V.jpg
Every time I try to post a reply I get told I’m posting too fast. After retrying a couple of times I’m starting to feel like this:
Every time I try to post a reply I get told I’m posting too fast. After retrying a couple of times I’m starting to feel like this:
Every time I try to post a reply I get told I’m posting too fast. After retrying a couple of times I’m starting to feel like this.
Hey look, when I try to post a new comment it goes to a previous attempted reply. Terrific.
Jaysus, I…. I think she wants to eat me. It’s the eyes that do it, looks like she’s seen something she wants & WILL GET NO MATTER WHAT.
Not sure what you mean. She seems interesting and probably enjoys a nice chianti.
@mythamphetamine @novacascade @mawt @popdart5 @blaghman @tech_knight
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Eww, weird blind things on top of the train!
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME
Also streaming for any interested parties
Definitely going to be on for this tonight 🙂
Dark souls 2 :
It’s still pretty rad. Still unsure if I’m levelling up ‘effectively’. Did No-Man’s Wharf last night. Spider monkeys suck. Flexile Sentry is a bit anti-climactic.
Flexile Sentry is so easy. I did him a coupla of times in co-op for fun, and I don’t think I saw a single person die to him. Whereas the one time I reached next boss along, the world owner died before I could even enter the room. :/
Was it No-Man’s Wharf you were saying is a good place for being summoned?
Coz I think I could just about manage to be of some use to people in that area.
Never underestimate how useful even just a distraction can be.
Nine attempts? Now I’m just being stubborn on principle.
Sorry, late response: Yeah, No Man’s Wharf was great for me the other day. Had one where I died to that archer and sword guy on the bridge right at the start, I went back, dropped my sign, and was re-summoned by the same dude.
I’m a fan. You’re going well!
Tales of Xillia 2 CE and Day 1 editions confirmed for Australia. Exactly the same content as everywhere else.
Ergo, if you don’t like Steelbook cases you’re absolutely shit out of luck because *all* the copies of the game have a metal case instead of a normal one, so your copy will always look out of place beside the rest of the games on the same platform (it probably won’t even be PS3 case sized). 🙁
Probably was going to skip it anyway as Xillia was shit and Xillia 2 looks even worse but this really disappoints me.
Can even see in the promo shots that the spine is unlabelled. Imagine if every case did that.
Chaos! Anarchy!
I have a severe hatred for my unlabelled spine cases. Looking at you God of War: Ascension and Beyond: Two Souls.
Makes you wonder how they thought it would be a good idea when compared with a normal case.
Maybe they think everyone stores their cases face forward?
It could just about work for Nintendo games. Or Vita games… :p
I bet it’s not even the same size as a normal PS3 case so you can’t even put them on the same shelf. 😐
EDIT: Is it even legal not to have the spine marked in Australia? I thought you were required by law to have the OFLC sticker on there at least…
The outer box probably covers any compliance issues.
Something a little more related to Page Six.
We held my wife’s birthday party at our house back in August 2012 and immediate family of about twenty were there with us. When it came time for everyone to gather round for a group photo, I was the one to take it with my smartphone. However instead, I secretly started video recording.
‘Say cheese!’ I announced to everyone and they did. Harmless.
‘Now everyone say, Elvina’s pregnant!’ I exclaimed. Everyone laughed. My dad said aloud, ‘That’s not funny.’ Five seconds later my wife followed up with, ‘It’s true!’ and the next 60 seconds were pure bliss/chaos.
She really was pregnant, this was our surprise announcement and I had everyone’s response caught on tape – it is priceless. Also amazing is just how entertaining the same two minute video can be; simply staring at individual members for their expressions/reaction.
Gotta be honest…I’m thinking of stealing this idea for the next time I’m in that situation.
I hope your family members are easy going, like mine are. Whilst I thought this was brilliant, I can also see this becoming a disaster, possibly even offensive to certain types of people.
That’s pretty damn amazing. You put that on youtube or something to be an instant star.
(Apart from the people who will demand you be tried in the Hague if you went profile for your camera.)
Profile? You mean portrait orientation?
Yeah, that one.
Normally I’m not one to condemn someone for their orientation but portrait users are just sick!
We needed more page 6. We really did.
Sounds more like something related to page 18 if you know what I’m sayin
@beeawwb – Kings Quest status check cause Aust post sucks at updating site…
Wait they just updated… Wed 30 Apr 2014 11:39 – Delivered – SOUTH BRISBANE QLD
can you confirm?
Yeah I saw that it was sitting at “onboard for delivery” yesterday and then “delivered” about an hour ago. Gotta wait for the mailroom guy to do his thing but all signs point to goodness.
Got it! Can’t wait to get home and open / enjoy! Thanks again. 🙂
Nothing like coming across a baby eastern brown when moving bales of cane mulch we were purchasing from one of the local cane farmers.. Makes me wonder where the mother was.. Also came across a insanely large skink as well..
Got up, switched computer on.
Wtf why is Firefox ugly now? God dammit if I wanted to be using Chrome I’d be using Chrome.
This has been my response to all the changes Firefox has been making since around about the time Chrome was released and the Mozilla guys seemed to all decide that whatever Google does must be the only possible way to ever do it.
Just booked hotel accommodation for Thailand holiday in November. Flights booked weeks ago. Wheeeeeeeeee…
When in November?
Red’s planning on robbing your house! D:
If Red wants to fly to Brisbane in November to rob my apartment he’s welcome to it. Remember, there’s a standing invitation to anybody who wants to use my NBN connection via Wifi, if they can find it. :p
Mid. Nonspecific so as to not provide house robbing details to @dc who is clearly the real culprit. J’accuse!
I’ll be over there in Nov as well.
I mean, uh,
@dc I’ll be at home cleaning my guns for the entire month.
Ahh, cool. Well if you happen to be in the Khao Lak area (near Phuket) feel free to completely ignore me and enjoy a fruity drink with a little umbrella in it.
(And dammit Red, I thought your Dad had this crap sorted out!)
Wondering if I should hold out for the iPhone 6 or look into an Experia Z2.
Don’t remember your last experiments in non-iPhones. 😛
I’m sure they’ll probably have better TVs out then too!
The Xperia (there’s no E because it’s Xtreme, I guess) stuff is pretty great. My wife has an Xperia phone and tablet and absolute loves them. No idea about the newer stuff, though.
As a technology geek and a I.T. guy I fucking hate iPhones with a passion. Go ahead and ask why if you’re actually interested and don’t just think I’m a fanboy.
I like Android so far. No real experience with WinPho. I remember from your previous posts about you having phone troubles – I’d go with Nexus line. Cheap to buy outright.
I’m just more comfortable with iOS more than anything. Tried WP8 and absolutely detested it.
Price isn’t a concern. If anything I won’t buy things because they’re cheap. I’m weird like that. Annoys my wife to no end.
Well if you’re comfortable and happy with what it does, and no major issues, then stick with it.
Not saying iPhones are great mind you. So many issues which annoy the bejesus out of me, hence why looking at alternatives.
I see… well then try out Android. Just remember that there’s a difference between Android, and HTC/Samsung/Sony’s version of Android.
If it helps, my Xperia Z1 is the cats knees.
I’m sorta in the same boat, do I wanna wait until the next rehash of the iPhone or jump to a Lumia 1020 or Z2.. It’s honestly a tough decision :S
Fuuuuuck. Kotaku’s so damn irritating this week. I hate it. So annoying. Constant reply fails. Have tried to respond to Gutsoup around six or seven times. No dice.
Calm blue ocean.
SERENITY NOW!!
Can’t right now but might watch it when I get home
Calm. Breathe. Calm. CAAAAAAAAALLMMM.
Add a drop of lavender to your milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
– Little Book of Calm, (Manny Bianco abridged version)
hooray, I thought I’d frightened you away 😛
WHOA. Top of page shows me logged in. Is it the beginning of the end of errors?
Hahaha.
Tried to post a “hooray”.
“You are posting too quickly”.
I put a spoiler tag in that as well to test, but it got eaten.
Psych!
yayyyYY!
Me as well and my last post had no error
So either that or you’re a witch
It could be both. Best do the drown-test to be safe.
Just sayin, @beavwa turned some Taybies into newts.
Ever wonder the real reason @spaghett doesn’t post anymore?
He got better
Work blocked TAY from his usable websites! I also forget to post when I get home
I see it as well!
PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE!
testing
. testing
testingtestingtest
code
lili2
tables
*one
*two
* three
small
Spoiler
Edit: nope, spoiler tags aren’t working yet 😛
test
Our nightmare is almost over?
Whoa. I’m logged and have a notification!
EVERYBODY CALM DOWN
http://tinyurl.com/pzkc3ug
That person’s arms look questionably phallic.
arms?
Whoa I can see how many comments there are on a story!
Yay for driving 40 minutes across town and back.
At least it passed some time.
Alright nerds what should i make for dinner that is mildly healthy. Im not big and/or tubby yet but i would like to keep myself in better shape and i need your help because im lazy.
Deep-fried butter?
Put a piece of bread in a pan full of enough melted, sizzling butter that the bread is completely submerged, then heat until it turns golden brown. Remove, and place on an ultra-absorbent towel or high-capacity drip-tray for 5min or so until crispy and ‘dry’.
TEXAS TOAST.
Sounds like our trip to America. In Las Vegas, I think my sister just wanted some buttered toast (or maybe melted cheese? I dunno it was 16 years ago) and we saw the lady put a ladle of liquid butter onto the hotplate, then put the bread on it, THEN ANOTHER TWO LADLES OF BUTTER OVER THE TOP.
My sister had one bite, spat it out and threw it all in the bin.
I promise you we’re not all gluttonous idiots.
However many are.
I remember once my family were driving through California, I think doing some kind of road rally / scavenger hunt. It was the afternoon and my Mum always has an afternoon cup of tea (the British influence on the Seychelles is clear) so we stopped at a fast food outlet, pretty sure it was Carls Jr.
Anyway, she asks if they serve hot tea.
“I can give you an iced tea without the ice?”
Jesus.
Praying won’t save you.
Excuse me, whilst I vomit from pure disgust of that abomination called ‘food’
It is delicious. 🙂 It’s basically fried toast. It almost tastes like Sizzler cheese toast.
Wait, isn’t that @shane’s specialty dish?
Yeah, but I’m pretty sure Shane does it the right way. With, y’know… actual cheese involved.
Stir Fry.
Microwave some frozen vegetables, stir some tomato and onion tuna into it. It’s not a bad healthy feed for lazy folks!
The easiest dinner that is also the healthiest: Cook some sort of meat. Add salad. Done!
Aleph’s Patented Bastard-Dhal
1.) Forget to buy lentils.
2.) Add bay leaves, cinnamon quill and chicken stock to a pan, bring to the boil.
3.) Add split peas, chickpeas and potato. Reduce to simmer.
4.) Heat a large frypan with oil, then realise you don’t have any onion.
5.) Brown off some capsicum and diced chicken instead.
6.) Add 1tsp each of cumin, garam masala and turmeric.
7.) Drain the pot of excess stock, attempt to mash the peas/chickpeas/potato.
8.) Quit halfway through mashing, accepting “rustic” as a texture.
9.) Add rustic mash to
onioncapsicum-chicken mix, bring back to heat.10.) Look disapprovingly at your meal because it’s too dry and nothing like dhal.
11.) Add milk, stirring until paste is formed.
Serve in a bowl. Or hidden in a tortilla. Or to your dog. I dunno.
On the plus side, it keeps really well.
I’ve been eating it for the past 4 days, and it actually gets better with age (like most curries, I suppose).
Either that or my tolerance to terrible food has improved.
@beeawwb – awesome… hopefully they arrived in the same condition they left in….
enjoy the
counterfeitsgames! ¶:ÞTay seems to be fixed so if i tag ben he should get it….
@benwhite – any way i can get rid of 2 notifications from the 6th of september? when i click on them, they dont link to any comments…
16th of September?!
(Also it’s still not fixed by a long shot, just less broken)
sorry i meant 6th September…
one comment is from you, the other from @rize.
12:48 pm NEW negativezero replied to your comment
12:18 pm NEW rize replied to your comment
Sometimes the best friends are the ones you can be a bit of a jerk to and see that they actually kinda like it. Had a corker, yesterday, the rawest of banter/teasing.
All the same, just so it ain’t all sass and teasing, I should probably think of something meaningful and touching to do for them at some point.
In the meantime, a Kinder Surprise will have to suffice (she mentioned once she hadn’t had them in ages and totally loved them but can never really justify getting them) .
I’m renowned for ‘sneaking up on people’ purely by just… I dunno. Walking… so I was able to use my powers for good by nesting the egg in her bunched up cardigan, unnoticed.
LATER…
Unfortunately, everyone else then wanted to know where theirs were, and because I did secretly keep a couple on the side to distribute to those who I knew would need them, my gift is now considered an insult, because – and I quote: “It’s not the gift itself which is important, it’s that I had one and everyone else didn’t that was important!”
So there’s that insight into psychology.
I am now drawing upon the power of April 23rd 2014, wherein I pledged, “I take back everything. Everything! Everything ever said and done, and everything I ever will do or say in future.” Yes. That was a pre-emptive take-back and I am invoking it.
No one’s allowed to be special unless everyone gets to be special?
Also, Kinder Surprised seem to offer nothing but bitter disappointment these days. Whenever we’ve gone for a nostalgia trip and grabbed a few, the toys these days are generally garbage. There’s never even any assembly required!
It hasn’t been the best day for common sense around here.
“Dammit, why are you eating delicious foods around us?!”
“Because I missed breakfast and the cafe’s big breakfast is BIG.”
“No, but why here?”
“Because I want to work while I eat?”
“But we’re dieting!”
“Good for you?”
“You’re making it harder!”
“Howso?”
“Because we can smell it so now we want it!”
“So have it, and just exercise enough to compensate for it?”
“But we don’t LIKE exercising!”
“But you DO like dieting?”
“NO BUT– DAMMIT STOP MAKING SENSE, YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND. You’re all thin and stuff!”
“Possibly because I exercise multiple times a day. How many times a day do you exercise for the sake of exercise alone, to get up a sweat – not incidental activity?”
“0.002 times per day. Shut up.”
This needs to be handed out on tracts at every street corner.
What was the insult?
Allowing others to have her special treat. I know, right? Utterly thoughtless.
I thought the kinder was ‘something nice and thoughtful’ as mentioned in para2, just so the last interaction isn’t the insult/banter/teasing.
Nah, it was something to tide over in the meantime until I can think of something.
I later got a thank-you via email. So I guess this was part of the act. 🙂
It was poisoned!
Hmm. STEM update, says that they’ve now changed the design so that the trackers in the controllers are permanently attached now, instead of being modular and removable like they were before. Kinda sucks, since the idea of being able to say swap out one of the controllers for a Tactical Haptics one seemed like a good option, but now that would mean either getting an extra STEM pack or sacrificing one of the other extras you had instead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYTQ_71jMhQ
Uh. This can’t be right. Surely?
Don’t call me Shirley.
Shirls it is.
No one who like that movie could possibly hate puns. I think you’ve been lying to us all this time.
Oh man. They’re trying to get the guy who did Snowtown to direct the Assbutt Creed movie. Expectations rising. (Disappointment probably approaching)
I really should see that.
It’s quite disturbing, actually.
That it is. Though saying that one of them real life CSI shows, went in depth with the whole Snowtown murders story be almost 10 years ago now I think, god it was way more disturbing and fucked up than the movie ever makes it to be :/
Eww. I honestly can’t say I enjoyed the film. I’ll skip the CSI special then, too.
They did leave out a few things in the movie which were especially fucked up, probably a good thing.
I REALLY DON’T WANT TO KNOW
Like what?
Cannibalism?
I don’t recall it being in the movie, but they hanged a mentally disabled bloke who was apparently a friend, from a tree in the bush and and just left him there. I thought that was just ugh.
The scariest part for me is the fact that all of that happened not even ten minutes from where I currently live.
@benny That’s pretty much why I’ve not seen the film- Snowtown was a pretty big thing when you lived where it took place.
Since when was throw down size coca-cola a thing…?
since ages ago? I guess you’re referring to the 390mL bottle or something? They’ve been round for years. Also smaller cans.
Nah man 200ml cans. Shits tiny yo. Never seen ’em before. Mostly because I don’t buy coke or venture to the aisle it is present in lol.
On the flipside, I found a 500mL can of Coke Zero in a 7/11 today…
Did it cost more than a regular 600ml coke?
I got a 1.5l glass bottle this arvo.
Sydney people: Meet up at Kino some time on free comic book day?
post to let me post
yay! 5th time’s a charm!
Just been informed today that I have to give up use of the company car, so I will no longer be able to get to work, and thus, I will not likely be able to attend the meat this weekend. Sorry peeps. 🙁
Would have been nice if they’d given me some warning or something :\ My weekend will now be spent begging and pleading for either money, or the use of another car temporarily. Yay me!
I am so mad over this piracy shit. It’s just too much.
I’ve been alive a reasonably long time, long enough that I shouldn’t be surprised at or even all that bothered by how dog-eat-dog this world is, everyone out for themselves and fuck everyone else.
But it’s just… it BLOWS MY MIND how these utter ****s in the media industries can not only get away with mercilessly and ruthlessly bullying the consumers, but then get SYMPATHY from the Powers That Be when the consumer dares to fight back. It violates so profoundly everything I believe in about reason, decency, sensibility, and natural justice. The ignorance, greed, hypocrisy, and manipulation of the distributors and politicians on such unashamed display is so perverted and gross as to make me physically sick with rage and disgust. To see it not only validated, but even celebrated? It’s a direct insult to humanity I cannot tolerate.
Is this in regard to the recent Hulu Plus region block implementation? Or the great Foxtel saga?
Last straw to make me blow my top being the Gizmodo article about Brandis’ planned crusade. But it’s the whole fucking kit and caboodle, honestly.
Sympathy? Wherever did you get that crazy idea into your head? It’s pure bribery. Noone gives a fuck about the issue, just that they keep making money
As someone who hopes one day to sign an IP or two over to some content holders, I’m in two minds about this. I want them to rigorously defend the work up to the point where it’s still making them enough money to keep giving me money. On the other hand, there’s a certain benefit to exposure, and a real evil Empire attitude that comes from the punitive crackdowns and endless whinging about piracy.
lul u had faif in humanitee. lulz.
I dunno why I said it like that. Dunno. I don’t have much faith in humanity since ever. We’re just a bunch of mammals.
Well, I just went to the movies for the first time in 2 years. Lego was worth it. I hope to go & see muppets most wanted this time next week too. Look at me, I’m such a socialite!
Muppets was a bit meh. Missing something that the other movies had.
That’s a bugger. I mean having gervais is a distinct negative but I’m still hoping it’ll be good
Just bought Guacamelee and Hotline Miami for great prices in the easter sale.
But why is it so difficult to see whether an item is cross buy is not? Neither Guacamelee nor Hotline Miami listed that they were cross buy (and I thought they were, but I was still unsure, especially because not even Hotline Miami was mentioned on the cross buy list) and Hotline Miami actually said that it was only compatible with PS Vita :/
They both showed up on the download list though, but there really should be this Cross Buy logo thing (unless there is and I missed it, in which case this post is pointless :P)
GUACAMELEE! cc @masha2932
Hotline Miami has planned cross buy with PS4, when that comes out. Not sure about PS3, I personally own it on PC and couldn’t dream of playing such a fast paced game with a controller
It’s that time again…
Pre apologies for tonight :S
Hopefully my new found obsession with Twitter will take the bulk of the drunk messages, but I can’t make any promises for drunk me, that guy is hyper.
Stay safe, son.
*waits up in living room with lights on*
DC will be amused tonight =P
I’ll be home just after 12am, promise! 😀
Well, before 1am anyway.
Hopefully.
Don’t wait up 😛
I just worry. Who knows where you are? For all I know you could be at one of those gay bars!
Or worse yet, NOT at one!!
“You are drinking too fast, slow down”
Words to live by!
Words to die by 😉
@dc, @liondrive
Words to be in a deep and possibly permanent coma by?
Just got my first “You are posting too fast, slow down.” error.
GOTTA GO FAST!
It’s been a while since I pimped Frozen every day, but this happened:
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/461410719024431105
FROOOOOZEN!
I see you put the Firewatch screen to good use.
“Blaghs’s not very interesting adventures at work, that I try to make more exciting by phrasing them in weird ways”
*Sound of a jingle writer being shot in the head.*
So I was sitting there at work, plinking away at the never-ending pile of scanning I have to do, when my Mum walks up to me, and says “Sean, would you like to be fed next Wednesday?”
I pause for a second. I continue pausing for another second. And that pause continues for many seconds after that. It is followed by a very questioning “Yes?”
“We have a work dinner that night to welcome the new doctor.”
WELL WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST ASK ME IF I WOULD GO TO THE WORK DINNER IN THE FIRST PLACE, MOTHER?
Later on, I overheard her discussing the clothes worn by a male in the vicinity with one of the reception staff. Being the only male in the vicinity, I was quite aware that they were discussing me, but I’ve often found that if I ignore my mother, she’ll forget that she’s being rude about one aspect of me, and go back to simply criticising our relationship. Unfortunately, another of the receptionists came up, and was like “I think they’re discussing you, Sean.” To which I had to explain the benefits of resolutely and very firmly ignoring someone. Of course, the advantage here is that most of the reception area will leap to my defence when my mother’s being herself, so I don’t actually have to go to the effort of defending my complete lack of fashion sense.
What.
Numenera stream! 7:30 SA time tonight here: https://plus.google.com/events/cvi10fk4rbtupm4hea9sm8qppts
You are trying to Numanera too fast. Slow down!
On the contrary, we are ACCELERATING
I’ve been helping my brother move the lost couple of days. While helping him move yesterday we came across his rockband drums and guitar. He said he didn’t want to keep it so he donated them to me. I was super excited until now when I realised they are for the PS3 and every Guitar Hero / Rock Band game I have is for the 360. /o\
All my GH games are for 360 as well. Guitar Hero Meat?
Anyone else playing Child of Light? This shit is gorgeous!
Getting it tomorrow for PS4. Waiting for it to go online. :'(
OH MY GOD! I GOT MY EMAIL! TIME TO DOWNLOAD! \o/
Feel like I need to whip up another distraction, especially what with Zelda over and done with. But even with Mario and Rayman waiting in the wings, among many others, don’t really seem to feel like doing anything at all.
Play Rayman Legends! Michel Ancel makes amazing games that will hook you within minutes!
I know, I loved the crap out of Origins. But… no drive. Anti-motivation. Something.
I believe in you, Gooky. That’s all the motivation any one should need!
You wouldn’t like it if I considered you fictitious. >:|
What?
Who said I wasn’t!
If you need a 3DS game, babby-making simulator aka Fire Emblem is definitely worthwhile if you haven’t played that.
Also any of the Phoenix Wright stuff too. @shane can back me up here.
Or the Layton/Wright Crossover.
That game is amazing!
I still gotta get around to PW2…
The first game took me waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long. Still got Black Hole Rising to finish off, too.
@dc
I think you may appreciate this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/YUTAKESOLONG_01.jpg
Hmm. Yeah, nah, definitely needs way more detail there 😛
I AM TRYING! D=
Just for clarity: it’s my retarded backwards way of saying that there is an impressively high amount of detail there and you’ve done a good job.
It’s wrong and I am still working on it.
I knew you were joking. Unfortunately, it’s slightly stressing me out
Haha, I always feel like I can never quite be sure with you 😛
I’m sure it’s going to end up amazing. And even in saying that I can practically taste the hypocrisy dripping off the page, because I know I would be saying exactly the same thing as you on the other side of the fence.
