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Morning all. How was your weekend?
Mine was pretty ordinary, work, followed by more work. Only got a couple of hours of game time in. Played some Trials: Fusion here and there, and played about an hour of Child Of Light (liking it so far). Tried to watch Star Wars: A New Hope last night, and was almost falling asleep by the half-way point because I was so tired.
What about you guys?
Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, picked up 6 free comics and got two cheap ones. Also hung out with friends, which is always a good thing. I have also been playing Child of Light and loving it. The game is one of the prettiest games I have ever seen. I probably would have watched at least one Star Wars movie if I had any, but I watched The Internship instead. Not a bad movie.
Oh yeah, comics! Gf and I got maybe 4-5 between us (gold coin donation for 2nd onwards) and I picked up Legend of Zelda manga collection for $85 minus 25% off, which was alright.
Yes, it is a very pretty game.
Not much to report about my weekend. I spent most of it jumping between Adventure Time, Legend of Grimrock, Tony Hawk HD and Rogue Legacy.
Drove to Sydney, hung out with people, bought a new board game, drove back to Dubbo.
I’d like to not spend any time in a car this week but we need groceries.
I did the same, just replace doo-bo with Mud Gee as the support guy pronounced it last week.
Since you’re asking , it was slow. Though made progress in learning this Cocos 2dx thing.
Didn’t get a chance to play much games. Got company of heroes 2, and that took forever to install. Was only able to play like 2 hours or less and that’s it.
Hung out with friends they started talking about dark souls 2. Thought, hey why don’t I buy it and then remembered that I don’t get much time to play anyway and ds2 requires time and patience.
That’s my weekend.
Trials fusion looks fun. I wish I had time to play games like I did back when I was in uni.
This reply thing is still failing.
STAR WARS! \o/
It was alright. Spent time upgrading my new PC to Windows 8. After it using it so much on my laptop I’ve come to prefer it over 7. Also went down to my parents place to catch up with them. Yesterday I did some housework in the morning, and then had to go to actual work all afternoon. Tried to fit some uni study in, didn’t get very far. No game playing either. All up it was a pretty average weekend actually… oh well.
Mostly spent it trying to recover from a shoulder/neck strain and playing GTA Online (up to level 69 now).
Did you know that lap dances are free at that level? *
* Might be entirely fictional.
*snicker* 69 *snicker*
I am so glad Rockstar got that reference obsession out of their system with GTA SA, it was tiresome as all fuck there, I’d hate to go for an entire level with the game trying to make it funny. Still, I guess it’d be some serious motivation for level building…
Ahh, I gotta get back in and try it out. We stopped playing after we were left with 200K ea. Bad part is I sold my Veyron and other expensive cars before that happened, so I don’t even have assets to play with. 🙁
Well 200k would still buy you some moderately decent gear (at least a cargobob chopper, they’re always fun) and there’s enough missions with good rewards to grind for relatively quick cash. Just running Coveted on hard nets you 18 grand and if you’re good with a sniper rifle it’s no harder than playing on normal. Mind you, you have to get to the mission start manually since they accidently took it out of the mission list but that’s not much of a chore really.
Mm, Coveted was good. I had the heli job down so that only those guys had to be dead for me to pick up container and fly away 😛
The problem I have, is that you need to grind for a week to have one day of fun. Repeat. When we had endless money we could actually enjoy the game and play game modes for fun, instead of worrying about buying ammo ffs. $200K doesn’t even cover my ammo needs if I’m empty.
Still so damn tired! I’d be all snuggled back into bed if I didn’t have an appointment this morning. Who’s the doofus who recognised the day given was straight after Gloryhammer weekend but kept it anyway? Me.
poor Strange! I was tempted to crawl back in to bed this morning too, but I had to get up and sms my boss to tell her I wont be going to work!
Did you crawl back in to bed after that?
nah, but I did lie on the couch with warm cup of coffee and a doona over me for a while! Almost as good!
:O Jealous
Good morning all, sorry I missed out on the Brisbane Gloryhammer meat. Went to a mate’s bucks party and had a grand ol’ time instead. I hope you guys had fun.
Are spoilers working again? Test
Edit: Guess not. I shall put RPG related stuff in a separate post.
Yer still very glitchy. Took me 10 tried to get something to post this morning!
STAR WARS TRILOGY \o/
Such a different experience on the big screen. Felt like I was watching them for the first time again. I was more blown away by the battle against the first Death Star than any spectacle I’ve seen in the cinema in the last twenty years (with the possible exception of Children of Men). I’ve seen it a thousand times, but legitimately felt tension watching this.
Felt the shock at the paternal revelation in ESB, and felt major chills when Luke unleashed on Darth in ROTJ.
Thinking back on it, I believe the music played a big part in this. It’s always been great, but kind of subdued on the small screen. But unleashed in a cinema environment, that soundtrack grabs you and forces you, helpless, to submit to its manipulations.
Rambling now. Gonna stop.
TL;DR: Star Wars in the cinema is AMAZING.
Music makes the scene in a lot of things but Star Wars has always done it really well. All praise John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Yeah, I’ve always thought it was an amazing score. I own all the CDs at home, and often just listen to them. But I was really surprised by just how strongly it came across in the cinema; wasn’t expecting it at all.
Still got the soundtrack to Empire Strikes Back on vinyl.
ROTJ has it’s critics (mainly people who hate Ewoks) but that Luke/Vader duel is THE moment of the trilogy, and the music that swells when Luke lashes out because Vader threatened Leia is the key to that for sure.
It’s astonishing that the same man who write and directed that scene would go on to create The Phantom Menace. I know he tried to defend himself saying that Star Wars has always been for younger people/kids and that adults who grew up with the OT had too high expectations, but look at the content of the old vs. the new. Even if what he said was true, maybe the OT succeeded because he didn’t pull punches and made his story accessible without pandering? Sure, horrible kids movies succeed when there’s child protagonists who outwit adults (see Home Alone, Spy Kids, Three Ninjas, etc.) but why would anyone want to lump in Star Wars with those?
I agree with everything you said. That moment has always been my favourite in the trilogy, though the rest of the movie doesn’t really compare to the the two that came before it, and they goddamn nailed it. In terms of sheer character drama coupled with incredible action, it’s almost a perfect scene.
Re; Phantom Menace and II/III. I honestly don’t know what he was thinking when he made those films. I cannot stand them. For the longest time, I thought that it had ruined the original films for me as well. Even up to yesterday, going to the cinema was just me fulfilling an obligation I felt to a younger me who would have killed for the chance to see Star Wars on the big screen.
You watched the Clone Wars cartoon? It managed (and I now have a sad having to use the past tense there) to capture a lot of he spirit of the earlier films, a good amount of high adventure, good drama and on rare occasions, some really dark & nasty things.
Of course it had some really crap episodes too but even the best shows have off days
No, haven’t even looked at it. I can’t decide whether or not to accept that that era even exists 😛
You really should. As patchy as it can be in places, it was an excellent show (with better acting overall I think, Cat Taber is more Amidala to me than Natalie Portman was). They did weird things with continuity, they had a film as the pilot/premiere (can’t remember which it was) and then something like 16 episodes into the first series, they made a prequel to it explaining how they got into the shit situation they were in at the start of the film. They did similar things a few times, early in series 1 there’s an episode centred on rookie clone troopers, then in series 3 you see them as cadets and the next episode you see the ones who survived as elites. It was kind of odd but cool too when you realised that the events in this episode leads into the ones you’d seen in previous episodes.
If you want to try out single episodes, “Assassin”, “Cloak Of Darkness” or “Bounty Hunters” might be good choices. If you want to try out one of the 3 parters (which is the usual format for the show), I’d suggest “Rising Malevolence”/”Shadow Of Malevolence”/”Destroy Malevolence”, “Storm over Ryloth”/”Innocents Of Ryloth”/”Liberty on Ryloth” or “Nightsisters”/”Monster”/”Witches Of The Mist”
@aliasalpha I use a compression glove I got from the chemist. I don’t think what I’ve got is arthritis, but it’s a godsend for just a bit of extra support whenever I’m using the computer.
I don’t know the brand, but it cost around $25, and looks like this.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8s68r570ya8y27y/2014-05-07%2022.07.38.jpg
Tried to DM you, but you aren’t following me on Twitter 🙁
I think The Empire Strikes Back is by far the best of the films, but that’s because I prefer the tone and direction it has (because Irvin Kershner was a rad director). However I agree that that final duel is one of the best single scenes in all the films, especially because of the music where they ditch the usual symphonic instruments for an organ all of a sudden. Hammond Organs are the path to the Dark Side :P.
Lucas didn’t direct Return of the Jedi, by the way. That was Richard Marquand. After A New Hope, Lucas realized he wasn’t a good director. ESB and RotJ were both written initially by him, then had other writers (including Lawrence Kasdan, who’s writing VII) turn that treatment into a screenplay, and then he had other directors work on the films while he worked as Producer. The same way that he approached the Indiana Jones films – Spielberg directed, Lucas Produced and wrote the concepts. As an ideas man and a producer, Lucas is amazing IMO.
At some point in the late 90s Lucas planted his head firmly within his own asshole and decided he should be directing his films, and by that point he’d surrounded himself with sycophants and yes-men that knew if they disagreed with the guy who paid their salaries they’d probably not be working on Star Wars much longer, so there was no one to tell him his stuff was shit, and no one to act as co-writer or edit his stuff.
I dunno about everyone else, but I’d be happy to see the other broken site features come back later on if it meant getting rid of the Posting Too Fast error ASAP.
I’m not convinced it’s fixed yet, but it’s definitely better!
It felt that way on Friday and then I got it 9 times in a row. It’s just random. Sometimes the Goddess of Randomness smiles on you, other times she’s a bitch 🙁
You rolled a 1 on your save vs posting too fast
Morning errbody!
Hope the weekend was good to you all. My weekend was filled with birthday parties and Trials Fusion gameplay \o/ on Saturday we had my birthday dinner which was chicken on a spit! Absolutely delicious and a cale shaped like a PS3 which was delicious! (Pics on twitter)
On Sunday we celebrated my girlfriends brothers birthday with more cake and more food! And tekken, lots of tekken!
A question, if you can have one cake inspired by whatever you wanted what would it be?
I feel bad eating themed cakes. So I want the inspiration to be SIZE. Give me a mudcake or a cheesecake inspired by the sheer scale of the Death Star and I’ll be all set.
#BruceBogtrotter (name that reference)
Cake theif from Matilda?
Someone at work made a cake like the one Bruce had to eat in the movie. It was awesome.
I want an inverted Earth cake that reveals the geographically accurate boundaries of the continents as you cut it.
OH MY FREAKING GOD! I can’t believe it, I just beat @jalfrezy, @scp and @fatshadylive on one of the tracks on Trials: Fusion (Skyscraper Showdown) with a time of 48.064. I am so happy, what an awesome start to the week.
My top moment was when I shaved 5 whole seconds off one of my tracks I can’t remember which one but
Nice.
My week started by almost havng a head-on with a monster truck and also having to brake to not hit a pedestrian!
Damn, I’m assuming no-one got hurt.
Nah, just typical retards in this city not knowing how to drive or road rules.
Monster truck: some P plater with a lift-kit on his 4×4 ute decides to run over double-lines and come into oncoming traffic. In peak-hour.
Pedestrian: Oh, it’s peak hour? At a very busy roundabout? Let’s slowly take a stroll across the road and pay no attention that my back is to the traffic.
GOTTA POST FAST
I’m so awkward with a credit card. I’ve had one for quite a bit so it’s not like it’s completely alien to me but with online shopping and a healthy dose of caution/paranoia about money in general, I only use my credit card once a month, if not at all. But when those times inevitably arrive, such as when I go out to eat with friends, like today, it always pares down to-
“Ok, insert your card.”
“No, other way.”
“Chip facing down.”
“Chip facing down and the stripe towards the machine.”
“Ok, fine, I’ll restart the machine. You can enter it again.”
When we’ve hit the fifth sentence by then either the cashier or the surrounding people look at me with disgust and I’m quietly sobbing inside. And kinda sobbing on the outside.
`
Had a great weekend! Drinks and German sausage (and some pretty ok people) on Saturday, made for a great lead in to yummy breakfast and then finally seeing the Lego Movie, which was completely …. something that is a synonym for Awesome. Then back home in time to watch Freo beat West Coast in the Derby and one of my favourite players win the best on ground (Ross Glendenning) medal!
Hooray for good weekends, boo for being back at work, hooray for Pathfinder tonight!
Pathfinder tonight at 8pm AEST. What lies deeper in the Tallone ancestral tomb and will our brave adventurers locate the family signet ring? Will someone be able to contain Beorn’s taste buds? Will someone be severely injured or even possibly DIE?! Find out tonight. 😀
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
All this week I’m expecting to suddenly have to leg it to the hospital, so I’ll let people know with at much notice as I can if I can’t make it. If so, feel free to carry on without me and I’ll do my best to catch up next time.
All good and thanks for the heads up.
I’d make a snarky comment about character dying, but then I look at my 8 hit points…
We’re level 1. A 1D8 can kill us. And I don’t mean a roll of 1D8, I mean a single D8 on its own could probably do us in.
Especially if Beorn eats it.
Don’t worry guys. If you take that sort of damage, you have 10 chances to not die from blood loss. 😛
Comforting.
Here lies Beorn
Licked the wrong thing.
Sounds like it’s time for some Dr John.
I been in the right place, but I must have licked the wrong thing.
What do you mean that’s not how it goes?
Beats my 7 😛
Beats my 6. 🙁
8 HP? Luxury!
I’m definitely coming along for the ride tonight, looking forward to it! 🙂
I guess if we die we’re already in a tomb so burial’s a cinch!
My weekend was pretty tiring but eventful
My new bed rocked up at 8:00am on saturday. Which was awkward because i wasnt awake. Nor was i at home. I spend the morning assembling it and then that night i went and watched Roller Derby with the GF. Roller derby is nuts. I am 100% sure that if i was playing i would of been crying 10 minutes in.
On sunday i went to Groovin the Moo
It was okay, i saw a lot of cool bands and discovered how amazing the band Cults are. The bad side is that Drunk bogans are fuckwits. My ladyfriend is fairly short which to some drunk dude was a invitation to pick her up. Im not insanely proud of how i handled that situation. It has just reaffirmed my hatred of Townsville i think.
Who else did you see at GTM? Did you see Parkway Drive? They’re an absolute force live.
Yeah I Saw them, crazy good live
Karnivool were amazing, i don’t know that much of their stuff but they were really amazing live
naked and famous were my favourite of the day, just so much energy from the crowd and the band.
Cults i knew only one song from them but they really remind me of CHVRCHES and put on a stellar show for like 300 people. It was a shame more people weren’t there to watch.
Robert Delong was pretty okay. Although it was a little experimental for my liking.
Architecture in Helsinki went off, i didn’t hate it but it had way more of a reaction than i thought.
I only stayed until early night so i didnt get to see Jezabels which i was a bit bummed about though.
I don’t really get Karnivool, but having seen Birds of Tokyo a few times I know how good Ian Kenny is live. Architecture in Helsinki were really great when I saw them, it’s just really fun music. Shame you didn’t see The Jezabels, especially since we didn’t stick around for their set at Laneway either. Though it’s not like they don’t play all the time.
Roller derby is awesome.
Dude Townsville people are amazing compared to some of the fucktards we get here in Mackay. Literally:
Mackay clubbing: spot the non-asshole. Pretty much every night I need to restrain myself from not going to jail.
Townsville clubbing: male friend and I dancing our asses off to Call Me Maybe when it came out, instant posse of chicks. Never had a single problem with dudes.
Groovin the Moo attracts those losers from Mackay, further south, and generally out of the woodwork. The weekend turns horrible in TSV, and I will never go clubbing again the night of a big festival. Everyone is already a loser, and now they are also blazed and sped up and drunk.
I think i just had a bad experience. If it was just me alone i wouldnt of cared because nobody bothers a 6 and a half foot dude. But i was with 3 fairly attractive chicks who were just constantly getting hit on by drunk dudes. We were literally just sitting listening to the music and dudes would come up and touch them. In no way is that ok. It just made me angry and a bit sad.
Ew.
Stab em.Seems like a typical Groovin the Moo thing, not sure how to help that apart from increasing the male count in your group or being friendly with all of them equally.But really, how did you handle it? Care to share? 😮
When i finally got him to put her down. I pushed him away and told him to fuck off. The girls who were with him didnt like that and told him he was just having fun. I said i didnt care and to go have fun somewhere else. He tried acting all tough and asked me if i wanted to “go” I said no i wanted him to go and the girls dragged him away. Not my proudest moment pushing a 17 year old onto the ground.
Hahahahaha.
Being a teacher, I think there should be *more* pushing of 17yo idiots to the ground.
Not by me, though. I like my job. 😛
That’s the Melbourne clubbing scene for the outer suburbs, if your a girl out clubbing your gonna get felt up so that’s why it’s rare for girls who are in a relationship To actually go out clubbing, and if they do that relationship doesn’t last long
Ew.
Sounds like what’s needed is a vastly lower voltage version of a Taser, nothing potentially lethal or even disabling, just enough to tell people who are too stupid to realise that touching people without their permission is not okay that they’ll be punished if they do it again.
Less of a cattle-prod, more of a bogan-prod.
That sounds like something else entirely.
I was lucky this year when I went to Breath of Life Festival in Launceston in March. I think we have at least as many drunk bogans as Townsville. But this year it seemed to have a fairly relaxed atmosphere. Better than the last festival I went to here when I had a drunk bloke grinding against me at the Parkway Drive set.
Hello. ‘Cold’ weekend here, apparently 10C this morning. Was 15C on my car when driving at 8:40am.
Weekend was alright, did lots of cleaning: house, gardening, etc. Went to a nearby mountain and national park and had the famous pie for lunch on Sunday. Good to get out of the house.
Played some more PvZ and finished Uncharted 2 finally. So pretty, so witty.. maybe I will play the next one ..
AND HOW R U?!
Famous pie?! What is this wonder?
http://www.racq.com.au/travel/drive_travel/must_dos/mackay/enjoy_a_pinnacle_pub_pie_in_the_pioneer_valley
coool! If I’m ever up that way again, I might have to stop in!
Eungella National Park is the NP by the way. if Interested.
Dr Who (new) season 4 done. Would post thoughts but no spoiler tags and too much effort to rot13 on mobile, so eh. Will say that it had something for everyone by the end.
Other than that, lots of monster hunter – I need to change some of my default chat messages to ‘Jolly Cooperation’ and ‘Praise the Sun’. Knocked over first 4 legendaries and E4 in Pokémon Diamond, now at the 11hr mark. Just need to clean up the Pokédex to be able to get the last 3 (also been playing on the old DS since they’re copies I got from eBay, and the fact they freeze on the 3DS points to them being dodgy bootlegs. Ah well)
Hooray for posting too fast on the first post in several days. Attempt 3.
Dr Who Season 4 – not spoilers – The Daughter in the episode The Doctors Daughter is the daughter of a previous Doctor (The 5th Doctor) who ended up marrying this Doctor, so she’s the wife of the doctor who she played the daughter of while the doctor is now the son-in-law of a previous doctor while she is also the daughter of the doctor oh god I’ve gone crosseyed.
A lot of the series has been ‘spot the actor with other main roles’, it’s been surprising how many are there before going on to do Game of Thrones. Guess it can be a smaller industry than you’d think.
I’ve been grumbling about the level of support role people re-use, but the wikipedia browse triggered by your interesting fact has shown me that they’re actually different people. Huh. They all look the same to me.
Interesting real world cross over trivia there. Guess it can be the kind of thing that runs through a family.
I cannot remember where, but there was a quip by an American comedian that if you watched the Harry Potter Movies, The Bill, Dr. Who and Coronation Street you have seen every single British actor that is currently working.
I laughed, then remembered how many characters each of those four things have and realised he’s probably right.
Also just discovered that David Tenant’s first foray into voice acting on video games was an XBone title released last month.
Well it was always the way back in the old series as well, you’d see people from the RSC who’d also regularly appeared on TV adaptations of Shakespeare, mid range film actors and jobbing actors from pretty much every other show that was on although that was back in the day when there were a lot less channels so I guess I was expected.
Under John Nathan Turner, the show had a depressing tendency to get variety show people who were cast for name rather than ability or interest in the show so some of 5th-6th doctor guest stars were really quite shit.
Started watching the stat wars trilogy again last week(not because of Star Wars day, I totally forgot that it was coming up) havnt finsished all of them yet though.
Played some ESO, enjoying the extra 5 days Zenimax gave to us. Just about reached level 40 \o/. Also I’ve starting getting into crafting and enchanting which is actually quite fun, I usually just stick to combat and questing but if I want legendary’s I’ll need to get higher in crafting.
Then to top it off I watched some more episodes of Grimm season one last night. To anyone who hasn’t heard of it or watched it, it’s really good so far, I’d advise watching it 🙂 enjoy your Monday everyone.
Hola Tay
I had a quiet weekend, went out on Friday for tea with a potential lady friend, then did not much Saturday and Sunday- Caught up on Agents of SHIELD (which actually got pretty good) and played a bunch of Splinter Cell: Blacklist, which I’m liking a lot more now. I’m enjoying some of the side missions more than the plot missions, the pure stealth ones and the kill-em-all missions. Went out to tea last night with my Grandpa and my brother.
A Monday Morning Question: Now it’s wintry (at least in Adelaide), favourite winter level?
The icy slide in Super Mario 64. The number of hours I spent trying to find shortcuts to the bottom was epic.
Or maybe the Battle of Hoth in [insert Star Wars game name here].
What was yours?
Recent one? Winter in the Last of Us.
But WHICH Hoth? 😮
For me, Shadows of the Empire’s will always be best. Rogue Leader’s just didn’t seem as cool, despite probably being a much better game overall.
ESB on the Game Boy.,
Considering over the weekend I sunk a bunch of hours into Skyrim, I’d have to say I’m in love with the wintery areas in it again. I currently have a mod (I believe it’s “Perfect Weather”) running that makes night time “night time”, not “slightly darker daytime”. When a snowstorm rolls through and suddenly you’re under attack by a group of vampires it’s just an amazing experience.
Yeah, +1 to Skyrim. Nothing else jumps out at me for the moment.
Mafia II snow is pretty fun though.
When you say “potential lady friend”, is this someone you’re trying to chat up or someone thinking of sex reassignment surgery? If the former, good luck to you. If the latter, good luck to her.
The former, though I suppose you could do the latter and then be the former?
Well it wasn’t something I was considering…
Sleep in by accident, sprint through the shower, scraping teeth on toothbrush on the way, and dive into work-chair with all the same screens open, feeling for all the world like I never left the office.
…yay? Whatever. Let’s Get Shit Done.
Let’s get sh*t done! *opens TAY in new tab* XD
™ ?
…it seems so obvious now!
*hugs* rough morning. All the feels bro. Says me as I sit on my ass at home…
Civ 5 – Pacifist of the North Bazaar (Formerly Prince of Panic)
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 was Cravenholm, obviously. I also founded the Church of Fear. The Church of Fear’s symbol is Shinto, as it kind of looks like a house, which you should be hiding in if enemies attack.
I will spread the wonder of Fear to all people on Earth!
Reposted because nobody reads last week’s TAY at 1:00am.
The Keith is Dead. Long Live The Marv.
Kieth has failed us. We will get nowhere with religious zealotry, fear of everything is the only way to achieve victory.
I have also changed the title of this run to be Pacifist of the North Bazaar, (as the overarching influence guy is Arabian) rather than Prince of Panic. I think the new title is better.
I agree, that’s a much superior title.
You mean nobody reads it beside greenius
What difficulty are you going for, I’m guessing it’s prince? I’m currently struggling against King difficulty. If I remember correctly Prince is the last level before the AI starts getting bonuses so you are behind from the start and need to catch-up
No amy? What expansion added her?
Cravenholm is a pretty awesome name for a city.
Hi TAY!
I was best man in a wedding on the weekend. Except I didn’t get told I was going to be best man until I arrived on the day. All I knew was that I was going to be a witness and sign the wedding certificate. Then suddenly I was holding rings and cuing music and being dragged along with the photographer.
It was very tiring! Scored a free shirt though.
That’s either some seriously ad-hoc wedding or colossally poor form by the groom.
My random visit to TAY was made worthwhile solely by this. 5 out of 5, would read again.
You should randomly visit more often.
Yeah but nahh
Ad libbing a best man speech is hardcore. No wonder you’re tired.
You did give a speech, right?
Thankfully I was spared from that 😛 Very lucky that it was an extremely casual wedding. No speeches, no churches, etc.
Fuck Monday. I walked into the office to find a dead switch and messed up VoIP appliance. The rage is strong with this one…
1. Throw the switch out the nearest window
2. Obliterate the VoIP appliance
3. ???
4. Everything is now working again
Hi Tay, I hope you’re all well
Mario Kart 8 Question, how do you get the free game with it, is it redeemed from Nintendo or the retailer or whatnow? I’m curious cause I wanna get the Wii U MK8 bundle but don’t wanna miss out on free things :D.
I’m pretty sure I read it’s when you register the nintendo points card
aha, good, cause bundles usually have the old (not valid with any other other) disclaimer, gonna be an expensive month, Gotta get Wii U + MK8 + Pikmin 3 (finally), Watch Dogs, Wolfenstein and I’m sure there’s others (like Mario Golf, but i still really wish it was on Wii U for couch co op). I’ll justify it somehow. Did you pick up golf on the weekend? Is it awesome, I played some Gamecube golf yesterday and it was awesome.
SO awesome! Been playing the shiz out of it. I think we are likeminded on this one, I revisit old Mario Golfs all the time (though sadly not the gamecube one – sold it after I capped it back in the day cause I was a poor student… wait they never changed T_T). But oh man, if youre just getting a WiiU now, pikmin 3 is the obvious choice I think. Holy cow, getting mk8 AND pikmin 3 in one haul is too much gutsoup, too much! That is a joy I envy.
One last push.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology
We won’t reach target, but let’s see if we can get to $5000.
I’ll extend the free-stuff-amnesty for TAYbies.
Maaaaaan, what I look like, a charity case? I don’t need your hand outs! I’m an adult! You can’t buy me, all-the-kings-Man.
It’s a shame you couldn’t make the target. It’s an awesome idea, and a cause that I’ve seen is very important to you. Your sincerity and passion is as much of a reason for my support as the quality of your content.
Fingers crossed.
Don’t be disheartened, though. With time, patience, and an ever-evolving digital landscape, I’m sure a project like this can and will succeed in years to come.
And when it does, I’m sure you’ll be involved somehow 😛
Thanks. You’re awesome 🙂
Got all the seals on a couple more levels of Mark of the Ninja. Tried out Prison Architect, liked it but wow there’s a steep learning curve on it. Will go back to it later in the week when I have time. Remembered I haven’t finished Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines and jumped back in. Discovered a bunch of sidequests filling up my in-game email and spent three hours collecting macguffins which added “arty” posters of the various female NPCs to the walls of my shithole apartment which it now occurs to me has huge windows and no curtains.
Didn’t get to jump back into Tomb Raider or Titanfall. My wife had a crack at Titanfall though. For some reason the Australian servers were giving us a lower ping than the Asian ones, which is kind of weird.
That’s my whole weekend. I accomplished nothing productive.
Mark of the Ninja! GOTY 2013 \o/
spoilers?
Edit: nope. still not working.
Aaanyway…. weekend was pretty chilled.
Started a new Dark Souls 2 character on Saturday. wanted to try a strength build. died way too much getting to the first boss. the difference a fat roll makes.
then went and watched these guys on Saturday night it was freaking cold, but the beers were tasty & the show was pretty damn rad. Brian Cook, the bass player, is one of my favourites. he’s got such skill when it comes to effects & tone & sampling. sound was great, too. first time I’ve been to a show at the Manning Bar where it didn’t sound like the band were playing from inside a tent.
Sunday was more Dark Souls. having a much better time of it. knocked off Dragon Rider, Old Dragonslayer, Pursuer, Flexile Sentry & Ruin Sentinels in just over 2 hours. that wooden club +5 is a beast. biggest problem I’m having is keeping weight under 70%…. oh well. time to spam Endurance.
Edit #2: is it just me, or is The Pursuer surprisingly forgiving with his moveset? like, he shield bashes me & I’m stunned for 3 seconds & he just stands there waiting for me to recover…?
I dunno. it was the first time I’ve fought him & he should’ve beaten me easily. but then again, he’s a early boss. supposed to be a bit forgiving, I guess….
then watched the A-league final. was a bit annoyed to find out that the SBS broadcast was delayed by an hour coz Fucks-tel wouldn’t sell them live rights. good game all in all, but yeah… CCM weren’t involved, so I wasn’t overly invested.
today, managed to turn off my alarm while I was still asleep. overslept by 40 mins. gotta say though, 6 mins to get out of bed & get out the door is a new record…. anyway….
soooo……… whats happening with you lot?
Dumbledore is Harry’s father.
Edit: yeah, Pursuer is incredibly forgiving.
reply fail because TAY is being a shit right now
Oh, also played another LEGO game: Pirates of the Caribbean. LOL. Just lol. I love LEGO games so much. :’) First 15 minutes was non-stop laughter at what was possible.
It’s one of the best Lego games in my opinion.
The lego city undercover one was wiiu only wasn’t it?
Ooh, didn’t know there was one of those. I have Star Wars Complete Saga (after already finishing 1 & 2 on the PS2), Batman, and I think we recently picks up another one which we thought looked fun. I should sit down and play them all some day.
I play co-op with gf, lots of fun. 🙂
Seem to be back on the “playing games” thing lately. Spent the weekend with Guacamelee, IT’S SO COOL! Worked my way through and cleared the whole thing. I am king Luchador, with all of the gold medals and yeah that was tough 😛
Really enjoyed playing it with the arcade stick too. Will have to keep that in mind in case anything else is suited to it.
Guacamelee is so good. I picked it up on steam ages after it was released. My only regret it waiting so long to play it!
Guacamelee is great. i got up to the final boss in one sitting, but by then it was 2am and I was having no luck so I ragequit.
Went back like 3 weeks later and passed him second try!
Haha, I just about got up to him in one sitting too. But then it gave me the “you are nearing the end of the game” warning so I went off to explore the Devil’s tower instead and went through that til the oh-it’s-4am-and-my-skills-are-deteriorating set in 😛
I loved Guacamelee for an hour or two kind of lost interest at the first boss. It’s not that I couldn’t have beaten her after a few tries, it’s just that I found it annoying and it killed the pace, and I didn’t want to have to do it 3+ more times.
Please don’t tell me that’s a spoiler. 🙁
I doubt it? You get introduced to the main villain’s henchmen pretty early on, I’m assuming you fight each of them.
So Mario Golf 3DS is actually really great. Kinda surprisingly so 😛
I’m enjoying playing as my Mii over the Mario characters too, which is weird. I really like my Mii’s voice in this game – I hope they use the same voice for Mario Kart 8. I regret creating so many horribly ugly Miis when I first got my 3DS though… my entire in-game cheer squad is a bunch of uggos.
How’s it compare to Toadstool Tour? Only one I’ve played, but I really liked it. Got stuck on that stupid Bowser course that I could never complete 😛 Should go back to that one day…
I’ve never owned a Mario Golf game before (just played bits and pieces), so yeah… Maybe it’s the worst game ever and I just can’t tell? 😛
I can’t wait to play Clockface in Mario Kart 8. CLOCKFACE WILL WIN BY BLINDING HIS/ITS OPPONENTS WITH HIS/ITS HORRIBLE UGLINESS!
Discussing with a colleague the best ages to expose children to the Star Wars movies. Today gonna be a good day.
Womb-age.
My eldest cried in Dumbo, got very anxious in Brave and Frozen, and got scared by Sleeping Beauty. I think Star Wars is still a little out of her reach. But I did miss the womb window, so maybe it’s my fault there.
Maybe try them on Lego Star Wars first. We’ve got this one
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/dvd/dvd-genres/kids-family/lego-star-wars-the-padawan-menace/652934
And my (almost) 6 year old loves it. I thought it was pretty good too. He knows who Yoda, Darth Vader, R2-D2, C-3P0, Jabba etc are, and what a Rancor is. I don’t think he’s quite ready for the movies yet, I’m gonna give it another couple of years, and we’ll watch them together probably when he’s 8 or 9. It’s gonna be a long wait though, that’s one thing I’m really excited about is watching awesome films I grew up with and sharing the experience with him.
First image in my head is a guy coaxing kids in to a dark alley, exposing them to star wars under his trenchcoat
…
Don’t come near my kids 😛
That’s not a lightsaber and you know it!
Slightly related, I absolutely love the video of the two kids being exposed to the revelation in Empire for the first time. Apparently they are four year olds.
I think I would have only been around that age when I first saw it, and have no memory of it being in any way a revelation or important. Then by the time I would have been not-dumb enough to understand it, it was already a given fact anyway. Ruined 😛
Yeah, that one’s pretty damn cool. I think I’m going to have to film my kids’ reactions to it when the time comes. It’s gonna be pretty great.
Machete order!
If you go release order, assuming current special editions, or if you go episode order, it will spoil the revelation about Vader which is one of the best twists in cinema. Release order would have preserved it but then Lucas had to fuck it all up by replacing old Anakin with new Anakin in the RotJ ending 🙁
Machete order is a modification of Ernst Rister’s proposed order, which was IV, V, I, II, III, VI. It’s basically the same thing except it throws away episode I entirely as it’s irrelevant and largely shit. It also has the side benefit of removing that midichlorian nonsense so that it doesn’t sound like Anakin’s mother got infected with a particularly virulent strain of Staph when she was pregnant. They’re never mentioned in II or III. Also this ordering preserves the revelation about Vader – it leads up to it, then gives his backstory explaining how things got that way, then it returns to Luke’s story arc to complete Anakin’s redemption. Episode I doesn’t have any real bearing on the subsequent prequel films either so completely skipping it means just not watching what is largely a poor film. It also means less Jar Jar, less squick around the apparent massive age difference between Anakin and Padme, and so on.
EDIT: Also I watched IV the first time when I was about 2 years old. My Dad got me out ESB and RotJ films on VHS from the local video place a few times and I would have watched both unsupervised (early in the morning) when I was maybe 3 or 4. I thought the battle bits were cool but didn’t really get the rest of it until I was a bit older. I’d think that 5-6 is probably old enough to grok a lot of it though.
EDIT EDIT: The other thing to keep in mind is the Clone Wars TV series is actually largely very good, but I’d probably say 8+ on it as it actually goes into some pretty dark parts and has a lot of people dying (Clones mainly).
I just read it and I’m convinced: Machete Order it is. In fact, I even want to marathon this method, one day.
Chainsaw order: Episodes IV-VI. Fin.
Who wants to help out with suggestions on what to get with the MK8 promo?
– I have Zelda, NSMBU.
– Never played Pikmin, but I got Pikmin 2 on Wii sitting somewhere. Worth playing both? In order? Or just 3?
– I don’t really know much about the other games. 🙁
You don’t need to play Pikmin in order. Pikmin 3 is fantastic!
Pikmin, NSMBU and Wonderful 101 (what I’m getting) are my picks!
Yeah, looks like Pikmin and Wonderful 101 are my shortlist. Perhaps Monster Hunter on there too.
Pikmin 3 is amazing. But somewhat different to 2, I’d still highly recommend playing 2 as well.
Japan went pretty crazy for Wii Party U, I guess it could be alright. Monster Hunter is good, though I’m skipping out on Ultimate because I already played through Tri on Wii and am hanging out for MH4 instead.
Wonderful 101 is excellent and everyone should play it or else.
I don’t know anything about Sonic or Game and Wario, and Mario & Sonic is Mario & Sonic 😛
MH3U is pretty awesome, lots more content than Tri.
My friend keeps yelling at me to get it and join them, but I already sunk a good 120 hours into the Tri and suck at it enough to not want to waste my time doing it all over again (as well as not even seeing most of the “post-game” content I guess. Mostly just hit the credits and decided I was done, save for a bit of online play with the guys). Would rather just wait for something new.
I sank about 120 into Tri and have done similar in MH3U so far. It hasn’t been the same content twice over though.
If you’d rather wait for something new, well, it’s Monster Hunter. I don’t expect 4 to be that much different from 3U, honestly.
Well, yeah 😛 I know it’ll mechanically be mostly the same, but it’ll still be something different rather than a straight-up remake. I’m not big on remakes, I’ve skipped Wind Waker because I’ve already been through all that and it’s right there on my shelf if I ever want to do it again, it just doesn’t really offer me any reason to get it. The backlog demands priority.
Is it one of those typical japanese turn based games where you sink in countless hours defeating waves and waves of similar looking enemies? I haven’t even checked the trailer or gameplay vids …
But yeah, I got no time for something like that. 🙁
Nah, it’s realtime. It’s more like every fight is a boss fight – you’re hunting big-arse monsters that will take loads of hits to take down, and it’s all about timing and stuff. Like if you’re using a big heavy weapon, it’ll have big, slow-moving attacks so you need to time things well to land your hits without either missing or getting taken out before they complete, so you can’t really just spam and hope to win. And then there’s a big focus on armour setups, creating equipment from the items you harvest from the fallen beasts etc.
It takes a bit to get used to, but it’s pretty fun once you do. And even moreso when you hit up co-op with friends. But yeah, it can be a bit of a timesink.
Ah… well maybe one day I guess. Not gonna pick it up as bonus this time.
Not interested in Wii Party U, Game & Wario – got enough mini-game stuff for now. Mario & Sonic at Olympics has been cheap before, so I’ll pass.
Really gotta make decision on Pikmin, W101, or MH. 😛 Hard!
If I was gonna get it, Pikmin 3 would be my choice for sure! Looks fantastic!
I have seen it said that W101 is possibly the best Wii U game to date. It’s still in my pile of shame so couldn’t tell you.
Heh, I’ve seen the same. 😛 Pikmin/W101 tied, MH dragging 2nd place ..
That’s the way!
Either one would be a good pickup down the line. Although I’m wondering if maybe W101 would be harder to find by then, it’s not exactly the easiest thing to find as it is now.
I’m still deciding between Pikmin 3 and Monster Hunter 3 and NSMBU
NSMBU is pretty damn fun. Can get annoying with more players since you collide with each other, but lots of fun. The Luigi expansion pack is also cheaper as a digital download.
I think us Brisbane TAYbies need to have meats at this Brat Haus place more often. That food, man. As cheap as it was amazingly good. D:
And yet… sad face.
That’s astonished/whoa/what gives face!
Otherwise I’d go to the patented :'(
To me, that looks like dismayed face.
Maybe o_o ?
Dismayed fits what I was going with any way. Less about emoticons, more about meats. 😛
Man have I totally been misinterpreting posts if D: is your “astonished / whoa / what gives” face.
And now I read your posts in an American accent. We’re all learning new things about ourselves! 😀
French-Canadian African American Australian accent, thank you very much. :p
(Incidentally that’s my Twitter by-line, so the inference has always been there)
I’m tempted to take 1-2 days holiday, pick up a cheap ticket, and come down for the weekend. I want good food. Not just asian/indian/STEAK.
To be fair, a curried steak on fried rice and chinese vegetables would be a pretty epic feed.
I’ll take eight!
I second that. I love that place. Good food, great beer and a pretty cool atmosphere.
Was good to see everyone and meet some new peoples, as well.
I didn’t meat half the new people sadly. Though they looked scary, so I don’t mind. 😛
Mate, you met me, how much more intimidating could they have looked?
Also good is Harujuka Gyoza just a little further up the same street. Apparently authentic Japanese bar vibe. Complete with beer & edamame, Kirin on tap, and many different kinds of gyoza. Tiny bit pricier, though.
I eat breakfast there all the time.
YES. BEER AND GYOZA IS A TOTALLY VALID BREAKFAST.
Talking with a college about the possible anti-piracy crap that’s trying to come through lately, it made me wonder if the people behind it really bother talking to anyone that would be affected by these changes (i.e. the great unwashed). For example:
IN THEORY (because we all know no one here pirates) if you could suddenly no longer access pirated material in the usual manner, would you start buying everything or just adapt and find a new method?
I think I can assume what at least 75% of the responses would be.
I don’t get it. How exactly are they gonna block P2P content. It’s, you know, P2P …
Unless they block all P2P protocols at an ISP level. Which would be amazingly hilarious if it was successful.
The big focus has been on pushing all the responsibility on ISPs, but honestly I stopped reading into it after a bit cause it’s the same old shit.
They can’t filter P2P, they can only block it. Since it’s a major web protocol, I don’t see ‘All Australian ISP’s Block P2P’ happening any time soon. Just sounds like another dead horse beating.
I’m guessing they won’t be blocking P2P, but planting trackers, observing who shares them, then sending advice to ISPs who have customers seeding those trackers. Ban the user, not the protocol. If it weren’t prohibitively expensive, risky, and time-consuming to do it, I’m guessing they’d also try to sue everyone involved as well, but it’s being proven as just way too unfeasible and with too high a margin for error on narrowing down the actual culprit without police seizing hardware.
Yup, IP address just means that someone connected to the household line did it. Local IP address (if logged) means that someone from that computer (not necessarily physical) did it. Windows event logs showing user logon is no help.
Legally, it’s a clusterfuck to even attempt to prove a certain human definitely did it.
Which is why they’ll go with blocking the account/computer rather than suing a person. And they want ISPs to be responsible for that – but they’re not prepared to talk terms with the ISPs (who were being way too reasonable and realistic about it), they want government to mandate it for them and tar with very broad brushes for maximum results (including false positives).
My guess is that the consultation would be a flawed model. If a govt-type tried to talk to me about it, I wouldn’t be admitting to piracy. And even if I did, I certainly wouldn’t say that I have no intention of changing (a recidivist is a good target for making an example).
If a government type asked me, I would either. I’d want a third party doing it, and a guarantee of anonymity. It’s been done in the recent past with things like illegal drugs so it’s perfectly possible.
Policy-making based on evidence? LOL.
Our current government wouldn’t bother asking, they already know what’s good for their corporate masters must be good for everyone.
If for instance new episodes of game of Thrones disappeared from PIrate Bay, I would theoretically just go to the next torrent site or whatever. And I’d still buy the blu-ray at the end of the season.
At this point I only really want to watch Game of Thrones on a week to week basis to keep ahead of social media spoilers.
Unblocking Australia from Netflix would be a good start in my opinion. Seriously, I haven’t “totally legally” acquired a show in ages since using Netflix. Unfortunately the people calling the shots are people that have no idea what they are and should be doing.
I just want it all in one place legally where it isnt a hassle to buy.
Media exec’s thoughts: Ha, you’re cute. ‘Isn’t a hassle”, “one place” … adorable.
If the BBC & Channel 4 would let me buy QI, Mock The Week, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Screenwipe/Weekly Wipe & Dr Who for a pound per DRM free 720p episode or 2 quid per 1080p on the day of screening, I’d give them so much money I’d be broke in minutes. As it is, the only one I can legally obtain is Dr Who which I buy when there’s a series box set. As for the rest, youtube provides… For a few hours at least.
There’s iView as well, which usually has them up for a couple of weeks.
If you don’t mind paying for a vpn to access it (hola unblocker talks a big game but it’s pretty shit). If I’m spending money I’d sooner do it supporting the people who make stuff I watch
iView is Australian and free.
Ahh I was thinking of the BBC iplayer. Most of those shows aren’t screened on ABC are they? At least not without being a few years out of date
Attempt #4
Channel 4…. what…..
Maybe that’s what the “new channels found” thing was on my TV … been too long since I watched FTA lol.
I’m talking about English channel 4, I don’t even have an antenna plugged into my TV, that’s how useless Australian TV is now. The only time I’ve used free to air TV recently has been trying to tune it on a second TV for mum
Suddenly VPNs. VPNs everywhere.
I used to pirate stuff a bit.
Now I just buy most content I want. Usually wait until end of season for TV shows anyway to power through them. Movies I’m happy to wait until bluray release (cinemas are super expensive). Haven’t pirated a game in a very long time.
The only thing I’ll currently pirate are some TV shows (Game of Thrones) because of keeping current (so popular, that show – everyone wants to talk about it) or because of ridiculous availability.
Also some music. Though mostly I’ll get by with streaming services like Pandora or w/e. I’ll buy CDs from bands I know I like.
So, by-and-large, I’d just move on if piracy became impossible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdfKZr6v6ek&feature=youtu.be This dood’s got talent!
Lambo Update
(I still think about you guys, I haven’t completely abandoned you 😛 …even though half of you are new and I don’t even know who you are :P)
So, stuff…stuff’s been happening for me. Stuff is good! Mostly, at least. Haven’t been getting along with my family well at all and am determined to move out before the end of the year. Once I have my freedom I will have all the time in the world to waste on here again (maybe) 😛
I started doing an internship at my church this year, which has been fun! Mostly working in the creative arts and youth ministry departments. Over the next 3 years the church is going to be upgrading and renovating the campus, so I got my hands on the 3d files of the renovations from the architect and made it work with my Oculus Rift, so people can walk around and see what it’ll look like. I showed it off to the church board the other week, and pretty much made every sick 😛 But they loved it, and I had heaps of fun watching their reactions. Elderly people have the best reactions. Almost gave one of them a heart attack I think 😛 So I’m going to be running that at church for the next 3 or so sundays, for everyone to try out. Gonna get some people who haven’t tried it before up on stage to try it out in front of everyone, it’s going to be hilarious xD Really excited for it all 😀
I read a short story Miss Emsie’s writing about what it’s like growing up with a father with Alzheimer’s (her dad was diagnosed with it when she was really young). Was rather heartbreaking; many, many manly tears were shed (Didn’t help that she’s also an extremely talented writer…). I’m going to try to convince her to put the story up on the internet somewhere once she’s finished it, because it is a really good read and I think as many people need to read it as possible, really makes you aware of the toll Alzheimer’s takes on the sufferer’s family. But she might not be ready to do something like that yet, so we’ll see.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is playing at the cinema in Ipswich this month.
I have never seen Raiders of the Lost Ark before.
…
Should I go? (And the award for stupidest question of the year goes to…)
TRIALS FUSION
I like it. Evolution is clearly way better, Fusion just feels too sterile. But it’s still great fun. Anyone have it on Xbox One? I need more people to compare times with! Gamertag is lambomanjohn117 (I so need to change that one day…)
Game programming’s been going good, though progress has a slowed a bit recently… That stupid little Flappy Bird for the Oculus Rift game I made has been played almost 300,000 times. And I’m working on a cyberpunk survival game, which is my first big ‘proper’ indie game project, but I don’t have too much to show of it yet. Maybe in a few weeks though.
Thus ends the Lambo Update.
Who’s this etc.
Sounds like you’ve been pretty busy doing awesome stuff!
RAIDERS! See it, any way you can.
On the big screen? That’s a no-brainer.
So disappointed I missed out on the Star Wars marathon… I am so jealous of you 😛 Hoping they do it again next year.
Definitely not going to miss Raiders. What better way to see it for the first time? 😀
We’re talking about doing an original trilogy screening at work right before Episode VII comes out at the end of next year.
We’re talking about possibly doing a screening of the original Indiana Jonesl trilogy at work next month.
We’re also talking about doing a screening of Ghostbusters I and II later in the year, and the Back To The Future trilogy on October 21st 2015 (seriously can’t wait for that one).
I think the idea with using the Occulus Rift the new renovations is really cool. Could you imagine going to a real estate agent and being able to do a walk through of houses in a matter of minutes. Could be a really cool idea.
Hell, those that already own a Rift could do it from their current residence.
And now you need to start your own real estate agency before anyone steals that great idea 😛 Even if they just had walkthroughs with the Unity player on real estate websites, that would also be a great idea.
That is the coolest use of the oculus i have heard of yet lambo,
Good morning everyone! 🙂
Hope everyone had a good weekend!
I spent mine working, failing to get drunk, being extremely stupid, and not playing any games :'(
I full on started worrying about my life plan on Saturday, like, to the point where I was stressing about what my roommates would be like, where I’d be living, where I’d be working, and how I was going to pay my mortgage. I realised how stupid I was being when I started stressing that the bank was going to put my house up for foreclosure.
I’m 20, I don’t have a house :S
Think I’m getting ahead of myself a bit :S
Now I’m into uni crunch time. I have four assignments due over the next four weeks. I should probably start them at some stage :\
Good bye all my gaming time! :'(
Anyway, hope everyone has a good week! 😀
There’s nothing wrong with planning ahead, so long as you’re flexible enough to roll with it when circumstances change or those plans need adjusting for whatever reason.
I have the next 10 years of my life (roughly) (ok, pretty thoroughly) planned out 😀
Every now and then though I start acting stupid, like worrying about my rent being missed, and worrying about my roommates leaving marks on my walls, both 2 years in the future :S
The thing is that when that stuff does happen (and in all likelihood they will) it’s not the end of the world. You find a way forward and work out solutions. And even if you don’t work out solutions things will still resolve one way or the other, and you’ll keep moving. Maybe not in the way you like, but you will.
I promise I’m not (quite) as old as I sound.
Ugh, went to pick up a prescription for antidepressants at my psych and when I parked there the car park was full. It’s only got 4 spots and is basically just a house so space is really tight, I had no room to turn around in the car park and had to reverse out the narrowest driveway I’ve ever been in. Takes me a full minute going forwards because I’m still a bit unsure when driving and it’s tight as all hell but coming out backwards was a bloody nightmare, having to creep backwards navigating by wing mirrors alone all the while wishing I could fold the wing mirrors up to get a few centimetres more clearance…
If I’d known, I’d have asked for a script for anti-stress meds too
Wow, those guys are clever. What a way to ensure repeat customers.
Every time I see an article related to Star Wars 1313 I get super bummed. Every screenshot / concept art I have seen for the game look amazing. Oh well, some more stuff to add to my Wallpaper rotation I suppose.
The dude in the purple jacket in the banner ads just keeps dancing…and dancing…and dancing…
I feel like dancing along with him…
I prefer purple jacket dude to crazy haired lady from a couple weeks ago.
But I still want to punch both of them.
I just find it strange how open his mouth is.
He’s going to give me that “new phone feeling” later.
Popdart5’s amazing encounters in WH40K Only War RPG:
– A Mega Armoured Gretchin Nob with a heavy flamer and a Kustom Mega Blaster is something to be feared.
– Seeking cover when being shot at is effective. Also, IMA DISTRACT YOU WHILE THE SNIPER KILLS YOU.
– Nothing quite compares to throwing a frag grenade at the crew of a Gretchin Heavy Shoota, rolling 2d10 and getting Righteous Fury on both rolls (Natural 10 on each die). The explosion ripped through the crew, triggered a chain reaction in the ammo stores and spread to another Heavy Shoota and blew that one up too. Good times.
Ironically enough, I’m actually losing interest in the campaign we’re on for the simple reason that we’re becoming too powerful. I’ve personally been refusing to accept better gear because I want to maintain that I’m just a good Stormtrooper and I’m not about to punch out a Space Marine or a Nob by myself. Unfortunately I’ve now created a monster because our Sanctioned Psyker has grabbed all of the enhancements and is now running around with synthmuscle, sub-dermal plating, a best-guality Force Axe, and now he’s gotten a grenade launcher and Power Armour.
Yeah. We’re meant to be Guardsmen dang it. We’re meant to be weak and expendable. I know Only War eventually transitions into the Deathwatch system but I would have liked to have a more Guardsman-experience than becoming badass regular humans.
Sounds like your GM needs to spice things up a bit, make things a bit more interesting / difficult.
I think he just made a mistake by having us go back to fighting Grots when we fought a small splinter group of Tyranids the session before (and they were absolutely terrifying). Sure the Grots had dakka and techz out the arse but we just outwitted them tactically.
I think the GM buggered up the loot as well as he’s being a little bit more generous than the rules allow. The fact that we’ve basically become attached to an Inquisitor does make things a little tricky and gives greater leeway for better equipment but not to the extent that we’re getting.
Oh come on, it’s obvious that a Guardsman should one day be able to simply bitchslap Khorne with enough combat experience 😛
Clearly we’re all destined to end up on Commisar Yarrick levels of power. 😛
The DM said that once we transition to the Deathwatch system at 10,000 EXP, he’s expecting my Stormtrooper to basically become a Space Marine. But I don’t want to be a Space Marine. D:
I thought they had to be super-young for the gene-therapy to take, anyway…
My character is only in his early 20s so he might be on the threshold of qualifying for gene-therapy. He wouldn’t agree to become a Space Marine at any rate (which would probably get him killed for refusing the Emperor’s gift).
Nah that’d be too old, pretty sure they have to be pubescent
I had a scary thought this morning.
I went back and played Fallout New Vegas a couple of months back, specifically playing the Old World Blues DLC and starting on the Lonesome Road which I have been looking forward to for awhile.
Reflecting on it, I don’t think I really enjoyed it, and I think the reason for that is that the world was so dead. I understand it’s post-apocalyptic and all, but the towns etc. still seemed generally pretty lively with people and personalities. They had something of a life to them.
Old World Blues your only interaction is with brains in jars who, while they have colorful personalities, are not really living things with any sense of purpose.
Lonesome Road works much better because lonliness is the point, but I think the crushing sense of isolation would be more effective if you didn’t have to constantly shoot stuff (though that might make for a much more boring game) and the only interaction you had was Ulysses’ raspy narration through your radio whenever you make a discovery.
Mediating on these feelings (why yes I do have a lot of work this morning, why do you ask?) I wonder if games featuring isolation and post-apocalyptic wastelands might no longer hold any interest for me if they carry on in the same vein as Fallout 3/New Vegas did. I’m eager to see what happens in Fallout 4 (which is surely in development, right) but I think I’ll be a lot more excited for it if it features a world being rebuilt, a functioning society rising from the rubble, and something to actually fight for instead of a lone wanderer drifting from place to place leaving a wake of corpses and empty safes.
And then I pickpocketed a guy and deposited a grenade.
The Fallout dilemma in a nutshell! While I want a greater sense of society and purpose, I also want to blast stuff with laser guns, reverse pickpocket explosives onto people, and feel a sense of isolation etc. Just… you know… in between thriving socities that feel like more than a bunch of dead-eyed puppets.
More seriously, I’d like it to feel like Points of Light in the darkness- some settlements, with a degree of order and nobility, scattered in a desolate landscape. But still keeping the funny, because that’s one of my favourite things about Fallout.
I think that can be the right balance. And I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with New Vegas in that regard. The fact that New Vegas was THE shining light in the darkness, with all roads leading to it, was a great of design. For it’s time, I loved it and once I’ve finished the Lonesome Road DLC and I’m back in New Vegas proper, I might feel differently, even with it’s warring factions struggling for control of a desolate world.
I really must try get back into that at some point, but it just got really glitchy for me on PS3.
Also back into Skyrim. And Dark Souls. And…
Woo! Armello, the Aussie turn based board game that looks kind of like Heroes of Might and Magic merged with a Trading Card Game hit it’s Kickstarter!
Phew, was beginning to worry for a bit there! Now… give me my Guppy plushie! 😀
I really wanted to get the plushie but couldn’t justify the cost. I almost convinced myself that I could buy it as a present for my daughter, though… 😛
I have an email address that is pretty much getting 90% Kickstarter updates these days. I have trouble telling myself “no” 😛
Had another look at the picture of the plushie and I can feel my resolve weakening. Also, the bandit squirrel and fox look awesome.
“Hello, Mr Rize. I’m Guppy, and I’m ever so unlucky. Can you see on my blueprints where they removed my luck node and replaced it with a cuteness emitter? Please keep me safe, I don’t think I can do it without you!”
“B-OB! IT IS I, THE PROTOTYPE DICE IN A VELVET BAG. WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO POOR @rize? FIRST YOU FORSAKE ME AND THEN YOU GOAD HIM IN TO GETTING A PLUSHIE? HAVE YOU NO SHAME?”
I’m sorry sir, I didn’t mean it, honest!
Dammit Armello, y u have to go and add awesome coins and such to the Gamer tier. My wallet doesn’t like this. :'(
Sounds like the same issue @negativezero was posting about in old tay
@tigerion I definitely have this issue. I posted in Old TAY about how I backed five projects this week. Came so close to backing Armello as well but I decided that sinking some cash into the Beaufort restoration project was more worthwhile because Beauforts were cool and getting it restored is something everyone can enjoy, not just me.
Yeah, I saw that post last night (I think) and I was saying “some of those look neat!” and then resisted clicking on any of them because dammit I’m supposed to be in holiday saving mode and I’m very much not.
A couple of the ones I mentioned are still only halfway there so there’s an outside chance they won’t make it. I’d be sad to see Exogenesis fail because it looks really good, same for Madoushi since that seems quite interesting.
Kicktraq suggests that Pixel Noir and Madoushi are both going to come up short, and Exogenesis should just squeak by. The Beaufort restoration project should make it as well.
I hate you for making me pledge even more money on Kickstarter 🙁
Did you just back Armello?
Yes 🙁
sup everyone? hope everyone had a good weekend. i had another weekend of indecisive gaming (not knowing what to play, so you just stare at the computer and open random windows).
couple of questions for the interested lot.
HEARTHSTONE:
with the cards you get, sometimes they have a quantity next to them… does that mean once you use them they are gone completely? also, how hard was that final boss in the tutorial?!?
CALL OF DUTY:
any thought on the new COD? personally, i think it looks amazing, also, kevin spacey, however, i am being cautiously optimistic about it being different or “any good” as i said this last time about COD: ghosts, and then realised how poorly and unoptimised the game was for currentgen (PS4/XBO), and the disappointment that came upon playing 90% of the maps…
Having just played Hearthstone for the first time this weekend…
Nope, didn’t find the tutorial boss difficult in any way shape or form. Maybe I just got lucky?
When you say quantity, are you saying like “You got XYZ for becoming level 3. x2.” or something? If that’s the case you get multiple for your deck builder, but when making a custom deck you may be limited by how many you can actually use. Distill (is that what it’s called?) the extras.
Cards are never used up. You can only put a maximum of two in a deck though, so having in excess of 2 of anything is useless and you should disenchant them for dust which you can use to craft better cards.
I’m cautious about it, personally. Sledgehammer aren’t exactly proven developers. Regardless of how good it turns out, I know I’m never getting around to buying it. Black Ops 2 was said to be the best in years, and yet I still skipped it.
It also looks like Crysis. A lot like Crysis. A down res-ed Crysis.
早上好 Well guess my 5 day weekend is over. Not that I do much during the week anyway.
@powalen (that spelt right?) can I get a link to TAY names please. 谢谢。
Why tag me? haha Do I look like I have nothing better to do!? (just ignore that I replied to this within 5 minutes…)
http://www.tinyurl.com/taynames
Appreciate the link @beeawwb posted the one I wanted. Don’t think my phone likes TAY names page.
http://tinyurl.com/taytags/
Hello! For anyone interested, the Australian-made Armello‘s Kickstarter managed to hit its goal last night!
I’d really love to see it come to Android but don’t think they’re gunna get an extra 100k in 3 days. Hopefully they carry the stretch goals on after the Kickstarter part has finished.
Well, they’re opening up paypal pledges soon, so hopefully that’ll boost the numbers a bit more.
Plus, there’s always the “end of kickstarter ramp” which is fun to watch.
But I agree, this looks made for mobile gaming so the more availability the better.
I have spent half the day trying to think of something to write for conversation.
All I can think of is, WORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hear a picture tells a thousand of ’em!
Pictures can’t talk they have no mouths.
Well they might be able to talk but they certainly can’t scream
Was hoping for that reference.
Harrumph harrumph harrumph! Hey, I didn’t get a harrumph out of you!
Man, the Daily singtaku is sending me mad, I know I know it, it’s stuck in my head I’m even continuing the song in my head but can’t work out what it is. Totally gonna kick myself when I see what it is.
I thought banks can no longer increase credit limits on ccards automatically. And I’m pretty sure I never approved or requested anything in $500 intervals. In any case, yay more limit?
Mine used to call me and ask if I wanted more limit, record when I said, “Sure, why not?” and boom. Before I knew it, I had like… $50k per card. Which, when I later went for a home loan, I discovered was a huge liability. So I canceled my cards and got a post-paid Oz-Post card. It is… not as convenient as I had planned, because I suspect many places do not accept it (because pre-paid), even when they should.
Damn, how long ago was this? You’re not very old, so wtf. And a liability? How. Having lots of credit available to you, yet you manage it fine .. that’s what counted I thought.
Nah, they count it as a loan you already have. Because you COULD take it immediately and without notice, it’s counted as existing debt, whether you’ve got any owing or not.
And yeah, it was at least a couple years ago. I’ve been about… I dunno. Two years without credit cards? I’ve switched to using PayPal connected directly to my bank account. And if I was smart, I’d probably have got a visa/mastercard debit card for that as well, so I can do things like Kickstarter a bit more reliably than the pre-paid card.
It is nice, however, to have services/subscriptions cancel on you instead of re-billing when you hadn’t planned for them.
It’s kind of eye-opening how many of those there are – things I hadn’t got around to cancelling but meant to. MMOs, etc.
Yah, things can get outta hand. But I usually log into internet banking at least once a month, and check my transaction manager a bit more often than that.
Makes sense about the pre-existing loan thing. Hm.
Recommendation: if you don’t need it, don’t accept it. For the reasons @transientmind outlined, and also because if you’re anything like me, a bigger limit will lead to more spending.
I’m surprised your bank is able to increase your limit automatically. Must be some weird clause in your user agreement for the card, because I’m not convinced they have that right by default.
Yah I don’t think they can. It’s just I don’t remember a $500 amount. Could be wrong!
Sydney Taybies: I will be in Sydney for the weekend but it looks like the only night I’m going to be free is Sunday night. (Thursday night I’ll be tired from Melbourne to Sydney road trip, Friday I’m going to a wedding, Saturday I’m going to a bbq.)
I know it’s Mother’s Day but would anyone be interested in meating on the Sunday night? It would have to be after 6, because I’m going to the Dragons v Bulldogs NRL game. Any thoughts on who is interested and what we could do would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
It’s Mother’s Day this weekend?!
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Soooo, potential PAX-type meat/meet/meet-up that I’ve seen bits about in the past… Are there any specific details? I’m strongly considering flying in to Melbourne for the “In-the-vicinity-of-PAX-but-not-actually-at-PAX” Star Citizen event (provisionally on the 1st of November, but you didn’t hear that from me) and I’m trying to decide if I fly in for 1 night (zip down on the 1st, Star Citizen, fly back on the 2nd) or stay for 2 nights. Potential TAY stuff could sway me to stay an extra day/night.
Saturday night during PAX is some kinda bowling/laser-tag and meet, somewhere. @scree may have the details?
I’d wanna bump into TAYbies on Friday too, and do stuff like go have dinner and pub drinks on Friday also.
Yeah, if it’s the Saturday night I’d be engaged with Star Citizen assuming they follow all previous con/fan appearances and do it at a place with A) drinking and B) at night. So that’d be Saturday night drinking.
As much as I do love me some bowling and laser-tag. Maybe I can fit both in, like some coke snorting hoo….. Sorry, having flashbacks there.
Last year we had a pre-PAX meat on the Thursday as well. And during the day some people had some meats too. I assume that will happen again.
This year the venue’s much better. Jeff’s Shed is well located being in the corner of the CBD so there’s heaps around. It’s not like the Showgrounds was an out of the way venue or anything, but it did require a train trip or a drive to get to civilization again.
Jeff’s Shed? Look, I love you Melbourne, but you’re pretty fucking strange sometimes.
Well, it does look like a shed.
It’s a giant shed-like building made when a man with an equally titanic ego was premier.
@scree or @tech_knight are the people to talk to. I’ve been loath to commit one way or another as I dunno what other people I’m over with will be up to on the Saturday, but I’d love to make it.
Also, last year I did Thursday Night Meat and called @35 shiggy!
its the ruggedly attractive beards we both have that confuses people.
Hmmm, I could possibly make some kind of Thursday night shindig. I’ve got a month of leave starting on the 27th so it’s not like I’m doing anything. I’m just trying to have as much cost effective fun as I can before heading to Thailand.
Funny, one of the last meets I asked Shiggy if he was 35 😛
It’s more a karaoke meat than anything else, the bowling and laser tag are some nice extras we managed to get due to the venue we got it at. It’s going to be at Kingpin (In Galactic Circus at Crown, so basically across the road from the PAX venue) late on PAX Saturday night, for $35 a head if I recall correctly. The package came with renting a room for karaoke, one game of bowling or laser tag (Up to you), some food and also beverages as well.
why not have one person try and get through a song of Karaoke in the dark laser tag area while everyone tries to “tag” them with bowling balls :D.
Because we’d most likely get kicked out if we did try that, otherwise I’d mention that as part of the feature list >:D
the challenge was to see how many rounds you get before you get kicked out 😛
I’ll leave now…
I was totally going to put my name down for that. It’s not too late to throw money at you or @scree, is it?
Well the money we asked for initially was just for confirming the booking which was a 50% deposit. You can still come and pitch in later on.
\o/
If you guys do need more money up front, let me know.
We will need money closer to the date, just to cover your Om nom nom expenses. =P
One week of mind altering drugs and I’ve had enough and going back to the doctor today. All I do is sleep. Can’t stay awake. Getting sick of it.
It’ll take time to get the medication and dosage levels right, my brain was dead for months when I started. It’ll improve with time.
Those meds aren’t for everyone. I myself would only take that type of med if it was forced down my throat.
Sometimes it’s not what it is, but when or how you’re taking it. Make sure they’re being explicit with the directions – when to take, whether to have with food (and if not, how long to wait) and stuff like that.
Today marks the first day of trying to get a firm grasp back on my life.
Lost my long time girlfriend and consequently where i was living. Employments up in the air and searching for new jobs blows.
Wish me luck… Please :S
Page get… figures.
But at least you’re mega fit, right?
Lost that too. Sickness is a killer.
You’d probably still destroy us in a Fitocracy challenge even when sick 🙁
Hell, he did destroy us!
If we combined all our scores we were close…
Like a nerdy Voltron.
Given my core strength and general size, I should probably form the body
And therefore hot.
…
…
…I’m married, but.
You’re a married butt / married to a butt?
Both, just as Great Space Wizard intended.
Nicely done with the first tentative steps, buddy. Things will be right in no time! 🙂
Good luck, man! Things will start looking up soon!
Best of luck, dude. Rebuilding can suck the absolute big one, but sometimes things need to be completely blown up before the newer, more awesome structure can be erected. Keep looking at the blueprints!
Take over fitocracy by sheer score alone!
*hugasaurus*
Change sucks at first, but it often tends to be good in the end.
Just got reminded that I’ve had a half finished leave application sitting with Payroll for weeks until I had definite details about when I was taking time off.
I’m bad at this…
Man, I just spam our leave booking app with any tentative dates the second I’m even thinking of taking any time off. Then if I decide not to take them, I can always cancel.
Do, or do not. :p
I have no idea what the protocol for unpredictable parental leave is, despite having done it before. It’s a tough one!
How long are you taking off?
Just going with 2 weeks for now.
Cool! I’m taking 11 weeks off, but I’m expecting Mrs Shane to get sick of my particular brand of #Helping pretty quickly and will probably spend around half that time exiled to the study writing \o/
2 weeks of GAMING?
It’s not like you have anything more important on right? RIGHT?
Actually, once the chores are done, there will be surprisingly little to do. In the first handful of weeks, babies (especially first babies) tend to sleep a LOT, and mum will probably want to be the one getting baby to sleep. At least, that’s my experience. Things go to hell pretty rapidly after that, but at least @rize will be safely back at work by then 😛
EDIT: Case in point: I spent more than 40 hours playing Oblivion while I was on leave (six weeks) with my first kid. Regretted every minute of it, but that’s another story.
Today I learn that the literal translation of the Chinese for panda is “Bear Cat”
Amazing.
Helloooo
When everyone was Dark Souls 2ing it up around its launch, people were saying they liked it less than Demon’s and Dark Souls. Do y’all have that same opinion now? If so, why?
I went into it knowing nothing but expecting it to be not as good as the others. I just finished my first playthrough the other day and I still enjoyed it.
I’d place it behind Dark Souls but above Demon’s (although it’s been years since I’ve played that so my opinion may change). Some of the stuff I disliked about the Souls games were addressed in DS2 (like having to go through a bunch of fodder enemies just to face the boss – but now enemies can despawn) and it seems more “noob friendly”. I found the game to be easier overall but I think that’s more likely due to my knowledge/skills carrying over from the first. I miss the interconnectivity though, but it wasn’t as linear as I was expecting (I had something like the “choose your level” from DeS in mind).
Just wanted to hear some opinions on Dark Souls 2 and why people didn’t like it as much! 😀 Cheerio
And do people remember their end-game statistics (deaths, SL, SM)? I wanna compare notessss!
My issue was that everything from Drangelic Castle on was a boring uninspiried slog that served as padding and wasn’t any fun whatsoever.
I liked it. But it was my first Souls game…
I was looking out for the things people were disliking but I didn’t really see them to be honest (mainly the thing about too many lesser mobs in boss fights). But again I haven’t played the fabled Dark Souls 1 😛
I’m still in NG, despite having finished the main story. My SM is around 3.9m, and my SL is 151, death count somewhere around 100. I’m about to make the jump into NG+
There are things I really dig about this game, and things that I don’t quite dig so much. All in all, I’d probably place it under both Dark and Demon’s Souls but not by much. I came to the endgame sections after the latest calibration and didn’t have the same issues as @freezespreston did.
I don’t like it pretty much at all to be honest.
The world feels uninspired and dull, with nothing particularly interesting about it, the designs of everything from landscapes and enemies to gear just looks, bad, in my opinion, and it lacks a point to play for me.
Everything felt like a slog to me also, and felt a little too much against the player (looking at you insta-kill-chests, incredibly potent poison, and uncontrolable deaths >:( ) I wanted it to feel more like DS1 then it ended up being.
I’ll probably have a go at it again, but I just lost all interest cause I wasn’t having fun.
I think I called it quits at SL 76(ish) with a DEX / FTH hybrid deprieved character, after getting 1 lord soul, but pretty much at the entrance to each of the other three.
One thing I really wanted to be able to do was give any armour the special abilities like improved casting speed, stamina regen, etc. That way I could pick armour that I liked the look of and upgrade it rather than settling for something that is useful but ugly.
#FashionSouls
Woah, that would totally be Easy Mode Unlock. Some of those armour buffs are insanely powerful (and are on weak armour to compensate).
Yeah… I just disliked using the Lion Mage robe(?) because it was ugly, but was so useful 😛
(I also constantly wore the ‘look human even though you’re hollow’ ring because it looked better…)
EDIT: Maybe do it like the element infusing thing? If you infuse an armour with an ability, it lowers all it’s other stats.
Fashion Souls is the only way I can play Dark Souls (and most games tbh).
I refuse to play as an ugly character.
I spent over an hour in the character creation screen, I will not use ugly armour OR weapons, and all my armour has to match with the rest of my gear (colour, shape, fit, etc).
Hell, I don’t even use ugly pokemon when I play pokemon (which made choosing a starter super easy for X and Y).
I was rocking Smough’s armour in DS 😛
fatty ahead try horse
I was using parts of it for a bit, but it’s sooo ugly 😛
I changed to Black Knight armour with the Paladin helm (cause Black Knight helm is fugly) 😉
The gold helm really pops with the black armour! 😀
Knight Artorias’ armor… Looks freaking rad!
Replaced arms and legs with the Silver Knight sets however, so the armor looks less damaged… NFI if there’s a downside to the combo, but it was good enough that i could complete the game so that’s something 😛
Also Knight Artorias is a rad character because he has/had a dog called Sif, and my first dog was called Sif… so he’s rad
I should probably play Fashion Souls one of these days, but I almost always just went with whatever gave the most appropriate protection at the best weight. I did boycott the Smelter Demon Armour though, because I really didn’t like its look 😛
Fashion Souls is the only true way to play a Souls game 😛
There’s something about killing everything while looking fabulous that makes it just that much better 😉
EVERYONE needs to fashion the Xanthous Crown for at least a little while in DS 1
EDIT – The bow gesture makes you “bonk” people in the head in PVP… i always laugh when that happens
I would wear the Poison Butterfly armour all the time if it didn’t kill everybody everywhere.
(and I could infuse it with cast speed increase :P)
I’m actually using the Smelter armour cause Havel’s makes me look fat :p
Throw in the Bone King Skirt, Hexer’s Hood and some barbaric weaponry and I got one badass looking warrior chick.
OPPOSITE. Above Dark, below Demon’s. (This is my first play opinion)
Mechanics are a big thing for me though, and I played Demon’s as a mature, stable, established product. Dark became NerfFest 5000 when I was part way through my first playthrough and changed things massively.
Dark 2 felt a little more stable (especially since I didn’t get to any problematic areas until after a major patch). I agree that it didn’t have a Sen’s Funhouse equivalent area, or the same sense of areas intertwining across the map, but that wasn’t an issue for me in the way it could be for others.
Actually had an interesting conversation with a friend at lunch who thought Demon’s was still the best because it was hard, and they’re easier after that. I had to disagree by putting my own perception aside, and point out that watching my better half destroy the first few Demon’s levels on her first playthrough might change that. She found Demon’s easier because Dark was her first. So, it’s probably one of the hardest game series to form an objective opinion on. I know I’ve failed.
I appreciate that post. I haven’t played a souls game yet and have been curious as to how the mechanics work. I hate mechanics where your sword slices through 30 enemies at a time. Think I might still pass on the game as I prefer to play as a single lifer and some of the deaths seem to reek of “oops rushed around a corner and fell into a spear trap. I’ll avoid that next time…”
I’d love it if you can expand some more on the combat and play style “beyond you die and you need to remember attack patterns.” I picked Kotor up through the steam sale and can honestly say I have no idea why anyone likes this over Jedi Academy, but hey different strokes..
Thanks to the wonders of mobile commenting, that post took me about 15 minutes to write, which is why I have a tendency to ramble and completely forget my original point once I get past one sentence. So, expanding further? I’ll try.
Third person hit things with a sword, very slow and deliberate because you can’t get hit much in return. Most fights will be methodically working through small groups or just single enemies, you learn their attack patterns and your own combat animations to best sync the two up. Different weapons will give different attacks, so there’s a true variety there for finding what suits the enemies and your play style best. (Every weapon is not a skin change and different damage calculation, rather your character will move differently). I’d recommend Dark Souls if you want to start somewhere, it’s the easiest to pick up on the cheap.
Interesting point you raise about KOTOR / Jedi Knight – one is an action game, the other is a 3D representation of a tabletop ruleset, like many turn based RPGs before it. Because of the different delivery methods, one has awesome action but laughably bad story and characters, the other is all about the story and characters, with the combat system padding out the progression side.
If the concept of KOTOR appeals to you but not the turn based mechanics, maybe the Mass Effect series might be the right sort of thing for you – it’s one of the few games to deliver on the good sides of both of those game styles. Alas, there is no ‘perfect game’ design out there, so we all find things that prioritise what appeals to us.
Me, I like JRPGs, but not necessarily the stock standard turn based combat – the Tales series is really what floats my boat in this department.
Whooo, I think that’s a new rambling, losing the point record for me. What were we talking about again?
Lol cheers for that. I enjoyed mass effect 2, the other 2 games were a bit meh, but I did enjoy the combat in 3.
Love the Tales series but must admit I parked my plane somewhere in Tales of Graces F and promptly lost it, so I’ve never finished it. I was actually enjoying FFXIII until the timer was introduced in part 3 and that really turned me off. I’ll be keen to see what they do for the next final fantasy as Square Enix must have gathered a mountain of data on play styles across the series.
Guess I’ll be giving dark souls a go instead of buying 2. Should test my single life abilities nicely.
Cheers,
Graces F was probably the worst Tales game I’ve played so far. Good evolution of the combat system, but they lost the memo that having a skippable 1hr sequence with the main characters as children doesn’t count as character progression. Got through the whole thing and *nothing* had really changed.
It’s at the bottom of my Tales list, which is a pity because it was the most technically accomplished entry that I’d played to date.
Dark Souls has been pretty cheap on steam at times, if you go the PC path just make sure you DSFix and use a controller.
For me, Dark Souls 2 just doesn’t feel as alive as the other two did. It doesn’t seem to have achieved the right “harsh but fair” balance that I always thought was a trademark of a Souls game, either.
A lot of things seem deliberately unfair to try and force you into multiplayer as well. I’m stubborn and will dig my heels in even further if I’m being told what to do. 😛
The worlds of Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls still often occupy my thoughts even though it’s been a while since I played either, but I just don’t find that happening with Dark Souls 2.
It’s a good game but it’s not a good sequel to Dark Souls.
It’s not as balanced and fair, some enemies don’t follow the same rules as you and some things are just a dick move – in Dark you always understood why you died and why it was your fault but DS2 just seems to go out of the way to frustrate the player.
The lack of cohesive world is disappointing – you could make a 3d model of Dark’s world and it would all fit but DS2 is really just a bunch or arbitrary levels vaguely connected, with a level selector to boot.
Some of the design is just utterly meh – Iron King anyone? I have never seen a more clichéd boss fight in a long time and most of the other bosses are just random dudes standing around in a custom built boss room and most of those fights are kinda boring.
The lore, history and story is also uninspired despite seemingly adding a ton of useless items just for flavour text to try and flesh it out. Many places seem like they only exist for foes to stand around in, not like real places.
The unavoidable PvP is annoying and the game seems to expect you to engage in multiplayer.
The controls and character movement are less precise and polished and sometimes just broken – I have died many times from enemies ignoring my shield or missing me yet I take damage or stuff like the Executioner’s Chariot killing me while I am in the alcoves.
All this would be deal-able if it was not a sequel to Dark which in these areas was nigh perfect – despite many improvements and good ideas it’s in many ways a step back.
I am mostly enjoying it but they should have made it an entirely new Souls game instead of a half-hearted sequel to Dark.
Basically it is probably mostly my expectations as a fan of the first that make me annoyed at DS2.
Almost finished – taken me way too long.
Bout 85 hours, level 139, 448 deaths (did a lot of messing around) and just have to kill the royal couple and Darklurker.
Also I think the death counter might be bugged – I admit I suck but 450 deaths does not sound right; it was only ~ 150 or so not that long ago and the Onebro I started has definitely died more than twice yet it says 2.
Actually, you just reminded me of the thing I found the most infuriating – swing weapon with knowledge that it will hit the enemy, no result. The hit boxes for some attack animations sometimes just didn’t line up – only about 0.1% of the time, but enough to make me think it wasn’t me being shit. Never had that in the previous two.
Ahhh please get Kotaku fixed soon! That red banner is starting to piss me off
And of course THIS post goes through first time…
Good afternoon TAY!
My New Years resolution was to spend less time at the pub and more time seeing live music. I think I’ve got the first half of the year covered.
Flew to Melbourne by myself to attend Laneway festival and saw an orchestra play the musical score to Gladiator a few weeks ago.
Last weekend I saw Disclosure at the Horden Pavilion then drove to Canberra for Groovin the Moo.
Upcoming I’ve bought tickets to see the Arctic Monkeys, Chet Faker, Giorgio Moroder’s studio party and Splendour in the Grass.
While the bass was washing over me during Disclosure I realised how much live music/events soothes my soul. Hmm, I should be a roadie.
Moving on from my pointless rant, I moved house on the weekend and am now subsequently living with one of the biggest movie libraries I’ve seen \o/ Every saga, series and season I could think of is here! My French fry made a good impression on my room mates, she gave them a joint and the promise of Nutella Crepes as a hello present.
They approved of her stay.
Happy Monday errybody!
She gave them a joint as a present? lol
I’d mentioned to her earlier the mellow nature and fondness of green my room mates have to her as a heads up.
How long does Book
SuppositoryDepository stuff usually take to arrive for people that have ordered from them before? I’ve gotten stuff from them once in the past but didn’t really pay attention to how long it took stuff to arrive.Couple weeks.
Used to take 2ish weeks for me, but that was before I moved closer to the city. About the same as Ozgameshop.
Week and a half to two weeks. I’ve bought a fair few books from that site, no complaints here.
Somewhere around a fortnight. Occasionally less than a week. It depends on the book as much as anything (for example, despite having no warnings on the listing, my books are POD’d*, which adds a few days to the delivery).
* acronym demystification: POD = Print On Demand. In short, the book isn’t even printed until it’s ordered.
7-12 working days. I usually buy from the US one but I think my UK purchases are within that time frame too.
It always depends on the book. For instance, a lot of my regular quilting books have arrived between 3 and 7 days from ordering, but the three Alabama Chanin hand-sewing books I ordered each took 2-3 weeks.
Most other things I’ve ordered, like kids’ books have arrived between 1 and 2 weeks, though.
So i gained 5 kilos. My brain has flipped out and decided it’s something to be severely anxious about. I’ve decided to kill two birds with 1 stone and use the Wii fit’s yoga to battle anxiety and lose weight.
Now I’ve told everyone, I have to do it =P
Because making commitments reduces stress! \o/
By which, I mean: good luck! Keep us apprised. I’ll be keeping score over here.
Dammit, replyfail!
YOU CAN DOOOO EEEEET!!!!
*throws on cheerleader outfit and pom poms & starts energetically leg kicking and dancing about*
*shudder*
you are right to do so 😛
Picturing a “Commander Khan in Elite Beat Agents” situation here.
Do you have that Toni Basil song “Oh Mickey”? That’d be ideal for that situation (aside from the lyrics obviously)
I thought about doing that but I’ll settle for eating a tub of ice cream while I watch Bring It On.
I may be having fish and chips for dinner, however it’s a long ride there and back
*More Energy!*
Good luck! Be the @wilbur of Wii Fit!
Sounds like some kind of title. ‘Sir Wilbur of Wiifit.
You’ll have to join fitocracy now!
But I only really need to lose 5 kilos
It’s a good way to track your workouts, but do whatever works for you.
Wii Fit also tracks workouts! 😛
But we can’t give props on Wii Fit.
Props!
and having recognition of your achievement is a good way to keep motivated, more than creepy pale people saying GOOD JOB
Which creepy pale people are you talking about? Us or the Wii Fit host?
I’m pale, I’m not this pale
I’ll keep you updated. I have to buy Wii Fit U though. Ugh, money.
Fitocracy is free, just saying…
Of course, technically it by itself doesn’t really help people lose weight but the free is what I’m trying to emphasise
I got weighed at my doctors appointment the other day. I’ve lost another 4kg since I last went!
All noble goals indeed!
Also sorry i didn’t get back to you the other night, by the time i got to my computer you had gone offline…
Seemed super rude, sorry!
t’was fine.
It doesn’t especially matter how or why, I’m a huge fan of people setting goals for their own definition of self-improvement, and making efforts to stick to them. So yes. Go you. 🙂
I’ve gained 2kgs in just over a week! 😀
I’m proud of my new found curves 😉
*flaunts hips bodaciously*
Woo for exercise! No wait, the other thing.
I bought a treadmill on the weekend cause I am too lazy to go running outside.
Damn those things are expensive.
Good luck with your yoga!
I used to do an hour long yoga we fit session every Friday at cathryns, I’ve since stopped and now I weigh nearly 90kgs (and it’s all in my gut) you have motivated me to work out! Which I’ll do once all my Easter eggs are gone \o/
We can help one another \o/
Fitness meat! \o/
Hey TAY,
How are things?
Was meant to play some SWTOR with @cakesmith, @rize and @sernobulus last night, but we all realised that the starting areas take a ridiculous amount of time 😛
Suspect i may have to pay for subscription when money allows for it, because it is something i want to give a genuine go at some point…
Also apologies to the same guys last night on TS… i was very quiet, but that boils down to some personal shite going on at home has weighed down on me a lot over the weekend… I’ll just leave it at that, i don’t intend to overshare here at the moment…
Anyways, i’m nearly done (hah!) with the starter area so we should be able to group up soon and actually… you know… do stuff 😛
I tried getting back into SWTOR a while back and even bought a subscription for a month because damn it I wanted to play a Twilek Jedi. I didn’t last much after I got past Coruscant and haven’t played/subscribed it since.
I honestly really really like it, but i have never subscribed to a game before so i’m a bit iffy about doing it now… But being Bioware, the story is rock solid and i really want to play it without the F2P hurdles it has
I wish that there was a bit less fluff in the story honestly. The core plot is usually pretty good but to keep levelled and everything you need to also follow all the planet’s questline and sidequests and that just takes forever. Plus the combat is a slog a lot of the time. 🙁
Fair enough… I haven’t bumped into sloggy combat yet, but i’m sure it’ll come… for now i just have fun hurling rocks at people repeatedly 😛
Maybe it doesn’t get sloggy any more. I played a Jedi Knight through the entire game (finished the storyline) as a Guardian, and she was boring as hell to play and also extremely slow and surprisingly fragile. I also played a Scoundrel as far as Alderaan, a Trooper through to around Nar Shadaa, and a Sith Inquisitor to around 25 as well.
What I found is that around the 25-30 mark you start finding that all the combats you fight are against 2-3 guys. All the classes have poor AoE and so your combat is going to often involve crowd control abilities on one of them, then DPS down the rest and hope you can get them down fast enough not to sustain enough damage that you can’t take the third one. Then you’d take a rest for 10-15 seconds to recover. And if a patrolling guy came around and aggroed you, you were fucked.
However I found it happening less with my Sith so it might simply be that the classes I played were shitty. I know that the Guardian was crap, but also the difficulty just got really out of hand toward the end. Every trash fight was life-threatening and stuff became incredibly hard to beat down fast enough. You’re expected to maintain multiple buffs and debuffs off way too many abilities (I was using a Razer Naga with shift and ctrl shortcuts and still struggling with the number of samey abilities I had) and it just got silly. Run with a DPS companion and half the time you’d die or end a fight at 20%. Run with a healer and if they didn’t draw aggro or pull an extra pack, each combat would take twice as long as needed. Also the final boss for the Jedi Knight was absolutely impossible. Literally would kill me in seconds. I had to get a friend in endgame gear (inaccessible without clearing the storyline!) to come and help me 🙁
The other thing I really didn’t like was that once you decided on a spec inside your class you couldn’t undo it. I picked the Scoundrel smuggler only to find that that spec is all about going in and kicking dudes in the nads and punching them in the face and sometimes shooting a pistol at close range. Exactly the opposite of what I expected. But I was a long way into the game by the time I realized I hated the class. And starting over offers very, very low replay value because you do everything in the game and it’s a linear path through the planets and stuff, and the bulk of the questlines are identical for everyone so you’re trudging through the same stuff all the time.
The other big issue I had was that the gear isn’t interesting to look at. One of the best things about MMOs is customizing your character’s gear and looking badass and everything right? SWTOR gear recycles the same 4-5 models constantly, encourages you to get one gear set and then constantly upgrade the bits in it so your stuff never changes much and most of the time it’s very samey. Oh, this trooper armor has RED stripes and the other one had BLUE. Should I put on this formless brown robe, or this other robe that’s slightly more brown?
In the end I did get some okay looking stuff for my JK, a cool white robe and silverish armor, but the legs I had were kind of ugly looking (like I was wearing a silver C-3PO’s leg casings for armor). I did manage to get a Cyan saber crystal though, it was cool for a bit. Haven’t been back to that character since then, even though I’ve been back to the game. When I finished the storyline I felt like I was just done with the character and with the game as a result.
Yeah i feel like i’m the same, that once i have played through i can then say i’m done and leave it at that… and that’s why i can justify (to myself) to pay the $15 or $20 (can’t remember) for subscription for a month, because then i got my enjoyment out of it, and it’s done and dusted…
Bit of a shame with the gear though, i had hoped there were more options :\
It kinda sounds like you’d managed to gear your characters pretty poorly, that was one of the things that took me the longest to learn that you’ve got a primary stat & should just boost the shit out of it to get your character as effective as possible. Once I swapped to doing that and resetting my skills & picking sensibly, I was remarkably more effective.
Of course I did that. I’ve been playing MMOs since before they were MMOs, I know how to gear stuff and how to research gearing. The issue wasn’t that, it’s literally that the class was broken at the time.
@negativezero aaah I do remember a period where a few classes were pretty heavily messed up, fortunately I always seemed to be playing one of the other ones at the time
I actually made a new character again. =P
Decided to go a Trooper, got him to level 10ish so I am ready if we are going to play tonight! \o/
Trooper is pretty damn great… I’ll still go the consular, but being F2P i’m already hitting the XP hampering so i have to grind a little more… Doesn’t really bother me but it does drag it out a little bit
Watching the Clone Wars has gotten me mighty tempted to go back to the game a few times.
Going to make jerk chicken tonight as I’m a jerk.
You bring the tar, I’ll bring the feathers.
What does jerk food actually taste like? It is a thing, isn’t it?
just google jerked meats……… waitaminute
😛
Spicy.
Basically chicken bits covered in thyme, allspice, garlic, spring onions, lime and chillis (supposed to be scotch bonnet but they’re pretty hard to find so I use habaneros).
More in it but they’re the main ingredients.
Sounds pretty tasty. I’ll have to try my hand at it sometime.
You should try it on meat first.
Dammit, why do I have to be working! All the good jerk puns are taken now! :'(
I don’t know if I have thyme for all of that.
Glanced through TAY, misread as jerk children.
Glad I re-read.
You sure are a jerk for not sharing! 😛
Represent.
@powalen
This article reminded me of the dream you had the other night!
STAY OUT OF POW’S DREAMS! >:|
Well, I think it was Pow who dreamed about streets of water slides instead of pavements? Or maybe it was Rocketman?
Stupid sexy Benny!
WE NEED TO GO DEEPER
BWAAAAAAAAM
Psychic Powalen confirmed
I notice the wittier a post is or the more pride I have for a post, the more likely it’ll get posting too quick thing. But bland posts like this one goes through first time…
…
SEE!
I’m So Meta Even This Acronym
In an attempt to foster greater independence I’ve always advocated that the guys not be so afraid of new systems and to give it their best shot before giving up/asking for help.
Kind of backfired today with one of the girls screwing something up in a very difficult to fix way, that everyone was in a panic about because it might not actually BE fixable. They were kind of terrified and apologetic on bringing it to me, which I probably didn’t help with the falling, utterly humourless face, and that thing I apparently do where I pinch the bridge of my nose when I’m annoyed/impatient. Because yeah, it was probably going to be a pain in the ass to fix.
Fortunately it was reeeeeeasonably easily fixable. Though only through a fluke/guess/intuition.
I can’t be too mad. It was my insistence that people not be terrified of breaking things. It’s only natural that the occasional result of that is that people break things.
Still. I’m down an hour that I was previously really happy to be in front by. Seems to be a rule of this place that if you ever get ahead, “Something will come up.” 😛
Hope everyone’s having a good Monday.
We had an outage followed by data corruption lunch time Friday, so I’ll be out by about two days fixing up the errors today and tomorrow. Super happy fun times!
Same thing with me at work. Just get myself on track, and think about doing other stuff to improve things, and BAM! Something stupid!
Yeah, that one bites me in the butt every so often. Every talk / presentation I give I’m always saying “I am obsessive about my backups so don’t worry about breaking anything, feel free to mess around, try to break things, that’s what I’m here for” but then when something breaks a little part of me is sad.
Just spent an hour in a half hour meeting about some new generic framework to inject more managers between us and getting any work done. Buzzword heavy but light on how it will actually achieve anything.
So when typing Mao (cat) using the Chinese keyboard on my phone it suggest a cat emoticon.
Oh man half my post dost go through. It appears there is an emoticon for every noun/thing I can spell In Chinese.
They’re called characters and it’s how their writing system works. Way to be racist.
Same thing works with the Japanese equivalent (neko / 猫) on a JP keyboard on the iPhone.
English iPhone keyboard is boring.
Hmm, might be a little late, but I haven’t seen mention of it around here at all, so I’ll risk it.
From Software are working on a new game. It looks kinda like it could be a Souls game (though that might just be their art style for all I know), except that there is a picture of a guy with a shotgun (apparently, I don’t see the shotgun :S).
I hope it’s not to be honest. To much Souls too fast isn’t a good thing.
I’d rather a new IP.
Just seemed timely since the above DS2 discussion and all.
Dark Souls 3: Fievel goes west
Shotgun Souls, a story of hollow bounty hunters tracking down the demons that threaten the wild west.
You know, I’d play that.
Teswting wehat it l;p0kis liker if
OI tr5y top trype whnile weraring leather glovesl;
Someone’s been drinking with ol’ @liondrive.
It was cold, I put on some gloves. I then thought I’d see what it’s like to type while wearing those gloves.
As you can see, it went poorly. But my hands were nice and warm while I was doing that.
Fingerless gloves are the way to go.
I should definitely buy some hobo gloves. Don’t really want to cut the fingers off of these ones, they’re pretty rad.
I just bought these they sound like they’ll be good..
Need hobo gloves
I need to find a new hook other then drinking.
Not sure how I feel about being known for my drunkness :S
Well, you’ve got drinking, fashion and the drag queens.
…Maybe being known by my drinking isn’t so bad by itself.
Although fashion is one of my strong points 😉
… My fashion boils down to which colour hoodie i’m wearing that day XD
Either dark blue, or black… DECISIONS!
Black goes with everything!!! 😀
Except black. Too much black is bad 😛
I’ll often change clothes 2 – 3 times a day, and it literally took me around an hour and a half before I decided what I was going to wear out last Saturday 😛
My life is basically one big Pretty Woman montage :S
At least you get out and living life!
Not just sitting and home wasting away like.. someone… i know… definitely not me, neeerp
…grey
I’d say that’s better than a reputation for waking up at 2 in the afternoon every day.
But maybe I only think that because I’m an alco who used to only ever wake up after 2.
I’m magical AEF and I have retarded adventures.
You do make a fair point.
But alcoholism is the great national pastime.
Do you have Irish heritage? If so then embrace that shit!
DON’T FORGET (to organise) Mario Kart tomorrow night @powalen ! 😛
Who else was in?
@sughly @benny @gutsoup :D?
Okay geez! Calm down!
I LIKE FUN
What time?
@powalen ?!
I set a reminder for 7pmish (Vic time) so maybe around then? Depends when everyone is free (I’m free whenevs)
stupid house inspection this week, I might not be able to tonight. *cries*
According to the Steam Hardware survey results the most popular graphics card is the Intel HD Graphics 4000.
I’d say that’s a little skewed by people who have optimus or amd dynamic switchable graphics in their laptops. if you don’t specifically tell it to use the gpu at the time, it wont show up on the hardware check steam does.
HD4000 series is built into just about every reasonable Intel CPU from the last 2-3 years so a lot of that will be systems reporting two GPUs (discrete + HD 4000) and Intel-based Laptops.
Ah dang it. Tried to buy that Star Wars pack but card is empty. Now I have to wait until wifey gets home and come up with an elaborate plot to convince her $35 on a bunch of old Star Wars games is a solid investment on her behalf.
Nearly bought it, but ended up with the Jedi Knight pack and Kotor by it self instead…
Best $10.19 spent ever \o/
Jedi Academy is all you need. I played the hell out of that game growing up.
Hell yeah! that was the main reason that i got the Jedi Knight pack… but it was $3.38 for Jedi academy for $6.80 for the pack… i could somehow justify that purchase in my head XD
We should see if we can get a multiplayer game of that happening. \o/
hell…yes! i am all up for this… @rize, @cakesmith and really everyone should grab a copy while it’s still cheap and we should get some Multi going!!! i don’t care if it’s free for all, duel or whatever but WE NEED TO DO THIS 😛
Try and play Jedi Tennis. That was a game a mate and I invented where 2 people face off down a corridor, one fires a rocket and they force push it back and forth until someone misses
I have it, am keen.
For force tennis? Or just in general?
All the Star Wars talk that Shane has posted has got me thinking. Why do people hate Revenge of the Sith? Unpopular opinions ahead:
I didn’t really grow up with Star Wars, and have no real attachment to the franchise. I remember my dad showed me Return of the Jedi when I was 7 or 8, and didn’t think very much of it. All I remembered was a guy falling in a big hole, a guy landing on a planet who almost crashed, (don’t know where that came from) and a bunch a people celebrating about something. I was never the kid who liked action movies anyway.
In around about 2011, when I was 14, I decided to watch the whole saga. I still had the VCD’s of the original trilogy. Since the series is numbered chronologically rather than year of release, I assumed that The Phantom Menace was the first movie. I realised pretty quickly, as the special effects were way too good for the late 70’s. Either way, I watched the Phantom Menace and thought it was merely okay. Jar-Jar kinda sucked though. The rental copy kept skipping over important plot points, unfortunately. I did a little bit of research, and found out the prequels were made way after the original trilogy. I decided to watch episode II anyway, as I’d already watched episode II.
So I watched Episode II: Attack of the Clones. I thought it was pretty good. Decent escalation of the plot, and I thought Count Dooku was a pretty cool villain. The things with the hyper-aging clones was pretty cool. But the real standout was Jango Fett. That guy was cool. I loved how he was decapitated, and his clone “son” picked up his old helmet. I’d heard vague murmurings about how Boba Fett was super badass, and was eager to see him in subsequent films.
Then I watched Revenge of the Sith. I thought it was really good. Anakin’s turn to the dark side was really interesting to watch. The relationship between Anakin and Obi-Wan was really interesting towards the end. Even the relationship between Palpatine and Anakin was really interesting. It also had an eight-minute fight scene, which was a treat to watch. I thought the Order 66 scene was rather sad. I really liked the movie overall, and was willing to overlook some of the problems it had.
Onward to Episode IV. I heard that the original trilogy was the most loved, so my expectations were high. A New Hope was a severe disappointment. I thought that Luke was an awful, blank slate of a character. I thought an Han Solo was trying too hard to act cool. I thought the overall plot was generic and garbage. I thought the world-building was piss-poor. Although the prequel trilogies were helped by CGI, they actually felt like worlds with underlying social systems and rich history. I liked R2-D2, though. The fight against the death star was so… so… it was a scene in a movie. I did like seeing Darth Vader, though. There were three movies devoted to his origin story, and he delivered.
I watched Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and thought it was a massive improvement. It had better everything, although the world-building was still an issue. I still had problems with the characters, although Leia had magically grown a personality since the first film. I was pretty disappointed that Boba Fett didn’t actually do anything, but I expected him to get better treatment in the next film. I don’t know what else to say, so I’ll move on.
Episode Vi: Return of the Jedi was a solid movie. The scenes between Vader and Luke were definitely the highlight. Vader’s death scene was pretty well done. I found the Ewoks to almost be as bad as the Gungans, so that’s that. Although this movie taught me that Boba Fett is the most overrated character in any movie series. The guy shot a gun, then fell in a hole with teeth. End scene. I think this was my favourite of the original trilogy, but Empire Strikes Back is pretty close.
I emerged from the movies with an overall net positive opinion. It was an okay series, but not something I’d watch more than twice. It’s not a particularly interesting universe, and I have no real attachment to it.
Damn did I get off topic. Anyway, why do people hate Revenge of the Sith? It’s different thematically from the original trilogy, and doesn’t have that much camp appeal. As someone who doesn’t have any attachment to the franchise, I like it. I might watch Episode VII, I might not. It depends.
Oh dear, I’m going to get a pretty full inbox.
EDIT: Woo! Didn’t get a page get!
Godamn kids doin’ movie critiques on mah lawn…
It’s a lot better than some of the things they could be doing on it…
Like all them drugs and twerking.
Would you rather a bunch of stoned kids shaking their booties on your lawn @transientmind?
I am angry. Angry that I understood that. *shakes fist*
Good to know that you’re still down with the lingo, old man 😛
Just remember that ‘Twerk’ is the verb form of the adjective ‘Twerp’.
At least I’ve never seen anyone who twerked that wasn’t also a twerp.
How stoned would you have to be to think going to someone’s house and waving your baby shoes around is a good time?
Personally I like all of them for various reasons and I grew up with the 4-6 trilogy. They’ve all got problems but to me they’re all worth watching and aside from the speed Anakin turned in ROTS, I liked how it was done. That’s one of the reasons I like the clone wars cartoon, it helps flesh out the things leading into Ep3 and shows Anakin having several brushes with the dark side during the war and being mentored by palpatine which makes his turn feel less abrupt
Return of the Jedi cops a little bit of flack in it being the weakest of the original trilogy, however it was the one that came about the time I was born so I quite enjoyed it. Yeah, that makes absolutely no sense until I say this: womb-age.
Huh, Revenge of the Sith? What’s that?
@stickman
D:
If it helps I find Star Wars over rated and okay, despite the numerous times i’ve seen the original trilogy and what came after (hell I even saws Episode 3 in the cinemas whatever 10 years ago now?) I never was pulled into it’s amazingness/fandom. Prolly cause I find sci-fi a bit meh, like medieval-esque things.
Revenge of the Sith is the best prequel. Cool spaceship battles, some nice war scenes, top Jedi action, crappy love story.
Star Wars: ANH feels generic because two things
1. The plot is intentionally tropey, it’s based off the work of Joseph Campbell;
2. Pretty much every blockbuster for the last 35 years has ripped something off from it.
Han is cool because he was the original cool. Luke is supposed to be naive.
I don’t get your criticism about the worldbuilding, and Fett is supposed to be mysterious more than anything- it’s the mystery that makes him cool, especially in an era when you can’t just google him.
And the reason people hate Gungans is they’re worse Ewoks.
It’s so interesting the perspective of someone who watched all six movies for the first time together. Me, I grew up with the original three, watched them dozens and dozens of times, even before the 1997 Special Edition re-release.
The new movies weren’t aimed at me. I get that now. They weren’t supposed to appeal to me. They already had my money. They were aimed at kids, to get another generation interested in an aging franchise.
I guess I missed the memo that today is bash Avril Lavigne day.. Why do those I know get so upset that a popstar does something. Really who cares, they’re happy living their life doing what they want. It does not threaten you or whatever.
I watched that new video of hers, it’s different, it’s not something I like, I didn’t go and moan about how it affected my life and critically changed it like too many I know seem to be doing.
I was really confused this morning when there was a post on reddit defending her.
Mostly I was confused because I had missed the bit where she was relevant enough for people to bash her and then for her to require defense.
I’m still confused. She’s a pop star with a manufactured image that is now a different manufactured image. Whoop-de-do?
Yeah pretty much. I saw one friend attacking Chad Kroeger cause she’s simply married to him. It must really upset some people that these popstars are famous and appeal to certain people..
well she did marry the lead singer from Nickleback. I could never respect someone who makes poor life choices like that :p
Eh, nothing wrong with that. Never got what was “so bad” about Nickelback either, they make (sometimes) radio friendly songs and do really bitchin’ covers of ZZ Top…
This site is too fucken derpy at the moment.
I’d forgotten she existed until that Hello Kitty song. I’d happily forget she existed again if the internet would let me. Just like that Joshua Beeber kid. Wasn’t he a real flash in the pan?
Hahaha. I some how remembered she existed about a month ago, then promptly forgot about her until I saw a music blog I follow slagging her off, which they promptly took it down for some odd reason.
Just got all those star wars games in that Steam Sale.
Now I finally have a proper version of Battlefront II since my PS2 was retired (not the PSP version which was OK, but nothing compares to rise of the empire) and republic commando, and KOTOR, and the ultimate sith edition of the force unleashed, even though I have the base game (one level away from being finished) on PS3. One day, when I finally build my PC, it will have all the games that I’ve bought and not yet played.
Also, it turns out that I got some game called Fish Fillets 2 in the Bohemia Interactive Humble Bundle. Who knew they published that?
So hyped for Battlefront 3.
Still maintain that Battlefront 2 is one of the best games of that era.
Played a few hours of Talisman: Digital Edition yesterday with @hindenlagen. Was very fun, reasonably good as a translation of a board game, but was buggy. Crashed at least 5 times. And with no pause/save functionality, when it crashed we had to start a new game. Given that games take several hours at best, it was disappointing to not finish a game.
Very fun, but I would much prefer a stable version.
Batman fans! I have spare keys for Arkham Asylum and City if anyone wants them. Shout out.
if you still have me I might take the asylum key, already have city and don’t think I have asylum
No problem, I’ll send you the key via Steam.
Woo now I’ll actually get around to playing city once I beat asylum \o/
I finished jerking my meat.
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/463256186549043200
I wouldn’t mind jerking some meat. Got a recipe handy?
1 tbsp sea salt flakes
2 tsp black pepper
1 onion chopped
6 spring onions chopped
2 tbsp thyme leaves
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1½ tbsp ground allspice
2 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground nutmeg
3 tsp finely grated ginger
2 tsp brown sugar
80 ml lime juice
60 ml rice vinegar
3 habanero chillis chopped
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1kg chicken pieces (I used wings)
lime wedges
Mix everything except chicken and lime wedges in a processor until you get a paste, cover chicken with it, marinate for a few hours to overnight and BBQ up. Serve with the wedges.
Made a rice and kidney beans side with it with another habanero, spring onions, coconut milk and thyme in it.
Cheers. I’ll give this a try some time this month.
*opens in private browser with eyes half shut*
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Red acted? I didn’t know you were an actor @redartifice, what have you been in?
His brother is an actor, must run in the family!
I was in a bunch of musicals in High School, I was President Roosevelt in Annie
When I’m facing a day that’s grey and lonely, I just stick out my chin and grin and say… (sing along everybody! Republicans too, Oliver!)
@phlanispo from what I’ve been told by fanatic Star Wars fan friend of mine (ex whateve that storm trooper charity group is called. Owns 3 storm/clone trooper outfits handmade and then official approved by Lucis something) Fett is largely popular because little is/was known about him and he was a cool toy back in the day.
Wasn’t he also made to be a supreme badass in the ill-fated Christmas Special?
I seem to remember reading that somewhere.
he is the only person to ever escape a Sarlac pit so there is that.
Not anymore! Only the movies and the Clone Wars TV series are canon now.
Hmm. Project Beast possibly a PS4 exclusive Demon’s Souls sequel directed by Miyazaki and with a bunch of the Dark Souls team that didn’t work on Dark Souls 2. VaatiVidya seems pretty excited about it.
The choice of which next-gen console to get might have just been made for me.
😀
I would buy a PS4 for that. Hell, I bought a PS3 for Demon’s Souls.
Certainly an interesting set of information that’s been presented, here’s hoping it will be a Souls game. The idea of firearms sounds interesting, it’d be quite nice to be able to have a shotty on hand for large groups of enemies
GM Summary of the TAY Pathfinder session:
Dem rolls man, dem rolls. (Also sorry @negativezero, I’ll have to remember your extra spell DC for charm spells).
:'(
Bonus sneak-peak opening line of Drewan’s recap, just for you.
Dear Gerran,
I almost killed a man.
Put a gun against his head, pulled the trigger,
but it was a sword instead!