Sorry, I’ll try to broadcast myself more. I should’ve added a =P at the end of that, but I was still working on it ^^;;
Isn’t it nice to have someone who understands? You think, “this isn’t good enough!” when it’s your own stuff, but if someone else does it, you’re like “whoa.”
Oh my god scree that looks amazing 😀
Ash is going to love it
This is why it’s taking so long. Sorry about that. I’m trying to get it as accurate as possible.
Very very cool. No puns intended. 😛
Sh’yeah right.
You could say, it’s ice cold?
That’s an ice pun.
alright alright alright alright ALRIGHT NOW LADIES
yeah?
Nice. 😉
@blaghman @tech_knight @mawt @popdart5 @novacascade Really sorry guys no idea what’s going on there. I might just wait til the next session rather than reschedule, as I’m tied up the rest of this week and Pathfinder is next week.
How dare you have internet issues, Red. People with them are just the worst. The. Worst.
*Flexes away*
That’s okay Red, can’t be helped. If you have internet issues, not much we can do about it except accelerate on to the next time so we continue the fight. I’m happy Scrappa had a better shot and jolted the thing this time 🙂
I may not be anywhere near the winner of the Fitocracy challenge, but I reckon I’ve lost the most weight. Hopefully I should be under 160 by the time I weigh myself on Friday. I’m definitely enjoying basketball a lot more now as I’m able to get up and down the court easier. Took two shots tonight (0 for 2 unfortunately) and had two assists in my 15 minutes or so on the court. The ref was the guy who reffed my first game and he seemed pretty pleased with my progress. And you know what? So am I!
Agreed. I’m so glad I signed up. I was in it to get some more endurance/fitness and its been great watching my distances improve over the course of the month. Now I’m finally getting some use out of my gym membership as well. Cheers to @redartifice for setting the challenge up and congrats to everyone who took part
I was so slack this time. Certainly didn’t help that I’ve done something to my triceps, but there’s a myriad of other things I could exercise if I wasn’t so gosh darned lazy.
\o/
I couldn’t be assed filling in my workouts. 🙁 But if current progress is any indication I think I’ll finally be kicking my first major milestone (below 100kg) as early as tomorrow so don’t really need to gamify it since it’s going good anyway.
Good stuff mate, always good to hear. Don’t lose the motivation
What I need now is Bish & Will to lose motivation so I can win the next one.
Apparently there was a ninja Nintendo Direct about Mario Kart 8. I haven’t really watched it but according to my twitter feed if you buy Mario Kart 8 before July you get a free Wii U game from the following list:
– Nintendo Land
– Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
– Game & Wario
– Pikmin 3
– Wonderful 101
– Legend of Zelda Wind Waker HD
– Sonic Lost World
– Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
– Wii Party U
– New Super Mario Bros. U
I’m assuming that’s as an eShop purchase?
Any purchase apparently.
Just need to register the game with the Nintendo club thingie.
………………
This is madness.
Confirmed coming to AU/NZ as well!
I totally don’t know what to do. I already have Nintendo Land, Pikmin, Wonderful 101 and NSMBU. Zero interest in Sonic, Monster Hunter or Wii Party U, and would rather have Zelda or Game and Wario on the shelf than installed to my console. Because if they are, I know I’ll never play them. Though I probably wouldn’t play Zelda anyway either.
That’s … an interesting offer.
Pity that every game I want on this list is something I’ve already bought. Which I think also covers my entire Wii U game collection of 6 games.
It’s not a good sign though. Maybe the preorder numbers haven’t been as good as they’ve predicted, thus why they’re rolling out an offer like this.
I dunno. I would say more that they’re trying to give Mario Kart 8 the best chance possible to burst out of the gates. A ‘get people talking and bump up the numbers before E3’ sorta thing. They seem to be pushing it pretty hard.
Eh, we’re now 18 months in and the Wii U release library is shaping up much like the GameCube as far as volume and spacing goes. If they need to give a boost to major releases because the title’s own merits and lack of internal competition isn’t enough, well, I’m not optimistic about the system as a whole.
Interestingly, while they’re competing with Watch Dogs on the release week, there’s almost *nothing* on the release lists until October. It’s scary how little looks to be happening in the next 5 months on the retail market.
Oh? Damn, that’s awesome. And considering $79 is the most for physical copy, I might just get it sooner rather than later…
If CDProject’s upcoming Cyberpunk game doesn’t have an epic Synthwave soundtrack I’m going to be really disappointed.
If CDProject’s upcoming Cyberpunk game doesn’t capture the tabletop nostalgia of when I played it as a teenager, I will be still be buying the bloody thing because they’ve proved what they can do with Witcher.
Amidoingitrite?
Considering that they’ve got Mike Pondsmith (Cyberpunk 2020’s creator) working on the game and he’s doing an update to the tabletop version at the same time, I think that there’s a very good chance it will capture exactly that feel.
I was unaware they were updating the tabletop version as well. I think I’ve found my new RPG to play.
Well that was the news back in 2012 as reported by Polygon. I dunno if it’s still happening. IIRC they announced a new edition of Cyberpunk back in the late 90s and it took until like 2005 to release it so don’t hold your breath waiting for it!
So this rather Australian themed bar I find myself in has an entre that’s just a bowl of wild mushrooms (saw tayed. Can’t spell it) I’m not in china. I’m in heaven. Someone tag @mawt for me if this doesn’t work.
*sauteed
I love mushys.
Had a bit of fresh chilli and cracked pepper too.
Mmm Gold Caps 😛
0 for 2 is better then nor getting a shot at all. Next time it’ll be 1-1.
@ontargett
Aw man. Bob Hoskins died 🙁
@transientmind: why did you vote this up? It’s terrible news 🙁
Non-specific approval of bringing the news to our attention, without having anything to add. It’s not so much a ‘I like this’ button as much as, ‘I approve of this being posted and/or share similar opinions and wish to make that known’.
Swear this song is singing my screen name.
lolfailreply
Rot13 it is then.
Wolf Among Us Episode 3
Yrg Fabj fcrnx
Jrag gb Gevcgenc svefg
Bssrerq syl n wbo
Ohearq gur gerr (bar bs bayl 19% gb qb fb, whfg pnyy zr n zbafgre)
Yrg Qrr yvir (nygubhtu tbqqnza qvq V jnag gb grne uvf guebng bhg)
Jnf cerggl onqnff, gur fprar va gur nyyrl. Guvf jnf n tbbq rcvfbqr ohg fgvyy gbb qnat fubeg. V jnag zber. Tvzzr!
@dc @powalen @smurfydog
Yrg Fabj fcrnx
Jrag gb Qrr/Qhzf bssvpr svefg
Bssrerq syl n wbo
Ohearq gur gerr
Yrg Qrr yvir
I saw it on the PSN easter sale for like… ten bucks. So, DUH buy. But… you’ve only listed a few choices.
Do… people only make one set of choices? Doesn’t everyone rabidly devour the content multiple times in one sitting, exploring every permutation of options available and keeping them in separate save files?
And when they discover choices that had unforseen consequences in the third chapter, go back and replay the previous chapters again, to see if there’s a different result? Everyone does that, right?
You wait till its finished and play a whole different narrative!
Uuuuugh. Friend chased up my sister on facebook saying that they were looking for some kind of game designer or something at his work. So she yelled out to me about it saying to call him up and talk, so of course mum chimed in telling me to do it regardless of what it is. And yeah, from the sounds of things seems to be a game designer role. I AM NOT A DESIGNER.
The whole conversation was kind of nebulous and nondescript, because he couldn’t really remember the details of it since it was just mentioned in passing, and I couldn’t really tell him what I’d be able to do because I don’t think I can do anything. He asked if I had any kind of portfolio to show off some of my work I’ve done, and… I don’t really have anything in particular to show? And then afterwards I was getting asked what he said, and because nothing was really said I told them as much. And got yelled at. And then after more details were gleaned from further questioning, I then got asked why I don’t have one. And why I’m not putting one together. AND UGH EVERYONE JUST SHUT UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE.
Brb going to bed and not emerging for a month.
No idea of what to do or what you’re supposed to do and nothing concrete to really show for what you’ve done?
You have this game designer thing down pat son.
Send link to that snake game (I still havent looked in detail). Portfolio is the #1 thing for creative people to have.
http://aplacetoputmystuff.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/4d-snake/ Download link was at the bottom I think.
I’ve since realised that the build I’ve put up is actually kind of broken since I’ve pulled it out of the usual file structure it sits in, so some of the files are missing. Yet somehow it still manages to work anyway. Oops 😛
Also I really feel like I need to go back and rewrite that whole gigantic mindpurge into something a little more concise and descriptive. Also probably add some other things to the site to make it less barren. Also lots of other things.
I have link saved somewhere, I meant send to the game hiring peoples as an example of your work. 😛
Loving season 5 of Archer with all these references to Miami Vice, Scarface, Smokey & The Bandit etc.. So good. So so good.
The ending to that season is amazing…. So sad it’s over for another year
I’ll finish it tonight, Archer season endings are just so good.
My name is in the top corner, and the log in button is gone. What is this sorcery?
Magnets.
One ponders how they function the way they do.
Some manner of miracle I’d wager. It’s the Hand Of Kieth in action
A delicate combination of pyramid power and crystals resonating at the appropriate frequency to heal the server and purge it of negative energy.
Which, considering that this is THE INTERNET was probably long overdue.
Pyramid.
Triangle.
ILLUMINATI.
Pyramid.
Triangle.
Illuminati.
THEN YOGURT
When they were doing server stuff over Easter, someone in the data center disconnected and threw away the yoghurt lamp that keeps the server balanced.
Last night in a last-ditch attempt to address the issue they smothered the server in yoghurt and applied an electric current and that should serve as an interim solution until they can obtain a new yoghurt lamp.
Just had Firefox crash on me for the second time today. Don’t think I’ve had it happen before now with this computer.
THANKS MOZILLA
According to numerous eoyrces I dance lie I slut :S
Couldn’t care less!!! 😀 😉
Show me your moves!
I drop it low 😉
You don’t wanna see me grind, I’m.a machine 😉
Dang it, now I want to either play SSB or F-Zero.
My friend tried to slut off me.
Like they’re ever gonna win 😉
I’m not a slut tough!!!
I just danice like win!!! 😀 :S
I think I’ve just discovered who writes the content for half od the spam emails I get…
I’m home @dc !!! Don’t even worry!!! 😀
I only have one bleedingjgee do good night!!! 😀
Thanks fur wuttyng about me though, even if you were jphing!!! 😀
Beautiful. :’)
That touched me here *points at head* and here *points at heart*…
*wipes away tear*
Happy birthday @coldcamv! Why you so awesome? Who can say!
HOPE IT’S A DAMN GOOD ONE, BUDDY!
Edit: Reply fail. It can stay here, though. Close enough. XD
Happy birthday @gingerchris86 too!
Birthdays all round! 😀
It’s close enough to be a fresh post that we will count it because it’s off @liondrive amazing post! Cheers bud
I’m totally checking your twitter later.
*reads TAY opening*
I wish to become a TAYbie. How would one go about it?
Buy: http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/the-lesser-evil/
It’s a rite of passage that has replaced the Oar of Thorns.
Glad I got in between those two requirements, my arse is undamaged and it doesn’t matter that I’ve only got $2
This one applies retroactively. Sorry.
Well, I’ve only got $2, sorry.
So the Dark Souls 2 bug seems to have bitten me. Not sure if I’m playing as well as I could be as I chose an Explorer off the bat and I’ve only gotten to the second bonfire in Forest of the Giants after about three hours of gametime. I also ended up going STR for the first three levels so I can wield better shields.
Am I Dark Soulsing okay?
You’re playing it, and I’m assuming you’ve died at some point… So, yep, you’re doing fine.
You’re doing well. Took me eight hours of playing in a harder area before I even found the forest 😛
I’m guessing that’s Heide’s Tower of Flame? I fought the first guy there and I’m just like NOPE and ran away.
That’s the one. I played that area so much, got so familiar with it, that I cleared it completely of all enemies. Then I co-opped in there for ages after I got the white soapstone in the forest.
It’s funny how intimidating they look when you first get to that area. Then after a while they’re SO easy to beat 😛 Especially as a melee character with a hammer.
Holy shit guys! – Comic Book Day Humble Bundle!!!!
https://www.humblebundle.com/
It’s a pretty wicked bundle. It’s got SAGA!
Great deal.
PS: Happy birthday!
Thanks Shane 🙂
happy birthday mr christopher.
HUGS
Thanks Mr Rockets 🙂
Happy birthday!
Thanks Pow!
Happy Birthday!
Thanks Red!
Happy birthdayyy! 😀
I saw the Humble Bundle, but it’s not the full series. So where am I gonna get the rest of the comics from once I get hooked? :\
Comic shops
Comixology
BitTorrent
… in that order.
I’d use reversed order. I refuse to pay $5-6 for a couple pages of printed material, and I sure as hell aren’t going to pay exactly that much for an e-version. :S
As someone who works in the comics industry and hopes to make a living out of it, I’m downvoting that attitude. Sorry.
You can get full-colour printed trades with 120 pages in them for $13 on Book Depository. You can get issues for $0.99 apiece on Comixology if you wait for a sale.
You can refuse to pay those amounts if you want – I can’t stop that – but I believe that if you make that refusal purely on the grounds of cost, then you should forfeit your right to access the content.
Fair enough, it was expected, and you have a valid point. My gripe is indeed with the cost. 99c an issue on Comixology is pretty decent and I’d pay that, if it were the normal price. Stuff I’ve seen there is pretty much same as the print price, which is insane IMO to begin with. I’m the kind of guy who’d read it once only.
It’s not a defence at all, but I’m a greedy selfish fucker like everyone else. The time to earn the money to spend on the comic for $5 an issue just isn’t worth it for me.
******
Edit: if you boil down the argument to the typical response on piracy stuffs, it’s usually like “that’s identical to stealing a Lambo cos it’s something nice but you aren’t prepared to pay the money for it”. In one sense, yeah that’s pretty much the base of it. However, there’s a couple ways of thinking about this: a) both commodities are optional extra luxuries, you don’t need them; b) Lambo is an upgraded form of a cheaper luxury, while books and other literary stuff is something that’s a ‘basic human right’, or something that should be made more easily available as part of your life-expansion etc.
While I actually believe that life itself is an optional-extra luxury, I am leaning towards B). I also lean this way, because it’s what the average person would lean towards as well. Without bringing up controversial examples, most people want to ‘improve the implementation of basic human rights’. While not going into detail what this entails, one would think that books (including comic books) are part of the literary material that would improve the culture of people, hence should be prioritised in terms of affordability.
Ramble over, I suppose.
tl;dr yes I oppose to the cost, however the crux of my problem is the division of proceeds of such a material (comic). My position is one that supports your Kickstarter, for example – the proceeds are unfairly distributed so the author doesn’t get as much as they deserve.
Happy late birthday becuase I was behind in TAY!
Oh man. I just watched the EA Sports UFC Career mode trailer, and my hype for that game has increased by significant levels. It seems to be everything I’ve wanted in a UFC game. I always thought starting in TUF would be a really great way to start a career mode, and now it’s happening! Woohoo!!!!!
I’m so excited! Undisputed 3 is one of the only games I kept when I traded in my PS3 collection, and this game looks so much better.
What are you getting it on? PS4?
Yep. PS4. I’ll be preordering it as soon as I can afford to.
Aw yiss. Hopefully the online is a bit more reliable than it was in the last game.
I’ll be going through the career mode a couple of times before I even consider online play. Will be awesome to fight as Bruce Lee and Royce Gracie on top of what is a killer roster.
My main concern is that they’ve said the roster consists of almost 100 fighters. Between 9(?) weight classes and including the extra fighters like Royce and Bruce and guys like Forrest Griffon who don’t fight anymore that barely leaves room for the top 10 in each division. I’m expecting there to be a heap of DLC with this one.
It’s an EA game. What else did you expect? 😉 I guess we’ll see what happens.
Hard at work at the moment.
Doing work work, you ask? Ahahahahahaha… no.
Please don’t make me laugh like that again >:(
I’m working on a story treatment for the first issue of “A Matter Of” (though I’m exploring other options for the title, including “Dead Knows Best”). Have just about worked out the major beats for the first story, and think an episodic format like a monthly comic (or TV series) will suit this well.
Here’s my favourite part of the document, which is actually the opening paragraph of the second issue. Spoilered just in case.
Fvk-lrne-byq Wnfba jnagf gb yrnea nyy nobhg qrngu jura gur pynff unzfgre tbrf zvffvat, ohg Oergg qbrfa’g jnag gb qvfphff vg. Vg’f bayl orra n jrrx fvapr uvf punatr, naq gur jbhaq vf fgvyy n yvggyr enj. Gurer’f nyfb gur yvggyr jevaxyr gung Oergg jnf gur bar jub xvyyrq gur unzfgre… naq ngr vg.
Ugh.
I know…
It’s not quite right. Partly because it’s terrible on its own, but also partly because it’s riffing on Father Knows Best, rather than Dad Knows Best. Will keep on thinking.
Deaddy Issues? 😛
He could call it “Dead Jokes”.
It works on so many levels!
Undad.
Child of Light developer favourited my enthusiastic fanboy tweet. XD
I guess you’ll be, *sniff*, leaving us now that you’re all famous and everything.
Stay gold,
Ponyboy@dc. Stay gold.Ah The Outsiders.
I was in the musical at school, I was the least intimidating of all the greasers
Socs is up there with abominable for “hardest word to pronounce correctly”.
(Sew)sch.
I hope you get this excited when I favourite your tweets!
Always.
Haaaai TAAAAY
long time no see…
You look great, have you started working out?
great…
So anyone doing anything exciting for May 4th? I am actually super excited because i’ve… liberated… the De-specialised versions of the Star Wars movies… For anyone who doesn’t know what that is, it’s a fan project to restore the original scenes into the 3 star wars movies(Han shot, no CGI etc), using a plethora of sources, and then bump it up to 720p… i have looked at a few scenes and i am mighty impressed… i’m looking forward to marathoning them that’s for sure!
I’m seeing them on the big screen at Hoyts. I don’t even care what version they are – seeing the trilogy on the big screen is something I’ve wanted to do since I was seven.
PS: Can you provide details on the … liberation… of the original cuts? I’m asking for a friend.
THAT’S TOTALLY AWESOME! i am most jelly, and i kinda want to do that now XD
I most certainly can! let me get home, and i can provide you with more information that you can pass onto your friend
I’ve got the original cut DVDs if you’re interested. Not quite the “liberated” versions being talked about, but good enough for me!
I might even have those… I think I have (or at least used to have) a set of bootlegged DVDs that were made from the Laserdisc version.
Mine are a “dual-set” special edition release. Disc 1 is the remastered edition, Disc 2 is the original theatrical edition.
Best of both worlds!
Oh wait, I remember that release! Did I buy them? I don’t remember! MAYBE.
Despecialized version is a better version of the original theatrical edition as it’s mainly not in SD.
Yeah, the idea of a 720P “not special” version greatly appeals to my sense of indignation.
I’ve got it kicking around somewhere and it’s pretty awesome.
That said I think they do keep some minor fixes IIRC, like in the special edition they fixed some bad bluescreening stuff in the Empire Strikes Back on Hoth. There’s a few spots where the snowspeeder cockpit is partially removed where it shouldn’t have been and stuff like that. They also removed some of the wires that are faintly visible during the Hoth sequences holding the speeders and the AT-ATs up. I don’t really mind those sorts of fixes.
The big thing for me is that you get everything back to the way it was. Original Anakin’s force ghost. Greedo doesn’t shoot at all. No shitty Jabba scene. Original model effects instead of CG. I spent probably every day from the age of around 3 to 5 watching the Battle of Yavin over and over because of how cool those models were.
Aside from the stuff that actually changes the film, I don’t mind the Special Edition. The CG stuff is really good and a lot of that background stuff actually adds a lot. But I still would rather buy a HD copy with none of it, because that’s the way the films were intended to be seen.
@negativezero Yeah, I’ve got no issue with technical fixes, that kind of stuff is warranted and perfectly fine as part of a remastering process. It’s stupid and unnecessary story changes that are the ones that irk me (pretty much all of the ones you mentioned!) and are due for removal.
Perfect example of good technical remastering: Jaws. They did so much clean-up work on it, but it’s not like they added in some special scenes where we get to see the Shark was actually attacking the people of the beach because Martin Brody was actually in debt to Sea World.
Alternate, less farcical example: ST:TNG Blu-Ray remastering.
Want some rye? Course ya do!
Do you want to build a snowman?
Yes. I want to go and play.
SEE, ELSA! IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE OVER THOUGHT! >:|
Question for the more music oriented taybies and where you purchase stuff
Mrs Tigs is after “Then: The Earlier Years” by They might be giants. Amazon refuses to ship to AU so I’m looking for other places to buy.
Does anybody have any other online stores they regularly buy from that could stock it or potentially a mail forwarding service that is reliable
first of all that is adorable
secondly i dont really buy cd’s unless its from JB but some record store in your area might have it??? sorry tigs
red eye records has a listing for $42 (inc. postage) that ‘usually ships in 1-3 weeks’
Thanks 35 that looks like a very plausible option
I decided to attempt a month of no soft drink/alcohol/tea/coffee etc…
This is day 1 and I regret it already…
I believe in you!
What are you going to do? Drip fruit squeezings into your mouth like some kind of animal?
Have a nana
Soda water mainly… oh gods that even sounds boring!
I’m on day 10,421 of my no-coffee, no-tea diet. It can be done! Good luck, man.
9,380 Days following that diet 🙂
Though its easier when you don’t know any better 😛
I get dropping soft drink and also going no-booze, but no tea or coffee? That’s rough.
Just kicking soft drinks is hard enough.
Get a tea ball and some fresh ginger. Or just dried ginger if that is easier. Re-use a few times and get a nice hot drink without the caffeine.
Hmm… not a bad idea… might give it a shot, thanks!
If you can get hold of some fresh mint that can work as well, either alone or in combination
On the train this morning, someone stood up to walk to the door, so I took their seat.
The seat wasn’t warm. There was no lingering heat.
The lizard people are among us.
This morning I got out of bed and both my cats immediately moved to occupy the space my torso had been occupying. It’s the first time they’ve been within a foot of each other without fighting since we adopted the second one in September.
This morning i woke up with a dog laying between my legs and one with it’s head on my chest and ass in my face, causing me to lay in a position similar to the Vitruvian Man, except more broken and less artistic… well unless you like Picasso i guess
Realizing that you never really beat depression kind of sucks. Lately i have been kind of mood swingy. Nothing like it was but I get quite offended at random remarks and get kind of sulky and have very “all or nothing” thinking patterns. It never sticks around for longer than a hour but its still kind of scary that i can go back to that place. The thing is when im not in “sad sack mode” as my mum calls it, i think about how irrational it all is.
I guess what im saying is mental illness sucks and you have to keep working on it forever. I just need to try harder.
It’s a monster you lock in a box, you have to check the locks and hinges periodically or it might manage to escape.
Yep.. that’s pretty much me as well.
I fully concur…
Also i’m finding more and more that i can relate to those feeling as well…
Guessing this whole “Being an Emotional Rock” to someone is taking it’s toll :\
I generally tend to not try to talk about it here, but that’s why i’m absent for days on end, either a wrong mindset or dealing with difficult shit at home…
Apologies for turning it around to it being about me…
Just know that you always have support, and while we may not have talked a lot, if you need a friend to talk to, i’m always ready for a chat!