Gerran, this quest has JUST begun, and now I’ve gone and thrown it all away.
Technically it was a hobgoblin and no one likes hobgoblins so it’s fine.
Yep, but the guilt is going to be eating away at Drewan. Note the active voice “I almost killed a man” rather than the more passive “I almost got a man killed.”
This event provides the catalyst for Drewan to take a rank in heal, which I went past earlier. It’s such a coincidence you’d swear I planned it ahead of time! ;P
Dem’nion will actually blame Drewan for it as he did wake up that hobgoblin that took Dem’nion out, ensuring that Drewan has learned his lesson. Yes technically it was the hobgoblin, but he was out of action so to Dem’nion, it was completely avoidable.
Which is exactly how Drewan sees it. Hooray for mutually agreed internal party conflict!
arghhhh! dem rolls! I wanted to pull off a zappy/slashy so much.
It’s because I have a non-standard Bloodline so YAPCG doesn’t add them in. I thought I had an extra +2 somewhere but it wasn’t obvious on my sheet so I missed it. 🙁
All in all though, aside from that one dude having insane resistance, I think my utility & control-focused build worked out better than expected. Though the usefulness of spells like sleep and color spray drops off pretty fast 🙁
It is proving to be quite a powerful and useful utility setup you’ve got already, as you were looking for when you rolled her right?
That was the idea yeah. @popdart5 and I cooked up basically a class archetype that’s focused around enchantment and compulsion spells. Sleep at 18 DC at level 1 is pretty powerful and it’ll scale up from there. Trouble is that the lower-level compulsion spells have a limited window where they’re useful. Sleep for example affects 4 Hit Dies worth of monsters, weakest first. By the time we’re around level 4-5 I’d expect that all the enemies we’ll be facing will have 2-3 HD so I can maybe sleep one dude.
Same goes for my other useful offensive spell, Color Spray, which is at its strongest against enemies with 1-2 HD (unconsious, blinded and stunned for 2d4 rounds, then blinded & stunned for 1d4, then stunned 1 round). If they’re 3-4 HD then the initial unconsious/blind/stunned bit goes away, and 5 and above they’re just stunned 1 round.
Basically though I looked at our party makeup and realized we were going to have a lot of damage dealing and no heals, so crowd control is really useful because it can be used to take certain enemies out of the fight and lets us focus damage on others, and also good control enables the burst damage classes like rogues to hit a lot harder.
Actually after this fight, Dem’nion will most likely go to DPS/Summoner as that works better with his bloodline (He gets several bonuses total for summons if I focus on the right feats, including higher DR). So he’ll have his own tank to help keep enemies off him.
Just curious on the topic of spell loadouts; have you got Acid Splash as backup for Magic Missile when you’re out of spells-per-day?
Edit: Hu-uh. I didn’t realise Magic Missile targeted up to 5 creatures. Once I woke up that second guy (heh) you could have double-attacked him and the leader. Or am I reading that wrong? (I’m just reading up on various spells. I’ve never played a spell caster so this is mostly new to me)
I’m planning on that after level 4 (Right now I don’t have it but I’m not going to switch it now, I’ll keep it as a challenge), for now I’ve got a crossbow for backup ammunition.
Edit: I get more missiles as I level yeah, for now it’s just one shot per cast.
Ahhhhh, right the last paragraph on the spell description. I see where the number of missiles goes. 😀
@beeawwb It’s one of the main things I like about the spell system is that they scale with your levels so that they can still hit like a truck if used correctly.
Yeah, I’m seeing that on most it’s just a question of how they scale and in what manner. This is perhaps the most I’ve read any of the spell descriptions.
Acid Splash is a level 0 spell. You learn a new cantrip at next level up.
edit: Well this comment was posted to where I never intended it to go…
Hmm, just added up my entire work history for some reason and it seems to barely amount to two years in total.
Oops.
If we count my casual turn up whenever work that I’m doing at the moment, I only just go over a year. Kind of sad. :/
All my jobs amount to around…
6 years. I think. Maybe 5 and a half.
I’m a working boy 😉
I MIGHT have had 2 months…
Twelve years.
I’ve been full-time for six years, but have been employed in some capacity without a meaningful gap since 2000.
I like your way better.
Noooo! I did press reply! :'( *sobs uncontrollably*
Hmm, this isn’t where I parked my car…
It’s in Itchy Lot.
This is poochie lot
What the hell is sleep again?
You’ll be saying that a lot soon.
ooooohhhhhh I know this one
That is what you just manage to start getting when the renovations start next door
Protip: renovations conducted by upset toddlers are far louder and more destructive 😛
Okay fellows! TAY Kart is back! And it’s on tonight! It officially starts at 7:30pm and will likely go for an hour or two, but you’re free to drop in/out as you please.
For those that haven’t played with us before: ahead of time, open up Mario Kart 7 and enter the TAY community code below. It’s a standard 150cc/All Items setup (details also on the TAYNAMES Server page)
Code: 64-4416-9435-5733
Type: 150cc Grand Prix
Items: All
If we don’t get a good enough turnout to hold our own races, we’ll play online with others. I’ll start racing online, then you need to go to your friends list (outside of the game), and click “join game” to group up.
@sughly @benny @gutsoup @greenius @blaghman @trjn @scree (who else has played with us in the past? Anyone is free to join!)
I think @jimu played once? …maybe?
@shane upvoted so I’m guessing you’re joining too? 😀 (don’t give me none of that “I don’t have the game” excuse! :P)
Awesome sauce! I’ll be at my parent’s place for dinner with my brother, sister and brother in law but maybe I’ll pass the handheld around and a some of us will have a few races. Exciting!
I’ll be there, racing as Diddy Kong in my invisible cart. I’ll win all the races!
Sorry, I’ll pass. I need to keep working on these cosplays
That’s okay!
VROOM VROOM!
(when are we all mario golfing..?)
Maybe next week? I need some time to practice! 😛 The multiplayer seems really good too.
Yesssss! As long as its not next Tuesday, I have a skype meeting tuesday night
Tentative Wednesday then!
If I have time I’ll pop out and buy a copy if it’s decently priced/able to find one. Maybe write me down as a low chance maybe
So much fun! (except when @powalen wins)
It’s never fun? D:
less “much fun” and more just “fun” 🙂
$48 at Big W.
Baw, I’m out tonight.
Boooo
I gotta clean for a house inspection :'(
I really wanna play, only played a little gta with TAYbies before.
stoopidhouseinspectionIhateyourface
No worries!
Picked up the Special Edition of Child of Light yesterday, it’s very pretty. Has an art book, a light up Igniculus key ring a poster and +- $6.50 worth of DLC. Pretty good value at $30 considering the game is $20 on the PSN. Now to actually play the game, eventually probably after my house inspection.
I was keen to play it until I discovered it was 4.4GB. I have to wait a few days for it to finish downloading now.
it seemed to only be 2.2gb, the 4.4 is for the ps3 and ps4 versions I think. I was confused cause on my ps4 it would only let me download 1 out of 3 items (2.2gb), turned on my ps3 and the other 2 are on there (2.2 gb,)
Morning all! Only 31 hours to go.
Decide whether you want me to consider you a friend or not, and pledge accordingly.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology
Also, don’t skimp, because I plan to rank you all when it’s done.
I’m sorry I’m poor /o\
It’s a shame. I really did think we could have been good friends 😛
Does a submission count? ;P
Ye… no.
Sorry, I’m very poor right now… I wont have money until next week *Cries*
You don’t need money – there’s no way this project will get funded!
The problem I’ve noticed you’ve been having is everytime you push it somewhere everyone wants to give a submission and be paid rather than pay for it. I think you were far too open with submissions. Should have put calls out for the submissions, set them in stone and then put the Kickstarter up. Everything you have seems a little vague and uncertain.
Yes… and no.
The benefits of doing it that way are obvious. The book would have a far more certain form, and a roster of creators up front that can be used to sell it.
The downside is that I’ll have gone against the principles of fair pay and required these people to do all this work preparing their stories, with no guarantee that I’d be able to pay them for their work.
In the end, I decided to side with the principle, because I thought that was going to be a big selling point of the anthology anyway. That was a tactical error.
Edit:
And, to be honest, I kind of thought those uncertainties would be offset by a few things that other comic Kickstarters lack:
– I’m established in my field and have produced a lot of work in a very short time. Commitment, perseverance, etc.
– The anthology will be an entry in a series that was shortlisted for the Aurealis Award. Quality.
– The book has already attracted the interest and in-principle approval of a publisher. Distribution.
I might be in denial or defensive or something, but I did feel like this was a stronger campaign than a lot of other comic Kickstarters that actually succeeded, and was probably the best one I could have put together. More than anything, I just let myself down in the marketing/publicity department.
You didn’t have to write the book first. No one would have had to do anything bar making a commitment until funding came through.
Even preparing a pitch takes time. I’d want to be sure the book was at least going ahead before I asked someone to prepare a proper story treatment and/or concept artwork, the things I would need to confirm someone’s inclusion in the anthology.
Edit: I know, that’s all kinds of ass-backwards for a project that needs to attract investors to go ahead.
Sorry i’m late. Done and done.
Thank you! 🙂
I haven’t backed for three reasons. One, because I thought you’d be funded quite quickly.
Two, because graphic novels are my least favourite type of novel and I have to be in the right mood to appreciate them.
And lastly because something about your pitch kept rubbing me the wrong way. It read kind of like looking down on other people’s work and kickstarters and didn’t feel quite right to me. I know you have a good cause, and mean well but the execution just didn’t seem to match your heart.
Fair enough!
I’m not sure at all what you mean by the third point, though… I don’t think my pitch even mentioned other Kickstarters or other works.
Star Wars Rebels! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Oh! I meant to say that during the Trilogy screening at Hoyts, we got to be the FIRST IN THE WORLD to see a preview clip. HA!
It looked pretty all right.
I’ll put it on for the kid and I to watch. Anything to tune out of that god damn Peppa Pig.
*SNORT*
I actually quite like Peppa Pig. Really like Ben and Holly. Need a new life, please kthxbye
I wake up at night, convinced in my mind that I have not only morphed into a giant pig, but that I have a scraggly beard, a giant tummy, and a love of newspapers.
This has not been helped by my little one occasionally pointing at me of a morning and saying “Dada snort snort oink”.
I will become daddy pig one day. It is only a matter of when.
Well shit….
I get called Daddy Pig every day despite having none of these features (my beard is immaculately trimmed).
When is that starting? If it’s as reasonable as the Clone Wars is I’ll probably watch it.
All I’m seeing is Fall 2014. I wanted to get into Clone Wars but always procrastinated, however Rebels has a very original trilogy vibe to it – I’m definitely checking that one out.
Rebel scum.
So excited for Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect tomorrow. This might sound strange but it’s easily my most anticipated game of the year. 😀
Sounded more like @dc than @strange to me.
Hope you enjoy it, man. You’ll resurface on TAY, when, about a week from now? 😛
You know it! So excited!
Pulpy FMV? Check! Exporable 3D point-and-click environments? Check! Gonna be gooood!
Also Tex has a great balance of puzzle types. Has the inventory stuff/logic stuff in a nice balance. 😀
Any one who doesn’t know what Tex Murphy is?
He’s a P.I. who lives in the mutant district of a post-World War 3 San Francisco! It’s as cheesy as it is amazing! 😀
I’ve never played it. It sounds intriguing.
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive is easily in my top five adventure games of all-time.
Hey I know another ‘pulpy’ story that features fmv. A movie called Pulp Fiction!
Nah.
Must… resist… urge… to photoshop Tex Murphy in to a Telsa Roadster…
http://www.ign.com/news/5-5-2014/32654/tmte-only-15-minutes-long
Ahahaha
They confirmed yesterday there’s five hours of FMV cutscenes alone. Check mate, Freeze. 😛
Five hours of cutscenes, 15 minutes of gameplay.
That’s acceptable. 😛
You’d probably like this other obscure series called Metal Gear in that case.
I ranted to Dan for ten minutes on Saturday about overly long MGS cutscenes. XD
90 minute ending! \o/
Metal … Gear?
!
Aw man, Dreamfall Chapters is released this year! This might sound strange but it’s easily my most anticipated game of the year. (I CAN HAVE MORE THAN ONE. >:|)
Just spent the last two hours sitting in the car.
Went to drop Freya off to work and just took the car keys. When I got back, the garage door wouldn’t open. So I went to Maccas, got some breakfast and then called the real estate agent when they opened at 9. They told me to drop by, grab the spare keys and it’d all be fine. I start heading over there and about halfway I get a call. They don’t have the spare keys, the landlord does. Oops.
Some more faffing about and they send a locksmith. He rocks up, opens the front door just as the small talk progresses to the weather and away he goes.
Turns out the power went out at some point between me leaving the house at 7:55am and me returning to the house at 8:05am.
The important thing is that I am now nice and snug in my bed.
#dubbo
Yo @dc !
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/24t9ht/i_am_jeffrey_yohalem_the_writer_of_child_of_light/
The writing was the weakest part, but thank you. 😀
Dark Souls 2 stuff.
Did Sinners Rise last night. the FrankenSacks in the waterway are a pain in the arse. Also, Explode-o-matic mummies suck. though the boss of that area itself wasn’t too bad.
at the recommendation of a friend, I got the Alva armour set. YAY no more fat rolls!
also, I <3 Dragelic shield. 100% phys resist is rad.
Weapon-wise, I've decided to focus on a club, an estoc stabby-sword & a halberd. I'm thinking that should cover me for most situations…?
I'm thinking I'm gonna throw down a summon sign in Sinner's Rise tonight. that bosses effort-to-souls-gained ratio is too good to pass up at the moment.
anyway… @shane @blaghman & other people in the know… a question :
how important is upgrading armour?
For light armour, probably not all that important, though I think it will improve the defence and poise values a little. Upgrading heavy armour increases defence quite rapidly, and sometimes increases scaling too (which means that defence will increase as STR is levelled up). It varies a little from item to item, but I think a full upgrade roughly doubles the defence capabilities of an item (this takes 6 small shards, 6 large shards, 6 chunks, and 1 slab).
Edit: buying enough shards to get to +9 (I’m excepting the slabs, which aren’t commonly for sale) costs 57,000 souls + blacksmith fees.
thanks Shane. so, I’m thinking upgrade weapons first, then armour if I’ve got shards to spare.
Probably wise. I upgraded one weapon early and never switched it out. The number of times I changed armour is insane. Best not to waste the shards in early game on stuff you probably won’t keep.
Edit: definitely upgrade a long bow. Best investment of shards you can make.
Ie: one area of the game is impossible without ranged attack because this dev team forgot what balance was.
Which area was that? Are you thinking of the swamp with the rapid-fire homing-sniper-casters?
(I ask because I don’t remember any area in particular which needed arrows. Just which I preferred to do when I was being a cheap so-and-so using poison arrows. I was tempted in the area with the homing-sniper-mages, but it was generally just easier to hide behind a column til my stam came up, then charge at them to roll under their missiles til I was able to utterly destroy them in melee. Using bows in that area I got hit way too often by taking too long on the draw compare to how fast they fire their magic.)
They’ve nerfed that area (Shrine of Amana?) incredibly in the latest update. It’s melee-able now.
Although it requires both you and anyone else playing it knowing about it, you can very easily run straight to the boss in Sinner’s Rise from the bottom of the elevator without fighting anything. Helped me a lot because I found that battle kinda hard.
On my first playthrough I spent the first half of the game with unupgraded armour, hit a point where I found a set I liked, then upgraded it a shiteload, didn’t change it for the rest of the game. As to the difference it makes? No idea. Poise is the most important armour stat anyway.
But those big limpy dudes at the start give great Soul!
I extinctified them because I am greedy.
I experimented a bit switching between an upgraded +5 Havel’s armour and an unupgraded Alva’s armour and the difference in damage I took was negligible. (This is a difference of about 200 def and over 1000) Seems like they took the Demons route of armour being fairly useless instead of the Dark route of a big difference. Better to stay light.
Huh. That’s interesting! So we might as well play Fashion Souls, then.
If you don’t have the light jester’s +soul-drop gloves and an utterly fucking ridiculous-looking (to the point of embarrassment) +item-drop hat on, you’re clearly not twinking right!
Dragelic shield is god-like. Rolling as a sorcerer it is essentially the cornerstone of my defense.
Those giant dudes in the waterway are a pain in the arse. I just kept baiting ’em to fall in the water pit where the elevator lands.
They have pretty epic item drops if you can take them on.
Ooo, I’m in that area on my second character at the moment. Maybe we can co-op?
I think I’m around SL70?
Is anyone else having issues with their profile page?
Certificate revoked error? Yeah. Only affecting me on Firefox though, not IE.
I was but it seems to have fixed itself now.
What is a way where i dont have to work 8-5 everyday and can support myself for the rest of my life. I cant do this for 48 more years.
I hear that!
The only thing I can think of is marry a rich woman.
Or have some really, *really* nice parents.
Or rich, terminally-ill parents.
Or rich, shot-in-a-dark-alley-outside-a-theatre parents.
Create a work of art. Write, paint, create movies, sing.
Then sacrifice the soul of an innocent to whichever dark lord you have a thing with, because only about 1% of those artists can get away with not having to work and it isn’t all based on talent.
Win the lotto.
Inject yourself with various forms of fantastic tropical diseases in the hopes that your body will create the first known anti-bodies of that disease. Sell blood and cells to science or big pharma.
Get a rich man to punch you continually. Sue him.
Trip and fall over in front of Centrelink. Sue them.
Create a crypto-currency.
And I’m all out of legal options.
Oh, damn! I forgot the sacrifice bit. And my kids are beings of pure evil, so that won’t even work. :\
move to Island full of fruit trees & critters for the eatin’ , set up hammock for “support”
Have someone start development of a coconut Nintendo, train monkey butler ……… win :D.
Sucker! I’ve only got 41 more years to go…
On a somewhat more serious note, the most feasible way to avoid the daily grind that I’ve noticed is to derive a living from something with a long income tail. More traditional methods in play at the moment are things like sinking a whole pile of money into houses or bank shares at the right time, then let anything that comes out continue to fuel the primary growth until it reaches a critical mass, which is fine for those that can spare the capital for the initial momentum, and there’s always an element of luck involved.
Newer methods are starting to show with more systems in place these days for small single person companies to bank on talent and good content creation to gain that initial momentum – this being the realm of successful youtubers and indie developers. Don’t forget writing books for old school content creation! Much more luck required on this front though, most won’t successfully make enough to make a living.
The blended pattern of the above two can be the starting of a small business for untapped markets, but requires luck, capital, and frankly, bailing / getting bought out at the right time.
Until I see the right risk / reward balance to try breaking free, wage slave it is.
Or you could be a politician with a guaranteed tax free pension for life as soon as you leave office. That seems to be the process that gets the best results for anyone in this country.
Aren’t Abbott and Hockey moving the age to 75?
So that would mean you have 51 years and @rocketman has 58 now.
‘Fountain of Youth’ Rockets over there may look like he hasn’t turned 18 yet, but last I saw the new proposal is 70 years old as of 2035.
At least you live in tropical Northern Queensland. That’s a plus. You should try Adelaide.
We’re closer to Antarctica than you and some days you can really tell.
Dude its hot here all the time and my job makes me be outside a lot. I hate outside. I would love outside if it was not so fucking hot and muggy ALL THE DAMN TIME
Move to Canberra. It was -2 when I put the bins out on Monday Morning. Nice and brisk.
Move into management.
Write your company a proposal for a better job. Hopefully one that pays better.
You should open up that bar with Freeze.
Politics….
Save up at least $30K, somehow bank your superannuation to increase that, and buy a one-way ticket to a 2nd-world country. Spend the rest of your life in a shack on some beach with no worry in the world.
That’s very easily done. But people miss the community/nationalism/religion/DOING SOMETHING.
You find me a appropriate shack and country i could do it now. 😛
Is anyone watching the final season of Californication? I thought the episode released yesterday was a welcome return to form, and was very funny.
I haven’t watched since maybe season 3, because TV went dumb or something. I miss Hank.
That’s a shame. I think it’s still got it.
Season three was the last season where Unax shpxrq nebhaq vaqvfpevzvangryl. Ur npghnyyl fgnegrq gb tebj hc (n yvggyr) va fhofrdhrag frnfbaf, naq vg’f orra n irel jrypbzr punatr bs cnpr. Gur uhzbhe vf fgvyy nf qvegl nf rire, gubhtu, juvpu vf bxnl ol zr.
Want to borrow the DVDs? I have seasons 1-5.
Nah, I’ll never get around to watching them 😛
It wasn’t anything about the show that made me stop watching, I think that was around the time it moved to Eleven or whatever secondary channel it ended up on, and then shifted somewhere else and we couldn’t keep track of it or something. I dunno. We stopped watching Burn Notice and White Collar around the same time too because they were listed as not being repeats, but were old episodes instead. So then we never knew when they actually came back and hadn’t caught up. Then it was too much effort to try and figure out where we were up to etc and yeah.
Think i’ll re-visit it, once it’s finished! Haven’t watch it since season 3 (I think)
It’s finished in six weeks.
LOUIE HYPE!!!
Aw yeah.
http://gematsu.com/2014/05/atelier-rorona-plus-rated-australia
Another Atelier game getting R18+? What the fuck is wrong with our classification board? The PS3 version was rated PG!
I’ve wiki’d it and it doesn’t really state that there is anything too bad with it. Why do they believe an R18+ is warranted?
Apparently it’s because it’s on a handheld?
On PS3, Rorona was PG, Totori is PG, Meruru is M, Ayesha is M. Escha & Logy is PG.
On PSV, Rorona Plus is 18+, Totori Plus is 18+, Meruru Plus is MA15+.
Totori and Meuru are straight ports of the PS3 content with IIRC some of the stuff that was DLC added in and a few fixes here and there. They did add some swimsuit costumes so I can see maybe that drawing attention and pushing some up to M.
Rorona Plus in Japan was New Atelier Rorona because it’s actually a complete remake. Improvements to the story progression, massive improvements to the quality of the visuals and models, battle system from Meruru and a few other things. Lots of extra content. So I wouldn’t have been surprised at all to see it go up to M. But none of these games deserve an MA or R, they’re absolutely not that sort of game.
Doesn’t the rating depend on what type of disclosure the publisher tells the Classification board? chances are Gust just told them it has high impact violence so they could get a r18+ since they knew it wouldn’t matter since it was going to be a digital release.
“References to Sexual Violence”.
This is the second time it’s happened to an Atelier game. The previous one it was Atelier Totori and they pinged it for a scene which was in both the PS3 (rated M) and Vita versions. The scene in question is a side bit of content in which there is a line of text implying that one of the characters got incredibly drunk and may have touched another inappropriately… :\
OMG THE VIOLENCE. WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN
It’s the PLUS version. A PG rating doesn’t have a plus in it, so it doesn’t adequately cover the addition of the operator. They needed the nearest rating they had at hand with a plus, and they’ve got this big shiny new pile of R18+ ratings just waiting to be used. Perfect logical fit.
That makes so much logical sense that that can’t possibly be the real reason as it suggests that the classification process doesn’t involve a dartboard and a bottle of scotch.
Same process, except substitute the dart board for another bottle of scotch.
p.s. YAY ATELIER RORONA PLUS IS HAPPENING \o/
(It hasn’t been formally announced and I tried to play the original a couple of times and it’s kind of bad, but the Vita version seems to fix most of my issues with it and I wanted to play it before Totori and Meruru which I’ve owned for ages on PS3 and on Vita)
I read about the content that caused red flags, and I don’t know whether I agree with the classification. On one hand, it’s a rape scene. On the other hand, it’s entirely text. (I think) On my mutant third hand, it’s a rape scene.
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1000/647/original.jpg
That was the scene that was in Atelier Totori that got that game 18+. It was previously M. The scene is in the PS3 version as well, it wasn’t added. It’s very hard to actually see as it requires specific events and timing. Also the text dumped out like that makes it sound worse than it actually is, and that sort of thing is amazingly common in anime and other stuff. It’s just the classification board going way overboard on a game series that overall is completely the opposite of the way it’s rated and anyone spending more than 15-20 mins with the games wouldn’t have rated it that way. But that’s the problem – the board doesn’t play games, they get video / text dumps of the worst scenes the publisher can find.
Also the craziest part is that a ‘minority of the board’ wanted to actually RC the game for it. Which is absolutely insane.
Hey hey
Any suggestions for fun/interesting Souls (DSII) builds, or challenges?
Because of stat requirements for a lot of the weapons/builds, I never really experimented with anything that wasn’t a sword or shield. I usually play as the tanky sword/shield guy and more recently I’ve experimented with a pure magic user. Any really cool weapon combinations or builds that aren’t too challenging?
There’s obviously onebro challenges or something silly like shield only, but are bows, claw/fist weapons, twinblades and all that worthwhile? I’m thinking just purely PvE for fun 🙂
Thanks! There’s so much Souls I haven’t experienced yet D:
Pure faith build is pretty epic.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/693331-dark-souls-ii/68853098
Arm this build with lightning spears with a lightning charm, and Dark Orb with a dark-infused staff, and watch the enemies fall at your feet. Total boss destroyer.
Might help if you just respec your existing character for this, after collecting and upgrading all the gear.
Here’s a rough idea of my stat distribution when I respecced (level 131 Warrior)
Vigor (health) 11
Endurance 10
Vitality (equip) 15
Attunement 40
Strength 15
Dexterity 11
Adaptability 5
Intelligence 40
Faith 50
Challenge: beat the game in NG+ without getting hit. (Mwahahahaha)
My second character is going a similar route. Pure casting, so sorceries, miracles, pyromancy and hexes 😀
Cool! Well, the above link has info about all the very best gear you should be trying to acquire. Having followed its advice, I concur with it: casting speed is now buffed insanely, and I now can carry 60 Lightning Spears, 24 Great Lightning Spears, 5 Sun Spears, and 56 Dark Orbs. Assuming my dodge is up to scratch, that’s enough to blast through any area of the game.
Edit: Darklurker became a joke with this gear and set-up. Nearly an instant victory. Certainly took less than two minutes.
Ugh, Too many stats. Hell, the SPECIAL system in Fallout feels like too much.
It always kind of irritated me they split the Endurance from Dark and Demons into 2 different stats. Felt like an artificial difficulty forced in.
No way, it’s easy. You just need to remember that ADP gives bonuses to AGI, Poise, and various Resistances, whereas ATTN is slots, AGI & CS. Don’t forget that STR and DEX both buff Phys RES, oh and did I mention that Faith buffs fire, lightning, dark & bleed bonuses?
Too easy.
I believe the Covenant of Champions has a ring that ups unarmed damage (scales with str/dex.) Doesn’t work with cestus. Just punch your way through everything.
I had a play with the twin blades but they aren’t any faster than standard weapons and are actually slower and weigh a heap more in some cases. I’m probably missing something but I couldn’t see the point beyond novelty value.
If you have 1.5x the requires stats dual katanas can be fun.
The twinblades, I believe, have massive stagger benefit when wielded two-handed. They have some spin attack which does multiple blows. I can’t make it work too well for me, though 😛
They seem to bypass shields on the strong attack, I think. I got utterly owned by a couple who just ignored my shield.
You could go for a PVP Chaos Blade/ Avelyn builds than again with the laggy servers maybe playing online is a uninviting prospect =/
The plus side is you can teach yourself to play the game without a shield.
Bows are fun. Especially Greatbows.
Watching enemies fall over or even better, off a ledge because you hit them with a greatarrow from an Alonne Greatbow never gets old. 😀
Any one jumping on board the 24: Live Another Day bandwagon? I haven’t watched properly since season five but am going to check this one out.
I stopped during season 4, I think. How many years did it run for in the end?
This new one is technically a mini-series but is being labelled as season nine.
I think we have the last ep or two of season six on a tape somewhere that we never got around to watching. Wonder if it’s still there.
I think I will. First time 24’s been on that I’ll have access to torrents, which changes everything.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/05/australias-piracy-crackdown-coming-as-early-as-this-week-three-strikes-site-blocking-on-the-way/
Eh, will wait until that’s concrete before changing my habits.
Nope. I dislike 24 immensely :J
They’re all so pointless to me.
Here’s the trailer for the new Batman universe TV show ‘Gotham’, too.
http://collider.com/gotham-trailer/
I love Batman as much as the next guy, and I’ll likely watch the show but how many times am I going to have to watch the same murdered parents scene done over? Couldn’t they have skipped it just this one time?
But the span between Bruce Wayne being a kid and becoming Batman might be an interesting setting as long as the focus isn’t squarely on him. 🙂 This looks shot nicer than I would’ve thought too.
It’s the same with the animated movies as well. They just keep doing the origin stories over and over again.
Someone should tell all the comic book writers to write something beyond the one issue for each character or something. Imagine if there were thousands of them…
Doesn’t help with the sheer number of universe reboots that DC in particular has. The mortal superheroes all require origin stories for each iteration of the superhero so that creates more opportunities to milk/retell the same basic story.
THIS.
I wouldn’t mind if the stories contained important differences. For example, Batman Begins skirted a little close to the familiar origin, but introduced enough new elements to it that it felt like a genuine reboot. It’s the first time the origin story of Batman had been told with a decent underlying subtext, and that made the difference.
But for the most part, it’s just the same story, over and over and over.
Ever read The Phantom? Every second comic* has a two page origin recap at the start.
*Exaggerated for dramatic effect. I read way too many “swear an oath on the skull” origin recaps though.
For Those who came in late… 4 centuries ago, the sole survivor of a pirate attack washed up on a Bangalla beach. On the skull of his father’s killer, he swore an oath to destroy piracy, injustice and cruelty- and that his sons would follow him. His sons, and their sons did follow, pirates and natives alike believing him to be the same man- The Ghost who Walks, the Man who Cannot Die. Now, our Phantom, 21st of his line continues the fight. He works alone
I know you recited that from memory, that’s the sad part. 😛
Had most of it, double checked the wording 🙂
Whoa, whoa, this based on Gotham Central- no, no it is not.
But hey, Ben McKenzie. haven’t seen him in some time.
Which ever friend it was that recommended Frisky Dingo to me because it’s “so funny and best thing ever” is gonna be told off, it’s nothing amazing or funny…
@transientmind I think you warned me about this the other week?
Frisky Dingo is an odd one. You can’t just watch a few episodes or even skip any. It’s a slow burn start and a single cohesive story you need to watch in its entirety to really appreciate. I wasn’t much of a fan until I got further in and started to see what they were doing. It’s just one big escalation the whole way through getting more and more ridiculous.
Hmm. I’m about finished season 1 and it’s still not grabbing me.. I downloaded it so I will finish it anyway 😛
I found myself growing vaguely fond of it, and I’m pretty confident the ‘hero’ character is an Archer prototype. But to watch it AFTER Archer? Tough act to follow.
It relies heavily on a juxtaposition (the fantastic behaving mundane) it doesn’t do enough to highlight and refresh, and like Freeze said… it’s an ultra-slow burn. Hell, I probably watched the entire first season before I decided I was OK with it, but not terribly impressed.
Honestly I initially put Venture Bros in the same bucket at the time, which was dead wrong. Rank would go: Archer > Venture Bros > Frisky Dingo > Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Actually, those last two might tie.
Archer is the easier show to watch with more immediate laughs but Venture Bros is one of the most clever shows on television. I’d definitely rate Venture above Archer.
Pretty sure that’s my issue I watched Archer first then followed it up with Frisky Dingo expecting the same amount of awesomeness.
CONGRATULATIONS @RIZE (and Mrs Rize too, I guess)
https://twitter.com/ShadowRize/status/463527077925232640
Woo! One of us, one of us, one of us…
I was going to type “Happy Birthday Rize” in allcaps, but I’ve realised that it sort of makes a weird sense (also jokes about a Birthday SurpRize or something).
So.
MERRY ALL SAINTS’ DAY, RIZE!
Worth it! I’m too scared to ask, but boy or girl? I can’t tell.
I’m pretty sure Rize has said daughter in the past!
@rize is a boy… i think… or a really REALLY hairy girl
OH GOD I JUST SAW @RIZE’S THING… It’s so… small
@rize, don’t point that thing at me.
Seriously though, congrats man.
\[T]/
Praise the Son!
I’m just impressed it only took one post to drop a Dad joke
Oh, I forgot to mention that on Saturday night Mr. Strange thought @transientmind was Paul Verhoeven . 😀
THAT MOVIE GUY
I thought Marc Fennell was “that movie guy”?
Bwah? How?
Awh, but he looks ooooold. 🙁
(Edit: For the sake of my ego I’m going to pretend he said Michael Fassbender, and all will be well. ok? That’s the universe we’re living in now.)
I’m not sure you’re thinking of the same guy? See below.
Anyway, if it helps at all, Mr. Strange has had a mancrush on Paul Verhoeven ever since he MC’d the videogame symphony we attended late last year. 😛
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh. Much better. Yeah, I was looking at the most prominent one on google, the director. That makes sense. 🙂
…I’m still sticking with that he said Michael Fassbender, though.
Starship Troopers Paul Verhoeven or the other douche?
Apparently there’s at least three. We’re talking about the Australian guy: http://images.theage.com.au/2011/12/20/2850671/paul-v-lead-420×0.jpg
He usually has some kind of crazy ‘stache and/or beard happening these days.
It’s not a name you’d really expect to see three times in celebrity circles…
He appears to have the case of the handsomes.
Would any of you guys ever live in a second world country.
Nepal, Pakistan, Eygpt?
I wonder if i could ever do it?
probably not… but its fun to think about these things when you are bored
Could? Yeah.
Would? Not without some good six-figure reasons.
Well some countries are not opposed to harems i suppose but 6? damn boi!
I was somewhere in the communist bloc with my six best girls…
cc @dc
“And that’s how I single-handedly tore down the berlin wall.”
I feel like Egypt has managed to destroy itself back to the third world in the past few years. :/
And I probably would, assuming I’m on foreigner wages, and doing a job at least slightly more interesting than my current one. The language barrier would suck, seeing poverty really sucks, but it would be one hell of an interesting experience.
Perhaps, but not any of those three- second world has a bit of a rubbery definition, I assume you mean “developing rapidly”
I’d live in somewhere like Chile.
When the kids leave home, Mrs Shane and I have tentative plans to do some volunteering in the third world. I hope that comes to pass.
I probably wouldn’t even go there for holiday – aren’t there riots going on in Cairo?
I’ve always thought it like this – and yes I know it’s a little blunt but there’s definitely some truth hidden somewhere behind it; everyone over there is desperate to get here, so why would I want to go over there?
Yes, I also often view smartraveller.gov.au for cautious holiday advice.
I already know the experience, somewhat. It’s when I decided to take a year off and backpack/work in this country called Australia.
pleasedon’tkillme
In all seriousness I’ve family members living in second-world countries, and not even the good part of second-world countries; I’m talking about deep in the countryside. I’ve had the privilege of meeting them and experiencing the rural life for myself and I can safely consider myself far too weak in mental/physical constitution to move to a life like that.
Could: Nope
Would: Nope
I’m not afraid to admit that I enjoy the finer things in life. Maybe when I’m older and feel more fulfilled I might visit, but live? Nope.
Not for me. I’ll stick to the big cities with their flashing lights and fast moving people 😀
Those aren’t second-world countries.
The Second World is a Cold War term that referred to the socialist and communist states. China, the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc. There are only five Second World countries left now: China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba and Laos.
I DIDNT MEAN LITERAL SECOND WORLD.
i can google stuff too neg 😛
i just mean countries in the developing world.
I’ve always found the actual term odd. I was doing a report on South Korea back in Primary School, and I had this book which I’m guessing was from the 70s or 80s (or something), and it described South Korea as “between a first and third world country.” And I spent years wondering why they didn’t just call it second world.
I think somewhere along the line people equated the term “first-world” and “third-world” to states of financial prosperity and not the cold war term neg described.
That probably doesn’t explain your book, though, the writers were probably drunk or something.
The original cold war distinction stopped being relevant in the 80s when the USSR began to collapse, the Berlin Wall came down and so on, and it transitioned to be more related to prosperity because of the rise of Capitalism and the fact that the countries that Mao referred to as the First World were all rich and developed and the bulk of the Third World were not.
They use the Developed / Developing / Undeveloped terminology now because it’s more useful, the old Three Worlds concept was political.
Well developing world is interesting. There’s some countries still considered ‘developing’ which wouldn’t be too bad to live in depending on where you actually were in those countries. The UAE is considered Developing for example, and Dubai is generally not too bad. Malaysia is developing. China is as well (and also a bona-fide second world country too!) – some parts of it are a bit shit but other parts like Shanghai wouldn’t be too much of a problem I’d expect.
On the other hand I don’t think I’d want to live in most of Africa.
I think Cuba would be a very interesting place.
Is Mexico a second world country? If so yeah, i’d live there.
Does Indonesia count? I almost got a secondment there, and it would have been for a year. Have nothing against it, but then I don’t really have many standards. There’s things I’d miss, sure, but then life is an adventure.
I sure as fuck could never live anywhere that has the death penalty for blasphemy/apostasy/atheism, or at least not for long once I open my mouth…
HAHA TRICK QUESTION, AUSTRALIA IS ACTUALLY 2ND WORLD
At this rate 3rd world by 2016 😛
Australia as a close ally of the US and the UK is a First World Country.
But anyway, since I know what this is about ..
Living in some weird-ass place is only possible if you can do it with no government contact. You’re just that awesome white dude living in the jungle, sipping alcoholic drinks with the locals in some remote village. It’s only viable if you can make it luxuriously (from a current perspective), and for that it has to be some very poor country, yet accepting.
Come visit me in a third world country.
3 is higher than 2, so it must be better 😛
I’ve always wanted to visit Egypt though.
@masha2932 How much can I get for 80 KES? (Currently 1AUD)
Not much.
To give you an idea of the cost of some things:
Transport from the CBD to our place (20min from town) is about 80KES
A loaf of bread (400gms) is 40-50KES
1/2 A Litre of milk is 40KES
Also writing KES is weird since the symbol we use will writing about money is Ksh.
@masha2932 how much is a bottle of water? (500ml) here in china it costs me 2 RMB or $0.35AUD.
It depends on the brand but the prices range from 20ksh ($0.25)for the home brand bottled water up to 50-60ksh ($0.75) for the bigger brands and flavoured water.
You’re still invited to visit though. But not too soon, I’m hoping I can get a job soon and get a place of my own and not invite people to my mum’s house 🙂
@masha2932 if I had the money for plane tickets. (unless I go do volunteer work over there could be a could way to go)
So according to my ENT specialist, I effectively only have one functioning nostril thanks to some pretty hefty internal deformation. I’m going to have to have corrective surgery to get my breathing back to normal, bits hacked off my nose, holes into my sinus enlarged to help them drain, spending 2 weeks with scabs in my nose and not allowed to blow… Sounds like fun
Lesson here kids is stop picking your nose. and stuffing it with cocaine.
If only I had the money for cocaine. I’d spend it on a new CPU & motherboard instead.
Same here.
Are they planning on getting… Reconstructive up in there? Had recent experience that attempting to cure sleep apnea (and resultant oxygen-starvation problems, incl migraines) would involve detaching and reattaching major facial nerves and skull reconstruction. Scary-ass shit and it wasn’t even for me.
I’m literally cupping my nose and mouth right now, reading this shit.
It’s not nice shit, there’s more than that that I totally won’t get into for the gross factor, but I hope no-one you care about has to face the prospect of it. 🙁
I guess the alternative is potentially dying young thanks to the health impacts of stopping breathing every hour or so.
Interesting note, that area of the face has a name: the maxillofacial death pyramid
Well he did mention some removal and repositioning of cartilage but didn’t imply anything quite so drastic as requiring nerve work. The thing that sounded most complicated was enlarging the aperture for the sinuses to help them work better but I have a feeling he’s not planning on going in with a black & decker with a masonry bit (although I don’t have private cover so you never know…)
It’s actually pretty straight-forward these days. Mother had it done no problems.
Been listening to the new Black Stone Cherry album, some awesome tunes on it.. Had to laugh at this line in the song Hollywood In Kentucky “you’d open up the trunk door takin’ out your lover, she might be your cousin, but she wouldn’t be your brother”
You gotta be fucking kidding me. This is worse than bread in the microwave.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/05/use-the-flat-side-of-a-knife-to-spread-butter-more-easily/
Wow, that’s awful.
It’s funny, they got that from Reddit, and said comment appeared to have sparked an epiphany in many people. 3000 upvotes.
It’s funny that his username is slowshot.
Jeez, lighten up. I don’t know about you, but this has changed my entire perspective. On everything.
From now on, everything gets at least one flip to see if it has utility that I didn’t anticipate.
Let’s start with the table.
Well to be fair, add a sheet over the top you have en impromptu tent or the makings of a really stable cushion fort!
Next up: the car.
Do you have a bird?
If you put some flat stuff on top of it, you can use the vehicle power to move it! 21st century pyramids, anyone?
To save space, move your bed’s mattress underneath your dining table. Not only does this provide a comfortable foot-rest for those long dinner parties, but you’ve just increased the value of your house by adding a third bedroom.
Ahhh I lost it at this. Rofl.
but… but THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
I like to use the round side of the knife to spread butter. You know, the handle.
The handle? What, seriously? 😀 That’s specific to the knife I guess.
Tbh from a physics POV, the curved edge is actually the best. Although if the bread is too soft the serrated edge may dig in… but not if you use little force! And, if you have to use more than a little force, that means a totally flat edge won’t work anyway because the spread will be too hard to spread easily, which means we’re back to the start where the rounded edge (serrated or not) is the best.
tl;dr wat
I just find “the flat side of a knife” to sound funny. I mean, the big flat side of a knife is what I always use to spread thing. You wouldn’t really fit much on the edge, and would probably cut straight through the bread.
I usually use another piece of bread.
I use the edge of my kitchen bench.
I’ve found my tongue is very effective.
If the presence of butter on bread requires any measure of disproportionate effort when compared with other sandwich components, I just don’t bother with it.
This includes when someone else is making it – whichever of yes or no to butter takes less talky work.
Jeez, really i’ve been doing that with bread knives for years, it just seemed logical to me…
Hah. After my sweeping changes to our website we’re now getting the highest number of views amongst all the groups, and one of the best bounce rates (as in people are clicking on more pages), without 100 links on the homepage. Just one.
That’ll teach the other guy to question everything I do. You stick to your strengths, I’ll stick to mine.
What’s the URL? I’ll get you a couple thousand views.
can you get me views from the UK? 😛
address is eurovisnews.weebly.com if you’re interested. But yeah, we’re only focused on the UK.
Is the QLD government’s Strong Choices campaign basically them admitting that they have no effing clue what they’re doing and just throwing it to the public with a “you fix it”?
I think it’s just them saying they want to fix stuff, but don’t want people to get pissed when they don’t fix what’s important to them (which is still gonna happen anyway.) But at least this way, they can say “Well you asked for it, we delivered”
So which browser does everyone else get TAY to work in?
My TAY is one hot mess in Opera, chrome and Chrome Canary.
The submit button actually dissapeared behind a grey box so I clicked blind!
I’m using Chrome at home and work. Works 100% of the time (apart from the posting too fast crap, but that’s not Chrome’s fault).
Do you have any plugins/extensions running that might be causing issues?
It’s completely broken for me in Firefox. Can’t hit reply, can’t see the link to the user profile, can’t vote/see votes. I’ve gotta use Chrome to come on here now.
I’m in Chrome, both at home and at work, no issues apart from the standard ones right now.
Safari and not a single problem aside from posting too fast.
Mobile chrome:
Works as well as usual, except you can’t see who up / downvoted. Also the posting too fast still occurs
internet Explorer:
Can’t see who up / downvoted. Other than that it seems to be fine, although I think I’m using an old version.
I think the mobile site has never allowed you to see who has up/downvoted a comment. Mobile Firefox never has anyway.
Yeah, that’s why I said as well as usual, haha!
It’s super annoying having to keep switching to browser view just to see who voted what :3
I use Firefox and it works fine.
Well, TAY works fine. Firefox keeps crashing ever since the update the other night.
I’m firefox at work and Chrome at home and no issues aside from the “YOU’RE GOING TO FAST” stuff
Chrome at work, Firefox at home, both working correctly.
I find the fact that you use Chrome at work to be unreasonably amusing.
Mostly fine in Firefox at work apart from the profile page having certificate-revoked issues. IE doesn’t have the same issues.
Firefox. Recently, the I have had trouble accessing the user profile page, as there is something wrong with the security ticket or something.
I am off to see a big truck.
By which I mean a huge lorry.
Is this a euphemism for taking a large dump?
Is that a euphemism for dropping the Cosby kids off at the pool?
1 hour until Mario Kart fun times! It doesn’t look like we will have enough to play in the TAY community, so at 7:30 I’ll start racing online. You need to go to your 3DS friendlist and select Join Game from there! (That way we will be playing against others online too)
See you then! @benny @greenius @jimu (maybe) @sughly
I will lose by so much, I am super rusty with my MK7 sliding. But its about the fun! Or something.
You’ve got 45 minutes to practice!
Starting now! Join via the friends list!
o.O probably NSFW…
I bought some hoodies instead of Wii Fit U. I layby’d Wii Fit U instead.
Decided to use Wii Fit plus until it’s paid off.
Hoodies are pretty great! \o/
Keep the hood down and put something heavy in it, instant weight training
For those times you wished your throat was just that bit more muscular.
@benwhite When I try to go to my user profile page, I get this message:
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to http://www.kotaku.com.au. Peer’s Certificate has been revoked. (Error code: sec_error_revoked_certificate)
-The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
-Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. Alternatively, use the command found in the help menu to report this broken site.
Wow, even Firefox thinks that Kotaku is broken.
Second attempt, ho!
Best to send this sort of stuff via the Contact tab in the sidebar. He’ll be able to see issues faster through that!
(At least I know it makes my job easier when people use the proper channels :P)
It a lot of searching to find the ‘contact’ button. I eventually gave up and used Control + F to find the button. I have reported the issue. I made sure to remove the snark in my report.
IE thinks the same about the profile page
Attempt #4
@aliasalpha @powalen It magically fixed itself a few hours after I submitted a report. I doubt it’s got anything to do with the technicians at Kotaku, as I didn’t recieve any emails or anything. It’s probably just weird luck.
@aliasalpha @powalen And through that weird luck, I can’t access the user profile page any more. I had to use my macbook to even find this post so I could comment.
We need to organise another TAYcinema.
Alright I’ll do it then.
Suggestions for films? Must be pretty terrible but not so bad it can’t be laughed at and in its entirety on youtube.
Date/time? @masha2932 organised the last one so he should be involved but I don’t know what times synch up or his schedule.
Yes! Last time we just picked one from the list of free movies hosted on YouTube. They were all suitably b-rated 😛
Ohhh, like an online thing instead of physical meat? Interesting.
Yeah. There’s some thing where everyone gathers in an online chat room where a Youtube vid is synched to everyone to watch at once. It was a bit of fun last time we did it.
The 1990 Ninja Turtles film is on Youtube. It’s fantastic, hilarious, terrible and riddled with nostalgia all at the same time.
Aw man, I second that. Depending on the time of night, my son would love to watch it too.
YES!!!
Any time after 5pm (Australian time) is good for me. If I remember correctly the last time we did TAYcinema we watched the movie in the evening.
Nairobi is 7hrs behind Sydney(AEST) and being unemployed at the moment means that I’ll most likely be available.
Hey Freeze, when is the next TAYcinema? :-p
What was the name of the website we used? It was really good. Can’t find it anywhere 😛
The website we used last time was synchtube (dot)com but I tried going to the site earlier today and it just redirects to spam sites.
They must have changed to http://synchtu.be/ which works fine. I don’t know why the chat is on the left instead of the right this time though.
Another site I found through Google was sync-video (dot) com so at least that’s another option. The site looks ‘cleaner’ than synchtube but the chat is under the video rather than on the side so it might make chatting and viewing at the same time hard for those with small monitors/laptops.
Both have the benefit of not needing a login to create a room and invite people.
I guess @freezespreston can choose which one he likes.
Hey Freeze, when is the next TAYcinema? 😛
NB:
When TAYcinema finally happens we can also have trailers at the start and we can have a new trailer of Campbeltown C*nts and maybe University of trials and other TAY video projects. Oh and Blagh singing of course 🙂
Check out Stations. It was made by the creator of Synchtube. http://stationsbeta.com
Thanks for that. Welcome to TAY btw, feel free to join in the conversation.
The main issue with stations at the moment is you’re required to sign in. I think we’ll use the rest for now as we wait for the beta to end.
Man, I have the worst timing for remembering to ask these things, but:
Wicked tickets in Sydney have just gone up for pre-sale (I’m assuming it’s still presale since I can buy tickets for opening night), and it runs from September 20th until, apparently the end of October. So it’s a pretty short run, assuming they aren’t just gating off tickets (when I last talked to people about it I thought it was running in Sydney until early 2015, but I’m unhappy, though willing, to accept my incorrectitude).
So, would anyone be interested in seeing Wicked? It’s my personal favourite Musical (because I’m a super duper manly man), and it has the understudy for Elphaba from last time I saw it, as well as the same Glinda (who also played Elle in Legally Blonde: The Musical), and they’re both pretty rad.
Also, rather importantly, since last time I did this (for The Lion King) many people were like “YES I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT, does anyone who wants to see it have preferences for times, or dates, or anything?
Also, tickets seem to do their usual ranging between like $70 and $200, although from the look of it they’ve gated them differently this time, so more of the seats seem to be about $100.
ALSO, MELBOURNE TAYBIES:
Wicked is about to start showing in the Regent Theatre. You should go see it (It runs until July).
Wouldn’t be opposed to seeing this if it comes to Brisbane.
I think it’s touring up to Brissie after Sydney, but don’t quote me on that.
Time would match up with The Lion King finishing at QPAC.
Oh man, I should not be allowed on Ticketmaster. I was just looking at stuff, and there’s a short run of Beauty and the Beast at the Parramatta Riverside Theatre (In July), which I’m not going to buy any tickets for because ergh, Parramatta.
Parramatta is only a half hour train ride from the city ;]
I know, that’s where I crash at Gorzies house.
Though now he’s moved a little, which ruins all my fun.
One musical, please!
Friday or Saturday nights are best for me. If you’re going during the week, after 6:30pm is best!
Other than that I don’t care!
Would you be willing to do a Saturday Matinée?
I think they could work well because we could meet up, see the show, and then go out and have dinner and stuff afterwards.
Then cry into our wallets.
It’s a shame we can’t easily do a Wednesday Matinée, because I saw one which had tickets available 10 rows from the front for $100, but they’re such a pain. Also it would be filled with school children (I assume), which would be lame.
I had to google what “matinee” meant, but sure. I don’t mind 😛 Whatever fits the most people.
Manatee!
Happiness is a warm one.
You don’t want to know what Charles Nelson Riley did to one of those.
Yeah why not.
Can someone let me know on steam or twitter when/if kotaku is ever fixed? I’ve officially had enough.
Till later folks.
You can’t quit just before Page Six is about to kick off!
Sounds like the perfect time to quit!
Whats the point of trying to post jokes when the comment system has trumped us all by becoming one?
I can’t be the only one not finding it that bad, surely?
I guess I don’t comment much though in the first place :S
It doesn’t really seem to be all that bad to me either. It’s not happening anywhere near as often, and even when it does it doesn’t take that long to go through. Would be another matter if it was actually eating the posts instead of them still being there on going Back.
Fair enough, this place is so damn broken. SSL certs being revoked, commenting not fixed. I had to look through my email trash to find a link to TAY, since the automatic reposts aren’t even happening.
Turns out I was misinformed. It wasn’t a big truck at all, it was Hugh Laurie. AND IT WAS SO GOOD!
They had like a million instruments there. The guitar guy had maybe five of them and a banjo, then pulled out a piano-accordion and also did some organ stuff. The woodwind guy did bari, tenor and soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet and harmonica. Even one of the backup girls hopped on ukelele and a couple of guitars here and there. Man, she was gorgeous too. Then when she sung this Argentinian song… maybe a tiny bit in love 😛
But yeah. Hugh was hilarious and all the music was great. Went on for ages too, over two hours from start to finish! Been a while since I saw live music like that. And the whole time I was just sitting there thinking that should be me. I should be doing that. I need to be doing that.
Oh and also Mum elbowed me right on the cheek bone, wouldn’t be surprised if I ended up with a black eye.
Oh yeah, and there was this stupid couple two rows in front who could not stop taking pictures with their damn stupid gigantic tablets throughout the whole entire thing.
JUST BECAUSE YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO SEE ANYTHING IN THAT BLURRY SMUDGE OF PIXELS LATER ON DOESN’T MEAN THE REST OF US BEHIND YOU SHOULDN’T BE ABLE TO SEE ANYTHING NOW
Urgghh, I hate people who do that. A tablet is a) crap at taking photos, b) much larger than an average camera so you have to lug more around, and c) often costs more than a decent camera. Heck there are some phones who have better quality cameras than tablets. People are silly.
I know – my phone’s one of them 😛
Don’t quite have a steady enough hand to have it perform as well in low light as it could though. Had a few goes playing around with it to see what I could get, but not too much luck. And only did it before the concert too, so as to not be a bother.
Also I decided to do a sneaky lil’ bit of recording, and just had my phone sitting there on my lap for the whole thing. Just to see how well it worked.
2:14, 248MB and only ate through 20% of battery. And it sounds pretty good!