Dude, feel free to contact me. I will help you. Supporting someone is incredibly hard, especially if you have not been through it yourself.
*hugs* when you become that emotional rock for someone it can force you to push your own emotions to the side which can create that dak feeling we all face, just know that your not a rock your a boulder! With heaps I other friends who are also boulders willing to be your rock.
And that goes for everyone who reads this, your not alone and the first step is reaching out and saying “hey can I talk to you” I promise 99% of people will drop everything they are doing fr a friend in need and it falls on them as well to ask “are you ok?” Just so we know we aren’t alone.
Didn’t mean to write a short story just want everyone to know people here care about each other and are always willing to help.
Even rocks can be eroded if they’re not occasionally sheltered themselves
I’m nigh-on-convinced that ‘depression’ as we humans describe it is actually the status quo of a human being. Various artificial things like religion, love, society, culture allow us to mask the reality. Depression occurs when these layers start peeling back and we come to a self-realisation about who we are. It’s confronting.
tl;dr im a robot.
Learning to love yourself, it is the greatest looooooove of allllllll
More seriously, though: it depends on the person. There are people I know who I’d swear on a stack of Bibles (or something I hold more dear, like… I dunno, boobs) have never felt a moment of depression or self-loathing in their lives.
Introspection is a good thing for those who have it, because it’s often a primary catalyst for change and growth, but it’s also capable of being one of the most dangerous tools in our inventories.
Robots can’t love.
..Apart from their girlfriends. Eh is a pretty cool guy and takes care of StickMan and is pretty cute most times.
Edit: lol, stack of boobs. I
It’s the hardest last game boss of all. It’s also the most gratifying
It’s like one in an MMO though, you can beat it over and over but it’ll never truly die. The best you can do is get so good at running the dungeon and memorising it’s attacks & weaknesses that you don’t even have to think about the fight, it’s just automatic
Only just barely but I finally achieved a goal I’ve been working on for years now, yo-yoing closer and closer to it and then losing focus and falling back away again: weight down to double figures. Pretty sure it’s been about fifteen years since I was here last.
Well done!
Congratulations man!
good job buddy.
Congrats man! May have taken a few years but I’m sure it was worth the weight!
#pagesixforeverinourhearts
I felt it was quite appropriate for @steve-o_the_deve-o to be making page 6 jokes on page 9. 6 and 9 are interchangeable after all.
Nice work, man. There’s actually a couple guys in the office here aiming for pretty much that, and really struggling with it. So yeah, good work.
As I was reading I thought this was going to be about a cool yo-yo trick. 🙁
But, good stuff man! Seems like it’s an important goal you set for yourself, so congrats on achieving something personal that probably wasn’t easy.
Uh, Neg. Towel rack.
I don’t have one so I guarantee my gut was not hanging on it!
Boo yah! Top news!
If I ever get to double figures I’ll actually be underweight, my ideal weight for my height & build is 110kg. The irony is that I’m 70kg away from that but the last time I had it measured, my muscle mass was only 20kg away from it and that was 6 months ago before I really started getting half decent at weights so I may well be in triple figures for that now.
I’m short so my ideal is like 80 or so.
Heh the way we’re both going, I’ll be able to bench press you when you’re done.
Are you secretly The Hulk?
Well you may not like me when I’m angry…
Well done Neg, hopefully the habits you picked up going from A to B will mean you keep under that
I’m not stopping here.
Haven’t seen the Posting Too Fast grue this morning. Did someone turn the lights on and scare him off or am I just lucky?
Just lucky. I’ve had it multiple times. Notifications being back up is nice though.
I’ve had it a couple of times, but it’s decreasing in frequency \o/
yeah, I’ve been getting it 🙁
Just got it again. Less frequent than it was! The whole site’s been running a lot faster since the notifications thing reappeared too.
can it please be home time already?
Work is getting the way of Dark Souls-ing.
Work is just an un-fun Dark Souls.
More grindy, less interesting, no reliability of reward for your increased skill, less visually-appealing… worst Dark Souls ever.
You also can’t kill every boss you see
well…. technically, you can
Edit : it just leads to a non-standard game over.
Just get some Sunbro’s to help
In this case gangsters and junkies
Maybe that’s why I don’t like playing it.
Oh my god, NIS America discovered my secret guilty pleasure and are re-releasing Cardcaptor Sakura on Bluray. I can finally say goodbye to my 18-or-so-disc DVD set that I imported from the US at crazy prices (and regretted nothing because CCS is rad).
To wit, in August there may be a Region 1 / US Cardcaptor Sakura complete DVD set available to someone should they want it… Not the movies though, NISA don’t seem to have those.
I need to pick that up, remind me when it’s released. I’ve only seen a couple of eps years ago, my old video store had some ancient VHSs of them. I need more anime (I have a pretty big collection now but you can never have too much :D)
It’s expensive. $220 with shipping from NISA for it, but that’s a 9-disc, 70-episode series which everyone assumed would never be released on BD in English because the last company to touch it went bankrupt. The Japanese BDs which I assume they’re using the same source for were remastered as well and the video quality was beautiful. Very crlsp, clean transfers. CCS was one of the last high-budget traditionally animated TV anime AFAIK, no digital processes used, and it has some absolutely beautiful sequences. Plus it’s a very smartly written show, subverts a lot of the usual magical girl anime tropes.
It is one of my favourite shows.
sweet, let me know when it’s released, I really liked what I have seen. I’ve been pretty tempted to download it all cause I couldn’t find it anywhere, would be great to get a complete collection.
I have the original VHS of Cardcaptors that was on Cheez TV. Madman only released 1-5 because DVDs were becoming popular
I don’t know if the whole international dub was ever released on home video anywhere. Australia never got it all. Not that I care since the dub was horribad (especially the name changes).
SIX DAYS LEFT.
MONEY. NOW.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology
Totally (finally) remembered to do that yesterday.
Heeeey @dc have you played Child of Light yet? is it awesome?
Hey buddy. I have played it and I’m loving it. Just my kind of thing. Just a cool game to get lost in with addictive combat mechanics and all that. The music is pretty great too.
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The story is your standard fairy tale stuff, elevated by a beautiful art direction. The dialogue I kind of dig in a weird way, is a little forced though. 😀 Mostly I would recommend it for the immersion of pretty graphics and awesome music as well as fun combat and leveling up. Kind of reminds me of Costume Quest on that front.
Always enjoy using my PS4. Just hurry up with the games already! *shakes fist*
u jelly of mai blu controlla??!?1/1
That I haven’t even opened yet. 🙁
…
I thought that blue controller was some what ugly. 😛
🙁 I preferred it over the red, in-person.
Nah, I can see why you’d like it. I just like my consoles standardized and shinily black. 😀
And then there’s a bright shiny light destroying the whole thing! \o/ Lucky for dat firmware update, dimming is better than nothing.
Honestly for a moment I thought the first sentence had been rot13’d.
i gotz dem skillz to pai da billz
Tried War Thunder? That’s surprisingly fun once you tweak the controls and remember to keep your finger the fuck away from the left trigger at all costs
Not my kind of game, alas. :'(
You’ve got AC4 on PS4 don’t you? When I can afford to get PS+ (and assuming you also have it), we should have a go of the coop assassin multiplayer stuff for that
I played a crapload of that when i first got my ps4, got pretty decent too, unlocked a lot of planes, didn’t mind it at all, it would be nice if they changed the interface to work better on console though
Can’t remember what left trigger was, why avoid? wasn’t that bombs or missiles?
No that was the “Lock onto and turn towards your last target, even if it was a ground vehicle and turning towards it would mean diving nose first into the ground like an idiot” button
oh, yup, that just seemed really inconsistant, I found it helpful for doing tighter turns occasionally but mostly it just bugs out and is damn near impossible to even recentre the view to even attempt to regain some control. They had a similar thing in Blazing Angels and it worked pretty well.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/30/hemorrhage-world-of-darkness-screens-and-details-leak/#more-204641
Bit of information has come out about the cancelled World Of Darkness MMO
man this glitch in the new PS4 update is really annoying.
When in party chat and in a game menu, the “Voice chat has been set to prioritize party” message keeps popping up repeatedly…. we had this happening all night last night…
@beeawwb – all good with the kings quest stuff? did you go through it?
Yep, all present and accounted for as far as I can tell. 🙂
I’m trying something today called a “Marble Mocha”… by the machine spirit… the taste is incredibly good!
Edit: OH SO NOW I’M NOT POSTING TOO FAST?!
Oh great TAYbies, I require your advice (particularly from those with 40K knowledge). My character in an Only War 40K RPG that I play in had his main weapon, a Power Fist, destroyed by a Tyranid Warrior Prime. He is now currently weaponless aside from his sidearm, a Hellpistol, and his backup Laspistol.
My question to you is: what new weapon should my guy now wield, considering he is a big, beefy guy who is adept at close-quarters combat (basically he was uppercutting Orks with the Power Fist)? I’m considering rifling through the Munistorum’s supplies and seeing if they have a Triplex Lasgun but that is probably unlikely considering we’re stranded at an Imperial base on a basically post-Exterminatus (by post I mean a few millenia after Exterminatus) forge world. Ignoring those constraints, what would be an ideal weapon for a Stormtrooper/Sergeant Guardsman?
A Renewable Power Fist. Like a normal one but with solar panels on it.
Guess it would be better for fighting outside.
Next time get a power glove for your power fist, for added protection. It’s so bad.
I have no idea about Warhammer 40k but @f4ction seems to know a bit about it!
Pull a Commissar Yarrick, next ork nob or boss you come across with a power klaw, kill him and tear it off to replace your own lost weapon.
Lightning Claws or a Thunder Hammer.
I’ve always been partial to the power axe myself
Of course if you really want to go OP you could equip a dual stream @chuloopa
Lightning claaaaaaaw. I’d say an Ork powerklaw but the only humans that have them are the exception to the rule, they weigh far more than Imperial counter-parts (since they’re just chunks of metal with servos in them). Power weapons work and you can make anything a power weapon. You could make a power fish!
Ooh that’s a point, how about a power rubber-chicken-with-a-pulley-in-the-middle?
Depends on how badarse you want to go.
An evicerator (dual-handed chainsword) is funnn and bloody.
I like the elegance of a master crafter power sword, such as Heironimo Sondar’s Power Sword that Colonol-Commissar Ibram Gaunt uses.
Chain fists are also great fun – it’s a powerfist WITH a chainsword. What’s not to love about that?!
Lastly, if you REALLY want bad arse, see if your GM can work a “counts as power fist” into the story. Ie. Colonel Iron Hand Straken style. Your character gets his arm ripped off, only to have it replaced with a supremely powerfull bionic one. You would be the baddest arse that ever arsed.
I walked into town this morning to pick up my copy of Child of Light and vote in the Legislative Council elections. I must be getting fitter because it took me 2 minutes less than it did last time. My plan is to walk at least 2 km each day for the next month. If I can do that, I’ll be really happy with myself.
Sounds like you’re @ontargett !
That never gets old …
How are you tracking it? I use Nike+ for my running, works just as well for walking. Also, when outside it records the route.
I use Map My Walk, which my sister recommended. It works well for walking and running and records the route as well.
Anyone interested in Croixleur Sigma? I have two free codes!
I’ve never heard of it but the trailer looks interesting.
Anyone else played Touch My Katamari? It’s seriously whack, so very Japanese. Dat music tho.
oh, you crazy kids & your euphemisms.
Where’d you get it? I’ve been after it as it was one of the reasons I bought a Vita and just haven’t got around to buying it yet
It’s on PSN, I got it for free with PS+.
OMG MUST DOWNLOAD!
It’s pretty cray.
Na, na na na na na na-na, Katamari Damacy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8bl4269g_0
I think I need this.
Child of Light is downloading. Fingers crossed it works without too many problems.
EDIT: Derp. Forgot the s on problems.
It’s always fun having to point out to customers that their $250 Rip Curl/Quicksilver/Billabong surf watch is a heap of junk with the movements retailing at $4. Somehow it becomes my fault they purchased a shit watch.
Hey, I like my Rip Curl Watch.
Yesterday I broke my golden rule of sickness. My rule is thus:
If you are sick and not contagious, go to school or work.
Yesterday morning was a nightmarish display of contempt for my sinuses that led to the deaths of half a box of tissues. (Seriously, my tissue box is almost empty) I chose to go to school anyway.
The first session of the day brought forth a new challenge. I spent half of the first session on the toilet. The second session was better, and I thought my troubles were over.
Then came the third session, the Grand Hour of Illness. I had the curious malady of my face burning like the surface of a thousand suns, and the rest of my body shivering slightly at the cold of the open window. Apparently the unflinching horror of my current condition was noticeable, and the teacher suspected I had a fever of some description. Then the headache came. The headache arrived with a force indistinguishable from a battering ram, and all progress came to a stop. The mere act of writing took me to a place of unending agony. The teacher recommended I go for a walk.
The curative properties of fresh air had taken a break that day, and my condition did not improve. It didn’t cause my condition to worsen, which I perceived to be a good thing. I did manage to take my mind off the agony I was experiencing, and all I could think about was whether Iron Chef was still on the air.
Once I returned to the classroom, I returned to my previous work output, where I could write a single word before being forced to clutch my head in a pointless attempt to alleviate the suffering.
The temperature seemed to be rising. It was at the point where I started pouring the contents of my water bottle on my face that the teacher ordered I leave the room. I journeyed to the nurse’s office, where I was told to go home.
Fast forward to today, and I have taken a day off work experience in the vain hope that by tomorrow I will not be afflicted by four types of sickness at once. Over the course of typing this currently 350-word monstrosity, my temperature has risen, and my head has started to ache. One can dream that the next hour will not be on par with the Grand Hour of Illness. One can dream.
EDIT: 413 words, wow. I did not take trjn’s advice on being concise.
Golden rule of sickness should be don’t attempt to power through if the total lost productivity will be greater due to prolonged sickness than the time off to recover.
Often the body just needs rest and if you don’t get it then you will not recover. 3 days of sub standard work is of less benefit than a day off and 2 days of proper work.
If symptoms persist, I suggest visiting Dr. Crusher in the medi-bay.
See where you wrote 400 words i would of written:
IM FUCKING SICK AND IT SUCKS FUUUUUCK.
both convey the same message.
I usually elaborate a bit more like
“I’M EXCRETING AND OOZING A YELLOW FLUID AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS!!!”
things like that
You appear to be suffering from “urination”
If your urination can be described as oozing out you probably should be seeing a doctor.
I urinate pellets.
that’s pooping or kidney stones
Or at least drink a LOT more water. If it’s the consistency of golden syrup then you’re probably dehydrated
Or a camel.
If you’re really mad and still want to work despite being sick, windows’ narration thing is pretty decent so you could lie back with your eyes closed, headset on and just talk out a stream of ideas to edit later.
Have you considered some kind of medical (and non-yoghurt making) assistance? It sounds like you need it.
My wife’s blood pressure is high so there’s talk of potentially needing to induce her on the 6th. I told her that that seemed rather soon, and she reminded me that she’s due on the 8th.
Faaaaaaaark.
Oh god, then you get to say “come to daddy” legitimately…
I’m scared…
You’re scared?
Come to daddy.
I need an adult?
I AM AN ADULT.
That drools and plays with alpha-blocks.
😛
my little sister was 3 month premature. She was the size of a can of beans. I think your beautiful baby will be fighting fit.
It begins. Worth it.
Isn’t arriving early how you ended up in this situation?
Ba-dum tish
EDIT: Spoiler tags still not working eh?
Dang it…
hello guys
ive been seeing a on the internet that a lot of people dont finish games, i would like to know your opinion on this, and can you list what games you have completed this last gen?
Lots.
I don’t care if I don’t complete a game if I feel that I’ve got value out of it.
Depends will my list be used against me to start some sort of war??
I am the worst at completing games… i’ve started making it my goal that i am not allowed to buy a new game until i have finished one….
Not very succesfully though because steam sales and humble bundles, but the idea is there :P…
With me it generally boils down to time… i don’t have a lot of time to play games anymore… but there’s so many games i want to play that i tend to have 5+ going at the same time… sometimes i get bored with them/forget about them and hence never end up playing them again.
Some i love so much that i complete, and want to complete again…
I honestly couldn’t mention all of the games i’ve completed in the entirety of last gen, but in the last year it’s a fairly short list:
Bioshock infinite
The Cave
Dark Souls
Games i’ve started on the other hand is ridiculous 😛
I play games because i want to have fun… if i’m pumping through a game just to complete it, but not having fun, it doesn’t serve it’s purpose in my opinion and therefore i don’t do it…
I’ve only started documenting games I’ve played in the last two years:
2014:
Broken Age
The Wolf Among Us
The Walking Dead 2
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
inFamous: Second Son
Botanicula
Moebius
2013:
Pikmin 3*
The Last of Us*
Tomb Raider*
BioShock Infinite*
Zombi U
The Cave
The Night of the Rabbit*
A New Beginning
The Blackwell Bundle
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus
To the Moon
Dear Esther
Remember Me
Ni No Kuni
Deadlight
The Walking Dead: 400 Days*
Gone Home*
Rayman Legends*
DmC
GTAV
Beyond: Two Souls*
The Wolf Among Us
Batman: Arkham Origins
Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut
Wind Waker
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West – Premium Edition
Goodbye Deponia
Broken Sword 5: Episode 1
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag
Super Mario 3D World
The Walking Dead: Season Two
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons*
2012:
Deponia
Chaos on Deponia
Gemini Rue
Resonance
Primordia
The Walking Dead
Anna’s Quest
Egress
Mass Effect 3
Sleeping Dogs
Scratches
Spec Ops: The Line
Dishonored
Borderlands 2
Kingdoms of Amalur
SSX
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
I Am Alive
Beyond Good & Evil HD
Rayman Origins
Max Payne 3
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
The Force Unleashed
Batman Arkham City (PC)
Quantum Conundrum
The Dig
Beneath a Steel Sky
There’s way, way, way more…
What does * mean?
I wonder if it means he finished them. Or just really enjoyed them.
I’ve finished them all.
Those were from when I was going to do a best of 2013 list on my blog. It never eventuated. 😛
So you’re saying nothing notable from 2014 just yet?
Add them at the end of the year when I’ve played lots.
Nothing apart from Broken Age stands out as GotY yet, alas.
Interesting. Personally, I know as soon as I finish them.
I’ll play a game until it stops being fun. Then I’ll move on. Have little spare time and not enough to waste on something unenjoyable.
I try to complete every game I buy, but I don’t buy many and I play at a snail’s pace.
Exclusions: Racing sims, fighters, little casual games and Dark Souls.
I complete most of my games unless they’re the kind I buy for a look and don’t like. Then the fact that they don’t get completed is their fault rather than mine.
It’d be interesting to have a script that scans PSN/XBL/Steam/Origin/Uplay achievements and returns how many of them you have the “completed the game” achievement for though
In no particular order:
-Bionic Commando 2008 (PC)
-Bleed (PC)
-Dead Space (PC)
-Homefront (PC)
-McPixel (PC)
-Assasin’s Creed (XB360)
-Bioshock (XB360)
-Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC)
-Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (XB360)
-Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (XB360)
-Crysis 2 (XB360)
-Gears of War 2 (XB360)
-Halo Reach (XB360)
-Saint’s Row 2 (XB360)
Now that I have exhausted my game library in the room I am in, the following will be based on memory.
-Super Paper Mario (Wii)
-Conduit 2 (Wii)
-Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
-Pokemon Gen 4 (DS)
-Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (DS)
-Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Time (DS)
-Starfox Command (DS)
Worms Open Warfare 2 (DS)
-A bunch of other DS titles that I can’t remember
@bjh
I’ve finished 34 games this year 😀
It’s understandable why people don’t finish most of their games but I like to get my “money’s worth” and play them as much as I can. I hardly replay them or go for 100% though as I find that my time is better spent playing something new.
That’s not to say I don’t have a huge pile of shame, because I totally do :/
(any tips to get past the “You are posting comments too quickly” error appearing when I haven’t commented at all?)
Accidentally posted in old TAY repost:
Qumulys sends his best wishes and fistbumps to all the TAYbies :D!
Q-BOOOOOOOOOO
I regret that I didn’t join TAY until just after Qumulys disappeared because he seems like an awesome guy.
I will re-say what i said in old TAY.
If it weren’t for Q, none of you would be calling me Numbers, good times.
I can continue to call you Lucy if you want.
Good day, bad day.
Good:
ONE of the benefits of not wearing the full formal suit and tie all that often (besides cost of heavy wear maintenance/replacement), is that people don’t get too used to it. Which means when I do wear it, I still get the catcalls, whistles and ego-boosting praise – and really, isn’t that pretty much the point of dressing nice? I cracked out the grey suit today, which hasn’t had a chance to get much play, and that seems to be working out nicely, though the sleeves are probably about an inch too long.
(Also, total eyeroll at anyone who thinks that women don’t openly and unashamedly objectify men. Even in the workplace. Which, in this instance, isn’t the problem it would be if the roles were reversed, chiefly because I’m an incurable narcissist.)
It was actually for getting filmed, not meetings. (Said the cafe staff, “Filmed for what… a gangster movie?” And some more comments to that effect. Yeah people think I look like I hurt people for money. Pretty, though, so that’s OK.) Apparently it’s some internal promotional stuff. Will be interesting to see that bit turn up on the intranet.
Bad:
[REDACTED – TOO MUCH WORK-SPECIFIC IDENTIFYING DETAIL] Long story short – put some serious effort into doing some favours. My reward is having them go behind my back to try escalate even further (unsuccessfully) for absolutely no reason, acting like we’re too slow.
I’m getting a kind of, “I should have done this shit three weeks ago but left it to the last minute and am going on leave tomorrow and if it’s not done before I go, my boss will have to do it and they’ll realize I fucked up,” vibe. If I were a less kind soul, I’d almost want their efforts to fail, for the sake of just desserts. I’m actually kind of mad about it, and contemplating the very rare decision to burn some bridges.
Ohhh, but a new challenger steps up to the plate… what part of, “I’ll get back to you in two hours,” re: a job to be completed over two days implies that you should call after half an hour and then an hour to check?
Half-way to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDAtAqXcRlo I swear to god.
Around here, if someone breaks out a suit & tie the question is usually “which company are you interviewing for?”
Did get that once as a joke, because everyone knew what it was for, today. One of the girls actually completely failed to recognize me and stared ahead blankly at the cafe downstairs – I actually had to snap my fingers and say, “Howdy stranger,” to get her attention. She went up ahead of me while I waited for coffee, and must have mentioned it to everyone else, so there was a row of chairs lined up with people sitting and staring at the door, waiting for me to open it. At which point they applauded. That did actually throw me enough to show surprise, which is I guess what they were going for.
Were you wearing a fedora and carrying a violin case at the time?
Grey suit, black dress shoes, white collared shirt, dark blue tie. Nothing real special.
I just got that manner, apparently. Mum thinks I look like a thug. Cops stop me every now and then when I’m walking around, to ask what I’m up to. Wearing a suit, took a train once, and some younger folks were whispering and eyeing me off til one of them plucked up to ask, “Do you get paid to look like that?”
“Like what?”
“Like… you hurt people for money?”
*stare* “…It’s more of a hobby.” (So, sometimes I don’t actually discourage it. :P)
You’ve just got that mafia face I guess…
I demand pics now. Pls.
There’s some on my twitter or in http://www.urbanstray.com/images labelled relatively obviously, I think. 🙂 I don’t think there’s many/any in a suit, though.