Cool 😛
Civ 5 – Pacifist of the North Bazaar (I am really proud that I came up with that name)
Well.
I was doing my normal thing, and Russia denounced me because they were jealous or something. I don’t know, it didn’t say. Eventually, Russia got over it, and we became the best of friends.
Through spies, I determined that France was planning a surprise attack on me for no reason. Our diplomatic relations were excellent. Previously, the French had declared war on a city-state for no reason and actually won, so I guess they are just warmongering dicks. I decided to do precisely nothing about it, hoping France’s bloodlust would deteriorate. Several turns later, Russia reminded me that France was still planning an attack, and I should probably do something about it. I built the Sistine Chapel instead.
I had a Declaration of Friendship with pretty much everyone. A few people were pissed that I was friends with their enemy, but diplomacy seemed fine overall. My civ is basically in the middle of the continent. You have to pass through my territory to get to the other side. Because of this Open Borders treaties held a great deal of value. I decided to close my borders, just to see what would happen. I thought that since my borders would close, other civs would pay money for me to open them again. On the flip side, I also had a theory that the artificial intelligence on the other civs was not developed enough to care about that sort of thing, and that I would prevent the expansion of other civs.
Then the Mayans declared war on me. Previously, my relationship with the Mayans had been good, but it had decayed over time as they didn’t have the money for trading, and our borders were pretty close. Shocked at the sudden declaration of war, I went from leader to leader, trying to get them to declare war on the Mayans so I wouldn’t die. Spain and France seemed willing to kick Myan ass for very little cost. From memory, Spain was willing to go to war with the Mayans if I gave them a bit of incense. I frequently tried to initiate a peace treaty with the Mayans, but they dismissed all attempts.
I immediately made sure that all my cities had walls and castles, to boost defense. I did not build any military units, although I did decide that I was allowed to use city’s in-built defenses.
The Mayan started to attack my city of Pacifistan. I decided it wasn’t safe for my workers, so I made them flee by boat. In my other cities, I built roads. The war hadn’t reached that side of the map, so why bother doing anything about it? Spain and France didn’t actually do anything to help me. I guess when your allies declare war, they need 20 turns to prepare?
Pacifistan was besieged by Mayan troops. They didn’t pillage my farms, which was a nice gesture. I used the city defense systems to attack troops, but it did very little overall.
When Pacifistan went down to 20% health, I went to the Mayan leader and appealed to peace again. By some stroke of nature, Maya was willing to negotiate peace with no strings attached whatsoever. No money, no tithe, just straight peace. I immediately accepted the peace treaty. Upon reflection, I believe that Spain and France were getting there shit together, and Maya were worried about being attacked by the 2 strongest civilizations in the game.
I am a bit worried about France right now. They are probably still wanting to invade my ass. I am really annoyed that France built the Great Wall of China before me, that would have been such a good defense tool.
I’m still ridiculously proud of the title, despite the fact that I know next to nothing about Fist of the North Star.
Yeah, they tend to do that.
https://musolist.com/classifieds/182769-clarinet-player-wanted-for-jazz-band-in-liverpool
Hmm.
Liverpool is rather close by.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
I’ve always been a little dismissive of people incessantly photographing things. Parties, family gatherings, themselves with so-and-so. Always considered it part vanity, part crutch for a bad memory.
But looking over some photos that only I will ever see, of happier times, and how they bring even the tiniest, oddest details back in a flood of memories, I realize I now wish I’d taken even more. All the time of all the things.
Take more photos. They don’t even have to be good if they’re just going to be used to help find old memories. And you might be surprised by just how good you’ll consider a memory to be of what you’re taking for granted right now.
I have an incredible memory, man. Yet I still take lots and lots of photos.
Overcompensating for having zero photos of my childhood/teen years. 😛
I have a pretty great memory, too. We always relied on it for a lot of things… but looking at photos from long enough ago now, I’m surprised at the details and side-stories they bring back, outside of the main plot points that are easy to recall.
Dammit, where’s that relevant XKCD …
#Selfie
Yeah, I really need to take more photos. I just don’t really have the… “thing”, whatever it is, that everyone else seems to have that makes them snap pictures everywhere. Especially with people. I didn’t even take any at graduation, I had to go and grab a copy of Wingman’s ones just so that I’d have something there to look back on.
Yeah, photos are great. I never used to take any in the past and I wish I had some. I take as many as possible these days.
Before I left Powalen gave me an album of various TAY photos and I still look through it often to remember TAYbies and the various meats we had. I’m so happy I have it, especially a physical version.
The photo on the first page of the book always makes me happy since it’s the group photo we took at PAX and it’s nice having almost everyone in one photo. It also makes me sad though since Freeze and Beavwa just left the room minutes before we took the photo and they are not in it despite being at the meat.
I think the solution is multiple photos! 2-3 candid shots of a room to try catch as many present as possible without everyone posing is easily worth more than 2-3x times that one, big group photo in my opinion. I want to see the memory of how things were, not how they were presented…
…That said, clustering up for a group photo can be a kind of fun memory in and of itself.
A combination of both is always the best. There are many photos and videos of the night. I’ll try and find them and send them to you. Also just go to PA this year if you can an make new photos.
Here is a great group photo: GAYTIMES!! https://twitter.com/Sir_Mashaa/status/359192556480909312/photo/1/large
Do you hear that rumble? that boom of distant thunder in the distance? The hype train’s engines are beginning to stir, it’s terminus- E3.
Also, Kentucky Route Zero Act III is out! no forewarning, just appeared on the scene all pretty like. A nice surprise, really.
@redartifice I went to my FLGS yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to find that they stocked some of the Numenera books. I was about to pick one up when I discovered that it was, in fact, the campaign arc that we’re currently on. So no spoilers were had that day.
I still ended up buying another 40K RPG book though. The fluff text is pretty hilarious/awesome at times. “Lieutenant Harr was the only survivor of his squad when the Orks overran Bastion Gamma and he remained at his post for the next 20 hours, firing the Autocannons relentlessly until they required cooling. During that time, the following kills can be accredited to him: 32 Nobs (hi @sernobulus), 2 Trukkers, 7 Deffcopters, 5 Bikers, 1 Weirdboy (which resulted in the deaths of several dozen other xenos), and 1 Warboss. I hereby recommend Lieutenant Harr to be commended for his faithful duty to the Imperium.”
Yeah, I got that as part of the kickstarter so I thought I’d use it, has some neat stuff
Some really interesting analysis of the story in Dark Souls 2. Really dug this.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2014/05/06/understanding-the-lore-of-dark-souls-2?page=1
Dark Souls 2 had a story? 😛
*low menacing growl*
ANNNNNNNND.
EIGHT HOURS TO GO. SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS TO BRING IN.
THIS CAN BE DONE.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology
Man, I feel like such an A-hole I meant to pledge, but it’s almost finished and I’ve got no money till friday.
Sorry dude, I feel like a real douchebag.
The beauty part is that you don’t need money. No money gets taken out or pre-charged unless the thing gets fully funded… which it won’t. Therefore you can show support for FREEEEEEEE
Okay, I’ma pledge right now. I’ll buy a few of your books on friday too, is there anywhere I can order them from other than Amazon? I’d really like to avoid the exorbitant shipping costs if possible.
Book Depository is often cheapest. My site: http://shanewsmith.com/ has a link to price comparison sites so you can get yourself the sweetest deal!
PS: Thank you!
No worries mate, pledged.
Edit: Finally! Only took three tries (to post I mean).
I sometimes thing you’re a script kiddie. Your page gets are just too good.
Total accident, man. I swear! You really think I would kick off Page 6 like this on purpose? 🙁
Haha, good point. 😛 But I still title you as the master of page gets.
Tempted to just drop the dough to push this thing through, but I suspect emotion is distorting my judgement.
What.
WHAT.
No, man. Please. I’ve already sent the various contributors on their way. At the moment, I’m just enjoying the joke.
Yeah… I just thought it was a really cool idea and want to see it happen.
Really appreciate it man. More than you know. But a $7000 pledge is check-into-an-asylum level of crazy. 😛
Guess I’ll have to cook my own meals then…
Since @shane has decided to start Page6 with a serious topic, I guess I’ll leave my joke in the fridge a little bit longer to acquire more pungency.
I’ll start. This is my very first page 6 lame dad joke, and the only joke my son tells that makes any sense.
Where does a crocodile keep it’s money?
In a river bank.
Edit: Spoiler tags still aren’t working. How much longer is the comment system going to remain broken?
Mario Kart 7 was pretty fun last night! I’d forgotten how many skillz @sughly has! Thanks to everyone who played. Can’t wait until MK8 comes out now! (especially because it has built in voice chat >;D)
In non-gaming news, I discovered last night that Coconut Rice is super easy to make and is super delicious. I’ll never make plain rice again!
I call Diddy.
…
:'(
Hello. You’ve reached the voicemail of Diddy. I’m not available right now, please leave a message after the tone. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
WEEEEEEEE!
Thanks for hosting, Pow! You know, I’ve only had MK7 since it was released (2011) but have never really played – it has just been sitting on my shelf for three years. Such a pity too, because online karting is so much fun! I love the convenience of the 3DS game!
In my defense, much has happened in my personal life since 2011 and gaming has taken a back seat for the most part as such. House, marriage, child – it’s been full on.
No need for a defence! 😛 Mario Kart is all about the multiplayer anyway.
I’m gonna have to pick up that console bundle I reckon.
You made me aware that MK7 is uglier now 😛
🙁
I was almost violently ill looking at it!
Coconut rice is incredible.
On Friday night we went to a Thai restaurant for dinner (it had a giant “2nd Place!” sign outside from some restaurant awards thing which I found amusing, and even moreso on the way out upon overhearing an older gentleman say to his wife “2nd place? Didn’t they used to be first?!” :P) and ordered a ginormous coconut rice and and a 15-hour-slowcooked lamb dish. Food heaven.
I was so inspired I’m slow-cooking some goat today and having coconut rice with it. Can’t wait until dinnertime!
Oh hey now the notifications are working again I can see your praise of me, I approve! I would also praise me, too, given the chance. You were ok.
Also, how does one coconut rice?
So turns out that those Telstra mobile broadband vouchers can be used on any prepaid service, including mobile. No idea why people didn’t check this themselves, it’s free money .. anyway..
I have $90 ($50 + $40) worth of Telstra Prepaid Recharge Vouchers. They are free.
First two emails to adr1k000@ googly mail will get them.
Wait, didn’t I say this ages back? 😛
Shame i’m not directly with Telstra any more..
Dunno. I’m pretty sure at least someone here is on Telstra prepaid …. right…?
Hmm, I think my sister’s boyfriend was using a telstra mobile broadband thing. If they’re still around when she gets home, I’ll ask her.
Arctic Monkey’s were stellar last night. Totally worth the hangover today.
Hi everyone,
Because this idea was first floated here a week ago in TAY, and because it has links to DadJokePageSix, I am proud to present the world-exclusive-first preview of some concept art for my next project:
http://shanewsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Untitled.jpg
Edit: It probably won’t end up looking anything like this. But that’s the true nature of the Alpha Build, right? 😛
You link was bad and you should feel… wait, you’re fixing it.
He should still feel bad though.
I feel nothing. I’m dead inside.
Kind of like Undad.
Exactly!
I have a sore foot. I’m sure it’ll heel.
#dadjokepagesix.
Give this man a hand for a wonderful pun.
Indeed! It was toetally groan worthy!
Anyone working inside QLD gov departments know the story of WinXP? Is the massive support contract to MS being kept hidden? Or are all Aus gov agencies still on it ..? LOL.
Most of the departments I deal with got migrated to Win7 about a year ago and many of them upgraded to Outlook 2010 in the last few months.
I’m actually genuinely worried that this is costing massive taxpayer money. All the machines in this office belonging to the gov were upgraded around 6 months ago, all still XP …..
As fas as I’m aware, all commercial Windows licenses include support for previous versions. So you buy a machine that comes bundled with Win7 or Win 8 and can then downgrade it to WinXP under the same license while maintaining support.
I had to deal with buying/updating these licenses a little while ago. I doubt it costs any money unless they need non-MS support for the OS.
Odds are the reason they’re doing it is because some of the software used only supports WinXP and they can’t be bothered upgrading the software. Most likely because the software was done for tender and the lowest bidder didn’t bother thinking ahead.
The actual OS of Windows XP has end of support, there is no way around it. Other than paying MS large sums of money for a 1yr support contract to patch it.
If they don’t have issues, then they wont need the support though. Just depends on the situation I guess. The school where I used to work full time updated all work machines to win7 during my time there, but some of the old databases they used would only work on XP, so they had to keep a few XP machines running in the IT dept. The service centre (central IT dept) was working on a new database which would be globally accessible throughout the domain forest, but until that was completed, they had no other choice. I’m guessing it’s a similar situation where you work.
It’s not specialist PC though, just generic worker. And they got refreshed 6 months ago. Sense is not made! (lololol, when IS sense made in gov??)
@shane
Regards to that Dark souls 2 article
“Gur Tvnagf qb gurve cneg ohg ner fgbccrq, va glcvpny Fbhyf ‘fperj gur gvzryvar’ snfuvba, ol gur cynlre punenpgre va n frevrf bs synfuonpxf.”
V qba’g ernyyl nterr jvgu gung. Lbh’er ragrevat zrzbevrf, abg gvzr. Abg nygrevat gur cnfg ohg rkcrevrapvat gur qrnguf bs gur tvnagf. Vg fcrpvsvpnyyl fgngrf lbh pna’g rkvfg ybat va n zrzbel.
Zl gurbel vf gur tvnagf ner gelvat gb uryc lbh tvira gur napvrag qentba qebcf n tvnagf fbhy jura lbh xvyy uvz. Nyfb ur’f abg npghnyyl n qentba ohg n perngvba bs Nyqvn sebz n tvnag fvapr lbh trg gur qentba fbhy sebz gur qentbaf zrzbel, vzcylvat gur qentba vf ybat qrnq.
Yep, the article wasn’t perfect, and I agree with your interpretation. I just appreciated the way it laid out the macro story (I particularly enjoyed the reminder that “jnvg, guvf vfa’g jung lbh pnzr urer gb qb” for pretty much the entire game).
Bandai Namco or Namco Bandai or whatever they call themselves these days are teasing that they’re bringing a ‘surprise’ to the upcoming Japan Expo in Paris.
This was where they announced Tales of Xillia and Tales of Graces previously. However you’d think that given that they’ve got three announced Tales games in the pipeline for localization, it’s unlikely that it’ll be a new Tales game.
I bet it’ll be something disappointing, but I wonder what it could be? The biggest thing I can think of that they’re sitting on right now is God Eater 2.
Riiiiiidge Racer!
Heh. Namco Bandaid.
Seeing as God Eater 2 is getting online at the end of may, it makes sense that they might be bringing to to the west now.
At least that’s what i hopes happening 🙁
Dark Souls 2 stuff :
Beat the Three Remaining Spice Girls & their Backing Dancers (Skeleton Lords) last night.
Then decided to try Amish Satan (Executioner Chariot). all up, I lost ~60,000 souls over many attempts (that’s about 3x what I’d gain by beating it), so I gave up.
I’ve taken to nicknaming all the enemies in the game. I was really annoying a friend over Skype coz every time one of the whip-wielding guys (aka Mr Whippy) turned up, I’d start loudly humming Greensleeves until they were gone.
There’s a boss coming up very soon that I really look forward to hearing your name for 😛
So far I’ve had…
Last Giant – HR Geiger’s RealDoll Prototype
Dragon Rider – Captain Barrel & His Achilles Armpit
Old Dragonslayer – Sauron’s Grandpappy
Pursuer – FedEx Next-Day Delivery
Flexile Sentry – Tweedle Dumb & Tweedle Dee
Ruin Sentinels – Triplets of Bevelle
Lost Sinner – Pope Jacko
Skeleton Lords – Three Remaining Spice Girls & their Backing Dancers
Executioner Chariot – Amish Satan
Flexile Sentry’s is perfection. 😀
Which one?
The Spoiler boss!
I stopped playing the other day because friggin’ BellBoys made me lose 50,000 souls, helped by a beautiful serving of lag. Should have just sprinted for my bloodstain.
Oh, and my favourite name for the Skeleton Lords is Papa Nito’s Family Circus.
I’m kind of sad because I’ve already beaten them on my current playthrough (wanted to unlock sunbroing), so I don’t get to smash their stupid faces in some more.
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt from playing Souls games, it’s that you ALWAYS go for your bloodstain first. It just really sucks when you die before you get back there.
Well I was going for my stain. It’s just that sprinting for it required going past the invader, three enemies, up a ladder in full view of the enemies with ranged weapons, and then through a group of another six guys. So I thought I’d try fighting, assuming that I wouldn’t be stabbed twice in the face through my shield, killing me immediately.
Bonfire Ascetic.
Or co-op, I guess. I’ve fought those guys about fifteen times, twice in my playthrough and a whole stack of times as a phantom.
Yeah, I’ll be co-opping. Should hopefully be more successful than my fights against the Ruin Sentinels.
When I was at that point in the game, I’d get summoned within ten seconds of dropping my sign outside the last bonfire (the locked one), every time. It was a really good spot for grinding souls and practicing on bosses. Sometimes your host is gonna want to chariot, though 😛
What level are you? I need co-op buds…
I can’t remember.
And level isn’t the deciding factor anymore, it’s the shitty-arse Soul Memory that decides it (total souls earned, regardless of if you spent them or not). You can find it… top right of the stats page?
Wiki I read said it was SL and SM, but who knows 😛
No matter the game, I’ll eventually refer to all of the monsters or enemies as dudes.
Spikey dude, dude with the axe, heavy armour dude, big dude.
Me too! Dudes, or guys. 😀
Edit: Oh, FFS Kotaku this is getting ridiculous now. 🙁
Commenting too fast dude…
ily
@spaghett’s last song played game!
Quadrophenia – The Who
Not really a song, but:
Dark Sun Gwyndolin – Dark Souls OST
Been addicted to that soundtrack…
These Arms Are Snakes – Idaho
Fat Girl (thar she blows) Steel Panther.
Maybe I’m A Lion – Black Mages
I Am Sailing – Rod Stewart
L’exquisite Douleur – Being As An Ocean
Live for the Night – Krewella
This is the kind of music to expect if you ever go clubbing people 😉
The March Of The Swordmaster – Rhapsody Of Fire
Edit: I usually haven’t had much trouble with the “Posting Too Fast” error, like it’s usually only been the first comment of the day, and only taken two or three attempts but today is commenting hell. I just wanted to catch up on things and hang out with you guys for a few minutes but every single one of my comments has taken at least five times to go through. Not fun.
Hell & Whiskey – Can’t Beat The Blues
No One’s Leaving – Jane’s Addiction
Miss you man!
So, Question for all you Dark Souls 2 players.
I hear a lot of negative comments coming from you guys, so i want to know:
As a casual Dark Souls player, who is deeply in love with the universe (lore, exploration etc) but not so much the whole pvp side of things… Am i better off giving this a miss? I love Dark Souls, but i love it for it’s exploration and revalations in regards to the lore… i love delving into the intricacies of the lore and learn/create my own assumptions of what happened… I basically never touched Multi, aside from trying to invade once a twice and failed miserably so i don’t really care for it 😛
Dark Souls 2 is the first Souls game I’ve really gotten into. I’ve not yet been invaded & I’ve only summoned once to get past an annoying boss. so yeah… the PVP side of things hasn’t really impacted anything for me so far & I don’t mind that.
As for lore & stuff…. there’s still NPCs to talk to & stuff, but like I said, its my first real souls game, so I cant comment on how it contributes to the lore stuff…
anyway…. its a fun game.
Overall, it’s not as good as Dark Souls, I think that’s been pretty well established. But there’s still lots to like about it. I’m still having a great time. The mechanics are solid, and the changes they’ve made are almost all for the better. The level design is a step down from DaS, but about on par with Demon’s Souls. The boss fights are engaging and challenging, though overall less ball-kickingly amazing as Dark Souls. The underlying story is still being picked apart by commentators, but I dug it.
The NPCs are probably less memorable, but I’m expecting when the dust settles a bit for people to conclude that the story in DS2 is about as deep as DS1.
In terms of multi, I’ve only been invaded… twice, I think. And I’ve finished NG and gotten to soul level 150ish with about 65 hours play. The co-op multiplayer is pushed a LOT harder in NG, and PvP much more in NG+ (apparently).
Excellent, sounds like i would still have fun digging through random crap and developing my own version of what happened, which is pretty much what i want…
I will still wait till it drops in price a bit, but it’s just jumped a bit higher on my “To buy” list 😛
I’ve got 90 hours on one character and another 40 on another and I think I’ve only been invaded 2 or 3 times total outside of the belltowers and rat warrens. All of them in Huntsman Copse.
I got invaded a whole bunch at the end while I was playing with aesthetics at the tower of flame, but once I worked out that I had 125k souls worth of sin and cleared it, no more invasions.
Only one single instance in huntsman’s, and one in the gulch outside the obvious areas and the case above.
Man, I got invaded so many more times than that. Ended up just playing the last third of the game offline because I hated being invaded so much 😛 I wish there was an option to disable it while still playing online.
Were you a Sunbro the whole time? Whenever I wasn’t actively trying to level up another covenant, I always went back to Sunbro. It has the effect of prioritising co-op rather than PvP… at least it did in the first Dark Souls.
I was in the Blue Covenant I think? It said something about helping when being invaded so I figured it might help. But it didn’t really 😛
I was in the Covenant of Offline!
Play it. it’s not as good as DS1 but only when you get into the nitty-gritty details. It’s slightly easier than DS1 so as a casual I would assume it appeals to you a bit more.
Also I need dudes to co-op with.
As a casual Dark Souls player, I think you’ll love it. I’m notoriously against multiplayer (eek! People!) but even I’ve given it a go in DS2.
For all my whinging I don’t hate it. If it came before Dark Souls the First I would be doing nothing but singing its praises. I’m just a bit sour that it let me down in a lot of ways but I’m far from a casual player.
Yeah fair enough… i got the feeling that a lot of the negative comments is due to the things that Dark Souls simply did better… I just wanted to make sure it wasn’t and complete and utter stinking turd, and that the lore (which is majorly important to me) was intact 😛
I still read your guys’ comments with intrigue though, and i look forward now to getting it
What I love about the Souls series is the exploration and gameplay. Dark Souls II is pretty much the same in those aspects but I think it just falls short in some areas when compared to the previous games. Most people seem to agree that the lore, characters, locations etc. just don’t seem as fleshed out or as memorable as previous games. It never really bothered me since I never really looked into the lore, but in terms of actual level design I found it mostly alright when compared to Dark Souls. Little things like plenty of Bonfires and not having to spend 5 minutes running to a boss room made it more enjoyable for me but it does end up feeling like a bunch of little levels rather than a big interconnected world (so a bit of a bummer in the “exploration” side of things).
There have been some gameplay changes as well which make it more friendly/accessible and I liked the changes but I won’t go into detail in case you want to go in blind.
I never bothered with the online/PvP aspect either and I spend most of my time Hollow, however, you CAN be invaded while Hollow in certain areas under specific conditions. This was kind of a surprise to me and was rather annoying. It only happens in a small amount of areas and unfortunately you’ll have to use an item or just disconnect from the internet to prevent it. Kind of a bummer that it’s forced on us, albeit in optional areas but it didn’t really take anything away from my DS2 experience.
It’s an enjoyable game worth checking out for any Souls fan. I didn’t like it as much as Dark Souls but I think it’s better to go in thinking of it as a new game, rather than a true sequel to Dark Souls.
EDIT: Although… I did make a second character a few days ago and I’ve been co-opping the whole time (for about 8 hours) and it’s been really fun! Definitely feels like easy mode for bosses though so I’m happy to do it on subsequent playthroughs 😀
Damn OSX is a useless pile.
Where do you find the detailed CPU info? System Report contains minor details on everything, apart from CPU. A couple command-lines I found don’t do the job either.
CPU Info or CPU Usage?
Info. 🙁
Apple logo > about this mac > more info. Which well tell you model etc and whatever you wanna know about the other hardware. If you want to know CPU usage etc like task manager on Windows shows, then yeah I don’t recall any such, may have to go for a third party program.
It just tells me CPU model name and number of cores. The useful information about techy stuff is missing. :\
Pfft. You don’t need the technical information. Apple stuff just works.
…
…
*cough*
Apple uses stock intel CPUs for everything, so just look up the model number:
http://ark.intel.com/
Yah I know about ark, wasn’t 100% certain that it’s stock CPU. Either way, it still doesn’t tell me for example which instruction sets are enabled within the OS.
Even on PC you can’t get that kind of info without a 3rd party tool (something like Everest for eg. – Having said that, I’m not even sure if Everest gives you that info anymore). There is an app for PC which gives you tons of info called CPU-Z. There is also a Mac version called CPU-X, but I dunno if it’s kept up to date. http://www.osx86.net/files/file/3152-cpu-x/ Not even sure if that’s the official site, but at least you know what to look for now!
Hmm, guess things have changed since Leopard/Snow Leopard :/
CPU Usage is easy. Open a terminal and run ‘top’.
Pre-Mother’s day flower delivery to Mum’s workplace secured. Because everyone knows the only purpose behind flowers is making coworkers jealous.
Next up… trying to get that fucking toaster stand-alone which always comes in a set with a kettle except for that one fucking time we bought the kettle on its own. I think it’s a testament to the miracle of human domestication and the universal social contract that these sorts of hurdles and others daily don’t result in bloody-knuckled rampages like… ALL the time.
Also.
*teasing exchange with coworker leaving early*
Afterwards:
“You are so bad.”
*arch eyebrow* “I know why I think I’m bad, but I’m also pretty sure I didn’t leave any witnesses, so I’m very curious as to why YOU think I’m bad.” *pause* “That was a joke. Please, do enlighten me.”
*scandalized whisper* “Flirting like that!”
“Preeetty sure I go out of my way to shoot the girl down or ignore even the slightest hint of an overture. Everyone knows I’m spoken for.”
“That’s what I’m talking about!”
“So… I should be encouraging her? That doesn’t seem good either.”
“Y– no!”
“I don’t see a winning move, here.”
“You’re not meant to, you’re a man! Men can’t win.”
“Wow. Are we not even pretending about that anymore?”
“Pretty much.”
“I weep for our sons. Fortunately, I personally don’t care, so your powers are useless against me. Judge away, Judgy Mcjudgerson.”
“See, that’s what I’m talking about!”
“Not giving a shit is flirting?”
“Well. Maybe not, but it totally works.”
“God help us.”
Mankind is doomed.
What I took from all that is the best way to flirt with a woman is to make a vague threat on her life.
If that’s not how you’re flirting, you’re doing it wrong.
You know what? I don’t get flirting. This has just made me realise it. I just don’t understand it, and never have.
Everybody is crazy except me. Explains a lot, actually.
And despite only being off the market for a few years, clearly I don’t get it right either. Or at the very least, it’s not entirely what I thought it was and is now… broader in scope?
Look, people are weird.
Sounds like you’re doing it right, whether you mean to or not 😛
That, or you’re just devilishly handsome.
MICHAEL FASSBENDER. One of Kel’s friends said that once and I’m not letting it go.
I’d heard Paul Verhoeven…
You make a girl laugh, it’s flirting.
You make a girl blush, it’s flirting.
You make a girl confused, it’s flirting.
You make a girl smile, it’s flirting.
You make a girl slightly angry, it’s flirting.
You glance at a girl, it’s flirting.
You talk to a girl, it’s flirting.
You buy a girl anything, it’s flirting.
You’re nice to a girl, it’s flirting.
You show no interest in a girl, it’s flirting.
Pretty straightforward really.
IF they like you.
Otherwise it’s creeping.
If they consider you in their league, then any positive interaction will be considered as flirting.
If they consider themselves out of your league, then any positive interaction will be considered as creeping.
If they consider you out of their league, then any positive interaction will be considered as a booty call.
So say’th the Lion.
(you really should take everything I say with a truck load of salt)
No wonder I have no luck, I’ve been sooo doing it wrong all this time
Off sick yesterday. 6.8 million emails received. Teleconference with antagonistic broker in one hour. Massive headache. Pondering merits of high velocity application of lead to cranium.
Tell the broker you won’t listen to him because he’s broke, forcefully high five the phone while screaming “Oh yeah burn!” Then moonwalk out of the office.
This is the same broker/insured that I posted this about, so that is more or less what I have planned. Thankfully my boss is on board.
Whose cranium?
My lawyer has advised me against answering that question.
Slooooooow Taaaaaaaay.
We’re not even posting too much!
At least we’re not… accelerating. 😛
The horror, the horror
We’re not supposed to say that word Popdart, what have you do-…
*This user has lost their internet connection before they completed their message*
Waaaaaaaallll-eeeeee
In honour of Page Six, here’s a recent joke from my eldest kid.
What has pink hair?
A lion!
Personally, I don’t get it, but Mrs Shane giggled for about five minutes, so I guess it’s funny.
I don’t get it. Google Search doesn’t get it, either.
I might be lying, but I have mousey brown hair… so I guess not.
@liondrive are you dying your hair today?
Child of Light’s writing is… bad :/
Not really a fan of the forced rhyming thing because a lot of them feel forced or are a stretch (they barely rhyme). I think it could’ve been done well using the whole rhyming thing but it just isn’t and it makes me not care about the story or characters at all
Such a shame. I was quite excited for it when they first announced it.
I’m sure it’s not that bad! I think you’re just mad.
That rhyme wasn’t forced! Here, now eat some borscht.
That really was horrible, try to be less horrible.
I think Shane’s rhyming was okay.
Keep an open mind about such things, hombre.
I wholeheartedly agree
That the writing
Is a great big pile of poopy.
We watched an early gameplay video and there were many threats of violence directed against me if that game made it into our house – because of the writing (and occasional voice acting making it even worse)
Heyyyyyyy
Did they ever say what will happen to Dark Souls on PC when GFWL shuts down?
It would suck of all the online features are just completely gone 🙁
If your save files don’t get decrypted from GFWL, you might lose all your saves too
It’s my understanding that the entire game will stop functioning, not just the online features. Something to do with save games.
Edit: what TK said while I was wrestling with Kotaku.
Considering games don’t work with GFWL I don’t see what’s going to be different.
#zing
I’m very interested in the development of this…
To my knowledge they’ve just moved a bunch of games (Ace Combat?) to Steam Works, so here’s hoping they’ll do the same for DS….
Chances are though, that yes you will have to start fresh as save games will be gonsies with GFWL… But i very much so doubt they’ll just let online functionality die just like that… i could just be naive about that though 😛
Note to self: Don’t buy Dark Souls until after this is sorted out!
Consoles!
EW!
There’s always the modding scene!
Or the [REDACTED BECAUSE ILLEGAL] scene. Which, if you already own it I don’t see the harm, this is the kind of thing the scene’s been doing for yonks with broken DRM…
That depends, is it rated “ARRRR!”?
So, uh, apparently in the land of nippon the entire Valkyria Chronicles trilogy is getting remade for the PS4,
Plz Sega.
Plz.
EDIT: I forgot to emphasize this is a rumour. It tugs at the heartstrings and we all desperately wished it were true, but it is a rumour nonetheless.
C’mon Sega. Sega? Sega you piece of garbage! SEGA! Sega do this! DO THIS SEGA! Sega? Sega please! Please! CMON SEGA DO THIS NOW!
Remade and officially dubbed?!?!
Please please PLEASE let it be true (and dubbed)!!!
SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
“LOL nope”
-Sega
ooooooh. <3 Valkyria Chronicles.
Yes please.
Hell, I watched the anime OVAs for Valkyria Chronicles just this past weekend while I was cataloguing and categorizing my (incredibly extended) anime bucket list.
(They were terrible. But it was nice to revisit the characters. Also, not as bad as the ‘Freezing’ series OVAs, which were straight-up softcore porn so embarrassing I couldn’t even watch more than the first couple minutes of the first couple eps before writing the whole list off.)
That’s always been my definition of “Freezing”.
WHAT?!
I’m going to be needing a source for that.
Just a rumour I think.
I emphasize “apparently” heavily. It’s this week’s famitsu leak from 2ch, and the thread (now closed) is heavily contested. Automatically shove into “grain of salt” category.
You got me all excited but it turns out the source for this is a random on 2ch apparently saying it’s in this week’s Famitsu. No one has backed this up and it seems like it’s a vicious, horrible rumor.
And now I am sad again 🙁
yeah, I really should have underlined “apparently.” I’ll be more careful in the future.
good news is that Sega already carved a deep hole in our chests about this matter so this doesn’t give them opportunity to do so for the first time.
Gorram old people. Just had one throw a hissy fit because I wouldn’t give her a seniors discount.
It was for a $0.45 rubber key head…
I’d have paid her 50c to go away.
O_o
Starting to get really hyped about Destiny. I’ve been holding off popping down a preorder for a while because I’ve been assuming they’ll do some kind of Collector’s Edition and as a committed Bungie fanboy I want the Super Deluxe edition day 1.
But preorders on Amazon et al include beta access and the current rumor is the beta will be starting in July (which day in July should be obvious since 7/7 is Bungie Day, and additionally this year is a special bungie day as it is 7/7/14 i.e. 7/7/7+7 AND the original Bungie Day was 7/7/7 so this year’s Bungie Day is the 7th Bungie Day) so I’m kind of getting tempted to ensure I get into the beta.
Half Life 3 confirmed!
I will probably end up buying a PS4 when Destiny is released.
Didn’t it get revealed a little bit ago that Activision were going to spend $500million on marketing it? Surely a collectors edition would be part of that!
I would assume so. And I think there will be several different levels of collector editions, too. There’d almost have to be, to make that kind of money back.
I’m putting money on the ultimate collector version costing absolutely no less than $200, and possibly reaching $300, with my ‘best guess’ sitting somewhere around $220-250.
I’m thinking the extra priceiness will be down to things like messenger bags and hoodies and so forth so that Destiny can be this big social phenom that they want it to be.
The stuff they have for the different classes that have very specific looking logos and stuff probably lends itself really nicely to clothing, similar to Mass Effect’s N7 stuff or similar.
Pretty sure I have a beta code lying around somewhere. I offered it up ages ago cause I won’t use it, but no one took it.
I can have a look around, see if I can find it if you want it?
I may take you up on that. Which platform & region though? The fly in the ointment here is that my primary PSN account for PS4 is a US one.
PS4, I think. I’m assuming AU, but I’m unsure.
I pre-ordered at EB ages ago, and it was just a code you had to register yourself on the computer, so you might be able to register it as US.
I’ll have a look for it, but there’s a chance I threw it away :S
I like the look of it, but it definitely seems like it’s going to be a Borderlands’esque experience (minus the humour which will hopefully be made up for in grandeur). Also similar in that partying with randoms will be more miss than hit, you’ll need to be bringing 2 or so of your friends along (and preferably voice-chatting), soloing will feel empty by comparison though still be servicable. And it will suffer from being a gamepad FPS, which is always an exercise in frustration and inferiority.
Even as a Bungie fanboy since Oni, I’ve relegated this one to, “If I ever get a PS4.”
It’s a decent bet, just not for the foreseeable future. Like… maybe not until xmas’14, which will probably be ‘missed the boat’ territory for most of the craze, but hopefully server issues will be sorted, and they’ll be doing their own big holiday push to justify the staggering amount of money invested in it.
<– Bungie fanboy since Pathways into Darkness.
It looks super rad to me and I own a PS4 so it's my big hype game for the year.
I just want a PC release, i’m still not ready to commit to a PS4 for pretty much just destiny…
*cough*projectbeast*cough*
Maybe.
PC isn’t going to happen any time soon, Bungie’s doing everything in-house haven’t developed for PC since Myth 2 and I think there’s maybe 2 people left at the company that worked on that.
Yeah, but porting wouldn’t be a very difficult task.
Dump the code, add AA and all that nice PC stuff, Up-res to 1440p and 4K or at least 1080p, remove the 30fps lock that you know they enforced on the console versions, add mouse and keyboard support, redesign the interface to work with a mouse and keyboard, add text chat, optimise the game to run on a half-eaten potato, add SLI support, add mouse acceleration because that’s the law, and patch in an F.O.V. slider three months down the line.
Now that I think about it, it may be a little hard. Eh, I don’t think I’d buy it even if it was on PC. I’d have a lot of trouble finding someone to play it with. Because of the way Steam friends lists work, I would only consider it if it comes to PC.
They’ll probably do a port 5-6 months down the line. But I think Console is where Bungie’s done best before.
FWIW Myth and Myth 2 and a Win95 port of Marathon 2 are the only games they ever did for PC, and all of those were 90s stuff. They were a Mac developer back when they worked on “PC” and several of their Mac programmers left when they were acquired by Microsoft and moved to Seattle. Since then almost all the original guys have left. 🙁
Isn’t it also coming to the Xbox 360 and the PS3?
yeah, but if the game is meant to last ten years or something, i don’t want to get it on a console i’ll be replacing down the line.
But Destiny will have a sequel every two years, and an expansion every year. These were the details announced before the actual game was announced.
It looks like it will be a fun game but also a game that you need to play co-op to really enjoy and I don’t have reliable co-op partners anymore.
If the Project Beast rumours turn out to be true I’ll probably buy a PS4 and Destiny but otherwise… it will really need to blow me away.
It has single player. Doesn’t have to be played co-op.
So did Borderlands and Halo but played singleplayer those games were “pretty good” at best (and I say this as a huge Halo fan) and had limited re-playability – what made them awesome was the co-op action and I think Destiny will be the same.
Especially since it is channeling MMO’s – most of it will be designed around playing with others and if you don’t it just won’t be as fun. Ever played an MMO mostly alone/with randoms? It’s not that great. And despite Bungie saying it is not an MMO it is gonna fall under that banner.
Well I’ll be playing it at least, and it sounds like other TAYbies will be too…
But also the game has seamless drop in/out multiplayer stuff (where Borderlands required people to join games manually) so you might find that it’s a non-issue.
Which is cool, and I’ll have to see how it all works out.
Other problem is levels tho – lot’s of TAYbies played GW2 and Borderlands 2 but I almost never played with them cause everyone had different schedules and ended up different, incompatible levels.
But, we will see.
Seeing as @dc loves to partake in the Page Six festivities, I thought we could relive one of his great ones. So, here without further ado is DC and his best joke! Take it away DC!
*applause*
The crowd is cheering DC! If you don’t do it, I will.
*holds up no war poster, puts sticky tape over mouth*
*crowd is silent*
*one person coughs*
*tumbleweed*
Aw man, politics? That’s no fun. 😛 I’m just messing. Your best joke secret is safe with me. And Strange. And Strange’s kid.
Hey FFX people, just wondering what your grinding strategies are?
Do you guys go from fight to fight for AP, or do you abuse the system a little bit.
I am tempted to cheat-grind, but don’t wanna make it too easy for me :S
Where are you?
If you have airship access you can do an AP trick to get 99 levels in one short battle 😛
Throughout the game I tried to get everyone to participate in every battle (because free experience!) but later on I just focused on using a handful of good characters for all the end-game stuff and I used the AP trick for them. Then I used the trick again for everyone to make their rounds around the sphere grid to finish off getting the last couple of trophies.
I have the airship.
I was contemplating doing the whole:
– Double / Triple Overdrive
– Overdrive -> AP
– Double / Triple AP
Weapon modification, then fighting King Cactuar to get everyone a bazillion levels in one fight, but was curious as to how others are grinding. Also, I don’t wanna make everything too easy kinda thing :S
I’m still just regular fighting for AP at the moment. Might go to Omega Ruins once I get everyone’s Celestial Weapons.
There’s a better trick than the Cactuar one. It’s similar to yours except you fight Don Tonberry. He does the amount of enemies that character has killed x 10 damage (up to 99,999) to your character if you attack him during his first 4 turns.
Otherwise if you’re just going about your business doing end-game stuff like trying to capture any monsters you missed/fighting arena and extra bosses etc. then you’ll get enough AP for most things!
The good thing about the cactuar one is I’m pretty sure he only hits 99,999 consecutively, so all you have to do is keep reviving your dudes and you’re set.
You don’t even need to attack him, just revive. You can literally stay there for hours giving everyone a go in one fight.
Bit cheating though, so I might feel guilty :S
Omega Dungeon with triple AP weapons is pretty quick and what I usually do.
THIS IS YOUR BIG CHANCE to pretend to largesse that you’ll never have to live up to. Pledge a thousand bucks to this campaign just to feel big. You won’t have to pay the money, because it still needs to raise seven thousand, in fifty-five minutes.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology
You know you want to.
Oh FFS, there’s no way that @stickman’s gonna believe this was an accident
It’s destiny.
No, Destiny gets $500,000,000.
Shane may be a writer, but he can still count to 25!
I’ve never had to count that high. My royalties have always been single digits so far 😛
That can’t be right. It’s not always 25.. is it?
25 or 50, whichever comes first.
And now @benny is going back and post counting
Haha, I did that once. I came to the conclusion that the number of posts is different each time. I used to be indecisive, now I’m not so sure.
Page five: 25
Page six: 24
Inconclusive.
@benny – there’s probably an unmoderated post hidden from view if the count isn’t enough.
@beavwa Ah. Conclusive, then!
@beavwa, @benny
Unmoderated posts don’t count towards the page total until moderated, which is why you’ll sometimes have a pageget that is not a pageget 30 minutes later.
And check your counting, there’s 25 posts on page six.
It’s a conspiracy I tell ya.
Haha, awesome. 😛
Yeah, but what if everyone goes there and pledges a thousand?
Nice try, author guy!
You go first!
*everyone else takes one step backwards*
SHHHHHH you’ll spoil my brilliant evil plan!
Oh man. Who’s calling dibs on speaking at the funeral after the guilt-aneurysm when this happens?
I’d rather be in the box than do the eulogy.
Is it that hard to think of nice things to say about me? 😛
Not at all. I just couldn’t help but plug Seinfeld. Heh, butt plug.
I’ll do it. Might ruin the mood, though.
OMG this thread is funnier than the whole previous page. 😀
Support added 🙂
Much obliged*, my friend!
*not legally binding obligation
I meant to do it earlier but kept forgetting >.>
@shane Hey, hard luck man.
Yeah I was trying to think of the right words for you too, Shane. Kudos, is all that comes to mind. Kudos for effort.
That, and take the current money and run.
You can’t do that in KS- only pays out at full funding+ and end of campaign.
Sucks that it didn’t work out. Maybe @shane could do another kickstarter, but this time have a smaller goal like $4000 and cut down on the amount of stories/pages, or do more of the writing himself. Just an idea.
I’m in no hurry to rush back to Kickstarter at the moment, believe me. Maybe some other time!
But yep, definitely thinking about alternate options: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/all-the-kings-men-300-page-anthology/posts/819771
Thanks, man. Much appreciated.
I’m doing okay though. It’s been clear for quite a while that it wasn’t going to make target. I had my sulk a while ago.
Still, a good learning experience. Nothing Ventured…
Okay I’m trying to post just to say sorry you didn’t hit the target at the last minute. I chipped in $35 but it evidently wasn’t quite enough. I was kind of tempted to put in $1000 just to make it look good but then knowing my luck it’d have gotten a last minute rush and I’d have had to actually pay it and since $35 was stretching it…
Thanks, man. Much appreciated.
Mobile TAY now on iPad! Yes! Hopefully it won’t crash the browser anymore!
Hmm, is The Hunger Games any good? Thinking of picking it up on Blu-Ray this weekend with some others since it’s 20% off all Blu-Rays & DVD’s at JB till Sunday!
I like it, and I’m not even a big fan of Jennifer Laurence.
I haven’t read the books though, but the movies are good.
Cheers, only heard good things about it, so thought I should check out the hype.
See Australian gov’t I am NOT pirating, when I easily could’ve.
I wonder if they’re actually listening and that’s why the Kotaku SSL cert for user profile page was revoked? 😛
I am sure Abbott is picking it up on those ears of his..
Also, I didn’t mind the first Hunger Games movie. Kind of enjoyed it – possibly because I had watched the HISHE take on it first and went in knowing roughly what to expect.
The first movie is amazingly bad.
It is an utter trainwreck of a production.
It went right past being “so bad it’s funny” all the way to “no, this is just bad again.”
The second one’s a lot better, apparently.
It’s not even bad! D:
Not even!
Not eeeevennnnnnnn!!!
Like, yeah, it’s not amazingly good or anything, but it’s still good!
The second was worse than the first, still good though, but not as good.
Do you want the list of reasons that the first is bad?
Because it’s actually a really short list.
EVERYTHING about the first one is bad. It doesn’t make sense, its pacing is godawful, it looks like it was shot by a three year old, I’ve seen better chemistry when I add milk to my cereal than there was between the two leads (they rivalled Amy Adams and Henry Cavill in that sense), the special effects looked far cheaper than they had any right to be, and those fucking flashbacks, man.
So bad.
It was more like it was designed around the fans. I’d read the books and found it way too long to sit through.
I pretend that the effects are supposed to look a little cheap, seeing as how it’s a televised program and everything. Kind of lends to the fact that they’re being televised I find. And I don’t remember them being that bad anyway?
The pacing seemed fine also :S
Started off slow, wound up, reached the highpoint, then wound down. Pretty basic but effective pacing I thought.
I’m not a movie buff anyway. Give me pretty faces and flashing lights and I’ll be entertained! 😀
In truth, I usually rewatch it just to ogle at Liam Hemsworth anyway, hahaha! :* 😉 :*
Sounds like my kinda movie then 😛
Apparently I’ve been posting too fast, but the movies are really long and you could probably pick up the trilogy of books for less than the cost of the two movies.
Also, it looks like only the second one is on special.
That’s basically what I said before it got eaten 🙁
The first book wasn’t too bad. I hear bad reports of the other two books though. Haven’t seen the movies.
I’ve seen both. They’re like AAA versions of a kids movie, directed by kids, concepted by kids. A polished turd, if you will. Entertaining to watch once.
Plus Jennifer Lawrence 😛
I think the hardest thing about a break up, no matter how clean or messy, is learning where everyone stands.
So many people say theyre not picking sides… but holey moley… with every interaction comes a pretty evident opinion and im tired of sifting through each and every person’s feelings.
We’ve all chosen sides here too, Will. Some might be residual bitterness from Fitocracy challenges. 😛
Ah, sorry for the stuff you got to deal with man. 🙁
haha those sides were chosen before the first logged workout 😛
Put up a FB status that would out your supporters. Delete the non-supporters.
Delete from FB, delete from RL.
Edit: but seriously, people are fucking assholes. IMO, if they’re not actively supporting you or making a point about neutrality, just ditch them. They may as well be supporting the ex. If you’re wrong about it, and they are genuine friends, they will contact you.
Dark Souls 2 complete!
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Cebof fubhyq abg unir fhzzbarq gur ACP’f gub.
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Fb V bayl unq gb svtug Anfunaqen.
V unq n inthr vqrn bs gur beqre bs guvatf fb V jrag gb trg gur erfg bs gur Tvnag Fbhyf svefg.
I’ve just about had enough of this broken comment system. Please @markserrels, @benwhite, anybody at KotakuAU, I’m begging you, get it fixed.
I’m sure they’re working on it.
(I’m so glad I don’t have to maintain any websites at work with active comment systems 😛 There’s pressure enough already when things go wrong!)
It’s been all screwed up ever since commenting was disabled at Easter, so they’ve had a while to work on it.
The profile page is now redirecting to the https version of the site (which has massive CSS issues right now and doesn’t display properly) and the https certificates are randomly coming up revoked. It’s getting ridiculous.
Not sure if coincidence or not, but I think they were vulnerable to Heartbleed.
Frankly, I’d be happy if they restored a pre-easter backup unless there was something catastrophically wrong about to happen because even if it was slow, it’d be better than this.
So I summoned a dude in DS2 to help me out with a boss. He didn’t backstab me or anything the second I turned away from him! Nice dude.
I killed him by accident via ballista.
Good times.
+1 lol, +1 yay DS! -1 friend-murder. Shame on you Saturday. Shame.
Jolly cooperation!
…ish.
So Sid met my friends ferret today. Sid likes ferrets. I’ve never seen him so obsessed with something before
I was concerned after the first sentence that it was going to be like the time my baby chicken met one of my Guinea Pigs, Pip.
Pip did not like Cajun. In fact, I would go so far as to say that Pippin attempted to murder poor little Cajun in front of my eyes (she sort of tackle/grabbed Cajun out of my hand, and started chasing her around the cage. I rescued her rather quickly, poor thing).
It was far more amusing when we introduced our piggles to a mouse. Half of them were terrified of it, the other half were too stupid to even realise it was there.
I didn’t let Sid get close enough to snap. I think he wanted to chase it. Like desperately wanted to chase it, but not hurt it.
@popdart5: my print copy of the Pathfinder core rulebook arrived today and it’s pretty nice. Expecting the GM book to arrive maybe later in the week – they were shipped together, oddly, but in separate packages.
Having seen the quality of the books I’m thinking I might go all-in and grab the Advanced Player’s Guide and the Ultimate Magic / Combat / Equipment books at some point too. Wish I had a FLGS with reasonable prices to grab stuff from – there’s lots of FGS in Melbourne but none that have that critical ‘L’ part. 🙁
Yeah the quality of the books are pretty decent so if you’re keen, definitely consider grabbing. It certainly helps having them on hand to flip through rather than keep referring to an *ahem* acquired PDF version, particularly if you’re all playing offline. Online roleplaying you can kinda get away with just using PDFs.
Buying them cheap is definitely the way to go. I think I got mine from my FLGS at RRP so my collection cost me about $500 and you can easily cut 20% off the price by going online.
I wish they did the adventure path stuff in collected books rather than requiring you to actually track down and locate 6 separate small ones. I’d buy some of those too.
Core Rulebook + GM Guide was ~$95 AUD shipped from the UK so that was a big savings. I think the more advanced books are a bit less than that too due to not being as big.
I’ve got a friend who’s about to put through a big amazon order, I’ll be grabbing the Pathfinder Corebook and the Firefly RPG.
I still feel like more Mario Kart 7 sometime soon! You dudes keen?
@powalen @sughly @benny
@gutsoup @jimu @blaghman @trjn @scree :'(
I should probably customise my kart to something less terrible but ehhhh effort!
This would require finding my 3DS. I’m fairly sure that it’s in one of the boxes that we haven’t unpacked. So that narrows it’s location down very slightly.
Mario Kart 8 is so close!
Do you have golf? We will be golfing sooooon!
Nope :(. Never played the Golf games.
I’m definitely keen.
When are you guys free? I think the 7:30 time worked fine for a weekday but we can’t do it tomorrow because it’s… SURVIVOR TIME! (well more like wait for Krams and Pow to watch Survivor time)
Friday? Weekend? Tuesday?
Tuesdays are good.
Ooo, we could do it every Tuesday until MK8 launches!
Awesome – we have three until then! Mario Kart 7 month! 😀
no
:'(
Salty tears are obscuring my vision…
BOARD GAMES!
On the weekend, I bought myself a shiny new copy of Seasons. Mostly because it has card drafting but also because I haven’t bought a new game for a while and I was in a board game store.
Anyhow, it turns out that Seasons is one of the games that this handy dandy website for playing board games online supports. @gingerchris86 put me onto the site and suggested this but I figured I’d make the post because board games.
What should happen is that several of us sign up for this website, find a copy of the rules for the game on board game geeks, learn the rules of the game and then we play the game. Reasonably simple, I’m sure we’ll only screw this up slightly.
So, people, board gaming on the interwebs. Let’s give this a try. We should probably also get on TeamSpeak while doing this. It’s not the same without some table talk.
As for the game itself, there are a few things to get your head around but most of them are very simple. Definitely not the most complicated game ever.
Looks pretty groovy. Worthy of further investigation I’d say!
I’m keen.
BOARD GAMES
Was just browsing the game section on Kickstarter and found this. Pretty sure Nintendo could shut ’em down for using that.
What’s the problem? Just because it’s called Legend of doesn’t mean….
Oh.
OH!
Yeeeaaahhhh… C’ya project. Nice knowing you.
Good god they don’t make any acknowledgement at all do they…
I was actually talking about their use of the Tri-force.
By triforce do you mean the emblem of the Hojo clan that effectively ruled Japan during the 13th and 14th centuries?
Because if so I suspect that the trademark might have expired on it by now…
Didn’t know about that, obviously I’m an idiot. I’ll shut up now.
The way they laid it out with THE LEGEND OF text and stuff is clearly riffing off the Legend of Zelda’s mark though, and if they wanted to get litigious they’d probably win if they argued it’s brand dilution.
The ocarinas and images of Princess-Zelda-clone kind of suggest to me that they’re more heavily inspired by Nintendo than Hojo. 🙂
The part of me that’s an avid skier also knows it as the symbol for Fischer Sports.
That’s some heavy inspiration they’re wearing there.
*Presses Report Project*
*Choose IP violation*
Guess you’re on your own, Nintendo.
I’ve finally figured out how to make an iced coffee! \o/
Do tell.
Coffee + ice? Can’t be that hard I am sure.
Yeah, pretty much.
Make coffee with boiling water, add ice cubes and milk, and presto.
F*** you Lulu, with your stupid sigil >:(
I’ve dodged 18 consecutively. That’s my record. There is no way I’ll be able to get to 200!
100, yeah, maybe, but 200?!
I’ll need to free up a few hours and a couple hundred things I can break before I try again :S
Are you talking about the Lightning Dancer trophy?
Does it have to be consecutive? This doesn’t seem to think so – it just has to be in one session.