You so angry. I see now.
Let me know if you need help with web dev stuffs. I’m pretty okay at some things.
Thanks for the offer. You’d be in for trouble, though. That domain has digital herpes, it’s routinely getting flagged as being used to send spam messages to the point that they disabled email on it. It’s probably a node in someone’s botnet. Every other time I look into the folders I’ll see some infestation of phishing portal sites has sprouted up, but they’ve probably written themselves a backdoor in all the base-level crap that I don’t understand, so pulling the weeds and changing passwords hasn’t had much impact.
One of my ‘to do’ lists is backing up all those images somewhere so I can purge the entire fucking thing with fire.
Yeah I’d recommend asking hosting company to hose the entire directory, revert to default, then setting a very good password. Feel free to hit me up any time, you got my twitter. 😛
That’s pretty much the plan, but I just haven’t set aside any time for it. They’re pretty great when I use the livechat, and I’m planning on using the more colourful ‘digital herpes’ ‘purge with fire’ language to liven things up.
Suit!
http://urbanstray.com/images/suitable.jpg
I’ve been told by several different people that I look like a serial killer, starting to wonder if I actually resemble one that existed or if they just mean in general, I do tend to have a scowl on my face a lot though. Oh well I embrace it, like you’ve said before it doesn’t hurt looking angry in the right places (I rarely get approached by anyone for anything)
Yeah, I get the serial killer accusation when wearing my greatcoat, which is nothing particularly matrix’y or anything. Wool coat, black, barely knee-length. Typical outdoors Melbourne winter business attire.
@phlanispo Yeah. Drunk me decided I’d developed lung cancer the other night and I’ve been coughing a lot for the past few days. The severity of which is less each day but I’m certainly done with that. I’ve even stopped stealing abandoned half full lighters from bars.
See I carry a light cause I’m always taken for a smoker so I figured May as we’ll have one on me to help people who ask. But then they started offering to me and etc.
Peer pressure! :'(
I’ve been calling it the Chinese hand shake.
Ugh that’s a great page get ain’t it.
PAGEWW GETTATOW!!! Desu ney etc.
Unflattering personal secret: For my entire 20s, that’s the reason I carried around a zippo – classic, burnished steel. As a ‘cool’ affectation.
That’s why I killed that little girl’s dad, abducted her, drained her of Adam and bought Incinerate.
Didn’t help, the ladies looked at me like I was some kind of psychopath… who understands women?
My ex got me a pretty nice zippo with my name engraved on it as a present once. I’m not sure why exactly, since neither of us smoke (well, she mostly doesn’t unless drinking at which point she would get sooky that I no longer wanted to kiss her :P), and I liked carrying it around with me. It just seems really handy to be able to create fire whenever necessary. Just like having that utili-key on my keyring was always handy for needing to cut things, or open a bottle, etc.
It’s a shame the damn things run out of fuel even when you’re not using them, otherwise I’d probably still have it in my pocket all the time.
Ugh. Yes. The evaporation and constant refueling was the worst part. I went through so many cans of fluid with barely even a token “Dammit, this is ridiculous” use. If it weren’t for that, then yes – I’d probably still have one in my shoulder bag. Not necessarily my pocket. That’s premium real-estate, that.
Advantage of working with them. I have about 120 cans of fluid readily available at all times.
*reports Freeze to the FBI*
@negativezero mate that’s fantastic news about reaching your goal.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/add.png
If only it weren’t so relatable…
*sigh*
New wall decoration. 🙂 Thanks.
Attempt #3
http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/04/rob-ford-caught-allegedly-smoking-crack-on-video-again-taking-a-break/361486/
I like how the headline is “Again”.
Rob Ford is an absolute joke, how he’s still in office I don’t know.
God damn it..
TAYlist for the 1st of May 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by an awkward 3 minutes without any sound output (as well as OldTAY)
Backstreet Boys – Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)
Huey Lewis & The News – Hip To Be Square
George Harrison – Got My Mind Set On You
Vanessa Amorosi – The Power
Daft Punk – Instant Crush
Hook N Swing – Reason
Men At Work – Overkill
Cold Chisel – You Got Nothing I Want
Jimmy Barnes – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Screaming Jets – Stop The World
Midnight Oil – Read About It (A personal addition to the playlist)
Billy Ocean – Get Out Of My Dreams, Get Into My Car
Radiators – Comin’ Home
Daddy Cool – Eagle Rock
Police – Every Breath You Take
Scissor Sisters – Don’t Feel Like Dancing
None of these are nearly camp enough to be a request from me. I’m disappointed in your random Numbers generator.
I highly approve of 5 of these songs.
I approve of 3 of these songs.
I am indifferent about 5 of these songs.
I hate 3 of these songs.
Guess which! 😛
Well, Disney’s announced Infinity 2.0, which has support for the marvel characters.
Everyting from version one will be compatible in 2.0 (even the base, and toybox worlds).
The 2.0 Marvel characters are along the lines of Ironman, Hawkeye, Black Widow etc.
They’ll be available separately, or in a new starter pack if you didn’t have the old one.
I think they should have waited a bit longer. Skylanders waits at least a year, this is, what, 8 months. Maybe they’re trying to capitalise on Cap 2?
You put Avengers on anything atm and it’ll sell.
Guessing Marvel this year, Star Wars next year.
I’ll have a Tiglet by then so can totally get all the star wars stuff for them
“For them”
*Whistles*
Avengers 2 is out next year.
probably series two of marvel figures, with Quicksilver/Scarlet Witch/Ultron to coincide.
There is currently a 15 foot tall Hulk statue up in Tianyi square here I Ningbo. I don’t know what he has to do with dragon boat festival. But he’s second most popular after the fountain.
“Releasing late 2014” – so probably around October.
The first one released August 2013. So it’ll probably be around a yearly cycle like Skylanders.
Didn ‘t see that 😛
Late 2014 so they can start the Hype Train for the Avengers 2, like @freezepreston said?
@freezespreston is about right on the timing – infinity avengers for avengers 2, infinity star wars next year for the star wars movie
I was close to getting the cape done until last night I realised the pattern up the top is wrong. So, off I go to do it all again. Good thing I can’t afford the material for my other cosplays atm which is freeing up the time
It’s going to be the most perfect cosplay ever even if it takes a hundred years…
Next step: gene splicing to give herself ice powers.
Oh god, the pressure /o\
I now have my 3rd long weekend in a row! That’s the only upside to losing access to the work vehicle! Hopefully I can sort something out so I can get there on Monday though, otherwise it’s gonna be troublesome 😐
Rocket skateboard!
Kotaku needs its favicon back. The tabs look too weird without it.
Less than 15 mins later and it seems to have its favicon back…
Dammit, it doesn’t for me. This is gonna be one of those things.
I’m looking at it with Chrome. Mabye it’s a browser thing?
It is. Plus caching is a bitch sometimes.
Maybe, I have it in firefox as well
Was just in JB and ended up buying FF14. Damn it, why do I have to be so addicted to MMOs? And I’m not even addicted like normal people get addicted. They all put hours into a single MMO, whereas I put a little time into all the MMOs.
Sigh. I guess it’s time to let my inner catgirl out.
PC or PS4?
PC. What do you own it on?
PC. But it’s cross-platform I think?
We can be kittygirlbros maybe.
What server are you on? I’m assuming this game has servers and not just one giant server like ESO.
I’m on Tonberry (JP) I think. I’d have to check. Literally haven’t logged in since about October though still have an active subscription.
Yeah I’m on Tonberry. However I got kicked out of the guild I was in because of inactivity (last logged on 221 days ago :P) so I’m not 100% tied to that server any more.
Google tells me Tonberry is the unofficial aussie server. Are there many english speakers on it?
There were when I was playing. The guild I was in was the first on the server and it was so big that it hit cap. Lots of other English-speaking people jumped onto there as well and for a while you couldn’t join the server.
Xenoblade Essay Post. Serious late game spoilers abound.
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Unir whfg svavfurq gur riragf va gur Zrpubavf Pber, naq V shpxvat XARJ gung fbzrguvat jnfa’g evtug jvgu Qvpxfba. Rire fvapr ur fnvq fbzrguvat nybat gur yvarf bs “V srry onq sbe ylvat gb gurfr xvqf” jnl onpx nf jr jrer yrnivat gur Fngbey Znefu, fbzrguvat jnfa’g evtug. Naq Ybevguvn jnf boivbhf nf gur nabgure “uvqqra” onq thl. Nyivf V’z fgvyy abg fher nobhg. Ur’f whfg sybja bss sebz Pbybal 6 jvgu Qvpxfba naq uvf Gryrguvn fjnez, ohg V fgvyy guvax ur’f cynlvat obgu fvqrf va gur zvqqyr.
Ohg frevbhfyl, gur jubyr fprar jvgu gur Fuhyx funcrq Mnamn Fcvevg be jungrire oernxvat bhg bs Fuhyx’f obql naq onfvpnyyl tbvat nyy Ovt Onq ba hf jnf jrveq, ohg vagevthvat. V yvxr ubj vg unf onfvpnyyl syvccrq gur jubyr fgbel frg hc ba vgf urnq. Gur jubyr gvzr lbh nffhzr gung gur Zrpubavf jnf gur znwbe guerng naq nyy bs n fhqqra, abcr fbeel, lbh’er nyy whfg sbbq sbe gur Ovbavf. V’z ernyyl ybbxvat sbejneq gb gur raq tnzr naq frrvat whfg ubj jrveq vg nyy gheaf bhg gb or. Uryy, V’yy cebonoyl ghea nebhaq naq fgneg n arj tnzr cyhf. V xvaqn jnag gb oynfg guebhtu rirelguvat ng n uvtu yriry fb V pna trg gur shyy fgbel nf dhvpxyl nf cbffvoyr. V’z fher gurer’f orra guvatf V’ir zvffrq, rira univat ercynlrq vg gubhtu cerggl dhvpxyl.
V qb unir gb fnl gubhtu, V xvaqn jvfu gur Zrpubavf nernf jrer n ovg zber zrzbenoyr. V xabj vgf fhccbfrq gb or bar ovt tvnag znpuvar, naq gur Snyyra Nez jnf vagrerfgvat, ohg V xvaq bs guvax gur frdhrapr sebz Fjbeq Inyyrl, Tnynunq Sbegerff, Snyyra Nez, Zrpubavf Svryq, Prageny Snpgbel jnf nyy n ovg fnzrl. V xabj vg jbhyq unir orra uneq gb nibvq, ohg fcraqvat fb znal ubhef whfg svtugvat jnir nsgre jnir bs Zrpuba rarzvrf jnf trggvat n ovg gvevat. V’yy or tynq gb urnq onpx gb gur ovbavf jurer gurer vf n ovg zber inevrgl.
V nyfb jbaqre rknpgyl jungf tbvat gb unccra gb Svben. Jurgure be abg gurl jvyy tb gur jubyr jnl naq yrg ure obql eha bhg bs raretl (juvpu jbhyq or qrinfgngvat, ohg n terng fgbel cbvag), be vs gurl svther bhg n jnl gb tvir rirelbar gur unccl raqvat.
Ok , getting back to it. Really excited to see how it all pans out 😀
Tagging – @greenius @powalen @negativezero @strange @benny (I think you’ve played it right?)
Ooo a notification! A mention! I’m loved! Oh, Xenoblade? I’ve only played half an hour..
Only played half an hour, and you get tagged before me?
Disappointing.
At least you guys got tagged. And I’ve played at least 10 hours.
Oh wait. Blaghs was left out too.
We’ll start our own Xeno club.
10 hours is only the tutorial!
You are all the worst people
I got to thirty!
I was up to Satorl Marsh, wherever that sits in terms of time.
You’ve still got like 15-20 hours to go at least. 😛
Have you given Melia a try yet? At the point you’re at you should have leveled enough to get her enough skills to start being pretty awesome.
Only in short bursts. Not enough to really use her well
Yup, try her!
She basically requires another high damage dealer to support her though. She draws aggro and can’t really handle it. Give her an Aggro down gem as well and she wrecks face all day! Was my main was most of the last half of the game.
At the moment I’m running with Shulk Dunban and… someone else
I ran that other character with tanking gear, Melia and Shulk or Carna depending on the situation toward the end. Controlling Melia. Her damage output is a million times higher when you’re using her (assuming using properly)
What sort of setup and arts did you use with her?
Don’t know about Neg, but here’s what I did:
The main thing is to get up a water buff first and hold it for passive healing. Then continually cast and shoot other elements. I seem to remember favouring lightning plus the ability that duplicates the last element used (so you can continually cast and shoot alternating between them as the other cools down).
She has a great unassisted topple ability too. I also gave her the healing art she learns (which sacrifices your health to give to another – which isn’t too bad because you should have the health regen buff all the time and you shouldn’t be drawing aggro anyway if played right – no replacement for a proper healer but can be nice when the AI doesn’t cooperate)
A really great character to play as! Lots of different things to play with and think about.
One that puts up HP first, then one other buff, then pop lightning or fire, shoot it off, double-cast, fire it off again, next damage spell, shoot it, and keep repeating the sequence. Sometimes throw one of the other elements in there if I need. If healing is needed, then pop three levels down, throw on extra water, then continue.
You’re can have IIRC three spirits up at once and it’s a stack, last in, first out. So you want two appropriate buffs up at all times, then use the top one to summon and immediately fire off your damage elementals and changing your middle buff as appropriate.
Melia does have some active heal spells but they hurt her. Those are actually usually fine to help off-healing because in a situation you need her doing that, you’re going to probably pop down twice and put up a second Water for double HP regen for a bit, using that to regen Melia’s health she sacrificed to heal someone else. She should be miles away from anything aggressive anyway so she shouldn’t be taking big hits.
She generates a lot of aggro just because of her insane damage output, so -aggro gems are good. Also it’s why I would use Dunban or SPOILER over Reyn because the other two have much more damage output so hold aggro better, and they have more taunts and abilities for keeping and maintaining aggro as well.
I wish you’d played this earlier so I could actually remember more of the minor plot points to discuss! haha I know you’ve still got some cool stuff to go though.
Totally agreed about the areas you mentioned too.
I know, right!? I barely remember what he talked about :/ 🙁
Finding that in the late game of FFX that Yuna becomes a serious powerhouse of a character.
I’m up to the Calm Lands on my PS2 playthrough and am almost tempted to just continue from there rather than start again with my HD remaster. Two things are going for me in that scenario: one, I’ll finish it quicker and two, I can keep my PS3 HD remaster sealed in its plastic.
I had er with auto-haste too, and sent her through a high damage melee path with her ultimate weapon.
Utter, utter tank.
Mines a beastly black mage. Just got to the airship and she’s hitting 9999 with all the third tier spells while Lulu hits for around 6000.
Gonna get the cactuar in the monster arena and cheat-train everyone up a hell of a lot asap 😀
My Yuna does ~60 physical damage, ~35000 magical damage.
Oh lordy! I thought mine was pretty strong, haha! I think mine would do around 12-15,000 with break damage limit. Yuna and Auron are my mass murders, they both hit for 9999 currently, which I think is good for where I am.
Still hating Wakka 😉
Speaking of Wakka, how do you plan on getting his sigil (since you’re having difficulties with blitzball), or have you given up?
I’m pretty sure I linked you my Blitzball “guide” thingy. But there’s a relatively easy way to get all his stuff by playing the least amount of Blitzball possible.
Oh, I’m fine with blitzball, haha! I actually enjoy it! :S
I just remember Freeze was having some issues with it (like other teams being level 50 while his team’s level 5, and the goalies catching being 3x his highest Shoot), which there doesn’t seem to be an easy fix for :S
Resetting data will fix that :P. But he’ll lose all his progress too :/
@freezespreston
That’s what I said to do, but apparently it only reset his team to level one, not every other team also, which seemed strange to me :S
Real Life Lag.
Brilliant.
Anyone else trying the trials comp? Got a good score yet?
I did this when I got home today, there’s definitely room for improvement though.
I managed this one, also felt like there was room for improvement though. Cracked the top 100 on the PSN leaderboard, whoo.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1v18ek911xlpbt8/Trials%20Fusion%E2%84%A2_20140501202522.jpg
NICE!
I’m smack-bang rank 100 on PC.
I don’t think I could shave 2 seconds off though.
not bad considering I’m new to the series. We must have done a near identical run, only 0.006 between us.
Friend messaged back with an e-mail address to send a CV and portfolio to. Been avoiding doing anything about it all day. Well, afternoon I guess. Since I didn’t actually get up til after 3. Portfolio is too hard.
On the plus side, someone I responded to on gumtree talking about starting up some kind of a band got back to me, so that’s nice I guess.
What kind of band? Mariachi?
Because @mrtaco obviously.
Heh. It was about a “40s/50s swing group”. I got invited to man the piano in the school’s big band back in year 12, and it was great fun. Wish I’d got to join sooner, it was kind of lucky actually in that the guy before me managed to break his hand so couldn’t play any more. I’d been in the concert band all of high school but on clarinet, so the bandmaster only really saw me as a clarinet guy til I ended up on keyboards for one of the musicals. But yeah, once school was over that all finished. Been missing group music ever since, really.
Swing Dancing is fun, so I think you should totes go for it.
An ad on the internet about a “40s/50s swing group” might not be anything to do with starting a band.
Only one way to find out 😛
Rock up with turntables and wreck house.
So, 4 hours later and I swear I was getting close to finishing the snowflakes of the cape. Then I notice that the actual shape of it appears to be wrong in sections.
Time to completely readjust it again. Feck. I am getting pretty pissed about it, but hopefully this is the last adjustment!
FINISHED! … placing the snowflakes for now. Need to add scalloping. Not potato or seafood =P
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/uuuuuuuuuuuuuugh.jpg
It’s absolutely utterly perfect and no changes need to be made oh god let this be the final design.
It’s never the final design
Survivor discussion! @greenius @sughly @masha2932
Cerggl tbbq rcvfbqr! Fhcre tynq gung Gnfun naq Fcrapre ner fgvyy nebhaq. Gurl’er cynlvat n irel tbbq tnzr ng gur zbzrag, gurl xabj rknpgyl jung’f jung.
V ungr gung Gbal unf gjb vqbyf gubhtu. V guvax gung fcrpvny vzzhavgl vf n ovg birecbjrerq gbb. V jvfu vg unq n yvzvgngvba ba vg gung lbh unir gb hfr vg orsber gur svany 4 be fbzrguvat fb gung lbh pna’g whfg gnxr vg nyy gur jnl gb gur raq. V’z guvaxvat ur’yy gel naq chyy n ovt zbir yvxr ur qvq jvgu YW naq tvir vg gb fbzrbar ryfr juvyr pbirevat uvzfrys jvgu gur uvqqra. Ohg gura ntnva, vg’f cerggl yngr tnzr fb ur zvtug whfg xrrc gurz obgu.
Jbb vf uvynevbhf gubhtu. Ur’f yvxr “V guvax Gbal naq V ner nyjnlf ba gur fnzr yriry jvgu guvatf!”… jryy, lrnu, orpnhfr lbh qba’g rira guvax nobhg gur yriry hagvy Gbal gryyf lbh nobhg vg! unun
V ernyyl onpxrq gur evtug ubefr ol tbvat sbe Gnfun rneyl ba gubhtu! Jung n cbjreubhfr! Ubcr fur znxrf vg gb gur svany guerr (gubhtu V qba’g guvax fur’q jva bire Gbal be Fcrapre)
Fb tynq Wrsen jrag ubzr! (fb Gnfun naq Fcrapre pbhyq fgnl). Gbal vf cynlvat fhpu n tbbq onq tnzr :C. V’z cerggl fher vqbyf hfhnyyl unir gb or hfrq orsber gur svany 4 ohg gura ur’f thnenagrrq… Zr naq Fhtf qvfphffrq gur “fcrpvny cbjref” vqby ynfg jrrx naq vg’f tbvat gb or fbbb pbagebirefvny, naq cbffvoyl tnzr-oernxvat (ubcrshyyl Fcrapre fgnlf!). V erpxba rirelbar jvyy ghea ba Gbal arkg rc ohg gura ur’yy chyy bhg uvf fcrpvny vqby naq jnygm nyy gur jnl guebhtu 🙁
V qba’g guvax ur pna hfr gur fcrpvny vqby ba nalbar ohg uvzfrys. Naq Jbb qbrfa’g qb nalguvat ybby
@sughly @masha2932
Gbal unf orra FHCRE yhpxl gur jubyr tnzr. Ng yrnfg gung’f jung vg frrzf yvxr. Ur qbrfa’g frrz gb znxr irel tbbq qrpvfvbaf, ohg gurl nyjnlf raq hc jbexvat bhg. Vg’f jrveq :C
Bu, V sbetbg nobhg gur nhpgvba gbb! V gubhtug vg jnf ernyyl fzneg bs Gnfun gb fvg bhg bs gur nqinagntr ovqqvat. Vs Wrss unf chyyrq bhg n frpbaq nqinagntr fur jbhyqa’g unir unq nal pbzcrgvgvba. Hayhpxl gung vg qvqa’g jbex bhg sbe ure. V jbaqre vs Fcrapre/Gnfun cynaarq gung. Fheryl gurl jbhyq’ir xabja gung Gbal jbhyq tb fgenvtug sbe gur nqinagntr fb gurl gevrq gb grnz hc. Vg’f uneq gb xabj orpnhfr gurl rqvg bhg n ybg bs guvf fghss.
Arkg jrrx vf tbvat gb or ernyyl tbbq V guvax! Ernyyl ubcvat gung Gbal tbrf ubzr fbzrubj gubhtu. Gur bayl jnl V pna frr vg unccravat vf vs gurl gel naq syhfu bhg obgu vqbyf ng bapr arkg jrrx. Znxr Gbal tvir gur abezny bar gb fbzrbar ryfr (Jbb?), oyvaqfvqr uvz naq sbepr uvz gb hfr gur uvqqra bar nsgre gur ibgrf ner ernq (boivbhfyl gurl jba’g xabj ur unf gur fcrpvny bar ohg gurl jvyy nsgre gur ibgr). Ur jba’g tb ubzr ohg gura ur’yy or ihyarenoyr sbe arkg jrrx.
@masha2932 @greenius
anuuuu V guvax gurl’yy or yhpxl gb unir uvz hfr bar bs gur gjb, ng orfg. V unir n srryvat ur jbag arrq gb hfr nal, ohg jbefg pnfr sbe uvz vf ur qbrfag naq gura hfrf gur uvqqra, fgvyy univat gur abezny bar gbb. FVTUUU.
ohg v gbgnyyl nterr ba gur gbal yhpx guvat. V guvax urf znqr greevoyr fyvchcf – V guvax ur tbg yhpxl jvgu gur tebhc urf jvgu, fb rnfvyl znavchyngrq ernyyl.
@powalen
Lrnu, ernyyl yhpxl jvgu uvf furrcyr :/
V guvax vg’f uvtuyl hayvxryl ur’yy hfr uvf vqby sbe nalbar ryfr bgure guna uvzfrys. Erzrzore ubj ur jnf nyy: “V gbyq gurz vg jnf sbe hf ohg ernyyl vg jnf gb fubj gurz gung V unir bar oynu oynu fbzrguvat” gurl’yy cebonoyl gel gb syhfu vg bhg bs uvz bayl gb or fynccrq va gur snpr jvgu gur fcrpvny cbjref bar 🙁
Gura ur’yy zbfg yvxryl whfg cynl uvf abezny bar naq gura rvgure farnx uvf jnl vagb gur svany 3 be trg ibgrq bhg vzzrqvngryl :C.