Dodging the bolts gets you the sigil that you need for Lulu’s ultimate weapon, and I’m pretty sure you need consecutive bolts
Lulu’s sigil, don’t really care about trophies 😛
You need to dodge 200 consecutive lightning bolts, which is super hard :S
I agree with @freezespreston now about timing. There’s been a couple of times where I pressed in time but still got struck.
I never had this much difficulty back in PS2 :S
Yikes. That’s… crazy.
It’s incredibly stressful, since it’s literally like a split second flash with no warning, no pattern, or anything :S
You can blink and miss a flash and lose your streak :\
There’s an area where the strike is guaranteed when you enter it. You walk into it and the strike will always occur immediately.
I went to the doctor’s this morning. I had to create a statement about what I planned to get out of counseling. The doctor also recommended antidepressants. I was a little apprehensive about the idea of antidepressants, and had flashbacks to that fortnight I took Ritalin. (NEVER AGAIN)
The doctor also told me to get a blood test tomorrow, and this time they’ll test more than hemoglobin. I guess my blood is going to be tested for iron and vitamin D levels.
My last blood test four weeks ago was pretty much out of the blue. I have received more warning this time, and I don’t know if that’s a good thing. In my last blood test, I survived the needle by putting myself into a meditative state. Let’s hope this method works tomorrow. I find that putting myself into a meditative state also helps me with my crippling fear of haircuts.
Ah, needles.
Once you start giving blood you get over needles pretty quickly.
Fuck needles.
When I had my Year 10 immunisation, I tried to be brave, went up the front to get it over and done with, and what happens?
The needle breaks off of the syringe and gets stuck in my shoulder.
I was screaming bloody murder and freaking out like you wouldn’t believe.
So, yeah, thanks to that, I’m trypanophobic.
Why is it that every second TAYBIE is scared of haircuts?!?!
Traumatic childhood injury. (Also the reason I was terrified of zippers for a good 6 years)
Mum cut my ear one time and told me to shut up or she’d cut the other one.
My mum snipped my earlobe once.
Then a hairdresser did it.
Then my sister did it a couple minutes after joking about how funny it would be if she did it by accident :\
I got a killer haircut today though! 😀
Pro tip: Try and get a hairdresser in training. They have to do a good job, otherwise they won’t get a job! 😀
I just get someone to shave the side of my head every now and then, and hack away at the rest with thinning scissors when I can get my hands on them.
Also helps that there’s no hairdressers here, so I generally wait ’til I’m back on the mainland for most grooming endeavours 😛
In my teenage years we used to go to the TAFE college (cheap haircuts, because they’re learning). One time one of them accidentally cut my ear with the clippers. She was extremely apologetic, and I was just like, don’t worry, it stings a little, but it’s alright.
Been shaving my head for the last 16 or 17 years, I do it myself at home (my wife helps me with the back). I wouldn’t have it any other way, you never have to brush your hair. The one downside is it’s so freakin’ cold in winter, but I just wear beanies all the time.
I don’t know whether to upvote for comedy or downvote for abuse.
Every second Taybie is scared of Shaving. there’s a difference.
I’m not scared of shaving, I just don’t like doing it, because I tend to accidentally cut myself a lot (especially if it’s a new razor). Besides, beards are awesome anyway, I would grow a full beard but the moustache tends to drive me up the wall with the itchiness.
I used to be scared of haircuts when I was younger.
I think I ended up putting someone out of business because I was hyper-sensitive.
Do tell.
Y’all need to shave your heads down to a 2.
I went to a 1 yesterday! It’s fuzzy.
I usually use no attachment or use a razor and go completely bald.
I get a 2 on the sides, with a bit longer in the middle, then a bit longer at the front :3
Is that close enough?
Sure, if you wanna be some kind of long-haired hippie!
I used to be some kind of long haired hippie 😛
All my hair went down to my collar, including my fringe 😛
Best decision of my life chopping it all off 😀
I find that if shave my head I can’t stop rubbing it. My hair, that is. It’s addictive.
I LOVE doing that! I’ve been doing it all the time since yesterday.
The hairdresser tries to talk to you! D:
Even the women are afraid of hairdressers! D:
You were supposed to be on my side!
Yeah, that was the one thing I used to hate about getting a haircut when I used to go to a hairdresser.
I absolutely adore how the internet slows to a crawl in light rain. After several hours of slogging through terrible internet, I did a speed test. I have 600ms, 0.03Mbps down, and 0.038Mps up.
My upload is faster than my download! :arngryface
EDIT: Data was wrong, my internet is even worse than I initially said.
EDIT: Forgot to mention the rain bit.
Same.
Even worse when you just want to download something, and have to stay up til 2am so the download is off-peak.
HAVE FUN WITH THE ‘NBN’ HAHAHA.
That sounds like a line fault. Water ingress into the pit. Do you have a standard home phone and is the line crackly during the rain as well? If so you might be able to get Telstra out to fix it super fast. Otherwise have to get your ISP to log a fault.
So I don’t have any (useable) speakers here with me, which is kinda a pain but oh well. Turns out I don’t really need them anyway. If I just put my headphones on the desk, turn on the amp/noise cancelling on them, and turn the volume up on my DAC all the way, you can clearly hear everything coming out of them from other rooms with the door shut. Holy fucking shit it’s loud. The best bit is that the sound doesn’t even distort! And there’s still good bass! Although the amount they vibrate at that point is kinda insane.
I think it’s really cool just how much I can get out of these things with what I’ve got. It’s ridiculous. Wouldn’t put them on my head at that point though 😛
I’m off to bed.
Goodnight.
ERMYGAHD!
PERKAYMON OMEGA RUBY & ALPHA SAPPHIRE!
NOVEMBER 2014 \o/
http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/7/5690692/pokemon-omega-ruby-alpha-sapphire-trailer-nintendo-3ds
Omega is obviously better.
I was hoping they’d do Alpha and Omega as the next ones after X and Y :S
Still pretty cool though!
Omega for me (purely cause of Groudon, even though he’s worse :P)!
Alpha for me.
Interesting that they’re advertising it as all new. All new for those that weren’t playing 10 years ago or an actual new region?
Well, it depends what you mean by “new adventure”. If I recall Ruby & Sapphire’s adventure was just “beat the elite four”. I assume that this game will have a story like most of the recent pokemon games have had.
Haven’t played Gen 3, but wasn’t there that thing with Team Magma and Team Aqua wanting to remove all the earth/water or something?
In Gen 3, the story was all about defeating Team Magma or Team Aqua, who were criminal wildlife activist crazies. Team Magma wanted to replace parts of the sea with more land, and Aqua wanted to flood most of Hoenn so there would be more sea. Both organisations planned to do this by enslaving either Groudon or Kyorgre. However, they mess up, and almost cause the apocalypse. The interesting thing is that which faction is bad depends on the game. In Ruby version, Magma is the bad guy, and Aqua are the good guys. Vice versa for Sapphire version. Also, the criminal organisations thought they were doing the right thing, which was interesting.
There was another story thread about Wally, your semi-rival. Wally is a terminally ill child that just wants to be the very best. You oversee him catching his first Pokemon. Then Wally runs away from home. The next time you see him is at the very end of Victory Road. He is very powerful by that point. Then you crush his dreams, and re-fight him over and over again for experience.
All of the Pokemon games I have played have a story that is told through the criminal organisation. In Gen 1 it was the Rockets doing bad stuff and being destroyed by an 11 year-old. In Gen 2 it was Rocket struggling to reform itself. In Gen 3 it was what I said above. Gen 4 was a crazy guy trying to kill most of the life on Earth so that humanity may start over and he may ascend to becoming a deity or something. Haven’t played any games past that.
I never played RUby and Sapphire, i did spend a hell of a lot of time modding the rom for Ruby making bad rom hacks. I even managed to add some of my fakemon into the game.It was pretty okay. So im keen to explore the world properly.
Despite being discouraged from doing so, caution was firmly applied to wind and a message sent about the clarinet thing anyway. Chances are it’ll go nowhere anyway so hey.
I’m not gonna be the one to raise/dash anybody’s hopes again so I’ll just post a link and leave everybody to sort through the rumor mill.
http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/05/07/sony-e3-conference-details-leaked-uncharted-guerrilla-games-media-molecule-and-much-more/
There.. is some interesting stuff there, for sure.
Finally finished Pokeymans X last night in between cleaning for house inspection, I was well overpowered for the elite 4. @beavwa lemme know if you wanna try get a ditto from my safari, I should have lots of time this weekend.
I’m pretty much clear any time for the rest of the weekend. Just games and Eurovision until Monday morning now.
Just saw a picture of some school kids crossing the road on the back of a school bus. Plastered across them was the text “But I was only having a peek”. Down the bottom, the text “Get your hand off it”.
Said Ripley to the android Bishop.
Guess she didn’t like the cornbread either
Haven’t checked into TAY all week, 1200+ posts to read through…instead just skim read the last page and kind of caught up. Isn’t that how it works around here? 😛
God damn cat keeps getting up behind the ps3 and 4 and sleeping there. Problem being she keeps blocking off the vents and when the system turns on at night to update itself I’m worried they’re going to over heat and cook themselves. Anyone know a way to stop the damn thing doing that?
I hear lion’s urine is an excellent cat repellent.
I’ll send him a jar 😀
Cats hate the smell of citrus. Spray some lemon juice around
Also lines of double-sided tape across the bit where they pass might work, because the sticky tape feels icky for kitty paws and they will usually avoid that.
Hey did anyone play Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne on the ps2? Was it any good? Scored well in reviews.
I played the EU version Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifers Call when I was younger, I really liked it a lot and got near the end but my neighbour somehow managed to delete all my saves on the memory card (little shit) but yeah it’s a good game.
Also it has Dante from Devil May Cry in it or atleast the EU version did.
It’s a pretty solid JRPG but it was one of the earlier SMT iterations meaning it doesn’t have as much polish as say Digital Devil Saga and definitely didn’t give you the freedom that the Persona 3 and 4 did in how your story progresses. That said I’m a sucker for just about any SMT game so I’ll be picking up the re-release ^^
I got curious after seeing the Kotaku
‘article’announcement that it was available on PSN.Watched a few let’s play videos. Seemed OK, but I figured it to be perhaps a bit too rough/oldschool for my held-hand modern-gamer sensibilities. 🙂
yeah i like the old school look to it, sounds pretty hard too and I’ve loved all the Shin Megami games I’ve played. I really should stop looking at new games and finish what I have, I used to finish everything i bought but working full time I have cash but no time and just keep buying games, although I go through cycles I tend to be pretty irresponsible and when I finally have enough of a job I’ll save a couple months worth of cash and quit, work my way through my pile of shame and when money/pile are getting low I’ll go get another job. Sorry I got a little sidetracked there, you can file this under “overshared thoughts from that dickman Gutsoup”
SO i have been reading lots of one piece manga, 300ish chapters in and I think I’m just past where I had watched in the anime. Sanji is easily my favourite character. It does drag on a little more than other manga i have read but its still quite good.
if you started from the beginning, 300 chapters is a little under halfway of the entire thing so far. Crazy, huh?
300 chapters.. So you’re going to be hitting up the skypiea arc? That’s a interesting enough one.
Yeah they got to Skypeia, I was laughing at the fake physics. At least the writer goes to a effort to explain the fake physics its not just magic
Yeah, the world-building is generally very solid in OP. Skypeia also introduces one or two things that stick throughout the rest of the series as well. Skypeia’s fun enough, I imagine you’ll get a kick how everything plays out with the big bad boss of this arc.
I liked the Skypeia arc. Usopp gets some new tricks.
Tex Murphy! 15 gb! 33% done! Excitement!
*flips table and flees for a couple of days*
15 GB???
jesus that is a big game
Dem better quality FMVs probably.
Dark Souls 2.
I think I’m going to restart. The Explorer is nice and all but the lackluster starting stats outweigh the extra equipment and consumables you get. I’m only about 5 hours in and I haven’t even gotten to a boss yet so no great loss. I’m unsure what I’ll reroll as but I was rocking an axe and shield combo so maybe a melee-oriented class (I think its either a Warrior or a Bandit are the main ones).
Bandit is great for a melee build as long as you’re planning to completely ignore magic.
I <3 knight. You can find shields relatively early, but that sword they start with is pretty great. Plus free falconer armour which both looks stylish and protects! *thumbs-up* *tooth-twinkle*
I tried Deprived to start with, and struggled a LOT. Restarted as a warrior and blitzed through it.
Only reason I’d go explorer is for the lockstone, and there’s no major benefits to getting one early game, I believe.
If you’re going Melee, just get the Fire Longsword and the Drangelic Shield and you’re set for the good early half of the game.
I went from Explorer to Bandit and the difference was like night and day. You start with a bow and an axe and your armour is light but strong. I’m over level 100 now and still using half of my starting armour. Bandit boys look ridiculous, but Bandit girls don’t look so bad.
Hi everyone! Time is running out, so don’t forget to contribute to my Kickst…
Wait.
… now what am I going to post about?
Oh, right.
Upvote for classic Shane. 🙁 for the Kickstarter.
Hmm. It’s disappointing, but I’m fine.
Feeling a bit weird after all that manic last-minute energy yesterday, but otherwise okay.
Are we really going to be subjected to advertising around every gaming site of the next CoD not out for another 6 months of which none of us are excited for?
Given their sales figures, I think it’s a little unreasonable to say that no one is interested (though I myself am not interested).
But I’d say, yeah, there probably will be quite a few ads.
There’s a bus in Sydney that still displays the COD: Ghosts ad! With the release date still on it (November last year?). Either they’ve forgotten to take the decal off the bus or Activision is still paying for OldCOD advertising 😛
Saw one of those in Brisbane the other day. Best guess I can think of is the ad stays until someone pays for something to replace it, and it’s been a slow couple months for bus-ad-worthy product launches?
Speak for yourself.
Splosions!!
Today’s TAYlist requests are brought to you by 20 years of being a drain on society, God, I need to get a real job soon.
But yeah, songs?
Me and Julio down by the Schoolyard – Paul Simon.
Or something Paul Simon.
Where Do the Children Play? Cat Stevens.
To be fair, it’s not like in your childhood you could have contributed to hard labor all that effectively, so I’d say it’s more 7 years of doing nothing for society.
Cake- Short Skirt Long Jacket
or
ACDC- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
One of the all time great blues songs, one that even B.B. King himself has said is one of his favourites.
Generic Blues – “Weird” Al Yankovic
If you don’t have that, then anything “Weird” Al
or
Eat Steak -The Reverend Horton Heat
Can’t Remember to Forget You – Shakira ft. Rihanna
or
Fancy – Iggy Azalea
And finally, a request that might actually make it since its older and more popular:
What you Waiting For – Gwen Stefani.
Happy birthday!
… by the Beatles
I think it’s just called Birthday.
Also, this version by Beatallica is pretty good too.
Yeah, but I wanted to say Happy Birthday, and then pretend I was making a song request 😛
George thorogood – get a haircut
happy birthday numbers. Have a nice day.
Vampire Weekend – Giving Up The Gun
or anything by Vampire weekend.
Happy Birthday more Numbers!
I’d like to request Nothing Compares To You – Sinead O’Connor
or
Salvation – The Cranberries
(Grr…Or maybe: ‘HAHAHAHAHA’ by Posting Too Fast Error :P)
Also, Happy Birthday!
So I’m probably going to come off as kind of an asshole for this, but I am having a rant.
Just yesterday I was saying how Towns had been the one “early access” game I put my faith in early and while it wasn’t working so great yet, I expected it would eventually.
NOW the developer has decided to ditch the project because no one’s buying it anymore but at the same time is considering putting out Towns 2. So basically:
1) sell unfinished, buggy game that barely works based on promise of future adequacy;
2) notice everyone dumb enough to buy the game in it’s unfinished state already has so sales are drying up;
3) since you don’t benefit by updating your old game for free, put all your updates into a new project and sell it all over again.
This is apparently what Steam early access is now. :/
Why I don’t buy early access games. My pineapple has a fair bit to do with it as well but early access seems to be a way to avoid steam qa
I think the Steam QA department these days is just a threshold of people asking for a refund.
8th post attempt…
This is the basic reason why I don’t buy anything early access, it’s so easily exploitable. I’m hoping Steam starts to crack down on horrible crap like this with a new policy such as “If you do not continue to update your game towards full release after a certain amount of time, customers that have purchased your game can apply for a full refund.”
It’s been this way for some time, and criticism of Early Access has also been quite vocal for a while. Been this way since, ah, Earliest example I can think of is with The WarZ. But was that Early Access? don’t remember. But, you know, if we wanted to argue against kickstarters in general, there are far earlier examples on, uh, kickstarter.
Towns is the poster child for why people won’t trust early access projects any more. File it under ‘this is why we can’t have nice things’.
Yeah, this is one reason why I don’t touch early access. Another reason is that if your first experience with a game is a shit / broken one it’s got a good chance of ruining your impression of and experience with the game from that point onward.
This was always a possibility with Early Access games, I’m assuming there must be some form of legal recourse available given that by purchasing an Early Access game the implied contract is that you purchase a part of a product with the promise that you will have a complete version available at some point in time.
I’m going to guess that there’s probably some clause that suggests you accept the game as-is and by buying under the “early access” label you accept that you’ll probably get a broken piece of crap. As long as it’s not misleading in what it promises (like the War Z), your recourse is probably pretty limited.
Of course my understanding is that Towns was initially released prior to the early access program being implemented. I dunno. I’m out $10 or $15 or whatever. I’m not that bothered, just irked by the attitude of the dev.
“We’re stopping development on Towns because working for free sucks. Keep an eye out for Towns 2, coming soon!”
I guess it’s a matter of unexplored waters from a legal standpoint, from a moral perspective it’s clear to see that the developer has failed the customers who invested in his product and given the publicity this has been getting you can be sure I won’t be going anywhere near his game in the future.
It’s funny how you have instances like this but then you also have a situation where a great game like Banished was made by a single guy who’s just doing this best to break into the market.
Banished is high on my wishlist, waiting for payday/sales. I get the same vibe as towns from it, is it at all a similar style of game?
Attempt 5.
Gubfr… hggre phagf..
(ROT13 for the faint of heart.)
Fuck. That.
Going to put in a ticket for a refund, now.
Although I should thank you for your recommendation (or lack of)
Was considering dropping money on this as well
I know, right? One of the big flaws in Steam’s review system is that for you to warn your friends in advance via the recommendation system, someone has to take one for the team first. I can’t warn my folks in advance about Colonial Marines or whatever The War Z rebranded itself as.
Thankfully at least now they’re posting other peoples’ reviews on the store pages. Even stuff I’m pretty sure I’m going to be very interested in, I always click the ‘negative only’ button so I can see what sort of expectations I should be going in with. I find I just don’t trust positive reviews not to gloss over things I might consider deal-breakers.
Very excited for Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire soon! (though I’m surprised they didn’t save the Omega/Alpha names for the next generation)
It’s going to be great. The perfect timing for me, just as I start getting a little bit nostalgic for Ruby/Sapphire. That box art looks amazing. I can’t wait to see the changes to the region and updated soundtrack (trumpets!) too.
There’s some speculation going around about the “new world” and “new adventure” taglines: that the games are set in alternate worlds where either Team Magma or Aqua (depending on the version) have succeeded in their plans from the original games. Featuring the powered-up versions of Groudon and Kyogre we see on the boxart (ie. they’ve been “activated” by the Teams). That sounds pretty cool, though I don’t really see it happening.
We’ll definitely see new Mega Evolutions though! I’m sure of it! (Mega Groudon/Kyogre/Swampert and Sceptile are a lock as far as I’m concerned!)
IDGAF about anything except 60fps. And y’know, if I were to be a little bit picky, keep everything emerald had, if this is a remake and not a new thing. Had a lot of good stuff, gen 3.
Hell, even stable 30fps would be an improvement over XY 😛
I played nearly the entire game with the 3D on except for a few times when I was getting tired and didn’t want to hold the screen as close to my face/was lying down/otherwise couldn’t focus properly, it didn’t seem anywhere near as bad as everyone made it out to be. Most of the battles were anyway.
I think the next new Pokemon will use the same naming idea as X/Y and will be Pokemon A/B. That way they cover all of their primary buttons.
Predictions for new Mega Evolutions: Swampert, Sceptile, Metagross (Steven needs a Mega), Milotic (Wallace needs one too if he is Champion) and Latios/Latias (those have been kinda revealed already – they’re probably being saved for this)
Ones I would like to see: Skarmory, Altaria, Tropius, Donphan, Castform. Zangoose, Seviper, Sableye.
I think they’ll update Wally’s team to have Gallade rather than Gardevoir too (because Gardevoir is Diantha’s main now). If so, I could also see Gallade getting a Mega (Fairy/Fighting?)
Milotic definitely seems like a prime candidate for a mega evolution. I wonder if those legendaries hacked out of the X/Y code might actually be bonus ones for this series?
Oh god Mega Gallade *drool*
And Sableye is already a pain in the ass with Prankster, god knows how broken it would be once it goes mega. Unless they get rid of Prankster on the Mega form and give it a new toy to play with
EDIT – Oooh, imagine if they gave Mega Gallade the Sniper ability, combine that with Psycho Cut, Leaf Blade, Night Slash all with high crit rate…
Mega Sableye with Wonder Guard!
Guarateeing that every pokemon now carries a Fairy type move
I’ve just finished smashing through the Gen 4 games, but I was holding off playing the Ruby / Emerald carts I picked up in case they’re dodgy bootlegs that won’t be recognised to be able to transfer ‘mons forward. This just complicates things further, do I reacquaint myself with the Hoenn story or wait and go in fresh?
May as well wait at this point, I would think!
I do need to replay one of them to be able to send forward the regies for that last gen 4 legendary catch… Guess I’ll just do sapphire to be safe.
As I said on Twitter this morning, I’m fairly sure the whole “New” aspect will simply be them remaking it on the 3D engine from X/Y. Though if they decide to pull a Gold/Silver and throw in two regions for the price of one, certainly not going to complain. 😀
Oooh, Mega-Sceptile would look badass, hopefully he gets a jump in the physical attack stat, so his moveset is actually usable. Also wouldn’t be surprised by a Mega Zangoose and Mega Seviper reveal down the line
Yeah, you’re probably right. Still, I’d probably be happy with that anyway. They’d have to update the geography significantly to make use of XY’s new region style (I expect at least Mt Chimney will get a complete revamp to be higher and with steeper cliffs (like the routes along the ocean cliffs in XY) – plus I think the ocean is going to look fantastic this time. Hopefully they’ll add corals and things like in that one town in B2W2 😀
I’ve been seeing people say that it’ll have some fancy new thing:
Firered/Leafgreen – Bundled with Wireless adaptor
Heartgold/Soulsilver – bundled with Pokéwalker
OmegaRuby/Alphasapphire – Bundled with ???
Ooh, good point.
Streetpass Secret Bases!
StreetPass ANYTHING… Because the X/Y implementation was a last minute, half assed inclusion.
This is why we have things like the battle box, they were already talking about being able to battle via street pass and lots of other things. The return of Secret Bases and proper streetpass integration would be pretty awesome.
There it is – Nintendo just announced a NFC reader device for 3DS – perfect opportunity to bundle it… (@powalen)
As much as I would like a good NFC Pokemon game, I want it to stay far away from the main series haha
I’m not saying it’s a good idea, but it’s logical.
1st remake – bundle wireless adapter for GBA, wireless functionality in next system natively (DS)
2nd remake – bundle pedometer that connects to DS, pedometer functionality in next system natively (3DS)
Next remake – bundle something that will likely be native in the next handheld. There will be a NFC adapter, it is already Wii U native functionality, good odds are it will be in the next system.
On the other hand, every other remake was 2 years after the engine, plenty of time for bonus functionality. This one is one year and could just be bare bones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXQCo9fLYWI
Oh Ainsley Harriett you devil you.
Nightmare material.
Not sure if mentioned before.
How to get around the ‘SSL cert is revoked’ error when viewing http://www.kotaku.com.au/user/profile/
Use IE, go to Internet Options > Advanced > Security section > UNCHECK ‘Check for publisher’s certificate revocation” and “Check for server certificate revocation”. OK out, refresh page.
This isn’t a good idea, you *want* to know if a publisher’s certificate is revoked. It means the site’s not secure.
I only get that error in Firefox – Chrome doesn’t seem to throw it up, which is odd. I just wish the site would get fixed. 🙁
Yah I know it’s not a good idea. 😛 It’s just to get around Kotaku problems. Profile is required, since @ mentions don’t work when clicked on via email.
I just old-school TAY it and scroll relentless up and down looking if people have replied, hitting F5 every few minutes… aaahh the good ol’ days
*refreshes page*
“You have successfully logged out”
*page still says I’m logged in*
“ah…haaaaaa”
*Slowly backs away from computer*
Jimmies are in a highly rustled state. I need to get a coffee to relax (or is that counter-productive?).
Edit because first link didn’t work: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mq1wa46y8q3p2rj/984067_1441452909435606_6275886236397878587_n.jpg
Didn’t work. 🙁 Try imgur.
Ha, see it now. Nice. 😛
You know what is a great game?
Dark Forces… I only played it a little bit as a kid, but got it in the recent Star Wars sale on steam… It is absolutely glorious! Such a throw back to what FPS used to be like
It was indeed a bargain buy for like, $2.
Dark Troopers!
At the bottom of this article, there’s a table analysing post-tax salaries for different household types.
My household’s relative income is in the lowest 25-30%. And we’re paying off a mortgage and trying to send our kids to private school. No wonder I feel like we don’t have any money.
Where do you fit in this table? Are you surprised?
Lowest 20%… yay? /o\
That’s 2 adults and no children
EDIT – Also just realised that looking at figures like that makes me feel majorly depressed and feel like a failure… yaaaaay
Nooo, sorry, man. Obviously not my intention.
Money isn’t a measure of success or worth, it’s just a measure of money.
This table especially isn’t meant to be a measure of success or failure, just an indication of the likely relative living standards of different permutations of people. If you’re a single-income family, and you’re supporting others, that doesn’t make you a failure. It’s one of the greatest things you can do (I think).
Chin up!
Not your fault at all dude 😛
it’s just some stupid crap going on at the moment in my life.
We used to be easily in the 66% bracket, and we aspired to saving for a mortgage and having a child together… then with everything that transpired last year everything seemed to have gone down the gurgler and are scraping by with less then $20 excess each month (last 2 months we’ve had to borrow from parents and the like)
It’s just a reality check more then anything i guess that nothing is ever really “secure”.
We’ll get there again, i’m sure of it…
Hang in there mate, things will get better.
Still at the bottom (probably a bit below if anything). Not surprised, I’m only a student after all.
One of these days I’ll be earning $100,000+ a year.
You’ll see, you’ll all see, mwahahahaha! >:D
Me too! But by the time I crack that milestone, a cup of coffee will cost somewhere in the vicinity of $15, so $100,000 won’t be all that much… :\
I attempted to figure where I’d place on the list and realized two things-
1) As a college student paying student loans and his own rent, I can easily assume I’m automatically on the lower end of the spectrum-
2) I’m Canadian, so I’m not entirely sure I can compare myself using figures on Australian incomes.
I’m in the top 20%? O_O Either I’m reading that wrong or I’ve got it better than I ever thought I did…
Sooo Techie, have you ever considered… going human?
*Bats eyelashes*
Once you go human…
You Bicentennial man and it gets weird.
You’re building your own place, aren’t you? I always assumed you were reasonably well off to be doing that 🙂
Well I’m saving for the apartment that I bought on a plan yeah, a little different but I am saving a LOT in the process. The longer they take to build it, the more I’ve saved, the less of a loan I need at the deadline, however if they finish sooner, I’ll need a larger loan, but I get away from the parents sooner, which does well for my sanity and I have a home for my girlfriend when she comes here one day. I win either way.
Ohhh, nice, living with parents. Maximum money saving potential. 😀
I’m trying to decide whether you should be counting your whole household (parents too), given that you are living together and sharing expenses. I think that would probably be more valid
… but then, I’m not really too fussed about it, so do whatever 😛
Yeah true… but meh I guess that may apply after I’ve moved out? If that’s the case I’d probably drop to the top 33%
So you are single and have $94K + after-tax? 😛 Wanna hook up?
I’m looking at the “Single Adult – 63k one”… pretty sure I fit that area post-tax
Ah, yes.
Post tax, I’m slightly lower than average. somewhere around the 45% or so.
Single, no kids.
Actually, ran the numbers a but better, probably closer to 40%.
That talk yesterday about $180k being middle class therefore seems absurd.
Top half nearing third apparently having two adults and two children. Yes very surprised. We don’t make all that much but then from what I’ve seen having a dual income in a family is surprisingly rare.
Also shouldn’t be surprised as kids go to private school and have a very expensive hobby in collecting games :/
If I count my wife as a “child” since she can’t work for medical reasons and has various costs associated with that then I’m above 50% but not really near the upper third.
Obviously if my wife could work in any capacity we’d probably we doing extremely well. Her money would basically be a completely disposable/savings income, though we’d probably live in a much nicer unit/house.
I think you count your wife as an adult, because her living expenses are those of an adult. I don’t think people are categorised by earning power in this chart, they’re categorised by likely expenses.
Good point, I mistakenly assumed that the chart assumed two adults = dual income, rather than just reading the damn thing and seeing that it doesn’t matter how many adults there are if the income is the same. In that case I’m around the 33% mark.
Probably 70-75%. Still too low. But I’m stupid and lack motivation and generally a useless pile of shit, so I guess I should be happy with that.
um top 80% on that table.
but i do do a shit tonne of overtime.
Heh, doodoo.
I’m around the lowest 25%, though if I minus my rent from my supposedly “disposable” income, then I’m definitely down in the lowest 20%. Hopefully once I move in with Ash and we’re combining our pays, it will get better
Oh gods, minus rent I drop into the bottom 20%
I don’t think you’re supposed to subtract any costs from it.
Edit: took 17 tries to post that 🙁
Tax Only. Rent/Mortgage is technically “disposable”
Our household is better than 66% according to that last table. Though like said before, dual incomes definitely helps as I couldn’t do it alone.
Also, I quite like his last sentence. It sums up perfectly.
Two adults, one child, one income…
just better than 20% of the general population.
…alright, it’s either a bullet or a beer after work then to make me feel better. And I’m not sure I can afford the beer.
DON’T GO WITH BULLET! I’ll bring the beer. 😀
Yeah Bulleit Bourbon is pretty nasty… Beer is better
Actually, that table is pretty useless. $95K single adult is better than 95% of Australians. $95K combined two adults no children is only 80%. $43K single is 50%. The maths just doesn’t work.
Further, it doesn’t take into account ‘net’ income in the sense of expenses. E.g. if the living expenses of a single person is X, then the living expenses for two people living together is < (2X). Because the house isn't twice the price, elec/water isn't twice the price, car usually isn't twice the price ..
tl;dr hook up with someone where you don’t have kids and both have good incomes. You win at life.
A generally accepted measure for two adults sharing expenses is (1 adult * 1.5), and that’s roughly what this table does. Each kid adds around 30% to that, so that two adults, two children is roughly twice as expensive as living alone. (It’s in the explanatory notes above the table)
And for the record, income relativity to others is a terrible way to measure life success 😛
Not very high on the table, but I get by pretty easily at the moment. Can’t complain 😛
Pretty high but not astronomically high. But I’ve only really hit the point where I feel like I can safely put money aside for the future and still live off the rest comfortably in the last year or so (got promoted middle of last year) and that’s because I’m living with my mum still, which I really want to change.
Personal income? Complete bottom. But then, I work casually for $18.40 an hour.
Household income? I’m not quite sure since my parents don’t talk about the money they earn, but it’s safe to say that I’m top 5%.
Somewhere off the bottom 😛
I have absolutely no idea what my parents earn. They seem to do alright for themselves I guess.
This table looks very familiar. ;P
Nah.
You’re probably right.
I’m earning the most I’ve ever earned in my life in my current job, and we’re still in the bottom 20%.
Ho man. Ninty’s releasing their own figurine game a la Skylanders/Infinity. Was announced during their fiscal meeting, more info at E3.
That’s gonna rake in the figures in Japan but not sure how it’ll fare in the west.
It’s about time 😛
That… would be interesting. They certainly have a lot of interesting first-party characters, and a lot of exclusive licences to other characters.
Mario and co, Link and co, Donkey Kong and co, Phoenix Wright and co (!), Pikachu and co, Samus, Pikmins, Kid Icarus, Kirby, Final Fantasies 1-6. Tonnes of others. They might even get a Snake figurine into it.
Hell, I’d buy some of these for the figurines and forget the game.
Depends on whether the quality is good or not. The Disney Infinity ones feel like actual collectables, the Skylanders ones feel cheap.
Hopefully they’re more like the Infinity ones.
Well, Skylanders was supposed to be for Nintendo characters originally…
They’re going to implement it in a broken and hacky way that will have a number of random caveats, shit that won’t work the way you expect and so on. Because that’s what Nintendo does.
I wish they’d leave the hardware up to someone else and just concentrate on games.
Ok, people are pointing out things that could go well and things that might not work.
I’ll say one thing that will make it work brilliantly, better than Skylanders et. al.
Buy Mario figurine! Get to play as Mario in game! Have it noted down via access code that you have Mario!
Get your 3ds and play a for free old game that that character was in. Like the original Super Mario Bros or something. Something that would normally sell for $2, if that.
Snake? MGS1.
Samus? Super Metroid 1. Not the remake.
Link? Take your damn pick.
Buy figurine, get old game. Play to your strengths Nintendo, and in this case your strength is decades of good games.
Woah. If they do this, I might as well just redirect all my pay into Nintendo’s accounts.
+1. I might buy a Wii U if this is a thing. Surely selling a few more Wii U’s is worth giving away some old digital titles few people are going to buy anyway?
TOO LOGICAL NINTENDO WILL IGNORE
I had this feeling to start playing EVE but then 1. I feel I wouldn’t get anything going on and 2. I’m dreadful with spreadsheets and galactic politics
I think that would make it more entertaining. You could be the Han Solo rogue messing up months and months of patient diplomacy and wrecking all the expensive things.
I doubt a starting ship (frigate I think it is) could wreck someone’s months and months of expensive stuff, unless I killed a frigate carrying a corps funds across galaxies then I’d dissapear never to return
I had that feeling with WoW…
i know i’m a terrible person… which is why i’m playing it on a Private server, so i can be a doubly terrible person XD
I used to play WoW on a pirate server running burning crusade, power level in a minute to max and fly a mount into the sunset
Lol, i was never really a full hardcore “WoW” Player, but i found this particular server which has upgraded to Cataclysm has a nice community and it’s a nice way of just running around doing crap and distancing every day turmoil… Plus it has the options of different realms which has 3x, 5x and 8x XP rate, so it doesn’t become too grindy which is a nice feature…
Overall it’s just a decent time waster and i enjoy it on that basis
I really don’t care if people here think badly of me for it, but that last piece by Serrels (and the one before it) is fucking bullshit. And when it’s known it’s a bullshit move, the standard thing by the author would be to close the comments, to further protect their opinion piece. Yup, the comments were disabled.
To clarify: his argument is bullshit and he knows it. Apparently a ‘rough translation’ is enough to become a key word in a changelog, which is enough to label Nintendo as gay bashers.
Shit like this just undermines all the progress that people are genuinely after. It’s fucking hard to take seriously. And on a gaming website, what the fuck.
…the comments haven’t been disabled.
They were at one point. Or it could be the system fucking up again. Or they could be using that as a cover.
*puts on tinfoil hat*
No comments are disabled. Maybe actually try looking at articles before you come out swinging.
I’m not entirely sure I agree. Sure, the translation might be buggy, but Mark has posted a couple of comments indicating that he is familiar with the nuances of the Japanese language. I know nothing about Japanese, so I can’t comment on this.
But my opinion is this: regardless of the translation, there was an unintended feature in the game that allowed two male sprites to marry. They decided to patch it out. That was a conscious decision. The translation of the word doesn’t matter nearly as much as this overt action.
PS: comments seem to be enabled now. Maybe one of the frequent comment bugs…?
he said “rough translation”. Then pretty much the majority of the article is then “Nintendo things gays are strange”. He backs this up with ‘evidence’, which is “this is in the changelog. It is short, and using these key words”.
If your evidence is some rough translation that is not official, then I dunno. But the editor of a gaming website using this to label Nintendo as assholes who think gays are strange? That’s all kinds of fucked up.
Edit: in reply to your opinion:
I highly disagree, and I have no idea how you can hand-on-your-heart believe that “nintendo made this overt action”. We aren’t Nintendo devs. We don’t have access to the code. We don’t know that the ‘glitch’ didn’t in fact result in data leaks or other game breakages. To argue and say “they did it as an overt action because it wasnt supposed to be that way” ‘just coz’, you need some proof. So either way, you gotta be reaching to believe that. Usually, in the absence of facts, we need to reluctantly accept the version of events as presented by the evidence-holders.
If the article said “nintendo doesn’t want to get involved, kinda a coward move”, that’s fine. Instead, assumptions of a massive magnitude with zero evidence were piled onto a gaming company based in a country that people don’t understand, and they were called out for “thinking gays are strange”. I just don’t know how that can fly by anyone.
I agree totally with you that if this was in fact a “bug” with the game then regardless of what the effects are that you would want to correct the error because like you say who knows what other issues it could cause. I wonder if people would be petitioning to have same sex couples included as a feature if this bug never existed.
Thank you for your support, you actually have no idea how much it means to me. It’s been discussed before – TAY is pretty close-knit, and so controversial opinions are pretty risky at best of times. It’s very reassuring to have some evidence that I’m not a crazy bigoted asshole who rants about shit. Or, maybe I am, and other people think the same way too … anyway.
I am basically advocating for equality. In the absence of evidence proving otherwise, no one has the right to call out Nintendo as assholes. Since that action was taken by someone who I personally feel should remain equal, I need to point out the errors. I also find it troubling that someone pro-equality in terms of marriage can be so anti-equality in professional articles.
haha, no worries man, I tend to avoid sharing my opinions a lot for this very reason, I often find myself thinking similar thoughts of “maybe it is just me”
The action itself was overt. The patched game is evidence of the action.
The motivation is what is in question. As I said on the main thread, I find it hard to believe that not one member of the team didn’t consider the social implications of this patch and made a conscious decision to disregard.
It’s probably not the “Nintendo Are Monsters” thing that it’s being blown up as, but it’s not nothing either.
There are patch notes in Japanese. “strange” is a rough translation. The english translation is not official Nintendo. And even if it is, it comes from developers and not community liason officers who are proficient with western delicacies. I still stand by my point that it is not ‘overt’ at all.
Regarding motivation, I replied in the thread to you. There’s all kinds of factors to consider.
Lastly, I also still stand by my evaluation of Serrels’ article, where he is basically saying nintendo are assholes. The majority of the article is about this, there’s no way around it.
The issue, IMO, in this particular case, is nothing. The issue on a grander scale, however, is something. Here are some appropriate article ideas:
– Nintendo sticks by original game idea, backlash ensues. [non-opiniated]
– Should we be pushing for equal gender treatment in all games? Here’s an example where it didn’t happen
– Western and asian cultures lead to two completely different game experiences.
etc.
Fair enough! I’m happy to accept that it’s been blown out of proportion, I agree to some extent there.
Their PR department made a complete clusterfuck out of it, though. They really should have taken a position.
I think their PR team got blindsided to be honest. Having to defend yourself from such a heated argument that got started over a Japanese to English misinterpretation that you didn’t expect or intend.
There really was no way they could handle that well with no notice. I actually feel sorry for them to be honest.
Here’s the thing.
In English we have one word, ‘Strange’, which has a lot of negative connotations.
In Japanese there are many words which may be translated as ‘strange’ in English (cutting out some where that meaning is uncommon)
– 珍 (rare / curious / strange)
– 未知 (unknown / strange)
– 予想外 (unexpected / unforeseen / strange)
– 奇抜 (novel / strange / eccentric / strange)
– 異様 (bizarre / eccentric / odd / strange)
– 不思議 (wonder / miracle / mystery / strange)
– 可笑しい (funny / amusing / comical / peculiar / unusual / strange / improper / unsuitable) (probably the term used in the patch notes)
– 変 (strange / peculiar / odd / weird) (note: this is the ‘hen’ in ‘hentai’)
– 奇妙 (strange / curious)
– 怪しい (suspicious / dubious / dodgy / ominous / strange)
There’s a few more too and I CBF typing them all. Without looking at the actual patch notes it’s impossible to tell the connotation that was being applied.
I suspect that if it was written by an english speaker the note would have been along the lines of ‘fixed bug allowing people to create unintended relationships between Miis’ because the actual bug that was taken out as far as I understand was that if you put female clothes on a male Mii it could enter a relationship and have a baby with another male Mii which is a bit odd.
From what I gathered from different sources, this is what happend:
When importing a mii from an older generation of hardware to use in the game, there was a way to reassign the gender of said mii, so you could have a female mii that looked like a male, or a male mii that looked like a female.
This is how the “gay marriages” were taking place. People would use their mii character, make a mii character on an older system, then import him and change his gender to female, thus making it look like two male mii’s could marry. That’s also how they were able to have a baby.
At the same time, there was a problem with some of the importing that could occasionally break / glitch the game. That’s where the patch came in. This “strange relationship” was between a current mii and an imported mii causing the game to glitch.
It purely looks like there was a misunderstanding, and it seems to have been blown out of proportion.
I can see why same-sex marriages weren’t included either. Predominately Nintendo is more seen as a children’s console. We all know this isn’t the case, but I tend to think the target audience for this game was younger kids. I’m not saying it’s right that same-sex marriages weren’t included, but I can understand.
Overall though, I’m of the mind that the whole thing should just be dropped. It’s a petty argument that’s been made a big deal of for no real reason.
Thank you, to you too. My respect for you is rising again. I hope I don’t sound offensive – but I find it very reassuring when a gay person can maintain a level head and think/speak logically about issues that (highly probably) apply to them more than anyone else.
I’m not gay – and I don’t know if it’s my place to think this way – but I find it offensive when every little thing that could possibly be twisted as anti-gay is indeed twisted that way. To me, it undermines the entire argument for gay rights. It’s also troubling to me when hetero people are advocating this twisting and justifying it with blanket statements that seem to appeal to campaigning masses. I have found numerous cases where this campaigning doesn’t actually ask for the opinion of those it directly involves.
Once again, I really appreciate your comment.
Haha, you’re not sounding offensive at all 🙂
It just seems like there was a misinterpretation of what happend with one silly little game (honestly, who really cares about this game?).
It also seems like Nintendo are in a tough spot because they’re basically being attacked for what is just a misinterpretation, yet people are so intent on making it more then it is.
It really isn’t a big deal.
I don’t like it when things that aren’t anti-gay are made to appear anti-gay either. It detracts from the things that really are anti-gay, that should be focused on.
When every little thing is seen as “gay bashing” it can become difficult to identify between what really is “gay bashing” and what isn’t.
This argument clearly isn’t, but people have been swept up in it.
The point of his opinion piece. And it was his opinion keep this in mind, was that what nintendo did was in itself strange. This is merely his opinion and like all opinion articles in any form they are there to spark discussion both for an against the authors points. He’s not slamming it down as headline news or complete fact, he’s merely saying in this case it seems nintendo handled the situation poorly in his opinion (there’s that word again) do I agree with what Mark wrote? No not really, does it affect me at all? Not in the slightest he had a right to say what he wants as an opinion as do any of us. Until it’s being claimed as breaking news that nintendo are gay bashers it’s nothing more than an opinion from a rough translation that a lot of other media outlets are covering the same.
I think vanit put it pretty well in the comment sections
Context is what’s important here. Regardless of your views if you state that 1+1=2 is normal, then if someone states that 1+2=2 then that is strange. Purely from a technical standpoint the games “rules” would state that “Males and Females can get married”, if then you state that “Males and Males can get married then that is considered strange as it isn’t normal within the rules of the game.
In no way has Nintendo said homosexual relationships in the real world are strange, they have said in the games rules have been broken and therefore a “strange” outcome has occurred.
nailed it
– Nintendo America rep.
Claiming that a viewpoint opposed to this is bullshit is so far removed from reality, StickMan. The subtext here is plain as day. Cishetero relationships and lifestyles are normal, ergo anything that deviates from this is abnormal.
To claim that this is not only ‘playful’ but ‘whimsical and quirky’ is bullshit, when all they’re doing is reinforcing vanilla standards and erasing the lives of many.
Don’t get me wrong, as many have stated before they’re well within their rights to explicitly not include homosexual relationships, but to the claim that this is a neutral stance on social commentary? No. That’s where the issue lies.
Lastly, the comments are open. “Join the discussion!”.
Except you’ve gotta give people the room to claim ‘neutrality’ within the status quo.
When someone isn’t happy with the status quo, they might not consider that to be especially ‘neutral’, but to say that the only stances available are binary is a huge mistake you see a lot of activists make.
‘You’re part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.’
You’re with us or against us.
It leaves no room for, “I really don’t care because it doesn’t affect me,” which in many circumstances (such as gay marriage) is where the majority are going to stand.
Eg: If you take nice round number 10% non-cis/hetero demographic and try to make a change, you have to factor in that out of the remaining 90%, 10% at least are going to be dickbags resistant to change, 10% are going to be supportive because it’s the right thing to do, and 70% really do not care as long as they and theirs aren’t negatively impacted.
And when you start accusing those 70% that if they’re not with you they’re against you, then you will very quickly find that the staggering majority IS in fact against you. People don’t like being accused or guilted. They get defensive and dig their heels in. If there was ever a way for any minority group to shoot itself in the foot, it’s by pursuing the, ‘with us or against us’ philosophy.
That’s just respectability politics coming into play, though. It says “Let me remain comfortable in my ignorance”, which is fine. Except when that ignorance -on a deeply entrenched, societal level- routinely punishes those who don’t fall within the confines of normalcy.
To be ignorant is to be complicit. Pure and simple.
I just don’t see how it can be deemed fair to play by the rules when the rules are stacked against you.
There’s nothing fair about it.
Life isn’t fair. It’s the excuse anyone will try to sell you for their apathy.
We aim to MAKE it fair, because fairness is a purely human construct. It’s the basis behind our laws. But putting that in practice and stretching it to cover everything is just too much effort, apparently.
But leaving people room to sit in their comfort zone of the status quo isn’t just about fairness.
It’s about achieving your objectives.
I’m saying you’re woefully naive or outright ignorant if you think you’ll ever convince anyone by pissing them off, or expect them to see how righteous your cause is, when they couldn’t give two shits about it. People don’t like ultimatums. The answer is generally going to be along the lines of, “Really? Because I don’t care and I’m going to continue not caring, so if that means you consider me complicit, go right ahead, all I care is that you fuck off.”
Spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, guide dogs for the blind, hearing disabilities, accessibility issues for the ‘differently abled’, homelessness, political prisoners, poverty-stricken countries, SIDS, pool-fencing, drink-driving, coward-punching, sexual-discrimination, workplace bullying, LGBT rights, freedom of expression, asylum seekers, copyright infringement, pick a cause, any cause, compassion fatigue sets in. And you better believe that if a cause doesn’t affect someone, you are relying on their compassion alone, for them to make the effort to affect change.
All the things we should be caring about, if it doesn’t affect you personally, it’s REALLY hard to get enthusiastic about. And when someone gets up in your face that you aren’t caring enough about it to go and actively make an effort to address it? Your sympathy will diminish.
It’s not ‘fair’ to play by the whatever you think those rules are, it’s just sensible and efficient.
If you actually give a shit about achieving your goal instead of venting your frustration, you end up doing things the sensible way instead of the emotionally satisfying venting/accusing way. Standing from a tower of righteousness and having all bow to the illumination you have suddenly provided.? That doesn’t work. You don’t brow-beat, you inspire. You prove to be relate-able, finding the points of commonality. That’s how change happens. Either that, or you force. And minorities are in no position to be threatening any kind of forcing. Sucks, but there it is. The oldest rules (like ‘might makes right’) don’t give a shit about any kinds of philosophy/politics.
You remember the most recent election? You remember that popular unofficial ad making the facebook/twitter rounds telling people they were fucking idiots if they supported the Liberals? You think that was popular among the people who were being told they were fucking idiots? You think it changed their minds? People took being called a fucking idiot on board and used it as an opportunity to examine their beliefs?
That’s not how People work. A Person might work that way, but People don’t.
I think ‘bullshit’s too strong. Mostly because in the range of hellfire internet commentary you’ll read on the subject, he’s stayed away from the most evocative and accusatory language. I got the vibe that it was an ‘annoyed’ piece rather than an ‘outraged’ piece.
I also don’t approve of the premise that ‘no comment’ is a comment. I mean, it absolutely is, but I don’t like it. So I disagree with both the articles in that respect, that there is no such thing as opting out of the discussion. They’re pretty clearly SAYING, “We are opting out of this discussion.”
But I do think that saying ‘no comment’ is also part of the problem, and won’t help change.
It’s gutless, but it would suck to be singled out for being gutless for no reason other than an error in translation. Doesn’t mean your cowardice is any better, just that it’s unfortunate about not being able to fly under the radar of the status quo. Boohoo for Nintendo, I guess.
The comments section has persuaded me at least that the key part of Mark’s article about the ‘strange relationships’ is probably overstated, and worth walking back from, especially considering there’s a possibility the patching out of same-sex relationships was linked to something else that needed to be patched for stability. And that the ultimate reason for the fix was to make it match the design doc, which any good engineer would do. The blame would lie with the original design doc, rather than malice on the part of the patcher.
So, I don’t think it’s ‘bullshit’ as much as ‘misreading’, at worst, and the points about the game limiting relationships (by its original design) is still valid.
I don’t really want to wade into the debate about that article because there’s wrong and right on both sides (not sure if you noticed yet, but Serrels did an update explaining his mistake), and holy smokes is it hot in here! But I do want to query this “TAY is close-knit” thing.
Yes, TAYbies are a close group, but are we not welcoming? And you’re one of us, too. If people don’t think we’re welcoming that makes me sad because in the past I’ve gone out of my way to welcome people who venture in here,I just don’t have the time anymore to hang out here as often so I don’t even know who’s new anymore!
Yes, we stand up for what for we believe in, but I do not think TAY as a group has ever really come down hard on anyone who wasn’t being a douchebag. We often have heated discussions, even welcome them at times but I don’t think TAY as a group really thinks badly of people for stating their opinions. I’m now wondering where this opinion that we’re a closed, gang-like entity comes from, and how widespread that opinion is. Because I really don’t see TAY that way. I’ve been around here a long time and always thought TAY was a place that tried hard to be welcoming and inclusive, and where people were free to speak their minds, as long as they understood that people with opposite opinions were also free to speak theirs.
Unless you’re a console heathen who doesn’t understand their place on the lower rungs of the totem pole.
*checks to make sure not still signed into PSN* ok, good.
MMMMAASSSSTERRRRRR RRRAAAAAAACE!
Every time someone says “Master Race” or”Fanboy” even as a joke, I feel like throwing up. 😛
🙁
No sadface! I was just being silly….
Oh good. Because that’s my tongue-in-cheek catchphrase!
Y’know. To hightlight how ridiculous the tribalism is whilst also putting myself firmly in the QUEENSLANDAAAAHhhhImean PC gamer tribe, despite owning and playing both current-gen consoles (YEAH, I SAID ‘BOTH’, you heard me, wii people).
But I can find other catchphrases.
I don’t think you are wrong, though Mark is a level headed guy and I can see where he is trying to come from.
But yeah, that is exactly why I avoid all articles dealing with “equality” – it is really hard to sift through all the PC hyperbole and figure out if there is even an issue. And forget having a reasonable discussion about it.
And yeah, the more people cry wolf about these issues the more I, and probably many others, will get fed up with it all and be disinclined to give a damn when it counts.
Ergh, new topic.
A Thursday Lunchtime Question
In Honour of the latest Potaku Episode on Reboots and Remakes, what game for you needs the HD treatment? What series needs a reboot?
Reboot: Crashbandicoot or Spyro, obviously.
Remake: Drakengard 1 and 2.
Spyro’s already had a reboot.
You’ve probably heard of it, it’s called: Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure.
It’s going pretty well.
😛
That started off as Spyro, but quickly turned into its own franchise.
I mean a standalone, pure Spyro game.
I love me some Spyro! 😀
Spyro was rebooted years ago. The New Beginning Trilogy, remember?
Kotor… I am playing through number 1 at the moment, and it is so glorious…
I would love to see it in glorious HD, maybe even just similar graphics to ME 3 would make me happy 😛
…
And Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy… just a fantastic game, especially in multi, but jeeeebus the Quake 3 engine is crusty 😛
Try playing Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight. It’s just straight up awful. I’m not a graphics whore in the slightest but damn it’s tough to play.
yeeeeaaaah i tried that… laughed a bit at the “Pyramid head” storm troopers and then the feeling of Nostalgia was gone, replaced with “HOW DID I PLAY THIS”…
Though i still like the “Real” movies with an actual actor for Kyle Katarn… that’s pretty rad 😛
Aw man, that’s upsetting to hear. I loved that game so much. First game I ever played that nailed lightsaber combat.
The game still plays alright. Is just a mess of eyestrain and wondering what the hell that object actually is.
I highly recommend zooming out and using the 3rd person camera whenever using the lightsaber.
Also, that game gave rise to one of my family’s in-jokes.