Fcrapr sbe gur jva!
Yeah I totally agree… except that person will be on the receiving end of the special idol for sure I reckon :'(
@powalen
Lrnuuuu… ng yrnfg vg *frrzf* yvxr gurler gnyxvat gbal arkg jrrx. Vz ernyyl xrra ba frrvat gur ernpgvbaf bs rirelbar jura guvf uvqqra bar vf cynlrq, ohg ng gur fnzr gvzr fpnerq sbe fcrapre naq gnfun bire vg G_G ubcrshyyl vg trgf qverpgrq ng bar bs gur bguref bhg bs eriratr sbe onpxfgnoovat uvz? qbhog vg gubhtu. V guvax punaprf ner vg jvyy or fcrapre, gbal vf gbb njner bs ubj jvaanoyr ur vf ng gur raq. FVTUUU. vs gung uncraf, ng yrnfg gurer vf gnfun gurer. bar bs gur gjb unf n punapr bs znxvat vg gb gur raq ng yrnfg. naq nf sbe xnff – shpx xnff. gnyxvat nobhg fcrapre orvat frysvfu? frevbhfyl?
@greenius @masha2932
Unun, Xnff vf uvynevbhf. V hfrq gb yvxr ure n ybg onpx va gur oenva gevor. Fur frrzrq fb pyrire naq yriry-urnqrq gura gur jubyr syvc guvat unccrarq naq fur ghearq vagb guvf fgenatr jbzna jub V qba’g yvxr nal zber :C
Zl cerqvpgvba sbe gur svany guerr vf Gnfun, Gbal naq Gevfu. Gevfu jvyy trg pneevrq gb gur raq, gurer’f ab ernfba gb ibgr ure bhg naq fur unfa’g qbar nalguvat jvaanoyr. Gbal ybbxf onfvpnyyl haorngnoyr ng gur zbzrag hayrff ur fghssf hc uvf vzzhavgvrf. Gnfun vf gur bayl znlor urer, vg pbhyq or rvgure ure be Fcrapre. Bhgfvqr punapr vf Jbb, ohg V qba’g guvax fb. V unir n srryvat ur zvtug tb arkg jrrx (vg’yy or orgjrra uvz, Fcrapre naq Gnfun – gurl’er Gbal’f ovttrfg guerngf). Vs Gbal trgf uvf jnl ur’q znxr vg gb gur raq jvgu Jbb naq Gevfu, ur’q or thnenagrrq n jva.
Yep, yep and yep ^^
V unir n srryvat vg’f tbvat gb or na hcfrg jva :C (Gbal). Ur’f fgvyy cynlrq gur tnzr eryngviryl jryy ohg Fcrapre naq Gnfun cynlrq vg orggre, ohg rirelbar xabjf gung naq qbrfa’g jnag gb fvg jvgu gurz.
Tbbq ybeq V ubcr vg’f abg Xnff, Gevff naq Jbb…
V thrff V’q ibgr sbe Xnff gura rira gubhtu fur’f gur jbefg? Gur bguref qvqa’g qb nalguvat ng nyy :/
That sounds terrifyingly bad
Would ruin the whole season for me 😛
Just saw @beardymcmuttonchops on tv! What a guy!
With how thin they are these days, balancing’s gotta be tricky.
Took me 4 reads but I get the joke now.
That some kind of cruel joke. You know I’m in China (no I haven’t bothered to get a VPN going
ahh sorry man. forgot about that! How much longer you there for? (The link was just Homer with his I get jokes line btw)
Survivor’s almost like a big IRL game of Mario Party.
Needs more races to buff buses clean. (Aka the best mario party game cause I generally win that one)
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
It was in one of the GameCube ones. 2v2 had to clean the roof of a bus in a car wash.
I swear it’s real.
I only know one Mario Party 😛
I did play the second, but I can’t really remember it at all except everyone had cowboy hats. Must’ve been the Malibu Stacey board.
Does that mean we can tag you in future conversations? 😀 DONE
I totally have no idea what I watch or when I do in relation to anyone else. It’s just whatever my mum and sister put on TV while I happen to be in the room.
WATCH IT! So good!!!
@strange
I DO WATCH IT
I just have no knowledge or control over what I watch 😛
OMG JOIN THE DISCUSSIONS!
But rot13 is tedious and painful.
🙁
:'(
I’m gonna head to bed. Goodnight.
It’s funny, I just watched the TB video relating to bowel cancer, and all I could think is “If the endoscopy was done in Canberra, I would know the name of anyone who could do it.”
So sad seeing a non-government supported system, and knowing that under our current government we’re heading towards it. :/
Yeah but imagine how profitable everything will be when all those sick, poor and disadvantaged people die off!
I mean, sure; it’s an abandonment of the support of basic human dignity but PROFIT!!!
What do you mean by ‘non-government supported system?’
I’m looking for a good FPS to play online on PC, but I’m not sure which to choose.
Any recommendations?
Planetside 2 (HUGE and hella fun with a big group)
Team Fortress 2 (HATS)
Loadout (HATS but the hats are GUNS. GUNHATS)
All free
Also Payday 2 is fun. I think it’s about $15?
(MORE HATS but the hats are MASKS. FACEHATS)
Leph’s list is good. Honourable mention for Warframe, even though it’s over-the-shoulder.
And in the realms of not-free, Borderlands 2 is good fun, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games (especially modded) are deep and rich and ultra-atmospheric, Fallout almost counts, though VATS basically makes the ‘shooter’ part irrelevant, and Skyrim if you play it the way I play it is more shooty than slashy, and PC is its ultimate home thanks to the powah of mods. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is stand-out awesome, Left 4 Dead is a classic, the Far Cry series has been an evolution in awesome, culminating in FC3/Blood dragon tying for apples-vs-oranges shooter radicalness.
There’s probably more, especially if you’re willing to go back a couple years.
Warframe is indeed fun. SPACE NINJAS!!
Half Life series too. And Portals.
I love the metro series if you are looking for something single player.
For multiplayer I have a rather large amount of time sunk into planetside 2 so highly recommend that.
Jesus christ another Firefox crash. How do I go back to yesterday.
Well, the day before I guess.
Just came across that ” I Definitely came out as a Gamer First” article.
There’s something about that documentary concept that urks me quite a lot, especially that quote / title.
Maybe I’m just naive, but I choose to believe that the world is more accepting then it is portrayed. There shouldn’t be a need to identify LGBT gamers / developers from straight gamers / developers to help people feel accepted and comfortable. You should already feel accepted and comfortable regardless of sexuality. Being LGBT is an aspect of someone, it shouldn’t be seen as a defining attribute. It makes me a little sad to be honest.
There is something unique or at the very least uncommon about that kind of struggle in being gay: self-examination, doubts, challenging the (and this is one of the few times I will ever use the word) heteronormative expectations you probably grew up with. And that’s just with YOURSELF, let alone what you present to challenge the expectations of others. People don’t like change or the subversion of expectations. No wonder people get nervous about coming out.
It’s something only one in ten will ever have to do, it’s intense, and it’s also not too surprising that people want to identify themselves by that struggle. Coupled with the challenges faced in a world that is geared in often subtle ways not so much ‘against’ you as… not for you, (and honestly, sometimes straight-up outright against you) and the more fun aspects of the traditional stereotypes such as reputation for a flair for aesthetics and music, I can see why some people would even choose to embrace that, then try to carry it as a banner into the other activities/cultures/subcultures they also enjoy.
But at the core, you’re completely right. Those are decisions. Who you like to fuck doesn’t change who you are. I like redheads. My middle brother likes ripped dudes. The youngest is partial to asians. Learning these things didn’t change jack shit about how we act, unless a redhead/asian/ripped dude is present. It didn’t change our tastes in music, games, or speaking with a lisp.
If there’s ever anything you could consider a ‘choice’ regarding homosexuality, it’s that – turning ‘flaming’ as a decision. We’re friends with a couple guys who take it to the extreme, mincing, lisping, all the rest. They sure as fuck didn’t grow up doing that, they adopted that as part of the self-image, an affectation to go with the territory. Embracing the stereotypes to own it proudly, mating signals, whatever, who knows, we haven’t got into it.
I can grunt and move on on the subject, uninterested, just like I do when someone brings up Trials or any other shit that doesn’t mean anything to me. But I can see both sides of the fence, about wanting to take that whole culture that someone associates with their identity for reasons they may even feel are inextricable to their sexuality without realizing that this was actually their choice, and that there are other perfectly normal gay folk out there who DIDN’T come out to whatever social environment made them think that, who don’t give a shit about LGBT portrayals in games beyond, “Hey, the ME3 pilot is gay and has a cute story and no-one’s made a Big Deal about it! That’s nice – very classy. There should be more of that.”
I did ask a gay guy about the whole lisp thing the other day. I braced myself for a punch in the face. They basically said the same thing you said, embracing culture that accepts them when so much of the world doesn’t.
And then gave you a punch in the face.
I don’t speak with a lisp, thank god! I only do when I’m purposely acting extra gay to annoy my friends :3
So does my friend. It was pretty hilarious. XD
Again, I think I’m just naive, but I choose to believe that the world isn’t any different for me then it is for anyone else. That’s a negative outlook that I don’t want to believe. There might be aspects that are harder for me, but I’ll overcome them.
The main thing I got nervous about coming out about was how others would see me. I hid myself away all through my teen years, not for fear of being bullied (I can handle bullies), but because I didn’t want to be treated differently. I do everything pretty much the same as everyone else, except I’m attracted to the same gender. It’s not that big of a deal.
Yes it’s abnormal, but it shouldn’t matter.
There shouldn’t be a struggle with coming out. There is, trust me, but there shouldn’t be.
That’s why I don’t like self segregation.
I just want to be treated like everyone else. So far I have been, which is great! I don’t need things tailored for me. I just want to be a gamer, not a gaymer. My sexuality doesn’t define who I am. I’m perfectly happy with how games are. T&A might not be my thing, but I don’t play games looking for sexual thrills 😛
I might be one of those rare types of gays though that doesn’t need confirmation that being gay is normal.
Might not be all that rare – squeaky wheel and whatnot. Certainly my brother and his circles of friends all seem pretty damn emotionally healthy in that respect.
Also, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the majority of writing I’ve seen on the subject of identifying/role-playing in gaming has been from trans folks, many of whom are still dealing with identity issues RL, and for whom role-playing and identity are really huge deals.
But I don’t know. I can only guess at these things because I’ve never experienced them. I DO NOT KNOW what it is like to be institutionally marginalized in those subtle, ‘death by a thousand cuts’ ways.
The only times I’ve ever really been marginalized was when I poked my nose into the activist world at uni, where all the cool kids liked to hang out, poly folk, alt-chicks, LGBT activists, whatever, where being the straight white guy was a black mark, and made you the whipping boy: an easy target for the venting of frustrations at a world which otherwise really doesn’t care. Suffice to say, I flipped the bird and walked away, because fuck that. Let some other spineless sycophant play emotional punching bag for the frustrated and disenfranchised.
I COULD walk away. Folks who feel they can’t… I can kind of maybe get the frustration.
The problem with abstaining from the conversation-turned-argument due to lack of information is that it also means (as @shane intimated earlier), people can distort, railroad, exaggerate for their own purposes (even “Oh, aren’t I enlightened!”) with no-one to refute. Those who DO know their experience and object will be reduced to, “Self-hating [whatever],” those who don’t, dismissed as uninformed/the face of the enemy. I’d say it’s a subject that could do with less hyperbole and MAYBE even less passion, but then how do you affect change?
Tough topic.
I have a real problem with the us vs. them mentality too. Why be a gaymer when you can be a gamer?
Exactly! I don’t see how one affects the other, or the need for segregation.
Where does “I’m gay” come into “I like playing games”? It doesn’t!
Does it matter? No.
Should it matter? No.
Then why act like it matters?
Can’t we all just be gamers?
And gay characters and all that is just a product of good, diverse writing. Shouldn’t be an obligation of any one who doesn’t feel they can handle the subject matter properly.
I can’t really remember properly since it was a while back so I might be completely talking out of my arse here, but my best friend at college is gay and had similar thoughts about the gaymers group, and the whole mentality that just because two people are gay means they MUST be bffs or whatever. Which is true – me liking girls doesn’t mean I have anything in common enough with the guy walking down the street who also likes girls or give me any reason to associate with him. But then he ended up joining the group and changed his mind about it… augh I wish I could remember how he explained it to me. Something along the lines of it basically just being another interest group, a bunch of guys who hang out over a common interest of games. But then they go and work together on stuff like a float for mardis gras too. I don’t know. Something. It made sense 😛
Caveat: I’ve not watched the film as yet
I think the end goal *is* for “can’t we all just be [gamers/people/x]?” but that’s not the case at the moment. When you’ve got kids in pub matches screaming about “faggotry”, trans, colour and rape jokes, how is that a welcome environment? Why would anyone wish to not only be the butt of jokes, but complicit in their use?
This seems to be just one example of trying to make a stand and take a place for ourselves. Gaming is just one aspect of community as a whole, and without a societal shift away from white cisheteronormative standards, there’ll always be a need for initiatives such as this.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m not complicit in the use of “faggotry” as insults (or any of those others mentioned), I’m just of the mentality “why let it effect me?”.
Anyone who seriously uses those terms as insults isn’t worth batting an eyelash at, and I think you’ll find most agree (these days).
I’d rather just make a place for myself with everyone else, rather than with “my kind” (aka LGBT people). That’s my view though. I don’t have anything against gaymers, obviously, I’d just rather cut out the middle man and be a gamer, which is what I’m doing. You know, convert them from the inside and all 😉
This is going to sound kind of terrible, but the cynic in me can’t help but see articles and endeavours like this as (at least in part) a deliberate self-promotional tool rather than an inspirational story.
I might just be projecting, though.
I’m not trying to downplay the struggle in any way, but often it seems to be exploited in order to stand out among the crowd.
Though maybe it’s not a bad thing; rather, it’s just a thing. Certainly, the monetisation of other kinds of hardship stories has become widespread and rampant (Schapelle Corby being an obvious recent example), and the gay rights debate is an incredibly glitzy and sexy topic these days.
Edit: uh… not sure what I was trying to say here. Possibly nothing.
I just don’t understand why stuff like this is a thing :S There shouldn’t be anything interesting enough about a LGBT person to warrant making this.
I like games, you like games. I like men, you like women. That’s all it should be.
I know that’s not how it is, unfortunately, but that’s how it should be.
The only other way I can justify making something like this is as one of those “it’s okay to be gay” inspirational videos. They don’t work though. They might help a bit, but they don’t really work. The only thing that can convince a LGBT person that it’s okay being gay is themselves (well, that’s how it was for me anyway).
You need to accept yourself first, then it gets easier (and happier!) 🙂
I presume its one of those “you already know gay people and didn’t hate them before you knew” things. That seems to be a common tactic in america
Here are the people to whom my sexuality is relevant: People I am having sex with.
Everybody else: Why does it matter? It has literally zero bearing on your life so it doesn’t get discussed. Want to play games? Let’s play games.
I’m in two minds on that. (And which mind in particular varies by the time of day.) On one hand, yeah, I agree, let’s just game. On the other hand… that’s easy for me to say, when everything is how I like it. T&A and space marines with throat cancer.
I mean, on some levels, I get that there’s a sort of disappointment to be felt when the rest of the world has this focus on things you don’t like. As a part of probably the most broadly-targeted demographic in the world (straight white young male with a moderate bit of disposable income), I’m USED to the things I like pervading damn near aspect of damn near everything. I can’t really imagine a world which is screaming for the attention of someone else. I mean, you’d think it’d be nice not to be advertised at, but eventually you’d probably get the sense that the world is also… kind of ignoring you. “Oh, this isn’t for you. We don’t mind letting you exist, but we’re not talking to you.” It’d get old eventually to the point that you’d over-react to anything minor individually, purely by virtue of the weight of the aggregate.
So I don’t know. Someone with identity issues or who isn’t feeling paid attention to then hops into what is supposed to be their power fantasy/escapism into a world where they DO matter, and half the time it runs around shoving boobs in their faces or assuming that their idea of a power trip is to be a hard-fightin’ hard-drinkin’ bullet-chewin’ MAN who has to shave with an arc-welder. “Yup. Even your fantasy isn’t for you.”
Your analogies. I can’t reply properly because I’m just too busy giggling at the analogies.
Totally get where you’re approaching that from though. Thing is, who’s to say that the hard-fightin’ hard-drinkin’ bullet-chewin’ MAN who has to shave with an arc-welder (hahaha!) isn’t gay? Or isn’t straight? Or only appeals to straight men? Or only appeals to gay men? Certain fantasies are only ever going to apply to certain subsets of every sexuality across the spectrum.
But yes, they are for the most part squarely aimed in one direction. There are plenty of great games that aim in other ways though.
My head-canon swears that Marcus Fenix is gay. Makes the game better.
The problem is that people want everything. There ARE people making LGBT-specific games, Anna Anthropy and whatnot, but the problem is that… well. They kind of suck. They’re not getting AAA money, their credits roll doesn’t have the same run-time as an episode of Game of Thrones. Folks want games that not only speak to them, but speak well. Which… probably isn’t going to happen that often. Why? Because the market being spoken to isn’t big enough to make it worth spending that kind of money.
You’ll hear some say, “Or is it, but no-one’s tried?” But the sad probability is that no, it’s likely not. No-one LIKES thinking that their position is statistically/financially insignificant, they subconsciously believe that there must be more people out there ‘like me’. Do the facts bear that out? We’d have to study that harder. We might not like what we find, and bury it. This happens all the time.
There’s a lot of moving parts to the discussion. Would straight people actually be as OK with playing gay protagonists as gay people have been eternally forced to play straight ones? Will we know until we try? The research might not say so, but remember the evolution of marketing…
An example is marketing showing that for some reason most people prefer to buy something on a Wednesday, then assuming that there’s something special about Wednesday, but the reality is that people buy something as soon as it’s available, which due to manufacturing/distribution reasons, just happens to be a Wednesday.
It’s complex. It’s emotional for some. It’s bothersome for others, who want it to go away because they really don’t care. And so on and so on… *shrug*
I can see what you are saying but for many people they struggle for gay rights is such an important thing that they drag it across into all aspects of their life.
As you say most people are accepting of gay people although there is still a very strong set that considers being gay an insult and will use it as such. That can make it a less welcoming scene for gay folk.
But the major issue is still the actual rights as a couple and I think if that gets sorted out a lot of the us and them type mentality will drop off. Some people will identify strongly with being gay and that will be the focus of their personality and interactions. In the same way that some people will identify with being a sportsman or sports fan or business executive.
GLORYHAMMER WEEKEND HAS BEGUN! \m/
First show was fun, looking forward to tomorrow night (tonight, I guess). I spent all day making a top out of a Gloryhammer shirt and was then too paranoid to take my hoodie off as it was a bit too big and I hadn’t had time to fix it. I am a doofus. 😛
Don’t forget Saturday night’s Meat, people. @dc can do his tagging thing when he wakes up…the current plan is 6/6:30ish pm at the Brathaus, in the Valley.
Sounds like a ripper! Hope you guys have a great gathering! Give hugs to everyone for me! Especially @dc!
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Looking forward to it! 😀
might give this one a skip, the Valley is such a pain to get to.
She will probably do that, I hear she is a monster
Dangit, clicked the wrong message after posting too fast error. This was a @welbot reply
Heyo, I’m having real troubling accessing Kotaku. I can see articles but links to messages rarely work 🙁
So er, saw this way tooo late D:
Hi all,
THIS IS THE FINAL DAY that you can pledge, and still get free stuff if the campaign fails.
Chances are excellent at this late stage that you will never have to make good on your pledge, so I recommend you ‘dig deep’ and get the really cool gear.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology
Even if you don’t have money, consider pledging, just for the free stuff. You can always cancel your pledge later if it looks like you’re at risk of having to pay.
Before the ‘you so crazy’ posts, this is totally about me pretending I got a lot closer to the goal than I really did.
Self-deception: most-used tool in writer’s toolbox.
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6103350784/hDD5A5C4F/
Maybe! (Probably not though)
Fingers crossed for sudden wealthy benefactor.
Fingers crossed for sudden wealth!
Dammit Shane now I’ve just gone and backed a bunch of kickstarter projects. I blame you 100% as this had nothing to do with my lack of self control
Also considering increasing my Armello pledge as well. I want to support local games devs, certainly based on the passion they displayed at PAX and they are still under there pledge goal.
Sorry, man! My bad.
All Shane, all of the time!
Do something amusing!
*walking along while trying to think of an amusing pun, Shane falls over a shopping trolley, gets lodged upside down in it, and rides it down a steep hill into a canal*
That’ll do, Shane. That’ll do.
Record it, add some Yakkity Sax, then we’ll talk.
Woke up this morning to my alarm that usually tells the kids it’s time to leave for school. I was sure I’d turned it off last night. /o\
Got up to see the first aid kit opened up on the cupboard top and blood on the floor. Run, aghast into the loungeroom to ask Mr. Strange what happened. Apparently he sliced his finger on the slicing attachment for the food processor. D:
Okay, universe I’m awake, geez!
Just as well, too. Mentioned the Gloryhammer quilt to one of the Gloryhammer guys last night and gave him first refusal rights so I need to make sure it’s finished before the Brisbane show. The actual quilt is finished, I just need to sew the binding on which can take a fair while as I have to sew it by hand, and then I need time to wash and dry the thing. So yeah, probably should be happy with past me for waking me up. 😛
Nope. Not gonna do it.
Reply fail to @shane from previous page
Fair enough! Don’t want to force you to do something you’re not into.
What are we talking about?
XD
Just pointing out that my problem is with narcissistic assholes who want to be applauded instead of accepted and obfuscate the real problems by exploiting the ones that aren’t really an issue anymore.
I was agreeing with you more or less.
Anyone finding these five day weeks bullshit after two shorties in a row? WHERE IS MY WEEKEND DAMN IT.
This week came after being on holiday for two, so I know dat feel. :'(
My weekend started yesterday. Mr. Strange was home so he took care of taking the little man to school, and then last night we dropped the kids off at my parents until Sunday. \o/
But yes, next week is going to hurt. 😛
I basically am the child in this equation. I think sometimes my wife could use a weekend off from me.
Surprisingly not!
I think it’s because those three days last week managed to squeeze in five days worth of work 😛
God don’t remind me. My inbox is still sore from last week.
Inbox turns out to me a much dirtier sounding euphemism than I intended.
Yeah, a long hard workday can really fill your inbox
This is my third long weekend in a row! Wasn’t intentional, but that’s how it worked out! Next week’s gonna be a right bitch if I can actually get back to work! 😉
I was really tempted last week to sneak in a day of leave on Monday but decided against it since that was the last day before my boss was supposed to return from a month-long trip to the UK. Then he came back a day early, which again, not a good idea to not be on leave that day either.
It feels like ages since I had leave, which was actually only 5 weeks ago!
I haven’t had a week long leave in years :\ Even today was gonna be a half day as sick due to a doctors appointment, but that didn’t pan out.
I went about a year and a half without leave because I was working as a contractor, it was a real struggle – especially when every sick day comes directly out of your pocket.
Urg. The working week grinds to a close. Took way too long.
I find 5 day weeks bullshit every week,
gutsoup for PM
God knows he’d be better at it than the current moron.
My first election promise is to never wear budgie smugglers.
Something something 1000 (and 2) comments, something something.
My comment tally is trumped by everybody else’s 😛
Don’t mock me, I’m new! :'(
I’ve been posting around here for years & I’ve only just hit 5K. you’re not doing bad at all.
also, congrats!
That’s just grand.
#PAGESIX4LYF
We won’t mock you.
The Oar might.
There was never even a mention of any oar when I first started lurking around :'(
Shame too, sounded kinky 😉
Oh man, you didn’t get the oar?
That’s a paddlin’
You know I think the Oar should make a reappearance as a weapon in Pathfinder or Numenera 😛
Give @popdart5 time and I’m sure we can use it to trigger a trap
I can easily see it in Pathfinder:
“You open the chest, then the wall to the left of you crumbles as a wild girl busts through it, she calls herself ‘Harli’, wielding a thorny oar and looks to all of you with pure rage”
You may not have noticed The Oar, but you can be sure it noticed you.
Now how many of those were drunk posts?
I’m going to go with probably between 20 and 50, so not that bad I don’t think 😀
are spoiler tags working again?
Edit : evidently not.
Edit #2: ROT13’d instead.
Dark Souls 2 Stuff :
qvq gur Ybfg Onfgvyyr & gur Ehva Fragvaryf ynfg avtug.
tbqqnza… gurl’er na rkrepvfr va cngvrapr. V jnf pbafvfgragyl trggvat gur svany 2 qbja gb nobhg n dhnegre urnygu rnpu orsber qbvat fbzrguvat fghcvq yvxr trggvat fghaarq ol bar, gura xvyyrq ol gur bgure.
svtherq V jnf ba gur evtug genpx… whfg fuvryq hc & jnvgvat sbe obgu bs gurz gb or fvzhygnarbhfyl erpbirevat sebz na nggnpx orsber ehaavat va sbe bar be gjb (be vs V jnf srryvat oenir, guerr) uvgf orsber ehaavat bss & ercrngvat gur cebprqher.
ohg ab. V jnf pbafvfgragyl qlvat jvgu nobhg gjragl svir creprag urnygu rnpu erznvavat.
naljnl… nsgre nobhg 10 nggrzcgf, V gevrq fhzzbavat fbzrbar. tbg n fbeprere bs fbzr fbeg. abj, V qhaab vs guvf jnf vagragvbany, ohg gur ynfg gjb Fragvaryf qvfcynlrq oevyyvnag gnpgvpf. Ungf bss gb gur NV cebtenzzref.
bar bs gur Fragvaryf jrag fgenvtug sbe gur fdhvful zntr, juvyr gur bgure chg vgfrys orgjrra zr & gur bgure Fragvany & whfg fghpx vgf fuvryq hc fb V pbhyqa’g trg gb gur zntr & fgbc uvz orvat xvyyrq. bapr gur zntr jnf qrnq, obgu gur fragvaryf ghearq ba zr & V jnf tbar va n zvahgr.
yvxr V fnvq, vs gung jnf vagragvbany gnpgvpf ba orunys bs gur NV, gura gung jnf oevyyvnagyl qbar.
naljnl… gevrq ntnva. tbg n gnaxl-ybbxvat jneevbe guvf gvzr. Gurl xrcg gur Fragvary’f ntteb, juvyr V pvepyrq ebhaq & fybjyl puvccrq njnl ng gurz obgu.
LBH QRSRNGRQ.
LNL. gura… V sryg jrveq. yvxr ol fhzzbavat uryc, V’q fbzrubj purngrq.
bu jryy…
V’z fgnegvat gb guvax zl trne arrqf gb or yriryrq hc.
Pheeragyl tbg n Sver Ybatfjbeq +4, n Snypuvba +2, Urvqr Fcrne +1 naq n Fubegobj +1 abg fher V’z qbvat gung evtug.
eryngrq dhrfgvba : vf vg orggre gb ubneq gvgnangr hagvy lbh’ir tbg gur jrncbaf lbh jnag gb jbex jvgu & gura yriry gurz hc, be vf vg orggre gb hctenqr jung lbh’ir pheeragyl tbg?
But all the
stuff does?Except underline.
Plus some other stuff we found
Mark was testing the waters with all those “Tell Us Dammit: Do spoilers REALLY matter?” articles.
Re: TITANITE
Abg gbb zhpu shegure va gur tnzr, lbh’yy svaq n zrepunag jub fryyf gvgnavgr. N yvggyr shegure ba, fur’yy fryy hayvzvgrq fznyy funeqf naq n svavgr ahzore bs ynetr funeqf. N yvggyr shegure ba, fur’yy fryy hayvzvgrq ynetr funeqf. Naq jura lbh pbzcyrgr gur znva dhrfg, fur’yy fryy hayvzvgrq puhaxf nf jryy. Gur bayl zngrevny va fubeg fhccyl vf gvgnavgr fynof, naq V’ir tbg zber bs gurz guna V arrq nf jryy.
GY;QE: Vs lbh’er snveyl pbasvqrag va gur trne lbh’ir tbg, qba’g srry onq nobhg hctenqvat vg.
Happy to provide more details and/or a wiki link if you like.
thanks Shane.
V’z guvaxvat bs fgvpxvat jvgu gur Urvqr Fcrne sbe gur ybat grez & gur Sver Ybatfjbeq & Snypuvba whfg hagvy V svaq fbzrguvat gb ercynpr gurz. & V’ir orra gbyq bs n yngr-tnzr fjbeq gung unf F fpnyvat jvgu qrk (gur Pheirq Qentba Terngfjbeq) gung V’z vagrerfgrq va. ohg lrnu…. jr’yy frr jung V svaq.
V’z cerggl fher gung ynfg jrncba arrqf n qvssrerag hctenqr zngrevny naljnl (qentba fbzrguvat-be-bgure), fb qba’g fnir lbhe gvgnavgr sbe gung.
Bu! Gjvaxyvat gvgnavgr vf ener, fb guvax gjvpr orsber lbh hfr gung. V erterg fbzr bs gur vairfgzragf V’ir znqr jvgu gung 😛
Hayrff gurl’ir punatrq vg sebz eryrnfr, Qrk fpnyvat ernyyl vfa’g terng nalzber (2/3eqf bs nal bgure glcr bs fpnyvat), fb lbh znl or orggre bss tbvat n aba qrk ohvyq.
Bu, naq va eryngvba gb lbhe svefg cbfg, V’ir orra fhzzbarq va yvxr 8 gvzrf gb tb guebhtu gur Onfgvyyr naq xvyy gur Fragvaryf, naq V’ir znantrq gb orng gurz bapr. :/
V hfhnyyl (hfhnyyl) znxr vg gb gur obff qbbe, gubhtu V’ir qvrq n srj gvzrf, unq zl ubfg qvr bapr, naq gura rirel nggrzcg ng gur obff unf orra n ubeevoyr snvyher, one bar. Gung bar jnf tbbq, orpnhfr gur Fragvaryf fcyvg hc, bar tbvat sbe zr ba gbc bs gur yvggyr nern, naq bar tbvat sbe gur bgure thl va gur neran orybj. Fb V gbbx zl thl qbja juvyr ur cynlrq qrsrafviryl, naq gura V urycrq jvgu gur bgure.
Zbfg nggrzcgf abobql ebyyf qbja (V xrrc univat onq gvzrf jvgu zl bayl bccbeghavgvrf juvyr V’z ybj ba urnygu), naq fb jr whfg trg jerpxrq. V jvyy crefrirer. V jnag gb orng gurz guerr gvzrf orsber V qb vg zlfrys, znl tvir hc naq znxr vg gjvpr gubhtu.
I’m bored enough at work that I stared at that for a while until I realised why it’s called ROT13, translated the first sentence in my head, then thought better of making that a normal process since it’d backfire on me at some point.
“GUYS, SPOILER TAG THAT SHIT!”
“It was ROT13’d, what more do you want?!”
“Ugh, sif ROT13 is even hard to read. How about some 4096-bit encryption up in here? Jeez.”
@35
Get yoself a mace. Dunno why but strike damage seems to be stupid effective against pretty much everything – my +10 standard mace is probably my most effective weapon, somehow out-damaging my fire halberd which has almost twice the damage stats.
Apparently strike damage is best against armoured foes. Most foes in the game are humanoids wearing armour, or even if not strictly humanoid, at least have armour of some sort on.
Seems typical of RPG combat systems:
Slicing/Slashing vs. flesh
Piercing vs. soft armour (e.g. leather)
Bashing vs. hard armours (e.g. plate)
Much like the man-serpent greatsword in Dark Souls 1, once I’d found that the bastard sword had the blend of range, speed, damage and move-set variation that I liked, I stuck with it no matter WHAT the enemy was. If it was harder I just had to hit it more often.
Which marks me as the kind of person who loves a screwdriver and will insist that you can drill and hammer with it too.
Hahaha, I used the same weapon for the entirety of my Dark Souls 2 NG playthrough, from start to finish, so you can tar me with the same brush.
Japanese proverb: When all you have is a penis, everything looks like an anus.
I’m not 100% certain if that’s legitimately a Japanese proverb but I don’t dare google those words to verify while I’m at work.
@35
Also, I did some experimenting last night and found armour is kinda meh. A difference of 200 armour only reduced the damage I took by ~ 2mm of my hp bar, with total damage taken ~ a 5th of maximum hp.
It’s something but probably not worth pumping levels into equipment load for. Tho poise is handy.
Armour is ALL about Poise.
When you can stand there with three wheelie skeletons rolling into you, chugging Estus Flasks and laughing, you know you’ve got it made.
thanks Jo & @shane & @blaghman. much appreciated.
I might give a strength build a go. hammers seem the way to go.
It’s not cheating if the game already cheated first by throwing three of them at you. 😛
I really think this game *wants* you to summon help, anyway.
Bleh, the new song Slayer released isn’t what I was picturing when they said it was their best ever.. I guess if their previous album was their best ever it is then :/
Finally got around to buying Prison Architect since it was on sale on steam for $10. Still is for the rest of today, if anyone else is interested.
For such a simple looking game it’s insanely complicated.
I figure it’s got a lot of complexity/longevity otherwise they’d have a hard time selling it normally for $30. Looking forward to getting stuck into it this weekend.
Welp, I just sent an email to 150+ people that apparently wasn’t supposed to go to that email alias … :\ Ah well!
Noodz?
Did anyone miss out on the Flamestar comic when it came out?
IT’S NOW FREEEEEEEEEEE – until tomorrow night only.
Free Comic Book Day starts a little early. Get your copy of James Flamestar’s 74 page epic adventure now. This is a book that, at its core, is about the passion of creating.
http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/james-flamestar/
Tell your friends. Everyone should get a copy.
…#FreeComicBookDay
Cool. What’s CBZ? The pic looks neat.
CBZ is a format that isn’t much different from a zip file with jpegs in it. It can be read by a program called CBR (Comic Book Reader), and is I believe the format preferred by comic pirates.
I personally prefer PDFs, but CBZ is easy to make, so I made it an option too.
Alright, I got it. If I like it I’ll be sure to get your hyped TLE too. 🙂
One of my ex’s is pregnant. They (ex and her now husband) have a twitter account for their baby which isn’t born yet.
I answered a question that they asked, and the baby responded. And now they are having a three way conversation, mentioning me in the tweets, between the “three” of them.
…that’s just fucking awkward, man.
Report them for being underage, lol.
I find it so weird when parents create social media profiles for their kids. Even assuming that Twitter and Facebook won’t be around in 13 years (though it’s not impossible that they’ll still be around), when that kid starts using the internet, they’re going to find all this shit they never said that’s already attributed to them.
I find it doubly weird because the only thing my name is attached to is LinkedIn. I’m literally Stick Man on FB/Google+. The privacy of the kid is gone before it even has a say in it.
it’s like the nut jobs that make facebook profiles for their dogs and cats, it’s just ridiculously absurd. I love my dog but if he wants a facebook account he can make it himself 😛
Pretty much. And if they are unarmoured then they are easy to kill anyway.
Considering dumping points into more str to make use of that sweet S scaling and getting havel’s shield. But that’s a lot of souls.
reply fail?
Or intentional to just confuse the crap out of everyone
Intentional. The unarmoured are easy to kill.
And you don’t look like you’re wearing armour.
Yeah but @scree is working on a costume to go with her ice powers, you don’t need armour when you can conjure a wall of ice at will…
It’s not for me D= I’m going as Ruby Rose from rwby
Oh yes, I remember you mentioning that. Hard time finding boots with red soles but no mention of trouble finding a sniper rifle scythe… I need to come down and go shopping with you, in wagga you can’t even get a shotgun gaffa-taped to a pitchfork.
it’s against Pax rules to bring it. I would be forced to cloak it, or be stuck outside
It’s a mystereeeeey.
The mystery being mobile Opera browser hates replies.
I need to freshly access the front Page, find Tay, go to the right page, then type the reply and not do anything else at all in between or it will fail.
or maybe it just hates me.
HULK SMASH
I just returned from a doctor’s visit, as I needed a doctor’s report in order to obtain new headspace lessons. My current sickness wasn’t brought up, but I guess it doesn’t need to be. The doctor wanted an entire history of my depression and anxiety. I told the doctor I started to notice symptoms in 2011, but my mother interjected and claimed that this had been happening since 2004 or something. She then spent the entire length of the appointment talking about things from my childhood that I have no memory of. I have no recollection about being hit by a friend when I was 7, or my pressures from my father to succeed in primary school. I have no memory of my childhood, so I couldn’t correct her.
On the way back home, something was brought up. This announcement simultaneously fills me with conniving pleasure and nervous suspicion. My mother told she plans for me to have a one-on-one skype chat the one, the only, Professor Yoghurt-Lamp. I suppose the guy prefers to be called Dr Yapp.
Apparently, the great doctor is swinging by my cousin’s house, and that will be the perfect time to have a one-on-one chat with him. Apparently, my mother had plans to go to Melbourne this weekend (I was never told of this) so she could talk with the grand loon in person. I suppose she cancelled this because of the possibility of talking to guy over skype.
I get the feeling that accepting this call will be a bad idea. I can tell that this isn’t going to be a private call in my room, and that will have to talk to him through my mother’s iPad in the living room. I know my cousins will be on the other end, giving Dr Yoghurt-Lamp support. I know that everyone would gang up on me.
But there’s also the possibility that I could denounce him for the fraud he is in front of anyone. The chances of me being able to pull this off are 14 in 5 million, though. I tried to tell one of my cousins about the doctor’s misdeeds, but she failed to listen to reason.
When my mother brought it up, I asked when she plans to stage this grand affair. She is planning to stage this on Sunday. I’m pretty sure that she took me asking for the date as a confirmation that I want to go through with this. I think I’ll refuse. Nothing good can come of this.
Funny, my mother has aimed to reduce stress, yet she plans this freaking thing. I thought this whole ordeal is over. If I have to deal with the purveyor of Pynergy Pyramids again, I’m involving my father.
Fourth try. Come on…
EDIT: Freaking finally.
Yikes. I think saying no is the best idea. You try to denounce an accomplished and well-practiced con-man, and it will only end badly.
Don’t talk to Yoghurt-Lamp, he is a quack and you want nothing to do with him. Even talking to him is the equivalent of giving him credence and power.
Soon you’ll be old enough to move out and not have to deal with this shit ever again.
You have my sympathies, man.
Age doesn’t imply financial stability to do that. 🙁
Just say no.
It’s absurd that a doctor would even attempt to consult with your cousins in the room. Mother I can understand, but jesus.
If you do get stuck, ask him for links to peer reviewed papers on his methods. Don’t go into why, just ask for them.
I still think saying no is the best bet. If you’re stuck, I suggest emailing a noted skeptic group like The Skeptics Guide to the Universe http://www.theskepticsguide.org/contact for tips.
Is there someone you can talk to from Headspace about this so that you can have a qualified specialist basically call out Yoghurt-Lamp on his BS? It would probably be better than trying to go it alone.
Look, here’s my recommendation, for what it’s worth, if you get roped into this Skype circus.
The biggest risk here is that you will be forced to cave by being overwhelmingly outnumbered. Preventing that is top priority.
If Yogi-Quack wants to ramble about his qualifications, then let him. There’s no point disputing any of that – your family has bought into it, and I’m sure he has heard all the objections before, and has the lines pretty well memorised.
But the instant he tries to bring the conversation around to you, interrupt him and say that if he wants to talk about your specific case, you would appreciate that he respect doctor-patient confidentiality, and wait until you can talk with him one-on-one. Then just sit in silence and wait. If he tries to speak, cut him off, but don’t do anything else until everyone else is out of the room.
Then you just ignore him until he hangs up.
People ganging up on you to believe something is a tactic used by cults, for what it’s worth.
This is a very, very salient point. Woo-woo practitioners on the level of Yoghurt-Lamb very much have a cult following.
Aside from the cult tendency, the backfire effect is a major help to all bullshit artists
Talking circles around people is what con-men do. It is their bread-and-butter, exploiting holes in human psychology is their one and only key to their success. Even when you think you’ve won on logic, they’ll claim to have won on hearts and minds, and probably be right. I would strongly advise you do NOT accept.
Kind of annoyed that it seems the reason your mother was so keen on depression-counseling is because she figured it for the best ‘angle’ to get her way on talking to this quack.
Bullshit is the only skill conmen have, it takes a hell of a sharp mind to keep track of it all and trap them.
It’ll be interesting to see how mrs phlanispo reacts when he says no. Any hint of resistance to further psych help will pretty much confirm your hypothesis
To back up what everyone else has said here, just do not engage. Hell, kill the bloody wi-fi if you have to.
If you need to stall, just tell your mother that you’d rather see where your current appointments with the counselor go first.
Also, reject this as early as you can, so it doesn’t feel like a ‘sudden’ decision or cold-feet. You’ve had time to think about it, and you don’t want to.
He was over there already, no-one’s going to be put out much by a two-day notice cancellation of a Skype call.
The only way I’d suggest accepting the call is if you can get your GP in on it too, the amazing milk transformer would run like fuck at the mention of a real doctor.
Realistically I’ve been arguing with people on the internet for years and I’d only be confident enough to try and take down a fraud now. Even then it’d only be with the benefit of google to do mid-argument research.
Say no.
Frankly since it’s come up again I’d email your dad about it. Hell if you don’t want to mention the situation specifically, send him a link to yoghurt-lamp’s website as a funny thing you found.
*hugasaurus*
It’s the most comforting of all dinosaurs
*looks to the skies*
I just hope extinction ain’t imminent. D:
Hey she’s not that old.
Two things:
1. These might be cute, but I can’t watch them. The guy sounds too much like me, and it weirds me out.
2. Gave blood yesterday and was rather disturbed to learn that I’ve put on more than six kilos in the last six months… since about when I had to give up weekly sport due to injury. Not too concerned yet, but need to start being more mindful of what I eat for sure. brb off to maccas.
I love the kid in that video. Any promise of seeing a lady is followed by “give her cake!”
I think I’m just a prude conservative, but I also kind of have issues with what he’s showing this three year old.
Dark Souls 2 is a pretty intense visceral game for a three year old. I know not all kids are cut from the same cloth, but my four-year-old would have nightmares for weeks if I showed it to her.
Even Portal 2 is aimed at adults, and the girl’s comments (while cute) just serve to demonstrate that she doesn’t understand what she’s being shown and isn’t processing it correctly. What is she really seeing, and what does she think is happening? Whether this turns into water-under-the-bridge or unresolved issues down the track is anyone’s guess.
And okay, yeah, it’s not in the same league as showing Silence of the Lambs to a toddler, but I think there’s still some room for concern…
I think the beauty of Portal is it works on the same level as The Simpsons. There’s a darkness and an adultness there if you know to look for it, but something else and more pure to a more innocent mind. Dark Souls? Yeah, wouldn’t be showing my fictitious kid that. XD
Yeeeeee-esssss, sort of, but there’s still a world in decay, no small number of robots with machine guns, and the game opens with a large-scale explosive destruction of what first appeared to be a structurally-sound bedroom (this last is total nightmare material for kids). It would probably be fine for an eight-year-old.
The gameplay itself, sure, that’s okay. Even the co-op mode is very accessible and cutesy for the most part. But story mode… sorry, Portal 2 gets the 3yo-kid-friendly thumbs-down from me.
I will defer to the guy who actually has kids. 😀
The room destruction thing didn’t even occur to me. So, yeah, I’d be a terrible dad. 😛
You learn through mistakes. We thought Sleeping Beauty would be all right for our kid, but the evil witch turned into a dragon at the end, and that scared the crap out of her. We thought The Little Mermaid would be all right, but the evil squid witch was too much.
Probably my kid is a little more sensitive than most, but this has sort of trained me to keep an eye out for anything that might upset her, and mentally flag it.
(The bears in Brave are fine for her, though. Maybe she got that little bit older and able to deal, or maybe kids are just plain unpredictable with how they’ll react to things. If the latter, then caution is definitely a smart approach)
My parents took me to a theatrical re-release of Snow White when I was three years old and the witch scared the ever-loving shit out of me to the point that we had to leave. Nightmares for weeks.
Then we went to Disneyland a few months later and they took me through the fucking Snow White ride and the witch pops out at you suddenly in that and IT ALL CAME FLOODING BACK. 🙁
@negativezero: To be fair, those Disneyland animatronics can freak out even the most jaded adult. 😛
Agree, 3 is too young for Portal. 6-7+ maybe (and they’d possibly better understand the jokes too). Don’t forget the fact that at the end of the first game you dismantle GladOS and throw her into a fire…
The Co-op in Portal 2 *maybe* would be okay but no three year old would have the manual dexterity to actually play it.
Oh yeah, I meant just for watching. No three year old could beat that game 😛
Some games I’ll let my son watch, Dark Souls is one of them. Things like Far Cry 3 and Fallout 3 are not, though. I think the fantasy aspect makes it easier for kids to separate it from reality. He’s always been more matter-of-fact about it being just a game than I ever have. It all depends on the kid. People can’t know what others’ kids are like just by comparing them their own. I’m sure this little girl is and will be fine.
My son likes Dark Souls for the challenge he sees it gives us. He enjoys seeing us “try again” and I think it’s good to help him see that we practice what we preach in regards to being patient and keeping trying if you think you can’t do something.
good answer strange, I wrote a huuge reply to this thread then thought I better not post because I don’t have kids so my opinion might not be wanted/needed. It comes down to the individual, as long as you pay attention to your kid and know how they are developing I think the choice is up to the individual parents. I grew up in South Africa and was exposed to the worst of humanity from a really young age but my parents were fantastic at putting everything into context and explaining all the bad stuff to me and my sister, we were pretty desensitised I guess cause we were watching R rated movies from really young ages and were never affected or had nightmares from them, the real world gave us our nightmare fuel and movies were a great escape from it. Each to his own and all that. Your kids sound awesome so I think you’re doing well 😀
edit: errr learn to punctuate Gutsoup
All true words. As I said, the guy’s voice is way too similar to mine, and I was projecting like crazy all over this thing. I also have a terrible habit of overthinking parenting and erring well on the side of caution.
It’s definitely true that all kids are different. Where my eldest would shrink into her seat at the slightest mention of the word ‘monster’ until she was over three, the younger one has been charging around and roaring like one since he could walk. The only thing he’s scared of is the vacuum cleaner – he’d probably love watching Dark Souls, and would be telling me to “BANG!” every time I swung the weapon 😛
Those videos are too adorable for my liking. >:|
Did you see that one @greenius posted on Twitter with the dancing toddler on a talent show? You’d hate it!
Creepius!