The female sidekick is complaining about stormtroopers giving her some trouble, and I replied, “Well just do what I do: shoot them.”
This is now a thing we say to NPCs who may not have considered that they could solve their problems with some man-shooting.
Pong, I wanna see them paddles glisten
😛
Edit: Actually the ps4s playroom pong thing pretty much is this, except you can alter the size of the field of play by moving further or closer together, if you haven’t played it try it it’s actually surprisingly fun. In short it’s already been made whoohoo.
Remake: Warcraft 3
Reboot: Full Spectrum Warriors
After seeing that Temple of Time in the Unreal 4 engine, Imma say ZELDA.
Secret of Mana & Secret of Evermore. They don’t really change / add anything, they just re-released it for 3DS.
How about doing a re-release of Seiken Densetsu 3 and actually localizing it this time? It’s still by far the best of the Mana games.
I’ve never heard of it. Probably because we never got a proper localised version.
It was the sequel to Secret of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 2 in Japan). Had six playable characters and you picked a main character and two companions at the outset, and each character had their own origin story in the game to introduce them into the plot plus certain plot elements would change depending on your chosen character. Each one also had a slightly different play style and they had two class specs they could choose between and each of those had two sub-specs later on as well.
It was one of the best 16-bit JRPGs, coming right toward the end of the SNES era when the system was peaking with games that were technically incredible, like Tales of Phantasia, Star Ocean and Chrono Trigger and it stands with those titles pretty nicely. Really pretty game for the time – probably only Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia had better graphics. Music’s really good, the gameplay is fantastic adding a more strategic layer over the top of the previous game. The structure of it had some issues – each pair among the six characters had a particular plot bit, so if you didn’t pick one from each pair (eg if you picked Riesz, Hawkeye and Angela you’d miss out on Kevin & Charlotte’s subplot entirely) it would feel like there’s bits of the plot missing. Also the interface was a bit clunky at times. Other than that though it’s one of the best SNES games.
Of course we never got it in English, but there was a fan translation patch made in the early 2000s around about the point we also got Tales of Phantasia’s fan patch. I played it through a couple of times that way. Apparently at the time it came out, it was considered to be too expensive and time-consuming to localize so Squenix had their US branch develop Secret of Evermore instead. 🙁
It’s still a really well-loved game in Japan I think. Riesz is still one of the most popular Squenix characters over there. I usually had her as a companion because her plot involvement was interesting but can’t recall if I ever finished the game with her (I usually used Angela or Duran).
I played the ROM of that some years ago. I was so hopelessly hung up on Secret of Mana that I got annoyed that I couldn’t play with my SoM team. The notion of spiritual sequel was foreign to me at the time, and I didn’t give it a fair go.
I always went Duran whenever I played it and my brother would always go hawkeye or Kevin for the wolf form
Valkyria Chronicles 2 and 3 need PS4 HD remakes. 🙁
Bungie’s old Pathways into Darkness would make a rad game if they did a survival horror reboot out of it.
Rather than HD re-release or reboot, I’d like to see the continuation of some of the older non-FF JRPG series which have fallen by the wayside over the years. Wild Arms, Breath of Fire, Grandia, Skies of Arcadia, stuff like that.
Remake: The Medieval series.
Reboot: The Gothic series (goddamn Arcania sucked)
I miss lufia. Particularly Rise of the Left Handers (Sinistrals).
Generally, I don’t care for remakes at all. Usually because I already have the game so why would I want to buy it again, etc. But my long-standing exception to that is something like Metroid Zero Mission, where it’s way more than just a visually prettied-up port.
Metroid 2 needs a Zero Mission.
System Shock 2.
And no, Dead Space doesn’t count, dammit.
NOWWAITWAITWAIT is it too late for me to change my answer to Syndicate Wars?
Satellite Reign.
Well, obviously I have to throw in Crash Bandicoot. A new set of Crash Bandicoot games that don’t suck on the PS4 would definitely cause me to consider buying a next console if I had the money.
Correct me if I’m wrong, I’m not super knowledgeable on financial terms, but Nintendo posting an operating loss is a lot more serious than a year on year loss right? Year in year which they’ve posted past few years is just a drop in profits and only really affects investments and stock whereas an operating loss is spending more than they made and two or three years of an operating loss is a good way to have administrators appointed yes?
I’m not asking to diss anything. Just trying to understand.
Assuming the Japanese report it the same way, that’s pretty much nailed it. Year on year just means that profits/revenue have fallen compared to previous years. An operating loss means they actually lost money (ie. expenses > revenue).
Although apparently Nintendo can weather a little bit of financial pain what with their significant cash or property assets. It still doesn’t bode well for them if things don’t change drastically (I’d argue that a lot of Japanese games development needs to leapfrog into the present as they’re super conservative both in using new technology but also in creating new ideas).
Further, apparently Nintendo has made an operating loss for each of the last three years but their net income is positive. That means that they’re keeping their heads above water (barely) using bank interest, share value adjustments and trading, and other activities that aren’t tied to their core business.
It’s not just a little financial woe that Ninty can weather. For better or for worse, they have something like $10 billion in the bank, plus all of their assets.
This means they can continue to be anti-good ideas for a few decades before they’ll actually need to turn it around.
I think there’s a certain point of loss that investors can force a CEO out and put someone new in or something though. Pretty sure that would happen long before they ate through all the money.
The reason I haven’t replied isn’t because I’m not interested. I’d actually like to know how this stuff works, too.
But I don’t. Know, that is. I don’t know.
That’s my understanding too.
I think that’s right.
People are saying the operating loss was caused by Nintendo recently buying back a tonne of shares (ie. not a regular thing) but I don’t know enough about how that works to comment.
Hahaha… what?
I went to another graduate assessment centre on Tuesday and it was a lot more relaxed and chill than the first one I went to. The previous one had about 40 people there JUST FOR FINANCE and there were only 2 positions to fill. It was also early in the morning and in the city (yuck!). This one was late in the morning, 15 minutes from my house and had 10 people there for 2 positions, so good odds! (unless they had more assessment days).
I got a call earlier saying I got to the final interview stage next week so that’s pretty crazy D: (PANIC MODE!) but I just received another call from them saying that I was one of their top candidates and whether I was still interested in the job because… I’m already working at Macquarie? …wait what?
The last time I checked I don’t work at Macquarie :P. Obviously the second call was a mistake but now I’m not sure whether I’m the top candidate, or that other person was :D. Still though, if you’ve already got a job a Macquarie why are you applying for more jobs?! GREEDY! 😛
If it’s a case of mistaken identity and the other person happens to be Asian, you might never need to work again! 😛
Perhaps there are multiple people with your name?
Or maybe they’ve just got their circuits crossed. It happens. I had an interview where they thought I was another person until halfway in when I was like “WTF I didn’t work at McDonalds?”
Meanwhile, there’s a young man out there dealing with the fact that someone just mistook him for Greenius.
He’s probably sobbing in his bed.
At least it’s not a repeat problem, I’m looking at you, Anthony, wherever you are
Valiant Hearts, the kind of adventure game about WWI is due to be released June 25th.
That art. That music. That narrator.
That dog caught in barbed wire.
I may or may not be crying.
Hint: FBO fbo fbo qba’g xvyy gur qbttvr fbo V nz fhpu n jhff fbo
wow, that looks really cool, do you know what the gameplay is like?
Action adventure is what they’ve described it as. It’s a 2d side scroller, but with adventure elements, with combat (but they haven’t gone into how the combat will be handled – you can see that you pilot a tank in one part). I’m thinking Metal Slug lite/Adventure game lite?
I’ll be keeping an eye on this one, looks promising,
Ooh. I think I found a way around the posting too fast problem.
Post faster.
As in click submit then hit it again before the page refreshes. You’ll still get an error but it will be a duplicate comment error instead of too fast.
You beat the system!
Freeze S Preston, faster than a speeding comment filter!
Testing Freeze’s theory now.
Perfect! It works! I pressed submit about ten times before the page got its shit together though. Then, duplicate error!
It works!
Edit: Yes it actually does!
Circumstances at the Radio station mean I can’t bring you a TAYlist this week, but I did my best to play your requests.
Sorry, everybody, for any inconveniences
Worst birthday ever.
Powalen’s Fun Times with Problems at Work *jingle*
Uh oh! Just now we notice a catastrophic error has happened to a clients website.
Boss: “Quick! Everybody focus your attention on this so we can fix it before the client finds out!”
Frantic rush trying to figure out what’s wrong. Discover that the problem has nothing to do with our company.
Boss: “It’s not us!”
Entire office starts dancing and chanting “Not Us! Not Us! Not Us!”
Red’s fun times at work:
@shane I missed you at this location. 😛
I’m laying low for a while, man 😛
Okay, the more I read that news.com.au article about whether or not you consider yourself struggling, rich or comfortable, the more pissed off I get.
Seriously, the last three commenting individuals are rich, in all definitions of the term. The last one mentions that he considers ‘rich’ to be someone with a million dollars. Funny, cause it only takes him four years to get to that. That’s filthy fucking rich to me.
Hahahahahaha
It would take me more than twenty years at my current wage to have earned that much.
It would take me about thirty years to get that much, if I could save every cent.
Rich is a subjective term. Give me a million dollars and I’ll have over what I do now a nice media room and a massive savings account and be happy. Other people will blow it on a Rolls and complain thy can’t afford the yacht.
If I had a Million Dollars I’d plunge it into a boring, boring investment account and supplement my current income with the interest/profits.
If I won a million dollars I wouldn’t know what to do with it. I’d just sit there looking at the number in my bank account.
Haha, and whilst you’re busy staring at it, you’d also be getting paid interest. A wage even, to some people.
If I had multimillions I wouldn’t even buy anything. Get a loan from the bank to buy your mansion and let the interest payments and returns pay off the loan. Bank has just purchased you a house and you haven’t actually spent a cent.
Yeah, I’ve thought about that also. I’m not familiar with the legalities of taking out loans using only interest though, mainly because I don’t have that million dollars.
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.”
― Albert Einstein
It’s money your account has earned. It’s not money that’s comes attached with restrictions on what’s spent on it. The banks don’t really care because if you have that much with them they’re using it to make a hell of a lot more than the interest they’re paying you by [insert complicated financial dealings I don’t even pretend to understand here]. Buying you a house is hardly a concern for them.
And the bank profits because the loan is repaid over thirty years with interest and etc.
Genius. Personally, if I had a disposable income (read: $5M+) I’d be a bit of a troll. Push the boundaries of the system. Order regular deliveries of truck-fulls of some small/cheap item, have parties with it etc. I dunno.
NOSTALGIA TIME: Like on Runescape, the tinderboxes were 1GP. Before the market opened up, I spent hours manually walking to the shop and purchasing 23 at a time. After a while I had like 4000 tinderboxes and I was the coolest motherfucker in the village, cos how do you even get 4000 tinderboxes??? Completely useless item and costs nothing, but the sheer quantity of it was overwhelming!
Then I sold them all for 100gp ea, made mass profit. 😛
Do it like the Romans*. Cheese fondue and orgies.
* the Romans in Asterix at least.
There was someone collecting hammers for a while, recruiting folks to purchase on their behalf and all.
If I recall correctly, the stack was around 1.2M at the time I saw it.
@mythamphetamine holy shit lol, nice! Although it’s a lot more expensive/easy now, since you just use the Grand Exchange to purchase them in bulk. I still have no idea why people would be getting hundreds of tinderboxes, or anything cheap …
That’s my million dollar plan.
My $20million plan?
5 mil to family/friends
5 mil to charity
7 mil in the boring boring investment account
3 mil to play with
My $20m plan is much like yours, but I wouldn’t keep more than a mil for myself/family in total, and wouldn’t distribute more than a mil to people in my life.
I’m all too concerned about that ‘money changes people’ thing that you read about all the time. Lotto winners becoming suicidally depressed and getting divorced.
Worst of all, having your kids targeted by fucks who want some of that sweet money as ransom. I’d get that money the hell out of my possession as soon and as publicly as possible.
I wouldn’t expect that the 5 million is the end of charitable giving, but it’s certainly the upfront. I’m sure the interest on the 7 million would give me ample ability to give more.
Having that much money to play with… I don’t even know what I’d want.
I need to be more ambitious 😛
That’d be for all of your mansion/ferrari/whatever fantasies- it’s money that can be if not wasted then freely spent.
I can honestly say I’ve never had a mansion or ferrari fantasy haha I’ve never understood the appeal of flashy things like that 😛
(I should start thinking about what I’d actually want now! That way when I win a million dollars I won’t be in this mess!)
@powalen I wouldn’t want a mansion, but I would build a designed house with awesome shit.
I’d probably actually spend a lot of the money on travelling.
Yeah, I’d love to build an eco-house like some of the ones on World’s Greenest Homes. That’s something I’d if I suddenly was a millionaire.
@strange I’ve been watching too much of @dc’s favourite show Grand Designs. Would love an eco-house that was swanky but cost peanuts to run.
I’d love to pay off the family’s debts, ensure immediate friends and family are comfortable.
Design a (relatively?) modest house, devote time to things that are not necessarily financially feasible currently, and bank the rest.
Living off the interest from my savings. Hah, what a dream.
I think my house needs a pinball parlour.
After we’ve finished renovating our house and my shed (man cave) has been built, I’m totally buying an Addams Family pinball machine (my most favourite pinball machine of all time).
THE MAMUSHKA!
First time I actually got to play that, and triggered the mode with the magnets… mind blown 😛
It certainly earns the reputation it has.
Comfortable, struggling people/families do not have Rolls Royce or yacht in their vocabulary.
The problem is that it’s like what happens with free space on a hard drive: usage expands to meet capacity. If you’re on something like 250k you’re also probably buying an expensive house, car, eating less frugally, sending the kids to private schools and so on. And then when you look at what’s left there’s nothing. So you’re ‘struggling’.
Once you get used to certain things, it eventually becomes extremely hard to imagine living without those things. To someone a lot poorer there’s really easy and obvious ways you could point out and say “if you weren’t paying so much for this you would have a lot of extra money” but the people spending it don’t see it that way.
I understand that point of view, but I don’t agree with it. I mean, try telling that to the guy making ends meet with only $25,000 per year. A lot of the things they mention still apply to him; bills, mortgage, car insurance, home insurance, contents insurance, health insurance and life insurance.
I don’t think that anyone would argue that people on 25k a year aren’t struggling. That’s not really the point though. The fact is that until you hit some amazingly high threshold, even the rich don’t mentally consider themselves to be rich.
Or put another way, humans are naturally greedy.
Yeah I’ll agree with you there. To supplement, I’d say that comfortable and rich should be lumped into one. To which suddenly, I’m now rich. Haha.
I sort of face that issue looking back.
I went to a nice school ($7k a year or so in years 7-10), and my sister was Catholic School for a while (I have no idea what they charge). I did no co-curricular activities for most of my time in school, but my sister was playing multiple instruments, in bands and all that, which really adds up in terms of cost. Oh, and we skied, which cost a shittonne.
But we didn’t go out to dinner. We didn’t go on ridiculous overseas holidays (we spent about a year and a half saving up for the trip we took when my sister finished year 12). Most years the only trips we took were Christmas time to alternate between the grandparents.
We were never struggling, we put money in savings, we paid off our home loan, but on my parents’ really not bad salaries, we weren’t exactly living the high life. My family was probably below average for my school, which says a lot. The money we had didn’t feel excessive because all it really did was cover our (admittedly high) expenses.
Course, times have changed since then, and now my parents go overseas at least once a year…
tl;dr Blaghs and his sister were a massive financial drain on his parents, meaning they couldn’t get quality of life by going on well-deserved holidays. You monster. 😛
After a decade spent on an 80GB hard drive that somehow managed to keep a good 10-20GB free, I’m now on a 1TB hard drive which still has 711GB free. And of the space that *is* taken up, 90GB is multiple phone backups where I just did everything because the space was there, and another 45GB is from installation files and Rift demos that I piled up. Oh hey another 22GB taken up windows image backup.
Even when I try I can’t even take up hard drive space 😛
You’re the data equivalent of an ascetic or something.
…*googles*
*delayed laugh*
I have 10TB of space and I’m constantly deleting stuff to make room.
I got a 1TB for Steam games only. I have, uh, 90GB remaining …..
Wealth is entirely subjective, and is one of those particularly nasty things that never seems like enough when it’s yours. If I earned another $10,000 a year, I’d consider myself rich… for a while. But after earning that for a year or two, I’d probably feel differently.
And you’re right – people are rarely more infuriating than when they’re comparitively well off and complaining about being poor. I sometimes think I’m one of those people.
Going purely by that table I posted earlier today, my household income is a lot way below the ‘average,’ but we’re comfortable. We’re stretched and have to be careful, and our lifestyle is pretty simple, but we lead a very comfortable life in a beautiful house (not a large house, but a very cosy comfortable one) that we are slowly paying off.
In our society the way it is, poor people need the rich people. E.g. Without those BMW’s around, an apprentice tyre person wouldn’t be able to fit new treads daily. Rich people sometimes struggle to keep their rich lifestyle afloat, which poor people require.
Only a change in the form of our society can solve that. You know, a cchange to a system that’s not very popular in opinion *cough*communism/etc*cough*
The only reason communism didn’t work was because it was forced – the originsl idea was that it would be a natural progression from capitalism, i.e. the workers would rise up against their rich bosses and communism would come into play, making everything fair.
But countries forced it upon their citizens, which didn’t work because the government was also highly corrupt.
If it happens when the human race is ready (no corruption), it’ll work.
Communism doesn’t work though, it runs contrary to human nature. We’re all greedy pricks at heart.
Currently we are, but if we evolved and communism occured naturally, then it would be feasible.
Wrong, communism does work. I personally witnessed the aftermath of the downfall of communism. I also have parents who come from ex-communist country, and even they say it definitely had its perks. This country was the engineering/mechanical/manufacture capital of Europe, a powerhouse that provided everything from cars and guns to the whole world.
Human greed is also linked to jealousy. It’s hard to be greedy when everyone is equal.
I thought my shoulder was just sore from climbing the other night, but it’s still just as bad now. Thinking that maybe it’s not from climbing at all and just from the terrible sleep I’ve been getting/the horribly huddled-up way I’ve been doing it instead.
I hate the cold.
You should invest in a blanket.
He’s got about a hundred of them. He just has to call one up and have them come over.
That’s what I’m huddled up under.
Though it’s probably more that I just need to wear my beanie to bed 😛
I thought you replied to @shane. LOL.
Electric Blanket man.
Sounds like an amazing Super Hero… Electric-Blanket Man!
He makes criminals toasty snuggly warm!
And with a builtin thermostat and regulator he will make sure your body is equally warm all over… Sounds like a fantastic super power 😛
Pretty sure I have this.
Or at least my ex girlfriend used to use me for this in the middle of winter due to her crap circulation.
The cold is great.
And I was talking to my parents about my sore shoulders, and I was like “they’ve hurt for three weeks now.” So my Dad got me to swing my arms around, and they were like “you’ll be fine.”
It’s been five weeks now and they still hurt sometimes…
THE COLD IS HORRIBLE
Could anybody argue against me finally biting the bullet and grabbing a wireless 360 controller for the PC? Or should I hold off and grab a “better” one?
It’s just that with NBA2K14 and Mortal Kombat both on sale in various places…
You could get a Logitech F310 or F710…
Or go with the 360 controller for pc.
They’re both $37.99 at JB.
Don’t you need to buy the wireless receiver for PC as well (if you go the 360 controller option)?
Don’t get a Logitech F710. They’re near useless.
Or you can have my F710 if you want…
Edit: Awkward.
Do you have a PS3 controller? You can use that with a bit of effort.
Sadly no. PS3 was sold off a little while back, 360 was before that. I only have a Wii remote around now.
… I don’t think that would work, but it would be hilarious if I could get it to work.
The (sideways) Wiimote is the best controller for 2D platformers on PC! Works great.
…really? Seriously?
I have Rayman Legends there just aching for a controller.
I’m going to look into that. Thanks!
Sideways remote is the worst control method unleashed upon the world by Nintendo. And I have a Power Glove*!
*Said power glove has neither been opened nor used, but still.
Stop harshin’ my buzz, man! Sideways Wiimote is the coolness.
I seriously hate it. The lop-sided shape is not nice to hold, and I think the d-pad on it is second only to the DS Lite’s in terms of being the worst they’ve ever made. And don’t even get me started on games that want you to use the A or B buttons.
I started out using it for Metal Slug Anthology, and hated every moment of it. And it didn’t make Super Paper Mario nor Metroid Other M any more enjoyable.
We’ll have to agree to disagree then!
Even though you’re totally wrong.
@powalen I agree your face is wrong 😛
What’s wrong with the DS lite’s D-pad? I think it’s great. It’s the clunky stiff 3DS D-pad that pisses me off.
@phlanispo The Lite’s D-pad is terribly smushy and hardly rocks on the centre at all, you can practically mash the whole thing down flat. Made Mario Kart completely unplayable for me.
The 3DS’s is pretty bad too, yeah. Largely due to how the paint creaks and rubs against the hole I think. The 3XL though, best one they’ve produced since the Phat.
Wiimotes can easily connect to PC via bluetooth if memory serves me correctly, so as long as you have a bluetooth dongle, you should be able to use it to play games!
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Gravis. Gamepad.
Gravis Gamepad! I had one of those way back in the DOS days! Looked like a snes controller. Didn’t even know they still existed!
Pretty sure they don’t exist, any more at least. Acquired by Kensington in 1997 (let that date sink it, as you think about it) and have disappeared… says Wikipedia.
360 peripherals mean that games ‘just work’ with them, if they’re a port. If not, chances are very high that the buttons will auto-remap anyway, it’s a popular controller.
I’d get one. The only reason not to, would be to wait for Xbone controller support – which has no ETA and depends on user comfort anyway. IMO the only good options are those two, for simplicity sake.
My 360 controller for PC works flawlessly and I’ve only had to map it for one game: Mass Effect 3. Then again, I haven’t played 82% of my Steam games so yeah.
Just had a game of Seasons with Saturday through Board Game Arena.
There tend to be a few things that go backwards and I still think I was robbed of 30 points because free summons don’t use the summoning guage dammit. Other than that, it went very smoothly and now we’re going to play another game with Blaghs.
Definitely something I think we should get people to do. Although I don’t think planned gatherings is the way to go, more just something for people to do while on TeamSpeak.
Ooooooohhh you can play Takenoko over that……. \o/
So it’s digital board games?
Cool.
Screen games!
STOP SCREEN WATCHING YOU CHEAT!
Yup. That it is.
I lost all my games.
Saturday don’t board game.
Even a bit later, after a few more games you still lost all of your games. That’s kind of impressive.
I have to say, Seasons is rad. I like card drafting and planning something resembling a strategy during the draft is pretty neat. I liked the last turn where I dropped something to make everyone draw a card that they couldn’t play. Boo-yeah penalties for all but me! Planning!
You do know @transientmind that you’ll be one of those onion-on-the-belt Abe Simpson types in your geriatric years. 😛
We had to say “dickety” because the Kaiser had stolen our word “twenty”. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles
That’s all well and good for you, but I used to rock and roll all night and party ev-er-y day. Then it was every other day… now I’m lucky to find half an hour a week in which to get funky.
…Oh man. When my memory finally deteriorates and weird false memories bleed over, as long as I haven’t been programmed to kill a public figure I’ll probably be ranting at the young people about how they too could be having all the nookie if they’d just man up and actually risk some rejection.
It will be quite a refreshing change, actually.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what “it” was. Now what I’m with isn’t “it”, and what’s “it” seems weird and scary to me.
It’ll happen to you.
IGN Staff played Alien Isolation in an effort to determine how scary the game is… Having watched it, I can only say “JESUSHMAGILLICUTTYNOPENOPENOPENOPE”
http://au.ign.com/videos/2014/04/25/how-scary-is-alien-isolation
I’m interested but have some reservations. The concept is brilliant and in small isolated (heh) scenes it looks great but how well can they carry it through an entire game? Outlast was impressively unnerving but got old pretty quickly.
I dunno, i’m still sceptical… by watching that i can honestly say that I don’t like how they introduced the alien through a manufactured event… I’m not a fan of how most modern FPS has a tendency to take the control away from the player… It would be better if they refrained from that at all…
On the other hand, the whole running away and hiding (which seemed very lifted straight out of Outlast) seemed pretty well done…
Also still not a fan of how they’ve tried to shoe-horn the plot into the existing franchise and ZOMG Ripley… but yeah
*Sigh*
At the end, it’s an Alien game and i will buy it because i’m obsessed with that universe 😛
It looks like it has the atmosphere from the first movie pretty down pat so yeah, it’ll at least have that going for it…
The thing is that the alien is constantly moving around. So if you encounter it in one place and die and go back to a checkpoint, it probably won’t be in that place the next time. But maybe it will.
That’s a recipe for PTSD for me I think.
I agree and it looks pretty magnificent in that regard… just threw me off when it took control away from the player and i really, REALLY hope they don’t do that too often…
If it got the horror feeling down, then i honestly don’t care how terribly shoe horned the plot feels or anything, if that keeps me entertained, then all is good 😛
*sigh* apparently a 14lb package from the states costs an arm, leg & a kidney to ship to Australia :/ oh well.. Still cheaper than buying what I bought here by a long shot. Just a bit shocked I paid more in shipping than the items are worth >.<
I wouldn’t be surprised at all. Even within Australia, shipping 6+Kg would cost a shitload.
6+kg in Australia isn’t exactly expensive, since you can send up to 5kg anywhere in Aus for a little over 16 dollars & anything up to 22kg is a little over 20 bucks which ain’t that bad!
But saying that apparently my stuff (now I re-read the email) is being sent via express postage (6 days) since something that size isn’t available with regular postage, with UPS lol, eh whatever I guess, works for me since what I bought I do need before end of the month lol. Would’ve been here by now if the company I bought from didn’t take 2 weeks to send the stuff out to the ship to mob :/
I hate scrolling over eBay listings and seeing small items with postage prices of $48. Ridiculous.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NEW-on-card-Animal-Crossing-e-reader-NES-Link-Promo-Card-Nintendo-GBA-Gamecube-/201086081314?pt=US_Other_Video_Game_Accessories&hash=item2ed1aa1922
$28 for a flat card. A FLAT CARD. That’d have to be A5 size, if not less.
So dumb.
I know right, ugh.
Like I went to buy some hobo gloves on eBay other night and there was a mob in Melbourne selling the sort I wanted, 9 bucks for the item plus 10 bucks postage, how about get fucked. Found identical product from the UK with FREE shipping. Only downside I have to wait like 4 more days for it to arrive than if I bought it here.. and I know that postage would’ve been about the same from the UK as the mob here wanted… Australian companies just rip you right off with postage.
People used to do that because eBay takes a cut of the selling price of item, but leaves shipping cost alone. So $99C buy-it-nows with $5-10 shipping were normal. eBay is cracking down on this, and will either do it very soon or already has.
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAADRUqF7YirqcA
So this pretty much confirms that Wonder Red won’t be playable in smash… pretty disappointing, but at least great overlord sakurai has let us fans have a quick death, and not lead us on too much (i’m sorry ridley fans)….
but them making it into the game makes Bayonetta seem a little bit more possible… i just want something created by Kamiya in the game D:
Eh, I think anyone who finds this at all surprising was delusional 😛
But then, stranger things have happened.
Wii fit trainer basically allows any character in the universe to be in smash…
also, i’m not surprised, but it still can’t stop me from being depressed about it…
Wouldn’t that be Ditto?
Wii Fit Trainer makes sense though, in that it’s a real off-the-wall unexpected move. Kinda like ROB in Brawl. Whereas Wonder Red, that’s more just fanboy wishfulness akin to Isaac from Golden Sun, imo. Something that makes sense and would be nice to have, but isn’t gonna happen 😛
Shulk and Mallo!
(one is more likely than the other :P)
Hey everyone!
I’m not sure if you know but it’s @lucifer9783 birthday today! Let’s give him all the notifications!
CONGRATUMALATIONS @lucifer9783 \o/
ALL THE CAKE
remember when you were the babby of TAY @lucifer9783?
I mean, you still *are* a babby, but not the babby of TAY.
Happy birthday, @lucifer9783. Hope it’s one for the ages!
Happy birthday @lucifer9783 \o/
Yes, Happy Birthday @lucifer9783, Hope it was a good one.
Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect impressions:
This is a damn good case right here and crazy compelling, but it also directly references past games in the series. Not sure it would be the greatest of starting points for someone unfamiliar, but then again the core mystery stands on its own nicely and I recommend it to any fans of the genre.
The 3D environments are pretty great. Where as Pandora felt state of the art when it was released, the Unity locales here are modest at best but still very cool. Fans of the series will get to go to all kinds of familiar places in ways that feels intuitive and not at all fan service-like…
BUT
There is a lot of fan service too. I’m enjoying it, but I feel like some of this is unnecessary. (Random flashbacks to previous games that kind of takes you out of the present.)
The FMV is everything I hoped for. Cheesy and pulpy but populated with likeable characters and a good story you can get lost in. Looks amazing too and is so surreal to see an FMV game in 2014.
Puzzles are pretty great and mostly of the traditional kind. There’s a logic to them.
The interface works great on the new engine and is definitely better and more seamless than Overseer. The engine is odd, though. You can’t really crawl or duck or any thing when you could in the past entries and sometimes you’re supposed to in this game and you just clip through debris. It’s weeeeird. Minor, minor flaw though.
Built in walkthrough and branching pathways too. Casual mode too if you’re not great at adventures.
Easily best adventure game I’ve played in a long, long while.
I had it downloading through today. 12% done. I should be able to play next week sometime D:
Oh nice! I really hope you like it!
Expect b-grade charm and you’ll be fine. 😀
Not related to this, but is related to your last obsession.
Is Child of Light download only (even if you buy it in a store)? I recall hearing it mentioned but only have limited internet at the moment, so can’t check :3
Tex has been my obsession since ’96, Liondrive. 😛
It’s download only. You can buy a physical copy with art book and all that but still download code.
Super lame 🙁
Looks like I won’t be getting it for a while then :S
Shame, all your hype made me want to try it, haha!
I didn’t even get a case to put on my shelf. Just a book, poster and a light up keyring I can’t even turn off properly without it falling apart.
http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/251ybo/the_tesla_effect_a_tex_murphy_adventure_is_so/
Hmm…
That What Really Happens In Bali show looks ridiculous. They make out like Bali is a super dangerous place to go but everything they show is an Australian being a absolute retard and doing something stupidly dangerous that anyone with a shred of sense would never do.
I thought that’s why young Australians go to poor countries for ‘holiday’. To be wasted and drugged all day erry day.
Picked up one of these from the Salvos today.. Was a hard opaque coloured ball of something in one of the pockets.. Interested in knowing what it is, doesn’t look like anything dodgy but who knows.
You sure it was for sale, and you didn’t just pick up someone else’s bag :p
Pretty sure since I work there 😉
Was it… a marble? 😛
Nah.. Sorta looked like one of them powdered sugar coated hard boiled lollies, but it sure was not.. Oh I also found a single pill in there as well of some sort.
oooo! I just saw a bunch of “things you didn’t know about Dark Souls” videos and whoa, all the little details I missed! :O
Would anyone be up for Mario Kart 7 on Friday (7:30ish Vic time)? I think we’ll still do a Tuesday one if people are interested, but the more the merrier! We may even have enough for a TAY only game!
@benny @powalen @sughly @jimu @trjn @gutsoup @liondrive @gingerchris86 (@blaghman @scree)? others
I walked into EB today with the intent to buy a copy but they didn’t have one 🙁
I swear whenever EB gets shipment of MK7 it’s sold out by end of the day…
aww 🙁
MK7 will probably be forgotten once MK8 is out, so make sure to pick that one up.
Nevar 4get!
Super Circuit 4eva!
ARE YOU PLAYING TONIGHT?!
idk
Can’t do Friday for me. No Wi-Fi and I have work :'(
Still keep me posted though in the future, I’d like to jump in when I get a chance 😀
4 of us played on Tuesday so we may do that again each week until MK8 launches 😀
Remind me Tuesday, I might be able to steal my unis wi-fi and join you guys if I’m not busy 😀
Friday is good for me, I’ll be on at 7pm SA time. See you then!
Were they the VaatiVidya ones? His stuff is pretty cool. Pretty cool indeed.
Sorry, I am still working on cosplays /o\
How are they coming along? If you don’t mind me asking
half of one of Nobs Legs is knitted \o/
Elsa pattern is done, but I want to test it on cotton first (this weekends project)
Gorzy’s hoodie is done, just gotta make accessories
Need to make a plaque that says Scree’s Cosplay Workshop for your house.
Maybe if I have some left over Worblas
I would, but I don’t have a 3DS (or the game). Totally be up for it when MK 8 comes out though, I’ll be picking up a console bundle (hopefully). I’ll probably be pretty bad though, haven’t played MK in probably 5 years.
mebe. MEBE. Message me on twitters again tomorrow, I will if im not working
If I suddenly disappear tomorrow and never return it’s because I got caught sneaking on set trying to get a photo with Dwayne Johnson while they film some scenes for Andreas at the dinky little shopping center I work at and have been beaten to a pulp.
Been putting the pressure on the head of security to see if he can organise it for me. Said he’ll see what he can do but no promises.
Ooh, I should come by and say hi! Been ages since I pestered you at work 😛 plus catching up would be cool.
Survivor talk! @sughly @greenius @masha2932
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V npghnyyl guvax Xnff unf n orggre punapr bs jvaavat guna Fcrapre ng gur zbzrag, nf zhpu nf V ungr gb nqzvg vg :C Fur UNF fhpprffshyyl oyvaqfvqrq gjb crbcyr. V pna’g guvax bs nalguvat “znwbe” gung Fcrapre unf qbar. Ur’f cynlrq n zber fhogyr tnzr gung gur whel zvtug abg unir cvpxrq hc ba bhgfvqr bs Gnfun/Wrerzvnu.
Ng guvf cbvag Gbal’f orfg zbir zvtug npghnyyl or gb gnxr bhg Xnff svefg… Vqrny svany sbe uvz jbhyq or Jbb naq Gevfu. Vs arkg jrrx ernyyl vf gur ynfg jrrx vqbyf pna or cynlrq, vs ur’f fzneg ur jvyy tvir uvf aba-fcrpvny vqby gb Gevfu be Jbb (V’q fnl Gevfu) naq xrrc gur fcrpvny sbe uvzfrys. Gung jnl ur unf onfvpnyyl pubfra gjb svanyvfgf naq ur unf gb gel naq trg gur bgure n qvssrerag jnl.
V ubcr Fcrapre znxrf vg gb gur svany gubhtu. Ur’f gur bayl bar V fgvyy npghnyyl yvxr :C Uvz naq Xnff jvyy zbfg yvxryl grnz hc arkg jrrx. Juvpurire bar bhg bs Xnff naq Fcrapre qbrfa’g jva vzzhavgl vf tbvat ubzr V guvax. Jbb vf n jvyqpneq orpnhfr ur whfg qbrf jungrire gur ynfg crefba ur fcbxr gb fnlf :C Ur’yy jnag gb syvc ba Gbal ohg V pna’g frr vg jbexvat… orfg guvat be uvz gb qb jbhyq or gb znxr Gbal tvir uvz gur vzzhavgl vqby.
@greenius @masha2932
Lrnuuuu… npghnyyl… lbh znxr n tbbq cbvag nobhg Fcrapre. ABBB! V’z whfg ernyvfvat guvf. Rkprcg va Fcrapre’f pnfr ur pna nethr ubj ur tbg uvzfrys bar jrrx shegure rnpu gvzr guebhtu punyyratrf naq nyfb znxvat Gbal cnenabvq naq fhpu. V guvax urf tbg n qrprag pnfr. V guvax gung pbhyq fgvyy ubyq hc ntnvafg Xnff.
Lrnu, V fgvyy guvax Fcrapre unf n orggre pnfr ntnvafg Xnff (naq qrsvavgryl ntnvafg Gevfu naq Jbb). Gbal vf yhpxl ohg unf fgvyy cynlrq jryy qrfcvgr n jubyr ybg bs zvfgnxrf… ubj vf guvf unccravat?! Fghcvq Furrcyr!
I don’t like her either. Really gives off the sense that she thinks she’s smarter or better than everyone else or something.
Yes! You will now be included in future Survivor dicsussion!
You won’t be though! I see no green ROT13!
But I’m still in beddd! This’ll be the second time I’ll get outta bed to post rot13. THE THINGS I DO FOR YOU!
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N irel nagvpyvzngvp raq rfcrpvnyyl nsgre nyy gur fubhgvat orgjrra Gbal naq XNFF ng gur fgneg. V’z thrffvat gung jvyy pbzr vagb cynl qhevat arkg jrrx’f rcvfbqr. Yvxr lbh gjb V ubcr Xnff tbrf ubzr nf jryy.
V ernyyl yvxrq guvf jrrx’f erjneq punyyratr. V guvax whfg yvxr gur 3 jvaaref V arrqrq fbzr cbfvgvivgl nf na nhqvrapr zrzore. Vg jnf avpr frrvat Jbb cynl jvgu gur xvqf naq qrzbafgengr uvf znegvny negf fxvyyf.
Hayrff gbal znxrf fbzr qhzo zvfgnxrf ur fubhyq or va gur svany guerr. Vg jbhyq or avpr vs gur whel zrzoref ibgr sbe uvz gb jva ohg vg frrzf hayvxryl fvapr rirelbar ibgrq bss gur ynfg srj jrrxf ungrf uvz. Pna gur fcrpvny vqby or hfrq qhevat gur svany prerzbal? V’z thrffvat ab.
@greenius @sughly
During the final lolol!
Heh, I thought about Pow being devastated as well 😛
@mrtaco @masha2932
Unun V xabj! Fur’f gur jbefg!!!!!!!!!!!
Ohg abj gung V guvax nobhg vg, gubfr Whel zrzoref ner tbaan or sevpxra cvffrq bss ng Gbal naq ur znl or gur “Ehffryy” bs guvf frnfba naq znl abg trg rabhtu ibgrf. V ubcr ur qbrf gubhtu vs Fcrapr trgf bhg fvapr ur’q or gur bayl jbegul bar yrsg naq V ernyyl, ernyyl SHPXVAT ERNYYL ubcr gur svany 3 vfa’g Gevfu, Xnff naq Jbb (Jbb sbe gur jva! :C). Vs Fcrapr trgf bhg znlor uvz naq Gnfun zvtug pbaivapr gur Whel gb ibgr sbe Gbal fvapr gur bguref ernyyl qvqa’g qb nalguvat ng nyy, ohg jub xabjf!
Naq V nterr jvgu gung punyyratr gbb, ubyl zbyrl, fur jnf n ornfg!
Fur’f fgvyy ynzr gubhtu.
Htu.
Htu indeed!
I laughed so suddenly at this a big booger came out my nose, fyi
I’m here all week!
Is this lack of adding me a protest to me adding noone? :'(
Hahaha I had a feeling you’d comment on the lack of tags!
It’s because I already replied to one of your comments above (so you’ll get a notification from that) and there’s no need to tag you again for a notification 🙂
Silly!
@sughly
I got two notifications for this! 😀
From the little I’ve seen (ie the last two eps I guess… nfi when the rest of it got watched because I don’t remember any of it), I like Tony 😛 Seems a little crazy but has instincts right on the money.
He’s definitely entertaining but he’s made some really stupid mistakes :P. I still like him to an extent though!
Playing through Force Unleashed 2 and holy shit the bugs and glitches just keep getting worse as I get further in. It’s getting near unplayable. In fact, I think I’m at a point I can’t progress any further due to needing to kill all enemies to continue and having a tonne of floating bodies that are still talking and targetable but can’t be killed.
Speaking of buggy games. I’m currently playing through Dragon Age: Origins. It’s amazing how many crash to desktop bugs there are.
Yeah, that game needed a few more months in the oven.
Till it burned to death.
Thanks for giving it to me as a ‘gift’
😛
Mwaahahahahahaha, my evil plan is now complete.
So last night (this morning at 4am) I found myself having a massive sense of déjà vu. How I’m not sure. See I was in a KTV (idk exactly how I got there. Kareoke place) with a Chinese woman who looked 20 years younger then she is. A green haired Chinese women who looks Ike a 90s teen. Her Icelandic husband also sporting the same look. A Chinese musician in some band with an American accent and some random African American guy who turned up. Drinking Warm beer playing some dice game while others were singing god knows what in Chinese.
I just dunno.
Also after almost 2 weeks clean I eded up having a couple o smokes. I’m the worst.
Been waiting in a Titanfall campaign lobby for about 10 minutes, 2 people joined my team and left, this sucks. Need more people in my friends list so I can do private matches. Does anyone know the minimum amount of players per team you need for a private match?
If you’re available on Sunday, I might be able to play by then.
Also, I’d presume 4 per team minimum.
Cool, I’ll see what happens with work, I was meant to have a 3 day weekend this week, but one of the other staff walked out last night, so I might have to work yet.
360 or Xbone? I’ve got both. What’s your gamertag?
Sorry to say this, but I only have the PC version. 🙁
My gamertag is Crazyguy1990.
Oh well, I’ll add you anyway.
STORK STOLE FLEW
After considerable procrastination, I started NG+ and promptly got owned. Rira gubhtu V jnf rkcrpgvat gb trg nggnpxrq gur vafgnag V fcnjarq, vg fgvyy znantrq gb birejuryz zr gur svefg gvzr. Jnf zhpu zber pnershy gur frpbaq gvzr.
But have since blitzed through the Forest and Heide’s Tower. Jolly co-op, there’s so much of it here. It’s… glorious.
All I have to do to get my 1000G trophy is Blightstone Cove Tseldora (for the Freya bonus soul), and then get through to Drangleic in NG++
That’s it.
Out of curiosity, considering you are now experienced at it, how long did it take you to knock Forest and Heide’s tower over?
Did from game start to the end of both in the space of about forty-five minutes. (And even then I was taking my time, opening all chests, getting almost all items, etc.
Wow. I now feel particularly noobish for not even clearing Forest in four hours.
Then again, you have significant experience so I don’t feel too bad.
Don’t feel that way. My other half took more than an hour to get through the tutorial area in the first Dark Souls when she first tried it. After a small GFWL mishap with the save files, on restart she blitzed it in 12 minutes. Familiarality is a big thing in this series.
Well, there are mitigating factors. One is that in NG+, you’ve got all your gear, and are pretty much stupidly OP for the early game areas. Two is that I was summoning the whole time, and three guys at once destroy the world pretty damn fast. Three is that I’ve already been playing this game for around 85 hours and know it pretty well.
Today I shaved off all my chest, back and shoulder hair.
I look like a babby 🙁
But… but chest hair is for manliness!
Let this be a warning to ya.
Remember
those daysthat day when I didn’t have a Kickstarter campaign to push?Terrifying.
Thankfully, those days are over.
The epic sequel to the Stargazers album by our very ex-own Anonymous Pessimist. If anything deserves to have money thrown at it… it’s probably child poverty. But this runs a close second.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1895055879/meraki-a-progressive-gaming-streaming-soundtrack
want to support this, but I noticed for every tier above the $10 one estimated delivery is between December 2015 and February 2016. That’s a helluva long time to wait.
It’s best not to think of kickstarters as pre-orders. Think of it as a donation with a guaranteed karmic payback if they succeed.
It depends on the project (a lot of Tabletop stuff basically is preorders) but generally, this. You’re basically gambling.
Do you remember the days of the old school yard?
We used to play t-ball a lot.
Backer #2 this morning \o/
I need to be kept away from Kickstarter for a bit, I’ve backed like 3 more projects this week 🙁
house inspection over, weekend approaching, plenty of games to play over the weekend and no one to interrupt me.
twirls sword
Anyone up to anything awesome this weekend? I’m gonna sloth about as much as humanly possible.
Going to give blood, then to the football.
Haha! So awesome!
ooh since we’re linking things and seeing as how there’s a new Godzilla movie coming out I’ma put
this here. cause Shyaporn is awesome.
edit: ugh removed for whinyness
*arches eyebrow*
uh huh.
Final weigh in for my gym’s 12-week challenge. 98.7kg \o/. I started at 114.3 the week before the challenge began. Super happy with this.
Time to celebrate with something delicious.
Rice crackers are delicious.
You basically weigh the same as I do currently.
Still, bloody well done Neg! 😀
Top effort man, keep it up.
I don’t care how many times it takes to post this (just to take the piss, it was one…), I’m going to say it anyway:
WOO! FUCK YEAH!!!
Top work mate
Slow TAY is slow.
*puts on red hat*
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MondayFriday morning question:You’re stranded on a deserted island. No chance of rescue for the next five years. You have nothing with you except basic clothes. There’s nothing on it, a bare circle of land only 10 meters across except for a tree which offers no shade or building materials, only an endless supply of coconuts and vodka (it’s some weird Peruvian tree). You are on the island with one other person who happens to be a videogame character.
Who would you like that character to be, bearing in mind you’re stuck with nothing to do for five years with them and they don’t have any equipment either.
LEGO batman
The one from the games or DoucheBat from the movie?
DARKNESS NO PARENTS
BLACK HOLES, CURTAINS DRAWN
Oh you are so jelly. I don’t think he’s ready Freeze is jelly.
Lara Croft.
Obvious answer is correct answer
You’re going to need a LOT of bandages.
Lara is a cunning and resourceful woman. She also hates coconuts. She bashes your head in with a coconut while you sleep for your nourishing meat. After weeks on a diet of coconuts and vodka you taste like Malibu.
You are dead.
Totally worth it, though.
Some sort of Transformer who can turn into a speedboat 😛
Since you’ve drink nothing but vodka for a while you get arrested for operating a boat while drunk. While in prison there’s a gas leak while a prison guard lights up a cigarette and there is a giant explosion. You are now dead.
What are you, some old Sierra Adventure Game???!?
Hold on. Who does the arresting?
The Coconut Cops. Their rough exterior hides a sweet inside.
Autobot Jetfire… we’ll just fly out like bosses.
You jump in and fly away. When he comes in for landing he transforms but forgets you are still there. You are now dead.
Stupid Autobots, this is why I’d side with the Decepticons
The King of All Cosmos. We can get drunk together on all that vodka and maybe knock out all the stars and planets.
And trip out to funky music.
After a few years o partying with the King of all Cosmos you are eventually rescued. You find a job, a wife, have some children. You have a relatively uneventful life and grow old. You eventually pass away in your sleep of natural causes.
You are now dead.
We broke it. Yes, we were naughty. Completely naughty. So, so very sorry. But just between you and us, it felt quite good.
1st thought: Pass the time. (I’m guessing the intent of the exercise.)
Some chick from one of those Japanese porn games, I guess. (Preferably not a schoolgirl – someone legal, thanks.)
Or Ditto, from Pokemon. …Same reason. Lower quality, more variety.
2nd thought: Escape
Deadpool. Bodyslide by 2, please. Or any other teleporting character. Maybe one of the more reliable ones. Superman, for example. Solved in a jiffy!
If you really wanna take your time and not cheat… Minecraft guy. He should be able to dig an underwater tunnel to the nearest land-mass and if he dies he’ll just respawn at the start spot, so no fear of drowning. Dig up all the sand on the ocean floor surrounding the island, etc.
What do you mean? All those girls go to college and the opening title screen totally says “All characters portrayed are 18 years or older.”
Oh, well that’s Convincing. I could’ve sworn half those things were about high-schoolers. Very good!
Since Minecraft PC can only move one block at a time and this is real life, in 40 years he has removed enough grains of sand to make a nice hole to sit in. Doesn’t do much but at your now advanced age it’s comfortable. Then you have a stroke from drinking nothing but vodka for 40 years. You are now dead. In a hole.
Why did you pick the worst one?! Just the girl! Just the girl! I mean… the ditto.
I’m concocting weird thoughts about Ditto now. So wrong.
Lara Croft is a great answer.
Maybe the PC from Minecraft? they can achieve great things starting with no equipment.
Steeeeeeeeeve.
Guybrush Threepwood… He always finds some weird way out of sticky situations… and if not, drunk Guybrush should keep me entertained for a while 😛
Guybrush manages to get off the island on a raft made of bones and lashed together with intestinal tracts. Guess whose?
You are now dead.
Narrator from Bastion. He must narrate everything I do for 5 years. It’ll be like one long story.
Being an incorporeal being it doesn’t take long for you to start to question his existence and your sanity. He seems to know your every action before you do it. You grow paranoid and desperate, trying to be free of this omnipotent seeming voice. You start acting contrary but it seems to know. Even attempts to kill yourself go awry as he keeps stating you don’t have the will.
You wish you were dead.
Aw..
Hmmm, don’t know. First one that comes to mind would be Edward Kenway from Asspirates, because he’s got the Jackdaw and we could use it to get off the island, sail the seven seas, loot, pillage, sing sea shanty’s and do piratey things in general.
That or some hot chick with big gazongas, but would have to be able to hold a decent conversation as well, so probably Lara Croft, that sexy English accent would be a bonus too.
You spend a few months sailing the seas, looting and pillaging. Life is good. One day you see a oddly shaped ship in the distance. It’s Elliot Carver’s stealth ship from Tomorrow Never Dies! A pitched battle between your pirates and Carver’s army that a media mogul somehow needs takes place. Eventually it’s just you and Edward. “Brothers to the end we die together” Edward says to you. Suddenly James Bond crashes in on a flaming motorcycle/helicopter/tank/spaceship hybrid shoots half the army, makes a hilarious pun and bangs a model who suddenly appears next to him. With renewed hope you and Edward rejoin the fight but it’s short lived. James is shot because he was too busy making sex puns about the model’s unlikely name and Edward was shot down in a hail of bullets. Surrounded and without hope you pray for a miracle. Without warning there’s a green explosion and the Green Lantern flys in! “In brightest day, in blackest night” he says. You start to cheer. He turns to look at you, “I’ve been paid so feel my right!” then slugs you in the face. Since you’ve been at sea for months without proper nutrition your body fails catastrophically and basically explodes, leaving a bloody smear across the floor.
You are now dead.
Wow! What a way to go. COOLEST DEATH EVER!
Bioshock Infinite’s Elizabeth. So we can create a portal and get off the island because fuck that. 😛
Elizabeth rips a portal and you go through. You close your eyes and…. feel the wind on your face and smell the salt air. You’re still on the island. Except the tree is dead. She rips another portal. Still the island but the sand is black. Another, another, another. Always the island. Infinite realities and everyone you are stuck on the island. Elizabeth drowns herself in despair. You are alone. Several months after you have eaten her corpse you swim out to the ocean and swim as deep as you can. There you take a deep breath.
You are dead.
Rex Colt,
We’d get drunk on Vodka and have fistfights with sharks for fun. Then we’d make a coconut boat and coconut vodka bombs and go blow up some pirates flipping off everyone we encountered.
Before you are about to set out on your journey you decide to have a celebratory night drinking. Unfortunately drunk people do not make wide decisions and you decide to have a fistfight with coconut vodka bombs as gloves because “that’d be so totally sweet!”
You are dead.
that is acceptable, punchsploding is the best way to go 😀
Well at first I was going to say that Dragonite uses Surf and we get the hell out of there. But then you said “person”. So I guess Aquaman.
Aquaman gives you a wink and a thumbs up. “I can get you out of here. My sea creature friends will get us out of here. Hold onto my whale friend Gaspard!” You hold on as the whale dies under the waves. The whale continues to dive. Your breath is running short. The whale continues to dive. You are not Atlantean.
You are now dead.
@dc would like to know how his time on the island with Tex Murphy went.
I would but this is a family friendly site.
Nathan Drake.
I’m sure he’d have enough drunken stories to make five years interesting.
Assuming we don’t both die of alcohol poisoning.
Plus he’s pretty much the male version of Lara Croft.
It’s fun for the first week but it eventually start to grate. Nathan is beyond self centered and wrapped up in this high octane thrill ride taking place in his head. Everything is a tense life or death drama. Except there’s nothing on the island besides sand, coconuts and vodka. He ends up drowning you, screaming your name and the the word no repeatedly, swearing vengeance on those that killed his friend.
You are dead.
@negativezero @saturday
The receptionist at work has leant me “fruits basket” to watch. Ive never heard of it. Is it any good. all i know is that it is a slice of life anime.
Also watched some random new anime on crunchy roll from this season
Brynhildr in the Darkness- Watched first episode, I am gonna watch more because intriguing , seems quite okay but i feel like ive seen this before
Also Mushi-shi
SO BEAUTIFUL eyegasms, its pretty calming it feels a little bit like im watching a documentary about the spirits in spirited away
I watched that back in the day. It was amusing, at the time. Don’t know that I’d enjoy it these days, but it’s had a following.
I really enjoyed Fruits Basket. Though it did make me tear up a little at the end. It’s not so much slice of life as much as low-intensity romantic comedy with mild supernatural aspects.
It was nice. Probably wouldn’t watch it again, but it was nice.
Man, that’s a dose of nostalgia. Transient’s right, it’s not a slice of life type of thing, but it’s still got a chill vibe to it. Nothing special, not bad, but very solid.
Also, if you recognize Brynhildr in the Darkness, it’s because it’s from the same dude that made Elfen Lied. In fact, it’s pretty much Elfen Lied for the modern age. And by that I mean there’s more teenage romance antics.
And yeah Mushi-shi is great.
Is there less underage nudity in Brynhildr?
Because I like Elfen Lied, but I really struggle to recommend it to people without sounding like THE BIGGEST CREEP ON EARTH.
Elfen Lied was a lot more gory though, and had content that really pushed the line. Gratuitous dismemberment and animal cruelty and that whole child abuse angle it had. It’s the sort of thing that would not be allowed on TV in Japan now, it’d probably end up porned up even further and on a satellite channel or straight to DVD.
It’s kinda dated now but it is slice of life with the magical/spiritual bent to it that a lot of these things have. It’s okay if you can get over more than a few episodes of filler and an overall plot that takes a while to get going.
Fruits Basket is a great show but you should probably skip the last 2-3 eps and swap to the manga. They made up their own ending and it’s completely out of place and contrary to the rest of the show (which sucks).
Bear in mind that it is a show aimed more toward a female audience. That doesn’t make it bad or anything, just calibrate your expectations accordingly. The lead character also is the most infectiously optimistic characters in anything ever, which is nice. Also if you do like it and you haven’t done this already, follow up by doing yourself a favour and getting hold of Ouran High School Host Club.
I’m following Brynhildr as well, but not rating it hugely high. It’s very dark but it feels like it’s being dark and edgy for the sake of it, not because it really adds much to anything. It’s not terrible but each week it’s one of the last shows I catch up on and I’ve let it get ahead a few times. so not enormously into it. Possibly not helping that the actress providing Kuroha’s voice has been everywhere in stuff from the last 6-12 months and always sounds exactly the same (and also isn’t that good at the job IMO) so I’m already getting sick of her.
Mushishi is one of my favourite things ever and the new season has been just as awesome as the first one. Loving every episode. The transition to HD production has made it even more beautiful and ethereal than it was. It’s also something that really works in a format where you just watch 1-2 eps and then stop and let it sink in. Soundtrack is still a big highlight of it as well.
What I’m really hanging out for is a sequel to Kaichou wa Maid-sama.
I actually didn’t watch that past the first episode. I didn’t mind it but it wasn’t doing a lot for me.
I tend to find stuff set in the real world and focusing on relational drama and stuff incredibly dull. Probably because I don’t have any common experiences to grasp onto (foreveralone.jpg). Stuff in college settings also often really doesn’t click for me as well because I didn’t live in a dorm or anything and was too busy actually doing classwork as a CompSci student and slacking off playing video games by myself to ever do the usual college antics involving drunken parties and other things you’d regret later.
So basically I need a bigger hook than that to keep me engaged most of the time, even on good stuff I’ll end up dropping off in the end. Doesn’t have to be anything huge or anything, but that’s just what I tend to prefer.
Dark Souls 2 stuff :
Beat The Marlon Brando Extrapolation Experiment (Covetus Demon) last night. Was pretty simple for the most part. Sheld up, strafe, hit, repeat. then the bastard ate me. so I spent the last quarter of the fight running around naked with 15HP madly trying to equip a sword & shield while trying to heal & dodge attacks. got him though.
then I did…. Mytha, the Baneful Queen (haven’t come up with a nickname for her yet.) she was surprisingly straight forward. the two guards outside her room game me much more trouble.
yeah, I’ve discovered that if theres more than one enemy, I’m gonna have a hard time. even if its just 2 or 3 hollow soldiers. I need a decent AoE attack. might look into a 2-hander club or something….
anyway…. then I died repeatedly to the first 2 katana guys in the Iron Keep & quit.
Love the name.
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Bu, naq V znantrq gb trg gubhtu gur ragvergl bs gur pbirgbhf qrzba svtug jvgubhg orvat rngra(V qvrq bapr gb vg jura vg frrzrq gb whfg qrpvqr gung vg fubhyq ebyy RAQYRFFYL gubhtu).
V gevrq ure gjvpr jvgu cbvfba, gura ernq n sybbe zrffntr arne fbzrguvat gung cerggl zhpu fnvq ‘ohea guvf’ gura lrnu, nsgre gung fur jnf rnfl.
bu lrnu, gur pbirghf ebyy. ur qvq gung cerggl rneyl va zl svtug & V jnf whfg fybjyl jnyxvat onpxjneqf sebz uvz, whfg guvaxvat… bbbbxnnnnnnlllll gura…. fbegn sryg fbeel sbe uvz vs gung jnf gur orfg ur pbhyq qb. whfg ybbxrq yvxr n tvnag chccl ebyyvat bire sbe ghzzl cngf.
Jura qbrf bar ebyy, lbh fbeg bs srry onq sbe uvz, ohg unysjnl guebhtu gur svtug ur qvq bar ebyy, gura sbyybjrq vg hc jvgu n frpbaq gung V unq gb ebyy njnl sebz, naq V jnf yvxr “LBH FBA BS N OVGPU!” Gura jura V qvrq ur qvq vg sbhe gvzrf va n ebj, fb nsgre gur guveq V’q guebja pnhgvba gb gur jvaq naq orra yvxr “gurer’f ab jnl ur’yy ebyy ntnva!” Fhcre qrec.
Wait… he can EAT you? I never spent any time near his face because he was laughably slow and I was kind of still holding out hope for tail-cuts at that point (NEVER SUCCEEDED), so I never saw anything like that or even got hit.
Also, you can pull those katana guys separately if you keep one out of line of sight and don’t run too far ahead.
Order goes: Run along the left side of the bridge to pull the right guy. Move through the arch to pull the left, move into the doorway and start moving up the stairs to the left (not the whole way, just toward) to pull the guy near the fire, pull back to fight. Then move back up the stairs again and pull the guy on the raised area to your right. Head toward the 2nd set of stairs linked to that raised area to pull a guy who patrols up and down the next room. Double back toward the entrance and take the right hallway. Another dude will come down some stairs on your left. Some hidden doors up that way, which let you ambush a guy from behind.
yep, eats you, takes off a whole heap of health & removes everything you’ve got equipped. it actually made the last part of the fight really tense. was great.
What’s goin’ on over here?
Hey it’s that guy… Have you ditched the kid yet so you can play SWTOR with us?
Or is you “new lifestyle” taking “priority”? 😛
Seriously, how are you enjoying life as a parent?
I’m trying, BUT SHE KEEPS EATING AND POOPING AND SHE WON’T LISTEN TO ME WHEN I TELL HER TO STOP. *sobs*
Actually, it’s great!
30% terrifying every time something new happens, 60% pure awesomeness, 10% poop.
10% chance of poop? far too low.
Shouldn’t it be 100% chance of poop? it’s kind of like death and taxes.
Not a 10% chance of poop, 10% poop
I tried to talk him into playing some SWTOR sometime last night.
Too bad @rize is too selfish. He would choose his wife and daughter over internet people. ='(
I know right? i feel so… rejected… Like Lotso in Toy Story 3 we’re just cast aside, left and forgotten :'(
Which the obvious choice is to start a mafia now
Who is this etc…
Do you have an informal nickname for the bub? I think Jacen Solo might be appropriate. 😛
The poop is strong with this one.
Question time to help speed everyone’s Friday along: in the Warhammer ‘verses (Fantasy and 40K), what is your absolute favourite race? Could be aesthetically or lore reasons or because they’re fun to play with.
I’m a big fan of Greenskins in both systems but I like the idea of the Dark Eldar more and their background is creepy but neat. I’m actually pretty meh about SPESH MEREENS despite their awesomeness.
I’ve played Space Marine and that’s it, so I like Space Marines? I guess?
Ah you’ve had the unfortunate pleasure of dealing with the Smurfs. My apologies (although the Blood Ravens did show up to kick serious arse, as Blood Ravens are wont to do).
Pfft. Blood Ravens… Only chapters with Primarchs are worth anything.
DARK ANGELS! Best themed ever. Gogo Deathwing! Well. Except maybe for Space Wolves who SHOULD be the best-themed but lose massive points for their name being even goofier than ‘dark angels’ (if such a thing were possible). I do kinda dig the concept of the Blood Angels’ Death Company, though.
Also, UGH at GW’s own personal Wesley Crusher of marine companies, the Black Templars.
I do hate the merry-go-round that GW and its writers have where they foster praise and awesome fights on one chapter before jumping across to another. It gets a bit nonsensical considering the sheer number and variety of chapters out there.
My personal favourite chapter is also the Dark Angels but primarily for the Ravenwing. Because even if you’re a member of the Ravenwing, you have to get off the bike eventually. Just not today. 😛
I also dig the Imperial Fists and also the Lamenters as just being cool but I cannot endure the lore praise for the Ultramarines. I know that they’re supposed to be textbook generic but they have no real distinguishing traits aside from being the most well-recognised and symbolic chapters. Ughh GW.
I suspect the initial lore-praise was almost exclusively the result of the writers being inappropriately pleased with the Ultramarine’s name-pun.
Whatever the Ork race is (greenskins?)
“Stuff works because they believe it does” is the best explanation for a race’s technology.
Also hilarious as you can sum up their entire race as “Green English football fans with guns in space.” 😛
Chaos used to be the best with their higher-damage, unpredictable weapons and demonic enhancements, and just generally being very comfortable with being bad – but they got repeatedly crushed with the nerfhammer to the point of being inferior space marines instead of demonically-enhanced space marines. Stupid, I know.
Otherwise, Necrons. They remind me of the old version of Thousand Suns marines – a slow, inevitable march of hard-to-kill, rapid-firing automatons. Followed by Tyranids.
The Games Workshop nerfhammer is indeed unpredictable and occasionally stupid. At least Chaos in the books and backstory is still as terrifying as ever, even if their results in play are a joke unless used by someone skilled.
The only thing really useful about Chaos now is demonic summoning, which, y’know… if I wanted to play a race who shoots spud-guns and has some one-time-only maneuverability advantages to get into melee where they’re only on barely-equal footing, I’d play Dark Eldar. 😛
Orks, because “Da red wunz go fasta!”
I love the Necrons most. They’re as mysterious as they are terrifying. Machines that are absolutely relentless in their battles, recycling their own dead kind to build more… plus monoliths are just ridiculously awesome to see in action.
Second and third would be the Eldar (Even if you think you know them, they can still surprise you with something completely unexpected) then the Tau (Due to their story and alliances e.g. Kroot).
The Commander Farsight stuff for the Tau is incredibly interesting. I am eagerly awaiting more lore on them but it sounds like they’re going to do some more post 13th Black Crusade material what with the new IG codex.
I am so behind on the lore, I need to read more 😛
I’ve been reading wikis all morning so I’ve caught up on a bit myself. 😛
I was never any good with them but i like the idea of Tau… because RAILGUNS MOTHER FUCKER…
also they look pretty rad… and their story is interesting
Orks have the best lore/flavour but there is just something about the Dark Eldar that just seems right.
On a barely related note, I noticed there’s a game called Warhammer Diskwars which is basically a simplified version of Warhammer Fantasy that replaces the miniatures with pogs. In terms of value for money, it seems like a damned good option for people who want to dip their toes in the water without selling their souls to Games Workshop.
I’ve seen it advertised here and there but unfortunately it is Fantasy Flight who I have found are often just as bad in compartmentalising and merchandising each individual element of their games to maximise profit. Some of their gameplay mechanics with other stuff is also downright bonkers (looking at you, 3rd edition WFRP).
Fantasy Flight are known for two things in board game circles: regularly released (and copious) expansions and unfathomably complex rule books.
The games themselves are solid. I’d definitely go with them for licensed content over Cryptozoic.
Hell, I’d much prefer Fantasy Flight had control of the various Warhammer licenses than Games Workshop.
Yeah I’ve encountered their complex rule books and I’ve scratched my head more than a few times where they’ve contradicted themselves. At least Fantasy Flight have control over the RPG stuff of Warhammer licenses and that is supposed to be notionally canon (helped by apparently a number of writers working closely with FF).
I don’t rag on them too much but they have done a few things which I’ve disliked. Then again, they’re no different to GW, WotC, and many other companies in that regard and at least they maintain their product lines well, rather than letting them completely collapse with no support.
FF is all about the long tail. If they were a video game publisher, people would probably hate them because they are super reliant on planned DLC.
But luckily with board games, expansion content is only necessary depending on who you’re playing with. You can have a lot of fun with just the base sets of their living card games but as soon as you come up against someone with the data packs, you need to buy more cards. There are some absolute game changers in the more recent packs.
Overall, I think that they’re good for board games because they’re a consistent performer. There is a base level of quality you will get from a FF game that you might not expect from something like Queen games.
I played Eldar until the Dark Eldar were released and switched. Never lost a game to Space Marines with them. Space Marines are hilariously slow and unwieldy.
Best moment was waiting until a friend charged his Mephisto and guard in and dropping my Archon and his Incubi guard all equipped with Shadow fields in behind them after keeping them in reserve and tearing them to pieces. Rattled him so much the game didn’t last much longer after that.
I did miss having warping Harlequins and an Avatar rampaging through the middle of everything though. The Falcon Grav tank was hilariously overpowered too when it was first introduced. Meant to be a troop carrier but worked even better keeping back and using it to take out every enemy vehicle.
Ah the good old GW balance at work. Apparently they’ve made more than a few changes in the IG codex where it’s possible (not confirmed, just what I’ve heard) to have a Chimera take down a Space Marine Landraider. Yeah…
I find the Dark Eldar are even squishier and have fewer “big” units and vehicles but they can absolutely destroy if they get into melee. They remind me a lot of Skaven with their poisons and chemicals too. Too bad I don’t really have the time or money to make a nice army nowadays and my painting skills have probably crapped out too. 🙁
Well Dark elves are my 4k race so I guess that would make me Dark Eldar
I’m also partial to Imperial Guard, just a regular Joe in a world of super heroes
I too enjoy Imperial Guard, hence why I much prefer the Only War RPG over all of the other 40K stuff. It just feels so much more interesting being an everybody when the other systems focus on being part of the Inquisition, Deathwatch, a Rogue Trader ship, or part of Chaos. The IG actually have to think and use tactics to overcome their often superior foes.
Total Biscuit put up a video of Dawngate.
It’s a League of Legends clone that tries very hard to break free from the LoL metagame. Definitely moving away from the Dota formula in a way that doesn’t quite appeal to me. Might be good for people who want to get away from League though.
I think I remember that one as allowing you to permanently upgrade turrets and minions. It was a bit odd but it’s good that people are attempting new things rather than just shamelessly cloning Dota and LoL.
Visually and mechanically, it looks a lot like LoL. Skill shot spam a plenty, rune pages, bushes, recall, summoner skills… basically it’s taken all of the things that differentiate LoL from Dota and then tweaked the map with a few of their own touches.
Declaring roles is an odd thing.
Definitely going to have a look at that when I get home tonight.
TAY PATHFINDER
Session 2: The Room, The Rope, and a near death experience
Abelas, Elven Rogue
Played and written by @redartifice
Drewan, Catfolk Bard
Played and Written by @beeawwb
Dem’nion, Elven Sorcerer
Played by @Tech_Knight
Lundgredolph, Human Barbarian
Played by @FreezeSPreston
Beorn, Human Druid
Played by @Steve-O-the-deve-o
Izumi, Human Sorcerer
Played by @NegativeZero
Karvurk, Hobgoblin Magus
Played by @serNobulus
Narshak, Half-Orc Ranger
Played by @Rize
http://taypathfinder.tumblr.com/post/85178097762/session-2-the-room-the-rope-and-a-near-death
Come one, come all, to our first fight… where all combat is performed by the squishies. 😛
Karvurk actually withstood one hit.
No-one else did, but Karvurk did!
You elves really cannot take a hit can you?
I didn’t get hit at all!
Good thing, we probably would have had 2 bodies to deal with.
My AC is OK, it’s my fortitude that’s awful.
I’ll be stuffed if we get poisoned.
I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned a few times that Izumi is a Sorcerer, not an Oracle. I was only considering the Oracle build (which would have been a completely different character) because I couldn’t see a good way to make the character work in terms of how she actually got there and what she’s doing. But then I had a great idea for that \o/
If she were an Oracle she’d have a limp or be deaf or blind or have terrible B.O. and fungal infections or something. Oracle kind of sucks because of the curse they have to take. 🙁
Sorry, I copied that off the tumblr which was the early list. fixed now.
I just assumed Lungredolph was just asleep the whole time but he helped in a very insignificant way \o/
He took a door to the face like a champ!
@redartifice did change what I had described as it makes more sense. I basically said that you had sat down on Beorn’s passed out body to ensure he didn’t move anywhere and you fell asleep to his snoring and breathing.
I like a door to the face more though. 😛
I’m still going with that explanation. 😉
Another great recap Red. Cheers for that.
Now I am looking forward to @beeawwb’s justification for shooting a passed out enemy. 😛
I’m going to have a lot of fun with it, that’s for sure. Last time I did play off a few things that @redartifice mentioned in his write-up to flip them around to a different perspective and will no doubt do similar this time.
Oh man, sounds like I missed a brilliant session.
With any luck I’ll be there for the next one and have a few ideas on what I can do…
We were really lacking in the melee department.
I’ve set myself up as a TWF ranger so I’ll definitely make a difference with attempting to melee.
As for actually hitting, that’s for the dice to decide…
You better hope we have better dice then the one we used last time.
I dunno, @redartifice can bring a world of hurt in melee if you enable him to do so (stand in spots where he can get flanking for sneak attacks, disable enemies etc).
What we were lacking was people that can take a hit.
I sure stabbed an unconcious unmoving guy like a champ 🙂
Hopefully hit things- we need our meatshields!
I have 16HP so I can totally be a meatshield!
I have 12HP and one of the Hobgoblins hit me for 7 damage. Suddenly that 12HP doesn’t seem like much.
I got one shotted with my 7HP, got hit with a 9. Thankfully I rolled well enough to stop the bleeding out. THEN I rolled a 1 on my healing potion, putting me up to 0 (1+1). I had a really bad time in-game, Dem’nion looks pathetic right now :'(
Do I actually have the lowest HP in the group then? I’ve only got 6.
Do you have low Con or did you just go the +1 skill point rather than the +1 HP like I did? I think you do have the lowest HP
+1 skill point or +1 HP? Dunno what you mean. Favoured Class bonus?
Strength and Constitution are both 10, but my Charisma, Intelligence, Wisdom and Dexterity are all 15+. I was tossing up even dual-classing to Bard for a few levels at some point later, maybe pick up some better weapon proficiency + finesse so if I do get into combat, I don’t need to have any strength to be dangerous.
No real gratification for the potion I decided to give you? Pfft, figures… bloody lowborns 😛
Ooh, the barkchewer did his first useful thing and expects us to fawn over him. Conveniently forgetting the part where we saved his twinkling arse.
Yes, yes yes… I won’t be forgetting that screwup from the cat. Hopefully he won’t gamble my life through his learnings anymore.
Despite being a massive jerk, I find it really hard to be a jerk in games.
This perplexes me.
Also makes me hungry.
That last part may apply to everything in my life though.
http://bit.ly/1iuyWTC
WHY WOULD YOU LINK ME TO THAT SITE WHILE I’M AT WORK!?!?!?
I BARELY ESCAPED WITH MY LIFE!!!!!
😛
http://bit.ly/1l50OxI
And here I was thinking, “Well whatever it is it can’t be as bad as TV TrOHMYGODDAMIT”
Ditto.
I started my jerk run of Dishonored and one of the first things I did was take the time to play hide and seek with the princess.
Hey jerkface, you have the face of a jerk!
The latest adventures of “Blaghs may not be quite right in the head.”
Edit: Shit, forgot to add the sound of a jingle here.
I have (well, I don’t HAVE to, but you know what I mean) to go down to the Post Office today to pick up a package. But I really don’t want to. Why? Because I picked something up from there last week, and the week before.
And I guess this means that I don’t want to be seen as… someone who gets mail? I don’t want the Post Office judging me for… making them do their jobs?
I don’t know. But I’m apprehensive.
Mostly I’m worried that something else will turn up tomorrow or something, and then it will be two things in two days. Which would just make me THE WORST.
Pretend it’s a sign of affluence. When you go there, act like “Yeah, I totally get mail frequently, and we both know you’re impressed”. Aviators will help with this.
I like the way you think.
I was going to pretend that it was mail from friends, but I think since it was stuff from a clothing store, and an electronics store, that they wouldn’t buy it.
Not that they’d actually remember or notice these things in reality, but my mind is a very different place.
“Oh, you know, my very good friends have just been sending me so much mail lately!”
“Your friends name is ‘Chemist Warehouse’?”
“…*runs*”
“It’s an uh… umm… B… Bosmer name. Gotta go!”
I’m the opposite, if I get a card in the mail to pick something up that I’ve ordered I can’t wait to go down there and get it, and make my way there AQAP.
Wouldn’t care if I had to do it every day, I’d still be excited, who cares what they think.
Whenever I buy my lunch during the week, I make sure to cycle through different places so that the cashier’s don’t realise that I have lunch every day, or something.
so what does everyone think of this new anti-piracy bullshit?
I’m downloading the complete collection of Daria as we speak.
I did that a while back! Don’t forget the movies too!
Fuck the po’lice.
whats Daria?
:O
It’s an animated show that was created for MTV back late last century into the millennium, it’s about a sassy teenager who has a very dry & dark sense of humour, a little like Aubrey Plaza. Awesome show.
:O
The cynicism of Gen X distilled in animated form
I did that a while back, good show.
Doesn’t phase me personally, because I don’t download anything I don’t pay for.
WHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA????????????????????????????
o_0 i thought your species was extinct!!!
It’s bullshit?
I’m expecting my step dad to get us three-struck-out and I won’t be able to do anything online again… I’m not sleeping well cuz that would mean that I can’t talk to my girlfriend via my home connection anymore…
WHy dont you firewall them to stop him from doing it?
Ethical probably not but who cares.
Without access to their PC it’ll be hard to nail down the right ports, hopefully the router’s logs will be enough to figure it out.
actually better yet, set him up on a vpn…
just block ALL the sites using a firewall… or get a bit more sneaky and re-route the sites to localhost by editing his hosts file!!!
Counter-productive, stupid, shortsighted bullshit and shows that Brandis is paid off by the media industry.
– Three strikes does not work. In addition to straight up being draconian, it’s fundamentally unfriendly to everyone. All it requires is accusations – just an IP address. They don’t have to prove anything. But even that aside, the French just got rid of the system because they found it did not work at all.
– Cracking down on piracy without actually addressing the reason why Australians are pirating stuff is ludicrous. Multiple cases have shown that if you give people an alternative at a reasonable price and make it easy they will prefer to buy legit. That’s why Apple is the largest music retailer on the planet.
– Multiple studies have shown that people who pirate a lot of stuff also purchase a lot of stuff. They’re enthusiasts and big consumers. I personally technically pirate a fair bit of anime that I watch, but I also have had a paid Crunchyroll subscription since it was available, I use a VPN service to access Netflix, and I spend hundreds of dollars on merchandise every month. Quite simply that money will go away if I’m not able to keep up with the latest stuff any more, I’ll just find other hobbies (or I’ll get at it another way)
In the end though, unless they go full retard and outlaw VPNs or similar, this will just be a quick bump in the road while I find a better way to get at the same stuff. My main worry is that my sister also uses my internet connection and pirates a bunch of stuff and I have no idea where she gets it or if she’s being careful or anything. I’m assuming she isn’t. She’s more likely to get me into trouble than I am to get myself into trouble, honestly.
@negativezero used Logic. It was not effective.
one step ahead on that last note… now renting a seedbox from amsterdam, with 400gb storage 1gbps download 1gbps upload, with VPN, and unlimited bandwidth for $15 a month. 2gb torrents literally download within barely a second literally.. Then i just connect securely through ftp and download all my files \o/
The trouble with that is you can’t easily automate things like that.
My anime downloading is automated. I have a bunch of scripts that scrape RSS feeds, queue stuff up, download it, sort it into folders and so on, then have Plex pick that up and index it all. I don’t think I could do that via a seedbox, at least not using my current scripts. 🙁
EDIT: I should point out that I mainly do this because while 90% of stuff is streamed with subs and it’s not necessary to pirate, at least half of it is US-only streams and a pain to get hold of, plus Funimation’s streams are fucking terrible quality and the way they subtitle stuff is unreadable if two people talk at the same time. Also both Funi and Crunchyroll stream stuff censored a lot of the time. Plus it’s just a pain in the ass to watch stuff streamed through a website (CR at least has an app but still) since you have to do stuff like manually track what you’ve watched already and stuff. Downloaded stuff I can watch on my own terms in a way that suits me.
You mentioned it before, but I’m pretty confident that the biggest pirates are also the biggest consumers. It’s because they’re enthusiasts. Enthusiasts want ALL THE THINGS, and when the legal ones are too slow or straight-up unavailable, they get the ‘full access’ stuff first, then the ‘collector’ stuff second. Thinking of anyone who has the largest blu-ray/DVD collections or the largest Steam libraries, I think you’d find a high piracy rate, too.
Yes and no. I have a pretty huge game collection but I stopped pirating most game software a long time ago once it became a lot cheaper to just buy the games, and also because I had ethical issues with the fact I was pirating software while being paid to write software. I still may download one or two niche things now and then but usually because it’s stuff I can’t actually buy easily.
I pirate a lot of anime and I used to buy tons of DVDs, but I’ve pared that back a lot recently. However that said I’m splurging out every few months to buy stuff like the Studio Ghibli BDs straight from Japan despite already owning them, and when NISA announced a Cardcaptor Sakura Bluray set for $200 I was preordering in seconds. It’s just that most stuff nowadays really isn’t worth buying. I’ll watch it (pirated or legit – I do actually pay for a subscription that gets me access to a lot of it even if I don’t watch thru that!) and the stuff that’s really worth it I will consider buying.
What needs to stop in the anime scene though is US companies releasing expensive BD sets for stuff I really want to buy, but making them retailer-exclusive and not allowing said retailers to sell the stuff to me. I’d have puchased all the -monogatari BDs without a second thought but Aniplex USA told their exclusive retailer TRSI not to accept international sales for Bakemonogatari. So they don’t get my money.
Best is when I show I like is one of the rare cases of a Japanese BD release with subtitles. It doesn’t happen often but when it does I often buy – last case was Fate/Zero I think. Japanese BD packages are so much nicer than you get anywhere else.
Deets? I’d be interested in this.
sure whats your email?
adr1k000 @ googly mailz
Wow, where did you find this? I wouldn’t mind investigating one for myself and my mates.
shoot me your email and ill forward you the info i sent stickman.
marc [dot] c [at] live [dot] com [dot] au
Cheers 😀
You should have my email Zed, colour me interested too.
benbonnici at gmail if you could, please.
Oh man could I get the info on this also? I have careless friends who dl stuff off my net when I’m not home so if this comes to pass I can see them getting me caught.
davo (dot) cross (at the warm males) dotcom
Brandis, being an Attorney General is likely of the opinion that ‘The Law is the Law’ and the highest standard to be upheld, and that it shouldn’t have to bend or bow to the realities of unenforcability, because THE LAW IS MEANT TO WIN, GOD DAMMIT. There will be no negotiating with digital terrorists!
People like that – besides being the kind of naive idiots who humanity couldn’t have progressed far without (you know, the kinds who build major cities on flood plains then do everything in their power up to and including moving a mountain to stop mother nature from fucking it up for them because WE ALREADY DECIDED TO LIVE HERE DAMMIT) – will intentionally avoid addressing the major issues aggravating piracy numbers because of ‘the principle of the thing’.
Principles drafted literally decades ago about a subject that didn’t even fucking exist.
But yeah, there are legions of moronic douchebags who hold blind reverence for the sage foresight of law-drafting predecessors in the 70s-90s at the latest who didn’t know jack fucking shit about possibility let alone the scope of an evolution of a global marketplace with near-instant global distribution. Ignorant predecessors are being held as the progenitors of wisdom on this subject, and the absurdity of that would be laughable if it weren’t for the jaw-dropping waste of money that will ensue. (No, seriously. People will die who don’t have to, because that money wasn’t spent on them. That’s a fact.)
It makes me angry. Very angry. I’m a highly moral person in many ways (some of which would be considered immoral by people who have less compassion and understanding for the flaws of humanity), and to see these intractable assholes strutting about like they’ve claimed the moral high ground on what is very clearly a perversion of reason, deeply offends my sense of natural justice.
ie: The bad guys think they’re the good guys, and way too many people are buying it.
Which, perversely, is the exact argument the opposing side is making, and the exact source of their frustration as well.
I love you man
I can’t hear ye over the sea shanties and the flapping of the skull and crossbones, me hearty!
Arr!
I’m hoping it won’t actually happen
unfortunately at this stage its not an if… but a when…
Yeah hopefully it’ll just be saber-rattling and eventuate to nothing. But I suspect the timing is deliberate – they’ll pass the legislation without giving it a proper look because they’ll want to get it out of the way so they can talk about the crazy fucked-up bullshit in the federal budget.
the push for this new legislation seems to strong to be simple saber-rattling . i definitely see this happening.
Well we’re completely fucked if it doesn’t coincide with some updates to Australia’s insanely outdated copyright laws. Because right now doing stuff like ripping a CD to MP3 is ‘piracy’. At the very least we need US-style fair use policies.
So in theory me using my iPod like I do is illegal. Brilliant.
Well I have a torrent box that auto-downloads my shows for me as soon as they pop up in the RSS feed, so yeah I don’t think much of it.
Where there is a will there is a way.
I don’t pirate a lot but the stuff I do is stuff I am not willing/able to get via other available means.
I will just do what every other fairly computer savy person will do: ignore it and find a workaround if it becomes a problem.
*yawns*
*looks around*
*considers just going back to bed*
GET UP
GET DOWN
Heh…. HEEEEYYYYYY!
I’m in the same boat. Going to have a game of Dota, if it goes poorly, I’m going to go back to bed with a mug of hot milo and a book. Best plan? Best plan.
Hilarious stuff. New cyclist road rules came into place recently, specifying minimum distance that cars need to overtake etc. So it’s safer for cyclists. Local newspaper on page 2 has article with an avid cyclist, saying how much safer cyclists are with the new rules. Ironically, he is pictured riding illegally 😀 Sent email to the author, CC’d the main newspaper email too
okay, try this again since kotaku ate my comment.
There are back roads near my work that are really narrow and cyclists love using them, with the new laws to legally overtake them we’d have to drive partially in the oncoming lane. So what do we do? Break the law every time we have to pass a cyclist or start ploughing into oncoming traffic.
The new laws allow you to cross double white lines or even painted islands, as long as it’s safe.
Still doesn’t help this situation: you are travelling at 100kmph and need to perform an emergency stop, because you can’t give the cyclist 1.5m room because there’s a car approaching. This is apparently safe.
the roads in question are pretty dodgy too, there are accidents on them daily (it’s where I flipped my car too), they’re really curvy with a lot of blind spots, I foresee the frequency of crashes rising, they’re 80klm/hr roads too so they won’t be pretty.
I forsee nothing changing at all aside from a lot of cases of civil disobedience.
Ugh, this is such a poor solution to a problem. How many people out there on the roads can safely judge that it’s safe to overtake when it truly isn’t? etc.. Answer is not enough, seen too many idiots do stupid overtaking maneuvers that would’ve resulted in them being dead if the other person was not paying attention.
Or, as was pointed out by my driving instructor when I failed my test by overtaking a tractor, drive behind them until there is an opportunity to safely AND LEGALLY over-take, no matter how slow they’re going. Even if that means you drive at 15km/h.
Your instructor was a tricky prick.
My Asian driving instructor read the paper during all five of my log book lessons, never really paying attention to my decisions though intermittently commenting, ‘very good driver’ now and again.
I only received a verbal warning for not looking left and right at an intersection even though my lane had green; and not completely stopping at a STOP sign. Seems obvious, however you are not required to completely stop at a Give Way. He still passed me though.
This was back in the day when half hour lessons cost $30, and my Ps cost me $150 all up.
Wanna make cyclists safe? Ban them from every road without bike lanes and fine them for breaking the road rules, including riding two abreast.
ummmmmm riding 2 abreast isn’t illegal. In fact you can be 3 abreast if somebody is overtaking.
No issue with fining people for breaking road rules, technically they should already but isn’t as enforced. Then again they break it as often as drivers, the number of times you see people run the orange when it was safer to stop and that is without going into the constant speeding.
A metre matters and slowing down for 100m to avoid the risk of killing somebody isn’t really a high price to pay
As for keeping them off roads without bike lanes that makes it impossible to actually commute anywhere. I would be happy with dropping lanes to make way for bike paths but the driver backlash to those proposals means there are not many bike lanes about
It should be illegal. Ever had to try and overtake a couple of cyclists riding abreast just because they want to chat, on a main road, in heavy traffic, with semis in the other lane?
Ever been on a hill road thats barely wide enough for a car and all blind corners and you’re stuck at barely 10kph along with 20 other cars because some arsehole cyclist wants to power up the hill?
Ever had to slam the breaks because some cyclist decides he wants to cut across 3 lanes to get into the turning lane at the last second or just weaves out into your lane randomly?
Most of our roads are not designed for cyclists. Simple as that. Hell, many are barely adequate for the amount of traffic on them.
Cyclists are not vehicles. They are unable to utilise the road as intended and obey the road rules and so are a hazard to themselves and everyone around them.
I have nothing against people riding bikes, but until the right infrastructure and rules are put into place that allows them to do so without being a road hazard? Not so much. Cyclists should understand they are the ones putting themselves in danger and take responsibility, not demand everyone else accommodate them.
/endrant
Oh, that’s the other fun one: 80kph road with largely blind corners, and a pack of cyclists going 20 and taking up THE ENTIRE LANE. And when I almost crash trying to avoid them and beep my horn? Get fucking agro at me.
So. Much. Hate.
I never saved anything for the swim back. @dc
THE DEPARTURE. THE DEEEEPARTURE.
I still haven’t told you about my son, have I?
Hey Freeze, what did you do today?
Oh you know. Just trying to come up with creative ways to kill all my friends. Nothing much.
O_o
I do that all the time. It’s called Gamemastering for RPGs. 😛
I’d be a terrible one. Players enter the tomb. An earthquake hits and the tomb collapses. All players die. Campaign over.
Rocks fall everybody dies is a classic GM technique.
Can I interest you in the Tomb of Horrors?
That’s pretty much what any of the Warhammer RPGs are. If your character doesn’t die, then he is the exception and not the rule. Also there are the absolutely hilarious critical hit charts which make you lose limbs and still potentially have a playable character (if you don’t end up dying).
GMs can easily get away with killing players if the players know that the story and the setting is out to get them. Oh woops, sorry about that, the planet you were on was subject to Exterminatus. Time to reroll.
That door really did a number on you, hey.
Creative and entertaining.
There I am, updating a website for one of our school clients. They’ve sent me through a nice big image of a classroom filled with primary-aged kids to use as a background image. Typical shot of kids sitting on the floor, sticking their hands up to answer the teacher, all looking very happy.
They must have missed that in the background is a small girl succeeding in sticking a toy giraffe up her nose.
You can Photoshop that so it appears she’s giving thumbs up as well, can’t you? 😀
There was another shot a while back of a teacher leaning over to point to something in a boys book, the boy looking very interested. Was a great photo.
The girl sat next to the boy was slumped on her desk, head on her book, eyes and mouth open. She looked dead.
It was hilarious.
MARIO KART 7!
VROOOOM!
PUFF! PUFF! SPLURT! *falls to 8th*
SHY GUY 4 LYFE!!! 😀
Seriously, you’ve given me the karting bug now :3
Then get outta work and leech some Wi-Fi ASAP! 😀
I should get on on this if I get a chance…
YES! 7:30! 😀
Next feed is due at about 7, so this is entirely possible.
Looking through upcoming and announced Vita stuff and I’m probably going to be grabbing:
– Atelier Rorona
– Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment
– Tales of Hearts R
– Akiba’s Trip 2
– Danganronpa 2
– Hatsune Miku Project Diva F2
– Oreshika
– Disgaea 4
– Mind=0
– Neptunia PP
– Neptunia Rebirth 1
– Sly collection
– Freedom Wars
– Senran Kagura
– Monster Monpiece
– Trails in the Sky SC (PSP)
And that’s just stuff that’s announced for localization at the moment, there’s quite a few more that aren’t confirmed yet. Plus this isn’t even counting the pile of awesome looking Indie stuff that’s coming out presumably cross-buy. And I believe all those are happening in the next 6 months or so.
oww…….. my wallet
@negativezero (I think)
I found that destiny beta code if you still want it 🙂
Kinda surprised I didn’t throw it out, so you’re lucky!
Thanks, but I ended up putting down a preorder with Amazon US who sent out a code instantly – I can cancel with them or order a CE later and keep the code. Sorry to make you find it only to not need it. 🙁
However maybe someone else here would be interested?
Haha, no stress 🙂
It didn’t take as long as I thought it would to find anyway 😛
Destiny beta code up for grabs for anyone that wants it! 😀
*cough* raises hand.
@gutsoup expressed first interest, so he has first refusal rights.
If he doesn’t want it you can have it though 🙂
what platform is the code for?
You redeem the code on Bungie’s site and when the beta rolls around you select the platform you want to play it on.
I don’t know what will actually happen but what I’m anticipating is they’re handling Destiny like an MMO – you buy the game and it gives you a rego code for Bungie.net which entitles you to access to the game on that platform. For the beta that probably means it’ll work like FFXIV – anyone could download it but you had to have beta access on your Squenix account to log in.
I’m assuming PS4, buy it doesn’t specifically say :S
You have to go to the website and redeem it there, so you could choose your platform as far as I know :S
I just redeemed my code and it says “Platform selection and Beta download code generation will be available in 2014. An email will be sent to your verified email address when beta download codes are available.”
They said recently that the beta is in July. Which means it’s the 7th of July. Because 7/7 is Bungie Day, and it happens that Bungie Day 2014 is the 7th anniversary of the first Bungie day (on 7/7/7) so it’s an extra-special occasion. (Bungie is obsessed with the number 7)
Also (and this applies to anyone wanting to play Destiny) you should enter the codes here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=110924035&postcount=153
Each one is not unique. Apparently at various press events, gamer gatherings etc. Bungie has been giving away sets of cards with codes on them which apparently when the game releases may unlock extra stuff. I’m thinking it’ll probably be just extra customizations or other cosmetic things, but hey, it’s free extra swag.
Thanks mate I’ll check that out when I get home!
Ooohkay, the new Sherlock Holmes game apparently takes inspiration from L.A. Noire.
I’m not sure if this is a good thing. There was plenty to like about L.A. Noire. There was also plenty not to like, not because of design, but implementation.
But there is a rather nifty trailer for Sherlock, so there’s that I guess.
Would anyone be interested in doing some Hexen 2 Co-Op in the future?
You know, that does actually sound pretty cool.
I’m pretty confident I have it, I bought that anniversary-special quakecon super-pack thing.
So my printer has decided today is the day it’s not going to work. Ugh. *shakes fist at it* Can’t work on cosplay stuff if you won’t print the pattern
Punch it directly in the face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsBB93IqJkE
Clearly.
…so if you can’t work on cosplay stuff that means you can Mario Kart, right?
I fixed it. It was my computer who was adamant that the printer had a jam. Stubborn bugger. Fixed him up with a reset.
Having you tried moving the printer in front of the monitor so the computer can see it?
So somehow we’ve managed to hit out download limit (500gb) by downloading 4gb an hour for the past couple of weeks. Everyone else seems to think that somebody hacked into our router, but I’m almost positive it’s coming fr somebody in the house based on patterns I’ve noticed. Nobody even wants to entertain the thought of double checking their bandwidth usage though :/ I dunno how “maybe we should all have a look” could be so offensive, but oh well. Not like I have 4 assignments due soon that are 100% reliant on having useable internet…
Whoa phew! Good thing you don’t have 4 assignments due soon that are 100% reliant on having useable internet!
Internet is the same as electricity, water etc. If someone in a shared house is getting a much bigger share and not paying for it, make them change their habit or pay for it. From my experience, not doing anything about it because it feels awkward (or what have you) generally results in a much bigger issue down the track.
You might be able to do a quick & dirty ID by going into you router config and looking for a statistics page. Most basic routers have something that will show the number of packets sent out what interface and might even show to what MAC address. If it doesn’t show MAC level info & everyone connects via wireless it probably won’t be much use but if there’s cabled connections and one shows a shitload more traffic than the rest, chances are that’s the one that’s caused it.
@negativezero:
The Sly collection is already out. Or are you using a different region where it’s not available?
(I’m trying to start a new post as it says I’m posting too fast, hopefully a new post will let me post)
US Vita. It’s out this month.
Reminder for Mario Kart 7 in about 1hourish
@powalen @sughly @benny and me are playing and everyone else is welcome. Depending on numbers we can either play in the TAY thing (Powwwww give us the deets :D), or we’ll just play in games with randoms and you’ll have to join through the 3DS Friends list.
@rize @gingerchris86 @mrtaco @gutsoup @blaghman @jimu @trjn
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DARK SOULS 2:
Any other super awesome spots to use Bonfire Ascentics on early on for really good items? I never used them in my first playthrough but just did NG+ Skeleton Lords for the ring on my caster. YES! :D. I hear Scorpioness gives a good caster ring too
o
oo
ooo
GO!
*miss-times takeoff boost, suddenly 8th*
Again.
*hits Powalen with multiple red shells*
He still wins.
NO!
I kind of want to play but I am playing with a giant puzzle =(
Yes!
cmonnnnn 🙂
I will if you work on this pattern for me =P
oo
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DONE!
liar =P
Executioners Chariot NG+ gives Cloranthy ring +2.
Also Moonlight Butterfly set in Majula, if you want to be a poison fairy.
TAYbits! MK7! Coming up. Here’s all the deets in one spot for you. If we have enough for TAY kart competition, this is how to partake:
open up Mario Kart 7 and enter the TAY community code below. It's a standard 150cc/All Items setup (details also on the TAYNAMES Server page)
Code: 64-4416-9435-5733
Type: 150cc Grand Prix
Items: All
Otherwise, use the TAYnames spreadsheet to add any TAYbits as friends that you do not have.
TAYnames
If I remember correctly, you only need to have one TAYbit as a friend, join them in online mulitplayer and you will still see all other TAY participants anyway. I think?
Yup! I have most people (except for maybe Chris, Lion and Taco)
I want to join, but no-one was in the community thing, and I don’t want to add friends 😛
Yep, Scorpioness is the go. Protip: You can just run to the boss gate without engaging any NG+ enemies.
This guide for best magic equipment is helpful, but it sounds like you’re on top of it anyway.
Belfry Gargoyles gives Gold Serpent Ring +2 (item discovery) and Mytha Baneful Queen gives Silver Serpent Ring +2 (for grinding souls).
Ugh need to update to play online. And need to go to eShop to get the patch. And need to update to go on the eShop. And bleh.
Thanks @benny @powalen @sughly ! Benny we should use those lame light characters to be on an even playing field! 😛 (I swear they make a difference!)
@mrtaco @jajabinks2
Oh mannnn! You guys should’ve said you would be joining! I think 6 is a good enough number to do the TAY community thing. There’s always next time though :D. TAY only match with TeamSpeak on would be pretty sweet. I may even talk!
(I won’t)
You’ll all just abandon me when MK8 comes out anyways
😛
Join ussssssss
Faaaaaaaaaark Souls Two!
Blitzing through NG+
Took down the Ruin Sentinels, Covetous Demon, Mytha the Baneful Queen, Skelly Lords (NG++ difficulty). Next stop: Iron Keep, then off to the Shaded Woods to start the Brightcove path.
Is it at all hard so far? Or like DS1 and utterly trivial for most of the game.
I can’t comment on it in its entirety, but it feels a lot more like Gravelord Coventanted DS1. That is, there’s a bunch of new enemies hanging about, and I can only assume that WHEELIE SKELETONS ARE EVERYWHERE, WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
They’ve made some interesting changes. Lots of new enemies around the place, tonnes of black phantoms. It’s kind of hard to tell because this time I’ve got a whole new build (squishy mage) and am summoning as much as possible.
The best change I’ve found so far is a new event (which I just this moment completed)
:
Gur Qhxr’f Qrne Serwn fubjf hc gbgnyyl harkcrpgrqyl va gur svefg nern bs Oevtugfgbar Pbir. Fgnegyvat, gb fnl gur yrnfg. Nccneragyl nyy gur qnzntr lbh qb urer (hc gb n znkvzhz bs 50%, juvpu V npuvrirq) pneevrf guebhtu gb gur obff svtug jura lbh trg gurer.
Ohg va guvf svtug, lbh’ir fgvyy tbg gur zbof bs rarzvrf gb pbagraq jvgu nf jryy. Terng arj (frzv-bcgvbany*) punyyratr.
*Frzv-bcgvbany va gung lbh pna ergerng hagvy vg tbrf njnl, nccneragyl.
EA’s free game has changed, instead of Dead Space you can now get… Plants Vs Zombies…
Bit of a letdown really.
Well, I already own both of them, so nothing lost for me.
In EAs defence, Plants vs Zombies is pretty great.
Especially those stupidly adorable star-fruits 😀
da fuq?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/05/watching-women-trying-to-sing-while-having-an-orgasm-is-funobviously/
That like the one where they read classic literature while sitting on a vibrator on YouTube?
I want to play Mario kart with everyone but I have no way to connect my 3DS to the internet cause reasons. Mainly china. So I’m going to do what I do best and drink various flavours of liquid and talk to cute Chinese girls and play pool. But of those three things I’m only good at the first and ok at the other two.
I miss things I can’t remember!
Mario Kart is fucking shit. You can only come eighth so many times before it really starts to piss you off. Suddenly I’d rather be the one talking to cute Chinese girls and playing pool.
For memory I tend to average 2nd or 3rd. Might of come first sometimes if @powalen wasn’t a cheater.
haha aww man :(. I was just thinking “kudos to Benny for staying!” but uhh 🙁 aww
Just blame everyone but yourself (especially Powalen). It’s how I justify it 😛
I would love to play too… but no 3DS and MK7. My Wii U/MK8 time will come! *decisive nod*
*Writes “Send to D.C.” on my spare 3DS.*
Come to china. No one has a 3DS!
The Chinese wouldn’t like me. I’m tall and lumbering and in love with Western culture. 😛
Aka Chinese chick magnet. Learn some simple Chinese words and your good to go.
Thanks for the thoughts, Blaghs — but I could never accept that.
Kind to offer though. 🙂
It’ll just be neglected anyway since…
MK8 SOON WOO!
I realised earlier that they could make DLC characters a thing. Would you consider buying Diddy? 😛
I wouldn’t buy any DLC from Nintendo cause they suck at accounts and online stuff and being relevent in the 21st Century. 😛
But Diddy.
Think of poor Diddy.
If I can play as Link on an Epona kart, insta-buy~!
Future Zelda Eponabike!
Uh, I really want to play Superbike World Championship on my PC, but the game is too old… 🙁
I went to work today, but was besieged by health problems. I was sneezing constantly, which caused headaches and a nose that yearned for death. (translation: it hurt a lot) At around 1230h fever symptoms started to appear. The sickness was too much, and I had to leave the workplace at 1400h.
I find that I guess the fever is taking a lot of energy to fight, because I am hungry and have to eat a lot more than I should have to.
You’ve got to love sickness.
Finally managed to use the wii fit. Mum made fun of me the entire time.
Anyway I have decided, 5 yoga exercises, 4 toning exercise and 3 calorie burning ones. Plan to do it everyday if I can.
If means if I can get the TV for a short time.
Well the more you can do the more you remember. Then you can do it without needing the tv
Does your monitor have HDMI?
Actually, does the Wii have it?
my monitor does have HDMI. I’m too lazy to plug it in.
Tick it off as exercise!
I really have to stop being so lazy and start using XBox Fitness, it’s been sitting on my Xbone ever since it came out, haven’t even started it once, and I haven’t been able to play Wii Fit (even if I was motivated) because my Wii broke.
Might look at getting Wii Fit U when I get the Mario Kart 8 bundle as I already have the balance board.
Tried playing Dark Forces on the PC, and had a grin as the bit tune music and opening sequence rolls.
Gameplay – eh.
Note: Literal First 5 mins impressions.
The music is one of the reasons I still maintain TIE Fighter is one of the best games ever. I don’t know of anything that executed a dynamic soundtrack as well as that game.
IIRC Dark Forces was built on the same tech (Lucasarts’ iMUSE MIDI stuff) but it wasn’t dynamic, changing what plays depending on the state of the game and what was happening?
While clicking through random links on youtube I rediscovered this epic 16 minute instrumental piece by Black Metal band Equilibrium. I can’t stand the rest of their stuff because of the vocals, but I used to have a copy of the album just for this, it’s an absolutely amazing piece of music.
It just occurred to me that I’ve had my repro of Bound High sitting on my shelf for nearly a year and a half, and haven’t even so much as powered it up to see if it works.
Guess I know what I’m playing next.
Is that a BDSM game?
EDIT: Fucking hell, 2 comments in a row without a fuckup? Is kotaku working again?
Well, I guess one could argue that being a Virtual Boy game means the masochism component is well covered.
I just tried to reply to you telling you to not say that because you’ll jinx it, and guess what happened. That’s right, “YOU’RE POSTING TO FRIGGIN’ FAST”!
Edit: Took four tries to post that.
Listening to some Maiden, I swear that band has not put out a bad record despite having 3 different singers over their 30+ years.
I feel like Iron Maiden is a bit overrated. I mean they do have some really good songs, and they aren’t exactly *bad* at all… but so much of their stuff just seems really average. Found them overall kinda disappointing 😛
Should probably give them another listen through sometime soon, check for confirmation or change of mind.
I’d suggest Powerslave as a good album to try
Just skip to the end and listen to Rime of the Ancient Mariner 😛
They’re alright if you’re in the mood for them. Personally find a lot of their stuff a bit too… fiddly, I guess I’d describe it… at times. But if I’m listening to 70s/80s metal I’d tend to pull out stuff like Judas Priest or Sabbath or a bunch of other stuff before I’d reach for Iron Maiden.
For me it seemed like a lot their stuff was kind of repetitive. Only example that stuck in my mind was Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and how it seemed like they just said that line over and over and over again.
Yeah, I get that too. It kind of washes together a lot of the time. I also felt like their actual music often lacked weight to it. Not ‘thick’ enough. I’m not sure how to describe it best. But by the time Maiden where hitting it big it was the mid 80s and if I’m looking at Metal stuff from the mid 80s, I felt like there was stuff with much chunkier riffs and a denser sound. But that’s mainly personal preference.
EDIT: Also a big thing is that most of the music I listened to in the 80s was informed by my Dad’s preferences since he was the main music buyer, so I had more exposure to prog rock stuff than pure metal. Stuff like Rush or Yes.
Dio era Sabbath, best Sabbath hands down.
Agreed, the Dio albums were my favourite of Sabbath too.
I love Ozzy and the original 8 albums he fronted with Sabbath in the 70’s are for the most part timeless classics, but Dio, that man could sing, and what he did with Sabbath was awesome. Also Heaven & Hell (the band) was formed way too late imo, cause it kills me there was only one album before Dio’s passing.
Fair enough 😛
I hear ya took me a while to really appreciate their music and get into it, though it’s like that with just about any band for me.
Whilst I don’t like every song, there’s usually a few songs on each album I rather like.
@shane, @powalen other phoenix wright fans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSyYps8xJfs
Edit: I forgot to post the link because I am retarded
Hah, that last bit is so true 😛
You mean in the vid, right?
Riiight? 😛
Why not both? =P
*mexican fiesta*
Two kickstarters I backed have been cancelled mid-campaign today. 🙁
ALL THE KICKSTARTERS (not actually all of them) I’VE BACK HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL AND OH GOOD GOODBYE MONEY!
🙁
Yours and the Outcast remake were the last 2 I backed and both didn’t make it. I hope it’s not a trend
One of them was an amazing looking card game using artwork from the Touhou games, but they had to ditch because apparently the copyright owner in Japan were worried that the license he has on the games content (which is for self-published doujinshi works) was possibly being voided by gathering funds up-front to fund the project (seen as being ‘investment’ and too commercial) rather than making the product and then selling it. Which IMO is fucking retarded, but they’ll apparently try again later if they can get a more permissive license hammered out. :\
The other one was the cool looking teach-yourself-Japanese card game Madoushi. It wasn’t looking very good anyway – about 15 days left but only 1/4 funded – but the guy running it has experienced a death in the family and can’t devote time to the kickstarter at the moment 🙁
So unavoidable in both cases, but the first one is a bit of a pain because I only backed it this morning 🙁
EDIT: I’ve backed 42 projects on Kickstarter. 4 unsuccessful, 2 cancelled. A couple of the ones I backed years ago have still not been delivered and I’m assuming they never will be. One of the ones I backed that’s still running right now looks like it won’t make it, the others are looking okay. Video Games projects seem like they’re the least reliable type of thing to back.
I’ve backed nine things, three have been unsuccessful, there are 2 unsure, but they’re mostly guaranteed, and the rest are more or less vaguely done deals.
But I keep upping the amount I’m throwing towards things…
So far I’ve backed one, and it failed. Sorry @shane.
I know you’re not actually meant to admit to listening to them unironically but Def Leppard’s ‘Hysteria’ really is a good album.
Who says you shouldn’t admit to it. Classic 80’s hard rock, nothing wrong with it. There are much worse things you could be listening to *cough* Justin Bieber *cough*
OMG IT’S A POPPY SELLOUT ALBUM AND NOT PROPER METAL etc.
I actually don’t consider Def Leppard to be “proper” Metal, to me they’re hard rock. When I think of “proper” 80’s metal I think of bands like Metallica and Megadeth.