(The video was actually pretty good though :P)
AND YOU DIDN’T ACKNOWLEDGE IT?! I THOUGHT MY SHARING WAS WASTED 🙁
Quick activision are having a sale on steam. Get in quick so that you can get games at almost recommended retail price rather and massively marked up prices
Still 40 bucks for Modern Warfare 1? Pass.. It’s half that price in EB :/
Edit: more like a quarter the price, hahaha.
And 15% of that price everywhere else! 😛
Actually funny thing it was 90 bucks in Big W when I was in there the other week 😛
#pcmasterrace
modern warfare 2 is still $90 standard price…
I know right.. Likewise Black Ops…
It’s obviously one of those situations where they priced it differently and immediately forgot about it
Some decently priced Star Wars games, though.
Republic Commando is well worth it if you have never played that. I’m also a fan of Pinball FX 2 so the cheap tables are good.
Good price on shadow run returns as well, might pick up the base game and see how it goes. Might as well see if I like the game before I start buying DLC
Any thoughts on Drive Club’s 30fps ???
Wait, really? Why would a racing game ever be 30fps? A 30fps racing game doesn’t strike me as being playable.
I kind of love this bit from one of the Penny Arcade rants. Oh, the hazards of a Creator. Favourite part bold:
All I got out of that is DOORS OF STONE NOW PLS PAT
When I was at uni, I was reasonably renouned for my ruthless editing of others’ work. I made someone tear up once. The Wolf (as I used to channel him) is blunt but not mean, brutal but not violent, detached but polite, circumspect but honest, and thorough but not punitive.
I lost friends because of The Wolf. Maybe they weren’t really friends, but I didn’t have so many that I could afford to conduct these kind of experiments ad infinitum, so I don’t give 100% honest feedback anymore. Ever. I just aim to be constructive, but never say everything I’m thinking.
I do this for presentations.
Last time I did it, for our work leadership program, I got fined $20 for being mean, which was fair.
When you write what you think or what you feel, and someone tells you it is wrong (or worse, stupid), it’s not a huge jump to, “What you think/feel is wrong/stupid.” Which, if you think about what a person IS, is not much more of a jump to, “You are wrong/stupid.”
Which is a process of jumping to be feared by both creator AND reviewer.
I wonder if the searing caldera of Internet Criticism will somehow innoculate the upcoming generations… Or instead teach them to wall their egos behind tribal barriers of “NO YOU” or accusations of maternal promiscuity.
All that is true, of course, but that’s no reason to fear extensive honest criticism. It’s kind of terrifying how many people ask for criticism when all they want is validation.
Getting reams of criticism for something you were quite proud of sucks; of course it does. And it’s very easy to take it personally. But it’s much more valuable to see it as an opportunity to improve, both in terms of writing skills and ideology.
And from a strictly commercial standpoint, if the person editing it can find so many issues with it, are people really going to purchase it?
Exactly this. Why wouldn’t someone want their writing/creation to be the best it can be?
But… but… my ego!
Most valuable resource in uni was someone who would be brutally honest that you could trust!
I know you critiqued some of my work a while back Shane, hope you didn’t hold back. This is one area where I’m happy for some serious bluntness cause I’m driven to get better.
Shhh! I’m trying to pretend I’ve changed.
Besides, your work wasn’t bad, so ripping it to shreds was harder to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdcuaeYV9oM
@DC
😀
Wonder how many beatings his parents gave him to dance like that!
Booooooo >:(
I’m serious. The kid looks petrified. Blank expression across his face. Dancing even though he doesn’t want to be there. D: D: D:
Woah. Wildly different impressions 😛
It does feel kind of joyless, isn’t it? It made me feel a little sad.
I took it as nervousness :/
Legitimately shocked by this reception! Never even thought of anything like that.
Especially near the end where he says he dances to make his mum laugh.
They’re all monsters 🙁
I don’t know anything about kids, but doesn’t he seem kinda huge for a three year old?
40 year old little person, then?
Oh man, so I’ve just hit Lorule in A Link Between Worlds and the first dungeon I choose to do?
Turtle Rock.
You and I are up to almost the same spot. I’m about to go fetch the Master Sword… if I can ever stop hunting for hidden little squid babies.
I realise I can now do dungeons in any order however seeing that the walkthrough lists it as the second to last dungeon in the game suggests that it may be one of the harder ones.
Anyway, I completed it last night. Took me a good two hours, trying for every single chest – and the last one I eventually opened OMG best item ever. I was actually shocked when I received it. My interest in the game is back! It’s what I’ll be playing this weekend.
Turtle rock and the lake temple both have good hidden items in them. Start with them.
SCENE: A slip and fall claim I am currently managing.
Us: So it seems this is a management issue and our insured is just the property owner, we should seek indemnity from the managers of the property.
Insured: Hey uh, those guys are really good friends of ours, can we like… not?
Us: Um, we kind of have to. Since they’re liable. Nothing personal, it’s just, they signed a contract to perform management duties and they screwed that up.
Insured: What if we retroactively changed the contract to hold them harmless?
Us: what
Insured: The contract would still be insured under your policy so we could indemnify them, right? Instead of seeking indemnity from them?
Us: So, you’d be in breach of the terms of your policy for like five different reasons and we’d no longer cover you for this claim. Are you sure? Y/N?
Insured: If you do that we won’t renew our policy ^__^
Us: http://i.imgur.com/7ymaBD6.gif
Red’s Running and exeRcise Rampage!
FINAL SCORES
1 @Wilbur 13,143
2 @Bish 9,529
3 @aliasalpha 6,359
4 @Redartifice 3,607
5 @Negativezero 2,550
6 @NovaCascade 2,197
7 @Nomad 1,747
8 @Morkai 1,520
9 @Batto 1,191
10 @blaghman 932
11 @gingerchris86 602
12 @ontargett 370
You’re all winners, congrats to everyone for taking part and taking steps for their health!
I think we’ve proved Wilbur is some sort of repping machine, but it’s great to see everyone making progress! I might issue another challenge later this year
YES!!!!! Hopefully by the next challenge I’ll be fitter and be able to do more exercise. This past month has been getting me back into exercise though.
I think Wilbur & Bish both live at a gym. That and that I need to do more stuff, 3 sessions a week is clearly good but not enough
ontargett & negativezero probably deserve the most props for hitting milestones though, top work.
I didn’t actually enter my workouts after the first week or so.
EDIT: Holy fuck this took 9 attempts to post.
Damn, load up fitocracy and see if there’s a finger workout, sounds like you did a good one there…
But think of all of the imaginary internet points that you missed out on while hitting real life health goals!
Does that mean I dont have to log yesterdays?
I only get these sick scores cos my life is broken 😛
Hey so am I and I’m only getting half your score!
Just got pulled into a meeting with my bosses and got roasted for not lying to the customers enough. I need to pretend more customers stuff is broken and unrepairable to sell more apparently. Got into more trouble when I told them that wasn’t going to happen.
I love this job….
So when do you jump ship?
As soon as I find something I guess.
fuck, I wish you had recorded that meeting. That’s pretty disgraceful, you shoulda said “You do know I was trying to become a policeman right?”
They’re still testing him in secret!
It’s not straight up lying. Just more “Oh this is a bit worn. You do know it will end up damaging your locks and stop working [omit the in 20 years part here]?”
brb, sending emails to family and friends advising them never to fall for that line.
When you do, in your exit interview tell them you didn’t feel comfortable violating your ethics.
God DAMMIT that shit is corrupt. And the worst thing about it is that without advance notice, you wouldn’t know to have been recording.
I would really, really want to get that shit recorded to lodge anonymously as a whistle-blower.
(Edit: Or, what Gutsoup said.)
I thought that was retail to a T ?
Your bosses sound like fantastic people…
My sympathies, that sounded like a horrible meeting. I don’t know why everyone upvoted.
Because he says he loves his job \o/
The tragic part is that he doesn’t really. Then again, who does? HIGH FIVE FOR SHIT JOBS
Also high five for a sort-of Blade Runner reference! o/
Maybe because people like seeing somebody stand up for their ethics and principles even if it upsets the person who pays the bills
I’m in Ningbo for atleast te rest of May. Then in June I think I’m being taken to a few different cities when my dad comes over on a buying trip. I also wanna check out Shanghai since it’s so close. But visa expires end of June i expect to be back before then. Prolly gonna miss watching e3 this year though.
Two page gets in one week. Dam reply fail. @welbot
Also Welbot did you get a Chinese name whe you were here?
Shanghai is great! So much to see! I spent quite a lot of my time there. As for a Chinese name, I didn’t really get an official one, but my ex-family used to call me Jiasi cos they couldn’t pronounce my real name 😉
My teacher have me the name “Ke Wei” (read surname then first name) Ke is first tone and Wei is 3rd. Not to be confused with 2nd tone Wei which is hello when using a phone.
What are you even doing there? A couple months is a long-ass time to be sitting around in hotels.
Spiritual journey.
He roams the streets offering people a light!
Shaking hands.
Fantastic. I could live that life.
Claim: “I’m on a Spiritual Journey”
Translation: I’m at a LOL/Starcraft II Boot camp for some pro training…
He’s in China, not Korea.
aaahhhhh so gold farming then
you kidding me? chinese are pretty hardcore LoL players. very dedicated. especially the ones that spend so much time at netcafes that their sons die from hunger and neglect…
(the asshole from last week)
China runs reeducation camps for people addicted to online games…
They also have a Uni course for LoL in Shanghai or something along those lines.
I also sit around in Starbucks (god help me I miss good coffee) and bars. Honestly I agreed to come on a whom before being told why. But I’m learning Chinese. That’s about it.
hehe Starbucks is heavenly in Shanghai. Or at least it was until I found a Gloria Jeans! Hard to get good coffee in China, so Starbucks is kind of the closest thing you have to your old mate coffee!
I don’t know if it’s still there, but I still remember the profound sense of dissonance I felt when I discovered a Starbucks had set up in one of the buildings inside the Forbidden City.
First stop off the plane for me is one of my fave coffee shops for something single origins and pour over brewed. Dunno which place yet. Whichever is open.
@powalen pow pal, you should totally organise a Mario Kart 7 sesh again!
@sughly @jimu @blaghman @trjn @scree …@cj? (I can’t remember who else played last time!)
I’ll have to sit out. Actually. Where is my Mario kart 7 cart.
I didn’t play last time but would be keen if I’m welcome 😀
Okay! The TAY community should still be active. How about Tuesday night?
I’ll have to make a new community for MK8 when it comes out too. Going to be so cool to be able to run full group tournaments instead of just individual races.
Like I needed another reason to pick up MK8, I’m now getting a free game too! 😀
Ahhh exciiiite! I’m totally up for a MK7 run (even though I’m a bit inexperienced and not so good at MK7, cries). Also what about some Mario Golf tournaments? Many people in here getting it?
man I wish that was on the Wii U for couch multiplayer, i still break out gamecube golf regularly
Yeah but 3ds is still good! I do agree it wouldve been cool to have it on wiiu though
Going to swing by JB on my way out tomorrow morn!
Nice shot!
Also iSketch.
AT THE SAME TIME!? 😛
(@benny @gutsoup yesss! legends!)
1 round of iSketch. Winner gets to pick the character that everybody else must race as for one cup. Repeat.
Count me in! 😀
Hey @stickman, screen protector’s arrived! THANKS!
Also that perforated envelope is a weird idea. Ended up kind of half opened by the time it got here.
Also also tell me where I can send money dammit.
Woo! Safe arrival! No idea what the envelope was like, my gf sent it. I’ll reply to email!
You know, I just realised that I hate Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to go forward with his broadband plan without drafting a cost/benefit analysis not just because it’s hyper-hypocritical, but because I’m the kind of person that creates a mental cost/benefit chart every time I buy a sushi roll.
Yeah but the cost/benefit analysis of sushi is pretty simple.
Cost = money.
Benefit = sushi.
Provided the benefit is sushi, I’m not sure the cost is ever ‘too much’.
Oh my god why isn’t there a countrywide sushi-to-the-home network.
Probably because it seems a bit fishy.
#pagesix
I don’t want sushi in my home
See, this is the problem. It’s people like you demanding sushi-to-the-node that go and ruin it for everyone.
Now SushiCo has taken the money and bolted, and we’re left with what? Pissweak, warm sushi. That’s what.
Well what would I do with it when it shows up unwanted? There’s only so much room in the bin
Well, you see the SushiNet is a series of tubes, and the excess doesn’t get delivered to your house if you don’t want it. You only take the Sushi you need from the supply and the rest gets distributed to other users.
Can it be used for non-sushi things? More importantly would the other things pick up the taste of fish?
I’m just concerned it’s overly specialised, it’d be better to make a generic delivery mechanism and use that to deliver sushi on demand for weirdos like @phlanispo & @mythamphetamine who like that kind of thing and let me get shipments of mccormick lemon & pepper seasoning to use on my popcorn or plain chips
@aliasalpha I just asked a Telstra representative and they said that while the technology can be utilised for different purposes that it is only required to be maintained for the delivery of Sushi and as such any delivery which is not Sushi needs to be dealt with by the relevant provider.
Words! (I ended up answering my own Dark Souls II question :D)
So uh… what’s up?
The opposite of down.
Have you ever played Animal Crossing? 😀
I played a fair bit of the GameCube one. And hit up the DS one pretty much every day for the first couple of months.
Then the weeds came!
They didn’t come.
They took over.
Coolio :D! I’m just asking cause you’re the Ninty guy but I don’t think I ever saw you talk about AC :O
I know you recently got into Pokemon (again), but are there any other Ninty series you haven’t really played?
ARE YOU HYPED FOR XENUBLADE?!
Well I played 30 hours of Xenoblade and thought it was cool 😛
Haven’t played a Fire Emblem, other than a five-minute go of the ambassador one. Seemed good though, and I liked Advance Wars.
Hoy boy you’re gonna love FE: Awakening!
If I ever get around to getting it 😛
What is this Xenublade you speak of? Is it the original game but with a typo? Or is there a sequel in the works?
Monolith are making a sequel/spiritual successor for the Wii U, currently code named X. So we’ve taken to calling it XenUblade
…and this whole time I was thinking that it was because it’s new Xenoblade. New/nu. XeNU.
IT WORKS ON SO MANY LEVELS
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nintendo+monolith+soft+x
There’s been about 3 trailers/teasers so far and all of them are amazing! (it’s looking a lot like Xenoblade)
Even the non-Xenoblade players think it looks good 😀
http://sobadsogood.com/2012/11/14/38-of-the-weirdest-unexplainable-images-on-the-internet/
Hmm.. That’s enough internet for me tonight.
Agreed.
@stickman
I couldn’t download touch my Katamari. Was it American Playstation plus?
PAL Plus got it in September/October
I didn’t know and missed out D=
Should still be available for purchase though?
I know that GOG’s whole thing is retro but I just got a forum reply to a post I made nearly 6 years ago…
https://xkcd.com/979/ ?
Usually when it’s one result from years ago, it was me asking the question
Having Tidus doing 80,000 damage per hit makes the story final bosses a bit of a hilarious joke.
Somehow recognised Rush Hour just from hearing the opening credits music. So strange.
Otherwise sitting here with nothing to do. Internet folk are being jerks and running off to start their own casino for no real reason. Whole pile of games to play but don’t feel like playing any of them. Also it’s cold and I hate it. Bleh.
I… can’t actually recall anything from Rush Hour aside from Jackie/Chris “War” duet.
That’s probably for the best, come to think of it.
Are you a PC or console player?
Nintendo guy, with a gigantic backlog as well as all the main Humble Bundles sitting on my PC doing nothing for the most part.
Xenoblade again! 😀
But I don’t wanna.
I’m sitting here playing FFXHD on Vita while watching Rush Hour…
“You want any fives with that?”
Kills me every time 😛
Wipe yourself off. You dead.
*sigh*
…I’m so bored…
You can fix that with a wife and kids, you know. Never a boring moment. 😛
I wouldn’t want kids.
That could change. If not, not a bad thing. *shrugs*
The good version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (original in Swedish) is on SBS 2 atm. Excellent film.
All bloopers, all the time!
Unfortunately, whilst trying to post your comment, it managed to disappear from our database. Please stand on your head for 4 hours, whilst reciting the entirety of Crime & Punishment in Latin, then, just maybe, it might come back. Just kidding, it won’t.
Don’t forget to stick your tongue out at the appropriate angle, and flash gang signs.
It did? I could’ve sworn I got to see it before.
So I’ve finally seen all the Star Wars movies. I have a very proud best friend right now, who was always annoyed/a little upset that I’d never seen any of them before a couple months ago 😛
I liked the whole series a lot more than I thought I would. Episode 1 was stupid though.
Now you can watch the “what is Episode I/II were actually good movies?” videos too 😛
Wonder if he’s gotten around to epIII yet…
I took @scree’s advice and checked out Nyu Media, the home of doujin (Japanese indie) games. I didn’t want to buy anything, so I downloaded the demo to ARMED SEVEN, a bullet-hell shooter. Here is my impromptu review of the demo of a game I played for 40 minutes.
ARMED SEVEN demo review
The bullet-hell shooter genre is a type of game that I am somewhat unfamiliar with. The only bullet-hell I have ever played is Gradius 2 for the Gameboy Colour, although I never completed it since the damn game didn’t have a save feature and I don’t have the patience to play a game for 4 hours in a row. I don’t think Bleed counts as a bullet-hell, as it is technically a platformer with bullet-hell mechanics. What was I saying? Oh yeah, stuff.
From what I played, ARMED SEVEN seemed to be a pretty normal bullet-hell shooter. Stand-outs include having a vast array of weapons to tether to your loadout, and a pretty good soundtrack. You have a primary gun, a passive gun that shoots a special bullet every second, and a kill-everything-on-the-screen weapon with a recharge required after every use. The visuals are your typical 16-bit aesthetic, there are no surprises in that area.
As ARMED SEVEN is a bullet-hell, there are a lot of bullets on the screen. You are better off just looking at the bullets on screen rather than where the enemies are. I typically played normally, and got my ARMED arse kicked in. But occasionally, I would go bug-eyed, and I would affix my eyes to the screen with an unbroken glare, seeing everything at once and dodging the bullets without actually looking at my character. It takes a lot longer for my arse to get kicked in whilst in the bullet-hell state. While I am in this state, I realise that I love bullet-hell shooters, and that it is a genre I have sorely overlooked.
However, there were a few problems I noticed off the bat. There is no mouse control on the menus, for one. Granted, there is no mouse support in the entire game, as mice + unending hail of bullets don’t mix. It is possible to fire in three directions rather than just in a straight line. However, this feature is rather dodgily implemented, and is not particularly intuitive.
Basically, the dicrection you shoot is based on what direction you were moving when you started shooting. If stand still when I begin shooting, I will shoot in a straight line, but I am free to move and shoot to my heart’s content, at least until I stopped firing. If I want to shoot 45 degrees up, I must move up press and hold the fire key, and then move to my heart’s content. This is a sort of game where you hold down the fire button and never let go, so being forced to stop shooting so I can initiate the clumsy process of choosing a different direction to shoot. I suppose I should be glad that such a feature is even in the game, but the implementation of this mechanic is clumsy.
The charge weapon is also horribly OP. It recharges in a matter of seconds, and absolutely melts everything, including bosses.
When I made it to the second stage, I noticed something peculiar. My health had not reset. When I died. I was booted to the main menu screen rather than getting another go at stage 2. From the 40 minutes I played, there did not appear to be a way to recover health, only a way to get shields. How many levels am I expected to pass before it creates a checkpoint? I attempts to beat stage 2 were few, as I had to beat stage 1 first. I probably only got about three attempts at stage 2 before I gave up.
All in all, ARMED SEVEN is an okay game. The artificial difficulty caused by a complete lack of checkpoints is disheartening, and the 3-way shooting mechanics hold it back. I don’t think I’m going to bother spending $5 on it.
10/10 Would play whilst a Steam game is downloading or updating.
I never tried armed 7. I would suggest the eXceed games, as each one has a different mechanic, it’s pretty cool. Or else Ether vapor. I liked those ones when I QA’d them.
Guacamelee seems like a pretty cool guy.
Shame it doesn’t seem to like my USB controller like Fez did. Keyboard is suck.
I play mine with a standard xbox360 controller and ever had a problem
I hate that game with a passion when I get stuck on an area I can’t get to. Getting real close to the end but having to go back and try to level up a bit to have more health as I’m struggling with this boss fight.
I only have the one wireless 360 controller so I can’t use that. Instead I’m using a 360 arcade stick I got a while back. It works pretty well, but the button layout is just a bit weird for it. The top three buttons are BXY, and the bottom ones are ALR, so having the jump on the thumb and the basic attacks on the middle finger seems a little odd. I’m mostly mashing anyway so it more or less works 😛
Starting to wonder if I accidentally roofied myself last night or something. I woke up on the couch at 4:51am, with no idea how I got there, or what I even did last night 😐
Well, at some point before dinner you were helping Techie and I with my computer issues
hahah yeah that’s right! How’d you go with that?
No dice. same issue.
hmm go download combofix and run it from your desktop. Make sure you disable your antivirus first.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/dl/12/
While it’s running don’t do anything with your computer. Just wait it out until it finishes and shows you a log file. If you click on the window you might get false positive results.
If it finds something, it will make you reboot your pc, so be prepared. If it does, once you’ve logged back in, don’t touch anything until combofix shows you the log file. Perhaps save a copy of it to send to me later if need be, but after that, see how it’s behaving.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @rocketman @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
I’m not sure who’s coming tonight so I’m tagging everyone.
Dinner! Tonight! Brathaus! (http://brathaus.com.au/) 6pm!
And afterwards if you’re not all coming to Gloryhammer I’ll be sad.
See me embarrass the band by gifting them a quilt they have no idea what to do with! 😛 Prepare for epic battles against an undead unicorn horde!
Hear songs about magic dragons( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn-WxMfFy9U&list=UUy2_iZp4vSVK1-UQWXyCdNg )!
Tickets at the door last night were only $20….
iwannago
IT’S NOT TOO LATE!
The thought did cross my mind for a moment 😛
Magic dragon songs, eh? HAVE I GOT A SONG FOR YOU!
I will only click that link if you provide me proof you watched the video I linked. 😛
I watched it all the way through. It’s the guy from the cruise ship! XD
Also you probably don’t wanna click my link. 😛
I was never going to click it, because I am a monster. 😛
Did you not think it looked like plenty of fun was happening during that video? Do really hate fun so much? 😀
Fun and I have a troubled relationship, Strange.
Wait a sec, what’s wrong with “Puff The Magic Dragon”?!
IT’S ABOUT DRUGS! AND DRUGS ARE BAD! STAY OFF THE DRUGS, STRANGE! >:|
It’s not about drugs! IT WAS NEVER ABOUT DRUGS! YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!
That’ll take an especially potent drug to remove memories! NO DRUGS!
QI quoted the guy who wrote it in their Christmas special saying it’s not about drugs.
Are you calling Stephen Fry a liar @DC??
I’m a’comin’ for the meats, but won’t be stayin’ for the Gloryhammer.
I upvoted for the meats, but downvoted for the Gloryhammer. 😛
Harsh, but fair. :p
meaty sausages and unicorn invasions. How everyone else will miss out greatly
I’d love to come for dinner at least, but it just aint gonna happen for me this weekend 🙁 Sorry people! Everyone can hug everyone for me! 😉
Is that green armour man/band? 😀
Sure is! 😀
btw, it’s ok to bring a couple of people along to Brathaus? Missus and housemate who’re also coming to Gloryhammer 🙂
I wont be going, have fun without me (or else)
Arcade stick works with Guacamelee 😮
Yay!