They weren’t metal, they always said they were hard rock
Yes, exactly. They get lumped into the hair metal groups a lot though. And there are a lot of other groups that were hard rock that got the same treatment. Scorpions for example.
They were part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement though to be fair 😛 But yeah hard rock for sure.
No, you’d be a fool not to admit it’s a really good album!
Alright, worst timing on this, but if I say Wicked: the 18th of October (2PM Matinee showing, Sydney, should probably clarify that, dickhead) who wants to come?
I’m perfectly willing to be relatively cheap, which means $100 for normal tickets, $120 for better seats, and more for ones that those with disposable income might consider (but shouldn’t).
Who wants a ticket?
(Honestly, $120 are the best $ to ticket ratio but none are actually bad, also I’m a cheapskate)
I can work with that.
Yeah.
I would like to come, Ash would probably want to be there too. Though as we are heading overseas in 11 days we wouldn’t be able to pay you back for a while.
Put us down as maybes and I’ll talk to her about it
Well it’s no wonder I don’t get many games finished, got home from work 3 hours ago, had tea, turned on the ol’ Xbone, then came here and proceeded to waste the next 2 and a half hours fucking around on the internet. Shouldn’t have even bothered turning the damn thing on.
Bound High is a pretty cool guy. Instantly jumps right up there with Jack Bros and Insmouse as favourite titles.
Also I forgot how much I friggen love the Virtual Boy. Really should take a look at making something for it. But that would require turning unlazy.
Random questions for the males (and perhaps the particularly hairy females):
Electric razor or good old razor blade?
My sister bought me an electric razor for chtistmas, so I have to use it, but it suuuuucks.
Just made me curious is all, cause I hate my electric razor.
Shaving cream and razor blades are my preference.
I just use a trimmer thing these days. Because my skin is made of sandpaper and it hurts to clean shave 😛
I used an electric razor, with the foils and everything, back in high school. Not the biggest fan, feels like it irritates my skin a lot. Then in uni preferred to stick to just stubble, so it was on to using a trimmer. More recently I found my Nonno’s old double-edged razor which had made its way down into the garage for some reason, and he still had a tonne of blades left for it so I took them and started using it. I like it, now that I’ve got the hang of it. Also the clean-shaven thing works better for me with a shaven head, so it’s ok than back when it would make me all babyface 😛
Trimmer’s still there for when I get lazy though. Like currently.
I use both, as I shave every few months it makes removing large amounts of hair easy if it has a trimming blade on it
Electric is good if you don’t have blades or need to shave in a hurry & don’t have time for a shower. Other than that, those expensive triple blade razors are the only ones that I like, cost a shitload but last a good long while and get the job done without slicing my pretty face up
Blades.
Electric ones just don’t give a close enough shave and tend to irritate more.
Though for beard trimming/removal electric hair clippers are the way to go.
Electric razor only cause I don’t want a clean shave any way, I imagine the benefits for Electric Razor suck when you do want a clean shave.
Blades give a better shave by far, but I’m a lazy bastard so I mainly use an electric. Mine actually died about two weeks ago though, have to replace it. 🙁
As far as blades go, I just use decent disposables. The quality of the blades is around the same as refills for the actual razors and the cost is lower.
I’ve tried a few electric razors over time. Varying degrees of quality/price (which interestingly had no bearing on each other). Couldn’t really stand any of them. Weak, ineffective, annoying to clean, irritates the skin.
My brother and his boyfriend swear by them because they like the stubbled look, and if I was going for a permanent 5pm-shadow look, I’d probably have given it another shot, but I found I could get pretty much exactly the same look by using an age-worn dull razor in the shower.
When I was shaving? Razor and cream. (Preferably one of those gels that foams up once you start rubbing it over your stubble.) Every 2 days or so.
Now I beard, so I get a barber to trim it nice and neat for me every couple weeks. He’s one of the very few I’ve been able to find who can actually do a decent trim.
Are we talking face or something else?
Face 😛
I’d use hair removal cream for anywhere else 😉
Just been listening to Babymetal and Alestorm on youtube, any other Metal bands anyone can recommend that I might not have heard of.
Finntroll?
EDIT: Furthering the masked/costumed thing, check out Lordi, GWAR, Mortiis.
Also Hevisaurus, the greatest children’s metal band ever 😛
Cheers for the recommendations, but for some reason my computer won’t load VEVO videos at the moment, worked fine the other day. I’ll check them out as soon as I can.
Holy shit. That’s actually a thing that exists?
F-Zero X Guitar Arrange Edition.
Really wish they did an Expansion Edition, with the missing songs from the base game and the additional ones from the expansion kit.
I’ve got the full OST around here somewhere, my favourite is Fall Down To The Scream.
Edit: Just listening to the Guitar Arrange Edition, awesome stuff.
Edit 2: Man, I hope they do a new F-Zero for the WiiU.
Yeah, that one and Devil’s Call In Your Heart I really would have liked to hear done up like that.
Mine’s probably Crazy Call At Cry. Rollercoaster’s pretty good too.
Gloryhammer? 😛
But seriously, it would help if you mentioned what you actually had heard of and liked. I could recommend tonnes of Folk/Symphonic/Power Metal.
OK, the main ones I’ve heard of (that come to mind) are ones like Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Lamb Of God, Slipknot, Joe Satriani, Trivium, Atreyu, Anthrax, Dragonforce, Judas Priest, Lamb Of God, Disturbed, Pantera, Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold, Mastodon, Slayer, and Suicidal Tendencies.
And more novelty ones I’ve heard of are Beatallica, Babymetal, and Alestorm
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head, but I’m sure there’s tons more.
I like all kinds of metal, not a big fan of death metal though.
Haven’t heard any Gloryhammer, so I’ll give them a listen.
Add to that DevilDriver, High on Fire, The Sword, Dimmu Borgir, American Headcharge and you can’t have not heard them but They’re not on your list- System of a Down are my absolute favourite band.
Oh hell yeah, can’t believe I forgot SoaD, and obviously Serj Tankian and Scars On Broadway.
My suggestions are: Amon Amarth, In Mourning, Insomnium, Before the Dawn, In Flames. Dry Kill Logic, Dope, Sentenced, Ministry. The first 4 are Melodic Death though, but awesome.
MyGrain, Killswitch Engage, Ill Nino, Darkwater, Amorphis and Killing Joke are ok.
Unsun and Nemesea are good if you want something with a female vocalist.
Oh, also check out Devin Townsend’s stuff.
And early Static X, Lost Prophets and Spineshank are good, not so much their later stuff tho.
It sounds like your stuff is mainly US and UK-focused. The European stuff is often quite different.
Nightwish? I kind of lost interest in them recently because I felt like they went a bit nutty, but they’re huge.
Sabaton is pretty good if you want some more pumped up stuff.
Therion’s mid-00s stuff is really good. If you wanted to try them probably Lemuria or Secret of the Runes is a good starting point.
Depending on how you feel about cookie monster death metal-style vocals there’s a fairly big subgenre that involves contrast between that and a high female vocalist, usually with a more symphonic sound. I’m not usually a big fan of it but I quite like Leaves’ Eyes if you want to try some of it – a lot of their stuff is just the female vocalist.
If you don’t mind the fact it’s petty cheesy, Rhapsody of Fire is a fun listen.
Since you mentioned Alestorm, maybe try some Korpiklaani? Quite close in sound due to the use of fiddles and stuff. A bit faster-paced and without the pirate theme though.
I love Korpiklaani’s Vodka. Great song.
I’ve been raving like a madwoman about Gloryhammer since they came into existence, can’t believe you missed that!
Anyway, you’ve got a good starting point in your list there. Try Iced Earth, their new album Dystopia is a great start. Maybe some Australian staples like LORD (ex Dungeon) and Vanishing Point. Definitely try Sabaton. If you don’t like Sabaton I’ll be surprised. And sad. 😛
Folk metal like Ensiferum and Eluveitie may also appeal to you in addition to the aforementioned Finntroll. I find they’re both slightly more accessible than Finntroll as well.
If you like Dragonforce and end up liking Gloryhammer, try Rhapsody Of Fire for some more cheesy epic power metal. And if you still like power metal after that, Freedom Call’s latest, ‘Beyond’ is stellar.
If you need more kind of novelty bands, Jaldaboath are pretty cool. They describe themselves as “Hammering Heraldic Metal”, “Crusader-core”, “Tumultuous Teutonic Templar Thrash” . 😛
My album of the year so far is Thaurorod’s Anteinferno so I’m recomending that as well.
Let me know if you need any more suggestions. You didn’t mention if you liked female-fronted metal or not so I didn’t suggest any of that yet. If you do, Epica is a great start.
Always happy to talk metal.
Oh, and when you’re done listening to all this new stuff, think about doing this: http://70000tons.com/ It’s an awesome way to find new bands you like, plus you’ll most likely get to meet them. 😀
Edited to add: Symphonic, very opera-like types of metal like Therion (I disagree with Neg and think Sitra Ahra is their best, and I also love their weird album of French covers, “Les Fleur Du Mal”) and Haggard may also be fun to check out.
Sweet! thanks for the suggestions, I don’t mind whether the band is fronted by a male or a female, the only female-fronted metal band I can recall listening to is Lacuna Coil (which I like), so feel free to suggest more.
Man, I didn’t think I was gonna get such a massive response, I think I’m gonna be busy for a while.
Thanks heaps guys.
Archenemy…
See my post further down, I still haven’t decided on half the bands listed
Just listened to my first Gloryhammer song, Angus McFife, and wow, they’re pretty fucking awesome.
I am both happy and sad for you. You just missed their epic Australian tour.
What sort of metal? I could recommend anything from Disturbed to Flesh God Apocalypse and they’re very different.
If you mean the more novelty sort of thing there Powerwolf are pretty great.
For a list see my reply to @strange above, I’ve got a few Disturbed albums, haven’t heard of Flesh God Apocalypse though, so I’ll check them out.
I like most novelty bands I’ve heard (not just metal), Beatallica, Alestorm, Hayseed Dixie. I’ll check out Powerwolf, cheers.
Alestorm, are so awesome… They’re a crack up those guys. Might give their singer Chris Bowes’ other band Gloryhammer a look if you so wish, if you haven’t already, they’re Power Metal, and they’re awesome!
I’m sure you’ve heard of him, but Jason Newsted has a solo project these days called ‘Newsted’ and he’s put out some pretty decent music, and he is vocals as well, which work out pretty good imo.
Also Mark Tremonti (Alter Bridge) has a solo project called ‘Tremonti’ his stuff is pretty awesome and it’s a good step away from Alter Bridge showcasing his heavier side and letting him show off his vocals which are actually pretty good.
But I really can’t suggest any metal bands, since I just listen to the typical Metal ones; Maiden, Priest, Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, Testament, Exodus, Sabbath, Rob Zombie, Pantera, Rammstein, Damageplan, Lamb of God, Motorhead, Steel Panther, Slipknot etc.. Though if you want some rock band suggestions I can do that, lol.
Thanks for the recommendations man, I’m into pretty much all kinds of music (except pop bullshit like Justin Bieber etc), so feel free to suggest away.
@mythamphetamine, @mrtaco, @strange, @negativezero, @freezespreston and @jocon thanks heaps for the suggestions guys I’ll definitely give them all a try.
Also, one that came to mind that I don’t think anyone mentioned is Children Of Bodom, Their covers album Skeletons In The Closet is pretty awesome.
Children of Bodom are good in small doses 😛 Their cover of Oops I Did It Again is hilariously awesome.
Edit: as for other bands, I can suggest;
-The Mayfield Four (Myles Kennedy fronted them before he was in Alter Bridge)
-Beautiful Creatures (DJ Ashba was the lead guitarist before he was in Sixx:A.M & Guns N’ Roses, their first album is great)
-Sixx:A.M (Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue’s new-ish baby)
-Black Stone Cherry (buch of southern dudes from Kentucky, I love their sound. They just released a 4th album this week, they’re just Rock N’ Roll how it should be imo)
-Halestorm (rad female vocals, with an awesome band, they few pop elements to them I guess, but they’re more rock than anything and they also have 2 awesome covers EP’s!)
-Orianthi (was Michael Jacksons lead guitarist for This Is It tour that never went ahead & is now with Alice Cooper, she has 3 solo albums)
-Team Cybergeist (electronic/rock/industrial band, first album was a compilation with over 60 artists on it, and the main guy behind it all Angel ex-drummer of Dope is a rad dude)
-The BossHoss (found them at Soundwave this year they’re from Germany but are a country rock sorta band, hilariously awesome imo)
and just to plug my mates two bands; Hell and Whiskey
St00pid moderation >=[
Possibly the best metal cover ever, at least for the funny.
For the awesome, I think the best metal cover would have to be Mnemic’s cover of the Duran Duran song Wild Boys
and his other band Snakes & Daggers
he has a third band ‘Kill The Apprentice’ which are Melbourne based, but I haven’t heard anything from them in aaaaaages, so idk what’s going on with them.
Also should add; Alter Bridge, I dunno why I didn’t mention them before but yeah. Modern rock, some pretty sweet guitar work, the song Blackbird has an epic guitar solo duel between Mark & Myles, they’re both pretty amazing players. I hear it’s even better live, but I sadly missed 95% of their set this year at Soundwave 🙁
Also if you’re into that turn of the century metal/industrial kinda music Dope is pretty cool, I like their covers of Rebel Yell, People Are People & You Spin Me Right Round.. People think the You Spin Me cover is Manson, for some reason doesn’t even sound like him 😛
Hope you like some of this i’ve suggested 😛
Thanks dude, I’ll let you know how I go with your suggestions.
No worries, I love music so yeah 😛
Okay I started this list before I went down the street and kind of forgot to post it so other people may have listed many of these before but I don’t want to refresh the page unless I do that too fast as well. Oh look, commenting too fast, 3 hours after my last one…
Black Sabbath (they effectively invented the genre so you need to listen to them)
Soilwork
Gwar
In Flames
Gwar
Killswitch Engage
Mnemic
Gwar
Evergrey
Periphery
Gwar
Pain
Testament
Gwar
Arch Enemy
Gwar (okay, I’ll stop going on about Gwar now but they’re awesome)
City Of Fire
Disarmonia Mundi
Meshuggah
Nevermore
Paradise Lost
Scar Symmetry
Sybreed
Gwar
Look on youtube for the show Metal Evolution, it’s a really interesting doco series on how metal grew out of the preceding genres and how it takes strong influences from seemingly unrelated things like classical & jazz.
Cheers for the list.
Black Sabbath is one of those bands I think everybody’s heard of, classic metal. I’ve got a few Killswitch Engage albums, I have listened to Testament before, and I’ve also heard of Meshuggah, but never got around to actually listening to any of their songs. Never heard of any of the others, so I’ll be sure to check them all out (especially Gwar).
Also looking forward to watching Metal Evolution, I love doco’s.
On the note with Sabbath, being a classic band everyone has heard. Deep Purple, their albums In Rock & Machine Head, two of my favourite albums to date. Jon Lords organ work on Lazy a-maz-ing. He was one hell of a musician, shame he passed away 🙁
Purple were pretty damned awesome too, no question.
Yeah, Deep purple are another one of those bands that it’s pretty much guaranteed that everyone’s heard of, got a triple cd of their greatest hits, Highway Star is one of my favourites of theirs.
Yeah man, Ritchie Blackmore era Purple with Ian Gillian, amazing. Purple really lost their real magic after Ritchie left to pursue music elsewhere.
For Meshuggah, I’d recommend getting Destroy, Erase, Improve or if you’re listening to individual tracks, go for Soul Burn, it’s one of the easiest to get to grips with their odd polyrhythmic style.
Gwar are completely insane, half comedy and half kick arse metal with occasional hits of soul, rap, country, jazz and whatever other style they feel like at the time. Their movies are well worth watching too
Metal Evolution is epic, I picked up the series on Blu-Ray for 15 bucks at JB a while back, worth every cent. Even though I already had digital copies 😛
Also they’re doing the official Sabbath doco! Hopefully it’s good and doesn’t skip over key eras. They just showed their Alice Cooper one, which I am sure is good. Since Flight 666, RUSH A Lighted Stage, Global Metal & Metal: A Headbangers Journey are all brilliant pieces of work.
This was the recommendations the hive mind of TAY put together when I asked this a while ago
Dragonforce
A bit fast and guitar heavy for me. Didn’t mind it but many of there songs all started to sound the same. Might keep a track or two in the playlist but wouldn’t listen to a full album
Electric Wizard
Not my thing, didn’t grab me and didn’t really like the vocalist
High on Fire
Too much rawr
The sword
This needs further investigation, I think me likey
Alestorm
Hammerfell
Bonus points for their name and cover art. This needs further investigation, I think me likey.
Sonata Artica
Fast but not stupidly so, although the first track I listened (Tallulah) to was very slow. A definite possibility
Apocalyptica
Could be just what I was looking for. There metallica stuff reminds me of fourplay unsuprisingly. Although a fairly different sound without the violias. Not sure, will listen to some more
Northern kings
Not modern top 40 hits, hmmmm. The missus might hate me if I start playing dire straits covers, but there is something there.
Avatar
Musically maybe but vocals too much for me
Dunderbleist
A bit meh on this, nothing that stands out as wrong but just didn’t grab me.
Children of Bodom
Nope
Finntroll
Starts alright. I don’t like the vocals and the rawr, but it is surprisingly accessible. Or maybe it was just that track, seems to have gone downhill since???
Turisas
Maybe. Will try again and see how I go. This fence is comfortable. I think I picked a side, yep I like em.
Iced Earth
Very power ballad like. Not sure about the ac/dc cover though. Could be worth a bit more investigation.
Gamma Ray.
Much lighter, but works well. Sounded like something I would have on my playlist, even the first time I heard it
Helloween
While not directly suggested figured I would give it a try. Expected lots of rawr but was suprised. I want out is a pretty cool guy. Next one not so much.
Unisonic.
Nice, Some of this will end up on my play list for sure
Kiske/Somerville.
Pleasing but nothing really grabbing me. Although when they start harmonising it is very nice.
Avantasia
Liked the start of it but only listened to a little. Will revisit tomorrow. The start of Another angel down sounds like vidya game music.
Orphaned Land
I listened to them another time you recommended them so thanks for adding them in, I can never remember their names
Battlelore
Couldn’t find
Maybe also Tristania
Sounds like the character my LOL account is named after. Positive connotations backed up buy the music.
Therion (Secret of the Runes and Lemuria / Sirius B)
I like. Will require more investigation to work out how much I like
Van Canto
WTH?
Who the hell recommended Die Antwoord and George Watsky
Camille
Not sure where this recommendation came from but I don’t mind her work
Purity Ring
Not really what I was looking for
Iron Maiden
The classics are classics for a reason
Eiserne Jungfrau
Couldn’t find
Nightwish
Easy to listen to, still not sure how much I like it. Will listen to more
Lacuna Coil
Unsurprisingly very similar to nightwish. Same result as well
Tyr
Pretty cool for a bunch of whale killers. I think I like but will have to check it out further
Grand Magus
Interesting, the vocals taking a backseat to the music is something I could get into
Also Opeth has some rawrless albums (Damnation and Heritage).
Epica
Sparzanza – Vocals are nice, could be interesting
Freedom Call
Cheesy lyrics, no roar, could be a go
Teehee at Van Canto reaction. Their videos don’t help the situation.
As for Die Antwoord I’ll take a stab in the dark and suggest it would have been @mythamphetamine.
And based on what you like there Red Fang could be one for you to look at. Make sure you watch their music videos though. Best in the business.
I listen to terrible, terrible music.
Oh oh oh! For something completely mental have a look at Dir En Grey.
Another Japanese one that’s reasonable is Onmyouza (陰陽座), but their stuff can be tricky to find. There’s probably others as well. Also whether it’s ‘metal’ is kind of debatable as their stuff is pretty heavily produced and often kind of reminds me of stuff like JAM Project. Which isn’t a terrible thing mind you since JAM Project are all kinds of awesome
I tend to dismiss the metal genre, but I find I seem to like metal songs that are in another language. Case in point, Babymetal is Japanese, Hevisaurus is Finnish, and I really dig the theme song to the anime Watamote (so inspiring)
What I like about Babymetal isn’t that it’s in another language, it’s the fusion of Metal and J-Pop, it’s something I never would’ve thought of, and it’s just so damn catchy and awesome.
Ok, reinstalled Firefox 28. Fingers crossed the crashes stay away now.
Sorry if it’s been posted, but AW MAN, how good is this Alpha Sapphire/Omega Ruby theory? http://i.imgur.com/81NMCEt.jpg?1
That would definitely convince me to buy both! Pokemon has always needed a SUBSTANTIAL difference between the two versions, BW was on the right track with the Black City/White Forest thing, but this would be sensational!
That would be cool. I could definitely be persuaded to buy both copies if that was the case. I’d love to see places like Meteor Falls reimagined as a series of underwater caves, or how they would present the dried up ocean between Pacifidlog Town and Slateport City. Or hell, just how Pacifidlog Town has adapted in either case…
HYPE!!!
All aboard the doot-doot train muthafuckas! I’m so pumped!
THEIR!
ARGH! *pulls hair out* 😛
It would be interesting though but I usually always end up playing the “second game” more (Silver, Sapphire, Pearl etc.) and if more water means more surf, then no thanks :P. Although it could definitely convince me to buy both… 😀
Just buy ALL the super repels 😛
Something tells me that it’ll just be the remade version of the original.
It would be “a dramatic new experience” for ten year olds today to see how the gen 3 games were.
What is possible however, is if this happens post-game in their respective versions (i.e. after main storyline).
Yes! That makes a lot of sense. Plus it would make sense due the flak they got for lack of XY post-game content.
Too bloody right. I’m looking forward to extensive post-E4 stuff. There better be…
So apparently Community has been canned..? Never watched it but I did notice it has quite the following, that’s a bit rude to it’s dedicated fans! But at least NBC didn’t cancel Hannibal.
It seemed like it was its time to go to be honest. Better than having it dragged out for too long and becoming shit, I reckon.
I’ve never watched the show, but I’m guessing it’s still pretty popular, and as far as I’m concerned it’s better to go out on a high note (like Seinfeld did) than to just keep making season after season until people just get bored of it.
Next up, Larry King will insult Dan Harmon by saying they quit due to low ratings, just like Seinfeld! Man, Jerry was not happy with that
Really? I never even heard about that.
I watched the first couple episodes and am annoyed I can’t get those hours back.
I started with the paintball episode and that was enough to tie me through the first few awkward episodes.
Honestly, the show is fairly average with some great moments. Basically like The Simpsons after it had started to decline.
I’d seen some pretty brilliant clips, but watching the full episodes made me think that it’s definitely a case of very occasional great moments, most of which have been posted as gags/gifs/clips.
That does remind me to go watch some more Simpsons, though… I honestly haven’t seen probably the last ten seasons or so, just the odd episode on TV every now and then when hanging at someone’s place who has Foxtel or catching it on Ten by accident.
My brother owns most of the boxed sets, I should go borrow some and play catch-up while it’s still legal to do so.
I keep thinking i’ll watch it, but I already watch Parks & Rec, and don’t need to watch another show that’s similar in style to it..
So, apparently the wall plug in my room for my antenna has gone into itself, and it’s difficult to connect the antenna cable to it.
Maybe I should fix it…
Is this a physical thing or a psychological withdrawal? It might just need some friendly encouragement to be confident in itself
Physical thing.
The plug has pushed past the wall socket, and it’s a pain to try and pull it out.
Yeah, sounds like you’ll need to unscrew the plate and mount the cable back on again if it’s not broken
Does anyone want to talk about how Classic Game Room has returned to YouTube?
The guy left YouTube in the last December or this January during the Content ID Calamity. He announced that he would only upload on his personal website and Dailymotion. (Probably some other places too) Does this set a bad precedent? Classic Game Room was a pretty popular show, and had a couple hundred thousand subscriptions from memory. If even a channel of that size cannot survive without YouTube, can any channel do that? I think even PewDiePie would struggle if he jumped ship to Dailymotion, Blip, or his own website. (That may or may not exist. I dunno, I don’t watch the guy)
Imagine if Rooster Teeth announced that they would only update on the official Rooster Teeth website. Could they survive in today’s current environment?
So, Mark is posting new stuff on Youtube?
Woohoo! \o/
Lord Karnage rises again!
To be fair, if a show has a strong enough following, you’ll get the die-hard fans over to an external site, but you’d lose the occasional viewer.
It’s a risk, but I’d probably take a punt on it.
I was very much a casual viewer of Classic Game Room. Occasionally I’d see a video on my homepage that caught my eye, and I would watch it.
EDIT: Got to love it when you spot typos 10 hours later.
@crazyguy1990 I suppose I should link the actual announcement video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss0lrGQxRrs
It’s interesting how desperate Mark is to get people on to ClassicGameRoom.com.
EDIT: I just realised that ClassicGameRoom.com uses the Dailymotion player. Interesting.
PewDiePie has a website, but it’s pretty bad.
pewdiepie.net
Oh god it has an entire section devoted to fanart.
@scree
Sorry, I’m not ignoring your messages. I’m getting them all but i keep getting distracted. Feel like an ass for it.
But everything is good.
I just worry about you, like I worry about all my friends. Glad to hear you’re okay.
You’re a good person Scree, unlike I lol 😛
I dunno, I think everyone on Tay has their good sides and their bad sides. Except that Virus guy. He’s such a Jerk =P
Basically this is true 😛
At least your waifu loves you =P
Oh no i’m a Krieger Klone 😛
Ugh. Got this weird smear appearing in the right eye display of the VB, but as far as I can tell it doesn’t actually exist. It’s not on the oscillating mirror, since it doesn’t stay in the same place as you move around to view it from other positions, nor is it something on the LED board since it also changes position relative to that. So the only answer must be that it’s something on the lens. But no, there doesn’t appear to be anything on the lens at all nor does wiping it down appear to have any effect at all.
Must be ghosts.
A wizard did it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-AWRHI14RQ&list=PL7z4hndyaGDXRaXkD76rekmI-6ejIAQPU
Mario Kart 8 music! 😀
I’m going to have to get a Wii U aren’t I?
XenUblade!
I’m going to have to play Xenoblade, aren’t I?
With Scree around, yes.
…wait
I hatted it
But you’re a proper monster!
Poison Type
With Greenius around, yes.
You’re not the only one.
Spoilers.
I can’t rot13 music!
(well I guess it could be transposed :P)
I’m very likely the only person who cares about this, but the
HymnosGenometric albums from Gust’s upcoming Ar Tonelico successor Ar nosurge came out and so far it seems like they’re continuing the trend of having a ‘Red’ and a ‘Blue’ side and the Blue side being miles better than the Red one.Reminds me that I never finished Ar Tonelico 3. I didn’t mind it aside from the awful battle system, not sure why I stopped playing it.
Considered getting Golf today for $48, but wasn’t sure about it so I didn’t. I like Wii Sports Golf, maybe I should look further into this…
Also, I checked http://emu4ios.net and it looks like they now have a working version of Retroarch for iOS devices without a jailbreak (for those that don’t know this site provides emulators for non-jailbroken iOS devices, and they’re all free).
I’ve downloaded it and tried it, and it worked with the one GBA game I had on the iPad, so it looks like the rest of the cores will work – and it looks like it does a lot (including PSX and N64).
It also shouldn’t overwrite GBA4iOS 2.0, if you have that.
N64 games on an iPad sounds like a nightmare to control.
I’da bought it if I had the spare fiddy D:
Mario Golfs are GREAT!
saw some douchebag in a douchebagged up WRX today with a license plate that read ’70SSA’ he drove like a total tosser too
So…I have done two practise panels for Nova’s GF’s Elsa cosplay. Need more material for the other two.
Also, did more wiiFit today, but after the 10 jackknife exercises, my core is hurting me.
That’s how you know it’s working!
But remember that it’s totally okay to take a break and have a rest day too.
Every day’s a rest day! \o/
>:(
…Except Mondays! \o/
I don’t want to rest it because it means that it’ll end up hurting every time I do the exercise.
Oh and I’m terrible at yoga. I keep forgetting how to breathe
Sure, but at the same time you don’t want to over exert yourself, you know?
So before I came to Canada, I used to walk my dog 5 days a week. 40 minutes, at least. Not the most strenuous stuff, but it kept me reasonably active. I came here, and I had no dog. No reason to go outside (also I am pretty sure I am a vampire so the sunlight hurts me). It went into Winter here which is all the nope when it comes to going outside. So basically the first year I was here I was sitting on my fat butt. When last Summer rolled around, I figured I had to get active again, do something. So I started jogging. And that first jog? 10 minutes and I was dead. A kilometer at most and my legs were sore the next day. A year of my sedentiary lifestyle made me unfit and I wasn’t used to it.
I can jog now for close to an hour before I get really bored, but it didn’t happen instantly.
Sometimes when you’re trying to get a bit fitter, you can do more harm than good by going all out. You sort of have to build up to it and ease into it. Also, if it becomes an uncomfortable pain when you’re exercising, you’ll start associating that with your exercise routine and it’ll ruin your motivation.
tl;dr
Take it eeeeaaasssy, take it eeeaaasy, don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy. Lighten up while you still can! Don’t even try to understand, just find a place to make your stand, and take it eeeeeeaaaaassssyyyy.
It’s fine. Everything is on a rotation so I do 4 different exercises every 5 days
But if the two practice panels worked, surely you don’t need to do the other two as the design is symmetrical? Unless your design has more than four panels? I’m always looking for shortcuts like that, that save time and money.
It’s 7 panels in total. So I’m doing four instead of seven.
OK, it’s Saturday night, and because I’m sad and have no social life MQFT
G
F
P
T
B
A
H
I’ll take B for Bourbon thanks Larry.
I’ll take a T for turmoil.. Since there’s no N for Nelly 🙁
A, just to be different
Gluten Free Pancakes To Be Announced?
I choose T!
Well done, you got a giggle out of me. So far T is winning, any other takers?
B
Sorry guys, had a little bit to drink last night and was watching something while I was waiting, in the end I just felt so tired, so I went to bed.
I’ll keep it going throughout the day though and whatever wins I’ll do tonight.
So far it’s a tie between T and B.
I’m voting T for Thaurorod! 😛
Looks like T has won, so I’ll be playing Titanfall.
Nobody has voted P? Clearly the correct answer is P. Everybody retrospectively change your vote to P.
Sure, sure. BUY ME A WIIUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
( @greenius cos fuck this bullshit TAY business)
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/143782
(there’s been better deals in the past)
But if I were to tweet you when I saw an amazing deal, would you jump on it? I did this to @beavwa and he got a Wii U 😛
If I were single, I would have bought one at full price a while ago
I can’t even afford Mario Golf D:
#ResposibubbleAdult
Jimu the Hypello!
And if the same deal popped up again now (and I hypothetically hadn’t already bought one), I wouldn’t buy it.
Aww 😛
12 hours til Titanfall.
Also, Happy Mothers Day!
OH MY GOD I JUST DECIDED TO LOOK AT JUDAS PRIEST’S WEBSITE FOR SOME REASON AND IT WAS ALL CHANGED AND THERE WAS STUFF ABOUT A NEW SONG BEING RELEASED AND THEN THERE WAS RELEASE INFO FOR THEIR NEW ALBUM AND OMG I AM EXCITE
It’s kinda funny, actually. This is the first time in my life I’ve ever paid any kind of attention to or been excited for a musical release. And I guess it’ll be the first time I’ve ever bought music. For myself, anyway. Presents for others don’t count. Oh, and real music. Because vidya music for the collection doesn’t count either 😛
Yeah Halford was saying in an interview the other day that even fans who were majorly disappointed with their last release will love this upcoming one apparently.
I liked it!
I figure it’d likely be along the lines of Angel of Retribution, which is a-ok by me. It’s kinda tempting to check out the song they released… but spoilers 😛 Only two months to go.
I’m so lazy I haven’t bothered to check it out haha.
Titanfall download completed! \o/
Now to wait for the install… 😀
Titanfall installed.
Wish my PC was good enough to run it 🙁 I’ll have to retire the old girl soon and build a new one.
Get ready for the long-ass tutorial, it has to be probably the longest tutorial ever (well it felt like it anyway).
It’s like 4 minutes.
I just ran the training mode to prove a point, and the training took 16 minutes, 51 seconds. You may have a point.
You’ll need help to beat the campaign.
Yo, @grandmasterb-funk, @zetrox2k, @morkai, @rize, want to help crazyguy with the campaign?
And now I’m kicking myself for using the word ‘yo’ un-ironically.
Open twitter.
See people talking about Eurovision. Remember that Saturday night over there is about now, and our broadcast will be about 14 hours behind tonight. About now would be when results are happening.
ABORT. ABORT. No more of that for at least 4 hours.
On this note, it was sad that SBS put the bare minimum individual song clips on catch up, and nothing else. We ended up watching the UK coverage of semifinal 1 just to see the whole broadcast.
i have euro vision spoilers!
There were funny costumes =P
One of the worst things about being in Canada is being unable to watch Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang make snide remarks about Eurovision.
The UK commentary can be okay, but it just doesn’t have their flair.
Far out Kotaku comments! It’s me or the dog, ok?
Posting too fast errors getting you down?
Tired or having to submit your comments over and over?
Well fear not!
With Freeze S Preston’s patented “spam the submit button continuously” solution, all your problems will melt away!
Simply keep hitting submit when posting a comment and the only error you’ll be getting is the “duplicate comment” error!
It’s $7 to @freezespreston and $3 to me (for promoting it) to use this method.
Haha I know this, it’s just when I try to post a comment to someone as a reply and it starts a whole new thread that I have to edit into some witty remark! It’s too much!
I opened my browser, and I realised Firefox’s interface has changed. It looks like Chrome, and I don’t like Chrome’s interface. I denied the update. Why is this happening?
No, seriously, the update is one for one Google Chrome. At least it let’s you customise it.
Yeah, it’s terrible. I used the classic theme restorer addon to get it mostly back to normal but it’s still NQR to me. I think their thought process was like “Google Chrome is getting all the user share now so we should make our product look exactly like it!” which is fucking stupid because if I wanted to use Chrome, I’d use Chrome.
Aside from that on a pure usability level, it’s fucked. Stuff like not being able to see where one inactive tab stops and the next one starts unless you mouse over.
Has it been really unstable for you since the upgrade? Mine keeps randomly getting a black screen while scrolling, which is usually followed by a crash. Or it’ll just crash out of nowhere.
Tried downgrading to 28, but the crashes seem to persist :/
That’ll probably be a bad extension you’re using, not Firefox itself.
The only extension that got added was Classic Theme Restorer though, and obviously that’s not in use any more.
I’ve actually owned this card game for years and never played it. And now I want to. 🙁
The adventures of Lies: the decrepit old man.
(insert Blaghman jingle)
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What are we doing? Onebro run?
Yeah.
Happy S’Mother’s Day!
Happy S’Mother’s Day!
(FUCK! TAY)
I hadn’t visited Greenlight in a while, so I thought I’d do some voting.
Man. That is equal parts inspiring and depressing. I really feel for indie devs, especially the ones you can see are trying real hard and are kind of proud of the stuff that I and others are undoubtedly about to call ‘shit’. I try to leave some positive comments where possible, but it basically became about finding the least-crappy thing about some projects and praising it.
Which, now that I’ve viewed several dozen, has me kind of wistful at the waste of it all. If only that project’s designer could team up with that other project’s art team, and get together with that other project’s sound guys, they could get help from this other project’s animators, and together have an amazing game… but nope. All those shattered little fragments of talent, wasted on the team they happen to be attached to. And, as indies, undoubtedly for reasons of geography/personal history.
There’s some really cool-looking titles in there that seem like they’d scratch all kinds of itches (top of my head, ‘The Spatials’ as a nice little SIMs/Syndicate hybrid, with another vote going to ‘Havoc Your Way’ as a not-horrible-looking iOS port, adpating the basic principles of the Spy vs Spy NES game, which could be worth a laugh).
At least Steam offers my conscience a ‘get out of jail free’ card in that the approval button is ‘Would you buy it’, rather than, ‘Do you think it deserves to be greenlit because it seems good, even though you’d never play it yourself?’ Narrows down the pool a fair bit, with all the racing games and 2D platformers and poetic/horror walking-simulators etc. I mean for example, ‘Shadow Puppeteer’ looks frickin’ amazing for a puzzle-platformer, but I wouldn’t buy/play it, whereas ‘Zpocalypse’ would have so many people groaning and rolling their eyes at ‘Jesus, Zombies still?’ but I’d play the shit out of that.
Only making the occasional exception for games like ‘Tengami’ which are just too damned pretty NOT to want to see. I mean, a pop-up book video game in ancient Japan with gorgeous art? Come on.
Also someone needs to come up with a catchy category for the new breed of games flooding Steam/Greenlight which basically involve you taking your pet flashlight for a walk at night.
New Tex Murphy game has an integrated flashlight that wasn’t needed once. I have no idea why it’s there. Must be the cool thing to do, though. 😛
Horror Walking Simulator? HWS?
Security Guard Simulator?
BRISFOLKS!
(Copied and pasted from @Strange – sorry if I missed anyone!)
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @rocketman @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
This Friday night we’re going to go see Godzilla. At the moment I’m thinking the best timeslot would be 9:30pm at the Brisbane City Myer Centre. It’s a non-3D VMax session.
Thoughts?
Oh, and all of you Bris Folks who are going to be there, if you backed the Metro 7 campaign I’ll bring your books with me. If anyone wants to buy one, let me know and I’ll bring extras.
godzilla! Godzilla! GODZILLA!
Non-3D’s a shame, but I know it makes some folks queasy, so I’m game to see it twice. 🙂
(Well. Hopefully I’m game to see it twice… I mean it looks like it’ll be good.)
It wasn’t filmed in 3D so it’s post converted cardboard cutout playbox style. Screw that.
Oh, ewwww.
Will it be that bad though? I know I saw Thor in 3D (not my choice) and it was terrible, cardboard cut-outs and all that. But then I ended up seeing Avengers in 3D too, and the difference was like night and day. Couldn’t tell that it was upscaled.
Really? When I watched Avengers, I didn’t notice any actual 3D, the screen was just a little darker. I think I took my glasses off towards the end of the movie, as I had no reason to keep them on.
Tentative YES from me. Very tentative, but I’m very wanting to see it as well. The only thing I don’t like is the 9:30 timeslot since I’ve been doing so well getting my sleeping / insomnia under control, but one night can’t hurt, riiiiiiiight?
Somebody back me up.
I enable your poor life decisions to make mine look better in comparison!
*decisive nod*
Sold. I shall now NOT cook curry for dinner so that your slow cooked creations are the pinnacle of my culinary visions.
May I suggest a Milkybar? The Milkybars are on me!
I don’t want a Milky Bar that’s been on you unless you’ve taken a shower within the last 5 minutes and the Milky Bar was not in the shower with you. Dude, who showers with a Milky Bar? You’re crazy, man.
Sounds good.
Can’t make the movie but would love to grab Metro at some point this week. The only arvo I’m free is Tuesday.
So otherwise a lunch of your most convenient 😀
I reckon I can make that. Count me in.
Oh shit shit shit. The curse of Dr Yoghurt-Lamp returns. My grandparents have spent the last few weeks in Melbourne to see my cousins and meet with Yapp, who most remember as Dr Yoghurt-Lamp My grandparents have returned to Perth, and I came to their home for mother’s day and to welcome them back. My mother mentioned a week ago that my grandmother was getting great help from Dr Yoghurt-Lamp. I forgot to mention it in TAY, and it slipped my mind. As soon as I arrived at my grandparent’s place, they started talking about Dr Yoghurt-Lamp. I had a headache and could not deal with it all, so I tried to leave the room. I don’t them I didn’t want to deal with it. As I left, my mother mentioned that Dr Yoghurt-Lamp would return to Melbourne in September. She told me I was going to see him in September. When I told her In wasn’t going, she told me that she was making the decision, as she is my mother. I went into another room and went into borderline hyperventilation. I paced around, whispering multiple profanities and cursing multiple gods. My sister saw I was stressed, and asked what was wrong. Thinking that she would help me, I told her about the situation.
It turns out my sister takes my mother’s side on this issue. She did some screaming, after which I told her I had a headache and was in no condition to have an argument. She continued the argument, and I weakly defended my points. My sister claimed that I should trust my mother, and I should trust Dr Yapp. I claimed that the only one I trusted in this situation was my doctor. My sister started a tirade about how I should trust my mother because she’s my mother, and started a confusing tangent about how I should trust my father because he’s my father, but she doesn’t trust my father, but I should, but I really shouldn’t because he has a bad history with trust, and that I should only trust my father a little bit. It was a confusing tangent that completely contradicted itself multiple times. When I repeated that I would only trust my doctor on medical matters, she said that I should trust my family, because they’re my family, and my family always knows best.
She told me to list a few reasons that I shouldn’t go through with this. I tried to bring up Dr Yapp’s website about how he peddles scamware. I said I didn’t trust anyone that sold a lamp that turned milk into yoghurt, sharpened knives, and energised water. I claimed that I would never trust a man that sold these types of wares. She claimed that salt lamps can sharpen knives and energise water already, and that my point was effectively moot. She claimed that I should go through with this because it could do no harm, and that I would get a free trip to Melbourne out of it. Her arguments were scarily close to that of my cousin. She eventually left the room.
My panic returned. I knew that I needed to access TAY to get help on this matter. I didn’t have internet access, so I grabbed my laptop and tried to use my mother’s Wi-Fi. To obtain the Wi-Fi, I had to endure my family’s company for a minute. They kept pestering me about Dr Yapp. I told them that I didn’t want anything to do with this, and they should respect my wishes. This was enough to silence my grandfather, but not my mother or grandmother.
Whilst typing this, my mind is trying to figure out what to do. Everyone is against me. My grandparents claim that Dr Yapp has helped them. My grandmother claims that the great doctor has fixed her hearing, and that she no longer needs to wear a hearing aid. Am I being unreasonable by refusing the help of Dr Yap? If the doctor has legitimately helped my grandparents, am I doing the wrong thing. It’s funny, whilst typing this, I remember how my grandmother briefly talked about how she had to wear a set of headphones for the hearing procedure. I am reminded of how @transientmid said that my family was exhibiting cult-like behaviour. For a brief second of insanity, I believed that the headphones my grandmother had to wear was part of some cult brainwashing procdure.
I still haven’t involved my father in any this. He has no idea this is happening. Every time this happens, I consider telling him about it. Can my father help? Or will he make things worse? I ask for your help, TAY. I am not in a good place right now, and can’t do this on my own.
Godammit, why does this have to happen on Sunday TAY?
Worst comes to worst you can just tell Yogurtlamp you don’t want him touching you and charge him with assault if he tries….
Not a bad idea. With a requirement:
@phlanispo, these words: “I do not consent.”
Not to him touching you, not to him being considered your ‘physician’ or any other role which might offer legal protections. I suspect there are some loopholes for the mother acting as guardian in these matters… she should never be allowed to override explicitly stated non-consent without a court order, though.
Another route to investigate: a restraining order. I believe there’s two types – domestic violence, and civil harassment. You’d be filing for the latter. Since the quack hasn’t tried to make contact himself, I’m not sure how you’d go about it. He’s working by proxy through the family, undoubtedly encouraging them, but I’m not sure what is required. Worth asking a court or local police station. Additionally, if you’re a minor, I believe a parent/guardian may have to do the filing for you. So… Dad, maybe.
Tell your Dad the whole story and that it’s freaking you out being under fire from so many angles.
Also, those 1300 counseling lines you can call at pretty much any time, even panic attacks.
I don’t know the background of all this so I’m eminently not qualified to respond on specifics, but what I can say is that while some quacks/faith healers/idiots/whatever may “help” some people, it’s only because their mind tells them they want it to work so badly that it actually does. They’re not providing any genuine medical services, and are preying on the weak minded for a profit on the 1% chance that something actually happens. Just because it worked for one person (or that person thinks it worked for them, there being a subtle difference) doesn’t mean you’re going to see any benefit.
First and foremost in any medical relationship is trust between the doctor and the patient. If you do not trust somebody then in no way shape or form should you allow them to give you medical advice.
Doubly so for family members. Your sister is 100% wrong. You should not trust your mother “because she is your mother” – you should trust her because of any reasons she has given you to earn her trust. Hasn’t given you any reasons? Don’t trust her. Trust has to be earned from ANYBODY, regardless of blood ties. Family ties shouldn’t be some automatic “get out of jail free” card for stupid behaviour or advice. Would you take the same advice from somebody you knew for the same amount of time, had the same interactions with, but didn’t have the advantage of sharing the same genes as you?
Edit Disclaimer: I haven’t talked to any members of my family in well over a year (my choice), so I am perhaps a little biased in giving familial advice. Take my words with a very large dose of sodium chloride.
I’d say that you’d consider going IF your doctor recommends it and refers you to him, which is perfectly within your rights, and which is never gonna happen 😉
I think that’s an approach that could very easily backfire.
Depends on how adamant you are about it. Which, unfortunately @phlanispo, in hindsight you mightn’t be able to pull off :S
I’d tell your doctor that the ordeal is making you more stressed, and that the thought of flying / going to see this dude is making your anxiety worse. Then tell your dad, and maybe even ask the doctor to call your dad and explain it to him. Let your dad hash it out with your mum (assuming your dad’s rational and on your side).
That’s the problem, I can’t be sure if my dad will act rationally.
Last year, mum was bullying and intimidating me a bit into doing what she wanted, and dad wrote a letter telling her to stop. Things got better after that. If I do tell him, I hope that will be the result.
However, there is also the possibility of my father flipping his shit, and my mother applying for another restraining order. I f I was to tell my father, I’d have to put a fair amount of care into how I use my words.
But yeah, I’m certain he’d be on my side, I just worry whether his reaction will cause more problems.
You can trust that your doctor will act rationally (being, advising against this course of action, and borderline refusing it if you plead that it’ll make you worse).
Having a doctor shoot it down is better then having your dad try and stop it, in my opinion. Still let him know, cause having two against the idea (excluding you) is better than one, but having your doctor say that it isn’t in your best interest is the best action I think.
You can totally just come stay with me for a week in September if worst comes to worst 😉
That was a joke by the way, in case you didn’t realise 😛
(unless you need and want to, in which case no joke)
Trusting your family because they’re your family is bull crap. Should you trust a pedophile because a lot of them tend to be family members or close family friends. Stick to your guns. Tell them that the only help you want is from a quailified psychologist that your doctor has written a referral for.
Ring the police and tell them you’re worried a cult may be trying to drag you in against your will.
I’m dead serious.
This shit has gone too far.
It’s thermonuclear, for sure. There’s no going back from that.
So, your situation, in a nutshell is this:
https://24.media.tumblr.com/b837e25b943ddc4713cb022fd8eeb219/tumblr_n4u9lhDkCh1tv4atfo1_400.gif
Dad, right now. The only way he can make things worse is if he agrees and says you should do it faster, at that point you can just call the cops as @crazyguy1990 suggested.
You’ve been excluded from a medical decision (and I use the term medical quite incorrectly) after the age where you’re legally permitted self determination, that crosses a fuck of a big line and shows a significant lack of respect. Add that to the seriously creepy culty behaviour and you need some external assistance. Hell, I’m half tempted to google the price of a plane ticket to WA just so I can offer to stand there and look all intimidating for you (but since I have all of $5 it might not be too likely [heh, just did, I need 2 more zeroes between the 5 and the decimal point to go one way]).
When’s your next doctor’s appointment? It’s definitely something to mention there as well since it’s a primary cause of stress.
But yeah. Dad.
Actually, this really pisses me off. Ganging up on someone you’re meant to be protecting… that’s not what family is for. Even if you think they’re making a mistake, until it gets grievously bad, you gotta let people make their own mistakes.
You know the wisest folks have made the best mistakes.
I know some folks in Child Safety – I’m going to ask them what the WA laws are and which numbers are the best ones to contact for free non-thermonuclear legal advice on this sort of subject. Free legal advice for minors is a huge deal; hell, I’ve been setting up a few hotlines for that at work last week. We might not be lawyers specializing in this subject, but we won’t be shy about finding out who the best folks to talk to are.
Perhaps if @phlanispo can legally divorce his family he can at least get on TV…
I don’t know what your situation is like with your father. I still think “I want to keep going with my regular treatment and doctor” isn’t a bad approach.
The thing about “oh he’s helped me” is common to practitioners of woo. Think of it this way- if Yoghurt-Lamp’s treatments are so good, how come it’s not commonly used in medicine? It’s more likely that anyone who’s claiming benefits is propped up by a placebo effect, nothing more.
The point I’d make through all this is that your family is coming to this all from a position of love- they are trying to help you. Just keep that in mind.
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve posted Dara’s routine on quacks, possibly even to @phlanispo when this first started. It’s still all true…
Yeah, so now I’m watching hours of stand-up. Thanks for that.
(No. Really. 🙂 )
I recommend Rhod Gilbert, Susan Calman & Henning Wehn if you’ve not seen them.
Ok, I don’t know a hell of a lot about your situation, but it’s pretty obvious that your family just aren’t gonna let up until you do what they want, so the way I see it you have 3 options.
1) Go and see this quack so you can prove to them that it doesn’t work.
2) Go and live with your Dad (again, I don’t know your whole situation, so I don’t know if this is a good idea or not).
3) Get a job (if you don’t have one already) save your arse off and get your own place.
Trying to get them to see your point of view doesn’t seem to be working, so it’s probably time to take a different course of action.
Stay strong dude, and I hope it works out for you, whatever you decide to do.
Dark Souls 2 as a Mage isn’t as fun as 1 was. The fire sword I’m using does more damage than the most powerful spell I have currently. Seems a bit silly to have a limited use spell that you need to drain half of just to deal with some standard enemies. Melee build was much easier.
Did notice the nerf they have Lost Sinner was pretty severe. I just wanted the lockstone near it and decided to have a go while I’m there, didn’t light the sides. Defeated it first attempt without getting hit. This is a boss I struggled dealing with but it’s just so damn slow now. Wonder how hard the Smelter Demon got hit?
That was my primary complaint with mages in 1, honestly. If you could block 100% until landing infinite melee hits… Never ever had much INT to boost damage though. Just collected spells for cheevos.
I just finished Dark Souls 2 a second time as a pure caster. What made it a little more fun for me was using the binoculars and “sniping” enemies. I just pretended it was a shooter 😛
Feels similar to a Dark Souls mage though, pretty weak at the start but pretty OP towards the end (not Dark Bead OP though)
Never had much fun with pure caster builds in Souls.
Regular mobs are hard to deal with without reliable melee options and bosses become boringly trivial once you start get powerful. Would be doubly so for DS2 I imagine with its many multi-foe encounters and simple bosses.
Sounds a shame about the Lost Sinner, I enjoyed that fight more than most.
Huh, I figured that must have happened – LS was my biggest struggle pre-patch (everything pre singing shrine) but I’ve seen plenty of accounts of it not being an issue for players now.
Remind me when project beast / dark souls 3 rolls around to not play it until about 6 months after release, once all the balancing is done. (I’ll still buy it straight away because awesome series / developer)
@phlanispo
Up for some Titanfall in 30 minutes?
I am at my grandparent’s right now, leeching off my Mum’s phone’s Wi-Fi. It will be a while before I get home, at least an hour.
Ah, fair enough. 🙂
I’m home and ready. Are you ready?
Yes!
Great! My internet is a bit weird right now, so performance may vary. Jump on Teamspeak! I’d also reccomend and American server if you want to do the campaign; there’s just a larger pool of people playing.
*The campaign is required to get the other Titan chassis in a stunningly bad design decision.
Just watched Jackie Chan’s Thunderbolt. I think I can safely say it had the best kung fu of any racing movie…ever!
Never seen that one, but two of my favourite Jackie Chan movies are Who Am I, and Legend Of Drunken Master.
I always said Armour of God 2: Operation Condor was my fave but a recent rewatch didn’t meet my own hype.
City Hunter is by far th funniest 😀
3 of the 4 practice panels done!
Dammit. Seems the mystery smear on the Virtual Boy is on the LED panel after all, there’s a tiny little dot on the surface of the plastic that can pretty much only be seen with the light at the right angle. So far no response to a cotton bud, nor a toothpick. Not even sure I can feel it there with the toothpick.
I’ve heard talk of using toothpaste as a polish, but I’ve tried that a couple of times on my DS touch screen and it hasn’t done anything at all.
Got any glasses lens cleaner? That might help. It worked quite nicely on my laptop display earlier (aside from the dried blood [long story])
I used to get chronic nosebleeds too 😉
Sneezing at the end of a bleeding nose is a bit messy.
Especially when you’ve got a nice huge ol’ blood clot sitting up there just waiting to come out and say hi.
Damn. No effect.
Wonder what the hell I got on there. I mean it’s possible that some of the sodium hydroxide or maybe even solder flux got on there when I was fixing the ribbon cables to it, but it’s on the underside to where I was working so seems unlikely. Or maybe there’s the possibility that I tapped the surface with the soldering iron and burnt a small spot into it, but I’d expect that to result in a bit of a streak rather than a single tiny dot. Plus it seems like the kind of thing I should have seen when testing everything out with a game afterwards, but if it wasn’t there then it begs the question of how the hell did it get there from sitting in a box doing nothing.
See you all in new TAY!
A page-get.
What are the odds?
1 in 25 for new posts isn’t it?
Unless you’re @shane.
Love Drunken Boxing, the Drunken Masters are great 😀 😀
@evilmonkey because POOTAY