The control setup is kind of awkward and doesn’t seem to be able to be remapped!
Boo!
Unmappable controls are the worst thing ever, it makes even hitler look cute and cuddly
I heard that Towerfall, the best selling game on OUYA, sold 7,000 copies. Ouch.
Wait, someone made games for that tiny media PC?
I have KOTOR in my Steam cart. I don’t know whether to purchase it. On one hand, it’s a game that I might never play. BUT IT’S SO CHEAP! But it’s a game with known compatability problems with Windows 7. BUT IT’S SO CHEAP! I will never get a refund from Steam if it does not work.
BUT. IT. IS. SO. CHEAP.
Wait, it’s only $3.40. It’s not that cheap.
Also one of the finest games ever made.
And has lots of Jennifer Hale which is never a bad thing
KOTOR 2 will work better on Windows 7.
I couldn’t get KOTOR to work on it at all.
KotOR and KotOR II are two of the best Star Wars games. The only others that hit the same level of pure awesome are TIE Fighter and sequels and Republic Commando. But Republic Commando sadly has a bad PC port and dated poorly 🙁
KotOR II IMO is better than the first one despite being buggy and incomplete, simply because Obsidian’s writing is a lot more interesting. Characters have shades of grey to them and stuff, plus The Exile is a more tragic character.
There’s a mod out for II that adds in a lot of the unfinished content.
Republic Commando would have been a great game if they hadn’t fallen into the same trap of mistakes they made with pretty much every star wars shooter, making the rifles inaccurate as fuck.
Sure stormtroopers never hit the protagonists but they managed to be feared everywhere else so they must be better shots than the simulations of the E11’s ever showed. Also what kind of gun doesn’t put round 1 on target? A shit one, that’s what kind. If they wanted to make the rifles inaccurate, let them put round 1 dead centre and then scatter rapidly as you continued to fire but if I can’t take my time and make a centre mass shot on an unaware stationary target 20m away because for some reason the game decided to make the first round I fired fly high and left, that means either your gun simulation is crap or that the rifles were so laughably awful that the Empire wouldn’t have accepted them.
Star Wars deserves a good shooter made by people who think about these things, damnit. Hell, imagine Republic Commando 2 or a Stormtrooper game made in the style of Rainbow Six Vegas, that would rock so hard…
Dark Forces was a rad Star Wars shooter and I’ll punch anyone who says otherwise in the testicles/ovaries.
It was, I’m not saying otherwise (hell I’ve bought it at least 3 times and played the living shit out of it, to the point where I can still remember levels years after having played them) but how many times did you go through 20+ shots with the blaster rifle when you could have killed a stormie with one shot if you could have actually hit him? It says a lot about the guns in that game when my reaction to a stormtrooper 50m away was “better pull out my pistol” because it was better at landing rounds on target than the rifle was.
I’ve played most of the Star Wars games over the years other than Nintendo-specific ones and the only time I’ve ever found the blaster rifle to be a viable weapon choice was in the later Dark Forces games when you had force powers & used… force sense I think it was that made every round perfectly on target, then it was just stupidly good and no fun.
Jedi Knight was pretty rad too. JK2 slightly less so.
Buy it. If you have it in your cart now then you’ll buy it eventually out of curiosity when it’s $1 on steam and by then chances are you’ll be running Windows 9 and have even less chance of it working.
I seem to recall having KOTOR run OK on Win7. There IS a recent ipad port that’s supposed to be pretty well done if you have the requisite hardware
BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT
In celebration of my birthday i decided to buy a new mouse and keyboard for my computer…
i went with the Logitech G710+ and a Mionix Naos 8200…
HOLY JESUS FREAKING CHRIST THAT MOUSE IS AMAZING! just so so SO comfortable… and the G710+ is my first foray into mechanical keyboards and i must admit, with nothing else to compare it to, i’m pretty damn happy with it!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
A Happy Birthday indeed! 🙂
Looks like quite a nice mouse. Has it got a fancy little tray with weights in it so you can make it heavier if you want? That’s easily my favourite pointless-but-nice feature of my Logitech G500 mouse
Also yeah, happy birthday
Nah it’s the only feature was surprised wasn’t there, cause my old G5 did as well… But honestly, the mouse seems just about the right weight for me 😛 and at $69 i can’t really complain about the price 😛
I went mechanical for the sound. Love my old Logitech G9x really not looking forward to the day I have to replace it.
Last night I discovered that the rumors are true: The Jezabels are pretty fucking awesome live.
Civ 5 – Elder Scrolls Mod recap
A while back, I created a new save game with the elder scrolls mod. I I was Kiergo, the leader of the Khajit, and my opponents were An-Xileel the Argonian of Argonia, Queen Aryenn the Altmer of the Summerset Isles, and Gortwog the Orsimer of Orsinium.
I started my empire with the city of Torval, and set to expanding. I decided I would pursue science. The Elder Scrolls mod has a bug were barbarians are more agressive than they should be, so I set to creating a mini-army for defense. Strangely, it appeared that all the other civilisations were passive, and no-one else created an army. I had the strongest army without trying.
I immediately started getting friendly with Queen Aryenn, and a freindship was eventually created with An-Xileel. Gortwog was rather suspicious, and resisted all of my attempts to create a friendship.
I spotted a patch of land next to Queen Aryenn’s land that had a shit-tonne of resources. I knew that if I were to settle a city there, I would get acess to five different mines. Knowing that land this valuable would not appear ever again ever, I sent my settler. The problem is, the land was a long way away, and it took about 30 turns for my settler to get there. Since the land was right next to Queen Aryenn, she could send a settler and that land would be hers immediately. I sent my army to the land in the vain hope that it would dissuade Queen Aryenn from settling there. Eventually, my settler arrived and the city of Alabaster was born.
Queen Aryenn was very pissed that I seetled right next to her, and diplomatic relations suffered for a while. Now that I think about it, pretty much ever civ thought that settling right next to Queen Aryenn was a dick move.
As I specialised in technology, I had the best army without even trying. The other civs still refused to create armies. A couple of times I noticed that Queen Aryenn declared war on An-Xileel, but nothing happened since neither side actually had an army.
Through my spies, I deciphered that Queen Aryenn was planning a surprise invasion on An-Xileel. I decided I would tell An-Xileel my findings. He was very pleased. Since my relations with An-Xileel were greater than my relations with Queen Aryenn, I decided I would declare war on Queen Aryenn later. I readied my troops and surrounded her borders. She was a bit worried, and politely asked if I was planning to declare war on her. Since I was still waiting for more reinforcements, I said no. 3 turns later I declared war.
I went to An-Xileel, thinking he’d also declare war on Queen Aryenn. I mean, I was fighting this war on his behalf. He said no, and nothing would change his mind. I went to Gortwog, and got him to declare war on Queen Aryenn by giving him some money and resources. He didn’t actually do anything to help me, but it was a nice gesture to say he would help.
I crushed Queen Aryenn, and all appeared well. Then An-Xileel denounced me! He claimed that I was a warmongering menace to the world, and that I was a dick for saying I would not declare war, and then declaring war 3 turns later. That warmongering comment hurt my feelings, so declared war on him, and set about an Argonian genocide regime with the nuclear bombs I had just researched.
There was a brief snafu were I accidentally offered An-Xileel money to not be murdered by me, and I lost 70 minutes of progress. I took a break from the game for a few days. When I returned, I unleashed hell. I nuked his capital city. Twice. Turns out that nuked land is unusable, so I couldn’t really do anything with the former capital. I wasn’t allowed to burn a former capital, so I annexed the city, and did precisely nothing with it. I let it stagnate.
Somehow, Gortwog was a little guarded after I wiped out two races, and thought I was a warmongering menace to world. It hurt my feelings, but he didn’t denounce me I let him live, and did not declare war. I had science to attend to. I think he would have been totally okay with me nuking the Argonians if I’d asked him if he wanted to join in.
I won science, and launched a spaceship into outer space.
YOU’RE WINNER!
EDIT: Grammatical errors I didn’t discover until several hours later.
I cracked and bought Titanfall after finding a cheap key.
It was $45.
…
Someone, please kill me. 🙁
Bang! ………… NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!! :'(
It’s okay, you didn’t hit any vital organs!
*Casually moonwalks away, bleeding*
Dude in china they other week fell off a building into a street pole. Went right through him vertically. Missed all vital organs and he survived.
What platform?
PC.
Let’s arrange something then! You are going to need help if you want to beat the campaign.
Went to Maccas today, ordered a double been and bacon meal, and for some reason they shoved an extra double cheeseburger in the bag! \o/ Highlight of my day.
Also went to MONA today. Pretty sure I was one of only a handful of Tasmanians who hadn’t been. It was interesting, I guess. Slightly underwhelming.
Free food is the best!! Lucky day!
I haven’t been to MONA yet. I don’t get to Hobart very often.
I’ll probably post this again in new TAY next week as well, but anyway… my mum has a pair of quite nice, comfortable cream-colored leather couches. The problem is that they were the primary couches for the family for about a decade and they’ve gotten a bit worn.
Specifically, the areas that were a nice cream color are now kind of blue-greenish. Both are affected, but the 2-seater couch seems less discolored than the 3-seater. Not sure if sun exposure or sweaty asses is the reason, but it’s basically all the cushions (which are permanently attached) and not the structural part, so the discoloration is really obvious.
Does anyone know how I might go about cleaning these? I’m not sure if the discoloration is permanent or not but I think she’d ideally like to sell the set next time she moves or possibly give them to me when I move out, but I think she’ll have a hard time selling them (and also I don’t want them) if the leather is ruined and you have to spend a whole ton getting them reupholstered.
Without being able to see it first hand, I’d suggest trying something like this.
http://www.selleys.com.au/home-cleaning/leather/cleaner/
If that doesn’t work, you might have to seek professional advice.
Yeah, I think I might try something like that on a test spot and if it works, good. If not, specialist.
@freezespreston may be able to help you given he works with leather as part of his jerb.
Main culprit of that on couches is jeans.
Try a silicone cleaner/protector and if that doesn’t work, yeah it’s pretty permanent. Leather is easy to prevent damage but hard to fix.
Jeans was my assumption as well, but it’s also on the backs and armrests which seem like they shouldn’t get jean stain.
They are the comfiest couches I have ever sat on. Just the right amount of sink into them, arms at just the right spot, incline is perfect, size is great. Leather is really soft too. Also despite having had a cat sleep on them for years and a dog who liked to lie against the back, aside from the discoloration they’re in really good condition so I’d be sad to just turf them without putting in a good effort.
Mum never bothered to maintain them properly so I wouldn’t be surprised if the damage was completely preventable too 🙁 I’ll give it a go with proper leather cleaner and report back.
Failing that, reckon it might be worth trying to re-dye the leather?
All those denim jackets.
Double-Denim Disaster.
I’ll throw in my 2 cents and agree with @freezepreston as far as staining may go. My advice is just to ditch it unless she bought it from somewhere nice. In which case depending on type of leather and quality of the carcass, upholstery could be a really good option.
I need to be kept away from Kickstarter. I tend to back things I shouldn’t. 🙁
This week I went a bit nuts too:
1. Project for the first section of a restoration of an old RAAF Beaufort for the National Aviation Museum (which I didn’t know existed, let alone was in Melbourne, so now I need to go there some time):
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moorabbinairmuseum/raaf-beaufort-a9-13-restoration
2. Pixel Noir, 16-bit ‘Detective RPG’ that looks pretty rad:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/397981048/pixel-noir-pc-mac-ios-android-ps4-vita
(Breaking over many posts because url limit)
3. Wa, anime-inspired fantasy Tabletop RPG
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/josephleebush/wa-the-anime-and-manga-rpg
I’m mainly backing out of curiosity – none of the major Pen & Paper RPG stuff implements this style of content very well. Probably would adapt the content myself to another system, but who knows?
4. Exogenesis, visual novel inspired by Ace Attorney and Zero Escape.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2921787/exogenesis-post-apocalyptic-tokyo-adventure-visual
@dc This looks like something you might be interested in too – Post Apocalyptic Urban Decay, and they’re describing it as a hybrid point & click adventure game and visual novel. IMO this looks pretty promising with really nice art,
5. Madoushi (魔導師), Tabletop card-based RPG designed for learning Japanese:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/madoushi/madoushi-a-japanese-learning-tabletop-rpg
This looks rad. Dunno how useful it will be for teaching / learning Japanese that’s actually useful, but probably fairly good for learning basic stuff and common things that are in games and so on. Besides that, as someone that’s actually learning the language it’s pretty interesting.
BONUS ROUND:
Codemancer – RPG that teaches Programming
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bobbylox/codemancer-a-fantasy-game-that-teaches-the-magic-o
I didn’t back this personally as it’s already over its funding goal, and more importantly I’m definitely not the target audience. However if I had kids or cousins or something in their target age range (9-14) that I think would like it, or if I wasn’t already quite familiar with programming I’d definitely back it, it looks pretty cool. Going to pass this around the developers at work.
PositiveZero!
\o/
In a few months you’ll see me whinging about all of them I’m sure. 😛
I backed your first one as well but it was from a link that @shane posted so he is the one responsible not me.
Tempted by codemancer as well but as Mrs Tigs was telling me today “You know that Tiglet might not be a programmer”.
By the time the Tiglet would be old enough the game will be so dated it won’t be worth it. 🙁
Yeah I backed robot turtles as it is a card game and will hold up much better. Also it was just an awesome concept and could always play with the nieces/nephews.
Ugh, Diet drinks taste fucking terrible.
Never tasted one I liked yet
Diet water is alright.
Isn’t that just air?
Nah it’s just bottled water you can only sell to really stupid people. (Remind me to patent diet water)
I had coke zero so often now that I prefer the taste over normal stuff, which tastes like drinking liquefied sugar. Probably not far from the truth either.
What I really don’t like about aspartame-based drinks (as opposed to Ace-K like Zero) is that gross bitter aftertaste. Can’t stand most diet drinks because of that. Also too much of any of them, both Ace-K and Aspartame-based drinks sometimes gives me headaches and blurred vision so I try and avoid them and stick to tea/coffee and water most of the time.
I’m probably going to do a 30 minute gameplay video, then head to bed.
Yesterday I volunteered at my local EBGames for Starlight week. I went in my Elizabeth cosplay, because they were asking for video game characters. I volunteered for about 2 hours and spent most of that time blowing up balloons, which I wasn’t actually meant to do =P
All in all, we did a good haul I think as we got quite a few notes.
Awesome, who else was there? Were you the best?
There was an iron man that left when I arrived. The other volunteer was Kakashi from Naruto.
The employees were dressed as Alice, The pirate Assassin and A moogle
At my local they had Gordon Freeman, a Storm Trooper and a Tusken Raider. All awesome costumes. My friends and I were talking to them, and the guy dressed as Gordon started talking so I said ‘Oi you! You’re not supposed to be talking.’
Just got Shadowrun Returns on the Steam for 60% off. Visually looks stunning, but for $5 it should be decent! 😀
Ho, Chummer, welcome to the mean streets!
It’s not a bad little game, bit simple but fun. I was playing an elven mage with a secondary specialisation in pistols. She could fry any old street drek with fire or mana bolts and then in rounds where everything was on cooldown, she wasn’t too shabby at popping heads with a heavy pistol.
I’m hoping to afford the expansion sometime soon, it’s supposed to be a lot better than the core game (which was already pretty good)
Expansion’s on special this weekend, but still much pricier than the base game.
Yeah, I was tempted and if it’d leave me $2 overdrawn I might go for it but I’ve only GOT $2 so it’s a bit more than I like to push it since it’ll be overdrawn till Friday…
GMG will provide down the track, I’m sure.
@transientmind as per last nights discussion
Well then.
See, once you’ve been drinking in a bar like that, I can’t see how you’d ever really be able to go back to drinking in bars that don’t have enthusiastic hot girls not wearing very much, dancing on giant robots.
Well, my plan to walk every day for the month of May is going well so far. Walked into town Thursday, Friday and Saturday (hi @saturday) and went for a walk with my friends today. I was able to keep up with them without any problems, so I’m obviously getting fitter. Yay!
‘Sup.
Progress!
Ahh gotta love that “I’m not slowing everyone down!!” feeling, definitely a good result both physically and psychologically.
I had a similar perspective thing at a friend’s place last week, he has a 20kg dumbbell set that I picked up out of curiosity and realised that I pretty much couldn’t feel the weight anymore. It was never really heavy but it was never ridiculously easy before.
Urgh. People annoy me. A while back I said for an entrepreneurship class I’m doing we got into groups and got told to make a website. Our roles were pretty clearly defined. My role was ‘build the website’ seeing as it’s kinda the biggest part of my degree and all and nobody else has any web development/design experience whatsoever.
Well our progress is being marked now, and one of the guys in the group has decided he wants to take over the entire site. We now have a shitty ‘welcome page’ with an enormous animated gif, navigation, a second lot of navigation (that links to the same things, but buttons instead of text), and these random sentences with even more links to the same thing. Then he wanted to add a video and a friggen poll to it as well. Keeping in mind this is all just going down the page, no sections or anything.
I went and got rid of it all, just leaving the top navigation and the image to get to the rest of the site. He doesn’t like that. It doesn’t have as many links on it which he thinks means people aren’t going to look at the site. Yes, because having 5 links to the one page on the landing page is going to be heaps more beneficial :/
He needs access to the Weebly (UGH. WEEBLY IS THE WORST WEBSITE BUILDER THERE IS, but we have to use it) page so he can add articles, but I wish I could lock him out of the design section. Thankfully the rest of the group (apart from his friend) agrees with me.
Well I just bought the original Splinter Cell from GOG, and KoToR and Timeshift on Steam. Let’s hope I play these games at some point.
Timeshift is pretty good. I don’t think it’s aged particularly well at all unfortunately, but it’s still good! 😀
Can’t comment on the others, I’ve never played either of them :3
I love Splinter Cell. The original and especially Chaos Theory are two of my favourite ever games. I’m playing the Blacklist atm, it’s pretty neat too.
I watched the Star Wars trilogy on the big screen. Totally the way it’s meant to be watched. So damn epic. I couldn’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen these movies over the years, but never on a large screen or with a decent sound system. Breathed new life into an old obsession. Even though the very last shot of the trilogy was Hayden Christensen looking doofy, it was an incredible day. 10/10 would do again.
I saw one or two of them the first time round at the cinema! #oldmanwelbot
Civ 5 – Pacifist of the North Bazaar
It’s that time again. Time for another game of Civ! This time I’ve upped the difficulty, and I am attempting a ‘no-amy’ run. Barbarians have been disabled, so I will only need an army if someone declares war on me. It will be my job to weasel out of war by diplomacy. The number of civs and the map size has also increased.
So begins the tale of Marv the Coward, the ruler of Cravenland and the Craven Province. My first city will be Cravenholm, obviously.
Well, I got the posting too quickly error, and then played Civ for three hours. In my session I founded the Church of Fear. I will spread the wonder of Fear to all people on Earth!
@shane It is time. Ryan’s heist has begun. Probably not as good as the others, but it’s still great.
Well.
Not quite worth the investment of time this time. I’ll still keep watching future eps, though! 😛
The ‘Well’ comment was more in response to the fact that I posted in the wrong TAY. I’d already seen it by the time I posted the link in TAY.
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EDIT: Woah, I posted this comment on my first attempt. You don’t see that every day.
EDIT EDIT: Who are you most excited about to host their own heist? I’d like to see what Ray could do. Jack’s heist seems like the only one that would actually be successful, though.
Honestly, I don’t know any of the guys well enough. Aside from a couple of other GTA V videos, I know literally nothing about them.
If you have the time, I would highly recommend their other content. Their minecraft series is still going strong 101 episodes in, and their GTA IV videos were even better than their GTA V ones. They have a tonne of content, there is a lot to choose from.
I suppose I should craft a handy-dandy guide.
Geoff Lazer Ramsey*: Co-founder of Achievement Hunter, and one of the founding fathers of Rooster Teeth back in 2003. Loves dick jokes. Makes many of the ideas presented in Achievement Hunter. Originally from Alabama. Has a wife and a kid. Has a weird obsession of owning large dogs. A member of Team Gents.
*His actual legal name. He was unhappy with his previous surname, so he changed it to Ramsey. It didn’t cost any extra to change his middle name, so his middle name is officially Lazer.
Jack Patillo: Co-founder of Achievement Hunter. Quiet compared to his peers, but he still has moments of glory. Almost obsessively patriotic about living in Austin, Texas. He has been know to brag about being a fifth-generation Austinite. Married to a former Rooster Teeth community member, now employee. Really hated by the AH fanbase for no real reason. Known to think of an idea and stick to it to the dismay of his friends.
Friend: “Want to go somewhere?”
Jack: “I think we should go mini-golfing!”
Friend: “No thanks, I would rather-”
Jack: “Alright, we’re going min-golfing! Who’s driving!”
Jack is a member of Team Gents.
Ryan Haywood: His persona has morphed since he first started doing let’s plays. He has garnered a reputation for being creepy and a mad genius, and has totally rolled with it. Keeps a cow in a hole in Minecraft that he calls Edgar. Nicknamed ‘the Mad King.’ Has a family. Has a degree in theatre that he never used. Probably the smartest of the AH crew. A member of Team Gents.
Gavin Free: A stupid Brit. What can be said about this guy, except that he is consistently funny. Living in the United States under a work visa. Incredibly vain and narcissistic, he constantly tries to dick over his friends, but the audience instantly forgives him because he’s so damn likable. Completely incompetent at video games, his cunning attempts at traitorous plans would actually work if he wasn’t such a stupid idiot. As he doesn’t like swearing in videos, he typically just makes up words so he can vent his anger. He is actually a master of slow-motion camera work, and created The Slo Mo Guys youtube channel to showcase making tea at 30,000 frames per second. (actual video he made) Gavin claims that the only reason he created The Slo Mo Guys was so he could get a celebrity visa, so he could work at Rooster Teeth. He has actually done slow-motion camera work for actual movies. He did work on Robert Downey Jr’s Sherlock Holmes 2. Creator of the famous Tower of Pimps, which is a prominent feature of the Minecraft LPs and has spawned shirts and a cult following. Member of Team Lads.
Ray Narvaez Jr: A bundle of references, he has more running jokes than any other AH member. Gamertag is BrownMan, despite probably being the whitest guy in the office. Known to randomly name obscure gay porn sites in the hope that some poor sod googles it to see what he is talking about. When he has a running joke, he sticks with it. If his internet persona is any indication, Ray is a pothead with an obsession with roses. Couldn’t be farther from the truth, though. By far the most skilled gamer at the office. If memory serves, he is in the top 100 highest gamerscores on Xbox Live. Member of Team Lads.
Michael Jones: Michael Jones is as Jersey as is humanly possible. He was initially hired when a Crackdown 2 rage video went viral. Famously bad temper, he tends to scream a lot. He has another show with Rooster Teeth called Rage Quit, where he plays a game until he flies into a rage. Although it’s quite obvious that he is faking rage in his newer videos, he chucked the company Xbox he was playing out a 2nd/3rd storey window during one of his earlier videos. He and Gavin have a weird relationship, and when they team up, they call themselves Team NiceDynamite. Member of Team Lads.
Holy shit that took a long time to type. I really go the extra distance when it’s totally unnecessary. All the data I have gathered is from watching all their Let’s Plays, a bunch of random Achievement Hunter videos, and watching 268 podcasts. I have been a long-time fan, as you can see. I didn’t even have to use Wikipedia, except for the Geoff middle name thing.
Join ussss. It’s blissss.